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how to show number of clients on mikrotik wifi
by Andi Felani 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

all, how to show number of clients on mikrotik wifi? this is possible? regards,

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Probes: documentation
by Torstein Eide 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

Hi Where can I find documentation on probes? I have looked through https://docs.observium.org and is only able to find info for alerts "/entities/#probes" -- Torstein Eide Torsteine(a)gmail.com

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Sensor "friendly" name in alerts?
by Ryan, Spencer J. 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

We've got a generic alert set up for "status_event equals alert" however in the alert email there isn't anything that has the decoded/friendly text for the sensor in question. For example a UPS switches to battery power, the Entity is "Output Status" and the graph in the email shows the status going from "2" to "3" but that isn't useful. If I look at the device in the webUI it does show that "Output status" is "onBattery". It would be incredibly useful if that information was available in the alert. ________________________________ Spencer J. Ryan | Manager, Technology and Infrastructure Miller Canfield T +1.313.496.7979 ________________________________

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Add/edit users menu returns main dashboard
by Chris Ajello 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

Hello everyone – I’ve got an issue where the web GUI returns the main dashboard whenever trying to open the add or edit user pages. Adding from the command line works. Just not the GUI. I don’t see any obvious errors in Apache logs or Observium logs. How do I get starting solving this problem? -Chris Ajello

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CDP Neighbor detection for devices with names longer than 40 characters
by Pisano, Anthony D. 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Hello, Due to campus naming conventions I have run into several switches with names longer than 40 characters. Normal operation and monitoring is not effected, however Observium does not recognize the neighbor. I believe this is due to it wanting an exact name match, and since the name in observium may be 42 characters, it does not match to the truncated 40 character CDP name. Is there a way we can either manually define a neighbor connection, or have the algorithms ignore any characters above the 40 limit? Perhaps by checking for IP address matching as well? Thank You Anthony Pisano | Network Design Engineer | IMSS anthony.pisano(a)caltech.edu<mailto:anthony.pisano@caltech.edu> | (626) 395-4255<tel:(626)%20395-4255> | Caltech | caltech.edu<http://caltech.edu/>

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Windows Server - No Ram
by Stuart Dyer 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Hi Everyone, Have a windows server that no longer has a memory graph, all I can see in the events is this, how can the memory get removed ? [cid:image001.png@01D63F30.4210B6A0] Regards, Stuart Dyer IT Administrator Phone: +61 2 8020 2063 | E-mail: stuart.dyer(a)innovit.com<mailto:stuart.dyer@innovit.com> [innovit-logo (002) trans 2018] Bringing quality to Master Data 161 Castlereagh Street, Level 28 Sydney NSW 2000 Australia<https://goo.gl/maps/DGW9Ce65rhP2> Tel: +612 8020 2000 Fax: +612 8020 2099 Web: www.innovit.com<http://www.innovit.com/> Australasia | North America | Europe Follow us on LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovit-australia-pty-ltd?trk=public_profi…> This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information, which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail or using any of the following contact details.

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Issues with Vivotek Cameras
by Dana Bostic 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

When I add a Vivotek camera to Observium, works great for one, but when I try to add another one, the System name is the same (in this case h.264 mega-pixel network camera) and it will not add. The name of the device is different, what Observium "pulls in thru SNMP" is the same. Already got device with SNMP-read sysName (h.264 mega-pixel network camera) and 'snmpEngineID' = 80005BA9017F000001 (jq-office-lobby-cam01.bcp.cat.com). I see in JIRA that we are supposed to be able to add more devices with the same system name, but this is not working for the version I have of Observium 20.4.10371 (stable). It is my "belief" that Vivotek is reporting back it's system name to SNMP incorrectly. I do not really "care" if the System Name is wrong, but I cannot add another camera at all. This is what is in the camera configuration and I don't see any other location for a host name. [cid:image002.png@01D63DA5.852215B0] If I do an snmpwalk on the device: SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: H.264 Mega-Pixel Network Camera Observium is pulling what the camera is giving .... So is there a way to change this in the database or a way to say add it anyway? Regards, [Telescope Separator] Dana Bostic Technology Specialist Caterpillar Inc. 954 NC 42 East, Clayton, NC 27527 email: bostic_dana_r(a)cat.com<mailto:bostic_dana_r@cat.com> | phone: 919-550-1260 Caterpillar: Confidential Green

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Graphs and date preset
by Christian Eriksson 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Hi, When selecting all devices and sorting by device-group (URL =/device/group), there is an option to select a specific graph and use a date preset. That is all great, but the value does not show When selecting the group using /group/group_id I can see the values, but can't use a date preset Does someone know how to get this working? The use case is that I want to easily see all values at once Vänliga hälsningar / Best regards, [Advania_Trappa_CMYK] Christian Eriksson Service Area Manager [cid:image003.png@01D62E93.89825AA0]<mailto:christian.eriksson@advania.com>[Advania-Bikupa Facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/advania.se/>[Advania-Bikupa LinkedIn]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/advania-ab/> +4641090488<tel:+4641090488> | +46761400400<tel:+46761400400> www.advania.se<http://www.advania.se/> | Liljeholmen<https://www.google.se/maps/place/Advania+Sverige+AB/@59.3062176,18.0278762,…> Ledande på att skapa kundnöjdhet [En bild som visar skärmbild Beskrivning genererad med hög exakthet]

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Help creating an Alert Checker
by Pisano, Anthony D. 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Hello, I am unable to figure out how to create an alert to notify me when our VPN boxes go into failover mode. Observium recognizes the event, but I would like a notification. The following output is from the poller. The normal condition value for “Failover Primary unit” should be ‘active’. o Status Count 2 +---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+-------+--------+---------+---------+---------------------+ | Descr | Type | Index | Origin | Value | Status | Last Changed | +---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+-------+--------+---------+---------+---------------------+ | Failover Primary unit | cisco-firewall-hardware-primary-state | 6 | snmp | standby | warning | 2020-06-07 07:30:03 | | Failover Secondary unit (this device) | cisco-firewall-hardware-secondary-state | 7 | snmp | active | warning | 2020-06-07 07:30:04 | +---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+-------+--------+---------+---------+——————————+ I’ve tried several strings to make this work, but the Alerter either marks it as OK or does not show the above Statuses at all. * status_event equal warn * status_event ne ok * “Failover Primary unit” ne active * also without quotes and with underscores between * “Failover Primary unit” equal warn * also without quotes and with underscores between * cisco-firewall-hardware-primary-state equal warn * cisco-firewall-hardware-primary-state equal standby Could anyone assist me in creating this Alert Checker? Thank you Anthony Pisano | Network Design Engineer | IMSS anthony.pisano(a)caltech.edu<mailto:anthony.pisano@caltech.edu> | (626) 395-4255<tel:(626)%20395-4255> | Caltech | caltech.edu<http://caltech.edu/>

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Observium behind azure app proxy
by Ahmed Rahal 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Hi, I am using observium walled behind an azure application proxy. This mainly exposes an AD authenticated endpoint publicly and proxies all allowed users to the real host. This has been working fine with observium community edition. Now I am switching to the enterprise version of observium and get errors on the dashboard saying 'unauthenticated' for each widget. Note that some of the widgets randomly appear working, then become 'unauthenticated' on a refresh. Also, when on the 'broken' dashboard, refreshing the page sends back to the login page. I can switch back and forth between the 2 versions (community & enterprise, with same config.php) and the issue appears instantly with the enterprise version. How can I diagnose the issue ? Is there any hint on what is going wrong ? TIa, Ahmed. -- Ahmed Rahal Administrateur de Systèmes / Systems Administrator *Fibrenoire* - www.fibrenoire.ca A: 550 , avenue Beaumont, bureau 320, Montréal (Québec) H3N 1V1 arahal(a)fibrenoire.ca Twitter: @fibrenoire

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