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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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Alerting
by RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Just to be clear Alerting is only available in the paid version? the website observium states future ... "is the future is now"??? this is a very important feature that is lacking Computer King CaN-Mail Surveillance King http://computerking.ca http://canmail.org http://surveillanceking.net Surveillance - Sales Service - Hosting Backup Internet Based Surveillance Systems Custom Service Pac kages Secure IMAP Email - Automated Remote Backups - Photo Blogs - Online ERP and Accounting Packages

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Re: [Observium] No port names in traffic accounting
by Travis Kreikemeier 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Any thoughts on this issue? Is this a known issue? Observium 0.14.7.5736 (stable) TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER From: Travis Kreikemeier Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 1:27 PM To: 'observium(a)observium.org' Subject: No port names in traffic accounting When adding a Calix E7 port to a customer in traffic accounting. All of the interfaces in the drop down are blank, so hard to figure out which one to select. A work around I have been doing is going to the switch port and clicking "Create Bill". Would like to add the ports in the traffic accounting area. [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB87C.115A9BC0] Some of the ports on the device: [cid:image002.jpg@01CFB87C.115A9BC0] TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Port Alerts
by Tech8 otelafrica 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Hi Guys On the subscription version, what would be an example of setting up an alert if a serial0/0 or eth0 port goes down on a device? Regards Anton

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server rebooted log over and over again
by Simon Smith 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Hi All, I seem to have an issue with a Windows machine and SNMP, every 5 mins when the Observium checks one of our windows machine, I keep getting ‘Device rebooted after X days’ in the event logs of that machine I did do a server reboot the other day on that machine, however if i enable the Device Ignore, i never see this issue but again thats only a work around!? is the a bug possible?! im happy to help with this issue Regards Simon

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dealing with locations
by Mike Glass 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

How does one go about changing the location, is there somewhere I can input gps coordinates to change the map pointers to a specific location. Most of my devices show up in the UK as they are tagged "Server Room". Thanks Mike

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monitor device by multiple ips
by Simon Smith 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Hi All, this is a daft random question, can i monitor a device via multiple ip addresses? for instance, we have a site with a mikrotik router, they currently have 3 internet lines (DONT ASK!) 2xADSL,1xFTTC currently we use PPPOE on the router so we can see the mikrotik directly, ive enabled SNMP remotely and i monitor the box via 1 of the ADSL lines, however its constantly goes up and down and never makes up its mind! the other issue i have is the FTTC line is dynamic ip and never stays the same for more then 48hrs so in my mind, /etc/hosts or DNS for site1.router goes to 1.2.3.4, 5.6.7.8, 9.10.11.12 then every check it always use one of three ip addresses ? am i correct? or is the another way of monitoring this device? regards Simon

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Postgresql fails to execute?
by Kaya Saman 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

Hi, I'm running Observium on a FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE x64 system. For some reason the Postgresql script isn't working; I have turned debugging on: set 0 -> 1 The output however just seems to be: ./postgresql.pl Execute Failed The odd thing is that other Perl based scripts are working on the same box. eg. Apache. the postgresql.conf file has the correct details: db_driver set to: Pg db_host is set to the IP address of the database Jail etc.... These modules are installed which I'm sure are the relevant ones: perl5-5.16.3_11 Practical Extraction and Report Language perl5-5.16.3_11 Practical Extraction and Report Language p5-Class-DBI-3.0.17_1 Simple Database Abstraction p5-Class-DBI-Pg-0.09_1 Extensions to Class::DBI for PostgreSQL p5-DBD-Pg-3.2.1 Provides access to PostgreSQL databases through the DBI p5-DBI-1.631 Perl5 Database Interface, required for DBD::* modules p5-DBIx-ContextualFetch-1.03 Add contextual fetches to DBI p5-Ima-DBI-0.35 Database connection caching and organization Would anyone be able to suggest anything? I have been looking at this: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/Postgresql but unfortunately it's not very helpful in my case. Permissions are also set properly. Thanks. Kaya ./postgresql.pl Execute failed ./postgresql.pl Execute failed root@Alpha-Ray: ./postgresql.pl Execute failed ./postgresql.pl Execute failed

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Syslog msg empty temporary fix
by Pavelas Sokolovas 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

Hi, all. After dist upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 syslog messages from cisco IOS devices became empty. There is a similar thread/bug: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-850 http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/2014-August/007527.html We’ve managed to work around it by changing: template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") to: template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||:: : :: $MSG||$PROGRAM\n") in syslog config. For the developers: it happened after update of syslog/php to 3.5.3-1 [@9695e81] / PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3 from whatever was current on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS , worked fine before that. Also, the data examplesyslog sends to the script is: 10.x.x.x||local7||notice||notice||bd||2014-08-19 20:21:10||%SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by xx on vty3 (10.x.x.xx)||BST Hope this helps! Pav Pavelas Sokolovas Custodian Data Centre Email: ps(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Billing history
by Simon Schmitz 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

hello, there is a plan for a billing history with over the last month? Greetings Simon

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Question octets to Mbps conversion.
by Senses0 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

Hi, I am using below query to convert ifInOctets_rate to Mbps value. mysql> SELECT ifInOctets_rate, CONCAT(ROUND((ifInOctets_rate*8)/1024/1024,2), " Mbps") ConvertedValue FROM `ports-state` WHERE port_id=105; +-----------------+----------------+ | ifInOctets_rate | ConvertedValue | +-----------------+----------------+ | 55014356 | 419.73 Mbps | +-----------------+----------------+ The value I get different from the value printed on the graph for the same port_id. On the graph I got 427Mbps, while this conversion gives me 419. Since I don't know where in the code this conversion happens, I couldn't figure out if this is the way to go about it or not. Could someone shed some light? Thanks

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Observium SNMP VMware Hosts
by Darian Jimenez 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

Hello, I am able to monitor pretty much everything from firewalls to switches but I am having problems with my vmware hosts. It will add the devices fine via SNMP but when it comes to polling them it will give an "SNMP UnreachableMySQL" after running the poller.php -h 'vmware host' It will show as down on the site and every now and then it comes back online. Then it will show as down again.Attached is a screenshot of the polling information.[image: Inline image 1]

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Accessing our subscription
by Richard Berndt 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

We did purchase the subscription edition of Observium. How do we access the SVN?

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Add_device fails at SNMP
by Richard Berndt 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

I am a little confused and looking for suggestions on what I can do to troubleshoot this issue. On the machine that I am running Observium on I can use snmpwalk to view the device’s system information. ubuntu@mgh-netmon:/opt/observium$ snmpwalk -Os -v 2c -c communitystring mx-hospital system sysDescr.0 = STRING: Meraki MX80 Cloud Managed Security Appliance sysObjectID.0 = OID: enterprises.29671.2.103 sysName.0 = STRING: MX-HOSPITAL sysORID.1 = OID: snmpMIB sysORID.2 = OID: vacmBasicGroup sysORID.3 = OID: ifMIB sysORDescr.1 = STRING: The MIB module for SNMPv2 entities sysORDescr.2 = STRING: View-based Access Control Model for SNMP. sysORDescr.3 = STRING: The MIB module to describe generic objects for network interface sub-layers sysORUpTime.1 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01 sysORUpTime.2 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01 sysORUpTime.3 = Timeticks: (16) 0:00:00.16 However when I use add_device it tells me that it cannot add the device. ubuntu@mgh-netmon:/opt/observium$ ./add_device.php mx-hospital communitystring v2c 161 udp Observium v0.14.4.5229 Add Device(s) Try to add mx-hospital: Trying v2c community communitystring ... No reply on community communitystring using v2c. Could not reach mx-hospital with given SNMP community using v2c. Devices skipped: 1. Any ideas? I know it Is not a network/firewall related issue since SNMPWALK can access the device. I know it is not an SNMP string issue because both SNMPWALK and another monitoring system is able to access this device using the provided SNMP string.

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Up/Down Monitoring
by Lane Eckley 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

Hi Guys, I am attempting to setup an alert checker for when a server goes into a "down" state for either SNMP or Ping - ideally I would like to create one alert checker for each (ping & snmp). Reviewing the metrics documentation I believe I should be using a combination of the following two: device_status (0 = down, 1 = up) device_status_type (reason for down, 'snmp'/'ping') Using the above I am failing miserably it seems as I am unable to get the alert checker to "match" a machine I turned off to do the testing. Can anyone share a quick step by step on how to setup this alert checker correctly? Thanks! -Lane

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Remove WiFi errors from dashboard
by Franjo Posavec 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

Is posible to remove wifi errors from dashboard, like on atachment? -- Franjo Posavec system administrator entitas d.o.o. M: +385 (0)98 8808 72 S: franjo.posavec

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Observium Remote Poller Option
by Ben House 17 Aug '14

17 Aug '14

Hello There, Does Observium have an ability to deploy poller nodes. We currently support a number of fixed wireless networks in which we don't have visibility into. We are looking to deploy a remote node to poll/monitor remote network devices i.e deploy a VM into network and have necessary ports open back to master node and have single display? Let me what's possible for the above requirement. -- Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. http://www.mailguard.com.au

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http-auth
by John P Arends 17 Aug '14

17 Aug '14

I configured observium to use the http-auth method combined with our web sso system. I believe it is OpenAM, but I’m a consumer of the service and not someone who maintains it. I’m mentioning this because the docs state there are no known users of http-auth. It works well, and required no configuration on my part. I just have to create users for each person that match their campus NetIDs. This is incredibly useful.

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Traffic Accounting > Accurate Graphs
by Spencer Gaw 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Anyone else getting a jpgraph error 25008 when trying to view Accurate Graphs in Traffic Accounting? I don't frequent this area very often and just noticed it today. Regards, SG

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Setting Alerts
by Darian Jimenez 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

hello, I want to setup alerts inside of observium to notify us if any links go down basically. Nothing fancy but just link connectivity/ping tests maybe. Is the alerting feature only available on the paid version? Thanks, Darian

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Deleting Device
by Mike Glass 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

I have deleted a router that we no longer have in Observium, it is now back and replicates multiple times throughout the week, how can I keep this from happening, I have used both command line and web interface to delete. Thanks Mike

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Harddisk email alerts
by Tech8 otelafrica 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Hi guys I want to set up email alerts for harddrive space how would I set that up? Regards Anton

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paid version not reporting any data
by Anthony Polselli 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Got something very odd going on...after testing Observium, I purchased it and installed it onto a clean Ubuntu VM. Everything went fine, I added devices, cron job, etc and started to get some graphs. But yesterday and todays graphs are all blank. When I drill-down to a specific interface and click on real-time, I get these odd spikes where it shows 31Mbps In (which is high for this port). I did a side-by-side comparison to the test VM I setup with the free version of Observium and the real-time is working correctly there. [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB7C1.2D1F4970] __________________________________________ 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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Observium Syslog-NG and Cisco Catalyst
by Tomasz Karczewski 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Hi, I've got one problem with logs from cisco catalyst switches. On switches logs looks fine but in observium i have something like that "% :" Other vendors looks fine in logs. Where could be the problem? 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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Observium constantly device down and up by ping
by Chris Pelling 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Hi Guys, Our observium (latest) 0.14.8.5749 has for some time been showing devices up and down in the event log, graphs missing chucks of information as well. As an example, here is the memory usage on one ubnt box, but, its the same for others too (network / memory ) http://gyazo.com/18db347a5d49e557c082f343b8e96ea5 Here is the copy of the event log for the device : http://gyazo.com/4324c896e6cc268a8869d17c80964340 I can't seem to narrow it down. The machine is running Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS and as mentioned above, latest Observium. Any ideas where to poke ? Its not a single device, its multiple devices. The only thing so far I have not swapped out is the server observium sits on. -- Kind regards, Chris

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CBQoS 'drop' vs 'policed-transmit'
by Robert Williams 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Hi, Just noticed that the CBQoS stuff has gone active recently (which is very cool) - currently we get all this via (very) painful integration with Cacti. On looking closer I've found what I think is an issue, but stand ready to be corrected. What I think is happening is that Observium is considering packets the Cisco counted as "Exceeded" to have been "Dropped" where in reality they were just re-marked and transmitted normally. As an example, here is the graph for gi3/1 (class-default) on a 6500 chassis: Here is the output of the show policy-map int gi3/1: GigabitEthernet3/1 Service-policy input: <name> class-map: <Class A> (match-any) Match: protocol arp Match: access-group name <ACL A1> Match: access-group name <ACL A2> police : 32000 bps 102400 limit 102400 extended limit Earl in slot 3 : 1377162657 bytes 5 minute offered rate 2280 bps aggregate-forwarded 1377162657 bytes action: transmit exceeded 0 bytes action: drop <- Zero drops aggregate-forward 2520 bps exceed 0 bps class-map: class-default (match-any) Match: any police : 40000000 bps 3200000 limit 3200000 extended limit 1000000000 pir-bps Earl in slot 3 : 10562039041987 bytes 5 minute offered rate 11748848 bps aggregate-forwarded 10562039041987 bytes action: set-dscp-transmit exceeded 297846881624 bytes action: policed-dscp-transmit violated 0 bytes action: drop <- Zero drops aggregate-forward 13842064 bps exceed 0 bps violate 0 bps So in summary, there have never been any actual drops on the port, only re-marking of the DSCP (incrementing the exceeded counter) and then a transmit. Since the re-marking occurs in the "exceeded" counter, I think Observium is considering them as dropped, instead of just exceeded. This also messes up the pre-policy and post-policy counters, because it implies that traffic didn't make it through when in reality it all did. We use re-marking extensively and so all of the CBQoS graphs show incorrect drop and post-policy information. Either that or we've got a bug/misconfiguration (or I just don't get it), so maybe someone else can confirm? Let me know what debug info is needed if it helps :) Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Possible bug in BGP Prefixes graphs?
by Erwin Heringa 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Hi Observium team, Earlier this week the global route table hit 512k prefixes, so I was looking in Observium how many prefixes each peer announces. But there is something wrong that I can't explain and it could be a bug. This morning I upgraded to the latest (paid) version r5747, that didn't change this. For peer 195.69.144.192 my Juniper router shows 89 received prefixes: rtr1> show bgp neighbor 195.69.144.192 | match prefixes Active prefixes: 47 Received prefixes: 89 Accepted prefixes: 89 Advertised prefixes: 7 Via snmp on the router: This peer has index 155, and Peer with index 155 has 89 prefixes: rtr1> show snmp mib wal decimal 1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.1.1 | match 144.192 | match PeerIndex jnxBgpM2PeerIndex.0.1.195.69.144.49.1.195.69.144.192 = 155 rtr1> show snmp mib wal decimal 1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2 | match \.155\. | match Prefixes jnxBgpM2PrefixInPrefixes.155.1.1 = 89 jnxBgpM2PrefixInPrefixesAccepted.155.1.1 = 89 jnxBgpM2PrefixInPrefixesRejected.155.1.1 = 42 jnxBgpM2PrefixOutPrefixes.155.1.1 = 7 Via snmp on the Observium server: snmpwalk -v3 -l authPriv -u ***** -a SHA -A ****** -x AES -X ******* rtr1 1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2 | grep \.155\. iso.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2.1.7.155.1.1 = Gauge32: 89 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2.1.8.155.1.1 = Gauge32: 89 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2.1.9.155.1.1 = Gauge32: 42 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2.1.10.155.1.1 = Gauge32: 7 But the graphs looks like this, with only 8 prefixes: [cid:image001.png@01CFB7A9.99364360] And even worse for our transit provider: rtr1> show bgp neighbor 195.69.144.34 | match prefixes Active prefixes: 158327 Received prefixes: 505071 Accepted prefixes: 505070 Advertised prefixes: 7 snmpwalk -v3 -l authPriv -u ***** -a SHA -A ***** -x AES -X ****** rtr1 1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2.1 | grep '\.4\.1\.1' iso.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2.1.7.4.1.1 = Gauge32: 505068 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2.1.8.4.1.1 = Gauge32: 505066 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2.1.9.4.1.1 = Gauge32: 346727 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.1.1.2.6.2.1.10.4.1.1 = Gauge32: 7 [cid:image002.png@01CFB7AC.69D3A650] This behavior seems to have changed around March 1st. Any thoughts? Met vriendelijke groet, kind regards, Erwin Heringa SIDN | Meander 501 | 6825 MD | Postbus 5022 | 6802 EA | ARNHEM T +31 (0)26 352 55 59 | F +31 (0)26 352 55 05 erwin.heringa(a)sidn.nl | www.sidn.nl

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syslog no msg
by Vilberg Eiríksson 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Hi All, I have just set up observium now and successfulli integrated it with syslog-ng but i am not seeing anything in the message column. I have tried the patch from her: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-850?jql=text%20~%20%22msg%22 but it did not work. If i go to mysql and check the msg field in the syslog table it is just empy (or just has %). All my devices are cisco devices running IOS. Any ideas? Regards Vilberg

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process list WMI
by Simon Smith 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Hi all, just a quick question is the currently a WMI module that checks out for number of running Processes for a windows machine? or even a table I can look at to see the currently running processes on observium? I’ve seen your able to get ahold of the processes via WMI just not sure if the is one already integrated? if the isn’t, can anyone point me in the direction as to create the module ? regards Simon

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Internet 512k global routes
by KENNETH D MILLER II 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

With the Internet hitting 512k routes, I was looking in observium for the IPv4 prefixes for our Brocade XMR routers. I'm getting a draw error on all prefix updates. graphs/type=bgp_updates is working ok. graphs/type=bgp_prefixes_ipv4unicast or any of the prefix graphs are not. I've tried on observium version 5728 and CE version 5229. Is anyone else using XMR, CES/CER, or MLX routers getting the same thing? Thanks, Ken

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Description in CentOS Interfaces
by Andres Pugawko 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Hi ! Somebody know if it is possible to add description in CentOS interfaces? There is a script for adding description in Debian interfaces, Is there another for centOS or somebody developed one? Regards Andres Pugawko Network Engineer Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CEAF1A.D081C8A0 Cámara Argentina de Internet – CABASE IXP Suipacha 128 - Piso 3° F (C1008AAD) Buenos Aires - Argentina Tel: (54-11) 4326-0777 int 9112 Cel: 11-6915-7866 <http://www.cabase.org.ar/> www.cabase.org.ar

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Billing
by Mike Grant 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

I have the subscription version and have the billing working. What I am trying to do is work out if I can only bill certain traffic. i.e. I only want to charge for international traffic at a $ per MB rate but charge nothing for local traffic. I'm using a Mikrotik Cloudcore router, the international data goes out one gateway and the domestic out another. So I really only want to bill the data for a port that goes in and out one particular gateway. Anyone doing anything like this? Thanks, Mike.

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Defunct processes
by kai＠angry-monk.com 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Hey, Ever since I installed observium I've been getting lost of defunct "sh" processes showing up in my process list. I'm running Ubuntu Linux. 14.04 LTS Linux ***** 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm running the latest version of the Open source edition (installed 2 days ago) and I see this in my process list all the time since the install. www-data 27725 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28164 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:42 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28589 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:47 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28989 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:52 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28991 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:52 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 29398 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:57 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 29810 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:02 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 29820 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:02 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 30656 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:12 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 31062 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:17 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 31074 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:17 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 31903 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:27 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32698 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32700 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32722 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32732 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> Any Suggestions? Kai

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Re: [Observium] Billing
by Anthony Polselli 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Netflow Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -----Original Message----- From: Mike Grant [mikeg(a)itcl.co.nz] Received: Tuesday, 12 Aug 2014, 2:04PM To: observium(a)observium.org [observium(a)observium.org] Subject: [Observium] Billing I have the subscription version and have the billing working. What I am trying to do is work out if I can only bill certain traffic. i.e. I only want to charge for international traffic at a $ per MB rate but charge nothing for local traffic. I’m using a Mikrotik Cloudcore router, the international data goes out one gateway and the domestic out another. So I really only want to bill the data for a port that goes in and out one particular gateway. Anyone doing anything like this? Thanks, Mike.

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Sensor_value alerts do not process
by Alain Gyger 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

I'm using SVN version 5742 and all of my alerts work except those that are supposed to check a sensor_value metric. I'm able to check and get emails for alerts on processor_usage, toner_current, and mempool_perc, to name a few, so I know the system is working. When I run the alerter.php script against one of the hosts indicated under the processor_usage alert and I get "1 Status: OK" messages. But when I run alerter.php against a host indicated under the sensor_value alert for Battery Capacity or for APC UPS Temperature I get "-1 Unknown status". The graphs for these sensors are fine, the MySQL table sensors-state lists the correct values as well. My configuration for temperature looks like this: Entity Type: Temperature Delay: 1 Status: 0/0/0/0/2 Check Conditions: Require any condition Tests: sensor_value gt 40 Device Match: type match power Entity Match: sensor_descr match Temp* The alert checker seems fine, but it looks like the tests are failing when they are run. Has anyone else had the same issues with sensor_value alerts? Or is this feature not quite ready to be used?

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Re: [Observium] buying the paid version
by Anthony Polselli 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Thanks, but already did that step on Friday Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -----Original Message----- From: Travis Kreikemeier [travis(a)travko.com] Received: Monday, 11 Aug 2014, 8:07PM To: Observium Network Observation System [observium(a)observium.org] Subject: Re: [Observium] buying the paid version Anthony, Hope this helps. http://www.observium.org/subscribed/ TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Polselli Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 9:57 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] buying the paid version Hi all, On Friday, I purchased the paid version and really anxious to get it up and running but my login isn’t working yet. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction of who to contact about this… Thanks, [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB5B0.8D5456E0] __________________________________________ 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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buying the paid version
by Anthony Polselli 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Hi all, On Friday, I purchased the paid version and really anxious to get it up and running but my login isn't working yet. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction of who to contact about this... Thanks, [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB59E.416545D0] __________________________________________ 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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Map Settings
by chott＠praha1.net 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Hello, How i can set HOME location in Map? Or can i set some zoom? Like default Street address? Tomas

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No port names in traffic accounting
by Travis Kreikemeier 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

When adding a Calix E7 port to a customer in traffic accounting. All of the interfaces in the drop down are blank, so hard to figure out which one to select. A work around I have been doing is going to the switch port and clicking "Create Bill". Would like to add the ports in the traffic accounting area. [cid:image003.jpg@01CFB49E.C9494B50] Some of the ports on the device: [cid:image004.jpg@01CFB49E.C9494B50] TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Clean up duplicate ports in DB?
by Hogan Whittall 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Long story short, there was a period of time where hosts were added and removed from Observium a number of times (Essentially all hosts added, deleted, added, etc). In general, there were no ill effects other than losing the previous graph data and ports not being deleted from the DB when hosts were removed. So now I have this. mysql> select count(*) from ports; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 20701 | +----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) 907+5+1+582 = 1495 So there are a number of stale/orphaned port entries in the DB. What would be the best way to fix this? Thanks! -Hogan

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IPMI setup
by Matthew Green 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Hi, >From the reading I've done it seems that Observium supports IPMI and I've got a Supermicro motherboard I'd like to get stats from. However, I can't see any way to configure the device, if I try to add devices it only lets me poll over SNMP, which the Supermicro board doesn't seem to allow. Other than stating that you need IPMItools installed, the Observium documentation doesn't provide any details about how IPMI devices should be configured. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers, Matt

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Weird database issue?
by Nick Pais 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Hi guys, It's been a while since I posted on here, but I made a fresh Observium installation (for the moment, yes, it's CE, can't convince the CEO to shell out that cash for Pro yet...) however I'm having a weird issue with the table ports-state: root@comet:/opt/observium# ./poller.php -h 1 -d | grep -C2 MEMORY\ DB SQL[INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('1')] Certain MEMORY DB error for table 'ports-state'. SQL[UPDATE `ports-state` set `poll_time` ='1407517231',`poll_period` ='1407517231',`ifInOctets` ='2974209',`ifOutOctets` ='2974209',`ifInErrors` ='0',`ifOutErrors` ='0',`ifInUcastPkts` ='10310',`ifOutUcastPkts` ='10310',`ifInOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOutOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOctets_rate` ='0',`ifUcastPkts_rate` ='0',`ifErrors_rate` ='0' WHERE `port_id` = '1'] -- SQL[INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('2')] Certain MEMORY DB error for table 'ports-state'. SQL[UPDATE `ports-state` set `poll_time` ='1407517231',`poll_period` ='1407517231',`ifInOctets` ='997162274',`ifOutOctets` ='12070347',`ifInErrors` ='0',`ifOutErrors` ='0',`ifInUcastPkts` ='929556',`ifOutUcastPkts` ='92562',`ifInOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOutOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOctets_rate` ='0',`ifUcastPkts_rate` ='0',`ifErrors_rate` ='0' WHERE `port_id` = '2'] -- SQL[INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('3')] Certain MEMORY DB error for table 'ports-state'. SQL[UPDATE `ports-state` set `poll_time` ='1407517231',`poll_period` ='1407517231',`ifInOctets` ='17012646',`ifOutOctets` ='369532358',`ifInErrors` ='0',`ifOutErrors` ='0',`ifInUcastPkts` ='74830',`ifOutUcastPkts` ='550361',`ifInOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOutOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOctets_rate` ='0',`ifUcastPkts_rate` ='0',`ifErrors_rate` ='0' WHERE `port_id` = '3'] root@comet:/opt/observium# This in turn doesn't enable the "current" port speeds on the web and when I look in the database itself, the table is empty. Has anyone come accross this before? Is there a way to fix this? Details: OS: Debian 7.6 PHP: 5.4.4-14+deb7u12 MySQL: 5.6.15 Observium: v0.14.4.5229 Thanks in advance guys!

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Patch for Jira ticket 333 throws error
by Laurens Vets 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Hello, I've installed Netdisco 2 with the Observium plugin. This plugin allows Netdisco to show graphs and open interface pages in Observium from within Netdisco. This is also related to Jira ticket 333. When I open a URL, http://observium.server//device/hostname=name.domainname/tab=port/ifdescr=R…) in Netdisco, I get the following error: "Invalid device/port combination. The port/device combination was invalid. Please retype and try again.". However, the correct page is shown in Observium... Any idea what generates this error message?

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Bind graph problems
by Brad Pearpoint 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi all, I have a problem with my bind graphs in Observium 0.14.8.5736 with RRDtool 1.4.7. I have the Unix-agent configured with the bind plugin on two dev DNS servers. These DNS servers are under really low load, just a couple of requests a minute at most. If I run dns# ./bind | grep -i req-in,Q I receive: req-in,QUERY:1562 Which is correct. Then on my Observium box if I run: obs# rrdtool info /opt/observium/rrd/dns2 /app-bind-1-req-in.rrd | grep query ds[query].index = 0 ds[query].type = "DERIVE" ds[query].minimal_heartbeat = 600 ds[query].min = 0.0000000000e+00 ds[query].max = 7.5000000000e+06 ds[query].last_ds = "1562" <<<<<<<<< Looks good ds[query].value = 0.0000000000e+00 ds[query].unknown_sec = 0 But my graphs in the web interface of totally wrong. My incoming requests graph is showing 100-250 million. Any tips of where to start looking to solve this? Thanks, Brad

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No description names on Calix
by Travis Kreikemeier 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

In Observium we are not getting any port descriptions on Calix E7 active ports, nor are we getting ONT names on GPON. Something we need to change or needs to be added to Observium? Thanks! [cid:image001.png@01CFB227.ED080C30] TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Ubuntu vs CentOS
by Anthony Polselli 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi all, We are looking at purchasing the software and want to know which platform is better? We are a CentOS shop, but if we need paid support or want some custom development done, would Ubuntu be better? Thanks, [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB213.F86539E0] __________________________________________ 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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billing module / e-mail
by Anthony Polselli 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Is it possible to get an automated monthly e-mail listing all of the clients that went over on usage? [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB19F.8FF099A0] __________________________________________ 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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Re: [Observium] Freeradius monitoring
by Tomasz Karczewski 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Anyone? 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: Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:12 AM To: 'Observium Network Observation System' Subject: [Observium] Freeradius monitoring Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to monitor freeradius application in observium. It's hard to find anything. Could you help me with that? Tnx Thomas

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API access key
by Greg Lipschitz 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Evening All, I've noticed in the settings, the option for "API access key" but it doesn't yet seem that it's implemented. We're currently looking at doing some development to pull the graphs for services from Observium and inject them in to our Client Portal so that clients get nice pretty graphs. Has anyone done something similar? Some guidance or pointers would be great :) Cheers! Greg 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=s77BXM8O023601&from=greg@t…

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windows wmi monitoring
by Simon Smith 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi All, hoping someone can help, altho I'm sure this has been answered in the past? i just can’t find the webpage or emails from it at all i want to monitor a few windows machines i have setup the SNMP correctly and all is well but the processor is being detected as Unknown Processor Type due to windows being a tool! i read somewhere that i could use the WMI to fix this issue plus get more outta the windows machine dos anyone have a guide or instructions how to setup the WMI correctly to identify things for observium? Regards Simon

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How to add SNMP support in observium for ambient Temperature
by observium＠willfahrt.net 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Hi all, I hope someone can help, I'm sure this has been answered before? - Sorry in advance! I want to monitor a few Linux machines with ambient temperature sensing devices. The NetSNMPd Client Configuration is working and I get a successful response as you can see: ~# snmpget -v 2c temphost -c public .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.10 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystem.9 = Gauge32: 23000 How can I modify the host configuration to add the ambient Temperature information in the Observium? Best regards, Jens

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ifLastChange usage query
by Peter Childs 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Looking at an operational issue where we had a small interface flap between polls, so link state between polls hasn't changed, but iFLastChange has. Looking at the 'data' view through the UI for the port ifLastChanged doesn't appeared to have changed, and looking through the poller code it appears perhaps it is only updated on a change of operational/admin status on a port? Would there be any use in poller updating it in the db if it was different to the existing value in the port cache ? It would be interesting to be able to alert on 'ifLastChange' < 'some value' .. Or just have the update in the EventLog so when having a look-see at a device it is apparent that a link flap has occurred. A visual indicator in ports basic/detailed view for 'last change' < 'some global config value' like a little exclamation mark or something potentially could be useful to operators to 'spot' issues. Imagine being able to view ports, sort on 'LastChange' during an incident to 'spot' potential causes of issues? Would any of this make sense to anyone? Cheers, Peter

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FW: Cannot Add Device in WUI
by Md. Anamul Haque Rana 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Dear Concern, I can add device in command mode in observium but can not add device in WUI. The error I found is give bellow: Could not ping DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom. 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (1) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (2) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (3) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied Please help me BR\\ Md. Anamul Haque Rana Officer, ITOD Dutch Bangla Bank Limited IP Phone: +88 09666322017, Ex-221

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Allied Telesis Support
by Patrick Gawthorne 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Hi All, Currently playing with Observium which is brilliant, except when an Allied Telesis switch (running Alliedware Plus) is discovered only basic info is retrieved (Uptime, OS, location, etc), which then causes the issue of halting auto discovery.. The specific model is an AT-9000/28SP. Anyone aware if this switch is supported or not? Cheers, Pat This email, together with any attachments, is intended for the named recipient(s) only and may contain privileged and confidential information. If received in error, please inform the sender as quickly as possible and delete this email and any copies from your computer network. If not an intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute or rely on it, and any form of disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this email is prohibited. Unless stated otherwise, this email represents only the views of the sender and not the views of Pacific Lutheran College.

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question about cisco switch discovery/polling
by Steve Dubinskiy 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

we've got a Cisco WS-C4510R+E switch after discovering and polling it,, it now shows 3 entries for each port 1 is the expected/desired one "64-bit" port and 2 unknown/undesired "Controlled" and "Uncontrolled" 32-bit ports. question why are we seeing them ? how to we get rid of them ? this is making management of this device painfully slow .. takes more then 30 seconds (closer to one minute) for the page to load thanks -Steve -- *This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, copy, use or disclose this communication. Please also notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete all copies of it from your system. *

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Re: [Observium] IPMI setup
by Christian Gerbrandt 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

You still need SNMP to poll the device. Once added you can configure IPMI to gather stats from IPMI. On Aug 05, 2014, at 02:35 PM, Matthew Green <mephi(a)mephi.co.uk> wrote: Hi, From the reading I've done it seems that Observium supports IPMI and I've got a Supermicro motherboard I'd like to get stats from. However, I can't see any way to configure the device, if I try to add devices it only lets me poll over SNMP, which the Supermicro board doesn't seem to allow. Other than stating that you need IPMItools installed, the Observium documentation doesn't provide any details about how IPMI devices should be configured. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Discoverying and polling VRF, OSPF and BGP Processes on Nexus 7K : where to start coding
by Mathieu MILLET 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, I would like to give a try to code some PHP Patchs, so that Observium can discover VRF, OSPF, BGP and so on Nexus 7K platform (our reference will be Nexus 7700 with NX-OS 6.2). We are implementing "VRF-Lite" style (no MPLS), so according to Cisco documentation, it is mandatory to map in NX-OS configuration, a SNMP Context (v3) to each instance of VRF, OSPF, BGP, whatever .... My try will be to first discover the context mapping with this Cisco MIB : CISCO-CONTEXT-MAPPING-MIB.my and then to iterate on these mappings using an additional function like "get snmp walk/bulk with context" on these contexts. Do you have any advice how I could do that ? Which files should I implement / pacth ? Which files could I use as examples and inspiration ? Also, I plan to make patch against the last open release (SVN revision 5229). Is that a problem ? Thank you in advance for your help, Sincerely yours, Mathieu. -- Mathieu MILLET mailto:obs@htam.net

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Cisco Active PPP Sessions
by tromp wezelman 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, With the following OID is it possible to show the active PPP sessions: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.150.1.1.1.0 Is it possible to add/make a graph with the active PPP sessions when using cisco equipment like ASR1002 Example: root@observium:/opt/observium# snmpwalk -v2c -On -c noc devicename .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.150.1.1.1 .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.150.1.1.1.0 = Gauge32: 7545 Perhaps just as the following topic: http://forums.cacti.net/about37860.html Thanks, Tromp

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1 minute bandwidth graphs
by Anthony Polselli 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

If I change crontab to pull every 1 minute, can I drill-down tighter on a graph? [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB00A.54AA6B50] __________________________________________ 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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adjusting bandwidth graphs to what the client is paying for
by Anthony Polselli 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, Just checking out the software for the first time and really liking it. We are using PRTG now and of the things we like about it is per interface we are monitoring, we can set the max x-axis value. It helps our tech's to know what speed Internet connection a client is paying for. We will hand off a 100Mbps interface to the client, but if they are only paying for 20Mbps, we will shape the traffic down to 20Mbps on the router. When you look at the percent graph in Observium, it's based on a 100Mbps max possible speed instead of 20Mbps. Thanks!

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Cannot Add Device
by Josh Hopper 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

I'm having an issue adding a new switch to Observium. It is a Dell PowerConnect. administrator@network-monitoring:/opt/observium$ ./discovery.php -h core-sw-tx-01.purafilter2000.com monitor v2c Observium v0.14.8.5732 Discovery Current Revision : 5732 New Revision : 5734 WARNING: 0 devices discovered. Did you specify a device that does not exist? MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[20/0s] Rows[2/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[0/0s] Delete[0/0s] However, the switch is live.... User Name:admin Password:******** core-sw-tx-01> en Password: Password:******** core-sw-tx-01# core-sw-tx-01# sh run port jumbo-frame vlan database vlan 200 exit voice vlan oui-table add 000181 Nortel__________________ voice vlan oui-table add 0001e3 Siemens_AG_phone________ voice vlan oui-table add 00036b Cisco_phone_____________ voice vlan oui-table add 00096e Avaya___________________ voice vlan oui-table add 000fe2 H3C_Aolynk______________ voice vlan oui-table add 001049 Shoretel________________ voice vlan oui-table add 0060b9 Philips_and_NEC_AG_phone voice vlan oui-table add 00907a Polycom/Veritel_phone___ voice vlan oui-table add 00e0bb 3Com_phone______________ port-channel load-balance src-dst-ip iscsi target port 860 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 3260 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 9876 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 20002 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 20003 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 25555 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi enable hostname core-sw-tx-01 line telnet password ddcf8cf8c5849d6b72e1142f3694881bc39d1560 encrypted exit enable password level 15 encrypted ddcf8cf8c5849d6b72e1142f3694881bc39d1560 username admin password encrypted ddcf8cf8c5849d6b72e1142f3694881bc39d1560 snmp-server community monitor rw 192.168.40.114 view Default sntp server 192.168.40.24 poll ! And I setup the DNS as well.... Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\jhopper>ping core-sw-tx-01 Pinging core-sw-tx-01.purafilter2000.com [192.168.60.2] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=54 Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=54 Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=54 Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=54 Ping statistics for 192.168.60.2: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 53ms, Average = 52ms C:\Users\jhopper>nslookup core-sw-tx-01 Server: gpsvr03.homeimpressions.local Address: 192.168.1.20 Name: core-sw-tx-01.purafilter2000.com Address: 192.168.60.2 C:\Users\jhopper> Anyone know why? :/ -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB00C.28668FE0] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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delete old lmsensors
by Simon Smith 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Hi All, i know this is probably a stupid question, but how do i delete sensors from within the panel and not on the server itself im monitoring? for some reason the observium has detected lmsensors fanspeed sensors about 4 times over? and im not sure if its the server at fault or observium at fault, so i was just going to delete the old fanspeed sensors ? i have attached some screenshots if people don’t understand what im talking about Regards Simon

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Using PHP Weathermap with Observium
by Markus Klock 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Hello! We are migrating from Cacti to Observium and it was a great experience, the only thing we lacked were the weathermap plugin for getting that nice network overview. I then found that Neil Lathwood wrote a modified version of the PHP Weathermap that works with Observium data, you can find it on his github: https://github.com/laf/weathermap I wrote a quick and dirty script that adds the weathermaps to the Observium menu without modifying Observium-code so that it will not break when updating Observium. It works really well so I wrote a little guide for how you get the weathermap to work with Observium and posted it here: http://blog.best-practice.se/2014/07/using-php-weathermap-with-observium.ht… In case there are more people interested in using the weathermap with Observium :) /Markus

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Simple API calls fail
by Mark Price 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Hello list, After an upgrade recently, our Simple API calls have been failing. I just updated to latest svn 0.14.8.5732 and here is what I am seeing: sample api call: wget -O - " http://myserver/api.php?username=myuser&password=mypass&module=bandwidth&po… " which returns: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error When adding debug=1 option, I get a lot of output which I have pasted here: http://pastie.org/private/zulxpk1n4viyyymxw89wjg The relevant bit seems to be: Fatal error: Call to undefined function humanize_device() in /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php on line 964 Any tips for how to debug this? Best, Mark

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PPPoE ports not displaying in Observium Discovery
by Greg Lipschitz 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Hi All, We are seeing an interesting issue when looking at a Mikrotik Routerboard (RB951 MikroTik RouterOS 6.13) When performing an snmpwalk of the device, we see the pppoe client interfaces (counters, gauges, timers etc) as expected. When we perform a Observium discovery of the device, it seems to be counting the 13 interfaces, but shows “XX” for the 2 PPPoE client interfaces. Output of the CPE and Discover & Poller below. List of Interfaces === Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave # NAME TYPE MTU L2MTU MAX-L2MTU 0 R ;;; Cust: Gale Insurance [25Mbit] (25/10 NBN NTD000006105558) {GALE-C... ether1 ether 1500 1598 4074 1 R ;;; Cust: Gale Insurance [20Mbit] (Telstra Internet Direct ADSL) {GAL... ether2 ether 1500 1598 4074 2 X ;;; LAN - Trunk Interface ether3 ether 1500 1598 4074 3 RS ;;; LAN - DATA subnet, untagged ether4 ether 1500 1598 4074 4 XS ;;; LAN - VoIP subnet, untagged ether5 ether 1500 1598 4074 5 X wlan1 wlan 1500 2290 6 R bridge1-data bridge 1500 1598 7 R bridge2-voip bridge 1500 1598 8 R lo0 bridge 1500 65535 9 R ;;; PPPoE for FTTx Service pppoe-FTTx pppoe-out 1480 10 R ;;; PPPoE for xDSL Service pppoe-xDSL pppoe-out 1500 11 XS ;;; DATA subnet, tagged Discovery Output === Observium v0.14.7.5731 Discovery Current Revision : 5731 New Revision : 5731 103.253.92.23.rdns.zone 3 routeros Ports : ..........XX. Port Stacks: Processors : hrDevice: .. Memory : HOST-RESOURCES-MIB . IPv4 Addresses : .. IPv6 Addresses : Sensors: MIKROTIK-MIB ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB Storage : HOST-RESOURCES-MIB: . Inventory: Physical Inventory : .. hrDevice : . MIKROTIK-MIB . Discovery protocols: LLDP-MIB CISCO-CDP-MIB OSPF Neighbours: ARP/NDP Tables : BGP Sessions: No BGP on host VLANs: Q-BRIDGE-MIB UCD Disk IO : Discovered in 9.473 seconds Poller Output === Observium v0.14.7.5731 Poller Starting polling run: 103.253.92.23.rdns.zone 3 routeros Module [ unix-agent ] disabled globally. Module [ ipmi ] excluded for device. Module [ junose-atm-vp ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ipsec-flow-monitor ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-remote-access-monitor ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-cef ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-sla ] excluded for device. Module [ arista-software-ip-forwarding ] excluded for device. Module [ cipsec-tunnels ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ace-loadbalancer ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ace-serverfarms ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-cbqos ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-eigrp ] excluded for device. Module [ netscaler-vsvr ] excluded for device. Module [ aruba-controller ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-vpdn ] disabled globally. Module [ wmi ] disabled globally. Uptime: 21 days, 22h 56m 46s Module time: 0.8838s Hardware: RB951G-2HnD Version: 6.13 Features: Level 4 Serial: Asset: Module time: 0.2185s Module time: 0.0011s Processor Processor 6% Checking alerts Processor Average 6% Checking alerts Module time: 1.5665s Mempool main memory: 22.59% Checking alerts Module time: 0.706s Storage disk: system: 12.98% Checking alerts Module time: 0.4528s Netstats: Module time: 0.3009s HR Stats: Module time: 0.0517s Module time: 0.2457s Polling IP-MIB ipSystemStats Module time: 0.096s Caching Oids: ifEntry ifXEntry dot3StatsDuplexStatus Port ether1(1) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(25.2kbps/107kbps)bytes(166kB/711kB)pkts(22.3pps/25.2pps) Checking alerts Port ether2(2) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(1.69kbps/73bps)bytes(11.1kB/494B)pkts(0.61pps/74.0mpps) Checking alerts Port ether3(3) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port ether4(4) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(11.7kbps/8.06kbps)bytes(77.5kB/53.0kB)pkts(12.4pps/4.06pps) Checking alerts Port ether5(5) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port wlan1(6) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port bridge1-data(9) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(9.5kbps/7.57kbps)bytes(62.6kB/49.8kB)pkts(12.4pps/3.57pps) Checking alerts Port bridge2-voip(10) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/39bps)bytes(0B/263B)pkts(0pps/37.0mpps) Checking alerts Port vlan10-data(11) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port vlan20-voice(12) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port lo0(17) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/34bps)bytes(0B/232B)pkts(0pps/37.0mpps) Checking alerts Module time: 14.5479s BGP Peers: Module time: 0.0452s Module time: 0.0011s Module time: 0.0007s Wireless: Module time: 0.0017s OSPF: Processes: Areas: Ports: Neighbours: Module time: 0.093s Mac Accounting: Caching DB...0 entries. Module time: 0.0019s Entity Physical: Module time: 0.0008s Module time: 0.0005s FDB Tables Module time: 0.1898s Module time: 0.0006s ping ping_snmp uptime processor mempool storage fdb_count poller_perf Polled in 20.0717 seconds UPDATED! 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. 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Temperature notifications
by Anton Voloshin 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

Hi all. I've enabled e-mail notifications in the configuration file (commercial version). How do I disable, for example, temperature notifications? They are very annoying while not important in my case. Best regards, Anton Voloshin IT Systems Engineer Group-IB +7 495 984 3364 +7 925 060 6896 voloshin(a)group-ib.com www.group-ib.com

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observium portal slow
by Kiru Pananthan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Dear all our observium portal very slow in responding which is loading the page and refresh also. any suggestion thank you kiru -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 48, Issue 135
by Kiru Pananthan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi Josh below are the details Disk /dev/sda: 107.4 GB, 107374182400 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13054 cylinders, total 209715200 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000342b Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 201332735 100665344 83 Linux /dev/sda2 201334782 209713151 4189185 5 Extended /dev/sda5 201334784 209713151 4189184 82 Linux swap / Solaris -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 48, Issue 134
by Kiru Pananthan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi Josh you need the resource and other information of our observium server or the server we monitor using observium -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 48, Issue 134
by Kiru Pananthan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi Josh -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 48, Issue 133
by Kiru Pananthan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi Josh How many devices do you have? 89 device What are your VM/PCs resources? Hyper VM and Vmware Vm What OS? windows server 2008 / debian linux What SWAP? sorry no idea on this On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:10 PM, <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. observium portal slow (Kiru Pananthan) > 2. Re: observium portal slow (Josh Hopper) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:04:49 +0800 > From: Kiru Pananthan <kirup(a)aism.edu.my> > To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] observium portal slow > Message-ID: > <CAEax4xXKRktFwpq9SpsopS8CH_o0t1b2TFV9+OvO= > j06YGUS0g(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear all > > our observium portal very slow in responding which is loading the page and > refresh also. any suggestion > > thank you > kiru > > -- > *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are > confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be > privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not > the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please > notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, > disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this > e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all > affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility > for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any > internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or > from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or > opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not > necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia > and > all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may > be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all > affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business > reasons. >

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Host down alert
by Anton Voloshin 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi there. Is it possible yet (in commercial version) to set up a "host down" alert? If yes, how to implement it? Couldn't find out from current documentation. [image: Group-IB] Global Cyber Security Company <http://www.facebook.com/GroupIB> <http://twitter.com/groupib> <http://www.linkedin.com/groups/GroupIB-Cybercrime-Cyberterrorism-4390171> <http://www.youtube.com/user/GroupIB>Best regards, Anton Voloshin IT Systems Engineer Group-IB +7 495 984 3364 +7 925 060 6896 voloshin(a)group-ib.com www.group-ib.com Print this mail only if absolutely necessary. Save Paper. Save Trees. This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you believe you are not an intended recipient, please inform the sender, delete the e-mail and do not copy, print or use it or disclose it to others. You can inform the sender by replying to this e-mail or by telephone (+7 495 984 3364). If this email has any files attached to it, they should be virus-checked before they are opened.

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observium.mynetwork.com/syslog dates and times messed up
by Rob Townley 27 Jul '14

27 Jul '14

On the /syslog page, i found out my NetGear switches existed in the year 1. For instance, the dates start with `-0001-11-30 00:00:00`. -0001-11-30 00:00:00 storageswitch <http://observium.corp.eceo.us/device/device=2/tab=logs/section=syslog/> Informational (6) *10.0.100.17%AAA-I-DISCONNECT* : http connection for user admin, source 10.0.100.50 destination 10.0.100.17 TERMINATED -0001-11-30 00:00:00 storageswitch <http://observium.corp.eceo.us/device/device=2/tab=logs/section=syslog/> Informational (6) *10.0.100.17%SYSLOG-I-NEWRADIUSSE* : configure new syslog radius server 10.0.100.10 -0001-11-30 00:00:00 storageswitch <http://observium.corp.eceo.us/device/device=2/tab=logs/section=syslog/> Informational (6) *10.0.100.17%SYSLOG-I-NEWRADIUSSE* : configure new syslog radius server 10.0.100.10

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Geocode
by Josh Hopper 27 Jul '14

27 Jul '14

I wanted to test out Geocoding with Google instead of the regular locations. $config['geocoding']['default']['lat'] = "35.922614"; // Default latitude $config['geocoding']['default']['lon'] = "-81.542729"; // Default longitude $config['location_menu_geocoded'] = TRUE; // Build location menu with geocoded data. $config['geocoding']['enable'] = TRUE; // Enable Geocoding If I have SNMP Locations set on my devices does it prevent this from working? Or, is there a particular way to tell if its operating correctly? -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Checks failed (Suppressed: ENTITY)
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 26 Jul '14

26 Jul '14

What does this message mean? [cid:image002.png@01CFA8BD.12BAC8B0] Some ports just stay check failed. [cid:image003.png@01CFA8BD.12BAC8B0] What did I do wrong? :) Thomas

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Remote syslog to Observium
by Eduardo Schoedler 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

I have forgot one device with remote syslog with debug enabled. My syslog table is with 12G, so I had to truncated :). Any chances to implement regexp filter (like bad_if_regexp) to syslog too? Thanks all! -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Adding a Group to user profile
by Andres Pugawko 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

Hello Guys! It is posible to add a Port Group to a "Normal User" profile ?? Regards Andres Pugawko Network Engineer

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Better poller for Observium
by Alex Povolotsky 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

Hello While Observium has a nice interface, it's database lacks foreign keys a lot, and poller.php is AWFUL. It's slow and unreadable. I've started a new, about 40-50 times lighter observium poller https://github.com/tarkhil/observium-poller It supports only SNMP for now, and is work-in-progress. Only os, processor and memory modules are working, and ports is about 50% finished. If anyone is interested, please join. I'm sure to complete SNMP support for Cisco, but quite unsure if I'll be interested in implementing much else. Alex

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Interesting experiment with poll over SSH
by Peter Childs 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

We have a host about 320ms from our observium node (yes.. The other side of the planet). Doing a full poll circa 650-700ms (including mac and bgp tables... Its a IOS-XR ASR9K ..). Adjusting the Cr/max-reps did increase speeds, and caused several nasty snmpd explosions on the chassis. As a exercise in interest I spun up a VM much closer to the host, unpacked /opt/observium/mibs etc and configured snmp on that remote host. Then did this root@obs1:/opt/observium# diff -c includes/snmp.inc.php.orig includes/snmp.inc.php *** includes/snmp.inc.php.orig 2014-07-23 17:43:53.720274321 +0930 --- includes/snmp.inc.php 2014-07-23 17:56:23.092286235 +0930 *************** *** 333,338 **** --- 333,345 ---- // Add the OID(s) to the strong $cmd .= " ".$oids; + if( $device['hostname'] == 'faraway.router.com' ){ + $cmd = "ssh -i ~x/x.pem x@remote-poller-node -C " . escapeshellarg($cmd) ; + } This was interesting, but the ssh establishment phase for each snmp execution was a lot of overhead.. So I also did this root@obs1:/opt/observium# cat ~/.ssh/config Host remote-poller-node # HostName machine1.example.org ControlPath ~/.ssh/controlmasters/%r@%h:%p ControlMaster auto ControlPersist 10m This means that a ssh 'master instance' was setup at the start of the poll, and hangs around in the background between executions of various snmpcmd's during the poll. Full poll went from 650-700ms -> ~170ms Thought this might be of interest to some people. Cheers, Peter

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Alert checks with load average ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Dear Observium gurus, Do you know if it is possible to make alert uppon load average (1minutes) like for example if load average if > 5.0 (this is a random value, but here is an idea). Kind regards, Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01

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About Vmware / Observium
by Paolo De Michele 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

hi guys, I have a problem with a machine via vmware (esxi 5.1) because I can't be able to modify the locality to setup the correct point into the world map in the world map the point result completely wrong I have other machines via gnu/linux and it works perfectly in the snmp options I cannot setup the locality somebody has had an issue like that? thanks in advance, regards

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Stop Email Alerts
by Kiru Pananthan 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Dear all new to observium, how do we stop the email alerts from observium to our email account setup earlier, we are getting an device up/down alerts every 5 minutes for all our windows virtual machines and network devices. thanks kiru -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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