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Installing observium
by Miguel Alejandro González 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hello I'm having a little problem with the tutorial. I'm following this tut: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation because both of my machine have ubuntu installed So I have two servers, server A is IPv6 only (i have installed Observium here, ubuntu 12.04) server B is IPv6/IPv4 (i want to monitor this machine, ubuntu 10.04) both machines are in a ipv6 network with cisco equipment (routers/switches) I configured the snmp client in server B, following this tutorial: http://www.observium.org/wiki/NetSNMPd_Client_Configuration And currently I'm stuck on this step, from the installation tutorial Add a first device to monitor: ./addhost.php <hostname> <community> v2c I get a message like this "coud not resolve hostname" Having said that, I have full connectivity between the machines and I configured a hostname in /etc/hosts, so I run this command (ubuntuservers is the community name i configured in server B) ./addhost.php server6 ubuntuservers v2c And I get the error message. I only modified these variables in config.php $config['db_user'] = "observium"; $config['db_pass'] = "mypass"; (a random password) $config['nets'][] = "2001:23::24/96"; What am I doing wrong, can you help me? Regards!!

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Force Device Type Change?
by Robert Williams 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hi all, Is there a way to force a device to be treated as a different kind of device when it is polled? I've tried changing the "Type" under "Device Settings" but this does not have the desired effect. Reason for asking, we have several UPS systems which are successfully being polled by Observium (all are Reillo units, running NetMan Plus cards). We also have another system which is running a CS121 card (in a PW9000 DPA-250kVA unit). This system is polled by our Cacti server in exactly the same way as the Riello units and we get the same data from all of them. However, Observium will not see this UPS as a UPS, just a "Generic Device" and as such will not poll it for RFC1628 OIDs. Any ideas on a fix or 'tweak' to make it think it's a UPS and poll it? Thanks in advance! Robert Williams Backline / Operations Team Custodian DataCentre tel: +44 (0)1622 230382 email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt

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SLA graphs showing as broken icons
by Cushard Michael 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hi, I was wondering if SLA graphing was working, or if it is simply my installation that's borked. I'm on build 3323 and I have SLAs enabled in my config file, and I can see the SLA-XX.rrd files in my RRD directory, but the SLA tab in the GUI displays broken links. I've been testing Observium for the last few days and have over 10,000 ports in it with integration of rancid and smokeping. So far it's working fine, apart from my SLA issue. Regards, Michael

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Observium SVN for Synology NAS
by Jeroen Mooijekind 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

I noticed the SVN changelog noticed 'support for Synology NAS devices' Where can I find more information on this? After installing on my Syno I get a lot of apache errors like: [error] [client 192.168.2.12] File does not exist: /var/services/web/images, referer: http://192.168.2.10/observium/html/

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Observium monitoring ZFS on FreeBSD
by Laurens Vets 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Hello, Is anybody monitoring a FreeBSD machine which is using ZFS? It seems there's an issue with discovering storage... For instance, I have the following filesystem on a pool: [me@host ~]$ zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT storage 5.14T 208G 64.3K /storage ... storage/temp 2.59T 208G 2.59T /storage/temp ... [me@host ~]$ But observium detects this as 599GB / 807GB Any idea what might be going on?

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LDAP Authentication
by Moermond, Timothy 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

I am having difficulty getting my LDAP configuration working, I have set the authentication type to ldap, and then set the following. #LDAP Config Section. $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; # v2 or v3 $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "dc1.test.com"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = false; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "uid="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",dc=test,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = ""; $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "cn=users,dc=test,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['domain admins']['level'] = 10; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['pfy']['level'] = 7; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['domain users']['level'] = 1; I keep getting a an authentication failed, indicating a user/password mismatch. I am not sure how to make the configuration any more basic than this. The LDAP directory is Active Directory in Windows 2008 R2 Native mode. Thank you, Tim

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Brocade ifAlias
by Daniel Hooper 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Hi All, Recently installed Observium today and very impressed so far, I have been busily migrating a boot load of stuff out of the not so free anymore Opsview into Observium all day. For my Cisco kit it's working great, unfortunately I'm hitting a few road blocks with my shiny new Brocade DC-6910 switches. I made a change to a poller include file to detect ironware / foundry switches and added the BR6910 string, what I still can't figure out is the ifAlias on the Brocades, it just comes back as 'Ethernet Port 3 on Unit 1' every time regardless of what the physical interface description is configured to. Anyone got any ideas on how to get around this one? Thanks -Dan

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Upgrade to 3316
by Laurens Vets 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Hello, I have an observium installation which was installed by tar.gz. I updated today via svn and afterwards the interface doesn't when I click anywhere... The Overview page is always displayed... Any idea what might be wrong?

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Dell M1000 Blade Chassis
by Dennis Kruyt 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Hi, Here a small patch for a Dell M1000 Blade Chassis so that the Dell logo shows up for it's DRAC interface. Wget link http://kruyt.org/m1000-drac.patch Index: drac.inc.php =================================================================== --- drac.inc.php (revision 3314) +++ drac.inc.php (working copy) @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ if (!$os) { if (strstr($sysDescr, "Dell Out-of-band SNMP Agent for Remote Access Controller")) { $os = "drac"; } + if (strstr($sysDescr, "This system component provides a complete set of remote management functions for modular servers")) { $os = "drac"; } } -?> \ No newline at end of file +?>

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Apache SNMP script changes
by Tom Laermans 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi, As previously requested on the list, here's a heads up for potential breakage, revision 3315 removes support for apache stats through the snmpd extend script. Please switch to the agent script, you can find it in /opt/observium/scripts/agent-local/apache. Thanks, Tom

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