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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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6500 Fabric Ingress/Egress scale
by Robert Williams 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

Hi Guys, Firstly, apologies for the screen-shots / attachments, but they are required to demonstrate the oddness... I think there is a scaling issue on (or I'm not understanding) the Fabric load bars for the Catalyst 6k. In short, the load bars (to the right of the mini-graph) always seem to show zero, or near zero, even though load is not zero. Example below or attached (or missing, depending on how this list handles images :)) [cid:image003.png@01CDBF49.C8C03550] All bars are showing 2% Ingress and 1% Egress. Below is a zoomed in version of the graphic for Slot 1 Fabric 0: [cid:image002.png@01CDBF48.A37B26C0] This shows ingress is 4% and egress is 2% right now. Load is quite low at the moment so it's not an excellent example I agree - but I can honestly say that even when it's high the most I see on those bars is 2%. So, am I being stupid (quite possible) and these bars mean something else or is there some sort of issue with them or their maths? We have 11 of these chassis, and I've checked them all. They all either show zero or are reading 1 or 2% despite having much higher real loads. Such as this one: [cid:image001.png@01CDBF49.E3BFD450] Maybe if anyone else can check their bars and let me know if it's just me? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian DataCentre email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com

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Important: alert mails disabled by default
by Tom Laermans 10 Nov '12

10 Nov '12

Hi, This is a notification about an important change! In some cases, Observium sends out alert emails upon events. While we always advised to disable these as they are mostly rubbish, they were, until now, enabled by default. They are now disabled, since revision 3406. This means that when you update you will no longer receive the alert emails. If you want to keep receiving these alerts after you svn up to r3406 or higher, add this to your config.php: $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE Hopefully we'll have a decent threshold/event/alert system soon; ideas about this are very welcome in our IRC channel. Tom

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Maps.php
by Dermot Williams 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi, Quick question (the answer to which is possibly 'nothing') but - what is map.php supposed to do? - Dermot

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scaling towards >100GE LAGs
by Job Snijders 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi all, I was facing some issues with observium and 16x10GE LAGs, where RRD would flip the finger on me. I propose we let the RRDs accept up to a terabit/sec instead of the current 100gigabit/sec limit. In a year or so we can up it again. :-) (or make it a configurable option!) BTW: If you currently have ports which go over 100GE you need to use 'rrdtool dump' -> edit xml file and change "1.2500000000e+10" to "1.2500000000e+11" and then use 'rrdtool restore' to get the XML back into RRD format. root@observium:/opt/observium# diff includes/polling/ports.inc.php.orig includes/polling/ports.inc.php 339,353c339,353 < DS:INOCTETS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:OUTOCTETS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:INERRORS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:OUTERRORS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:INUCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:OUTUCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:INNUCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:OUTNUCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:INDISCARDS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:OUTDISCARDS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:INUNKNOWNPROTOS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:INBROADCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:OUTBROADCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:INMULTICASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 \ < DS:OUTMULTICASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:12500000000 ".$config['rrd_rra']); --- > DS:INOCTETS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:OUTOCTETS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:INERRORS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:OUTERRORS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:INUCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:OUTUCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:INNUCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:OUTNUCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:INDISCARDS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:OUTDISCARDS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:INUNKNOWNPROTOS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:INBROADCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:OUTBROADCASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:INMULTICASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 \ > DS:OUTMULTICASTPKTS:DERIVE:600:0:125000000000 ".$config['rrd_rra']); root@observium:/opt/observium# Kind regards, Job Snijders -- AS5580 - Atrato IP Networks

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 28, Issue 7
by Joshua Lebo 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

77 Devices with 2686 ports. > On Nov 7, 2012, at 1:07 AM, Morgan McLean wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >

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Re: [Observium] Out of curiosity, how big is everyones installation?
by Steve Costaras 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

would be possible, but would much rather have that as a php or other plugin to the gui so it can happen all on the same screen/time of object creation/deletion. It avoids having people who do NOT have unix skills needing to get into the os for simple day/day operation (which here is adding/removing devices). This though is secondary to grouping for large deployments. I'm only dealing with one small site currently, but we numerous soho and other locations around the world and ancillary sites/DC's. using dns name doesn't work when there are hundreds/thousands of devices of the same types (takes /way/ to long to find what you're looking for or to focus on only certain logical groupings of devices. community strings don't work as there is no central authority to control what goes into that field (not all devices are controlled by us, but we're tasked to monitor/trend/troublehsoot). >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Laermans [mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx] >Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 07:07 AM >To: observium(a)observium.org >Subject: Re: [Observium] Out of curiosity, how big is everyones installation? > >Indeed - smokeping integration in Observium will never(*) write into >other config files; just like we won't add devices to rancid, etc. >Scripting against mysql -e "SELECT hostname FROM devices" output is easy >though. > >(*) right to change reserved > >On 7/11/2012 14:04, Jason Lixfeld wrote: >> Why not write a script to pull the hostnames out of the database at some internal into the smokeping config file? >> >> -- >> >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> >> On 2012-11-07, at 8:00 AM, "Steve Costaras" <stevecs(a)chaven.com> wrote: >> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Mattias Gyllenvarg [mailto:Mattias.Gyllenvarg@Bredband2.se] >>>> Only our Core/Dist devices are in Observium >>>> >>>> Devices 183 ( 177 up 1 down 2 ignored 3 disabled ) >>>> Ports 9019 ( 4222 up 179 down 542 ignored 3957 shutdown ) >>>> >>>> Access devices (1500 more) may be added if there had been a good way too >>>> categorize. >>> Still testing/playing here with only 80 devices 4077 ports, but the above sentiments are shared, we have several thousand more devices as well, but without a grouping/categorization system as well as some tighter integration w/ smokeping (so by adding the device in the gui it creates/adds it in the smokeping configuration) don't see this really continuing. >>> >>> Also starting to look at Reconnoiter and other tools. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Re: [Observium] Out of curiosity, how big is everyones installation?
by Steve Costaras 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

>-----Original Message----- >From: Mattias Gyllenvarg [mailto:Mattias.Gyllenvarg@Bredband2.se] >Only our Core/Dist devices are in Observium > >Devices 183 ( 177 up 1 down 2 ignored 3 disabled ) >Ports 9019 ( 4222 up 179 down 542 ignored 3957 shutdown ) > >Access devices (1500 more) may be added if there had been a good way too >categorize. > Still testing/playing here with only 80 devices 4077 ports, but the above sentiments are shared, we have several thousand more devices as well, but without a grouping/categorization system as well as some tighter integration w/ smokeping (so by adding the device in the gui it creates/adds it in the smokeping configuration) don't see this really continuing. Also starting to look at Reconnoiter and other tools.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5
by Dan Nelson 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

1 Virtual Server, 67 Devices, 1265 Ports running great. Thanks Dan Nelson Nutraceutical Corporation Network Administrator 801-334-3702

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Procedure to add a MIB file for a device already monitored by Observium
by Charles Nadeau 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hello, I put a MIB file in /opt/observium/mibs/ for a device whose interfaces I already monitor with SNMP. In order to have Observium uses the MIB to monitor all its components do I just run "/opt/observium/discovery.php -h new" again or do I have to modify "config.php" then run "/opt/observium/discovery.php -h new"? Thanks! Charles -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 28, Issue 1
by Charles Nadeau 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:00 PM, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:43:25 +0400 > From: Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Procedure to add a MIB file for a device > already monitored by Observium > Message-ID: <5092362D.9000403(a)inblock.ru> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Nope, > > MIB just describe these counters it won't add support to observium. > Patch is need to add support of new device/mib Can you tell me where and what to add, I could give it a go then share it if I am successful. Thanks! Charles

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IP SLA
by John Macleod 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

I have setup two devices with IP SLA, however I am not getting anything in Observium. One is a Cisco 877W 12.4(24)T6, the other is a Cisco 2901 15.1(4)M3. I verified that the IP SLA module is enabled, I must be missing something?

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fresh installation, no login screen
by Elad Eyal (Ubiqam) 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I've followed the installation instructions to the letter, and while I can get to the observium webpage, I can see observium logo and the text "Big Graphs | Widescreen | Not logged in!" on the top right of the page, I can't see anything else. Furthermore, when I look at the HTML source of the page delivered, it ends with " Not logged in!" and not with </HTML> as I would expect. The machine is a brand new Amazon EC3 VM running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. I'd appriciate any help. I don't see anything of interest in the apache logs. The same client (browser) works OK for the live demo. thanks Elad

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Custom port descriptinos
by Michael Cushard 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi, I see that the ability to add custom port descriptins is available, but I cannot find any instructions to how to actually do it. What is the procedure for adding custom port descriptions? Regards, Michael Cushard

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Device Traffic Graph
by Bruno Galeppe 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hi, I set up several devices on Obervium, no problem so far, except for the Traffic Graphs which remain empty. For example : http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/168961data.jpg The RRD file exist, but the data always return 0.00 How can I debug that ? Is there an snmpwalk command to help understand the problem ? Regards,

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Various questions (BGP/Discovery/Pseudowires/Hostname truncating)
by Jason Lixfeld 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

First off, let me say thanks to the developers of Observium. This piece of code is one of the most amazing pieces of code I have used for my network monitoring purposes to date. I have a few questions that I'm hoping someone can answer - BGP: ---- I have a few eBGP speakers that live inside a VRF. Observium picks up the VRFs just fine, but the routing tab for the device only seems to show the BGP sessions that exist in the global (non-VRF) table. Is it possible to show the BGP sessions that exist inside a VRF? Pseudowires: ------------ I see lots of data inside the pseudowires table on the observium database, but I don't see any of that inside the pseudowires tab from within a device where I know pseudowires are configured. These pseudowires exist on IOS boxes, IOS-XR boxes and IOS-XE boxes. I do see a few. Observium > Ports > Pseudowires shows me 11 pseuowires. 6 of them are duplicates of one another while 5 are unique. The database shows hundreds. While looking through a ./discovery.php -d I ran against one of our XR boxes, I did see this: Cisco Pseudowires : SQL[SELECT * FROM `pseudowires` WHERE `device_id` = '1'] DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcID cpwVcID = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcName cpwVcName = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcType cpwVcType = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcPsnType cpwVcPsnType = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcDescr cpwVcDescr = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcMplsPeerLdpID cpwVcMplsPeerLdpID = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID That seems to show that pseudowire support for XR isn't there yet? Is that on the road map, by chance? Discovery: ---------- There are a couple of devices that aren't getting discovered for some reason. The IP that their hostname resolves to is within the 'nets' arrays configured inside config.php and I have other SNMP devices that reach those boxes, so I know the SNMP side is sound. Likewise, I can see the device in question in the CDP table of an adjacent device, so I know that part is working as well. I've looked at a ./discovery -d of an adjacent device hoping to see a clue about why the device is being skipped, but nothing is striking out at me. Hostname truncating: -------------------- We name our devices <device><device_number>.<pop>.<city>.domain.tld. In the devices view, it shows the full device name no problem. In the VRF view, for example, however, it shows only <device><device_number>, truncating the pop and city portions. If anyone has any insight or guidance on these issues, I'd be grateful! Thanks in advance.

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Unable to get non-MySQL Auth working - 500 error
by Chris Moody 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hello. First off, let me say that this project is AWESOME!!! I am blown away at how comprehensive the graphing is across our network gear. Bravo. That said, I need a hand in figuring out why I cannot seem to get any auth-method other than mysql to work. If I so much as toggle to any other auth-method (ldap or http-auth), I immediately get a 500 'Internal Error' when I try to hit the Observium login page. I'm ultimately trying to get auth to the application to be handled via LDAP, but I can do it via either the observium-ldap component or via http-auth combined with mod_authz_ldap... makes me no difference. I've had some success w. mod_authz_ldap in that I can get authentication to actually pass for a user account (I am able to bypass the login promptsuccessfully), but as soon as I auth, I hit the dreaded 500. I'm not able to find anything in any http logs regarding what might be possibly throwing the 500. lsof lists any open filehandles for httpd, so I've checked every possible file that logs could be directed to, but no cluesthus far. This particular box is a RHEL5 running Observium 0.12.10.3396 Any ideas are welcome. Cheers, -Chris

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unix agent polling broken in 3397 - likely a couple of versions before too
by Chris Stone 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

No data for servers using the unix agent for a couple of weeks now. Have Observium build 3397 installed. Just had a chance to do some troubleshooting... Running poller update on a specific server in debug mode reveals the apparent problem: ======================================================================================= including: includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php PHP Warning: include(includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 192 Warning: include(includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 192 PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening 'includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 192 Warning: include(): Failed opening 'includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 192 ======================================================================================= Fixed (worked around) by running: ln -s /opt/observium/includes/polling/unix-agent.inc.php /opt/observium/includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php Added to Jira as well: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-154 Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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Backing Up Observium
by Mahomed Hussein 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hi I need to ensure our install of Observium is fully backed up and I'd rather not backup the entire VM. Could you please confirm if all I need to backup are: * /opt/observium directory * Observium database * /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default What I'd like to achieve from the backups is to spin up a new VM instance, run through the install steps to get the required components installed, then restore the files so that Observium then just runs as it was at the point of the last backup. I have tried checking the FAQ and a search of the mailing list but I couldn't find any specific instructions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Custodian DataCentre email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com

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Port Utilization Alerts
by Adam Blackington 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Observium folk, Anyway I can configure alerting based on utilization? For example, if I want to receive an email if a port hits 75% port utilization. --Adam Blackington

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HIgh CPU on ASR
by Roza 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

After adding ASR 1002 (used as PPPOE termination) to Observium, CPU on ASR raised to 90%, and stayed that way, untill I blocked it (after 30 minutes). Normal CPU is aroiund 10%. Is this a normal? Don't think so.... ASR1002 has cca 5000 connected users. iRoza

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Cisco CUCM Support
by John Macleod 13 Oct '12

13 Oct '12

Has anyone looked into fully supporting the Cisco UCM stuff? It looks like it is mainly a mix of Cisco CCM and Cisco/HP/IBM hardware mibs depending on what platform it is on. I specifically have UCM5xx series, the SMB PBX in a box - CME variant and the larger full Unified Communications Manager 5000 systems, running the linux-derived UCM apps on Cisco branded UCS, IBM or HP hardware. I did find this: http://smbitsolutions.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/2-may-2011-1341/ I do have a system I could expose for testing if someone is up for this? I have the same request for Cisco CUBE (SIP-SIP) gateway support, which looks like it is just a mib on the relevant supported hardware. I believe it is the same mib for standard SIP monitoring on other Cisco platforms, but I could be wrong. At the moment the UCM 5000 shows as a generic server, with standard net-snmp type support, and the CUBE devices just show as routers. I currently use a Cacti install alongside my Observium systems for the sole purpose of monitoring the above. Would be nice to stick to one. Thanks, John

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Observium behind proxy
by Max León 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Hello, I need to publish an observium instance to the DMZ. The simplest approach is by proxy using Nginx. I have the configuration set, well I think, problem is that on authentication it loops on the login, any idea why this might be? Thank you. Max Atentamente, Max León

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vlan ids nor port member not updated ??
by Rachid Zarouali 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Hy all, i'm using observium since 2 weeks now, i found a strange behavior. it can detect vlan defined in a switch at first, but it doesn't update them (removed or added vlans) nor update vlan port member. is there anything wrong with my observium deployment ? switch: D-Link DGS-3120 and D-Link DES-1210 any clues truely appreciated, i can't figure out what is going wrong :( Regards, Xinity

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web site and svn down
by Chris Stone 06 Oct '12

06 Oct '12

Problems with web site and svn? Not able to access either from the US this morning... [root@axis-noc opt]# mtr --report --report-cycles=10 www.observium.org HOST: axis-noc.axint.net Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- ai-core.axint.net 0.0% 10 1.4 1.0 0.5 2.9 0.7 2.|-- fa0-2.na01.b009854-0.den0 0.0% 10 1.3 1.2 0.7 1.6 0.3 3.|-- vl3509.mag02.den01.atlas. 0.0% 10 2.7 23.6 0.6 81.8 36.0 4.|-- te7-4.ccr01.den01.atlas.c 0.0% 10 1.4 52.6 0.7 174.7 63.0 5.|-- te0-2-0-7.mpd21.mci01.atl 0.0% 10 13.3 13.7 12.6 16.0 1.1 6.|-- te0-2-0-5.ccr21.dfw01.atl 0.0% 10 23.8 23.5 22.6 24.9 0.7 7.|-- te2-1.ccr01.dfw03.atlas.c 20.0% 10 23.5 86.3 23.5 178.2 62.5 8.|-- teleglobe.dfw03.atlas.cog 0.0% 10 24.4 23.7 22.5 25.2 1.1 9.|-- dal-2-6k.tx.us 0.0% 10 23.5 26.1 23.2 34.0 3.7 10.|-- dal-1-6k.tx.us 0.0% 10 23.5 23.8 23.4 24.2 0.3 11.|-- nwk-1-6k.nj.us 30.0% 10 98.8 61.2 53.7 98.8 16.7 12.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.|-- rbx-g1-a9.fr.eu 0.0% 10 127.6 136.8 127.4 211.8 26.4 14.|-- vss-5a-6k.fr.eu 0.0% 10 127.6 139.8 127.6 201.4 25.8 | `|-- 178.33.100.30 15.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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Watchguard Support
by John Macleod 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

I see that there is a some type of discovery entries for the "firebox" however there is no firebox include file. I have two Watchguard Firebox XTM810 devices that I would like to monitor. Am I missing something, or is there a reason they are not present? Thanks, John

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Re: [Observium] SSD for better performance
by Adam Armstrong 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Its the android mail client. It has no config options. Might switch to something else. Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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custom graph questions, almost done
by Mark Chaney 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

So I am not sure if this belongs on the dev list as I am not really doing core dev work and I am not currently subscribed to it. I will definitely contribute my work back to you guys though (if you wanted it). Its for graphing md3000i performance data (stupid thing isnt accessible through snmp, so its basically data attached to the management host). Anyway, I have been following the following example: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Developing/NewGraph and I am not sure about few things. 1) What are the following values for? Specifically the Pages/pages part. I understand that it cycles through the stats that i have setup, but I am not sure about the words Pages/pages. foreach ($stats as $stat) { $i++; $rrd_list[$i]['filename'] = $rrd_filename; $rrd_list[$i]['descr'] = "Pages " . ucfirst($stat); $rrd_list[$i]['ds'] = "pages" . ucfirst($stat); } 2) Now that I have the agent script created and the rest of the scripts in the tutorial, how am I supposed to activate it for a host? I am assuming it should probably be "activated" within the applications list? If so, I am guessing there is logic missing in that example tutorial on how to add it to the list of application options? 3) Is creating a diff and reapplying after every upgrade really the recommended method? Its to bad all the definitions are in a single file or else that might be a little easier to manage. 4) Any idea what type of logic i should be using to figuring out the proper numbers for the rrd graph settigns in this code section? rrdtool_create($rrd_filename, "--step 300 \ DS:pagesShared:GAUGE:600:0:125000000000 \ DS:pagesSharing:GAUGE:600:0:125000000000 \ DS:pagesUnshared:GAUGE:600:0:125000000000 ".$config['rrd_rra']); 5) What format should the agent script output be in? I am guessing it should be one per line? Right now my output is like so: <<md3000i>> total_io=3158.0 read_percentage=27.9 cache_hit_percentage=93.2 current_kbps=22475.2 current_iops=631.6 6) Last question: Is there any way to have certain agent scripts to be polled at slower intervals? This check takes about 5 seconds and is probably a resource hog on the management host since the script has to run a stupid java cli app. The management server in this case is the same host as the observium system, so I wouldnt have a problem not using the agent and just doing a cron if that was somehow an option. Thanks for you help. I know I had a lot of detailed questions. I sincerely appreciate the help. -Mark (MACScr)

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unix-agent scripts conflicting with check_mk
by Mark Chaney 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

I cant seem to use any of the unix-agent scripts with check_mk as it ruins all the check_mk local script results. Basically any existing scripts start giving an error in the check_mk gui and state "Check output not found in local checks". If I reinventory the host, none of the scripts show up at all. As soon as i remove the observium local agent scripts from the check_mk local folder and I reinvetory the host, everything is fine again. I am unfortunately not sure what our options are though. The only thing I can think of is to somehow serialize the data so that it shows up on one line for each script, then is parsed back out by observium once it receives it. That way we easily ignore them within our main.mk files. Can't really do that now because of how there are so many lines for each result (apache/mysql for example). Thoughts? Im quite surprised this hasn't already been an issue. I am running check_mk 1.2.0p3 and observium 0.12.9.3385. - MACscr

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Re: [Observium] Links not working
by Will McDermott 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Awesome, that works. Thank you! Just for historical reasons: I changed Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all to Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all --Will >>> Tom Laermans 09/28/12 5:20 PM >>> Hi, You don't have allowoverride set up [as detailed in the install guide, but probably in a part that you didn't need due to no vhost], so .htaccess doesn't take effect, ergo no rewrite rules even though the module is loaded. Tom On 29/09/2012 1:29, Will McDermott wrote: > Thank you for your quick response! > > I double checked mod_rewrite and it looks like it's running: > > root@mon:/etc/apache2/mods-available# a2enmod rewrite > Module rewrite already enabled > > Also I have ovservium running in the root. I do not have a domain name associated with the server, Is that a problem? > > --Will > > >>>> Mark Chaney 09/28/12 4:16 PM >>> > You probably dont have mod_rewrite enabled. Also note that observium > has to run within the root directory of a domain or subdomain. > > On 2012-09-28 18:06, Will McDermott wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I just installed Observium from SVN on Ubuntu Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. I >> fallowed the Ubuntu installation guide. Observium comes up but when I >> log in. But when I click any of the links at the top they say "Not >> found" and give a invalid URL. For example when I click Devices> Add >> Devices it sends me to server.com/addhost/ which doesn't exist, >> because in the addhost directory is in a subdirectory called "pages." >> Did I miss something during the install? I have tried it a couple >> times, and reinstalled the server. >> >> Thanks! >> >> --Will >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Links not working
by Will McDermott 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Thank you for your quick response! I double checked mod_rewrite and it looks like it's running: root@mon:/etc/apache2/mods-available# a2enmod rewrite Module rewrite already enabled Also I have ovservium running in the root. I do not have a domain name associated with the server, Is that a problem? --Will >>> Mark Chaney 09/28/12 4:16 PM >>> You probably dont have mod_rewrite enabled. Also note that observium has to run within the root directory of a domain or subdomain. On 2012-09-28 18:06, Will McDermott wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Observium from SVN on Ubuntu Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. I > fallowed the Ubuntu installation guide. Observium comes up but when I > log in. But when I click any of the links at the top they say "Not > found" and give a invalid URL. For example when I click Devices> Add > Devices it sends me to server.com/addhost/ which doesn't exist, > because in the addhost directory is in a subdirectory called "pages." > Did I miss something during the install? I have tried it a couple > times, and reinstalled the server. > > Thanks! > > --Will > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Links not working
by Will McDermott 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Hello, I just installed Observium from SVN on Ubuntu Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. I fallowed the Ubuntu installation guide. Observium comes up but when I log in. But when I click any of the links at the top they say "Not found" and give a invalid URL. For example when I click Devices> Add Devices it sends me to server.com/addhost/ which doesn't exist, because in the addhost directory is in a subdirectory called "pages." Did I miss something during the install? I have tried it a couple times, and reinstalled the server. Thanks! --Will

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Re: [Observium] How to add linux server?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

Documentation or features, its a simple choice. Andrey Lebedev <alg(a)condensa.ru> wrote: >On 2012-09-25 23:41:31 +0100, Tom Laermans said: > >> On 26/09/2012 0:38, Andrey Lebedev wrote: >>> >>> Tell us how you found it? >>> >>> http://www.observium.org/wiki/Documentation - nothing >>> http://www.observium.org/wiki/Main_Page - link to Professional Services >>> http://www.observium.org/wiki/Main_Page -> search -> word "Services" >>> -> appropriate page >>> >>> But. Thanks! >>> I'm find it. >> The last one, indeed. It's not linked anywhere because it's deprecated, >> unsupported and buggy. >> >> Tom >Annoying. But I think I can cope without this feature. >Once again I want to say - this is a good product, but it is not very >good documentation. >However - it's "as is". >Thank all for your help. And clarifications. > >Andrey > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] How to add linux server?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

Services are deprecated. The code is still there because it would take time to remove. Do not use it. We have plans to implement better alerting in the future, but there is always a shortage of time. Adam. Andrey Lebedev <alg(a)condensa.ru> wrote: >On 2012-09-25 23:05:51 +0100, John Broome said: > >> I prefer my car, but that doesn't mean I'm going to use it to open a >> can of beans. I use the tool that's designed to do what I want, >> reliably. And if the creators of the software say it's not meant to >> be used for service monitoring I'm going to take their word for it. > >Hmm ... interesting that the author wanted to say a demo of their >product. Maybe this is a joke? >http://demo.observium.org/device/device=34/tab=services/ >http://demo.observium.org/device/device=7/tab=services/ >http://demo.observium.org/device/device=6/tab=services/ >http://demo.observium.org/ >kermit >Service Down >ssh > >It's no "service monitoring"? >Ok. :) > > > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] How to add linux server?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

I think you misunderstand Occam's razor. We do not do up/down monitoring, no more than cacti or Mrtg do. Adam. Andrey Lebedev <alg(a)condensa.ru> wrote: >On 2012-09-25 21:45:12 +0100, Paul Cupis said: > >> "Observium is not intended to replace an up/down alerting system, but >> rather to complement it with an easy to manage, intuitive representation >> of historical and current performance statistics, configuration >> visualisation and syslog capture." > >Do not see any logic. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor >IMHO. > >But observium is preferd for me (over nagios or zabbix). > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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How to add linux server?
by Andrey Lebedev 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

Hi all, Sorry. 1) Offtopic. I unfortunately do not get your answers via mail. And look at them through http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/2012-September/thread.html How do I reply to this thread - but do not start a new topic every time? I have long lost touch (and forgotten) how to use mailing lists - last it was 10 years ago. 2) For monitoring unix servers use snmp? I do not understand a bit - but then why in wiki talk about the unix- agent. I saw that to unix-agent in any way no related to snmp. In my look this product have a lot of undocumented features that are unclear how they work. Regards, Andrey

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How to add linux server?
by Andrey Lebedev 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi all! Sorry for the newbie question. I just Installed Observium. Connected to many snmpv3 network devices - Cisco, Extreme, Juniper ... I'm fine. I'm happy with everything. Now I want to connect my first Linux server. But I find no documentation - how? I installed check_mk_agent on linux. root@monitoring:/opt/observium# telnet x.x.x.60 6556 | head Trying x.x.x.60... Connected to x.x.x.60. Escape character is '^]'. <<<check_mk>>> Version: 1.2.0p2 AgentOS: linux PluginsDirectory: /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins LocalDirectory: /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/local AgentDirectory: /etc/check_mk OnlyFrom: 127.0.0.1 x.x.x.61 I do not know what to do next? Thank you for your help. Regards, Andrey

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How to add linux server?
by Andrey Lebedev 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

+screenshot Only snmp devices: http://s11.postimage.org/6izs930cj/Picture_478.png

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How to add linux server?
by Andrey Lebedev 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hello Paul , Thanks for the help, but I do not understand what you are saying (about web-interface). I do not have anything on the screen. I send the link to screenshot. http://s12.postimage.org/oddm5vdbx/Picture_477.png root@monitoring:/opt/observium# cat config.php | tail -f $config['poller_modules']['unix-agent'] = 1; ?> root@monitoring:/opt/observium# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Restarting web server apache2 ... waiting ...done.

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Re: [Observium] SSD for better performance
by Adam Armstrong 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

The maths and specs suggest a modern SSD should survive observium workload for quite a while, but I'm still worried about the random failure rate and the likelyhood that individual cells get worn out. In general SSDs are such a strange tech, there's almost no way to really improve them except with fancy controller hacks, the flash itself is a dead end tech. Good luck :-) Adam Cushard Michael <mcc(a)us.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] SSD for better performance
by Adam Armstrong 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

I would recommend dumping the data to a real disk occasionally, as observium/rrd-style workloads are pretty hard on flash-based storage. I have SSDs in my workstations, but I'm not sure if I'd trust them in a server quite yet. Please report back if/when it breaks :-) Adam. Cushard Michael <mcc(a)us.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] port ignore partly fails on large number of ports
by Adam Armstrong 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Haha. Glad it works :-) We should add that to the docs somewhere! Adam. Maarten De Wispelaere <maarten.dewispelaere(a)intec.ugent.be> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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port ignore partly fails on large number of ports
by Maarten De Wispelaere 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hi, I recently discovered the following : When trying to set "Ignore" status on switches with large number of ports (eg. force10 e1200 or c300 chassis), the setting doesn't get saved for some of the ports. More specific, at the end of the list. This is what I did : Toggle all -> removed the toggle from the mgmt interface -> then save What happens: Most ports get "ignored" status, part of them don't After getting the status, they again have a 'not-ignored-status' (checkbox not checked). If I check them again & press save -> same issue. Seems like the checkboxes only get processed to a certain number of items ? Does this sound familiar ? Thanks in advance, Maarten De Wispelaere Department of Information Technology Internet Based Communication Networks and Services (IBCN) Ghent University - IBBT Gaston Crommenlaan 8 Bus 201, B-9050 Gent, Belgium E-mail: maarten.dewispelaere(a)intec.UGent.be Tel. +32 (0)9 33 14979 Fax +32 (0)9 33 14899

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Accurate Graphs in Billing are probably not so accurate
by Matthias Cramer 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hi I've noticed two things in the "Accurate" graphs in the Billing part: 1. Are Interface counter overflows or equipment reboot) probably not catched? - I see very high spikes (200 Gbps and more) on a 1G interface sometimes in sometimes out, but not at the same time. the quick graphs are ok 2. If I monitore more tha one interface for billing (Unfotunately one of the is down) the accurate graps are at leaset 1000 times to high... Atached some graphs... I runn lates svn (0.12.9.3378). Any ideas ? 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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Eaton Powerware UPS
by Aaron Maurer 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hi all, First time poster here. We use observium here at our office and think it is a great program. We were interested in having observium read SNMP information from our Powerware 9130 UPS's. Currently observium can't identify them. We were wondering if there was any interest in the community to write a snmp module to read from the Powerwares. The documentation for the SNMP values is posted in the PDF files which I can provide. If there is positive interest for anyone on helping take this on I can also provide SNMP walks of my Eatons. Here is a snippet of the first few lines of SNMP information: SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Powerware 9130 3000 SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.705.1 DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (2144221738) 248 days, 4:10:17.38 Thank you, Aaron Maurer Diversified Business Systems Inc. Office: 440-942-6961 Fax: 440-942-5819 amaurer(a)dbsinet.com http://www.dbsinet.com

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Re: [Observium] Checkpoint Firewall Support?
by Steve Costaras 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Doing some more digging here, it appears UCD-SNMP-MIB values for ssCpuUser (system & idle) are being populated correctly from checkpoint utm/splat deployments. But other items like interrupts, etc are working. The cpu values appear to be stored in the checkpoint enterprise mib: -- CHECKPOINT-MIB::multiProcIndex.1.0 = INTEGER: 1 CHECKPOINT-MIB::multiProcIndex.2.0 = INTEGER: 2 CHECKPOINT-MIB::multiProcUserTime.1.0 = INTEGER: 0 CHECKPOINT-MIB::multiProcUserTime.2.0 = INTEGER: 1 CHECKPOINT-MIB::multiProcSystemTime.1.0 = INTEGER: 100 CHECKPOINT-MIB::multiProcSystemTime.2.0 = INTEGER: 2 CHECKPOINT-MIB::multiProcIdleTime.1.0 = INTEGER: 0 CHECKPOINT-MIB::multiProcIdleTime.2.0 = INTEGER: 97 CHECKPOINT-MIB::multiProcUsage.1.0 = INTEGER: 100 CHECKPOINT-MIB::multiProcUsage.2.0 = INTEGER: 3 -- Found the current version of the mib as well as a checkpoint 32x32 graphic that can be added to the project (attached) in case someone has more time to play with it than I do. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the coding here to update this for first, base OS (per-cpu) utilization, then expand on it to something similar to the ASA firewall tab. Also it appears that the vendor has an issue with the netsnmp package supplied with the default media 5.0.9) but they do have an update package (5.3.1). This at least provides for cpu enumeration but still no stats (per above).

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Re: [Observium] Strange graph
by Adam Armstrong 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

This is probably because the device frequently returns invalid data. A common problem with tacked systems like the 3750 and VSS. Adam. Nicolas COULIN <nicolas.coulin(a)kleegroup.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Strange graph
by Nicolas COULIN 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Hi, Graphs for my stack was not correct. I have 4 swtich in stack. And observium return values very strange. 500Go by interface.... :/ Cisco IOS Software, C3750 Software (C3750-IPBASEK9-M), Version 15.0(2)SE, I have the last svn update on centos 6.2 I test to delete the host, delete rrd directory, and add my host. But the problem come back. I don't understand why. Thanks [Logo Kleegroup] Klee Group is a great place to work - Il fait bon travailler ? Klee Group

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No more graphs after upgrade
by Max Leon 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Hello, I have a problem I had revision 3049, due to a small problem displaying the heath status of the drives I updated to HEAD and immediatly run ./discovery.php -h new. All functionality seems to be there but I have no new graphs, any ideas on how to troubleshoot/fix this problem? Thank you. Max Leon

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Re: [Observium] [Patch] Collectd v5 Apache fix
by Adam Armstrong 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Please to be not distributing broken patches. Adam. Chris Bennett <chris(a)ceegeebee.com> wrote: >Hi Tom, > >> I presume this breaks users who still use collectd <5? > >Yep, treat the email & bug submission as a report of the problem and >ignore the patch, to fix this properly. I'm just putting it out into >the public so others might find this when they are troubleshooting the >same problem :) > >Regards, > >Chris >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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[Patch] Collectd v5 Apache fix
by Chris Bennett 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Hi there, I noticed collectd graphing of Apache graphs is broken after Collectd released version 5 of their software. The data source name has changed from 'value' to 'count'. See attached patch. I've also filed a bug report with the patch: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-122 Regards, Chris

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Observirum Graphs ere empty
by Nicolas COULIN 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Hi, I have install Observium since few days, and all my graphs are empty. Rrd files are present on folder. I don't understand why. I use centos 6.2. Thanks. [Logo Kleegroup] Klee Group is a great place to work - Il fait bon travailler ? Klee Group

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Re: [Observium] Observirum Graphs ere empty
by Adam Armstrong 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >Hi, > >You probably didn't do it right. > >Unfortunately, "my graphs are empty" doesn't gives us a lot of >information. > >Tom > >On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 09:57 +0000, Nicolas COULIN wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I have install Observium since few days, and all my graphs are empty. >> >> >> >> Rrd files are present on folder. >> >> >> >> I don’t understand why. >> >> I use centos 6.2. >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Logo Kleegroup >> Klee Group is a great place to work – Il fait bon travailler à Klee >> Group >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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openBSD
by Miguel Alejandro González 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

Hello Can I monitor a machine with OpenBSD with Observium??? Regards!

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Help with vmware
by Pavel Ondřej 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Hello, Can you help me please? How can I connect observium to ESXI5 Thank you for greet program. Pavel

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Re: [Observium] Checkpoint Firewall Support?
by Steve Costaras 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

I do have some older nokia systems (IP380's, IP530's, and I think an IP740) laying around somewhere, but most of the new systems are using Secure Platform (R65, R70, R71, R75) versions and/or UTM's (basically the same thing, they all RedHat Enterprise v5.4 9(2.6.18 kernel) slimmed down with an extra checkpoint mib tree for items outside the base OS). We also have some provider-1 deployments (management station) but that I would consider future if anything. If you know enough about handling the observium code itself I can try helping on the checkpoint side. I have some systems here to test against as well. Steve >-----Original Message----- >From: Rob J. Epping [mailto:rob.epping@gmail.com] >Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 04:17 AM >To: stevecs(a)chaven.com, 'Observium Network Observation System' >Subject: Re: [Observium] Checkpoint Firewall Support? > >Hi, > >On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Steve Costaras <stevecs(a)chaven.com> wrote: >> >> I'm just starting to look at observium for some monitoring. I see that it supports cisco based firewalls (ASA/PIX) but it does not currently support checkpoint. >> >> Checkpoint mainly runs on top of redhat linux. I'm able to get the general linux stats but not the firewall specific stats (connections/vpn/etc) similar to what's available with the cisco asa support. >> >> Basically, I'm asking if anyone has managed to get this to work. Or barring that, any information as to how to add support? > >I have some patches to submit. But these are for Nokia IP-platform with IPSO. > >Anything particular that interests you? >-- >GRTNX, >RobJE >

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solaris 10 / net-snmp not getting cpu stats
by Steve Costaras 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Still testing with various devices here, found an interesting issue. I have a M3000 sun box with solaris 10 on it, which gets added fine and most of the graphs appear to be eyeball correct, however am NOT stats for cpu utilization. The sun box is using net-snmp (included w/ solaris 10)(not the older sun snmpd daemon) which was the default with older systems. doing a manual walk I DO get stats: $ snmpwalk -v2c -c XXXX XXXXX 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.1.0 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.2.0 = STRING: "systemStats" iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.3.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.4.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.5.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.6.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.7.0 = INTEGER: 507 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.8.0 = INTEGER: 259 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.9.0 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.10.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.11.0 = INTEGER: 99 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.50.0 = Counter32: 1190528 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.52.0 = Counter32: 330481 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.53.0 = Counter32: 136097671 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.54.0 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.55.0 = Counter32: 330481 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.57.0 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.58.0 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.59.0 = Counter32: 898868894 iso.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.60.0 = Counter32: 736460424 so it is showing ticks. but I don't see that mib tree being referenced by doing a poller debug at all? is the solaris support only for perhaps the old snmp (solaris) version which has the entries in a different tree?

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Re: [Observium] Switchmap integration
by Adam Armstrong 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

:-D Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: >Adam, just use two words - world domination > >On 15.08.2012 21:37, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> Almost everything that switchmap and netdisco does is on our long-term >> wish list, it's just a matter of finding time and resources to develop >> it all. >> >> We also would prefer to use our own code to generate the configs and >> "smokeping" stats too, as integration is a little one way and suboptimal >> to configure. >> >> adam. >> >> >> On 15/08/2012 17:59, Cushard Michael wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Netdisco does have move features and is an all-around more complete >>> solution, but for me personally it was overkill. Switchmap is just a >>> few simple scripts you schedule and it pulls all the data into csv >>> files, then creates simple html files based on the csv data and has a >>> script for seaching through all the generated pages. It's pretty fast >>> as well. I can do roughly 10000 ports in under 30 minutes with it over >>> some pretty terrible WAN links. I currently have a Switchmap link in >>> our Observium installation as a custom menu item, but tighter >>> integration (of something) would obviously be better. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Michael >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org >>> [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Michael Robbert >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 8:35 AM >>> To: observium(a)observium.org >>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Switchmap integration >>> >> Michael, >> How does Switchmap compare to Netdisco and/or SNMPInfo (The set of >> libraries that Netdisco uses)? Netdisco stores its data in a database >> that could be queried. We use Netdisco and I might be convinced to >> take a look at this kind of integration. I am not a core developer for >> either project so I can't say anything about its acceptance in the >> code base. I do think that it would have to be a plug-in of some type >> not a core feature. Both Swiitchmap and Netdisco are mostly Perl while >> Observium is mostly PHP. I see them as being separate projects, but >> Observium could have a configuration telling it to look at another >> database for more info to display. >> As a side note I'm surprised that I've never heard of Switchmap >> before. We work often with the Network engineers at NCAR/UCAR that >> wrote it. They manage the consortium that is our connection to the >> internet. >> >> Mike Robbert >> >> >> On 8/14/12 9:39 PM, Cushard Michael wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Switchmap (http://sourceforge.net/projects/switchmap) is a most >>>>> excellent little utility written in perl. It goes out to all your >>>>> configured switches utilizing SNMP and pulls all the ARP and MAC >>>>> tables from them, and builds static HTML pages for each switch with >>>>> tables that list port number, speed, duplex, CDP neighbor >>>>> information, MAC address(es), IP address(es), and the fqdn(s) of >>>>> the device(s) seen on the ports at the time of polling. It also >>>>> provides a rudimentary search function that lets you search through >>>>> all the hosts to find which switch port across all your switches a >>>>> particular host was last seen on. This is very handy when you have >>>>> a large number of switches and ports and you need to go "hunting". >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Now I may be having a UTS moment here, and if I am please correct >>>>> me, but while Observium seems to have something similar, it doesn't >>>>> appear to go to the depth that Switchmap does to actually tell you >>>>> what host(s) are actually connected to what switch ports by >>>>> utilizing the switches ARP and MAC tables. >>>>> >>>>> What would make Observium - and Switchmap - even better would be if >>>>> there was integration between the two, similar to the SmokePing or >>>>> RANCID integration. Switchmap stores all its polled data for each >>>>> switch in separate CSV files, there doesn't seem to be anything >>>>> mysterious going on as far as data storage is concerned. What would >>>>> it take to make a "Switchmap" tab in Observium under a device that >>>>> lists this data, similar to the way RANCID has a "config" tab and >>>>> SmokePing has a "Ping" tab that is integrated into Observium? >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Michael >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ 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 >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Missing TenGigabit interfaces on Cisco WC-C4900M
by Adam Armstrong 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Interfaces are polled via IF-MIB. Almost every device is identical for that. Either you switch is not exposing these interfaces in snmp or they are being filtered. Try running discovery in debug for that host. Adam. Per Jorgensen <pej(a)combox.dk> wrote: >Hi all > >First of all thank to the team of developer for making this program, and making it better and better everyday, >love the look and ease of use. > >But I have run into a problem with a Tengigabit ethernet device I newly added into my Observium v. 0.12.8.3360. >it seems that every thing get detected alright, except all the TenGigabitEthernet, interfaces dont show up >anywhere in Observium, all other interfaces on that device gets detectet allright, and I can see the >interfaces in the ports tab on the device, but not the TenGengigabit interfaces. btw: the device is a >Cisco WS-C4900M > >Is that because Cisco WS-C4900M is not a supported device , or should I do some config changes to get >TenGigabitEthernet to work ? > >if the WC-C4900M is not supported, how can I then contribute with information on the device , and help to >then this device supported ? > >Best Regards >Per Jorgensen >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Graphs only work when debuging
by Tom Laermans 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

See faq entry about whitespace in your config file. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Brian Morgan" <bluedogs(a)gmail.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Graphs only work when debuging Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2012 14:34 Hello, On a fresh install of observium on ubuntu 12.04 (LAMP) we are having issues with the graphs not showing up. The graphs display as a broken image icon. If you access the image url directly that is loading /graph.php?.... you still get a broken image. But when you try to debug the issue, (we append &debug=1 to the url) the image displays correctly. Turning on debuging on the parent page yields no useful data, and the graphs are still broken images, but we assume that is because the debug variable isn't passed down to the image url. The graphs are getting generated in the /tmp directory and have valid data. I am at a loss of where to look to figure out what we either forgot to do or have misconfigured. Subversion shows that we are upto date at version 3360 Thank you, Brian _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Graphs only work when debuging
by Adam Armstrong 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Reinstall and follow the guide properly. Adam. Brian Morgan <bluedogs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hello, >On a fresh install of observium on ubuntu 12.04 (LAMP) we are having >issues with the graphs not showing up. >The graphs display as a broken image icon. > >If you access the image url directly that is loading /graph.php?.... >you still get a broken image. >But when you try to debug the issue, (we append &debug=1 to the url) >the image displays correctly. >Turning on debuging on the parent page yields no useful data, and the >graphs are still broken images, >but we assume that is because the debug variable isn't passed down to >the image url. > >The graphs are getting generated in the /tmp directory and have valid data. > >I am at a loss of where to look to figure out what we either forgot to >do or have misconfigured. > >Subversion shows that we are upto date at version 3360 > >Thank you, >Brian >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Graphs only work when debuging
by Brian Morgan 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Hello, On a fresh install of observium on ubuntu 12.04 (LAMP) we are having issues with the graphs not showing up. The graphs display as a broken image icon. If you access the image url directly that is loading /graph.php?.... you still get a broken image. But when you try to debug the issue, (we append &debug=1 to the url) the image displays correctly. Turning on debuging on the parent page yields no useful data, and the graphs are still broken images, but we assume that is because the debug variable isn't passed down to the image url. The graphs are getting generated in the /tmp directory and have valid data. I am at a loss of where to look to figure out what we either forgot to do or have misconfigured. Subversion shows that we are upto date at version 3360 Thank you, Brian

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Re: [Observium] Checkpoint Firewall Support?
by Adam Armstrong 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

The code is the documentation, mostly. Adam. Steve Costaras <stevecs(a)chaven.com> wrote: > >I'm just starting to look at observium for some monitoring. I see that it supports cisco based firewalls (ASA/PIX) but it does not currently support checkpoint. > >Checkpoint mainly runs on top of redhat linux. I'm able to get the general linux stats but not the firewall specific stats (connections/vpn/etc) similar to what's available with the cisco asa support. > >Basically, I'm asking if anyone has managed to get this to work. Or barring that, any information as to how to add support? > > >Steve > > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Post saturation warnings / alerts disabled ?
by Maarten De Wispelaere 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

Dear all, For some reason, I'm getting Port saturation threshold warnings for ports on a switch where I have disabled 'alerting' for that specific port. Is that normal ? Or some kind of bug ? I'm new to Observium, so I can't compare to previous versions. Thanks in advance, Maarten De Wispelaere IBCN - Ghent University

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Re: [Observium] Observium Not logged in!
by BREUVART Jean-Jacques 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

I’ve try with Opera, Firefox and IE and having the same problem. Cordialement, greatings. Jean-Jacques Breuvart (75.42.39) P Please consider the environmental impact of needlessly printing this e-mail. De : observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Dan Draghici Envoyé : mardi 7 août 2012 13:17 À : 'Observium Network Observation System' Objet : Re: [Observium] Observium Not logged in! Try a different browser ? I too, noticed some display problems on IE. Dan From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of BREUVART Jean-Jacques Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 2:09 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Observium Not logged in! I’ve installed a new server under Ubuntu server like describe in the documentation. I’ve create a user (adduser) I’ve create a host (addhost), running discovery and poller without error. But, when I try to connect I’ve no login page, only the logo Observium and in the top right “ Widescreen | Not logged in!” Any idea ? Jean-Jacques Breuvart Ce message provient d’un cabinet d’avocats et contient des informations confidentielles protégées par le secret professionnel. Au cas où il ne vous serait pas destiné, nous vous remercions de bien vouloir nous en aviser immédiatement et de le supprimer. Gide Loyrette Nouel ne peut être tenu responsable en cas de modification d’un message électronique ou d’une pièce jointe sans son accord écrit. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. fait partie de Gide Loyrette Nouel, un cabinet d’avocats international ayant ses bureaux à Alger, Bruxelles, Bucarest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Hô Chi Minh Ville, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kiev, Londres, Moscou, New York, Paris, Pékin, Saint-Pétersbourg, Shanghai, Tunis et Varsovie. Une liste des associés de chaque bureau vous sera fournie sur demande. This e-mail is sent by a law firm and may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and any attachments and notify us immediately. Gide Loyrette Nouel is not liable if an e-mail or attachment is altered without its written consent. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. is part of Gide Loyrette Nouel, an international law firm, with offices in Algiers, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kyiv, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Shanghai, Tunis and Warsaw. A list of partners at each office can be provided upon request. Ce message provient d’un cabinet d’avocats et contient des informations confidentielles protégées par le secret professionnel. Au cas où il ne vous serait pas destiné, nous vous remercions de bien vouloir nous en aviser immédiatement et de le supprimer. Gide Loyrette Nouel ne peut être tenu responsable en cas de modification d’un message électronique ou d’une pièce jointe sans son accord écrit. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. fait partie de Gide Loyrette Nouel, un cabinet d’avocats international ayant ses bureaux à Alger, Bruxelles, Bucarest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Hô Chi Minh Ville, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kiev, Londres, Moscou, New York, Paris, Pékin, Saint-Pétersbourg, Shanghai, Tunis et Varsovie. Une liste des associés de chaque bureau vous sera fournie sur demande. This e-mail is sent by a law firm and may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and any attachments and notify us immediately. Gide Loyrette Nouel is not liable if an e-mail or attachment is altered without its written consent. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. is part of Gide Loyrette Nouel, an international law firm, with offices in Algiers, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kyiv, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Shanghai, Tunis and Warsaw. A list of partners at each office can be provided upon request.

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Re: [Observium] adding IPv6-only hosts fails
by Adam Armstrong 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Well, I'm just about to go off to mexico for a few months, so not until after that. :-) Adam. Job Snijders <job(a)instituut.net> wrote: >Adam, > >On 7 aug. 2012, at 22:18, Adam Armstrong wrote: > >> On 07/08/2012 21:17, Moerman, Maarten wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> root@irime:/opt/observium# ./addhost.php pi2.meerval.net >>>> hey_adam_come_drink_beer_in_amsterdam >>> When will you actually be coming to drink beer in Amsterdam? >> >> Are you offering free aklompendation? > >Yes, if I'm in the country and nothing weird comes up you can crash at my place. No problem, no english breakfast. :-) > >When are we dating? > >Kind regards, > >Job >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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adding IPv6-only hosts fails
by Job Snijders 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Hi all, I'm trying to add a cute little device which only has static IPv6 address. But it fails for some reason which might have something to do with that legacy IPv4 protocol. root@irime:/opt/observium# dig +short pi2.meerval.net root@irime:/opt/observium# dig +short aaaa pi2.meerval.net 2001:67c:208c:10:821f:2ff:fe4b:3932 root@irime:/opt/observium# root@irime:/opt/observium# ./addhost.php pi2.meerval.net hey_adam_come_drink_beer_in_amsterdam Could not resolve pi2.meerval.net Could not resolve pi2.meerval.net Could not resolve pi2.meerval.net Could not resolve pi2.meerval.net Observium v0.12.7.3353 Add Host Tool Usage (SNMPv1/2c): ./addhost.php <hostname> [community] [v1|v2c] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Usage (SNMPv3) : Config Defaults : ./addhost.php <hostname> any v3 [user] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] No Auth, No Priv : ./addhost.php <hostname> nanp v3 [user] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Auth, No Priv : ./addhost.php <hostname> anp v3 <user> <password> [md5|sha] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Auth, Priv : ./addhost.php <hostname> ap v3 <user> <password> <enckey> [md5|sha] [aes|dsa] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Remember to run discovery for the host afterwards. Kind regards, Job

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Observium Not logged in!
by BREUVART Jean-Jacques 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

I've installed a new server under Ubuntu server like describe in the documentation. I've create a user (adduser) I've create a host (addhost), running discovery and poller without error. But, when I try to connect I've no login page, only the logo Observium and in the top right " Widescreen | Not logged in!" Any idea ? Jean-Jacques Breuvart Ce message provient d’un cabinet d’avocats et contient des informations confidentielles protégées par le secret professionnel. Au cas où il ne vous serait pas destiné, nous vous remercions de bien vouloir nous en aviser immédiatement et de le supprimer. Gide Loyrette Nouel ne peut être tenu responsable en cas de modification d’un message électronique ou d’une pièce jointe sans son accord écrit. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. fait partie de Gide Loyrette Nouel, un cabinet d’avocats international ayant ses bureaux à Alger, Bruxelles, Bucarest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Hô Chi Minh Ville, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kiev, Londres, Moscou, New York, Paris, Pékin, Saint-Pétersbourg, Shanghai, Tunis et Varsovie. Une liste des associés de chaque bureau vous sera fournie sur demande. This e-mail is sent by a law firm and may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and any attachments and notify us immediately. Gide Loyrette Nouel is not liable if an e-mail or attachment is altered without its written consent. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. is part of Gide Loyrette Nouel, an international law firm, with offices in Algiers, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kyiv, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Shanghai, Tunis and Warsaw. A list of partners at each office can be provided upon request.

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Alert emails not working
by Shekhar Basnet 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

Hello List, I used to get emails of alerts (including BGP, temperature) but not anymore. I keep on doing SVN updates every week. I noticed that the emails were not coming after many updates. I've not changed any settings. I wonder what is wrong. I have set SNMP contact as 'netadmin' in all my routers. Observium was sending emails to this alias. Anybody knows how to fix this? Current version is as below:- Apache: 2.2.3 (CentOS) PHP: 5.1.6 MySQL: 5.0.77 RRDtool: 1.4.5 Observium: 0.12.8.3358 Config.php is as below:- ### ADDED - Alert Settings $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = NULL; ## Default alert recipient $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; ## Only use default recipient $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; ## Enable email alerts #$config['alerts']['port']['ifdown'] = TRUE; ## Generate alerts for ports that go down

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Installation help with menu items
by Dave Badia 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Hi - I have a new installation of observium running on apache on gentoo. When I go to the main page (http://myserver/observium/html/) it looks similar to the demo and I see the data. But, when I click on the menu items, they don't work. For example, if I click on Locations I get The requested URL /index.php/locations// was not found on this server. Any ideas as to what I've configured incorrectly? Thanks Dave

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Cisco 2900 Router VRF display Issue
by Moermond, Timothy 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Hi, I have situation where Observium shows VRF information for all of my 2800 series routers but not my 2900 series router. Also the config tab is not showing up either from the rancid integration, but it does for all of my 2800 series routers. I have removed and added the router back but that did not seem to change anything. All of other information appears to be displaying and rancid is pulling the configuration without any issues. Has anyone run into this? The 2900 is running IOS ver. 15.0(1)M3. Tim

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Recent changes on the billing pages - CPU hogging of poll-billing.php
by Erik Bais 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Hi, I would like to start with that the recent changes look really good on the billing pages. Excellent job, I like it. Over the last few weeks minor changes have been done to these pages and I was wondering if anything was also done to the file: /opt/observium/poll-billing.php or the tables used for it. That process currently takes about 40 minutes on our environment, while I hoped that upgrading to an Equillogic with 16 SAS drives with RAID10 for more IOPS would fix the issue, while it did improve a bit, the result is the similar. Could it be that there are indices missing? Or is there something else which could be done that might improve this? I can create some indices myself to see if things improve in a shadow environment, but I'm not sure if that would break things with future SVN update's if done in production ? Regards, Erik Bais >From the mysql-slow-query log: # User@Host: observium[observium] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 0.002977 Lock_time: 0.000189 Rows_sent: 2 Rows_examined: 278 SET timestamp=1343723771; SELECT * FROM `bill_ports` as P, `ports` as I, `devices` as D WHERE P.bill_id='68' AND I.port_id = P.port_id AND D.device_id = I.device_id; # Time: 120731 10:36:27 # User@Host: observium[observium] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 0.006157 Lock_time: 0.000172 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 276 SET timestamp=1343723787; SELECT * FROM `bill_ports` as P, `ports` as I, `devices` as D WHERE P.bill_id='170' AND I.port_id = P.port_id AND D.device_id = I.device_id; # User@Host: observium[observium] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 0.003924 Lock_time: 0.000129 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 276 SET timestamp=1343723787; SELECT * FROM `bill_ports` as P, `ports` as I, `devices` as D WHERE P.bill_id='156' AND I.port_id = P.port_id AND D.device_id = I.device_id; # User@Host: observium[observium] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 0.002853 Lock_time: 0.000198 Rows_sent: 2 Rows_examined: 278 SET timestamp=1343723787; SELECT * FROM `bill_ports` as P, `ports` as I, `devices` as D WHERE P.bill_id='140' AND I.port_id = P.port_id AND D.device_id = I.device_id; # User@Host: observium[observium] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 0.001970 Lock_time: 0.000166 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 276 SET timestamp=1343723787; SELECT * FROM `bill_ports` as P, `ports` as I, `devices` as D WHERE P.bill_id='116' AND I.port_id = P.port_id AND D.device_id = I.device_id; Top output: Tasks: 189 total, 1 running, 188 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 73.6%us, 16.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 9.1%id, 1.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 74.2%us, 16.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 9.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 75.6%us, 14.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 10.0%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 72.8%us, 16.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 10.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 12307228k total, 1980332k used, 10326896k free, 141572k buffers Swap: 7340028k total, 0k used, 7340028k free, 1098304k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 17981 mysql 20 0 4058m 208m 7840 S 329 1.7 284:02.92 mysqld 25265 root 20 0 192m 16m 6608 S 1 0.1 0:10.13 php 13586 root 20 0 192m 16m 6608 S 1 0.1 0:00.69 php 16609 root 20 0 192m 16m 6608 S 1 0.1 0:05.56 php 11807 root 20 0 192m 16m 6608 S 1 0.1 0:06.75 php 26474 root 20 0 192m 16m 6608 S 1 0.1 0:03.88 php Processes running after 1.5 hours: root 2272 2259 0 09:50 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 2279 2272 0 09:50 ? 00:00:08 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 3757 3747 0 10:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 3760 3757 0 10:25 ? 00:00:02 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 6983 6972 0 09:55 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 6991 6983 0 09:55 ? 00:00:07 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 8755 8743 0 10:30 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 8759 8755 0 10:30 ? 00:00:01 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 11514 11501 0 09:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 11522 11514 0 09:25 ? 00:00:13 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 11803 11793 0 10:00 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 11807 11803 0 10:00 ? 00:00:06 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 13578 13566 0 10:35 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 13586 13578 0 10:35 ? 00:00:00 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 15995 15983 0 09:30 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 15998 15995 0 09:30 ? 00:00:11 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 16605 16595 0 10:05 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 16609 16605 0 10:05 ? 00:00:05 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 20583 20573 0 09:35 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 20586 20583 0 09:35 ? 00:00:11 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 21514 21504 0 10:10 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 21519 21514 0 10:10 ? 00:00:04 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 25260 25252 0 09:40 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 25265 25260 0 09:40 ? 00:00:10 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 26469 26457 0 10:15 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 26474 26469 0 10:15 ? 00:00:03 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 29987 29976 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 29990 29987 0 09:45 ? 00:00:09 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 31342 31332 0 10:20 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 31347 31342 0 10:20 ? 00:00:02 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root@portal:/var/log/mysql# ps -ef | grep poll-billing | wc -l 30

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custom menubar
by Cushard Michael 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi, I'm assuming print-menubar-custom.inc.php allows you to add custom menu items to the menu bar. How does it work? I cannot seem to find any documentation regarding its functionality. Regards, Michael

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checkmk windows agent
by Dennis Kruyt 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Now there is coming more and more support for the unix agent in Observium, I was wondering will there also be coming support for windows agent? This is not much different then the unix agent, so very easy to implement. http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_windows.html Cheers...

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Re: [Observium] Upper case letters?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

You get what you pay for :D On 26/07/2012 15:07, Dan Draghici wrote: > > Ok I understand. Thanks for your reply > > P.S. No need for the supperiority attitude. > > Dan > > *From:*observium-bounces@observium.org > [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *On Behalf Of *Adam Armstrong > *Sent:* Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:54 PM > *To:* Observium Network Observation System > *Subject:* Re: [Observium] Upper case letters? > > On 26/07/2012 14:47, Dan Draghici wrote: > > Hello, > > I`ve installed observium and it works great so far but I have a > small issue. > > I see that it automatically makes the device names into lowercase > letters. For example if you type "CoreRouter" it will end up > showing as "corerouter". Is it possible to make the names with > uppercase? > > I have a rather large network and having the names of the devices > show up with uppercase would really help when browsing through > observium. > > > Having a decent naming scheme would help more. Hostnames are lower > case, deal with it. > > adam. > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Upper case letters?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

On 26/07/2012 14:47, Dan Draghici wrote: > > Hello, > > I`ve installed observium and it works great so far but I have a small > issue. > > I see that it automatically makes the device names into lowercase > letters. For example if you type "CoreRouter" it will end up showing > as "corerouter". Is it possible to make the names with uppercase? > > I have a rather large network and having the names of the devices show > up with uppercase would really help when browsing through observium. > > Having a decent naming scheme would help more. Hostnames are lower case, deal with it. adam.

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Upper case letters?
by Dan Draghici 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hello, I`ve installed observium and it works great so far but I have a small issue. I see that it automatically makes the device names into lowercase letters. For example if you type "CoreRouter" it will end up showing as "corerouter". Is it possible to make the names with uppercase? I have a rather large network and having the names of the devices show up with uppercase would really help when browsing through observium. Thanks, Dan D.

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Another integration question...nfsen
by Morgan McLean 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

I don't think I'm being as retarded with this one. Sorry if I am. nfsen running for a single firewall cluster at the moment, cfw.sv.domain.com. I can view nfsen's interface and see all of the data etc, so I know my netflow is working properly and nfsen can run reports on it etc. I get cannot generate graph when going to the nfsen tab directly via url options, it does not show up in tabs list otherwise. Is there something major here I'm doing wrong? IE smokeping I pointed to png files instead of RRD files :). I've tried temporary universal read write etc for testing purposes, didn't help. I tried using the nfsen_suffix option at first, but ended up ditching that and spelling out the entire hostname under nfsen to eliminate a possible trouble spot. nfsen output on start: [root(a)netmon01.ops bin]# ./nfsen start Starting nfcapd:(cfw_sv_domain_com)[7154] Starting nfsend. Directory, rrd file: [root(a)netmon01.ops live]# pwd /opt/nfsendata/profiles-stat/live [root(a)netmon01.ops live]# ll total 2860 -rw-rw-r-- 1 netflow apache 2687848 Jul 22 18:35 cfw_sv_domain_com.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 14727 Jul 22 18:35 flows-day.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 18817 Jul 22 18:35 flows-month.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 16145 Jul 22 18:35 flows-week.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 17712 Jul 22 18:35 flows-year.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 20324 Jul 22 18:35 packets-day.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 19281 Jul 22 18:35 packets-month.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 19349 Jul 22 18:35 packets-week.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 18379 Jul 22 18:35 packets-year.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 netflow apache 258 Jul 22 18:35 profile.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 15728 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-day.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 19764 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-month.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 15163 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-week.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 17352 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-year.png observium config: $config['nfsen_enable'] = 1; $config['nfsen_rrds'] = "/opt/nfsendata/profiles-stat/live/"; $config['nfsen_split_char'] = "_"; #$config['nfsen_suffix'] = ""; fqdn is under 19 char Thanks, Morgan

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Ignoring down / notconnected ports
by Benedikt Sveinsson 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Hi - I have not been able to find this, we started trying/using Observium for few weeks. We intend to use it mostly to compliment our current monitoring software. We are impressed with it, but the main intention is graphing and helping us troubleshooting. We are monitoring large 6500 switches and we have a number of ports that we intentionally keep in the cisco notconnected state. The front page of Observium is then riddled with the "Port Down" messages. Can this be suppressed / ignored ? I hope I'm not asking a question that has been answered many times, but google fails me here - and I'm still getting around understanding how Observium functions. Kveðja / With regards Benedikt Sveinsson Senior Network Engineer CCP Operations [Description: Description: Description: Description: signature] Netfang / Email benedikt(a)ccpgames.com<mailto:benedikt@ccpgames.com> GSM / Mobile. +354 691-6445 Grandagarði 8 * 101 Reykjavík * Iceland * http://www.ccpgames.com<http://www.ccpgames.com/>

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Smokeping integration
by Morgan McLean 21 Jul '12

21 Jul '12

Hi, I have a machine named techops01, I have a directory /opt/smokeping/ that is running smokeping. cache/ has the png files etc. I've tried pointing to both, readding the host, rediscovering, nothing. Additionally, smokeping does not allow "." in the host name. I saw somebody had a patch for observium to add conversion of '_' to '.' , did this ever make it into code? I haven't seen a flag ### smokeping testing $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/opt/smokeping/cache/"; also tried ### smokeping testing $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/opt/smokeping/"; Its not a permissions issue, its 777 now for testing purposes. Thank you! Morgan

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What's the secret
by Sonny Kupka 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Hello, I have been messing with Observium off and on for the last month. I noticed one of my devices is showing up under Ports > Customer Only thing I can find different for this interface is the desc has CUST: at beginning of the description. I can't find any docs on this feature.. Any someone point me in the right direction.. How to get all customer ports showing up? Thanks. Sonny

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New billing interface
by Chris Stone 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Adam, Nice work on the new billing interface - like the new look. Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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generate-map.sh
by Morgan McLean 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

I tried searching around but found nothing on this. It would appear this script generates some larger network map, maybe more conclusive, I don't know. Its broken in a few ways, is this supposed to work or is this old stuff thats stuck around? I temporarily fixed a couple errors I was getting, but even so the map.dot file or whichever it dumps its initial payload into was turning up empty. Thanks, Morgan

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New install only shows website header.
by Lasse Leegaard 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

I just did my first install of observium after a very convicing demo by a friend. However the website only loads the header (or parts of it). When I add /debug to the address I get this output Notice: Undefined index: page_title in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 107 Notice: Undefined index: widescreen in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 125 Notice: Undefined index: bare in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 217 Notice: Undefined index: widescreen in /opt/observium/html/includes/header.inc.php on line 18 Widescreen<http://observium.brandbil.dk/debug?widescreen=yes>| Notice: Undefined index: authenticated in /opt/observium/html/includes/header.inc.php on line 25 Not logged in! Fatal error: Class 'Net_IPv6' not found in /opt/observium/html/includes/header.inc.php on line 32 For installation I followed this guide and also created a virtual host to run the observium webserver from: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation I did everything and all the guide says - in that order - and did not do anything other than that. Obviously it seems like a problem with the Net_IPv6 package in PHP. Ubuntu is 10.04 and I meet all the requirements set forth in the requirements section of the install page. I am aware it might not be an observium error as such, but the googles is not really that helfull and my own skills are lacking a bit when it comes to webservers. -- -Lasse-

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blank graphs
by Miguel Alejandro González 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

So I followed the ubuntu svn installation tutorial and managed to get observium to run... (commenting the function gethostbyname) But anyway... So far I have been able to log in to the web app and... the app has recorded all the info from the device I want to monitor... but somehow all the graphs are blank with nan values The device in question right now is in idle mode, just receiving packets from network equipment and sometimes ICMP (ping) packets. So maybe I'm doing this wrong and it needs to be in active mode receiving all kinds of requests.... but even the memory and processes graphs are blank... What could it be? Cron? I'm missing some configuration? Do I need to follow more of your documents? I'm a little confused... sorry I'm a n00b using this app I following these tuts: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation (Completed the Installation section and the Debian > 6.0 and Ubuntu > 11.04 section) http://www.observium.org/wiki/NetSNMPd_Client_Configuration Regards!

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observiums .htaccess en apache server-status
by Dennis Kruyt 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

The observiums .htaccess in /opt/Observium/html is blocking the server-status. So by default I cant read the server-status of the Observium machine. I think thisd line should be added, so you can run Observium and have access to the server-status. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status Dennis,-

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Installing observium
by Miguel Alejandro González 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hello I'm having a little problem with the tutorial. I'm following this tut: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation because both of my machine have ubuntu installed So I have two servers, server A is IPv6 only (i have installed Observium here, ubuntu 12.04) server B is IPv6/IPv4 (i want to monitor this machine, ubuntu 10.04) both machines are in a ipv6 network with cisco equipment (routers/switches) I configured the snmp client in server B, following this tutorial: http://www.observium.org/wiki/NetSNMPd_Client_Configuration And currently I'm stuck on this step, from the installation tutorial Add a first device to monitor: ./addhost.php <hostname> <community> v2c I get a message like this "coud not resolve hostname" Having said that, I have full connectivity between the machines and I configured a hostname in /etc/hosts, so I run this command (ubuntuservers is the community name i configured in server B) ./addhost.php server6 ubuntuservers v2c And I get the error message. I only modified these variables in config.php $config['db_user'] = "observium"; $config['db_pass'] = "mypass"; (a random password) $config['nets'][] = "2001:23::24/96"; What am I doing wrong, can you help me? Regards!!

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