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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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Wish list: new feature
by Jérémy SPIESSER 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Dear, A would like to request a new feature for the billing option, at the moment, two possibles option: 95percentile or quota would be great if other options could be possible as 90 pecentile as an example. Regards, -- Jeremy SPIESSER 34 bd des Italiens 75009 Paris TEL: 01 44 54 30 00 MOB: 06 22 12 81 75 FAX: 01 70 24 83 67 www.azuria.net [1] prefix et peering [2] Links: ------ [1] http://www.azuria.net/ [2] https://lg.azuria.net/

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Disable BGP Alerts/Polling for Single Router
by Chip Pleasants 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Hoping someone could point me in the right direction. Is there anyway to disable BGP alerts/polling for single router? I see this similar to port disabled from Observiums perspective. I've set "Device Ignore" and "Disable" but still see the bgp alerts on the front page. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Port_disable_vs._ignore -Chip

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Enable Google Map
by Maxence BITTERLI 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

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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0.14.2.5010 Acme Packet Support
by Teixeira, Mike 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Hello, I have an acme packet net-net 4000. In the version 0.14.2.5010 our acme packet device is coming up as a generic device. Was this device included in the support for Acme Packets or do I need to update something on our acme packet device? SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Acme Packet Net-Net 4000 Series SBC SC6.1.0 MR-11 Patch 3 (Build 1048) SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.9148.1.1.1 Thanks, Mike

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Adding MIBs
by Josh Hopper 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

We have several SonicWALL firewalls that are SNMP capable but do not work when you try to add them via ./add_device.php. Since I was able to add our 2400 series SonicWALLs to Observium I just assume there is a file missing somewhere. Does anyone have experience adding MIBs/OIDs to Observium? -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CF2D61.FBED3C20] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565

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Re: [Observium] tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
by Maxence BITTERLI 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Ok it works for me now :s I downloaded it on 2 servers and one workstation and their were all corrupted. Thanks anyway Max Maxence Bitterli maxence(a)definima.com 05 56 89 14 04 2014-02-19 16:35 GMT+01:00 Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx>: > Works for me, please check your link, disk and RAM, then download it > again. > > Tom > > > On 02/19/2014 04:09 PM, Maxence BITTERLI wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to install Observium OSE but when I try to untar, I got an > error. > > I downloaded this file : > http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz > > observium/includes/discovery/humidity/apc.inc.php > tar: Fin prématurée rencontrée dans l'archive. > tar: Fin prématurée rencontrée dans l'archive. > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > Thanks in advance > > Maxence > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > >

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tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
by Maxence BITTERLI 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Hi guys, I'm trying to install Observium OSE but when I try to untar, I got an error. I downloaded this file : http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz observium/includes/discovery/humidity/apc.inc.php tar: Fin prématurée rencontrée dans l'archive. tar: Fin prématurée rencontrée dans l'archive. tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Thanks in advance Maxence

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Unable to add standby Cisco ASA
by Erik INGEBERG 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Hi, I'm trying to add the standby Cisco ASA firewalls we have in our active/standby failover pairs. I am able to add our ASA-SM (ASA service modules), but not the "normal" ASA's or PIX firewalls. Unfortunately, a Cisco ASA failover pair shares the same "sysName" and "snmpEngineID". This is not configurable on the ASA firewalls. When I try to add a standby ASA (with a different hostname / IP address) I get the following error: Already got device with SNMP-read sysName (xxxxxxxxxxx) and 'snmpEngineID' = xxxxxxxxxxx (xxxxxxxxxxx). I see that this is because of a check in "functions.php". Is there any workaround you can think of to allow us to add the standby devices? It is essential for us to monitor them, and we were also hoping to use Observium as our hardware inventory database (which is now missing all standby ASA's). Regards, Erik

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Setting up Alerts
by Marco Marques 19 Feb '14

19 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? Thanks, Marco

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Does observium do a full snmp walk each time the poller for stats run?
by Reigner Yrastorza 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Does observium do a full snmp walk each time the poller for stats run? We are seeing a high load/ports failing on our OOB cisco routers/switches (which are not high-end devices), when we have observium monitoring it. Thanks!

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Alert Conditions
by Teixeira, Mike 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Hello, Is there a list of alert conditions somewhere that I can reference? I have ports that I would like to alert if the throughput drops below X. Thanks, Mike

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Subscription
by David Peall 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Hi I’m looking at subscribing to the Subscription Edition do you provide some sort of invoice if I sign up? Something to claim back the expense. Regards — David Peall

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alerter.php
by Johnathon Voegeli 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the alerter.php file for? Should I have this in crontab now? I must have missed something during an SVN update. ~JV Johnathon Voegeli jvoegeli(a)voigtie.com

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Alerts Drop in traffic
by tech8.otelafrica 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hi guys, Can the alert system be setup to monitor a drop/or spike in traffic? If so,how do we set it up? Regards Anton

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Email Alerts Question
by Chip Pleasants 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hi, I'm hoping someone could kind and provide a little assistance. I'm wondering how would I go about changing the server name in the email alerts. Right now its localhost in the hyperlinks. I looked in the documentation and tried googled but couldn't find anything. Thanks, Chip

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Congrats Observium Team!!!
by Adriaan Smuts 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hi Guys, Just wanted to congratulate the Observium team for revision 5000! Observium has come a long way and I'm sure we are all looking forward to see the product grow and evolve! Once again congrats to Adam and his team and thanks for the awesome app! Regards Adriaan Smuts Systems Administrator [file:///C:\Users\adriaan.CORP\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] ________________________________ Direct Line +27 21 464 9565 Reception 086 000 9500 Website www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/>

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APC InRow Cooling support
by Bruce Winters 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

I would like to graph the air temp and air flow in these in row cooling units. I see some APC ups support but not these units. Any pointers on how I would go about it? I am willing to do the leg work. I just don't know how to start. Here is the info on the unit. http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=ACRC500&tab… Bruce

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CentOS authentication timeout
by Teixeira, Mike 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hello, I started to have an intermittent issue with users being forced to login when they browse the webpage. I have the timeout settings defined in php.ini: session.use_cookies = 1 session.use_only_cookies = 1 session.cookie_lifetime = 259200 session.cookie_path = / session.cookie_domain = session.cookie_httponly = Socket timeouts are set to the following in php.ini: default_socket_timeout = 259200 I did have a lifetime cookie set to 0 and socket_timeout to 14400. Users that had the issue had a cookie. My authentication mechanism is AD-LDAP. Any other advice on where to look to find out why users are being forced to login intermittently? I have had a hard time tracking this issue down since it is so intermittent. Thanks, Mike

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Persistence of data in Observium
by Teixeira, Mike 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Hello, Recently our network team upgraded one of our devices. Upon doing so some of the ifIndexes changed on the device. So we lost some history on some of the ports where the ifindex changed. Another situation, we use the port description mapping for tracking transit, peering, core ports. We moved a peer from one switch to another in one of our ports to upgrade the capacity. When we did that we lost the history in the aggregate graph because the old port doesn't have the port description anymore denoting it is a peer. Any tips on how to keep history on ports in those situations? I was thinking of outputting the data to a separate RRD or database. But, then I don't get to use the awesome observium interface to view that data. Thanks, Mike

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Re: [Observium] Transit link not working
by Scott Brawner 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Looks like the ifAlias text column in the ports table is limited to 64b. Is there a reason for that? Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 From: Scott Brawner Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:32 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Transit link not working On the front page I've enabled the overall <class> traffic today. But when I click on the Transit Graph to drill down to iftype/type=transit/, I get "None Found". I have 2 ports on 2 different routers set to type Transit with the following strings in ifAlias: Router 1: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=1/tab=port/port=1/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BMEC.959625 - Vz-13.KRGN.57 Router 2: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=2/tab=port/port=13/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BKEC.946484 - Vz-46.KFGS.30 Looks like they get cut off too.. What's the string max for those? 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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Transit link not working
by Scott Brawner 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

On the front page I've enabled the overall <class> traffic today. But when I click on the Transit Graph to drill down to iftype/type=transit/, I get "None Found". I have 2 ports on 2 different routers set to type Transit with the following strings in ifAlias: Router 1: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=1/tab=port/port=1/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BMEC.959625 - Vz-13.KRGN.57 Router 2: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=2/tab=port/port=13/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BKEC.946484 - Vz-46.KFGS.30 Looks like they get cut off too.. What's the string max for those? 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 over https
by Scott Brawner 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Is there anything I need to keep in mind when I switch the observium web server over to ssl besides just the standard apache stuff? Best regards, Scott Brawner

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Billing
by Scott Brawner 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Possible to put billing on front page? DO I have to code it into the frontpage default php? 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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Ping settings don't apply when set in config.php
by Nathan Phelan 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hi Guys, I've just updated our version to the subscription one and found several of our devices now show in Observium as going up and down. After a big of digging it looks like this is because their latency is around the 50ms mark and they fluctuate up and down around 5ms so the default ping timeout times out. I tried setting the following in config.php but the behaviour did not change. Ping Settings $config['ping']['timeout'] = 500; # timeout in ms $config['ping']['retries'] = 6; # how many times to retry the query I added a bit of code to the debug to print out the values of $timeout and $retries in the isPingable function and found that it didn't matter what was set in config.php the values would always end up at $timeout=50 and $retries=1. I set them manually in the function just above $sleep and it kicked in and worked and the up/down notifications behaved as they used to. Have I goofed up the config.php somehow (I used the same as above) or is something else NQR somewhere? All other options in config.php seem to work and php -l config.php returns "No syntax errors detected in config.php" Cheers, Nathan Phelan

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NFS application monitor
by Tom Taylor 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Howdy, Does anyone have any info on how to set up the NFS application monitoring? I've taken a read through of the install docs and there's no mention of the NFS monitor. Any ideas ? -TT Tom Taylor Head of Engineering, Chicago T +1 312 605 8900 [http://www.themill.com/logos/MillLogo.png] The Mill 54 West Hubbard Street, Suite 502, Chicago, IL, 60654 themill.com | <http://www.themill.com/> themillblog.com | <http://www.themillblog.com/> @millchannel | <https://twitter.com/millchannel> facebook.com/millchannel<http://www.facebook.com/millchannel>

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Observium Home Page - Sensors
by Adriaan Smuts 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hi Guys, Can someone please fix the links on the sensors section of the home page (please see below or attached). [cid:image001.png@01CF240B.61979D00] If you click on ports/devices under Down it takes you to the down devices or ports, but on sensors it just takes you to the health page. Example: http://observium.domain.com/devices/status=0/ (Devices down link) Example: http://observium.domain.com/health/ (Sensors down link) I hope the above makes sense... :) PS: Our sensors are on Dell/SuperMicro IPMI devices. Regards Adriaan Smuts Systems Administrator [file:///C:\Users\adriaan.CORP\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] ________________________________ Direct Line +27 21 464 9565 Reception 086 000 9500 Website www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/>

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Geocoding
by Scott Brawner 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

OK I'll admit I was goofing around, in config.php I changed the geocoding API setting from google to mapquest for like ten seconds. Most of my sites are now clumped in the island off Portugal now. I've tried editing the sysLocations and rediscovering/polling to no avail. Halp! Now what? 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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ifAlias Script replacement
by Sascha Schaal 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

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MAC Accounting
by James Bensley 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hi All, I'm sure this was discussed a while back but I've searched the mailing list and can't find anything. Is MAC accounting still supported in Observium or is this feature present in the code but awaiting removal? If it is support how are people using it? I am testing on Cisco IOS devices and its not working very well for me. I have configure under a physical interface the following: ip accounting output-packets ip accounting mac-address input ip accounting mac-address output I have some juniper MX tin in the lab I can test. Is this feature supported on Juniper too, would one perhaps have to configure "mac-learn-enable" as per this document? http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.2/topics/usage-guidelines/int… Below are the results I am getting from a Cisco 2821 for example running c2800nm-adventerprisek9-mz.124-25f.bin; All MACs have no IP addresses: http://i.imgur.com/CMBPjHf.png If I switch to the graph view they are all blank: http://i.imgur.com/nlaRqar.png If I click on any graph I get a permissions error (my user account is in the admins group): http://i.imgur.com/NcwKy8O.png The Top10 is partially working, it seems to be missing a lot of data: http://i.imgur.com/NraRHVc.png I have the same results (most data is missing) on a Cisco 1841 running c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.124-25f.bin in our office. Many thanks, James.

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SVN working but not working
by Scott Brawner 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

I finally got svn to work by proxying it through a server with actual internet access. I love how I have to make an end-run around the network guys so I can give them what they want. Hilarious. Anyway I did the svn co http://..... Blah blah and it seemed to work properly. Then I run discovery and get this. (poller does the same thing) ./discovery.php -h dc-m-sitelink svn: '/opt/observium' is not a working copy Observium v0.SVN.ERROR Discovery Do I need to wipe and reinstall? I'd prefer not to as I have ~50 hosts set up and everything is otherwise working well. 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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Discovery stuck on updating
by Nitesh Mistry 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

When I run discovery.php -h none the update process is stuck at... Please help. bservium:/opt/observium# ./discovery.php -h none Observium v0.14.2.4966 Discovery -- Updating database/file schema 080 -> 081 ... (db) done. 081 -> 082 ... (db) (STUCK HERE) Thanks Nitesh

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LDAP auth and permissions levels
by Scott Brawner 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hi all- I'm using level 10 for admins and that is working fine, however, with level 1 users they can log in but cannot see any devices or ports. Is there something else I need to set up inside the application? Using latest stable svn. 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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No graphs linux
by Tamino Grentzius 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hi, I am new to observium and after having multiple deploys I discovered that it works mostly really well, but on my linux machines it seems I have an error with drawing the graphs for memory, cpu and that... Anyone got a tip where I should start (client/server side) I have no clue at this point :) My esxi works, my cisco works, but no linux... :| Cheers, Tamino

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Api question
by Marc 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hi All, First off all observium rocks :) I'm using observium for the testing purpose the CE version and I want to test the api but i get no result back in de data login is succeeded. api.php?username=[me]&password=idonttell&module=inventory&device=71 And the result is {"login":{"success":{"code":"101","msg":"User authentification succeeded"}},"data":[]} And yes the device is pressent --SNIP-- rrdtool graph /tmp/t21fHtvFkNKxDMW5.png -g --alt-autoscale-max --rigid -E --start 1391802941 --end 139188934 --SNIP-- php version PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u7 restclient from philsturgeon codeigniter 2.1.4 -- *Met vriendelijke groet,* Marc de Rooy Technische medewerker Datacenter Engineer Flexwebhosting/FXW DISCLAIMER De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, vragen wij u het volgende: gebruik de inhoud niet; informeer de afzender door het bericht te retourneren; en vernietig de inhoud. The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please do not use the contents, inform us immediately and delete its content.

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Scaling Observium with Rancid, Smokeping, and Syslog-ng
by Chip Pleasants 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Anyone have suggestions or real world experiences they could share scaling Observium with Rancid, Smokeping, and Syslog-ng. I have about 1000 router/switches in my network that equate to about 30k of interfaces. Half the interfaces will probably be down, although I'm not sure that makes a difference. Basically I'm wondering if I should break out my tools to individual VMs and use something like NFS for Observium to be able to see Rancid,Smokeping, and Syslog-ng data. Feel free to shoot me a private note. I appreciate any feedback. -Chip

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