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Qlogic Sanbox 5602 Support
by Christian Gerbrandt 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Hi group, I was wondering about how to add support for a Qlogic Sanbox 5602 FC switch. >From all the info I gathered so far, it is using the Fibre Alliance MIB. I already added it to our Observium instalaltion, but I'm not able to get all information via SNMP. Only LAN ports are showing up, and some general infos are missing. Has anyone maybe started working on adding this device, or can tell me how to best add it? Many thanks, Christian

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Mail Alerts
by tech8.otelafrica 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

Hi Guys Struggling to get mails to send from our server.When having a look in var/log I dont see anything attempting to send out in the logs. Under config.php I have the following configured: $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "alerts(a)otelafrica.com"; $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['email_from'] = "Observium dev <observium.otel.co.za>"; $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; I have included a snapshot as well,please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. Regards Anton

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Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface
by Marco Spicuglia 22 Mar '14

22 Mar '14

Hi Adam, I thought I had replied already, but I didn't see my message coming through, so I give it another try. I did import the devices table into the new system, run the discovery and copied the rrds. Everything worked perfectly.. However, I should have imported the ports table as well, because all ports id have changed and our integrated systems relying on those id's were in panic. We were running Debian Wheezy 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 with PHP Version 5.4.4-14+deb7u8, Apache/2.2.22 and MySql 5.5.31 Thanks a lot for your help, our monitoring system is running again :) Cheers, 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.________________________________________ From: Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] Sent: 18 March 2014 20:18 To: Marco Spicuglia Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface Make sure you run discovery to upgrade the database, as the author stuff has changed and needs the new table format. Adam. On 18 Mar 2014 09:05, Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, thanks for your response. > No filesystem is full on the whole harddrive. > > > 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.________________________________________ > From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] On Behalf Of Chris K. [kulish.com(a)gmail.com] > Sent: 18 March 2014 15:18 > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > Check if filesystem is full. > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@reasonnet.com>> wrote: > Hello there, > > I wonder if anybody can help me. > > After upgrading from community to subscription version, I was happily browsing the new features, but after some time (about half hour) all users here got logged out and nobody could login any more. > No error messages, we just get the login page again. > > My hard disk is not full. > I successfully created a new admin user but also cannot login. > I cleaned the cache, the history and the cookies of the browser. > If I check the table authlog in the database, it reports both old and new admin as regularly logged in. > > Is there anything I am missing? Any step I forgot during upgrade? Any cache/session I should clear server side? > > Your help is welcome. > > 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<http://www.reasonnet.com> > E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@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.________________________________________ > From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Luis Quintana [sla07(a)earthlink.net<mailto:sla07@earthlink.net>] > Sent: 12 February 2014 16:04 > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > I greatly appreciate the help on it too!! Thanks guys! > > On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:02 AM, "Kulish, Chris" <chris.kulish(a)pioneer.com<mailto:chris.kulish@pioneer.com>> wrote: > > > Simple is my middle name! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:27 PM > > To: Observium Network Observation System > > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > > > On 2014-02-11 11:50, Kulish, Chris wrote: > >> If the filesystem full? > > > > Want simple solutions, ask a simple person. > > > > adam. > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains > > information that may be Privileged, confidential or copyrighted under > > applicable law. 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GeoLocation
by Johnathon Voegeli 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Quick question... We are a small WISP and I am trying to add all the WAPs to the map... if I do something like this: $config['location_map']['VIE Office'] = "35.476475, -80.992856"; It looks perfect on the map, however under the location menu of course it shows these coordinates as well... Is there anyway to get the SysLocation to show in the location field, but the map display correctly? Or is this a pipe dream. ~JV

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Session issues - automatically logged out frequently/instantly
by Chris Wopat 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hi list folks, I've had an issue with Observium since I *think* 4152 (http://fisheye.observium.org/changelog/Observium?cs=4152) where some authentication stuff was changed. Symptoms are once you log in, your next click may have your session already expired. As an example, I can log in, type something in the search bar, it may immediately report that the session is expired. If I simply leave the browser open on a page, it typically will just auto expire at some random period of time, all of which is under an hour. It appears to be very random so difficult to troubleshoot. This happens weather you choose to save your session or not. I've enabled PHP session debugging to write to files, contents of those seem fine. I've also cleared out `users_ckeys` table, no changes. I've also enabled php error logging in my apache config, but observium is overwritting this with ini_set all over the place which makes that somewhat futile. I've tested this on multiple systems, with built in auth and LDAP auth. Common denominator in this case is that my systems are FreeBSD, not Linux. Basically I'm checking if anyone else has encountered this at all, or if any other FreeBSD users are NOT having any issues. Info about my main observium install: FreeBSD 9.1 PHP+Modules 5.4.20 I've tested with PHP's APC on and off php Memory limit = 256 I've mentioned this with devs many times over the last 6 months, they effectively consider FreeBSD unsupported so don't really care. It all certainly worked perfectly prior to that auth update, nothing has changed on my systems since then except standard package updates. Thoughts? --Chris

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KVM Virtual Machine Monitoring
by Lane Eckley 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hi Guys, Our purchase of the subscription version of Observium is pending, but meanwhile I am looking to see if anyone has been using the KVM virtual machine monitoring built into Observium. I am curious if Observium is pulling the CPU, RAM, etc. for the KVM virtual machines running on each of the hypervisors or if its only monitoring whether the virtual machine is powered on or not. I read over the documentation, but unfortunately was unable to get it working at all thus far and am assuming its due to the free version not supporting. Thanks in advance! -Lane

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Problems with MIBS included with observium...
by Ricardo M Meleschi 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hello, Does anyone else see a large number of MIBs that cause errors when attempting to do snmp walks/gets? When I had the free version of Observium, I simply removed the offending MIBs from /opt/observium/mibs but since I have moved to the SVN version, this may become more of an annoyance since I will be updating frequently, and may actually need the MIBs as I find other uses for Observium. I'm getting many errors similar to this: Cannot find module (ZYXEL-MIB): At line 10 in /opt/observium/mibs/220AQV1C0-private However, in this case (and probably many others) ZYXEL-MIB exists just fine in /opt/observium/mibs/zyxel/ZYXEL-MIB. My snmp.conf is as follows: /opt/observium/mibs# cat /etc/snmp/snmp.conf # # As the snmp packages come without MIB files due to license reasons, loading # of MIBs is disabled by default. If you added the MIBs you can reenable # loaging them by commenting out the following line. #mibDirs +/sw/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp:/opt/observium/mibs mibDirs +/opt/observium/mibs mibs all showMibErrors no I am sure I'm just missing something simple but it's escaping me at the moment. Thanks, Ricardo Meleschi

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Broken jpgraph Images
by John Macleod 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

I have never used the "billing" side of Observium even though I have been using several (subscription) instances of Observium for a while now. Today I wanted to play with the Billing features and followed the jpgraph install prompt, however the graphs appear as broken images. With the debug=1 flag I see the following: > $varsSELECT * FROM `devices_perms` WHERE `user_id` = '1' string(51) SELECT * FROM `ports_perms` WHERE `user_id` = '1' string(49) SELECT * FROM `bill_perms` WHERE `user_id` = '1' string(48) SELECT * from `bills` WHERE `bill_id`= '2' LIMIT 1 string(50) SELECT count(`delta`) FROM `bill_data` WHERE `bill_id` = '2' AND `timestamp` >= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1393653600' ) AND `timestamp` <= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1396328399' ) string(158) SELECT *, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(timestamp) AS formatted_date FROM bill_data WHERE bill_id = '2' AND `timestamp` >= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1393653600' ) AND `timestamp` <= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1396328399' ) ORDER BY timestamp ASC string(209) JpGraph Error: 25082 Illegal sizes specified for width or height when creating an image, (width=0, height=0) Thanks! John

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Cannot Login via Web Interface
by Luis Quintana 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Not sure what direction to go with this. My instance of observium has been working great ever since I deployed it. A peer of mine decided to add hosts to the host file, and in doing so, somehow messed with something that does not allow us to log back in via web/gui. I can ssh to the device and have looked at every possible log in /var/log, but do not see anything that stands out. I also try to investigate the log while I attempt logging in via gui, and nothing is seen. I took a look at the install documentation to see if anything stands out there, that may lead me in the right direction but do not find anything, other than probably reinstalling which I am trying to avoid (i'll have to look at how to preserve current files, etc once reinstalling if i go down that road). Is there anything else that I can possibly look at to get a better direction and try to isolate this? I can't imagine him modifying the /etc/hosts file would affect logging into observium via the front end gui. Thanks for any help you guys can provide!

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Web Session Expired
by Chip Pleasants 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hoping someone could point me in the right direction. When I click on the Temperature Under Health on the main heading I get a red "No Auth" on all the mini graphs. I also I see "Session Expired, Please Login Again!" when I roll over the device name on that same page. This happen every time I perform this action no matter if I have just logged in. This only happen for Temperature under the main heading. I don't see the behavior on any other graph. Even when I go into any device click Health and then Temperature I can see the graph and do not get the "No Auth". I am using ldap against AD for my authentication. I've looked at the apache logs and don't see any glaring issues. PHP and Apache should have defaults. I sess the sessions in /var/lib/php/session/ being created. Any suggestions on troubleshooting this odd behavior? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Thanks, Chip

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Some problems with device polling.
by Sergey T 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi! There is a problem with some devices. polling fulfills, but no changes to the mysql. sql query configured correctly (if i run in devug mode ./poller.php -d -h xx and its screen output manually add to the database - all works correctly) remove the device and add it again does not help with such a device, the above problems have -- Sergey Tkachenko CTO Soniko-Svyaz +38-050-3266737

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Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface
by Tom Laermans 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi Marco, If you no longer trust your database, copy over the rrd folder, then run add_device.php for all your hosts. You could do this with a for loop if you extract the hostnames from your old devices table. That said, I doubt there will be much wrong with your devices table, your plan should work just as well. However, I'm quite intrigued as to what causes/d your issue. Tom Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: >Hi Adam, > > thanks for your reply. I get no extra info by adding /debug=1/ to the url. >You had also suggested to launch a new discovery for upgrading the database, but that's actually what probably broke the system, as the database is the only thing I had insanely not made a backup of, before upgrading. >Now a roll back does not work, probably because the database is corrupted. > >As somebody stated earlier, it looks very much like a php session issue. >However, what I do know is that I re-made a fresh installation by using the stable version this time, and it worked. > >Now the question is: >how can I move the devices database without importing the corruption to the new database? >If I just import the devices tables and the rrd folder and I launch a discovery, would that work? > >thanks 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.________________________________________ >From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] >Sent: 19 March 2014 05:45 >To: Observium Network Observation System >Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > >Hi, > >There were some changes made recently, but no one who upgraded reported >any issues at the time. > >It's particularly odd if it happens to a /new/ installation (assuming it >also had a new database). > >Do you get anything useful if you put /debug=1/ in the URL? > >adam. > > >On 2014-03-18 09:49, Marco Spicuglia wrote: >> I restarted Apache and rebooted the server, still the same. >> I tried making a fresh Observium installation with a new database, new >> admins and by trying with the trunk and the stable version. Same >> result. >> No partition is full. The tmp partition has a 2% usage only. The only >> observium files I get in there are observium-agent-apache and >> observium-agent-mysql. >> I cannot find any related error message anywhere. What's weird is that >> it was working fine, then it suddenly stopped. >> No idea what happened, but this is a production monitoring system for >> us and I have to fix it asap! >> Rolling back to the old backup did not work either, still cannot login. >> >> Looking forward to hear from anybody who may have any other suggestion. >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> 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.________________________________________ >> From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom >> Laermans [tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx] >> Sent: 18 March 2014 15:56 >> To: Observium Network Observation System >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface >> >> Marco specified that's not the case, however, those are all the >> symptoms of failing PHP session creation indeed. >> >> Check if /tmp also isn't full? >> >> I had the same issue on my test box a few days ago; there an apache >> restart fixed it. No idea what caused it. >> >> On 18/03/2014 15:18, Chris K. wrote: >> Check if filesystem is full. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Marco Spicuglia >> <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@reasonnet.com>> >> wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> I wonder if anybody can help me. >> >> After upgrading from community to subscription version, I was happily >> browsing the new features, but after some time (about half hour) all >> users here got logged out and nobody could login any more. >> No error messages, we just get the login page again. >> >> My hard disk is not full. >> I successfully created a new admin user but also cannot login. >> I cleaned the cache, the history and the cookies of the browser. >> If I check the table authlog in the database, it reports both old and >> new admin as regularly logged in. >> >> Is there anything I am missing? Any step I forgot during upgrade? Any >> cache/session I should clear server side? >> >> Your help is welcome. >> >> 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<http://www.reasonnet.com> >> E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@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.________________________________________ >> From: observium >> [observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] >> On Behalf Of Luis Quintana >> [sla07(a)earthlink.net<mailto:sla07@earthlink.net>] >> Sent: 12 February 2014 16:04 >> To: Observium Network Observation System >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface >> >> I greatly appreciate the help on it too!! Thanks guys! >> >> On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:02 AM, "Kulish, Chris" >> <chris.kulish(a)pioneer.com<mailto:chris.kulish@pioneer.com>> wrote: >> >> Simple is my middle name! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: observium >> [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] >> On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong >> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:27 PM >> To: Observium Network Observation System >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface >> >> On 2014-02-11 11:50, Kulish, Chris wrote: >> If the filesystem full? >> >> Want simple solutions, ask a simple person. >> >> adam. >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >> This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains >> information that may be Privileged, confidential or copyrighted under >> applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby >> formally notified that any use, copying or distribution of this e-mail, >> in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited. Please notify the sender >> by >> return e-mail and delete this e-mail from your system. Unless >> explicitly >> and conspicuously designated as "E-Contract Intended", this e-mail does >> not constitute a contract offer, a contract amendment, or an acceptance >> of a contract offer. This e-mail does not constitute a consent to the >> use of sender's contact information for direct marketing purposes or >> for >> transfers of data to third parties. >> >> The dupont.com<http://dupont.com><http://dupont.com/> web address will >> continue in use for a >> transitional period for communications sent or received on behalf of >> DuPont >> Performance Coatings., which is not affiliated in any way with the >> DuPont Company. >> >> Francais Deutsch Italiano Espanol Portugues Japanese Chinese >> Korean >> >> http://www.DuPont.com/corp/email_disclaimer.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> 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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install observium through cpanel
by tech8.otelafrica 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi Guys I was asked to find out if anyone knows if we can install observium through cpanel? Regards Anton

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Alerts
by Josh Hopper 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Is there a guide on how to best setup alerts for all devices? I found: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker I want to set thresholds for DISK, RAM, CPU, UP/DOWN, and RX/TX Limits for all devices. Is there a particular Device Association or Entity Association I'm supposed to use? I figured I would set some general and then get specific with alerts by hostname for specific instances I want to monitor. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CF4208.DDB37150] 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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svn update not fully working (v0.14.2.5106)
by Marco Zberg 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi guys Currently I wonder why I can't update to the latest version from SVN? We have 2 observium instances, if I do a "svn update" one installation does not update to the latest version. It will always update the revision (5106) but not to the latest v0.14.3.5106, instead it will have v0.14.2.5106. *** [root@vsrvobs01 observium]# svn update At revision 5106. [root@vsrvobs01 observium]# /opt/observium/discovery.php -h none Observium v0.14.2.5106 Discovery Current Revision : 5106 MySQL: Cell[2/0s] Row[16/0s] Rows[3/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[0/0s] Delete[0/0s] *** Thanks for any help or tipps. BR Marco 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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Alert Emails
by Nicholas Schmidt 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Ive followed the documentation but cannot get email alerting working. I see nothing in my mail log from Observium and other mailings on the system work without issue (RANCID, using the mail command from shell) so I believe it related to something I am doing wrong in Observium or PHP. It also looks as though whats in config.php.default doesn't match whats documented in the wiki. Ill gladly update it once I figure out which is correct. I am running Observium build 0.14.3.5112 on Debian 5.5.35-0 My config.php based on config.php.defaults , which differs slightly from http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Alert_Settings $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Network Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "noc(a)mediamath.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; -Nick

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WSMan integration - several questions
by Sascha Schaal 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

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overview page on a device
by Jeremy Spiesser Azuria 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hello, for some time, the home page of devices is no longer displayed. I have no error in the apache logs and php. So how do I enable debug? thank you ------------------------- Jeremy SPIESSER dir +33(0)144543000 fax +33(0)959862250 gsm +33(0)622128175 ------------------------- SARL AZURIA 34 Bd des Italiens F-75009 PARIS http://www.azuria.com ------------------------------------------ The information in this email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure, and are intended for the named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use the information in this email or any files transmitted with it. ------------------------------------------------

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Possible to ignore interfaces without description with the bad_if_ filter?
by Fredrik Korsbäck 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hello list. As the topic suggests. My enviroment somewhat relies on ports in the network having a interface description, graphing, billing, provisioning, rancid, and a few other stuffs gets activated whenever a description get set. I would like Observium to behave in such manner aswell - ive put up a feature request on this in Jira but now that ive read up abit more i realise that this could possible be achieved through the built-in filters. Has anyone built a smart regexp or something with the already available filters? We run a juniper-setup with alot of pretty beefy routers so there is about 600 interfaces on each machine, where i would like to graph at tops 100 of them, the 100 with a description :) And thanks for a great monitoring tool! Br, -- Fredrik Korsbäck

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Re: [Observium] Adding Bind9 stats into Observium for trending/graphing?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Tom and everyone, Thanks for the information. I got the powers that be to open up the observium port and I’ve been getting some great data ever since. I appreciate the assistance. Ricardo On some random date Tom wrote: Nope. Tom On 22/02/2014 00:19, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: > I can't use the observium agent on my dns server actually. While snmp is an approved app, the observium agent is not. Is there no way for me to give Observium a list of OIDs to poll and graph, ala a cacti xml file? > > Thanks, > Ricardo > > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Cameron Daniel wrote: > >> On 2014-02-22 7:24 am, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: >>> I've recently (as in the last 3 or 4 days) began configuring >>> Observium for the purpose of getting some good trending data out of my >>> bind servers. I noticed in the demo, there is an APP drop down, and >>> BIND is listed as one of the supported applications. I am having a >>> difficult time figuring out how to get Observium to monitor my bind >>> servers however. >> The application monitoring comes from the unix agent - http://www.observium.org/wiki/UNIX_Agent >> >> It's not too difficult to set up, the files you need are in /opt/observium/scripts. Once you've got the agent working, you may need to enable it under the Poller Modules for the specific host.

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ITWatchDog Support ?
by Ryan Prihoda 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hey all, I have a WatchDog 15-P environmental monitor I'd like to see the temperature in observium. Do you all have any plans to support this device ? I did not see it listed on the supported devices page. Thanks, R. Prihoda

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GeoLocation
by Johnathon Voegeli 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Quick question... We are a small WISP and I am trying to add all the WAPs to the map... if I do something like this: $config['location_map']['VIE Office'] = "35.476475, -80.992856"; It looks perfect on the map, however under the location menu of course it shows these coordinates as well... Is there anyway to get the SysLocation to show in the location field, but the map display correctly? Or is this a pipe dream. ~JV

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Getting billing data out of Observium via SQL
by Scott Brawner 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

I'm looking to get the billing data out of observium for monthly executive reviews. For some reason the CIO wants it in Excel (boo.) What I'm interested in mostly are the Avg in, Avg out, 95th in and 95th out for each billed circuit on a monthly basis. If anyone has done this, please let me know how or if you have queries, I'd love to see them. Thanks! Best regards, Scott Brawner

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Fortinet Support
by Ninja Data 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

I wanted to start by saying Observium is so awesome! I wish I would of found it sooner! So I'm trying to add my Fortinet firewalls to Observium. I see that I can add specific MIBs for Fortigates, but I didn't see the latest D series on the list. I'm not exactly sure how to add the Fortigates. I'm unable to create a DNS entry for the firewall, and I know it's dependent on DNS. I'm very new and not exactly sure how to go about this addon. Can anybody shed some light and point me in the right direction. Also, I read that if a custom MIB wasn't written for the device that one can donate. How do I go about doing that? I would love to see the latest Fortinets(and older of course) in Observium. Cheers,

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New user - network topo map question
by LC Jones 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

New observium user with question on topology map. Under device>ports>map .... I have one device with 5 ports pointing to their respective far end ports. Three arrows are gray (gig-eth), one arrow is blue (gig-eth) and one arrow is red (tengig-eth). What is the difference between a gray arrow, blue arrow and red arrow? lcjones

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device_ucd_load Graphs
by Daniel Knights 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Hi, Hoping someone can help. Since upgrading to the latest version using the SVN the device_ucd_load graphs have stopped generating and are no longer displayed within Observium. We use an external website and link to these graphs so our clients can view the server load and it'd be handy to get them working again. Were they disabled/removed in the latest version? Is there any way to get them back? Thanks

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FreeBSD Instalation
by Michel Braga Guimaraes 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

How, everyone. I'd like to know if someone there has Observium installed in a FreeBSD server. I have one Observium installed in a FreeBSD server, and other installed in a Ubuntu Server. The Ubuntu one works perfectly, but in my FreeBSD, there is no that Health tab, that shows me Processors information, Mempool information, Power information. That velocimeter icon,([image: Inline image 1]), doesn't shows up for me, I don't know if it can be some mib missing, but I don~t think so, cause I already installed net-snmp, I configured snmp.conf with snmpconf -i and etc... I don't know what else to do. Do someone there has a recipe, to make Observium works properly on FreeBSD? Best Regards, -- *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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Locations dropdown on front page
by Scott Brawner 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Was wondering if there were any plans to implement sorting on the Locations dropdown, it's a little messy. 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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Alerts for users
by Joarli Leandro [INITNET] 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Hi, I setting a new user for access only 2 server on my Observium. The access is ok, but in the top, the box alerts show 7 on total...not only 2 for the 2 servers of client. I have only 7 alerts in all the system. See the picture below. Thanks -- Joarli Leandro Tel: (11) 4478-6171 jleandro(a)initnet.com.br

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Graphing used RAM from free command
by David Reagan 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

When looking at RAM usage, the number I've always cared the most about is the number from the "used" column and "-/+ buffers/cache" row when I run the "free" command. Like: # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 16389700 15802892 586808 0 622824 3345472 -/+ buffers/cache: 11834596 4555104 Swap: 4089852 51536 4038316 I don't see any graph that looks like it contains that information. I see the memory pool graph, but it show much higher usage that I actually have because of how Linux manages RAM. So, any thoughts on how I could get Observium to graph what I want? Thanks! David Reagan Web Systems Administrator Information Technology Lane Community College Office Phone: 541-463-3376 Email: reagand(a)lanecc.edu

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How do i match more then one hostname in one alert check
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

[cid:image001.png@01CF3ED3.83EDE020] This does not work I only want up and down on core ports. Med venlig hilsen | Best regards Thomas Raabo Netværksansvarlig CCIE #33466 Zitcom A/S Telefon: 70 40 00 00 E-mail: kontakt(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:kontakt@zitcom.dk> Direkte: 69 10 60 18 Direkte: tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk> [cid:image005.jpg@01CEDC86.E897E480]<http://www.zitcom.dk/>

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Missing graph
by Paolo De Michele 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Ei guys, I followed the wiki instrunctions but actually I didn't see graphic data I'm using CentOS 6.4 x32 but I didn't understand this problem rrdtool are installed and the directory /opt/observium/ is chowned by apache:apache How can I fix it? Thanks in advance Regards

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Smokeping tab gone on holiday
by Robert Williams 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi – our Smokeping tab has vanished mysteriously. Not sure exactly when but definitely within the last week. The setting is still there: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/"; Plus the script which auto-generates the Targets file with the correct formatting is still there also and running ok (extract below): echo "*** Targets ***\n\nprobe = FPing\n\nmenu = Top\ntitle = Network Latency Grapher\nremark = Welcome to SmokePing\n\n"; $query = mysql_query("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `ignore`=0 AND `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname"); while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { $hostid = str_replace(".","_",$data['hostname']); $hostname = $data['hostname']; echo "+ $hostid\n\nhost = $hostname\n\n"; } Making hosts that look like: + sw-msl-pab-52_mastv_local host = sw-msl-pab-52.mastv.local So the targets file itself looks good and the Smokeping site is running fine if you browse it directly. The RRDs are all in /var/lib/smokeping/ and we are SVN up’ing daily. Host names are unchanged and it has been working fine for over a year so I’m lost as to why it would disappear now. It’s gone for all hosts as far as I can tell? I have no idea how to debug it as it’s not a poller / discovery thing, so any pointers as to what might be broken please? Cheers :) Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Observium time
by Joshua Elson 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Is it possible to change observium to pacific daylight time (PDT)? When we bring up our graphs it seems it's in GMT or some other format 9 hours off which is a pain to pinpoint exact times things are happening. Thanks in advance, 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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Billing Module and Bill Date
by Chris Bissell 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

I had a question on how the Bill Date is implemented. Currently we have it set to 1 as our normal billing cycle is the 1st through last day of the month. However the process of getting the API data from Observium and getting that data into our Billing system is a manual process. The API data I'm getting is from the 'type=list' format which doesn't appear to accept start and end dates. I'd like to use this API call simply because it has the billing value of 95th already calculated per bill. My question is if our billing system makes that API call on April 3rd, what data does it get? Does it get the last full month from March 1st through 31st, or is it getting the data from April 1st through April 3rd? -- Chris Bissell - CTO FRII - 970.212.0723 cbissell(a)frii.net

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Prevent creation of RRD files on ignored/disabled ports
by Remco Bressers 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

I'm running Observium on a fairly large network with a few Cisco 7200's running 1000+ subinterfaces and 1000+ virtual-access interfaces. These interfaces are ignored with the "bad_if_regexp" configuration variable in config.php but RRD files are still generated and the "device total traffic" graph takes ages to generate which is not optimal. The RRD files are using lot's of diskspace and we're really only interested in uplinks instead of customer interfaces. Is there a way to prevent interfaces in the bad_if or bad_if_regexp to be polled altogether without writing RRD files? Kind regards, Remco Bressers Signet B.V.

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Cisco ACE 4710 ServerFarms
by Christopher Noyes 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

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traffic 0bps / 0pps
by Gregory Storme 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Hi, I'm running Observium 0.14.3.5094 on Debian 7, followed the installation guide. The problem is that the traffic, displayed under the ports overview, is 0bps / 0pps. When hovering over that port, or clicking on it, the graphs do display the traffic correctly. Some devices their ports do display the traffic number as well, but the majority doesn't. I can't figure out why the traffic on some ports is displayed correct, while it's not on all the others. I don't think it's not a problem on the devices being polled, because I'm running 2 observium versions for testing purposes (0.13.10.4585 & 0.14.3.5094), and on v13 the traffic for device X is displayed correctly, while on v14 the traffic for that device is 0bps/0pps on all ports (graphs work fine). And the other way around for device Y. These are Cisco and Juniper devices being polled. All the graphs work fine. I have attached these screenshots to clarify what I mean: The port graphs:

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Enable Eventlog RSS
by Onno van der Leun 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Hi, I noticed a new feature in the changelog of februari: Add RSS/ATOM output for eventlogs So I just updated to 0.14.3.5094 but can't find the RSS feed option anywhere? Could someone please tell me how to get the RSS output of events? Regards, Onno.

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Host down and up every 5 min.
by Joarli Leandro [INITNET] 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Good morning, I have a problem I can not solve. I have two installations of observium, CE and SUBSCRIPTION, on 2 different servers. My hosts are all down , 5 minutes after up. In both servers. When I go to check, no host had fallen, and neither appears in the logs instability. I installed another server, running only the SNMP and a dedicated link, and even then it falls and rises in 5 minutes. What can it be? All three devices are dedicated to Observium, 1 physical machine, and another virtual. The client host only with SNMP are physical. All in 3 diferents Datacenter. See an example below. 2014-03-10 13:25:02 Machine1 System Device status changed to Up 2014-03-10 13:25:02 Machine2 System Device status changed to Up 2014-03-10 13:20:04 Machine1 System Device status changed to Down (ping) 2014-03-10 13:20:04 Machine2 System Device status changed to Down (ping) -- Joarli Leandro Tel: (11) 4478-6171 jleandro(a)initnet.com.br

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Re: [Observium] Smokeping tab gone on holiday
by Tim Calvin 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

Having same issues. No ping tab. Everything configured the same as when it was working. Not sure what SVN it disappeared. Running Latest. From: Robert Williams <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com>> Reply-To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 4:47 AM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Smokeping tab gone on holiday Hi - our Smokeping tab has vanished mysteriously. Not sure exactly when but definitely within the last week. The setting is still there: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/"; Plus the script which auto-generates the Targets file with the correct formatting is still there also and running ok (extract below): echo "*** Targets ***\n\nprobe = FPing\n\nmenu = Top\ntitle = Network Latency Grapher\nremark = Welcome to SmokePing\n\n"; $query = mysql_query("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `ignore`=0 AND `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname"); while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { $hostid = str_replace(".","_",$data['hostname']); $hostname = $data['hostname']; echo "+ $hostid\n\nhost = $hostname\n\n"; } Making hosts that look like: + sw-msl-pab-52_mastv_local host = sw-msl-pab-52.mastv.local So the targets file itself looks good and the Smokeping site is running fine if you browse it directly. The RRDs are all in /var/lib/smokeping/ and we are SVN up'ing daily. Host names are unchanged and it has been working fine for over a year so I'm lost as to why it would disappear now. It's gone for all hosts as far as I can tell? I have no idea how to debug it as it's not a poller / discovery thing, so any pointers as to what might be broken please? Cheers :) Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com> http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Alert on Reboot Device?
by Ryan, Spencer J. 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

Is there a way to trigger an alert when a device reboots? If that isn't possible could we trigger if "Uptime" is under some preset amount of time? ________________________________ Spencer Ryan | Systems Engineer Miller Canfield<http://www.millercanfield.com> 150 West Jefferson, Suite 2500 Detroit, Michigan 48226 (USA) T +1.313.496.7547 | F +1.313.496.7699 | Mobile +1.734.846.2053 ryan(a)millercanfield.com<mailto:ryan@millercanfield.com> ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 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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Port Descriptions
by gregorcy 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Hi, I am trying to setup port descriptions but I am not sure where I tell observium which port is a "core" port. This is a link to the documentation but I am not sure where to specify it. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Interface_Description_Parsing Thanks for the help, -- Cheers, Brian Gregorcy IT Manager University of Utah Department of Chemical Engineering 801.585.7170

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monitoring/alerting
by Joshua Elson 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Hi All, Does Observium have the capabilities to monitor and alert when file systems grow above a certain threshold? Say 80% full? I didn't see this in the documentation. Thanks in advance! 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] excel
by Rob VanHooren 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

fwiw, could pull sql data with odbc too. did that recently, to save a cow orker ... he was fearing hundreds of cut & pastes. maybe I shoulda let him suffer? <evil grin> R. Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPad > On Mar 6, 2014, at 4:37 PM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. February Changelog (Adam Armstrong) > 2. Graph Data in Excel (Luis Quintana) > 3. monitoring/alerting (Joshua Elson) > 4. Re: Graph Data in Excel (Adam Armstrong) > 5. Re: Graph Data in Excel (Shayne Lebrun) > 6. Re: monitoring/alerting (Adam Armstrong) > 7. Re: Graph Data in Excel (Luis Quintana) > 8. Re: Graph Data in Excel (Luis Quintana) > 9. Re: Graphing Apple Airport traffic (Steve Evans) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:21:18 -0600 > From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Subject: [Observium] February Changelog > Message-ID: <d06e945c01b583cf085f5a727381d4e2(a)memetic.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Le changelogue du februarois > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#February_2014 > > adam. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 14:37:49 -0600 > From: Luis Quintana <sla07(a)earthlink.net> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] Graph Data in Excel > Message-ID: <C1C8BA97-11A3-4981-A26C-620CA597D0E7(a)earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Is there any way to pull graph data into an excel sheet? It seems like it would be something that I need to export off of a specific rrd file and convert to csv/excel, or is there any other way to do this? > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:41:18 +0000 > From: Joshua Elson <jelson(a)maxlinear.com> > To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] monitoring/alerting > Message-ID: > <C20071DB41B55E42A74D4CABEDB29B05271BC825(a)USMXLMBX01.maxlinear.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi All, > Does Observium have the capabilities to monitor and alert when file systems grow above a certain threshold? Say 80% full? > > I didn't see this in the documentation. > > Thanks in advance! > > 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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Graph Data in Excel
by Luis Quintana 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Is there any way to pull graph data into an excel sheet? It seems like it would be something that I need to export off of a specific rrd file and convert to csv/excel, or is there any other way to do this?

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February Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Le changelogue du februarois http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#February_2014 adam.

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GlusterFS / Partition
by Daniel Beruben 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hi, We use GlusterFS for our storages and we have partitions more than 73 TB , in Observium it's seem notrecognized. It shows us that 8TB. What is the status ? Someone has an idea? a tweak? **************************************************************************************************************** nagios-plugins-snmp-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64 net-snmp-libs-5.5-49.el6.x86_64 net-snmp-5.5-49.el6.x86_64 net-snmp-utils-5.5-49.el6.x86_64 10:57:04 AM Linux 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux **************************************************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /dev/md4 73T 35M 73T 1% /brick0 /dev/md9 73T 35M 73T 1% /brick1 /dev/md10 73T 35M 73T 1% /brick2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beruben Daniel

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smokeping graphs in observium (loss of information)
by Martin Smith 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hello, I have a quick question about Smokeping integration with Observium. It's working but the graphs are displayed with less information. Is it possible for Observium to display the graphs in the same fashion as native Smokeping? For example, smoke goes "up" from the baseline, packet loss displayed in a different color according to percent loss. Comparison image here: http://s14.postimg.org/vti7xyo5t/smokeping_vs_observium.png Thank you for your time, -Martin

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Re: [Observium] Port tracking issue with IPv6
by Maxence BITTERLI 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

I didn't change anything on my observium server, I got no traffic since I added these servers. ls -l /opt/observium/rrd/s29.inter.net/port-* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-1.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-2.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-3.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-4.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-5.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-6.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-7.rrd I added my poller output with debug option. Thanks for your answer. Maxence 2014-03-05 12:36 GMT+01:00 Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx>: > Permission problem on your RRD file? Run poller with debug option to see > what's going on. > > v6 is certainly not related. > > > On 03/05/2014 10:17 AM, Maxence BITTERLI wrote: > > Hi, > > On some machines (debian 6 & 7) I don't have any output of my bandwidth. > Port information are correct, I can see correct MAC and all IP address > associated to this port but my graph are empty. > > Poller output for eth0 : > [ifIndex] => 4 > [ifDescr] => eth0 > [ifType] => ethernetCsmacd > [ifMtu] => 1500 > [ifSpeed] => 1000000000 > [ifPhysAddress] => 8:x0:xe:xc:ex:xe > [ifAdminStatus] => up > [ifOperStatus] => up > [ifLastChange] => 0:0:00:00.00 > [ifInOctets] => 529940242 > [ifInUcastPkts] => 225555807 > [ifInNUcastPkts] => 0 > [ifInDiscards] => 0 > [ifInErrors] => 0 > [ifInUnknownProtos] => 0 > [ifOutOctets] => 1075923292 > [ifOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 > [ifOutNUcastPkts] => 0 > [ifOutDiscards] => 0 > [ifOutErrors] => 0 > [ifOutQLen] => 0 > [ifSpecific] => zeroDotZero > [ifName] => eth0 > [ifInMulticastPkts] => 0 > [ifInBroadcastPkts] => 0 > [ifOutMulticastPkts] => 0 > [ifOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 > [ifHCInOctets] => 56364515090 > [ifHCInUcastPkts] => 225555807 > [ifHCInMulticastPkts] => 0 > [ifHCInBroadcastPkts] => 0 > [ifHCOutOctets] => 275953830236 > [ifHCOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 > [ifHCOutMulticastPkts] => 0 > [ifHCOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 > [ifHighSpeed] => 1000 > [ifPromiscuousMode] => false > [ifConnectorPresent] => true > [ifAlias] => > [ifCounterDiscontinuityTime] => 0:0:00:00.00 > > Linux 3.10.9-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 (Debian 7) > This interface support IPv4 & IPv6 and I actually have some traffic on > it. > > At first I thougth it was a probleme with IPv4 + v6 but I also got an > old machine with IPv4 only and this machine got empty graph too. > > Any idea to solve this ? > > Maxence > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > >

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S Dnem Rozhdeniya!
by Rob VanHooren 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

and *nobody* took a moment to say it yesterday? better late than never :-) cheers, R. > On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:09 AM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Graphing Apple Airport traffic (Adam Armstrong) > 2. Re: Graphing Apple Airport traffic (Tom Laermans) > 3. Re: Port tracking issue with IPv6 (Maxence BITTERLI) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:50:44 -0600 > From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Graphing Apple Airport traffic > Message-ID: <15b4e7a93cae33d4399a815bbd24074e(a)memetic.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > Depends upon how it's done, probably not with the stuff being dropped > into "graphs", but if it's written in a sensible fashion I can probably > move it to a better place. > > adam. > >> On 2014-03-05 19:57, Steve Evans wrote: >> Some hacking later, I have each of my airport base stations reporting >> the WiFi stats seen by their clients thus: >> >> Is this of interest for the greater good? >> >> Steve >> >> On 23 Feb 2014, at 22:46, Steve Evans <Steve(a)SCEvans.com> wrote: >> >> Tracking roaming could be very useful for understanding where wifi >> access points are needed. Much of the power in data is the associations >> between it. Several years ago I authored the SUN-PLATFORM-MIB as an >> extension to the ENTITY-MIB. That was all about associations. >> >> Steve >> >> On 23 Feb 2014, at 21:55, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >> >> On 2014-02-23 14:50, Steve Evans wrote: >> One challenge, if graphing the wirelessClientsTable, would be the fact >> that as the clients came and went their corresponding entries in the >> tables would come and go. There would therefore be gaps in the >> recording of packets associated with these nodes. That's a fairly >> simple concept, but how would you manage roaming whereby a client hops >> between base stations? Would you try to tie these together so that a >> trace of traffic associated with such a client, irrespective of base >> station would be available? I think that decision might shape any >> framework; ie would it be base station or client centric? Of course >> more than one view may be desirable. >> >> And you see why no one has written any software to do this before... >> >> I try to stay away from recording any history for transient things, >> we'll store a count and sometimes a snapshot of the state, but more >> than that usually not. >> >> Though, it depends how useful it would be in the end. We do store >> history for MAC accounting, and this is vaguely similar. >> >> adam. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:00:28 +0100 > From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Graphing Apple Airport traffic > Message-ID: <53182B1C.3040806(a)powersource.cx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > The current very simple "wifi client count" was/is also under > graphs/wireless, which is probably why it's there in Steve's patch. :-) > >> On 06/03/2014 03:50, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> >> Depends upon how it's done, probably not with the stuff being dropped >> into "graphs", but if it's written in a sensible fashion I can >> probably move it to a better place. >> >> adam. >> >>> On 2014-03-05 19:57, Steve Evans wrote: >>> Some hacking later, I have each of my airport base stations reporting >>> the WiFi stats seen by their clients thus: >>> >>> Is this of interest for the greater good? >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> On 23 Feb 2014, at 22:46, Steve Evans <Steve(a)SCEvans.com> wrote: >>> >>> Tracking roaming could be very useful for understanding where wifi >>> access points are needed. Much of the power in data is the >>> associations between it. Several years ago I authored the >>> SUN-PLATFORM-MIB as an extension to the ENTITY-MIB. That was all >>> about associations. >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> On 23 Feb 2014, at 21:55, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 2014-02-23 14:50, Steve Evans wrote: >>> One challenge, if graphing the wirelessClientsTable, would be the fact >>> that as the clients came and went their corresponding entries in the >>> tables would come and go. There would therefore be gaps in the >>> recording of packets associated with these nodes. That's a fairly >>> simple concept, but how would you manage roaming whereby a client hops >>> between base stations? Would you try to tie these together so that a >>> trace of traffic associated with such a client, irrespective of base >>> station would be available? I think that decision might shape any >>> framework; ie would it be base station or client centric? Of course >>> more than one view may be desirable. >>> >>> And you see why no one has written any software to do this before... >>> >>> I try to stay away from recording any history for transient things, >>> we'll store a count and sometimes a snapshot of the state, but more >>> than that usually not. >>> >>> Though, it depends how useful it would be in the end. We do store >>> history for MAC accounting, and this is vaguely similar. >>> >>> adam. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:11:59 +0100 > From: Maxence BITTERLI <maxence(a)definima.com> > To: observium <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Port tracking issue with IPv6 > Message-ID: > <CAN1+dXc-STXEws4p0vdduNKD=Hn0DZ4yRL3iX561aXpnYMw_pg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I didn't change anything on my observium server, I got no traffic since I > added these servers. > ls -l /opt/observium/rrd/s29.inter.net/port-* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-1.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-2.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-3.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-4.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-5.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-6.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-7.rrd > > I added my poller output with debug option. > > Thanks for your answer. > > > Maxence > > > 2014-03-05 12:36 GMT+01:00 Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx>: > >> Permission problem on your RRD file? Run poller with debug option to see >> what's going on. >> >> v6 is certainly not related. >> >> >> On 03/05/2014 10:17 AM, Maxence BITTERLI wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On some machines (debian 6 & 7) I don't have any output of my bandwidth. >> Port information are correct, I can see correct MAC and all IP address >> associated to this port but my graph are empty. >> >> Poller output for eth0 : >> [ifIndex] => 4 >> [ifDescr] => eth0 >> [ifType] => ethernetCsmacd >> [ifMtu] => 1500 >> [ifSpeed] => 1000000000 >> [ifPhysAddress] => 8:x0:xe:xc:ex:xe >> [ifAdminStatus] => up >> [ifOperStatus] => up >> [ifLastChange] => 0:0:00:00.00 >> [ifInOctets] => 529940242 >> [ifInUcastPkts] => 225555807 >> [ifInNUcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifInDiscards] => 0 >> [ifInErrors] => 0 >> [ifInUnknownProtos] => 0 >> [ifOutOctets] => 1075923292 >> [ifOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 >> [ifOutNUcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifOutDiscards] => 0 >> [ifOutErrors] => 0 >> [ifOutQLen] => 0 >> [ifSpecific] => zeroDotZero >> [ifName] => eth0 >> [ifInMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifInBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifOutMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCInOctets] => 56364515090 >> [ifHCInUcastPkts] => 225555807 >> [ifHCInMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCInBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCOutOctets] => 275953830236 >> [ifHCOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 >> [ifHCOutMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHighSpeed] => 1000 >> [ifPromiscuousMode] => false >> [ifConnectorPresent] => true >> [ifAlias] => >> [ifCounterDiscontinuityTime] => 0:0:00:00.00 >> >> Linux 3.10.9-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 (Debian 7) >> This interface support IPv4 & IPv6 and I actually have some traffic on >> it. >> >> At first I thougth it was a probleme with IPv4 + v6 but I also got an >> old machine with IPv4 only and this machine got empty graph too. >> >> Any idea to solve this ? >> >> Maxence >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Polling Taking Longer than 5 minutes for a few devices
by Chip Pleasants 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

I have a few devices that take longer than 5 minutes to poll. Looking at the polling information Observium provides it reports 999.99s for two of the three and the third one reports 975.37s under Last Polled. I believe the result of taking to long o poll is the breaks I see in my graphs for only these three devices. These boxes have about 150 vlan interfaces and are fully populated 6509s. I have adjusted the poller-wrapper.py to 10 and $config['snmp']['max-rep'] = 10 right now. A 4 processor VM averages about 60 cpu utilization constantly. The Server's Disk IO Ops/sec average is about 110. Today I only have 52 out of 1300 devices loaded into it. Any suggestions to speed up the polling on these few boxes or is the only solution add another polling server and do odd even or something of that nature. Maybe there is another issue I'm not seeing? Thanks in advance for any assistance/direction. -Chip

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F5 Load Balancers
by Adam Mills 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Has any done any development on monitoring of F5s? Around monitoring of VIPs, conns per second, pool members, etc? -- Adam Mills Network Engineer Email: amills(a)riotgames.com Mobile: +1(702)595-2188 Skype: thegeneralmills IGN: GeneralMills (NA/OCE/LAs/BR), RiotGeneral(EUN/EUW) [image: Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image003.png@01CCBFC7.77B37AF0] www.riotgames.com www.leagueoflegends.com

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overall_traffic on front page, showing peering when peering is disabled.
by Matt Ladewig 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

I have transit, customer, and core traffic interfaces descriptions setup and working. No peering interfaces have been defined. Peering interfaces menu items are disabled with $config['int_peering'] = 0; However, when overall_traffic is added to the $config['frontpage']['order'] array, "Overall Peering Traffic Today" and "Overall Transit & Peering Traffic This Month" headers are displayed with broken image placeholders that link back to the url/iftype/type=peering/ and url/iftype/type=peering%2Ctransit/ respectively. Not a big issue, but from a consistency standpoint, it would make sense to disable the overall peering traffic views if $config['int_peering'] = 0; is set. Matt

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mysqld.sock error?
by Luis Quintana 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

I have been recently seeing this error pop up, whenever trying to login to my observium instance, and was wondering if anyone had experienced this before. This is an install I did back around October of 2013 and other then expanding the hdd, a month or so ago, I havent really messed with the settings (the first time i saw this was about a week and a half ago or so). After searching on google a little bit, it seems like the socket trying to be leveraged is at location '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' yet when i do a search for '-type s', i only see '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'. The '/etc/mysql/my.cnf' file already lists "socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock" though. Should I just modify the my.cnf file to include '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'? This is the error I get: MySQL Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)

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observium not showing mac addressses Cisco Switch WS-C3750X-48P-S
by techuser6＠gmail.com 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Problem: I have a Cisco Switch that is not showing the MAC addresses in Observium. I have configured SNMP as according to the IPV4 instructions on the main observium website. My other Cisco devices are showing MAC address information fine. I can do a show mac address-table and everything appears when SSH into the switch. Can someone please advise what I am missing or how to get observium to start showing the MAC addresses of this device? Model number : WS-C3750X-48P-S * 1 54 WS-C3750X-48P 12.2(55)SE C3750E-UNIVERSALK9-M Thanks

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Observium as inventory mgmt?
by Daniel Kasen 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hello all, I've been playing around for the last week and want to say really nice work thus far. But I was wondering if anyone is using this as an inventory system that would be comparable to racktables? Basically allow the user to create a table with software versions acquired through the Unix agent module (not the rpm plugin as this ignores tar installs). From everything I've seen so far it looks like this is more focused on adding custom graphs and not simple text. Have I missed something obvious here, or is this an improper use of the tool on my part? *Daniel Kasen | Data Center Operations Engineer*

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Storage alerts
by Johnathon Voegeli 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Is it possible to create an alert based on storage % yet? I've tried several ways and failed in a fiery crash. -JV

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Port tracking issue with IPv6
by Maxence BITTERLI 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hi, On some machines (debian 6 & 7) I don't have any output of my bandwidth. Port information are correct, I can see correct MAC and all IP address associated to this port but my graph are empty. Poller output for eth0 : [ifIndex] => 4 [ifDescr] => eth0 [ifType] => ethernetCsmacd [ifMtu] => 1500 [ifSpeed] => 1000000000 [ifPhysAddress] => 8:x0:xe:xc:ex:xe [ifAdminStatus] => up [ifOperStatus] => up [ifLastChange] => 0:0:00:00.00 [ifInOctets] => 529940242 [ifInUcastPkts] => 225555807 [ifInNUcastPkts] => 0 [ifInDiscards] => 0 [ifInErrors] => 0 [ifInUnknownProtos] => 0 [ifOutOctets] => 1075923292 [ifOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 [ifOutNUcastPkts] => 0 [ifOutDiscards] => 0 [ifOutErrors] => 0 [ifOutQLen] => 0 [ifSpecific] => zeroDotZero [ifName] => eth0 [ifInMulticastPkts] => 0 [ifInBroadcastPkts] => 0 [ifOutMulticastPkts] => 0 [ifOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 [ifHCInOctets] => 56364515090 [ifHCInUcastPkts] => 225555807 [ifHCInMulticastPkts] => 0 [ifHCInBroadcastPkts] => 0 [ifHCOutOctets] => 275953830236 [ifHCOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 [ifHCOutMulticastPkts] => 0 [ifHCOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 [ifHighSpeed] => 1000 [ifPromiscuousMode] => false [ifConnectorPresent] => true [ifAlias] => [ifCounterDiscontinuityTime] => 0:0:00:00.00 Linux 3.10.9-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 (Debian 7) This interface support IPv4 & IPv6 and I actually have some traffic on it. At first I thougth it was a probleme with IPv4 + v6 but I also got an old machine with IPv4 only and this machine got empty graph too. Any idea to solve this ? Maxence

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please unsubscribe my account
by Rendani Nenzhelele 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

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App Bind - No rrd file
by Maxence BITTERLI 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hi, I enabled bind apps on 2 servers but actually I got no rrd file on my observium server but on the web interface I can see both of them with pic embed but corrupted. Any clue ? Where should I check to try to debug it ? If I try telnet localhost 36602, I can see <<<app-bind-0>>> And I got an output of 1185 lines for this apps, maybe my results is too long ? Thanks for your help :) Maxence

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Re: [Observium] Storage alerts
by Adam Armstrong 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

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Brocade VDX Support?
by Aaron Mayfield 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

I notice my Brocade routers seem to work fine in Observium. What about VDX switches? Does anyone know if Observium can work with these? Currently evaluating switches for our network, and would like to know if this would be a possible issue... Thanks

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Help - Syslog-NG
by Hardcastle, Iain (CBC - Hamilton) 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi all, I have an observium system running quite happily. I've tried to integrate the syslogging functionality but getting strange results. Not sure whether the problem lies with syslog-ng, PHP or the sucking of data into Observium. Let me explain: With syslog-ng started in foreground mode 'syslog-ng -Fevd' everything works as expected. I see syslog packets coming in via tcpdump, I see the log flash up on the terminal and it correctly routes into the right part of the Observium front end. With syslog-ng started as a daemon (the desired config setup), nothing gets to Observium. I can still see the syslog packets in tcpdump obviously but I'm blind as to what happens to the messages after that. One thing I have noticed is that when running syslog-ng in foreground mode, I see "Starting destination program; cmdline='/opt/observium/syslog.php'" in the startup messages and a corresponding process in the ps -lax output "php /opt/observium/syslog.php" With syslog-ng started as a daemon, I do not see this php process. Bit stuck as to where to look next. Has anyone seen this behavior before? Centos6.5 and standard packages and configs. System works great otherwise/ Cheers iain Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see http://www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and its member firms.

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How to disable the "Overall Peering" graph?
by Shane O'Brien 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hello! We are experiencing an issue where we currently have no peering traffic and our Overall Peering graph on our Observium landing page is broken. We'd like to remove it, but when we select the option to not display broken graphs. It removes all of our graphs and not just the single broken one. Any guidance or assistance is appreciated. -Shane

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App Bind - No rrd file
by Maxence BITTERLI 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi, I enabled bind apps on 2 servers but actually I got no rrd file on my observium server but on the web interface I can see both of them with pic embed but corrupted. Any clue ? Where should I check to try to debug it ? If I try telnet localhost 36602, I can see <<<app-bind-0>>> And I got 1185 lines for this apps, maybe my results is too long ? Maxence

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change port name/description?
by Tom De Puysseleyr 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi again, SNMP traps are working (thanks to the wiki), so now I can see nearly immediately when a port on a switch goes down. However, something like "Nortel Networks BayStack 5510-24T Ethernet Switch Module - Unit 1 Port 1" doesn't say much about what exactly went down. Just an idea: would it be possible to provide a way to edit the port names? Mvg, Tom De Puysseleyr Afdeling Informatica T +32 (0) 15 565 238 F +32 (0) 15 565 240 www.belorta.be Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Mempool updates every 6 hours?
by Matt Ladewig 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

This started on the 27th, on my hp gear. I believe I went from 5019 to 5050 around that time. Now at 5058. >From the event log from one device. All HP procurves showing the same. 2014-02-28 12:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-28 12:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-28 06:33:10 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-28 06:33:10 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-28 00:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-28 00:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-27 18:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-27 18:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-27 12:33:10 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-27 12:33:10 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-27 06:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-27 06:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-27 00:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-27 00:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1

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Vyatta snmpd errors in ports module
by Robert Williams 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hi, On the latest version of Vyatta (6.6 R1) we are getting these errors for every physical port on every poller run: snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth5| snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth0| snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth3| snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth2| snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth4| snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth1| However everything on the graphs looks fine. I’ve tracked it down to the ports module, which when run by itself causes the errors on the Vyatta box: (The stats are low because it’s not actually in production and only eth4 and eth4.497 are link-up) router.name 311 vyatta (unix) Uptime: 4h 23m 4s Module time: 0.0684s Hardware: Version: Features: VC6.6R1 Serial: Asset: Module time: 0.0132s Caching Oids: ifEntry ifXEntry dot3StatsDuplexStatus Port Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller(2) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller(3) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller(4) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller(5) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection(6) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(20.6kbps/13.8kbps)bytes(58kB/38.9kB)pkts(12.9pps/13.0pps) Checking alerts Port Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection(7) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port eth4.497(8) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(18.3kbps/13.0kbps)bytes(51.5kB/36.5kB)pkts(12.9pps/13.0pps) Checking alerts Module time: 0.3932s Polled in 0.5376 seconds Now this doesn’t occur when polling Vyatta 6.5 R1 so I appreciate it’s probably something which has changed in the Vyatta (or it is now logging something which previously it has ignored). However, to stand a hope of getting it sorted I wondered if anyone could suggest what part of the ‘ports’ module could possibly cause an error like this in the snmpd of the Vyatta? Then I can try to take it up on the Vyatta forums, but at the moment I can’t even explain which I’m trying to poll when the error occurs because I don’t know what steps in the ports module are likely to cause this. Any suggestions / pointers welcome! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Frontpage settings
by Scott Brawner 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

What are all the web pieces you can put on the front page? I'd like to see what's in the /alerts/ page on the front page in the manner it's displayed on the /alerts/page. Possible? 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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inline images
by Rob VanHooren 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

consider, is there a way to adjust the construction of alert messages so images can be attached rather than inline. then, add a config.php lever to toggle between inline vs. attached. takes care of those environments where netadmin has no control over the mail client. just my CAD$0.02 thanks R. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 28, 2014, at 13:39, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Email alerts - supposed to have rrd images? (Scott Brawner) > 2. Re: Email alerts - supposed to have rrd images? (Tom Laermans) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:19:20 +0000 > From: Scott Brawner <Scott.Brawner(a)kratosdefense.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Email alerts - supposed to have rrd images? > Message-ID: > <921F9F8F3697FD4BB023C0963EE7073A1E83A6FD(a)SD-MB02.wfinet.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > How do we get this working for Outlook. > > > > Thanks, > Scott Brawner > Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom > Laermans > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:22 AM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Email alerts - supposed to have rrd images? > > > > Hi, > > The image is included in the html you posted. It's an inline image, not all > e-mail clients (notably Outlook) support this format. > > Tom > > On 15/02/2014 06:48, Matt Ladewig wrote: > > All - > > > > When I receive an alert based on an alerting check, I get a box at the > bottom of the alert that looks like images are supposed to be included, but > they aren't able to resolve. Checking the email's html, there isn't a url > included with the listed images. The html is attached. Any insight would be > appreciated - > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > >

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Email alerts - supposed to have rrd images?
by Matt Ladewig 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

All - When I receive an alert based on an alerting check, I get a box at the bottom of the alert that looks like images are supposed to be included, but they aren't able to resolve. Checking the email's html, there isn't a url included with the listed images. The html is attached. Any insight would be appreciated - Thanks, Matt

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Moving config to a fresh install
by Scott Brawner 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

How hard is it to move/copy the Observium config to a newly built machine? 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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Observium Graph Issue . Draw Error .
by Andrei Stana 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hello everyone , I have a problem regarding the drawing of the graph in observium . Snmpd is running , rrdcached is running . When i run : root@host:/opt/observium# ./poller.php -h all -d i saw that a receive some lines with the following error : [ERROR: rrdcached: Permission denied ] The rrdcached daemon is running like this : root@host:/opt/observium# ps fax | grep rrdcached 26356 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | \_ grep --color=auto rrdcached 15833 ? Ssl 0:01 /usr/bin/rrdcached -l unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock -j /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ -F -b /var/lib/rrdcached/db -B / -p /var/run/rrdcached.pid if i go and edit the rrdcached and remove -B option and then i restart de rrdcached service i do not get anymore ERROR after i run ./poller.php -h all -d . Suggetions anyone ? Multumesc. Andrei. Andrei Stana Team Leader 3G RAN Pitesti Rcs & Rds Pitesti http://www.rcs-rds.ro Office : 0348-400425 Vodafone : 0720-956507 Digi.Mobil : 0770 048196 Digi.Oriunde: 0770048196 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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localhost:36602 failed
by Andrei Stana 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hello , I have a problem with the connexion on the localhost via port 36602 . What i am trying to do is to generate graphs for postfix , mysql and apache. I follow the instructions from observium.org/wiki regarding the unix-agent. I still receiving the following ERROR in poller.php root@host:/opt/observium# tail -f /opt/observium/observium.log Connection to UNIX agent on tcp://localhost:36602 failed. ERROR: 111 Connection refused Connection to UNIX agent on tcp://localhost:6556 failed. ERROR: 111 Connection refused Any suggestion !? Andrei Stana Rcs & Rds Pitesti http://www.rcs-rds.ro Office : 0348-400425 Vodafone : 0720-956507 Digi.Mobil : 0770 048196 Digi.Oriunde: 0770048196 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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half duplex ethernet alert?
by Matt Ladewig 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Could ifDuplex be added as an checker metric? We'd like to setup an alert to keep an eye on this for us, but currently ifDuplex doesn't return a value in the array. It would be very helpful if it could be added. Thanks, Matt [cid:image001.png@01CF33AE.2D30C250]

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"Mempool" noise in event logs...
by Michael Loftis 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Is there any way to get the current noise in the event logs from mempool away? Basically every time discovery is run/rerun I get spurious "updated" events for everything. Cisco, Juniper, Dell PowerConnect, and I think Linux, all effected. 2014-02-27 17:08:51sea-1810-c4-c6506MempoolMemory pool updated: type cemp, index 2001.1, descr CPU of Module 3 - Processor 2014-02-27 17:08:51sea-1810-c4-c6506MempoolMemory pool updated: type cemp, index 1001.1, descr CPU of Module 1 - Processor 2014-02-27 17:08:21c3mx.seaMempoolMemory pool updated: type junos, index 9.2.0.0, descr Routing Engine 1 2014-02-27 17:08:21c3mx.seaMempoolMemory pool updated: type junos, index 9.1.0.0, descr Routing Engine 0 2014-02-27 17:08:21c3mx.seaMempoolMemory pool updated: type junos, index 7.11.0.0, descr FPC: DPC 4x 10GE R @ 10/*/* -- "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." -- Samuel Butler

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Juniper Optical Interface Diagnostics
by Peter Smith 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hi, I have subscribed and installed the stable version of Observium using SVN. I would like to know if there is an option to turn on optical diagnostic information for Juniper network devices as the current graphs do not show this. I am mostly interested in TX and RX power levels. This information is available via snmp. I have currently added EX4500 and EX4550 switches to the monitoring. Thanks, Peter

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Juniper Optical Interface Diagnostics
by Chris Wopat 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

> From: Peter Smith <helsvell(a)gmail.com> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Subject: [Observium] Juniper Optical Interface Diagnostics > Message-ID: > <CAHmLRvVGX_4d0bWwqBGQBQT6sf_K_CprBN9JiL2EBMhH7Fx3WA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > I have subscribed and installed the stable version of Observium using SVN. > I would like to know if there is an option to turn on optical diagnostic > information for Juniper network devices as the current graphs do not show > this. I am mostly interested in TX and RX power levels. This information > is available via snmp. I have currently added EX4500 and EX4550 switches > to the monitoring. What OID are you using? When I tried this last (a year ago, ex4500) the data was not available via SNMP without extra scripts installed on the device. This may have been a limitation of my using SFP and not SFP+ on the device however. --Chris

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Memory usage on ASR9k
by Robert Williams 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hi, This might be my lack of understanding of the memory pools' representations in Observium, or it might be a bug. There seems to be a significant difference in the memory being reported by Observium and that which is reported by the device. Here is the console output for the two processors (SP and RSP) along with the graph values from Observium: #sh mem sum location 0/0/CPU0 Physical Memory: 8192M total Application Memory : 8004M (5264M available) <- approx. 34% used Image: 59M (bootram: 59M) Reserved: 128M, IOMem: 0, flashfsys: 0 Total shared window: 347M #sh mem sum location 0/RSP0/CPU0 Physical Memory: 8192M total (4688M available) <- approx. 41% used Application Memory : 8002M (4688M available) Image: 61M (bootram: 61M) Reserved: 128M, IOMem: 0, flashfsys: 0 Total shared window: 133M The "Reserved" and "Image" ones are always 100% - but that's a different issue I think. What I'm more interested in is the RSP and SP "Processor" element, which both show very different amounts to the real usage. In fact, I can't even remotely line them up with anything on the box itself. So, any ideas or am I just reading this all wrong? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Customers configuration
by Scott Brawner 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

How do you add customers and assign bills to them 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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AD auth
by John P Arends 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

AD authentication isn’t working for me and I’d like to look at some logs to try to figure out what might be going wrong, but I cant figure out where to look. Any suggestions?

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Viewing Mac addresses known on each device/vlan/port?
by Damien Gardner 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hi Folks, Sorry if this has been asked before, google wasn't helping much. Does Observium have the ability to tell me what MAC Addresses have been learnt on any given device, or preferably ports on a device? I was about to go write some php code to find a missing IPMI device via SNMP queries, and one of my coworkers suggested seeing if we can find it from Observium already? Thanks, Damien -- Damien Gardner Jnr Level 3 Systems Admin Office Address: 2/2 Teamster Close, Tuggerah NSW 2259 Postal Address: PO Box 3187, Tuggerah NSW 2259 Direct: | Network Ops: +61 2 8115 8850 | Main Switch: +61 2 8115 8888 Web: www.serversaustralia.com.au

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Alert Checker if SNMP oid | Dell Power
by Guilherme de Freitas Figueiredo 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hi! there is some form to create some alert using a specifc SNMP oid? I say this because I'm trying to create an alert for a Dell switch in which it alarms if one of the sources of power is turned off, the SNMP oid is the SNMPv2-SMI :: enterprises.674.10895.3000.1.2.110.7.2.1.3.11 already in observium envMonSupplyState.11 is apparently the same has to be greater than 1, so I already tried the following: envMonSupplyState.11 gt 1 and SNMPv2-SMI :: enterprises.674.10895.3000.1.2.110.7.2.1.3.11 gt 1 []s! -- Guilherme de Freitas Figueiredo

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Re: [Observium] Weirdness with a site with 32-bit ports
by Scott Brawner 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

This is happening with all my 1921 routers, all started on the 5th or 6th. Help? Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 From: Scott Brawner Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 10:57 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Weirdness with a site with 32-bit ports I am going through the sites and I noticed that on the overview page that nothing is showing in the traffic graph for one of our sites. 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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Weirdness with a site with 32-bit ports
by Scott Brawner 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

I am going through the sites and I noticed that on the overview page that nothing is showing in the traffic graph for one of our sites. But when I look at the ports themselves, they are showing traffic: Then when I go into port config, I see this: It looks like it stopped showing traffic on the 5th or 6th. Any ideas? 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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IPMI values from server running VMWare
by Niclas Tollgård 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Until recently I've been able to retrieve values using IPMI on my servers running ESXi. This option now seems to have been removed? It's still available for my servers running Linux but not ESXi. Any specific reason for this? Is it something I can turn back on again? I'm thinking it's a "hardware" thing and not dependant on the OS it's running. Regards, Nic

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Mailing alert system
by tech8.otelafrica 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hey guys, Could you assist as to how we can set up alerts. I pretty much want the system to send an email when a device goes down. How would I go about setting this up? Regards Anton

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New alerts
by Johnathon Voegeli 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

I am awful at using this new alerting system. Can someone give me a hint on how to setup a temperature alert? Just the basics and I'll work from there. -JV

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Re: [Observium] LDAP Auth not able to use level 10
by Jeff Courtade 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Use the hostname ui.tadj1.adjuggler.net. -- Thanks, Jeff Courtade Director of Systems Engineering Adjuggler Inc http://www.adjuggler.com M: 240.507.6116 -------- Original message -------- From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> Date:02/20/2014 5:47 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP Auth not able to use level 10 Hi Rutger, The problem has been seen here on the list a few times already, but unfortunately I can't replicate it. :[ I presume access to your Observium install is out of the question? Tom On 20/02/2014 20:29, Rutger Truyers wrote: Hi, I've set up the ldap authentication with AD. The LDAP binding , Search and Authentication is all succesfull. even the group matching is perfect. But I'm not able to provide the group a level 10 authentication. When authenticating the user in the correct group can't see any device. Greetings. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Classifying port types
by Scott Brawner 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

As an aside, it would be awesome to be able to assign port roles via the web interface instead of depending on the snmp attribute. Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 From: Scott Brawner Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:45 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Classifying port types I still can't get the classified port types (transit/peering/customer) to work properly. The main graph on the home page works but when I click the link, I get Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Same with Peering. I have the text 'transit' and/or 'peering' in the description for the ports. It appears to be sort of working. just would like that drill down to work. 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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Classifying port types
by Scott Brawner 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

I still can't get the classified port types (transit/peering/customer) to work properly. The main graph on the home page works but when I click the link, I get Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Same with Peering. I have the text 'transit' and/or 'peering' in the description for the ports. It appears to be sort of working. just would like that drill down to work. 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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MRV LX console servers
by Rutger Bevaart 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hello list, I have a couple of MRV LX4000 console servers that I added to Observium. I do not care much about port utilisation but it is nice to know if one drops off the radar and get an alert. However, the boxes are not recognised by Observium and get this ugly question mark icon in the device list. A quick Google did not reveal anything related to these boxes and Observium, did anyone play around with adding these devices and get them recognised properly? They basically run a BusyBox Linux... Regards, Rutger

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strange numbers from nortel switch
by Tom De Puysseleyr 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hi I'm trying to setup Observium to poll all of our switches, and so far I just love it. Great job guys! I hope to convince the management to subscribe soon, but for now we'll have to do with the community version. Let me try to explain my issue. I am polling a dual stack of Nortel Baystack 5510-24T switches using snmp v2c. All ports of unit 1 and ports 1 - 6 of unit 2 look fine. The graphics (bits/sec) for port 7 to 24 of unit 2 are strange though. Port 7 is not used, no device is connected to it at all. The average traffic according to the graphs is around 30Gbit/s. All other ports after port 7 show the exact same numbers. So first I tried to reset all port statistics on the switch. The graphs showed 0 bits/s for a few minutes, but then after let's say 30 minutes it shows a current bandwidth of 8Gbit/s. I tried deleting the device from Observium and added it again, but it seems that all counters are still there. When I look at the port using telnet, all counters are 0. I know that this switch is not in the supported devices list, but as far as I know the default snmp pollings should provide correct numbers for bandwidth statistics, no? Any help is greatly appreciated! Regards, Tom De Puysseleyr

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Adding Bind9 stats into Observium for trending/graphing?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Hello, I do not see a away to search the mailing list so please excuse me if this question has been asked before. I've recently (as in the last 3 or 4 days) began configuring Observium for the purpose of getting some good trending data out of my bind servers. I noticed in the demo, there is an APP drop down, and BIND is listed as one of the supported applications. I am having a difficult time figuring out how to get Observium to monitor my bind servers however. I do get LOTS of great throughput data and cpu usage so that will be very helpful. I have installed the bind9-snmp setup from bayour.com and am abe to read bind statistics using SNMP, but I have no idea how to get these values to be polled and graphed by Observium. If setting up the bind9-stats through SNMP is not the proper way to graph the bind stats, can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Ricardo Meleschi

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Need help getting the new alert system to send mail
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

It never sends and i dont see anything in the email log. //Alert $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Observium Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk>"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; No emails are send on alerts So I tried to change the email backend $config['email_backend'] = 'sendmail'; That did not help. So I did a test to check the php mail module. <?php $to = "tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk>"; $subject = "Test mail"; $message = "Hello! This is a simple email message."; $from = "test(a)mgmt3.network.zitcom.dk<mailto:test@mgmt3.network.zitcom.dk>"; $headers = "From:" . $from; mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers); echo "Mail Sent."; ?> And that worked fine. What is the problem? I have an alert in Observium ☺ [cid:image001.png@01CF1D04.808888E0] Med venlig hilsen | Best regards Thomas Raabo Netværksansvarlig CCIE #33466 Zitcom A/S Telefon: 70 40 00 00 E-mail: kontakt(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:kontakt@zitcom.dk> Direkte: 69 10 60 18 Direkte: tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk> [cid:image005.jpg@01CEDC86.E897E480]<http://www.zitcom.dk/>

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Re: [Observium] strange numbers from nortel switch
by Tom De Puysseleyr 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Hmm, at the moment the numbers are 0 again, so maybe I was complaining too soon... Regards, Tom De Puysseleyr

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Re: [Observium] Enable Google Map
by Maxence BITTERLI 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

is it possible to get the config.php of http://demo.observium.org/ ? Thanks, Max Maxence Bitterli maxence(a)definima.com 05 56 89 14 04 2014-02-20 15:01 GMT+01:00 Maxence Bitterli <maxence(a)definima.com>: > Hello, > > I'm trying to enable the google map like on live demo exemple but I > found few documention about it. > Actually I found some information on Observium Wiki : > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Geocoding_Configuration > > Even if I set : > $config['geocoding']['api'] = 'google'; > > I still got the black&white map. > Any clue ? > > A part of my config.php : > $config['geocoding']['enable'] = true; > $config['geocoding']['api'] = 'google'; > $config['geocoding']['default']['lat'] = "37.7463058"; > $config['geocoding']['default']['lon'] = "-25.6668573"; > $config['frontpage']['map']['region'] = "world"; > $config['frontpage']['map']['resolution'] = "countries"; > $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = 5; > $config['frontpage']['map']['realworld'] = false; > > Max >

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efficiency in SNMP-requests
by Botens.T＠zdf.de 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Hey everyone, first of all I want to tell you, that I really like observium. It's a great tool and I really enjoy using it. There is one disadvantage, that a colleague of mine from our networking department told me. We get log-Entries in our firewall for each SNMP-request. Would it be possible to do a single SNMP request to get all Data? Is there a config setting? Or is it planned to do this? It would really help, because I had to adjust the interval to a longer time as a first measure. Yours Tobias ZDF Tobias Botens GB IST, IT-Betrieb, Systemmanagement ZDF-Stra?e 1 55100 Mainz Germany Telefon: +49 6131 70-14730 Telefax: +49 6131 70-74730 Handy: E-Mail: Botens.T(a)zdf.de Web: ZDF<http://www.zdf.de/> Mit dem Zweiten sieht man besser P Bitte pr?fen Sie, ob diese Mail wirklich ausgedruckt werden muss!

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LDAP Auth not able to use level 10
by Rutger Truyers 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Hi, I've set up the ldap authentication with AD. The LDAP binding , Search and Authentication is all succesfull. even the group matching is perfect. But I'm not able to provide the group a level 10 authentication. When authenticating the user in the correct group can't see any device. Greetings.

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