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Email Formatting for Alert Checks
by Pico Leto 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

Hi, Is there a better option for how the html formatting happens with the alert checkers? Examples are attached. I basically create a message with proper spacing, carriage returns etc. But after saving the alert (screenshot2) the formatting is disregarded. Reason for the long message is that my NOC needs step by steps instructions on how to handle something like per company policy. The email formatting also seems to take the Message field and throw it into the subject line. Shouldn't just the Name field in the alert checkers be in the Subject line of the email and then the message be included in the body? Is anyone out there doing custom email notifications or just using the default?

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Log rotation, was Re: Observium on CentOS 7
by Colin Stubbs 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

One note though. And this isn't just related to CentOS hence change of subject. You'll need to sort out your own log rotation, e.g. create /etc/logrotate.d/observium with something like the below if you stick with the basic Apache httpd config, /opt/observium/logs/*_log { missingok notifempty compress delaycompress sharedscripts postrotate /bin/systemctl reload httpd.service > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true endscript } /opt/observium/logs/*.log { missingok notifempty compress delaycompress } There's been a couple of jira tickets related to it (745/872), but no template suggested in jira or added to svn that I could find, and no code to manage observium.log or update-errors.log that grep -i could find. -Colin On 15 January 2015 at 19:30, Florian Miesenberger <florian(a)miesenberger.cc> wrote: > Okay. I will try the standard CentOS/RHEL Guide. > Yeah I know the most minor changes of CentOS 7. > > Thank you Adriaan ;-) > > Greetz from Austria > Florian Miesenberger > > Am 15.01.15 um 10:21 schrieb Adriaan Smuts: > > Standard CentOS installation instruction worked for me. Some minor > changes here and there (systemctl instead of service and MariaDB instead of > MySQL). > > > > *Adriaan Smuts* > > Systems Administrator - Windows > > ------------------------------ > > *Direct Line:* > > +27 21 464 9565 > > *Reception:* > > 086 000 9500 > > *www.webafrica.co.za <http://www.webafrica.co.za/>* > > [image: Web Africa] > > > > > > > > *From:* observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org > <observium-bounces(a)observium.org>] *On Behalf Of *Florian Miesenberger > *Sent:* 15 January 2015 11:18 AM > *To:* Observium Network Observation System > *Subject:* Re: [Observium] Observium on CentOS 7 > > > > Okay, cool. Thank you Guys! :-) > Does somebody has got a working Tutorial or Installationscript for CentOS > 7? > > Greetz from Austria > Florian Miesenberger > > Am 14.01.15 um 18:20 schrieb Ellery Weber: > > I am running on CentOS7 as well, and it has been working quite nicely. > > > > [image: SELCO Community Credit Union] > > [image: > https://selcotools/SignatureGenerator/SignatureGenerator_files/SignatureGen…] > > *Ellery Weber* > *Network Administrator* > SELCO Community Credit Union > Eugene – Downtown Corporate Headquarters > Phone/Fax: 541-686-5349 | Cell: 541-357-9505 | eweber(a)selco.org > *selco.org* <https://www.selco.org/> | facebook > <http://www.facebook.com/SELCOCCU> | twitter <http://twitter.com/selcoccu> > > > > > > *From:* observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org > <observium-bounces(a)observium.org>] *On Behalf Of *Colin Stubbs > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:37 AM > *To:* Observium Network Observation System > *Subject:* Re: [Observium] Observium on CentOS 7 > > > > > > I'm running three instances, all on CentOS 7, no dramas. > > MySQL became MariaDB; that's about the biggest change that I can recall. > > > -Colin > > On 14 January 2015 at 21:12, Florian Miesenberger <florian(a)miesenberger.cc> > wrote: > > Hello, > > this is my first posting on a mailing list so excuse me if I do something > wrong ;-) > > My question is: > Does anybody already got Observium work on CentOS 7? > > Greetz from Austria > Florian Miesenberger > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > *This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of > a specific individual or entity or specific individuals or entities and may > contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, > confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may > constitute as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, > you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or > copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may represent a > tortious interference with a confidential business relationship(s). If you > have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by > telephone and (i) permanently destroy this message if a facsimile, (ii) > permanently delete this message immediately if this is an electronic > communication, (iii) permanently destroy any electronic or printed copies > of this electronic communication.* > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://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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recommend power switch
by Simon Smith 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Hi All, this is just an email to ask what people think about networked power supply? whats the best brand in there mind? what ones do you use? but oversally, do they work with Observium? can you monitor the currents and stuff correctly? I’m looking at upgrading our very old APC one as it doesn’t support monitoring by SNMP, and wanted to see what people have or recommend regards Simon

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Integration question about smokeping
by Nate Mellendorf 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

While looking at the list of tools that are supported within Observium, I found this neat "patch" for Smokeping: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1075 I'm half tempted to try and implement the proposed solution, as our support staff loves the colored graphs for packet loss. That said, I was curious if this is something you plan to implement into Observium in the near future. I ask, as I'm worried that adding this patch in before it's officially supported could break something for us down the road. Thanks in advance for your opinion on this. It will be well received and is greatly appreciated. Regards, Nate Mellendorf | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 www.NetgainHosting.com<http://www.netgainhosting.com/> [cid:image003.png@01D03046.E119C1F0] ________________________________ The information contained in this email message is for the designated recipient only and may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any information contained within is strictly prohibited.

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Custom Pages for Specific Graphs
by LCJones 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Folks, We are running the subscription package of Observium. Hope this doesn't seem too lame a question after reading the Doc's/FAQ's. Perhaps and most likely, I have missed something. I understand and have created custom_traffic frontpage graphs which are handy. Is there a way to create custom pages with specifically chosen graphs? -- L.C. Jones Mikrotec Hosting/Data Center 1001 Winchester Road Lexington, KY. 40505 lcjones-(a)-mikro-data.net

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distro script not detect mailcleaner
by Simon Smith 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hi All, just an update on a BUG I found I use the 2014 Community edition of Mailcleaner - http://www.mailcleaner.org/ <http://www.mailcleaner.org/> but the Disto script doesn’t detect it at all the script seems to be looking for the file - /etc/mailcleaner/etc/mailcleaner/version.def it should be looking for /usr/mailcleaner/etc/mailcleaner/version.def please can you update the SVN distro script :) regards Simon

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Observium on CentOS 7
by Florian Miesenberger 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hello, this is my first posting on a mailing list so excuse me if I do something wrong ;-) My question is: Does anybody already got Observium work on CentOS 7? Greetz from Austria Florian Miesenberger

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Map location problems after switching to the Pro version
by Richard Kuhns 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Hello, We had been running the community version of Observium for a few weeks. I set the syslocation for each device, and when using the Google API each device appeared on the map exactly where it should. I used google instead of mapquest because when using mapquest a number of locations were wrong even though I used the exact address mapquest.com showed when I looked it up. We recently went Pro, and it's well worth the money. However, the map is no longer useful. We currently have 62 devices we're monitoring, all within a small geographic area in central Indiana around Lafayette. 61 of the 62 devices show up within a single block around our default latitude & longitude. For example, in the event log I find an entry for mulberry-sw1: 2015-01-14 09:25:00 mulberry-sw1 System Geolocation (GOOGLE) -> [40.420760, -86.890249] United States (Country), Indiana (State), Tippecanoe County (County), Lafayette (City) This is just wrong. The actual location string for this device (which has been untouched since it worked correctly for the community version) shows that it's in Mulberry, Indiana. That's even in a different county. Am I doing something wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- Richard Kuhns <rjk(a)wintek.com> Main Number: 765-742-8428 Wintek Corporation Direct: 765-269-8541 427 N 6th Street Internet Support: 765-269-8503 Lafayette, IN 47901-2211 Consulting: 765-269-8504

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Observium RANCID best practices
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

What is the proper configuration for having Observium and RANCID on separate boxes, and still have versioning with RANCID? Currently we just mount a share from our RANCID box to Observium, this give the current configs, but not the versioning. Regards, derek

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RANCID and Git mode
by krause＠rus.uni-stuttgart.de 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Hi, to get the RANCID mode working on my Debian wheezy I needed to tweak the code a bit. If anyone is interested in the diff, here goes: -(snip)- --- a/html/pages/device/showconfig.inc.php +++ b/html/pages/device/showconfig.inc.php @@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ if ($_SESSION['userlevel'] >= 5) if (!$rev['count'] && is_executable($config['git'])) { $cmd_dir = escapeshellarg(dirname($device_config_file)); - $gitlogs = external_exec($config['git'].' --git-dir='.$cmd_dir.' log --pretty=format:"%h %ci" '.$cmd_file); + $git_file = escapeshellarg(basename($device_config_file)); + $git_dir = escapeshellarg(dirname($device_config_file) . '/.git'); + $gitlogs = external_exec($config['git'].' --git-dir='.$git_dir.' log --pretty=format:"%h %ci" -- '.$git_file); foreach (explode("\n", $gitlogs) as $line) { // b6989b9 2014-11-10 00:16:53 +0100 @@ -109,8 +111,10 @@ if ($_SESSION['userlevel'] >= 5) $prev_name = 'r'.$rev['prev']; break; case 'git': - $cmd_cat = $config['git'].' --git-dir='.$cmd_dir.' show '.$rev['curr'].':'.escapeshellarg(basename($device_config_file)); - $cmd_diff = $config['git'].' --git-dir='.$cmd_dir.' diff '.$rev['prev'].' '.$rev['curr'].' '.$cmd_file; + $git_file = escapeshellarg(basename($device_config_file)); + $git_dir = escapeshellarg(dirname($device_config_file) . '/.git'); + $cmd_cat = $config['git'].' --git-dir='.$git_dir.' show '.$rev['curr'].':'.$git_file; + $cmd_diff = $config['git'].' --git-dir='.$git_dir.' diff '.$rev['prev'].' '.$rev['curr'].' -- '.$git_file; $prev_name = $rev['prev']; } $device_config = external_exec($cmd_cat); -(snip)- If I didn't work around that, I'd just get the last version and no history/diff. Running the relevant git commands, I was receiving both: "fatal: Not a git repository:" and "fatal: ambiguous argument '...': unknown revision or path not in the working tree." ...and since we don't use RANCID itself, but some script that does store our configs with a *.cfg extension, I've also needed to patch: -(snip)- --- a/html/includes/functions.inc.php +++ b/html/includes/functions.inc.php @@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ function get_rancid_filename($hostname, { global $config; - $hostnames = array($hostname); + $hostnames = array($hostname . '.cfg'); if ($rdebug) { echo("Hostname: $hostname<br />"); } @@ -1319,6 +1319,8 @@ function get_rancid_filename($hostname, if ($shortname != $hostname) { + // FIXME: as long as RUS nmm does store with .cfg extension + $hostnames[] = $shortname . '.cfg'; $hostnames[] = $shortname; if ($rdebug) { echo("Hostname different from short hostname, looking for both<br />"); } } @@ -1326,6 +1328,8 @@ function get_rancid_filename($hostname, // Addition of a domain suffix for non-FQDN device names. if (isset($config['rancid_suffix']) && $config['rancid_suffix'] !== '') { + // FIXME: as long as RUS nmm does store with .cfg extension + $hostnames[] = $hostname . '.' . trim($config['rancid_suffix'] . '.cfg', ' .'); $hostnames[] = $hostname . '.' . trim($config['rancid_suffix'], ' .'); if ($rdebug) { echo("RANCID suffix configured, also looking for " . $hostname . '.' . trim($config['rancid_suffix'], ' .') . "<br />"); } } -(snip)- The reason is that we have a config with and without ACLs and I'm still pondering whether it'd not be better for our admins to be able to select both variants from the WebUI too. Best regards, Kilian -- Kilian Krause Netze und Kommunikationssysteme (NKS) Informations- und Kommunikationszentrum der Universität Stuttgart (IZUS) Technische Informations- und Kommunikationsdienste (TIK, ehem. RUS) Tel.: +49 (711) 685-64512 Fax.: +49 (711) 685-54512 (PC) Fax.: +49 (711) 68 23 57 Allmandring 30a 70550 Stuttgart DEUTSCHLAND

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