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why is the DNS query rate so high?
by David Newman 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

Thanks for clues in troubleshooting a problem with high DNS query rates from Observium. I've been looking at Observium for network monitoring, and really like it so far, except that makes repeated DNS queries at a very high rate. For example, an Observium box monitors an old Cisco 2651XM router in the same physical location. Running a capture on the DNS server, we see the Observium box made over 200 queries for the router's hostname in a 7-second interval. Also, the DNS server correctly responded to every one of these, usually within 20 ms. What would cause so many DNS queries (and apparent non-caching of the responses)? This behavior is thrashing the logs on the DNS servers. This is with Observium Community Edition 0.13.10.4586 running on Debian Wheezy. Thanks again dn

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Ldap ad authentication levels
by F.Reenders＠utwente.nl 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

Hi, Is there someone who has the permission levels like 10 for admin working with ad ldap groups? The ad ldap authentication itself is working for me but I get a screen with 0 devices then. If it just doesn't work I can stop trying. Regards, Frederik Reenders

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Latest subscription version and Map issues
by Chris Pelling 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

Evening all :-) I have had a quick look at the google page listed in the the doc, and also had a good search of google in general. I have a smallish but problematic issue with the overview page. In the old version (before update) I did not have any issue with this, howver the page defaults to the USA, and well I am in the UK - I have tried playing around with the region setting in the Docs (not a lot is discussed about "what" it actually does, but i have had a good play) to no avail. Google api doc page mentioned setting the region to "England" so I set : [map] => Array ( [region] => England [resolution] => countries [dotsize] => 10 [realworld] => [api] => google-mc [zooms_per_click] => 1 But it still defaults to the USA (middle of) :/ Now the second issue is we have set the device properties > System Location to be "Greenwich View Place, London, UK" which initially showed the devices in the correct place, then after an hour or two, its now 3 miles off to the East :( (and there I was thinking - wow thats good) :) So any help - guidance would be much appreciated :) -- Kind regards, Chris

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Junos health monitoring removed?
by Rutger Bevaart 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Hi, Just a quick question. For some reason my temperature sensors disappeared on Juniper / Junos gear. Observium log shows many of these: Sensor Deleted: temperature junos 9.1.0.0 Routing Engine 0 Running latest version from pro/svn, just updated to 4670 to be sure. Any clues? Regards, Rutger

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Searching in the FDB-Tables
by Wiethoff, Helge 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Hi all :-) When i search for a specific mac-address inside the FDB-Table i get no results with the default search options. Only if i deactivate the Options for Vlan and VLAN names. You can see in the screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0t18gycxw28ex56/fdb-table.png (equivalent for VLAN names... There is a blank entry selected https://www.dropbox.com/s/nx0dwkldj1vch7c/fdb-tables2.png ). Now my question: Is this the intended behavior? :) How are those default options set? Best regards, Helge ________________________________ Helge Wiethoff Medienzentrum Telefon: +49 (234) 968 8717 Fax: +49 (234) 968 3453 E-Mail: Wiethoff(a)tfh-bochum.de Technische Fachhochschule Georg Agricola für Rohstoff, Energie und Umwelt zu Bochum Staatlich anerkannte Fachhochschule der DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH Herner Straße 45 44787 Bochum http://www.tfh-bochum.de ________________________________ Träger: DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH Sitz der Gesellschaft: Bochum Registergericht: Amtsgericht Bochum Handelsregister: B 4052 Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kretschmann (Vorsitzender) Manfred Freitag

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Re: [Observium] Storage alerts
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Maybe it's active in the pro version ? Adrien De : BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] Envoyé : mardi 15 octobre 2013 10:55 À : 'observium(a)observium.org' Objet : Storage alerts Hi everyone, I'm using the old alerting system for hosts down and it works fine :-) But now I want to use the old or new one to know when my servers have data storage > 90% of their capacity. Is it possible ? And I'm always with the last SVN free version (I'm waiting for my Chief to buy the subscription). Thanks a lot, Adrien

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User Levels
by Jeremy Custenborder 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Excuse me if this is already documented some place. What is the lowest user level that will have read access to everything? Are the levels documented anywhere?

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inventory api not work
by Keyman 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

hi, all i enable API like this: // Simple Observium API Settings $config['api']['enabled'] = 1; $config['api']['module']['inventory'] = 1; and then i use http://x.x.x.x/api.php?username=admin&password=admin&module=inventory&devic… to export data, but retured : {"login":{"success":{"code":"101","msg":"User authentification succeeded"}},"data":[]} the device id is right, i can find inventory data from url http://x.x.x.x/device/device=4/tab=entphysical/ what's wrong about this ? thanks for your answer. yuan

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Storage alerts
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hi everyone, I'm using the old alerting system for hosts down and it works fine :-) But now I want to use the old or new one to know when my servers have data storage > 90% of their capacity. Is it possible ? And I'm always with the last SVN free version (I'm waiting for my Chief to buy the subscription). Thanks a lot, Adrien

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Geolocation through proxy
by Christian Hügel 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hi, is there a way to use the geolocation feature through a proxy with authentication? Our network policy doesn´t admint anonymous access through the proxy. Thx. Chris

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