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About IfAlias max length
by Paolo Giustiniani 29 May '14

29 May '14

Hello, how can set max length in ifAlias / description in Observium? Thanks

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Device status changed to Down (snmp)
by overige＠vanderpoel.com.au 29 May '14

29 May '14

Hi, I recently installed Observium CE and noticed some very weird behavior. Observium monitors currently 3 devices: 1 Debian Server + 1 Debian workstation + 1 Ubuntu workstation. The Debian workstation is shutdown overnight and rebooted in the morning, nicely shown in the Event logging: Shutdown: *<date time> System Device status changed to Down (ping)* Reboot: *<date time> System Device status changed to Up <date time> Reboot Device rebooted after <hours min sec> * That's all fine. But now the weird thing is that for the Server the Event log says almost at the same time: *<date time> System Device status changed to Down (snmp)* and when the workstation is rebooted, the Server Event log says at almost the same time: *<date time> System Device status changed to Up* Graphs for the server don't get updated/have data for the time the Debian workstation is down. The Ubuntu workstation runs 24/7 and graphs get properly updated during time the Debian workstation is down. I would expect that what happened with the workstation should have no effect on the data collection of the Server. Details: Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 OS Debian 7 (Server + Workstation) Ubuntu 10.40 LTS (Workstation 24/7) How do I get this working properly? Thanx, Pieter

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svn 5536 apache 500?
by Norman Todd 29 May '14

29 May '14

is anyone else seeing a 500 apache error and blank login after upgrade to 5536? im not seeing anything in the logs to suggest errors, and it was working fine prior to upgrade last entry in observium.log is just prior to upgrade machine is ubuntu precise running observium on amazon ec2 beautifully. if I’m alone on this it must be the machine/instance thanks in advance NT

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SNMP Trap Receiver?
by Hamilton, Kent 28 May '14

28 May '14

Any plans for adding an SNMP trap and/or syslog receiver and correlating events with the correct devices? ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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Odd issue with recent update - UnpingableRRD & UnpingableMySQL
by Andrew Davis 28 May '14

28 May '14

All, We’ve been running Observium on Ubnutu 12.04 for a little over a year now, and after applying the latest community update, we seem to have devices periodically reporting as down. The error I’m getting is bouncing between UnpingableMySQL and UnpingableRRD. With debug enabled, this is an example of what we’re seeing: /poller.php -h itups03-02.net.internal Observium v0.14.4.5229 Poller Starting polling run: SQL[SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'itups03-02.net.internal' ORDER BY `device_id` ASC] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = '40'] SQL[SELECT * FROM devices_attribs WHERE `device_id` = '40'] itups03-02.net.internal 40 apc UnpingableRRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/itups03-02.net.internal/status.rrd N:0] stdout[OK u:0.00 s:0.00 r:0.05] stderr[]] RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/itups03-02.net.internal/ping.rrd N:U] stdout[OK u:0.00 s:0.00 r:0.06] stderr[]] RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/itups03-02.net.internal/ping_snmp.rrd N:U] stdout[OK u:0.00 s:0.00 r:0.06] stderr[]] SQL[INSERT INTO `perf_times` (`type`,`doing`,`start`,`duration`,`devices`) VALUES ('poll','itups03-02.net.internal','1401246542.664','0.066','1')] ./poller.php itups03-02.net.internal May 27, 2014, 20:09 - 1 devices polled in 0.066 secs MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[1/0s] Rows[1/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[1/0s] Delete[0/0s] Any advice on where we can look? Seems like the only way to get them back up is to keep running the poller for the particular host until the poller runs. Thanks! Andrew Davis IT Systems J. David Gladstone Institutes

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IPSec Tunnels
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 28 May '14

28 May '14

All, I've noticed that for Cisco ASAs the Routing--IPSec Tunnels section is not accurate. It lists all tunnels that have ever been made and marks them as active, even though the tunnel may not exist anymore. I believe that the OID shows the active tunnels is 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.2.3.1.7 Also, is there a way to alert on this list changing? V0.14.5.5533 Best regards, derek _______________________________________________________________ NOTICE TO PERSONS SUBJECT TO UNITED STATES TAXATION (MCPS) DISCLOSURE UNDER TREASURY CIRCULAR 230: The United States Federal tax advice, if any, contained in this document and its attachments may not be used or referred to in the promoting, marketing or recommending of any entity, investment plan or arrangement, nor is such advice intended or written to be used, and may not be used, by a taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding Federal tax penalties. _______________________________________________________________

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Re: [Observium] spam device type
by Rob VanHooren 28 May '14

28 May '14

'firewall' type close enough? (covers anything UTM-ish...) imo. > On May 28, 2014, at 8:49, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > 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. Re: Monitoring Interface names (Pawe? Tyll) > 2. Re: Monitoring Interface names (Pawe? Tyll) > 3. Observium - Device types (Adriaan Smuts) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:28:04 +0200 > From: Pawe? Tyll <ofca(a)ofca.me> > To: Markus Klock <markus(a)best-practice.se> > Cc: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Monitoring Interface names > Message-ID: <16110040385.20140528142804(a)ofca.me> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > >> Pawel: you are not confusing ifName with?ifDescr perhaps? > Nope; we are using lots of tunnels and they are named indicating > customer names. I never was a fan of eth0, eth1, eth1337 and stuff and > I use proper interface names that have sense to humans pretty much > everywhere I can. Both FreeBSD and Mikrotik lets you name interfaces > how you see fit. Unfortunately FreeBSD doesn't expose description in > SNMP, which I'd love to use to describe customers (ID, bw). > > Our use for Observium is mainly monitoring our access network and > customers' CPEs. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:29:44 +0200 > From: Pawe? Tyll <ofca(a)ofca.me> > To: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > Cc: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Monitoring Interface names > Message-ID: <453820384.20140528142944(a)ofca.me> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >> Seems like a bizarre thing to monitor. Are you doing this one some >> brain-dead platform that lets you change ifNames, like Extreme? > Worse. Mikrotik ;) > >> I don't think it's something which is particularly overhead-intensive, >> but it still strikes me as an odd thing to want to monitor. > Too many admins. Some of them have arbitrary approach to keeping > things tidy ;> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:49:13 +0200 > From: Adriaan Smuts <adriaan.smuts(a)webafrica.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] Observium - Device types > Message-ID: > <6AFE6591FCB270428ADB45B94F35DA4461EDB3202D(a)wacptexch.corp.webafrica.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Guys, > > Would it be possible to add a new device type to Observium? We would like a device type for 'Spam Filter' devices. It doesn't have to automatically change the Type to it, we can do that manually. > > The current list: > [cid:image001.png@01CF7A83.FDC3DD50] > > Regards > > Adriaan Smuts > > Systems Administrator - Windows > > [file:///C:\Users\adriaan\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] > > ________________________________ > > Direct Line > > +27 21 464 9565 > > Reception > > 086 000 9500 > > Website > > www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/> > > > > >

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Observium - Device types
by Adriaan Smuts 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hi Guys, Would it be possible to add a new device type to Observium? We would like a device type for 'Spam Filter' devices. It doesn't have to automatically change the Type to it, we can do that manually. The current list: [cid:image001.png@01CF7A83.FDC3DD50] Regards Adriaan Smuts Systems Administrator - Windows [file:///C:\Users\adriaan\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] ________________________________ Direct Line +27 21 464 9565 Reception 086 000 9500 Website www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/>

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Monitoring Interface names
by Paweł Tyll 28 May '14

28 May '14

I would like to ensure that interface names conform to certain standard. I'm stuck at 'Check Conditions' phase of making an alert. If I understand everything right, then there's no ifName metric available for a match condition, or am I doing something else wrong? Any suggestions? If I'm right, then can ifName be added as a metric?

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Re: [Observium] ntpd offset
by Adam Armstrong 28 May '14

28 May '14

http://tech.kulish.com/2007/10/30/ntp-ntpq-output-explained/ Simon Smith wrote:

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