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Using Observium after moving VM
by Leo Dano 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

Hello all, Been scratching my head on this one. All I did is move the Observium VM from one network to another (closed). I cannot seem to figure out why I cannot add new hosts. No firewalls in the way. SNMP verified running on the host. Hosts are pinging each other. Is there a command to verify what is wrong between Observium and a host and why it's not adding? I am using public as the SNMP community name. One thing that does seem odd is this message when trying to add a host. No reply on given community *** using v2c, it showing the 3 asterisks versus it saying public. Any suggestions would be awesome! Leo

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Apache dies with Segmentation Fault
by Beulen, Klaus 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

Hi, we are currently using Observium CE 19.8.10000 as a test installation to monitor part of our switch/router infrastructure (currently about 290 devices, mostly Cisco). From time to time we have problems accessing the UI, the web browser just answers "Page does not work - observium did not send an answer - ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE". When I check the error.log in /var/logs/apache, I find lots of lines like ... [Wed Apr 08 14:44:44.362412 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1367] AH00051: child pid 27005 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2 [Wed Apr 08 14:44:44.362479 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1367] AH00051: child pid 1696 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2 [Wed Apr 08 14:44:53.366005 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1367] AH00051: child pid 7903 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2 ... Is this a known bug/error in this version, or did I eventually configure something wrong? All packages are up to date ("apt update; apt upgrade"). Regards, Klaus.

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How to exclude temperature sensors from virtual machines?
by Thomas Stather 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi We are using Observium Professional: 20.2.10301 (rolling) Some of our VMs (ESXi) have temperature sensors shown in Observium (either green 100deg. or red 0deg.). This doesn't make any sense and i am searching for a way to disable this. The strange thing is that this happens only for some of our VMs (regardless of the distribution). Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV, VCP6.5-DCV Tel: +49 6221 486 628 Fax: +49 6221 486 561 Bevor Sie diese Mail ausdrucken, prüfen Sie bitte ob dies wirklich nötig ist. Umweltschutz geht uns alle an!

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FortiGate Firewall Sessions counter lost
by Wouter de Man 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Professional version, upgrade from 20.2.10261 to 20.4.10354. Since this upgrade, the counter 'Firewall Sessions', which reflected the sessions just fine on the FortiGate, are deleted.

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An Event Log annoyance
by Richard Kuhns 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hello, I'm currently running Observium 20.4.10353(rolling) in my test (home office) environment. I had to restart everything 2 days ago when I brought in a new desk and rearranged. I'm monitoring 4 devices: a server (running observium), a Cisco ASA 5505 firewall, a Cisco wireless access point, and an APC UPS with Web/SNMP Management card. Everything is working fine since the restart, except that every 5 minutes I get a new entry in the Event log telling me about how my ASA rebooted; I'm attaching a screenshot. That's the only device that's showing up in the event log. How can I convince observium that it doesn't need to keep telling me about it? Thanks, - Richard -- Richard Kuhns <rjk(a)wintek.com> Systems Administrator Wintek Powered by Tipmont Main: 765-742-8428 Direct: 765-269-8541

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svn.log not updated?
by Svensson Fredrik A 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi all, https://www.observium.org/svn.log Is this not updated anymore? I have found it very good to see if there are any news for my equipment. Regards Fredrik

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Issues with IP SLA
by Cartas, Mauro S. 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hello experts, Need some help to understand how observium handles IPSLA probes links. We have a fully working weathermap with IP sla information (jitter, echo, etc) all nice with nodes and links. Links are configured this way: LINK A-B INFOURL /graphs/type=sla_jitter/id=10495/ OVERLIBGRAPH /graph.php?height=100&width=512&id=10495&type=sla_jitter&legend=no INBWFORMAT {link:this:bandwidth_in:%0} OUTBWFORMAT {link:this:bandwidth_out:%d} BWLABELPOS 50 50 TARGET gauge:../../rrd/router_A/sla_jitter-cisco-rttmon-mib-1100020-LMR_IO.rrd:rtt:rtt NODES Chicago Washington BANDWIDTH 34 Now the problem that we have is that when observium server loses connectivity with router_A (i.e. network outage, check below) It will generate a new ID for the link to the graphic hence we have to go to the editor and update INFOURL and OVERLIBGRAPH ID values. As shown below the ID is 12961 for SLA 1100020 whereas above the ID configured was 10495. [cid:image002.jpg@01D6075C.16B03280] [cid:image006.jpg@01D6075C.16B03280] This becomes very annoying as we cannot maintain a fully working IPSLA map and we're not sure why it's constantly generating new ids. [cid:image007.jpg@01D6075C.16B03280] Hope there is a way to force this ID not to change and remain static no matter what happens as the device ID never changes. Thanks in advance! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauro S. Cartas Global WAN Team Contact: E-mail: acc-ngwan(a)accenture.com<mailto:acc-ngwan@accenture.com> Phone 1: +91 80 496 61103 (GMT 00:00 to 10:00 on weekdays and any time on Weekends) Phone 2: +420 225 071 060 (GMT 07:00 to 24:00 on weekdays only) ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. Your privacy is important to us. Accenture uses your personal data only in compliance with data protection laws. For further information on how Accenture processes your personal data, please see our privacy statement at https://www.accenture.com/us-en/privacy-policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com

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07 Apr '20

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Traffic Comparison widget wrong after moving interfaces between routers
by Darrell Budic 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

Folk, I recently added some new routers and then moved interfaces from the old to the new. The transit and peering graphs picked up the new interfaces just fine, but the Traffic Comparison widget on the front page hasn’t. Any ideas on getting it to update? Observium pro 20.3.10324 (stable). I’ve tried deleting and re-adding the widget, and it’s had a discovery run since the change. Thanks, -Darrell

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Alerting switch stack status
by Eric W. Bates 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

I want to alert whenever one switch in a stack drops out. And I need help composing a checker. Specifically, I have stacks of cisco 2960-X switches linked via flex stack modules such that they appear as a single switch for purposes of ping'ing or snmp. On occasion, one switch in the stack will fail, but the rest of the stack stays on-line and continues to respond to pings, etc. I believe I want to watch the Status entity: Stack is redundant CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB::cswRingRedundant.0 https://mibs.observium.org/mib/CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB/#cswRingRedundant Each stacking module has two cables and one runs cables such that all the switches are in a big loop. cswRingRedundant is a boolean that indicates that such a loop is intact. So it will be False if a switch dies or simply if a cable is unplugged (also a desirable alert). If the switch is a standalone with no stacking modules installed, you get: "No Such Object available on this agent at this OID" I've created a Status entry: <?xml version="1.0"?> <templates> <template type="alert" description="Autogenerated observium template" version="0.91" created="Wed, 01 Apr 2020 11:51:32 -0400" observium="20.2.10302" id="fbe29724e648671f6e2095e9425d7515"> <entity_type>status</entity_type> <name>2960_stack_loop_redundancy</name> <message>Stack loop redundancy has failed (might be a missing stack switch)</message> <severity>crit</severity> <suppress_recovery>0</suppress_recovery> <delay>0</delay> <conditions_and>1</conditions_and> <conditions>status_name == Stack is redundant</conditions> <conditions>status_event == warn</conditions> <conditions_complex>status_name == Stack is redundant AND status_event == warn</conditions_complex> </template> </templates> It doesn't appear to be working (I have one switch with a cable unplugged it should alert on). Do I just have to wait 5 minutes? Or does it read the status from the database? Is that the correct "status_name?" I copied it from the Health --> Status page "Description" column. Should it be quoted? The export XML doesn't include the associations, but I included: device.hardware regexp /.*WS-C2960X-.*/ I don't really know what the value of "device.hardware" might be, but I'm assuming it's the same as the field labeled "Vendor/Hardware" shown on the front page for a given switch? Thanks for your time. -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112 -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112

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