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Re: [Observium] Insufficient Permission Issue:
by Adam Armstrong 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

I can't say I've encountered this or heard of it reported before. Are you sure? Adam. DaZZa <dazzagibbs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On 3 August 2013 16:34, Ravindra Gupta <ravindragupta9(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> We have configured observium monitor tool in centos 5.8, when we have >> requested url in the browser we got the below error. > >I get that one once in a while too - it generally means your login >session has timed out - if you try and access anything else, you'll >get dumped back to the main page and have to log back in. > >By "timed out", I mean "stopped working for reasons not necessarily >including inactivity", because I've had it happen between one click >and the next > >DaZZa >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Insufficient Permission Issue:
by Ravindra Gupta 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Hii, We have configured observium monitor tool in centos 5.8, when we have requested url in the browser we got the below error. [image: Inline image 1]

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Re: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS
by Tom Laermans 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

If you want to tell us when to commit and not commit, you'd better be paying us during both of those timespans. Why don't you just no svn up before seeing what it does? Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Tristan Rhodes" <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS Date: Fri, Aug 2, 2013 18:34 Would it be possible to come up with a compromise solution that meets the requirements of stability and freshness? Here is one idea: What if SVN updates were only submitted on Sunday through Wednesday? Users can then update on the day of the week that meets their needs. For example, people who want to help test new (and potentially risky) code can update cron on Thursday or Friday. People who want a more stable environment choose Saturday. Of course, SVN updates would be made on any day to resolve an regression or bug that was found. What do you think of this idea? Cheers, Tristan On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: I update automatically in cron.daily. Because you tell me to. If i have to choose between shiny/new and stable, i will always choose stable, all other things being equal. On 08/02/2013 07:23 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: A majority of users actually seem to update pretty regularly. We assume this is because they like the new things (and the fixing of problems) rather than because we told them to, because the only people we tell to update regularly are the 10% of users present on this list :) Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: On 08/02/2013 07:03 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: On 2013-08-01 21:30, Stefan Milo wrote: A tool like observium is often used by people in Operations. People in Operations tend to favor stability over new features. The old if it's not broken mantra... Well then, you probably want to be using Cacti. Judging by the update habits of our existing userbase, they agree with us. "Agree" is much too strong a term; "tolerate" would be better; "it's better than using Cacti" would probably be more accurate than both. :-) _______________________________________________ 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 -- Tristan Rhodes Network Engineer Weber State University (801) 626-8549

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Re: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS
by Adam Armstrong 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

I think anyone who wanted something like this would be better served by paying attention to the svn changelog and only updating after a day or two of inactivity. All of the information needed is available. We won't adopt any practices which increase our workload without obvious benefit. Delaying svn commits is the #1 cause of the "missing include" bug being committed. Adam. Tristan Rhodes <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS
by Adam Armstrong 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

A majority of users actually seem to update pretty regularly. We assume this is because they like the new things (and the fixing of problems) rather than because we told them to, because the only people we tell to update regularly are the 10% of users present on this list :) Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >On 08/02/2013 07:03 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> On 2013-08-01 21:30, Stefan Milo wrote: >>> A tool like observium is often used by people in Operations. People in >>> Operations tend to favor stability over new features. The old if it's >>> not broken mantra... >> >> Well then, you probably want to be using Cacti. Judging by the update >> habits of our existing userbase, they agree with us. > >"Agree" is much too strong a term; "tolerate" would be better; "it's >better than using Cacti" would probably be more accurate than both. :-) > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Certain MySQL agent graphs not showing
by Shaun Bradley 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hi, Once again it's me. I have the mysql and apache agents running on a few machines and have observium picking the data up. This is working fine for apache and mostly for mysql, but I have missing graphs for 'process list' 'myisam indexes' (our dbs are mainly innodb based), table locks, and temporary objects. I have followed the agent instructions to a tee as far as I can see and have double checked my configuration, as well as googled for any info, but I am stuck on this one. Is there any way I can either remove these broken graph links or fill out the information? I can't see what I'd change to make them appear to be honest. Any pointers would be gratefully received. Thanks, Shaun

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Digital optics monitoring sensors - cisco 2960S
by Petr Gregor 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hi guys, I am successfully using observium in our network. Monitoring about 180 cisco switches. Thanks! I am however missing graphs for optics SFP modules. I can see the sensors in snmpwalk: > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1061 = STRING: TenGigabitEthernet1/0/1 > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1062 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Module Temperature Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1063 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Supply Voltage Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1064 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Bias Current Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1065 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Transmit Power Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1066 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Receive Power Sensor And I can see the sensors listed in inventory page in observium. There are however no values or graphs on the health page. Thank you for any tips. Gregy

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Locations menu
by Tom Henderson 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hi All Perviously my Devices > Locations submenu would show the custom location entered on the device properties page (under Override sysLocation). Is there a setting to revert to this behaviour? I've tried using the $config['location_map'] setting, but this seems to only apply to the actual sysLocation, not the overriden value. On a side note I'd love to be able to get closer on the map. The closest I could get it was the whole of New Zealand, on which I have a single green spot covering the whole of Auckland! Thanks for the great product. Cheers Tom Henderson IT Manager | Pack & Company | 027 461 4403 | 09 929 2750 | tom(a)pack.co.nz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not disclose, copy, or distribute any information contained in or attached to it, or take any action/inaction based on it. Please contact us immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and not of Pack & Company (NZ) Limited (the "Company"), however any intellectual property contained in or attached to this email is the property of the Company. Thank you.

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Web Interface display issue
by Colin Anderson 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

I've performed several installations, but have a problem with this one. The root/home webpage displays correctly, but all other pages lack the normal formatting. All of the menu items from across the top of the page are displayed as an unformatted bulleted list on everything except the root http://observium webpage. I compared my /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file to a working installation and it's exactly the same. I've gone back over the installation instructions twice. A2enmod rewrite is enabled, but I'm not sure it's working... If I click on the menu "Devices" -> "All Devices" it takes me to http://observium/devices/ with the trailing backslash. I can remove the trailing backslash and the page displays correctly. This doesn't seem to work with other pages further down the menu structure such as http://observium/devices/type=network/. The only difference between this installation and my other installations is that the others are on Debian 6 and this is Debian 7.1 (Wheezy). Sorry for the long explanation, but any help is MUCH appreciated. Thanks, Colin Anderson

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Another frontpage patch
by Paul Gear 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Hi all, Here's another patch i've made to the front page, this time to add a "micrographs" function similar to the minigraphs, but with the difference that multiple sections are allowed, each corresponding to a row in the $config['frontpage']['micrographs'] array. Here's an example config excerpt: ... $config['frontpage']['order'] = array('device_status_boxes', 'minigraphs', 'micrographs', 'status_summary', 'eventlog'); ... $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['network']['ids'] = '1,device_bits,router1;2,device_bits,router2;3,device_bits,switch1;4,device_bits,firewall1;5,device_bits,firewall2'; $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['network']['title'] = 'Network'; $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['servers']['ids'] = '6,device_bits,vmhost1;7,device_bits,observium;8,device_bits,fileserver;9,device_bits,vmhost2;10,device_bits,backup'; $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['servers']['title'] = 'Servers'; ... This produces the following on the front page: Both the row labels and the graph labels are optional - if you leave them both out you get just a bare row of clickable graphs. There's no label justification, which looks a bit funny when labels are different lengths, but i figure people can just add space or whatever to make their front page look how they want it. Patch is attached and also available at http://libertysys.com.au/patches/observium/observium-r4209-micrographs.patch Hope you like it. Regards, Paul

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status
by Eliezer Sousa 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

hello guys, I would like to know how to change the refresh time of the equipment. because when charges that the equipment is down takes too long to update the status even when this is online. where can I change this time? thank you. ass eliezer

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Re: [Observium] Basic Installation Issue.
by Adam Armstrong 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hi Steve, I meant to reply to this earlier today. I would be willing to put money on this being caused by a authoritarian transparent proxy or over-ambitious layer 7 firewall. It smells like an intervening device deciding the connection is bad and cutting it off. I'm pretty sure it's nothing at our end else we'd be flooded by people complaining they're missing out on today's updates! Adam. Steve Nelson <steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net> wrote: >Hi All, > >I am having a very basic installation issue, however not being a major linux user I cannot seem to find a sensible answer online. > >I have a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS and all the associated packages installed as per the instructions at observium.org however when I try to check out the latest version using SVN I am getting the following error : > >root@CAL-MGT-MON:/home/nelsons# svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium >svn: OPTIONS of 'http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://www.observium.org) > >I have tried using HTTPS as a protocol but it seems the server is not listening on 443. > >Any help would be good. > >Many thanks > >Steve > > >Steve Nelson >10Yr CCIE#10055, OSCP#3725 >Senior Network Engineer >steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net > >Telephone : 0845 5576355 >Direct Line : 0191 6542060 >Mobile : 07702247286 > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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New installation of Observium
by Phibee Network Operation Center 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

hello, I just installed Observium and I discovered a little product. To help me integrate it into our SI, I have some questions: - I'm in the options menu as Customer or Pseudowire, but nowhere I see a button "create" what is normal? - At the location of routers, how to indicate the position of this one? - At Traffic Bills, is it possible that sending an email with the value précendent the 95th of the month for each link? - And finally, via the API, it is possible to recover the data to json rrd them into another application? including the graph generated by Traffic Bills Thank you in advance Jerome

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Re: [Observium] bgp vs bgo ?
by Adam Armstrong 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Haha. How did you notice that? We don't even use that part of that function to test it yet! :-) Adam. Peter Childs <pchilds(a)staff.iinet.net.au> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] bgp vs bgo ?
by Adam Armstrong 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Must be bored :-) Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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bgp vs bgo ?
by Peter Childs 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Should that be 'bgp' rather than 'bgo' ? +++ html/includes/functions.inc.php (revision 4227) (...) case "bgp_peer": if (empty($text)) { $text = "AS".$entity['bgpPeerRemoteAs'] ." ". $entity['bgpPeerRemoteAddr']. " ".truncate($entity['astext'], "30"); } - $link = generate_link($text, array('page' => 'device', 'device' => $entity['device_id'], 'tab' => 'health', 'metric' => 'storage')); + $link = generate_link($text, array('page' => 'device', 'device' => $entity['device_id'], 'tab' => 'routing', 'proto' => 'bgo')); break; case "netscaler_vsvr": if (empty($text)) { $text = $entity['vsvr_label']; }

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Re: [Observium] RANCID integration
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

One more thing, for the email, I use exim, so I'm assuming that running /usr/bin/newaliases tells the MTA about the changes below. From: Ryan Milton - MVS USA Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 3:43 PM To: 'Observium Network Observation System' Subject: RANCID integration Hi, I am trying to integrate RANCID for Observium, however the basic installation of rancid on Ubuntu 12.04 eludes me. Most tuts out there are for 11.04, or are quite dated. I have gotten to the point where running sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid Should produce the right files. I don't get that, rather I get this: rancid@ObserviumNYC:/$ sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 73: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-Amsterdam::: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 74: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-Amsterdam:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 75: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-New_York:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 76: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-New_York:: not found If anyone had successfully done this, I need some steps that I seem to be missing. I had installed cvs, manually. I do have /etc/aliases with some entries like: rancid-Amsterdam: noc */should that be noc@emailaddress??/* Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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Re: [Observium] Basic Installation Issue.
by Adam Armstrong 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

I hope not. If it is, it's some new level of selinux hell! Adam. Jason Lixfeld <jason(a)lixfeld.ca> wrote: >Could this be a SELinux thing? > >Sent from my iPhone > >On 2013-07-30, at 6:08 PM, Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> On 07/31/2013 07:57 AM, Steve Nelson wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am having a very basic installation issue, however not being a major linux user I cannot seem to find a sensible answer online. >>> >>> I have a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS and all the associated packages installed as per the instructions at observium.org however when I try to check out the latest version using SVN I am getting the following error : >>> >>> root@CAL-MGT-MON:/home/nelsons# svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium >>> svn: OPTIONS of 'http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://www.observium.org) >> >> Hi Steve, >> >> I think that's a fairly generic "Can't connect" message. If you're behind a firewall and normally proxy your HTTP traffic, you'll need to add something like this to ~/.subversion/servers: >> >> [global] >> http-proxy-host = proxy >> http-proxy-port = 3128-or-whatever >> http-proxy-username = username >> http-proxy-password = plaintext-pass >> >> Regards, >> Paul >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Basic Installation Issue.
by Steve Nelson 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hi All, I am having a very basic installation issue, however not being a major linux user I cannot seem to find a sensible answer online. I have a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS and all the associated packages installed as per the instructions at observium.org however when I try to check out the latest version using SVN I am getting the following error : root@CAL-MGT-MON:/home/nelsons# svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium svn: OPTIONS of 'http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://www.observium.org) I have tried using HTTPS as a protocol but it seems the server is not listening on 443. Any help would be good. Many thanks Steve Steve Nelson 10Yr CCIE#10055, OSCP#3725 Senior Network Engineer steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net Telephone : 0845 5576355 Direct Line : 0191 6542060 Mobile : 07702247286

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RANCID integration
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi, I am trying to integrate RANCID for Observium, however the basic installation of rancid on Ubuntu 12.04 eludes me. Most tuts out there are for 11.04, or are quite dated. I have gotten to the point where running sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid Should produce the right files. I don't get that, rather I get this: rancid@ObserviumNYC:/$ sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 73: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-Amsterdam::: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 74: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-Amsterdam:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 75: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-New_York:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 76: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-New_York:: not found If anyone had successfully done this, I need some steps that I seem to be missing. I had installed cvs, manually. I do have /etc/aliases with some entries like: rancid-Amsterdam: noc */should that be noc@emailaddress??/* Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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Sensors & syslog Questions
by Wijdan Mohamed 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi, I have been trying observium for the last few weeks and am happy with it. However, I couldn't get the sensors (temperature & voltage) and syslog to work. It doesn't even show up in the health drop down menu!. Does observium obtain the sensors data using lm-sensors or ipmi? And is there any other configurations steps to be done (other than in the wiki or documentation)?. Regarding syslog, I tried rsyslog and syslog-ng and followed the solutions posted in wiki & mailing list for similar issues but no luck!, the tab still says that no syslog entries found although its enabled and running (Note: I am using CentOS & RHEL). What am I missing exactly? Many Thanks,

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Re: [Observium] device down
by Adam Armstrong 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

I can absolutely assure you that this is not normal, your devices have a configuration error. :-) Adam Michael Sweikata <sweikatam1(a)nku.edu> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Axis labeling for graphs
by Roland Schwingel 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi... Maybe this is a novice question. I do have observium set up for a few days now and works quite well. Thanks to all involved. But there is one thing I do miss. Is it possible to label the axis for graphs? eg. the Diskusage graph. The x axis is the timeline (which is easy to detect) but the y axis is percentage of usage. But it would be way clearer if you would add label to the x and y axis to clearly know in which unit is measured here. Especially when you hop between graphs. Thanks for this good product, Roland Schwingel

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Re: [Observium] device down
by Adam Armstrong 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

If Observium thinks a device is down it's either because it can't ping it, or it doesn't get an SNMP response from it. Check you can snmpwalk the device from the Observium server. It's always the firewall, or the acls. Adam. Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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device down
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

So, I have to say that after reinstalling Observium, but keeping my config.php intact, everything works---almost too well. I know it needs tweaking because right now, I have a message that a device is down, and I am able to log into it. Not only that, but O tells me that the box has been down for some time, yet I am able to ping from it. What kind of tweak would this need? Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager Hawthorne, NJ o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 rmilton(a)mvsusa.com<mailto:rmilton@mvsusa.com>

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HELP ALERTS
by Eliezer Sousa 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

hello, my observium server is not sending email alerts. what can be? since already appreciate the help. ass eliezer

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Re: [Observium] why vm
by Rob VanHooren 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

many do this in enterprise environments to abstract away the underlying agony of lease-replacement or (oftentimes politically forced) hardware-refresh headaches. dedicate the entire esxi host to the one vm, rather than bare metal backup/restore|reinstall. R. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:01, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > > VMware seems to have brainwashed the entire planet into thinking things > get faster inside VMs, or that they make more efficient use of > resources. Very odd!

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Very Large Environment
by Joe Hoh 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. We are deploying Observium in a very large environment. We are upwards of 6,000 devices and 300,000 ports. I don't think we are going to be able to poll this in 5 minutes. This is what we have done so far: - Distributed polling - Polling - 8 VMs - 4core, 8GB RAM each - MySQL - 4 core, 8GB RAM - Web Interface - 4 core, 8GB RAM - NFS Server (for centralized /opt/observium - except for the MIBS directory, which is copied across each server) - moving to an EMC VNX in 2 weeks. - rrdcached being implemented (any assistance here is helpful) - Modified poller-wrapper.py to distribute the devices that poll within 120s across multiple instances of poller-wrapper.py running on multiple hosts. Devices that poll in more than 120s are polled on separate servers at 15 minute intervals. - poller-wrapper has been modified to allow for multiple instances just like poller.php with MODULUS distribution - Each instance of poller-wrapper.py gets an instance number and the total number of instances. - All of the devices with the last poll time < 120 seconds are MOD'ed with the device_id and the total number of instances and compared to the instance number - device_id MOD total_instances = this_instance - Tuning threads in each poller-wrapper.py - currently at 16 threads and 2 instances on each 4 vCPU server for 32 threads running at once or 8 threads per core - The DC is on the west coast and that presents latency problems. We may need to address with distributed polling - We are at 1024MB in php.ini - We are using xcache (tuning help is appreciated - or should we just turn it off)? My questions are: - How can I change the default RRD behavior to use 15 minute intervals instead of 5 minute intervals - 15 minutes x 2 weeks - 2 hours x 5 weeks - 4 hours x 12 months - We want to keep the max/min/average/87.5th percentile (since only 8 measurements per 2 hours) - I don't see the configuration items for that. - Would we be better with a few big boxes rather than small VMs?

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Re: [Observium] Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 28 Jul '13

28 Jul '13

Not enough spoon? Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Graphs
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 28 Jul '13

28 Jul '13

So, I uninstalled the whole mess, reinstalled everything. ONe thing that immediately worked was the emails from observium! This time I added only one machine manually. I don't really see that I did anything different. In fact, I kept my config.php and just pasted it in after I did the install and voila! Seems to be working now. However, I would add that on the installation procedures, it should be clarified that with the mysql, the coder needs to add the passwords for the users manually. Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager Hawthorne, NJ o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 rmilton(a)mvsusa.com<mailto:rmilton@mvsusa.com> On Jul 27, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Tracy Phillips <tracphil(a)mantoso.com<mailto:tracphil@mantoso.com>> wrote: On 07/27/2013 1:50 pm, Ryan Milton - MVS USA wrote: What do you think? It's really odd. Everything looks normal. Is /opt/observium on your local filesystem or is it in NFS mount? How many hosts are in your observium install so far? I am a little baffled. One thing that I do... not sure if it matters, is that I don't add any hosts by hand like in the install instructions. That is the only place I deviate. Tracy

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Re: [Observium] Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 27 Jul '13

27 Jul '13

All installation problems are solved by following the install guide properly. We long ago decided that trying to diagnose what people typed wrong just isn't worth the time and just recommend that people reinstall in most cases. Unless they want to pay us €1000 to fix it for them, of course :-) Adam. Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Please provide screenshots, otherwise no one will know what you actually mean. Adam. Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Graphs
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

I read the FAQ, and indeed that mysterious space after the ?> turned out to be the first problem. However, the problem now is that the live data doesn't show on the graphs anywhere. Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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ifLastchanged
by Benjamin Ballmert 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

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Re: [Observium] Memory draw error
by Adam Armstrong 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

That output is not actually related to memory pools, its from the ucd MiB used on Unix hosts. Adam. Austin Marsh <amarsh(a)clearwateranalytics.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Memory draw error
by Austin Marsh 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

I just did a fresh install of the newest observium (0.13.7.4200). Everything is working well except for my nexus 5k devices show a draw error for memory. Memory stats for the switches was working in previous observium releases. Here is the output from the poller below. I can get the memory from snmp via command line, I assume some mibs are messed up? /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c cwanro -OQUs -m UCD-SNMP-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:boi-sw10:161 memTotalSwap.0 memAvailSwap.0 memTotalReal.0 memAvailReal.0 memTotalFree.0 memShared.0 memBuffer.0 memCached.0 memTotalSwap.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memAvailSwap.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memTotalReal.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memAvailReal.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memTotalFree.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memShared.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memBuffer.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memCached.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID ________________________________ NOTICE: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Clearwater Analytics and/or its affiliates that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately delete it. The information we provide is from sources Clearwater Analytics considers reliable, but Clearwater Analytics provides no warranties regarding the accuracy of the information. Further, nothing in the email should be construed as legal, financial, or tax advice, and any questions regarding the intended recipient's individual circumstances should be addressed to that recipient's lawyer and/or accountant.

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Re: [Observium] vrf dance
by Rob VanHooren 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

well then if nobody else out there gets it right, then that just screams "opportunity" for Observium! we can just all hope that it doesn't wind up giving Adam Mike and Tom too much brain damage. :-) R. PS: DNS separation I could see as logical for VDCs. But for VRFs? That's banannas to have to try do. Don't even know that it'd fully function. (e.g., traps etc. are pinned to source from just one vrf; how to map back the event blame of $other_vrf_"device" as culprit?) Screws loose in San Jose, for sure. Chris & Darius wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:01:59 -0400 > From: Chris Moody <chris(a)node-nine.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] remedies to overcome vrf dance? > Message-ID: <51F032B7.5060607(a)node-nine.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > I can say we've had nothing but pain in trying to get all the > context-mapping stuff recognized by pretty much every tool we use. > Because of how Cisco implemented this, even some of our inventory apps > are confused and think we have 3x more Nexus chassis than we actually do > because in their logic, each context-mapped VRF is a separate device. > IMHO, I -hate- the way Cisco has "updated" SNMP on the Nexus platform. > > One workaround we've had to use is to use DNS names per L3 interface, so > that we can refer to the vrf/device as say 'Nexus1_mgmt0.foo.com'(which > is part of the 'management' vrf) & 'Nexus1_eth1-1.foo.com'(which is part > of the 'vrf1' vrf). This way applications think of them as separate > devices due to the hostname/IP differences. > > -Chris > > On 7/24/13 1:29 PM, Darius Seroka wrote: >> Hi Rob, >> >> I posted a similar comment a few weeks/months back but my problem was >> with c6500's. Indeed it was the way cisco describes the vrf's so only >> thing that can be done is getting them to do their oid's more >> uniformly across their product range. I was not able to open a support >> request with the c6500s so dont have any tickets to refer to. >

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Re: [Observium] RRD Graphing problems
by Adam Armstrong 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Note that we can't assist with rhel/centos installs. Our recommended and tested platform is Debian/Ubuntu. Adam. Gerry Armstrong <bajangerry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I followed the http://www.observium.org/wiki/RHEL_SVN_Installation >guide step by step and had no errors with the process either. The >Poller is running and I am seeing from the cron log that it is doing >so and I also run it manually to see if i can get the data displayed. >I do see that there is traffic being recorded but for some reason it >is not being displayed. Since it is a new install I will wipe the >installation and start again from scratch and see if somehow I missed >a step. > >On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >> Its not clear what your problem is from your description. >> >> I can say the issue is 99% likely to be fixed by following the install guide properly. >> >> Adam. >> >> Gerry Armstrong <bajangerry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>Hi Guys, >>> >>>I am having a problem displaying data in the graphs. If I select an >>>interface that has traffic reported and drill down to the graph I see >>>all the graph entries with -nan but if I select the RealTime graph I >>>can see the traffic flow. Can anyone explain why this would be and how >>>I can resolve this? >>> >>>Thanks for any assistance with this. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Gerry >>>_______________________________________________ >>>observium mailing list >>>observium(a)observium.org >>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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RHEL install notes
by Zach Underwood 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Some things I found during a quick install setenforce 0 #This will disable selinux for this session vi /etc/selinux/config change "enforcing" to "permissive" The package "OpenIPMI-tools.x86_64" was not found the package name is "ipmitool.x86_64" -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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remedies to overcome vrf dance?
by Rob VanHooren 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

it appears that (non-global) VRFs (esp. wrt. RIB OIDs) somehow are seen by OBS only in my ASR 1ks and horde of c3750x. comparing with a handful of v6.1 Nexii 7k (and their vdc's), along with some archaic-but-still-v15 c3560s, the returned set is null. q1) need for the ugliness of snmp context mapping per vrf? q2) if so, is OBS prepared to iterate over the multiple communities per device? curious, R.

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Re: [Observium] inserting default schema
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

I very much doubt reinstalling mysql will make any difference at all. You probably want to try adding a user to mysql with the correct user/pass first. We do give a. Nice copy/pasteable example for that... Adam. Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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inserting default schema
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi, I am building an Observium server on a Dell server (not a vm) and have run into the problem that when I run the command, php includes/update/update.php I get: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user observium@localhost (using passwd: YES) Now, when I select user, host from mysql.user; I DO see the observium user. No, I cannot log into the mysql with observium user, however. So, I know I'm close, but I'm not there yet, any assistance would be great. Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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Re: [Observium] RRD Graphing problems
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Its not clear what your problem is from your description. I can say the issue is 99% likely to be fixed by following the install guide properly. Adam. Gerry Armstrong <bajangerry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Guys, > >I am having a problem displaying data in the graphs. If I select an >interface that has traffic reported and drill down to the graph I see >all the graph entries with -nan but if I select the RealTime graph I >can see the traffic flow. Can anyone explain why this would be and how >I can resolve this? > >Thanks for any assistance with this. > >Regards, >Gerry >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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RRD Graphing problems
by Gerry Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi Guys, I am having a problem displaying data in the graphs. If I select an interface that has traffic reported and drill down to the graph I see all the graph entries with -nan but if I select the RealTime graph I can see the traffic flow. Can anyone explain why this would be and how I can resolve this? Thanks for any assistance with this. Regards, Gerry

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Re: [Observium] remedies to overcome vrf dance?
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

There is no community indexing for the vrf MIBs as far as I have seen. It's quite common for Cisco to not bother implementing what they consider to be service provider MIBs on enterprise hardware. This is probably something you need to direct to Cisco. Note that we currently consider the vrf tracking in Observium to be broken and unusable. Adam. Rob VanHooren <rob_vanhooren(a)mac.com> wrote: >it appears that (non-global) VRFs (esp. wrt. RIB OIDs) somehow are seen by OBS only in my ASR 1ks and horde of c3750x. > >comparing with a handful of v6.1 Nexii 7k (and their vdc's), along with some archaic-but-still-v15 c3560s, the returned set is null. > >q1) need for the ugliness of snmp context mapping per vrf? >q2) if so, is OBS prepared to iterate over the multiple communities per device? > >curious, > >R. > > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] observium php session timeout affecting another application?
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

This stuff will be replaced sometime. Perhaps both we and cacti are using stupid cookie names? Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >On 24/07/2013 2:40, Eric wrote: >> i'm running two php applications on a LAMP machine. one is cacti, the >> other is observium. i'm using name-based virtual hosting with one IP >> address. when i have just the cacti virtual host running, i can stay >> logged in to cacti forever, i.e. my session never times out. when i >> enable the observium virtual host, cacti prompts me for my login >> credentials again after 1-2 minutes. i'm using LDAP authentication for >> cacti and the built-in authentication for observium (user added via >> adduser.php). any idea why that would be? >> >I think we do something with php session lifetime somewhere in the code >(?) but I have no idea why that would be affecting other apps... > >Tom >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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observium php session timeout affecting another application?
by Eric 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

i'm running two php applications on a LAMP machine. one is cacti, the other is observium. i'm using name-based virtual hosting with one IP address. when i have just the cacti virtual host running, i can stay logged in to cacti forever, i.e. my session never times out. when i enable the observium virtual host, cacti prompts me for my login credentials again after 1-2 minutes. i'm using LDAP authentication for cacti and the built-in authentication for observium (user added via adduser.php). any idea why that would be?

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Strange issue
by DaZZa 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi folks. I've been noticing a strange issue when using Observium in the last couple of days which has me scratching my head. Occasionally, when I am browsing devices, or device components, I'll get a graph or image which just comes up reading "no authorisation" or similar - and anything else I click on results in my being kicked back to the logon screen. I don't *think* it's an inactivity timeout - at the times I have noticed this happening I specifically noticed it because I was in the middle of doing something. Is there something else I could have misconfigured which would cause this behaviour? Thanks. DaZZa

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Re: [Observium] Yamaha RTX1100 router support
by Adam Armstrong 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Please do not post modifications to Observium files to this list. (Or write them as 'guides' on blogs). It interferes with the svn update mechanism and causes significant issues to users who aren't familiar with RCS. The correct way to submit this is as a patch to jira.observium.org. Thanks, Adam. Daniele Dorigo <danieledorigo(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Yamaha RTX1100 router support
by Daniele Dorigo 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hi observium team and users, to anyone interested, I wrote a simple guide on how to support the device Yamaha RTX1100. http://ddtest.co.nf/howto/rtxobvhowto.html Hope it helps Daniele

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Alerting Update
by Adam Armstrong 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Morning Observiumites and Kickstarters. We're pleased to announce that we've reached a development milestone on the road to replacing all of our hated monitoring applications. The last 2 weeks spent in Amsterdam collaborating on the alerting system have been immensely productive, thanks to the great visionaries Maarten Moerman of eBay and Job Snijders of Atrato, we would like to thank them for their continuous support, Coke Zero and Appelkoeks. The fundamental schema for the alerting system have been defined and a basic working framework written. This week will be spent further improving and bug-fixing the framework so that we can move on to writing a UI to easily change the alert rule sets and associations. We'll provide some further details on how the system works soon! Thanks, Adam Armstrong - Project Leader

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Obvervium login issue
by untitledpower＠net.hr 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hello, I have an issue which I have been unable to resolve in the last 5 hourse. My Obversium login simply doesn't work. Nothing happens when I login using real username / password. When I try to login with wrong user/pass it wasy login invalid, but with the real login details nothing happens, no error, just gets me to login page again. I use RHEL6 and i did everything from the guide. Tried with both Apache and nginx, same error. error_log empty. How could I debug this further? I know DB is created successfully and admin users loaded to the mysql table sucessfully. Any help wold be appreciated.

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Event Logs Broken and Empty
by Michael Davies 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hi All, At some stage a wee back, a couple of months ago I think, something broke all the event log bits in Observium. I vaguely remember it breaking after one of the sql updates that took a long time to run on the eventlog table, but I'm not certain about that. Example images: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106803/work/observium1.PNG https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106803/work/observium2.PNG Table looks like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106803/work/eventlog.txt What might be the best way to fix this up? I'm not worried about any historical data so it's fine if emptying out that DB table is the fix. Thoughts? Regards and thanks, Michael. ______________________________________________________ This email is intended only for the person to which it is addressed and may contain confidential or legally privileged material. Any dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon the content of this email by persons other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the email from any computer. Opinions and other information in this email that do not relate to the business of my employer are not given nor endorsed by it. Unencrypted email is not secure and may not be authentic. If you have any doubts as to the contents please telephone to confirm. OceanaGold Corporation and its related entities accept no responsibility for changes made to this email or its attachments after transmission from OceanaGold Corporation and its related entities and do not guarantee that this email or attachments are virus or error free.

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Network mapping module
by Noruni 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hello Will observium integrate someday active network mapping module ? it should really interesting for users. Thanks Noru

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HTML mail
by Sander Steffann 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hi, I just noticed that my alert e-mails are looking funny. In r4203 the content-type of those messages was changed to text/html. Are the messages going to be HTML formatted in the near future? Otherwise it might be more appropriate to send text/plain instead as long as the content is plain text. Cheers, Sander

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VMware ESX 5.1.0 and observium
by Xavier Beaudouin 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hello, On another configuration I had on vmware esx polling shown all vm currently installed. Seems on my ESX 5.1.0 (with vmware essential license) the vm hosted by the server are not shown. Any ideas ? Regards, Xavier

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Re: [Observium] HTML mail
by Adam Armstrong 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

We already have an issue where round cube and android that I'm testing on display base64'd inline graph images, but maarten's outlook doesn't. Bleh! Adam. Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: >Don't forget implement broken HTML mails too for grumpy windows users with outlook express. :-D > >On 22.07.2013, at 1:03, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > >> Yes, we plan to accommodate both freebsd neck-beards and macbook hipsters. :) >> >> adam. >> >> On 2013-07-21 22:35, Job Snijders wrote: >>> Keep in mind that work is being done on the alerting code. I hope that >>> in the future both text and html versions are send to accommodate all >>> walks of life. >>> Job >>> Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I just noticed that my alert e-mails are looking funny. In r4203 the >>> content-type of those messages was changed to text/html. Are the >>> messages going to be HTML formatted in the near future? Otherwise it >>> might be more appropriate to send text/plain instead as long as the >>> content is plain text. >>> Cheers, >>> Sander >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Shaun Bradley 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hi Guys, me again I've googled for this but not found anything much, and I know it's not entirely observium-related but is there any way of specifying a different root device in snmpd.conf? I have a few VPS hosted systems and the root devices are different, some are /dev/simfs, others are /dev/xvda1 etc. Obviously this just produces a broken graph in observium so I'm wondering if there is a way of setting it and then having it picked up. Many thanks for any pointers. Shaun

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Re: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Adam Armstrong 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Oh. You were being confusing by talking about 'root device'. You mean the SNMP agent isn't reporting any file systems? Probably some permissions bullshit related to the virtualization platform. You don't need to mess with the netsnmp config at all really. Adam. Shaun Bradley <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Adam Armstrong 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

What does "graphs are broken" mean? Shaun Bradley <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Tom Laermans 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Why is it wrong? That is the question. Observium gets its data from your snmp agent, I have not had it fail even in linux-vserver jails. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Shaun Bradley" <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 18:28 Hi Guys, me again I’ve googled for this but not found anything much, and I know it’s not entirely observium-related but is there any way of specifying a different root device in snmpd.conf? I have a few VPS hosted systems and the root devices are different, some are /dev/simfs, others are /dev/xvda1 etc. Obviously this just produces a broken graph in observium so I’m wondering if there is a way of setting it and then having it picked up. Many thanks for any pointers. Shaun

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Re: [Observium] Varnish and PHP-FPM
by Tom Laermans 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

No. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "sdfg ssdfsdf" <huffrrrr(a)outlook.com> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Varnish and PHP-FPM Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 21:11 Hey all, Does Observium have the ability to monitor Varnish and PHP-FPM or does a patch not exist? Thanks guys!

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Varnish and PHP-FPM
by sdfg ssdfsdf 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Hey all, Does Observium have the ability to monitor Varnish and PHP-FPM or does a patch not exist? Thanks guys!

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Re: [Observium] interesting question on reddit
by Tom Laermans 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

RRD also stores deltas, but more importantly, RRD is way slower than MySQL for such single values. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Rob J. Epping" <rob.epping(a)gmail.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] interesting question on reddit Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 20:00 On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: [SNIP] > We can't "remember" errors, you only see ports with error counters that > incremented in the past 5 minutes. I thought remebering is done in RRD format :) -- GRTNX, RobJE _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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interesting question on reddit
by Stefan Milo 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

http://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1im94u/what_tools_for_monitorin… is it possible for observium to sort devices/ports by interface errors, discards etc? br stefan milo

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Re: [Observium] interesting question on reddit
by Tom Laermans 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Yes, I obviously put in bad cables to be able to test Observium :D Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Sander Steffann" <sander(a)steffann.nl> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] interesting question on reddit Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 16:07 Hi, > I don't know what Lists >> Errors" even is, but clicking "Errored (6)" under Ports gives me a list of 6 ports with errors. I was looking for that link but couldn't find it, until I realised that it only shows when there actually are ports with errors. Guess I have nothing to worry about :-) Cheers, Sander _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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SNMPv3-Only Discovery/Polling
by Daniel Preussker 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Hi, I recently set up another host. This time using SNMPv3. addhost.php worked fine and both Auth and Priv passed. discovery.php can't discover the host. poller.php can't poll the host. via snmpget I get responces to sysUpTime.0 but not to .1, .0, ... The snmpd.conf should grand the user full Readonly rights as I didn't specify any SubID to the user. Is this known? Is there a way around? Is there any example of a working snmpv3-only setup? Best regards, Daniel Preussker [ Security Consultant, Network & Protocol Security and Cryptography [ LPI & Novell Certified Linux Engineer and Researcher [ +49 178 600 96 30 [ Daniel(a)Preussker.Net [ http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x87E736968E490AA1

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Re : svn update issue
by simon schaller 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

hello shaun you are not on the good way. you have to be in /opt/observium for me like example. i am not sure but try it. --- Message initial --- De : "Shaun Bradley" <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> Envoyé : 18 juillet 2013 10:41 A : observium(a)observium.org Objet : [Observium] svn update issue Hi guys Trying to update observium with 'svn update' like I have been doing on another server, but on this server with a fresh install I am getting the following error. Skipped '.' Any pointers in the right direction would be great, I did a normal svn checkout for the install as per the guide. Many thanks, Shaun _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Collectd minigraphs on front page
by Frank Ortmann 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Hello We make fairly heavy use of the collectd capabilities of Observium. It really is a great feature for us. I have been investigating adding mini graphs to the front page. The guide helped me add graphs from SNMP-gathered data, but I was unable to add graphs from our collectd list. The current implementation requires an ID and a TYPE. Unfortunately, the collectd chart dos not contain these keys (see below). <IP>/graphs/type=device_collectd/device=15/c_plugin=<FOLDER_NAME>/c_type=counter/c_type_instance=<COUNTER_NAME>/to=1374136448/from=1374050048/ Has anyone been able to do this? Is it possible? Kind regards, Frank

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Re: [Observium] Config line for globally enabling Unix agent module
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

And do not edit defaults.inc.php, or your first born child will burst in to flames. Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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svn update issue
by Shaun Bradley 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Hi guys Trying to update observium with 'svn update' like I have been doing on another server, but on this server with a fresh install I am getting the following error. Skipped '.' Any pointers in the right direction would be great, I did a normal svn checkout for the install as per the guide. Many thanks, Shaun

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Re: [Observium] Monitor Munin Plugins
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Observium will draw graphs from munin plugins, yes. You need to use the UNIX agent. I'm not sure there is documentation for the munin stuff at the moment, but its not too complex Adam. AAbCC <aabcc1990(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Monitor Munin Plugins
by AAbCC 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Hey Experts, I want to monitor munin plugin graphs from observium. Is it possible, if yes then how.

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Alerting Work in Progress
by Adam Armstrong 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Afternoon All, Here's a screenshot :) http://alpha.memetic.org/~adama/snaps/obx6kfih5f.png adam.

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alert nag
by Rob VanHooren 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

how to suppress repeated email again and again for the same down event every polling cycle? (other thank "fix the down issue" ... which probably won't occur before the next polling cycle) any chance for a quick band-aid? e.g. some sort of acknowledgement mechanism, or an incremental counter check that emails just "new" circumstances (maybe a roll-up summary reminder of non-new every X polling cycles) doesn't have to be perfect end-state ... just something to drown out the noise until we get there. thanks for considering. R. Sent from my iPad On 2013-07-17, at 1:40, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Alerting Work in Progress

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Re: [Observium] Config line for globally enabling Unix agent module
by Tom Laermans 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Check the bottom of defaults.inc.php - copy that line to your config file and adjust it. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: <gauthier.douchet(a)gmail.com>, "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Config line for globally enabling Unix agent module Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 09:15 You add the line. Gauthier DOUCHET <gauthier.douchet(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello, Any idea about this configuration line? Thank you, Gauthier 2013/7/7 Gauthier DOUCHET <gauthier.douchet(a)gmail.com> Hello all, I wanted to enable globally Unix agent module for all my *nix hosts. I read the documentation and I see this line " globally for all *nix devices (in the configuration file, poller modules)". But I didn't find inthe doc page about config.php what is this line. Could you help me please? Thank you,Gauthier -- Gauthier DOUCHET

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Re: [Observium] Config line for globally enabling Unix agent module
by Adam Armstrong 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

You add the line. Gauthier DOUCHET <gauthier.douchet(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Config line for globally enabling Unix agent module
by Gauthier DOUCHET 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Hello all, I wanted to enable globally Unix agent module for all my *nix hosts. I read the documentation and I see this line " globally for all *nix devices (in the configuration file, poller modules)". But I didn't find inthe doc page about config.php what is this line. Could you help me please? Thank you, Gauthier

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Trouble with centOS install
by digitallysick 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

I can't reach the Web interface, I'm a noob and need help to figure out why I can't reach it. I tried on Ubuntu as well no success I'm trying to access it via localhost or 127.0.0.1 which comes up blank. I also try localhost/observium which is blank

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Server error while clicking on ports.
by Zafar Pravaiz 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

Hi I was running observium successfully since last one year. Recently i migrated my running setup to new server, everything works fine except when i click on ports and inventory options from menu i get server error. I have checked apache log but nothing found except message "File does not exist: /opt/observium/html/favicon.ico" Any clue how can i figure out what went wrong? Thanks in advance. -- *Zafar Pravaiz *IT Senior Systems Engineer Information Technology Department AUS /> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: Tel +971 6 515 2164 Fax +971 6515 2112 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu <http://www.aus.edu/> zpravaiz(a)aus.edu <mailto:youremail@aus.edu>

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Incorrect speed of interfaces reported by Observium
by Xavier Beaudouin 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Hi there, I dunno if it is already an asked question, but it seems on linux that Observium insist to report links to 10Mbps instead of the real speed. Is there any hack / hint about tell Observium the interface is 1Gps or 10Gps to avoid false alarms ? Kind regards, Xavier

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Support for SNMP Informant on Windows?
by Jared Beaulieu 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

Hi, First of all, awesome tool. I've been using it for about a month now and it's really helped isolate system and network issues. Keep up the great work! I was very happy to donate to the kickstarter project as well. We have a wide variety of platforms that we monitor including Windows but the default Windows SNMP stack leaves a lot to be desired. I've used SNMP Informant in the past and was wondering if Observium does or will support this product. Thanks, Jared

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backend DB
by Rob VanHooren 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

curious whether anyone's farted around with using MariaDB or *gasp* PostgreSQL for their install.

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Re: [Observium] brocade snmp support
by Adam Armstrong 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

Foundry/brocade support should be quit good. I added support for mem/CPU ages ago. Brocade's own stuff will have no support except standard MIBs at the moment. :-) Adam. Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: >Hey, > >Just wondering anyone using brocade here? We are planing to add some of >these devices to our network, but I would like to know how good snmp >support on these devices. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Mouse over popups modal proposal
by Lucian Paiusescu 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

Hello, I don't know if this was already discussedso far, but I wanted to proposea more efficient way of displaying popupsinstead of mouseover (ref: $config['web_mouseover']). Popups should be displayed in a jquery modal style when someone clicksan object likean interface or device, etc. In that way the popup would be displayed properly on the center of the screen and not in the right-bottomof the mouse's position.Well, it would be a nice featureto have the posibility to switch between this two behaviourson mouseover or modal. Best regards, Lucian.

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Re: [Observium] Trivial front page patch
by Adam Armstrong 13 Jul '13

13 Jul '13

Damn these foreign developers and their spelling mistakes! :D Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >The boss had me do some tweaks to our front page recently, and we felt >that the minigraphs heading got in the way a bit. Here's the trivial >patch i created for it. Also has a couple of spelling fixes just >because they jumped out at me. > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Trivial front page patch
by Paul Gear 13 Jul '13

13 Jul '13

The boss had me do some tweaks to our front page recently, and we felt that the minigraphs heading got in the way a bit. Here's the trivial patch i created for it. Also has a couple of spelling fixes just because they jumped out at me.

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observium doesn´t paint graph
by Alberto Moreno Ramirez 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hi, I´m a beginner with observium. I have been working with cacti but Observium is more complete, I thing I have installed Observium with several devices: One network, One firewall and one server. It collects data very well but Observium doesn´t paint (not look) any graph. Even Real Time graphs work perfectly but the other graphs not [cid:image001.png@01CE7EF2.EB355750]

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Application Install
by S.A.B Co-op Ltd 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hey Experts, I want to monitor mysql, and other processes in observium how can i implement it in my setup.

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Re: [Observium] Installation
by Tom Laermans 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Thanks for this useful post. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Micah Young" <myoung(a)ARDENCOMPANIES.COM> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Installation Date: Thu, Jul 11, 2013 19:33 Hi, I’m running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Virtual Machine. The start-up services that I’m supposed to turn on do not exist. (I think the instructions are being updated as we speak). However, is this important? Just wondering ARDEN A Global Company Celebrating over 48 years of making your life more comfortable! This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. This OUTBOUND E-mail and Document(s) has been scanned by an Antivirus Server.

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Installation
by Micah Young 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Hi, I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Virtual Machine. The start-up services that I'm supposed to turn on do not exist. (I think the instructions are being updated as we speak). However, is this important? Just wondering ________________________________ ARDEN A Global Company Celebrating over 48 years of making your life more comfortable! This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. This OUTBOUND E-mail and Document(s) has been scanned by an Antivirus Server.

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brocade snmp support
by Nikolay Shopik 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Hey, Just wondering anyone using brocade here? We are planing to add some of these devices to our network, but I would like to know how good snmp support on these devices.

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Re: [Observium] Force10 Networks (SA-01-GE-48T)
by Adam Armstrong 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Farce10 should work fine already. :) Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi!, I'll have a Force10-S50 SA-01-GE-48T L3 switch for a week, I can >provide SNMP access to it in case anyone would like to add support for >that switch. > >Firmware version: 2.5.1.3 > >MIB: http://www.force10networks.com/CSPortal20/KnowledgeBase/DOCUMENTATION/MIBs/… > >Regards, > >-- >Ciro Iriarte >http://cyruspy.wordpress.com >-- >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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in the news...
by Peter Childs 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Had to have a chuckle at the honestnetworker when I saw this one http://honestnetworker.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/new-observium-release/ :)

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Force10 Networks (SA-01-GE-48T)
by Ciro Iriarte 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Hi!, I'll have a Force10-S50 SA-01-GE-48T L3 switch for a week, I can provide SNMP access to it in case anyone would like to add support for that switch. Firmware version: 2.5.1.3 MIB: http://www.force10networks.com/CSPortal20/KnowledgeBase/DOCUMENTATION/MIBs/… Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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bgp bogus down && bogus saturation alert
by Rob VanHooren 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

greetings. 1./ odd that bgp peer is still shown as "down" even when the peer is admin down (neighbor xxx shut) 2./ also looks like $config['alerts']['port_util_alert'] = TRUE; doesn't self-quash if the device that the port belongs to is set as IGNORE. … anyone care to verify? r4182, fwiw. tks, R.

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Quidway S9303 Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software VRP (R) Software, Version 5.50 (S9300 V100R002C00SPC200) Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
by AbdelBaki Yacine Tounsi 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Problem with Memory ................ * [image: Images intégrées 1] *

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mysql app
by andres fariña 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Hi all, Please give a help here, I´m adding mysql app to a host. I have configured the agent at host and telnet to 36602 is ok. I also enabled unix-agent at modules for that host And I see it at polling: [mysql] => a0:4033341 a1:4020805 a2:120 a3:120 ... But I still get no images, just the message "Error drawing graph". What could be missing here? Thanks, Andrés

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Bulk Addition of Hosts?
by David Lagace 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Hello, I'm new to Observium and coming from Zenoss I have to say I love the simplicity and completeness of all the information available. I'm just stuck on one issue. I've added the hosts I want to monitor to the /etc/hosts file and have successfully added a few hosts manually. I've been reading through the wiki and looking through google and can't seem to find a way to bulk import hosts. I tried to script it in the following way (please don't hurt me I'm not much of a coder) for file in `cat routerdt1`; do ./addhost.php "$file" mycomm v2c; done But keep getting: Could not resolve i504562 i504562 being one of the hosts in the list routerdt1. If I run the addhost.php script manually it works. ./addhost.php i504562 mycomm v2c Trying community mycomm ... Discovering i545973 (42)i545973 42 ios (cisco) (etc etc) The file routerdt1 is in the format: I553476 I553500 I553364 I553173 I553274 I542788 I554040 I554398 I554488 Is there a way to take my list and add them into Observium? Am I missing something where there could be an auto add function? Thanks for your help on this, looking forward to using this product more. --Dave

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[ip_nets] => Array
by Jordan Paschalidis 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Hello, i recently installed observium and it is amazing. There is one thing i found under "Global Settings". [autodiscovery] => Array ( ... [ip_nets] => Array ( [0] => 127.0.0.0/8 [1] => 192.168.0.0/16 [2] => 10.0.0.0/8 [3] => 172.0.0.0/8 ) Shouldn't the Entry "172.0.0.0/8" be "172.16.0.0/12" ? I know that the question " Can the monitoringintervall be changed, e.g. 5 min to 1 min" was already answered and the answer was "No". I just wanted to note that this is really sad, because 5 min is quite long for a fast changing parameter like Ethernet. We were monitoring a Gigabit-link with different intervalls ( cacti ) , with 5 min, 1 min and 10 sec The results are really surprising. For a special intervall of 40 min with Peaks the result was with 5min-monitoring 200 Mbit/s 1min-monitoring 350 Mbit/s 10sec-monitoring 610 Mbit/s -- Jordan Paschalidis *** XCOM AG Legal Disclaimer *** Diese E-Mail einschliesslich ihrer Anhaenge ist vertraulich und ist allein für den Gebrauch durch den vorgesehenen Empfaenger bestimmt. Dritten ist das Lesen, Verteilen oder Weiterleiten dieser E-Mail untersagt. Wir bitten, eine fehlgeleitete E-Mail unverzueglich vollstaendig zu loeschen und uns eine Nachricht zukommen zu lassen. This email may contain material that is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, distribution by others or forwarding without express permission is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. Hauptsitz: Bahnstrasse 37, D-47877 Willich, USt-IdNr.: DE 812 885 664 Kommunikation: Telefon +49 2154 9209-70, Telefax +49 2154 9209-900, www.xcom.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Krefeld, HRB 10340 Vorstand: Matthias Albrecht, Dirk Franzmeyer, Marco Marty, Dirk Werner Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Stefan H. Tarach

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