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Graphs not graphing after update.
by Tom Taylor 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Howdy, Having a strange problem, after updating too the latest version my graphs seem to have stopped working. There are files in the /rrd dir, I've double checked the path in config.php for fping and everything seems to be correct. Could someone point me in the right direction on what to look out for ? -TT Tom Taylor Head of Engineering, Chicago T +1 312 605 8900 The Mill 54 West Hubbard Street, Suite 502, Chicago, IL 60654 www.themill.com | www.themillblog.com | www.twitter.com/millchannel | www.facebook.com/millchannel

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Alerting not working on short flap
by Gregoire Tourres 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hey guys I have a weird problem on alerting system. One of my ethernet interface of a device went down for 10 minutes. I can see the flap in observium eventlog : 2014-04-29 15:18:28eth port-1-1-1-1Interface changed: [ifOperStatus] down -> up2014-04-29 15:08:28eth port-1-1-1-1Interface changed: [ifOperStatus] up -> down I have a specific alerting probe on "ifOperStatus equals down" but it has not been triggered : <http://observium.sipartech.fr/alert_check/alert_test_id=1/>ETH PORT-1-1-1-1 Checks OK14s2h 59m 42s*Never* It usually work, but not this time. Is there a log or something that could help me understand why it did not ring the bell ? Greg

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Billing - Circuit ID on main page
by Tim Calvin 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

My question is in regards to the blue circle with the "i" located on the main billing page. This used to display the circuit ID when you hover the mouse over this icon. Noticed it hasn't been working for me for quite some time. Not sure what revision it stopped. It was very helpful as we have several customers with multiple circuits so now I have to click on each one until I find the circuit ID I am interested in. If there is a way to get this feature re-added then I would greatly appreciate it. If adding it back is complex due to recent code changes then I understand that as well. Just wanted to check. Thanks, Tim Calvin Texas Lone Star Network

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All interfaces on Brocade FESX series disappeard (rev 5390)
by Julian Rutz 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hello, I just figured that since last week, all interfaces on our Brocade FESX switches disappeared. In the eventlog, I do see entries like this: 2014-04-25 11:15:47 Gi3 Interface was marked as DELETED 2014-04-25 11:15:47 Gi2 Interface was marked as DELETED 2014-04-25 11:15:47 Gi1 Interface was marked as DELETED Since then, I do receive these log-entries related to virtual ethernet interfaces (vlan-interfaces) every few hours until now: 2014-04-27 02:20:30 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-26 20:20:20 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-26 20:20:20 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-26 14:20:31 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-26 14:20:31 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-26 08:20:32 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-26 08:20:31 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-26 02:20:28 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-26 02:20:28 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-25 20:28:19 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-25 20:28:19 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-25 14:24:23 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-25 14:23:07 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-25 12:23:57 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-25 12:23:57 v26 IPv4 changed: X.Y.220.61/26 -> X.Y.220.61/ I am not sure if this is related to the latest svn update or if something changed in our observium-configuration. Any hint is appreciated. Kind regards, Julian

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renamed block devices
by Tony Lill 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Observium CE 0.13.10.4585 doesn't seem to handle renamed block devices very gracefully. I added some disks to one of my boxes, which caused the old sda and sdb to come up as sdb and sdd. Now on the disk i/o page some devices are missing, some appear twice, most are displaying incorrect info. I've attached the contents of the ucd_diskio table. sdc and it's partitions are missing and a number of the others are duplicated. How do I clear up this mess? Ideally I'd like to keep the old data so I could see what effect the changes I'm making has. - -- Tony Lill, OCT, ajlill(a)AJLC.Waterloo.ON.CA President, A. J. Lill Consultants (519) 650 0660 539 Grand Valley Dr., Cambridge, Ont. N3H 2S2 (519) 241 2461 - --------------- http://www.ajlc.waterloo.on.ca/ ---------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlMfrVAACgkQGS8yZq1uvxDMvwCff66JvTYJMebz+J6sdq7M5DSy 1DcAnRNL7haZlrK7KF0psYodjVCcmQEA =bMYY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Device Traffic Overview Graph Legend
by Jake Turner 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

Hi all, Just in case anybody else has spotted this and wants to fix it. The problem I was seeing (in the community edition at least) was that when ‘Show Legend’ was clicked on the Device Bits Graph page, the interface names would only have 10 characters as the image below shows: [cid:4474A50E-FFD7-439C-B557-8AB5663E872B@turnerhouse.local] With Cisco devices this renders the legend pretty useless as almost all the interfaces have FastEthernet/GigabitEthernet/TenGig etc. in front of the interface number. To fix this the file /html/includes/graphs/generic_multi_separated.inc.php needs to be modified. Lines 28 & 29 just need more space: $rrd_options .= " COMMENT:'$units_descr Cur Avg Max'"; if (!$nototal) { $rrd_options .= " COMMENT:' Total'"; } Line 81 will have the number 10 after the comma on rrdtool_escape: ($rrd['descr'], 10). This basically strips the interface to that length. In order for the interfaces on my 6500 to show nicely I changed this number to be 25: rrdtool_escape($rrd['descr'], 25). If you decide to go for a different number you should modify lines 28 & 29 too to make sure the ‘Cur, Avg, Max and Total’ headers are in line with the stats below. Then you just need to change for the ‘outbits' as well: substr(str_pad('', 25),0,25). The graph will/should then display like the below. Much more useful :) [cid:937DFBEE-EE5A-4F3E-8B38-AE6466900BE5@turnerhouse.local] An alternative would be to use ifName rather than ifDescr but I can’t be bothered to figure out how to do that. Jake Turner

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Re: [Observium] Alerts
by Adam Armstrong 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

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Alerts
by Kenneth Karlsson 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

Hi All I have problems configurering alerts, there's no alert mail shooting at me ?! I have this config, I believe I followed instructions, so any help is appreciated: The 10.42.20.49 is a postfix host, and I track in maillog to see any mails/connection, but nothing even though system indicates "Alerted" .. [cid:image001.png@01CF60E5.A6B96960] Med Venlig Hilsen / Best regards Kenneth Karlsson

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Disk I/O feature gone?
by Joshua Elson 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Was this feature removed in the latest community release? We used to be able to view each disk (sda/sdc/sdc) and the ops/sec and bytes/sec. I can't seem to find this anymore after the latest upgrade. Thanks in advance. Josh Elson | Linux Systems Administrator MaxLinear | www.maxlinear.com<http://www.maxlinear.com/> 760-517-1431 | cell # 760-212-6852 2051 Palomar Airport Road, Suite 100 | Carlsbad, CA 92011 [Description: Description: http://wiki/download/attachments/1704274/Maxlinear+Logo.png?version=1&modif…] ________________________________ This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic mail or its contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety.

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Dell (Eaton) UPSs
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Any chance for Dell UPSs (rebranded Eatons) being added? MIBs attached. sysObjectID -> .1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10902.2 derek in Detroit _______________________________________________________________ NOTICE TO PERSONS SUBJECT TO UNITED STATES TAXATION (MCPS) DISCLOSURE UNDER TREASURY CIRCULAR 230: The United States Federal tax advice, if any, contained in this document and its attachments may not be used or referred to in the promoting, marketing or recommending of any entity, investment plan or arrangement, nor is such advice intended or written to be used, and may not be used, by a taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding Federal tax penalties. _______________________________________________________________

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Anyone ever seen something like this after updating ?
by Tom Taylor 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

http://imgur.com/Xu5JMhn Just upgraded and it looks like all the image rendering's gone wonkey. Any ideas ? -TT Tom Taylor Head of Engineering, Chicago T +1 312 605 8900 D +1 312 605 8907 [http://www.themill.com/logos/MillLogo.png] The Mill 54 West Hubbard Street, Suite 502, Chicago, IL, 60654 themill.com | <http://www.themill.com/> themillblog.com | <http://www.themillblog.com/> @millchannel | <https://twitter.com/millchannel> facebook.com/millchannel<http://www.facebook.com/millchannel>

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Failover interface monitoring
by Gregoire Tourres 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Hello Observium team I am monitoring different kind of devices (linux / windows / cisco) through my Observium. Everything work fine except for some Windows server 2012 network interfaces : the failover interfaces. Microsoft uses some kind of interface to supply a failover service (2 servers of the same kind speaks a special black protocol to monitor themself). >From the Windows Server, interfaces are "Microsoft failover cluster virtual adapter". >From Observium, they are seen as ethernet device and as tunnel device. Observium always seens some packet loss on these interfaces (however, there are no packet loss in the network, even with huge stress). So ... it keeps alerting for packet loss. You would say "turn monitoring or alerting off on these interfaces". Well .. that what I did : But I keep getting some alert in the eventlogs : The others real interfaces on the server work fine (good monitoring, no loss, no alerting). I am only having the problem on these kind of interfaces. Why does Observium always see packet loss on these interface ? Why does Observium do not stop alerting when I tell him to ? Thanks for answer! Greg

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VM and Observium
by Luis Quintana 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

So, is anyone experiencing any issues running on observium on a vm? I submitted an email a month or two ago about some issues we were seeing, and i decided to reinstall observium from scratch. Currently i am seeing the same issues, whereby it "appears" that connectivity drops or isnt captured randomly. it's not across one device, but all. i am wondering if maybe i didnt build the vm appropriately or we really are having a network type issue. ive looked at the network but maybe i am overlooking something. anything on the vm side that maybe i can look at? i am running ubuntu 13.04 and the latest observium code as of yesterday.

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Brocade MLXe and ICX support / question
by Swen Veckes (KDDI) 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Hi, we use a couple of MLXe’s and ICX’s which seem fine at the first place running observium’s subscriber edition. However, a few part seems not working correctly: + MLXE’s - Memory shown as -1 on the device main page and has no graphs „nan“ at all - Memorypool usage graphs show -nan - Observium recognizes the installed Line card CPU but report 100% CPU on another machine adder 3 month earlier it reports OK - VLAN’s are reported fine, however, on the VLAN tab only untagged vlan1 (default vlan) has port associated with it, others are empt + ICX’s - CPU reported 100% all time, but same switch installed earlier shows fine - Compared to the MLXe it does not show LAG interfaces Any hints on the the graphing which works for one device but another added later does not as well for the memory? I Don’t hink that observium suddenly broke the support for this, as it is still working for the other devices (exactly the same device). What do I need to provide to help fixing the other things such as the LAG display for the ICX or others and to get more current Brocade device support? Cheers, Swen

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Re: [Observium] Observium] Adtran Devices
by Adam Armstrong 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

What is the sysobjectid for these devices? If you buy a lot from them, you could encourage them to send us some sample devices for development Adam. "Teixeira, Mike" <mwteixeira(a)bendbroadband.net> wrote: Yep. Here you go. Oids for this are: Current CPU: 1.3.6.1.4.1.664.5.53.1.4.1.0 or adGenAOSCurrentCpuUtil.0 Mem Pool: 1.3.6.1.4.1.664.5.53.1.4.6.0 or adGenAOSMemPool.0 Heap Size: 1.3.6.1.4.1.664.5.53.1.4.7.0 or adGenAOSHeapSize.0 Heap Free: 1.3.6.1.4.1.664.5.53.1.4.8.0 or adGenAOSHeapFree.0 Required Adtran Mibs are: ADTRAN-AOSCPU ADTRAN-AOS ADTRAN-MIB As well as these, but Observium has them already: SNMPv2-SMI SNMPv2-TC SNMPv2-CONF SNMPv2-MIB Mike -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:22 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Adtran Devices Do usable mibs exist to monitor these things? adam. On 2014-04-24 14:56, Colin Anderson wrote: > Are there any plans to include better support for Adtran devices - > specifically Netvanta and Total Access products? As it is, Observium > only shows bandwidth graphs - no processor, memory, etc… > > Adtran processors can suck so we'd really like to be able to monitor > them, but haven't found a product that can do it. > > Thanks! > > -Colin > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Adtran Devices
by Colin Anderson 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Are there any plans to include better support for Adtran devices - specifically Netvanta and Total Access products? As it is, Observium only shows bandwidth graphs - no processor, memory, etc... Adtran processors can suck so we'd really like to be able to monitor them, but haven't found a product that can do it. Thanks! -Colin

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Unable to add Alert
by Richard Kuehnle 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

I just upgraded from the CE to Subscription. When I go to add a new alert checker, it tells me: Adding alert checker Alert creation failed. Please note that the alert name must be unique. Nothing is listed in the alert checkers list. I queried the database tables alert_* and they all seem to be empty (as expected). Anywhere else I need to poke/check? Thanks -rich

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Edit Alert Checker Details
by Martin Smith 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

All, Quick question about editing alerts. I can't seem to find a way to edit existing "checker details". For example, entity type, name, message or delay. (see image) [cid:image001.jpg@01CF4455.D3B86620] The other two fields "checker conditions" and "associations" both have edit options. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks for your time, Martin Smith | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320-257-6607 | 877.797.4700 x170

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Download links broken
by Ben Hatton 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

It seems with the new web design that the download links are no longer in the right locations http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz and http://www.observium.org/observium-community-0.14.4p1.tar.gz both just redirect to the homepage, wget just downloads the html of the website anyone know the new locations?

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Alerting in Community edition
by Christian Gerbrandt 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Hi all, from the comparision page, I can see a check for the Alerting, but also in Brackets Future release. Can anyone confirm what the current status is of the Alertign within the Community edition? I was able to add a new Alert checker with /add_alert_check/, but I'm not able to see it, or have any menu entries for Alerts. Just wanted to confirm that I don't miss anything in the current version I'm using, and that it is not completely included yet. Thanks, Christian

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Web Site
by Todd Kline 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Has something happened? www.observium.org will not load.

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SNMP trap alerts?
by Erik INGEBERG 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Hello, Is there any way for Observium to generate an SNMP trap instead of an e-mail when there is an alert? Or does anyone know of some way to parse an e-mail to generate a trap using some other software? Erik

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Adding MIB after a device...
by Boardman, Nick 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Good afternoon, I added an Eaton ePDU (sensor), and obviously it is showing up as Generic. I meant to upload the MIB prior but forgot. Any chance that after a few pollings it will auto-associate? If not, can it be linked manually? I looked under the Sensors Properties while attempting to edit the device but it looks like a no go. Or, since the MIB is now uploaded is it easier to delete the device and then manually re-add it? Thanks in advance any help you can offer. Nick Boardman MCSE, MCSA: Security, CCA, Security+ HRSD Systems Engineer

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rev 5364
by Scott Brawner 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Something went wonky with the html formatting in 5364, just svn upped and everything below transit traffic on the main page goes all the way to the left, no padding. Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. o. 843-308-2364 m. 843-814-3912 Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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License question
by Kenneth Karlsson 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi there Looking at observium , and it looks very interesting, also considering the subscription edition, but how many installations am I allowed to make with one subscription ?! Can I make a master and secondary server on the same subscription ?! Thanks in advance. Med Venlig Hilsen / Best regards Kenneth Karlsson Denmark

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Re: [Observium] Ubiquiti AirOS MIB (Robbie Wright) (Mehmet Akcin)
by Josh Reynolds 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

+1 Desperately need support for this, and the AirFiber24/AirFiber5 MIB -- Josh Reynolds : Chief Information Officer : SPITwSPOTS : josh(a)spitwspots.com

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images missing
by Joshua Elson 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

The images on the Creating_an_Alert_Checker page are missing some images. Any chance to restore them? http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker Thanks, Josh ________________________________ This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic mail or its contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety.

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Re: [Observium] Adding MIB after a device...
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi Nick, All a MIB does is translate a numerical index into a text identifier (with some information about what the value contains). We still need to write code to understand the MIB and collect data from it. We do support other devices by this manufacturer, so I'm not sure exactly why it doesn't work, Tom might, though. adam. On 2014-04-22 15:23, Boardman, Nick wrote: > Adam, > > I logged into the web interface of the PDU sensor, downloaded the MIB > file and then FTP'd it to the MIBS directory on my Linux box running > Observium. I am not naïve enough to think you would support every > device-at least not every device out of the box, so I copied up the > MIB and thought it might work. So if the MIB does not come with > Observium there is 0 chance of it working? Thanks for the speedy > reply, I appreciate it. > > > Nick Boardman MCSE, MCSA: Security, CCA, Security+ > HRSD Systems Engineer > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:04 PM > To: Boardman, Nick > Subject: Re: [Observium] Adding MIB after a device... > > You can't "upload a MIB". MIBs don't work that way. They are like a > map, they aren't a self driving car. > > Sounds like we don't support that device. > > Adam. > > On 22 Apr 2014 14:08, "Boardman, Nick" <nboardman(a)hrsd.com> wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > > > I added an Eaton ePDU (sensor), and obviously it is showing up as > Generic. I meant to upload the MIB prior but forgot. Any chance that > after a few pollings it will auto-associate? If not, can it be linked > manually? I looked under the Sensors Properties while attempting to > edit the device but it looks like a no go. Or, since the MIB is now > uploaded is it easier to delete the device and then manually re-add > it? Thanks in advance any help you can offer. > > > > > > Nick Boardman MCSE, MCSA: Security, CCA, Security+ > > HRSD Systems Engineer > >

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Re: [Observium] Ubiquiti AirOS MIB (Robbie Wright) (Mehmet Akcin) (Adam Armstrong)
by Josh Reynolds 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

WiFi Version? Well, AirFiber isn't exactly "wifi", and neither are DragonWave, Canopy, etc. There is definitely a market, and we're willing to pay if you do it "right" ;) -- Josh Reynolds : Chief Information Officer : SPITwSPOTS : josh(a)spitwspots.com On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 08:09 +0100, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Re: [Observium] Ubiquiti AirOS MIB (Robbie Wright) (Mehmet > Akcin)

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Case study/quotations for the website.
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi All, Would any of you be willing to do some case study or give us some quotes to put on the currently-being-redesigned website? Especially those of you at well known companies :) adam.

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Aggregate graphs for Peering Ports
by Tim Calvin 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

I was curious if there was a way to group together Peering ports in a way that it shows an aggregate graph similar to how Customer ports are handled. On the customer ports page, I can see an aggregate graph of all a particular customers circuits. It seems all I have to do here is make sure they are named the same. We have a few peering circuits to one entity and it would be nice to have that same behavior. I have them named the same but on the peering page the two circuits are shown individually with no aggregate totals. Just wondering if there was some type of configurable option to enable this or not. Let me know if I need to provide anymore info. Hopefully that makes sense. Thanks, Tim Calvin Texas Lone Star Network

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Frontpage Map Zoom
by Johnson, Edward A. 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

All of our devices are located within the state of Indiana. On the frontpage the map zooms from Utah to Nova Scotia with Indiana in the middle. Of course I can manually zoom in as far as I need but would like the default to zoom 1x more so I can see the entire state of indiana from north to south. Is there a setting in config.php that will let me do that?

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Re: [Observium] Port 'Last Changed' visibility
by Jake Turner 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

After much debugging, tweaking the code and playing around with timestamp to epoch functions I’ve finally managed to get this working and it seems to be pretty accurate (for the Cisco devices at least). Thanks for your help Jake Turner [cid:94259173-8184-4F71-8163-56004829AE3C@turnerhouse.local] I am running 0.13.10 (rev. 4585) so yes, a pretty old version. I will update asap and that should shed a little more light (Y). Cheers Jake Turner On 19 Apr 2014, at 05:35, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org<mailto:adama@memetic.org>> wrote: Are you running some horrifically old version? root@alpha:/home/observium/dev# wc -l includes/polling/ports.inc.php 719 includes/polling/ports.inc.php adam. On 2014-04-18 23:32, Jake Turner wrote: Weird, my /includes/polling/ports.inc.php file only has 617 lines. Cisco devices at least report the time that the system was up when the interface changed and I don’t mind having to calculate him many days/hours/minutes etc that was and then displaying that on the appropriate page. I see what you’re saying when it comes to providing the most compatibility with all the different vendors as they probably report it slightly different (or not at all) and so updating it with 'on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP’ ensures that you’ll always have something there. I only have Cisco devices though so it’s not too much of a problem. Thanks, I’ll do some more digging tomorrow, need to sleep now! Jake Turner On 19 Apr 2014, at 05:10, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org<mailto:adama@memetic.org>> wrote: Line 623 and below of includes/polling/ports.inc.php. This should use the port's ifLastChanged if it exists, else it'll use the current polling time. At some point we decided it was totally unrealiable and decided to track it ourselves by having the database update the value when the port configuration in the database changed. It sounds more like you'd want the "down since" number calculation changed to include the total time that the alert wasn't up (or unknown). adam. On 2014-04-18 22:58, Jake Turner wrote: Thank you for your reply. I take it from your response that there is some code that will update the ifLastChange field. Unfortunately I can not find it anywhere and as a desperate attempt to see if it were specified anywhere I performed a very dirty search: 'grep -r "ifLastChange" /etc/observium/‘ which yielded nothing of any significance. Sorry if you feel I’m being retarded but I simply can’t find it :/ Jake Turner On 19 Apr 2014, at 03:58, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org<mailto:adama@memetic.org>> wrote: On 2014-04-18 21:34, Jake Turner wrote: Hmm, not sure what documentation is in the code, perhaps I was looking at the wrong files. It would appear however that the ifLastChange field is only changed whenever that particular record gets ‘updated’. The MySQL column has 'on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP’ as it’s attribute. I’m thinking of removing that and creating a separate script to update this column with the interface change time as reported by the device. If you're not capable of finding where it's updated in the code, you possibly don't want to be modifying the code you can't be bothered to read. adam. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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graphs for power usage on Tripplite PDUMH30ATNET
by Jeff Courtade 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

Hello, I have successfully added in a Tripplite PDUMH30ATNET. It successfully detects and uses the OPS mib when it sets up and has a nice little tripplite icon. The only thing it seems to be graphing is the Ethernet traffic on the one ethernet interface on the device. What I want to see graphs of are the power usage on each of the power outlets and inputs. Any help would be appreciated. -- Thanks, Jeff Courtade Director of Systems Engineering Adjuggler Inc http://www.adjuggler.com M: 240.507.6116

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Re: [Observium] Ubiquiti AirOS MIB (Robbie Wright)
by Josh Reynolds 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

Robbie, Thanks for staying on top of this. We've been trying to scare up support on the UBNT forum for about 6 months now to get a large group of people to donate to the Observium project, but until it works... it's hard to get people to pay for it. *Josh Reynolds* Chief Information Officer SPITwSPOTS josh(a)spitwspots.com | www.spitwspots.com

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Re: [Observium] Ubiquiti AirOS MIB (Robbie Wright) (Moore, Cameron)
by Josh Reynolds 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

The new MIB will only work on 5.6-beta and above. Or AirFiber v2.0+ -- Josh Reynolds : Chief Information Officer : SPITwSPOTS : josh(a)spitwspots.com On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 23:58 +0100, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Re: Ubiquiti AirOS MIB (Robbie Wright) (Moore, Cameron)

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Trying to update Commnuity edition...
by Boardman, Nick 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

Good afternoon, I am trying to update my Community version .4585 to the latest version listed on the Observium page of .5229 but it fails. I have installed the Subversion client using apt-get. The specific error message when attempting to upgrade is: Skipped '.' Any help would be appreciated. Nick Boardman MCSE, MCSA: Security, CCA, Security+ HRSD Systems Engineer

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Map issue
by Johnathon Voegeli 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

Does anyone know how to fix this? All the SysLocation fields are identical, but when they go on the map it places 2 blips a few miles a part. This is on all of my locations. I suspect its an easy fix to blow that part of the database away and let it reload them. I believe it started happening when the map updated the last time. Using the subscription. ~JV [cid:36A15709-7D97-40E0-AEAC-EFDF91B3CCBC] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, and any documents, files, or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain information that is confidential, proprietary, and/or legally privileged. If the reader of this e-mail message is neither the intended recipient nor an employee or an agent responsible for delivering this e-mail message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, reproduction, distribution or the taking of action in reliance on the contents of the information of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by replying to the e-mail message and delete it from your computer, without reading it or saving it in any manner.

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Port 'Last Changed' visibility
by Jake Turner 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

Hi all, I can't seem to see this feature on the port details page or the 'all ports' list but forgive me if it is visible somewhere. It would be useful to have a 'last changed' time (30 mins ago) etc... on the port details page. This info can be gained from SNMP and from what I can see is already in the DB so it would just be a case of adding it to the page code. Thanks Jake

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Re: [Observium] Observium] Brocade MLXe and ICX support / question
by Adam Armstrong 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

No such object is irrelevant, it is from another polled module. I'm not sure why it's discovering incorrectly, I will try to look tomorrow. Adam. "Swen Veckes (KDDI)" <s.veckes(a)de.kddi.com> wrote: OK, I’m not a programmer, so I can’t proof. But I have deleted the device „br00“ from observium and added it again. Now the result is the same as for the other device „mlx01“. So observium changed the way it calculates processor load. But why should this been changed? Any of the developers who can help me to understand, especially on the „No Such Object …“ messages which makes me think that Broke support does not work correctly for MLXe devices? Regards, Swen Am 17.04.2014 um 09:14 schrieb Swen Veckes (KDDI) <s.veckes(a)de.kddi.com>: > OK then. I have tried to further investigate my problem and run poller.php and discover.php in debug mode and got the following result for the processors: > > SQL[SELECT `processors`.*, `processors-state`.processor_usage, `processors-state`.processor_polled FROM `processors` LEFT JOIN `processors-state` ON `processors`.processor_id = `processors-state`.processor_id WHERE `device_id` = '88'] > Processor Slot 1 BR-MLX-10Gx8-X [1] DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '****' > /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c '****' -O Uqnv -m "" -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'ffm-th-mlx01':'161' .1.3.6.1.4.1.1991.1.1.2.11.1.1.6.1.1.300 > 100 > > 100% > RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/ffm-th-mlx01/processor-ironware-1.1.300.rrd N:100] > stdout[OK u:0.00 s:0.00 r:1.27] > stderr[]] > > SQL[UPDATE `processors-state` set `processor_usage` ='100',`processor_polled` ='1397716569' WHERE `processor_id` = '480'] > > > > SQL[SELECT `processors`.*, `processors-state`.processor_usage, `processors-state`.processor_polled FROM `processors` LEFT JOIN `processors-state` ON `processors`.processor_id = `processors-state`.processor_id WHERE `device_id` = '49'] > Processor Slot 1 BR-MLX-10Gx8-X [1] DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '****' > /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c '****' -O Uqnv -m "" -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'br00':'161' .1.3.6.1.4.1.1991.1.1.2.11.1.1.6.1.1.300 > 100 > > 1% > RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/br00/processor-ironware-1.1.300.rrd N:1] > stdout[OK u:0.00 s:0.00 r:0.90] > stderr[]] > > SQL[UPDATE `processors-state` set `processor_usage` ='1',`processor_polled` ='1397716171' WHERE `processor_id` = '160'] > > > > > DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '****' > /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c '****' -Oqv -m FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp:/opt/observium/mibs/foundry 'udp':'ffm-th-mlx01':'161' snAgentConfigModuleDescription.1 > "BR-MLX-10Gx8-X 8-port 10GbE (X) Module" > > 88 -> .1.3.6.1.4.1.1991.1.1.2.11.1.1.6.1.1.300, 1.1.300, ironware, Slot 1 BR-MLX-10Gx8-X [1], 1, 100, , > > SQL[SELECT * FROM `processors` WHERE `device_id` = '88' AND `processor_index` = '1.1.300' AND `processor_type` = 'ironware'] > . hrDevice: DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '****' > /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m HOST-RESOURCES-MIB:HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'ffm-th-mlx01':'161' hrDevice > hrDevice = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID > > DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '****' > /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m HOST-RESOURCES-MIB:HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'ffm-th-mlx01':'161' hrProcessorLoad > hrProcessorLoad = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID > > > > DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '****' > /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c '****' -Oqv -m FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp:/opt/observium/mibs/foundry 'udp':'br00':'161' snAgentConfigModuleDescription.1 > "BR-MLX-10Gx8-X 8-port 10GbE (X) Module" > > 49 -> .1.3.6.1.4.1.1991.1.1.2.11.1.1.6.1.1.300, 1.1.300, ironware, Slot 1 BR-MLX-10Gx8-X [1], 1, 100, , > > SQL[SELECT * FROM `processors` WHERE `device_id` = '49' AND `processor_index` = '1.1.300' AND `processor_type` = 'ironware'] > . hrDevice: DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '****' > /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m HOST-RESOURCES-MIB:HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'br00':'161' hrDevice > hrDevice = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID > > DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '****' > /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m HOST-RESOURCES-MIB:HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'br00':'161' hrProcessorLoad > hrProcessorLoad = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID > > > > Even the result of CPU load is the same for both devices, one is inserted to the database as 1% the other as 100%. Both queried OID’s are the same. Not sure about the „No such Object ….“ but that may be the problem!? > > > Regards > Swen > > > > > > > Am 16.04.2014 um 17:34 schrieb Raphael Maunier <raphael.maunier(a)gmail.com>: > >> Not sure, >> >> I will upgrade this observium later this month, but for now, I can’t :) >> >> I’ll let you know when this will be done, and I’ll update here >> >> Raphael >> >> On 16 Apr 2014, at 17:13, Swen Veckes <s.veckes(a)de.kddi.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Raphael, >>> >>> thanks a lot for your answer. I tried downgrading to 5.4e and memory seems ok now, however, CPU is still 100%. Observium version is at v0.14.4.5323, as you are running a much older version that might make a difference!? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Swen >>> >>> >>> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- >>> Von: "Raphael Maunier" <raphael.maunier(a)gmail.com> >>> An: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. April 2014 22:43:12 >>> Betreff: Re: [Observium] Brocade MLXe and ICX support / question >>> >>> >>> Hello Swen, >>> >>> >>> I have a couple MLX-8 MLX-16 running 5.4E and I don’t have this issue for Memory / cpu. >>> For your vlan issue, I can’t check it as our mlx are a full vpls fabric, so all the ports are seen in vlan1 ( even if the vpls vlan is 4 ) >>> >>> >>> There is plenty of bugs on Broke -aid , the most stable version we have in production is this one. >>> >>> >>> 5.4B is bugued on the lag( ask brocade about this internal ID : DEFECT000440912 ) , so the minimum version you have to use is 5.4C >>> >>> >>> Regarding the ICX, I tried them and … I removed them and I will forget them :) >>> >>> >>> Attached a capture of one MLX16. >>> >>> >>> This customer is running CE 0.13.10.4585 >>> >>> >>> Raphael >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 15 Apr 2014, at 14:28, Swen Veckes (KDDI) < s.veckes(a)de.kddi.com > wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Does no one have a glue on this? >>> >>> >>> cheers >>> Swen >>> >>> >>> >>> Am 11.04.2014 um 11:14 schrieb Swen Veckes (KDDI) < s.veckes(a)de.kddi.com >: >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> we use a couple of MLXe’s and ICX’s which seem fine at the first place running observium’s subscriber edition. However, a few part seems not working correctly: >>> >>> + MLXE’s >>> - Memory shown as -1 on the device main page and has no graphs „nan“ at all >>> - Memorypool usage graphs show -nan >>> - Observium recognizes the installed Line card CPU but report 100% CPU on another machine adder 3 month earlier it reports OK >>> - VLAN’s are reported fine, however, on the VLAN tab only untagged vlan1 (default vlan) has port associated with it, others are empt >>> >>> + ICX’s >>> - CPU reported 100% all time, but same switch installed earlier shows fine >>> - Compared to the MLXe it does not show LAG interfaces >>> >>> >>> Any hints on the the graphing which works for one device but another added later does not as well for the memory? I Don’t hink that observium suddenly broke the support for this, as it is still working for the other devices (exactly the same device). >>> >>> What do I need to provide to help fixing the other things such as the LAG display for the ICX or others and to get more current Brocade device support? >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Swen >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> <observium_mlx8.PNG>_______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Interface pop up bubble "up"
by David Peall 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

Hi I’ve got a problem on the interface where the pop up blocks the mouse pointer from clicking on the interface link, i.e. the mouse pointer is inside the bubble. For interfaces at the bottom of the page when the bubble goes up, down ones are fine. Regards — David Peall

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graph NVIDIA GPU parameters
by Mihai - Cristian Satmarean 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Dear all, sorry if this was already addressed, is it somehow possible to graph the Nvidia GPU parameters in observium? Load, memory, temp etc. Thank you! Mihai

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1 rogue host on map in the mid Atlantic
by Ryan Prihoda 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hey all, I recently updated to the new community edition and once everything was up again, I have 1 rogue host showing in the mid Atlantic on the map. None of my hosts use the override "syslocation" function. The number of devices in "All Locations" is equal to devices my syslocation. Here's the kicker, when I click on the rogue host, it takes me to my devices page for my syslocation. Is there anything I can do to figure out what device is causing this issue ? Thanks, R. Prihoda

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IP address weirdness
by Sander Steffann 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

Hi, This morning at 6:30 the IPv4 addresses of my servers suddenly started changing. I see a lot of messages like: IPv4 changed: 83.247.10.20/27 -> 83.247.10.20/3 IPv4 changed: 83.247.10.21/27 -> 83.247.10.21/3 IPv4 changed: 83.247.10.22/27 -> 83.247.10.22/3 IPv4 changed: 94.142.242.194/29 -> 94.142.242.194/5 IPv4 changed: 94.142.242.195/29 -> 94.142.242.195/5 IPv4 changed: 94.142.242.213/29 -> 94.142.242.213/5 IPv4 changed: 94.142.242.214/28 -> 94.142.242.214/4 IPv4 changed: 94.142.242.215/28 -> 94.142.242.215/4 IPv4 removed: 127.0.0.1/8 Besides showing me that I have some misconfigured subnet masks in the 94.142.242.208/28 subnet, it also seems to have some consistency: - A /27 turns into a /3 - A /28 turns into a /4 - A /29 turns into a /5 My VMware ESXi machines also suddenly show: IPv4 added: 83.247.10.11/32 IPv4 added: 83.247.10.12/32 IPv4 added: 83.247.10.13/32 I also noticed some broadcast addresses being added: IPv4 added: 83.247.10.31/27 (this is an Ubuntu 14.04 server with 83.247.10.29/27) IPv4 added: 83.247.10.31/27 (this is is a CentOS 5.10 server with 83.247.10.7/27) IPv4 added: 83.247.10.47/28 (this is a vcenter applicance) IPv4 added: 83.247.10.47/28 (this is a Dell DRAC card) IPv4 added: 127.255.255.255/8 (this is a vcenter applicance) So, subnet sizes went weird on some systems, 127.0.0.1 disappeared from some systems, some ethernet adapters now show both the real IP address and the broadcast address on some systems. But different mixes of results across different platforms. Might this be related to r5317? Cheers, Sander

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dot1dbaseportifindex on Cisco not listing UP interfaces?
by Ulrik Ivers 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

Hi, I see a strange behavior on our Cisco-switches (different models) when listing the interfaces via SNMP using the mib BRIDGE-MIB. When walking dot1dbaseportifindex it excludes interfaces that are UP. Only interfaces that are DOWN or DISABLED are returned. Is this something that is well known? Seems to me that is a bug in ios... It breaks neighbor discovery via LLDP (lldp-mib.inc.php). Examples: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cisco Switch - ports 1-7 are UP, the rest DOWN /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'XXXX' -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'test-host' dot1dBasePortIfIndex dot1dBasePortIfIndex.8 = 10108 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.9 = 10109 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.10 = 10110 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.11 = 10111 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.12 = 10112 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.13 = 10113 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.14 = 10114 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.15 = 10115 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.16 = 10116 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.17 = 10117 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.18 = 10118 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.19 = 10119 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.20 = 10120 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.21 = 10121 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.22 = 10122 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HP 10 port switch , all interfaces are always listed /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'XXXX' -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'test-host' dot1dBasePortIfIndex dot1dBasePortIfIndex.1 = 1 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.2 = 2 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.3 = 3 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.4 = 4 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.5 = 5 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.6 = 6 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.7 = 7 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.8 = 8 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.9 = 9 dot1dBasePortIfIndex.10 = 10 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Regards, /Ulrik Ivers Ulrik Ivers -- Excanto AB Sveavägen 63 | 113 59 Stockholm Mobil: 0709-90 95 06 Växel: 08-545 726 00 Web: www.excanto.se<http://www.excanto.se/> [cid:image001.jpg@01CF595E.6CC06620]

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PPP links for Mikrotik
by David Peall 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hi The link names for ppp interfaces on the mikrotik routers are wrapped in <> i.e. <pptp-david> this seems to be causing some issues on the website. For example: <a href="device/device=28/tab=port/port=1462/" class="entity-popup " data-eid="1462" data-etype="port" data-hasqtip="1"><pptp-david></pptp-david></a> Regards — David Peall

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Juniper inventory
by Zalewski, Dominik 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hi, Are there any plans or development in progress of Juniper inventory module? Thanks Dominik

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Alerting on high 'used' RAM, not counting 'cached'
by Robert Williams 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hi, Having my first experiment with the new alerting features - very nice! There is one thing I can’t seem to get quite right which is how to alert for Linux system when the ‘used’ RAM is greater than, say, 90% - which is best explained with an example of a device which looks like this: [cid:image001.png@01CF5826.67DDE2B0] Which shows that ‘used’ is 15.1GB (48%). However, for the purposes of alerting, if you use the mempool_perc gt 80 it alarms as being 98%. So I can’t specify ‘used’ as a pool because the only pools are “Swap Space”, “Virtual Memory”, “Physical Memory” etc. There isn’t one which is specifically the ‘used’ RAM element. So, is there a way around this or something I can tweak to get the desired result? Or what is everyone else doing to get alerting for linux boxes like this working for high RAM? Cheers guys! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Support for Huawei MA5600T GPON OLT
by Adam Wołk-Jankowski 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hello, I’m looking for NMS with support for full query and monitoring of MA5600T series Huawei GPON OLT, but with no luck. Huawei NMS – iManager U2000 costs huge amount of money and it not completely suit to my needs. We use Observium for few months with Cisco, Extreme Networks and D-Link devices and it seems to be ideal solution, but with MA5600T there works only basic things like traffic on Ethernet ports. I have full MIB library for this device but I’m not a programmer so cannot make support by myself. I have some devices in lab, so can share access and also would like to help if anyone with skills would like to work on this. -- Adam Jankowski a.jankowski(a)systel.pl

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Device names on front page Google map?
by Ulrik Ivers 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi, I'm new to Observium, so please be tolerant if I ask a stupid question. On the Google map on the front page - is it possible to have the device names displayed? Either "always" or when hovering on the green place marker. Now when I hover I get a label stating "1 hosts", "2 hosts" etc depending on the number of devices that have identical location. I've looked through the documentation and searched old discussion archives but haven't been able to find anything regarding this. Regards, /Ulrik Ivers

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Re: [Observium] 6k Clock 2 status alarms
by Moerman, Maarten 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

I’m suffering from the same issue since last week or so. I’ve filed http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-795 for this to get this solved/fixed. I didn’t exactly know what it was related to, but thanks for figuring that out! Thx, Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com From: Robert Williams <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM To: "Observium Network Observation System (observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>)" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] 6k Clock 2 status alarms Hi, Just a minor bug (or feature tweak, depending on your perspective!) when someone is next in the relevant area: [cid:image001.png@01CF5649.04D8EB80] The clock sensor number 2 on all 6k Catalyst chassis should probably not ‘alarm’ by default when it’s not in use. There will always be only one of the two clocks in use, so some kind of logic tweak is needed to treat this differently otherwise you always have a load of status warnings for the category of “State” under “Health”. Unless you go through them all and disable them, but then you won’t get an event when they do become active (which is usually a bad thing as something else has failed). I’ve seen it show up as these two names depending what IOS it’s running: OSR-7600 Clock FRU 2 - clock 2 clock-inuse Sensor<http://observium.cdc.local/graphs/id=579946/type=sensor_state> OSR-7600 Clock FRU 2 In Using Sensor - Clock 2 In Using Sensor<http://observium.cdc.local/graphs/id=580144/type=sensor_state> Actually, since there is also a value for the ‘ok-ness’ of the sensors it is probably worth totally skipping the ‘in-use’ element for the default alarming purposes, imho. If you need more info from me then let me know, cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com> http://www.CustodianDC.com

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device status boxes on the front page show disabled devices
by Henrik Lund Kramshøj 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi We have a problem with the front page, the red alert boxes are shown for devices that are disabled. We use the config.php $config['frontpage']['order'] = array('status_summary', 'device_status_boxes', 'device_status', 'overall_traffic' ); and I guess its the device_status_boxes is the one. Did something change, or do we need to change something? Devices shown (some of them) has check mark in: "Disable Disables polling and discovery. Device ignore Device ignore. " So they shouldnt show up, didnt sometime before - but unknown when they stopped working correctly. Version, subscription, did a svn up today. man apr 14 09:14:08 CEST 2014 Best regards Henrik -- Henrik Lund Kramshøj, Follower of the Great Way of Unix internet samurai cand.scient CISSP hlk(a)kramse.org hlk(a)solidonetworks.com +45 2026 6000 http://solidonetworks.com/ Network Security is a business enabler

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6k Clock 2 status alarms
by Robert Williams 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Hi, Just a minor bug (or feature tweak, depending on your perspective!) when someone is next in the relevant area: [cid:image001.png@01CF5649.04D8EB80] The clock sensor number 2 on all 6k Catalyst chassis should probably not ‘alarm’ by default when it’s not in use. There will always be only one of the two clocks in use, so some kind of logic tweak is needed to treat this differently otherwise you always have a load of status warnings for the category of “State” under “Health”. Unless you go through them all and disable them, but then you won’t get an event when they do become active (which is usually a bad thing as something else has failed). I’ve seen it show up as these two names depending what IOS it’s running: OSR-7600 Clock FRU 2 - clock 2 clock-inuse Sensor<http://observium.cdc.local/graphs/id=579946/type=sensor_state> OSR-7600 Clock FRU 2 In Using Sensor - Clock 2 In Using Sensor<http://observium.cdc.local/graphs/id=580144/type=sensor_state> Actually, since there is also a value for the ‘ok-ness’ of the sensors it is probably worth totally skipping the ‘in-use’ element for the default alarming purposes, imho. If you need more info from me then let me know, cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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How best to tell Observium that VMware is no longer unix [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

Back in the bad old days, esx was run on a version of RedHat Linux (RHEL). Now they run their own kernel. During discovery, i noticed that the unix agent was trying to be contacted and also has (unix). Reasonably sure VMware won't support it. Your native VM detection and polling is sufficient anyway. adlvm03 6 vmware (unix) Module [ junose-atm-vp ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ipsec-flow-monitor ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-remote-access-monitor ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-cef ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-sla ] excluded for device. Module [ arista-software-ip-forwarding ] excluded for device. Module [ cipsec-tunnels ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ace-loadbalancer ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ace-serverfarms ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-cbqos ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-eigrp ] excluded for device. Module [ netscaler-vsvr ] excluded for device. Module [ aruba-controller ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-vpdn ] disabled globally. Module [ wmi ] disabled globally. Observium UNIX Agent: Connection to UNIX agent on tcp://adlvm03:36602 failed. ERROR: 110 Connection timed out Connection to UNIX agent on tcp://adlvm03:6556 failed. ERROR: 110 Connection timed out Sensors: Module time: 20.0376s Uptime: 129 days, 2h 18m 13s Module time: 0.308s VMware VM: thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) FCoA ITS peter.hine(a)familycourt.gov.au ********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail (including any attachments) is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. It is noted that legal privilege is not waived because you have read this e-mail. **********************************************************************

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Frontpage alert hostnames
by Spencer Gaw 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

Hey all, Has anyone noticed that some devices display the subdomain in their hostname on frontpage alerts and others do not? Example: Here are the hostnames configured on each device: /ring-rmcit.ftc> system show host-name// // //+------------------------------ HOST NAME -------------------------------+// //| Oper | ring-rmcit.ftc |// //| User | ring-rmcit.ftc |// //| DHCP | |// //+------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+// // //sw01.cos> system show host-name// // //+------------------------------ HOST NAME -------------------------------+// //| Oper | sw01.cos |// //| User | sw01.cos |// //| DHCP | |// //+------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+/ /redacted(a)access03.den> show version | match hostname// //Hostname: access03.den /Any ideas here? / /Regards, SG

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Enhancement Request: Latest Reported Operating System
by techuser6＠gmail.com 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

It would be nice if there was another column next to "Operating System" for Network devices that had the latest reported IOS from Cisco/Dell. That way one could easily see which devices need to be upgraded to the latest IOS to ensure that security and bug fixes are addressed.

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Device Ignore
by Marco Spicuglia 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi there, running last stable version. If I disable/ignore a decommissioned device, then it still shows up as "down" in the frontpage device alerts module, while the alarm should disappear instead. Kind regards, Marco Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, Marco Spicuglia Network engineer - Programmer ReasonNet B.V. Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 1042AZ Amsterdam W. www.reasonnet.com E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com T. F. ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code.

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Upgrades blow up my frontpage graphs
by Scott Brawner 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

It seems like every time there's a major upgrade with a sql script, my front page graphs go completely apeshit. Should look like this (in the first case) Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. o. 843-308-2364 m. 843-814-3912 Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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Trapeze/Juniper wireless controller
by Adam Armstrong 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi All, Does anyone have a Trapeze/Juniper wireless controller they'd be willing to give us SNMP read access to so we can add support for it? (similarly for other wireless controllers, but initially we're looking for Trapeze/Juniper :) Thanks, adam.

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Turning off some alerts
by Luca Salvatore 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi Been running observium for a while but with alerting turned off. I turned it on recently and got spammed with so many alerts I had to turn it off again. I can't really find how I can tune the alert setting anywhere. Can this be done via the web or do I need to go to the config files? I'm on version 0.13.9.4493, basically i only want alerts for specific things, not every single event. If i go to the alerts section there is no option to configure any thing, there is no 'add alert' button as described in this link http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker Is the alerting functions only available in the current version? thanks

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Deleted status
by Teixeira, Mike 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hello, When we have ports in deleted status, is there an automagic process to purge those ports? Thanks, Mike

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ifInOctets_perc / ifOutOctets_perc
by Ryan, Spencer J. 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

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LDAPS Authentication
by Ellery Weber 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hey guys, I'm trying to get LDAP (through AD) authentication setup on the subscription version of Observium, and am running into some difficulties. My first question - does Observium only do a simple bind, or can it connect using SASL? We do not currently allow simple binds in our domain. Thanks for any assistance you can provide, [SELCO Community Credit Union] Ellery Weber, CCENT Network Administrator SELCO Community Credit Union Eugene - Downtown Corporate Headquarters Phone/Fax: 541-686-5349 | Cell: 541-357-9505 | eweber(a)selco.org<mailto:eweber@selco.org> selco.org<https://www.selco.org/> | facebook<http://www.facebook.com/SELCOCCU> | twitter<http://twitter.com/selcoccu> This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of a specific individual or entity or specific individuals or entities and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may constitute as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may represent a tortious interference with a confidential business relationship(s). If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and (i) permanently destroy this message if a facsimile; (ii) permanently delete this message immediately if this is an electronic communication; permanently destroy any electronic or printed copies of this electronic communication.

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rancid multiple config/diff versions within observium
by Chip Pleasants 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

I have rancid working today within Observium, although I do not see multiple version ro config/diffs of the configurations like saw some time ago. I did migrate servers therefore its possible a configuration or permissions issue on the new server. On my previous server a couple months ago I was able to look at past diffs within observium. Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks, Chip

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Enhancement Request: Export Inventory to CSV
by techuser6＠gmail.com 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

It would be really nice if there was a way to export the Inventory to a CSV. This would greatly help with renewing maintenance and SmartNet Contracts for Cisco Devices.

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Multiple Pollers Guidance
by Chip Pleasants 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

When there are multiple pollers via NFS how do they pick the devices to poll? Basically how to they not step all over each other polling the same nodes? I'm seeing snmp and ping alerts like 15 or so every hour come in that didn't come in when it was a single server solution. It does seem to be the same 20 or so devices. These particular devices do typically take around 60 sec to poll. Looking at devices that generated alerts their cpu, snmp response time, and ping time was all over the place. Meaning cpu doubled (10% to 20%), ping times went up to 200ms from 10ms, and snmp response time average when from 50ms to 556ms. I'm wondering if I was polling these devices multiple times within 5 minutes? Would this be related to NFS IO issues? I reverted back to a single solution for now. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. -Chip Config Sniplet $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['snmp']['timeout'] = 6; $config['snmp']['retries'] = 3; $config['snmp']['max-rep'] = 10; $config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping -t2000";

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Calculating availability
by Tom Henderson 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Good morning list. Does anyone know if Observium is able to show the total uptime (or downtime) between two points in time? Is this be something the billing module can handle? Cheers Tom Henderson IT Manager | Pack & Company | 027 461 4403 | 09 929 2750 | tom(a)pack.co.nz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not disclose, copy, or distribute any information contained in or attached to it, or take any action/inaction based on it. Please contact us immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and not of Pack & Company (NZ) Limited (the "Company"), however any intellectual property contained in or attached to this email is the property of the Company. Thank you.

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Ubiquiti AirOS MIB
by Robbie Wright 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

UBNT has finally released their officially supported MIB's in their most recent release. I know a few folks are lurking on this list that would love to see those MIB's officially supported and a few of us more than happy to pay for said support in Observium. Todd/Adam/Mike, an interest in taking this on as a sponsored improvement? I can send you the MIB privately if you'd like a sneak peek. Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 **For support issues, please email support(a)siuslawbroadband.com.**

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Remote SysLogging
by Marco Spicuglia 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Hello there, it seems that I have some issues with remote syslogging. Some network devices work well, some others don't. The problem seems to be related to the Observium host, I think, as running syslog-ng -Fevd on my observium server, shows that log entries are coming in also from the devices that do not have any log entry in the GUI. It seems that syslog-ng gets the log entries, but they do not get properly passed to Observium, for some reason, at least for some devices. Therefore, those entries do not show up in the mysql database and thus neither in the GUI. I had this problem also on two other Observium hosts I have tried, but only since an upgrade I performed around October 2013. Before it was working fine for all those devices. Anything I can check/do for fixing this? Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Marco Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, Marco Spicuglia Network engineer - Programmer ReasonNet B.V. Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 1042AZ Amsterdam W. www.reasonnet.com E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com T. F. ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code.

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Recalculate history usage data
by Jimmy Samuel García Hynds 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Hello, >From time to time I have this huge spikes in the traffic bills that are abnormal, in those cases I just change those values to 0 in the database, I replace them in the bill_data table, and the charts return to normal, I do not mind losing 10 or 20 minutes of readings. This is my question, Is there a way to recalculate the historical data? That data is updated even if I delete the date in the bill_data table, and I do not want to screw up my installation. Best Regards. ________________________________ AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este e-mail contiene informacion que es confidencial y solo puede ser utilizada por las personas o entidades a la cuales esta dirigida. Si usted no es el destinatario autorizado, cualquier modificacion, retension, difusion o copia total o parcial esta prohibida. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.

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Re: [Observium] How do I get linux boxes to show up in the inventory?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hello Adam, Thank you for your quick response back. Which table is used to populate the inventory section of observium? I’ll poke it a bit and see what I can do with it.. Thanks again, Ricardo > Adam Armstrong Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:03:12 -0700 > > Hi, > > The inventory page is for cisco/juniper/extreme linecard and other components. It populates from a different table. > adam. > > On 2014-04-07 12:26, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: > Hello again! > > I noticed there’s an inventory option for Observium. I’m wondering > if there’s a way to get the linux boxes that are being monitored by > observium into the inventory list? it’d be a nice way to keep track > of things, even if I need to make manual modifications to the > database. I’ve already added the serial #’s for the systems, and I > was hoping that would be enough for the inventory page on observium to > populate, but it wasn’t. > > Thanks, > Ricardo > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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How do I get linux boxes to show up in the inventory?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hello again! I noticed there’s an inventory option for Observium. I’m wondering if there’s a way to get the linux boxes that are being monitored by observium into the inventory list? it’d be a nice way to keep track of things, even if I need to make manual modifications to the database. I’ve already added the serial #’s for the systems, and I was hoping that would be enough for the inventory page on observium to populate, but it wasn’t. Thanks, Ricardo

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Port Properties do not work
by Marco Zberg 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hi Currently I feel stuck with an quite ordinary process, disabling of polling and alerts. Normally (on another Observium instance) we deactivate all ports with ifOperStatus=down and ifAdminStatus=down via select/update statement directy in mysql. On our affected Observium instance we have plenty of ports we do not like to poll and keep them deactivated. We have Cisco Catalyst 4507 in use, which are equipped with 400 customer ports (downstream). It is unpractical to activate them all and would overload our Observium with too may SNMP requests. We manually keep the upstream ports (10G Ethernet, Port-Channel etc.) and some specific customer ports activated. When I toggle the ports manually (yes or no) or via "Toggle All" button, it says: "Device record unchanged. No update necessary". Effectively nothing has changed and the ports are still active which should be deactivated. This problem affects the "Polling" and "Alerts" function. Maybe there is a workaround possible via manual update in the mysql DB? Currently we use Rev. 5163. BR, Marco Zberg [cid:image003.png@01CF4A6C.51881570] [cid:image002.png@01CF4A6D.47CF91B0] besuchen sie unsere neue website unter www.arcade.ch<http://www.arcade.ch> ____________________________ [cid:image005.png@01CF4A70.69C95AF0] marco zberg teamleader whitelabel & ott marco.zberg(a)arcade.ch arcade solutions ag winkelriedstrasse 37 6003 luzern tel +41 41 417 31 73 www.arcade.ch cloud + connectivity + ict ____________________________

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March changelog and new Community Edition release
by Adam Armstrong 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hi All, The new March changelog is available at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#March_2014 Since it's been 6 months since the last release, we've released a new Community Edition .tar.gz at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Download_Community_Edition Thanks, adam.

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Getting all current alerts
by Meir Akrish 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

Hi I would like to integrate Observium with my Zabbix Is there is a way, via MySQL or via API or similar to get all current open alerts in Observium ? BR Meir -- *Meir Akrish* NOC Manager // *Kenshoo* *Office* +972 3 7466500 *478 // *Mobile* +972 50 6688399 [image: Kenshoo logo] <http://kenshoo.com/> *Infinite Optimization(tm)* powered by Infinite *Innovation* -- This e-mail, as well as any attached document, may contain material which is confidential and privileged and may include trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights that are proprietary to Kenshoo Ltd, its subsidiaries or affiliates ("Kenshoo"). This e-mail and its attachments may be read, copied and used only by the addressee for the purpose(s) for which it was disclosed herein. If you have received it in error, please destroy the message and any attachment, and contact us immediately. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, reliance, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message without Kenshoo's express permission is strictly prohibited.

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Cisco temperature sensors threshold
by Meir Akrish 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

since there is no way that I know of creating alert checkers on temperature sensors can it be adjusted system wide ? or the only way is per device ? BR Meir -- This e-mail, as well as any attached document, may contain material which is confidential and privileged and may include trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights that are proprietary to Kenshoo Ltd, its subsidiaries or affiliates ("Kenshoo"). This e-mail and its attachments may be read, copied and used only by the addressee for the purpose(s) for which it was disclosed herein. If you have received it in error, please destroy the message and any attachment, and contact us immediately. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, reliance, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message without Kenshoo's express permission is strictly prohibited.

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Alerts Reccomendation
by Josh Hopper 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

Please consider adding a feature that lets you disable alerts by location. That way when I want to disable 50 devices for down time I can in one motion rather than 50 or more. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CF50CC.7166D9B0] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Observium integration with Nagios XI
by Burgess, Andrew 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Good morning I would like to have some information on integrating the Observium system with our existing Nagios XI 2012R2.9 monitoring tool. I have seen that these two products work together but would like some further information on how to configure this. Thanks Kind Regards Andrew Burgess Junior Infrastructure Engineer | Bourne Leisure IT | One Park Lane | Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4YL Phone: 01442 286286| Email: Andrew.Burgess(a)Bourne-Leisure.co.uk<mailto:Andrew.Burgess@Bourne-Leisure.co.uk> [cid:image001.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] [cid:image002.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] [cid:image003.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] [cid:image004.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] Something nice to say about us?: IT-Teamstar(a)bourne-leisure.co.uk<mailto:IT-Teamstar@bourne-leisure.co.uk> This email is strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). It may contain personal and confidential information and as such may be protected by the Data Protection Act 1998. If this email has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Any views or opinions expressed within this email are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of Bourne Leisure Limited. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computer practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. BOURNE LEISURE LTD - REGISTERED IN ENGLAND NO. 4011660. REGISTERED OFFICE: 1 PARK LANE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HERTFORDSHIRE HP2 4YL This email message has been scanned and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.co.uk

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Re: [Observium] Search Bug
by Andrej Kurlovic 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Thank you Mike. It is working now. Regards, Andrej Kurlovic _____________________________________________________________________ The opinions either expressed or implied in this message are those of the sender and not necessarily those of Frontline Consultancy and Business Services Ltd. This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp

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Search Bug
by Andrej Kurlovic 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Good Day Observium, I noticed one bug with Observium. Let's say I have a switch with user ports. Users are come and go, so I would like to disable alerts on them for Port Down State on the main page (see screenshot) [cid:image001.png@01CF4FDE.15C3A0F0] To do that I will go to device setting page->Ports https://observium.frontline/device/device=34/tab=edit/section=ports/ and Toggle alerts to No (see screenshot) [cid:image003.png@01CF4FDE.34DDF850] As soon as I save this, port is no longer appear in the main page as intended, but what is does as well - I can't search for the port in the search bar anymore (see screenshot examples below) Before toggle alerts off (Alerts=Yes): [cid:image002.png@01CF4FDF.27FC9640] After I toggle alerts off (Alerts=No) [cid:image004.png@01CF4FDF.27FC9640] This happens instantaneously as soon as I toggle alerts to No, and when I toggle back to Yes I can search port again. Can you please advise if this is expected behaviour? Because what I want is to disable alerts for user ports, to ensure that on the main page only alerts for important ports appear, however I still want to be able to search ports (with Alerts set to NO) using search box. Thank you in advance, Regards, Andrej Kurlovic Network and Security Manager Frontline Consultancy _____________________________________________________________________ The opinions either expressed or implied in this message are those of the sender and not necessarily those of Frontline Consultancy and Business Services Ltd. This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp

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Feature Request: filter by snmp system contact
by Martin Smith 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hello developers, I would like to request the ability to filter by the SysContact field. Devices and ports already have the ability to be filtered by states, speeds, media, port types and locations; I think it would be beneficial to add snmp contact as well. Mostly, I'd like to see it added to the filter header on both the devices and ports pages. [cid:image002.jpg@01CF4F2A.DE764F70] For companies who use the same system contact on all their devices this may have limited value. However, hosting providers could use the feature to filter by device ownership or local network engineer. As we often manage/monitor many devices owned by other companies. Thanks for your consideration of this request, Martin Smith | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320-257-6607 | 877.797.4700 x170

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Re: [Observium] Discovery crashing UPS management card
by Steve Kersley 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

> > > > For the record, Eaton have confirmed that they have reproduced the fault > on the 9xx range of UPSes including on the latest revision of management > card so it is being raised as a bug and is not just an issue with my particular > hardware. > That's good, I guess (hope) they'll release a fixed version... > > We can't really get around the table reading. What you could do in the > meanwhile is add UPS-MIB to the $config['os']['powerware']['mibs'] > array, and remove XUPS-MIB from there. Note that it'll affect all your > powerware UPSes... but I guess that should stop it from crashing. > Barring any bugs in their UPS-MIB table walk code *G*. > > Ideal situation would be to not crash on a simple table walk of course ;-) > > Tom Just upgraded to this week's latest community release, and it is presumably now not walking the tree, as it is no longer triggering this crash, and is now picking up the other voltages correctly. Great job on fixing a bug that wasn't yours to fix before I'd even told you about it :-) Hopefully Eaton will be equally efficient! Am very impressed with what I've seen so far in Observium in a week's dabbling. Am certainly contemplating taking out a subscription to stay current once I've done some more testing and added the rest of our equipment in, and ideally found some way to make it talk to the equipment that doesn't do SNMP... Steve.

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strange discovery behaviour
by Bastiaan Topper 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hi, We have a few Cisco routers monitored by Observium which lose their attributes over time. When I do a manual discovery the memory/processor/ip address and BGP peers are correctly added. But over time (between minutes and hours, as you can see below) the information is removed. [cid:image001.png@01CF4D9A.03605160] Then information about BGP or processor/memory disappear. After a manual discovery of the device they are added back, but again after a while they disappear. [cid:image005.png@01CF4D9A.566ADCE0] Is this some kind of bug? Do you need any debug information from me, please let me know!? Thanks. Met vriendelijke groet, Bastiaan Topper

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Re: [Observium] Discovery crashing UPS management card
by Steve Kersley 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

> It's not a separate module, we don't have toggles for MIBs at this point. We > could add this of course. > > I don't think powerware has UPS-MIB in its mibs list right now, do they > (also) support it? > Enabling both will give you duplicate readings, I have uncommitted > unfinished code to do away with the dupes. > This particular UPS certainly responds to requests on the upsMIB OIDs (my old homebrew monitoring reads voltages from those). For the record, Eaton have confirmed that they have reproduced the fault on the 9xx range of UPSes including on the latest revision of management card so it is being raised as a bug and is not just an issue with my particular hardware. Steve.

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Device page not building correct
by A. Lantink 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hi all, Since a couple of builds i have a problem with the device page. I didn't mention it yet, since I couldn't exactly reproduce since which update the error occurred, and hoped it would go away after some other updates. But it's still here. The page is somehow not completely generated. See below the example of device=1, but all devices have the same problem. The HTML source can be viewed here: http://www.colocenter.nl/observium_device_source.txt It just stops. Running the latest SVN version(5176). The main page, and for example the ports page work fine. It's just the device page. http://www.colostats.nl/devices/ works fine, but http://www.colostats.nl/device/device=ID/ wont. Any idea's what his might be causing? Kind regards, Alexander

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API calls return blank page
by Spencer Gaw 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hey guys, After upgrading my test Observium server to revision 5188, all API calls return a blank page. Going through the Apache error logs, I found: /[Tue Apr 01 16:37:13 2014] [error] [client //REDACTED//] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_vars() in /opt/observium/html/api.php on line 26/ Comparing this section of api.php to my production Observium server running revision 5167, there are some differences: *r5188 api.php* /$vars = get_vars('GET');// //$vars['module'] = (!empty($vars['module']) ? $vars['module'] : "demo"); /*r5167 api.php */foreach ($_GET as $key=>$get_var) {// // if (!empty($get_var)) {// // $vars[$key] = filter_var($get_var, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);// // }// //}/* *Any ideas where to start on this one? Admittedly, PHP is Greek to me but hopefully this means something to you folks over in Dev Land. If there's any additional info you'd like, please feel free to ask. Regards, SG

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imbedded alert graphs missing in alert emails using outlook / gmail
by Martin Smith 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hello, I'm aware that the imbedded image problem has been discussed on here previously. I believe the final answer was "outlook sucks". Both outlook and Gmail web are unable to display the images, but my android email application works. I asked one of our support guys to take a peak and help shed some light on the matter. According to him, it might boil down to using a cid tag instead of a data tag to imbed the image. I have no idea what that means, but hopefully it will help an intelligent developer. Thanks for any and all help into this matter. I'd love to see graphs in my alerts! I've included his email below for additional details: ------ The specific image in question that is not loading is embedded as a base64 encoded image, with a data tag instead of cid tag for the source URL in the message source. Outlook uses Word for composing and displaying emails, and apparently Word does not support the method by which the png file was embedded, as it does not use a cid tag. The PNG format itself is not the issue, because I was able to acquire the original image, paste it into a new email in Outlook, and send it to myself, and it shows up just fine. Looking at the source in that scenario, the PNG source is using a cid tag. I'm uncertain how the message in question is being generated, and whether the method by which it's embedding the image can be altered, but ultimately it seems like the current method is unsupported by Outlook/Word, and I have not yet found any good fixes or workarounds, other than to change the embedding method, or to run a command in Outlook that will open the email in a web browser, which will then display the image in question. Supporting evidence: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/be82ffd0-66ec-4f9f-847… http://forums.textcontrol.com/showthread.php?325334-Image-SaveAsData-when-s… http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16349655/outlook-does-not-display-valid-… ------ Regards, Martin Smith | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320-257-6607 | 877.797.4700 x170

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Help with a simple email setting
by Jake Hansen 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Sorry if this has been posted before but I have been trying to find it for a few hours now. I'm trying to find where the system sets the emailto field when hosts go down. Right now, when a host goes down, somehow its still emailing the old email address sometimes. I have grep -R the entire /opt/observium folder but nothing comes up. I have also tried to set the following setting to no avail $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "netops(a)blah.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Default Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "netops(a)blah.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; But sometimes some of the emails(not all) will still go out to our old email address help(a)blah.com I cant for the life of me figure out how to fix it and have been scouring the observium docs to no avail. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks! -- Jake Hansen Sr. Network Administrator ZTelco / Zray Technologies, Inc. 858-431-4411 Direct 858-565-2155 Office

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Re: [Observium] CEF thingey
by Damien Burke 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

No it isn't. It's a gif. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 6:31 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Device page not building correct That is an accurate, real-time representation of the CEF table on your router. On 2014-03-31 15:50, Damien Burke wrote: > Uh, > > From [ Routing > All BGP Sessions > CEF ] the following is seen: > http://i.imgur.com/1xzcEeV.png [1] > > What is this? > > DAMIEN BURKE > SupremeBytes, LLC > P.O. Box 13746 | Columbus, Ohio 43213 > Office (614) 636-4923 | Phone (614) 636-4875 | Fax (614) 636-4877 > http://www.supremebytes.com [2] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://i.imgur.com/1xzcEeV.png > [2] http://www.supremebytes.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Services
by Sebring, Jeremy A. 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

??Hello all, We are fairly new to observium and are having problems with getting server services to be happy. All of our servers are showing as all of their services are down and have been down for 44+ years. All of the services are up and running. We are at a loss on how to fix this. Thanks for your help! -Jeremy

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Memory Graph Error Device HP
by Michel Braga Guimaraes 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hi. I'd like to know why the memory graph is getting error when it is going to build the graph. I'll attach here the discovery and pooler debug here. Please could some one help me? [image: Inline image 1] -- *Michel Braga Guimarães* ITIL v3 Foundation Certified Professional Cisco Certified Network Associate - CSCO12533973 (62) 8217-9857 // (62) 3954-2544 email: michelbragaguimaraes(a)gmail.com skype: michelbragaguimaraes ___________________________________

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TrippLite ATS
by Johnathon Voegeli 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Our TrippLite gear have been having issues staying online so we updated the firmware at the request of the TrippLite support or lack there of... haha and observium seems to think the new firmware does not have any sensors.... See below: any ideas? New fw version is 12.06.0062 DEBUG! Observium v0.14.3.5175 Discovery SQL[SELECT version FROM `dbSchema` ORDER BY version DESC LIMIT 1] SQL[SELECT revision FROM `dbSchema`] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE status = 1 AND disabled = 0 AND `device_id` = '38' ORDER BY device_id DESC] SQL[SELECT * FROM devices_attribs WHERE `device_id` = '38'] Rackats****net 38 poweralert Ports : DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '******' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'rackats-****.net':'161' ifDescr ifDescr.1 = eth0 ifDescr.2 = LOOPBACK DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '*****' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'rackats-****.net':'161' ifAlias ifAlias = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '****' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'rackats-****.net':'161' ifName ifName = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '*****' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'rackats-****.net':'161' ifType ifType.1 = softwareLoopback ifType.2 = ethernetCsmacd SQL[SELECT * FROM `ports` WHERE `device_id` = '38'] .. SQL[UPDATE `devices` set `last_discovered` =NOW(),`type` ='power',`last_discovered_timetaken` ='1.614' WHERE `device_id` = '38'] SQL[INSERT INTO `devices_perftimes` (`device_id`,`operation`,`start`,`duration`) VALUES ('38','discover','1396316780.5065','1.6142420768738')] Discovered in 1.614 seconds <h5>Checkers matching this device</h5> sensor test SQL[SELECT * FROM `sensors` WHERE device_id = '38' AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature'] Spink Temperature Alarm SQL[SELECT * FROM `sensors` WHERE device_id = '38' AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature'] <h5>Matching entities</h5> Checking for stale entries: SQL[INSERT INTO `perf_times` (`type`,`doing`,`start`,`duration`,`devices`) VALUES ('discover','38','1396316780.4995','1.635','1')] ./discovery.php 38 March 31, 2014, 21:46 - 1 devices discovered in 1.635 secs SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM ports] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM devices] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `sensors`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `services`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `applications`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `bgpPeers`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `ospf_ports`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `eigrp_ports`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `ipsec_tunnels`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `munin_plugins`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `pseudowires`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `vrfs`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `vminfo`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `users`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `bills`] SQL[SELECT SUM(`last_polled_timetaken`) FROM devices] SQL[SELECT sysObjectID, COUNT( * ) as count FROM `devices` WHERE `os` = 'generic' GROUP BY `sysObjectID`] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) AS count,os from devices group by `os`] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count`, `type` FROM `devices` GROUP BY `type`] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count`, `app_type` FROM `applications` GROUP BY `app_type`] Current Revision : 5175 MySQL: Cell[2/0s] Row[21/0.01s] Rows[4/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[1/0s] Insert[2/0s] Delete[0/0s] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, and any documents, files, or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain information that is confidential, proprietary, and/or legally privileged. If the reader of this e-mail message is neither the intended recipient nor an employee or an agent responsible for delivering this e-mail message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, reproduction, distribution or the taking of action in reliance on the contents of the information of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by replying to the e-mail message and delete it from your computer, without reading it or saving it in any manner.

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CSF thingey
by Damien Burke 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Forgot to change the subject. I hit reply to all to populate the TO field. Damien Burke Chief Executive Officer SupremeBytes, LLC P.O. Box 13746 | Columbus, Ohio 43213 Office (614) 636-4923 | Phone (614) 636-4875 | Fax (614) 636-4877 http://www.supremebytes.com<http://www.supremebytes.com/> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 6:46 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Device page not building correct On 31/03/2014 23:50, Damien Burke wrote: Uh, >From [ Routing > All BGP Sessions > CEF ] the following is seen: http://i.imgur.com/1xzcEeV.png What is this? Cisco Express Flashing. Also, how is this related to the device page problems? Tom

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Monitoring Keepalived
by David Peall 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi I wanted to ask, has anyone done any monitoring of keepalived? We use it for linux based load balancers. Regards — David Peall

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Dealing with "slow" hosts
by Remco Bressers 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Dear list, A few of our routers in the network are terribly slow in handling the complete ifEntry from IF-MIB to Observium. This results in gaps in graphs and there’s no way to speed things up because of relatively broken/slow implementations in (in this case) Brocade XMR hardware. In the past we monitored ifInOctets/ifOutOctets and a few OID’s more. The full ifEntry is too heavy. Is there a way to deal with this, like a possibility to prevent polling the whole thing and skip certain unneeded OID’s. Are there any plans to enhance the poller for this possibility of is there any (filthy) hack known to do this? Any ideas on this would be great. We would definitely want to throw Cacti to /dev/null but due to this problem it’s not yet possible. Not necessary to say this again but we are very, very happy with Observium. Thanks Adam, Mike, Tom and others.. Regards, Remco Bressers Signet BV

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Re: [Observium] delete ports?
by John Poznicek 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

Ok not sure what I am doing wrong here - there has to be a way to remove these unwanted nics. So you can see info here http://imgur.com/a/XNhO4 I have this in my config.php // bad interfaces $config['bad_if'][] = "NC-8100w"; I have gone into the database directly and marked the interfaces deleted. But they just get readded, delete gets removed - see the event log in the above screenshots. So I have turned off discovery for the device, and gone into the database and deleted the records of the intefaces. Which works for a bit - but then they show up again. This is a brother HL-3170cdw printer.. I don't know how I would delete the interface on the device directly. How do I remove these wireless interfaces from what observium shows. This printer will never use the wireless interfaces it has. So how do I remove them from observium showing them? You would think if I disable discovery of ports, and then delete them from the database they would never get put back.. But clearly they do - is there some step I am missing? If you need any other info just please ask. TIA

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Session Expired
by Johnathon Voegeli 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

I have updated to the most recent version via SVN and it constantly logs me out of the web interface... all the graphs will die and it will say session expired after about 10 or 15 seconds of being logged in. Any ideas? ~JV CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, and any documents, files, or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain information that is confidential, proprietary, and/or legally privileged. If the reader of this e-mail message is neither the intended recipient nor an employee or an agent responsible for delivering this e-mail message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, reproduction, distribution or the taking of action in reliance on the contents of the information of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by replying to the e-mail message and delete it from your computer, without reading it or saving it in any manner.

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adding non snmp hosts?
by John Poznicek 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

So I have observium up and running, even smokeping integration which brings up my question. I have a few vpses, seedbox, webhost, etc. that I would like to add to my growing lists of devices in observium. But seems you can not add a device that doesn't have snmp? I don't want to monitor anything than the info than say my smokeping graphs in the same web interface. Be nice to show their location on the man graph as green/yellow/red etc.. My vps I might even add the unix agent grab some info from them.. But I don't really want or need snmp queries across the public net to them So how do you add these types of devices - they added smokeping integration to leverage the details it gives. So how can I just see these smokeping devices in the observium web interface without having to add the device via snmp? There doesn't seem to be a way to add a device without being able to talk to it via snmp?

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Unable to add new device
by Marco Zberg 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hi Unfortunately I am unable to add new devices on one of my Observium instances. I tried with several host and I get the same results. All hosts can be pinged and are reachable. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? BR, Marco [cid:image001.png@01CF4A69.BD1FC0B0] [root@host host]# ping arc-swi-102 PING arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=0.461 ms 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=1.89 ms 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=0.473 ms 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=4 ttl=254 time=0.470 ms ^C --- arc-swi-102 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3036ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.461/0.823/1.891/0.617 ms besuchen sie unsere neue website unter www.arcade.ch<http://www.arcade.ch> ____________________________ [cid:image004.png@01CF4A6A.40E1EA90] marco zberg teamleader whitelabel & ott marco.zberg(a)arcade.ch arcade solutions ag winkelriedstrasse 37 6003 luzern tel +41 41 417 31 73 www.arcade.ch cloud + connectivity + ict ____________________________

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DB grow to fast
by Thomas Grunert 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hi all, my database is grow very fast. Is there a cyclic clean up which deletes unnessesary entries from the db to prevent garbage? How long are entries kept in the db? Can anybody tell me the syntax to reduce the rate-time for trap and log entrys in the database? many thanks Thomas

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