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EX4200/4550 VC - Port Polling ~200 Seconds
by Tyler Christiansen 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Testing Observium, I've noticed that polling an EX4200/4550 with Observium takes about 200 seconds. There are around 300 ports, and I've noticed that Observium polls the logical interfaces as separate from the physical interfaces. I considered disabling logical interface polling, but the logical interfaces are used for a lot of port correlations, etc. Cacti with Spine takes 13 seconds to poll everything in our network, and Cacti with the PHP poller takes maybe 2 minutes to poll everything in our network. Because of Cacti's ability to handle this particular device (even with its PHP poller), I'm pretty convinced that the issue isn't the device. I've checked interface, memory, and CPU utilization on the Observium server as well as the device and the network in-between. Everything is fine. I've also turned Cacti off to ensure there was no strange clash. I also turned polling off for all ports that were in a "down" state and disabled those ports in the switch as well. It almost seems that Observium's poller walks one OID at a time in serial, or otherwise does some ridiculously complex discovery on every poll that it doesn't need to do. Cacti does bulk requests, so it gets around 50 OIDs per request to the switch stack. Is it possible that I'm missing something in the Observium configuration? Thanks! --Tyler

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Rancid Integration
by Ryan Milton 27 Oct '13

27 Oct '13

When I include the rancid integration...where should "anything" show up? Is there a chart, graph, or something, or is it the email updates? Regards, Ryan Milton MVS Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 www.mvsusa.com<http://www.mvsusa.com/> [MVS final logo GOOD very small]

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test plz ignore
by Nikolay Shopik 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

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Nan graph
by PUB 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hello Adam, I have install my new observium from svn trunk, but all my graph display -Nan I have some information into rrd directory, i have recreate it, and after i launch poller, rrd have some files with some data, but, no graph displayed. Poller with debug mod, no more informations. Regards

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RRD, Graphs and Draw Errors
by Moermond, Timothy 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hi, I recently updated to the subscription model of observium and did a clean install, but did use my old config.php file. I have several pages where the graphs show draw errors. I have tried setting the permissions on the RRD to apache:apache as indicated in the instructions, which did not seem to change the behavior. I then switched it to root:root, which also does not seem to change the behavior. I reviewed the information on RRD and Graph issues from the mailing list archives, unfortunately the couple of items I found to try did not seem to change the issue either. I did remove the ?> tag and the remaining white space at the end of the config.php file. I have attached a screen shot of the current permissions for the RRD directory and a screen of from one of the pieces of equipment showing the draw error. Some graphs appear to draw but do not contain data such as the CPU graphs. I am not sure how to proceed to further isolate what may be wrong. I have verified the path to the RRD directory and Executable on the system and checked that they were good in the config.php file. Thank you, Tim

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Re: [Observium] mini-/micrographs stacked / aggregated?
by Adam Armstrong 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

See, no pictures. Also, I do believe that innthis instance it's Paul who needs to convince me to put up with the crappy code his customer asked him to get included. :) I'm the one who knocks! Adam. Peter Childs <pchilds(a)staff.iinet.net.au> wrote: > >Lol > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People > > >On 24/10/13 12:18 PM, "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > >>On 2013-10-24 02:25, Paul Gear wrote: >>> On 10/24/2013 10:15 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >>> ... >>> I hope you now have some small amount of understanding about why I >>> didn't want to commit the patch in the first place, and why we tend to >>> view contributions as often more of a burden than a help. >>> >>> An analogy I've often made is that "donating" code to an open source >>> project is like "donating" a child to an orphanage. Thankfully in this >>> case, the original deadbeat dad has come back to clean up the poop. >>> >>> You've been reading Dale Carnegie again, haven't you, Adam? >> >>That is unlikely, unless it has a lot of pictures. >> >>adam. >>_______________________________________________ >>observium mailing list >>observium(a)observium.org >>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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mini-/micrographs stacked / aggregated?
by Andreas Rüdel 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Greetings Is there a way we can create "aggregated" (or "stacked") mini-/micrographs for the frontpage? using this syntax $config['frontpage']['minigraphs']['ids'] = "19418,port_bits,Dist76-01.AMS4;19496,port_bits,NAME"; or this: $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['RING']['ids'] = "19414,port_bits,NAME;19492,port_bits,NAME2;19439,port_bits,NAME3"; results in several graphs next to each other. what we are after is in "mini" or "micro" what we can do it using "custom" traffic graphs - but they are too big for what we are trying to do... $config['frontpage']['custom_traffic']['ids'] = "19418,19496"; <-- this actually stacks the data into one graph thanks for any pointers! Andreas

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Radius Auth on Win2k8 NPS - malformed message
by Christian Hügel 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

Hi, I try to configure observium with radius auth against a (working) win2k8 NPS Server; this failes with the follwing error message on the server: "A malformed RADIUS message was received from client %1. The data is the RADIUS message." http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc735403%28v=ws.10%29.aspx Any hints why radius auth doesn´t work in Observium? Chris

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Adduser Fails; Deleteuser Works
by Ron Wingfield 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

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Re: [Observium] Random Unicode Characters in BGP Polling / hex2ip
by Mike Stupalov 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

On 21.10.2013 15:52, Bastiaan Topper wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Hereby the discovery output. > > In our case it is ASR1001 router with Cisco IOS-XE 15.2(2)S1 (UNIVERSALK9). Another tip, as it looks like a bug in IOS-XE, I suggest you update to the latest stable version. Latest for IOS 15.2 - Release 3.7.4S (asr1001-universalk9.03.07.04.S.152-4.S4.bin) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/asr1000/release/notes/asr1k_rn_rel_… In fixed caveats list there is: https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCua40790 > > Regards, > > Bastiaan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Stupalov [mailto:landy2005@gmail.com] > Sent: maandag 21 oktober 2013 13:06 > To: Bastiaan Topper; Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Random Unicode Characters in BGP Polling / hex2ip > > On 21.10.2013 14:11, Bastiaan Topper wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I have kind of the same problem, but this time with Cisco ASR routers. >> As you can see below. >> >> >> >> >> >> I included the poller debug outputs. > > > Ohh, nice. > Thanks for debug outputs! > > Please send also debug out for discovery. > And tell ASR model and OS version. > > >> The correct output (from a Cisco IOS router): >> >> bgpPeerLocalAddr >> >> bgpPeerLocalAddr.149.14.34.41 = 149.14.34.42 >> >> bgpPeerLocalAddr.172.30.253.3 = 172.30.253.66 >> >> bgpPeerLocalAddr.172.30.253.4 = 172.30.253.66 >> >> >> >> The wrong output (from a Cisco ASR router): >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.20." ..|(..........." = "20 01 06 7C 28 D4 00 00 00 >> 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.20." ..|(..........." = "20 01 06 7C 28 D4 00 00 00 >> 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.20." ..|(..........3" = "20 01 06 7C 28 D4 00 00 00 >> 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.20." ..|(..........4" = "20 01 06 7C 28 D4 00 00 00 >> 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.20." ..|(..........e" = "20 01 06 7C 28 D4 00 00 00 >> 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.20." ..|(..........f" = "20 01 06 7C 28 D4 00 00 00 >> 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.20." ..|(..........g" = "20 01 06 7C 28 D4 00 00 00 >> 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.ipv4."172.30.253.1" = "AC 1E FD 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.ipv4."172.30.253.4" = "AC 1E FD 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.ipv4."172.30.253.33" = "AC 1E FD 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.ipv4."172.30.253.34" = "AC 1E FD 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.ipv4."172.30.253.65" = "AC 1E FD 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.ipv4."172.30.253.66" = "AC 1E FD 03 " >> >> cbgpPeer2LocalAddr.ipv4."172.30.253.67" = "AC 1E FD 03 " >> >> >> >> It looks like Observium is showing the first output correct, but not the >> second. Can this be fixed someway? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Bastiaan >> >> >> >> *From:*Tom Paseka [mailto:tom+lists@cloudflare.com] >> *Sent:* vrijdag 18 oktober 2013 22:47 >> *To:* Mike Stupalov >> *Cc:* Observium Network Observation System >> *Subject:* Re: [Observium] Random Unicode Characters in BGP Polling / hex2ip >> >> >> >> Resolution: >> >> >> >> # echo $LANG >> >> en_GB >> >> # export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 >> >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Mike Stupalov <landy2005(a)gmail.com >> <mailto:landy2005@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 18.10.2013 10:24, Tom Paseka wrote: >> > Looks like a bug in snmp on the box - a raw snmpget shows the same >> > weirdness. >> > >> > Sorry for noise! >> >> Anyway, please send an output for debug poller/discovery. >> >> Also note that you need to do snmpget with option -On, >> because net-snmp default tries to translate hex data into string.. >> >> >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Mike Stupalov >> <landy2005(a)gmail.com <mailto:landy2005@gmail.com> >> >> > <mailto:landy2005@gmail.com <mailto:landy2005@gmail.com>>> wrote: >> > >> > Please pastebin (on send file) for debug polling out: >> > php ./poller.php -d -m bgp-peers -h <your_juniper> > >> /tmp/poller.out >> > >> > also for discovery (if possible): >> > php ./discovery.php -d -m bgp-peers -h <your_juniper> > >> > /tmp/discovery.out >> > >> > -- >> > Mike Stupalov >> > >> >> > Tom Paseka __ 18 октября 2013 г. 5:31:10 написал: >> >> > >> >> <snip> >> >> [jnxBgpM2PeerRemoteAddr] => � |� >> >> [jnxBgpM2PeerLocalAddr] => � }< >> >> <snip> >> >> >> >> Is this well known? >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Mike Stupalov >> >> >> > > -- Mike Stupalov

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