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crossbar history
by Peter Childs 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

6500/7600 chassis show the crossbar usage in details pane, and I see c6kxbar-1-0.rrd type files on the file system, but hovering over the crossbar bit doesn't show a historical graph, and I can't seem to see a historical graph in any of the other tabs for the device. Am I missing something, or just a site-specific issue? Cheers, Peter

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Graphs not generating in Observium
by Mail List 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

Hi, We have an issue with our new Observium installation. We have performed an Ubuntu SVN install. All required packages and dependencies were installed and configuration steps followed. We have added many devices through Observium interface. However the graphs are not getting plotted. I couldn't find anything coming under the folder "/opt/observium/graphs". root@observe:/opt/observium/graphs# ls root@observe:/opt/observium/graphs# Can you please let us know what could be the issue and help us to correct it? Regards Joby

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Linux Agent redesign
by Adam Armstrong 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

Hi All, It has turned out that the agent is a little bit difficult to work with, trying to extract data using only shell scripting is a bit of a pain. It's difficult for us to do any form of authentication or encryption, and parsing of the returned data can be a little haphazard because we rely on correct formatting. I've been thinking of alternative designs, possibly using PHP (Perl or Python would probably be better, but they're not viable languages for us) and either an embedded web server or hanging off inetd as it currently does. This would allow us to do encryption, to require some form of authentication and to pass around easier to parse JSON or serialize()'d arrays Personally, I almost always install a PHP CLI interpreter on my servers because I do 'shell' scripting in PHP, but what do the rest of you think? Would you be willing to install php-cli on your servers if you got the ability to do encrypted/authenticated/compressed agent connections? What about if we allowed you to funnel SNMP queries via the agent? (only for UNIX hosts, obviously) adam.

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OS/distro version parser
by Adam Armstrong 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

Hi All, We're testing a new version of the old 'distro' script used to detect distribution. Please run : ./scripts/os From inside your observium directory on updated installation (you may need to chmod 755 it first). I get: root@alpha:/home/observium/dev# scripts/os Linux|3.8.0-19-generic|amd64|Ubuntu|13.04 root@alpha:/home/observium/dev# The final part is the distro release. Please reply to this post if your distro release is returned as empty. The script might not return a distribution value for non-Linux OSes, this is normal. We're trying to make sure it can always ascertain the distro version and type. Thanks, adam.

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Alerting, how to configure
by Rory Schellekens 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Hi all, What is the status of Alerting for Observium? Also I don't see any documentation about it. The main goal is to add our own alarms to Observium. With kind regards, Rory Schellekens

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Sensors
by simon schaller 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

hello all, i try to add sensors in my observium and i know that there is sensors in my servers. is there somenone who can explain me how to add it please? thanks to read this mail, schaller simon

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Permissions Issue:
by Ravindra Gupta 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Dear Team, Still we are facing below issue when we have click add device option in web panel .I have configured observing in Centos. I have been following many URL but did not get any solution. Error You have insufficient permissions to view this page. #tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log File does not exist: /opt/observium/html/images/no-48.png, referer: http://localhost/addhost/ I am waiting for your help...

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Re: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS
by Tom Laermans 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

I would, yes. (create a stable branch) And yes, I broke the thread with my mobile client especially for you :D Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Nikolay Shopik" <shopik(a)inblock.ru> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2013 17:08 Would you introduce "stable" branch if someone start paying for it? :-D You see fixes are fixes, but most bugs comes when you start introducing new feature called "global domination" and this is where things get worse then just getting fixes. Its just selecting between I need this fix, but this brake that, because of new thing here, and I need choice what are more important for me. I know fixing bugs are boring, and introducing new features (yay \o/) are more fun. :) But its understandable why no stable exist for now, no man power to do qa and backport shit here and there, like in any pet projects, muhahaha. On 02/08/13 01:05, Adam Armstrong wrote: > On 2013-08-01 21:52, Job Snijders wrote: >> Isn't it your job to do QA? >> >> If you favor stability why would you do 'svn up' on a production >> element? :) > > Quite right. And for people who can't or don't want to do this > themselves, we can take their money in exchange for managing their > installation updates and maintenance :) > > 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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Re: [Observium] Permissions Issue:
by Tom Laermans 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Dear User, Please read the responses to your question instead of sending it again and again. It serves no purpose other than you getting ignored completely by mailing list members. The error in the logs is completely unrelated. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ravindra Gupta" <ravindragupta9(a)gmail.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Permissions Issue: Date: Tue, Aug 6, 2013 09:20 Dear Team, Still we are facing below issue when we have click add device option in web panel .I have configured observing in Centos. I have been following many URL but did not get any solution. Error You have insufficient permissions to view this page. #tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log File does not exist: /opt/observium/html/images/no-48.png, referer: http://localhost/addhost/ I am waiting for your help...

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Re: [Observium] patch for rrdtool syntax
by Adam Armstrong 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

My guess is that tobi won't release something which needlessly breaks a lot of existing stuff because of ocd parser code. :) Peter Childs <pchilds(a)staff.iinet.net.au> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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