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Graph blank problem
by chott＠praha1.net 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hello guys Last two week i have problem with Graph blank places for few times Observium is connected by localy switch gigabit line same problem in localy SNMP for server Where is problem? Disk? RAM ? SQL? Tomas [email-header-praha1] Tomas Chott technický ředitel chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net> Phone: +420 245 004 005 Mobile: +420 604 930 119 Certifikace: Cisco CXFS, CCDA, SMBEN, SMBAM, CCNA Ubiquiti UCWA, UEWA, UCRSS, UCT Authorised Trainer Cisco, Ubiquiti, TP-Link, Synology Metropolitní síť Praha 1 z.s.p.o. Jindrisska 18 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic www.praha1.net<http://www.praha1.net/> [Popis: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/praha1net> [Popis: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tomas-chott/49/97a/1aa>

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Re: [Observium] Generating Email Alerts till state change
by Moerman, Maarten 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

You’ll get an alert every 24hours. -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com From: <Joy>, Jees <Jees.Joy(a)KVHasia.com<mailto:Jees.Joy@KVHasia.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 12:34 PM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Generating Email Alerts till state change Hey All, Thank you for this interesting product. We started to use Observium for basic and monitoring of our Linux and Windows infrastructure. I have a quick question regarding Alerts , I have configured Alert Checker as follows: Check Condition: device_status is 0 device_status_type is ping Device Match: hostname match * Entity Match * I get only one Alert per failure, then once recovered I get one recovery alert. I would like to keep getting alerts till the state is recovered or we manually suppress is it using ignore. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Jees Joy *************************************************************************** "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. " ***************************************************************************

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Documentation
by Søren Irbo 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi! Stumbled upon this feature, are there other nice features, which are not documented? http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-299 Can't find it here: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Custom_traffic_graphs /Søren

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Generating Email Alerts till state change
by Joy, Jees 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hey All, Thank you for this interesting product. We started to use Observium for basic and monitoring of our Linux and Windows infrastructure. I have a quick question regarding Alerts , I have configured Alert Checker as follows: Check Condition: device_status is 0 device_status_type is ping Device Match: hostname match * Entity Match * I get only one Alert per failure, then once recovered I get one recovery alert. I would like to keep getting alerts till the state is recovered or we manually suppress is it using ignore. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Jees Joy **************************************************************** "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. " ****************************************************************

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Re: [Observium] Problem with the Mail Alerting
by SCHEIN David 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Hello, Thanks for your answer, where I can find a tutorial to configure the checker, because the wiki is not clear for me. And in the earlier version the mail alert was automatical, why this feature was abandoned. Best regards David De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Tom Laermans Envoyé : vendredi 12 septembre 2014 15:03 À : Observium Network Observation System Objet : Re: [Observium] ***SPAM*** Re: Problem with the Mail Alerting David, You need to create alert checkers to receive e-mail alerts. Tom On 09/12/2014 02:08 PM, SCHEIN David wrote: Hello, First thanks for your rapid answer, the alerts look like activated, like you can see below (I don't know if picture can be display on this maillinglist [cid:image001.png@01CFD1BE.AA3C1750] [cid:image002.png@01CFD1BE.AA3C1750] When in run the alerter.php on a device with an interface down : :/data/observium# php ./alerter.php -h sto-rtr-edge-agarik.seres.lan -d Observium v0.14.9.5798 Alerter DEBUG! Starting alerter run: PHP Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.css): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2474 PHP Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.js): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2482 <div><style> Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.css): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2474 </style> <script> Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.js): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2482 </script><div class="ref"><span data-input><i>> </i><span data-expTxt>$vars</span><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `alert_tests` WHERE 1</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(35)</span></span></span></div></div></div>Cached 0 alert rules. <div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `alert_assoc`</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(27)</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'sto-rtr-edge-agarik.seres.lan' ORDER BY `device_id` ASC</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(131)</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = '35'</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(48)</span></span></span></div></div></div>Processing alerts for sto-rtr-edge-agarik.seres.lan <div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT *,`alert_table`.`alert_table_id` AS `alert_table_id` FROM `alert_table` LEFT JOIN `alert_table-state` ON `alert_table`.`alert_table_id` = `alert_table-state`.`alert_table_id` WHERE `device_id` = '35'</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(212)</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `alert_table` LEFT JOIN `alert_table-state` ON `alert_table`.`alert_table_id` = `alert_table-state`.`alert_table_id` WHERE `device_id` = '35'</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(155)</span></span></span></div></div></div> Best regards David De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Tom Laermans Envoyé : vendredi 12 septembre 2014 12:21 À : Observium Network Observation System Objet : Re: [Observium] Problem with the Mail Alerting On 09/12/2014 11:25 AM, SCHEIN David wrote: I tried different config, but nothing is working and with this config when I do a test, I receive the e-mail in my gmail box, but nothing about port down or bgp session down... If test mail works, your config works. If you don't get alert mails, either there is a problem with the actual alerter or with your checkers. Please show your checkers, and check whether the "alerted" column in the test list has a value or says Never. Tom _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Different Alert thresholds for different temperature sensors of the same cisco device
by Supun Rathnayake 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Hi , We are using the Observium subscribed edition 0.14.9.5814 and trying to set different alerts for *different temperature sensor types* *of the same cisco device*, but could not find a proper method to do that. Please find the annexed screen-shots of the alert config. that we tried, and it matches all the temperature sensors (there are about 6 types). We are looking for the way to differentiate these sensors to set different threshold levels. Kindly let us know if there is a way to do this. -- With Best Regards, Supun Rathnayake Lanka communication Services (Pvt) Ltd. 65C, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07. Sri Lanka. Tel: +94-11-2437545 http://www.lankacom.net

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Excluding docker mounts
by overige＠vanderpoel.com.au 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Hi, I'm running docker containers on one of my workstations and the syslog on that machine is now getting heaps of 'permission denied errors' like this: *Sep 22 16:25:05 raven snmpd[3295]: /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/5e126344b6b34ec70d5982e5cdf121bdf9698342a9223f6ef2d1e7d01cf3fff7: Permission denied* If I execute a non-root *df -h'* I'm also getting *permission* *denied*. I've tried to exclude the mentioned path using *$config['ignore_mount_string'][]* but that didn't do anything. I assume the other way would be to exclude it somehow using snmpd config, but got no idea how to. Cheers, Pieter

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syslog-ng implementation and Cisco ASR9K
by Markus Klock 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hey guys! I´m setting up syslog-ng implementation and it works great for all my Cisco IOS-devices, however most of the devices in my network is Cisco ASR9K-routers running IOS-XR and it seems syslog from them wont go in to Observium. I did a quick look in the syslog-messages from the ASR9Ks and it seems IOS-XR actually don't use its hostname as hostname but instead use its active routeprocessors name (wtf cisco?!) making the syslog messages look something like this: RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Nov 28 23:56:53.826 : config[65710]: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I : Configured from console by console Now there is a command that let you add a "hostname prefix" to the syslog messages, which means that I can type my own custom string as hostname for syslog, sadly it still just adds it before the RPS-id making the messages like this: router1 RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:router:Nov 28 23:56:53.826 : config[65710]: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I : Configured from console by console This of course makes it impossible for Observium to match the syslogged hostname to a hostname in the database. I took a look in the observium syslog-code and if I understand it correctly, if it fails to match the hostname it does a fallback and tries if maybe the IP-address is used as hostname and try to match it against a host in the database? In that case maybe I could change the syslog-ng template that forwards the data to Observium to instead use source IP instead of hostname? destination d_observium { program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") template-escape(yes)); I tried change $HOST to $HOST_FROM and $SOURCEIP but no luck so far. Am I even on the right track here? Could something like this work to make my idiotic ASR9Ks show up in the Observium syslog? Thanks in advance for any advice /Markus

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Alerting on temperature against device with multiple temperature sensors
by Jason Lixfeld 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

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6800 weirdness
by Robert Williams 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Hi, We've taken our first batch of 6807-XL chassis and have a couple of minor issues with the component identification and detection in Observium (r5815). I'm not sure if it's best to add a bug report or raise it on here, so I'll start here and move to JIRA if requested. In summary the hardware is reported as: "Hardware: ciscoProducts.1765" - if the same standard as the other 6xxx series is to be followed, this should be translated to "cat6807" I believe? Slightly more importantly, there are permanent 'false' alarm states for the 3.3v outputs on the PSUs which are present: There are 4 bays, numbers 1 and 2 have PSUs, 3 and 4 are empty. It correctly shows the sensor only for objects for 1 and 2, but shows them as 'false' not 'true' for being happy. The graphed integer is 2 (not 1). Console output say's it's OK, so probably (yet) another lying/inverse Cisco SNMP OID... power-converter 1: power-converter 1 : 3.3V Output: OK power-converter 2: power-converter 2 : 3.3V Output: OK Lastly, the Crossbars statistics are, well, a bit weird. Image below as it's easier to explain: I also have just noticed that all the other 6500 series chassis are showing a weird sensor (VTT this time) under the crossbar stats as well. So maybe this is a recent more general issue and is not directly related to the 6807 chassis? (This is a 6509 below) If this should all go to JIRA instead then can someone just let me know if I should split it into individual reports or not? Happy to do it, just want to follow the rules correctly :) Cheers as always! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Netflow Integration
by Dimitar, GlobeIX 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Hi guys, Let me thank you for paying attention to my previous email about "User/Client Account Login Interface" in the first place. I have another one. Does Observium offer any functionality and/or integration with Nfsen, Flowviewer or any other Netflow client/collector? Best Regards Dimitar GlobeIX E-Mail: da(a)globeix.net Tel: 1-212-671-0112; Mobile: +1-646-400-1119 Instant Messengers: ICQ: 28348789; MSN: dimitar(a)avramov.com; Skype: (Aeromit) Dimitar Avramov

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Physical Memory vs Virtual Memory
by Darian Jimenez 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Why is it that virtual memory is twice the physical memory for a server? Seems like the physical shows the right amount.

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Re: [Observium] FW: FTOS 9.4 not working properly with Observium whereas 8.3.12.0 for Force10 switches
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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Higher values of ping statistics in Observium
by Arya, Renuka [BSD] - MED 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Hi Team, I was looking into the ping statistics in All Devices ----- > Graphs --- > Ping. I understand this is the ping statistics between my Observium server and the network device. I am seeing really high values for the ping statistics. Almost ~ 600 ms for some Arista 7050-64R and for others spikes as high as ~7 secs. In actual, the RTT between the Observium server and these devices should by around 0.4-0.5 ms. Please see the attachment. Thanks ! Regards Renuka ________________________________ This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] The ports on the switches doesn't seems to display correct network throughput
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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Re: [Observium] Odd real time graph behavior
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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Re: [Observium] No port names in traffic accounting
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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weird mssql polling issue
by Simon Smith 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Hi All does anyone have an idea why one of our machines is take 182s to do a poll? for some reason its doing a poll for mssql, yet when i look in the config modules its disabled? I’ve attached screenshots showing my issue is the a way i can debug whats going on and why its doing this? i did a manual ./discovery.php -h 43 and that doesn’t seem to show anything about mssql anything else maybe I’m missing? regards Simon

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Alerts and e-mails
by Heironimus, Brian 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Hello I have installed the software about 4 months ago. I have not been able to get the alerts to work at all. I do not have any of the alert pages in the drop down menu. In fact the only alert page that exists is http://192.168.1.31/add_alert_check. http://192.168.1.31/alerts, http://192.168.1.31/alert_checks and http://192.168.1.31/alert_Log just take me back to the homepage. I also do not see any of the alert HTML files under /opt/observium/html/pages except for Add_alert_check. I also have not been able to set it up to e-mail. I just update to 0.14.4.5229 this morning. I was on the May or June release. Thanks for the help, Brian Heironimus

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Re: [Observium] confirm cecaf010d71bb02e45468eb5660a71210fd4f6ad
by Dimitar, GlobeIX 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Hi guys, I just subscribed, I'm reviewing the Demo and wanted to ask: - Does Observium has user/client account login interface, as I was not able to find one? - Does the sub-section "Peering" in "Ports" visualize data collected on a Layer 2 peering switch for example? Best Regards Dimitar On Sep 17, 2014, at 1:46 PM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list > observium > > We have received a request from 192.168.122.1 for subscription of your > email address, "da(a)globeix.net", to the observium(a)observium.org > mailing list. To confirm that you want to be added to this mailing > list, simply reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header > intact. Or visit this web page: > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/confirm/observium/cecaf010d71bb0… > > > Or include the following line -- and only the following line -- in a > message to observium-request(a)observium.org: > > confirm cecaf010d71bb02e45468eb5660a71210fd4f6ad > > Note that simply sending a `reply' to this message should work from > most mail readers, since that usually leaves the Subject: line in the > right form (additional "Re:" text in the Subject: is okay). > > If you do not wish to be subscribed to this list, please simply > disregard this message. If you think you are being maliciously > subscribed to the list, or have any other questions, send them to > observium-owner(a)observium.org. Dimitar GlobeIX E-Mail: da(a)globeix.net Tel: 1-212-671-0112; Mobile: +1-646-400-1119 Instant Messengers: ICQ: 28348789; MSN: dimitar(a)avramov.com; Skype: (Aeromit) Dimitar Avramov

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Backwards switches
by Ryan McCully 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Hi Everyone My switches are showing inbound traffic as outbound and outbound as inbound on Observium. I suspect it may be something to do with the SNMP in the switches that can't be changed therefore is it possible to swap the two on observium? My router which is also monitored by observium shows inbound and outbound correctly. Thanks Ryan

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Re: [Observium] Problem with the Mail Alerting
by Matt Ladewig 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

New feature would be needed- Individual alert checker email address. That way one alert checker could be setup to match on .us.domain devices and send to the US NOC email address. A second checker then would be created to send .jp.domain devices to the JP NOC email address. Feature requests 876 and 988 would take care of it. Matt -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 9:30 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Problem with the Mail Alerting On 2014-09-16 17:15, Chip Pleasants wrote: > Is there a way to set an contact/email per device name scheme? So > lets say I want wanted .us.domain.com [2] names to go to the US NOC > and the jp.domain.com [3] names to go to the Japan NOC? Sounds like > you can set a different email per device, but that real hard to manage > if you have a lot devices. I wouldn't even know where to start doing something like that... :D adam. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Alerts for down state
by Bruce Reeves 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

I have been trying a few combinations of the wiki examples for alerts and most work, but a simple down state keeps eluding me in defining an alert. Does anyone have an example they'd could share of it working? Sent while mobile, please excuse typos.

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PHP Vulnerabilities on Ubuntu LTS
by Adam Armstrong 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hi Guys, Update if you need to : http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/28294/security/flaws-php5-ubuntu.html i.e., if you're using ubuntu! adam.

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Changing Alert checking frequency
by Darian Jimenez 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

I've setup a couple of alerts however I don't see a way to have the alerts email sent out say every 5 minutes or w/e if the alert is triggered. Is there a way to cahnge this? I have a server which triggered an alert and last time alerted is more than 30 minutes ago.

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Monitoring services
by Darian Jimenez 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Is there any way that observium can monitor windows services ? Sent from my iPhone

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postif mailq alerter
by Franjo Posavec 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hi, what is best way to set alert for postfix mailq? with linux-agent, or via snmp? P.S. Using paid version Best regards, -- Franjo Posavec system administrator entitas d.o.o. T: +385 (0)40 600 002 S: franjo.posavec

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Interface description parser issues
by Chard, Alex (REA-SYD) 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

Hi All, Wondering if anyone can help with this... I have Observium setup on about 30 switches and routers. The only feature I haven't been able to get working is the tagging interfaces based on description as Transit, peering etc. As an example, this is one of our Internet transit interfaces: interface GigabitEthernet0/1 description Transit: {14379} (Pipe Networks AS24130) [100Mbit] Observium tells me: Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Any ideas why this might not work? Many thanks, Alex Chard This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or distribute this e-mail without the author's permission. We have taken precautions to minimise the risk of transmitting software viruses, but we advise you to carry out your own virus checks on any attachment to this e-mail. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage caused by software viruses.

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Re: [Observium] f5 bandwidth
by Zhenhui Liang 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

>From switch port side which connect to our f5, I can clearly see traffic is at 500M bps. Just from f5 side, it seems not polling correct at all. Thanks. On 9/12/14, 1:11 PM, "Zhenhui Liang" <ZhenhuiLiang(a)eharmony.com> wrote: >Hi, > >We have several f5 load balancers added. But from observium ui, I saw >they report traffic way lower than what f5¹s own guy replies. The >difference is quite huge. >From observium, each interface shows bandwidth usage like less than 1M >bps. >From f5, it shows several hundreds of mega bps. >Although from f5¹s dashboard, it¹s hard to understand, it doesn¹t say >which interface etc, it simply say out, in client side, server side etc. > >Also from observium, it reports each interface as 10Mbps. > >Do we know if F5 is broken? > >Thanks. > > ‹Zhenhui >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Need assistance adding an application...
by Christopher K. Brown 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

Anyone familiar with adding an application? I think I have everything the documentation said to do in place, and I followed the example of a patch (asterix) that added an application, but I cannot get the web GUI to display the new app in the Apps tabs and dropdowns. I have an application that spits out data in the right place...I can telnet to the polling port and the output includes my new data with the proper <<< >>> header. So I'm thinking I may have to add a row to the applications table in the observium database? Is that a necessary step? The php looks like it needs an 'app_id' from somewhere. Thanks for any assistance.

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f5 bandwidth (Zhenhui Liang)
by Austin Spencer 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

I can confirm the behavior. It appears to do the same thing for us. Anyone? -Austin

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Re: [Observium] Enterasys Chassis Switches polling\discovery problems
by Austin Spencer 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hello, how would I disable that module in the config file for only those Switches? It also doesn't seem to be grabbing the port names. All 600+ ports just say "Extreme Networks, Inc. 1000BASE-T RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet Frontpanel Port"

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f5 bandwidth
by Zhenhui Liang 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi, We have several f5 load balancers added. But from observium ui, I saw they report traffic way lower than what f5’s own guy replies. The difference is quite huge. >From observium, each interface shows bandwidth usage like less than 1M bps. >From f5, it shows several hundreds of mega bps. Although from f5’s dashboard, it’s hard to understand, it doesn’t say which interface etc, it simply say out, in client side, server side etc. Also from observium, it reports each interface as 10Mbps. Do we know if F5 is broken? Thanks. —Zhenhui

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Re: [Observium] Real time graphs resets much before
by Tom Laermans 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

In the pro verson the refresh is actually disabled for realtime graph pages :) Tom Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Forced unsubscription
by Adam Armstrong 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi Guys, If you get force unsubscribed to the list directly after this, it's because your mail server is rejecting emails with "naughty" words in them, so you're flooding other users with bounced messages. Please subscribe from an account which doesn't have draconian nanny email policies. (Because we all know it's impossible to change those policies, we don't even suggest you true, just use another account!) Thanks, adam.

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Re: [Observium] Enterasys Chassis Switches polling\discovery problems (Adam Armstrong)
by Austin Spencer 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hello Adam, it appears to hang on the following for any of the Chassis Series switches. "Discoverying protocols: LLDP-MIB DEBUG : SMNP Auth options = -v2c -c '<CN>' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '<CN>' -OQUs -m /LLDP-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'<HOSTNAME>':'161' lldpRemoteSystemData

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Problem with the Mail Alerting
by SCHEIN David 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hello, Since lot of days I tried to configure the email alert in observium but it's impossible to receive some alert emails.... :( you can see there, a part of my config.php // Mailer backend Settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Enable/Disable email globally $config['email']['from'] = '"OBSERVIUM Network Monitor" <observium(a)s****.fr>'; // Mail from. Default: "Observium" <observium@`hostname`> $config['email']['default'] = "d*****(a)gmail.com"; // Default alert recipient $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; // Only use default recipient (all alerts send to default recipient) $config['email']['backend'] = 'sendmail'; // Mail backend. Allowed: "mail" (PHP's built-in), "sendmail", "smtp". // sendmail backend specific options $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; // The location of the sendmail program. // smtp backend specific options $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; // Outgoing SMTP server name. $config['email']['smtp_port'] = 25; // The port to connect. $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = 10; // SMTP connection timeout in seconds. $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = NULL; // Enable encryption. Use 'tls' or 'ssl' $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = FALSE; // Whether or not to use SMTP authentication. $config['email']['smtp_username'] = NULL; // SMTP username. $config['email']['smtp_password'] = NULL; // Password for SMTP authentication. // Alerting Settings $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['bgp']['whitelist'] = NULL; // Populate as an array() with ASNs to alert on. $config['alerts']['port']['ifdown'] = TRUE; // Generate alerts for ports that go down $config['alerts']['port']['ifdown_types'] = array('core', 'transit', 'peering'); // Port bandwidth threshold percentage %age utilisation above this will cause an alert $config['alerts']['port_util_alert'] = FALSE; // Disabled as default //$config['alerts']['port_util_alert'] = TRUE; // Disabled as default $config['alerts']['port_util_perc'] = 85; // %age above which to alert $config['uptime_warning'] = "60"; // Time in seconds to display a "Device Rebooted" Alert. 0 to disable warnings. I tried different config, but nothing is working and with this config when I do a test, I receive the e-mail in my gmail box, but nothing about port down or bgp session down... php ./test_mail.php -d -h sto-rtr-edge-*****.lan CMD[/bin/hostname -f] RUNTIME[0.0302s] OUTPUT[ pu1-webnoc.s****.lan ] Observium v0.14.9.5798 Test E-mail Configuration My Hostname: pu1-webnoc.s****.lan E-mails ENABLED globally E-mails use SENDMAIL backend sendmail path: [/usr/sbin/sendmail] E-mails send only to default email E-mails use these default recipient(s): d*****(a)gmail.com E-mails send from: observium(a)s****.fr SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `hostname` LIKE 'sto-rtr-edge-a****.s****.lan'] Try send test notification for sto-rtr-edge-a****.s****.lan to these email(s): d*****(a)gmail.com SQL[SELECT attrib_value FROM devices_attribs WHERE `device_id` = '35' AND `attrib_type` = 'disable_notify'] SQL[SELECT DISTINCT `contact_method` FROM `alert_contacts` WHERE `contact_disabled` = 0 AND `contact_id` IN (SELECT `alert_contact_id` FROM `alert_contacts_assoc` WHERE `alert_checker_id` = '');] Notification for sto-rtr-edge-a****.s****.lan SENT. And I didn't see anything in /var/log/mail.log, I see only my test. Thanks for your time David

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Enterasys Chassis Switches polling\discovery problems
by Austin Spencer 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hello all, I've been trying to find out some more information. I'm in the testing run of trying to migrate from Cacti to Observium. Enterasys standalone switches seem to poll data okay (other then memory and CPU) but the Chassis series like the S8 or N7's seem to be giving me a problem. The polling and discovery of these devices appear to hang. Looking at the polling\discovery history from the WebUI just shows 999.99s. Are there any tweaks I can do to get these devices to pull correctly? -Austin

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Class names under CBQoS?
by Chip Pleasants 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi all, I don't see class names under the CBQoS section of the interface. I'm running 0.14.9.5798, which I believe is the latest for the commercial version. Is this in the works or should I be able to see them in this version? Thanks, Chip

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Re: [Observium] professional edition and supported distributions?
by Pablo Escobar Lopez 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

thanks for your reply. We will go for debian then. best, Pablo. 2014-09-12 10:58 GMT+02:00 Spencer Gaw <spencerg(a)frii.net>: > Debian and Ubuntu are the only supported distributions. CE or Pro > doesn't make a difference. > > Regards, > > SG > > On 9/12/2014 2:28 AM, Pablo Escobar Lopez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have been testing observium and now we are considering the > > possibility to upgrade to the professional version. > > > > Is CentOS supported under the professional license or should we stay > > using ubuntu or debian? > > > > thanks for your help. > > Pablo. > > > > > > -- > > Pablo Escobar López > > HPC systems engineer > > Biozentrum, University of Basel > > Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB > > Email: pablo.escobarlopez(a)unibas.ch <mailto:pablo.escobarlopez@unibas.ch > > > > Phone: +41 61 267 15 82 > > http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > -- Pablo Escobar López HPC systems engineer Biozentrum, University of Basel Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB Email: pablo.escobarlopez(a)unibas.ch Phone: +41 61 267 15 82 http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch

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professional edition and supported distributions?
by Pablo Escobar Lopez 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi, We have been testing observium and now we are considering the possibility to upgrade to the professional version. Is CentOS supported under the professional license or should we stay using ubuntu or debian? thanks for your help. Pablo. -- Pablo Escobar López HPC systems engineer Biozentrum, University of Basel Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB Email: pablo.escobarlopez(a)unibas.ch Phone: +41 61 267 15 82 http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch

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keepalived
by Stefan 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

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June Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi Guys, June Changelog! http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#June_2014 Mike was away last month, and it shows. No Rusglish! :D Thanks, adam.

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Manually edit the port name / description
by Anthony Polselli 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

We have a Zyxel DSLAM ADSL switch and Observium is polling fine, but it doesn't pull the customer name field. Is there a way (if I can figure out the OID) to add that to the polling or manual set a description for each ADSL port? [cid:image001.jpg@01CFCDA3.30938010] __________________________________________ Anthony Polselli, Chief Technology Officer Natural Networks, Inc. 10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 San Diego, CA 92121 anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com<mailto:anthony@naturalnetworks.com> http://www.naturalnetworks.com<http://www.naturalnetworks.com/> (619) 222-3232 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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Real time graphs resets much before
by Arya, Renuka [BSD] - MED 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi Team, I was doing some "real time graphs" for interfaces on one of our switch devices. I ran the tests for 15 seconds of Polling interval. The page says the "graph shows last 3600 (60 mins)" but it seems they get resets in 4-5 mins and restarts itself. Has anyone see anything similar before? Version of Observium : CE 14.4.5229 Thanks! Regards Renuka ________________________________ This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 45
by Dudu 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

Hi All. Thank you for the reply. I do agree that this information is not published via snmp. Maybe it will be the first system to use telnet or ssh and do some text parsing. Its also a lot more reliable. That can be a great thing. Thanks again David. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message -------- From: observium-request(a)observium.org Date:11/09/2014 19:32 (GMT+02:00) To: observium(a)observium.org Cc: Subject: observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 45 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Maybe I got it Wrong. (Spencer Gaw) 2. Re: Maybe I got it Wrong. (Tristan Rhodes) 3. Re: Maybe I got it Wrong. (Tristan Rhodes) 4. Manually edit the port name / description (Anthony Polselli) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:18:54 -0600 From: Spencer Gaw <spencerg(a)frii.net> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Maybe I got it Wrong. Message-ID: <5411AF4E.7080506(a)frii.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed You might want to read up on SNMP and how it operates. Observium does not run commands on any device - it merely reports the data it gathers via SNMP. Regards, SG On 9/11/2014 4:31 AM, Dudu wrote: > Hi All, > I'm new here and I'm not sure about the port view. I can see the > neighbours and computers on the vlan on right side , the command looks > like show ip arp > > Maybe it's better to map the computer to the port itself? sh mac > address-table > > So out of the box we will know which server is connected to which > port. That could help to find VM's as well. > > Many Thanks > David. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:06:18 -0600 From: Tristan Rhodes <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Maybe I got it Wrong. Message-ID: <CALeA1nfH+R-g7JdeQ4UD9nbtv6cN87-1UVDhcxSAveJ4WHC3ZQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" David, I think you had the same confusion as me, regarding how to find MAC addresses of nodes (computers). 1) Start by clicking on the name of a device. (You can search for it on the top right) 2) Click on the "Ports" tab. 3) If this is a router, there will be a tab called "ARP/NDP Table", this is IPv4 and IPv6 mapping of MAC address to IP address. If this device was only a layer-2 switch, then this tab would not be displayed. 4) There is a tab called "FDB Table", this is the mapping of MAC address to switchport. (I have always called this the CAM table). Due to the functionality of broadcasts, this will show every device in the same VLAN (the MAC address is seen on switch uplinks) However, I wish there was a node lookup tool that showed which switchport a computer was plugged into. We should be able to identify the interface closest to the computer by removing all interfaces that are CDP/LLDP neighbors with another known network device. Does this make sense? Cheers, Tristan *Tristan Rhodes* Network Engineer Weber State University 801.626.8549 On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Spencer Gaw <spencerg(a)frii.net> wrote: > You might want to read up on SNMP and how it operates. Observium does not > run commands on any device - it merely reports the data it gathers via SNMP. > > Regards, > > SG > > > On 9/11/2014 4:31 AM, Dudu wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I'm new here and I'm not sure about the port view. I can see the >> neighbours and computers on the vlan on right side , the command looks like >> show ip arp >> >> Maybe it's better to map the computer to the port itself? sh mac >> address-table >> >> So out of the box we will know which server is connected to which port. >> That could help to find VM's as well. >> >> Many Thanks >> David. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Maybe I got it Wrong.
by Dudu 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

Hi All, I'm new here and I'm not sure about the port view. I can see the neighbours and computers on the vlan on right side , the command looks like show ip arp Maybe it's better to map the computer to the port itself? sh mac address-table So out of the box we will know which server is connected to which port. That could help to find VM's as well. Many Thanks David.

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Re: [Observium] how to make observium not to poll certain mibs
by Zhenhui Liang 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

I tried that. But seems only a few module are listed there. I think if I disable any of them, a big class of monitors would be disabled with it. I am looking for a way to disable certain mib/objects. Thanks a lot. Would removing/commenting out those objects from the mib file help? On 9/9/14, 2:19 PM, "Pedersen, Sean" <spedersen(a)io.com> wrote: >On the device's page in Observium, there is a small gear icon on the far >right hand side of the screen. Click on that. Then click on the MIBs link >in the Edit bar. You should see a list of MIBs associated with that >device. From there you can disable individual MIBs from being polled. > >-----Original Message----- >From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of >Zhenhui Liang >Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 2:11 PM >To: Observium Network Observation System >Subject: [Observium] how to make observium not to poll certain mibs > >Hi, Sorry if this has been answered. But I didn't find the answer in >doing search. > >So we have a router bug of memory leak core-dump which was caused by >observium trying to do snmpwalk against a certain mib. Vendor advise us >to upgrade the code to latest, which we can't do without significant >amount of coordination. So I am trying to figure out how to make >observium not to poll it. didn't find from gui. >If I delete the mib definition from the mibs/ sub dir, would that be >enough? > >Thanks a lot. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > >Founded in 2007, IO is a worldwide leader in software defined data center >technology, services and solutions that enable businesses and governments >to intelligently control their information. > >The communication contained in this e-mail is confidential and is >intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that >is privileged, proprietary, attorney work product or exempt from >disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in >error, or are not the named recipient(s), please note that any form of >distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in >it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify >the sender of the error, and delete this communication including any >attached files from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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The ports on the switches doesn't seems to display correct network throughput
by Arya, Renuka [BSD] - MED 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

Hi Team, I installed Observium recently. It seems to be working just fine. However, I do see discrepancies in the throughput result. When I run a network performance tool (Nuttcp) on one of the server and monitor the corresponding port on the switch through observium. I observe that the the server is generating around 9.8 Gbps data. If I check the ports directly on the switch I see same thing (~9.8 Gbps) but when I see in through observium on the corresponding port , I see frequent spikes to 12 - 15 Gbps. I am not sure why I am seeing these high value because the NICs on servers are having a 10 G NICs and I never see anything higher than 10 Gbps on server or on the port on the switch. But the real time graphs on Observium shows the spikes of around 12 - 15 Gbps. I would be really glad if you help me on this. I really like the tool but the discrepancy in the throughput result is kind of driving me crazy. Thanks! Regards Renuka ________________________________ This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] Eventlog time and date
by Tomasz Karczewski 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

Ok i've changed in php.ini date.timezone value to Europe/Warsaw and now is fine :) Tnx for the advice. Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.pl http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Karczewski Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 1:22 PM To: 'Observium Network Observation System' Subject: Re: [Observium] Eventlog time and date SELECT TIMEDIFF(NOW(), UTC_TIMESTAMP); +--------------------------------+ | TIMEDIFF(NOW(), UTC_TIMESTAMP) | +--------------------------------+ | 02:00:00 | +--------------------------------+ 1 row in set (1.18 sec) php -i | grep timezone PHP Warning: Unknown: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in Unknown on line 0 Default timezone => UTC date.timezone => no value => no value date +%::z +02:00:00 Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.pl http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Mike Stupalov Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 1:00 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Eventlog time and date Hi, On 10.09.2014 13:07, Tomasz Karczewski wrote: Hi there, I've got one question. Fresh eventlogs and syslogs have format <https://observium.man.olsztyn.pl/> -1y -1d -2h . How to change it? pls show some info for your server: 1. mysql timezone, from console: $ mysql SELECT TIMEDIFF(NOW(), UTC_TIMESTAMP); 2. php timezone: $ php -i | grep timezone 3. system timezone: $ date +%::z Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.pl http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov http://observium.org

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Eventlog time and date
by Tomasz Karczewski 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

Hi there, I've got one question. Fresh eventlogs and syslogs have format <https://observium.man.olsztyn.pl/> -1y -1d -2h . How to change it? Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.pl http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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email alerts
by Zhenhui Liang 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

Hi, All I tired many ways to make email working. But seems to be out of luck. >From linux command line, mail prove to be work on either local sendmail/postfix or via external smtp server. Php test email works either way as well. But observium seems not able to generate any alert email. A tcpdump session would not capture any email data as well when my configured alert checker fires off an alert. Seems from config.php, I need to configure $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Observium Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = “zliang(a)xxxx.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['email_from'] = “observium(a)xxxxxx.com"; $config['email_backend'] = "mail"; $config['email_smtp_host'] = 'localhost’; Also tried $config['email']['from'] = “observium(a)xxx.com"; $config['email']['backend'] = "mail"; $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['email']['default_only'] = 'true'; $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = 'false’; And $config['email']['from'] = “observium(a)mydomain.com"; $config['email']['backend'] = “smtp"; $config['email']['smtp_host'] = ’smtp.mydomain.com'; $config['email']['default_only'] = 'true'; $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = 'false’; None of those combination of configs works. It looks like we are deprecate old format of $config['email_from’] to $config[‘email’]['from’] style? With later format, from global settings, I could see my change taking effect. But using the old format, some values got updated, some not. But nevertheless, email were never sent out. Please advise. I am using code version of Observium 0.14.9.5798 Apache 2.2.15 (CentOS) PHP 5.3.3 MySQL 5.1.66 SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.5 RRDtool 1.3.8

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how to make observium not to poll certain mibs
by Zhenhui Liang 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

Hi, Sorry if this has been answered. But I didn’t find the answer in doing search. So we have a router bug of memory leak core-dump which was caused by observium trying to do snmpwalk against a certain mib. Vendor advise us to upgrade the code to latest, which we can’t do without significant amount of coordination. So I am trying to figure out how to make observium not to poll it. didn’t find from gui. If I delete the mib definition from the mibs/ sub dir, would that be enough? Thanks a lot.

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FW: FTOS 9.4 not working properly with Observium whereas 8.3.12.0 for Force10 switches
by Arya, Renuka [BSD] - MED 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

Hi Team, I recently installed Obervium I am in process of adding my switch devices to Observium network monitoring tool. It seems that my Force10 S4810 switch with FTOS 8.3.12.0 displays correct graphs whereas the Force10 S4810 switches with FTOS 9.4 doesn't display graphs correctly.It works partially, but doesn't display a lot of other information. The website http://www.observium.org/wiki/Supported_Devices says they have tested FTOS till 8.2.1.2 and I can see it works fine at least till 8.3.12.0. So Iam not sure what should be expected for higher version of FTOS. It works just fine with Arista OS 4.13.6F I'll be really glad if you can look into this. Thanks! Regards Renuka Arya University of Chicago ________________________________ This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you.

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alert checker based on a specific mib value?
by Zhenhui Liang 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

Hi, I am trying the enterprise observium version now for the alert checkers. I understand that we could add checkers based on existing conditions and metics listed on http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes But say, if I want to alert on another mib value not listed here, is there currently a way to do so? for instance, I have this mib listed under mibs/PAN-MIB-MODULES panSessionActive OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Integer32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Total number of active sessions." ::= { panSession 3 } Can I add an alert checker to put condition as panSessionActive gt 100000 ? I tried, but seems not able to. Is there a special way to do so? Thanks a lot. —Zhenhui Liang

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Email Alert setup
by Darian Jimenez 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

Hello, I was able to get some alert checks going but email doesn't seem to be working. When I try the test_mail.php script it eventually times out giving me the following. ./test_mail.php -h fwtec.sup.domain.local Sending test notification for fwtec.sup.domain.local...Mailer Error: Failed to connect to myemailserverl.protection.outook.com:25 [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: Connection timed out (code: -1, response: )] done. my config.php has the following for email settings. $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "xxx@mydomain"; $config['email_from'] = "Observium <observium(a)mydomain.com>"; $config['email_backend'] = "smtp"; $config['email_smtp_host'] = 'mymaildoman.protection.outook.com'; $config['email_smtp_port'] = 25; $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['email_smtp_auth'] = TRUE; $config['email_smtp_username'] = 'xxx@mydomain'; $config['email_smtp_password'] = 'xxxx'; $config['email_smtp_timeout'] = 10; I am able to successfully telnet to my email server on port 25 but can't seem to send. What am i Missing?

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Port errors
by Darian Jimenez 06 Sep '14

06 Sep '14

I just saw I had a warning on port errors and looked at it. It is monitoring a Juniper switch interface. From the legend I can't tell what the "m" stand for for the y axis. would this be resource errors from the switch interface stats? Errors: 275, Drops: 0, Framing errors: 275, Runts: 0, Policed discards: 0, L3 incompletes: 0, L2 channel errors: 0, L2 mismatch timeouts: 0, FIFO errors: 0, Resource errors: 11740453 Thanks, Darian

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Empty graphs
by Joel 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

Hi all, just installed Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 on a CentOS 6.5 64bits in VMware Workstation 9 environment : no problem thanks to well done install procedure (http://www.observium.org/wiki/RHEL_Installation); added manually network devices via following commands with no errors : ./add_device.php xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ./discovery.php -h all ./poller.php -h all crontab updated as stated in install procedure ; Everything seems OK during all these steps ; When looking at the results via web interface, I can see all (CISCO here) devices with all their discovered characteristics (type/model, soft version, interfaces, % RAM, % CPU, thruput figures on interfaces, ...) but no graph is drawn at all (even after 4 hours) ; by the way, the graphs legends are correclty, and the grids too, but no curve drawn; when looking at /opt/observium/rrd directory, I can see a sub-dir created per each disvovered device and inside each of them, 1 RRD file created for each collected variable ; (each device RRD subdir is about 40MB after a while, RRD files inside are not empty) Any idea to investigate more about those empty graphs ? thanks for any help

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wrong post
by Joel Guillerm 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

sorry for previous post about netdisco; my mistake

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(no subject)
by Joel Guillerm 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

Hello Chris, thanks for your feedback; in the meantime, I had downloaded and tested the netdisco demo VMware appliance and got some problems ; I posted the following mail on the netdisco mailing list but did not get any feedback yet; if you have any ideas, thanks in advance Joel ************************************************* newbie in netdisco, just downloaded and tested netdisco demo VMWare package (V1.0 netdisco version ... a bit too old maybe, even for a test) To run a quick test, 1) I just edited community values and uncomment "discover_only =" statement followed by a comma-separated list of IP routers to be discovered in /usr/local/netdisco/netdisco. conf ; I let "#discover_no =" statement untouched ; 2) then, I restart netdisco via : ./netdisco -p restart ==> OK after a few minutes, I still did not see any IP routers added on the discover_only list shown via web interface; nothing shown in /usr/local/netdisco/data/logs apart from messages related to "netdisco starting" 3) so, I tested the 2 manual commands below via SSH : ./netdisco -d xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (for 1 single IP) ./netdisco -r xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,yyy.yyy.yyy. yyy, zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz, .... for my list of IPs routers Both commands work successfully and results are OK via web interface Questions : a) what else should I do to avoid having to issue the manual commands and let netdisco do its job ? b) with recent netdisco versions, is there a function that allows to export resulting infos (such as the Devices List with their discovered ard/soft infos) as a CSV file for example ? thanks for any help *************************************************

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Accounting for electricity
by Simon Schmitz 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

Hi, what do you think of an accounting for electricity, the same as the network port on a switch only here of a PDU switch. Simon

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Alerts for Network devices›
by Darian Jimenez 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

Hello, I just need basics on alerting if device is down or maybe if VPN interface is down etc. Attached I set an alert to just try and find devices that are currently "up" to see if it discovers them with the names starting as fw*. Once it works I will change to check for devices that are “down” What am I doing wrong here since it isn't finding anything.

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Re: [Observium] Alerts for Network devices›
by Adam Armstrong 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

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How to limit Discovery/Polling to infos visible on the main Device panel ?
by Joel Guillerm 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

Hello, newbie in Observium ; is it possible to configure Observium to limit its job to get only the informations available on the main Devices panel ? i.e. Device/Location, Platform, Operating System, Uptime/Sysname so, nothing about interfaces, CP, RAM, ... This would be for quick and basic Device inventory purpose only for some environments The idea is to reduce the total discovery/polling time to the minimum for this basic inventory, otherwise, this could last very long time in case of 100's of devices to deal with. thanks for any advice

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Re: [Observium] Google Maps not showing
by Christian Gerbrandt 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

I have this in my config: $config['geocoding']['api'] = 'google'; And is working fine. Where can I find information about this config changes? On Sep 01, 2014, at 05:02 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: On 2014-09-01 16:23, Sebastian Pitei wrote: > Hi everyone, > > First, congrats ot the devs for making such a nice piece of software. > Simple, to the point, perfect! > > Second, my issue: I'm trying to change the maps engine to Google Maps. > I've change the engine to "google" in config.php but unfortunately > nothing is happening. Any ideas? google-mc is the default, and the only one currently expected to work. The old API map was kinda messy, and no one really uses it anymore. adam. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Observium Draw errors
by Adriaan Smuts 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

Hi Guys, For some reason Observium is giving Draw Errors on all of our graphs. This started happening after the latest svn update. We have this error on our live observium and our staging/testing one. Does anyone know how to fix this? Please see screenshot below: [cid:image001.png@01CFC769.4007A4D0] Regards Adriaan Smuts Systems Administrator - Windows [file:///C:\Users\adriaan\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] ________________________________ Direct Line +27 21 464 9565 Reception 086 000 9500 Website www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/>

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Apache 2.4 config (for newer versions of Linux)
by Tristan Rhodes 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

I saw in the list archives that someone recently asked about using newer versions of Linux with Observium. I am not an Apache expert, but I got it working by simply changing to "Require all granted" in the recommended Observium config: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html root@observium:/opt/observium/includes# cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /opt/observium/html/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined ServerSignature On </VirtualHost> I also had to manually enable the php5-mcrypt module: sudo php5enmod mcrypt sudo service apache2 restart I hope this was helpful! Tristan *Tristan Rhodes* Network Engineer Weber State University 801.626.8549

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 5
by matthew waterman 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

ok great, I will get a few basic alerters programmed and await an update at some stage with further examples. I will update tommorrow if the alerts have been successful. I like the send recovery toggle - sometimes the little hamster would go ape for up to 20 emails with a missed SNMP down. Glad to send the end of that. Matt On 1 September 2014 20:34, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 3 (Tom Laermans) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:32:27 +0200 > From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 3 > Message-ID: <54042F1B.8060804(a)powersource.cx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" > > Hi Matt, > > Yes, the legacy alerters have been removed as they did not work very > well. The new alerting system is a lot better. > > I was planning to create example alerts to replicate the old ones, but I > haven't gotten around to that unfortunately. > > For example, device rebooted: > > - Entity type: device > - Alert conditions: device_uptime < 300 > - Entity match: * > - Device match: * > > + Turn off "Send recovery" so you don't get a recovery mail after 5 > minutes. > > Tom > > On 09/01/2014 10:25 AM, matthew waterman wrote: > > hmmm, > > > > I think I am beginning to see the error in my ways perhaps, > > > > I do not have any Alert-checkers..... > > > > I have never had to add them or go near them as the version I was > > originally running just simply emailed me with Device down, device up, > > device rebooted, or if I wanted it to - port down etc > > > > So the new version will not do this by default? Do I need to created > > alert checkers for all my devices? > > > > matt > > > > > > > > On 1 September 2014 19:53, <observium-request(a)observium.org > > <mailto:observium-request@observium.org>> wrote: > > > > Send observium mailing list submissions to > > observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > observium-request(a)observium.org > > <mailto:observium-request@observium.org> > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > observium-owner(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-owner@observium.org> > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1 (Tom Laermans) > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:52:26 +0200 > > From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx > > <mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx>> > > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org > > <mailto:observium@observium.org>> > > Subject: Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1 > > Message-ID: <540425BA.6050808(a)powersource.cx > > <mailto:540425BA.6050808@powersource.cx>> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > > > Hi, > > > > Please share your alert checker configuration (screenshot) so we > > can see > > if those are alright, first. > > > > Tom > > > > On 01/09/2014 09:46, matthew waterman wrote: > > > Thanks for your replies, > > > > > > I have un commented the line "$config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] > > > = TRUE;" , and also confirmed that I have the correct cron job > > > configured. I then gave the VM a reboot as It is one of the devices > > > that I observe. Unfortunalty i did not receive an email alert, so I > > > reboot another device for a full 5 minutes so I should have > > received 1 > > > x email alert for device down and 1 x reboot alert. I did not > > receive > > > either. Is there a way I can monitor/watch the email being sent or > > > processed to confirm that it is indeed happening? > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > On 1 September 2014 11:20, <observium-request(a)observium.org > > <mailto:observium-request@observium.org> > > > <mailto:observium-request@observium.org > > <mailto:observium-request@observium.org>>> wrote: > > > > > > Send observium mailing list submissions to > > > observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > > <mailto:observium@observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> > > > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > > observium-request(a)observium.org > > <mailto:observium-request@observium.org> > > > <mailto:observium-request@observium.org > > <mailto:observium-request@observium.org>> > > > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > <mailto:observium-owner@observium.org> > > <mailto:observium-owner@observium.org > > <mailto:observium-owner@observium.org>> > > > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more > > specific > > > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > > > 1. Email setup in Config.php (matthew waterman) > > > 2. Re: Email setup in Config.php (Tristan Rhodes) > > > 3. Re: Email setup in Config.php (Nathan Phelan) > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Message: 1 > > > Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:32:15 +1200 > > > From: matthew waterman <mwaterman1982(a)gmail.com > > <mailto:mwaterman1982@gmail.com> > > > <mailto:mwaterman1982@gmail.com > > <mailto:mwaterman1982@gmail.com>>> > > > To: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > > <mailto:observium@observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> > > > Subject: [Observium] Email setup in Config.php > > > Message-ID: > > > > > > > > <CAMq=ffcjUmV--G_kqRpXMK+ugBQ6OB2eK+6dEsqza4mteHZx4Q(a)mail.gmail.com > > <mailto: > ffcjUmV--G_kqRpXMK%2BugBQ6OB2eK%2B6dEsqza4mteHZx4Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > > <mailto: > ffcjUmV--G_kqRpXMK%2BugBQ6OB2eK%2B6dEsqza4mteHZx4Q(a)mail.gmail.com > > <mailto: > ffcjUmV--G_kqRpXMK%252BugBQ6OB2eK%252B6dEsqza4mteHZx4Q(a)mail.gmail.com>>> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have been using Observium for about 1 year successfully and > > > recently, > > > approximately 3mth ago, I subscribed to the paid version, > > upgraded > > > via SVN > > > and copied my config.php. I do not have working email alerts at > > > the moment > > > and would like to know what needs to be changed to get this > > > working again. > > > Below is a print of my config.php file. Please advise me as to > > > what needs > > > to be changed to get email working again. > > > > > > Config.php: > > > > > > <?php > > > > > > ## Have a look in includes/defaults.inc.php for examples of > > > settings you > > > can set here. DO NOT EDIT defaults.inc.php! > > > > > > // Database config > > > $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; > > > $config['db_user'] = "myuesrname"; > > > $config['db_pass'] = "mypassword"; > > > $config['db_name'] = "observium"; > > > > > > // Location > > > $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; > > > > > > // Thie should *only* be set if you want to *force* a > particular > > > hostname/port > > > // It will prevent the web interface being usable form any > other > > > hostname > > > #$config['base_url'] = "http://observium.company.com"; > > > > > > // Default community list to use when adding/discovering > > > $config['snmp']['community'] = array("public"); > > > > > > // Authentication Model > > > $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other > > options: > > > ldap, > > > http-auth, please see documentation for config help > > > > > > // Enable alerter > > > // $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; > > > > > > // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) > > > > > > // SNMP Settings > > > $config['snmp']['timeout'] = 1000; # timeout in ms > > > $config['snmp']['retries'] = 6; # how many times to > > > retry the > > > query > > > > > > //Ping Settings > > > $config['ping']['timeout'] = 2000; # timeout in ms > > > $config['ping']['retries'] = 10; # how many times to > > > retry the > > > query > > > > > > //Alert Settings > > > $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = > > "myemail(a)domain.co.nz <mailto:myemail@domain.co.nz> > > > <mailto:myemail@domain.co.nz <mailto:myemail@domain.co.nz>>"; > > > $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "observium.dev < > > > myeamil(a)domain.co.nz <mailto:myeamil@domain.co.nz> > > <mailto:myeamil@domain.co.nz <mailto:myeamil@domain.co.nz>>>"; > > > $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; > > > $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; > > > $config['uptime_warning'] = "14400"; ## Time > to > > > display > > > reboot warning > > > //Poller and Discovery Modules > > > > > > //Syslog settings > > > $config['enable_syslog'] = 1; > > > $config['syslog_filter'] = array("last message repeated", > > > "Connection from > > > UDP: [", > > > "ipSystemStatsTable node > > > ipSystemStatsOutFragOKs not implemented", > > > "diskio.c: don't know how to > > > handle"); ## > > > Ignore some crappy stuff from SNMP daemon > > > > > > //Geocoding Configuration > > > > > > > > > // End config.php > > > > > > > > > > > > *Observium*0.14.8.5763 *Apache*2.2.22 (Ubuntu) > > *PHP*5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13 > > > *MySQL*5.5.38-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 *SNMP*NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 > > > *RRDtool*1.4.7 > > >

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6500 PSU Voltage Check
by Jake Turner 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

Hi All, I was wondering if I could configure alerts for the voltage on a couple of 6500 power supplies (to try and alert on power failures). I've used the Entity Type of Voltage and this picks up the Enitity's from the 6500 (110/220v AC power supply, 2500 watt 2 - Power Supply 2 power-input) however I'm unsure on how to configure the 'Check Conditions' and 'Associations'. The below is a guess for the check conditions: Metric Condition Value sensor_voltage lt 220 In Associations I have simply put * * which I suspect is incorrect. Has anybody else tried setting up checks on voltage? Thanks Jake

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Google Maps not showing
by Sebastian Pitei 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Hi everyone, First, congrats ot the devs for making such a nice piece of software. Simple, to the point, perfect! Second, my issue: I'm trying to change the maps engine to Google Maps. I've change the engine to "google" in config.php but unfortunately nothing is happening. Any ideas? Regards, Sebi

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 3
by matthew waterman 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

hmmm, I think I am beginning to see the error in my ways perhaps, I do not have any Alert-checkers..... I have never had to add them or go near them as the version I was originally running just simply emailed me with Device down, device up, device rebooted, or if I wanted it to - port down etc So the new version will not do this by default? Do I need to created alert checkers for all my devices? matt On 1 September 2014 19:53, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1 (Tom Laermans) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:52:26 +0200 > From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1 > Message-ID: <540425BA.6050808(a)powersource.cx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > Hi, > > Please share your alert checker configuration (screenshot) so we can see > if those are alright, first. > > Tom > > On 01/09/2014 09:46, matthew waterman wrote: > > Thanks for your replies, > > > > I have un commented the line "$config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] > > = TRUE;" , and also confirmed that I have the correct cron job > > configured. I then gave the VM a reboot as It is one of the devices > > that I observe. Unfortunalty i did not receive an email alert, so I > > reboot another device for a full 5 minutes so I should have received 1 > > x email alert for device down and 1 x reboot alert. I did not receive > > either. Is there a way I can monitor/watch the email being sent or > > processed to confirm that it is indeed happening? > > > > Matt > > > > > > On 1 September 2014 11:20, <observium-request(a)observium.org > > <mailto:observium-request@observium.org>> wrote: > > > > Send observium mailing list submissions to > > observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > observium-request(a)observium.org > > <mailto:observium-request@observium.org> > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > observium-owner(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-owner@observium.org> > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Email setup in Config.php (matthew waterman) > > 2. Re: Email setup in Config.php (Tristan Rhodes) > > 3. Re: Email setup in Config.php (Nathan Phelan) > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:32:15 +1200 > > From: matthew waterman <mwaterman1982(a)gmail.com > > <mailto:mwaterman1982@gmail.com>> > > To: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > > Subject: [Observium] Email setup in Config.php > > Message-ID: > > > > <CAMq=ffcjUmV--G_kqRpXMK+ugBQ6OB2eK+6dEsqza4mteHZx4Q(a)mail.gmail.com > <mailto:ffcjUmV--G_kqRpXMK%2BugBQ6OB2eK%2B6dEsqza4mteHZx4Q@mail.gmail.com > >> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > Hi, > > > > I have been using Observium for about 1 year successfully and > > recently, > > approximately 3mth ago, I subscribed to the paid version, upgraded > > via SVN > > and copied my config.php. I do not have working email alerts at > > the moment > > and would like to know what needs to be changed to get this > > working again. > > Below is a print of my config.php file. Please advise me as to > > what needs > > to be changed to get email working again. > > > > Config.php: > > > > <?php > > > > ## Have a look in includes/defaults.inc.php for examples of > > settings you > > can set here. DO NOT EDIT defaults.inc.php! > > > > // Database config > > $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; > > $config['db_user'] = "myuesrname"; > > $config['db_pass'] = "mypassword"; > > $config['db_name'] = "observium"; > > > > // Location > > $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; > > > > // Thie should *only* be set if you want to *force* a particular > > hostname/port > > // It will prevent the web interface being usable form any other > > hostname > > #$config['base_url'] = "http://observium.company.com"; > > > > // Default community list to use when adding/discovering > > $config['snmp']['community'] = array("public"); > > > > // Authentication Model > > $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other options: > > ldap, > > http-auth, please see documentation for config help > > > > // Enable alerter > > // $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; > > > > // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) > > > > // SNMP Settings > > $config['snmp']['timeout'] = 1000; # timeout in ms > > $config['snmp']['retries'] = 6; # how many times to > > retry the > > query > > > > //Ping Settings > > $config['ping']['timeout'] = 2000; # timeout in ms > > $config['ping']['retries'] = 10; # how many times to > > retry the > > query > > > > //Alert Settings > > $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "myemail(a)domain.co.nz > > <mailto:myemail@domain.co.nz>"; > > $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "observium.dev < > > myeamil(a)domain.co.nz <mailto:myeamil@domain.co.nz>>"; > > $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; > > $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; > > $config['uptime_warning'] = "14400"; ## Time to > > display > > reboot warning > > //Poller and Discovery Modules > > > > //Syslog settings > > $config['enable_syslog'] = 1; > > $config['syslog_filter'] = array("last message repeated", > > "Connection from > > UDP: [", > > "ipSystemStatsTable node > > ipSystemStatsOutFragOKs not implemented", > > "diskio.c: don't know how to > > handle"); ## > > Ignore some crappy stuff from SNMP daemon > > > > //Geocoding Configuration > > > > > > // End config.php > > > > > > > > *Observium*0.14.8.5763 *Apache*2.2.22 (Ubuntu) > *PHP*5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13 > > *MySQL*5.5.38-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 *SNMP*NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 > > *RRDtool*1.4.7 > >

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1
by matthew waterman 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Thanks for your replies, I have un commented the line "$config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE;" , and also confirmed that I have the correct cron job configured. I then gave the VM a reboot as It is one of the devices that I observe. Unfortunalty i did not receive an email alert, so I reboot another device for a full 5 minutes so I should have received 1 x email alert for device down and 1 x reboot alert. I did not receive either. Is there a way I can monitor/watch the email being sent or processed to confirm that it is indeed happening? Matt On 1 September 2014 11:20, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Email setup in Config.php (matthew waterman) > 2. Re: Email setup in Config.php (Tristan Rhodes) > 3. Re: Email setup in Config.php (Nathan Phelan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:32:15 +1200 > From: matthew waterman <mwaterman1982(a)gmail.com> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Subject: [Observium] Email setup in Config.php > Message-ID: > <CAMq= > ffcjUmV--G_kqRpXMK+ugBQ6OB2eK+6dEsqza4mteHZx4Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > I have been using Observium for about 1 year successfully and recently, > approximately 3mth ago, I subscribed to the paid version, upgraded via SVN > and copied my config.php. I do not have working email alerts at the moment > and would like to know what needs to be changed to get this working again. > Below is a print of my config.php file. Please advise me as to what needs > to be changed to get email working again. > > Config.php: > > <?php > > ## Have a look in includes/defaults.inc.php for examples of settings you > can set here. DO NOT EDIT defaults.inc.php! > > // Database config > $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; > $config['db_user'] = "myuesrname"; > $config['db_pass'] = "mypassword"; > $config['db_name'] = "observium"; > > // Location > $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; > > // Thie should *only* be set if you want to *force* a particular > hostname/port > // It will prevent the web interface being usable form any other hostname > #$config['base_url'] = "http://observium.company.com"; > > // Default community list to use when adding/discovering > $config['snmp']['community'] = array("public"); > > // Authentication Model > $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other options: ldap, > http-auth, please see documentation for config help > > // Enable alerter > // $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; > > // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) > > // SNMP Settings > $config['snmp']['timeout'] = 1000; # timeout in ms > $config['snmp']['retries'] = 6; # how many times to retry the > query > > //Ping Settings > $config['ping']['timeout'] = 2000; # timeout in ms > $config['ping']['retries'] = 10; # how many times to retry the > query > > //Alert Settings > $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "myemail(a)domain.co.nz"; > $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "observium.dev < > myeamil(a)domain.co.nz>"; > $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; > $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; > $config['uptime_warning'] = "14400"; ## Time to display > reboot warning > //Poller and Discovery Modules > > //Syslog settings > $config['enable_syslog'] = 1; > $config['syslog_filter'] = array("last message repeated", "Connection from > UDP: [", > "ipSystemStatsTable node > ipSystemStatsOutFragOKs not implemented", > "diskio.c: don't know how to handle"); ## > Ignore some crappy stuff from SNMP daemon > > //Geocoding Configuration > > > // End config.php > > > > *Observium*0.14.8.5763 *Apache*2.2.22 (Ubuntu) *PHP*5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13 > *MySQL*5.5.38-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 *SNMP*NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 > *RRDtool*1.4.7 >

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Email setup in Config.php
by matthew waterman 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Hi, I have been using Observium for about 1 year successfully and recently, approximately 3mth ago, I subscribed to the paid version, upgraded via SVN and copied my config.php. I do not have working email alerts at the moment and would like to know what needs to be changed to get this working again. Below is a print of my config.php file. Please advise me as to what needs to be changed to get email working again. Config.php: <?php ## Have a look in includes/defaults.inc.php for examples of settings you can set here. DO NOT EDIT defaults.inc.php! // Database config $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; $config['db_user'] = "myuesrname"; $config['db_pass'] = "mypassword"; $config['db_name'] = "observium"; // Location $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; // Thie should *only* be set if you want to *force* a particular hostname/port // It will prevent the web interface being usable form any other hostname #$config['base_url'] = "http://observium.company.com"; // Default community list to use when adding/discovering $config['snmp']['community'] = array("public"); // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please see documentation for config help // Enable alerter // $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) // SNMP Settings $config['snmp']['timeout'] = 1000; # timeout in ms $config['snmp']['retries'] = 6; # how many times to retry the query //Ping Settings $config['ping']['timeout'] = 2000; # timeout in ms $config['ping']['retries'] = 10; # how many times to retry the query //Alert Settings $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "myemail(a)domain.co.nz"; $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "observium.dev < myeamil(a)domain.co.nz>"; $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; $config['uptime_warning'] = "14400"; ## Time to display reboot warning //Poller and Discovery Modules //Syslog settings $config['enable_syslog'] = 1; $config['syslog_filter'] = array("last message repeated", "Connection from UDP: [", "ipSystemStatsTable node ipSystemStatsOutFragOKs not implemented", "diskio.c: don't know how to handle"); ## Ignore some crappy stuff from SNMP daemon //Geocoding Configuration // End config.php *Observium*0.14.8.5763 *Apache*2.2.22 (Ubuntu) *PHP*5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13 *MySQL*5.5.38-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 *SNMP*NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 *RRDtool*1.4.7

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Re: [Observium] Syslog msg empty temporary fix
by Mike Stupalov 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

1. write questions to list pls, I'm not a service support 2. why do you have a line break in $template, all text betwen $template and \n" this is one line (use copy-paste) 3. about '& stop' vs '& ~', tilde - legacy but still working variant, and therefore suitable for the old and new rsyslog versions and in irc you sayd that syslog messages displayed if in cisco device set logging without timezone, this is not true? On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Wouter Prins <wp(a)null0.nl> wrote: > It still doesn't work correctly here. > Any idea's? :) > > I've pasted this into /etc/rsyslog.conf: > > -- > $template > observium,"%fromhost%||%syslogfacility%||%syslogpriority%||%syslogseverity%||%syslogtag%||%$year%-%$month%-%$day% > %timereported:8:25%||%msg%||% > programname%\n" > $ModLoad omprog > $ActionOMProgBinary /opt/observium/syslog.php > > :inputname, isequal, "imudp" :omprog:;observium > > & stop > #--------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > Any idea why i still dont see any cisco syslog messages? When i restart > rsyslogd its not complaining about syntax etc. > I do see unix syslog from servers. > > > On 24 August 2014 12:37, Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> yes, everything works >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Wouter Prins <wp(a)null0.nl> wrote: >> >>> Hi Mike, >>> >>> Is this config working for you in 14.04.1? >>> >>> >>> On 20 August 2014 07:14, Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> .. or just use Rsyslog because it is in base Ubuntu system: >>>> http://observium.org/wiki/Rsyslog_Syslog_Server >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Robert Williams < >>>> Robert(a)custodiandc.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Further to Pav's comments earlier, I’ve found that setting the >>>>> “no-parse” flag in syslog-ng stops it from messing with the string and >>>>> restores some reasonable sanity to the messages which get passed to >>>>> Observium. Clearly something has changed within syslog-ng from Ubuntu >>>>> 12->14 and this new issue is nothing to do with the >>>>> Observium-importing-the-message element. >>>>> >>>>> For anyone suffering the same fate, the actual setting syntax to be >>>>> used within the Observium definition for syslog-ng is: >>>>> >>>>> source s_net { >>>>> udp(flags(no-parse)); >>>>> }; >>>>> >>>>> This restores 100% normal message structure for /most/ of the devices >>>>> I’ve just tested with, including all the IOS 15.x ones which had all >>>>> started showing simply "%" as the message content. >>>>> >>>>> The ones which are still a little bit broken are the IOS-XR based >>>>> units as they seem to pass a load of process name, event log number, >>>>> process number, favourite colour and other random crap in the “message” >>>>> element. However, they were all a bit broken before all this anyway to be >>>>> fair. >>>>> >>>>> I can see that within the /includes/syslog.php there is a rather >>>>> extensive section of preg_match/replace for a number of $os types. So I >>>>> guess the best way forwards to sanitise the extra IOS-XR crap is to build >>>>> it in there and submit a patch. Although I have a feeling that IOS and >>>>> IOS-XR count as the same $OS type? So we won't necessarily be able to >>>>> filter the manipulation using that to match them. >>>>> >>>>> Anyway, if we make any progress with it we’ll let you know! >>>>> >>>>> Cheers guys, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Robert Williams >>>>> Custodian Data Centre >>>>> Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com >>>>> http://www.CustodianDC.com >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> observium mailing list >>>>> observium(a)observium.org >>>>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mike Stupalov >>>> http://observium.org/ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> observium mailing list >>>> observium(a)observium.org >>>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Wouter Prins >>> wp(a)null0.nl >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Mike Stupalov >> http://observium.org/ >> > > > > -- > Wouter Prins > wp(a)null0.nl > > -- Mike Stupalov http://observium.org/

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RSS
by Johnson, Edward A. 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

I’m trying to get RSS working. php-mcrypt is installed and under “My Settings” it says my RSS/Atom key was created. I can’t find any documentation anywhere that explains anything further.

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Re: [Observium] Avtech Room Alert 4E support?
by Scott Benninger 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

I was able to svn add the new file I copied and modified as well as make the diff file with the changes I made to the other files. How would I go about submitting my changes/adds to you to verify and commit? Or does the svn add accomplish this? I am not well versed in the use of svn. Thanks, Scott On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > Only if you submit them to us and we commit them to the repository. > > "svn add" any new files to SVN and then do "svn diff" to get SVN to > generate a file containing your changes. > > adam. > > > On 2014-08-28 17:52, Scott Benninger wrote: > >> Thanks! I managed to get it working. Not perfect but returns the 2 >> temp sensors I need. There is no internal humidity sensor on the 4E so >> may remove the humidity code as well. >> >> For reference I modified the definitions/os.inc.php roomalert os to >> use the 4E mib. I then coped the 24E sensor .php and modified it to >> use the 4E mibs and had to change the OID from 5 to 6 (the different >> product code) otherwise the mibs are almost the same up until the >> extra sensors that are available in the 24E. >> >> I guess my final question is will all the changes I made stick through >> SVN updates? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Scott >> >> AVTech uses a different MIB for each product, unfortunately. So it needs >> some coding to be done... >> >> Tom >> >> On 08/28/2014 03:41 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> Hi Scott, >> >> You need to write code to discover the objects in the new MIB. >> >> You can look at the old ones as an example, you'll find them in >> includes/discovery/sensors/ >> >> adam. >> >> On 2014-08-28 14:33, Scott Benninger wrote: >> I have been trying to get our Room Alert 4E working to record >> temperature and alert if needed. On the latest svn build(5770). I see >> on the website that the 24E is the only one supported currently since >> they have different MIBS. (FYI they no longer sell the 24E in NA). >> >> I have been able to get it to discover as and AVtech device but I had >> to modify the roomalert discovery and poller php files to add a space >> to RoomAlert as the sysDescr on the 4E is "Room Alert 4E v3.1.1". >> >> I see the 4E mibs are there as well but the temp is not getting >> polled properly. >> >> Is it possible for me to make modifications to get the temp polling >> properly? If so where should I be looking to get the 4E MIBS working >> properly? I am not sure where the mappings are done etc. Is this >> difficult to do? >> >> Otherwise how would I go about getting the working properly? >> >> Thanks, >> >> _ Scott_ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Avtech Room Alert 4E support?
by Scott Benninger 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Thanks! I managed to get it working. Not perfect but returns the 2 temp sensors I need. There is no internal humidity sensor on the 4E so may remove the humidity code as well. For reference I modified the definitions/os.inc.php roomalert os to use the 4E mib. I then coped the 24E sensor .php and modified it to use the 4E mibs and had to change the OID from 5 to 6 (the different product code) otherwise the mibs are almost the same up until the extra sensors that are available in the 24E. I guess my final question is will all the changes I made stick through SVN updates? Thanks, Scott > AVTech uses a different MIB for each product, unfortunately. So it needs > some coding to be done... > > Tom > > On 08/28/2014 03:41 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >>* Hi Scott, *>>>>* You need to write code to discover the objects in the new MIB. *>>>>* You can look at the old ones as an example, you'll find them in *>> *includes/discovery/sensors/ *>>>>* adam. *>>>>* On 2014-08-28 14:33, Scott Benninger wrote: *>>>* I have been trying to get our Room Alert 4E working to record *>>>* temperature and alert if needed. On the latest svn build(5770). I see *>>>* on the website that the 24E is the only one supported currently since *>>>* they have different MIBS. (FYI they no longer sell the 24E in NA). *>>>>>>* I have been able to get it to discover as and AVtech device but I had *>>>* to modify the roomalert discovery and poller php files to add a space *>>>* to RoomAlert as the sysDescr on the 4E is "Room Alert 4E v3.1.1". *>>>>>>* I see the 4E mibs are there as well but the temp is not getting *>>>* polled properly. *>>>>>>* Is it possible for me to make modifications to get the temp polling *>>>* properly? If so where should I be looking to get the 4E MIBS working *>>>* properly? I am not sure where the mappings are done etc. Is this *>>>* difficult to do? *>>>>>>* Otherwise how would I go about getting the working properly? *>>>>>>* Thanks, *>>>>>>* Scott*

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Avtech Room Alert 4E support?
by Scott Benninger 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

I have been trying to get our Room Alert 4E working to record temperature and alert if needed. On the latest svn build(5770). I see on the website that the 24E is the only one supported currently since they have different MIBS. (FYI they no longer sell the 24E in NA). I have been able to get it to discover as and AVtech device but I had to modify the roomalert discovery and poller php files to add a space to RoomAlert as the sysDescr on the 4E is "Room Alert 4E v3.1.1". I see the 4E mibs are there as well but the temp is not getting polled properly. Is it possible for me to make modifications to get the temp polling properly? If so where should I be looking to get the 4E MIBS working properly? I am not sure where the mappings are done etc. Is this difficult to do? Otherwise how would I go about getting the working properly? Thanks, Scott

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remove old event log data
by Simon Smith 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Hi All, hoping again someone can assist me with my problems or questions… i fixed the WMI problem i was having a few weeks ago, however it has left loads and loads of Device rebooted event logs in my database is the an easy way of deleting this data as really i only wanted the log to show once? not really 2,000 times…. I’ve attached a screenshot of showing the data from the mysql i was simply gunna do 'delete from event log where reference = 2447807' but im not 100% sure incase i screw anything up in the database as its a running live system i use regards Simon

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Re: [Observium] Syslog msg empty temporary fix
by Robert Williams 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Hi, Further to Pav's comments earlier, I’ve found that setting the “no-parse” flag in syslog-ng stops it from messing with the string and restores some reasonable sanity to the messages which get passed to Observium. Clearly something has changed within syslog-ng from Ubuntu 12->14 and this new issue is nothing to do with the Observium-importing-the-message element. For anyone suffering the same fate, the actual setting syntax to be used within the Observium definition for syslog-ng is: source s_net { udp(flags(no-parse)); }; This restores 100% normal message structure for /most/ of the devices I’ve just tested with, including all the IOS 15.x ones which had all started showing simply "%" as the message content. The ones which are still a little bit broken are the IOS-XR based units as they seem to pass a load of process name, event log number, process number, favourite colour and other random crap in the “message” element. However, they were all a bit broken before all this anyway to be fair. I can see that within the /includes/syslog.php there is a rather extensive section of preg_match/replace for a number of $os types. So I guess the best way forwards to sanitise the extra IOS-XR crap is to build it in there and submit a patch. Although I have a feeling that IOS and IOS-XR count as the same $OS type? So we won't necessarily be able to filter the manipulation using that to match them. Anyway, if we make any progress with it we’ll let you know! Cheers guys, Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Graph Netstats
by Darian Jimenez 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Hello, Anyone know where I could get an understanding of how to interpret the graphs for network devices? Is there any documentation to help explain what to look for in devices for packet loss or problems with service? I don't see a way to tell packet drops like you would see on a device normally.

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Re: [Observium] Weird database issue?
by Nick Pais 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Hogan, I'm talking about the current throughput, screenshots attached. Please excuse my "fantastic" GIMPing skills :D Thanks! > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 17:40:03 +0000 > From: Hogan Whittall <whittalh(a)yahoo-inc.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Weird database issue? > Message-ID: <6CDB9AE7-7909-401B-80E3-D404CDA371AC(a)yahoo-inc.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > If you?re referring to the link speed (100Mb, 1Gb, etc) then that has historically been a problem with permissions when snmpd tries to access ethtool info. You basically have 3 options: > > - Run snmpd as ?root? (Not recommended) > - Enable ETHTOOL_GSET in the kernel > - Add the link speed of each NIC to snmpd.conf (interface ethX 6 <speed in bits/s>) > > I went with the third option and wrote a script to do this for me. This info is kept in the ?ports? table. > > Or are you talking about current throughput and not port speed? > > -Hogan

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fixing graphing of FortiGate memory (used to work, now broken)
by Nathan Phelan 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Hi Guys, Short version: Fortinet memory stops showing in Observium after updating due to Fortinet MIBS not being where Observium expects them. Hack Solution: mv /opt/observium/mibs/FORTINET-* /opt/observium/mibs/fortinet/ ./discovery.php -h all Long version: We have been running a very old version for a long time ( 0.14.1.4945 ) and it's been ticking along nicely but I've finally found some time to do a test update to the latest svn and ran into an issue with Fortigate memory. I ran a discovery with debug; attached as "memory debug.txt". If I run one of those commands manually I get the following: root@clone:/opt/observium# /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c 'test -snmp' -OvQ -m FORTINET-FORTIGATE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp:/opt/observium/mibs/fortinet 'udp':'testdev.test.local':'161' fgSysMemUsage.0 MIB search path: /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp:/opt/observium/mibs/fortinet Cannot find module (FORTINET-FORTIGATE-MIB): At line 0 in (none) fgSysMemUsage.0: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> fgSysMemUsage) The FORTINET-FORTIGATE-MIB files don't appear to have changed but Observium appears to be looking for them under "/opt/observium/mibs/fortinet/" when they are actually just under "/opt/observium/mibs/" After doing this: root@clone:/opt/observium# cd mibs root@clone:/opt/observium/mibs# mkdir fortinet root@clone:/opt/observium/mibs# mv FORTINET-* ./fortinet/ and then running discovery again memory stats came back. Has anyone else had this issue? If so maybe the MIBS need to be relocated in SVN? Cheers, Nathan

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Quote for feature
by Benoit Lambert 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Where can I get a quote for a new feature? The Professional Services (http://www.observium.org/services/) page doesn't contain any information on who to contact. Thanks, Benoit

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Pagination on edit settings?
by Michael Loftis 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Is there *any* way to get pagination added to the edit setting pages? F/ex the "Sensors" page is unusable on a majority of my devices try waiting for load/render when you've got something like a fully loaded Juniper EX9214 so you can disable a sensor alert on one port ... ~300 ports - it's just pure pain assuming it finishes at all. And then you have to set PHP's limits so high to get the submit/save to work. Another issue is I kind of need an ability to occasionally do a "reset all" on the limits page. Individually checking off hundreds of sensors is a completely unnecessary waste of time. I realise I could go muck in the database for both of these in my particular but thats just not always an option and this just seems like something it should be doing when it hits a couple hundred records or some configurable limit. -- "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." -- Samuel Butler

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Re: [Observium] Moving logs and rrds to another partition?
by Benoit Lambert 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

If anyone is interested, this is how I did it without shutting down the server. And it worked. #Add 2 30GB disk (sdb1=DB | sdc1=rrd) #Rescan to find HDD - without shutdown echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host2/scan #check if it got added fdisk -l ls -la /dev/sd* #Stop daemons service crond stop service snmpd stop service syslog-ng stop service httpd stop service auditd stop #Stop sql last service mysqld stop #Configure DB HDD fdisk /dev/sdb n p 1 <cr> <cr> w #Configure rrd HDD fdisk /dev/sdc n p 1 <cr> <cr> w #Format them in ext4 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1 #Rename DB folder cd /var/lib/ mv mysql mysql_tmp #Recreate mysql folder mkdir mysql #Mount the DB hard drive mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/mysql #Copy files over and preserve owners/perms cp -rp mysql_tmp/* mysql/ #change owner/perms of mysql folder chown mysql:mysql mysql #Rename rrd folder cd /opt/observium mv rrd rrd_tmp #Recreate rrd folder mkdir rrd #Mount the rrd hard drive mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 /opt/observium/rrd #Copy files over and preserve owners/perms cp -rp rrd_tmp/* rrd/ #change owner/perms of mysql folder chown apache:apache rrd #mount at startup - edit /etc/fstab /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/mysql ext4 defaults 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /opt/observium/rrd ext4 defaults 0 0 #Start daemons service mysqld start service httpd start service syslog-ng start service snmpd start service crond start service auditd start

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Re: [Observium] help with observium
by Benoit Lambert 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Add this to your config.php #PING Settings - Retries/Timeouts $config['ping']['retries'] = 10; // How many times to retry ping (1 - 10) $config['ping']['timeout'] = 1000; // Timeout in milliseconds (50 - 2000)

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help with observium
by Magnus Svensson 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Hi! I got a problem with my new install. i get messege: 2014-08-25 11:00:01 "host" System Device status changed to Up 2014-08-25 10:55:07 "host" System Device status changed to Down (ping) its always down 5min, and if i ping the host its up. its just observium that think its down. ive google it and tried ping settings in config and i dont get it to work. someone know whats wrong? //magnus

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Status Proxmox-VE-Monitoring
by Cyrill Matenaers 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Hi all, I just read something about Proxmox-Monitoring here http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-471. What is the actual status of this development? Is there any documetation on how to use it? Thanks for your help! Kind regards, Cyrill

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Re: [Observium] alerting
by Jake Hansen 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Can anyone help with an issue we are having regarding alerting. Every since updating a few weeks ago, we no longer get email alerts when outages occur. I have verified that the email on the server it self is working, we simply get no events generated when things go down. Did something change in this regard? How can I restore email alerts? -- Jake Hansen Sr. Network Administrator ZTelco / Zray Technologies, Inc. 858-431-4411 Direct 858-565-2155 Office

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Apache access config for Ubuntu 14.04
by Al Nash 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Hello Observium Just curious, your documentation here http://www.observium.org/wiki/Debian_Ubuntu_Installation#Problems mentions modifying the Apache access configuration for 13.10 and 14.04. Are there any helpful articles that can assist with making the necessary modifications? Thank You -- <http://dattobackup.com/email-signature> *Al Nash*DEVT Engineer Datto, Inc. 877-455-6015www.dattobackup.com

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Odd real time graph behavior
by Derek 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

I'm getting some strange looking graphs on some ports on my routers, where the graph is basically just a bunch of spikes. Set at 1 second intervals, it will register traffic for one tick, then nothing for anywhere from 4-10 ticks, then register traffic again, and so on. This is happening on Cisco 2811's, 2911's, and a 7206VXR, and it happens on the FastEthernet, GigEthernet, and SVI ports on them. If I set the interval to 5 seconds or higher, it looks normal again. Now, these same routers with this problem have no issue doing a 1 second interval on their Serial ports or sub-interfaces. We have several 2960 switches that seem to work just fine. I've attached an example graph to show you what I see. I happen to know that this port had at least a consistent 1MB connection throughout the time period of the graph. Thanks, Derek

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Simple question about application monitoring
by Christopher K. Brown 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Looking at Observium for the first time and wanted confirmation on this: From looking around at an install and the scripts in the scripts/agent-local directory, I believe these data-gathering scripts are executed locally on each host that is being monitored. Is that correct? Thanks!

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Re: [Observium] Moving logs and rrds to another partition?
by Benoit Lambert 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Perfect, thanks! I won't forget to chown/chmod :P Benoit

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Re: [Observium] Moving logs and rrds to another partition?
by Benoit Lambert 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Can I move entire DB to another disk? Like this? : 1. Stop the daemons 2. Rename the DB folder "mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql-tmp" 3. Recreate the folder "mkdir /var/lib/mysql" 4. Mount the new disk to the new folder "mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/mysql" (put in fstab after) 5. Copy the files from the old folder to the new folder (cp mysql-tmp/* mysql/) 6. Restart the daemons. And voila??? Thanks, Benoit

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Re: [Observium] Moving logs and rrds to another partition?
by Benoit Lambert 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Would this work? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/symbolic-links.html Thanks, Benoit

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Cannot Ping
by Greg Lipschitz 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Hi All, Seeing an issue where the interface is reporting it cannot ping the host but you can ping it fine from the console of the server. Anyone else seen this issue? Adding host xxxxxxxxx community mycomunity port 161 Could not ping xxxxxxxxxxx. Greg Lipschitz Director Summit IT Management<http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au> | Summit Internet<http://www.summitinternet.com.au> | Summit Creative<http://www.summitcreative.com.au> - ‘reach your peak’ Divisions of The Summit Group (Australia) Pty Ltd Phone (Australia): 1300 049 749 Phone (US & Canada): (321) 216 3844 E-mail: Greg(a)thesummitgroup.com.au<mailto:Greg@thesummitgroup.com.au> Internet: http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au/<http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au> Address: Level 1, 39 Railway Road, Blackburn VIC 3130 Postal: P.O. Box 3225, Doncaster East VIC 3109 Follow us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/thesummitgroup/> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/company/1942329> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/summitgroupau/> -- ExchangeDefender Message Security: Click below to verify authenticity https://admin.exchangedefender.com/verify.php?id=s7LBpcHQ003797&from=greg@t…

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Traffic graphs have red line on it
by Marco Marques 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Hi Guys, When looking at the traffic graphs for the ports on a devices, it has these red lines on the graph. What do they represent? See attached. Marco Marques

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Alert Checker - Device match
by Jake Turner 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Hi All, I hope somebody can help. I’m currently trying to add device alerts for all my Cisco devices. As per the example in the alerting guide I’ve used ‘os equals iOS’ which works perfectly for my iOS devices but doesn’t alert on any of my XR devices. I gave 'os match iOS’ a go but that again only gives iOS devices. ‘os equals iosxr’ pulls the XR devices but obviously not the iOS devices. I’ve also tried the two statements on separate lines and that just breaks the checker. Is there any way to put the iOS and XR devices on one checker (based on os) or am I going to have to look into selecting on hostname or something similar? Thanks Jake Turner

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Moving logs and rrds to another partition?
by Benoit Lambert 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

I want to move all logs and rrds to another partition. I know rrds are stored in "/opt/observium/rrd"... But where on disk does Observium store syslogs|eventlogs? Unless they are in the DB and moving them to another partition is impossible...? I have it installed on Centos 6.5. Thanks in advance for any help! Benoit

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