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host_id in pollers table
by Brad Bendy 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Hi, We have a image we have been deploying at remote sites for the poller. This was a clone and added a new site and running into issues. Looking at the poller table I see the hostid in not different across some of the hosts, assuming his because we cloned the image. What is this hostid referenced from? We made new SSH keys on each host but there must be something else this from and not really sure how to change it. Thanks

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Acknowledgments to alerts
by Lars Joergensen 26 Jul '21

26 Jul '21

Hi all We're really pleased with Observium, and are actually looking to using it as the main network monitoring tool. What we miss is a way to add a comment when you acknowledge an alert. Something along the lines of "stuff is acting up again. John is looking at it. Trouble ticket XX1234." Is this something that is being considered? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Change default sensor thresholds?
by Lars Joergensen 25 Jul '21

25 Jul '21

Hi It seems many of our Aruba SFP's have TX power set about the threshold defined for them somewhere in Observium. Rather than changing all of them manually, I would like to do a global change for these. Is that possible? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 132, Issue 11
by Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

Hallo, Thanks for your answer. I am very new to Observium and would like to know how to get to the command line of the Observium host. Regards, Joyce -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> Im Auftrag von observium-request(a)observium.org Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Juli 2021 13:00 An: observium(a)observium.org Betreff: observium Digest, Vol 132, Issue 11 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Problem Adding New Device (Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm)) 2. Re: Problem Adding New Device (Ahmed Rahal) 3. Re: Problem Adding New Device (Adam Armstrong) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:39:35 +0000 From: "Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm)" <J.Njoroge(a)ulm.de> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Problem Adding New Device Message-ID: <59e016f19ffa485da62f2760e8d554c8(a)sus-ex-01-wp.stadtulm.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hallo, I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. I use the same parameters for the other devices but with the few that couldn't be added, I am getting the following message. [cid:image001.png@01D778CD.53F2F860] I have tried to change SNMP authentication using different protocol versions but I still get an error message. [cid:image002.png@01D778CE.B3F939D0] [cid:image003.png@01D778CE.D3F95D50] Obsevium version is Observium CE 20.9.10731. I will appreciate your help. 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Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 21113 bytes Desc: image003.png URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20210714/672568e…> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:05:55 -0400 From: Ahmed Rahal <arahal(a)fibrenoire.ca> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Problem Adding New Device Message-ID: <CAHaNNBULsv0gxYZrN3PPXpLowEdYuWEPUbvcH3aurs_-t0jEMw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Joyce, Try debugging on the command line from the Observium host: snmpwalk -v2c -c <your_snmpv2_community> 172.30.2.21 This should pull a lot of text. If this command does not succeed, make sure you can reach your target on port 161/udp (check your firewalls). If snmpwalk returns content, try adding the node through the command line: /opt/observium/add_device.php 172.30.2.21 <your_snmpv2_community> That will likely tell you what's wrong. HTH, Ahmed. Le mer. 14 juill. 2021, à 10 h 39, Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) via observium <observium(a)observium.org> a écrit : > Hallo, > > > > I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. > I use the same parameters for the other devices but with the few that > couldn't be added, I am getting the following message. > > > > > > I have tried to change SNMP authentication using different protocol > versions but I still get an error message. > > > > > > > > Obsevium version is Observium CE 20.9.10731. > > > > I will appreciate your help. > > > > Regards, > > Joyce > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > -- Ahmed Rahal Administrateur de Systèmes / Systems Administrator *Fibrenoire* - www.fibrenoire.ca A: 550 , avenue Beaumont, bureau 320, Montréal (Québec) H3N 1V1 arahal(a)fibrenoire.ca Twitter: @fibrenoire -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 21113 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20210714/4a81156…> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:08:35 +0100 From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Problem Adding New Device Message-ID: <6B77A19F-AB64-4F85-9821-E366D51E2AB5(a)getmailspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Better to just fetch sysObjectID.0 or sysDescr.0 instead of a walk to start with. snmpget -v2c -c <community> 172.30.2.21 sysDescr.0 Using v3 auth on commandline is messy, I'd recommend making it work with v2c if you don't understand the complexities. adam. On Jul 14 2021, at 5:05 pm, Ahmed Rahal via observium <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > Hi Joyce, > > Try debugging on the command line from the Observium host: > snmpwalk -v2c -c <your_snmpv2_community> 172.30.2.21 > > This should pull a lot of text. > If this command does not succeed, make sure you can reach your target on port 161/udp (check your firewalls). > > > If snmpwalk returns content, try adding the node through the command line: > /opt/observium/add_device.php 172.30.2.21 <your_snmpv2_community> > > > That will likely tell you what's wrong. > > HTH, > > Ahmed. > Le mer. 14 juill. 2021, à 10 h 39, Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) via observium <observium(a)observium.org (mailto:observium@observium.org)> a écrit : > > Hallo, > > > > > > I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. I use the same parameters for the other devices but with the few that couldn't be added, I am getting the following message. > > > > > > > > > > I have tried to change SNMP authentication using different protocol versions but I still get an error message. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Obsevium version is Observium CE 20.9.10731. > > > > I will appreciate your help. > > > > Regards, > > Joyce > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org (mailto:observium@observium.org) > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > > -- > Ahmed Rahal > > Administrateur de Systèmes / Systems Administrator > > Fibrenoire - www.fibrenoire.ca (http://www.fibrenoire.ca/) > A: 550 > , avenue > Beaumont, > bureau > 320, > Montréal (Québec) > H3N 1V1 > > arahal(a)fibrenoire.ca (mailto:arahal@fibrenoire.ca) > Twitter: @fibrenoire > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Unable to poll a once working Device
by Oberreiter Andreas 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hi there, I have multiple environmental Devices which are working fine for years now. A view weeks ago one of was shown as unable to poll. A SNMPwalk for the Device works fine. I've tried to add the device via it's IP no luck there. I've rebooted the Server and the Device multiple times. I flushed the DNS cache. Attached are the debug Output of a poller run of a working Device poll_tempboxnl.txt and of the non-working Device poll_tempboxnz.txt as well as the discovery and snmpwalk output. xxx_tempboxnl.txt working. xxx_tempboxnz.txt not working. Any suggestions are welcome. Best regards Andras

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Problem Adding New Device
by Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) 14 Jul '21

14 Jul '21

Hallo, I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. I use the same parameters for the other devices but with the few that couldn't be added, I am getting the following message. [cid:image001.png@01D778CD.53F2F860] I have tried to change SNMP authentication using different protocol versions but I still get an error message. [cid:image002.png@01D778CE.B3F939D0] [cid:image003.png@01D778CE.D3F95D50] Obsevium version is Observium CE 20.9.10731. I will appreciate your help. Regards, Joyce

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Re: [Observium] Invalid targets and datasource
by Mati 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Dear All, I have been struggling getting PHP Weathermap working properly on Observium and would really appreciate your help.. I've noticed that the percentage values on the links is not working and the traffic load is continuously at 0.00%. We are currently using the following software versions.. *Observium* 21.5.11304 (6th May 2021) *OS* Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 [amd64] (Debian 8) *Apache* 2.4.10 (Debian) *PHP* 5.6.38-0+deb8u1 (OPcache: ENABLED) (Memory: 128MB) *Python* 2.7.9 *MySQL* 5.5.60-0+deb8u1 (extension: mysqli 5.5.60) *SNMP* NET-SNMP 5.7.2.1 *RRDtool* 1.4.8 The results from map-poller.php are as follows: WARNING: configs//example.conf: OVERLIBGRAPH is used, but HTMLSTYLE is static. This is probably wrong. [WMWARN41] PHP Notice: Undefined index: uptime in /var/opt/observium/html/weathermap/lib/datasources/WeatherMapDataSource_observium.php on line 53 PHP Notice: Undefined index: uptime in /var/opt/observium/html/weathermap/lib/datasources/WeatherMapDataSource_observium.php on line 53 WARNING: configs//Core_062021.conf: ProcessTargets: LINK hex.asr9k-pe1, target: /opt/observium/rrd/hex.asr9k-pe1/port-415.rrd:INOCTETS:OUTOCTETS on config line 69 of configs//Core_062021.conf was not recognised as a valid TARGET [WMWARN08] Kind Regards MP

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Unable to create Alert Checker
by David Milton 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Hello, I'm having a strange problem creating alert checkers. I first noticed this today and updated to the latest edition: 21.7.11450. I'm working on a test server and was attempting to re-create all of the alert checkers currently on my production systems and then add a few more; I would like to monitor power supply input state as well as air intake temperatures and produce alerts when a power supply is "down" and when intake air temperatures go above something like 45C. This has been prompted by some problems lately where power redundancy was lost and where we had an air conditioner failure. An earlier warning than having the hardware go into thermal shutdown is very much needed. So on my test server I can go through the basic process of creating the alert checker; alert checks -> Create new checker. In this case I click BGP Peer, fill in the name, message, use 1 for the delay and the conditions: bgpPeerAdminStatus notequals stop bgpPeerState notequals established Unfortunately, when I click "Add Checker" nothing happens. I've verified this is not likely the browser or is something pretty universal to all of my browsers because I can duplicate this in current versions Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome. Both Opera and Chrome are fresh installations done today but I did try disabling all extensions in Firefox and Safari to see if those were a problem. I searched through the documentation but couldn't find anything about browser compatibility or known conflicts. This used to work but it's been quite some time since I've wanted to add new checks. Is there something else I'm missing? Thanks, Dave.

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Thermal Alarm Bug
by Joey Stanford 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Hi Adam (et al), When Obs pulls in a sensor_value of NULL it gets interpreted as a zero and thus triggers alerts. Can we prevent that somehow? Joey > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Observium" <observium(a)rmham.org> > Subject: ALERT: [radio-westcreek.devilshead.rmham] [sensor] [System] Thermal Alarm - Temperature out of threshold > Date: July 9, 2021 at 14:43:53 MDT > To: netops(a)rmham.org > > ALERT Modify <http://observium.rmham.org/device/device=182/tab=alert/alert_entry=23319/> > Alert Thermal Alarm - Temperature out of threshold > Entity System <http://observium.rmham.org/device/device=182/tab=health/metric=temperature/…> > Conditions sensor_value less -25 ("") > Metrics sensor_value = > Duration 5h 43s (2021-07-09 09:43:10) > Device > Device radio-westcreek.devilshead.rmham <http://observium.rmham.org/device/device=182/> > Hardware RB911-5HacD > Operating System Mikrotik RouterOS 6.47.10 (Level 3) > Location DevilsHead, [39.260394,-105.101844] > Uptime 7m 28s > sensor_graph > > <http://observium.rmham.org/graph.php?type=sensor_graph&id=3629> > > E-mail sent to: netops(a)rmham.org <mailto:netops@rmham.org> > E-mail sent at: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 14:43:53 -0600 > > -- > Observium Professional 21.7.11470 <https://www.observium.org/>

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APCu Caching not working?
by Milton Ngan 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

I have noticed that when I enable webUI caching, that the page loads don’t speed up. It regularly takes 3 seconds to render a page, although the tool tip at the bottom shows APCu caching is enabled. However, if I force the cache driver to “files”, then I see a huge speed up (page loads drop to about 100-200ms). Is there some extra config to get APCu working correctly? I didn’t see anything in the docs, but I could have missed it.

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(no subject)
by DerBeWie 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

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Notification Transports
by Nelson Lopes 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Wed like to add Pager Duty as a notification transport but I dont see it as an option in contact. Currently running Professional edition of Observium. Do we need an Enterprise edition. If not, what am I missing? Thanks in advance,

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Distributed polling
by Milton Ngan 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

I was looking at the distributed polling feature as we have a geographically distributed network and polling slow devices from half way across the globe takes a long time. It turns out that putting a poller closer to the device doesn’t actually help. The SNMP polling times go down a bit, but the SQL times go up a lot because there are hundreds of SQL queries that get run for every polled device. This can easily add another 1-2 minutes to your polls depending on how many metrics are being polled. So, it seems to me that the distributed feature only works if the poller is still reasonably close to the database, otherwise the latency per query eats up any gains you might have from reducing the SNMP latency. Are there plans to try to reduce the number of queries a poller makes to make geographically distributed polling less latency sensitive? Cheers Milton

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Alert on Entity Group
by Philipp Rehs 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Hello, we want to create alert checkers for entities (mostly storage entities) which are only assigned to some entities in special groups. Building the groups is possible but it is not possible to add a association rule based on entitiy group membership. it is just possible to do it on device group membership or entity attributes. There is no entitiy / storage group option. Any idea how to solve this? Kind regards Philipp Rehs -- --------------------------- Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologie Kompetenzzentrum für wissenschaftliches Rechnen und Speichern Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1 Raum 25.41.00.51 40225 Düsseldorf / Germany Tel: +49-211-81-15557

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RANCID integration with Huawei CloudEngine
by Hernan Moguilevsky 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

Hi, This is not an Observium question really. But perhaps someone had the same issue. Did anyone managed to integrate RANCID with Huawei CloudEngine? I have no problem with Huawei S line. If someone solved it, please share. Thanks. Regards. -- /Hernan Moguilevsky/ Badajoz 45, piso 17 Las Condes | Santiago | CHILE *T* 56 22840 9984 (Ext 140) | *ASNs* 61522 / 61524 /61525 /61526 /61527 /64112

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OSPF neighbor - Huawei
by henrique＠infovaletelecom.com.br 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Good afternoon, Someone managed to monitor ospf neighbors using huawei 6730 device ?

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alert checkers windows after migration to new server is blank
by Edvinas Kairys 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

Hello, After migration to new service, using mysql dump and then restore, on the new server i see alert checkers windows blank, even the page source displays the alerts. Any clues ? using Observium Subscriber edition. [image: image.png]

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monitoring 3CX
by Luis Olavarrieta 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Is anyone monitoring a 3CX server in linux? I am able to monitor the OS, but not the app as running Asterisk in other boxes. If you are able to do it, please advice on how to! Thanks!

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Empty alerts via telegram bot
by Aleksandr Vedernikov 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hey! After updating to release 21.6.11399 (14th June 2021), notifications via the telegram bot stopped working. Empty messages arrive. When testing sending via the command ./test_alert.php -c 1 notification come. -- Best regards, Vedernikov Alexander Chief Engineer, ORI UTsTiEO Ural State Law University ============================ <http://www.usla.ru/> www.usla.ru

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Missing information in alert emails
by Haris Hajlovac | HTL 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

Hello, Since we've upgraded Observium to the latest version (21.6.11399 (stable)) the alert emails we receive are missing information for most of the devices. Prior to the upgrade email alerts looked like this: After the upgrade alert e-mails look like this: We can revert the virtual machine to the state prior to upgarde but we'd prefer to have it running the latest version of Observium. Does anybody ha san idea on what could be the problem here? Thanks. Kind regardss, Haris

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rule creation training
by Luis Olavarrieta 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

Hi team, is there someone how could give me training creating rules? This (after a negotiation) will be a paid service. Regards, Luis

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Observium dropping off intermittently
by Mills, Stuart 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Hi, Every now and again I have an issue with Observium as it will read devices offline and show down (DNS) however when I restart Observium devices come back. I have run DCDIAG, and DNS is working ok, can anyone shed any light on this issue? -- Kind Regards *Stuart J Mills* *Systems Administrator* *Dresden International School* Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Germany *Phone:* +49(0)351 44007 32 smills(a)dresden-is.de www.dresden-is.de *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch -- *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch* *

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Nested or pass through server configuration
by paulkitteringham＠axisstudiosgroup.com 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Hi, We have two Observium servers at different locations, can we enable one as a master or pass through, so we can see the second location via the main/primary location server ? Many thanks -- *Paul Kitteringham* Senior System Administrator +44(0)7900221989 axisstudiosgroup.com Glasgow. London. Bristol.

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Extract Network Date for Network MAP
by Mills, Stuart 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hi, Does Observium offer a way to extract Network data to create a MAP? -- Kind Regards *Stuart J Mills* *Systems Administrator* *Dresden International School* Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Germany *Phone:* +49(0)351 44007 18 <+49%20351%204400718> smills(a)dresden-is.de www.dresden-is.de *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch -- *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch* *

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RANCID integration question
by Adam Thompson 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

I'd like to integrate our RANCID install with our Observium install, but the "generate-rancid.php" script includes over 100 devices that we have SNMP access to but not SSH, and excludes some other virtual devices that I do want to include. The script appears to simply key off whether the device is classed as "hardware" or not, which isn't adequate for us. Are there any enhancements to that script on the wings? If not, can I just manually edit the generated list and never re-run the script automatically (despite the warning in it)? Thanks, -Adam

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monitoring traffic in a redundant internet access
by Luis Olavarrieta 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Hey team, question, is there a way to monitor in a mikrotik with two internet access if both are active? The main link will give us remote snmp access to the equipment but we need to know if there is a way we can verify that the 2nd link that is connected to a DSL modem is up and running. Please advice,

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URL /graph.php
by Jérôme Marteaux 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Hi, I would like to use /graph.php to get graph (port graphs). I will use authenticated query with header /Authorization: Basic <digest>/ But this request doesn't work as authenticated query is not allowed for /graph.php url. I believe /graph.php is not an API query scheme, but it should? be possible to include /graph.php as one. Does another query, header, parameters exists to fetch a graph without a session (API request) ? What do you think of this patch in order to allow authenticated query to /graph.php: Original file is the one of revision 11382: --- html/includes/authenticate.inc.php.orig 2021-06-08 15:35:43.633475678 +0200 +++ html/includes/authenticate.inc.php.new 2021-05-28 23:53:35.354798084 +0200 @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ } } - if ($auth_success && !OBS_API && !OBS_AJAX) + if ($auth_success && !OBS_API && !OBS_AJAX && !OBS_GRAPH) { // If just logged in go to request uri, unless we're debugging or in API, // in which case we want to see authentication module output first. -- Jérôme Marteaux

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Option to Ignore Device Down due to DNS failure
by Pisano, Anthony D. 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Hello, We have had a couple incidents where for one reason or another Observium has been unable to resolve DNS. This generates hundreds of emails saying the entire network is down, and again when it comes back up. Is there a way to tell Observium not to alert when a device is failed due to DNS lookup? Anthony Pisano | Network Design Engineer | IMSS anthony.pisano(a)caltech.edu<mailto:anthony.pisano@caltech.edu> | (626) 395-4255<tel:(626)%20395-4255> | Caltech | caltech.edu<http://caltech.edu/>

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Update
by paulkitteringham＠axisstudiosgroup.com 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Morning Gentlemen, Just wondering if you have any update on the performance/memeory issue we saw with the new update on friday ? Many thanks Paul -- *Paul Kitteringham* Senior System Administrator +44(0)7900221989 axisstudiosgroup.com Glasgow. London. Bristol.

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OIDs list used by a device
by ToDevNull 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Dear all, I'm dealing with my telco provider about snmp agent configuration on all Cisco devices. They want to push some restrictions with a "customer view" which will restrict the access to some OIDs. I wonder if there is a way to list all OIDs used by a device in order to ask them to allow such entire list ? Thanks in advance for your help. Rds, Tarik.

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fwConnNumber from Stonesoft/Forcepoint Firewall
by Steffen Klemer 27 May '21

27 May '21

Hey devs, would it be possible to get a graph for fwConnNumber from STONESOFT-FIREWALL-MIB.mib (i.e. 1.3.6.1.4.1.1369.5.2.1.4) similiar to the Connection Number for Cisco ASA? Also the fwIfStatsTable might be nice and the Accepted, Rejected, Dropped packets :). I added it as custom oid for now; but perhaps some more people would be interested? Do you accept patches? Steffen -- Steffen Klemer Arbeitsgruppe "Netze" Tel.: +49 551 201 2170, E-Mail: steffen.klemer(a)gwdg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, URL: https://www.gwdg.de Support: Tel.: +49 551 201-1523, URL: https://www.gwdg.de/support Sekretariat: Tel.: +49 551 201-1510, Fax: -2150, E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen, Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Leave sensor data in Fahrenheit
by Timothy Stoddard 26 May '21

26 May '21

All, Is there any possible way to leave sensor data in Fahrenheit? I have temperature sensors that are getting converted into Celsius when we would like them in Fahrenheit. Thanks, -- Tim

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Equipement Type automaticaly updated
by Paul Scheben 26 May '21

26 May '21

Hi, Since last rolling update (21.5.11346), all equipment manually set are automatically change after a poll. Regards, Paul

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Fortigate firewalls in Active/Passive with VDOMs
by Scooby Doo 25 May '21

25 May '21

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FortiGate IPsec Status/Stats
by Storer, Darren 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hello, I don't normally use FortiGate FWs for IPsec but now I need to monitor the status/stats (up/down/throughput) of a tunnel - has anyone managed this with Observium? Thanks in advance for any hints Darren

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Performance tuning
by Lars Joergensen 19 May '21

19 May '21

Hi We have one Observium server looking at * 476 devices (mainly switches, some firewalls, some WAN routers) * 3666 ports * 8692 sensors The server has 6 cores (~70% idle, ~3% iowait) and 8 GB memory. We have configured 15 poller threads with max 6 allowed wrapper processes. The server is struggling to keep the polling cycle below 300 seconds (averaging 376 secs). Is this workload realistic for one server, and if so where do you suggest we tune? Or do we need to use a distributed setup? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Nightly Backup
by Terry Stone 10 May '21

10 May '21

For what its worth I have written a small php script to provide a 7 day rolling backup of my observium server to an external server and to send a confirmation email when backup is complete: #!/usr/bin/env php <?php // Script to backup Observium data created by Terry Stone on 3rd. May 2021 include "config.php"; // Collect database credentials $sql_username = $config['db_user']; $sql_userpass = $config['db_pass']; // FTP server credentials $ftp_server = '[ftp server name]'; $ftp_username = '[ftp server username]'; $ftp_userpass = '[ftp server password]'; // Email credentials $mail_to = $config['email']['default']; $mail_header = 'From: '.$config['email']['from'] . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); $mail_subject = "Observium Server Backup"; $mail_message = "Observium server backups sent to ".$ftp_server." on ".date("l jS F Y").":\n\n"; // Files to backup $file[0]= "observium-rrd.tar.gz"; $file[1]= "observium-dump.sql"; $file[2]= "config.php"; // Prefix filename to be sent to FTP server with day of the week $counter=0; while ($counter < count($file)) { $backupfile[$counter]=date("N").$file[$counter]; $counter++; } // Assemble observium backup fils exec('tar zcvf backup/'.$file[0].' rrd'); exec('/usr/bin/mysqldump -u observium --user='.$sql_username.' --password='.$sql_userpass.' --databases observium --add-drop-table --extended-insert > backup/'.$file[1]); exec('cp config.php backup/'.$file[2]); // Connect and login to FTP server $ftp_conn = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Could not connect to $ftp_server"); $login = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $ftp_username, $ftp_userpass); // Change to passive mode ftp_pasv($ftp_conn,true); // Upload files to FTP server $counter=0; while ($counter < count($file)) { if (ftp_put($ftp_conn, $backupfile[$counter], "backup/".$file[$counter],FTP_BINARY)) { exec('cp backup/'.$file[$counter].' backup/'.$backupfile[$counter]); $status = date("H:i:s")." Successfully backed up ".$file[$counter]." to ".$backupfile[$counter]."\n"; } else { $status = date("H:i:s")." Error backing up ".$file[$counter]." to ".$backupfile[$counter]."\n"; } $mail_message = $mail_message.$status; $counter++; } // Close FTP connection ftp_close($ftp_conn); // Add final line to message body $mail_message=$mail_message."\nPlease do not reply to this message, mail account is send only.\n"; // Send Completion message mail($mail_to,$mail_subject,$mail_message,$mail_header); ?> It is set to run nightly with this Cron Job: # Run nightly backup and send files to offshore FTP server 0 02 * * * root cd /opt/observium && php observiumbackup.php The backups are also held on the Observium Server in /opt/observium/backups. You need to make sure the backup files have the correct permissions. Hope this will help someone. An observium server that has run for years holds a very large amount of valuable historical data and servers can fail so its good to have that data in a safe place! Terry Stone.

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API, get syslog alarms list by device id
by Vasiliy Moroz 10 May '21

10 May '21

Dear Observium community, I usе Observium and the more I use it more I love it :) I use the Observium syslog interface for pushing to Observium syslog alerts. For now, I am developing customer personal web service where they could see their telecom services on the map with nodes states like ok, critical. There are on the map presented only part of the telco network their services go through. By API I get nodes' location and state so can show it on the map with nodes connections from my customer database. Except for alarms Observium gets by syslog integration. Is there any way to get syslog alerts by API and device id? I could analyze syslog alerts and set proper node status by syslog alerts if they are accessible. As I know it is impossible.

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LLDP collection from Arista switches
by Lars Joergensen 07 May '21

07 May '21

Hi guys We're looking at the Port -> Map view of our Aristas to determine what's connected to them. But this map seems to lack information compared to what we can see directly on the switch. Any information I can provide that would help in troubleshooting this? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Observium device discovery
by Christopher N Callison 05 May '21

05 May '21

I have a Cisco 9130axi AP that is running in embedded controller mode. I am not able to monitor traffic or user statistics on the WLANs like I did with my WLC2504. I do not see any wireless related MIBS attached to the device. Is there a way to force discovery for certain features or MIBS? Or do I have to add my own custom OID? Chris

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Google Secure LDAP - Working with a hack
by Pieter De Wit 05 May '21

05 May '21

Hi Guys, I have Google Secure LDAP working with Observium, but it requires a hack and hopefully the devs can implement this into the code base (after fixing my even more of my hacky hacks :) ) In config.php: $config['auth_ldap_server']="ldap://127.0.0.1:1636”; // We using the stunnel method $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 1636; // Not needed - at least, not that I could find $config['auth_ldap_starttls']=false; // Implemented with stunnel $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=Secure_LDAP,ou=Users,dc=example,dc=com”; // Fix this for your domain unset ($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['cn=observium']['level'] = 10; // Google does something funky with “groups" In html/includes/authentication/ldap.inc.php: After line 932: else { $filter="(&(".$dn.")".ldap_filter_create ($attribute, $value).")"; $ret=ldap_search ($ds,”dc=example,dc=com",$filter); // TODO : We need to figure out if ($ret !==FALSE) { $compare=TRUE; } } In a nutshell, ldap_compare doesn’t work for Google Secure LDAP - pretty much like https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3611 <https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3611> but then, if the ldap_read fails, we fallback to just doing a search for the “group” and where memberUid is the username provided. It might be worthwhile to look into setting a LDAP type variable and reacting to that. Hopefully this makes sense :) Cheers, Pieter

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Google Secure LDAP
by Pieter De Wit 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi Everyone, Has anyone got Observium to authenticate against Google Secure LDAP *and* return a usable user level ? My authentication passes, but I always end up with a user level of 0. I am using the stunnel method to try and simplify things. Thanks, Pieter

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How do you enable debugging ?
by Pieter De Wit 04 May '21

04 May '21

I’m failing hard at finding this one….specifically, I need to debug LDAP membership for authentication :) Thanks :)

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Observium Backups
by Terry Stone 04 May '21

04 May '21

When backing up rrd with tar zcvf observium-rrd.tar.gz rrd I get the following message: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Is this OK or should I use the --absolute-names option? Also I am getting some messages saying file changed as we read it. This is understandable but do i need to do anything while running the backup to stop this from happening? Thanks in advance.

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CBQOS Class Names only show "/"
by Evan Alexandre 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hello, I am a new user testing out Observium as a means of monitoring Cisco Class-Based Quality of Service (CBQoS). I have successfully added devices running Cisco IOS-XR 6.6.3 to the system for monitoring. However, the CBQoS tab of my device's ports is currently not showing any name for the different classes of policy maps applied to the ports. Instead, where the name should be, there is only "/ (output)". See attachment for screenshot of this issue. I believe this issue matches the following Jira ticket: https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3130?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.s… Is there a known resolution or workaround this issue? System Details: Observium Version: Observium CE 20.9 OS: CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) Thanks, Evan

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More probes please (part 2 :) )
by Pieter De Wit 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hey Guys, Can we please add check_procs to the probe list ? Thanks :)

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Paging on bigger pages
by Pieter De Wit 02 May '21

02 May '21

Hi All, I noted that you can enable paging on the devices pages, but is there a way to enable it on other pages that I have missed ? We have massive load balancer pages that are now causing browsers to crash (had to give the server 32gig of ram to render said pages :) ) Or even a search page would do - anything to make the page smaller :D Thanks !

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Adding "more" probes ?
by Pieter De Wit 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi, How can I use a probe that is not listed in “Probes” - like check_dns ? Thanks, Pieter

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Wish list
by Terry Stone 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Rather than re-invent the wheel writing a script does anyone have a script that can be run as a con job to backup rrd files, observium database and config.php to an external server. Thanks.

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Removal Request
by David Ross 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Hello! Please remove my email address from your email list; I am no longer on the team that uses Observium. Thank you! Respectfully, *David W. Ross, Sr.* Network Infrastructure Engineering Sr. Network Engineer 415.926.3483 - C david.ross(a)salesforce.com <https://smart.salesforce.com/sig/david.ross//us_mb/default/link.html>

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Optimisations for huge lb_pools
by Pieter De Wit 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Hi Guys, We have some pretty large lb_virtuals (12000 entries), lb_pools (180000 entries) tables. I found that the poller was struggling to keep up with this (understandable IMHO). What I did find was MySQL appeared to be the bottleneck so after some debugging I added the following indexes: create index lb_virtuals_idx_1 on lb_virtuals (device_id,virt_name); create index lb_pools_idx_1 on lb_pools (device_id,pool_name); create index lb_snatpools_idx_1 on lb_snatpools (device_id,snatpool_name); The middle one had the biggest impact, since that is the biggest table. Here is the polling result showing the difference: Time Duration 2021-04-29 17:05:02 56s 2021-04-29 17:00:02 4m 19s Hopefully this can help someone else if they have an issue like this (I hope not for your sanity :D ) or perhaps the devs can advise a better way of doing it :) P.S. - The issue was that polling kept running over each other and that cause it to spiral out of control, data gaps where getting bigger and bigger and MySQL was pinned at 250-300% CPU (4 core box this) Cheers, Pieter

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Probes check_snmp_win
by Jacek.Dabrowski＠selgros.pl 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

How to use Probes for check_snmp_win, I can't find it in the documentation, maybe someone will tell [cid:image001.png@01D73852.510E3BC0] [cid:image002.png@01D73852.510E3BC0] Pozdrawiam Jacek Dąbrowski

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New Port Alert Checks Not Working
by Andre Geißler 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Hi all I configured a port alert check and set test condition to "ifOperStatus eq down" and asssociation ruleset to "Port ifAlias match *!!!*". I can see entities (276 ports) are matched correctly but are listed without the device the ports belong to. Status of alert never changes from "0 0 0 0 276" It seems associations works fine but checks aren't executed no matter which association and conditions I try. A much more complex port check I configured years ago is working fine, new ones aren't. I'm on 21.4.11258 Thanks a lot Andre

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bug?
by Eric Sigurdsson 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Is there a bug in the installation script? I tried to use the installation script for a fresh install on Debian 10.9. The script said I had Debian 9 and aborted. I made a fresh install av Debian and tried again. The same result. I have Debian 10.9 and the installation script says Debian 9. Is this a bug or what is the problem? ES

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Add Device API - Option to provide poller id as parameter.
by Midhun Kandoth 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hi All, I am using observium apis to add devices to observium in a partitioned poller setup. But the current add device api (POST /api/v0/devices/) is not accepting poller_id as a parameter. Currently I am using MySQL Query to add devices to observium with poller_id. I could see that the API is in active development state. So it will be great if you can incorporate this request as well. Best, Midhun Kandoth

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Genexis OLT/ONT Device issues
by Prasun Kumar Mitra (NOC) 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hi , We are using an OLT/ONT device Brand "Genexis" (http://www.genexis.co.in). Currently we have added Genexis- SOLT33-08P for testing. But it's *not working fully as we are not getting connected ONT information*. We have contacted the device vendor team. The *technical head of vender team is in CC " Mr. Satyam Bharati" *and they also want their devices to be compatible with observium*. *Anything needed from vendors can be made available by their team, In this regard we need support to add this device in observium so that we can monitor those devices. Please guide us what we need to do. Thanks & Regards, Prasun Mitra Alliance NOC Alliance Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd. 1st Floor, P 26/1, Dr Nani Gopal Roy Chowdhuri Ave, Entally Kolkata, West Bengal 700014 Contact No.- 1800 1200 300

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Observium graphs not populated on Cisco
by Thodoris Lakiotis 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

*Hello there,* *We have just added a new 1002-X ASR with the following software.* *Cisco IOS Software [Amsterdam], ASR1000 Software (X86_64_LINUX_IOSD-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 17.3.3* *The device is polled just fine, all Interfaces, included subifs indexed correctly and everything seems ok.* *But observium shows data on only on physical interfaces, but not to Subinterfaces.* *To be more specific, it graphs only physical interfaces, but not routed VLAN interfaces.* *Have you ever seen anything like this?* Thodoris

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linux persitance SNMP indexes
by Edvinas Kairys 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Hello, As i know there're no plans to workaround not persistent SNMP indexes 'feature' in Observium. But maybe there any linux snmp persistence workaround suitable for Observium, and its plugins (for example, weathermap) to leave the linux snmp if indexes unchanged after server reboot, etc ? Thank you

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Changing some devices to only poll every 10 or 15 minutes temporariliy?
by Damien Gardner 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Hi all, I have a bit of an oddball one, hoping it's not horrible to be able to do... We have a few devices which have recently started taking > 5 mins to complete polling. This is leaving large gaps in our logs, and is also effecting discovery (as the polling of the devices are piling up on top of themselves and pushing load on those devices up heavily). For now I've just turned off polling on those devices, but that's not ideal either.. Is there a way to be able to just poll those manually at say 10 or 15 minute intervals? I shoved them into a group and excluded that group from our polls - and then ran poller.php -h deviceid on one device in cron every 15 mins to see how it would go - but we just get no graphs.. Also as a test, tried using rrdtool tune --step 900 to change the step size to 15 mins, but also no go (didn't really entirely expect it to..) Is there a not-horrible (or if it has to be, I'm ok with horrible in the short-term until the vendor can figure out what on earth is going on..) way to get these being polled on a 15-minute interval and also going into rrd's? (We're on the current paid subscription version, if that helps) Thanks, Damien [https://info.serversaustralia.com.au/hubfs/Brand-2018/logo-font-sau.gif] Damien Gardner Jnr Senior Dev Ops P: (02) 8115 8812 4 Amy Close, Wyong, NSW 2259 Need assistance? We are here 24/7 +61 2 8115 8888 [Sent from Front]

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Unable to delete alert checkers
by Luis Londoño 26 Mar '21

26 Mar '21

Cant delete an alert checker. When I click on Delete the confirmation prompt comes up and the checkbox is already selected but the delete alert is disabled. Unchecking the box enabled the button but clicking it doesn't delete the alert. We are on 21.3.11160 (24th March 2021) [cid:image001.png@01D7216C.5095D420] Did find in the HTML to enable the button when the checkbox is pressed was to remove the "disabled=1" [cid:image002.png@01D7216C.8C292410]

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[PATCH] Support kamcmd and kamctl in kamailio local script
by Kevin Riahi 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Adam, What is the outlook on deploying this patch? https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3431 Thank you Kevin Riahi

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Fix for small issue in poller-wrapper.py
by Damien Gardner 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Hi Team, Been pulling my hair out for a large chunk of the day trying to sort out why our Huawei devices stopped polling after I split out polling run into two lots (one excluding the huawei devices group, one including it) Seems that when you enable debug with poller-wrapper.py<http://poller-wrapper.py/> (-d), it's passing a string to substring.check_call rather than a file, so it throws an exception and doesn't run the poller. The diff below is an example that seems to fix this issue (though I'm a php dev, not python, so someone who knows python might have a nicer way to do it..) root@observium:/opt/observium# svn diff poller-wrapper.py<http://poller-wrapper.py> Index: poller-wrapper.py<http://poller-wrapper.py> =================================================================== --- poller-wrapper.py<http://poller-wrapper.py> (revision 11124) +++ poller-wrapper.py<http://poller-wrapper.py> (working copy) @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ command_args.extend(command_list) command_args.append(device_id) if debug: - command_out = temp_path + '/observium_' + process + '_' + str(device_id) + '.debug' + command_out = open(temp_path + '/observium_' + process + '_' + str(device_id) + '.debug', 'w') #print(command_args) #debug subprocess.check_call(map(str, command_args), stdout=command_out, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) (This doesn't fix the group being polled but nothing appearing in the DB or RRDs, but I'm still trying to figure out what's going on there, I'm sure it's something borked in our DB or something..) Thanks, DG [https://info.serversaustralia.com.au/hubfs/Brand-2018/logo-font-sau.gif] Damien Gardner Jnr Senior Dev Ops P: (02) 8115 8812 4 Amy Close, Wyong, NSW 2259 Need assistance? We are here 24/7 +61 2 8115 8888 [Sent from Front]

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Limiting eventlog collection
by Michael Kelly 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Hi, is there any way I can fine tune the collection of Informational/Debugging events? We have rather a lot of them. mysql> select count(*) from eventlog where severity in (6,7) and timestamp > '2021-03'; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 18500339 | +----------+ 1 row in set, 2 warnings (35.82 sec) Regards, Michael.

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No graphs for 64bit network ports on arm
by Simon Smith 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Hi All, Ive spotted a few weird issue with my new setup running on arm? 1. The first 4 ports on our TPLink switches are being detected as 64Bit and then the rest of the ports are 32Bit ? 2. the 64bit graphs are showing 0 for everything, even though the output from the command line shows stats? (See https://pastebin.com/raw/qP4T1Fa9 <https://pastebin.com/raw/qP4T1Fa9>) 3. The graphs are being generated so the RRDs are fine, but the graphs are blank? Regards Simon

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Merge rrds
by Simon Smith 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Hi All, Im just wondering how to merge two rrds together? I have moved our hosting from locally to aws I decided to start a fresh rather than coping the DB and RRDs over (personal reasons) So the id numbers of hosts are different, including dns etc I would like to preserve the rrd graphs if thats possible from the old install Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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Problem with the update
by Mario Pascal Necker 06 Mar '21

06 Mar '21

Hello I become this error Message from the update. [cid:image001.png@01D7127F.C5982CB0] Thx mario -- ✓ Geprüft von IKARUS anti.virus http://www.ikarussecurity.com

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what version of php and maria can I use?
by Tony Guadagno 06 Mar '21

06 Mar '21

Hi, I did look at the recommendations and it says 7.2+ so, can I use 7.4? what about 8? Same question for maria, looks like you like 10.3, can I use more current versions? Thanks Tony

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Re: [Observium] what version of php and maria can I use?
by Tony Guadagno 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '21

Ok, great, what about Maria, is there an upper limit? On Mar 5, 2021 2:33 PM, "Joelly, Alexander via observium" <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: Observium on PHP 7.4 works fine - PHP 8 is not supported yet. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: Friday, 5 March 2021 19:50 To: Adam Armstrong via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Subject: [Observium] what version of php and maria can I use? WARNING: This e-mail originated from outside of Magna. Be cautious with links and attachments. ________________________________ Hi, I did look at the recommendations and it says 7.2+ so, can I use 7.4? what about 8? Same question for maria, looks like you like 10.3, can I use more current versions? Thanks Tony

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Need to Add Genexis OLT/ONT Device
by Prasun Kumar Mitra (NOC) 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '21

Hi , We are using an OLT/ONT device Brand "Genexis" (http://www.genexis.co.in). Currently we have added Genexis- SOLT33-08P for testing. But it's not working fully as we are not getting connected ONT information. We have contacted the device vendor. They have provided us MIB of the devices(Link Provided below) but we are unable to make it work. In this regard we need support to add this device so that we can monitor those devices. Please let us know what we need to do . Link : Genexis MIB Link <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rd7F9cl9sRGAcfAp5ydz3jxGJdHpeZ-f/view?usp=…> Thanks & Regards, Prasun Mitra Alliance NOC Alliance Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd. 1st Floor, P 26/1, Dr Nani Gopal Roy Chowdhuri Ave, Entally Kolkata, West Bengal 700014 Contact No.- 1800 1200 300

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Syslog Integration
by Shawn L 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

We recently implemented syslog integration. One thing that we miss however is having the logs in the syslog file. It's great to see them in Observium, but there are times where it's easier to grep the syslog file itself to see what's going on. Is there a way to keep the log entries in the syslog files, and still deliver copies to Observium? Thanks Shawn

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Observium Installation on Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster))
by Polaris Networks Support 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Hi, I'm having trouble installing Observium, from the script, on a Raspberry Pi 4 running: root@raspberrypi:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release: 10 Codename: buster Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong, based on the output below please? root@raspberrypi:~# wget http://www.observium.org/observium_installscript.sh --2021-03-03 11:31:53-- http://www.observium.org/observium_installscript.sh Resolving www.observium.org (www.observium.org)... 185.94.140.56 Connecting to www.observium.org (www.observium.org)|185.94.140.56|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://www.observium.org/observium_installscript.sh [following] --2021-03-03 11:31:53-- https://www.observium.org/observium_installscript.sh Connecting to www.observium.org (www.observium.org)|185.94.140.56|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 17916 (17K) [text/x-sh] Saving to: ‘observium_installscript.sh’ observium_installsc 100%[===================>] 17.50K --.-KB/s in 0.002s 2021-03-03 11:31:53 (10.1 MB/s) - ‘observium_installscript.sh’ saved [17916/17916] root@raspberrypi:~# chmod +x observium_installscript.sh root@raspberrypi:~# ./observium_installscript.sh WARNING: Apache default config found, this script will overwrite that config and your current config will be lost Continue? 1) Yes 2) No #? 1 Apache config will be overwritten... ___ _ _ / _ \| |__ ___ ___ _ ____ _(_)_ _ _ __ ___ | | | | '_ \/ __|/ _ \ '__\ \ / / | | | | '_ ` _ \ | |_| | |_) \__ \ __/ | \ V /| | |_| | | | | | | \___/|_.__/|___/\___|_| \_/ |_|\__,_|_| |_| |_| Welcome to Observium automatic installscript Please choose which verision of Observium you would like to install 1. Observium Community Edition 2. Observium Pro Edition stable (requires account at https://www.observium.org/subs/) 3. Observium Pro Edition rolling (requires account at https://www.observium.org/subs/) 4. Install the UNIX-Agent 5. Install the SNMPD (snmpd-config will be overwritten) (1-5):1you choose 1 dpkg-query: no packages found matching mysql-server dpkg-query: no packages found matching mariadb-server [*] No MySQL server detected in this server, installing MySQL... Choose a MySQL root password [*] Beginning package installtion, this might take up to 30min [*] We are on Debian 8.x, installing packages... E: Unable to locate package libapache2-mod-php7.0 E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libapache2-mod-php7.0' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libapache2-mod-php7.0' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-cli E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-cli' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-cli' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-mysql E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-mysql' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-mysql' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-mysqli E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-mysqli' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-mysqli' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-gd E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-gd' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-gd' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-mcrypt E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-mcrypt' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-mcrypt' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-json E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-json' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-json' E: Package 'mysql-server' has no installation candidate E: Package 'mysql-client' has no installation candidate root@raspberrypi:~# Thank you, Jon Bennell *Polaris Networks Support* *T: *+44 203 397 3535 *W: *www.polarisnetworks.co.uk *The e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose either the message or any information contained in the message. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this e-mail and notify the sender immediately. * *Any views or opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender only, unless otherwise stated. All copyright in any Polaris Networks Limited material in this e-mail is reserved.* *All e-mails, incoming and outgoing, may be recorded by Polaris Networks Limited and monitored for legitimate business purposes.* *Polaris Networks Limited exclude all liability for any loss or damage arising or resulting from the receipt, use or transmission of this e-mail to the fullest extent permitted by law.*

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Disable netstats for device type
by Robert Williams 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Hi! We have a large number of 'Geist' PDU devices, each of which takes around 20-30 seconds to complete the 'netstats' poller element (due to the nasty tiny-brain device, not Observium): There is no data of value to us collected from this, so I'd like to just disable netstat collection for all current and future Geist devices. Is there a way to do this which doesn't involve clicking on each one and disabling that module manually? [cid:image001.png@01D70F52.9DBE2C60] I've trawled the DB as best I can to try to see where I can do this, but unable to identify where module enable/disablement is done. Closest I found is within the devices table, there is device_state and the netstats element is encoded in there in a way I cannot grasp unfortunately. Devices can be easily matched with: select * from devices where vendor like "geist" - so I'm hoping I can make a change globally somehow? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centres https://www.CustodianDC.com

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Backup options for the MySQL database
by Michael Kelly 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Hi Everybody, I recently started a new role at a company that uses Observium to monitor a fairly large estate. Observium (Professional edition) was originally installed on an EC2 instance running Debian 8 and MySQL 5.5 by someone who has long since departed the company. My task is to bring it all up to date and document it. I've created a new instance running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and MySQL 8.0.23 and testing the migration process hasn't thrown up any problems. One of the things my predecessor didn't do was to set up any backup regime for the database. As it happens, /var/lib/mysql is a logical volume and I've been looking at using lvm snapshots as part of a backup process. The basic idea would be to: Connect to the mysql daemon and issue a 'FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK' command. Create the LVM snapshot. Connect to the daemon and issue a 'UNLOCK TABLES' command. Do something with the snapshot. My questions are: Is this a good idea? Will it give me a consistent backup? Is there a better way? Thanks in advance, Michael.

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Port usage monitoring
by Simon Smith 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi All, I wondered if anybody has been able to setup alerts for port usage? I would like to monitor a machines network port, and if it goes above say 20GB worth of upload in like 3 weeks then alert me? I think I might need the billing part of observium setup for this but im not sure? Kindest Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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Graphs not displaying recent traffic
by Luis Londoño 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Hello, For some reason, none of my graphs are showing any recent information. The last graphs being shown are from a few weeks ago. This is happening on all my devices I have in Observium. I just updated to r 21.2.11038 and still seeing the same thing. I am on rrdtool v1.7.2 [cid:image001.jpg@01D709C5.16A61770] How do I get my graphs to come back?

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jquery.js
by Mark Rowlands 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

/opt/observium/html/js/Jsquery-min.js /*! jQuery v2.2.4 | (c) jQuery Foundation | jquery.org/license */ Any chance you could bump this to 3.5 ? , The security people are complaining about EOL unsupported software. ☹ ( i.e https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-565129 )

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Observium + gradaba
by Luis Olavarrieta 20 Feb '21

20 Feb '21

Has anyone interfaced observium with ágrafa a to create a dashboard? Which tables should be read for it? Enviado desde mi iPhone

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Interface utilization metrics
by Kania, Piotr 20 Feb '21

20 Feb '21

Hello Everyone, I want to pull interface utilization metrics from mysql DB and make it a daily report. Got bunch devices I am interested in, each of them has got few interfaces I would like to get metrics for. Graphs are showing all the info I would like to get from DB like max, min and avg values for In and Out octets. Where in DB I can find historical data for device XXX, interface YYY, date ZZZ. So far I was able to run something like below, but that doesn't give me any option to select historical data. I must say that I was browsing through whole DB table by table and I couldn't find anything related to previous dates. My query: select dev.sysName, dev.device_id, prt.port_id, prt.ifSpeed, prt.ifInOctets, prt.ifInOctets_rate, prt.ifInOctets_perc, prt.ifOutOctets, prt.ifOutOctets_rate, prt.ifOutOctets_perc from observium.devices as dev inner join observium.ports as prt on dev.device_id = prt.device_id where dev.sysName = 'XXX' and prt.port_label = 'Eth2' Any help hips, guides are more than appreciated. Regards, Piotr Kania CREDIT SUISSE (POLAND) SP. Z O.O. Credit Suisse CoE OPS Wroclaw | Monitoring & Instrumentation Solutions, MBHJ 711 Atrium 2 | Warsaw 00-849 | EMEA Phone +48 22 359 8668 piotr.kania(a)credit-suisse.com<mailto:piotr.kania@credit-suisse.com> | www.credit-suisse.com<http://www.credit-suisse.com> =============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ===============================================================================

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OSPF discovery & CISCO-VPC-MIB
by Marian Rychtecky 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

Hi Adam and all Observium enthusiasts, I have two questions. First - is there any trick to find out why OSPF discovery is working on one router and not the other? I have the global setting enabled, and the OSPF module is enabled too, but only 1 router is being discovered as OSPF enabled. Am I missing something? Second - any plans integrating CISCO-VPC-MIB for vPC pairs of Cisco Nexus switches? Thank you very much for any response, Marian -- Marian Rychtecký mr(a)nix.cz Phone +420 724 397 441 NIX.CZ z.s.p.o. Americká 23, Praha 2 130 52 Czech Republic http://www.nix.cz

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Need Explain about Legend Details on DiskIO Graph
by Aulia Rahman 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Dear All, Can someone explain me the details of legend on Disk IO page refers to ? Health > Disk I/O: First graph with legend bps "<" & ">" (blue and green graph) What does k, M, none suffix mean ? Second graph with legend Operations/sec "Rx" & "Tx" (red & orange graph) What does m, u, none suffix mean ?

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best practices regarding interface switching and historical data
by Arne Van Theemsche 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

Hi, I was wondering how you guys tackle the problem of changing the port of (e.g. your transit uplink) to another physical port & historical data. Since rrd's are stored under "port-<snmpid>" format, this event causes you by default to loose your historical data. Or even worse, you have to change your routing engine with a more recent version, and after replacing it seems all your snmp id's are changed. this is certainly of importance for our interfaces which have a label that automatically creates aggregates graphs. How I do this until now is copying the rrd file to the new location, but this seems so... dirty kind regards Arene

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emails alerts stopped working
by Pieter Meyer 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Hi, Seems Email alerts stopped working, we are currently using Observium 21.2.10990 email.inc.php ./test_alert.php -c 3 Observium 21.2.10990 Test Alert Notification o Notifying [email] Default alert email: {"email":"cvtvoice(a)convergedgroup.net"}PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /opt/observium/includes/alerting/email.inc.php on line 131 Regards Pieter Meyer Converged Group | Licensed ISP 0258/IECNS/JAN/09 75 Witkoppen Rd, North Riding, Gauteng, 2162 Office: +27 10 591 4600 | Mobile: +27 83 233 6614

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wrong values in billing module
by Volker Lieder 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Hi, we are using the Pro/Subscription and use the billing module. A customer of us notices us, that the billing information is wrong. I checked information from billing module for december for the customer (95/5 374Mbit). Also i check 95/5 of the port directly i get a value of 204Mbit, 95/5 How is this difference possible? Any other persons here with same problems? Best regards, Volker

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Device & bad_if_regexp
by Arrigo 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Hi All. Is there a way to associate a device in /bad_if_regexp /parameter in /config.php /file? I mean: I want to exclude "GigabitEthernet0/3/4.*" subinterfaces on a specific device, but the same interface is also on other devices. My actual config.php setup is: $config['bad_if_regexp'][] = "/GigabitEthernet0\/3\/4\.[123]+/"; $config['bad_if_regexp'][] = "/GigabitEthernet0\/3\/4\.[456789][0-9]{0,2}$/"; Thanks, Arrigo.

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Ubuntu update problem.
by Peltokangas Mikko 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

Hello, I updated my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04 and my Observium wont update devices events anymore. Services are up, but where I should search problem? I have latest updates from Observium (20.21.10924) -- Terveisin, Mikko Peltokangas, järjestelmäasiantuntija Alavuden kaupunki gsm:+358-44-516 3120 (myös Whatsapp) email:mikko.peltokangas@alavus.fi

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Arista switches per-VLAN traffic stats?
by Adam Thompson 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

I observe (pun not intended) that on our Arista switches, unlike the Cisco NX9ks we run, Observium isn’t able to collect per-VLAN traffic stats. This is kind of a problem for us… Arista’s willing to help diagnose, but wants to know what MIB trees are being polled to gather this info. Can anyone tell me what MIBs / OID trees Observium is looking for? Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

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PHP error after update
by luca＠sasdelli.it 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php on line 540 .and blank web page with HTTP ERROR 500 Any hint? Thanks Luca

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mysql poller times increased 2x after Maria DB upgrade from 5.x to 10.3
by Edvinas Kairys 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

hello, Mysql poller times increased 2x after Maria DB upgrade from 5.x to 10.3 [image: image.png] I dont know if this is supposed to be or not ? dunno if i 'feel' any slowness, but i want to ask for your info. Thanks for any input

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local db vs remote
by Edvinas Kairys 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Hello, I see that Observium supports remote database, recently when i was thinking how to autobackup database, i came accross to the idea that i could use remote db functionality to send db data to some centralized location. Has anybode tried to use remote db for Observium ? Thanks

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Probes
by Jacek.Dabrowski＠selgros.pl 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Hello, Is it possible to use login data when creating probes? Applies to websites that require logging in. [cid:image001.png@01D6E5B0.7C220F20] Regards Jacek Dąbrowski

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Please remove me thank you
by Davide Viganó 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Davide Viganó Centro Internazionale Loppiano Servizio IT M +39 348 3551790 E davide(a)loppiano.it

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upgrading Observium | python part
by Edvinas Kairys 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

Hello, I want to renew Observium system and upgrade old dependencies, like current Python 2.7.5. Do i understand correctly that i can download Python3.6 and start to use it instead that old 2.7.5 Python ?

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Question on Observium GUI
by Martin 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

Hello Observium experts, Is there a way to 'acknowledge' an issue which produces a status box (old style) to make this status box to disappear from my dashboard? For example, I have a number of BGP sessions on hot-standby devices which are 'normally down' until the primary device dies. I do not need/want to see the down state of these BGP sessions. Obviously other BGP issues from these or other devices should still be reported. Best regards, Martin

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creating alert when port status change
by Luis Olavarrieta 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

Adam / team: How do you create a rule when a port changes it status? I need to send an email when a port (different than the WAN) changes it status from up to down.

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Updating observium system via yum update
by Edvinas Kairys 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

Hello, it's been a while I was upgrading the Observium dependencies. Currently we're suing OLD Centos version: CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core) [image: image.png] What do you think, is it safe to update system via yum update? It would upgrade Centos 7.3 to 7.x and should upgrade Python, Maria DB (from 5.5.56 to 5.5.68) ant other Observium dependencies. After this base update, i would try to manually update MariaDB to 10.x and Python, if yum update will be insufficient. My concern is to not corrupt the system. Could you give some recommendations or i'm too careful and everything should be fine with yum update. ? Thank you:)

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Call to undefined function is_valid_serial()
by Simon Smith 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

Hi All, Im having an issue where the poller.php is erroring out and crashing when talking to my linux servers CMD[/usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c *** -Pud -OQUv -m UCD-SNMP-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'voip.rbs':'161' .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.4.3.1.1.6.115.101.1 14.105.97.108] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0331s] STDOUT[ "To Be Filled By O.E.M." ] SNMP STATUS[TRUE] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function is_valid_serial() in /opt/observium/includes/polling/os/unix.inc.php:384 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/polling/os.inc.php(239): include() #1 /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php(336): include('/opt/observium/...') #2 /opt/observium/poller.php(187): poll_device(Array, Array) #3 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/polling/os/unix.inc.php on line 384 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function is_valid_serial() in /opt/observium/includes/polling/os/unix.inc.php:384 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/polling/os.inc.php(239): include() #1 /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php(336): include('/opt/observium/...') #2 /opt/observium/poller.php(187): poll_device(Array, Array) #3 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/polling/os/unix.inc.php on line 384 SVN latest revision 10905 Any ideas? Kindest regards Simon

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Re: [Observium] Smokeping graphs post migration
by Joey Stanford 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

>> It seems this bit of code isn’t being triggered at all, which suggests none of your filenames have a tilde in them? > > correct As a side note, smokeping-generate vs my actual targets appears to differ. # jstanford @ observium in ~ [14:44:02] $ diff smokeping-obs-script.txt smokeping-actual-targert.txt 174,179d173 < ++ radio-cedarwood_fremont_rmham < host = radio-cedarwood.fremont.rmham < < ++ radio-cedarwood_pueblo_rmham < host = radio-cedarwood.pueblo.rmham < 582,584d575 < ++ router_n5zgt_qth < host = router.n5zgt.qth < 737,739d727 < < ++ wifi_ac0kq_rmham < host = wifi.ac0kq.rmham

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Smokeping graphs post migration
by Joey Stanford 19 Dec '20

19 Dec '20

Howdy, I need some help pointing me in the right direction for troubleshooting. I migrated Observium from Ubuntu to Debian and life is good except for smokeping. I have no graphs but… * smokeping is installed * smokeping and observium’s config.php are using the same configuration as the old server * going to [host]cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi shows me all the graphs and they are up to date * going to the tech support page shows me that observium finds the graphs e.g. - Found file ending in ".rrd": router_thorodin_rmham.rrd - Determined to be a local file, for target router_thorodin_rmham - After replacing configured split_char _ by . target is router.thorodin.rmham so at this point I know smokeping is working, the graphs have the right perms to displayed (currently smokeping:observium), and observium can see the rrd file. Unfortunately going to the page I get the dreaded “Error drawing graph”. At the bottom of the smokeping section in tech support I see two items. One is an error for no outgoing latency graph. Any ideas on what else I could look at? RRD for incoming latency found. RRD for outgoing latency not found.

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Juniper polling performance tip
by Markus Klock 19 Dec '20

19 Dec '20

Hey guys! Just wanted to share a little tip on how to increase Observium polling performance on juniper boxes. This might be old news for some but I just found it. You can create a filter on junos-device that filters out certain interfaces from SNMP view. https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/task/configuration… I can recommend using: set snmp filter-interfaces all-internal-interfaces set snmp filter-interfaces interfaces "^sxe-.*" This will filter out all useless internal interfaces from polling and discovery by Observium. Especially when you have large juniper switch stacks the total number of internal interfaces are a lot which slows down polling. Filtering them out actually makes a big difference. If you got a lot of juniper gear, try it out and please share the speedup in pollingtime! /Markus

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no graphs after restore
by Mark Rowlands 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

Had a little whoopsie and have had to restore from backup. Installed observium, Pro edition. made sure that the observium version matched on our backup copy, copied the db, rrd files . it works, but I have no graphs. Just "error drawing graph" Ideas where I should look?

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