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by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 24 May '22

24 May '22

hi, When we view the details of a switch (any brand) we can know which port is UP and which is DOWN. It is possible (somehow) to see summary charts for 1 day, 1 month, 1 year. ? without having to enter so many options... port, traffic, then traffic graphics... eg enter the port and there view the graphs of 1 day, 1 month and 1 year. [image: image.png] -- Saluda cordialmente

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How to add more nagios checks to the list of probes
by Kevin Riahi 24 May '22

24 May '22

Is it possible to add more nagios checks by simply copying the check to /usr/lib/nagios/plugins More specifically like to add nagios chech_sip to the list of available probes. [ https://github.com/bashtoni/nagios-check-sip | https://github.com/bashtoni/nagios-check-sip ] [ https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Network-Protocols/%2A-VoIP/SI… | https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Network-Protocols/%2A-VoIP/SI… ] Kevin Riahi

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device support requests
by Tony Guadagno 23 May '22

23 May '22

Hi, I have had a couple of Jira requests out there for a while with no movement...can you please take a look at these please? [OBS-4064] New Buffalo Terastation classified as linux server, not storage like older models - Observium<https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-4064> and [OBS-3974] please enhance support for HPE Nimble storage - Observium<https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3974> thanks again Tony

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help adding device
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 23 May '22

23 May '22

Hi, I'm trying add a device with an custom mibs... How i can add successfully? Device: CacheBox310, Applyansys. In the config SNMP on thee device, there are 3 files TXT with mibs... where i save them? [image: image.png] -- Saluda cordialmente

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Unable to email
by Joe Brouillette 19 May '22

19 May '22

I had to redo my Observium installation and at this time I'm unable to receive any alerts. I tried testing postfix and that works: sudo echo "This is the body of the email" | mail -s "This is the subject line" userX(a)domain.com When I try it with Observium I get nothing: userX@Observium2:/opt/observium$ ./test_alert.php -a userx(a)domain.com Observium 22.5.12000 Test Alert Notification userX@Observium2: I've Googled this and I found serveral hits to change the PHP file, but I understood that we shouldn't be "tweaking" that file. Any ideas on what I've missed? Thanks, Joe Brouillette IT Specialist Link Transit 509.664.7643 jobee(a)linktransit.com<mailto:jobee@linktransit.com> "Any sufficiently advanced science looks like magic." - Arthur C. Clarke "All magic comes with a price." - Rumplestiltskin [Logo1]

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Controlbyweb device and SNMP X405
by Fred Sharpsteen 19 May '22

19 May '22

I am adding my Control By Web device to track the temperature of the Data Center. I tried to install it to observium and I am getting no usable graphs. Attached is the MIB, What is the process to getting these added to the platform. https://www.controlbyweb.com/x405/manuals.html Thank you

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LDAP / LDAPS Authentication with Observium
by Valerie Lim 13 May '22

13 May '22

Hi Graeme As I am very new to LDAPS, can you provide every step you’ve did in setting up LDAPS in both your LDAP server & observium host when you verify everything tomorrow? It would be very helpful learning experience for my team and I. 😊 [cid:image003.png@01D865EE.C07BA4A0] Best Regards Valerie Lim

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LDAP / LDAPS Authentication with Observium
by Valerie Lim 12 May '22

12 May '22

Hi I am having issue authenticating the members in my group as the error message says that it is unable to get a match of a user in a particular group. Here are some steps I've taken so far: * Changing to $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "server01.domain01.com"; caused an error that LDAP server was unable to bind thus that is why I am using IP address * All my users are already a member of the group that I've specified & the group is also in an OU I've specified in my config.php So, why is Observium unable to get a match of the users even though the specifications are already there? Please advise. Attached is my config.php configuration: // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please se> $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=domain01,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "xxxxxxxx"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['dn'] = "distinguishedName"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "person"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "ldap://192.168.1.234"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = TRUE; $config['auth_ldap_bindanonymous'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "CN="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",OU=MVC,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("CN=gtgroup,OU=MVC,DC=domain01,DC=com"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "CN=gtgroup,OU=MVC,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "nodn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['CN=gtgroup,OU=MVC,DC=domain01,DC=com']['level'] = 10; $config['web_debug_unprivileged'] = TRUE; Error message I got when logging in: [cid:image002.jpg@01D865E9.D1ADC000] My group & OU settings: [cid:image005.jpg@01D865E9.D1ADC000] Best Regards Valerie Lim

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Project still active?
by Denton, Gregory 12 May '22

12 May '22

Hi Team, First off, thank you for the detailed support of some of the lesser common devices. Next, can you confirm the project is still active in any way? I'm currently in the market for a solution with enterprise level support (internal policy), so before I go to the well for funding, I need to know that Observium is still viable and active for that level of support? </greg>

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Display warning on map
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 12 May '22

12 May '22

hello, today we have had several incidents in our network. It strikes me that some devices do not show the red triangle on the map. Where could I find and fix this problem? ps: the alert boxes have been customized to show hostname and IP, it works fine for us. [image: image.png] -- Saluda cordialmente

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LDAP / LDAPS Authentication with Observium
by Valerie Lim 12 May '22

12 May '22

Hi Graeme Thanks! Also just want to check with you: 1. Other than getting LDAP to work, did you manage to get LDAPS to work as well? If so, could you provide the every step on how your team did it? 2. What OS & version is both your host Observium & LDAP server running on? 3. For LDAP, other than setting up Observium in the host & LDAP service in the server itself, were there any additional packages / steps you did to make it work? [cid:image001.png@01D865EB.87CC6930] Best Regards Valerie Lim

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LDAP / LDAPS Authentication with Observium
by Valerie Lim 12 May '22

12 May '22

Hi I've configured my config.php based on recommended advice. However, when I try logging in, it only refreshes the page and shows me the following logs: [cid:image001.jpg@01D86528.E1F50CA0] I'm running my Observium on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 and my LDAP server on Windows Server 2019. Here is my config.php configuration: // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please se> $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=domain01,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "XXXXXXXX"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['dn'] = "distinguishedName"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "person"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "ldap://192.168.1.234"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = TRUE; $config['auth_ldap_bindanonymous'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "CN="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",OU=ACCLIVIS,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("CN=grouping,OU=ACCLIVIS,DC=domain01,DC=com"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "CN=grouping,OU=ACCLIVIS,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "nodn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['CN=grouping,OU=ACCLIVIS,DC=domain01,DC=com']['level'] = 10; $config['web_debug_unprivileged'] = TRUE; I am able to run a successful LDAP query from my host to my LDAP server. Thus, please advice on what else I can be missing. I'm reverting back from LDAPS to LDAP as I would like to fix the basic LDAP connection first before moving to a secured LDAP. Best Regards Valerie Lim

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observium secondary IP
by Toky ANDRIANASOLO 10 May '22

10 May '22

Hello, Can we configure a secondary IP address for the observium server and use this to add devices? the primary IP will be routed on the primary link based on tunneling technology and the secondary IP will be routed on the backup MPLS link. Thank you and Regards, Toky, -- <https://app.livestorm.co/comdata-group/services-financiers-comment-optimise…>

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need for a new support system, email lists are too limiting
by Tony Guadagno 06 May '22

06 May '22

Hi, as the recent 2 questions have shown (ldaps auth and ping only device monitoring) users have the same questions over and over. Currently, this system Observium uses for email lists (imho) is not cutting it. There is no place (that I now of) that we can search for old solutions, the emails don't seem to be archived anywhere. Have you considered switching off this to a discussion board software? I think it would be better for all. Just my 2 cents. tony

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LDAPS Authentication with Observium
by Valerie Lim 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hi I need advice on how to authenticate my LDAP server (Windows Server 2019) with my Observium client (v22.4.11952) which runs on Ubuntu v20.04 Desktop. 1. I've configured LDAPs certificate in my LDAP server as an .pfx file. How do I allow Observium to read the certificate so as to get authenticated by my LDAP server? 1. I've configured LDAP settings in my Observium's config.php file accordingly as advised & installed php module. However, Observium is still unable to authenticate via LDAP. LDAP query between Observium client (Ubuntu) and LDAP server (Windows) is working. So please advice on what additional steps is required on setting up LDAP on regards to both client & server side. 1. Attached is my config.php configuration. // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please s> $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "cn=Administrator,ou=acclivis,dc=domain01,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "xxxxxxxxxx"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['dn'] = "distinguishedName"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "user"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "server01.domain01.com"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 636; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = TRUE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "cn="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "nondn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com']['level'] = 10; Best Regards Valerie Lim

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Phantom suppressed alerts
by Dale Chambers 05 May '22

05 May '22

Afternoon, I am hoping you might be able to help me. I seem to have issues with the alerts where I have quite a few marked as supressed, but when you look at the suppressed alerts, I only see 5, but I cannot see how I can clear these phantom alerts. Are you able to help me? I am currently on version 22.3.11925 and this has been going on for probably a year now. A screenshot is provided so that you can see what I have occurring. [cid:image001.jpg@01D86097.CBC408E0] Many Thanks Dale CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY POLICY This communication is private and the information contained in this email and any attachments may be privileged, commercially sensitive, confidential, proprietary to NSSLGlobal Limited or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient or have been sent this in error, you are prohibited from using, copying, relying upon, or disseminating the information, and the sender disclaims any liability for such unauthorised use. Further, if you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message. In accordance with our email policy, emails sent or received may be monitored. Thank you. We have recently updated our Privacy Policy, which can be accessed at https://www.nsslglobal.com/uploads/documents/NSSLGlobal_Privacy_Policy.pdf We will hold and manage personal data that you provide us with in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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LDAPS Authentication Observium
by Valerie Lim 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hi Is there a log file in Observium for me to troubleshoot when I log in via LDAP? I want to verify the LDAP details I've keyed in my config.php is correct as I am still unable to log in via LDAP as per Tony's advice on LDAPS. Please advise if I am missing out any additional steps / packages required to as I am still relatively new to configuring LDAP / LDAPS for Observium. Attached are some information I configured so far: 1. Config.php [cid:image001.jpg@01D86091.7DDD9E30] 1. /etc/ldap/ldap.conf [cid:image002.jpg@01D86091.7DDD9E30] 1. Certificate Information (Configured via Windows LDAP Server) [cid:image003.jpg@01D86091.7DDD9E30][cid:image004.jpg@01D86091.7DDD9E30] 1. Already configured LDAPS on Windows LDAP Server (If require more screenshots to show what settings I've configured, I can provide) 2. Made changes to /opt/observium/config.php accordingly as shown in 1st screenshot 3. Made changes to /etc/ldap/ldap.conf accordingly as shown in 2nd screenshot 4. Did ldapquery sucessfully before configuring LDAPS to ensure Ubuntu host can query to Windows LDAP server. Best Regards Valerie Lim

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Microsoft server 2022 listed as 2019
by Tony Guadagno 04 May '22

04 May '22

I just noticed that server 2022 is being reported on observium as 2019....could this be updated pls Thanks

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Ubiquity Serial Numbers / Wireless (WLAN) mac
by Lyndon Labuschagne 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Hi A few years ago we were able to pull the Ubiquiti Radio MAC / Serial numbers from the Observium DB. I no longer see any serial numbers listed for Ubiquiti devices if I query the device table in the DB directly, and it’s not shown on the device screen in the Observium interface. When running a manual poller.php run the serial number field is <empty>, Is there something that changed on the Observium or Ubiquiti side or is the a module that I may need to enable? Any ideas or input would be welcome. Regards Lyndon

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FW: Observium LDAP Integration
by Valerie Lim 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

From: Valerie Lim Sent: Wednesday, 27 April 2022 10:07 am To: Adam Thompson <athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca> Cc: Ryan Tee <ryan.tee(a)acclivis.com>; Nirmolak Singh Bajaj <nirmolak.singhbajaj(a)acclivis.com> Subject: RE: Observium LDAP Integration Hi Adam Thanks for your response. I am able to successfully execute an LDAP query via command-line. Also, I will try to configure my LDAP server according to your advice & see the changes. Meanwhile, could you elaborate a bit more on what needs to be done on the client side for Observium? Currently, I am running Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 & have only enabled the base PHP module required for Observium to read LDAP settings. & other than enabling LDAP service on the server itself, is there any additional settings that needs to be done to allow client to reach LDAP server? I have attached below the command I've used for the LDAP query & some user details I've got via the query. Best Regards Valerie Lim Command used: ldapsearch -x -b "dc=domain01,dc=com" -H ldap://192.168.1.234 -D "cn=Administrator,ou=acclivis,dc=domain01,dc=com" -W "objectclass=user" Results: # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <dc=domain01,dc=com> with scope subtree # filter: objectclass=user # requesting: ALL # # Administrator, acclivis, domain01.com dn: CN=Administrator,OU= acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: user cn: Administrator description: Built-in account for administering the computer/domain distinguishedName: CN=Administrator,OU= acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com instanceType: 4 whenCreated: 20220413051658.0Z whenChanged: 20220427015103.0Z uSNCreated: 8196 memberOf: CN=Group Policy Creator Owners,CN=Users,DC=domain01,DC=com memberOf: CN=Domain Admins,CN=Users,DC=domain01,DC=com memberOf: CN=Enterprise Admins,CN=Users,DC=domain01,DC=com memberOf: CN=Schema Admins,CN=Users,DC=domain01,DC=com memberOf: CN=Administrators,CN=Builtin,DC=domain01,DC=com uSNChanged: 36881 name: Administrator objectGUID:: zY3U88tQd0CIs1ncaHNQ9A== userAccountControl: 66048 badPwdCount: 0 codePage: 0 countryCode: 0 badPasswordTime: 0 lastLogoff: 0 lastLogon: 132949181574995316 pwdLastSet: 132942924570197446 primaryGroupID: 513 objectSid:: AQUAAAAAAAUVAAAAL/6g3LnZPK6eKnuJ9AEAAA== adminCount: 1 accountExpires: 9223372036854775807 logonCount: 22 sAMAccountName: Administrator sAMAccountType: 805306368 objectCategory: CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=domain01,DC=com isCriticalSystemObject: TRUE dSCorePropagationData: 20220420091258.0Z dSCorePropagationData: 20220413053253.0Z dSCorePropagationData: 20220413053253.0Z dSCorePropagationData: 20220413051743.0Z dSCorePropagationData: 16010714042016.0Z lastLogonTimestamp: 132954978631684796 # gt09, acclivis, domain01.com dn: CN=gt09,OU= acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: user cn: gt09 givenName: gt09 distinguishedName: CN=gt09,OU= acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com instanceType: 4 whenCreated: 20220420085359.0Z whenChanged: 20220420090537.0Z displayName: gt09 uSNCreated: 32997 memberOf: CN=grouping,OU= acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com uSNChanged: 33031 name: gt09 objectGUID:: Q06xdIEFa0iWmks3+zuUTQ== userAccountControl: 66048 badPwdCount: 0 codePage: 0 countryCode: 0 badPasswordTime: 0 lastLogoff: 0 lastLogon: 0 pwdLastSet: 132949184398814009 primaryGroupID: 513 objectSid:: AQUAAAAAAAUVAAAAL/6g3LnZPK6eKnuJOggAAA== accountExpires: 9223372036854775807 logonCount: 0 sAMAccountName: gt09 sAMAccountType: 805306368 userPrincipalName: gt09(a)domain01.com<mailto:gt09@domain01.com> objectCategory: CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=domain01,DC=com dSCorePropagationData: 16010101000000.0Z mail: valerie.lim(a)acclivis.com<mailto:valerie.lim@acclivis.com> From: Adam Thompson <athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca>> Sent: Tuesday, 26 April 2022 9:29 pm To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: Valerie Lim <valerie.lim(a)acclivis.com<mailto:valerie.lim@acclivis.com>> Subject: RE: Observium LDAP Integration That's very similar to what we're doing here successfully. The differences I see are: $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "UserPrincipalName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['dn'] = "distinguishedname"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "person"; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "ldaps://xx.xx.xx"; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['CN=xx,OU=xx,DC=xx,DC=xx']['level'] = 10; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 636; This lets us log in with our full UPN, which happens to also be our email address. You may want to keep sAMAccountName if you want to log in with bare userids instead of UPNs. Not sure if the "dn" line is required or not, I don't remember what that does. Objectclass might also trip you up - "person" is the standard LDAP ObjectClass for an AD userid. Are you able to successfully execute an LDAP query from the command-line using "ldapsearch" (typically found in the "openldap-clients" package or similar)? I would start there, to prove your Observium server can actually reach your DC and run a query successfully, before trying to enable LDAP in Observium. You can't do a non-TLS LDAP bind on 389 by default, which is why we use 636 and ldaps. IIRC, something has to be done on the client (Observium) side to allow OpenLDAP to accept the internal AD-generated TLS certificate the AD server offers, but I can't find it right now. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/> From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> On Behalf Of Valerie Lim via observium Sent: Monday, April 25, 2022 9:16 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Valerie Lim <valerie.lim(a)acclivis.com<mailto:valerie.lim@acclivis.com>> Subject: [Observium] Observium LDAP Integration Hi I am currently using professional v22.4.11952 for Observium. I am unable to authenticate my Observium via my LDAP server (Windows Server 2019). When 'ldap' is applied, authentication doesn't work. php module required for Observium has already been installed. Below is my config.php configuration: // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please s> $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=domain01,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "xxxxxxx"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "user"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "server01.domain01.com"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "cn="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "nondn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['test']['level'] = 10; Is there something I missing out on my LDAP configuration? Please advise. Thanks Best Regards Valerie Lim

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Observium LDAP Integration
by Valerie Lim 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

Hi I am currently using professional v22.4.11952 for Observium. I am unable to authenticate my Observium via my LDAP server (Windows Server 2019). When 'ldap' is applied, authentication doesn't work. php module required for Observium has already been installed. Below is my config.php configuration: // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please s> $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=domain01,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "xxxxxxx"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "user"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "server01.domain01.com"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "cn="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "nondn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['test']['level'] = 10; Is there something I missing out on my LDAP configuration? Please advise. Thanks Best Regards Valerie Lim

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Cloud networks monitoring option in Observium
by Jan Horacek 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

Good morning guys, I want to ask you if there is any development thread which will introduce cloud services monitoring into observium. I don`t mean the classic monitoring way of vhost via SNMP, but over API calls directly from the cloud tools. We are currently transferring our network capabilities from the standard setup to CloudWan and looking for the monitoring options and our vision is to concentrate monitoring features in observium dashboards. I appreciate any hints or tips. Thanks

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Aborted connection xxxxxx to db
by Ross [Eve IT] 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

Hello peoples, Hope you are all well! I know this is not specifically an observium issue, but was hoping someone could shed some light on the problem if they have also experienced it. This is on a new build, fresh install; Debian 11 using the automated observium script; Every time the cron job triggers, every 5 minutes, I get this warning. bservium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 09:35:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 9:35:01 15776 [Warning] Aborted connection 15776 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 09:40:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 9:40:01 15880 [Warning] Aborted connection 15880 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 09:45:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 9:45:01 15985 [Warning] Aborted connection 15985 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 09:50:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 9:50:01 16090 [Warning] Aborted connection 16090 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 09:55:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 9:55:01 16194 [Warning] Aborted connection 16194 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 10:00:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 10:00:01 16300 [Warning] Aborted connection 16300 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 10:05:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 10:05:01 16404 [Warning] Aborted connection 16404 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 10:10:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 10:10:01 16509 [Warning] Aborted connection 16509 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) It doesn't seem to be affecting the application, Observium is graphing and monitoring just fine. Has anyone solved this issue? Kind regards, Ross.

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relative times/dates
by David Milton 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Hello, When trying to document events it’s more useful (at least to me) to see that something happened at 01:55 than it is to see it happened 9:23 hours ago. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful to know how long ago an event happened but it seems recently, knowing when the event happened is more important that knowing how long ago that was. Is there any way to disable temporarily or permanently the “relative” times in the event log and syslog? Thanks, Dave.

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how does "ignore until" under device/alert settings work?...looking for a "in maintenance" mode for a device
by Tony Guadagno 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Sorry if this is an obvious question but I have been playing with this and it does not behave the way I am expecting... under device properties/alerts there is an "ignore until" option as well as a "disable notifications" toggle.... [cid:image003.jpg@01D8530A.33555B80] If I set the "ignore until" to sometime in the future and I (for example) restart the device...I still get alerted. If I toggle the "disable notifications" , I do not get the notifications anymore...however, it stays disabled past the "ignore until" time How is this feature supposed to work? I am looking for a way to put a device in "maintenance mode" so that if I am upgrading etc...no alerts are generated and no notifications are sent.

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add-on?
by McGranahan, Jamen (VU) 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Is there an add-on or a separate module that will provide the DNS entries for each server? We have various servers running multiple websites and it would help us if we had one interface that contained this data along with everything else that Observium provides. Jamen McGranahan Associate Director of Library Technology & Digital Services Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University 615-343-1614 | jamen.mcgranahan(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:jamen.mcgranahan@vanderbilt.edu> he/his/him [cid:image001.png@01D8531B.9A603B90]

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Observium running in Ubuntu Server / How to ensure data at REST encrypted with AES256 / data encryption at rest
by Ryan Tee 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Hi , Subject - Data encryption at REST ( AES256 ) How to verify and ensure data at REST encrypted with AES256 Observium running in Ubuntu Server. When at rest, data can be subject to malicious threats such as data theft or data corruption by obtaining physical access to the storage hardware. Do share us information if any comments for this. Thank you Regards Ryan **************************************** There are three states for digital data: data in use, data in transit and data at rest. * Data in use refers to active data stored in non-persistent volumes, typically RAM or CPU caches. * Data in transit is the state where data is transferred over a network, either private or public. * Data at rest means inactive data that is stored physically on persistent storage, i.e. disks, databases, data warehouses, mobile devices, archives, etc.

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Observium @ Ubuntu - - TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.3 is for communications between webservers and database servers ( different systems and machines )
by Ryan Tee 14 Apr '22

14 Apr '22

Hi We are concerned security between Observium that running in Ubuntu systems ( 18.04 and 20.04 ) How to check and confirm TLS v1.2 or above had been configured as default , for communications between webservers and database servers ( different systems and machines ) Do share us information if any comments. Thank you. Regards Ryan

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Re: [Observium] ping only device monitoring
by adama＠observium.org 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

No one else is reading because at some point I accidentally replied directly instead of to the list 😊 But I did now! Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Sent: 13 April 2022 17:54 To: adama(a)observium.org Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Adam, I separate list that is independent would be good also…I hope others reading this will voice their support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks From: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 12:52 PM To: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring This is why we recommend the probe is attached to the Observium server’s own device entry in Observium. The ping-only host thing isn’t feasible in the existing devices paradigm, it would break the UI and a lot of other expectations about devices. Observium is 95% “showing data we got from SNMP”. The thing we’d likely create is a separate list of devices that didn’t support SNMP and didn’t actually interact with anything that currently exists in Observium, except probes, so we’d need a bunch of exceptions to the probe code to handle things with a device record and things without in the probes code. No one seems to ask much about it once we show them how to do the probes workaround, so we don’t look at it much. Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Sent: 13 April 2022 17:22 To: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Adam, I was able to get this all working, thanks for your help. Please excuse me if I am preaching to the choir but I do have some feedback. I want to start out by saying that I would love it if all devices supported SNMP, that would be ideal, but reality is that there are devices that will never have SNMP agents on them. In this particular case, it’s a banks ATM’s. For security reasons, SNMP will never be a feature for these devices. There are other examples as well, for instance, I also want to my ISP’s router so I can tell when I go down, are they down as well. So, ping only devices are abundant and persistent, they will not be going away. Setting up a probe will get me by, but there are several problems. The first is it seems you need to associate the probe with an existing host...so it looks like the probe is for that host (even though it is not). What happens if I delete the host...will the probes go away? Also, I have not yet seen a notification, but does the notification show the hosts name associated with the probe? If so, that will be confusing to techs who might not be aware they have to read further. What is really needed is the ability to add a device that is ping only and stand alone, not dependent on any other host. Obviously, all the info for that device would be unavailable except ping times but this would be much clearer. I think, given how important ping only devices can be, it should be a priority to get this right. Finally, let me say that I have worked in the past with MRTG and HP Openview and more recently with NagiosXI, PRTG and Shinken. Observium is BY FAR, the best of them. A ping only host is one of the few things that they all can do, but you cannot. Thanks for listening, if you want, I would be happy to put in a feature request. From: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 11:19 AM To: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Same way you alert on everything else, it’s just another entity type, similar to status with ok/alert status https://docs.observium.org/entities/#probes Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Sent: 13 April 2022 16:17 To: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Oh, so you just pick a host in the pulldown, but that gets ignored when you use -H? ok. is there a way to alert on a probe? From: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 11:12 AM To: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring You just override the default arguments on the probe, the documentation should explain that. Host is *almost* always -H Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Sent: 13 April 2022 15:48 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Adam, I have been looking at probes, but the thing I don’t understand is how to add a probe when the device is not listed in Observium. I tried to overwrite the pulldown, but it does not allow that. Is there a way to add a device to the list? From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of adama--- via observium Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 10:44 AM To: 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] ping only device monitoring This is mentioned in the probes documentation. Just create ICMP probes on the Observium-server entry (or the closest partitioned poller) We might do something specific at some point, but it’ll basically just be the same thing but with the probes separated into a different list. Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 13 April 2022 15:41 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Hi, I know this has been asked and answered before, but I cannot find anywhere to search old threads, so I need to ask again…. How do I configure Observium to monitor a device with ping but no SNMP ability? Thanks Tony

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wmi issues, need a syntax change
by Tony Guadagno 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, I am guessing that wmi polling is not used very much but I do use it and find it handy. If you do use it, you are probably aware that your event logs are filling up with this error: The server-side authentication level policy does not allow the user domain\wmiuser SID (S-1-5-21-99999-3660327915-2769000259-31856) from address 1.1.1.1 to activate DCOM server. Please raise the activation authentication level at least to RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_PKT_INTEGRITY in client application. I am getting 4 eventlog errors every polling interval (5 minutes) on every windows server. This is due to Microsoft enhancing security on wmi. (KB5004442-Manage changes for Windows DCOM Server Security Feature Bypass (CVE-2021-26414) (microsoft.com)<https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5004442-manage-changes-for-wind…>) There is a solution to this, you need to call wmi with pkt integrity enabled (wmic RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_PKT_INTEGRITY support · Issue #41 · greenbone/openvas-smb (github.com)<https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-smb/issues/41>). So, for example wmic --user=domain.local\\user --password= //server.domain.local "select * from Win32_ComputerSystem" - throws the error in the target servers event log...also, this will start failing next year. However wmic --user=domain.local\\user --password= //ncacn_ip_tcp:server.domain.local[sign] "select * from Win32_ComputerSystem" will not throw the error wrapping the target server in ncacn_ip_tcp: and [sign] fixes the issue. So, would it be possible for you to enhance Observium to make the wmi calls this way? Thanks Tony

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ping only device monitoring
by Tony Guadagno 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, I know this has been asked and answered before, but I cannot find anywhere to search old threads, so I need to ask again.... How do I configure Observium to monitor a device with ping but no SNMP ability? Thanks Tony

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Date Preset
by Stuart Dyer 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

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FW: Total Core Traffic
by Peter Derissen 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Hello, We have a lot of core links in our network. The total graphs are show on top. [cid:image001.png@01D84A72.89424B20] When I click on 1 of the graphs I get an error. [cid:image002.png@01D84A72.89424B20] When I check the URL I see that its very long. Could that be the problem and is there a way I can fix that? https://10.230.11.81/graphs/type=multi-port_bits_separate/to=1649323537/id=… Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [cid:image003.png@01D84A72.89424B20]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurof…> Volg ons op Twitter<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> | Linkedin<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linke…> | Facebook<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faceb…> | Youtube<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…> Wilt u op de hoogte blijven van technische ontwikkelingen aan ons netwerk, nieuwe ICT ontwikkelingen en klantervaringen? Meld u dan aan voor onze maandelijkse nieuwsbrief<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmarketing…>. [cid:image004.jpg@01D84A72.89424B20]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurof…> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Eurofiber only sends and receives e-mails on the basis that Eurofiber is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. Eurofiber Nederland B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam with number 34134377, VAT number NL 8088.51.524 B01. Eurofiber N.V. has its registered office at Belgicastraat 5 bus 7, 1930 Zaventem and is registered under national number 0435.204.851. Eurofiber France has its registered office at 21 Avenue de la Cr?ativit?, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq and is registered under national number FR 83.822.249.074.

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Monitoris MSSQL database size
by Rando Sui 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Hello, How do you monitor MSSQL specific measures, I would like to monitor Database size, how do you do that? Could I add database size to my Apps SQL server charts list? [cid:image002.png@01D84E8D.80A79050] Is there any indirect method, I gather7inject data to observium mysql and just display data from database and issue alerts? Greetings, Rando.

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Ubuntu LDAP
by Valerie Lim 11 Apr '22

11 Apr '22

Hi, We would like to check does installing Observium affect any LDAP Ubuntu settings as we are unable to access LDAP server after Observium is being installed. Appreciate share with us, to configure setting config.php file in Observium systems. Regards Valerie

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Re: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker
by Tony Guadagno 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Adam, thanks, I will give this a shot Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2022 4:04 PM To: 'Observium' Cc: Adam Armstrong Subject: Re: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker Hi Tony, https://docs.observium.org/entities/#status You want something like association status_descr equals Source of Output Power test conditions status_name notequals normal adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 07 April 2022 20:34 To: Adam Armstrong via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Subject: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker Hi, I have been able to write some basic checks but I need a little help with this. I want to write a check to alert when my ups’ switch to battery. I think I can do that by checking if the “source of output power” is not normal, but I do not know how to translate that logic into conditions and associations..can someone help? Thanks BTW, is there an exchange where people post their checks for others to use? Tony

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need some help with an alert checker
by Tony Guadagno 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hi, I have been able to write some basic checks but I need a little help with this. I want to write a check to alert when my ups’ switch to battery. I think I can do that by checking if the “source of output power” is not normal, but I do not know how to translate that logic into conditions and associations..can someone help? Thanks BTW, is there an exchange where people post their checks for others to use? Tony

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Observium - how to encrypt data at rest with AES 256
by Ryan Tee 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi. Would like to inquire followings : How to encrypt data at rest with AES256 in Observium systems ? We plan to use 256-bit AES encryption ensures data is secure at rest. Could share with us information if any. Thank you. Regards Ryan

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Observium - database Security Server and TCP database port uses TLS v1.2 or above for communications
by Ryan Tee 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi , We would like to check followings in Observium systems. How to make sure that, in Observium systems, database Security Server and TCP database port uses TLS v1.2 or above for communications. This is to ensure communication is secured. Appreciate share with us, to configure setting config.php file in Observium systems. Regards Ryan [cid:image001.png@01D84810.72D22180]

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questions about email alert notification formats
by Tony Guadagno 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Hi, I have 2 questions about this. First, is it possible to attach a notification format per contact. We are sending out text alert notifications using number(a)vtext.com<mailto:number@vtext.com> and I think the format is too big for vtext.com to accept. Is it possible that on a contact, scale down the notification? Second, is it possible to change the format of the general "recover" email? thanks Tony

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unix-agent for Proxmox
by walter＠onda.ch 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Hello Adam Is it possible to collect also LXC with this script? Or maybe in the future? The command for do this ist: pvesh get /nodes/$(hostname)/lxc --output-format=json-pretty Regards Walter

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Re: [Observium] Observium LDAP integration
by Nirmolak Singh Bajaj 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Hi, I am having an integration problem with my LDAP server. This is my config for the LDAP. It is based on what the Observium website shows. Could you let me know where I am going wrong? Looking forward to your support. $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=lab,DC=local"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = " "; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['dn'] = "distinguishedname"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "user"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "lab.local"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "CN="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",OU=mvc,DC=lab,DC=local"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("DC=lab,DC=local"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "DC=lab,DC=local"; $config['auth_ldap_bindanonymous'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "nodn"; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['mvc']['level'] = 10; [cid:image001.png@01D84552.881C71F0] [cid:image002.png@01D84552.881C71F0] Warmest Regards, Nirmolak Singh

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What to do when all optimizations fails ...
by Graf Vincent 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Hello, Although I double check every tuning guide from the website, I'm in trouble with my Observium installation. First of all, the size of the network is huge... From the Statistics on about page : - 1023 Devices - 57K Ports - 51K Sensors - 128 GB RRD - 20GB DB I run the latest version of Observium with PHP 7.3 on a Debian 10 physical server. It is a dual Intel Xeon 6248 2.5Ghz (20C/40T) equipped with 3 RAID groups : - RAID1 for the OS - RAID1 for the RRD files and Observium application - RAID5 for the database All the disks are SSD. The number of poller is set to 48 and the whole polling time has an average of 264s and a max of @334s (I just increase the poller to 60 today...). I do housekeeping every week to cut off the event log and other stuff older than 30 days. I also use fast userspace caching with php-apcu For the port discovery, some of ports are ignored like vlans, control plan, stack interface, voice-port, etc... The installation runs like a big diesel machine ... not so fast but very robust. My problem is that it takes more than 30 seconds to get the detail of simple 48 ports switch ... and much more when I try to load a detailed backbone with many more ports. Do you have any suggestion to improve the GUI responsiveness ? Thank you for your time Kind regards Vincent

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Re: [Observium] Observium product evolution
by Adam Armstrong 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Hi Nilesh, We don't really do the sales process thing, we don't have any sales staff at all, only developers. You can see most of the platform using the CE version. Thanks, Adam. From: observium <mailman-bounces(a)postman.memetic.org> On Behalf Of nilesh.patil(a)wwindia.com Sent: 30 March 2022 12:51 To: observium(a)observium.org; observium-owner(a)observium.org Cc: 'Gagan Gupta' <gagankumar.gupta(a)wwindia.com>; 'Mayur Pawar' <mayur.pawar(a)wwindia.com>; 'Rahul Galande' <rahul.galande(a)wwindia.com> Subject: RE: Observium product evolution ++++observium-owner(a)observium.org <mailto:++++observium-owner@observium.org> Regards, Nilesh Patil From: nilesh.patil(a)wwindia.com <mailto:nilesh.patil@wwindia.com> <nilesh.patil(a)wwindia.com <mailto:nilesh.patil@wwindia.com> > Sent: 30 March 2022 16:45 To: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Gagan Gupta <gagankumar.gupta(a)wwindia.com <mailto:gagankumar.gupta@wwindia.com> >; Mayur Pawar <mayur.pawar(a)wwindia.com <mailto:mayur.pawar@wwindia.com> >; Rahul Galande <rahul.galande(a)wwindia.com <mailto:rahul.galande@wwindia.com> > Subject: Observium product evolution Dear Observium, This Nilesh Patil from Web Werks India Pvt. Ltd. We have been looking for this product for our network infra monitoring and for the billing purpose. For this product can we have the POC for enterprise level. It will also be appreciated if we can have call for initial engagement. Waiting for your prompt response and availability for the call. Thanks & Regards, Nilesh Patil. Manager, Network Web Werks India Pvt. Ltd. Contact : 86565 48433 Data Center Services | Hosted IT Infrastructure | Cloud Services Managed Services | Infrastructure Application | Network Services

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Add peer-name to BGP notifications
by Steffen Klemer 29 Mar '22

29 Mar '22

Hey there, for some reasons not everyone of us is fluent with IPs and AS numbers so I'd like to propose to add some kind of descriptive info to the routing alerts. For us sth. like: /var/www/observium/includes/entities.inc.php:1789 $entity['entity_name'] = "AS".$entity['bgpPeerRemoteAs'] ." ". $addr ." ". $entity['reverse_dns']; would be a good enough/great solution. Merry Christmas for everyone celebrating it and/or some calm days from Göttingen, Germany. Steffen -- Steffen Klemer Arbeitsgruppe "Netze" Tel.: +49 551 39 30204, E-Mail: steffen.klemer(a)gwdg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Burckhardtweg 4, 37077 Göttingen, URL: https://gwdg.de Support: Tel.: +49 551 39-30 000, URL: https://gwdg.de/support Sekretariat: Tel.: +49 551 39-30 001, E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen, Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Trying to not alert on an interface in monitoring mode
by Lars Joergensen 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Hey all I'm trying to build an alert that will go off in an interface is operationally down but not disabled. A fringe case is a span port where the operational state is "monitoring". It still triggers on these conditions (both are required to be true): [cid:image001.png@01D8405C.2132B5D0] (It says "suppressed" because the previous definition of the alarm was "IfOperStatus notequals up" and we suppressed it at that time) Can anybody help me see through what's wrong in my definition? Best regards Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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vlan table cleanup?
by Adam Thompson 25 Mar '22

25 Mar '22

We’re noticing that the VLANs page (Ports-->VLANs) is less useful than it could be, because it seems to keep around every VLAN that has ever existed on every device that has ever existed. I also don’t see anything in …/includes/housekeeping/* that would address this. It’s so bad/useless at this point that 1701 records are from devices that don’t even exist anymore (vs. 4409 where the parent device at least still exists, even if the VLAN doesn’t). A similar problem exists in vlans_fdb. Is there some housekeeping mechanism that is supposed to take care of this, that I can go troubleshoot? Or is it just an oversight/omission? And if not, can I just do a “DELETE FROM vlans WHERE NOT EXISTS ( <query on ‘device’> )” (and something similar on vlans_fdb) to clean it up? Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

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New Buffalo terastations do now discover as Storage, they show up as linux servers
by Tony Guadagno 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Hi, I opened this Jira, can you take a look? Thanks [OBS-4064] New Buffalo Terastation classified as linux server, not storage like older models - Observium<https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-4064> Tony

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IPMI discrete unit sensors
by Karl-André Skevik 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Hello, We have several machines with IPMI configured in observium. Some of these machines have had hardware failures, such as power supply or disk failures, and we can see the failure status when polling the machines via ipmitool, but there are no warnings reported by observium. The unit of these sensor values is "discrete". Does observium support this type of sensor, and if so, is it possible to configure observium to warn about failures in these sensors? Regards,

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Rancid + Observium Integration
by Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Hallo, I have Rancid integrated into Observium but as it is, not all the devices have the config tab. Additionally, those with the config tab do not update the configs as set. I'd appreciate your help. I followed the documentation below: RANCID Integration - Observium<https://docs.observium.org/rancid/> Regards, Joyce

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restarting snmp service on windows server flags the server as down in observium
by Tony Guadagno 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Hi, I have an alert that says if the device_uptime is less than 360, alert that the server was down. I happened to restart the snmp service on several of my servers and was surprised to find the alert triggered. I am guessing that when snmp restarts, the uptime counter goes to zero? Is there any way to get a true read of the uptime? I am trying to alert if the server rebooted within the poling window. thanks Tony

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Alert for summarized sensors value
by Laszlo Nemeth 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Hello, i have a lot alert checks witch can alert for a sensors, and these are working great. But now i would like to create an alert like this: I would like to receive an alert if the PDU hostname match PDU-*-1, and BANK1 + BANK2 + BANK 3 value greather than 10. So if the summarized BANKs value is greather than 10. So my question is Observium support this alert type where the multiple sensor's summarized value is the condition? Thanks Br Laszlo

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Full support for FS Switch's.
by Kevin Riahi 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Hey Adam, I like to Request full SNMP support for FS.com switches. Currently a lot of info in left out. Such as Temps, Fans, Power Supply status Etc. Specifically S5860-20SQ. https://www.fs.com/products/108710.html MIB Files: [ https://img-en.fs.com/file/user_manual/s5860-series-swithes-snmp-mib-files.… | https://img-en.fs.com/file/user_manual/s5860-series-swithes-snmp-mib-files.… ] Additional info that may be helpful: https://img-en.fs.com/file/user_manual/s5860-series-switches-snmp-template-… Thank you Kevin Riahi kevin.riahi(a)envoi.com https://www.envoi.com

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Question BGP peers in VRF
by Sandoiu Mihai 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Hi I am evaluating Observium for reading the number of received bgp routes on ASR9000 routers. I have successfully discovered one of our testrouters and I can see the bgp peers in the liste. However it only detects the vpnv4/vpnv6 bgp peers. It does not detect the bgp peers inside vrfs. Is there any possibility to do so? Apparently they should be read in CISCO-BGP4-MIB Regards Mihai

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Huawei CPU Graph is not showing
by Farshid Abediny 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Hello, I have a huawei 6851-48S6Q and i added this to my observium, but i could not see the CPU Graph, Can somebody help me to solve this problem? Thank you. Regards

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Migration to new server
by Thodoris Lakiotis 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hi I try today to migrate my installation to newer OS - Ubuntu 20 RRDs transferred ok DB transferred ok, devices all OK But the weirdest thing is that I couldn’t login with any of my logins when I was trying via URL I only was able to login by using the IP. Cross checked that the IP any URL is the same Any ideas ? -- __________________________________________ *Thodoris Lakiotis* P : *+30 210 8100112 <%2B30%20210%208100112>* M: *+30 695 8462642*E: tlak(a)synapsecom.gr www.synapsecom.gr *Synapsecom Telecoms S.A*14th VIO.PA <https://www.google.com/maps/place/SYNAPSECOM+TELECOMS+%CE%91.%CE%95./@38.07…>., No3 133 41 Athens Greece This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. *P* please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to

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Event log to remote syslog (or local)
by Pieter De Wit 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hi, My Google fu is failing today - Can Observium send it’s event log to a remote syslog ? Or even a local syslog Thanks !

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Dashboard assigned to user
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Hi, Is it possible? how? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Alert reminder
by Toky ANDRIANASOLO 12 Mar '22

12 Mar '22

Hello, Is possible to disable the "Alert reminder" or change the setting to 01 week for example Thank you and Regards, Toky

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VLANs UI question
by Adam Thompson 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

I’m using the top-level VLANs view to help identify VLANs we can remove, and it’s remarkably helpful, at least as a starting point. This view identifies that I have, for example, 2 untagged ports on VLAN 6… which is great, but how do I see *which ports* those are? I haven’t been able to find anything I can click on that reveals the port names/numbers, or even which device they’re on. Beyond that, how is it possible to have 2 untagged ports on 0 (zero) devices, in the first place? While we’re at it, in <hostname>/vlan/vlan_id=XYZ/ page, why are the labels “Devices”, “Tagged Ports”, “Untagged Ports” and “MACs” in the banner clickable if they don’t do anything? Help? I’m assuming I’m missing something here. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

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Not finding an agent-script called 'os'
by Noah 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

Installing observium for the first time. :/opt/observium$ cat VERSION Observium CE 21.10.1 I am following the instructions to install the linux agent: https://docs.observium.org/unix_agent/ I am not finding an agent-script called 'os'. Where can I find the agent-script called 'os' ? # ls -1 /usr/lib/observium_agent/scripts-available apache areca-hw asterisk bind ceph crashplan dhcpkit dmi dovecot dpkg drbd edac exim-mailqueue-extended.pl exim-mailqueue.sh exim_stats_process.pl freeradius freeradius.conf.sample freeradius.sh hdarray hddtemp icecast icecast.conf.default ioping ioping.cnf ipmitool-sensor jvm-over-jmx kamailio ksm lighttpd lmsensors lvs_stats memcached mongodb munin munin-scripts mysql mysql.cnf nfs nfsd nginx nsd ntpd nvidia-smi openvpn postfix_mailgraph postfix_qshape postgresql.conf postgresql.pl powerdns powerdns-recursor proxmox-qemu raspberrypi README rpm sabnzbd-qstatus shoutcast shoutcast.conf shoutcast.default.conf temperature unbound varnish virt-what vmwaretools zimbra zyxel-nas326

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User device permissions cleared after upgrade?
by Stempien, Dave 02 Mar '22

02 Mar '22

I can’t say for certain but I recently upgraded from 21.12.11831 (stable) -> 22.2.11898 (stable) and all of our user accounts that had specific device permissions seem to have lost those entries. Is there anything in the upgrade that may have overwritten or otherwise caused those permissions to disappear?

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Any changes to Mikrotik's MIB ?
by Pieter De Wit 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

Hi Guys, About 8 hours ago an auto update was applied to a Observium box and following this the CPU graph is gone: This is the only change that I can think of so can someone please confirm this ? A rediscover of the host does “run” the Mikrotik MIB against it but it still fails to find the CPU oids Thanks !

2 4

Change base_url listening port
by Gordon Cheng (gocheng) 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

Hi Observium team: We are trying to follow the “Config Option” under: https://docs.observium.org/config_options/ to change the Observium GUI port from default 80 to 8000, by updating “config.php” to: // Change web interface port setting $config['base_url'] = "http://".$_SERVER["observium.abc.com"].":".$_SERVER["8000"]; But it doesn’t work even after reloading apache2. Any suggestion how to make it right? Thanks. - Gordon

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Auto-authenticate for display graph in Weathermap
by Sébastien 65 20 Feb '22

20 Feb '22

Hello, I use PHP WeatherMAP and use graph display via "/graph.php?height=100&width=512&id=1053&type=port_bits&legend=no" The problem is that I have to be authenticated on Observium to display the content of the graph... How to auto-authenticate ? Thanks for your help.

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Re: [Observium] cli to rebuilt alert checkers
by Tony Guadagno 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

Ok, clicking the “rebuild” button on the alert checker interface is not really necessary? It will rebuild every 5 min? Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2022 11:38 AM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Adam Armstrong<mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] cli to rebuilt alert checkers It’s done automatically at the end of poller/discovery. Adam. Sent from my iPhone On 19 Feb 2022, at 16:32, Tony Guadagno via observium <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: Hi is there a command to rebuild the alert checkers or can it only be done in the gui? thanks Tony _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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cli to rebuilt alert checkers
by Tony Guadagno 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

Hi is there a command to rebuild the alert checkers or can it only be done in the gui? thanks Tony

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monitor by ICMP
by Toky ANDRIANASOLO 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

Hello, Is it possible to monitor devices by ICMP, we want to have IP availability of a devices that have no snmp activated Thank you and Regards, Toky

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Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert
by Tony Guadagno 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

Adam, I finally got this working. I have written up a quick guide to making this work, would it be possible for you to put this in your documentation page for LDAP Authentication? I am sure I will loose it if it is not somewhere obvious Directions for enabling LDAP with TLS when connecting to an LDAP server with a self signed certificate or a CA that the Observium server does not recognize Assumptions: you have already enabled SSL/TLS for ldap on your Microsoft Domain Controller (or other LDAP server) Observium is installed on a Fedora flavor of Linux version 7 or 8 (this might work with Ubuntu but i am not sure the commands are the same) Observium is configured for LDAP AND TLS per the authentication documentation page On the Observium server: yum install php-ldap vim /etc/openldap/ldap.conf make sure these 2 config options are commented out #TLS_CACERTDIR /etc/openldap/certs #TLS_CACERT /etc/openldap/certs/cert.crt Add/Change this config option to either hard or allow TLS_REQCERT hard “hard” means that the LDAP server MUST present a cert and the cert must be trustworthy OR in the trusted cert store (this is the more secure method) “allow” mean that the LDAP server MUST present a cert and the cert can be anything...valid or invalid setting to “hard” is better because it prevents an imposter from stealing the ip address of the LDAP server and intercepting the messages from Observium If you are setting TLS_REQCERT to “hard” then take these additional steps: export the LDAP server cert in b64 format with NO KEY place cert of LDAP server in ‘/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors’ folder run ‘update-ca-trust’ as root Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 7:29 PM To: 'Observium'<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Adam Armstrong<mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert I’ve never used LDAP, so I’m not really sure how this should be done. You can put the putenv stuff in config.php. So long as the variable is set before LDAP tries to start the connection that should be sufficient. Observium doesn’t have any configuration related to this itself. You just need to coax whatever conglomeration of PHP and OpenLDAP code exists into talking to your LDAP server. You might be able to turn of the cert checking by putting “TLS_REQCERT never” into ldap.conf, probably /etc/openldap/ldap.conf or somewhere similar. Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Sent: 16 February 2022 23:55 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Adam, I have the cert for my AD server, as I said, I am pretty familiar with this process as I use ldap often for application authentication….what I am not very familiar with is php. Other apps have config options to set the paths for the certs etc. What I need help with is where (specifically) to put the config so that Observium will use it. I have the certs, I just need the syntax You mentioned putenv…where would I put that? It must be somewhere in Observium? Thanks for your help Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 6:42 PM To: 'Observium'<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Adam Armstrong<mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Whoops: putenv(‘LDAPTLS_CACERT=/path/to/rootca.pem’); Note that this seems to want the CA’s cert, not your server’s cert. Our code doesn’t have any consideration for TLS at all as far as I can see, it should all be transparent to Observium if you get PHP/LDAP into the situation where it accepts your cert. Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong via observium Sent: 16 February 2022 23:36 To: 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org<mailto:adama@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Presumably you need to extract your certs in the correct format and direct the commands to them. The LDAP connection is done by PHP’s LDAP module. You just need to work out how to do it with PHP’s module. It’s probably that you could override this globally with the php.ini rather than putting it in the config.php, too. There seems to be half a dozen solutions for making this work, which isn’t uncommon with infrequently used PHP features. There’s also this: putenv('/path/to/rootca.pem'); Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org>> Sent: 16 February 2022 21:57 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org<mailto:adama@observium.org>> Subject: RE: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Adam, sorry for being dense, but do I just add these two lines directly (as is) to the config.php? ldap_set_option(null, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_CACERTDIR, '/path/to'); ldap_set_option(null, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_CACERTFILE, '/path/to/cert.pem'); I tried this with the paths to my certs and it had no affect. Do I need to wrap those command in some other syntax? thanks Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 4:25 PM To: 'Observium'<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Adam Armstrong<mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert https://andreas.heigl.org/2020/01/31/handle-self-signed-certificates-with-p… I’d assume that getting your cert and putting the two ldap_set_option() commands into config.php should suffice. This seems like a better solution that turning off cert verification. Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 16 February 2022 21:03 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>>; Brandon Lund <brandon(a)kansas.net<mailto:brandon@kansas.net>> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert I made a packet capture on the Observium server trying to login and if you look, you will see that it is indeed a self signed issue. How do I tell Observium to either trust the cert OR ignore the fact that it is self signed?? [cid:image002.png@01D8240F.9412F790] Tony From: Tony Guadagno via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 3:27 PM To: Brandon Lund<mailto:brandon@kansas.net>; Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Sorry, I should have been more specific…I already have other apps using ldap with tls hitting the server and they work…so I am confident my AD server is properly configured. I work a lot with ldap and I often find that some apps that integrate with ldap and tls get picky about the cert..thats why I think it might be the fact that I am using a self signed cert (which is common on AD servers). Usually, there is a way to tell the application “ignore the fact that it is self signed, accept it anyway” Tony From: Brandon Lund<mailto:brandon@kansas.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 3:08 PM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert looks like you need to enable tls for ad to start listing for ldaps no experience just a quick search. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl… [Image removed by sender.]<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl…> Enable Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) - Windows Server | Microsoft Docs<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl…> docs.microsoft.com Describes how to enable LDAP over SSL with a third-party certification authority. Thanks Brandon Lund KansasNet Internet Services 785-776-1452 From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of Tony Guadagno via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 1:49 PM To: Tony Guadagno via observium Cc: Tony Guadagno Subject: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Hi, I have ldap auth working mostly, if I set tls to false, I can authenticate. However, I want to be secure and when I enable tls, I get a debug error that says: Error binding to LDAP server: servername.local: Can’t contact LDAP server I am guessing the issue is the self signed cert that my server is using. My question is…how do I configure Observium to accept self signed certs for ldap? thanks Tony

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DB error after Ubuntu/MySQL forced update
by Jason Vanlandingham 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

I'm getting the following error when trying to connect to my Observium page: DB not connected, please check database connection configuration. DB Error 2002: No such file or directory I found this post about it, but the fixes suggested here don't seem to work for me. https://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/support/thu-20181129-0834/db-error-2002-… Has anyone else hit this problem and managed to fix it?

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Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert
by Tony Guadagno 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

Adam, I have the cert for my AD server, as I said, I am pretty familiar with this process as I use ldap often for application authentication….what I am not very familiar with is php. Other apps have config options to set the paths for the certs etc. What I need help with is where (specifically) to put the config so that Observium will use it. I have the certs, I just need the syntax You mentioned putenv…where would I put that? It must be somewhere in Observium? Thanks for your help Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 6:42 PM To: 'Observium'<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Adam Armstrong<mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Whoops: putenv(‘LDAPTLS_CACERT=/path/to/rootca.pem’); Note that this seems to want the CA’s cert, not your server’s cert. Our code doesn’t have any consideration for TLS at all as far as I can see, it should all be transparent to Observium if you get PHP/LDAP into the situation where it accepts your cert. Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong via observium Sent: 16 February 2022 23:36 To: 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Presumably you need to extract your certs in the correct format and direct the commands to them. The LDAP connection is done by PHP’s LDAP module. You just need to work out how to do it with PHP’s module. It’s probably that you could override this globally with the php.ini rather than putting it in the config.php, too. There seems to be half a dozen solutions for making this work, which isn’t uncommon with infrequently used PHP features. There’s also this: putenv('/path/to/rootca.pem'); Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org>> Sent: 16 February 2022 21:57 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org<mailto:adama@observium.org>> Subject: RE: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Adam, sorry for being dense, but do I just add these two lines directly (as is) to the config.php? ldap_set_option(null, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_CACERTDIR, '/path/to'); ldap_set_option(null, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_CACERTFILE, '/path/to/cert.pem'); I tried this with the paths to my certs and it had no affect. Do I need to wrap those command in some other syntax? thanks Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 4:25 PM To: 'Observium'<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Adam Armstrong<mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert https://andreas.heigl.org/2020/01/31/handle-self-signed-certificates-with-p… I’d assume that getting your cert and putting the two ldap_set_option() commands into config.php should suffice. This seems like a better solution that turning off cert verification. Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 16 February 2022 21:03 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>>; Brandon Lund <brandon(a)kansas.net<mailto:brandon@kansas.net>> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert I made a packet capture on the Observium server trying to login and if you look, you will see that it is indeed a self signed issue. How do I tell Observium to either trust the cert OR ignore the fact that it is self signed?? [cid:image002.png@01D82366.ADE67E70] Tony From: Tony Guadagno via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 3:27 PM To: Brandon Lund<mailto:brandon@kansas.net>; Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Sorry, I should have been more specific…I already have other apps using ldap with tls hitting the server and they work…so I am confident my AD server is properly configured. I work a lot with ldap and I often find that some apps that integrate with ldap and tls get picky about the cert..thats why I think it might be the fact that I am using a self signed cert (which is common on AD servers). Usually, there is a way to tell the application “ignore the fact that it is self signed, accept it anyway” Tony From: Brandon Lund<mailto:brandon@kansas.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 3:08 PM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert looks like you need to enable tls for ad to start listing for ldaps no experience just a quick search. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl… [Image removed by sender.]<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl…> Enable Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) - Windows Server | Microsoft Docs<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl…> docs.microsoft.com Describes how to enable LDAP over SSL with a third-party certification authority. Thanks Brandon Lund KansasNet Internet Services 785-776-1452 From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of Tony Guadagno via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 1:49 PM To: Tony Guadagno via observium Cc: Tony Guadagno Subject: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Hi, I have ldap auth working mostly, if I set tls to false, I can authenticate. However, I want to be secure and when I enable tls, I get a debug error that says: Error binding to LDAP server: servername.local: Can’t contact LDAP server I am guessing the issue is the self signed cert that my server is using. My question is…how do I configure Observium to accept self signed certs for ldap? thanks Tony

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Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert
by Tony Guadagno 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

Adam, sorry for being dense, but do I just add these two lines directly (as is) to the config.php? ldap_set_option(null, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_CACERTDIR, '/path/to'); ldap_set_option(null, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_CACERTFILE, '/path/to/cert.pem'); I tried this with the paths to my certs and it had no affect. Do I need to wrap those command in some other syntax? thanks Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 4:25 PM To: 'Observium'<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Adam Armstrong<mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert https://andreas.heigl.org/2020/01/31/handle-self-signed-certificates-with-p… I’d assume that getting your cert and putting the two ldap_set_option() commands into config.php should suffice. This seems like a better solution that turning off cert verification. Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 16 February 2022 21:03 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org>; Brandon Lund <brandon(a)kansas.net> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert I made a packet capture on the Observium server trying to login and if you look, you will see that it is indeed a self signed issue. How do I tell Observium to either trust the cert OR ignore the fact that it is self signed?? [cid:image002.png@01D82356.3DB8A3E0] Tony From: Tony Guadagno via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 3:27 PM To: Brandon Lund<mailto:brandon@kansas.net>; Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Sorry, I should have been more specific…I already have other apps using ldap with tls hitting the server and they work…so I am confident my AD server is properly configured. I work a lot with ldap and I often find that some apps that integrate with ldap and tls get picky about the cert..thats why I think it might be the fact that I am using a self signed cert (which is common on AD servers). Usually, there is a way to tell the application “ignore the fact that it is self signed, accept it anyway” Tony From: Brandon Lund<mailto:brandon@kansas.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 3:08 PM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert looks like you need to enable tls for ad to start listing for ldaps no experience just a quick search. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl… [Image removed by sender.]<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl…> Enable Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) - Windows Server | Microsoft Docs<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl…> docs.microsoft.com Describes how to enable LDAP over SSL with a third-party certification authority. Thanks Brandon Lund KansasNet Internet Services 785-776-1452 From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> on behalf of Tony Guadagno via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 1:49 PM To: Tony Guadagno via observium Cc: Tony Guadagno Subject: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Hi, I have ldap auth working mostly, if I set tls to false, I can authenticate. However, I want to be secure and when I enable tls, I get a debug error that says: Error binding to LDAP server: servername.local: Can’t contact LDAP server I am guessing the issue is the self signed cert that my server is using. My question is…how do I configure Observium to accept self signed certs for ldap? thanks Tony

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Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert
by Tony Guadagno 16 Feb '22

16 Feb '22

I made a packet capture on the Observium server trying to login and if you look, you will see that it is indeed a self signed issue. How do I tell Observium to either trust the cert OR ignore the fact that it is self signed?? [cid:image003.png@01D8234E.A5CB3950] Tony From: Tony Guadagno via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 3:27 PM To: Brandon Lund<mailto:brandon@kansas.net>; Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Sorry, I should have been more specific…I already have other apps using ldap with tls hitting the server and they work…so I am confident my AD server is properly configured. I work a lot with ldap and I often find that some apps that integrate with ldap and tls get picky about the cert..thats why I think it might be the fact that I am using a self signed cert (which is common on AD servers). Usually, there is a way to tell the application “ignore the fact that it is self signed, accept it anyway” Tony From: Brandon Lund<mailto:brandon@kansas.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 3:08 PM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert looks like you need to enable tls for ad to start listing for ldaps no experience just a quick search. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl… [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/media/logos/logo-ms-social.png]<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl…> Enable Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) - Windows Server | Microsoft Docs<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl…> docs.microsoft.com Describes how to enable LDAP over SSL with a third-party certification authority. Thanks Brandon Lund KansasNet Internet Services 785-776-1452 From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> on behalf of Tony Guadagno via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 1:49 PM To: Tony Guadagno via observium Cc: Tony Guadagno Subject: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Hi, I have ldap auth working mostly, if I set tls to false, I can authenticate. However, I want to be secure and when I enable tls, I get a debug error that says: Error binding to LDAP server: servername.local: Can’t contact LDAP server I am guessing the issue is the self signed cert that my server is using. My question is…how do I configure Observium to accept self signed certs for ldap? thanks Tony

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Re: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert
by Tony Guadagno 16 Feb '22

16 Feb '22

Sorry, I should have been more specific…I already have other apps using ldap with tls hitting the server and they work…so I am confident my AD server is properly configured. I work a lot with ldap and I often find that some apps that integrate with ldap and tls get picky about the cert..thats why I think it might be the fact that I am using a self signed cert (which is common on AD servers). Usually, there is a way to tell the application “ignore the fact that it is self signed, accept it anyway” Tony From: Brandon Lund<mailto:brandon@kansas.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 3:08 PM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert looks like you need to enable tls for ad to start listing for ldaps no experience just a quick search. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl… [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/media/logos/logo-ms-social.png]<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl…> Enable Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) - Windows Server | Microsoft Docs<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/enabl…> docs.microsoft.com Describes how to enable LDAP over SSL with a third-party certification authority. Thanks Brandon Lund KansasNet Internet Services 785-776-1452 From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> on behalf of Tony Guadagno via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 1:49 PM To: Tony Guadagno via observium Cc: Tony Guadagno Subject: [Observium] LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert Hi, I have ldap auth working mostly, if I set tls to false, I can authenticate. However, I want to be secure and when I enable tls, I get a debug error that says: Error binding to LDAP server: servername.local: Can’t contact LDAP server I am guessing the issue is the self signed cert that my server is using. My question is…how do I configure Observium to accept self signed certs for ldap? thanks Tony

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LDAP auth to MS AD with TLS Self Signed Cert
by Tony Guadagno 16 Feb '22

16 Feb '22

Hi, I have ldap auth working mostly, if I set tls to false, I can authenticate. However, I want to be secure and when I enable tls, I get a debug error that says: Error binding to LDAP server: servername.local: Can’t contact LDAP server I am guessing the issue is the self signed cert that my server is using. My question is…how do I configure Observium to accept self signed certs for ldap? thanks Tony

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Hosts
by Jacek.Dabrowski＠selgros.pl 16 Feb '22

16 Feb '22

Hello, I have a question Is it possible to export a list of all hosts in Observium to txt/csv file ? Regards Jacek Dąbrowski

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Alert dependency
by Toky ANDRIANASOLO 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

Hello, Is it possible to set an alert dependency on observium? for example if there are 04 devices on the network: 01 router and 03 cascading switches.. If the router goes down, we do not need the 03 switches sending an alert anymore as they depends on the router. This will save us from flooding alert and make the alerting system more efficient. Thank You and Regards, Toky,

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alert sensibility setting
by Toky ANDRIANASOLO 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

Hello, we are setting an alert based on device status metric, so if the device status is 0 (down), an alert will be sent to a group of mail destination.. Now we want to adjust the alert sensibility of observium in order to sent the mail if the device is down for 10 mn, in other words, if the device is down then up after 8mn for example, we don't want to be alerted. Thank you and Regads, Toky

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poller overwrites manual sensor limits
by Joey Stanford 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

Hi, We’ve disabled service discovery in order to zero in on why custom sensor limits are being overwritten. As far as we can ascertain, it appears that the poller is doing this but we’re not sure when/how since it doesn’t reset on every poll. It’s so transient that we’re finding it very difficult to identify the actual culprit. Can anyone offer tips on how we can debug this further? Thanks, Joey

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Sending device status to external status page
by Joey Stanford 30 Jan '22

30 Jan '22

Hi, Ideas wanted. As a service provider, I want to expose basic up/down status to my consumers, So they can self-discover if a portion of the network in their area is affected. In my case, I have emergency communication systems and I would love to make some of these visible in an up/down fashion to people. A status page or uptime robot basic presentation. Any ideas on how I might do this? Joey

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Abort during initial installation
by marco＠gallux.de 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

I have the following problem. On a freshly installed Debian11 system I get the following error message. It doesn't matter whether I do the installation via script or manually. #### ERROR #### root@netservice:/opt/observium# ./discovery.php -u PHP Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Table 'observium.observium_attribs' doesn't exist in /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php:315 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php(315): mysqli_query() #1 /opt/observium/includes/db.inc.php(224): dbCallQuery() #2 /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php(426): dbQuery() #3 /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php(170): dbFetchRow() #4 /opt/observium/includes/sql-config.inc.php(100): get_obs_attrib() #5 /opt/observium/discovery.php(19): include('...') #6 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php on line 315 ######## what am I doing wrong? I knit according to the instructions.

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All graphs stopped at Jan 1st 00:00
by Richard Waardijk 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

Hi, I did not notice it earlier but somehow all graphs stopped on Jan 1st 00:00 ? Doesn't matter for which device I look or at what type of graph. The graphs look like this: [cid:image003.png@01D81120.552DF310] [cid:image004.png@01D81120.552DF310] Does anyone have seen this before? I haven't made changes to the Observium installation recently. I only updated the OS where Observium is running (was running on an old Ubuntu 16.02 version and is now upgrades to Ubuntu 20.04). But that was done in week 50 (the week of Dec 13th) and after that the graphs still worked. So strange that it exactly stopped at midnight of the new year? [cid:image005.png@01D81120.552DF310] If anybody got tips how to get this working again please let me know. Thank you, Richard

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graphs shows peaks huawei S6700
by Ing. Andrés Gallo 25 Jan '22

25 Jan '22

Hello I'm using Observium latest version. Most of the grapsh for interfaces are pretty good. But for 2 Huaweis switches S6730, the collected data appears kind of 'saw': Same device, polled with a Cacti server, shows this way: A few 'spikes' but far more smooth graph. The polling time is between 10 to 13 seconds, CPU ok, memory too. Can someone have an idea what to do to avoid the spikes? Regards -- Saludos Saludos, * Ing. Andrés E. Gallo* Tel (02255)-46-1641 Móvil (02255)-15-57-0220 Paseo 114 y Av. 3 (B7165) Villa Gesell-Bs.As. agallo(a)cotel.com.ar http://www.gesell.com.ar

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Dashboard Map Device Count
by Anthony Milazzo 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

Hi I've been having an issue with the number of devices per location not being correct when displayed on the Dashboard Map. A few of our sites have the correct count, but most do not. From the list view everything is ok. The devices accessible and are set to a location that is geolocating to coordinates, but it's like they're not being counted properly. Thanks Tony

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Apllication for new devices not seen
by walter＠onda.ch 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Hello Maybe I miss smeething... I have add some new devices and no of them is showing the aplication like apache. In the application tab of the properties is also empty. But telnet <host> 36602 are displaying information like the other device, where the app is installed and showing in Observium Any idea? Regards Walter

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Issue SAI/UPS
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Hello, for some time the snmp revision of a UPS tells us that it was restarted 43 minutes ago, and it has not been restarted in a year (only for maintenance). A blue box indicates "restarted", then it disappears and at the same time it appears again. What could be the problem? Vendor/Hardware Socomec MASTERYS 3/3 SYSTEM 90 kVA Operating system Net Vision UPS 7023511133) System name net vision [image: image.png] -- Saluda cordialmente

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Monitoring IPV6 only host
by thibs＠thibs.com 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Hello, I’ve removed IPV4 address to some monitored Linux host Before the removal, those hosts were correctly monitored. My Observium host is both IPV4 and IPV6 connected. I’m using the really latest one stable version : Observium Professional 21.12.11831 I’m able to make manual SNMP requests from the Observium host to the IPV6 hosts snmpwalk -v 2c -c PRIVATE_SNMP_COMMUNITY FQDN-IPV6 This first command is successful but this second one shows me an error : /opt/observium/poller.php -d -h FQDN-IPV6 ... CMD[/usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c *** -Pud -OQUsn -m SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':' FQDN-IPV6':'161' .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0] CMD EXITCODE[1] CMD RUNTIME[0.0045s] STDOUT[ ] STDERR[ snmpget: Unknown host (udp: FQDN-IPV6:161) ] SNMP STATUS[FALSE] o Device status Device is not responding to SNMP requests RRD /opt/observium/rrd/ FQDN-IPV6/status.rrd already exists - no need to create. Is it a known limitation ? Did I do something wrong ? Best Regards Thibault

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Observium 11835 broken?
by David Milton 08 Jan '22

08 Jan '22

Hello, I was noticing a new version so did my usual: 15:01 dmilton@saison:/opt/observium$ sudo svn up [sudo] password for dmilton: Updating '.’: ..snip.. A update/457.sql A update/458.sql U . Updated to revision 11835. 15:02 dmilton@saison:/opt/observium$ sudo ./discovery.php -u ___ _ _ / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| Observium Professional 21.12.11831 https://www.observium.org -- Updating database/file schema 456 -> 457 # (db) ..... Done (0s). 457 -> 458 # (db) ... Done (0s). -- Done. -- Observium is up to date. The first thing I noticed is that the index.html permissions were wrong: -rw------- 1 root root 25K Jan 4 15:02 index.php I fixed that but now it is complaining about a missing function: [Tue Jan 04 15:42:30.029551 2022] [php7:error] [pid 10509:tid 140735418468096] [client 204.83.3.136:51456] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function print_error() in /opt/observium/html/index.php:20\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n thrown in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 20 So what are the next steps? Thanks, Dave.

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PHP error on update
by Joey Stanford 08 Jan '22

08 Jan '22

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mb_strtolower() in /opt/observium/libs/Phpfastcache8/Core/Pool/IO/IOHelperTrait.php:123 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/libs/Phpfastcache8/Drivers/Files/Driver.php(60): Phpfastcache\Drivers\Files\Driver->getPath() #1 /opt/observium/libs/Phpfastcache8/Core/Pool/DriverBaseTrait.php(75): Phpfastcache\Drivers\Files\Driver->driverCheck() #2 /opt/observium/libs/Phpfastcache8/Drivers/Files/Driver.php(52): Phpfastcache\Drivers\Files\Driver->__parentConstruct(Object(Phpfastcache\Drivers\Files\Config), '967045f41b52c87...') #3 /opt/observium/libs/Phpfastcache8/CacheManager.php(189): Phpfastcache\Drivers\Files\Driver->__construct(Object(Phpfastcache\Drivers\Files\Config), '967045f41b52c87...') #4 /opt/observium/includes/cache.inc.php(603): Phpfastcache\CacheManager::getInstance('Files') #5 /opt/observium/includes/sql-config.inc.php(310): include_once('/opt/observium/...') #6 /opt/observium/discovery.php(19): include('/opt/observium/...') #7 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/libs/Phpfastcache8/Core/Pool/IO/IOHelperTrait.php on line 123

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svn update problem
by Hubacek, Ondrej 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Hello, i have problem with updating Observium professional subscription via svn update. I got following message from server. root@otobsrvx:/opt/observium# svn update Updating '.': Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.observium.org:443': - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually! Certificate information: - Hostname: svn.observium.org - Valid: from Dec 3 20:01:51 2021 GMT until Mar 3 20:01:50 2022 GMT - Issuer: sia.conti.de, GF FCLIT CIT IN OP CS IAS, Continental AG, Frankfurt, Hessen, DE - Fingerprint: EF:F9:E2:5F:F9:31:10:02:6A:AD:8C:B9:8F:14:6F:F6:80:8D:D3:DB (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? p Authentication realm: https://svn.observium.org:443 Observium Professional Repository Password for 'Barum-9395738': ******** Authentication realm: https://svn.observium.org:443 Observium Professional Repository Username: ^Csvn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/branches/stable'<https://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/branches/stable%27> svn: E200015: The operation was interrupted Do you have any advice how to resolve it? Thank you Hezký den / Best regards, Bc. Ondřej Hubáček IT Network Specialist Continental Tire Plant Otrokovice Visitor’s address/Billing address: Continental Barum s.r.o. Objízdná 1628, 765 02 Otrokovice, Czech Republic Phone: +420 577 512 765 Cell-phone: +420 739 604 074 E-mail: ondrej.hubacek(a)barum.cz<mailto:ondrej.hubacek@barum.cz> Web: www.continental.cz<http://www.continental.cz/> [cid:image001.png@01D80157.6AAE25D0] Continental Barum s.r.o., Objízdná 1628, 765 02 Otrokovice, The Czech Republic. Executive heads: Ing Libor Láznička, Ph.D., Ing. Jan Černošek, Ing. Pavol Červenák. Company registred: by the District Court in Brno, File No. C 15057. IČ: 45788235 I DIČ: CZ699000347 I DIČ: SK4020104055 Internal

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Re: [Observium] [EXTERNAL SENDER] Re: Observium Pro update error
by Hamilton, Kent 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Ignore me, found the issue? On 1/4/22, 08:52, "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)observium.org<mailto:adama@observium.org>> wrote: This would seem to be some sort of internal MySQL error. Adam. Sent from my iPhone On 4 Jan 2022, at 14:40, Hamilton, Kent <KHamilton(a)exegy.com> wrote: I’m getting the following after updating today. # discovery.php -u ___ _ _ / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| Observium Professional 21.12.11831 https://www.observium.org -- Updating database/file schema 457 -> 458 # (db) FF stopped. Critical error: (3664) Failed to set SDI '<no schema>.<no table>' in tablespace 'observium/#sql2-607-48b2a8'. ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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Observium Pro update error
by Hamilton, Kent 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

I’m getting the following after updating today. # discovery.php -u ___ _ _ / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| Observium Professional 21.12.11831 https://www.observium.org -- Updating database/file schema 457 -> 458 # (db) FF stopped. Critical error: (3664) Failed to set SDI '<no schema>.<no table>' in tablespace 'observium/#sql2-607-48b2a8'. ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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Arista VARP IP addresses not being discovered?
by Adam Thompson 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

We’ve noticed that although Observium picks up the VRRPv3 virtual IP addresses on our Cisco NX-OS switches, it does not detect or capture the VARP virtual IP addresses on our Arista EOS switches. Is that expected behaviour? If so, what information do you need to change Observium so that it can detect VARP IPs and display them on the appropriate interfaces? If not, what debug output should I be looking at – discovery? Polling? Which section? Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

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Alerting feature request
by Joey Stanford 30 Dec '21

30 Dec '21

From my colleagues: > > What we would REALLY like is the ability to turn off alerts on a particular device for a specified amount of time. For example, when Winter Park goes flakey but it is really Comcast or Centurylink that need to fix the problem, I don't want alerts every 10 minutes to tell me the link still sucks. > > There are several possible solutions to this. One is a manual "suppress alerts for X hours". It is important that the alerts be turned back on after the specified time because otherwise we tend to forget to turn it back on. > > Another option is a rate limit on alerts by device. After 5 alerts I probably figured out the link sucks. > > A third option is a "delay on recover". Right now we get a recover as soon as one check passes. If it is flakey we may want to have more checks pass before declaring it recovered. This would probably be something we want to do by device, because from most I want to know as soon as it is back.

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alert boxes
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 30 Dec '21

30 Dec '21

hi, we were administrative problems to update observium from version 18 to 21, in latest version alert or warning box could show "...XX more", how we can view this alerts? in version 18 all alerts was show. -- Saluda cordialmente

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power converter AC to DC - Huawei ETP4860-B1A2
by Andre Bolzan 28 Dec '21

28 Dec '21

Hello ! We received two unit of Huawei ETP4860-B1A2 with manager module SNMP, this power converterAC to DC for 48V telecommunications equipments. When we add the equipments in observium , it's show "generical" device. We asked Huawei about thi4e case and Huawei told us if the "current regular mib" had the OIDs for ETP4860. We try to make observium discoveries about the correct type "power" and vendor "huawei" to get the power information, like load, AC entry, baterya load, and so on... We was fight with this equipment more 1 year and can't make running =( We flap the "loss flag" and ask for help for anyone who can help us. [image: image.png] follow in attach the Huawei current MIB, the equipment MIB downloaded in web page and our "mapping informations" [image: image.png] Thanks in advance ! Sorry my english... We are a brazilian team =) -- *André Bolzan* *+55 11 98205-7742*

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by Rahul M 24 Dec '21

24 Dec '21

Hi team, Can we set an alert mechanism for the virtual machine status, which observium pulled out from the VMware ?

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integrate Observium with Grafana
by Luis Olavarrieta 23 Dec '21

23 Dec '21

Hi guys, has anyone integrated Observium with Grafana to create dashboards? I don’t know the structure of the DB in observium and have been doing some test with no luck on the results, so any examples will be really appreciated. Regard,s Luis

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issue on device
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 23 Dec '21

23 Dec '21

hi, we have a UPS Socomec MASTERYS 3/3 SYSTEM 90 kVA, and alert boxes shows many ports down, [image: image.png] this UPS has only 1 port observium 21.10.11678 (stable) -- Saluda cordialmente

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syslog issues
by Brad Bendy 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

Spent hours on this and am at a loss. Got some hosts that won't have syslog show up in the GUI, digging further the DB shows the IP not the hostname for those records, so that makes sense why they are not showing up. Looking at the actual data coming over syslog the devices that work and don't work show the exact same format. Nothing different at all, and identical configs on identical devices. Is there a debug or another log that I am not seeing that would show why these entries are getting inserted into the DB as IP addresses and not being replaced with hostnames? At a loss, any suggestions would be great! Thanks

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