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Custom port service type?
by Jason Lixfeld 15 May '13

15 May '13

My port naming convention for core ports doesn't follow the "Core:" spec required by Observium. Is it possible to specify a custom type, or perhaps change the default? I'd love to see my core ports with a click of the Ports drop-down hopefully by avoiding having to reconfigure over 400 port descriptions. I can't see anything in defaults.inc.php and I'm not well enough versed in php to really know how to go about looking through the php code to try and find the answer. My google-fu is failing me too, so any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Re: [Observium] Smokeping / Ping Tab - 3rd Graph?
by Adam Armstrong 14 May '13

14 May '13

Getting the files in the right place is left as an exercise for the user. :) Rachid Zarouali <rzarouali(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Smokeping / Ping Tab - 3rd Graph?
by Adam Armstrong 14 May '13

14 May '13

Smokeping isn't always 20 pings? Well I never! :) Adam. Robert Williams <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Smokeping / Ping Tab - 3rd Graph?
by Robert Williams 14 May '13

14 May '13

Hi, Just setup Smokeping integration (and generated targets using Michiel’s groovy script – thanks!). Anyway, it’s all working fine for all the hosts but I’m not sure what the 3rd graph on the Ping tab is meant to show, called localhost. It appears on every single host’s “Ping” tab. Have I just failed to configured a hostname *somewhere* or is this graph meant to display something else? When you click on it you just get an “Insufficient Permissions” message, image attached for reference. Any input or pointers as to what I’ve done wrong are welcome – cheers :) [cid:image001.png@01CE4E68.90BE29B0] Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Observium phones home?
by Dermot Williams 14 May '13

14 May '13

Hi, Can any of the devs explain why Observium phones home (to update.observium.org) when it runs discover.php? What data is being sent and why isn't this behaviour explicitly mentioned anywhere in the docs or on observium.org? Thanks, Dermot

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Re: [Observium] Wiki fix: spikes
by Adam Armstrong 13 May '13

13 May '13

User editing was turned off a year or two ago because of spam. Running the script on every rrd is not advised. Only run it on things with spikes! I'll have a look at the page. Adam. List User <list(a)redspeedservers.com> wrote: >I didn't see how I can edit it so: >http://www.observium.org/wiki/Removing_RRDTool_Spikes > >for i in rrds/*/*.rrd; do scripts/removespikes.pl $i; done; >should be >for i in rrd/*/*.rrd; do scripts/removespikes.pl $i; done; > >Changes: rrds -> rrd >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Wiki fix: spikes
by List User 13 May '13

13 May '13

I didn't see how I can edit it so: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Removing_RRDTool_Spikes for i in rrds/*/*.rrd; do scripts/removespikes.pl $i; done; should be for i in rrd/*/*.rrd; do scripts/removespikes.pl $i; done; Changes: rrds -> rrd

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Re: [Observium] Eventlog stopped working after upgrade
by Adam Armstrong 13 May '13

13 May '13

From what version to what version? What event log entries don't work? What things that you expect to generate email alerts don't work? You will not receive any help if you just whine rather than providing any useful information. Adam. Hynek Med <hynek(a)prozeta.cz> wrote: >Hi, > >after upgrading Observium via svn there are no event logs and we are not >getting e-mail alerts. Where should I look for problems, can you point >me to a direction, what to look at? > >Thanks, > >Hynek > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Eventlog stopped working after upgrade
by Dan McGurk 13 May '13

13 May '13

Why are you such a dick, Adam? It didn't sound whiney to me at all. Sorry if some of us are not Linux gods and need a little more direction. I'm so glad I went with Nagios instead of Observium. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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Eventlog stopped working after upgrade
by Hynek Med 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hi, after upgrading Observium via svn there are no event logs and we are not getting e-mail alerts. Where should I look for problems, can you point me to a direction, what to look at? Thanks, Hynek

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{For the Devs} Asterisk Monitoring
by Pieter De Wit 12 May '13

12 May '13

Hello Devs, I have done some work on Asterisk monitoring for Observium. I had an off-list chat with Adam to help me complete the work and to get the patch applied to Observium. I think he got busy with other work (or just ignoring me :) - it's all good ) so I am looking for someone to help me get this into Observium. I have an almost working code base, I just need some help in getting the graphs to display and perhaps some other work. I can give you access to an Asterisk box via SNMP, a static IP will be required. I am also willing to do the coding, I just need some guidance :) Feel free to contact me off list. Thanks, Pieter

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IANA port assignment
by Adam Armstrong 11 May '13

11 May '13

Evening All, Earlier today IANA approved our port assignment request, so the move to 36602 is official. observium-agent 36602 tcp Observium statistics [Observium] [Adam_Armstrong] 2013-05-10 collection agent We're still checking the old port, but that will go away in the future. adam.

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Re: [Observium] Getting wierd spike graph
by Adam Armstrong 10 May '13

10 May '13

Why is that strange? Kristjan Hinn - PERH <Kristjan.Hinn(a)regionaalhaigla.ee> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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monitor libvirt
by Alex Vitola 09 May '13

09 May '13

how to able to monitor libvirt virtual machines with observium? Alex Vitola @alexvitola

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Re: [Observium] Getting wierd spike graph
by Adam Armstrong 08 May '13

08 May '13

Its not obvious what the problem is. The spikes seem to be evenly spaced, which is odd. Its likely either a bug in the switch SNMP stack which is returning zero or referring to the 32bit counters, or a network congestion issue caused by a crown job. Do all of the devices have the same software versions? Adam. Kristjan Hinn - PERH <Kristjan.Hinn(a)regionaalhaigla.ee> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Checkpoint Firewall Support?
by Steve Costaras 08 May '13

08 May '13

I'm just starting to look at observium for some monitoring. I see that it supports cisco based firewalls (ASA/PIX) but it does not currently support checkpoint. Checkpoint mainly runs on top of redhat linux. I'm able to get the general linux stats but not the firewall specific stats (connections/vpn/etc) similar to what's available with the cisco asa support. Basically, I'm asking if anyone has managed to get this to work. Or barring that, any information as to how to add support? Steve

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Trend prediction
by Adam Armstrong 08 May '13

08 May '13

I've been experimenting with the trend prediction maths in RRDtool, does anyone think this would be useful? http://alpha.memetic.org/~adama/snaps/b9235x35gh.png Thanks, adam.

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debian7 interupts raised 10x times
by Nikolay Shopik 07 May '13

07 May '13

Hey anyone upgraded to debian7 and noticed interrupts raised like 10x times? At first I though it server specific issue, but when I upgraded completely different hardware and noticed same thing even w/o booting into new kernel. So we had at one server about 160 and now 1700, and other server 280 now 1800. Also context switches increased 5-6 times from 500 to 3,5K now.

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Re: [Observium] Observium with Hyper-v
by Adam Armstrong 07 May '13

07 May '13

The existence or not of a hypervisor has little to no bearing on the graphing of the networking counters maintained by the OS. You give virtually zero information on exactly what you are trying to do. Adam. Patrick Goldbach <gbachs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Getting wierd spike graph
by Kristjan Hinn - PERH 07 May '13

07 May '13

Hello, Im having trouble graphing Avaya ERS5530 switches. Graphs generated have very wierd spikes of ~700 Gbps what is impossible. I have other switches drawing graphs just fine. And to get this even more wierder one of my eight Avaya ERS5530 is drawing graphs just fine. Picture of the problematic graph: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41978197/observium/xtuum1.JPG Has anyone got any idea what could case this? BR, Kristjan Hinn

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Observium with Hyper-v
by Patrick Goldbach 06 May '13

06 May '13

Has anyone been able to have a hyper-v virtual as a device being monitored by Observium successfully capture the network traffic of the hyper-v virtual? -pg

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Adding MIBs
by Gerry Armstrong 06 May '13

06 May '13

Hi Guys, I am new to Observium and so far have found it to be very interesting and would like to know if it is possible to extend the MIBs that are used to include Mitel equipment. I have the MIBs and have uploaded them to the MIB direectory but am not sure how/if I can include these in the discovery/polling so that I get all the info from our Mitel PBXes available via these MIBs. Regards, Gerry

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Re: [Observium] VRF's on a Cisco 6500 series
by Adam Armstrong 06 May '13

06 May '13

The op is running sup2t, so likely quite different code if you have sup & RSP 720s. Adam. Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >Hi, > >> Better start complaining to Cisco then; read carfully what Adam is saying. >> >> If VRFs are discovered on 7k6 but not on 6k5, it's not Observium's fault, but buggy IOS... ;) > >Very true. I'll compare the 7600's and 6500's I'm working on for a customer as soon as I get the chance. Unfortunately I'll be traveling for the next three weeks, so don't hold your breath :-) > >Cheers, >Sander > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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[094-19171955-0416] APC Nobreak Sensor :: Input :: Voltage = 0V without alerts
by noc.rodrigo.araujo＠itmnetworks.com.br 05 May '13

05 May '13

Hello, i have many APC nobreaks monitored by Observium. but, if the Sensor :: Input :: Voltage = 0V i not receive Alert. How i can receive Alerts if the nobreak not receive Voltage on Power Input ? Thanks, Rodrigo Araujo ITMNETWORKS Brazil

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Re: [Observium] Kickstarter project.
by Adam Armstrong 04 May '13

04 May '13

Thanks :) Rachid Zarouali <rzarouali(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Kickstarter project.
by Adam Armstrong 04 May '13

04 May '13

Hi All, As promised, we've launched a Kickstarter project to fund development of up/down & threshold alerting. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/588464062/observium-alerting If you want it, vote with your wallets, guys! :) Thanks, adam.

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Email Alerts
by Carlos Zurita 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi, I'm test the tool, in this latest version works email alert, TK

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Re: [Observium] Possible bug with whois?
by Adam Armstrong 03 May '13

03 May '13

Only if you disable selinux :D Laurens Vets <laurens(a)daemon.be> wrote: >Found the issue. We are running Observium on CentOS 6 (Yes, we followed >the RHEL documentation to the letter). The default selinux policy does >not allow whois be run from within Apache. After we fixed this, whois >worked. > >Is RHEL/CentOS still an officially supported OS for Observium? > >On 2013-05-02 20:20, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> I have no idea what's causing this. It works fine for me. >> >> It's the whois process getting all badly behaved, so it looks like >> it's their problem. Perhaps that particular version doesn't like >> being >> run from within PHP without a proper terminal? >> >> Of course, you don't tell us the versions of anything you're running >> at all, so I don't know why I'm even bothering... >> >> adam. >> >> On 2013-05-02 14:51, Laurens Vets wrote: >>> Hello list, >>> When Observium tries to do a whois of an RFC 1918 address, whois >>> goes >>> to 100% CPU and stays there... it doesn't seems to exit. I have to >>> manually kill the whois process. >>> Top output: >>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >>> 4480 apache 20 0 12716 1148 908 R 100.0 0.0 5:06.30 whois >>> Process output: >>> [root@box observium]# ps aux | grep whois >>> apache 4479 0.0 0.0 11332 1164 ? S 13:41 0:00 sh >>> -c >>> /usr/bin/whois 10.250.1.1 | grep -v \% >>> apache 4480 99.8 0.0 12716 1148 ? R 13:41 5:15 >>> /usr/bin/whois 10.250.1.1 >>> root 7325 0.0 0.0 103248 836 pts/1 S+ 13:46 0:00 >>> grep whois >>> [root@box observium]# >>> I suspect that either whois should either timeout or don't lookup >>> RFC >>> 1918 addresses (or multicast or loopback?). Or should I wait longer >>> then 5 minutes? >>> Kind regards, >>> Laurens >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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User Access Levels
by John Macleod 03 May '13

03 May '13

Is this documented anywhere or did I not look hard enough? Just looking to add a user with the same viewing abilities as an admin, but unable to make any changes. A level of 1 doesn't allow them to view anything at all. 8 more options to try I guess ;)

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Possible bug with whois?
by Laurens Vets 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hello list, When Observium tries to do a whois of an RFC 1918 address, whois goes to 100% CPU and stays there... it doesn't seems to exit. I have to manually kill the whois process. Top output: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4480 apache 20 0 12716 1148 908 R 100.0 0.0 5:06.30 whois Process output: [root@box observium]# ps aux | grep whois apache 4479 0.0 0.0 11332 1164 ? S 13:41 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/whois 10.250.1.1 | grep -v \% apache 4480 99.8 0.0 12716 1148 ? R 13:41 5:15 /usr/bin/whois 10.250.1.1 root 7325 0.0 0.0 103248 836 pts/1 S+ 13:46 0:00 grep whois [root@box observium]# I suspect that either whois should either timeout or don't lookup RFC 1918 addresses (or multicast or loopback?). Or should I wait longer then 5 minutes? Kind regards, Laurens

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smokeping integration no more working ?
by Rachid Zarouali 03 May '13

03 May '13

i've tried to integration smokeping graphs with observium. i've followed the documentation and add in my config.php : "$config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/usr/share/smokeping/www/cache";" but i can't see the smokeping tab in my devices. devices in smokeping are working perfectly btw any clues?

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Re: [Observium] VRF's on a Cisco 6500 series
by Adam Armstrong 02 May '13

02 May '13

Tell Cisco. :D Kristoffer Björk <kristoffer.bjork(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] VRF's on a Cisco 6500 series
by Adam Armstrong 02 May '13

02 May '13

6500? Why, that's a switch! No need for qa'd vrf snmp support there! Muwhahaha. Darius Seroka <dariusjs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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VRF's on a Cisco 6500 series
by Darius Seroka 02 May '13

02 May '13

Hi List, Has anyone got a Cisco 6500 series on observium with VRF's? I've recently been adding some cisco gear to observium and the vrf's don't get picked up. It did pick up VRF's from the pair of ASR1002 -- Regards, Darius

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Re: [Observium] up null up, anyone similar?
by Adam Armstrong 02 May '13

02 May '13

This is usually caused by poor network connectivity or high load on the monitored host. Adam. List User <list(a)redspeedservers.com> wrote: >Anyone else have anything similar to this: > >Date Device Entity Message >04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth1 ifOperStatus: -> up >04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth1 ifAdminStatus: -> up >04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth0 ifOperStatus: -> up >04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo lo ifOperStatus: -> up >04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth1 ifOperStatus: up -> NULL >04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth1 ifAdminStatus: up -> NULL >04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth0 ifOperStatus: up -> NULL >04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo lo ifOperStatus: up -> NULL > >over and over in the event log? Weird part is, we have another server in >here (this is the Linux, and one Windows for now) and it only happens to >the Linux one. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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up null up, anyone similar?
by List User 01 May '13

01 May '13

Anyone else have anything similar to this: Date Device Entity Message 04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth1 ifOperStatus: -> up 04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth1 ifAdminStatus: -> up 04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth0 ifOperStatus: -> up 04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo lo ifOperStatus: -> up 04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth1 ifOperStatus: up -> NULL 04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth1 ifAdminStatus: up -> NULL 04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth0 ifOperStatus: up -> NULL 04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo lo ifOperStatus: up -> NULL over and over in the event log? Weird part is, we have another server in here (this is the Linux, and one Windows for now) and it only happens to the Linux one.

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Re: [Observium] Can't add first host
by Adam Armstrong 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Don't add hosts via the web interface. Adam. Dan McGurk <prenger745(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Quick question on Brocade VLAN interfaces
by Aaron Mayfield 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

I'm running Brocade CER routers in my network at the moment. VLAN interfaces on Brocade are implemented as ve interfaces. Brocade for some reason decided not to implement interface counters for ve interfaces on the CES/CERs, so of course I don't get any utilization graphs for these interfaces. Is anyone out there running MLX or XMR? Out of morbid curiosity, do the VLAN interface octet/packet counters work on them? Thanks

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Can't add first host
by Dan McGurk 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

I have tried twice now to set this up, unsuccessfully. I have followed the walk-through for Debian/ubuntu as best I can but still can't get anything to work. I shouldn't say anything. I DO get the webpage and can log in with the user I set-up in the walk-through via command. When I go to the "Add Device" page I get a webpage error at the bottom. I have copied and pasted it here: Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0E) Timestamp: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:14:18 UTC Message: Expected identifier, string or number Line: 40 Char: 9 Code: 0 URI: http://xx.xx.233.26/addhost/ Message: Invalid character Line: 455 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: http://xx.xx.233.26/addhost/ Also, when I go to the main page, underneath Devices and Ports..there is a red graphical rectangle with "Permission Denied x" Any ideas or thoughts would be much appreciated! Dan

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Linux agent port change
by Adam Armstrong 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Hi All, I've just changed the default port for the agent from the check_mk port to a port matching our enterprise id, 36602. There's an example script in scripts/observium_agent_xinetd for xinetd. You can now just use the agent script from scripts/observium_agent. Put it into /usr/bin/observium_agent, as matching the xinetd file. Create a /usr/lib/observium_agent directory and a /usr/lib/observium_agent/local directory. Put the agent scripts you want to run in the local directly. To test it, use "telnet localhost 36602". We're still working on a method of keeping the agent up to date on clients :) For the time being the poller will check both the /new/ port and the original check_mk port, but this will be removed in the future. adam.

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User interface access error
by ColoCenter bv 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi all, I give my customers access to observium so they can view the traffic from my switch to their network through their port. This used to work great, but now users can't view their port anymore. I get some access denied errors. Giving access to a device still works, to a single interface not. I don't know since what version this bug exists, my customers don't check their traffic every day. Another issue is that in the "all devices" and "all ports" sections they can see all devices that are being monitored by observium, even if they don't have access to it. A small security issue here. Can these issues be fixed? First one has my priority, second one would be nice. Kind regards, -- Alexander Lantink ColoCenter bv http://www.colocenter.nl info(a)colocenter.nl

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Re: [Observium] User interface access error
by Adam Armstrong 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hmm. Just recently someone tested this and these issues weren't there. I am thinking of stripping out the complex permissions system altogether. Adam. ColoCenter bv <info(a)colocenter.nl> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] attach specific mibs to a device
by Adam Armstrong 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

MIBs are not what you think they are :) Short answer is no. Adam. Rachid Zarouali <rzarouali(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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attach specific mibs to a device
by Rachid Zarouali 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hy all, i have several Aruba IAP-93, i was wondering if i can "attach" a specific mib (which is not the same mib for Aruba Controller) to these devices ? thanks for your help, Regards,

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Re: [Observium] Trend prediction
by Adam Armstrong 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

This is all done in rrdtool, so purely graphical initially. It is possible to extract this kind of data from rrdtool in numerical form, but it's quite slow, certainly too slow to do in the poller. Also, I would say in this instance you would set a warning at 75%. Much easier :) Adam. Petr Gregor <gregy(a)gregy.cz> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Cisco IOS VLAN update
by observium＠velder.li 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Hi, the description of vlan's in cisco ios isn't updated. If a desc is changed, i need to change it in the observium db manually. Is there a possibility to automate that? Regards patrick

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Is there a way to change the looks of the graphs - to look like "MRTG" charts?
by Sonny Kupka 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Hello, For whatever reasons - I have people asking if it is possible to change the looks of the graphs - to look like "MRTG" charts. Has anyone changed their graphs|looks.. If so care to share your settings? Thanks, Sonny

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Re: [Observium] Kickstarter project.
by Adam Armstrong 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

I just ordered a £5k of 28 year old scotch, that count? Err, I mean, ramen. Adam. Mattias Gyllenvarg <Mattias.Gyllenvarg(a)Bredband2.se> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Integration with Nagions/Smokeping - How does it work?
by Sam Munzani 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hi, I am new to Observium. Downloaded it last week and got a few devices working on it. Did Rancid plug-in and now all configs show up on Observium. I also added following to config.php and have Nagios3 and Smokeping running independently on the same box. However I don't know how its supposed to show up. Rancid was obvious because of the extra tab that shows up. How does it work with nagios and smoke ping? The documentation on these integration is very light. $config['rrdtool'] = "/usr/bin/rrdtool"; $config['fping'] = "/usr/bin/fping"; #$config['fping6'] = "/usr/bin/fping6"; $config['snmpwalk'] = "/usr/bin/snmpwalk"; $config['snmpget'] = "/usr/bin/snmpget"; $config['snmpbulkwalk'] = "/usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk"; $config['whois'] = "/usr/bin/whois"; $config['ping'] = "/bin/ping"; $config['mtr'] = "/usr/bin/mtr"; $config['nmap'] = "/usr/bin/nmap"; $config['nagios_plugins'] = "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins"; $config['ipmitool'] = "/usr/bin/ipmitool"; $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/"; #$config['virsh'] = "/usr/bin/virsh"; Also, does it have an ability to add a few URL monitors? I didn't see a reference in the documentation anywhere. Thanks, Sam

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RRD Command button broken
by Mattias Gyllenvarg 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hi Adam "RRD command" button is broken, it sends you back too the overview page. PS. Favorite BOFH so far "Shut your whore mouth!" -- *Med Vänliga Hälsningar - Best Regards* *Mattias Gyllenvarg* *Nätutveckling* Bredband2 Tel: +46 406219712

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maybe dumb question about observium itself
by Rachid Zarouali 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hy all, i'm using observium to monitor my network devices, i've seen there are applications that could be as well monitored. are these applications to be maintained or to be dropped ? i'm evaluating zabbix as well, so just wondering if i should keep both ? feedback appreciated, Regards

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Re: [Observium] maybe dumb question about observium itself
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

To make sure this is the case, agent scripts should have the absolute minimum of code. Where possible, just command output or cat'd files, updating php, perl and python scripts after deployment may prove difficult... :) Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >I'll reiterate what I said on IRC: > >Adam feels the current "application" infrastructure is not how it should be. > >However, yes, applications are not going away, just the way they are >monitored may change. Data collection scripts which we have now will >then be converted to whatever new format we'll be using. In the future. >Not now. No time, bugs and alerting first ;-) > >Tom > >On 23/04/2013 11:20, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> The applications stuff is messy. >> >> At some point we need to properly define how it should all work and >> make some real infrastructure for it, but that requires time and >> resource we don't have at the moment. >> >> So it's subject to change at any moment :) >> >> adam. >> >> On 2013-04-23 11:12, Rachid Zarouali wrote: >>> Hy all, >>> >>> i'm using observium to monitor my network devices, i've seen there are >>> applications that could be as well monitored. >>> >>> are these applications to be maintained or to be dropped ? >>> >>> i'm evaluating zabbix as well, so just wondering if i should keep both ? >>> >>> feedback appreciated, >>> >>> Regards >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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Re: [Observium] maybe dumb question about observium itself
by Andreas Bergman 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi, We're using a combination of Icinga (nagios) and Observium to monitor our network, some things Icinga do really well, and some things Observium do very well. Br Andreas -----Original Message----- From: "Rachid Zarouali" <rzarouali(a)gmail.com> Sent 4/23/2013 12:12:41 PM To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] maybe dumb question about observium itself Hy all, i'm using observium to monitor my network devices, i've seen there are applications that could be as well monitored. are these applications to be maintained or to be dropped ? i'm evaluating zabbix as well, so just wondering if i should keep both ? feedback appreciated, Regards _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Damn right Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 11:49 +0400, Nikolay Shopik wrote: >> Maybe just don't use it at all? It such junk anyway. What's wrong with >> good old k9mail >> >> On 4/23/13 10:46 AM, Tom Laermans wrote: >> > >> > Can someone please fix the threading breakage in the android client? :P > >Unfortunately I can't tell Adam what to use - he'll just take my mailing >list access away :P > >Tom > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Sonny Kupka 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hello, Seems there was a change in code which effects - Devices > Locations. I had set each device with a specific sysLocation - and checked override sysLocation in the device settings. This was working as expected, until I ran updates - Now instead of having my defined locations - It now shows countries - Canada, England, Unknown and all my stuff is showing up under unknown. Is there a place to read about configuration changes - I may need to re-adjust - or is this a bug - as override sysLocation is now overwritten by something else? Thanks. Sonny

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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

You would not be stupid enough to try to complain about something not working on an old release, would you? Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >I'm talking about reverting to the old behaviour, not getting >geolocation working. > >On 04/23/2013 02:31 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> There is still work to be done on it. >> >> The geolocation service we are using is a little temperamental, so needs well formatted locations. >> >> Adam. >> >> Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >> >>> On 04/23/2013 02:17 PM, Sonny Kupka wrote: >>>> Tom, >>>> >>>> Worked perfectly. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> Sonny >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Tom Laermans" <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> >>>> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:18:05 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations >>>> >>>> Hi Sonny, >>>> >>>> You can override the geolocation and return to the old behaviour by adding >>>> >>>> $config['location_menu_geocoded'] = FALSE; >>>> >>>> to your configuration file. I like it better too ;-) >>>> >>>> Tom >>> Does that feature require a particular svn revision? I'm on 3934 and it >>> doesn't work for me. >>> >>> Or does it require something like rediscovery? >>> >>> 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 > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Feel free to consider all bug reports and other complaints ignore from nice on, then. Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >Where "old release" == "I only do 'svn up' in cron.weekly"? Evidently >so. :-) > >/me updates and tries again > >On 04/23/2013 02:42 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> You would not be stupid enough to try to complain about something not working on an old release, would you? >> >> Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >> >>> I'm talking about reverting to the old behaviour, not getting >>> geolocation working. >>> >>> On 04/23/2013 02:31 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >>>> There is still work to be done on it. >>>> >>>> The geolocation service we are using is a little temperamental, so needs well formatted locations. >>>> >>>> Adam. >>>> >>>> Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 04/23/2013 02:17 PM, Sonny Kupka wrote: >>>>>> Tom, >>>>>> >>>>>> Worked perfectly. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> Sonny >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Tom Laermans" <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> >>>>>> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>>>> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:18:05 PM >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Sonny, >>>>>> >>>>>> You can override the geolocation and return to the old behaviour by adding >>>>>> >>>>>> $config['location_menu_geocoded'] = FALSE; >>>>>> >>>>>> to your configuration file. I like it better too ;-) >>>>>> >>>>>> Tom >>>>> Does that feature require a particular svn revision? I'm on 3934 and it >>>>> doesn't work for me. >>>>> >>>>> Or does it require something like rediscovery? >>>>> >>>>> Paul >>>>> ... > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Issue with 95th Percentile for Billing
by Poh Yong Hwang 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi All, New here. :) I have an issue with the billing of traffic. I want to bill according to 95th percentile but for some reason it is always 0Mbps. It can plot my traffic for incoming and outgoing but it always show 0 for my 95th percentile. Any advise on this? Thanks Poh

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Re: [Observium] Issue with 95th Percentile for Billing
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

You are not running the billing poller. Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Strange timezone behaviour in graphs
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Still irritating, though. Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: >Cool. Easy enough to work around. > >Thanks, >Matt > > >On 23/04/2013, at 2:28 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: > >> Yes. This is down to some funkiness with timezones between client and server. >> >> It has been known for a while. The last attempted fix was reverted because it broke things even more! >> >> Adam. >> >> Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm not sure what to make of this. When I try to enter custom time ranges in any of the traffic graphs, I get different results depending on which browser I'm using. >>> >>> Results are as follows. I'm in Brisbane (GMT +10). >>> >>> Mac OS X 10.6 >>> >>> Firefox: Observium always converts the time I enter (in local time) to GMT. Therefore my graphs are out by 10 hours. >>> Safari: Won't accept any time info I enter. Always give me the last 24 hours. >>> Chrom: Everything seems to work ok. >>> >>> Windows 7 >>> >>> Internet Explorer: Always gives me the last 24 hours. Same as Safari on OS X >>> Chrome: Everything seems ok. >>> >>> >>> Clicking any of the preset time periods, e.g 6 / 24 / 48 hours, always works ok regardless of which browser/os I'm using. >>> >>> Is this expected behaviour? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Matt. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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Re: [Observium] Strange timezone behaviour in graphs
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Yes. This is down to some funkiness with timezones between client and server. It has been known for a while. The last attempted fix was reverted because it broke things even more! Adam. Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: >Hi, > >I'm not sure what to make of this. When I try to enter custom time ranges in any of the traffic graphs, I get different results depending on which browser I'm using. > >Results are as follows. I'm in Brisbane (GMT +10). > >Mac OS X 10.6 > >Firefox: Observium always converts the time I enter (in local time) to GMT. Therefore my graphs are out by 10 hours. >Safari: Won't accept any time info I enter. Always give me the last 24 hours. >Chrom: Everything seems to work ok. > >Windows 7 > >Internet Explorer: Always gives me the last 24 hours. Same as Safari on OS X >Chrome: Everything seems ok. > > >Clicking any of the preset time periods, e.g 6 / 24 / 48 hours, always works ok regardless of which browser/os I'm using. > >Is this expected behaviour? > >Cheers, >Matt. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

There is still work to be done on it. The geolocation service we are using is a little temperamental, so needs well formatted locations. Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >On 04/23/2013 02:17 PM, Sonny Kupka wrote: >> Tom, >> >> Worked perfectly. >> >> Thanks. >> Sonny >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tom Laermans" <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> >> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:18:05 PM >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations >> >> Hi Sonny, >> >> You can override the geolocation and return to the old behaviour by adding >> >> $config['location_menu_geocoded'] = FALSE; >> >> to your configuration file. I like it better too ;-) >> >> Tom > >Does that feature require a particular svn revision? I'm on 3934 and it >doesn't work for me. > >Or does it require something like rediscovery? > >Paul > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] FW: observium Digest, Vol 33, Issue 45
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

You are not our target market, then. Sam Munzani <smunzani(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>On 2013-04-22 15:32, Sam Munzani wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I deployed Observium over the weekend to try out. Reading through >>> documents, I figured out how to exclude specific interface types. >>> However trying to figure out how to exclude a specific interface? E.g. >>> The list might be Fa0/30, Fa0/37, Gig0/9, Gig0/42. No contiguous >>> interface. >> >>This is contra to the design ethos of Observium, thus there is no simple >>way to do this. >> >>Thanks, >>adam. > >While its a great concept, its not scalable. I have Qty 40 of the Cisco 48 >port switches and not all ports I care about. These are desktop ports and >I care to graph uplink ports only. Even if it does it efficiently, it is >junk data that I would never use. > >What would have been awesome is let Observium discover everything and let >administrators decide what they want to graph. > >Its sad that even though I like the tool, it doesn't fit me because of >this limitation(or so called feature). > >My 2 cents. > >Sam > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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FW: observium Digest, Vol 33, Issue 45
by Sam Munzani 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

> > > >On 2013-04-22 15:32, Sam Munzani wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I deployed Observium over the weekend to try out. Reading through >> documents, I figured out how to exclude specific interface types. >> However trying to figure out how to exclude a specific interface? E.g. >> The list might be Fa0/30, Fa0/37, Gig0/9, Gig0/42. No contiguous >> interface. > >This is contra to the design ethos of Observium, thus there is no simple >way to do this. > >Thanks, >adam. While its a great concept, its not scalable. I have Qty 40 of the Cisco 48 port switches and not all ports I care about. These are desktop ports and I care to graph uplink ports only. Even if it does it efficiently, it is junk data that I would never use. What would have been awesome is let Observium discover everything and let administrators decide what they want to graph. Its sad that even though I like the tool, it doesn't fit me because of this limitation(or so called feature). My 2 cents. Sam

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Strange timezone behaviour in graphs
by Matt Hucker 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi, I'm not sure what to make of this. When I try to enter custom time ranges in any of the traffic graphs, I get different results depending on which browser I'm using. Results are as follows. I'm in Brisbane (GMT +10). Mac OS X 10.6 Firefox: Observium always converts the time I enter (in local time) to GMT. Therefore my graphs are out by 10 hours. Safari: Won't accept any time info I enter. Always give me the last 24 hours. Chrom: Everything seems to work ok. Windows 7 Internet Explorer: Always gives me the last 24 hours. Same as Safari on OS X Chrome: Everything seems ok. Clicking any of the preset time periods, e.g 6 / 24 / 48 hours, always works ok regardless of which browser/os I'm using. Is this expected behaviour? Cheers, Matt.

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New memory graphs
by David Brodbeck 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Loving the new, more detailed Linux memory graphs. Much more useful now that I can see how much is actual memory use, and how much is cache that will be expunged as needed. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

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How to exclude some network interfaces?
by Sam Munzani 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hi, I deployed Observium over the weekend to try out. Reading through documents, I figured out how to exclude specific interface types. However trying to figure out how to exclude a specific interface? E.g. The list might be Fa0/30, Fa0/37, Gig0/9, Gig0/42. No contiguous interface. Thanks in advance, Sam

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Observium VMs wrong OS version
by observium＠velder.li 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hi there In the virtual machine overview (ESXi Host..), the os version is not correct. I added the VM to observium, when squeeze 6.0.6 was installed. Now it is 6.0.7 (since a few weeks) but observium still says 6.0.6. Is that a bug? Regards, Patrick

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IPMI weirdness
by Robert Williams 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hi All, For a while now it appears that all our devices which also have IPMI cards are seeing every single sensor added and deleted (in that order) on every poll. A relevant snippet from the debug of one device gives: (319ms) Discover sensor: temperature, Array, , 1, ipmi, System Temp, 1 , 1, -7.000, -5.000, 80.000, 85.000, 31.000 , ipmi, , , , SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM `sensors` WHERE `poller_type`= 'ipmi' AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature' AND `device_id` = '190' AND sensor_type = 'ipmi' AND `sensor_index` = '1'] SQL[INSERT INTO `sensors` (`poller_type`,`sensor_class`,`device_id`,`sensor_oid`,`sensor_index`,`sensor_type`,`sensor_descr`,`sensor_divisor`,`sensor_multiplier`,`sensor_limit`,`sensor_limit_warn`,`sensor_limit_low`,`sensor_limit_low_warn`,`entPhysicalIndex`,`entPhysicalIndex_measured`,`measured_class`,`measured_entity`) VALUES ('ipmi','temperature','190','','1','ipmi','System Temp','1','1','85.000','80.000','-7.000','-5.000','','','','')] ( 223532 inserted ) + SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Added: temperature ipmi 1 System Temp')] Discover sensor: temperature, Array, , 2, ipmi, Peripheral Temp, 1 , 1, -7.000, -5.000, 80.000, 85.000, 37.000 , ipmi, , , , SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM `sensors` WHERE `poller_type`= 'ipmi' AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature' AND `device_id` = '190' AND sensor_type = 'ipmi' AND `sensor_index` = '2'] SQL[INSERT INTO `sensors` (`poller_type`,`sensor_class`,`device_id`,`sensor_oid`,`sensor_index`,`sensor_type`,`sensor_descr`,`sensor_divisor`,`sensor_multiplier`,`sensor_limit`,`sensor_limit_warn`,`sensor_limit_low`,`sensor_limit_low_warn`,`entPhysicalIndex`,`entPhysicalIndex_measured`,`measured_class`,`measured_entity`) VALUES ('ipmi','temperature','190','','2','ipmi','Peripheral Temp','1','1','85.000','80.000','-7.000','-5.000','','','','')] ( 223533 inserted ) + SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Added: temperature ipmi 2 Peripheral Temp')] Discover sensor: fanspeed, Array, , 4, ipmi, FAN, 1 , 1, 450.000, 600.000, 18975.000, 19050.000, 3150.000 , ipmi, , , , <Repeats for all sensors> …(Section cropped)… <Then the removals follow immediately afterwards> SQL[SELECT * FROM sensors AS S, devices AS D WHERE S.sensor_class='voltage' AND S.device_id = D.device_id AND D.device_id = '190' AND S.poller_type = 'ipmi'] - SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223535'] SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 5 Vcore')] - SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223536'] SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 6 3.3VCC')] - SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223537'] SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 7 12V')] - SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223538'] From what I can tell, it’s doing this for all devices with IPMI, regardless of make / model etc. - and it is only doing it to the IPMI sensors, nothing else is affected. Feedback / suggestions welcome! Cheers :) Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] Reset disk storage values on host
by Adam Armstrong 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Output from discovery for that host with -m storage -d Andrew Lynch <lurch89(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Reset disk storage values on host
by Adam Armstrong 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Run discovery. Andrew Lynch <lurch89(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Reset disk storage values on host
by Andrew Lynch 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

I recently changed the disk configuration on one of my monitored hosts. It seems like the discovery engine is pulling the stats incorrectly and applying them to the wrong disks. Is there an easy way (save for removing and re-adding the entire host) to flush the stats of the storage only? I don't care if it has to completely start from scratch. Thanks! -Andy -- Andrew Lynch (KD0IOE) lurch89(a)gmail.com http://andrewrlynch.com "Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been." —Theodore von Kármán WC

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Subifs no longer showing up for Cisco ASR9K/IOS-XR device after upgrade
by Stephen Fulton 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hi all, I've been using Observium since January, and I've mostly been happy with it. I upgraded to 0.13.4.3934 yesterday, and since then, none of the sub-interfaces on a ASR9K/IOS-XR 4.3.0 router are being collected. Originally I thought it was due to an upgrade error on my part, so I deleted the host and re-added it, but the sub-interfaces are not being seen and data not being collected. Let me know what information is needed, and I'll present it. -- Stephen

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Re: [Observium] IPMI weirdness
by Robert Williams 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Dear Tom, Pretty please? If you get it working again, at the end there will be cake... :) -----Original Message----- From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 20 April 2013 21:44 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] IPMI weirdness You need to be extra nice to Tom, as the IPMI stuff is written by him :) adam. On 2013-04-20 21:25, List User wrote: > I posted this earlier (as did a couple of other people) but it was > never fixed. > > On 4/20/2013 6:33 AM, Robert Williams wrote: > > Hi All, > > For a while now it appears that all our devices which also have IPMI > cards are seeing every single sensor added and deleted (in that order) > on every poll. > > A relevant snippet from the debug of one device gives: > > (319ms) Discover sensor: temperature, Array, , 1, ipmi, System Temp, 1 > , 1, -7.000, -5.000, 80.000, 85.000, 31.000 , ipmi, , , , > > SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM `sensors` WHERE `poller_type`= 'ipmi' > AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature' AND `device_id` = '190' AND > sensor_type = 'ipmi' AND `sensor_index` = '1'] > > SQL[INSERT INTO `sensors` > (`poller_type`,`sensor_class`,`device_id`,`sensor_oid`,`sensor_index`, > `sensor_type`,`sensor_descr`,`sensor_divisor`,`sensor_multiplier`,`sen > sor_limit`,`sensor_limit_warn`,`sensor_limit_low`,`sensor_limit_low_wa > rn`,`entPhysicalIndex`,`entPhysicalIndex_measured`,`measured_class`,`m > easured_entity`) VALUES > ('ipmi','temperature','190','','1','ipmi','System > Temp','1','1','85.000','80.000','-7.000','-5.000','','','','')] ( > 223532 inserted ) > > + > > SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` > (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES > ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Added: temperature ipmi 1 System > Temp')] Discover sensor: temperature, Array, , 2, ipmi, Peripheral > Temp, 1 , 1, -7.000, -5.000, 80.000, 85.000, 37.000 , ipmi, , , , > > SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM `sensors` WHERE `poller_type`= 'ipmi' > AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature' AND `device_id` = '190' AND > sensor_type = 'ipmi' AND `sensor_index` = '2'] > > SQL[INSERT INTO `sensors` > (`poller_type`,`sensor_class`,`device_id`,`sensor_oid`,`sensor_index`, > `sensor_type`,`sensor_descr`,`sensor_divisor`,`sensor_multiplier`,`sen > sor_limit`,`sensor_limit_warn`,`sensor_limit_low`,`sensor_limit_low_wa > rn`,`entPhysicalIndex`,`entPhysicalIndex_measured`,`measured_class`,`m > easured_entity`) VALUES > ('ipmi','temperature','190','','2','ipmi','Peripheral > Temp','1','1','85.000','80.000','-7.000','-5.000','','','','')] ( > 223533 inserted ) > > + > > SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` > (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES > ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Added: temperature ipmi 2 > Peripheral Temp')] Discover sensor: fanspeed, Array, , 4, ipmi, FAN, 1 > , 1, 450.000, 600.000, 18975.000, 19050.000, 3150.000 , ipmi, , , , > > <Repeats for all sensors> > > …(Section cropped)… > > <Then the removals follow immediately afterwards> > > SQL[SELECT * FROM sensors AS S, devices AS D WHERE > S.sensor_class='voltage' AND S.device_id = D.device_id AND D.device_id > = '190' AND S.poller_type = 'ipmi'] - > > SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223535'] > > SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` > (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES > ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 5 Vcore')] > - > > SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223536'] > > SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` > (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES > ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 6 3.3VCC')] > - > > SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223537'] > > SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` > (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES > ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 7 12V')] - > > SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223538'] > > From what I can tell, it's doing this for all devices with IPMI, > regardless of make / model etc. - and it is only doing it to the IPMI > sensors, nothing else is affected. > > Feedback / suggestions welcome! > > Cheers :) > > Robert Williams > Custodian Data Centre > Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com > http://www.CustodianDC.com [2] > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium [1] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > [2] http://www.CustodianDC.com > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] observium post from ronbobius@gmail.com requires approval
by Adam Armstrong 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

> What I have done with some 'very important' devices is do just that. > Change the cron entry for specific entries to 1 minute. > > Would this break anything Adam? These are smaller Cisco devices with > few interfaces. > It won't do anything, because the RRD won't store more than one data point every 300 seconds. If you changed the RRD databases, they'd stop storing the normal datapoints, because they would be at the wrong resolution. Like I said, it can't currently be done. You could change the entire installation to be 1-minute, change the RRD template and delete all of the existing RRDs, but you wouldn't want to, because that would be a lot of load on your network and on the observium host. Also, your changes would likely be overwritten by a future update, then you'd be stuffed :) adam.

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Observium Enterprise/Pro licensing
by Adam Armstrong 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

Hi All, At some point in the future it's likely that I'm going to split Observium into free and enterprise/pro variants. Observium has historically been developed as a fairly ad hoc project, with work being done as time permits between work projects. We've often had gaps of 6 months where there has been little work done due to other commitments. As the user-base expands this is going to become less and less viable a way of maintaining the project, and we need to be able to devote more time to keeping on top of bug reports and feature development. To be able to devote more time to the project we need to establish a revenue stream to be able to support it. We'd like comments from you guys about how we should go about splitting, what should be in each version, and what we should charge. We're considering: A hosts/ports-based licensing scheme, where you get a certain number free, and any more than that requires a license. A feature-based licensing scheme, where higher-value features such as load balancers, netapp, mac accounting, vpn tracking, etc require a license. Licensing for customer-access, where allowing customers access to the web interface requires a license. What pricing models do you think would work? Options for the ent/pro version include using the honour system, maintaining a separate password-protected SVN repository or distributing an ioncube-protected version. I would prefer to go the honour system route, but I'm not sure how well that would work. Thanks, adam.

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fisheye
by Crozier, Doug 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Is anyone else having problems getting to http://fisheye.observium.org/changelog/Observium?

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Re: [Observium] polling interval
by Adam Armstrong 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

This is not possible with observium. Adam. J Z <jzthegeek(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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polling interval
by J Z 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Long-time user and lurker. Many thanks to Adam and those who volunteer their time on this awesome project. I was wondering if there was a way to modify the polling interval (aside from modifying the crontab entry). I know that there was a lot of work that had to be done to decrease the polling interval from 5 to 1 minutes in Cacti, so I imagine it's not as simple as simply changing the crontab entry for Observium to monitor a switch's traffic utilization every 60 seconds. Has anyone successfully done this? Is there something simple I'm missing to get this to work? Many thanks!

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Re: [Observium] APC UPS and remaining Runtime
by Adam Armstrong 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hi, We currently have no sensor type to capture this. It is on the list, but as with everything else, no time and no resources. Adam. Chris Blake <chrisrblake93(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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APC UPS and remaining Runtime
by Chris Blake 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hello, Not sure if I am doing this right (using the mailing list) so please don't kill me if I am. I currently have a APC UPS SMT2200RM2U, and I just recently added it to my Observium panel vi SNMP v2c. I see it logs everything from the current load to battery temp, but I am kind of surprised it does not log Battery Run Time Remaining. I checked in the latest APC powernet.mib file, and there is a function to call this. So, I updated the /opt/observium/mib/apc/powernet.mib to the latest version, but observium still does not log or show the remaining run time, which leads me to believe it is not coded into the script. Just wondering if this is a plan for the future, or am I doing everything wrong? Thanks, Chris B

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Polling Rate on a 3750 Stack
by Michael Sweikata 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Is anyone else having huge response times in their polling of a Cisco 3750 stack? I've increased the number of pollers I have to something close to 17, but my 3750s seem to take forever to respond (anywhere between 200 - 999.99+ seconds). It may be an issue on my 3750s, but my polling intervals on my devices is several hours. I have 2950s and 6509s that don't seem to have any issue responding in a short amount of time (<20 seconds).

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Re: [Observium] missing directories in observium
by Tom Laermans 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Ladies and gentlemen, Adam is practicing for his commercial support idea. How would you rate this response on a scale from 1 to A++ WOULD SVN UP AGAIN? ;-) Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] missing directories in observium Date: Wed, Apr 17, 2013 09:14 On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:54:09 +0000, LUKE REAGOR <LUKE.REAGOR(a)sville.us> wrote: > I just installed Observium following the instructions on > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation and it all went on > with no problems. When I go to the url http://localhost I get the logon for > Observium. When I log on, I get the page showing the world map and > everything looks good. However, when I click on any link I get a 404 saying > it doesn't exist. Ex. when I click on Add User, I get a 404 saying > /adduser/ was not found. I look in the filesystem and don't see those > directories in /opt/observium or /opt/observium/html. Did it not get > all the directories and files from the svc? I did that part three times to > make sure. I even look in the svc > (http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk) from a web browser and can't > find those directories. Hi, You're missing mod_rewrite or AllowOverride All on the directory in the Apache configuration. Thanks, adam. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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missing directories in observium
by LUKE REAGOR 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

I just installed Observium following the instructions on http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation and it all went on with no problems. When I go to the url http://localhost I get the logon for Observium. When I log on, I get the page showing the world map and everything looks good. However, when I click on any link I get a 404 saying it doesn't exist. Ex. when I click on Add User, I get a 404 saying /adduser/ was not found. I look in the filesystem and don't see those directories in /opt/observium or /opt/observium/html. Did it not get all the directories and files from the svc? I did that part three times to make sure. I even look in the svc (http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk) from a web browser and can't find those directories. Luke Reagor Network Administrator Stephenville ISD "I am not a teacher only a fellow traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead ahead of myself as well as of you." -George Bernard Shaw

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Re: [Observium] Observium Enterprise/Pro licensing
by Adam Armstrong 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

For the port-based model we would likely exclude virtual ports. It would likely only exist to catch users with 8 vss and 10k ports :-) In terms of support and development, we would likely push all new feature development to the commercial version. Support and feature requests from licensees would be prioritised too. This is already the case for our existing commercial sponsor. Roughly 50% of development work is directly requested features from them. We certainly want to keep the free version usable, and we don't want to separate the code bases, as that would slow progress a lot. I think the balance between keeping everything usable and maintaining a carrot to encourage people to license will be difficult. Pricing is also difficult to decide on. If the majority of users won't pay, it will be higher than if we have more licensees. If every user paid $10, we would probably be fine. I suspect not even 5% will be willing to pay, though. Adam. "Hibler, Florian" <florian.hibler(a)kaiaglobal.com> wrote: >Hi Adam, >thanks for telling the list about your thoughts on commercializing >Observium and giving us the opportunity to talk about the licensing >scheme before you actually decide which way to go. > >I need to agree with Nikolay, that "port-based" shouldn't be the way to >go, as many devices just add tons of virtual ports. For me "host-based" >sounds pretty fair. > >Also I would prefer to use the "honor system" route as well. Keepeing >the source code open makes it still easy for people to contribute to >certain features or customize Observium for their own needs. Once a >product is commercialized you will have piracy, thats what I am pretty >sure of. Although I am pretty sure that this community will honor your >work and what you have done. Observium is a great product and it helps >me with my daily work. > >Can you already outline some pricing you have in mind and/or the >differences between free/pro/enterprise editions? Once there is money >behind that whole thing, what would actually change? How would you deal >with the support, feature requests, etc.? > >Just my 2 cent and hope it was a bit helpful! > >Best regards, >Florian > >-- >Florian Hibler >Chief Technical Officer >eMail: florian.hibler(a)kaiaglobal.com > >Kaia Global Networks Limited >Internet: http://www.kaiaglobal.com >Company No. 08257877 >Registered Office: High Wycombe, UK > >Notice: This transmittal and/or attachments may be privileged or >confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby >notified that you have received this transmittal in error; any review, >dissemination, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you received this >transmittal in error, please notify us immediately by reply and >immediately delete this message and all its attachments. Thank you. > >On 4/15/13 24:58, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> At some point in the future it's likely that I'm going to split Observium >> into free and enterprise/pro variants. >> >> Observium has historically been developed as a fairly ad hoc project, with >> work being done as time permits between work projects. We've often had gaps >> of 6 months where there has been little work done due to other commitments. >> >> As the user-base expands this is going to become less and less viable a >> way of maintaining the project, and we need to be able to devote more time >> to keeping on top of bug reports and feature development. To be able to >> devote more time to the project we need to establish a revenue stream to be >> able to support it. >> >> We'd like comments from you guys about how we should go about splitting, >> what should be in each version, and what we should charge. >> >> We're considering: >> >> A hosts/ports-based licensing scheme, where you get a certain number free, >> and any more than that requires a license. >> A feature-based licensing scheme, where higher-value features such as load >> balancers, netapp, mac accounting, vpn tracking, etc require a license. >> Licensing for customer-access, where allowing customers access to the web >> interface requires a license. >> >> What pricing models do you think would work? >> >> Options for the ent/pro version include using the honour system, >> maintaining a separate password-protected SVN repository or distributing an >> ioncube-protected version. >> >> I would prefer to go the honour system route, but I'm not sure how well >> that would work. >> >> Thanks, >> 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

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Re: [Observium] Observium Enterprise/Pro licensing
by Adam Armstrong 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Shut up, heretic. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:58 +0200, Sebastien Guilbaud wrote: >> >> With regards to "paying members get extra rights and decent >> support", >> this is certainly the goal. BOFH-replies on the mailing list >> will stay >> for the community support though ;> >> >> >> The day Adam answers politely about nginx problems will be the sign of >> severe mental illness :-) >> > >For extra fun, add in PostgreSQL and Ruby. Maybe Lighty? > >Tom > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] webpage showing "device" path not found
by Ben .T.George 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Thanks that solved. by doing some changes in virtualhost's i followed http://www.observium.org/wiki/RHEL_SVN_Installation this for installation. now my 2 servers listing under devices tab. but on the main page i am getting one "permission denied" error message with red background. Also when i click client name top right corner 4 graphs are not loading and the error message showing there is "Draw Error" regards Ben On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Dermot Williams <dermot(a)deadlocked.org>wrote: > Make sure you've enabled mod_rewrite (per the instructions) and that > there's a file called .htaccess in DocumentRoot. Oh, and that that file > actually has stuff in it. > > Dermot > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx > > wrote: > >> Hi Ben. >> >> Again, another mail indicating you did not follow the documentation and >> the installation was not done correctly. >> >> Please reinstall Observium following ALL of the instructions as detailed >> on the web page. >> >> Tom >> >> >> On 16/04/2013 6:39, Ben .T.George wrote: >> >> HI >> >> I installed and configured observium as per the document mentioned on >> wiki . looks like everything is working and i got the web gui.I added 2 >> devices. it's showing 2 devices added and it's up.. But when i click on any >> of the hostname, it's giving the error like "404 the requested URL >> /devices/ was not found on this server >> >> I check on the html directory and the device folder is not there. How to >> fix this isse.? >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> Ben >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://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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webpage showing "device" path not found
by Ben .T.George 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

HI I installed and configured observium as per the document mentioned on wiki . looks like everything is working and i got the web gui.I added 2 devices. it's showing 2 devices added and it's up.. But when i click on any of the hostname, it's giving the error like "404 the requested URL /devices/ was not found on this server I check on the html directory and the device folder is not there. How to fix this isse.? Thanks & Regards, Ben

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Re: [Observium] Observium Enterprise/Pro licensing
by Adam Armstrong 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

I suppose and important question would be, given a realistic pricing model, how many of you would, in principle, pay for a license, and how many of you would make do with whatever remains free? Adam. Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org> wrote: > >Hi All, > >At some point in the future it's likely that I'm going to split Observium >into free and enterprise/pro variants. > >Observium has historically been developed as a fairly ad hoc project, with >work being done as time permits between work projects. We've often had gaps >of 6 months where there has been little work done due to other commitments. > >As the user-base expands this is going to become less and less viable a >way of maintaining the project, and we need to be able to devote more time >to keeping on top of bug reports and feature development. To be able to >devote more time to the project we need to establish a revenue stream to be >able to support it. > >We'd like comments from you guys about how we should go about splitting, >what should be in each version, and what we should charge. > >We're considering: > >A hosts/ports-based licensing scheme, where you get a certain number free, >and any more than that requires a license. >A feature-based licensing scheme, where higher-value features such as load >balancers, netapp, mac accounting, vpn tracking, etc require a license. >Licensing for customer-access, where allowing customers access to the web >interface requires a license. > >What pricing models do you think would work? > >Options for the ent/pro version include using the honour system, >maintaining a separate password-protected SVN repository or distributing an >ioncube-protected version. > >I would prefer to go the honour system route, but I'm not sure how well >that would work. > >Thanks, >adam. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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host adding command not completing
by Ben .T.George 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

HI i tried to add host , please check the below section: ./addhost.php ben.test.net any v2c Trying community any ... No reply on community any using v2c Could not reach ben.test.net with given SNMP community using v2c Trying community any ... No reply on community any using v2c Could not reach ben.test.net with given SNMP community using v2c Observium v0.13.4.3917 Add Host Tool Usage (SNMPv1/2c): ./addhost.php <hostname> [community] [v1|v2c] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Usage (SNMPv3) : Config Defaults : ./addhost.php <hostname> any v3 [user] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] No Auth, No Priv : ./addhost.php <hostname> nanp v3 [user] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Auth, No Priv : ./addhost.php <hostname> anp v3 <user> <password> [md5|sha] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Auth, Priv : ./addhost.php <hostname> ap v3 <user> <password> <enckey> [md5|sha] [aes|dsa] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Remember to run discovery for the host afterwards. i did this setup on local machine and i want to ad this local machine as host.Is it possible to add like this.? But i am getting the above error message. it's trying to get through snmp. but in my machine snmp is running. please help me to fix this issue Thanks & Regards, Ben

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Re: [Observium] adduser.php giving mysql error
by Ben .T.George 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

HI Thanks for the replay. i solved the issue by rerunning the DB table setup script Thanks & Regards, Ben On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx>wrote: > You don't have the database tables set up. > > > On 14/04/2013 11:35, Ben .T.George wrote: > > HI > > Thanks for the reply..i changed database variables on config.php file and > the above error got solved. > > now i am getting some other error. > > # ./adduser.php ben redhat 1 > > User ben creation failed ! > > please help me to solve this issue. > > Thanks & Regards, > Ben > > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Tom Laermans < > tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: > >> On 14/04/2013 8:52, Kamoltorn Theppunya (Tang) wrote: >> >> >> >> It’s caused of special character in your mysql’s password. >> >> >> >> There have 2 solutions that I have solved. >> >> >> >> 1. Change you mysql password not to use character like &%*)% >> >> 2. If you don’t want to change password try to use single quote in >> password term like this >> >> >> >> ./adduser.php user ‘yourpa$$word’ 1 >> >> >> >> >> I'm having a hard time connecting solution 1 to solution 2 to the actual >> cause. >> >> - Using a different password for your Observium user makes no difference >> for the MySQL connection. >> - Special characters in your MySQL password should be no problem. >> >> The real reason: >> >> // Database config >> $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; >> $config['db_user'] = "USERNAME"; >> $config['db_pass'] = "PASSWORD"; >> $config['db_name'] = "observium"; >> >> You did not configure the database credentials correctly. (and will not >> have a database import through the sql schema updater, as it could not have >> connected to MySQL as well) >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> Best Regards. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* observium-bounces(a)observium.org [ >> mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org <observium-bounces(a)observium.org>] >> *On Behalf Of *Ben .T.George >> *Sent:* Sunday, April 14, 2013 1:35 PM >> *To:* observium(a)observium.org >> *Subject:* [Observium] adduser.php giving mysql error >> >> >> >> HI Mailing List >> >> >> >> i followed http://www.observium.org/wiki/RHEL_SVN_Installation this >> tutorial. >> >> when i run ./adduser.php <username> <password> 1 >> >> i am getting mysql error like below >> >> <h2> observer MySQL Error</h2> Access denied for user 'USERNAME'@'localhosr >> ' (using password: YES) >> >> for me the below mysql table creation and access giving was >> successful. I used below command >> >> mysql -u root -p >> >> <mysql root password> >> >> mysql> CREATE DATABASE observium; >> >> mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost' >> >> -> IDENTIFIED BY '<observium db password>'; >> >> >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> Ben >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://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 listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > >

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Re: [Observium] adduser.php giving mysql error
by Adam Armstrong 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

localhosr ? "Ben .T.George" <bentech4you(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] adduser.php giving mysql error
by Ben .T.George 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

HI Thanks for the reply..i changed database variables on config.php file and the above error got solved. now i am getting some other error. # ./adduser.php ben redhat 1 User ben creation failed ! please help me to solve this issue. Thanks & Regards, Ben On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx>wrote: > On 14/04/2013 8:52, Kamoltorn Theppunya (Tang) wrote: > > ** ** > > It’s caused of special character in your mysql’s password.**** > > ** ** > > There have 2 solutions that I have solved. **** > > ** ** > > 1. Change you mysql password not to use character like &%*)% **** > > 2. If you don’t want to change password try to use single quote in > password term like this **** > > ** ** > > ./adduser.php user ‘yourpa$$word’ 1**** > > ** ** > > > I'm having a hard time connecting solution 1 to solution 2 to the actual > cause. > > - Using a different password for your Observium user makes no difference > for the MySQL connection. > - Special characters in your MySQL password should be no problem. > > The real reason: > > // Database config > $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; > $config['db_user'] = "USERNAME"; > $config['db_pass'] = "PASSWORD"; > $config['db_name'] = "observium"; > > You did not configure the database credentials correctly. (and will not > have a database import through the sql schema updater, as it could not have > connected to MySQL as well) > > Tom > > ** ** > > Best Regards.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* observium-bounces(a)observium.org [ > mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org <observium-bounces(a)observium.org>] > *On Behalf Of *Ben .T.George > *Sent:* Sunday, April 14, 2013 1:35 PM > *To:* observium(a)observium.org > *Subject:* [Observium] adduser.php giving mysql error**** > > ** ** > > HI Mailing List > **** > > ** ** > > i followed http://www.observium.org/wiki/RHEL_SVN_Installation this > tutorial.**** > > when i run ./adduser.php <username> <password> 1 **** > > i am getting mysql error like below**** > > <h2> observer MySQL Error</h2> Access denied for user 'USERNAME'@'localhosr > ' (using password: YES) > > **** > > for me the below mysql table creation and access giving was successful. I > used below command**** > > mysql -u root -p**** > > <mysql root password>**** > > mysql> CREATE DATABASE observium;**** > > mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost'**** > > -> IDENTIFIED BY '<observium db password>';**** > > ** ** > > Thanks & Regards, > Ben**** > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://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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Access denied to fabric graphs
by Robert Williams 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Hi, Got an odd one here, suddenly we are getting access denied to all 6500/7600 fabric graphs on all devices: [cid:image001.png@01CE3697.EBD353E0] When you click on the * graph you get: [cid:image002.png@01CE3697.EBD353E0] From the URL: http://<servername>/graphs/to=1365669262/device=43/mod=1/chan=0/type=c6kxbar_util/from=1365582862/<http://%3cservername%3e/graphs/to=1365669262/device=43/mod=1/chan=0/type=c6kxbar_util/from=1365582862/> We auto SVN update, so I can’t be certain exactly when this broke, but I’m pretty sure it was ok a few days ago. I’m logged in as “admin” and have never changed (or even really looked at) the permissions page, but here is a screenshot in case I’ve failed to add something I’m meant to: [cid:image003.png@01CE3698.81307AD0] Any assistance much appreciated :) Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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adduser.php giving mysql error
by Ben .T.George 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

HI Mailing List i followed http://www.observium.org/wiki/RHEL_SVN_Installation this tutorial. when i run ./adduser.php <username> <password> 1 i am getting mysql error like below <h2> observer MySQL Error</h2> Access denied for user 'USERNAME'@'localhosr ' (using password: YES) for me the below mysql table creation and access giving was successful. I used below command mysql -u root -p <mysql root password> mysql> CREATE DATABASE observium; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost' -> IDENTIFIED BY '<observium db password>'; Thanks & Regards, Ben <observium(a)observium.org>

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Alert email nightmare!
by List User 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

After a recent update, I have this one device which sends me these alerts, multiple times. I've got around 250x of these over the last 2 days. Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Device Rebooted : bravo.redspeedservers.com 4 days, 6h 11m 40s ago. ------------------- Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Device:bravo.redspeedservers.com Interface: eth0 Is this a bug or something?

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Re: [Observium] mac-accounting rolls over at ~100Mbit/s
by Adam Armstrong 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Didnt I already fix this? Mattias Gyllenvarg <Mattias.Gyllenvarg(a)Bredband2.se> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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mac-accounting rolls over at ~100Mbit/s
by Mattias Gyllenvarg 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Dear Adam I was looking at the mac-accounting feature and noticed that it never goes over ~114Mbit/s. Seem to remember that the same thing happend in cacti when using 32bit values. Device is Cisco ASR9010 RSP2. PS. Sweet project, much appreciated. -- *Med Vänliga Hälsningar - Best Regards* *Mattias Gyllenvarg* *Nätutveckling* Bredband2 Tel: +46 406219712

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Re: [Observium] Cisco memory pools not being recorded
by Adam Armstrong 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Already fixed, pay attention! :) Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: >Is it broken for good, or are there plans to fix it in future? > >Matt. > >On 10/04/2013, at 4:19 PM, Nikolay Shopik wrote: > >> its recent changes broke it when new memory pool added for unix host on summary page >> >> On 10.04.2013, at 9:18, Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Mac Address Switch Ports
by Adam Armstrong 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

What do you think they should report? Do you know that each port actually has a different Mac? Stefan Milo <stefan(a)zendata.dk> wrote: >they're powerconnects, not force10.... big difference. :) > >i have multiple observium installations with force10 s25n, powerconnect 6224 and lots of different cisco switches. > >on the force10 and powerconnects i see the same as you, with the same mac address on all interfaces. on my cisco devices theres different mac's on the ports. > >so it's either a bug in FTOS and Powerconnect, or it's something deep within observium. > >br > >stefan milo >________________________________________ >Fra: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] På vegne af Alex Vitola [alex.vitola(a)gmail.com] >Sendt: 9. april 2013 18:57 >Til: L - Observium >Emne: [Observium] Mac Address Switch Ports > >The same mac address for all port in all devices(dell 6248, force10). It's correct? > > >mysql> use observium; >Database changed >mysql> select device_id,ifDescr,ifPhysAddress from ports where device_id=5 limit 10; >+-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+ >| device_id | ifDescr | ifPhysAddress | >+-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+ >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 1 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 2 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 3 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 4 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 5 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 6 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 7 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 8 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 9 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 10 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >+-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+ >10 rows in set (0.00 sec) > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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