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Re: [Observium] ping only device monitoring
by adama＠observium.org 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

No one else is reading because at some point I accidentally replied directly instead of to the list 😊 But I did now! Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Sent: 13 April 2022 17:54 To: adama(a)observium.org Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Adam, I separate list that is independent would be good also…I hope others reading this will voice their support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks From: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 12:52 PM To: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring This is why we recommend the probe is attached to the Observium server’s own device entry in Observium. The ping-only host thing isn’t feasible in the existing devices paradigm, it would break the UI and a lot of other expectations about devices. Observium is 95% “showing data we got from SNMP”. The thing we’d likely create is a separate list of devices that didn’t support SNMP and didn’t actually interact with anything that currently exists in Observium, except probes, so we’d need a bunch of exceptions to the probe code to handle things with a device record and things without in the probes code. No one seems to ask much about it once we show them how to do the probes workaround, so we don’t look at it much. Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Sent: 13 April 2022 17:22 To: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Adam, I was able to get this all working, thanks for your help. Please excuse me if I am preaching to the choir but I do have some feedback. I want to start out by saying that I would love it if all devices supported SNMP, that would be ideal, but reality is that there are devices that will never have SNMP agents on them. In this particular case, it’s a banks ATM’s. For security reasons, SNMP will never be a feature for these devices. There are other examples as well, for instance, I also want to my ISP’s router so I can tell when I go down, are they down as well. So, ping only devices are abundant and persistent, they will not be going away. Setting up a probe will get me by, but there are several problems. The first is it seems you need to associate the probe with an existing host...so it looks like the probe is for that host (even though it is not). What happens if I delete the host...will the probes go away? Also, I have not yet seen a notification, but does the notification show the hosts name associated with the probe? If so, that will be confusing to techs who might not be aware they have to read further. What is really needed is the ability to add a device that is ping only and stand alone, not dependent on any other host. Obviously, all the info for that device would be unavailable except ping times but this would be much clearer. I think, given how important ping only devices can be, it should be a priority to get this right. Finally, let me say that I have worked in the past with MRTG and HP Openview and more recently with NagiosXI, PRTG and Shinken. Observium is BY FAR, the best of them. A ping only host is one of the few things that they all can do, but you cannot. Thanks for listening, if you want, I would be happy to put in a feature request. From: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 11:19 AM To: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Same way you alert on everything else, it’s just another entity type, similar to status with ok/alert status https://docs.observium.org/entities/#probes Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Sent: 13 April 2022 16:17 To: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Oh, so you just pick a host in the pulldown, but that gets ignored when you use -H? ok. is there a way to alert on a probe? From: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 11:12 AM To: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring You just override the default arguments on the probe, the documentation should explain that. Host is *almost* always -H Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Sent: 13 April 2022 15:48 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Adam, I have been looking at probes, but the thing I don’t understand is how to add a probe when the device is not listed in Observium. I tried to overwrite the pulldown, but it does not allow that. Is there a way to add a device to the list? From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of adama--- via observium Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 10:44 AM To: 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] ping only device monitoring This is mentioned in the probes documentation. Just create ICMP probes on the Observium-server entry (or the closest partitioned poller) We might do something specific at some point, but it’ll basically just be the same thing but with the probes separated into a different list. Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 13 April 2022 15:41 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Hi, I know this has been asked and answered before, but I cannot find anywhere to search old threads, so I need to ask again…. How do I configure Observium to monitor a device with ping but no SNMP ability? Thanks Tony

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wmi issues, need a syntax change
by Tony Guadagno 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, I am guessing that wmi polling is not used very much but I do use it and find it handy. If you do use it, you are probably aware that your event logs are filling up with this error: The server-side authentication level policy does not allow the user domain\wmiuser SID (S-1-5-21-99999-3660327915-2769000259-31856) from address 1.1.1.1 to activate DCOM server. Please raise the activation authentication level at least to RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_PKT_INTEGRITY in client application. I am getting 4 eventlog errors every polling interval (5 minutes) on every windows server. This is due to Microsoft enhancing security on wmi. (KB5004442-Manage changes for Windows DCOM Server Security Feature Bypass (CVE-2021-26414) (microsoft.com)<https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5004442-manage-changes-for-wind…>) There is a solution to this, you need to call wmi with pkt integrity enabled (wmic RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_PKT_INTEGRITY support · Issue #41 · greenbone/openvas-smb (github.com)<https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-smb/issues/41>). So, for example wmic --user=domain.local\\user --password= //server.domain.local "select * from Win32_ComputerSystem" - throws the error in the target servers event log...also, this will start failing next year. However wmic --user=domain.local\\user --password= //ncacn_ip_tcp:server.domain.local[sign] "select * from Win32_ComputerSystem" will not throw the error wrapping the target server in ncacn_ip_tcp: and [sign] fixes the issue. So, would it be possible for you to enhance Observium to make the wmi calls this way? Thanks Tony

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ping only device monitoring
by Tony Guadagno 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, I know this has been asked and answered before, but I cannot find anywhere to search old threads, so I need to ask again.... How do I configure Observium to monitor a device with ping but no SNMP ability? Thanks Tony

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Date Preset
by Stuart Dyer 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

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FW: Total Core Traffic
by Peter Derissen 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

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Monitoris MSSQL database size
by Rando Sui 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Hello, How do you monitor MSSQL specific measures, I would like to monitor Database size, how do you do that? Could I add database size to my Apps SQL server charts list? [cid:image002.png@01D84E8D.80A79050] Is there any indirect method, I gather7inject data to observium mysql and just display data from database and issue alerts? Greetings, Rando.

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Ubuntu LDAP
by Valerie Lim 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Hi, We would like to check does installing Observium affect any LDAP Ubuntu settings as we are unable to access LDAP server after Observium is being installed. Appreciate share with us, to configure setting config.php file in Observium systems. Regards Valerie

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Re: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker
by Tony Guadagno 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Adam, thanks, I will give this a shot Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2022 4:04 PM To: 'Observium' Cc: Adam Armstrong Subject: Re: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker Hi Tony, https://docs.observium.org/entities/#status You want something like association status_descr equals Source of Output Power test conditions status_name notequals normal adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 07 April 2022 20:34 To: Adam Armstrong via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Subject: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker Hi, I have been able to write some basic checks but I need a little help with this. I want to write a check to alert when my ups’ switch to battery. I think I can do that by checking if the “source of output power” is not normal, but I do not know how to translate that logic into conditions and associations..can someone help? Thanks BTW, is there an exchange where people post their checks for others to use? Tony

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need some help with an alert checker
by Tony Guadagno 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hi, I have been able to write some basic checks but I need a little help with this. I want to write a check to alert when my ups’ switch to battery. I think I can do that by checking if the “source of output power” is not normal, but I do not know how to translate that logic into conditions and associations..can someone help? Thanks BTW, is there an exchange where people post their checks for others to use? Tony

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Observium - how to encrypt data at rest with AES 256
by Ryan Tee 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi. Would like to inquire followings : How to encrypt data at rest with AES256 in Observium systems ? We plan to use 256-bit AES encryption ensures data is secure at rest. Could share with us information if any. Thank you. Regards Ryan

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