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Device Alerts that won't go away
by ryan 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Hello all, I have attached an image of the alerts in question, the names and locations have been removed. It only happens on these two servers out of 20+ different servers. What causes this behavior ? I cannot seem to find any differences between servers. I am using the community edition on centos 6.5 , if that helps at all. Thanks, R. Prihoda

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RRD Graph Issues
by William Brown 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Hi, I recently just added the Collectd plugin and I noticed that with my first device that the top graphs for my device are blank, however the ones that are represented in the collectd section are fine. Anyone seen this and know how to fix it? Thanks Will

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Submission of code
by John Millington 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi Everyone, I've recently added some minor functionality to assist with the monitoring of our networks. A summary of this would be: * ShoreTel OS Logo * ShoreTel OS definition * Added SonicWall firewall CPU OID and related graphing * Added Sonicwall firewall active sessions discovery and graph definition for this To achieve this, there are a couple of extra .inc.php files and some addition snippets added to existing files. I understand that you prefer code submissions through wget from a website and I can arrange this, but firstly would like to know if you are interested in adding my code (following a review of course) to the product. Would make my pulls from SVN much easier!! Thanks, John.

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Updating Observium
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi, What is the « best practice » for keeping up to date the subscribed edition ? Stopping the cron jobs, updating with the svn, launching the discovery.php and start the cron jobs ? Or lauching the svn directly (without stopping the poller) is ok ? Regards, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg]

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Display IP address of the device ( DNS resolved ) in front of the device name ?
by Supun Rathnayake 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi all, We have a small suggestion, is it possible to add a new feature to display the IP address of the device ( DNS resolved IP of the device ) may be in front of the device name / or at the top of the device page etc. ( at any prominent place ) This is really helpful in identification and further trouble shooting etc., as most of the network engineers are dealing with the IP addresses rather than the hostname in day to day operations. Thanks in advance. -- With Best Regards, Supun Rathnayake Lanka communication Services (Pvt) Ltd. 65C, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07. Sri Lanka. Tel: +94-11-2437545 http://www.lankacom.net http://blog.lankacom.net

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Wait time to access subscribed version
by colin.barker＠bluesky.co.uk 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Hi all Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction. We put through payment for the subscribed version of Observium on Tuesday evening, and very shortly afterwards I emailed Adam with the encrypted htpassword line that he required to add to the SVN. However we have not had any word back on if this has been done or not (and testing, it seems to deny us so I am guessing not). I emailed a chase today, but I was wondering if there was a wait time on getting access, as I don't want to keep bugging when I should be waiting. Thanks in advance Regards Colin Barker Manager of Infrastructure and Security ................................................. Blue Sky Hosting Ltd | http://www.bluesky.co.uk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BlueSkyHosting Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/blueskyhosting LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/1j5eiur Sales / Enquiries : +44 (0) 20 7183 5854 | Helpdesk : +44 (0) 844 700 2759 or +44 (0) 844 478 0274 | Fax : +44 (0) 20 7183 5855 | Send support queries to:support@bluesky.co.uk ................................................................................................................... The UK's largest Lotus Domino hosting provider. Managed hosting for Cloud based IBM, Microsoft and Open Source solutions.

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Queries printing on page
by Patmore, Gregory 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Hi all, I’m working on setting up observium/open source edition, and when I load any of the web pages within the GUI I am seeing the SQL queries getting printed to the web page. Has anyone else ran into this issue? If so, any fix? Thanks for any help/advice in advance. - Gregory Patmore Systems Administrator clearchannel digital gregorypatmore(a)clearchannel.com<applewebdata://60628E97-6F4E-4D45-AB1C-5E7C8440B2EA/johnderagon@clearchannel.com> 32 Avenue of the Americas, 4th floor new york, ny 10013

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To modify the general info of an alert checker
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi, It seems that we can't modify some information on an alert checker (via the web interface) like : - The name of the checker - The message (for the description) - The delay All the other boxes have a modify and a delete button but not for this one. I'm up to date (0.14.1.4883) via the subscription edition of Observium. Keep in touch, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg]

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Data Fetch Failure
by Shaun Bradley 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi all, I've gone through the normal procedure for getting the observium_agent working for mysql and apache, but even though I've added the config values to the http.conf (centos) I get a data fetch failure when running the apache script manually. MySQL one works fine. I'm at a loss to what it is as I can retrieve the URL in the apache script manually also. Thanks, Shaun

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Poller hung by misbehaving device/net-snmp
by Adam Bishop 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hello, One of the devices I'm polling began misbehaving (its SNMP stack couldn't cope with uptime > 4294967296 seconds). This caused the Observium poller to hang indefinitely. The underlying cause seems to be an issue with net-snmp, however this did cause other devices to not be polled and eventually exhausted the file descriptor limit (at which point, several thousand php processes were running). I'm not sure of the best way to protect observium from net-snmp failing; as a very dirty hack I've replaced the following line in the config: - $config['snmpget'] = "/usr/bin/snmpget"; + $config['snmpget'] = "/usr/bin/timeout 1m /usr/bin/snmpget"; I also tried setting snmpget's -t option, but this did not have an effect. This is on the community version, but I believe the subscription version would be affected too (I've not seen anything in the change logs that would indicate otherwise). For completeness, a not-very-interesting poller trace follows. Hope this is useful, Adam Bishop gpg: 0x6609D460 Janet, the UK's research and education network. Without timeout: ------------------------------------------------ DEBUG! Observium v0.13.10.4586 Poller Starting polling run: SQL[SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'atlas_1r' ORDER BY `device_id` ASC] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = '11'] SQL[SELECT * FROM devices_attribs WHERE `device_id` = '11'] SQL[SELECT * FROM `alert_tests` WHERE 1] SQL[SELECT *,`alert_table`.`alert_table_id` AS `alert_table_id` FROM `alert_table` LEFT JOIN `alert_table-state` ON `alert_table`.`alert_table_id` = `alert_table-state`.`alert_table_id` WHERE `device_id` = '11'] Array ( ) Array ( ) atlas_1r 11 apc DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v3 -l 'authNoPriv' -n "" -a 'MD5' -A '<snip>' -u 'observium' /usr/bin/snmpget -v3 -l 'authNoPriv' -n "" -a 'MD5' -A '<snip>' -u 'observium' -Oqv -m SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'atlas_1r':'161' sysObjectID.0 With timeout: DEBUG! Observium v0.13.10.4586 Poller Starting polling run: SQL[SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'atlas_1r' ORDER BY `device_id` ASC] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = '11'] SQL[SELECT * FROM devices_attribs WHERE `device_id` = '11'] SQL[SELECT * FROM `alert_tests` WHERE 1] SQL[SELECT *,`alert_table`.`alert_table_id` AS `alert_table_id` FROM `alert_table` LEFT JOIN `alert_table-state` ON `alert_table`.`alert_table_id` = `alert_table-state`.`alert_table_id` WHERE `device_id` = '11'] Array ( ) Array ( ) atlas_1r 11 apc DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v3 -l 'authNoPriv' -n "" -a 'MD5' -A '<snip>' -u 'observium' /usr/bin/snmpget -v3 -l 'authNoPriv' -n "" -a 'MD5' -A '<snip>' -u 'observium' -Oqv -m SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'atlas_1r':'161' sysObjectID.0 SNMP Unreachable SQL[UPDATE `devices` set `status` ='0' WHERE device_id='11'] SQL[INSERT INTO `alerts` (`importance`,`device_id`,`message`) VALUES ('0','11','Device is down')] SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('11','NULL','system',NOW(),'Device status changed to Down (snmp)')] RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/atlas_1r/status.rrd N:0] stdout[] stderr[]] RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/atlas_1r/ping.rrd N:6.02] stdout[] stderr[]] RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/atlas_1r/ping_snmp.rrd N:U] stdout[] stderr[]] SQL[INSERT INTO `perf_times` (`type`,`doing`,`start`,`duration`,`devices`) VALUES ('poll','atlas_1r','1389715032.3017','60.58','1')] /opt/observium/poller.php atlas_1r January 14, 2014, 15:58 - 1 devices polled in 60.58 secs MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[1/0s] Rows[3/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[1/0.03s] Insert[3/0.03s] Delete[0/0s] Janet(UK) is a trading name of Jisc Collections and Janet Limited, a not-for-profit company which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG. VAT No. 614944238

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