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Re: [Observium] Out of curiosity, how big is everyones installation?
by Steve Costaras 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

would be possible, but would much rather have that as a php or other plugin to the gui so it can happen all on the same screen/time of object creation/deletion. It avoids having people who do NOT have unix skills needing to get into the os for simple day/day operation (which here is adding/removing devices). This though is secondary to grouping for large deployments. I'm only dealing with one small site currently, but we numerous soho and other locations around the world and ancillary sites/DC's. using dns name doesn't work when there are hundreds/thousands of devices of the same types (takes /way/ to long to find what you're looking for or to focus on only certain logical groupings of devices. community strings don't work as there is no central authority to control what goes into that field (not all devices are controlled by us, but we're tasked to monitor/trend/troublehsoot). >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Laermans [mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx] >Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 07:07 AM >To: observium(a)observium.org >Subject: Re: [Observium] Out of curiosity, how big is everyones installation? > >Indeed - smokeping integration in Observium will never(*) write into >other config files; just like we won't add devices to rancid, etc. >Scripting against mysql -e "SELECT hostname FROM devices" output is easy >though. > >(*) right to change reserved > >On 7/11/2012 14:04, Jason Lixfeld wrote: >> Why not write a script to pull the hostnames out of the database at some internal into the smokeping config file? >> >> -- >> >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> >> On 2012-11-07, at 8:00 AM, "Steve Costaras" <stevecs(a)chaven.com> wrote: >> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Mattias Gyllenvarg [mailto:Mattias.Gyllenvarg@Bredband2.se] >>>> Only our Core/Dist devices are in Observium >>>> >>>> Devices 183 ( 177 up 1 down 2 ignored 3 disabled ) >>>> Ports 9019 ( 4222 up 179 down 542 ignored 3957 shutdown ) >>>> >>>> Access devices (1500 more) may be added if there had been a good way too >>>> categorize. >>> Still testing/playing here with only 80 devices 4077 ports, but the above sentiments are shared, we have several thousand more devices as well, but without a grouping/categorization system as well as some tighter integration w/ smokeping (so by adding the device in the gui it creates/adds it in the smokeping configuration) don't see this really continuing. >>> >>> Also starting to look at Reconnoiter and other tools. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Re: [Observium] Out of curiosity, how big is everyones installation?
by Steve Costaras 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

>-----Original Message----- >From: Mattias Gyllenvarg [mailto:Mattias.Gyllenvarg@Bredband2.se] >Only our Core/Dist devices are in Observium > >Devices 183 ( 177 up 1 down 2 ignored 3 disabled ) >Ports 9019 ( 4222 up 179 down 542 ignored 3957 shutdown ) > >Access devices (1500 more) may be added if there had been a good way too >categorize. > Still testing/playing here with only 80 devices 4077 ports, but the above sentiments are shared, we have several thousand more devices as well, but without a grouping/categorization system as well as some tighter integration w/ smokeping (so by adding the device in the gui it creates/adds it in the smokeping configuration) don't see this really continuing. Also starting to look at Reconnoiter and other tools.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5
by Dan Nelson 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

1 Virtual Server, 67 Devices, 1265 Ports running great. Thanks Dan Nelson Nutraceutical Corporation Network Administrator 801-334-3702

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Procedure to add a MIB file for a device already monitored by Observium
by Charles Nadeau 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hello, I put a MIB file in /opt/observium/mibs/ for a device whose interfaces I already monitor with SNMP. In order to have Observium uses the MIB to monitor all its components do I just run "/opt/observium/discovery.php -h new" again or do I have to modify "config.php" then run "/opt/observium/discovery.php -h new"? Thanks! Charles -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 28, Issue 1
by Charles Nadeau 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:00 PM, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:43:25 +0400 > From: Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Procedure to add a MIB file for a device > already monitored by Observium > Message-ID: <5092362D.9000403(a)inblock.ru> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Nope, > > MIB just describe these counters it won't add support to observium. > Patch is need to add support of new device/mib Can you tell me where and what to add, I could give it a go then share it if I am successful. Thanks! Charles

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IP SLA
by John Macleod 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

I have setup two devices with IP SLA, however I am not getting anything in Observium. One is a Cisco 877W 12.4(24)T6, the other is a Cisco 2901 15.1(4)M3. I verified that the IP SLA module is enabled, I must be missing something?

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fresh installation, no login screen
by Elad Eyal (Ubiqam) 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I've followed the installation instructions to the letter, and while I can get to the observium webpage, I can see observium logo and the text "Big Graphs | Widescreen | Not logged in!" on the top right of the page, I can't see anything else. Furthermore, when I look at the HTML source of the page delivered, it ends with " Not logged in!" and not with </HTML> as I would expect. The machine is a brand new Amazon EC3 VM running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. I'd appriciate any help. I don't see anything of interest in the apache logs. The same client (browser) works OK for the live demo. thanks Elad

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Custom port descriptinos
by Michael Cushard 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi, I see that the ability to add custom port descriptins is available, but I cannot find any instructions to how to actually do it. What is the procedure for adding custom port descriptions? Regards, Michael Cushard

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Device Traffic Graph
by Bruno Galeppe 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hi, I set up several devices on Obervium, no problem so far, except for the Traffic Graphs which remain empty. For example : http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/168961data.jpg The RRD file exist, but the data always return 0.00 How can I debug that ? Is there an snmpwalk command to help understand the problem ? Regards,

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Various questions (BGP/Discovery/Pseudowires/Hostname truncating)
by Jason Lixfeld 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

First off, let me say thanks to the developers of Observium. This piece of code is one of the most amazing pieces of code I have used for my network monitoring purposes to date. I have a few questions that I'm hoping someone can answer - BGP: ---- I have a few eBGP speakers that live inside a VRF. Observium picks up the VRFs just fine, but the routing tab for the device only seems to show the BGP sessions that exist in the global (non-VRF) table. Is it possible to show the BGP sessions that exist inside a VRF? Pseudowires: ------------ I see lots of data inside the pseudowires table on the observium database, but I don't see any of that inside the pseudowires tab from within a device where I know pseudowires are configured. These pseudowires exist on IOS boxes, IOS-XR boxes and IOS-XE boxes. I do see a few. Observium > Ports > Pseudowires shows me 11 pseuowires. 6 of them are duplicates of one another while 5 are unique. The database shows hundreds. While looking through a ./discovery.php -d I ran against one of our XR boxes, I did see this: Cisco Pseudowires : SQL[SELECT * FROM `pseudowires` WHERE `device_id` = '1'] DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcID cpwVcID = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcName cpwVcName = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcType cpwVcType = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcPsnType cpwVcPsnType = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcDescr cpwVcDescr = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcMplsPeerLdpID cpwVcMplsPeerLdpID = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID That seems to show that pseudowire support for XR isn't there yet? Is that on the road map, by chance? Discovery: ---------- There are a couple of devices that aren't getting discovered for some reason. The IP that their hostname resolves to is within the 'nets' arrays configured inside config.php and I have other SNMP devices that reach those boxes, so I know the SNMP side is sound. Likewise, I can see the device in question in the CDP table of an adjacent device, so I know that part is working as well. I've looked at a ./discovery -d of an adjacent device hoping to see a clue about why the device is being skipped, but nothing is striking out at me. Hostname truncating: -------------------- We name our devices <device><device_number>.<pop>.<city>.domain.tld. In the devices view, it shows the full device name no problem. In the VRF view, for example, however, it shows only <device><device_number>, truncating the pop and city portions. If anyone has any insight or guidance on these issues, I'd be grateful! Thanks in advance.

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