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Syslog Integration
by Brian Hilmers 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hello, Our organization recently upgraded from the Community version to Professional. While using the Community version on Ubuntu 16.04 we found syslog integration worked well and setup was easy following the documentation. After purchasing a subscription, we installed Observium on a new Ubuntu 16.04 machine, but cannot get syslog integration to work. I have configured the target machine to send syslog messages to Observium and, using tcpdump, can confirm the Observium server is receiving messages on the correct port from the target with FQDN. However, the Observium web interface show "no syslog entries." What is the best way to diagnose and fix this problem? Brian Hilmers

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What is the IPMI settings for?
by Simon Mousey Smith 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hi All This is going to sound like a complete daft question But whats the IPMI settings for under the properties of a server? I understand that IPMI is to restart server remotely, control, etc… But not sure what information it will get/help with in observium? Regards Simon - Hestor

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Port Utilization Alert Checker Assistance
by Jonathan HoSee 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hello Everyone, For the life of me I am unable to get devices to fall into the status column according to the documentation for port utilization alerts. I would appreciate you informing me what exactly I am doing wrong. Thank you once again. Jon

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nagios & munin plugins
by Thibault Richard 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hello, On the page http://docs.observium.org/config_options/ I see the config $config['nagios_plugins'] On my server, I see /usr/lib/observium_agent/scripts-available/munin Does it mean Nagios plugins & munin scripts could be used in Observium ? Best Regards Thibault

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Change Subscruber Password
by Nurbek Suleimanov 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

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Alert checker for high memory usage on Linux
by Paludan, Ulrik 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

I'm trying to setup a high memory usage alert on Ubuntu Linux hosts. I'm using type entity mempool_perc in alert test 'mempool_perc greater 90'. However mempool_perc reports all memory used, including cache/buffer memory used by Linux, but still available to be released for applications as necessary. So my alert checker generates false alerts as soon as memory usage including cache/buffer exceeds 90%, which it does quit often on most of my servers. How can I setup a memory alert checker for available physical memory below a certain threshold? Observium online guide states: 'On Unix/Linux systems we generate a special "Physical Memory" memory pool entity by calculating memory usage minus buffer and cache. Use this for alerting on Unix/Linux' But not really sure how to use that entity? Is the entity name 'Physical_Memory', does it return result in bytes, percentage ? Thanks in advance Med venlig hilsen | With kind regards | Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ulrik Paludan | IT Operations NOVASOL AS Virumgårdsvej 27 - DK 2830 Virum Phone +45 39 14 31 82 ulrik.paludan(a)novasol.com<mailto:ulrik.paludan@novasol.com> www.novasol.com | www.dansommer.dk<http://www.dansommer.dk/> | www.cuendet.com<http://www.cuendet.dk/> NOVASOL AS IS A WYNDHAM RENTALS COMPANY Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Flapping interfaces
by Andrew Lemin 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Hi, We are trying to create an Alert Checker to detect for flapping network interfaces. How can we do this with Observium? Is this possible? Thanks, Andy.

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Windows 10 Auto Discovery
by Connary, Scott 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Good day: I am working on getting our windows environment set for auto discovery. It is working for our switches once we enable LLDP and have the correct SNMP setting in place. With Windows 10 I am having no luck in having them auto discovered. I can manually add a windows workstation to Observium via the add feature. When looking at devices in Observium I can see that a switch sees the workstation NIC via LLDP. However it only sees it as a MAC and provides no further information on the system itself. Windows 10: 64Bit Symantec Endpoint Protection AV SNMP Enabled and properly configured. LLDP looks to be on in NIC features. LLTD does not stay on under Windows Services. Thank you, Scott

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Alert association including all devices with recent version
by Thibault Richard 15 Jul '18

15 Jul '18

Hello The "Entity Association Ruleset" has been recently modified On this screenshot you can see both type ("Memory usage" use the old syntax with "Device & Entity" . while "Device down" use the new syntax) My question is simple . as we are obliged to associate an "Alert check" to devices, how are we supposed to specify "All devices" ? It's indeed no longer possible to specify * I've achieved my goal by specifying "device.ignore notequals 1" but this is not intuitive at all. Is there an easier way to do it ? Best Regards Thibault

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Alerts for Cumulative Throughput
by Jonathan HoSee 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hello, is there a way to setup an alert checker to be set for a certain percentage of the cumulative throughput graphs much like you can with interface capacity? Please let me know what these particular settings are. Thanks, Jon

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