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Best managed PDU for *NIX style systems for snmp support?
by Kaya Saman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, I've been using Observium for a few months now and really enjoy it! I currently have a fully managed/switched PDU which has been under RMA for what feels like forever and the best advice the manufacturer could give me was to return the unit back to my reseller?? I'm not quite sure what's going to happen with it yet so I just wanted to know what the best or most compatible PDU is for *NIX systems?? I'm running Observium on FreeBSD 10 64bit. Basically the current PDU I have keeps bombing out under SNMP queries as snmpwalking the device either comes up with "snmp timed out" or totally the wrong protocol?? It's supposed to support v1 and v3 but the MIB response I get is for v2c? I know that Observium supports APC and two others as per listed on the Support page on the site. Which one is the most NIX friendly? Having read the documentation for the APC models, they can be updated over FTP or SCP which is perfect unlike my current model which needs an M$ exe program and since my network is OpenSource only OS wise it's basically an issue..... It seems to be a bad SNMP stack in my opinion as I've never had any issues using SNMP previously with many different vendors for network and peripheral devices. Observium even goes as far as graphing my HP print servers Toner values which is soo cool :-) Can anyone give me any advice? -- I was actually looking at this model: http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP… as a replacement. Many thanks. Kaya

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unix agent bind
by Erik Klaassen 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

i just added a bind machine successful to observium. Most of the stats and rrd's are working except for the resolving tab ( and cache content and outgoing queries). Is this because of the lack of stats from my bind? How to investigate this? the bind machine is just preforming recursion no authoritative zones. Thanks, Erik

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permissions issue
by Sud, Raman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi Folks, I am new to observium and I did the install as per the website. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Debian_Ubuntu_Installation when I put observium username in the config.php file and the corresponding password $config['db_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['db_user'] = 'observium'; $config['db_pass'] = 'password11'; $config['db_name'] = 'observium'; and run php includes/update/update.php command.. it fails with the following message root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php MySQL Error: Access denied for user 'observium'@'localhost' (using password: YES) root@Status:/opt/observium# if I change it to root, it works root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php root@Status:/opt/observium# root@Status:/opt/observium# I can do discovery and polling via the cli though but I see nothing on the web portal However, when I log into the web portal, and try to add a device it tells me Permission error You have insufficient permissions to view this page. When I go to my settings: it tells me Device permission level no access! What am I missing here :) Any guidance would be greatly appreciated The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email, you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse or copying or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message.

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"Overall Peering Traffic" graph broken
by Shane O'Brien 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

We are having an issue where the "Overall Peering Traffic Today" Graph on our front page is broken. When we try and use the option to "Disable broken graphs" it removes all the graphs from our front page. Is there any way to remove the "Overall Peering Traffic Today" graph without effecting the others? Thank you in advance for your assistance! -Shane

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Qlogic Sanbox 5602 Support
by Christian Gerbrandt 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Hi group, I was wondering about how to add support for a Qlogic Sanbox 5602 FC switch. >From all the info I gathered so far, it is using the Fibre Alliance MIB. I already added it to our Observium instalaltion, but I'm not able to get all information via SNMP. Only LAN ports are showing up, and some general infos are missing. Has anyone maybe started working on adding this device, or can tell me how to best add it? Many thanks, Christian

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Mail Alerts
by tech8.otelafrica 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

Hi Guys Struggling to get mails to send from our server.When having a look in var/log I dont see anything attempting to send out in the logs. Under config.php I have the following configured: $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "alerts(a)otelafrica.com"; $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['email_from'] = "Observium dev <observium.otel.co.za>"; $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; I have included a snapshot as well,please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. Regards Anton

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Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface
by Marco Spicuglia 22 Mar '14

22 Mar '14

Hi Adam, I thought I had replied already, but I didn't see my message coming through, so I give it another try. I did import the devices table into the new system, run the discovery and copied the rrds. Everything worked perfectly.. However, I should have imported the ports table as well, because all ports id have changed and our integrated systems relying on those id's were in panic. We were running Debian Wheezy 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 with PHP Version 5.4.4-14+deb7u8, Apache/2.2.22 and MySql 5.5.31 Thanks a lot for your help, our monitoring system is running again :) Cheers, Marco Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, Marco Spicuglia Network engineer - Programmer ReasonNet B.V. Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 1042AZ Amsterdam W. www.reasonnet.com E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com T. F. ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code.________________________________________ From: Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] Sent: 18 March 2014 20:18 To: Marco Spicuglia Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface Make sure you run discovery to upgrade the database, as the author stuff has changed and needs the new table format. Adam. On 18 Mar 2014 09:05, Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, thanks for your response. > No filesystem is full on the whole harddrive. > > > Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, > > Marco Spicuglia > > Network engineer - Programmer > > ReasonNet B.V. > Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 > 1042AZ Amsterdam > W. www.reasonnet.com > E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com > T. > F. > > ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws > > ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code.________________________________________ > From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] On Behalf Of Chris K. [kulish.com(a)gmail.com] > Sent: 18 March 2014 15:18 > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > Check if filesystem is full. > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@reasonnet.com>> wrote: > Hello there, > > I wonder if anybody can help me. > > After upgrading from community to subscription version, I was happily browsing the new features, but after some time (about half hour) all users here got logged out and nobody could login any more. > No error messages, we just get the login page again. > > My hard disk is not full. > I successfully created a new admin user but also cannot login. > I cleaned the cache, the history and the cookies of the browser. > If I check the table authlog in the database, it reports both old and new admin as regularly logged in. > > Is there anything I am missing? Any step I forgot during upgrade? Any cache/session I should clear server side? > > Your help is welcome. > > Best regards, > > Marco > > > > > Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, > > Marco Spicuglia > > Network engineer - Programmer > > ReasonNet B.V. > Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 > 1042AZ Amsterdam > W. www.reasonnet.com<http://www.reasonnet.com> > E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@reasonnet.com> > T. > F. > > ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws > > ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code.________________________________________ > From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Luis Quintana [sla07(a)earthlink.net<mailto:sla07@earthlink.net>] > Sent: 12 February 2014 16:04 > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > I greatly appreciate the help on it too!! Thanks guys! > > On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:02 AM, "Kulish, Chris" <chris.kulish(a)pioneer.com<mailto:chris.kulish@pioneer.com>> wrote: > > > Simple is my middle name! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:27 PM > > To: Observium Network Observation System > > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > > > On 2014-02-11 11:50, Kulish, Chris wrote: > >> If the filesystem full? > > > > Want simple solutions, ask a simple person. > > > > adam. > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains > > information that may be Privileged, confidential or copyrighted under > > applicable law. 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GeoLocation
by Johnathon Voegeli 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Quick question... We are a small WISP and I am trying to add all the WAPs to the map... if I do something like this: $config['location_map']['VIE Office'] = "35.476475, -80.992856"; It looks perfect on the map, however under the location menu of course it shows these coordinates as well... Is there anyway to get the SysLocation to show in the location field, but the map display correctly? Or is this a pipe dream. ~JV

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Session issues - automatically logged out frequently/instantly
by Chris Wopat 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hi list folks, I've had an issue with Observium since I *think* 4152 (http://fisheye.observium.org/changelog/Observium?cs=4152) where some authentication stuff was changed. Symptoms are once you log in, your next click may have your session already expired. As an example, I can log in, type something in the search bar, it may immediately report that the session is expired. If I simply leave the browser open on a page, it typically will just auto expire at some random period of time, all of which is under an hour. It appears to be very random so difficult to troubleshoot. This happens weather you choose to save your session or not. I've enabled PHP session debugging to write to files, contents of those seem fine. I've also cleared out `users_ckeys` table, no changes. I've also enabled php error logging in my apache config, but observium is overwritting this with ini_set all over the place which makes that somewhat futile. I've tested this on multiple systems, with built in auth and LDAP auth. Common denominator in this case is that my systems are FreeBSD, not Linux. Basically I'm checking if anyone else has encountered this at all, or if any other FreeBSD users are NOT having any issues. Info about my main observium install: FreeBSD 9.1 PHP+Modules 5.4.20 I've tested with PHP's APC on and off php Memory limit = 256 I've mentioned this with devs many times over the last 6 months, they effectively consider FreeBSD unsupported so don't really care. It all certainly worked perfectly prior to that auth update, nothing has changed on my systems since then except standard package updates. Thoughts? --Chris

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KVM Virtual Machine Monitoring
by Lane Eckley 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hi Guys, Our purchase of the subscription version of Observium is pending, but meanwhile I am looking to see if anyone has been using the KVM virtual machine monitoring built into Observium. I am curious if Observium is pulling the CPU, RAM, etc. for the KVM virtual machines running on each of the hypervisors or if its only monitoring whether the virtual machine is powered on or not. I read over the documentation, but unfortunately was unable to get it working at all thus far and am assuming its due to the free version not supporting. Thanks in advance! -Lane

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