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health graphs missing
by Norman Daniel 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Hi good day, I was wondering why the health graphs are missing for some devices? Regards, cid:5A2BFBA1-C1AC-4588-9E43-ADB44DDC1905 Mr. Norman U. Daniel IT Helpdesk CFJA CALL CENTRE CORPORATION Unit 258, Wellington Building, Plaza Lorenzo Ruiz, Binondo, Metro Manila, 1006 Philippines Phone: +63 2 242 0520 / +61 2 8355 3931 Fax: +63 2 857 2227 / +61 2 8569 0930 Mobile: +63 926 7455617 Email: <mailto:norman.daniel@cfjacallcentre.com> norman.daniel(a)cfjacallcentre.com Skype: cfjacc.ops.norman.daniel Web: <http://www.cfjacallcentre.com/> http://www.cfjacallcentre.com

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[patch] detect more MRV details
by Rob J. Epping 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Hi, I have updated support of MRV devices to include polling support for hardware, serial and version. I also added temperature sensor detection to discovery. Patch is at <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-mrvld-update.diff> Can this be added? THNX -- GRTNX, RobJE

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Choose Frontpage
by Tobias Brunner 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Hi, in html/pages/front/ I can see many different front pages. How can I choose which one I'd like to see? How is the URL composed? Cheers, Tobias -- Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 13 Skype nine.ch_support

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Re: [Observium] /ports internal error
by Adam Armstrong 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Increase the memory limit for php. Tobias Brunner <tobias.brunner(a)nine.ch> wrote: >Hi, > >The page "Ports" (/ports/) just gives me an 500 internal server error. >Is there anything I can you to debug this? > >Cheers, >Tobias > >-- >Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich >Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 >13 >Skype nine.ch_support >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Choose Frontpage
by Adam Armstrong 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Its set by a configuration entry. Its documented on the wiki. Tobias Brunner <tobias.brunner(a)nine.ch> wrote: >Hi, > >in html/pages/front/ I can see many different front pages. How can I >choose which one I'd like to see? How is the URL composed? > >Cheers, >Tobias > >-- >Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich >Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 >13 >Skype nine.ch_support >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Globe Frontpage
by Adam Armstrong 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Not at the moment. Up could try using locations that are accurate, so that Google can correctly place them. Michael Cushard <mcc(a)axway.com> wrote: >Hi, > >On the globe.php front page, how are the sites placed on the map? I ask because some of the locations I have are not in the correct corresponding place on the map. Can I set a custom set of coordinates for a location to force it into the correct place on the map? > >Regards, > >Michael > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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/ports internal error
by Tobias Brunner 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Hi, The page "Ports" (/ports/) just gives me an 500 internal server error. Is there anything I can you to debug this? Cheers, Tobias -- Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 13 Skype nine.ch_support

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[patch] bugfix in mgeups frequency, voltage and current sensor detection.
by Rob J. Epping 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Hi, On <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-mgeups-sensors-bugfix.diff> you will find a patch that will detect all frequency, voltage and current sensors on devices with more than 1 phase. Can this be patched? THNX -- GRTNX, RobJE

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apache application error after upgrade
by ColoCenter bv 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

After some efforts I got the apache application plugin for observium working for a certain server. I was at first stuck with a missing module of PERL(LWP::Simple) It was working fine till today when i upgraded apache from 2.2.19 to 2.2.23. Not a very big upgrade, but now the apache script of observium is not working anymore. If I execute it manually it produces the following error: [root@server01 agent-local]# perl apache Data fetch failure. Any suggestions what might be causing this or where to look for an answer or more detailed error message and how to solve it? Many thanks, -- Alexander Lantink ColoCenter bv http://www.colocenter.nl info(a)colocenter.nl

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Re: [Observium] Location Bar
by Adam Armstrong 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

Don't worry, something better is coming! observium(a)velder.li wrote: >Hi there > >Please bring back the old LocationBar. The new one is not very clear. > >Thx > >Regards, >Patrick > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Location Bar
by observium＠velder.li 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

Hi there Please bring back the old LocationBar. The new one is not very clear. Thx Regards, Patrick

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Disable Sensor Alerts
by Adam Summerfield 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

We are getting a lot of false alerts from our Arista switches in regards to environmental sensors. I have tried enabling ignore under device settings, however after clicking save the option does not remain selected. I tried to disable alerts adding the following to the config.php but this did not work. $config['alerts']['sensor_classes']['current'] = false; $config['alerts']['sensor_classes']['voltage'] = false; $config['alerts']['sensor_classes']['fanspeed'] = false; $config['alerts']['sensor_classes']['temperature'] = false; Would appreciate any assistance. Regards, Adam

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Re: [Observium] virtualized pfsense cpu monitoring
by Adam Armstrong 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Because that is what bsnmpd reports :-) Stefan Milo <stefan(a)zendata.dk> wrote: >hi > >when i monitor vmware pfsense firewall, cpu usage on cpu0 is about 1% to 4%, and cpu1 cpu2 and cpu3 reports 0% usage. > >any idea why? > >br > >stefan milo >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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virtualized pfsense cpu monitoring
by Stefan Milo 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

hi when i monitor vmware pfsense firewall, cpu usage on cpu0 is about 1% to 4%, and cpu1 cpu2 and cpu3 reports 0% usage. any idea why? br stefan milo

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router error
by Norman Daniel 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Still experiencing this, and also experienced lost of connection on internet... 2013-01-25 03:02:08 System Device status changed to Up 2013-01-25 02:27:16 System Device status changed to Down 2013-01-25 01:02:54 System Sensor Warn Low Limit Updated: temperature cisco 1 chassis () 2013-01-25 01:02:54 System Sensor Warn High Limit Updated: temperature cisco 1 chassis () 2013-01-24 19:05:34 System Sensor Added: temperature cisco 1 chassis 2013-01-24 19:05:01 System Memory pool added: type cemp index 1.2 descr 2811 chassis - I/O 2013-01-24 19:05:00 System Memory pool added: type cemp index 1.1 descr 2811 chassis - Processor 2013-01-24 19:04:58 System Memory pool added: type cmp index 2 descr I/O 2013-01-24 19:04:58 System Memory pool added: type cmp index 1 descr Processor 2013-01-24 19:04:49 System Processor added: type cpm index 1 descr Processor 1 Regards, cid:5A2BFBA1-C1AC-4588-9E43-ADB44DDC1905 Mr. Norman U. Daniel IT Helpdesk CFJA CALL CENTRE CORPORATION Unit 258, Wellington Building, Plaza Lorenzo Ruiz, Binondo, Metro Manila, 1006 Philippines Phone: +63 2 242 0520 / +61 2 8355 3931 Fax: +63 2 857 2227 / +61 2 8569 0930 Mobile: +63 926 7455617 Email: <mailto:norman.daniel@cfjacallcentre.com> norman.daniel(a)cfjacallcentre.com Skype: cfjacc.ops.norman.daniel Web: <http://www.cfjacallcentre.com/> http://www.cfjacallcentre.com

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Re: [Observium] [!! SPAM] Re: cisco router problem
by Norman Daniel 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Thanks adam. Still experiencing this, and also experienced lost of connection on internet... 2013-01-25 03:02:08 System Device status changed to Up 2013-01-25 02:27:16 System Device status changed to Down 2013-01-25 01:02:54 System Sensor Warn Low Limit Updated: temperature cisco 1 chassis () 2013-01-25 01:02:54 System Sensor Warn High Limit Updated: temperature cisco 1 chassis () 2013-01-24 19:05:34 System Sensor Added: temperature cisco 1 chassis 2013-01-24 19:05:01 System Memory pool added: type cemp index 1.2 descr 2811 chassis - I/O 2013-01-24 19:05:00 System Memory pool added: type cemp index 1.1 descr 2811 chassis - Processor 2013-01-24 19:04:58 System Memory pool added: type cmp index 2 descr I/O 2013-01-24 19:04:58 System Memory pool added: type cmp index 1 descr Processor 2013-01-24 19:04:49 System Processor added: type cpm index 1 descr Processor 1 Regards, Mr. Norman U. Daniel IT Helpdesk CFJA CALL CENTRE CORPORATION Unit 258, Wellington Building, Plaza Lorenzo Ruiz, Binondo, Metro Manila, 1006 Philippines Phone: +63 2 242 0520 / +61 2 8355 3931 Fax: +63 2 857 2227 / +61 2 8569 0930 Mobile: +63 926 7455617 Email: norman.daniel(a)cfjacallcentre.com Skype: cfjacc.ops.norman.daniel Web: http://www.cfjacallcentre.com -----Original Message----- From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 9:14 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: [Observium] cisco router problem It seems that you have unstable connectivity between your Observium server and this Cisco device. adam. On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:52:49 +0800, "Norman Daniel" <norman.daniel(a)cfjacallcentre.com> wrote: > I received this error log from observium. > > > 2013-01-24 14:12:12 > > System > > Device status changed to Up > > > 2013-01-24 13:03:41 > > System > > Sensor Deleted: temperature cisco 1 chassis > > > 2013-01-24 13:01:31 > > System > > Processor removed: type cpm index 1 descr Processor 1 > > > 2013-01-24 12:47:26 > > System > > Device status changed to Down > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > cid:5A2BFBA1-C1AC-4588-9E43-ADB44DDC1905 > > Mr. Norman U. Daniel > > IT Helpdesk > CFJA CALL CENTRE CORPORATION > > Unit 258, Wellington Building, > Plaza Lorenzo Ruiz, > > Binondo, Metro Manila, 1006 > > Philippines > > Phone: +63 2 242 0520 / +61 2 8355 3931 > > Fax: +63 2 857 2227 / +61 2 8569 0930 > > Mobile: +63 926 7455617 > > Email: <mailto:norman.daniel@cfjacallcentre.com> > norman.daniel(a)cfjacallcentre.com > > Skype: cfjacc.ops.norman.daniel > > Web: <http://www.cfjacallcentre.com/> http://www.cfjacallcentre.com _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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cisco router problem
by Norman Daniel 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

I received this error log from observium. 2013-01-24 14:12:12 System Device status changed to Up 2013-01-24 13:03:41 System Sensor Deleted: temperature cisco 1 chassis 2013-01-24 13:01:31 System Processor removed: type cpm index 1 descr Processor 1 2013-01-24 12:47:26 System Device status changed to Down Regards, cid:5A2BFBA1-C1AC-4588-9E43-ADB44DDC1905 Mr. Norman U. Daniel IT Helpdesk CFJA CALL CENTRE CORPORATION Unit 258, Wellington Building, Plaza Lorenzo Ruiz, Binondo, Metro Manila, 1006 Philippines Phone: +63 2 242 0520 / +61 2 8355 3931 Fax: +63 2 857 2227 / +61 2 8569 0930 Mobile: +63 926 7455617 Email: <mailto:norman.daniel@cfjacallcentre.com> norman.daniel(a)cfjacallcentre.com Skype: cfjacc.ops.norman.daniel Web: <http://www.cfjacallcentre.com/> http://www.cfjacallcentre.com

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Re: [Observium] Poller performance
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Observium scales primarily on the number of interfaces you have, as they account for the majority of I/o. 128 switches would be a large install, 128 servers would not. You should try running 2 or 3 pollers if your server's disk is not too heavily loaded. If you are only using one poller then your disk is waiting for SNMP was dating time. Memcached was replaced with mysql memory tables, which you are already using :-) Rrdcached seems to make little difference to me. I have my installs running in a ramdisk, as that removes the i/o bottleneck entirely. Adam. Tobias Brunner <tobias.brunner(a)nine.ch> wrote: >Hi, > >I have some performance troubles with the poller, it takes a bit more than 5 >minutes to finish. There are 128 devices to poll... > >Looking at the "Performance tuning" wiki page and the mailing list, I >implemented the following tweaks: >* Using poller-wrapper from Job Snijders ("Multiple poller instances" was >really bad, polling took about 10 minutes) >* Activated RRDcached > >Putting the RRDs on a Ramdisk is not a solution for me (too less memory). Does >memcache work with the current SVN build? >What other options for performance tuning do I have? One idea was to have >"worker" server which only poll a subset of devices and report the values back >to the master. Is something like that possible? >Which resources need the most I/O? RRD or MySQL? Are there many inserts and >updates to the Database? > >Thanks for all suggestions... > >Cheers, >Tobias > >-- >Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich >Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 13 >Skype nine.ch_support >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Poller performance
by Tobias Brunner 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Hi, I have some performance troubles with the poller, it takes a bit more than 5 minutes to finish. There are 128 devices to poll... Looking at the "Performance tuning" wiki page and the mailing list, I implemented the following tweaks: * Using poller-wrapper from Job Snijders ("Multiple poller instances" was really bad, polling took about 10 minutes) * Activated RRDcached Putting the RRDs on a Ramdisk is not a solution for me (too less memory). Does memcache work with the current SVN build? What other options for performance tuning do I have? One idea was to have "worker" server which only poll a subset of devices and report the values back to the master. Is something like that possible? Which resources need the most I/O? RRD or MySQL? Are there many inserts and updates to the Database? Thanks for all suggestions... Cheers, Tobias -- Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 13 Skype nine.ch_support

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netsted location menu
by Michael Cushard 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hi, The nested location menu in build 3528 should help a little with organization. What would the syntax be for the custom location field of an object in order to create a top level location and several sub-level locations underneath it? For instance, something like EU -> FR -> Paris? Regards, Michael

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sysLocation instead of sysContact on Alerts page
by Alex Pressé 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Just a minor thing; on the edit alerts page ( http://observiumserver.mydomain.lan/device/device=1/tab=edit/section=alerts/ ) It says "Override sysLocation" where it should say "Override sysContact". -- Alex Presse "How much net work could a network work if a network could net work?"

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Re: [Observium] netsted location menu
by Adam Armstrong 20 Jan '13

20 Jan '13

If you write them like an address, seperated by commas, you should be fine with the next version of the menu. Adam. Michael Cushard <mcc(a)axway.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Graph timezone
by Adam Armstrong 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Shut your whore mouth! 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] Graph timezone
by Adam Armstrong 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Nope, AFAIK there is no way to do this... Calugaru Adrian <calugaru_adrian(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Graph timezone
by Tom Laermans 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Of course if you had asked "would it be possible".. right, adam? Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Calugaru Adrian" <calugaru_adrian(a)yahoo.com>, "Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Graph timezone Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2013 19:34 Nope :-) Calugaru Adrian <calugaru_adrian(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Hi guys, Is it possible to set different timezones per device and have rrdtool generate graphs using that timezone? Thanks, Adrian

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Bind9
by Ciro Iriarte 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi!, is there anyone collecting bind9 stats with Observium? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Re: [Observium] Graph timezone
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Nope :-) Calugaru Adrian <calugaru_adrian(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Graph timezone
by Calugaru Adrian 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi guys, Is it possible to set different timezones per device and have rrdtool generate graphs using that timezone? Thanks, Adrian

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Re: [Observium] Overview
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Not applicable to us, we pfsense is one device, we are many. We have per-device access already :-) "Rob J. Epping" <rob.epping(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] Overview
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

The front page? It is designed to be customised. We almost totally ignore it in reality, as no one uses it. Which front page are you using? The default one? Adam Summerfield <asummerfield(a)harbourmsp.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Possibility too set Graph Vertical Max too Line-speed
by Mattias Gyllenvarg 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Hi I would like too be able too set the Linespeed as the Max vertical value. Especially as an option under "All ports" This would be handy when reviewing needed upgrades among other things. -- *Med Vänliga Hälsningar - Best Regards* *Mattias Gyllenvarg* *Nätutveckling* Bredband2 Tel: +46 406219712

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Overview
by Adam Summerfield 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

Attempting to put this into production with our NOC. When they logon with the user class of "Global Read" they can see the devices but nothing appears on the overview page. If I create the user with class of "Normal" they cannot see anything. Admin class of course works as expected. Regards, Adam

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Postgres monitor script
by Lance Raymond 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

Afternoon all, have my apache working nicely, mysql and moving through the list of to-do's. Next is our primary DB which is running postgres. I have that server added, SNMP working, the agent is loaded and I can telnet from the observium server on 6556 port with no issues. Looking at the install http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/Postgresqlthe only thing left from that section and my notes from mysql is to copy the script from the local observium server (under /opt/observium/scripts/agent-local) to the postgres server and update the config with the user/pass but those files are not there. I also don't see postgres listed in the applications list for the device. Is postgres not supported anymore? -- *e*. lraymond(a)weatherflow.com *c.* 386.561.1509 *f.* 386.409.5178

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Function scope issues?
by Paul Gear 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Hi all, I'm just looking into a couple of nagging problems on my Observium install and i found this: 1. includes/discovery/discovery-protocols.inc.php uses ifNameDescr(), which is defined in includes/rewrites.php (called from includes/functions.php). 2. ifNameDescr() is a wrapper around ifLabel(), which itself is a wrapper around humanize_port() 3. humanize_port() calls humanspeed(), which is defined in html/includes/functions.inc.php This seems to indicate that ifNameDescr/ifLabel/humanize port, when called from discovery functions, will never work. Is this intentional? Or should humanspeed() (and possibly others of its peers within html/includes/functions.inc.php) be moved to includes/rewrites.php? Regards, Paul

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Disable Monitoring of Linux Interfaces
by admin 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Good Evening, I was able to get Observium up and running with no issues, but I do have a bit of an odd situation. I happen to have a server that I wish to monitor that has over 300 PPP interfaces. Observium is attempting to poll them, and its hammering the server hard, and Observium. Is there a way to remove polling of interfaces (or maybe just ppp interfaces) on that server? Thanks!

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Drilling down to specific times in graphs
by Jason Lixfeld 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

I'm having a little trouble understanding how the graph drill downs are supposed to work. I select a 6 hour graph of something, From: says 17:44 To: says 23:44. Case 1: I change 17:44 to 16:44 and click Submit, From: says 11:44 To: says 18:44. Case 2: I leave From: at 17:44 but change To: to 18:44 and click Submit, From: says 12:44 To: says 13:44. Am I missing something on how these timeframes are supposed to work?

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Re: [Observium] Apache application monitor problem
by Adam Armstrong 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Observium doesn't hit apache directly. That is done via the agent script. Is it working? Lance Raymond <lraymond(a)weatherflow.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Function scope issues?
by Adam Armstrong 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

yes :-) Though really the processing should be done at polling time. Its all a mess caused by gradual evolution! 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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Apache application monitor problem
by Lance Raymond 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

After a successful implement of the mysql module, I now am looking to monitor apache. I will try to give as much on the 1st post as I do now understand how the agents work a bit more (Thanks Adam) so the info and questions are; Unix-agent is installed, enabled, port is open, and I can hit the server-status from the observium server via curl; curl stats.domain.com/server-status <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <html><head> <title>Apache Status</title> </head><body> <h1>Apache Server Status for stats.domain.com</h1> <dl><dt>Server Version: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4 with Suhosin-Patch</dt> <dt>Server Built: Nov 8 2012 21:37:30 </dt></dl><hr /><dl> <dt>Current Time: Wednesday, 09-Jan-2013 04:00:49 UTC</dt> <dt>Restart Time: Tuesday, 08-Jan-2013 20:58:01 UTC</dt> <dt>Parent Server Generation: 3</dt> <dt>Server uptime: 7 hours 2 minutes 47 seconds</dt> <dt>Total accesses: 651 - Total Traffic: 1.7 MB</dt> <dt>CPU Usage: u9.48 s1.89 cu0 cs0 - .0448% CPU load</dt> <dt>.0257 requests/sec - 71 B/second - 2773 B/request</dt> <dt>1 requests currently being processed, 9 idle workers</dt> Using the poller command to test server; ubuntu@websvr1:/opt/observium$ ./poller.php -v -h stats.domain.com Observium Poller v0.12.11.3407 Starting polling run: stats.domain.com 5 linux (unix) Observium UNIX Agent: execution time: 328ms Processes: Sensors: Using UNIX Agent Uptime (2877622) Uptime: 33 days, 7h 20m 22s Hardware: Generic x86 64-bit Version: 3.2.0-31-virtual Features: /usr/bin/distro: No such file or directory Serial: IPMI: Processor Intel Xeon E5507 @ 2.27GHz 1% Mempool Physical memory: 79.6% Mempool Virtual memory: 51.63% Mempool Swap space: 0.01% Storage /: 17% Storage /mnt: 0% Polling Netstats: IP TCP UDP ICMP SNMP HR Stats: Processes Users Polling IP-MIB ipSystemStats ipv4 ipv6 Caching Oids: ifEntry ifXEntry dot3StatsDuplexStatusvalidvalid Port lo(1) HC HC VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Port eth0(2) HC HC VLAN == bps(1.32kbps/4kbps)bytes(4.83kB/14.6kB)pkts(2.2pps/2.2pps) Checking UCD DiskIO MIB: xvda1 xvdb xvda3 OSPF: Processes: Areas: Ports: Neighbours: Entity Physical: Applications: agent uptime netstat_ip netstat_ip_frag netstat_tcp netstat_udp netstat_icmp netstat_icmp_info netstat_snmp netstat_snmp_pkt hr_processes hr_users ucd_cpu ucd_swap_io ucd_io ucd_contexts ucd_interrupts ucd_memory ucd_load ipsystemstats_ipv4 ipsystemstats_ipv4_frag ipsystemstats_ipv6 ipsystemstats_ipv6_frag Polled in 4.680 seconds UPDATED! MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[3/0s] Rows[25/0.01s] Column[0/0s] Update[9/0.01s] Insert[5/0.01s] Delete[0/0s] So, it seems the agent is running, apache is reachable by the server with the server-status, just not sure why the graph page is broken. The main graph's all say Error Drawing Graph, and the scoreboard at the bottom just has a few broken image links. -- *e*. lraymond(a)weatherflow.com *c.* 386.561.1509 *f.* 386.409.5178

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Re: [Observium] Adding mysql monitoring
by Adam Armstrong 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

The agent is not enabled for that host :-) Lance Raymond <lraymond(a)weatherflow.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Adding mysql monitoring
by Adam Armstrong 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

I just added apache/mysql agents to a clean install and it worked OK. Run the poller with -d Adam. Lance Raymond <lraymond(a)weatherflow.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Adding mysql monitoring
by Lance Raymond 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Checking out http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/MySQL#Requirementsand seems pretty straight forward. I have my server running, added that box and see it collecting data now. php5-cli and php-mysql are installed on both the server and mysql server I wish to monitor, but nothing has been added and not sure how to force check, add, etc. Docs are simple enough; I created the user with access on the remote server. Then the steps are simply; *Copy* the mysql script *from scripts/agent-local/* in your observium install to */usr/local/check_mk_agent/local/* (/usr/lib/check_mk_agent/local/ on Debian systems) the *server* you wish to monitor. The remote server is running ubuntu, so I create a folder; /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/local with 2 files; mysql (script) mysql.cnf I can run the script locally and get a lot of data (here is a sample); root@mysql101:/usr/lib/check_mk_agent/local# ./mysql <<<mysql>>> a0:13362926 a1:50929 a2:4796992 a3:287789 So is it something on the server end I need to add/edit? Tnx -- *e*. lraymond(a)weatherflow.com *c.* 386.561.1509 *f.* 386.409.5178

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netdot VM root password
by Ramzi Abdallah 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Hi, What is the default root password for the netdot VM appliance. I need it to setup a static IP to the installation Regards, Ramzi

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all hosts down moved observium to a new server
by Bao Nguyen 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

All, I'm kind of hitting a wall here. I moved Observium to a new server today and somehow Observium is unable to "ping" any hosts. sour% ./poller.php -h lab-lightning.sdsc.edu -d Observium Poller v0.13.1.3507 DEBUG! Starting polling run: SQL[SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'lab-lightning.sdsc.edu' ORDER BY `device_id` ASC] ./poller.php lab-lightning.sdsc.edu January 3, 2013, 17:17 - 0 devices polled in 0.001 secs MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[0/0s] Rows[1/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[0/0s] Delete[0/0s] However, on the host it self, I can ping or snmpget any devices using the same FQDN name. sour% ping lab-lightning.sdsc.edu PING lab-lightning.sdsc.edu (198.202.79.48) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from lab-lightning.sdsc.edu (198.202.79.48): icmp_req=1 ttl=253 time=0.728 ms ^C --- lab-lightning.sdsc.edu ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.728/0.728/0.728/0.000 ms sour% snmpwalk -v 2c -c test lab-lightning.sdsc.edu sysName.0 SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: "lab-lightning.sdsc.edu" thanks, -bn 0216331C

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Re: [Observium] all hosts down moved observium to a new server
by Adam Armstrong 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

That hostname doesnt match the database, or that host is disabled. Adam. Bao Nguyen <ngqbao(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Aggrgation, Nagios Check, Graph Caching
by Tobias Brunner 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hi, After using Observium for some time I have some ideas and questions: * Is it possible to create aggregated graphs? F.e. I'd like to aggregate all uplinks (which are on different routers) into one big graph (all uplinks as a single line, in one graph (overlay). And the traffic aggregated). * This could maybe end up in a Dashboard, which shows me an overview of what's going on in the network. (Aggregated Graphs, Top Ports, Recent Syslog, High Values, ...) * I'd like to check some values collected by Observium with Nagios to generate an Alert (F.e. the temperatures, dBm, ...). This could be a plugin like "check_observium <device> <type> <thresholds>". How can I access the raw data in Observium from outside? Is there something like this available, or does it need to be written? My main concern is to have just one tool which Polls the devices and get the collected data out of it. I don't want to have many tools which are all doing SNMP. One single tool should be enough. * How can I get the graphs out of Observium to display in another tool? * Are there any caching mechanisms for the Graphs? Everytime I hover over a link which creates a Pop-Up the graphs are being generated. What about caching the generated graphs for f.e. 5 minutes? Cheers and thanks a lot for this great tool! Tobias -- Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 13 Skype nine.ch_support

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Logstash and Observium
by Tobias Brunner 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Hi everyone, We are using Logstash to collect Syslog messages from our network gear. Here is a way to send the collected messages to Observium: * Define a IOS filter in Logstash filter { ### IOS Grok grok { type => "syslog" pattern => [ "<%{POSINT:syslog_pri}>%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA:cisco_dummyvalue}: %{DATA:cisco_timestamp}: \%%{DATA:cisco_eventcode}: %{GREEDYDATA:syslog_message}" ] add_field => [ "received_at", "%{@timestamp}" ] add_field => [ "received_from", "%{@source_host}" ] } } * Add the following output to logstash: output { pipe { command => "/usr/bin/php /opt/observium/syslog.php" message_format => "%{@source_host}||%{syslog_facility}||%{syslog_severity_code}||%{syslog_severity}||00||%{@timestamp}||%{cisco_dummyvalue}: &{cisco_timestamp}: %%{cisco_eventcode}: %{@message}||cisco" } } As I did not find a way to convert the @timestamp field of Logstash to the needed format, there is one additional line in syslog.php needed: --- syslog.php.orig 2012-12-21 11:28:41.741696532 +0100 +++ syslog.php 2012-12-29 11:58:59.790246786 +0100 @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ { #logfile($line); list($entry['host'],$entry['facility'],$entry['priority'], $entry['level'], $entry['tag'], $entry['timestamp'], $entry['msg'], $entry['program']) = explode("||", trim($line)); + ## reformat timestamp + $entry['timestamp'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",strtotime($entry['timestamp'])); process_syslog($entry, 1); unset($entry); unset($line); $i++; And I was also not able to find a value for the fields "TAG" and "PROGRAM" for the message_format. So I hardcoded them as "OO" and "cisco". This works for me. Cheers, Tobias -- Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 13 Skype nine.ch_support

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Re: [Observium] No Devices Shown in New Installation
by Adam Armstrong 29 Dec '12

29 Dec '12

lol :-) Mark Kamichoff <prox(a)prolixium.com> wrote: >On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:28:26PM -0600, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> It might be something that's changed recently, with adding sorting. >> >> Interesting that it claims you have zero devices/ports in the header too. > >I had a few minutes to look into this, today. After adding debugging >print statements to devices.inc.php and then looking to see why all >devices were failing devices_permitted, I discovered the problem: > >mysql> SELECT * FROM users; >+---------+----------+------------------------------------+----------+-------+-------+-------+-------------------+ >| user_id | username | password | realname | email | descr | level | can_modify_passwd | >+---------+----------+------------------------------------+----------+-------+-------+-------+-------------------+ >| 1 | prox | (removed) | | | | 0 | 1 | > >I thought this was interesting, so I went back to the original terminal >capture of my installation, and saw this: > >(atlantis:20:31)# /opt/observium/adduser.php prox (removed) prox(a)prolixium.com >User prox added successfully >(atlantis:20:32)# > >Whoops! It looks like I failed to specify a user level but continued to >add arguments afterwards. My e-mail address didn't appear in the MySQL >DB (see above) and my privilege level defaulted to 0. I haven't looked >through the adduser.php code, but I suspect that it tried to interpret >my e-mail address as an integer: > >(atlantis:11:12)# ./adduser.php >Add User Tool >Usage: ./adduser.php <username> <password> <level 1-10> [email] > >I'm finally up and running and can see some pretty graphs that have >accumulated over the last few days ;) > >- Mark > >> >> adam. >> >> On 24/12/2012 22:29, Mark Kamichoff wrote: >> >Hi Adam - >> > >> >On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 07:09:42PM -0600, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> >>Put /debug/ on the end of the URL. >> >Well, that certainly produced some extra information. I think it boils >> >down to something happening between the MySQL query and getting the >> >output to the web UI. Here's what /devices/debug gives me: >> > >> >o http://www.prolixium.com/share/observium-devices-debug.pdf >> >o http://www.prolixium.com/share/observium-devices-debug.html >> > >> >I can run some of those queries directly on the MySQL command line and >> >get results consistent with what should be displayed by the web UI: >> > >> >mysql> SELECT COUNT(port_id) FROM `ports` WHERE `ifOperStatus` = 'down' AND `ifAdminStatus` = 'up' AND `ignore` = '0'; >> >+----------------+ >> >| COUNT(port_id) | >> >+----------------+ >> >| 13 | >> >+----------------+ >> >1 row in set (0.00 sec) >> > >> >mysql> SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE 1 ORDER BY hostname \G >> >*************************** 1. row *************************** >> > device_id: 3 >> > hostname: dax >> > sysName: dax.prolixium.com >> > community: <omitted> >> >[..output trimmed, but three devices are shown..] >> > >> >There are some errors that may be important, although PHP flags them as >> >warnings: >> > >> >Warning: sort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 738 >> > >> >Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /opt/observium/html/pages/devices.inc.php on line 120 >> > >> >The queries directly above these PHP messages in the debug output result >> >in no rows returned: >> > >> >mysql> SELECT D.device_id,location FROM devices AS D, devices_perms AS P WHERE D.device_id = P.device_id AND P.user_id = '1' GROUP BY location ORDER BY location; >> >Empty set (0.00 sec) >> > >> >mysql> SELECT attrib_type,attrib_value,device_id FROM devices_attribs WHERE attrib_type LIKE 'override_sysLocation%' ORDER BY attrib_type; >> >Empty set (0.00 sec) >> > >> >In the meantime, I'm going to add a few more random devices and see if I >> >can get one to display correctly.. >> > >> >Thanks! >> > >> >- Mark >> > >> >>Mark Kamichoff <prox(a)prolixium.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi - >> >>> >> >>>Warning: Here's another one of the "I installed it but it doesn't work!" >> >>>e-mails. >> >>> >> >>>I recently setup Observium (SVN from Dec 23, 2012) on a Debian >> >>>testing/unstable x86_64-based host. I followed all of the instructions >> >>>with the exception of the installation of libvirt packages (I don't >> >>>appear to have a need for it) and although I appear to have successfully >> >>>added devices, none of them show up in the web UI. >> >>> >> >>>The three devices I've added are the following: >> >>> >> >>>o Juniper SRX100 >> >>>o FreeBSD x86_64 Host >> >>>o Linux x86_64 Host >> >>> >> >>>According to observium.log the cron jobs are running fine and the >> >>>devices are being polled: >> >>> >> >>>(atlantis:16:44)# tail -n 8 observium.log >> >>>/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:25 - 3 devices polled in 21.97 secs >> >>>/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:30 - 0 devices discovered in 0.001 secs >> >>>/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:30 - 3 devices polled in 21.46 secs >> >>>/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:35 - 0 devices discovered in 0.002 secs >> >>>/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:35 - 3 devices polled in 21.41 secs >> >>>/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:40 - 0 devices discovered in 0.002 secs >> >>>/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:40 - 3 devices polled in 21.97 secs >> >>>/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:45 - 0 devices discovered in 0.000 secs >> >>> >> >>>I'm not sure exactly what check-errors.php does (maybe it just checks >> >>>the RRDs), but it seems to indicate that there aren't any glaring >> >>>issues: >> >>> >> >>>(atlantis:16:45)# ./check-errors.php >> >>>Checked 80 interfaces >> >>>0 interfaces with errors over the past 5 minutes. >> >>> >> >>>I even looked in the MySQL DB and the `devices` table seems to be >> >>>populated correctly. >> >>> >> >>>The problem is that the web UI doesn't show any devices: >> >>> >> >>>http://www.prolixium.com/share/screens/observium-devices.png >> >>> >> >>>However, if I navigate to System -> About Observium, the statistics >> >>>table shows devices, interfaces, CPUs, etc.: >> >>> >> >>>http://www.prolixium.com/share/screens/observium-stats.png >> >>> >> >>>I've got to be missing something obvious. I thought the user I created >> >>>might not have sufficient privileges, but I created the user "prox" with >> >>>privilege level 10. >> >>> >> >>>The only thing that did not go 100% as expected was the DB schema load. >> >>>The instructions indicated that errors in the SQL revisions /up to/ 006 >> >>>will be expected, but I saw two errors past revision 006: >> >>> >> >>>(atlantis:18:06)# php includes/sql-schema/update.php >> >>>-- Updating database schema >> >>>000 -> 001 ... done. >> >>>001 -> 002 ... done. >> >>>002 -> 003 ... done. >> >>>003 -> 004 ... done. >> >>>004 -> 005 ... done. >> >>>005 -> 006 ... done. >> >>>006 -> 007 ... done (1 errors). >> >>>007 -> 008 ... done. >> >>>[..snip..] >> >>>031 -> 032 ... done. >> >>>032 -> 033 ... done (2 errors). >> >>>033 -> 034 ... done. >> >>>[..snip..] >> >>>039 -> 040 ... done. >> >>>-- Done >> >>> >> >>>I'm not sure if this is minor or something to be concerned about. Here >> >>>is some package information: >> >>> >> >>>mysql-server-5.5 5.5.24+dfsg-9 >> >>>libapache2-mod-php5 5.4.4-10 >> >>>apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.22-12 >> >>> >> >>>There appear to be no PHP errors in the Apache error log I setup for the >> >>>Observium virtual host. >> >>> >> >>>Is there anything else I should check? >> >>> >> >>>Oh, I'm using Google Chrome 23.0.1271.101 on MacOS 10.8 (at the moment, >> >>>at least). >> >>> >> >>>Thanks! >> >>> >> >>>- Mark >> >>> >> >>>-- >> >>>Mark Kamichoff >> >>>prox(a)prolixium.com >> >>>http://www.prolixium.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 >> >> >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >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 > > >-- >Mark Kamichoff >prox(a)prolixium.com >http://www.prolixium.com/ >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] No Devices Shown in New Installation
by Adam Armstrong 29 Dec '12

29 Dec '12

Put /debug/ on the end of the URL. Mark Kamichoff <prox(a)prolixium.com> wrote: >Hi - > >Warning: Here's another one of the "I installed it but it doesn't work!" >e-mails. > >I recently setup Observium (SVN from Dec 23, 2012) on a Debian >testing/unstable x86_64-based host. I followed all of the instructions >with the exception of the installation of libvirt packages (I don't >appear to have a need for it) and although I appear to have successfully >added devices, none of them show up in the web UI. > >The three devices I've added are the following: > >o Juniper SRX100 >o FreeBSD x86_64 Host >o Linux x86_64 Host > >According to observium.log the cron jobs are running fine and the >devices are being polled: > >(atlantis:16:44)# tail -n 8 observium.log >/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:25 - 3 devices polled in 21.97 secs >/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:30 - 0 devices discovered in 0.001 secs >/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:30 - 3 devices polled in 21.46 secs >/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:35 - 0 devices discovered in 0.002 secs >/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:35 - 3 devices polled in 21.41 secs >/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:40 - 0 devices discovered in 0.002 secs >/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:40 - 3 devices polled in 21.97 secs >/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:45 - 0 devices discovered in 0.000 secs > >I'm not sure exactly what check-errors.php does (maybe it just checks >the RRDs), but it seems to indicate that there aren't any glaring >issues: > >(atlantis:16:45)# ./check-errors.php >Checked 80 interfaces >0 interfaces with errors over the past 5 minutes. > >I even looked in the MySQL DB and the `devices` table seems to be >populated correctly. > >The problem is that the web UI doesn't show any devices: > >http://www.prolixium.com/share/screens/observium-devices.png > >However, if I navigate to System -> About Observium, the statistics >table shows devices, interfaces, CPUs, etc.: > >http://www.prolixium.com/share/screens/observium-stats.png > >I've got to be missing something obvious. I thought the user I created >might not have sufficient privileges, but I created the user "prox" with >privilege level 10. > >The only thing that did not go 100% as expected was the DB schema load. >The instructions indicated that errors in the SQL revisions /up to/ 006 >will be expected, but I saw two errors past revision 006: > >(atlantis:18:06)# php includes/sql-schema/update.php >-- Updating database schema >000 -> 001 ... done. >001 -> 002 ... done. >002 -> 003 ... done. >003 -> 004 ... done. >004 -> 005 ... done. >005 -> 006 ... done. >006 -> 007 ... done (1 errors). >007 -> 008 ... done. >[..snip..] >031 -> 032 ... done. >032 -> 033 ... done (2 errors). >033 -> 034 ... done. >[..snip..] >039 -> 040 ... done. >-- Done > >I'm not sure if this is minor or something to be concerned about. Here >is some package information: > >mysql-server-5.5 5.5.24+dfsg-9 >libapache2-mod-php5 5.4.4-10 >apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.22-12 > >There appear to be no PHP errors in the Apache error log I setup for the >Observium virtual host. > >Is there anything else I should check? > >Oh, I'm using Google Chrome 23.0.1271.101 on MacOS 10.8 (at the moment, >at least). > >Thanks! > >- Mark > >-- >Mark Kamichoff >prox(a)prolixium.com >http://www.prolixium.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] APC UPS Current Sensor
by Michael F. Kisser 27 Dec '12

27 Dec '12

Tom, Thanks for the reply. I did get more into the UPS's and they all show "Load Power % of Watts" Only the RT shows Load Current and also all show runtime remaining. Thanks, Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:08:29 +0000 From: "Michael F. Kisser" <mike.kisser(a)railstream.biz> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] APC UPS Current Sensor Message-ID: <7863F40C09BE9941A578A8AC4AB48DE056EEA8BA(a)RSSERV02.railstream.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello all, I have the fallowing UPS's With APC 9617 Management cards Smart-UPS 1000 600.3.D Does not report Current draw Smart-UPS RT 2000 XL 801.3.D Everything works SMART-UPS 2200 80.11.D Does not report Current draw Everything else is reporting just not the draw on the other UPS's I have updated to APC Management Module AOS v3.7.3 / App v3.7.2 Can I Upgrade the Firmware on the UPS its self? Still Only the 2000 XL reports Current If I could ask it would be nice to see the Runtime on the UPS. Any sugestions on how to fix the current for the 1000 & 2200 UPS's I know there older UPS's but they work very well and was looking at getting more 1000's down the road but if I have to go with a newer UPS to get this to work that's ok to. Thanks, Mike

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APC UPS Current Sensor
by Michael F. Kisser 26 Dec '12

26 Dec '12

Hello all, I have the fallowing UPS's With APC 9617 Management cards Smart-UPS 1000 600.3.D Does not report Current draw Smart-UPS RT 2000 XL 801.3.D Everything works SMART-UPS 2200 80.11.D Does not report Current draw Everything else is reporting just not the draw on the other UPS's I have updated to APC Management Module AOS v3.7.3 / App v3.7.2 Can I Upgrade the Firmware on the UPS its self? Still Only the 2000 XL reports Current If I could ask it would be nice to see the Runtime on the UPS. Any sugestions on how to fix the current for the 1000 & 2200 UPS's I know there older UPS's but they work very well and was looking at getting more 1000's down the road but if I have to go with a newer UPS to get this to work that's ok to. Thanks, Mike

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Re: [Observium] Graphics
by Tom Laermans 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Be sure to check the faq page as well for common problems, and when that doesnt help, perhaps google for efficient ways of asking for help :/ Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Nikolay Shopik" <shopik(a)inblock.ru> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Graphics Date: Tue, Dec 25, 2012 12:27 Sure, there no need to google, everything is here http://observium.org/wiki/Installation just follow it and you'll be fine. On 25/12/12 15:07, ServisTURK - İlkay Karadam wrote: > Hi All, > > > > İ m newbie at observium. İ installed the observium and its working ok but > graphics doesn t work. İ earched the issue at the google but i didn t find > anything. Can anyone has check list or like that or how can i check what s > wrong my installation... thx. > > > > Saygılarımla > > > > İlkay Karadam > > ServisTURK Bilgi Teknolojileri San ve Tic Ltd Şti > > Ahmediye M. Halk C. Ekşi İş Merkezi No:35/4 > > Üsküdar/İstanbul > > Tel. 0216 530 36 84 Gsm. 0555 205 45 45 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Graphics
by ServisTURK - İlkay Karadam 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Hi All, İ m newbie at observium. İ installed the observium and its working ok but graphics doesn t work. İ earched the issue at the google but i didn t find anything. Can anyone has check list or like that or how can i check what s wrong my installation... thx. Saygılarımla İlkay Karadam ServisTURK Bilgi Teknolojileri San ve Tic Ltd Şti Ahmediye M. Halk C. Ekşi İş Merkezi No:35/4 Üsküdar/İstanbul Tel. 0216 530 36 84 Gsm. 0555 205 45 45

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Re: [Observium] No Devices Shown in New Installation
by Adam Armstrong 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Wtf oO Mark Kamichoff <prox(a)prolixium.com> wrote: >Hi - > >Warning: Here's another one of the "I installed it but it doesn't work!" >e-mails. > >I recently setup Observium (SVN from Dec 23, 2012) on a Debian >testing/unstable x86_64-based host. I followed all of the instructions >with the exception of the installation of libvirt packages (I don't >appear to have a need for it) and although I appear to have successfully >added devices, none of them show up in the web UI. > >The three devices I've added are the following: > >o Juniper SRX100 >o FreeBSD x86_64 Host >o Linux x86_64 Host > >According to observium.log the cron jobs are running fine and the >devices are being polled: > >(atlantis:16:44)# tail -n 8 observium.log >/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:25 - 3 devices polled in 21.97 secs >/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:30 - 0 devices discovered in 0.001 secs >/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:30 - 3 devices polled in 21.46 secs >/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:35 - 0 devices discovered in 0.002 secs >/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:35 - 3 devices polled in 21.41 secs >/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:40 - 0 devices discovered in 0.002 secs >/opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:40 - 3 devices polled in 21.97 secs >/opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:45 - 0 devices discovered in 0.000 secs > >I'm not sure exactly what check-errors.php does (maybe it just checks >the RRDs), but it seems to indicate that there aren't any glaring >issues: > >(atlantis:16:45)# ./check-errors.php >Checked 80 interfaces >0 interfaces with errors over the past 5 minutes. > >I even looked in the MySQL DB and the `devices` table seems to be >populated correctly. > >The problem is that the web UI doesn't show any devices: > >http://www.prolixium.com/share/screens/observium-devices.png > >However, if I navigate to System -> About Observium, the statistics >table shows devices, interfaces, CPUs, etc.: > >http://www.prolixium.com/share/screens/observium-stats.png > >I've got to be missing something obvious. I thought the user I created >might not have sufficient privileges, but I created the user "prox" with >privilege level 10. > >The only thing that did not go 100% as expected was the DB schema load. >The instructions indicated that errors in the SQL revisions /up to/ 006 >will be expected, but I saw two errors past revision 006: > >(atlantis:18:06)# php includes/sql-schema/update.php >-- Updating database schema >000 -> 001 ... done. >001 -> 002 ... done. >002 -> 003 ... done. >003 -> 004 ... done. >004 -> 005 ... done. >005 -> 006 ... done. >006 -> 007 ... done (1 errors). >007 -> 008 ... done. >[..snip..] >031 -> 032 ... done. >032 -> 033 ... done (2 errors). >033 -> 034 ... done. >[..snip..] >039 -> 040 ... done. >-- Done > >I'm not sure if this is minor or something to be concerned about. Here >is some package information: > >mysql-server-5.5 5.5.24+dfsg-9 >libapache2-mod-php5 5.4.4-10 >apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.22-12 > >There appear to be no PHP errors in the Apache error log I setup for the >Observium virtual host. > >Is there anything else I should check? > >Oh, I'm using Google Chrome 23.0.1271.101 on MacOS 10.8 (at the moment, >at least). > >Thanks! > >- Mark > >-- >Mark Kamichoff >prox(a)prolixium.com >http://www.prolixium.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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No Devices Shown in New Installation
by Mark Kamichoff 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '12

Hi - Warning: Here's another one of the "I installed it but it doesn't work!" e-mails. I recently setup Observium (SVN from Dec 23, 2012) on a Debian testing/unstable x86_64-based host. I followed all of the instructions with the exception of the installation of libvirt packages (I don't appear to have a need for it) and although I appear to have successfully added devices, none of them show up in the web UI. The three devices I've added are the following: o Juniper SRX100 o FreeBSD x86_64 Host o Linux x86_64 Host According to observium.log the cron jobs are running fine and the devices are being polled: (atlantis:16:44)# tail -n 8 observium.log /opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:25 - 3 devices polled in 21.97 secs /opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:30 - 0 devices discovered in 0.001 secs /opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:30 - 3 devices polled in 21.46 secs /opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:35 - 0 devices discovered in 0.002 secs /opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:35 - 3 devices polled in 21.41 secs /opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:40 - 0 devices discovered in 0.002 secs /opt/observium/poller.php all December 24, 2012, 16:40 - 3 devices polled in 21.97 secs /opt/observium/discovery.php new December 24, 2012, 16:45 - 0 devices discovered in 0.000 secs I'm not sure exactly what check-errors.php does (maybe it just checks the RRDs), but it seems to indicate that there aren't any glaring issues: (atlantis:16:45)# ./check-errors.php Checked 80 interfaces 0 interfaces with errors over the past 5 minutes. I even looked in the MySQL DB and the `devices` table seems to be populated correctly. The problem is that the web UI doesn't show any devices: http://www.prolixium.com/share/screens/observium-devices.png However, if I navigate to System -> About Observium, the statistics table shows devices, interfaces, CPUs, etc.: http://www.prolixium.com/share/screens/observium-stats.png I've got to be missing something obvious. I thought the user I created might not have sufficient privileges, but I created the user "prox" with privilege level 10. The only thing that did not go 100% as expected was the DB schema load. The instructions indicated that errors in the SQL revisions /up to/ 006 will be expected, but I saw two errors past revision 006: (atlantis:18:06)# php includes/sql-schema/update.php -- Updating database schema 000 -> 001 ... done. 001 -> 002 ... done. 002 -> 003 ... done. 003 -> 004 ... done. 004 -> 005 ... done. 005 -> 006 ... done. 006 -> 007 ... done (1 errors). 007 -> 008 ... done. [..snip..] 031 -> 032 ... done. 032 -> 033 ... done (2 errors). 033 -> 034 ... done. [..snip..] 039 -> 040 ... done. -- Done I'm not sure if this is minor or something to be concerned about. Here is some package information: mysql-server-5.5 5.5.24+dfsg-9 libapache2-mod-php5 5.4.4-10 apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.22-12 There appear to be no PHP errors in the Apache error log I setup for the Observium virtual host. Is there anything else I should check? Oh, I'm using Google Chrome 23.0.1271.101 on MacOS 10.8 (at the moment, at least). Thanks! - Mark -- Mark Kamichoff prox(a)prolixium.com http://www.prolixium.com/

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Cisco MPLS networks with pseudowires
by Adam Armstrong 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '12

All, I'm looking at rewriting the Cisco pseudowire code, as it basically doesn't work properly at all. Do any of you have a small network using pseudowires (MPLS and/or L2TPv3) you don't mind giving SNMP access to, or a bunch of spare lab routers you could spare for a while to put up a test network? Only Cisco is really relevant at the moment, as the MIBs for doing this are vendor specific! :( Thanks, adam.

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syslog date error
by Stefan Milo 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '12

Hi I've got syslog working like a charm... My devices are logging to my observium installation and the /syslog page are displaying everything nicely. But today something weird happened. The time is now 11:18 on december the 20th. But on the syslog page it says: Recent Syslog Messages 20th Dec 23:59:55 fw10 FILTERDNS : host_dns: failed looking up "CBB": hostname nor servname provided, or not known If i take a look in the database, the last syslog message is this one: 7 1 4 4 filterdns: 2012-12-20 11:15:03 FILTERDNS host_dns: failed looking up "TMP": hostname nor s... 1987 What's going on? :) BR Stefan Milo

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esxi 5.1 cpu graph not working properly
by Stefan Milo 23 Dec '12

23 Dec '12

Hi I am having some issues with the CPU graph in my home lab with a small server running esxi 5.1 with a dual core amd cpu. I have attached a screenshot of the problem. The graph in observium seems to be following a path of its own. Even when doing som cpu burn tests, nothing happens. Any ideas? BR Stefan Milo Happy holidays

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IPSEC tunnel count continuously increments
by Alex Pressé 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

I've built a DMVPN test network with one hub and one spoke and upon monitoring them, I notice the graph for IPSEC Active Tunnels (/graphs/type=device_cipsec_flow_tunnels) increments by one every hour - only on the spoke router, not on the hub. So I'm wondering where Observium is grabbing that piece of data from? Which SNMP OID? If I do a "show crypto eli" on the spoke, I have 2 active sessions (Observium now reports 66), and 12 on the hub (Observium reports 5). Any ideas? Thanks! -- Alex Presse "How much net work could a network work if a network could net work?"

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Traffic Billing and Vlan
by Alex Vitola 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

it is possible to deploy traffic billing per vlan?

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syslog log stor
by Vinoth Jijan 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Hi Can we store the syslog of the network device in centralize log server using observium. If yes could you please share the configuration steps. Thanks in advance Kind Regards Vinoth Jijan .V Engineer - NOC Operations Phone: +91 9884942108 || http:// www.locuz.com

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All Ports Pagination
by Matthias Cramer 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Hi All I've noticed, that when I go to Ports->All Ports, all Ports are displayed instead of the first 100. When clicking Next or so, then the pagination works. Is this a bug or a feature ? Anyone has the same behaviour ? Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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SAN stats?
by Morgan McLean 15 Dec '12

15 Dec '12

Any potential plans to handle SAN stats? Luns, throughput, usage, iops, etc? No use in your environment? ;) -- Thanks, Morgan

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voice monitoring anyone intersted?
by Nikolay Shopik 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

So just wondering is anyone interested in voice monitoring stuff to get added into observium? Lets say DIAL-CONTROL-MIB which allow you to know how much calls your current device processing + some success/failure/errors rate. Anyone using voice gateways here on looking forward for these features?

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Re: [Observium] voice monitoring anyone intersted?
by Adam Armstrong 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

As if those output useful stats! :) Chris Stone <axisml(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] Help request - Apache and Observium
by Adam Armstrong 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

you need to make sure mod_rewrite is enabled. You likely missed as step in the install guide. Adam Sairina Ingolma <sairina_s(a)centrum.cz> wrote: >Hello, >I'm student of Faculty of Applied Sciences (University of West Bohemia - Czech Republic) and I'm doing semester project about Observium. > I tried to instal and use this program. But when I intalled it on Debian I had problem. Main webpage of this program working but when I choose any item in menu then it show me "page not found". >For example: when I choose Overview than show me: > >Not Found > >The request URL/overview/ was not found on this server. >--- >Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at localhost Port 80 > > >I found on some forum that I need to add line: >'AllowEncodedSlashes On' > >in Virtual host, but that isn't work. > > > >Please help. > >THX >Barbora S. > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Help request - Apache and Observium
by Sairina Ingolma 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Hello, I'm student of Faculty of Applied Sciences (University of West Bohemia - Czech Republic) and I'm doing semester project about Observium. I tried to instal and use this program. But when I intalled it on Debian I had problem. Main webpage of this program working but when I choose any item in menu then it show me "page not found". For example: when I choose Overview than show me: Not Found The request URL/overview/ was not found on this server. --- Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at localhost Port 80 I found on some forum that I need to add line: 'AllowEncodedSlashes On' in Virtual host, but that isn't work. Please help. THX Barbora S.

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Temperature says 0 on ProCurve 82xx switch
by Mark Nellemann 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Hi, Observium reads temperature as zero '0' from my HP ProCurve 8206zl switch. It's working fine on my 2900 switches. Any ideas on what I can do to get it working? /Mark

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popup overview graph set positioning
by christopher barry 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Greetings, Nice looking application. Playing with the demo now, and noticing that when I hover over a link (e.g. postman.memetic.org on URL http://demo.observium.org/devices/type=server/) it produces a slick overview popup. Unfortunately, much of the popup is below the edge of my browser, and moving my mouse makes the popup go away. I'm using chrome on debian wheezy, and I was wondering if this was the reason, or if the popup is just pinned to the mouse location. Seems like having the popup auto-adjust position to ensure it stays on the page would be a good optimization. It's also possible there is a workaround/preference I am unaware of (played with it for all of 10 minutes so far). -C

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Cleaner look
by Maarten De Wispelaere 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hi everybody, Not sure who's responsible for the new, cleaner look - but I have to say: good work ! Thanks, Maarten

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Lost graphs?
by Crozier, Doug 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

I just upgraded from 3472 t0 3488 and now the graphs are no longer displayed. Thanks Doug

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Billing
by Adam Summerfield 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

One last issue, With latest version if you add two ports to a bill the description for the first entry shows under the second item and the description for the second item is not seen. If you have more than 2 interfaces in the bill - then the interface description information is offset by one and you don't see the last description. [cid:image001.png@01CDD91B.43A7FEC0] Regards, Adam

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HTTP Error 500
by Adam Summerfield 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

We have just created a new virtal server for Obserium and are getting the following error when attempting to go the following URL... http://observium.harbour/ports/ HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfil the request. Would appreciate any advice? Regards, Adam

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Alert Question
by Lance Raymond 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Sorry if this comes as a double post, as I sent it out, then was prompted to confirm my email to the list. If so, disregard (or answer since I haven't seen one yet) ;) So I have nagios running smooth for one company and working with another was introduced to observium. Interface is excellent, but I have 2 questions. 1. Alerts. I had a dev box hit around 97% disk space with no notice. So there is an alerts tab, but I don't see how to configure alerts, thresholds, etc. Looking at the wiki ( http://observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Simple_API_Settings) I do see some things, but no simple [add alert] type thing, so is there something I can read, etc. as I continue to play? 2. Search header. The one I was shown before I did the install had the company logo (I see where to change that, colors, etc.) but they had the searchbar just not there (and I can see why). I can click the [hide] but I would like to completely remove it, but don't see where/how to accomplish. Again, sorry if this is a double, but I just saw my first one come through, so I know i'm in the loop. Tnx -- *e*. lraymond(a)weatherflow.com *c.* 386.561.1509 *f.* 386.409.5178

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Re: [Observium] Out of curiosity, how big is everyones installation?
by Jukka Kosonen 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Devices 480 (479 up 1 down 0 ignored 0 disabled ) Ports 20983 (11539 up 9019 down 0 ignored 425 shutdown ) Server is dual cpu (4 cores/cpu), 24GB RAM and 4x146GB 15k rpm disks in RAID10

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Chrome issue with 6k Crossbar
by Robert Williams 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Hi, There seems to be an issue with ‘Normal’ view and the Catalyst 6k Crossbar graph images in Chrome (latest 23.0.1271.95 m) It’s fine in Widescreen view and it’s also fine in Internet Explorer. Normal View: Widescreen View: Our SVN auto-updates so this has probably come with one of the most recent versions. No urgency at all and no feedback needed - just reporting it so it can be tweaked when convenient :) Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian DataCentre email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] Problems with setting up bills in rev0.12.12.3474
by Adam Armstrong 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

hmmm. I just tested this a few days ago on chrome. Which browser? Daniel Preussker <daniel(a)preussker.net> wrote: >Hi, > >it seems the JavaScript bugs when adding a bill, whenever I click on "Add Port" it redirects me back to "/#addport", displaying my log-overview. >Also adding a bill from the view of a port wont work either, even though I open "/bills/view=add/port=27/", the port is not added to the created bill. > >Is this a known "feauture"? >I remember having to add bills and services raw into the SQL, I dont mind doing so but I cant seem to find the wiki-entry for it again... > > >Cheers, > >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 > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Problems with setting up bills in rev0.12.12.3474
by Daniel Preussker 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

Hi, it seems the JavaScript bugs when adding a bill, whenever I click on "Add Port" it redirects me back to "/#addport", displaying my log-overview. Also adding a bill from the view of a port wont work either, even though I open "/bills/view=add/port=27/", the port is not added to the created bill. Is this a known "feauture"? I remember having to add bills and services raw into the SQL, I dont mind doing so but I cant seem to find the wiki-entry for it again... Cheers, 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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Moving an interface from one device to another and having the graph follow
by Jason Lixfeld 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

I just moved a transit link from router 1 to router 2. I cleared the old interface on router 1 and copied it to router 2. When I went back to my Observium graphs, the aggregate graphs picked up the interface in the transit aggregate graph, but all the old data was lost. I guess this doesn't really surprise me, although it might be kinda cool to have Observium automagically move the graph to the new interface if the new interface description matches, but that might be a little problematic if there was ever a case where a dedupe was required on interface descriptions, so I digress.. Is there a way to get that old data back somehow? Thanks in advance.

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Re: [Observium] future of Service Monitoring & Discovery
by Daniel Preussker 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Hi Tom, I've been afraid you would say something like that. Lets just hope there'll be a replacement in future... About Nagios, I've been on nagios for quite a while now and just switched back to Observium once again. I definitely prefer Observium over Nagios to be honest, after all I always ended up with Observium in the end ;) However, I could imagine an NMap integration into Observium for probing Ports and Services; Since Observium already knows which ports are open, it should be possible to wrap NMap in a shell-script and let it execute along service-polling for probing and service analysis. Cheers, 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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future of Service Monitoring & Discovery
by Daniel Preussker 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Hello Obversium-List, I've read on the wiki (http://observium.org/wiki/Services) that Services are going to be removed in future. Will there be a replacement without extra software on the clients? Alternatively, whats the most efficient way of monitoring TCP/UDP Port states when Services are being removed? Thanks and Kind regards from snow-white germany, 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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Out of curiosity, how big is everyones installation?
by Morgan McLean 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Just curious what the average size of an observium installation is among the users on the email list. I have ~150 devices with ~6000 ports across three sites. Anybody else? Morgan

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Wrong VLAN port member info
by Zafar Pravaiz 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

HI All There is something wrong on VLAN info page. I see incorrect no of port in a VLAN in observium while on switch its different. Please see the attachment. Am i missing something ? Thanks -- *Zafar Pravaiz *IT Senior Systems Engineer Information Technology Department AUS /> <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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Transparent background
by Mike 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hello. After the recent commits, all popup graphs are displayed with a transparent background. It is not pretty. Thanks -- Mike Stupalov

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Missing info
by Mike Richardson 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hiya, We're just started using Observium and are quite impressed. We've added a few of our devices - just the key ones. What were seeing is that for the devices they are missing some of the data. For example the following tabs are missing - Health, VLANs, Map and Inventory. The environment panels are missing (Processors, Memory etc.) The poller is running successfully and the port information is being populated and graphs are draw correctly. What we're not doing is running the Discover command. AFAICT it will add to Observium devices it finds from CDP as a matter of course. We don't want that to happen. My uneducated guess is that the discover command is also picking up some of the information we're missing. (I've run the command briefly then killed it when I realised what it was doing, and some of the devices are populated with Health, VLANs etc.) If I'm right, is there a way to gather the above information about the devices already present but not add any more? I've got: $config['dp_autocreate'] = false; ## Autodiscover unknown hosts seen via discovery protocols in the config but discover still seems to add new devices. If I'm wrong then could someone set me straight please? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Richardson Networks (network(a)manchester.ac.uk) IT Services, University of Manchester *Plain text only please - attachments stripped on arrival*

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Re: [Observium] 404 page problem on fresh installation
by Rompetechos rompetechos 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

I think, that may be other thing, because mod_rewrite is enabled and the directory of installation has the AllowOverride Option. Any more sugestion? Thanks for the help

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Re: [Observium] can't get syslog working
by Tom Laermans 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi, Did you follow the documentation on the website? The fact that you "tried with 2 different daemons" leads me to believe that you didn't... Tom Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Stefan Milo" <stefan(a)zendata.dk> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] can't get syslog working Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 17:40 Hi I'm having a hard time getting syslog to work. I've enabled the syslog menu in config.php by inserting "$config['enable_syslog'] = 1;" Ive tried using both rsyslog and syslog-ng. But the syslog menu in observium is just blank? The syslog server is working and receiving info on udp port 514. 2012 Nov 26 17:35:36 10.0.0.33 Address=10.0.0.253 This is a test message generated by Kiwi SyslogGen Any advice? BR Stefan Milo Noobie Observium User _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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404 page problem on fresh installation
by Rompetechos rompetechos 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

I have a fresh installation of Observium on Centos 6 64 bits. I can see the main page without problems, but when a i try to click on any page, devices, locations, etc i get a 404 code. The installation is on a dedicate vhost, any idea of what can be wrong?. Thanks in advanced

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question about arista devices
by Maarten Kruyswijk 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi we have added a couple of arista devices to observium. But we are missing a few things. Ospf neighbours are not showing. The routing tab on the device page is not showing And the config tab is not coming up on the device page. Are we doing something wrong? Or is it something we can easily fix? Kind regards, maarten

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30 minute poll issue
by Robert Williams 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hi Guys, Got a weird issue which has just started, seemingly by itself but I imagine there was a cause (I just don't know it yet!). In short, every 30 minute the poller decides that approximately a third of all devices (92 in total) are 'Offline'. They then magically recover on the next poller interval. The devices are not offline, and the Observium host does not loose connectivity (I've tested with numerous pings etc. during this predictable failure period). Interestingly, the host on which Observium runs does record these interesting CPU and RAM metrics during that particular polling run: [cid:image001.png@01CDCBDF.93DC5B50] [cid:image002.png@01CDCBDF.93DC5B50] Now, I'm guessing that there is maybe a more substantial 'discovery' run or similar every 30 minutes. For some reason, this more intensive run seems to be resulting in a load of devices going allegedly offline. The problem started on Friday around 11pm and has repeated like clockwork since. We are running the latest SVN. I'm a bit uncertain where to start with this one as although it's predictable I can't really see anything which would cause it to happen. Pointers for diagnosing further very welcome :) Cheers as always! Robert Williams Custodian DataCentre email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] 30 minute poll issue
by Tom Laermans 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

The poller doesnt run 'out of time', no hosts are ever skipped. The poller simply runs to completion. If it takes longer than 5 minutes, it simply starts a new one while the other is still running, which may blow up your system in the longer run. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Robert Williams" <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com> To: "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] 30 minute poll issue Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 21:09 Hi – yes it is indeed virtualised, the host is a Dell R710 - 12 Cores @ 2.4GHz / 16GB according to ESX. It’s running on an enterprise grade Kingston SSD, along with Cacti. The host is fairly low-load (it only runs a few monitoring systems and a couple of virtual routers). CPU and network load on the physical host for today are: It has a 1GB NIC and I’ve already checked but over the last 4 hours it hasn’t dropped a single ICMP ping to any of the 4 targets I’ve been continuously polling directly from the Observium VM. Three of the targets were repeatedly showing as down, until I suspended a few hosts on the total devices list. For what it’s worth, the other monitoring instance on there (Cacti) has about 7,000 data sources and isn’t missing a single one. It is on a one-minute polling interval and takes between 10 and 12 seconds to complete. Observium has also been flawless up until now. Interestingly, at 19:10 I moved to the poller-wrapper and re-enabled the hosts that I had disabled. Now CPU usage during each poll is approx 2x and the duration of the polling event is now about 45 seconds according to the wrapper. Since that change, I’ve not had a host go down? It could be coincidence, so I’m going to leave it overnight without making any other changes and see if by the morning it has started doing it again. Out of curiosity - is it possible, with a single poller instance (i.e. what I had before) that should a host respond correctly to the first SNMP get / ping, but then take a very long time to respond to the rest of the polls (say 5 seconds per OID), that it could delay the polling process enough for it to run out of time before hitting all the targets? Thus declare the rest it missed as ‘down’ because it never got around to them? I only ask because if this is possible then it could explain why adding more hosts could lead to this as there are a couple which I know are particularly slow to respond. Specifically they are hardware-integrated SNMP modules on systems which run tiny ARM chips and linux 2.4.21-rmk1. They are _slow_ to get their answers back, especially if two systems are concurrently polling them. If it isn’t possible, then that’s obviously off the mark, but the fact that the wrapper (appears) to have resolved it makes me wonder enough to ask :) Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian DataCentre email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 26 November 2012 19:49 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] 30 minute poll issue Almost all recent changes have been web-interface related. We did change the loop around the rrdtool binary, but that shouldn't affect polling. Detecting up/down doesn't really have any prerequisites. It does an ICMP ping and a UDP snmpget. If either of those fail to return, and the host isn't already down, it changes the value in the database to down and skips the rest of the poll. There is nothing really code-related that could cause the effects you're seeing, only the return packets failing to reach the PHP process in time. This kind of thing isn't even observed on very, very heavily loaded systems. Is this a virtualised system? adam. On 26/11/2012 13:27, Robert Williams wrote:Hi, well any ignoring you think I’m doing is certainly not the case – you said to check for other cron jobs and I did. There aren’t any (literally, this system has only Observium on it). I also checked for any processes running at the point of the ‘host down’ events as was also suggested; the only one is the poller / php process itself. Which takes more CPU on every 6th poll, but nothing more interesting than that. If there were other suggestions then I’m really sorry I’ve obviously missed them (which is quite likely as I’ve noticed before some postings from this list have been dropped by our filtering system). Either way, I’m certainly not ignoring you, I think it would be a bit stupid to ignore any advice from the creator of the product which you are having trouble with :) Always suspect the last change you made broke it – so since there were five or six hosts added last week my initial suspicion was maybe the poller was running out of time. The higher number hosts failing, in order, suggested to me that (assuming it polls them in numerical order) again maybe it is running out of time before completing. This was slightly confirmed by removing hosts at random and suddenly the problem went away. I’m just trying to fault-find at the same time as asking for pointers and I’m happy to check anything that anyone on here may suggest. Incidentally I’m just deploying Job’s poller-wrapper script which I’ve been meaning to do for a while but never got around to it. I’ll know in 30 minutes or so if it’s helped at all and I’ll let you know. In the meantime, please do let me know if I’ve missed or ignored something, as I’ve most certainly not intended to – cheers! Robert WilliamsCustodian DataCentreemail: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 26 November 2012 18:59 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] 30 minute poll issue You're looking in completely the wrong place, and you've totally ignored everything i've said, so I give up. have fun. On 26/11/2012 12:24, Robert Williams wrote:Right – I’ve disabled a few of the recent additions and each time I disable one the number of hosts which are ‘down’ decreases. Now, with 3 hosts disabled I only have 2 hosts which are failing. Also, the hosts which fail are always numbered sequentially and are always high-numbered, say above host ID 90. Is it possible the poller is simply running out of time? Can the time be extended? Either way, why only on exactly every 6 polls / 30 minutes? Weird… Robert WilliamsCustodian DataCentreemail: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 26 November 2012 16:58 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] 30 minute poll issue Btw, when one single installation out of thousands starts doing something like this, it's almost never related to the code, and almost always related to the system it's installed on. adam. On 26/11/2012 10:38, Robert Williams wrote:Hi – no other cron jobs on that box, it’s purely running Observium and the only jobs are the poller itself and a selection of jobs which run at weekly or daily intervals for various system functions. There is also a weekly SVN pull for Observium :) As a test we have removed the most recently added device to see if that helps, but I could do with some way of recording what is happening on that particular poll. It’s like clockwork but I can’t see anything that would cause that on the network side, and everything definitely responds (from the Observium console) 100% during the poll itself. Cheers! Robert WilliamsCustodian DataCentreemail: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 26 November 2012 16:07 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] 30 minute poll issue Look for other, newly added cron jobs. Discovery is only run once every 6 hours. It's pretty difficult to make the poller believe that something is offline without network issues, as all it does to decide is a ping and an snmp get. adam. On 26/11/2012 08:14, Robert Williams wrote:Hi Guys, Got a weird issue which has just started, seemingly by itself but I imagine there was a cause (I just don’t know it yet!). In short, every 30 minute the poller decides that approximately a third of all devices (92 in total) are ‘Offline’. They then magically recover on the next poller interval. The devices are not offline, and the Observium host does not loose connectivity (I’ve tested with numerous pings etc. during this predictable failure period). Interestingly, the host on which Observium runs does record these interesting CPU and RAM metrics during that particular polling run: Now, I’m guessing that there is maybe a more substantial ‘discovery’ run or similar every 30 minutes. For some reason, this more intensive run seems to be resulting in a load of devices going allegedly offline. The problem started on Friday around 11pm and has repeated like clockwork since. We are running the latest SVN. I’m a bit uncertain where to start with this one as although it’s predictable I can’t really see anything which would cause it to happen. Pointers for diagnosing further very welcome J Cheers as always! Robert WilliamsCustodian DataCentreemail: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com _______________________________________________observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://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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can't get syslog working
by Stefan Milo 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hi I'm having a hard time getting syslog to work. I've enabled the syslog menu in config.php by inserting "$config['enable_syslog'] = 1;" Ive tried using both rsyslog and syslog-ng. But the syslog menu in observium is just blank? The syslog server is working and receiving info on udp port 514. 2012 Nov 26 17:35:36 10.0.0.33 Address=10.0.0.253 This is a test message generated by Kiwi SyslogGen Any advice? BR Stefan Milo Noobie Observium User

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adding ATM0 port
by Norman Daniel 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

I have an 878 router with SHDSL interface, it shows ATM0 in inventory but no statistics or port discovered.

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Observium stopped graphing and not showing anything on "ports" Tab
by Timo Ament 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hey Guys, I'm fairly new to Observium. This monday my observium installation suddenly stopped populating the Graphs and when on the Page of a device selecting the POrts-Tab the site is now empty. Do you have a hint where to check? Regards Timo

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upgrading ios cause new sensors oid appear
by Nikolay Shopik 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Hi, So we just upgraded one our cisco7201 device from 15.0(1)M3 to 15.1(3)S4, and all sensors data disappear, after while it rediscover some of them but using different(?) OID. At least what I see is, old RRD files still exist but no longer updated, here is example new files: mempool-cemp-4.1.rrd mempool-cemp-4.2.rrd mempool-cemp-4.3.rrd and old mempool-cemp-3.1.rrd mempool-cemp-3.2.rrd mempool-cemp-3.3.rrd Temperature sensors move into different MIB? because old files was: sensor-temperature-cisco-entity-sensor-19.rrd sensor-temperature-cisco-entity-sensor-18.rrd sensor-temperature-cisco-entity-sensor-17.rrd and new: sensor-temperature-cisco-2.rrd sensor-temperature-cisco-3.rrd sensor-temperature-cisco-1.rrd All voltage sensors now gone, which is kinda weird, but probably is some kind cisco weirdness or just move them to other MIB. Is this some kind Cisco MIB(OID) mess we have here or something else?

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Switch 4510G 48-Port
by Alex Vitola 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Currently I have two Switch 4510G 48-Port Software Version 5.20 Release 2202P18, and is not generated graphics of Memory, CPU and Temperature. I saw that this switch is not officially supported. As I understand I need to make this switch model files in the directories: / opt / observium / includes / discovery / temperature / opt / observium / includes / discovery / processors / opt / observium / includes / discovery / mempools Is this correct? Somebody use this model?

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VMware VM's vanished
by Robert Williams 17 Nov '12

17 Nov '12

Hi all, I recently added all our ESXi hosts to Observium, previously they were only in our other systems. I was pleased to see all the VMs appear on it (this didn't work last time I tried about a year ago, which is why they weren't in Observium). However, about an hour later I checked up on them and they have all disappeared; well, sort of: [cid:image001.png@01CDC4B4.8D572B70] All of this 'was' correct (honest) when I first added them. The same is true for all the hosts I've added, although they do all have the correct number of 'blank' entries though? Attached is the slightly cleaned-up output from a debug run on one of the ESX hosts. Any thoughts welcome :) Cheers, Robert Williams Custodian DataCentre email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com

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A couple of questions on port details
by Aaron Mayfield 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

1. I notice that with the Real time graph running on a port, quite often the graph will calculate a negative number resulting in gaps in the graphs. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it expected? 2. The Arp Table output for my ports are blank. Does this feature work for you? If so, does anyone have this working with Arista switches?

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Suggestion: All Ports
by Mattias Gyllenvarg 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

Hi As our installation is getting heavy and I have seen more and more use for the "Ports/All Ports" page. I becomes clear that the page should not load anything but the search bar until you actually klick the search button. Saves me some minutes of waiting everyday. -- *Med Vänliga Hälsningar - Best Regards* *Mattias Gyllenvarg* *Nätutveckling* Bredband2 Tel: +46 406219712

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Alerting Contrib?
by Storer, Darren 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

Hi, I recently had a very good experience setting up Observium with in a mixed switch, router and server environment; everything was so much slicker than Nagios. Despite the inclusion of "Alerting" tabs, I was assured on the IRC channel that there is no alerting functionality with Obs at this time. Has anyone produced their own addon/scripts/strategy for basic alerting? Best regards Darren

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