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Ignoring Interfaces in Discovery
by Benjamin Moore 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Can someone tell me how to get Observium to NOT ignore interfaces? I'm assuming that it is ignoring them due to the fact that they don't have ifTypes assigned - ##### Module Start: ports ##### o Caching OIDs ifDescr ifAlias ifName ifType ifOperStatus o Caching DB 0 ports o Discovering ports XX VLAN1(12)XXXXXXXX +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ | ifIndex | ifDescr | ifName | ifAlias | ifType | Oper Status | Ignored | +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ | 9 | WAN2 | WAN2 | ... | | | yes | | 10 | WAN1 | WAN1 | ... | | | yes | | 12 | VLAN1 | VLAN1 | ... | l2vlan | | no | | 25 | LAN4 | LAN4 | ... | | down | yes | | 26 | LAN3 | LAN3 | ... | | down | yes | | 27 | LAN2 | LAN2 | ... | | down | yes | | 28 | LAN1 | LAN1 | ... | | up | yes | | 29 | WAN_PORT1 | WAN_PORT1 | ... | | up | yes | | 30 | WAN_PORT2 | WAN_PORT2 | ... | | down | yes | | 51 | USB1 | USB1 | ... | usb | | yes | | 52 | USB2 | USB2 | ... | usb | | yes | +---------+-----------+-----------+---------+--------+-------------+---------+ LAN1 and WAN PORT 1 are the two interfaces I need to have monitored.

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Ping-only devices
by Ryan Huff 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

I really do understand this, on a deeper level than might be imagined ;). I have no vested interest either way personally, I’m just offering some unsolicited thoughts... I always looked at the “ping only” topic like asking a 10lbs. (4.5kg or 0.7149 stones) sledge hammer to drive a nail. Sure, it can do it but it’ll probably be messy and ugly because a sledge hammer was never meant to drive nails, and when you use tools in ways they weren’t really designed for, things can get messy. Just use a hammer instead. I have done three things to achieve icmp only monitoring and also stick within the base code (as a developer, I hate mucking with base code or re-inventing wheels when I want to do different things). Icmp-only monitoring to me, always just seemed silly (not in purpose) to try and work into an existing and established application that didn’t already do it. It’s just too easy of a problem to solve otherwise, than to go to the time/expense of refactoring an application IMHO. - I use RTT SLAs to monitor next hop devices (which OBS is fabulous at picking up), assuming the device hopped from is SLA capable and OBS monitored. - I use Fping (Smokeping) integrated with OBS. Using the Smokeping web wrapper makes a great RTT only tool, and you also have the OBS integration for when it makes sense to use on OBS devices. - I have a small (very small) bash script that reads a text file of IP address and launches one thread per device to run continuous pings. Not a very scalable script, but like you, I only need it for a very few limited cases. The script uses sendmail to email me if it can’t reach something. Thanks, Ryan

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2nd TRY | Generating alerts with firewall sessions thresholds
by Gordon Cheng (gocheng) 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hi all, We are looking for a way to generate alerts from Observium (19.1.9661) when exceeding certain number of sessions on a Cisco firewall. Is it something easily achievable? [cid:image001.png@01D4CEE1.B8160000] Thanks. - Gordon

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Cisco ASA IPSec tunnels
by Johnathon Voegeli 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hey guys, Does anyone know where to set the “tunnel name” in a Cisco ASA or more rather where Observium gets that info? I have a dozen or so IPSec tunnels built, but Obs calls them all by the outside interface IP I suspect because I am too dense to figure out where its getting the tunnel name field from? [cid:image001.png@01D4D02B.AA8D38E0] The local address and the tunnel name are all the same.

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Change Device Name Without having to Re-Add Device.
by Connary, Scott 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Is there a way to change the name of a device without having to remove and re-add? E.G. Workstation01 Workstation02.contoso.com Change workstation01 to workstation01.contoso.com Thank you in advance for any help with this. -Scott

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Empty alert log
by Laszlo Nemeth 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hello I upgraded from 9667 to 9725 and the alert log page is empty. Before the upgrade there were lot of logs, but now it looks like a not fully rendered page.. The syslog alert shows me logs and the bottom of the page the observium logo and the version number. The alert logs doesn't show this bottom line, just give me an FROM and TO field with a Search button and that is all. Can i check anything for the debug? Thanks Laszlo

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Monitor Furukawa
by hermes.martinez＠pueblobonito.com.mx 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hi Everybody, Can someone help me, I'm Trying to monitor some devices Furukawa but Observium doesn't show me too much information.. Does anyone have some MIBs that can help me to get more information from the diveces? Regards,

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Create a new dashboard
by Steve 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hi, I'm having issues with "create new dashboard" function in observium (19.1.9661). When I select it from the menu it redirects me to url https://MYOBSERVIUMURL/dashboard_add/ but the dashboard remains the default one. I don't get how can I create a new one, can someone explain this to me? Thank you Stefano

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Generating alerts with firewall sessions thresholds
by Gordon Cheng (gocheng) 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hi all, We are looking for a way to generate alerts from Observium (19.1.9661) when exceeding certain number of sessions on a Cisco firewall. Is it something easily achievable? [cid:image001.png@01D4CE0A.4A9F84B0] Thanks. - Gordon

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New webhook integration for alert contacts
by Ryan Huff 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Hey folks, thought I'd share with the community as I recently had a need that I had to build the tool for and thought others might benefit too: https://github.com/ryanthuff/Observium_Webex_Notifier Its a script an OBS webhook contact can post to, and then post those alert details to a Cisco Webex Teams space. The instructions are pretty clear and found in the README.md. I just run the script on-box in the OBS web path (.../html/...) somewhere, then just use that URL for the OBS contact Webhook. I have been using for awhile and it works really well thus far. Thanks, Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional

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