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Alerting through gnokii
by Gabriel Zamorski 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hello, Is there any chance to send through a gnokii an alert triggered by the alert checkers? There is something about gnokii commented out in alerts.php, but I’m not sure if it should work? (Observium Professional) Regards,

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Translates
by Kleber C S Coelho 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Dear, good afternoon! I wonder if there is a project underway to translate the Observium. I'm interested in helping with the Pt-BR language. If the interest of the project, please contact. Att. Kleber Coelho

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License
by Kleber C S Coelho 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Dear, good afternoon! We are studying the Observium acquire a license. However we are running into some bureaucratic issues of our institution. I can talk privately about this? Thank you. Kleber

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Some contributions to get observium working better in our env.
by Anton Lundin 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Hi there! I'm a quite new user of observium and i think its a really nice tool to keep a collected view of my network. I've done a couple of hacks on observium to get it working better in our enviorment that i would like to contribute upstream. I haven't seen any doc on how you would like contributions done so I'm just attaching them here as git-format-patch on top of latest community edition of observium, md5sum of tarball: 887e9ec061a751c0cb96fc5b774aa392 observium-community-latest.tar.gz If you have any other preferred way of getting contributions, just tell me. //Anton -- Anton Lundin anton(a)dohi.se +46702-161604 http://www.dohi.se/

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Email alerts on subscription version (again)
by Gavin Henry 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Hi all, I've read all the archives and am sure below is right, but on a recent BGP flap from one of our peers we didn't see the email (but got an SNMP Trap from our NMS anyway). Is this all correct or do we have to config *all* alerts and there are no defaults? ./test_mail.php -h xxx.uk.suretec.net Observium v0.14.11.5936 Test E-mail Configuration My Hostname: xxx.suretec.net E-mails ENABLED globally E-mails use PHP-builtin MAIL backend E-mails send from: "Observium" <observium(a)xxx.suretec.net> Try send test notification for xxx.uk.suretec.net to these email(s): noc(a)suretec.net Notification for xxx.suretec.net SENT. root@xxx:/opt/observium# cat config.php <?php ## Have a look in includes/defaults.inc.php for examples of settings you can set here. DO NOT EDIT defaults.inc.php! // Database config $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; $config['db_user'] = "xxx"; $config['db_pass'] = "xxx"; $config['db_name'] = "xxx"; // Location $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; // Thie should *only* be set if you want to *force* a particular hostname/port // It will prevent the web interface being usable form any other hostname #$config['base_url'] = "http://observium.company.com"; // Default community list to use when adding/discovering $config['snmp']['community'] = array("xxx"); // Authentication Model - move to LDAP once confirmed. $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please see documentation for config help // Enable alerter // $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; //$config['enable_syslog'] = "1"; ## Enable email backend settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Needed on subscription product //$config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; $config['enable_billing'] = 1; // End config.php -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry.

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Subscription $ my mistake - twice order
by Wojciech Dyląg [DOMENY.PL sp. z o.o.] 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hello Guys! Today, 10 minutes ago, I’ve purchased a subscription for Observium (PayPal transaction 5UL24208P67929042). It was unfortunately my mistake because my friend has purchased the same subscription a few days ago… and he didn’t tell me :( Today we have a two subscriptions but we need just a one… can I ask you to cancel today order and refund our PayPal account for this purchase? Thank you for your understending. Wojciech Dyląg (CTO) e-mail: wojciech.dylag(a)domeny.pl <mailto:wojciech.dylag@domeny.pl> tel.: +48 12 296 36 63 <tel:+48122963663> <http://www.domeny.pl/> ul. Marcika 27 30-443 Kraków <http://domeny.pl/domeny-internetowe.html> NIP: 6792772660 | KRS: 0000175791 Kapitał zakł. wpł.: 50.000 PLN

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APC UPS Current is zero
by chott＠praha1.net 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hello, We have monitored APC Smart-UPS 1500 RM with module AP9605 But Capacity/Output load is 11% and Current Output is 0A Tomas

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Proffesional services to create new monitoring of SNMP
by Barry Murphy 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hey guys, Wonder if anyone on the list is willing to build some SNMP enhancements for Observium, I believe the work would only take 2-3 hours from someone that knows SNMP MIBS and observium. Reply to me offlist if you are interested; the MIB will be provided open source to the community following its development. Many thanks Kind regards, Barry Murphy / Chief Operating Officer +64 27 490 9712 / barry(a)vibecommunications.co.nz<mailto:barry@vibecommunications.co.nz> [3sparks llc]<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.facebook.com/VibeCom> [Vibe Communications] <https://twitter.com/vibecomnz> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/1941512> Office: +64 9 222 0000 / Fax: 0800 842 326 Unit A7, 1 Beresford Square, Auckland, New Zealand Web: www.vibecommunications.co.nz<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> / Peering: AS45177<http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=45177> This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002.

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Cisco WLC access points
by krause＠rus.uni-stuttgart.de 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi, since Aruba access points are found just fine, is there anyone having Cisco APs on WLC/WiSM2 in Observium already? If not, has anyone checked already how much "patching" would be required to feed those APs into the db model? Best, Kilian

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Refreash of login page
by Fältman, Mikael 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi. There is an html instruction making the login page to be refreshed every 300 sec. If you try to login to Observium using wrong credentials (user may have forgot it) and then leave the web browser there will be an Failed login event every refresh cycle. This leads to unnecessary alerts in SIEM systems for those who are doing security monitoring. Are there a need to have the login page refreshed ? Regards Mikael

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Unable to login
by Aaron Smith 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi everyone, We're testing Observium and I've come across an issue with logging in this morning. I have LDAP/Active Directory configured for auth and has been working perfectly up until now. At first I thought it was my account, but nope all good there. Then I thought it was the LDAP configuration so I changed the config back to the default mysql auth but still not able to log in. I tried rebooting the box but didn't work either also checked the file system and it's not full. I also tried deleting the cache and cookies and using different browsers but still no dice. Not sure if it's related but I updated to the new CE yesterday but it was working fine after the update yesterday afternoon. Any help will be much appreciated! Thanks.

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Graphs netstats error
by Simon Smith 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi All, after the latest SVN update 6009 my Netstats page on my Mikrotik equipment show the wrong graph? attached screenshot showing what i mean i think the is still a bug? how do i revert back one version as this was fine till just before Regards Simon

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Webpage stays blank after update to 0.14.11.6008
by Branzko, Matthias 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hello all, today morning I did an update from an older version of observium (sorry, don't know the exact version - but IIRC only 1 sql update file was executed afterwards) to the latest svn version. But if I try to open the Observium in the browser, the page shows nothing (only white background is shown). First I thought it's an issue with LDAP-Authentication. So I switched to mysql, created a new user with permission 10 and tried again. But still no luck. The user database looks like: mysql> select * from users; +---------+-------------------+------------------------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+-------+-------+-------------------+--------------+ | user_id | username | password | realname | email | descr | level | can_modify_passwd | user_options | +---------+-------------------+------------------------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+-------+-------+-------------------+--------------+ | 4 | admin | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | root@localhost | | 10 | 1 | NULL | If I try to open the webpage with debug=1 the following output is shown: > $vars /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `entity_permissions` WHERE `user_id` = '4' string(56) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT `value` FROM `users_prefs` WHERE `user_id` = '4' AND `pref` = 'atom_key' string(79) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT `value` FROM `users_prefs` WHERE `user_id` = '4' AND `pref` = 'atom_key' string(79) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `device_graphs` ORDER BY `graph` string(46) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `devices` ORDER BY `hostname` string(43) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT `device_id`, `ports`.`port_id`, `ifAdminStatus`, `ifOperStatus`, `deleted`, `ignore`, `ifOutErrors_delta`, `ifInErrors_delta` FROM `ports` LEFT JOIN `ports-state` ON `ports`.`port_id` = `ports-state`.`port_id` string(244) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `sensors` LEFT JOIN `sensors-state` ON `sensors`.`sensor_id` = `sensors-state`.`sensor_id` So the login or mapping to user_id seems to work. Any ideas / what to do next? Thanks in advance Matthias

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Power Meter MIB
by chott＠praha1.net 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hello, i have I have Power Meter HWg-PWR - http://www.hw-group.com/products/HWg-PWR/hwg-pwr25_M-bus_gateway_en.html Is there some future implementation? Tomas

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CE 0.14.11.6000
by Dan Ratzlaff 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Thanks for the new version! My RADLAN and BCM PowerConnect switches show up nicely now. I recently picked up a few Cisco Small Business switches, but Observium wasn't detecting them correctly. After some digging, I found I only needed to add their sysObjectID's to the definition file: diff --git includes/definitions/os.inc.php includes/definitions/os.inc.php index c54d476..135f3ae 100644 --- includes/definitions/os.inc.php +++ includes/definitions/os.inc.php @@ -714,6 +714,8 @@ $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.81."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.82."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.83."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.85."; +$config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.87."; // SF200-48 +$config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.88."; // SG200-50 $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.89."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.11.82."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.3955."; Thanks! -- Dan

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Mako
by Tom Henderson 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Has anyone used any of the Mako appliances (http://www.makonetworks.com/) with observium? They have their own management/monitoring platform but wondering if I'll be able to also add them to our observium server. We're looking at the 6500 model. Cheers Tom Henderson IT Manager | Pack & Company | 027 461 4403 | 09 929 2750 | tom(a)pack.co.nz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not disclose, copy, or distribute any information contained in or attached to it, or take any action/inaction based on it. Please contact us immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and not of Pack & Company (NZ) Limited (the "Company"), however any intellectual property contained in or attached to this email is the property of the Company. Thank you.

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idrac
by Robert Hatch 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear all, Has anyone had any success in using observium with idracs? The auto discover doesn't appear to find any useful sensors other than the physical nic of the idrac itself. Has anyone else worked on support for idracs? All the best rob

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Interface Parsing
by Robert Hatch 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear all, Just wondering if there was an appetite out there for expanding the interface labelling feature of observium. The existing description parsing (http://www.observium.org/wiki/Interface_Description_Parsing) is pretty useful but also a bit limiting at times, as it seems more useful when labelling layer 3 services and less so for layer 2. Just a few general comments: * For us the pseudowires tab does not seem to auto populate (we use a variety of juniper, brocade and extreme switches and routers), just wondering if I have missed something here... * This aside there are more frequent occasions where we are providing VPLS services for a client and it would be nice if it were possible to label an interface as both a customer and a P2P link for example and then have these separately broken down in observium itself * There are also occasions where it would extremely useful to label backhaul circuits such as dark fibre and waves. Currently the only option for this is to label things as core but that page becomes so big it is not that useful unless you know what you are after (and then you would just go straight to the interface). Something like BACKHAUL: , PROVIDER:, END (A/B etc.) would be immensely useful and time saving. * The other issue we have that I don't have a simple answer for is the unhelpful aggregation of customer switch ports (quite often both ends of a P2P) and their layer 3 router ports. Could we start by having a separate aggregate graph for each circuit reference for each specific client. Maybe if END A and B are specified then the graph could demonstrate that these are actually different ends of the same link? What do people think? BW rob

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New Community Edition
by Adam Armstrong 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Hi All, We've released a new Observium Community Edition, version 0.14.11, based on SVN revision 6000. There've been over 770 new commits since the previous release. http://www.observium.org/observium-community-0.14.11.tar.gz http://www.observium.org/wiki/Upgrading#Upgrade_to_latest_Major_release http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog (will be updated later!) adam.

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Observium Location Naming
by Gary Tang 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Is there some kind of convention as to how to set the sysLocation snmpd parameters? I am currently having some trouble finding the right naming for OVH BHS. So far none of the following work. OVH, Montregie, Quebec OVH, Beauharnois, Quebec OVH, Beauharnois, Montregie OVH, Beauharnois-Salaberry, Montregie -- Gary Tang Sent with Airmail

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Paid support
by Gavin Henry 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Hi all, I can see some of the support options on the main website, but not way to purchase or get in touch? -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. http://www.surevoip.co.uk

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Multiple SNMP Queries
by Lane Eckley 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hi Guys, On a limited number of CentOS & Ubuntu machines we are monitoring with Observium we are seeing dozens of SNMP queries from Observium in a very short window (10-20 seconds). Snip of the logs from /var/logs/messages Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:55776->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] We are trying to understand why Observium would be sending so many queries back to back as well as why we are seeing this on some machines, but not others. Thanks! -Lane

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hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5
by deeepdish 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hello. Great product. Looking forward to evaluating the subscription version after I get a minimum base operational using the CE edition. I have an issue around viewing HDD TEMP graphs driven by data extracted from the UNIX agent and hddtemp script. I can confirm output when auditing output of: telnet (hostname) 36602 or ./poller.php -h (hostname) -d I can also confirm temp. sensor driven graphs do come up for other hosts when using SNMP lmsensors, however not for unix-agent / hddtemp data sources. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

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Updated changelog!
by Adam Armstrong 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

The abridged changelog is now up to date with October and November to date! http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog

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21 Nov '14

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Re: [Observium] hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5
by deeepdish 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

My apologies…. Not using hddtemp script. Using the temperature script (that uses hddtemp).. sn = serial number. Using ZFS on Linux by-vdev definition to map /dev/hd? -> /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn - serial number) My temperature script below as on monitored host. #!/bin/bash echo "<<<temperature>>>" echo “(sn 1):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 1) -n` echo “(sn 2):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 2) -n` echo “(sn 3):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 3) -n` echo “(sn 4):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 4) -n` echo “(sn 5):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 5) -n` ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:27:27 -0600 From: "Ron Marosko" <ron(a)rjr-services.com <mailto:ron@rjr-services.com>> To: "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5 Message-ID: <001b01d005a8$0aa08140$1fe183c0$(a)rjr-services.com <mailto:001b01d005a8$0aa08140$1fe183c0$@rjr-services.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just having a look at the hddtemp agent script. # hddtemp sensor readings # needs hddtemp daemon listening on (at least) localhost # requires netcat to be installed and in the path Have you satisfied those requirements? From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of deeepdish Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 9:36 AM To: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: [Observium] hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5 Hello. Great product. Looking forward to evaluating the subscription version after I get a minimum base operational using the CE edition. I have an issue around viewing HDD TEMP graphs driven by data extracted from the UNIX agent and hddtemp script. I can confirm output when auditing output of: telnet (hostname) 36602 or ./poller.php -h (hostname) -d I can also confirm temp. sensor driven graphs do come up for other hosts when using SNMP lmsensors, however not for unix-agent / hddtemp data sources. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

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hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5
by deeepdish 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Hello. Great product. Looking forward to evaluating the subscription version after I get a minimum base operational using the CE edition. I have an issue around viewing HDD TEMP graphs driven by data extracted from the UNIX agent and hddtemp script. I can confirm output when auditing output of: telnet (hostname) 36602 or ./poller.php -h (hostname) -d I can also confirm temp. sensor driven graphs do come up for other hosts when using SNMP lmsensors, however not for unix-agent / hddtemp data sources. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

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r6001 backward compatibility
by Tom Laermans 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Dear all, Revision 6001 cleans up a bunch of old code paths that should not have been used in recent days. If you are upgrading from a revision before r5000, it's probably best to upgrade to r6000 (svn up -r6000) first, run a full discovery and poll cycle, then upgrade to latest trunk. We've removed RRD renaming code for files which should since long have been renamed, and variables that should not exist anymore in your config. Variables to double check: $config['email_*'] should be renamed to $config['email'][*] instead. Tom

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Groups
by Milton Ngan 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

What is the intention of the groups feature? It seems like a really powerful way to group stuff together and have interesting views of things. But right now it just generates a list of entities that you can click through or hover over. I took a look at the code that generates all the various graph layouts (iftypes, health, ports). It seems that every page has its own code for handling the graph layout. It seem like this would be a great place to leverage a bunch of the existing code so you can create group specific views of sensors, ports etc... But it doesn't look like the code is structured that way (i.e reusable components/widgets). The standard views are good, but I want to be able to see them on a per datacenter/region basis rather than globally. The global view is visually interesting/pretty it is less useful.

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Re: [Observium] Avoid Ignored Ports
by Pedersen, Sean 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Where are you disabling / ignoring the ports? Screenshot(s) would be helpful here. You can set each port to poll or alert (Yes/No) under the settings of the device the port is on. I¹m not sure if the Alert toggle is tied to the new alerts or a remnant of the old alerting system. On 11/19/14, 10:14 AM, "Josh Hopper" <joshhopper(a)protectplus.com> wrote: >Some ports in Observium I set to ignore because I don't need to watch >them right now but I will eventually. >Even though they are ignored, I'm still alerted by them. How do I filter >out ignored ports? > >-- >Sincerely, >Joshua Hopper, A+ CE >Network Administrator > > 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 >Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium Founded in 2007, IO is a worldwide leader in software defined data center technology, services and solutions that enable businesses and governments to intelligently control their information. The communication contained in this e-mail is confidential and is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, attorney work product or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender of the error, and delete this communication including any attached files from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.

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New Community edition?
by John P Arends 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Is a new version of the community edition coming out soon? Based on the schedule of the past two releases it looks like it may be soon.

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Re: [Observium] Old map on frontpage?
by Jonathan Green 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Hello All: Just upgraded to v14. Curious if there is a way to use the old map on the frontpage, the map from v13? Thank you. -Jonathan

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RAID Alert Check
by Lane Eckley 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hi Guys, I am looking to setup an alert check for LSI & Adaptec RAID arrays, however looking over the docs and I uncertain on how to properly configure it. Here is what I think I know: -Use the Observium agent to query the RAID controller and drive status -Create an alert check under “sensor” What I don’t know -The rest of the variables for the alert check Thanks guys! -Lane

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Re: [Observium] Amperage Calc
by Pedersen, Sean 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Alerts can¹t be added up. They¹re attributed to whatever entity/device/metric combination you create, triggering on the individual values that match your rules. You could create rules to match both of your individual PDUs, or all PDUs, but you can¹t ask it to add/subtract the values of multiple rules or metrics to trigger an alert. Curious - what kind of scenario are you looking at that would warrant this kind of alarm? On 11/19/14, 10:37 AM, "Josh Hopper" <joshhopper(a)protectplus.com> wrote: >Is there a way to add PDU Amerage together so you get an alert based on >the Amperage Usage of 2 PDUs together? > >For Example: >PDU A - 10 Amps >PDU B - 1 Amps > >If PDU A + PDU B = 12 Amps then Send Alert > >Something like that. > >-- >Sincerely, >Joshua Hopper, A+ CE >Network Administrator > > 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 >Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium Founded in 2007, IO is a worldwide leader in software defined data center technology, services and solutions that enable businesses and governments to intelligently control their information. The communication contained in this e-mail is confidential and is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, attorney work product or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender of the error, and delete this communication including any attached files from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Amperage Calc
by Josh Hopper 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Is there a way to add PDU Amerage together so you get an alert based on the Amperage Usage of 2 PDUs together? For Example: PDU A - 10 Amps PDU B - 1 Amps If PDU A + PDU B = 12 Amps then Send Alert Something like that. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565

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Avoid Ignored Ports
by Josh Hopper 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Some ports in Observium I set to ignore because I don't need to watch them right now but I will eventually. Even though they are ignored, I'm still alerted by them. How do I filter out ignored ports? -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565

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HSRP event tracking
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Is there a way to add a checker for Cisco HSRP events? >From CISCO-HSRP-MIB... HsrpState ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The current state of the HSRP protocol for a given HSRP group entry." SYNTAX INTEGER { initial(1), learn(2), listen(3), speak(4), standby(5), active(6) } This does not work... [cid:image003.jpg@01D0033A.077E5250] Regards, derek Subscriber v14.11.5987

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Re: [Observium] Performance
by Desir Antoine 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi all, Xavier : About IO issues, did you make changes from rrdcached or Obervium/kernel tuning ? Муслим : The SQL Server has 8 Go RAM and CPU is really not used (95%Idle), and quite difficult to answer to memory question, the physical memory is used at 95% by buffers Cheers, -- Antoine Deisr ________________________________ Ce message et les pieces jointes sont confidentiels et reserves a l'usage exclusif de ses destinataires. Il peut egalement etre protege par le secret professionnel. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en avertir immediatement l'expediteur et de le detruire. L'integrite du message ne pouvant etre assuree sur Internet, la responsabilite de Worldline ne pourra etre recherchee quant au contenu de ce message. Bien que les meilleurs efforts soient faits pour maintenir cette transmission exempte de tout virus, l'expediteur ne donne aucune garantie a cet egard et sa responsabilite ne saurait etre recherchee pour tout dommage resultant d'un virus transmis. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Worldline liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted.

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Problems
by Darian Jimenez 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hello, I have a couple of problems with observium which really hinder me trusting it's alerting feature etc. 1 - Some servers show as down, when in fact they aren't down and snmp is started (i've also tried to restart) 2 - Some server show as up and while I have an alert for storage to send warning only when its below 5% full it will send an alert saying C drive space is at 0% but in fact the servers have more than 10% left. Can these issue's be related to iop's or the polling time? I'd like to figure this out because the SNMP servers are windows servers and everytime one of them is down, I can't afford to troubleshoot by removing snmp and reinstalling it because windows requires a reboot, which I just can't do on domain controllers, file servers etc. Is it possible to put the login portal to observium on a seperate webpage completely so that customers can log into it from our site for example/

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Re: [Observium] ifAlias Script replacement
by tromp wezelman 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi Sascha, This script worked well for us, but not anymore. No output is generated if i test it on the command line. How can i debug this? Thanks, Tromp

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Assistance with Port Alert Checker
by Chip Pleasants 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi all, I'm looking for a little help figuring our why my port alert checker didn't seem to work.I set up port alert checker to trigger when greater than 80%. The actual usage was at 100% for a couple hours. This is a gigabit interface set to 100m with a bandwidth statement. The screen shot reflects the 100m speed correctly. I've attached a couple screen shots with my port and alert check. Any ideas why it didn't fire off? Thanks, Chip

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Exim module problem
by Manuele Di Nunzio 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi al All, I've added at Unix agent the exim module (I've already apache). But Observium can't locate this module. If I type from local server 'telnet myip 36602' there are the exim information. What could be the problem? Thank You in advance for your help

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Performance
by Desir Antoine 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi, A solution for a large network like yours could be using a distributed architecture. Here is a feedback from our usage : Current architecture in our organisation graphs 2000 devices and 70k ports and target is 6000 devices. We have built a farm of Observium pollers ( 6 physical servers ) and 1 more for mysql server (+Apache for GUI). Our 6 poller servers are 70% CPU idle and disks are ok for now. We progressively are adding new devices. We did a small patch in mysql scheme, to add a "poller_id" into devices table. At each new device added, script "add_device.php" choose the poller the least used (based on numbers of devices per poller server). Each poller asks to SQL Server devices with its poller_id. The GUI server can read via NFS all rrd files stored in pollers. Hardware used for each poller is HP DL360 Gen7 / 4 GB RAM / 6 disks SAS 10k Raid 1+0 / 2*E5620 2.40Ghz (4 cores each). Here is a diagram : http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img538/3225/iMXiYb.png By the way, may it be a good idea to add this distributed feature for monitoring of large platforms (adding the poller_id field into devices table) ? Cheers, Antoine Desir ________________________________ Ce message et les pi?ces jointes sont confidentiels et r?serv?s ? l'usage exclusif de ses destinataires. Il peut ?galement ?tre prot?g? par le secret professionnel. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en avertir imm?diatement l'exp?diteur et de le d?truire. L'int?grit? du message ne pouvant ?tre assur?e sur Internet, la responsabilit? de Worldline ne pourra ?tre recherch?e quant au contenu de ce message. Bien que les meilleurs efforts soient faits pour maintenir cette transmission exempte de tout virus, l'exp?diteur ne donne aucune garantie ? cet ?gard et sa responsabilit? ne saurait ?tre recherch?e pour tout dommage r?sultant d'un virus transmis. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Worldline liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted.

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E-mail Notifications & Backend Settings
by Jacob Chavez 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hello, does anyone know which parameters need to be added within config.php to enable e-mail notifications. Also, where do I configure the backend settings? Is that in config.php as well? Below is what I got from the documentation and I was able to send a test e-mail from Observium, but not receive a message if a device was down when I tested that portion. Any help is appreciated. Thank you! Jacob Email backend settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; Enable/Disable send email globally $config['email']['from'] = NULL; Mail from. Default: "Observium" <observium@`hostname -f`> $config['email']['default'] = NULL; Default alert recipient $config['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; Only use default recipient (all alerts send to default recipient) $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; Mail backend. Allowed: "mail" (PHP's built-in), "sendmail", "smtp". $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; // The location of the sendmail program. Sendmail specific options $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; // Outgoing SMTP server name. $config['email']['smtp_port'] = 25; // The port to connect. $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = 10; // SMTP connection timeout in seconds. $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = NULL; // Enable encryption. Use 'tls' or 'ssl' $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = FALSE; // Whether or not to use SMTP authentication. $config['email']['smtp_username'] = NULL; // SMTP username. $config['email']['smtp_password'] = NULL; // Password for SMTP authentication. SMTP specific options For test email settings use test_mail.php script from main observium dirrectory.

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Power Statistics
by Josh Hopper 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

How do I make an alert for power where it alerts me if my amperage (current) is over 80%. For me that would be about 11 AMPs on my UPS. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFFFFF.5CF8B420] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Junos 4-byte ASN support
by bt 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hello, I tried digging through the mailing archives but jet lag from my recent trip is stymieing my efforts in finding relevant threads. I'm running 0.14.11.5945 and notice that 4-byte ASN is still not supported. We use 4-byte ASN for the greater range as we eventually plan to run eBGP down to our servers. On Junos devices -- anything from MX, QFX to SRX -- I notice that ASNs show as a negative integer (example "-94967243"). On our Cisco's, they show up as our favorite 23456. The main question is: Are the negative integers a limitation of the Junos MIB? On those individual devices I do not have a "tab=routing/proto=bgp/", the BGP sessions do not show up at all under the general "routing -> BGP All Sessions" tab, and consequently we're missing a large chunk of our network and we don't have any BGP alerts (though I have all the above with Cisco Nexus gear). Are there any workarounds or plans to support 4-byte ASN in Observium, specifically with Junos equipment? Thank you! bt

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Linux Load Average Alert Check
by Lane Eckley 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hi Guys, Has there been any changes to the alerting system that will allow us to create a check for a Linux system’s load average? Looking through the list archives it appears it wasn’t yet supported back in August, but I am unsure if that may have changed since then. Thanks! -Lane

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Auto-discovery Woes
by Garland McAlexander 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

I'm having some major issues with Auto-discovery (read, I can't seem to get it working at all). Here is what I have in my config: $config['autodiscovery']['xdp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via discovery protocols (CDP, LLDP, FDP, AMAP and other) $config['autodiscovery']['ospf'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via OSPF $config['autodiscovery']['bgp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via iBGP $config['autodiscovery']['libvirt'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts found via libvirt $config['autodiscovery']['ip_nets'] = array("10.0.0.0/8"); // Networks to permit autodiscovery $config['discover_services'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover services via SNMP on devices of type "server" I'm using resolution via hosts file, and I have about 150 machines there. However, autodiscovery seems to do nothing.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 52, Issue 51
by Brett Jones 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hi there, We monitor APC pdu's here and have set up the following metrics: 41 PDU SENSOR ALARM notification of a warning/alert/down event on sensor sensor_event eq warning sensor_event eq alert sensor_event eq down type match power * This then picks up on all the sensors on that device: power banks 1 and 2 , power supply and voltage. Then if you go into the the node, click settings and then "sensor" you can manually set the min/ max for each one . once this hits it will alarm! Hope this helps ndex MIB Type Class Descr Current Min Max Custom Limits Reset Limits Alerts rPDULoadStatusLoad.1 apc current Bank Total 8.1A xx rPDULoadStatusLoad.2 apc current Bank 1 6.2A xx rPDULoadStatusLoad.3 apc current Bank 2 1.8A rPDUIdentDevicePowerWatts.0 apc power Input 1.86kW rPDUIdentDeviceLinetoLineVoltage.0 apc voltage Line-to-Line 230V rPDUPowerSupply1Status.0 powernet-rpdusupply1-state state Power Supply 1 powerSupplyOneOk Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net E:support@voip-unlimited.net Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: 14 November 2014 16:38 To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 52, Issue 51 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Power Statistics (Josh Hopper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:37:25 -0500 From: Josh Hopper <joshhopper(a)protectplus.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Power Statistics Message-ID: <5BBFC1D5E54E9341821836E23038ADEC04DC527A21E1@SVR-EXCHANGE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" How do I make an alert for power where it alerts me if my amperage (current) is over 80%. For me that would be about 11 AMPs on my UPS. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFFFFF.5CF8B420] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Memory Metrics
by Josh Hopper 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

I'm having a little trouble. Metrics mempool_free mempool_perc mempool_used Using the above how would I properly setup an alert to notify me if my memory being used is over 65%? I'm not sure I understand how to properly use _free, _perc and _used. -- Sincerely, Josh Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Re: [Observium] CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB
by Mike Stupalov 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

You need disable 'fdb-table' poller module (in device edit -> module tab) On your device too many active vlans, on cisco devices FDB entries stored in separate contexts for each vlan. That why for cisco devices walked BRIDGE-MIB::dot1dTpFdbEntry as many times as have active vlans on device. Module [ fdb-table ] time: 329.5584s On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Marco Spicuglia < Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > > thank you for picking this up. > > Please find attached the debug output about one of our Nexus, with vlan > module and vtp mib already disabled via de GUI. > > I kindly ask you to avoid the public distribution of this file and to > immediately destroy it after your analysis has been completed, please. > > Thanks in advance for your time. > > > Best regards, > > Marco Spicuglia > > ReasonNet.com > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> on behalf of Mike > Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> > *Sent:* 13 November 2014 11:16 > *To:* observium(a)observium.org > *Subject:* Re: [Observium] CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB > > Hi, > > On 13.11.2014 13:11, Marco Spicuglia wrote: > > Hello there, > > > how can I disable CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB from the GUI? > > If possible, send me debug output for poller: > ./poller.php -d -h <your_nexus> > > This is the Nexus polling killer, but I can't find it in the list of > MIBs that I can disable. > > I'm running rev. 5975 stable > > > Cheers, > > Marco > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > -- > Mike Stupalovhttp://observium.org > > -- Mike Stupalov http://observium.org/

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Re: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance
by Adam Armstrong 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Well, seems that's our list drama for the winter sorted. He's been removed and banned, so no need to reply to him. :) BACK TO OUR NORMAL PROGRAMMING. NOTHING TO SEE HERE! ------ Original Message ------ From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 11/14/2014 1:09:44 AM Subject: RE: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance >I wish you good luck and hope you get well soon. >Please confirm that you will cancel the subscription. >Br >Ole Bryde > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of >Adam Armstrong >Sent: den 14 november 2014 08:06 >To: Observium Network Observation System >Subject: Re: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance > >You need to look up the word "harass". You're the one harassing me. > >Fuck off. > >------ Original Message ------ >From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >Sent: 11/14/2014 1:03:39 AM >Subject: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance > >>Well, aint you the perfect gentleman. >>I want to cancel my subscription for Observium, that should be pretty >>obvious. >>You constantly harass and abuse the people in the mailinglist, why ? >>The platform you provided is pretty good, but does that in any way >>compensate for you poor manners ? >>I have no idea what is eating you, but as you so elegantly put it, I >>most certainly will "Go away" >>Also , as you are well aware, I have never utilized the subscription , >>so maybe a refund would be in place.. >>I urge you to get some social training or at least get laid once in a >>while, could do you some actual good. >> >>Have a nice day >>Br >>Ole Bryde >> >> >> >> >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:50 >>To: Bryde, Ole >>Subject: Re[6]: [Observium] Performance >> >>You got irritated that I said something mean about something you have >>deployed on the mailing list so you felt the need to email me >>*directly* to display your irritation like some kind of passive >>aggressive alpha-neckbeard. >> >>I don't give a fuck what you think. Go away. >> >>adam. >> >>------ Original Message ------ >>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> >>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:46:22 AM >>Subject: RE: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance >> >>>So you are basically calling me a liar? >>>Wow. >>> >>>Ole >>> >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:43 >>>To: Bryde, Ole >>>Subject: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>I long ago learned not to believe a single word said by someone who >>>is >>>defending something they have deployed. >>> >>>adam. >>> >>>------ Original Message ------ >>>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> >>>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:28:50 AM >>>Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>>Well , I guess we have different experiences then. >>>>We have VSS pairs that have been running perfectly for several >>>>years. >>>>(including patching) >>>>We have stacks for our access layer that works just fine. >>>> >>>>You provide us with a great product, to unbeatable price, but, >>>>pissing up your "customers" leg could be considered rude. No ? >>>> >>>>//Ole >>>> >>>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>>>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:20 >>>>To: Bryde, Ole >>>>Subject: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance >>>> >>>>Greatly increased surface area for software failure. >>>> >>>>Pretty much every deployment of stacked/virtual chassis switches >>>>I've >>>>encountered has had issues be them simple performance issues from >>>>intra-stack communication to serious problems like configuration >>>>corruption and instability. >>>> >>>>VSS is the poster child of "stacking: not even once". >>>> >>>>adam. >>>> >>>> >>>>------ Original Message ------ >>>>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>>>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network >>>>Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:17:17 AM >>>>Subject: RE: [Observium] Performance >>>> >>>>>Really ? >>>>>How come ? Please elaborate on that. >>>>> >>>>>Ole Bryde >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>>From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf >>>>>Of Adam Armstrong >>>>>Sent: den 13 november 2014 18:21 >>>>>To: Observium Network Observation System >>>>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>>>> >>>>>Stacking switches is pretty naive. >>>>> >>>>>adam. >>>>> >>>>>------ Original Message ------ >>>>>From: "Raphael Mazelier" <raph(a)futomaki.net> >>>>>To: observium(a)observium.org >>>>>Sent: 11/12/2014 4:09:49 AM >>>>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>>>> >>>>>>Observium is great tool, have a nice gui, made plenty of things... >>>>>>But the poller is "naive". >>>>>> >>>>>>For example I have a couple of stacked EX3300 I cannot poll with >>>>>>observium (the snmp is slow on this equipemnt ok). >>>>>> >>>>>>Think about that : in observium the poll of this equipment take >>>>>>more than 5min (so it is unusable), in cacti with spine 20s. >>>>>> >>>>>>Doing snmpbulwalk on all oid is not always the better solution.... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Le 11/11/14 22:12, Spencer Gaw a écrit : >>>>>>>Oh great, this guy again... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Regards, >>>>>>> >>>>>>>SG >>>>>>> >>>>>>>On 11/11/2014 1:58 PM, Alex Povolotsky wrote: >>>>>>>>I'm working on about 20 times better poller for Observium, >>>>>>>>current one is awful. Mysql should not be a bottleneck, I guess. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>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 >>>> >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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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FW: Re[6]: Performance
by Bryde, Ole 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Well, aint you the perfect gentleman. I want to cancel my subscription for Observium, that should be pretty obvious. You constantly harass and abuse the people in the mailinglist, why ? The platform you provided is pretty good, but does that in any way compensate for you poor manners ? I have no idea what is eating you, but as you so elegantly put it, I most certainly will "Go away" Also , as you are well aware, I have never utilized the subscription , so maybe a refund would be in place.. I urge you to get some social training or at least get laid once in a while, could do you some actual good. Have a nice day Br Ole Bryde -----Original Message----- From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:50 To: Bryde, Ole Subject: Re[6]: [Observium] Performance You got irritated that I said something mean about something you have deployed on the mailing list so you felt the need to email me *directly* to display your irritation like some kind of passive aggressive alpha-neckbeard. I don't give a fuck what you think. Go away. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> Sent: 11/14/2014 12:46:22 AM Subject: RE: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance >So you are basically calling me a liar? >Wow. > >Ole > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:43 >To: Bryde, Ole >Subject: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance > >I long ago learned not to believe a single word said by someone who is >defending something they have deployed. > >adam. > >------ Original Message ------ >From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> >Sent: 11/14/2014 12:28:50 AM >Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance > >>Well , I guess we have different experiences then. >>We have VSS pairs that have been running perfectly for several years. >>(including patching) >>We have stacks for our access layer that works just fine. >> >>You provide us with a great product, to unbeatable price, but, pissing >>up your "customers" leg could be considered rude. No ? >> >>//Ole >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:20 >>To: Bryde, Ole >>Subject: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance >> >>Greatly increased surface area for software failure. >> >>Pretty much every deployment of stacked/virtual chassis switches I've >>encountered has had issues be them simple performance issues from >>intra-stack communication to serious problems like configuration >>corruption and instability. >> >>VSS is the poster child of "stacking: not even once". >> >>adam. >> >> >>------ Original Message ------ >>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network >>Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:17:17 AM >>Subject: RE: [Observium] Performance >> >>>Really ? >>>How come ? Please elaborate on that. >>> >>>Ole Bryde >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of >>>Adam Armstrong >>>Sent: den 13 november 2014 18:21 >>>To: Observium Network Observation System >>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>Stacking switches is pretty naive. >>> >>>adam. >>> >>>------ Original Message ------ >>>From: "Raphael Mazelier" <raph(a)futomaki.net> >>>To: observium(a)observium.org >>>Sent: 11/12/2014 4:09:49 AM >>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>>Observium is great tool, have a nice gui, made plenty of things... >>>>But the poller is "naive". >>>> >>>>For example I have a couple of stacked EX3300 I cannot poll with >>>>observium (the snmp is slow on this equipemnt ok). >>>> >>>>Think about that : in observium the poll of this equipment take more >>>>than 5min (so it is unusable), in cacti with spine 20s. >>>> >>>>Doing snmpbulwalk on all oid is not always the better solution.... >>>> >>>> >>>>Le 11/11/14 22:12, Spencer Gaw a écrit : >>>>>Oh great, this guy again... >>>>> >>>>>Regards, >>>>> >>>>>SG >>>>> >>>>>On 11/11/2014 1:58 PM, Alex Povolotsky wrote: >>>>>>I'm working on about 20 times better poller for Observium, current >>>>>>one is awful. Mysql should not be a bottleneck, I guess. >>>>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>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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Performance
by Morten Guldager 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

'Aloha! I'm in the process of evaluating observium for my organisation's needs. We have some instances running already, but my task is to do the evaluation in a more structured way. I have some questions which I will keep in different posts to keep the threads clean. Performance: We are looking at a network currently consisting of 4000 devices with close to 100'000 ports. These devices are well known to observium and a subset of them got auto discovered just fine. But how about performance. Will it require vast amounts of computing power? Also, our network grows quite rapidly, might be 50% bigger 12 months ahead. I found an old thread from July 2013 where Joe Hoh describing a complex multi server setup to scale observium to something approx 2-3 times my current needs. Will I have to go through similar "struggles" to get it working? Or has observium changed much to make it scale different than it did 1.5 year ago? Pointers to information regarding scaling observium are most welcome. -- /Morten %-)

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Setting up alerts
by Sanjeev Gupta 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi, I am using svn 5973. I am trying to setup an Alert Checker. No matter what I do, I get an error that the alert name must be unique. I have tried strange names in the "Alert Name" field, but everything seems to be taken :-( Leaving the entity field blank, gives me another error. I am trying to setup, to start with, alerting if a port on the upstream router runs at 80%. Please see http://postimg.org/image/ah4h97ly7/ Checking what alerts exist gives me this page: http://postimg.org/image/sl08oy6y1/ I delete them all, and they reappear after a Regenerate. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://sg.linkedin.com/in/ghane

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hddtemp from arch linux workstation PC
by David Ford 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hello, I wonder if anyone has the local HDDTEMP script working on an Archlinux PC that could help me. It works fine on my server (ubuntu), but I just get intermittent output of 1 disk (sda) and no temp reading at all from the Arch linux PC. It seems to be: if [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ `$nc -zv $hostname $port 2>&1 | awk '{print $5}'` = "open" ] that causes the error and I am not knowledgeable enough to work out a solution. nc localhost 7634 outputs... |/dev/sda|TOSHIBA THNSNH128GBST|30|C||/dev/sdb|ST500DM002-1BD142|32|C||/dev/sdc|Hitachi HDT725050VLA360|38|C| Thank you, Fordy. #!/bin/sh # hddtemp sensor readings # needs hddtemp daemon listening on (at least) localhost # requires netcat to be installed and in the path # (c) 2012, Tom Laermans for Observium hostname="localhost" port=7634 nc=`which nc` if [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ `$nc -zv $hostname $port 2>&1 | awk '{print $5}'` = "open" ] then echo '<<<hddtemp>>>' $nc $hostname $port echo fi

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Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled
by Richard Boezerooij 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi Xavier, When I deactivate the WMI storage module, I don't get any information about storage. I also get only the total installed memory, but not the usage of it. Regards, Richard ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:00:18 +0100 (CET) From: Xavier Beaudouin <xavier.beaudouin(a)hsoftware.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled Message-ID: <534948181.88198.1415869218802.JavaMail.zimbra(a)hsoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi, > Unfortunately, your solution has not worked for me. > The wmi polling module was already enabled. I get the storage > information, but not the graphs. I want to use the graphs to > proactively monitor the storage on the servers. > > Is there another solution? Seems that WMI storage module can be picky. In our side, we decided that Storage module used is using SNMP and desactivate WMI Storage module. Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01 ------------------------------ De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door dit bericht te retourneren. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Incassade staat niet in voor de juistheid en volledigheid van dit e-mailbericht. Niet gegarandeerd kan worden dat dit bericht vrij is van virussen noch dat dit bij de geadresseerde is overgekomen zonder inbreuk of tussenkomst van onbevoegde derden.

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CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB
by Marco Spicuglia 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hello there, how can I disable CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB from the GUI? This is the Nexus polling killer, but I can't find it in the list of MIBs that I can disable. I'm running rev. 5975 stable Cheers, Marco

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Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled
by Richard Boezerooij 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi Simon, Unfortunately, your solution has not worked for me. The wmi polling module was already enabled. I get the storage information, but not the graphs. I want to use the graphs to proactively monitor the storage on the servers. Is there another solution? Regards, Richard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:30:53 +0000 From: Simon Smith <simonsmith5521(a)gmail.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled Message-ID: <09F2EFCE-BC2B-4E00-9363-6F81E8EE31D4(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi i had this issue too! I simple enabled the wmi polling and that got the storage information and other info too Please give this a try and see if it works :) http://jira.observium.org/secure/attachment/11319/WMIPoller-011013-1429-4.p… Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd > On 12 Nov 2014, at 3:22 pm, Richard Boezerooij <R.Boezerooij(a)incassade.nl> wrote: > > Hello, > > Several (virtual) servers (Windows 2008 R2) do not show the storage graphs in Observium. On these servers the poller module keeps switching to disabled. The amount of storage used do show up on these servers. > > Other servers, same configuration, do show the storage graphs. On these servers the storage poller module do stay enabled. > > I?ve checked and restarted the SNMP service locally on these servers. > I?ve updated CorreLog (syslog agent) on the servers to the latest version. > Observium is installed on a Ubuntu server. I?ve updated Observium to 0.14.11.5963. > > How can I fix this problem? > > Kind regards, > Richard > ------------------------------ De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door dit bericht te retourneren. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Incassade staat niet in voor de juistheid en volledigheid van dit e-mailbericht. Niet gegarandeerd kan worden dat dit bericht vrij is van virussen noch dat dit bij de geadresseerde is overgekomen zonder inbreuk of tussenkomst van onbevoegde derden.

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Odd devices
by Morten Guldager 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

'Aloha! I promised you more questions for use in my evaluation process, here comes the next one: Odd devices: besides the 4000 routers and switches in my previous post, our business does a great deal of video transmissions. This is handled with crazy video codec boxes which sometimes have very limited SNMP capabilities. I face two problems: - it cant be autodiscovered; the MIB simply doesn't that. I have a database describing exactly what we have and how it's configured. - it's covered by NDAs, so I cant event tell you much about it. I would like to graph various parameters in these devices using observium, but I guess I will have to implement these myself. (or hire somebody to sign the NDA and hack something together for me). Also, sometimes the concept needing graphing isn't really bound to a single device, but more a collation of multiple states from multiple devices. I understand that observium isn't really meant to be extensible by the end customer (me) by simply tweaking configuration. I read "It's not as simple as "adding the MIB", actual code needs to be written to support the device and its features. You could learn PHP and familiarise yourself with the Observium codebase and write support for it yourself." as a warning, as i'm nowhere a competent PHP hacker. Think the questions are: - is observium at all the right tool for the job? (a goal is to limit the number of tools the NOC has to learn) - can observium live in an non-auto-discovery world? - can observium handle abstract measurements not bound to a specific device? -- /Morten %-)

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No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled
by Richard Boezerooij 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Hello, Several (virtual) servers (Windows 2008 R2) do not show the storage graphs in Observium. On these servers the poller module keeps switching to disabled. The amount of storage used do show up on these servers. Other servers, same configuration, do show the storage graphs. On these servers the storage poller module do stay enabled. I've checked and restarted the SNMP service locally on these servers. I've updated CorreLog (syslog agent) on the servers to the latest version. Observium is installed on a Ubuntu server. I've updated Observium to 0.14.11.5963. How can I fix this problem? Kind regards, Richard De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door dit bericht te retourneren. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Incassade staat niet in voor de juistheid en volledigheid van dit e-mailbericht. Niet gegarandeerd kan worden dat dit bericht vrij is van virussen noch dat dit bij de geadresseerde is overgekomen zonder inbreuk of tussenkomst van onbevoegde derden.

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s/MySQL/MariaDB/ ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Hi, I have tried some times ago to change the MySQL server into MariaDB on my Observium server (community), but it seems that is breaking some parts of Observium and doesn't seems to update things. Anybody here have a good experience about moving MySQL to MariaDB with observium ? Regards, Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01

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Re: [Observium] san
by Rob VanHooren 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

josh> I have mine on EMC. Does just fine. ditto (iSCSI). VAAI ESXi 55u2 vm's too; noop kernel elevator and etc other tweaks for the guests. one on a Nimble (cached with violin), and another on a QNAP (cached with slc ssd). bonded dual 10gigE +8k jumbo though. probably makes a big difference vs. 2 or 4G FC back-ended with creaky legacy FCAL spinners. ymmv. depends *highly* upon how well the environment is built for i/o ... which is likely why Adam has the wisdom to be wary & prefers DAS on a physical host. Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPhone > On Nov 11, 2014, at 17:45, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > I have mine on an EMC. Does just fine.

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mysql listed in modules when should be wmi
by Simon Smith 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi All not sure if this is a bug ive found or simple me being dumb! ive just enabled a 2008r2 server with WMI to monitor it abit more… and ive noticed in the Timing panel of the device its listed the module mssql ? the mssql wasn’t listed before i enabled the WMI module for the device? shouldn’t it read WMI ? ive attached a screenshot showing what i mean Regards Simon

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Interface Uptime as a Percentage
by Bruce Guthrie 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi, With the information Observium currently collects is it possible to obtain the percentage uptime of a given interface for a day, a week, a month? Thanks and regards, Bruce

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Rancid SVN integration makes apache2 crash
by Ole Hansen 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi, We're using Observium Subscription-version on a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server. I've configured the Rancid-integration and the basic "show configuration" works, but as soon as i click the button for a previous version Apache restarts with: [Mon Nov 10 10:33:09.544998 2014] [core:notice] [pid 1327] AH00051: child pid 1337 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /tmp/dump I've configured apache to core dump into /tmp/dump and gdb tells me: Core was generated by `/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start'. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00007f82cbbf0398 in is_numeric_string_ex (allow_errors=-1, oflow_info=0x0, dval=<synthetic pointer>, lval=0x1, length=<optimized out>, str=0x7f82c198cf38 "164") at /build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/Zend/zend_operators.h:255 255 /build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/Zend/zend_operators.h: No such file or directory. I'm suspecting some svn permissions or likewise, but my www-data user (which runs apache) is a member of the rancid group and should have permission to read the files. Any clues where to look? -- Ole Hansen

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unscribe
by Pierre Menard 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

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Configuring E-mail Alert Settings
by Jacob Chavez 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hello, which file should I edit to configure and enable e-mail notifications for when a device is down? I need assistance configuring the mail backend settings and the alert itself. I was working on config.php, but haven't had success with messages being sent while a device is offline. Below is what I have thus far. // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Default Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "you(a)yourdomain.org"; $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['interval'] = 86400; $config['alerts']['bgp']['whitelist'] = NULL; $config['uptime_warning'] ="84600"; $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['email']['from'] = NULL; $config['email']['default'] = "XXXXX(a)XXXX.com"; $config['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "Observium <XXXX(a)XXXXX.com>"; $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['email']['smtp_port'] = 25; $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = 10; $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = NULL; $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = FALSE; $config['email']['smtp_username'] = NULL; $config['email']['smtp_password'] = NULL; // End config.php Thanks! -- *Jacob Chavez - IT Support Technician Traffic Management, Inc. * *Toll Free: *800-763-3999 *Direct: *562-264-2275 *Mobile: *562-537-6205 *Fax: *562-424-0266 www.trafficmanagement.com California - Great Lakes - San Jose California License # 785804, Class C31 - Traffic Control Services - Sales and Rentals - Permits and Consulting - Engineering - Training

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Syslogging & Expansion
by Lane Eckley 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi Everyone, We are considering the possibility of using Observium's syslog capability to handle the syslog output of 50 machines which will be spitting out roughly 300K lines of log per hour for a grand total in the ball park 360,000,000 log entries per 24 hours. Has anyone used/attempted to handle this volume of logging with Observium in the past? If so, would you mind sharing your experience? I am also looking for feedback on hardware suggestions for both the Observium machine as well for the standalone database server. Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks, -Lane

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Newbie... Cambium PTP wireless sorta contribution
by Ron Marosko 08 Nov '14

08 Nov '14

Greetings, New to the product, new to the list, trying it out to see if this will work for us. and I like what I see so far. I note with glee the upcoming support of the Cambium Canopy products with the patch filed under OBSERVIUM-1055, but also see that it's only for the PMP product line. Now it's important to note I'm a network engineer, not a coder, so I'm not sure how to go about some of the more (heck, even the lesser!) intricate details of PHP programming. I've been able to make it as far as the following for the os.inc.php include, but submission of same for the project. I have no idea how to go about doing, and again I'll point back to not being someone who knows how to write code. Just for testing sake, I put the following stuff into my own installation and tested, the discovery php is properly discovering/classifying the devices, and the poller phps being called are fetching the proper information from the devices. Thus, I submit for further determination for the os.inc.php: // Cambium PTP800 $os = "ptp800"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cambium PTP800"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "wireless"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "cambium"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.17713.8"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "CAMBIUM-PTP800-V2-MIB"; // Cambium PTP400/600 $os = "ptp400"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cambium PTP400/600"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "wireless"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "cambium"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.17713.1"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB"; For the polling/os part, I submit: ptp800.inc.php $version = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::softwareVersion.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $hardware = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::productName.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $serial = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::rFUSerial.0", "-OQv"),'"'); ptp400.inc.php $version = trim(snmp_get($device, "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB::softwareVersion.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $hardware = trim(snmp_get($device, "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB::productName.0", "-OQv"),'"'); Now there are a lot of other pollable items in the MIBs, but I have no idea how to integrate any graphs or anything like that... I was looking (or trying to look at) the canopy.inc.php that is part of the -1055 patch, but it looks like a lot of gobbledygook to me.. just like Cisco router/switch configs may look to some of ya'll. Thus, if anyone can help with the PHP side of the stuff, I can handle the networking side. Regards, Ron -- Ron Marosko, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCIE No. 4526 (R/S), NN5DX Senior Network Engineer DirectBytes, LLC. 1108 West Dickinson Blvd, Suite A Fort Stockton, TX 79735 USA o: +1 432 336 5600 x115 c: +1 432 290 6344 e: ron(a)rjr-services.com pgp pubkey: <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x778B3B0258AB8B5C> 0x58AB8B5C "To know me is to fly with me."

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hostname underscore
by Rob VanHooren 08 Nov '14

08 Nov '14

<oldgrump> underscore is an illegal character for a hostname, per RFC. you may thank a generation of miseducated Microsoft admins for thinking otherwise & polluting the world's DNS gene pool only to cause such untold suffering as this. dashes are perfectly fine because they're not illegitimate characters wrongly used by people who should have known better. bastards. </oldgrump> cheers, R. typogaphical errors courtesy of iPad. On Nov 7, 2014, at 16:55, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: >> does not show due to the underscore in the name. Not sure >> why. Dashes seem to be fine though.

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smokeping ping tab now showing up on device
by Rory Schramm 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

H Guys, I'm having a problem with getting smokeping working with some of my devices. I have smokeping setup and it's working correctly ( I'm able to go to the smokeping cgi and see the graphs, etc). However the ping tab for smokeping isn't showing up for the device in observium. The device name is the same in both observium and smokeping. However, it's working fine for one of my switches but not the rest. I don't beleive it's a permission as I'm able to get it working with one of our switches. I added the following to my config for smokeping: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/";<mailto:observium@observium.org> The device in question is a cisco 3825 router. Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 Apache 2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 Thanks, Rory ________________________________ The information contained in this transmission is privileged and/or confidential information intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please contact North Island Credit Union at info(a)myisland.com<mailto:info@myisland.com> if you received this transmission in error.

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SNMP Location string parsing
by Ulrik Ivers 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi all, We use the geocoding functionality in Observium to place the devices on the front page map. All is working reasonably well. Today we set the SNMP sysLocation field locally in each device to street address ("Street, City, Country") We would like to be able to add "non-Geolocation" information to the sysLocation string without messing up the geolocation functionality. For example, we would like to add "Room 34, Rack 2" to the sysLocation. Is there functionality in Obervium to do this today? E.g. putting the extra information in "()" or other special characters? Regards, /Ulrik Ivers

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Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi Guys, I totally forgot to do the Changelog for the past 2 months, so here it is! http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog adam.

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Rivered Steelhead support
by Colin Stubbs 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi All Riverbed MIB's are in both Observium stable and trunk... but there's no explicit Riverbed definition in os.inc.php. Was this removed at some point for a reason? Or is someone already working on Riverbed specific discovery and polling code? Thanks -Colin

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Possible to create alerts for MySQL metrics contained in the MySQL agent?
by Hogan Whittall 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

We're trying to find a way to generate alerts on various MySQL metrics, it looks like all of the metrics are already in the monitor agent/graphs. What is involved in getting those metrics into the alerter/alert checker? This is for Pro. Thanks! -Hogan

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Nexus 5596 polling slowness
by Daniel Bliss 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hello, Just curious if anyone else is seeing long polling times for Nexus 5596UP switches. Everything else in our deployment is responding in a timely manner and there are no bottlenecks on the Observium server at this point. ./poller.php: access2-2a.sj2 - 1 devices polled in 243.6 secs Polling times in the high 200 second range are not uncommon while most all of our other high port density devices are well under 30 seconds. If anyone has found a NXOS software version that works better than others please let me know. We have tried on various software version 5,6 and 7 releases. I can only imagine this is a Cisco issue but thought I'd ask here in case anyone solved it. Regards, Dan Bliss

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Cisco ASA failover
by Carlos Martinez 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

I noticed that a pair of firewalls I had failed over about a month ago but the only thing showing in the logs of the device was that the mac addresses all changed. Is there a way to get better alerting on failover? I know the stateful failover are almost sub second but logs are generated. Not sure if you can monitor that with SNMP but figured I would throw that out there. Carlos

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Basic Cisco Meraki hardware support
by Colin Stubbs 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hi Adam/All I may have missed how to make a more formal submission for hardware support, so if there is one let me know. However, I suspect the mailing list is probably a good arena for any criticism/pointers on what to do better/what not to do when attempting to add new device support. -- I’ve recently been involved in the installation of equipment and support for a mobile medical facility. We’ve used Meraki switches and access points for a number of reasons, not least of which is the instant monitoring/alerts capability, web based management, web based troubleshooting capabilities and easy provisioning of equipment when it needs to be replaced. As much as the Meraki web management portal is useful, it’s not necessarily always available in this facility and we needed a local management system/interface to monitor the equipment, alert local users to any failures/problems, and provide a quick and easy “view” for all of the ICT equipment within the mobile facility. So, I used Observium, but needed to add support for the Meraki components. Meraki provide an SNMP interface to their cloud management platform. It’s basically useless if talking directly to equipment as there’s currently no extra information you can extract from the devices themselves. The Meraki Cloud Controller MIB can be obtained here, https://n85.meraki.com/resources/MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB.mib Their cloud controller itself looks like the below. I don't really want to add this to Observium myself but have included the OID for detection and possible to for additional inventory collection at a later date. Strip it out if necessary. <pre class="prettyprint"><code>SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Cisco Meraki Cloud Controller SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::cloudController DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = INTEGER: -1685384396 SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: support(a)meraki.com SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: dashboard.meraki.com SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: 500 Terry Francois St., San Francisco, CA 94158, USA</code></pre> AP's basically look like this, SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Meraki MR18 Cloud Managed AP SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::mr18 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.1 = OID: SNMPv2-MIB::snmpMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.2 = OID: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmBasicGroup SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.3 = OID: IF-MIB::ifMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.4 = OID: IEEE802dot11-MIB::ieee802dot11 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.1 = STRING: The MIB module for SNMPv2 entities SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.2 = STRING: View-based Access Control Model for SNMP. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.3 = STRING: The MIB module to describe generic objects for network interface sub-layers SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.4 = STRING: The MIB module for managing 802.11 implementations SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.1 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.2 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.3 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.4 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03</code></pre> MIB support from the sysORID list appears to be correct, I couldn't discover anything else on the MR18 and MR34 AP's. Switches basically look like this, SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Meraki MS220-24P Cloud Managed PoE Switch SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::merakiProducts.307 SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: truck01-s1 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.1 = OID: SNMPv2-MIB::snmpMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.2 = OID: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmBasicGroup SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.3 = OID: IF-MIB::ifMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.1 = STRING: The MIB module for SNMPv2 entities SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.2 = STRING: View-based Access Control Model for SNMP. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.3 = STRING: The MIB module to describe generic objects for network interface sub-layers SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.1 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.2 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.3 = Timeticks: (22) 0:00:00.22</code></pre> MIB support from the sysORID list is not quite correct, MS220-24P also supports the BRIDGE-MIB. I don't have access to any of the security appliances at this time but the OID should be under .1.3.6.1.4.1.29671.2. anyway, so I believe Observium will auto-detect and add those too. Attached is a 32x32 icon I created from the logo available on the partner website, which can be placed in html/images/os/meraki.png OS definition for includes/definitions/os.inc.php $os = "meraki"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cisco Meraki"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "network"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "meraki"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.29671.1"; // Cloud controller $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.29671.2."; // Hardware $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "IEEE802dot11-MIB"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "BRIDGE-MIB"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB";</code></pre> Basic poller support to grab the hardware model/platform type includes/polling/os/meraki.inc.php <?php if (preg_match('/^Meraki ([A-Z\-_0-9]+) (.*)/', $poll_device['sysDescr'], $regexp_result)) { $hardware = $regexp_result[1]; $platform = $regexp_result[2]; } // EOF -Colin

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Print Interface Details - show other devices in the same subnet - need to exclude the private IP addresses ?
by Supun Rathnayake 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hi All, I have a small suggestion regarding the info displayed together with each interface under 'Port' => 'Detail' . There we noticed the observium displays all other devices on the same subnet from other devices at the last column of each interface irrespective of whether they are real IPs ( internet routable ) or Private IP addresses ( defined in RFC 1918 ). Although this feature is really good, we feel that if there is an option to exclude certain IP subnets from this selection, specially the private IP addresses it would make sense because we found there are lot of unrelated interfaces are getting listed ( about 50 items ) under this merely because of the fact that they are having the same IP addresses/subnets but which are completely different and isolated device interfaces in other VPNs which is common in IP VPN setups. We found the location where this logic is programmed, and we can easily changed the SQL query to accommodate this as follows ( *`ipv4_address` NOT LIKE '192.168.% etc. ) *shown below But it would be elegant if these excluding subnets could be defined as a config parameter and filter them here. This is just a suggestion, there may be better ideas out there with you guys What do you all think ? /opt/observium/html/includes/print-interface.inc.php : if ($port_details) { // *Show which other devices are on the same subnet as this interface* foreach (dbFetchRows("SELECT `ipv4_network_id` FROM `ipv4_addresses` WHERE `port_id` = ? AND `ipv4_address` NOT LIKE '127.%' *AND `ipv4_address` NOT LIKE '192.168.%*'", array($port['port_id'])) as $net) { $sql = "SELECT N.*, P.`port_id`, P.`device_id` FROM `ipv4_addresses` AS A, `ipv4_networks` AS N, `ports` AS P WHERE A.`port_id` = P.`port_id` AND P.`device_id` != ? AND A.`ipv4_network_id` = ? AND N.`ipv4_network_id` = A.`ipv4_network_id` AND P.`ifAdminStatus` = 'up'"; $params = array($device['device_id'], $net['ipv4_network_id']); foreach (dbFetchRows($sql, $params) AS $new) { if ($cache['devices']['id'][$new['device_id']]['disabled'] && !$config['web_show_disabled']) { continue; } $int_links[$new['port_id']] = $new['port_id']; $int_links_v4[$new['port_id']][] = $new['ipv4_network']; } } -- With Best Regards, Supun Rathnayake Lanka communication Services (Pvt) Ltd. 65C, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07. Sri Lanka. Tel: +94-11-2437545 http://www.lankacom.net http://blog.lankacom.net

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monitor /dev/sg1 temperatre sensor
by Simon Smith 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Hi All, i don’t know if this is possible or not or even if i need to create a custom script to do this for me? but i want to monitor the temperature of HDD's thats plugged into a RAID controller? currently the hddtemp doesn’t detect the HDD :( but i did get some progress with using the /dev/sg1 device instead of /dev/sda root@proxmox2:/etc# hddtemp /dev/sg1 /dev/sg1: ST3500413AS: drive supported, but it doesn't have a temperature sensor. and from what i can tell i can pull out information using the smartctl command root@proxmox2:/etc# smartctl -d sat -a /dev/sg1 | grep -i temperature 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 053 045 Old_age Always - 33 (Min/Max 22/43) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 033 047 000 Old_age Always - 33 (0 15 0 0) is the something I’m missing with the hddtemp? or does it require a custom script? regards Simon

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Bulk add bills
by Travis Kreikemeier 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

I just bulk added about 500 client devices (CPE's) to Observium. Trying to figure out a bulk way to add them to traffic accounting / billing. I want to make a bill for each device (customer), based on the device name is fine and then associate a port to the bill. All of the devices are exactly the same and the name of the port is the same on each. Below would be amazing if this existed. Or does it? I would be able to concatenate in Excel right into this. Like I did to bulk add the devices. ./create_bill.php <description> <billing_type> <billing_type> <billing_amount> <billing_day> (customer_reference) (billing_reference) (notes) ./add_bill_port.php <description> <device_hostname> <port_name> (Repeat as necessary) Adding <filename> to the above php scripts, the same way add_device.php has, would be great. Thanks! TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Rancid configs in git?
by Kilian Krause 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi, we're collecting our configs in a git rather than SVN. Has anyone managed to extend the rancid part to also show the versions from a git archive? Best, Kilian -- Kilian Krause Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart (RUS) Abt. NKS - Netze und Kommunikationssysteme Tel.: +49 (711) 685-64512 Fax.: +49 (711) 685-54512 (PC) Fax.: +49 (711) 68 23 57 Allmandring 30a 70550 Stuttgart DEUTSCHLAND

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help with an alarm
by Brett Jones 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi there. Resending out message as I am hoping someone can assist me with this. How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm? I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. I have set an alert as device_ping gt 250 type_match * * This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work! Any help would be most appreciated. Kind regards Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> E:support@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: voipunlimited]<http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> [cid:image017.jpg@01CFF423.EE08F1B0] [http://www.brandonu.ca/careerplanning/files/2010/08/linkedin-logo.png]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: http://www.wfamedia.co.uk/demo-images/logo_twitter_withbird_1000_allblue.png] <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited> [cid:image020.png@01CFF423..EE08F1B0] Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 From: Brett Jones Sent: 29 October 2014 11:18 To: 'observium(a)observium.org' Subject: help with an alarm Hi there, Just got your product up and working with a few back end modifies ect we have a good monitoring system hear. We paid the extra to have the alert functionality as we are an ISP. I have a question though for you. How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm? I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. I have set an alert as device_ping gt 250 type_match * * This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work! Any help would be most appreciated. Kind regards Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> E:support@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: voipunlimited]<http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> [cid:image002.jpg@01CFF36A.05032990] [http://www.brandonu.ca/careerplanning/files/2010/08/linkedin-logo.png]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: http://www.wfamedia.co.uk/demo-images/logo_twitter_withbird_1000_allblue.png] <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited> [cid:image005.png@01CFF36A..05032990] Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system.

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Re: [Observium] help with an alarm
by tromp wezelman 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

See http://dynstatic.net/2014/10/22/observium-professional-edition-adding-smoke… > From: observium-request(a)observium.org > Subject: observium Digest, Vol 52, Issue 3 > To: observium(a)observium.org > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 13:45:45 +0000 > > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: help with an alarm (Ron Marosko) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 07:45:39 -0600 > From: "Ron Marosko" <ron(a)rjr-services.com> > To: "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > Message-ID: <007d01cff6a3$4a4a7710$dedf6530$(a)rjr-services.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > And I just answered my own question (in case anyone else is trying to figure this out too): > > > > Tom Laermans committed 5357 > > 6 months ago > > Minor: add generate-smokeping.php to dump a Smokeping target configuration to stdout; redirect for example to /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets to automatically add new hosts > > > > If you?re running current CE (5229), you don?t have it. Ooops. > > > > ?Ron > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Ron Marosko > Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 7:42 AM > To: 'Observium Network Observation System' > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > Howdy Lane, > > > > I?m lost. Where in the fack is this ??Observium SmokePing configuration script to build your SmokePing config?? My search-fu is apparently weak. > > > > Thanks, > > Ron > > > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Lane Eckley > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:21 PM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > SmokePing graphs are viewable within Observium under applicable hosts. > > > > You need to install SmokePing onto the same machine as Observium and then use the Observium SmokePing configuration script to build your SmokePing config. Once you have it setup, start SmokePing and the graphs will begin to appear in Observium. > > > > You need to edit/generate the SmokePing config & restart SmokePing every time you add/remove hosts, its not automated from Observium. > > > > -Lane > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Darian Jimenez > Sent: October 30, 2014 11:16 PM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > Milton, > > > > I am monitoring the customer routers with observium so checking latency and drops from the observium box would be fine. > > > > When installing smoke ping are the graphs viewable from within observium or it's another portal? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 30, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Milton Ngan <milton(a)valvesoftware.com> wrote: > > There is a fairly powerful description language for the types of loss/latency you want to detect with Smokeping. If you modify the script shipped with Observium to build the Smokeping targets you can probably hook the smokeping alerts up pretty easily. > > > > However, this is only going to measure loss/latency from Observium to the router. It is not going to measure latency/loss from your router to the customer. Smokeping can do that, but Observium isn't set up to generate those kinds of configs, and it would require a smokeping agent sitting in a network close to the router the customer is attached to. > > > > What Observium could do is alert on the rate of errors on an interface, but not latency or loss across the interface, unless you are actually monitoring the customer's equipment with Observium. > > > > > > > _____ > > > From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] on behalf of Darian Jimenez [darian929(a)gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 6:50 PM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > Bruce, > > > > I just looked at smoke ping and it looks nice. There's integration of it with observium? If so where can I find the integration steps? > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:38 PM, Bruce Reeves <breeves(a)nexacomm.com> wrote: > > I though smokeping integration handled this? > > > > Bruce > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Darian Jimenez > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:38 PM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > Same here. Would love some other process run pings and check for this. At this time the only time devices are pinged are at polling right ? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Lane Eckley <lane(a)staff.hypernia.com> wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > > We would love to see this implemented as well, but on a somewhat limited basis. > > > > Maybe a 2nd poller can be run ever X minutes which pings selected devices 5 times and measures for packetloss? > > > > -Lane > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > Sent: October 30, 2014 9:20 PM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > We already do ping/latency. Doing packetloss is a different thing, because we have to send a lot of packets at a device and measure how many are returned. I'm not sure if it's something we can do in the poller without affecting other things. > > > > adam. > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > > From: "Darian Jimenez" <darian929(a)gmail.com> > > To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> > > Sent: 10/30/2014 6:55:28 AM > > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > Tom/Adam, > > > > Is this something that you guys will be implementing in the future ? I think a lot of people would love to monitor and alert based on packet drops or latency and just basic ping test. > > > > If not is it something hard to impelled end on ones own? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 30, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: > > We don't measure packet loss, so you can't send an alarm on it. > > On 10/30/2014 10:28 AM, Brett Jones wrote: > > Hi there. > > > > Resending out message as I am hoping someone can assist me with this. > > > > How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm? > > I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. > > > > I have set an alert as device_ping gt 250 > > > > type_match * > > * > > > > This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. > > > > But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work! > > > > > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > > > Brett Jones > > 2nd/3rd line support engineer > > > > Tel: 01202 612000 > > Fax: 01202 612111 > > W:www.voip-unlimited.net <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> > > E: <mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> brett.jones(a)voip-unlimited.net > > E: <mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> support(a)voip-unlimited.net > > <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> <mime-attachment.jpg> > > > > <mime-attachment.jpg> > > > > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos> <mime-attachment.png> <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited> <mime-attachment.png> <mime-attachment.png> > > > > Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE > > Registered in England No: 05225497 > > > > From: Brett Jones > Sent: 29 October 2014 11:18 > To: 'observium(a)observium.org' > Subject: help with an alarm > > > > Hi there, > > Just got your product up and working with a few back end modifies ect we have a good monitoring system hear. We paid the extra to have the alert functionality as we are an ISP. > > > > I have a question though for you. > > > > How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm? > > I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. > > > > I have set an alert as device_ping gt 250 > > > > type_match * > > * > > > > This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. > > > > But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work! > > > > > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > Brett Jones > > 2nd/3rd line support engineer > > > > Tel: 01202 612000 > > Fax: 01202 612111 > > W:www.voip-unlimited.net <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> > > E: <mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> brett.jones(a)voip-unlimited.net > > E: <mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> support(a)voip-unlimited.net > > <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> <mime-attachment.jpg> > > > > > > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos> <mime-attachment.png> <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited> <mime-attachment.png> <mime-attachment.png> > > > > Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE > > Registered in England No: 05225497 > > > > > The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >

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UPS on battery notification
by Tim Schroepfer 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

I know this question was asked here http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-174 i was wondering with the current system if this was possible? Tim

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Graph Previous
by Justin Miller 31 Oct '14

31 Oct '14

When looking at the 6 hour graph, if I graph previous, shouldn’t it show what happened during that time frame 24 hours ago? It looks like it’s just showing what happened the 6 hours before the 6 hours I’m looking at. Which is I guess technically true for what “Graph Previous” means. Is there a way to graph previous time frame yesterday? My use case is zooming in on a time frame and then looking at usage and then trying to see what happened yesterday to see if there was a significant difference. If I zoom in and see the 20 minutes before hand, well it’s just not useful. It works fine for 24 hr, and week and month. 48 hr could be a little weird as well. The last 6 hours with graph previous - I don’t know how useful it is to see the previous 6 hours here. The actual previous time period yesterday - not to same scale This is what is actually being graphed in graph previous.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 127
by Brett Jones 31 Oct '14

31 Oct '14

Is this something that may be implemented in the future? Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net E:support@voip-unlimited.net Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: 30 October 2014 10:11 To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 127 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: help with an alarm (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:10:49 +0100 From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm Message-ID: <54520EA9.6040906(a)powersource.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" We don't measure packet loss, so you can't send an alarm on it. On 10/30/2014 10:28 AM, Brett Jones wrote: > > Hi there. > > Resending out message as I am hoping someone can assist me with this. > > How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over > 30% then it will alarm? > > I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. > > I have set an alert as |device_ping gt 250| > > > > > type_match * > > > > * > > This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. > > But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but > as this is not in the list it dosnt work! > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > Kind regards > > Brett Jones > > 2nd/3rd line support engineer > > Tel: 01202 612000 > > Fax: 01202 612111 > > W:_www.voip-unlimited.net_ > > E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net > <mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> > > E:support@voip-unlimited.net <mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> > > Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: > Description: Description: voipunlimited > <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/>** > > ** > > ** > > ** > > http://www.brandonu.ca/careerplanning/files/2010/08/linkedin-logo.png > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos>Description: > Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: > Description: > http://www.wfamedia.co.uk/demo-images/logo_twitter_withbird_1000_allbl > ue.png > <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited>** > > Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, > Dorset BH2 6NE > > Registered in England No: 05225497 > > *From:*Brett Jones > *Sent:* 29 October 2014 11:18 > *To:* 'observium(a)observium.org' > *Subject:* help with an alarm > > Hi there, > > Just got your product up and working with a few back end modifies ect > we have a good monitoring system hear. We paid the extra to have the > alert functionality as we are an ISP. > > I have a question though for you. > > How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over > 30% then it will alarm? > > I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. > > I have set an alert as |device_ping gt 250| > > > > > type_match * > > > > * > > This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. > > But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but > as this is not in the list it dosnt work! > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > Kind regards > > Brett Jones > > 2nd/3rd line support engineer > > Tel: 01202 612000 > > Fax: 01202 612111 > > W:_www.voip-unlimited.net_ > > E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net > <mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> > > E:support@voip-unlimited.net <mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> > > Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: > Description: Description: voipunlimited > <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/>** > > ** > > ** > > ** > > http://www.brandonu.ca/careerplanning/files/2010/08/linkedin-logo.png > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos>Description: > Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: > Description: > http://www.wfamedia.co.uk/demo-images/logo_twitter_withbird_1000_allbl > ue.png > <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited>** > > Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, > Dorset BH2 6NE > > Registered in England No: 05225497 > > The information contained in this email and any attachments is > confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual > property protection. 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Observium and Weathermaps
by Tomasz Karczewski 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Is there an easy way to have weathermaps in observium? Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.pl http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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Distro Script not working
by Gary Tang 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

I have added the distro script as per http://www.observium.org/wiki/Linux_Distribution_Detection Running the distro script produces the right output, but observium does not seem to be detecting the distro correctly (still showing as Linux ***-generic) Snmpd has been restarted, and the OS being detected is Ubuntu 14.04. Any idea what could be going wrong? Thanks!

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Re: [Observium] Wireless signal graphs
by Ron Marosko, Jr. 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

I quasi-hacked my community edition release to provide basic support for canopy, but it didn't give any RF details, just basic network utilization. I see where there is a patch to provide better support in the subscription version, which I am hoping will show up in the next community release. If the data looks good for canopy on that, we'll be converting to the subscription version very shortly thereafter... I just have to show positive results to the person who writes the checks, so to speak, and get their go ahead first. ...Ron Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Jeremy Lukan <jeremy(a)GLMobile.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Wireless signal graphs
by Travis Kreikemeier 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Any plans to add wireless signal metric graphs to Observium? Such as signal strength and SNR. Example device being Cambium Canopy CPE's. Is there a place to put feature bounties and payments for completion bounties? Thanks TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Graph problems after update
by Jerome SCHEVINGT 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hi after a update from 0.13.11.48.05 to 0.14.9.5778, we have lost all graphics. Now we have "Draw error" anyone know this problems ? Thanks jerome

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ADSL Sync Speed change alert
by Tom Halapacz 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hi I am trying to set the Alert checker to notify me on any sync speed changes on the adsl port. Currently I can see all the changes on the Event log as below: 1d 19h 58m adsl Interface changed: [ifSpeed] 5152000 -> 5184000 4d 12h 48m adsl Interface changed: [ifSpeed] 5120000 -> 5152000 6d 4h 23m adsl Interface changed: [ifSpeed] 5344000 -> 5120000 How to set the check conditions to alert on any change in Sync speed such as "ifSpeed ne old_speed" Checker Type:Port Check Conditions: ifSpeed ?? Associations Device match: hostname equals *hostname* Entity match: ifType equals adsl Any help is much appreciated. Regards ---- Tomasz Halapacz

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rancid integration view previous configs
by Justin Miller 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

I got it working, but when viewing the config under the device, it has a “Latest” button but nothing else. Is it possible to view previous config? If not is this functionality planned? Justin

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help with an alarm
by Brett Jones 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hi there, Just got your product up and working with a few back end modifies ect we have a good monitoring system hear. We paid the extra to have the alert functionality as we are an ISP. I have a question though for you. How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm? I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. I have set an alert as device_ping gt 250 type_match * * This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work! Any help would be most appreciated. Kind regards Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> E:support@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: voipunlimited]<http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> [cid:image002.jpg@01CFF36A.05032990] [http://www.brandonu.ca/careerplanning/files/2010/08/linkedin-logo.png]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: http://www.wfamedia.co.uk/demo-images/logo_twitter_withbird_1000_allblue.png] <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited> [cid:image005.png@01CFF36A..05032990] Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system.

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Support for Nimble storage devices
by Robin Cook 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hello, I appreciate a fair bit of work is involved to add support for new devices but I wanted to test the waters and see if it would be possible to add support for nimble SANs. I have access to the MIBs if required. Many thanks, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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F5 device O/S identification failures
by Colin Stubbs 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hi All I've got a support case open with F5 regarding an issue whereby their net-snmp implementation stops reporting F5 specific sysObjectID values. This may be a recent 11.5+ version issue, as I've not run across it before, and it only seems to occur after making SNMP related configuration changes. e.g. on virtual editions, SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB::bigipVirtualEdition Starts to become at some point, SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: NET-SNMP-TC::linux Observium goes back to treating the system as a Linux box. The F5 specific OID's are still pollable, so the best fix seems to be a quick poll against F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB::sysGeneralChassisSerialNum.0 to determine if it's an F5 system. Patch is simply, --- observium-trunk/includes/discovery/os/linux.inc.php 2014-10-21 16:36:00.000000000 +1000 +++ equate_observium-trunk/includes/discovery/os/linux.inc.php 2014-10-29 19:32:46.000000000 +1000 @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ if (strpos(trim(snmp_get($device, "dot11manufacturerProductName.5", "-Osqnv", "IEEE802dot11-MIB", mib_dirs())), "UAP") !== FALSE) { $os = "unifi"; } elseif (strpos(trim(snmp_get($device, "dot11manufacturerProductName.2", "-Osqnv", "IEEE802dot11-MIB", mib_dirs())), "UAP") !== FALSE) { $os = "unifi"; } } + elseif (snmp_get($device, "1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.3.3.3.0", "-OQv", "F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB") != '') { $os = "f5"; } } if ($os == "linux") { I hope that helps. -Colin

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Observium not updating
by Jurè Wennekes 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

My observiun is stuck in 5902, svn is working and giving me 5918 but te site is stil giving 5902, what am I missing here? :/opt/observium$ sudo svn update At revision 5918. :/opt/observium$ sudo ./discovery.php -h none Observium v0.14.10.5902 Discovery Current Revision : 5902 New Revision : 5918 watch@watch:/opt/observium$ Met vriendelijke groet, Jurè Wennekes Loko IT-specialisten Mast 13 Postbus 146 3890 AC Zeewolde T. 036-521 93 20 W. http://www.loko.nl [cid:image715f40.JPG@5cd3bdf8.418ffbca] Meer informatie op www.ikstapoverop.nl.

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- green point on the map
by Paolo De Michele 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

hi everybody, I've added a "normal user" by observium installation I customized it adding a new device (just for test) when I'm doing the login I see the world map and the device why can I not see the green point? (usually indicates machine up&running) how can I solve that? let me know, thanks in advance have a good weekend cheers

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Unix agent bind issue
by Tim Schroepfer 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

I got the unix-agent running on one of my main dns server and when i test it telnet to port 36602 it displays results but my observium server isn't displaying any information for that server. Any ideas? Tim S Field Tech/Ast. System Admin E-vergent.com

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Reduce your storage IO with rrdcached
by Markus Klock 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

There was some discussion on IRC the other day about rrdcached and how it can be used with Observium to reduce your storage IO a lot when polling a huge amount of interfaces. However, not a lot of documentation exists yet on how to get rrdcached to work with observium. I did some trial and error and found a working method and wrote a quick and dirty guide. You can find it here: http://blog.best-practice.se/2014/10/using-rrdcached-with-observium.html Feedback is highly appreciated! /Markus

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Re: [Observium] Several broken graphs
by Adam Armstrong 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

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Several broken graphs
by Robert Williams 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

Hi, A number of our hosts have suddenly got broken graphs for items like: * Ping Response * SNMP Response * Poller Duration * Running Processes * Users Logged In * Context Switches * System Interrupts When in debug mode, the graph is showing these errors (depending which graph): command returned 1 (ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:ping_min=' ) command returned 1 (ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:val_min=' ) command returned 1 (ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:value_min=' ) command returned 1 (ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:users_min=' ) command returned 1 (ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:procs_min=' ) An example of a full string for a broken graph is: graph /tmp/0H1FmUUbABhyOl7U.png --alt-autoscale --rigid --start 1414240174 --end 1414326574 --width 1159 --height 300 -c BACK#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEA#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEB#EEEEEE00 -c FONT#000000 -c CANVAS#FFFFFF00 -c GRID#a5a5a5 -c MGRID#FF9999 -c FRAME#5e5e5e -c ARROW#5e5e5e -R normal --font LEGEND:8:'DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal -E COMMENT:' ' COMMENT:' Now' COMMENT:' Avg' COMMENT:' Min' COMMENT:' Max' COMMENT:' Total' COMMENT:'\l' DEF:procs=/opt/observium/rrd/hostname.was.here/hr_processes.rrd:procs:AVERAGE CDEF:procs_min= CDEF:procs_max= AREA:procs#E881B1:"Processes " LINE1.5:procs#744058 GPRINT:procs:LAST:%6.1lf%S GPRINT:procs:AVERAGE:%6.1lf%S GPRINT:procs_min:MIN:%6.1lf%S GPRINT:procs_max:MAX:%6.1lf%S COMMENT:'\l' Anyone else seeing this or has our install spontaneously broken itself? We are at 5910 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 - cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Ports not found on older PowerConnect switches
by Dan Ratzlaff 25 Oct '14

25 Oct '14

Hello. I'm having trouble getting Observium (CE 0.14.4.5229) to recognize ports on my Dell PowerConnect 3048 and 3024 switches. It appears these switches only support SNMP v1. Observium connects and grabs SNMP contact, location, etc. but doesn't see ports. Here's output from add and discovery for my 3024 switch: ----- # ./add_device.php switch-ne Observium v0.14.4.5229 Add Device(s) Try to add switch-ne: Trying v2c community public ... No reply on community public using v2c. Could not reach switch-ne with given SNMP community using v2c. Trying v1 community public ... Now discovering switch-ne (id = 29) switch-ne 29 powerconnect Ports : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Discovered in 0.498 seconds switch-ne 29 powerconnect IPv4 Addresses : Discovered in 0.092 seconds switch-ne 29 powerconnect IPv6 Addresses : Discovered in 0.189 seconds Added device switch-ne (29). Devices added: 1. ----- # ./discovery.php -h 29 Observium v0.14.4.5229 Discovery switch-ne 29 powerconnect OLD: powerconnect, NEW: powerconnect --- Ports : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Port Stacks: Processors : Dell-Vendor-MIB hrDevice: Memory : Dell-Vendor-MIB HOST-RESOURCES-MIB IPv4 Addresses : IPv6 Addresses : Sensors: FASTPATH-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB + Dell-Vendor-MIB Storage : Inventory: Physical Inventory : hrDevice : Discovery protocols: LLDP-MIB CISCO-CDP-MIB OSPF Neighbours: ARP/NDP Tables : BGP Sessions: No BGP on host VLANs: Q-BRIDGE-MIB UCD Disk IO : Discovered in 2.012 seconds Current Revision : 5229 New Revision : 5909 MySQL: Cell[2/0s] Row[19/0.01s] Rows[33/0.02s] Column[0/0s] Update[1/0s] Insert[5/0.02s] Delete[0/0s] ----- I can do a snmpwalk on these switches from the same machine that Observium is running on and can see all the interface information. Is there something I need to tweak in Observium to get these switches discovered correctly? Thanks! -- Dan

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allow graphs to be viewed by anyone / config.php vs web configuration
by Massimo Sala 25 Oct '14

25 Oct '14

Hi ! Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 Following the docs, in config.php I set : $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; $config['allow_unauth_graphs'] = 1; $config['allow_unauth_graphs_cidr'] = array( "10.1.0.0/16" ); I create a user "guest" ... but it cannot see any graph. I login to Observium as admin, I edit the user "guest" properties : Device Access None Configured Grant access to new device Interface Access None Configured Grant access to new interface I see different configuration : config.php vs web configuration. Is there any mismatch ? How can I grant a full "read-only" access to a "guest" user ? Best regards, Sala

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observium customizations on PHP code
by Massimo Sala 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u14 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB-1~wheezy-log SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 I have modified one source file : /opt/observium/includes/alerts.inc.php I restarted web server and php-fastcgi ( no opcode cache ), but Observium doesn't see the update. Is there an internal function caching ? Am I missing something ? Best regards, Sala

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How can I unsubscribe?
by Franck Burgaudeau 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

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Re: [Observium] polling issues with 5897
by Rutger Bevaart 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

A strange issue indeed… Based on Mike’s input I ran on the old-style poller for a day, then all is fine. I’m now running on poller-wrapper for another day, with concurrency set to 2, and that seems to be fine as well. I had it at 8, then all goes to h*ll. Will try ‘4’ today ;-) Regards, Rutger > > Netscreen firewall > > [https://observium.exegy.net/graph.php?type=device_processor&device=3&to=141…] > > Arista Switch > [https://observium.exegy.net/graph.php?type=device_processor&device=108&to=1…] > > Cisco Router > [https://observium.exegy.net/graph.php?type=device_uptime&device=70&to=14140…] > > > I can send you a debug poller.php run privately if you'd like. >

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Multiple tun0 interfaces showing up in graphs
by Gary Tang 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

For some reason, I am getting multiple tun0 interfaces in graphs, even though I only have one via openVPN. Where should I start looking to debug this? Graph: http://postimg.org/image/b876gqbq5/ Thanks for looking, Gary

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Re: [Observium] Alerts in "Other" state
by Adam Armstrong 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

I have no idea. How long is a piece of string? Guys, I'm not here to tickle you until you actually give some information. Give as much information as you have about a problem or you won't get it fixed. Life is too short to chase you all for screen shots and more than 3 word descriptions of your problems. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Ben Steele" <ben(a)bensteele.org> To: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 10/23/2014 4:02:08 PM Subject: Re: [Observium] Alerts in "Other" state >What might cause that? > >The alerts that haven't been checked aren't new and as previously >mentioned even something simple like is device up/down has these >non-checked alerts so it's not like the alert isn't applicable to the >device. > >I've checked a device that has a non-checked alert and its graphs and >polling look fine. > >Cheers > >On 24/10/2014 3:33 am, "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >>It means the alert has never been checked. >> >>adam. >> >>------ Original Message ------ >>From: "Ben Steele" <ben(a)bensteele.org> >>To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>Sent: 10/22/2014 8:15:36 PM >>Subject: [Observium] Alerts in "Other" state >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I have quite a few alerts stuck in the "Other" state, any idea on >>>what causes this? >>> >>>I had this problem a while ago and then it seemed to disappear after >>>creating a few more alerts and several svn updates so i'm not really >>>sure what cleared it but after adding more devices it's back again. >>>I've tried regenerating the alerts a few times but that makes no >>>difference, is there some debug that can be turned on to work out >>>what is going on here? >>> >>>It's across multiple alert checkers and even something as simple as >>>"device status eq 0" for a device down check has multiple alerts >>>stuck in "other" state. Hovering over the alert shows an empty >>>status: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Cheers >> >>_______________________________________________ >>observium mailing list >>observium(a)observium.org >>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>

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Re: [Observium] error on svn update
by Adam Armstrong 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

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Re: [Observium] polling issues with 5897
by Rutger Bevaart 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi all, I can confirm that the issue is gone in 5903! Thanks Mike & Joe for the excellent input (and fix)! Let me know if any additional input, debugging or testing. Regards, Rutger On 22 Oct 2014, at 00:35, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:35:27 +0400 > From: Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] polling issues with 5897 > Message-ID: > <CAL9uo4jwRDeDhxw6eMAxWk03zxmw-gQv3gGESyiJ5hwTkf3Row(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I make small change in r5901 (revert global var removed in 5884). > Please check with this revision. > > (But if this will fix your problem, I'll be shocked) :)

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Alerts in "Other" state
by Ben Steele 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi, I have quite a few alerts stuck in the "Other" state, any idea on what causes this? I had this problem a while ago and then it seemed to disappear after creating a few more alerts and several svn updates so i'm not really sure what cleared it but after adding more devices it's back again. I've tried regenerating the alerts a few times but that makes no difference, is there some debug that can be turned on to work out what is going on here? It's across multiple alert checkers and even something as simple as "device status eq 0" for a device down check has multiple alerts stuck in "other" state. Hovering over the alert shows an empty status: [image: Inline image 2] [image: Inline image 1] Cheers

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Server drive space
by Darian Jimenez 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hello, I want to monitor windows servers for C drive space. While I had a policy that was using the storage_perc gt 90 and it was working fine, I want to monitor instead just for servers with 5 GB of space or less, on any drive for now, then narrow it to certain drives. I put storage_free lt 5 (thinking this would look for 5GB or less, maybe its 5% or less not sure) but it's throwing some alerts that are not true. I get some servers with the art and when I check it shows as if the C drive had 0 B left, but in reality they have 11 GB and more free. Any idea how I can accomplish what I want? Thanks, Darian

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php5-mcrypt
by Robbie Wright 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Running Ubuntu 14.04 and getting this error message: The extension 'mcrypt' is missing. This extension required for use by the "remember me" feature. Please install the php5-mcrypt package on Ubuntu/Debian or the php-mcrypt package on RHEL/Centos. Alternatively, you can disable this feature by setting $config['login_remember_me'] = FALSE; in your config. We've uninstalled and reinstalled it twice now and still getting this error. Any else bumped into this issue before? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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cisco 1841 / memory / draw error
by Massimo Sala 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u14 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB-1~wheezy-log SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-SPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(6)T11, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) How can I troubleshoot the memory graphs generation ? All the other graphs are fine. Best regards, Sala

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Re: [Observium] alert repeat?
by Zhenhui Liang 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

I found an option to do ignore until ok on the interface settings. But it is really unrealistic to do this manually for hundreds of ports. Any easier way to achieve this? I do want to monitor ports status, but I don¹t want to get a flood of alerts every 24 hours. Thanks a lot. On 10/22/14, 6:40 PM, "Zhenhui Liang" <ZhenhuiLiang(a)eharmony.com> wrote: >Hi, > >We have some switches with thousands of ports. I know, we don¹t have >administrative down for unused ports. So I set up port down alerts for >all ports, so that the initial alert of the down ports, I just ignore so >I know those are ports already down. So the theory is that for any >following alerts, I will look into them. > >But I found out observium will send out the massive port down alerts >exactly in 24 hours frequency. How do I disable the persistent alerting? >I want observium only alert me once for an event period. > >Thanks a lot. > > >‹Zhenhui >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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95th percentile and billing module - possible discrepancies
by colin.barker＠bluesky.co.uk 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi I thought I would post here first, just in case what I am seeing isn't a bug, and just me just mis-understanding the calculations. Just a quick setup - we currently are billed on a 95th percentile from an ISP, which we have two physical ethernet connections plugged into two different HP ProCurve switches. I have created a Bill under Traffic Accounting, and set the billing type as 95th @ 50 Mbps, and added both the ports for our connections so I am able to see both under "Bill Ports". This has been running for about 6 - 7 months now, calculating away. While going back through our reports, I noticed that in September we had an overage marked in Observium as 11.4Mbps (Actual usage 61.4Mbps). However the bill we got from the ISP gave us an overage of 30.38Mbps (Actual usage 80.38Mbps). So I went to look deeper and got the break downs I needed. Our ISP gave us the following for the highest 95th: Link1: 50.375Mbps Link2: 30.005Mbps Total: 80.38Mbps I then looked on Observium for the graphs for the two ports, and they reported the following for the highest 95th: Link1: 49.64Mbps Link2: 30.44Mbps Total: 80.08Mbps I can accept that two different systems there may be a very small discrepancy with the larger numbers - which is fine, however -- the problem arrives when the billing calculations comes in, and shows the values as above (11.4Mbps over, 61.4Mbps usage). I have uploaded the two port graphs and a screen grab from the billing page to show in more detail the above numbers here: http://imgur.com/a/iErfo I just want to check I have not missed something that is staring me in the face in regards to the calculations, and if I am, please let me know! Thanks in advance. Regards Colin Barker

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error on svn update
by Damien Burke 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

This issue just popped up. I verified that the username/pw for my paid subscription is valid. I can reach the svn.observium.org url from the server (tested with curl). I do still however get this error: root@observium:/opt/observium# svn update svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/observium/trunk': Could not read status line: Connection reset by peer (http://svn.observium.org) wat?

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alert repeat?
by Zhenhui Liang 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi, We have some switches with thousands of ports. I know, we don’t have administrative down for unused ports. So I set up port down alerts for all ports, so that the initial alert of the down ports, I just ignore so I know those are ports already down. So the theory is that for any following alerts, I will look into them. But I found out observium will send out the massive port down alerts exactly in 24 hours frequency. How do I disable the persistent alerting? I want observium only alert me once for an event period. Thanks a lot. —Zhenhui

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 84
by Rutger Bevaart 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

On 22 Oct 2014, at 09:38, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: ? > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Rutger Bevaart <rutger(a)xconnect24.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I can confirm that the issue is gone in 5903! >> >> Thanks Mike & Joe for the excellent input (and fix)! >> >> Let me know if any additional input, debugging or testing. >> >> Regards, >> Rutger I have been too quick to judge, the issue is still there, although it seems to be less. Ideas?

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Overriding location codes
by Robbie Wright 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

We've got custom locations defined in config.php so all of our devices use a 3 or 4 digit location code for snmp, Observium reads the location code, checks config.php and sets the full address. We have some devices that do not have location in snmp so we set it manually by overriding it in the device settings. However, overriding sysLocation and providing a custom location does not compare that location to what is setup in the config.php. So can a custom location setting check config.php for the value? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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polling issues with 5897
by Rutger Bevaart 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Hi, Updated to the latest svn version yesterday, after which I immediately had issues with the poller. Updated from a release about two weeks older. Now I get up/down for different devices, sometimes complete BGP neighbours down on others. Device down alerts on snmp, etc. I increased the number of poller processes in the crontab and increased snap timeout values etc. However, I still have graphs with large parts missing because of this. Checked poller times, kept an eye on the processes running and logs. Some devices take 120s to poll completely, but all polling is done in about 2 minutes. Still I get these errors, other than the upgrade no changes have been made to firewalls, policies, etc. Any clues? Do I need to upgrade php? Regards, Rutger

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Re: [Observium] polling issues with 5897
by Rutger Bevaart 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

On 21 Oct 2014, at 21:13, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:27:50 -0400 > From: Joseph Zancocchio <joseph(a)nyi.net> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Subject: Re: [Observium] polling issues with 5897 > Message-ID: <54466D66.70006(a)nyi.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" > > I believe I have been experiencing the same issue with the latest stable > update, and have narrowed down the problem I have seen to the changes > made in revision 5884. Can you try to svn up -r 5883 (make sure to > switch to the current branch if you are using the stable currently) and > see if everything works, and if so, svn up -r 5884 to see if the > behavior returns? > > -Joe I can confirm that after reverting back to 5883 the problem disappears. Polling takes a similar amount of time on both versions. Will let it run for a night and upgrade a single version tomorrow to see if the issue reappears. Regards, Rutger

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memory graph / draw error
by Massimo Sala 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Hi I just installed Observium on Debian 7.6 : Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 Apache nginx/1.2.1 PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u14 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB-1~wheezy-log SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 I have added 80 routers ( Cisco / Juniper / HP ) and most of them display fine. On some devices, the memory graph show "draw error". How can I troubleshoot this ? Best regards, Sala

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memory graphs / how to disable
by Massimo Sala 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

per subject, we have only routers and we are interested only in traffic graphs. best regards, Sala

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Re: [Observium] Ruckus Access points
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Can I add extreme/Enterasys to this too? :-) -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Eduardo Schoedler Sent: 20 October 2014 16:09 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Ruckus Access points +1 That will be great. I can provide information (snmpwalks, etc) about Ruckus ZoneDirector. 2014-10-20 12:45 GMT-02:00 Lakhwinder Singh <luckymuk.330(a)gmail.com>: > Hello all > Is anybody managing Ruckus access points with observium? All the > ruckus access points are presented as Generic device and I would also > like to get graphs for number of users connected, for all the SSIDs. > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > -- Eduardo Schoedler _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Ruckus Access points
by Lakhwinder Singh 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hello all Is anybody managing Ruckus access points with observium? All the ruckus access points are presented as Generic device and I would also like to get graphs for number of users connected, for all the SSIDs. Thanks

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Re: [Observium] wmi calls
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi Dennis, Are you willing to make a contribution to the open source thing irrespective of the code looking better? Just need to prove things to the boss. ;-) Andy From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Kruyt Sent: 20 October 2014 12:46 To: 'Adam Armstrong'; 'Observium Network Observation System' Subject: Re: [Observium] wmi calls Hi, We are using WMI, we also already extend it to include more. When the code looks better we’ll send a patch… Dennis,- Van: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Namens Adam Armstrong Verzonden: zaterdag 18 oktober 2014 4:46 Aan: Observium Network Observation System Onderwerp: Re: [Observium] wmi calls Hi Andy, The WMI code was contributed by a user who seems to have vanished. I'm not sure if there's anyone around who knows how it works, certainly myself and the other official developers don't have any WMI experience. I've never used it and I'm not sure if anyone else is using it. The lack of replies suggests the latter. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer" <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk> To: observium(a)observium.org Sent: 11/10/2014 08:30:26 Subject: [Observium] wmi calls Hi all, I’m trying to get observium work with some of our windows servers, particularly for mssql and exchange stuff. Couple of Q’s – Exchange – it’s not pickup up any data, but maybe this is because we’re using 2003 – is this “supported”. I use the quotes as the wmi stuff is listed as very much in development so possibly not working.. MSSQL – again no data, all zeros like with exchange. I tried the polling.php wmi specific command, but I can’t see any wmi stuff particularly – just the standard snmp. Thanks in advance andy

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wmi calls
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi all, I'm trying to get observium work with some of our windows servers, particularly for mssql and exchange stuff. Couple of Q's - Exchange - it's not pickup up any data, but maybe this is because we're using 2003 - is this "supported". I use the quotes as the wmi stuff is listed as very much in development so possibly not working.. MSSQL - again no data, all zeros like with exchange. I tried the polling.php wmi specific command, but I can't see any wmi stuff particularly - just the standard snmp. Thanks in advance andy

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Re: [Observium] wmi calls
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi Adam, Thanks. Tricky this – I’m trying to sell observium to management, who are playing hardball and trying things like netsight from extreme (any negatives for this!?). Anyway, monitoring exchange and MSSQL are big positives towards my argument. WMIC is used for the connection and querying, so perhaps I’d best look at the php behind it if time permits. Cheers Andy From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 18 October 2014 03:46 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] wmi calls Hi Andy, The WMI code was contributed by a user who seems to have vanished. I'm not sure if there's anyone around who knows how it works, certainly myself and the other official developers don't have any WMI experience. I've never used it and I'm not sure if anyone else is using it. The lack of replies suggests the latter. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer" <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk> To: observium(a)observium.org Sent: 11/10/2014 08:30:26 Subject: [Observium] wmi calls Hi all, I’m trying to get observium work with some of our windows servers, particularly for mssql and exchange stuff. Couple of Q’s – Exchange – it’s not pickup up any data, but maybe this is because we’re using 2003 – is this “supported”. I use the quotes as the wmi stuff is listed as very much in development so possibly not working.. MSSQL – again no data, all zeros like with exchange. I tried the polling.php wmi specific command, but I can’t see any wmi stuff particularly – just the standard snmp. Thanks in advance andy

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 71
by Casper A.. Jensen 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Hi Joseph Thanks for your answer :) But that doesnt address my questions :)... Though it assures me the software is alive and well 😁 Sendt fra min HTC-telefon ----- Reply message ----- Fra: observium-request(a)observium.org Til: <observium(a)observium.org> Emne: observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 71 Dato: søn., okt. 19, 2014 13:00 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: How excatly does the alert and customer feature work in observium pro edition (Joseph L. Brunner) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 07:27:08 +0000 From: "Joseph L. Brunner" <joe(a)affirmedsystems.com> To: "'observium(a)observium.org'" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] How excatly does the alert and customer feature work in observium pro edition Message-ID: <2E86D2A5DF7FFA40A41B8C7FCA38F874167BBA(a)affmdex2k10.affmdcorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Casper - I run Affirmed Systems - we managed over 15000 servers and 5000 amazon instances for clients. 60/40 our servers vs. Customer owned servers. We switched from opmanager to observium in July. Clients love the dashboard and look of observium. I would say observium is one of if not the best. We previously used logicmonitor, nagios, opmanager, cacti and others. The monitoring in observium is limited - to what scripts you can write and integrate with the platform. We use lots of other things - monit, mmonit, bash scripts, smokeping - but for our internal client dashboard - observium has the look, feel and functionality of a champion. Thanks From: Casper A.. Jensen [mailto:casper@dingit.dk] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 03:15 AM To: observium(a)observium.org <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] How excatly does the alert and customer feature work in observium pro edition Hi all, I tried asking this on the forum: http://observiumforum.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/78-thnking-of-buyi… but after 22 views no one hasn't answered.. I tried the IRC but it seemed to be closed? I was told by the bot that my chat messages wasn't sent to channel.. So now i try here.. I run a IT consultant company and we are maybe planing on using observium. For now we have a test installation of the free version running to much success! Besides the ease of use through SNMP we do look to the customer feature and alert feature you get with the pro edition. How much is built into the alert feature? is it only mail or does it also support text? What is ment by rule based grouping? And maybe the most important one of all. The customer feature? can i use it to separate my different clients so its easier to oversee what devices belong to what client? or is it more for the billing feature? This product looks vary promising! [cid:c75c4e27901f51261e79bbaff4f6c3d7888eb284@zimbra] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20141019/84943d9…> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium ------------------------------ End of observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 71 *****************************************

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How excatly does the alert and customer feature work in observium pro edition
by Casper A.. Jensen 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Hi all, I tried asking this on the forum: http://observiumforum.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/78-thnking-of-buyi… but after 22 views no one hasn't answered.. I tried the IRC but it seemed to be closed? I was told by the bot that my chat messages wasn't sent to channel.. So now i try here.. I run a IT consultant company and we are maybe planing on using observium. For now we have a test installation of the free version running to much success! Besides the ease of use through SNMP we do look to the customer feature and alert feature you get with the pro edition. How much is built into the alert feature? is it only mail or does it also support text? What is ment by rule based grouping? And maybe the most important one of all. The customer feature? can i use it to separate my different clients so its easier to oversee what devices belong to what client? or is it more for the billing feature? This product looks vary promising!

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User/Client Account Login Interface
by Dimitar, GlobeIX 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

Hi guys, I just subscribed, I'm reviewing the Demo and wanted to ask: - Does Observium has user/client account login interface, as I was not able to find one? - Does the sub-section "Peering" in "Ports" visualize data collected on a Layer 2 peering switch for example? Best Regards Dimitar GlobeIX E-Mail: da(a)globeix.net Tel: 1-212-671-0112; Instant Messengers: ICQ: 28348789; Skype: (Aeromit) Dimitar Avramov

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Cisco ASA site-2-site vpn
by Jurè Wennekes 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

I can see site2site tunnels as active and can see the traffic but can we also monitor its state and alert on this? Or get a site2site uptime number? Jure Met vriendelijke groet, Jurè Wennekes Loko IT-specialisten Mast 13 Postbus 146 3890 AC Zeewolde T. 036-521 93 20 W. http://www.loko.nl [cid:image4e0438.JPG@4abffce1.48b95aaf] Meer informatie op www.ikstapoverop.nl.

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High CPU SNMP ENGINE
by Dash Brousseau 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

I added Obersvium for one of our workstation cisco switch which has most ports filled up WS-C3560X-48 12.2(53)SE2 Now the switch gets huge CPU spikes at random times And it points to SNMP ENGINE PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process 263 959593774 37162365 25821 81.62% 19.01% 7.03% 0 SNMP ENGINE 263 960182122 37166258 25834 75.33% 12.91% 5.58% 0 SNMP ENGINE Is there a way to lower the cpu spikes? Updated Observium? Update Switch OS? ? Limit polling information? 12.2.53 Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 Apache 2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.4 MySQL 5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 Dash Brousseau This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the intended addressee (or authorized to receive for the intended addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by e-mail then delete the message immediately. Francais: http://www.fundserv.com/fr/company/disclaimer<http://www.fundserv.com/francais/legal/disclaimer_email_ib.shtml>

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Polling script
by Darian Jimenez 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Has anyone done a script where it can every 30 minutes or every hour read server names from a text file and add the device and discovery and poll it automatically ? I want to be able to add servers into the domain and have observium discovery them automatically via snmp. Sent from my iPhone

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Integrated smokeping graph appearance
by Justin Miller 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

The integrated smokeping graphs don't have the same appearance as they do in smokeping itself. Is there a way to make the graphs have the same appearance? Also, the data represented in Observium doesn't appear to match smokeping when looking at the variance. I've attached examples. I realize that it's the same rrd being drawn but it's just the representation of the data that is different. Smokeping 2.6.8 and Observium 0.14.10.5883 Justin

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Invalid device/port combination
by Peter Casserly 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

After an upgrade a while back I began to receive a message "Invalid device/port combination" when selecting the hyperlink for a port on any device. I upgraded recently to 5770 and still experiencing this issue. The URL http://observium.domain.com/device/device=70/tab=port/port=10234/ gives the following message. [cid:image001.png@01CFC38A.2E8A9150] Everything else seems to be performing fine. What troubleshooting steps should I perform to figure out what is happening? Or what further information is needed? Thank you --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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High discovery time on Mikrotik ARP/NDP table
by Nick Beacham 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

All, I'm seeing an issue where on some of my Mikrotiks, mostly the RB2011iUAS model, the arp-table discovery takes upwards of 200 seconds to complete. I was wondering if anyone else is seeing this, or runs these models and sees a high discovery time on them as well? Thank you, Nicholas Beacham

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ActiveDirectory (LDAP) authentication very slow
by Theis Andersen Samsig 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

Hi, I'm running observium from the latest TurnKeyLinux distribution and I'm having some trouble getting the AD to work correctly. I have copied the configuration from this page: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Authentication_modules#Active_Directory And made modifications to match our environment (Changing the DN's, suffix, prefix, groups and changed the STARTTLS to FALSE). Our AD is based on Windows 2008R2 To get it working I installed the php5-ldap on the TurnKey distribution using the apt-get install command (and did nothing else than reboot). The normal mysql will let me login as intended (speedy and no delay) - but when switching to LDAP I initially couldn't login "Authentication Failed" until I removed the following line from the configuration file: $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("CN=Observium Users,OU=Groups,DC=ad,DC=example,DC=com"); (I had of course modified it to math our configuration) When removing the line I am able to login - but the login (and the following page loads) takes around 63 seconds. My questions is: * Why is the page load taking 60+ seconds when using LDAP OR how do I troubleshoot it (seems like a timeout situation) * Why do I need to remove the "auth_ldap_group" line to get it to work? (not really important but nice to know) Hope there is someone out that can help or point me in the right direction... Best regards Theis Andersen Samsig Senior Solution Architect

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APC INROW COOLING
by Lakhwinder Singh 14 Oct '14

14 Oct '14

Hello Can someone help me with graphs for APC INROW COOLING (Hardware ACRP100 04). I am not able to get fan speed, inlet temperature and other graphs in Observium This is the OID ---> .1.3.6.1.4.1.318 We are using latest MIB from APC Thanks

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Encoding problem?
by Eduardo Schoedler 14 Oct '14

14 Oct '14

Hi, What can be the problem with the encoding of this email? Thanks. [image: Imagem inline 1] -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Device Dependency
by Hamilton, Kent 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Is there any chance of getting some type of device dependency? I.E. Firewall goes down at a remote site and everything marked as dependent on that firewall doesn't spam alerts but it all gets aggregated in to the firewall alert? -- [exegy_119x45_xparent]<http://www.exegy.com/> S. Kent Hamilton Senior Network Engineer 349 Marshall Ave | Suite 100 Saint Louis, MO 63119 US Phone: +1 314.218.3558 FAX: +1 314.218.3601 Email: KHamilton(a)Exegy.com<mailto:KHamilton@Exegy.com> ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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Re: [Observium] question regarding vlan statistics
by Adam Armstrong 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

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Re: [Observium] question regarding vlan statistics
by Adam Armstrong 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

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Re: [Observium] question regarding vlan statistics
by Adam Armstrong 12 Oct '14

12 Oct '14

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question regarding vlan statistics
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 12 Oct '14

12 Oct '14

Hi all, New to observium so apologies if this is obvious, can't find what I'm after. Is there any way of listing the cumulative traffic per vlan across all member ports as individual graphs? Thanks Andy

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Re: [Observium] Interface descriptions are blank
by Adam Armstrong 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

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Re: [Observium] Cisco IPSLA (RTTMON)
by Adam Armstrong 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

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Cisco IPSLA (RTTMON)
by Leroux, Steve 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hi Observium Team, We've been running Observium Professional version for many months now. It's nicely designed and polished software. I would recommend it. We used to monitor with Cacti but now we are almost 100% with Observium. The IP SLA Jitter monitoring is great. (CISCO-RTTMON-MIB) Observium currently picks up and records this value. Object rttMonLatestRttOperCompletionTime OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.42.1.2.10.1.1 http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Tran…<http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Tran…> [cid:image002.jpg@01CFE3C7.D39750E0] We have 2 values missing in our IPSLA values that we monitor and we'd love to see in Observium. For us (and most likely others) the IP SLA is missing 2 critical values: (also in CISCO-RTTMON-MIB) http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/12_4/ip_sla/configuration/guide/hs… 1. MOS - Mean Opinion Scores Object rttMonLatestJitterOperMOS OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.42.1.5.2.1.42 http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Tran…<http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Tran…> Sample Value from SW28-TIMWC01: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.9.9.42.1.5.2.1.42.10 = Gauge32: 434 2. ICPIF - International Calculated Planning Impairment Factor Object rttMonLatestJitterOperICPIF OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.42.1.5.2.1.43 http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Tran… Sample Value from SW28-TIMWC01: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.9.9.42.1.5.2.1.43.10 = Gauge32: 1 We have Alerts setup in Cacti to notify us when the MOS value goes below 400. We'd love to have this in Observium and eliminate our need to have alerts in Cacti. Here's a sample of the MOS & ICPIF graph in Cacti. [cid:image006.jpg@01CFE3C7.D39750E0] Thanks. Steve Leroux Technical Operations Manager NorthernTel, a division of Bell Aliant

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Interface descriptions are blank
by Roman Romanyak 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hello, We are using subscriber edition 0.14.9.5815, polling juniper QFX3500 switch (two switches - Virtual Chassis cluster). After adding the switch and running discovery.php, interface descriptions are recognized just fine, however when the device gets polled for the first time, all interface descriptions get removed. I checked it with snmpwalk and I can see interface descriptions in the output. Thanks, Roman. -- Roman Romanyak Network engineer

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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Adam Armstrong 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Adam Armstrong 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Mmm, fair point, although our particular hospital is millions in debt, so paperclips are banned. Who knows where all the cash goes.. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 09 October 2014 17:48 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 I expect the NHS's paperclip budget is greater than observium's income. :) Adam. Michael Loftis <mloftis(a)wgops.com> wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer wrote: > Adam, > I totally see your point, and am surprised that it's only a 12% uptake > to be honest. > > As an aside question - what methods of payment for the professional > product are supported and how do I go about it? Still need to sweet-talk > the boss but it's looking promising. > Cheers - keep up the good work. > Andy. It's really so cheap. They certainly spend more on toilet paper, or coffee, or pens, or paper, or paperclips (ok maybe not paperclips)...well just about anything. Especially on an annual basis. Very much worth it. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Ok great. I think we'd need a quote for our procurement team to send it through their bureaucracy machine but we'll see. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: 09 October 2014 17:41 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 Just regular EU-based money transfer - that should work :-) Tom On 10/09/2014 06:38 PM, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer wrote: > Ok, thanks Tom. I work for the nhs, so paypal isn't really an option. > I'll ask the finance team whether the IBAN thing works for them, I've > no idea what it is. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of > Tom Laermans > Sent: 09 October 2014 17:37 > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 > > Paypal highly prefferred, CC also possible through paypal without a > paypal account (but no automatic renewals then) or Euro money transfer > through IBAN. > > Tom > > On 10/09/2014 06:35 PM, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer wrote: >> Adam, >> I totally see your point, and am surprised that it's only a 12% >> uptake to be honest. >> >> As an aside question - what methods of payment for the professional >> product are supported and how do I go about it? Still need to >> sweet-talk the boss but it's looking promising. >> Cheers - keep up the good work. >> Andy. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of >> Adam Armstrong >> Sent: 09 October 2014 17:20 >> To: Observium Network Observation System >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 >> >> On 2014-10-09 17:15, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer wrote: >>> Glad it helped someone. >>> >>> Blown away by how decent this software is, I hope they keep up the >>> community thing/open source thing. Companies like smoothwall have >>> pretty much ditched their open source bit altogether which is a big >>> shame. >> That's probably because maintaining both generates a shitstorm of >> support bullshit from free-edition users. >> >> We find we get more hassle from people who don't pay than people who >> do, which slowly edges us away from bothering to release CE. For us >> CE is really just advertising. We do it because ~12% of users upgrade >> to subscriptions. >> >> Really, no company should be running something like Observium >> operationally without the updates that's in subscription. It's too >> much of a liability for the price! :) >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Ok, thanks Tom. I work for the nhs, so paypal isn't really an option. I'll ask the finance team whether the IBAN thing works for them, I've no idea what it is. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: 09 October 2014 17:37 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 Paypal highly prefferred, CC also possible through paypal without a paypal account (but no automatic renewals then) or Euro money transfer through IBAN. Tom On 10/09/2014 06:35 PM, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer wrote: > Adam, > I totally see your point, and am surprised that it's only a 12% > uptake to be honest. > > As an aside question - what methods of payment for the professional > product are supported and how do I go about it? Still need to > sweet-talk the boss but it's looking promising. > Cheers - keep up the good work. > Andy. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of > Adam Armstrong > Sent: 09 October 2014 17:20 > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 > > On 2014-10-09 17:15, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer wrote: >> Glad it helped someone. >> >> Blown away by how decent this software is, I hope they keep up the >> community thing/open source thing. Companies like smoothwall have >> pretty much ditched their open source bit altogether which is a big >> shame. > That's probably because maintaining both generates a shitstorm of > support bullshit from free-edition users. > > We find we get more hassle from people who don't pay than people who > do, which slowly edges us away from bothering to release CE. For us CE > is really just advertising. We do it because ~12% of users upgrade to > subscriptions. > > Really, no company should be running something like Observium > operationally without the updates that's in subscription. It's too > much of a liability for the price! :) > > 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 _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Adam, I totally see your point, and am surprised that it's only a 12% uptake to be honest. As an aside question - what methods of payment for the professional product are supported and how do I go about it? Still need to sweet-talk the boss but it's looking promising. Cheers - keep up the good work. Andy. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 09 October 2014 17:20 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 On 2014-10-09 17:15, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer wrote: > Glad it helped someone. > > Blown away by how decent this software is, I hope they keep up the > community thing/open source thing. Companies like smoothwall have > pretty much ditched their open source bit altogether which is a big > shame. That's probably because maintaining both generates a shitstorm of support bullshit from free-edition users. We find we get more hassle from people who don't pay than people who do, which slowly edges us away from bothering to release CE. For us CE is really just advertising. We do it because ~12% of users upgrade to subscriptions. Really, no company should be running something like Observium operationally without the updates that's in subscription. It's too much of a liability for the price! :) adam. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Glad it helped someone. Blown away by how decent this software is, I hope they keep up the community thing/open source thing. Companies like smoothwall have pretty much ditched their open source bit altogether which is a big shame. Cheers Andy From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tristan Rhodes Sent: 09 October 2014 17:12 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 Thanks Andy! I used your email to fix that on my CE version (hoping to get SE). Tristan Tristan Rhodes Network Engineer Weber State University 801.626.8549 On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk> wrote: Ah, that’s good. Thought it might help some of us “try before you buy” types. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Lukasz Sztukowski Sent: 08 October 2014 14:28 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 This is fixed in pro version already ;) 2014-10-07 23:40 GMT+02:00 Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk>: Hi all, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I’ve noticed with the current community version of observium (14.4/5229) that I installed today that on line 24 of includes/discovery/sensors.inc.php : include(“includes/discovery/senors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php”); Should probably read include(“includes/discovery/sensors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php”); It made my procurve temperature pickup work again anyway. Probably been documented somewhere but I couldn’t find it. Do I qualify for a free pro version now? J Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Pozdrawiam Łukasz Sztukowski Zanim wydrukujesz, pomyśl o środowisku _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Ah, that’s good. Thought it might help some of us “try before you buy” types. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Lukasz Sztukowski Sent: 08 October 2014 14:28 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 This is fixed in pro version already ;) 2014-10-07 23:40 GMT+02:00 Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk>: Hi all, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I’ve noticed with the current community version of observium (14.4/5229) that I installed today that on line 24 of includes/discovery/sensors.inc.php : include(“includes/discovery/senors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php”); Should probably read include(“includes/discovery/sensors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php”); It made my procurve temperature pickup work again anyway. Probably been documented somewhere but I couldn’t find it. Do I qualify for a free pro version now? J Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Pozdrawiam Łukasz Sztukowski Zanim wydrukujesz, pomyśl o środowisku

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APC InRow cooling
by Lakhwinder Singh 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hello I am not able to see graphs (Fan speed, Air) for APC InRow cooling unit in Observium. I did a patch from following location still I am not able to get the graphs. http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1020 Thanks a lot in advance. Regards

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Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hi all, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I've noticed with the current community version of observium (14.4/5229) that I installed today that on line 24 of includes/discovery/sensors.inc.php : include("includes/discovery/senors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php"); Should probably read include("includes/discovery/sensors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php"); It made my procurve temperature pickup work again anyway. Probably been documented somewhere but I couldn't find it. Do I qualify for a free pro version now? :-) Cheers Andy

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Assistance with Email alerts
by Robin Cook 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hello, I am running the paid/SVN version of observium and I have tried a couple of times to setup email alerts and each time I end up breaking my config and having to restore it. Does anyone have any sample configurations I can look at/copy from for simple alerts to a single email address via a network SMTP relay? e.g. mail from observium(a)domain.com<mailto:observium@domain.com> to alerts(a)domain.com<mailto:alerts@domain.com>? Do I require a local postfix install for mail to be dropped into? Many thanks, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Bluecoat MIBs
by Adam Armstrong 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hi Guys, Does anyone have access to full Bluecoat MIBs? Specifically I'm looking for BLUECOAT-SG-ICAP-MIB, but the rest would be nice too! Thanks, adam.

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Syslog filters
by Markus Klock 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hello! I'm trying to apply some syslog-filters and have for example added this to my config.php: $config['syslog']['filter'][] = 'ROUTING-MLDP-5-BRANCH'; $config['syslog']['filter'][] = "Successfully authenticated user \'rancid\'"; However I still get messages containing these strings Do I need some kind of wildcard or what could be wrong? BR, Markus

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Overview timestamp delta broken
by Ben Steele 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Since I installed Observium a few weeks ago I have noticed that the overview timestamp for syslog and event log delta is wrong for most (not all) devices, this is prevalent on the main overview and the specific device overview page. By wrong I mean "-1y -1d -xh." etc.. Hovering over the incorrect entry pops up the correct timestamp so I think it's just the logic in calculating the delta between current time and that event that's broken, also viewing the syslogs and entry logs directly with the original timestamp is fine as well. I checked my local timezone and php timezone just to be sure and they are reporting correctly, I would imagine this would break the original timestamp anyway which is not the problem here. Hover over example: I find it particularly weird as not every device is doing this, the ones that are have no real pattern either, mixture of N7K,N5K,ASA etc and some even have a mixture of working and broken entries (individual device overview): [image: Inline image 1] Anyone else seen this, any ideas? Cheers.

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Alerts
by Josh Hopper 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

I'm a noob and I apologize. I'm having trouble determining if it's the Alert Checkers I am setting up that is not sending me mail or if it's the new mail settings. I've just moved from the old alerts to the new ones. A test goes as follows: administrator@network-monitoring:/opt/observium$ ./test_mail.php -h apc-pdu-02.purafilter2000.com Observium v0.14.10.5859 Test E-mail Configuration My Hostname: network-monitoring.purafilter2000.com E-mails ENABLED globally E-mails use PHP-builtin MAIL backend E-mails send from: ITObserviumNotify(a)purafilter2000.com Try send test notification for apc-pdu-02.purafilter2000.com to these email(s): ITObserviumNotify(a)purafilter2000.com Notification for apc-pdu-02.purafilter2000.com SENT. I do have POSTFIX installed. And below is an image of a few of my alerts I've been trying: [cid:image001.png@01CFDEE7.26E27260] Assistance would be awesome. I want device down/up, ping, port utilization, some stuff for storage, etc. However, if someone could point me in the right direction on getting alerts from one checker I think I can noodle my way around the others. Thanks. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image002.jpg@01CFDEE7.26E27260] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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sysLocation location_map rewrite
by Tylla 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hi! I've done my homework and found the previous messages about this subject, nevertheless I would like to express my opinion. I think the current solution (by giving the coordinates in square brackets at the end of the overridden location string) is acceptable, but in the long run the actual location (coordinates) and the user readable location should be kept separate. I mean normally the sysLocation should contain some human readable/understandable string about the location of the server, but the real location - for computer usage - is best given with a Lat/Lon coordinate pair. I think these shouldn't be mixed and only the human readable location should be displayed on the GUI. Anyway, the documentation should be extended with these informations. Maybe the custom_rewrite_location function should be mentioned too, which is used by the code if it is defined in the config.php and could help people with special needs. I'm a new user, so please spare me if I'm wrong. :) Tylla

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Is there a upgrade to CE edition coming soon?
by Yucong Sun 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hi.. according to http://observium.org/wiki/Download_Community_Edition, the last release is 6month ago today. Is there a release coming soon ? :-p Cheers.

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Guidence needed to fix my Alert Checkers
by Joy, Jees 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hello All, Thank you for the previous support you all provided. I need assistance again to finding the root cause, I often get false alarm on my servers (Windows and Linux). I have 2 Alarm Checkers, 1. System Uptime, it basically checks if any server's uptime is less than 5 minutes, it notify me. 2. Does a ping and snmp check every one minute, if it couldn't reach it alerts me. One of the server, I understand and the issue is with NIC teaming and it flaps, that I have arranged change management ticket so will be fixing it soon. But what I don't understand is, System Uptime triggers stating the uptime has been changed. But in reality no change has been happened. Also sometimes it alerts me Ping checker, for normal servers without bonding/teaming on both Unix and Windows. I checked the system loads, all of them are normal. Could you please let me know your thoughts and any help if available. I wonder if my Alert Checker configuration is wrong. Below is my alert checkers [cid:image001.png@01CFE164.62A0FA90] Best Regards, Jees Joy Internal IT **************************************************************** "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. " ****************************************************************

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- high availability
by Paolo De Michele 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

hi everybody, anyone know if it is possible set up observium in high availability? I'm thinking to use it for all my servers but I have necessity to have 2 or more nodes anyone can help me? thanks in advance cheers

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Re: [Observium] - high availability
by Marco Spicuglia 04 Oct '14

04 Oct '14

hi Adam, HA is often a requirement from the enterprise world. Monitoring systems are often considered business critical, which means guaranteed HA. I'd appreciate a HA observium setup too. Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> Date: 03/10/2014 13:48 (GMT+01:00) To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] - high availability What is the value of high availability for a non-service affecting support application? Needless complication for no appreciable gain is the cornerstone of all IT failure. Adam. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On 3 October 2014 11:49:07 Paolo De Michele <paolo(a)paolodemichele.it> wrote: > hi everybody, > > anyone know if it is possible set up observium in high availability? > I'm thinking to use it for all my servers but I have necessity to have 2 > or more nodes > > anyone can help me? > thanks in advance > > cheers > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Alerts
by Josh Hopper 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

Is it possible to use the old alerts in the newest version of Observium? Of course, they might have to be enabled. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFDD5F.9E801720] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Re: [Observium] rename graph
by Support 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Hi, I've made exactly that on the link of the wiki but although the command line work fine (see bottom) in the graph i'm not be able to see the description of interface the remote host is an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS the observium is update to current release 0.14.9.5846 :~# snmpwalk -v2c -c public 172.16.xx.xx .1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18 IF-MIB::ifAlias.1 = STRING: IF-MIB::ifAlias.2 = STRING: Primary Interface IF-MIB::ifAlias.3 = STRING: regards, Giuseppe _____________________________________________________________________ NUCKLEO Information Technology Solutions Support & Delivery Team http://www.nuckleo.com _____________________________________________________________________ Di Venerdì, 26-09-2014 alle 19:50 Adam Armstrong ha scritto: Hi, This is normally done by setting the port description on the device. We don't allow setting of configuration which can be done on devices in the UI as it encourages bad operational habits. Linux hosts don't have the ability to set port descriptions, so you have to rely on a script to inject the descriptions into SNMP. This script will do it for Ubuntu/Debian http://www.observium.org/wiki/IfAlias_descriptions_on_Debian/Ubuntu Thanks, adam. On 2014-09-24 10:23, Support wrote: > Hi, > is possible to rename single graph? > like 'Internet Traffic' instead of generic eth0 > > regards, > Giuseppe > > _____________________________________________________________________ > NUCKLEO Information Technology Solutions > Support & Delivery Team > http://www.nuckleo.com [1] > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://www.nuckleo.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Known bug in the gui ?
by Raphael Mazelier 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Hello, Sorry if it was a know bug but I have a very frustrating bug in the seach bar or link in the overview page. When I click on ports down, or ports disabled I have an empty set result. (but the count is OK). http://observium.test.net/ports/state=down/ => empty set http://observium.test.net/ports/state=admindown/ => empty set Another customic bug is clicking on ignored/alert/ sensors link redirect me to http://observium.test.net/health/ but there is no search bar ?! Thanks for this great project anyway. -- Raphael Mazelier

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Default Alerts stop working.
by Zafar Pravaiz 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Dear All, I notice that default email alerts for device down, UP, reboot and BGP flapping etc has stop working. I don’t configure any alert checker. It was working fine but suddenly stop working. Any clue? my local mail MTA is working fine. Thanks Zafar Pravaiz IT Senior Systems Engineer Information Technology Department Tel +971 6 515 2164 Fax +971 6 515 2112 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu <http://www.aus.edu/> zpravaiz(a)aus.edu <mailto:youremail@aus.edu>

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Observium and MediaWiki
by Senses0 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

If any of you are using a local wiki powered by MediaWiki, you might find this useful. http://senses0.blogspot.com/2014/09/observium-and-mediawiki.html

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"Shell Shock" BASH exploit announced - Patch your boxes
by tonto＠decoygaming.com.au 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

Hey all, This isn't technically about Observium but felt it was worth bringing to your attention. https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2014/09/24/Bourne-Again-Shell… A bash exploit has been announced that allows remote code execution. Updates are available for Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL via APT/YUM. Might be an idea to patch your Observium boxes. Regards, Matt "Tonto" Harper - DecoyGaming

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Sensor Subtypes
by Milton Ngan 27 Sep '14

27 Sep '14

So what is the direction that the sensors are heading? Are subtypes going to go away? Or are they the way forward? I saw that alerting for subtypes was just removed, and that the recommendation is to use the general sensor class for alerting. Alerting for subtypes can be made to work with a simple change, however it would also break the generic sensor type. I am just trying to understand if I should just ignore the sensor subtypes altogether because a generic sensor alerting infrastructure is where things are headed. M.

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graph color
by Zhenhui Liang 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Guys, This might be a general RRD question. So in almost all graphing, we have those shaded color area and solid color line. Although I have a general idea on what they mean, I still want some official explanations regarding their meanings. Thanks. I attached a cpu usage graph here as an example. We have grey shaded area, and solid red line. I guess the red line is some kind of moving average? While grey shows spikes? Or how else could I inteprete this? Thanks a lot. Zhenhui[cid:2CB03DFE-FFA0-4DA8-9438-EB2732F92119]

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rename graph
by Support 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi, is possible to rename single graph? like 'Internet Traffic' instead of generic eth0 regards, Giuseppe _____________________________________________________________________ NUCKLEO Information Technology Solutions Support & Delivery Team http://www.nuckleo.com _____________________________________________________________________

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Trail the alerting functionality
by Vini 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi All, I am evaluating Observium for a job and I was wondering if any of you know of a way to enable the alerting functionality as a trail? I could not find anything on the website about it but if I cannot trial it first and compare to the other options I have I won't be able to make a case to pay for the subscription. Any info would be much appreciated. Thanks Vin

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Graph blank problem
by chott＠praha1.net 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hello guys Last two week i have problem with Graph blank places for few times Observium is connected by localy switch gigabit line same problem in localy SNMP for server Where is problem? Disk? RAM ? SQL? Tomas [email-header-praha1] Tomas Chott technický ředitel chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net> Phone: +420 245 004 005 Mobile: +420 604 930 119 Certifikace: Cisco CXFS, CCDA, SMBEN, SMBAM, CCNA Ubiquiti UCWA, UEWA, UCRSS, UCT Authorised Trainer Cisco, Ubiquiti, TP-Link, Synology Metropolitní síť Praha 1 z.s.p.o. Jindrisska 18 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic www.praha1.net<http://www.praha1.net/> [Popis: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/praha1net> [Popis: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tomas-chott/49/97a/1aa>

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Re: [Observium] Generating Email Alerts till state change
by Moerman, Maarten 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

You’ll get an alert every 24hours. -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com From: <Joy>, Jees <Jees.Joy(a)KVHasia.com<mailto:Jees.Joy@KVHasia.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 12:34 PM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Generating Email Alerts till state change Hey All, Thank you for this interesting product. We started to use Observium for basic and monitoring of our Linux and Windows infrastructure. I have a quick question regarding Alerts , I have configured Alert Checker as follows: Check Condition: device_status is 0 device_status_type is ping Device Match: hostname match * Entity Match * I get only one Alert per failure, then once recovered I get one recovery alert. I would like to keep getting alerts till the state is recovered or we manually suppress is it using ignore. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Jees Joy *************************************************************************** "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. " ***************************************************************************

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Documentation
by Søren Irbo 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi! Stumbled upon this feature, are there other nice features, which are not documented? http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-299 Can't find it here: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Custom_traffic_graphs /Søren

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Generating Email Alerts till state change
by Joy, Jees 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hey All, Thank you for this interesting product. We started to use Observium for basic and monitoring of our Linux and Windows infrastructure. I have a quick question regarding Alerts , I have configured Alert Checker as follows: Check Condition: device_status is 0 device_status_type is ping Device Match: hostname match * Entity Match * I get only one Alert per failure, then once recovered I get one recovery alert. I would like to keep getting alerts till the state is recovered or we manually suppress is it using ignore. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Jees Joy **************************************************************** "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. " ****************************************************************

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Re: [Observium] Problem with the Mail Alerting
by SCHEIN David 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Hello, Thanks for your answer, where I can find a tutorial to configure the checker, because the wiki is not clear for me. And in the earlier version the mail alert was automatical, why this feature was abandoned. Best regards David De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Tom Laermans Envoyé : vendredi 12 septembre 2014 15:03 À : Observium Network Observation System Objet : Re: [Observium] ***SPAM*** Re: Problem with the Mail Alerting David, You need to create alert checkers to receive e-mail alerts. Tom On 09/12/2014 02:08 PM, SCHEIN David wrote: Hello, First thanks for your rapid answer, the alerts look like activated, like you can see below (I don't know if picture can be display on this maillinglist [cid:image001.png@01CFD1BE.AA3C1750] [cid:image002.png@01CFD1BE.AA3C1750] When in run the alerter.php on a device with an interface down : :/data/observium# php ./alerter.php -h sto-rtr-edge-agarik.seres.lan -d Observium v0.14.9.5798 Alerter DEBUG! Starting alerter run: PHP Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.css): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2474 PHP Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.js): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2482 <div><style> Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.css): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2474 </style> <script> Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.js): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2482 </script><div class="ref"><span data-input><i>> </i><span data-expTxt>$vars</span><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `alert_tests` WHERE 1</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(35)</span></span></span></div></div></div>Cached 0 alert rules. <div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `alert_assoc`</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(27)</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'sto-rtr-edge-agarik.seres.lan' ORDER BY `device_id` ASC</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(131)</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = '35'</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(48)</span></span></span></div></div></div>Processing alerts for sto-rtr-edge-agarik.seres.lan <div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT *,`alert_table`.`alert_table_id` AS `alert_table_id` FROM `alert_table` LEFT JOIN `alert_table-state` ON `alert_table`.`alert_table_id` = `alert_table-state`.`alert_table_id` WHERE `device_id` = '35'</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(212)</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `alert_table` LEFT JOIN `alert_table-state` ON `alert_table`.`alert_table_id` = `alert_table-state`.`alert_table_id` WHERE `device_id` = '35'</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(155)</span></span></span></div></div></div> Best regards David De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Tom Laermans Envoyé : vendredi 12 septembre 2014 12:21 À : Observium Network Observation System Objet : Re: [Observium] Problem with the Mail Alerting On 09/12/2014 11:25 AM, SCHEIN David wrote: I tried different config, but nothing is working and with this config when I do a test, I receive the e-mail in my gmail box, but nothing about port down or bgp session down... If test mail works, your config works. If you don't get alert mails, either there is a problem with the actual alerter or with your checkers. Please show your checkers, and check whether the "alerted" column in the test list has a value or says Never. Tom _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Different Alert thresholds for different temperature sensors of the same cisco device
by Supun Rathnayake 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Hi , We are using the Observium subscribed edition 0.14.9.5814 and trying to set different alerts for *different temperature sensor types* *of the same cisco device*, but could not find a proper method to do that. Please find the annexed screen-shots of the alert config. that we tried, and it matches all the temperature sensors (there are about 6 types). We are looking for the way to differentiate these sensors to set different threshold levels. Kindly let us know if there is a way to do this. -- With Best Regards, Supun Rathnayake Lanka communication Services (Pvt) Ltd. 65C, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07. Sri Lanka. Tel: +94-11-2437545 http://www.lankacom.net

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Excluding docker mounts
by overige＠vanderpoel.com.au 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Hi, I'm running docker containers on one of my workstations and the syslog on that machine is now getting heaps of 'permission denied errors' like this: *Sep 22 16:25:05 raven snmpd[3295]: /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/5e126344b6b34ec70d5982e5cdf121bdf9698342a9223f6ef2d1e7d01cf3fff7: Permission denied* If I execute a non-root *df -h'* I'm also getting *permission* *denied*. I've tried to exclude the mentioned path using *$config['ignore_mount_string'][]* but that didn't do anything. I assume the other way would be to exclude it somehow using snmpd config, but got no idea how to. Cheers, Pieter

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syslog-ng implementation and Cisco ASR9K
by Markus Klock 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hey guys! I´m setting up syslog-ng implementation and it works great for all my Cisco IOS-devices, however most of the devices in my network is Cisco ASR9K-routers running IOS-XR and it seems syslog from them wont go in to Observium. I did a quick look in the syslog-messages from the ASR9Ks and it seems IOS-XR actually don't use its hostname as hostname but instead use its active routeprocessors name (wtf cisco?!) making the syslog messages look something like this: RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Nov 28 23:56:53.826 : config[65710]: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I : Configured from console by console Now there is a command that let you add a "hostname prefix" to the syslog messages, which means that I can type my own custom string as hostname for syslog, sadly it still just adds it before the RPS-id making the messages like this: router1 RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:router:Nov 28 23:56:53.826 : config[65710]: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I : Configured from console by console This of course makes it impossible for Observium to match the syslogged hostname to a hostname in the database. I took a look in the observium syslog-code and if I understand it correctly, if it fails to match the hostname it does a fallback and tries if maybe the IP-address is used as hostname and try to match it against a host in the database? In that case maybe I could change the syslog-ng template that forwards the data to Observium to instead use source IP instead of hostname? destination d_observium { program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") template-escape(yes)); I tried change $HOST to $HOST_FROM and $SOURCEIP but no luck so far. Am I even on the right track here? Could something like this work to make my idiotic ASR9Ks show up in the Observium syslog? Thanks in advance for any advice /Markus

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Alerting on temperature against device with multiple temperature sensors
by Jason Lixfeld 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

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6800 weirdness
by Robert Williams 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Hi, We've taken our first batch of 6807-XL chassis and have a couple of minor issues with the component identification and detection in Observium (r5815). I'm not sure if it's best to add a bug report or raise it on here, so I'll start here and move to JIRA if requested. In summary the hardware is reported as: "Hardware: ciscoProducts.1765" - if the same standard as the other 6xxx series is to be followed, this should be translated to "cat6807" I believe? Slightly more importantly, there are permanent 'false' alarm states for the 3.3v outputs on the PSUs which are present: There are 4 bays, numbers 1 and 2 have PSUs, 3 and 4 are empty. It correctly shows the sensor only for objects for 1 and 2, but shows them as 'false' not 'true' for being happy. The graphed integer is 2 (not 1). Console output say's it's OK, so probably (yet) another lying/inverse Cisco SNMP OID... power-converter 1: power-converter 1 : 3.3V Output: OK power-converter 2: power-converter 2 : 3.3V Output: OK Lastly, the Crossbars statistics are, well, a bit weird. Image below as it's easier to explain: I also have just noticed that all the other 6500 series chassis are showing a weird sensor (VTT this time) under the crossbar stats as well. So maybe this is a recent more general issue and is not directly related to the 6807 chassis? (This is a 6509 below) If this should all go to JIRA instead then can someone just let me know if I should split it into individual reports or not? Happy to do it, just want to follow the rules correctly :) Cheers as always! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Netflow Integration
by Dimitar, GlobeIX 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Hi guys, Let me thank you for paying attention to my previous email about "User/Client Account Login Interface" in the first place. I have another one. Does Observium offer any functionality and/or integration with Nfsen, Flowviewer or any other Netflow client/collector? Best Regards Dimitar GlobeIX E-Mail: da(a)globeix.net Tel: 1-212-671-0112; Mobile: +1-646-400-1119 Instant Messengers: ICQ: 28348789; MSN: dimitar(a)avramov.com; Skype: (Aeromit) Dimitar Avramov

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Physical Memory vs Virtual Memory
by Darian Jimenez 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Why is it that virtual memory is twice the physical memory for a server? Seems like the physical shows the right amount.

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Re: [Observium] FW: FTOS 9.4 not working properly with Observium whereas 8.3.12.0 for Force10 switches
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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Higher values of ping statistics in Observium
by Arya, Renuka [BSD] - MED 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Hi Team, I was looking into the ping statistics in All Devices ----- > Graphs --- > Ping. I understand this is the ping statistics between my Observium server and the network device. I am seeing really high values for the ping statistics. Almost ~ 600 ms for some Arista 7050-64R and for others spikes as high as ~7 secs. In actual, the RTT between the Observium server and these devices should by around 0.4-0.5 ms. Please see the attachment. Thanks ! Regards Renuka ________________________________ This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] The ports on the switches doesn't seems to display correct network throughput
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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Re: [Observium] Odd real time graph behavior
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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Re: [Observium] No port names in traffic accounting
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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