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No authorisation to app apache
by Fältman, Mikael 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hi My "normal users" can access the page App >> Apache (they are granted access to the device) but the graphs is not displaying. Only the text "No authorization" and a pink graph showing no values. Is this a bugg or do I have to grant access other than to the device for the users ? The Administrator classed users have no problem. Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script
by Adam Armstrong 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Aha. Sounds like new behaviour in Ubuntu copied from debian upstream. Its very annoying, as you discovered. Ill need ti mention it in the install guide, as currently its only a footnote for debian! Adam. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: Actually: Ubuntu 11.10 Upgraded the distro not long a go. //Mikael Från: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] För Adam Armstrong Skickat: den 30 november 2011 22:15 Till: Observium Network Observation System Ämne: Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script Debian? Or another braindead distro which breaks snmp by removing mibs? Adam -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: Ah. That was a good switch ! OUTPUT from debug (not working): SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '24'] Applications: /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c nmspublic -O qv -M /opt/observium/mibs/ udp:liss-bro-fep1:161 nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101 nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> nsExtendOutputFull) So I added “NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::” to the file “includes/polling/applications/apache.inc.php” and it solved the problem. Now it all works as expected. New OUTPUT from debug (working): SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '24'] Applications: /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c nmspublic -O qv -M /opt/observium/mibs/ udp:liss-bro-fep1:161 NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101 Is it a bug or did I miss something. Some ENV param maybe ? Thank you ! Mikael Från: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] För Adam Armstrong Skickat: den 30 november 2011 19:34 Till: Observium Network Observation System Ämne: Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script Run the Poller for that host in debug. ./poller.php -h <host> -d Adam -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: ”Observium 0.11.10.2693” I have set up Observium as instructed to monitor an apache server. Everything seems work fine except that there is no data in the graphs . Doing a manual snmp poll from Observium server returns data and the /tmp/apache-snmp file is creataed on the remote server so I know that the script has been executed. (Snmpwalk -O qv -v2c -c xx webhost NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull -M /opt/observium/mibs) Adding the App to the Device in Observium worked. mysql> select * from applications; +--------+-----------+----------+ | app_id | device_id | app_type | +--------+-----------+----------+ | 1 | 24 | apache | +--------+-----------+----------+ 1 rows in set (0.00 sec) The graphs are created under Apps->Apache But there is no data ! When running the poller.php scrip everythings seems fine. The script outputs: Applications: apache The RRDs is created and the timestamp on the file is updated every 5 min. app-apache-1.rrd A rrdtool dump shows only NAN BUT ! The file /tmp/apache-snmp is not created on the remote server when the poller.php script runs !? (I have removed it after testing) It seems that the poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script on the remote server ! Am I missing something ? Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com | www.logica.com Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script
by Fältman, Mikael 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

”Observium 0.11.10.2693” I have set up Observium as instructed to monitor an apache server. Everything seems work fine except that there is no data in the graphs . Doing a manual snmp poll from Observium server returns data and the /tmp/apache-snmp file is creataed on the remote server so I know that the script has been executed. (Snmpwalk -O qv -v2c -c xx webhost NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull -M /opt/observium/mibs) Adding the App to the Device in Observium worked. mysql> select * from applications; +--------+-----------+----------+ | app_id | device_id | app_type | +--------+-----------+----------+ | 1 | 24 | apache | +--------+-----------+----------+ 1 rows in set (0.00 sec) The graphs are created under Apps->Apache But there is no data ! When running the poller.php scrip everythings seems fine. The script outputs: Applications: apache The RRDs is created and the timestamp on the file is updated every 5 min. app-apache-1.rrd A rrdtool dump shows only NAN BUT ! The file /tmp/apache-snmp is not created on the remote server when the poller.php script runs !? (I have removed it after testing) It seems that the poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script on the remote server ! Am I missing something ? Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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draw NA values using different color
by Nikolay Shopik 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hey, I'm just find this graph http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?displaymode=n;start=2011-11-30%2012:2… And though it will be nice (if possible) to draw empty(NA) values using different color, like on graph I show.

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sorting type on ports tab changed?
by Nikolay Shopik 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hi, Does sorting order recently changed on ports tab? When I sort by name of port right now it sort like this GigabitEthernet0/1 GigabitEthernet0/10 GigabitEthernet0/11 etc but before it was 0/1, 0/2, 0/3, etc.

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VLANs Tab empty after an upgrade
by Bruce-Young Majola 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

HI, I have updated to version 0.11.11.2734 and noticed that the VLANs Tab is now empty and does not even show the "Powered by xxxxxx" at the bottom of the page. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Abnormal spike in billing graphs - r2719
by Berant Lemmenes 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hello, I've just recently setup Observium and noticed a strange spike in reported usage for one billing item, that wasn't reported in the actual interfaces stats. I've attached three screen shots, one of the accurate billing page for the billing entry in question, the 2nd for the interface page under the device, and the 3rd for the same interface as seen from a cricket install. As you can see the physical interface graphs in Observium or cricket don't show this extended period of ~ 8Gb/s that show up in the mysql based graphs. Looking at bill_data for the bill_id in question there were 45 entries where in_delta was exactly 309525032051591 while out_delta continues to change. Here is an example row: 31, 2011-11-10 17:35:06, 299, 309525032052787, 309525032051591, 1196 This has only manifested in this one billing. Let me know if there is anything else I can look at or provide that would assist. Thank you in advance. Thanks, Berant

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Database Question
by Letz Stefan / ACS 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Hello List, we use observium to monitor about 200 network devices including syslog, ipsec, and smokeping. What we see is an excessive growing off database every time we make an svn update. Could everyone else see this phenomen? Mit freundlichen Gr??en / Best regards Stefan Letz Team Manager Customer Services ACS Solutions GmbH Maximilianallee 4 04129 Leipzig Phone: +49 341 355913 45 Mobile: +49 151 11446409 Fax: +49 341 355913 11 www.acs-europe.de<http://www.acs-europe.de> [cid:gold_partner_2011.jpg@10d693991e784a969efcef6bb72627ac] Amtsgericht Leipzig: HRB21111 USt-IdNr: DE814217083 Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Thomas Lindner

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Billing question
by Berant Lemmenes 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

I have a quick question to confirm what data is used to determine an overage... I believe I'm understanding the code/database correctly in that it calculates the 95th percentile for both in and out (rate_95th_in/rate_95th_out) and then whichever one is larger is stored as rate_95th and that is what is used for the value that the overage is based on. I just ask because we see ~4-5 times more entries that are over their limit with Observium than with our previous system (which granted was horribly cobbled together, and last maintained in the early 00's), and I just wanted to make sure it wasn't taking the sum of in and out for the calculation. Thanks! Berant

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Re: [Observium] Potential bugs - r2726
by Adam Armstrong 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

This is currently by design. We could do with something to make it prettier though. Berant Lemmenes <berant(a)lemmenes.com> wrote: >Yeah looks like both my non billing issues were PHP RAM limited, thanks for >the pointer. > >The only other non billing related thing is the global settings link just >pulls up a text listing of the various array's that the settings are stored >in. > >Thanks, >Berant > >On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > >> >> Ports page is probably down to memory limits on PHP. check logs. >> >> The billing page is being reworked at the moment, and some things might >> not work :) >> >> adam. >> >> >> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:19:15 -0500, Berant Lemmenes <berant(a)lemmenes.com> >> wrote: >> > Some of these could be known issues but I didn't see anything in the >> > bugtracker and wanted to see if they were somehow unique to my >> > installation. >> > >> > There are a couple pages that completely error out, the browser get's a >> > failure trying to load. For me that is the main Inventory page under the >> > overview tab, and the all ports page. I have currently 30 devices with >> ~16k >> > ports in my system. >> > >> > For a page like the all ports page I would expect that to take some time >> to >> > render as it's pulling together a lot of info for 16k interfaces, >> however >> > after maybe 1-2 seconds it fails. >> > >> > Filtering under the traffic bills page doesn't seem to work, when >> > I first started entering Bills I know I was able to filter by over/under >> > quota, however now that I have 67 in it doesn't seem to work. Also I'm >> not >> > sure what the 'All Customers' drop down is supposed to filter on as I've >> > filled out all the customer/bill related fields when adding a new bill >> and >> > it never populates. >> > >> > In general I don't see any place to look for clues as to what is failing >> on >> > the page failures, as the apache error.log doesn't have anything and the >> > observium.log file is only poller items. Can I enable more verbose >> logging >> > into the observium.log file somehow? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Berant >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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Cisco ASA Remote Access Sessions getting Error Drawing Graph
by Jeff Collyer 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Using Observium to monitor several pairs of Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls. On the graphs/firewall page /observium/device/device=27/tab=graphs/group=firewall/ the very last graph is labeled Remote Access Sessions. I'm getting the ubiquitous "Error Drawing Graph" on that row of graphs. whats my next debugging step? The apache logs don't show any errors, so I'm guessing its somewhere in the Observium or RRDtool layers. Observium 0.11.11.2726 Apache 2.2.14 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.10 MySQL 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 Thanks ---- Jeff

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Potential bugs - r2726
by Berant Lemmenes 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Some of these could be known issues but I didn't see anything in the bugtracker and wanted to see if they were somehow unique to my installation. There are a couple pages that completely error out, the browser get's a failure trying to load. For me that is the main Inventory page under the overview tab, and the all ports page. I have currently 30 devices with ~16k ports in my system. For a page like the all ports page I would expect that to take some time to render as it's pulling together a lot of info for 16k interfaces, however after maybe 1-2 seconds it fails. Filtering under the traffic bills page doesn't seem to work, when I first started entering Bills I know I was able to filter by over/under quota, however now that I have 67 in it doesn't seem to work. Also I'm not sure what the 'All Customers' drop down is supposed to filter on as I've filled out all the customer/bill related fields when adding a new bill and it never populates. In general I don't see any place to look for clues as to what is failing on the page failures, as the apache error.log doesn't have anything and the observium.log file is only poller items. Can I enable more verbose logging into the observium.log file somehow? Thanks, Berant

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Toner MIB?
by Matthew Coene 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Anyone else suddenly have their toner MIB / graphing charts go straight to 0 / nan%?? Can't be sure when it started happening... can only say it used to work... Experienced in svn v2705... Just updated to v2714 to see if its fixed... Cheers, Matt

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NetApp Storage
by Brian Davis 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Does anyone know if it is possible to graph the storage usage on NetApp with Observium? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Davis Concepts NREC bda(a)conceptsnrec.com<mailto:bda@conceptsnrec.com> ________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email. ________________________________ The information contained in this communication and any attachment(s) and/or link(s) hereto may contain proprietary and/or confidential information, which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure, and is intended only for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return it to the sender immediately and delete the original message from your computer system. If you have any questions concerning this message, please contact the sender.

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non-unicast packet OID
by Nikolay Shopik 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hey Adam, What OID is used to generate stat about non-unicast packet, does these below correct? 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.2 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.3 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.4 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.5 I'm trying catch some error in stat which cause to show as 500M non-unicast packets, which is damn huge.

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Re: [Observium] dlink snmp
by Adam Armstrong 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

I see this reasonably often on cheaper kit. Lots of dell switches do it too. You can disable poller/discovery modules with hyte web interface. Perhaps disable them all then enable one by one to see which it is? Adam. Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: >Hey, > >Does anyone here monitor D-link switches via SNMP? We had small devices >which is pooling just fine, with pretty limited support, but still ok. >And now trying out DGS-3120-24TC and it seems dying under snmp load when >you add it on observium. >And by dying I mean it become bunch of useless metal until you reboot >it. So I wonder maybe anyone know which OID cause such behavior. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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New user introduction - Scaling questions
by Berant Lemmenes 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hello everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself to the list and complement the authors on a fantastic tool! As a little background on our deployment, I work for a Midwestern US ISP/NSP and I found Observium by looking for a replacement solution for our severely aging 95th percentile burstable billing system. However I was blown away by Observium once I got it running. We're now looking at replacing several systems with it focusing on interface/data polling, we have a separate system that we will continue maintain to do SNMP trap handling. Right now we have just shy of 16k interfaces across 30 nodes, with another dozen or two to add to complete our cisco L3/L2 devices. I'm interested in adding new device types for our Cisco 15454 SONET and MSTP systems (and have read the Developing/NewOS document), however if these devices were to be added it would take our device count up north of 600, with a massive increase in interfaces. So I want to make sure I've got things setup well before going down that road. While performance is doing great thus far I'm concerned about things I can do to scale the system. Currently the system is a Xen VM with 4 cores and 4GB of ram, and the load average is staying right around 4 with 40% average CPU usage. Since we're not interested in alerting for interface/node up/down with Observium I've configured each device to ignore and disable alerting. I've also took out the various menu items poller modules for things that we don't need as well. And I need to look into interface names that can be ignored etc as well. I've not yet tried rrdcached but I'd like to see what impact that has on existing load. Does anyone else have any recommendations or additional best practices? I have some thoughts ideas on potential features that could be useful for other ISP users as well, however I don't want to flood the list right off the bat with an even more rambling email. Observium is a great tool, and though I'm not a programmer I'd love to help out however I can. Thanks, Berant

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dlink snmp
by Nikolay Shopik 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hey, Does anyone here monitor D-link switches via SNMP? We had small devices which is pooling just fine, with pretty limited support, but still ok. And now trying out DGS-3120-24TC and it seems dying under snmp load when you add it on observium. And by dying I mean it become bunch of useless metal until you reboot it. So I wonder maybe anyone know which OID cause such behavior.

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Anyone using 95th Billing?
by Mahomed Hussein 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi Is anyone using 95th billing in observium? I've been having slowness issues with it, so I setup a new server, downloaded the latest version and cleared all the billing tables and let it start polling again. This was fine and the polling has been working. The page was loading in less than a second. As the days have gone on, the bills page has been getting slower and slower and now takes at least 20 seconds to load. I am just wondering if this is normal or if there is something wrong. Thanks. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Senior Operations Engineer [cid:image936b14.jpg@74cffa9e.a72241e4]<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Tel: +44 (0)1622 230 382 Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:support@CustodianDC.com> Web: www.CustodianDC.com<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Status: status.CustDC.net<http://status.custdc.net/> [cid:image98c948.png@112a1189.765f4e73] ISO:27001 IS:567248 Click to view our email disclaimer<http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt>

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one month legend wrong
by Nikolay Shopik 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

One month graph show wrong legend, there only two weeks of legend, but graph is actual month. Basically there only two Mondays in one month. :)

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Cisco Switch VLANs now working
by Bruce-Young Majola 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Yeah!! the VLAN feature is working properly now on the Cisco switch. Regards Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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auto-refresh on individual port graph broken
by Nikolay Shopik 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

It seems, autorefresh is broken when you select device go into ports and select specific graph to view it on full-screen. Actual refresh is working and you can force it by pressing F5 but graph doesn't update until you click again on one of time-window graph.

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word "Used" on cisco memory graph
by Nikolay Shopik 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

It seems word "Used" on Cisco memory graph misplaced, it should be above percent value, but currently it above total memory.

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light blue peak on graph
by Nikolay Shopik 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

So I got one device polled by cacti and observium. And see difference in peaks (outbound as example). What I see is light blue color peaks are bigger than show in cacti but regular blue outline in observium graph match cacti peak. Is light blue peak is interpolation of data, how its caclucated or where it comes from?

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html title depend on open window
by Nikolay Shopik 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Is it possible to change HTML title to something more descriptive? Like when you open summary page of device you will have name of device in title instead current static "Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring"? This helps when you navigate in observium and want to go back and all previous pages named same :). So you have to know how much level you want go back.

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Re: [Observium] Having problems with device map after upgrade
by Bruce-Young Majola 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi, Has anyone experienced the issue detailed below? It occurred after upgrading to a newer version a couple of days back. I have since upgraded to the latest version and the problem is still there. Please help!! DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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huge peaks on interfaces 10-100Gig
by Nikolay Shopik 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

We seeing once in while really huge peaks on some devices. In past we seen such when installing new device or/and doing maintenance on it. So we just ignore them in past, because they only broke graphs once in time. Does anyone seeing this too? Basically this looks like huge peak (10-100G) for about 5-10 min(2 scans). I've seen this on different devices, but all of them are Cisco afaik.

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netstat legend
by Nikolay Shopik 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

Most of netstat graphs have 4 rows but legend says "current, averange,max). Only IP fragmetations have 3 rows/3 description. So what's up with 4 row in other graphs, probably should say current,min,avg,max?

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Include Server Port Type?
by Matthew Gyurgyik 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

The wiki[1] lists Server as a valid port type. The parser does all the work so that http://observium.ndcls.local/iftype/type=server/ works. All that is needed is a config option and a menu item. I have a patch that add these two things. However, codekiller brought up a valid point that all you'd have to do is search for server. http://observium.ndcls.local/ports/ifAlias=server/format=list_basic/ This works just as well, for me. Therefore I ask, do we want a menu link for the server port type? Yes - I'll provide a patch No - I'll create a wiki account and remove the offending information ~pyther [1] http://www.observium.org/wiki/Interface_Description_Parsing

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Some device traffic graphs are not working anymore
by Bruce-Young Majola 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Hi, I noticed that after upgrading to the latest version of Observium, (0.11.10.2674); traffic graphs do not work anymore on some device; see screenshot below. Polling or discovering the affected devices does not help either. Regards Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Code to Delete interfaces that match bad_if?
by Matthew Gyurgyik 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

So I spent a lot of time digging through the code to figure out how bad_if works. I wanted to remove the stacking "ports" there were showing up. Added this code to my config: $config['bad_if'][] = "stack"; However the ports weren't getting removed. Upon further investigation I found that the current code only prevents the addition of a match. However, if the port is already in the database nothing is done. Is this the desired behaviour or should ports that match be removed from the database? ~pyther

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map.php?format=svg is gone
by Nikolay Shopik 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hey, It seems now localhost/map.php?format=svg is no more working, is this intended? I understand this is never been supported, but I've been using it to draw full network map and this is work perfect for me.

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CollectD Integration - Graphing
by John Macleod 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

I'm looking to customize the CollectD graphs, specifically for the DNS plug to overlay the Rcode and Qtype data, similar to the CollectD plugin example: http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:DNS Could anyone point me in the right direction on this? The current graphed output isn't very useful.

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CDP Neighbours
by Bruce-Young Majola 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi, I have just noticed that the Neighbours option has disappeared under the Ports Tab for some of the devices we monitor via Observium; this looks to have happened after upgrading to version 0.11.10.2654. Is it something to do with my upgrade or is there something broken. The issue is that some do display the Neighbours Option on the same version so I am at odds about what is wrong. By the way, I have not disabled CDP on these device so that is not the problem. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Dell OMSA
by John Macleod 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

I am curious what attributes of Dell's OMSA snmpd integration are polled by Observium? Pre OMSA install the host was identified as Generic, post OMSA install/SNMP SMUX integration it polls the model correctly but nothing else. Hardware is a PowerEdge 1950 III. Some quick googling suggests that the OIDs for PE 1950, 2650, 2950, etc are not the same - although temp, voltage, fan, etc should be available, and is via the OMSA interface. Thought I would reach out to any fellow Dell + Observium users. Thanks, John

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2641 > 2644 = Broken addhost.php
by John Macleod 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

A svn update this afternoon from 2641 - 2644 appears to have broken ./addhost.php: ./addhost.php some.host.com blah v2c Always returns: No reply on community public Even with an incorrect community: ./addhost.php some.host.com blah1 v2c No reply on community public I can walk the device from the observium host without issue...

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95th Billing is inaccurate
by Mahomed Hussein 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi We are having some more trouble with 95th billing. It seems that even on clients who are using very little (or nothing at all as they aren't using the ports yet) are showing an over usage on their 95th. Is there an easy way to correct this? Will I have to clear the database to fix this? I've pasted a screenshot below. [cid:image001.png@01CC7E96.2D3405C0] Any help will be sincerely appreciated. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Senior Operations Engineer [cid:image962245.jpg@2da0f5a1.91a247af]<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Tel: +44 (0)1622 230 382 Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:support@CustodianDC.com> Web: www.CustodianDC.com<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Status: status.CustDC.net<http://status.custdc.net/> [cid:image846350.png@64f4e49a.03424297] ISO:27001 IS:567248 Click to view our email disclaimer<http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt>

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graphs directory empty
by Doug MacKintosh 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Folks, So my graphs directory is empty. Thinking that this may be path issue (given that I have all the required supporting software installed), can someone tell me (a) what program generates the output that will go into the graphs directory and (b) which PHP scripts call that program? Thanks... Doug

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Cisco ASA Overview graph not working
by Bruce-Young Majola 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi, I upgraded to the latest version of Observium (0.11.9.2550) and now the Cisco ASA traffic graph in the overview tab is showing "Error Drawing Graph". However when I hover the mouse over the graph area I can see the correct graphs in the pop-up window. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Traffic graph error
by Doug MacKintosh 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Folks, Observium newbie here. I have it set up and running and thus far all is well other than port traffic graphs. When one tries to view these the following error is produced: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: http://observium.foo.bar/graph-realtime.php?type=bits&id=3&interval=2 Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> Observium revision is 2547 (current as of this writing). Anyone else have this problem? Suggestions will be received with appreciation. Thanks... Doug

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port monitoring links broken
by Nikolay Shopik 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

http://demo.observium.org/ports/device_id=45/state=up/format=graph_bits/ Click on any graph this will bring you to broken summary page instead page of interface. That was working, can't say then it broke (updating every night).

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Re: [Observium] Traffic bills page taking over a minute to display
by Mahomed Hussein 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi Can anyone please help or provide some tips of where to start checking? It now becoming pretty unusable. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Senior Operations Engineer [cid:image8c376c.jpg@5c3feea6.0860423b]<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Tel: +44 (0)1622 230 382 Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:support@CustodianDC.com> Web: www.CustodianDC.com<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Status: status.CustDC.net<http://status.custdc.net/> [cid:imagea72a25.png@94a57a1c.c10e4664] ISO:27001 IS:567248 Click to view our email disclaimer<http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt> From: Mahomed Hussein Sent: 31 August 2011 09:52 To: 'observium(a)observium.org' Subject: Traffic bills page taking over a minute to display Hi We've been adding customers to the billing section and after a strange occurrence a few weeks ago (which we attributed to time changes between the VM and the ESX host), the billing page has been very slow to generate. Please could you let me know if there is anything I can do to check/fix the problem? Below is how long the most recent page display took: MySQL: Cell 63/0s Row 404/38.23s Rows 8/0.65s Column 189/56.87s Generated in 95.36 seconds. This is happening in the latest dev release of Google Chrome, Opera 11.50 and IE9 (I haven't tested firefox). I have already rebooted the server. Below is the system information. Observium 0.11.8.2404 Apache 2.2.17 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.5-1ubuntu7.2 MySQL 5.1.54-1ubuntu4 Any help will be sincerely appreciated. Kind regards,

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Alerts
by John Macleod 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Where did the config go to disable this? I can't find it in my config.php or config.php.default files... "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail (and/or any attachment) contains information, which is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender. The information contained in this e-mail (and any attachments) is supplied in good faith, but the sender shall not be under any liability in damages or otherwise for any reliance that may be placed upon it by the recipient, nor does it constitute a contract in any way. Any comments or opinions expressed are those of the originator not of Alentus Corporation unless otherwise expressly stated."

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Remove User does not work
by Bruce-Young Majola 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, The remove user feature does not seem to be working. Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Small device traffic overview graph is broken
by Bruce-Young Majola 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, The latest changes on version 0.11.9.2537 seem to have broken the small top-right Device Traffic graph. It shows Draw Error now. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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apache_scoreboard.inc wrong graphs
by Dennis Kruyt 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, It seems that there is is a small error in the apache scoreboard, some graphs are switched the keepalive and start.. I think it should be like this. Index: includes/graphs/application/apache_scoreboard.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/graphs/application/apache_scoreboard.inc.php (revision 2515) +++ includes/graphs/application/apache_scoreboard.inc.php (working copy) @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ } $rrd_options .= ' DEF:a='.$rrd_filename.':sb_wait:AVERAGE '; -$rrd_options .= 'DEF:b='.$rrd_filename.':sb_start:AVERAGE '; +$rrd_options .= 'DEF:e='.$rrd_filename.':sb_start:AVERAGE '; $rrd_options .= 'DEF:c='.$rrd_filename.':sb_reading:AVERAGE '; $rrd_options .= 'DEF:d='.$rrd_filename.':sb_writing:AVERAGE '; -$rrd_options .= 'DEF:e='.$rrd_filename.':sb_keepalive:AVERAGE '; +$rrd_options .= 'DEF:b='.$rrd_filename.':sb_keepalive:AVERAGE '; $rrd_options .= 'DEF:f='.$rrd_filename.':sb_dns:AVERAGE '; $rrd_options .= 'DEF:g='.$rrd_filename.':sb_closing:AVERAGE '; $rrd_options .= 'DEF:h='.$rrd_filename.':sb_logging:AVERAGE '; Regards, Dennis Kruyt,-

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VTY
by Bruce-Young Majola 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi Adam, We have a need for the capability to monitor and graph the vty sessions on our Cisco gear since we have services that rely on the vty lines availability in order to work. I have digged and searched the Cisco website; link below; for info and it looks to be possible to do something like this using the OLD-CISCO-TS-MIB. I would like to have this graphed under the device Netstat tab, probably under the current UDP Statistics graph. I am specifically wanting to monitor the a number of active virtual-terminal at any one time. I am willing to program it into Observium if I can be shown how. I would appreciate you help. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_tech_note09186a008… Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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graphs on Peering/Core/Transit pages no auth
by Dario Calamai 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Hi guys, Another broken pages are Ports -> Peering/Core/Transit! Ports -> Customers is ok. Problem is on visualization of graphs -> No Authorisation Powered by Observium 0.11.9.2509 Dario -- http://www.playnet.it phone +39 055 3226622 - fax +39 055 3226444 Brain Technology s.p.a. AS 13284 - http://lg.playnet.it http://www.linkedin.com/in/dariocalamai

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VRF page broken
by Bruce-Young Majola 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Hi, I just upgraded to version 0.11.9.2499 and noticed that when you click on the VRF icon under a Routing Tab; an empty overview screen is displayed, see below. In fact it seems to be the case that when you click on amythin under the Routing Tab, you get taken to the screen below. Is anyone else having this problem? DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Memory,CPU and Device Traffic broken
by Bruce-Young Majola 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Hi, Clicking the Memory, CPU and Device Traffic graphs under the device overview page takes one to the Recent Eventlog Entries. Adam I also have an issue now with the Cisco 7606 router that we monitor using the version 0.11.9.2499. The memory pools display 0% even though I get the correct values upon clicking the sub-items monitored. The problem manifested itself upon upgrading to version 0.11.9.2499 and it seems to be tied down to just the 7606 for now as all the other routers display the info correctly. -- Bruce-Young Majola Senior Operations Manager Swiftnet (Pty) Limited Fax: 012 665 0205 Tel: 012 686 3178 Cell: 082 336 6093 mail: brucem(a)fastnet.co.za DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Widescreen feature broken
by Bruce-Young Majola 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Hi Adam, Sorry for spamming the forum but it seems like the Widescreen feature does not work too:-!. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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routing-cef tab broken?
by Nikolay Shopik 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hi Adam, Looks like routing-cef is broken http://demo.observium.org/routing/cef/. Just head up if you don't know, because it broken long time ;). It just fine showing up if you select specific device cef.

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Port Stack not working on newer versions
by Bruce-Young Majola 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Hi, I running two versions of Observium; older one being 0.11.7.2395 and the latest being 0.11.9.2453. On the latest version under device ports I cannot see the ports that the device I am viewing connects to, like I did in the older version, see below. I suspect it has something to do with port stack feature that's gone missing. New version; Old version; The port stack module is enabled on both versions. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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SVN down?
by Rob J. Epping 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi, When I try "svn up" on my 2 observium installations I get svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error Found this "solution" <https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/svn-checkout-error…> Can somebody (Adam?) have a look? -- GRTNX, RobJE

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netstat doesn't detected on some devices
by Nikolay Shopik 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hi, I've just noticed some device doesn't have subcategory netstat, while these devices clearly do support TCP,UDP,ICMP,SNMP mibs to gather that information. I've tried to snmpwalk them and it return values correctly.

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Patch to fix syslog
by Yucong Sun (叶雨飞) 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Index: includes/syslog.php =================================================================== --- includes/syslog.php (revision 2421) +++ includes/syslog.php (working copy) @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ } elseif($os == 'linux'){ $matches = array(); //User_CommonName/123.213.132.231:39872 VERIFY OK: depth=1, /C=PL/ST=Malopolska/O=VLO/CN=v-lo.krakow.pl/emailAddress=root(a)v-lo.krakow.pl - if($entry['facility'] == 'daemon' and preg_match('#/([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}:[0-9]{4,} ([A-Z]([A-Za-z)+( ?)){2,}:#', $entry['msg'])){ + if($entry['facility'] == 'daemon' and preg_match('#/([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}:[0-9]{4,} ([A-Z]([A-Za-z])+( ?)){2,}:#', $entry['msg'])){ $entry['program'] = 'OpenVPN'; } //pop3-login: Login: user=<username>, method=PLAIN, rip=123.213.132.231, lip=123.213.132.231, TLS

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disable widescreen feature
by Nikolay Shopik 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hey Adam, if there way to disable widescreen feature? We prefer to have 4 graphs per interface instead of 6 with new widescreen feature. Thanks

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Traffic bills page taking over a minute to display
by Mahomed Hussein 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi We've been adding customers to the billing section and after a strange occurrence a few weeks ago (which we attributed to time changes between the VM and the ESX host), the billing page has been very slow to generate. Please could you let me know if there is anything I can do to check/fix the problem? Below is how long the most recent page display took: MySQL: Cell 63/0s Row 404/38.23s Rows 8/0.65s Column 189/56.87s Generated in 95.36 seconds. This is happening in the latest dev release of Google Chrome, Opera 11.50 and IE9 (I haven't tested firefox). I have already rebooted the server. Below is the system information. Observium 0.11.8.2404 Apache 2.2.17 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.5-1ubuntu7.2 MySQL 5.1.54-1ubuntu4 Any help will be sincerely appreciated. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Senior Operations Engineer [cid:image8f40a2.jpg@6dc425d1.a7454328]<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Tel: +44 (0)1622 230 382 Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:support@CustodianDC.com> Web: www.CustodianDC.com<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Status: status.CustDC.net<http://status.custdc.net/> [cid:image98e439.png@9a1b88e8.a275409b] ISO:27001 IS:567248 Click to view our email disclaimer<http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt>

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Graphs showing no data and NaN
by Jeff Collyer 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

I recently installed Observium to monitor some voip switches. Previously I have had a different installation monitoring a ton of network gear, so I'm not unfamiliar with the intall process. This new installation appears to be gathering data, but all my graphs are just axis and legends and all the number are "NaN". Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit php5 5.2.4 myslq 5.0 rrdtool 1.4.3 snmp 5.4.1 Which is all the same as other the working system. Debugging : poller.php appears to be running fine and collecting data : Polled in 5.111 seconds UPDATED! MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[114/0.01s] Rows[17/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[116/0.57s] Insert[1/0s] Delete[0/0s] And the /device/#/ports/details/ page for my switch shows bandwidth numbers for each port, but completely blank mini graphs, and when I mouseover the mini-graph, it show graphs without any data, just axis, legend, and "NaN" for each value. Apache error logs don't show anything failing. Adding "&debug=1" to any of the graph.php pages, generates the same graphs without any data. I've checked file/path permissions, and they appear identical between boxes. Assuming user error, I've dropped the database and recreated it, along with a complete fresh install. Neither helped. I'm rather stumped, anyone have any ideas of what to look at next? Jeff

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replacing device filling eventlog
by Nikolay Shopik 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

When observium monitor device like router and you replace it with different model (leaving IP address same) it keep re-detecting interfaces with every poll. Here is example. 2011-06-21 12:00:34 dot11radio1 ifName: Do1 -> Nu0 2011-06-21 12:00:34 dot11radio1 ifDescr: Dot11Radio1 -> Null0 2011-06-21 12:00:34 dot11radio1 ifAdminStatus: down -> up 2011-06-21 12:00:34 dot11radio1 ifOperStatus: down -> up 2011-06-21 12:00:34 dot11radio1 ifSpeed: 54000000 -> 10000000000 2011-06-21 12:00:34 dot11radio1 ifHighSpeed: 54 -> 10000 2011-06-21 12:00:34 dot11radio1 ifType: ethernetCsmacd -> other 2011-06-21 12:00:34 dot11radio1 ifPhysAddress: 001bd50d0fb0 -> 2011-06-21 12:00:34 dot11radio1 ifConnectorPresent: true -> false 2011-06-21 12:00:34 dot11radio1 ifDuplex: unknown -> NULL 2011-06-21 12:00:34 FastEthernet3 ifName: Fa3 -> NV0 2011-06-21 12:00:34 FastEthernet3 ifDescr: FastEthernet3 -> NVI0 2011-06-21 12:00:34 FastEthernet3 ifMtu: 1500 -> 1514 2011-06-21 12:00:34 FastEthernet3 ifSpeed: 100000000 -> 56000 2011-06-21 12:00:34 FastEthernet3 ifHighSpeed: 100 -> 0 2011-06-21 12:00:34 FastEthernet3 ifType: ethernetCsmacd -> other 2011-06-21 12:00:34 FastEthernet3 ifPhysAddress: 001c58566065 -> 2011-06-21 12:00:34 FastEthernet3 ifConnectorPresent: true -> false 2011-06-21 12:00:34 FastEthernet3 ifDuplex: unknown -> NULL

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global configs
by Mark Chaney 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

BTW, thanks for this great app. Its better than most of the commercial options i have even found. 1) How do I disable ipv6 reporting? Its not being used at all within my infrastructure. There is actually probably a lot of stuff that could be disabled, such as cisco and wireless, etc. I dont have either of those. Are filters used for this? 2) I see the config options for syslog, but then it says its not being used. So right now nothing is done with syslog at all? Im assuming there are plans for observium to become a syslog server then? Well, at least parse logs from one. 3) I do have multiple xen servers, what exactly does enabling the Virtualization options do and where would that data be available? 4) Since i have xen nodes, any recommendations for getting resource information to actual show for the entire xen host instead of just the dom0? 5) Service monitoring at this point is imply just up/down. Right? Is there that much on how quickly alerts are sent out? Can it wait to see it it fails for a second check before reported, etc? Wanting to reduce false positives. Note, i havent really done anything with alerts with observium, just reading over the docs. BTW, im using Observium 0.11.6.2390. Thanks for your time! - Mark

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Observium on FLOSS Weekly
by Adam Armstrong 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Hi All, I'll be on the TWiT network show FLOSS Weekly next week on the 31st August talking about Observium with Randal Schwartz at 17:30 UK time (18:30 European / 09:30 Pacific). The unedited video/audio of the interview will be broadcast live, and the audio podcast available later. If you're interested in watching/listening head take a look at the site: http://twit.tv/FLOSS adam.

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collectd dns graphs ... short memory
by Zane Thomas 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

The dns and powerdns plugins provide only the same 2 hour snapshot in all four graphs. Does anyone know why that is? Some other collectd tabs, such as cpu, do provide broader time ranges in the four graphs.

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Observium and rancid integration
by Jenang Daftar 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

Hi, I'm trying to integrate rancid into observium. Here are what i've done: - Install observium and run it. Obeservium can collect statistic from device - Install rancid and run it. Rancid is collecting my device configuration - Enable rancid integration setting in observium: ### rancid integration $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/mpbn/configs/"; $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/gprs/configs/"; $config['rancid_ignorecomments'] = 0; # Ignore lines starting with # - Allow observium user to read rancid config (using observium user i can see the configuration collected by rancid) - I use the same hostname defined in my /etc/hosts for both observium and rancid But I couldn’t see any menu/link showed in Observium web page related to Rancid configuration. Regards, Zakki A Tigo Rwanda

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PATCH: raritan PDU current graphs
by Charlie Allom 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hi, Here is an additional PDU type with current graphs: patch: http://pastebin.com/YVqjMWAW mib: http://capslock.playlouder.com/PDU-MIB.txt (yes thats what they call it.. face->palm) icon: http://capslock.playlouder.com/raritan.png let me know if ive forgotten something. -- +442077294797 http://mediasp.com/

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PATCH: Citrix Netscaler
by Britt Treece 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Got some of the basic stuff working. Did my best to adhere to coding standards, etc. SVN patch file and requisite MIB can be found at the link below. I plan to start working on monitoring of additional metrics soon. http://www.box.net/shared/20mih8759xpkjhu5imm1 Britt Treece

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SSL support with LDAP?
by Bao Nguyen 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

>From the include/default.inc.php, I notice that LDAP is listed as support. Do anyone know if SSL is supported? ### LDAP Authentication $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; # v2 or v3 $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "ldap.yourserver.com"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "uid="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=People,dc=example,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = "cn=observium,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com"; thanks, -bn 0216331C

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Inventory for Juniper
by Jenang Daftar 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi, I have Juniper and ExtremeNetwork devices monitored by observium. ExtremeNetwork inventory is okay but failed on Juniper. Anybody succesfully monitor Juniper inventory? Any hint for me to troubleshoot it? Regards, Zakki A

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Aggregate CollectD Graphs
by John Macleod 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Is it possible to aggregate collectd graph data? We use Observium and the CollectD plugin to monitor several clusters. We would like to graph aggregate data from CollectD for a number of services. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks, John

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Exporting Data
by Jenang Daftar 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

Hi, I would like to export Data gathered by Observium into MS Excel file. Any hints on how to do that? regards, Zakki A Tigo Rwanda

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after IP Adress Change of an Cisco device not alle tabs are shown
by Letz Stefan / ACS 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hello All, after an IP-Address change of an Cisco IOS Device the Processor, Memory, Map, etc. Tabs are not shown anymore. The same IOS Version (Cisco IOS 12.4(25e) (ADVSECURITYK9)) is running on other routers (Cisco 1841 with same HW Config) and there these Tabs where shown. What can I do to make the Tabs visible again? Mit freundlichen Gr??en / Best regards Stefan Letz Team Manager Customer Services ACS Solutions GmbH Maximilianallee 4 04129 Leipzig Phone: +49 341 355913 45 Mobile: +49 151 11446409 Fax: +49 341 355913 11 www.acs-europe.de<http://www.acs-europe.de> [cid:gold_partner_2011.jpg@01334711ff144cc98e8bc095604f29eb] Amtsgericht Leipzig: HRB21111 USt-IdNr: DE814217083 Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Thomas Lindner

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Observium and Rancid Integration
by Jenang Daftar 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi, I'm trying to integrate rancid into observium. Here are what i've done: - Install observium and run it. Obeservium can collect statistic from device - Install rancid and run it. Rancid is collecting my device configuration - Enable rancid integration setting in observium: ### rancid integration $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/mpbn/configs/"; $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/gprs/configs/"; $config['rancid_ignorecomments'] = 0; # Ignore lines starting with # - Allow observium user to read rancid config (using observium user i can see the configuration collected by rancid) - I use the same hostname defined in my /etc/hosts for both observium and rancid But I couldn’t see any menu/link showed in Observium web page related to Rancid configuration. Regards, Zakki A Tigo Rwanda

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disable up/down notification
by Nikolay Shopik 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

I would like to disable notification when host host goes down. I didn't find option for that, only way is disable notifications altogether, but I still would like to receive notification about bgp flaps/interface errors/etc for example. Is this option not implement yet?

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Thanks and Wants More :)
by Jenang Daftar 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

Hi, Thank you very much on your hardwork on Observium. This week was my first installation. The process was smooth but on setup on apache rewrite mod. It is okay now. And I'm very happy that my Juniper got a lot of stuff monitored. I have some questions in my first week experience: 1. My Juniper router has many vrf routing instace with OSPF but it is not shown in the Routing-OSPF Device page. Any idea where can i start troubleshooting? 2. My Juniper Netscreen ISG 2000 and Extreme Black Diamond 8xxx doesn't have fans and temperature monitored. I tried to learn the way temperature in Juniper router monitored. Seems i can do on my own for Netscreen and Extreme. But when i did snmpwalk for the entire snmp table i didn't get temperature information on Netscreen and Extreme Switch. Any hints? Regards, Abu Azam

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test!
by Adam Armstrong 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

test? :)

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double graphs
by Nikolay Shopik 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

I have see that some devices (Cisco) having double Memory Pool graphs. It looks like this one overview page. Processor I/O 3825 chassis - Processor 3825 chassis - I/O Is there way to remove these, w/o deleting stat data of device or this is just bug?

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small bugg in bill page + patch
by Rob J. Epping 27 May '11

27 May '11

Hi All, I found a small bug in the bill page that makes the 24 Hour view generate an error. The patch for this can be found on <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-bill-1.diff> -- GRTNX, RobJE

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VRF Tab empty after upgrading to Observium 0.11.5.2295
by Bruce-Young Majola 13 May '11

13 May '11

Hi Adama, I just noticed that clicking on the VRFs tab under Routing shows no data; this issue only appeared after upgrading to version 2295 earlier today. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Disabling ARP table gathering
by Jeffrey Collyer 04 May '11

04 May '11

Is there an easy way to disable ARP table gathering on a per device basis. On some of our larger 6509 routers, dumping the large arp table every 5 minutes puts a bit of a load on them. It would also take some load off our observium server, not having to process all that data. If not, I'd like to suggest it as a future feature. Thanks Jeff

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bug in renamehost.php
by Rob J. Epping 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi, When renamehost.php is used to rename a host to an already existing name a strange situation is created. The patch <http://www.xs4all.nl/~puther/observium-renamhost.diff> is an attempt to fix this. Might be better to include these checks in the renamehost function though. -- GRTNX, RobJE

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MRV detection (was Re: [Observium-dev] r2009 - observer/trunk/includes)
by Rob J. Epping 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

Hi, Just found out that observium laks includes/discovery/os/mrvld.inc.php See attached diff GRTNX, RobJE On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:10 PM, <observium-commits(a)observium.org> wrote: > Author: adama > Date: 2011-04-03 18:10:36 +0100 (Sun, 03 Apr 2011) > New Revision: 2009 > > Modified: > observer/trunk/includes/static-config.php > Log: > MRV LambdaDriver detection. from robje > > > Modified: observer/trunk/includes/static-config.php > =================================================================== > --- observer/trunk/includes/static-config.php 2011-04-03 17:09:09 UTC (rev 2008) > +++ observer/trunk/includes/static-config.php 2011-04-03 17:10:36 UTC (rev 2009) -- GRTNX, RobJE

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static-config.php on line 707
by Nikolay Shopik 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Got lot of these, after 23 april. Undefined index: group in /opt/observium/includes/static-config.php on line 707. Should I ignore it?

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log errored interfaces in eventlog
by Nikolay Shopik 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Is there option to log into eventlog when some interface have errors in it?

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Graph Template Missing error under Routing/Overview
by Bruce Majola 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Hi, I am running version 2108 on ubuntu 10.04 and everything is working okay except for the "Graph Template Missing" error when I click on the "Overview" button under the Routing tab. Is it an error with my upgrade or is the template still to be created? Thanks for the great application. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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New devices, feature requests, questions
by Paul Gear 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hi folks, I've been using Observium for a few weeks now and would like to start getting it work better with some of my unrecognised devices. Is there any general documentation about how to go about adding new device types? I'm not much of a PHP programmer, but i've done enough C & Java that i can usually muddle along. Which bits should i start hacking on? For what it's worth the main devices i'm looking to support are Xirrus wireless arrays. I notice that Netgear switches are explicitly mentioned as not supported, but the limitation listed in the wiki (that they don't support MAC addresses in the IF-MIB) doesn't appear to be completely accurate - at least for my GS-108T at home. Some features i think would be really great (and am prepared to work on): * Filtering on the global memory screen (health/memory/) so that we can view, e.g., just physical memory, or just virtual memory, etc. A simple drop-down at the top of the list would make sense to me. * The global storage screen (health/storage/nographs/) would make a lot more sense to me if the size of the area which was shaded was relative to the size of the storage. Making the width of the gauge grow on a logarithmic scale would make sense to me. And some questions and related suggestions: * When we ignore a port, does that prevent graphing and data collection on it, or just notification? I have a lot of edge switches for which i have no use of port up/down notifications, but if it is up, i would like to collect the interface stats. Perhaps the "ignore" tickbox needs to be split into "collect" and "notify"? * Why do HP switches show VLANs as ports, but then never provide any interface statistics for them? Thanks in advance, Paul

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Monitoring mySQL
by Pász Gergely 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hello! After trying out both the Python and the PHP snmp extenders in /scripts I still haven't managed to get mySQL monitoring working (while Apache monitoring works great). Though it works for some: http://www.observium.org/forum/index.php/topic,103.0.html I get the following error while using the PHP script: Applications: apache mysql...ERROR: /srv/observium/rrd/localhost/app-mysql-3.rrd: expected 79 data source readings (got 3) from N And I got a lot of zeros then some error if I use the Python one (I'm guessing it's because the /includes/poller/applications/mysql.inc.php expects name:value pairs) Any advice? Thanks, Pas

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My next cut at the port edit UI
by Paul Gear 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi Adam & all, I wasn't really very happy with the previous version of my port edit screen. Latest cut is here: http://gear.dyndns.org/~paulgear/patches/observium-r2002-port-jquery.patch Screenshot of the old version is here: http://gear.dyndns.org/~paulgear/patches/port-edit-previous.png Screenshot of the new version is here: http://gear.dyndns.org/~paulgear/patches/port-edit-current.png The patch adds a few new buttons: * Reset: reset the form back to the way it was * Alerted: toggle all ports in red status (effectively setting all ports to the "recommended" settings) * Down: select ignore for all down ports (useful for quickly shutting up a noisy switch) I think these are useful functions, but i'm still not overly fond of the UI. The number of buttons makes it a bit ugly. However, i can't think of any better way to lay it out, and i definitely like having the functionality available. Any thoughts? Thanks, Paul P.S. I'd also suggest moving the uncompressed jquery.js aside and making the compressed version the default.

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Feature request: Create aggregate graphs
by Olof Kasselstrand 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hi there, Is it possible to create custom aggregate graphs? For example, if I want to see the total traffic in/out for one specific customer connecting on two switch ports. Or all traffic on all my peering ports. Or all peering traffic to one peer on three different ports etc. Thanks, Olof

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Cisco PIX
by John Macleod 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

I have a couple of older PIX models, 506 and 501, that we poll at client sites. Observium doesn't appear to identify these and only appears to poll interface stats. Is this a known issue? ___ John Macleod Alentus UK Limited Seymour House South Street Bromley BR1 1RH +44.(0)208.315.5800 +44.(0)208.315.5801 (Fax) www.alentus.co.uk | www.alentus.com "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail (and/or any attachment) contains information, which is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender. The information contained in this e-mail (and any attachments) is supplied in good faith, but the sender shall not be under any liability in damages or otherwise for any reliance that may be placed upon it by the recipient, nor does it constitute a contract in any way. Any comments or opinions expressed are those of the originator not of Alentus Corporation unless otherwise expressly stated."

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] r1970 - observer/trunk/html/js
by Paul Gear 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

On 24/03/11 23:04, observium-commits(a)observium.org wrote: > Author: adama > Date: 2011-03-24 13:04:31 +0000 (Thu, 24 Mar 2011) > New Revision: 1970 > > Added: > observer/trunk/html/js/jquery.js > Log: > add jquery 1.5.1 Don't forget to add the compacted version, too. Using that should considerably speed up page load times, especially over slow or heavily-loaded links. Paul

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Alerts
by John Macleod 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

I noticed the SMS code within alerts.php in a recent svn update. Any docs on this anywhere? Do the Alert triggers write to observium.log? "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail (and/or any attachment) contains information, which is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender. The information contained in this e-mail (and any attachments) is supplied in good faith, but the sender shall not be under any liability in damages or otherwise for any reliance that may be placed upon it by the recipient, nor does it constitute a contract in any way. Any comments or opinions expressed are those of the originator not of Alentus Corporation unless otherwise expressly stated."

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r1942 ignore ports
by Nikolay Shopik 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

r1942 release bring feature called ignore ports, but it looks like it doesn't work for me. When I selecting ports for ignore in settings and pressing save, it show this message "Device record unchanged. No update necessary." So what I'm doing wrong?

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Voice interfaces discovery
by Nikolay Shopik 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

I wondering if discovering analog voice interfaces is intended on Cisco platform or this is just bug? Currently discovery will add interfaces with media type - voiceOverIp, voiceFXO, voiceEncap, these interfaces doesn't provide any statistic over snmp, except UP/DOWN state. So I see no reason to draw graphs for them. Even better I'll be glad to get rid of them from regular IP ports, maybe move to different group, or just have option to ignore state/don't poll them?

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debian/ubuntu package
by Nikolay Shopik 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I'm willing to provide deb package for Observium if anybody started work on that, please let me know. Also it is possible to make Observium run from sub-directory instead of virtual-host, like that http://example.com/observium? I did tried some rewrite rules on apache w/o luck.

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Varnish application monitor
by Kristian Grønfeldt Sørensen 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hi list, First of all, i want to say that I'm impressed by Observium, and I'm really excited to see how this project evolves in the future. I'm writing this mail because I'm considering writing an application monitor for varnish ( http://www.varnish-cache.org/ ) for inclusion in Observium, but I don't want to start if anyone is already doing that, so please stop me if I'm about to reinvent the wheel. Regards Kristian Sørensen

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3 patches.
by Rob J. Epping 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Hi All, Thanks for this wonderfull product! I'm realy impressed. While working with observium I've made some improvements, see patches below. I hope it's the right format and the right way to send patches, as this is advanced svn for me :) root@eos:/opt# svn diff observium/ Index: observium/includes/services/dns/check.inc =================================================================== --- observium/includes/services/dns/check.inc (revision 1784) +++ observium/includes/services/dns/check.inc (working copy) @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ <?php -$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_dns -H ".$service['param']." -s ".$service['hostname']); +// provide some sane default +if ($service['service_param']) { $nsquery = $service['service_param']; } else { $nsquery = "localhost"; } +$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_dns -H ".$nsquery." -s ".$service['hostname']); + list($check, $time) = split("\|", $check); if(strstr($check, "DNS OK: ")) { Index: observium/includes/services/mysql/check.inc =================================================================== --- observium/includes/services/mysql/check.inc (revision 1784) +++ observium/includes/services/mysql/check.inc (working copy) @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ <?php -$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_mysql -H ".$service['hostname']." ".$service['service_param']); +// provide some sane default +if ($service['service_param']) { $dbname = $service['service_param']; } else { $dbname = "mysql"; } +$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_mysql -H ".$service['hostname']." ".$dbname); + list($check, $time) = split("\|", $check); if(strstr($check, "Uptime:")) { Index: observium/scan-snmp.php =================================================================== --- observium/scan-snmp.php (revision 1784) +++ observium/scan-snmp.php (working copy) @@ -10,7 +10,16 @@ $data = trim(`cat ips-scanned.txt | grep alive | cut -d" " -f 1 | egrep $search`); foreach( explode("\n", $data) as $ip) { - $snmp = shell_exec("snmpget -t 0.2 -v2c -c ".$config['community']." $ip sysName.0"); + // find community to use + for ($i=0; $i<count($config['snmp']['community']); $i++) { + echo($ip." ".$i." ".$config['snmp']['community'][$i]."\n"); + $snmp = shell_exec("snmpget -t 0.2 -v2c -c ".$config['snmp']['community'][$i]." $ip sysName.0"); + if(strstr($snmp, "STRING")) { + $community = $config['snmp']['community'][$i]; + $i=count($config['snmp']['community']) - 1 ; + echo("community : ".$community."\n"); + } + } if(strstr($snmp, "STRING")) { $hostname = trim(str_replace("SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: ","", $snmp)); if(mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(device_id) FROM devices WHERE hostname = '$hostname'"),0) == '0') { root@eos:/opt# -- GRTNX, RobJE

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Spam on wiki
by Paul Gear 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Hi folks, The observium wiki seems to have become a spam hotbed recently. See here for an example: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=performance&go=Go What can we do about it? I was going to start cleaning, but i'm not sure where to begin, and i have a feeling they can spam faster than i can clean it up. Thanks, Paul

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Missing MIBs from search path
by Paul Gear 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hi all, I'm new to Observium, still finding my feet (but loving it!). I recently upgraded my Observium server VM from Debian lenny (5.0) to squeeze (6.0), and it broke Observium. When i looked into it, i found that poller was generating the following output: ... my.procurve.switch.domain.name 69 procurve MIB search path: /root/.snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/site:/usr/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/iana:/usr/share/mibs/ietf:/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp Cannot find module (SNMPv2-MIB): At line 0 in (none) sysObjectID.0: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> sysObjectID) SNMP UnreachablePolled in 0.080 seconds NOT UPDATED! ... I've worked around this by temporarily symlinking /root/.snmp/mibs into my Observium directory, but this seems like a bit of a hack. Any suggestions? Thanks, Paul

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Vyatta + BGP
by John Macleod 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

Has anyone successfully been able to monitor BGP sessions on Vyatta 6.1? I know Vyatta supports the BGP4-MIB, does Observium? Thanks, John ___ John Macleod Alentus UK Limited Seymour House South Street Bromley BR1 1RH +44.(0)208.315.5800 +44.(0)208.315.5801 (Fax) www.alentus.co.uk | www.alentus.com "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail (and/or any attachment) contains information, which is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender. The information contained in this e-mail (and any attachments) is supplied in good faith, but the sender shall not be under any liability in damages or otherwise for any reliance that may be placed upon it by the recipient, nor does it constitute a contract in any way. Any comments or opinions expressed are those of the originator not of Alentus Corporation unless otherwise expressly stated."

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Bug database
by Michael Robbert 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Is anybody watching the bug database? I submitted a handful of bugs the other week (bud IDs 126-129) and they don't appear to have been touched. These all have diffs that could fix the problems found. Maybe not perfect, but most of them shouldn't be too difficult to implement. I've also been working on bug 13 to implement sorting of device interfaces. This is going to be a bigger patch and I'd like to work with some core developers to properly implement it. Thanks, Mike

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