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How to use the new alerting system.
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

I would like to create a 80 % interface utilzation alarm. If the threshold hits 5 times the alert should be generated. Do we have any documentation on the new interface? Thomas

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October Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 02 Nov '13

02 Nov '13

Hi Guys, Here's the condensed version of the changes for October: Also visible at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#October_2013 Major Improvements and Additions Extensive improvements to sensor display code and definitions. Extensive restructuring to sensor discovery including linking sensors to OSes via MIB simplifying the process of adding new OSes and sensor types. WMI-based poller for retrieving extra data from Windows. Improves CPU/Storage polling and adds Exchange and MSSQL metrics collection. Major rewrite to integrate and expand PowerNet-MIB support for APC devices Allow the use of max-reps on snmpbulkwalk. Vastly improves walking of large tables on supported devices, particularly IOS, Arista and Linux. New Google Maps API-based map complete with point clustering, auto-centring and zooming support to replace the old Google Charts API map Improvements and Additions Support for AVTECH RoomAlert 24E Detection of Toshiba eStudio printers Detection of DIGI USB servers Barracuda NG FW detection Support for airflow sensors. Support for state sensors on SensorProbe / Minkel SRMS. Allow device hostname as a parameter instead of device_id Support for processor and memory on Cisco QFP Collect Dell Service Tag from Dell PowerConnect devices HH3C memory pool and processor polling from HH3C-ENTITY-MIB RADLAN state sensors from RADLAN-HWENVIROMENT MIB Microsens OS and temperature sensors detection Procera detection NetAPP filesystem discovery and polling via the storage system Additional Dell PowerConnect sysObjectIDs Dell-Vendor-MIB sensors Netbotz support Support for two new sensors types; Capacity and Runtime. Primarily used for UPSes and other battery-related devices. Audiocodes Mediant detection Bugfixes Fix Cisco SLA support Some improvements to handling of invalid devices and graph types Improved limits for timeouts/retries on SNMP operations Applications with multiple instances are now accessed via a drop-down Warning if devices have never been polled/discovered now works correctly Fix API to correctly use the authentication system instead of hardcoded database authentication. Correctly use user id in LDAP auth to allow per-device and per-entity permissions Fix Cisco BGP session address formatting Make sure that the RRD directory is correctly renamed when renaming a device Debugging / Troubleshooting Add a page to output the data Observium holds about a port for debugging/troubleshooting purposes.

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Re: [Observium] control device ports via SNMP
by Adam Armstrong 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

No, we don't have any features which allow control of the devices at all. Adam. Bogdan Ghita <bvghita(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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control device ports via SNMP
by Bogdan Ghita 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hello I've been looking through the features of Observium but couldn't find out whether it includes functionality to disable or enable individual ports on a (monitored) switch/router via SNMP. I understand that this lies outside the scope of the software, but I thought I'd ask just in case it's there (or can be enabled optionally) and I missed it. If it isn't, could anybody recommend a management/monitoring software able to provide this? Best regards Bogdan

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Re: [Observium] graphe on pose
by Adam Armstrong 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

What version does observium say on the bottom left? Adam. Zoran Lukenic <z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr> wrote: >I'm on the last version. I install the new server with SVN 2 days ago. >My network is ok. All server are in datacenter with 1G or 10G switches. >I have 2 observium on 2 difrent server and network and I have same problem. >My Centreon, cacti, intermapper do the same thing and my graphs are full. > >The pooler is like you write in your doc: > >more /etc/cron.d/observium >33 */6 * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 >* /5 * * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new /dev/null 2>&1 >* /5 * * * * root /opt/observium/pooler-wrapper.py 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1 > > > > >--- >Zoran Lukenic >z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr >--- >Groupe Mediactive >3-4-10, cité Paradis 75010 Paris >Tel : +33 1 55 28 80 60 >Fax : +33 1 55 28 80 61 >Support technique : 0 892 494 777 >www.groupe-mediactive.fr >Twitter : @mediactivegroup > > >________________________________________ >De : Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] >Date d'envoi : jeudi 31 octobre 2013 05:55 >À : Observium Network Observation System >Objet : Re: [Observium] graphe on pose > >This is most certainly related to network conditions or polling frequency. > >The poller must run every 5 minutes. > >Make sure you are running the latest version (svn update) > >Adam. > >Zoran Lukenic <z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr> wrote: > >>I didn't know that the screenshot will not be able in the mail. >>So I have problems with all graphs on all devices. My graphs are OK but they have some hole. Some time 30min, some time more. >>I have this same devices on my cacti, behind same firewall and I don't have this problem. >> >>ps: I don't know if I do the right thing for answer. >> >>------------------------------ >> >>Message: 2 >>Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:34:09 +0000 >>From: Zoran Lukenic <z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr> >>To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> >>Subject: [Observium] graphe on pose >>Message-ID: >> <286037ABC3D0D74DB5172245EF4597970144239E(a)srv-exchange01.exchange.mediactive.fr> >> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >>Hello, >> >>I have some problem with my graphe ( cf: screenshot ) >> >>I looked in FAQ and some Mailing Liste archive but I didn't find any one with the same problem. >> >>do you have some idea where to look? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>--- >>Zoran Lukenic >>z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr<mailto:z.lukenic@mediactive.fr> >>--- >>Groupe Mediactive >>3-4-10, cit? Paradis 75010 Paris >>Tel : +33 1 55 28 80 60 >>Fax : +33 1 55 28 80 61 >>Support technique : 0 892 494 777 >>www.groupe-mediactive.fr<http://www.groupe-mediactive.fr/> >>Twitter : @mediactivegroup >>[cid:FB003B7F-1839-4401-8DAE-B37B718E4644] >>

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Frontpage map show province with ISO 3166-2
by Florian Znottka 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hello! Observium works for me like a charm, but I have a problem with the frontpage map: I can't get a province with a region ISO 3166-2 code (e.g. DE-SH) as a full map on the frontpage. Only working configuration is to show the whole country (e.g. DE) which is a bit to big. All co-locations of our servers are too close to each other (20 miles) , so that you can't figure out on the map, which location is which. My config.php so far: $config['frontpage']['map']['resolution'] = "provinces"; $config['frontpage']['map']['region'] = "DE-SH"; $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = "1"; error-message: Request map does not exist. Is my config file incorrect or does it not work? Or is there another method to zoom in on the map? Thanks for help Kind Regards Florian

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Error drawing Graph
by Roman Romanyak 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hello everyone, I'm having strange issue, and spend a lot of time troubleshooting this without any success. Getting error 'error drawing graph' only for some devices only - EX4200 switches, which are located in the remote datacenter. After I started seeing issue, I install another switch here in local datacenter and added it to observium and its working good. Could be the issue in latency - the delay is about 30ms? discovery and poller scripts run good, the only thing I noticed that for the devices that don't work I in rrd/<device_name>/ files port-###.rrd are missing. The CPU and Memory graphs are working good, only network graphs are having errors. Thanks, Roman.

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Re: [Observium] graphe on pose
by Adam Armstrong 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

This is most certainly related to network conditions or polling frequency. The poller must run every 5 minutes. Make sure you are running the latest version (svn update) Adam. Zoran Lukenic <z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr> wrote: >I didn't know that the screenshot will not be able in the mail. >So I have problems with all graphs on all devices. My graphs are OK but they have some hole. Some time 30min, some time more. >I have this same devices on my cacti, behind same firewall and I don't have this problem. > >ps: I don't know if I do the right thing for answer. > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:34:09 +0000 >From: Zoran Lukenic <z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr> >To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> >Subject: [Observium] graphe on pose >Message-ID: > <286037ABC3D0D74DB5172245EF4597970144239E(a)srv-exchange01.exchange.mediactive.fr> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Hello, > >I have some problem with my graphe ( cf: screenshot ) > >I looked in FAQ and some Mailing Liste archive but I didn't find any one with the same problem. > >do you have some idea where to look? > > > > > > > > >--- >Zoran Lukenic >z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr<mailto:z.lukenic@mediactive.fr> >--- >Groupe Mediactive >3-4-10, cit? Paradis 75010 Paris >Tel : +33 1 55 28 80 60 >Fax : +33 1 55 28 80 61 >Support technique : 0 892 494 777 >www.groupe-mediactive.fr<http://www.groupe-mediactive.fr/> >Twitter : @mediactivegroup >[cid:FB003B7F-1839-4401-8DAE-B37B718E4644] >

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graphe on pose
by Zoran Lukenic 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

I didn't know that the screenshot will not be able in the mail. So I have problems with all graphs on all devices. My graphs are OK but they have some hole. Some time 30min, some time more. I have this same devices on my cacti, behind same firewall and I don't have this problem. ps: I don't know if I do the right thing for answer. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:34:09 +0000 From: Zoran Lukenic <z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] graphe on pose Message-ID: <286037ABC3D0D74DB5172245EF4597970144239E(a)srv-exchange01.exchange.mediactive.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, I have some problem with my graphe ( cf: screenshot ) I looked in FAQ and some Mailing Liste archive but I didn't find any one with the same problem. do you have some idea where to look? --- Zoran Lukenic z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr<mailto:z.lukenic@mediactive.fr> --- Groupe Mediactive 3-4-10, cit? Paradis 75010 Paris Tel : +33 1 55 28 80 60 Fax : +33 1 55 28 80 61 Support technique : 0 892 494 777 www.groupe-mediactive.fr<http://www.groupe-mediactive.fr/> Twitter : @mediactivegroup [cid:FB003B7F-1839-4401-8DAE-B37B718E4644]

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Alerts
by cbermudez＠tothus.net 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

Hi List. At present i have installed the latest versión of Observium and i am trying to configure an alert for a temperature sensor of a cisco catalyst and i do not how. On the other hand, i don´t have any alert in the home screen (right upper corner Alerts: 0), it is normal? i have rebooted some devices and disconnect some ports and the alerts still 0, but the emails with alerts are send correctly. Thanks so much. Cristian,

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