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eventlog is broke
by Zach Underwood 14 Sep '13

14 Sep '13

It looks like the CSS may be broke after I updated to 4492. I have attached a screenshot [image: Inline image 1] -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photos <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Re: [Observium] 4492
by Rob VanHooren 14 Sep '13

14 Sep '13

broke everything except frontpage for me, I rolled back to 4491 svn merge --dry-run -r 4492:4491 then svn merge -r 4492:4491 Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 14, 2013, at 13:48, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > 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. eventlog is broke (Zach Underwood) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:48:45 -0400 > From: Zach Underwood <zunder1990(a)gmail.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] eventlog is broke > Message-ID: > <CAASSP5gtcneF-usXb4qm3sdtqCMm1iKn=6104kihsQwSa8uv2w(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > It looks like the CSS may be broke after I updated to 4492. I have attached > a screenshot [image: Inline image 1] > > -- > Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) > My website <http://zachunderwood.me> > My photos <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me> >

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PHPSESSID don't set
by kiribool 13 Sep '13

13 Sep '13

Hi all, I install observium on debian 6. mcrypt installed. I have a problem with PHPSESSID. If I click to some link after logon, ex. all devices, I return to logon page. I try to select "Remember me", but it not help. In google chrome I see, that cookies from observium domain are not present. PHPSESSID is empty. Please advice, how I can solve this problem. Thank all.

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Auto discovery subnet
by Zalewski, Dominik 13 Sep '13

13 Sep '13

Hi, I've added below line to config.php but when I run "discovery.php -h all" it doesn't try to use snmp to find hosts on 10.0.0.0/24 $config['autodiscovery']['ip_nets'] = array("127.0.0.0/8", "10.0.0.0/24"); // Networks to permit autodiscovery What I'm doing wrong ? Thanks Dominik

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AUTO: Matthew Coene is out of the office (returning 09/17/2013)
by Matthew Coene 13 Sep '13

13 Sep '13

I am out of the office until 09/17/2013. For urgent IT matters please contact one or more of the following people. Vince Annunziata - x. 42236 Eric Beard - x. 42232 Mike Martin - x. 42246 Note: This is an automated response to your message "Re: [Observium] PHPSESSID don't set" sent on 9/13/2013 3:32:27 AM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Cisco IOS vlans counters
by Terry Sweetser 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/lanswitch/command/reference/lsw_s2.html… Hello Observium Community, Before I add a feature request to JIRA and/or start work on an idea I have: I'd like to discuss it here briefly. I have a cisco router terminating a QinQ trunk on a GigabitEth port, the 2 tags are actually 802.1AD "translated" to cisco `ISL', and I would like to track the bit/s t/p on each (outer) S-TAG. There's no interface that corresponds to the S-TAG only; you get the entire trunk or several thousand sub-interfaces which correspond to the C-tags. The router has no trouble at all keeping a counter on the S-TAG level vlans: ROUTER#show vlans dot1q Total statistics for 802.1Q VLAN 1179: 1043211296 packets, 392860154434 bytes input 1318271657 packets, 1413383465338 bytes output Total statistics for 802.1Q VLAN 1180: 12901924856 packets, 5689677372911 bytes input 16833259171 packets, 17373955952108 bytes output So, the 1st task would be to find the MIB, if any for these "outer" tags, and attempt to write code for an add-on to discover and graph them. Any one "been there, done that" as yet? -- http://about.me/terry.sweetser

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Frontpage
by Ryan Milton 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

Is there a way to only show Overall traffic, not peering traffic, or "This Month"? Or how would I correct this to show properly anyway? Is it a matter of selecting the graph that I want to see and adding another line as you would do with minigraphs? [cid:image002.png@01CEAFAA.69950CC0] Regards, Ryan Milton MVS Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 www.mvsusa.com<http://www.mvsusa.com/> [MVS final logo GOOD very small]

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[observium] graphs and crontab
by Sanders, Curtis 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

Sorry if this has been asked already. I have scrolled thru the posts but I haven't come across the answer to my question yet. When I run ./poller-wrapper.py manually it works fine; I get graphing data for most of my devices, and the graphs show up. But if I let cron run it, nothing shows up? What am I missing? It's a clean build of Ubuntu 12.04, and Observium 0.13.9.4471. Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated. Yes, I'm a newb. :-)

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Frontpage Regions
by Ryan Milton 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

Is the only option for the frontpage map "world"? I really only have network gear in NYC and Amsterdam, Holland. Any type of changes to regions, or map just got me an error. Is there a way of refining those displays? Regards, Ryan Milton MVS Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 www.mvsusa.com<http://www.mvsusa.com/> [MVS final logo GOOD very small]

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Added support for Ericsson SmartEdge routers
by Karl-Johan Reimann 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

Hi, I've added basic support for SmartEdge routers (previously known as Redback). I removed the Redback discovery file, which didn't have an entry in os.inc.php. Index: html/images/os/ericsson.png =================================================================== Cannot display: file marked as a binary type. svn:mime-type = application/octet-stream Property changes on: html/images/os/ericsson.png ___________________________________________________________________ Added: svn:mime-type + application/octet-stream Index: includes/discovery/os/seos.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/discovery/os/seos.inc.php (revision 0) +++ includes/discovery/os/seos.inc.php (revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +<?php + +if (!$os) +{ + if (strstr($sysDescr, "SmartEdge")) + { + $os = "seos"; + } +} + +?> Index: includes/discovery/os/redback.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/discovery/os/redback.inc.php (revision 4484) +++ includes/discovery/os/redback.inc.php (working copy) @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -<?php - -if (!$os) -{ - if (preg_match("/Redback/", $sysDescr)) { $os = "redback"; } -} - -?> \ No newline at end of file Index: includes/definitions/os.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/definitions/os.inc.php (revision 4484) +++ includes/definitions/os.inc.php (working copy) @@ -1270,6 +1270,14 @@ $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "firewall"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "draytek"; +// SmartEdge OS + +$os = "seos"; +$config['os'][$os]['text'] = "SmartEdge OS"; +$config['os'][$os]['type'] = "network"; +$config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "ericsson"; + + foreach ($config['os'] as $this_os => $blah) { if (isset($config['os'][$this_os]['group'])) /Kalle Reimann

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Requested map does not exist
by Zalewski, Dominik 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

Hi, I did svn up and now when I go to the front page it says "Requested map does not exist" and obviously the world map is gone. Any ideas? Thanks Dominik

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Re: [Observium] Windows server issue with disk space
by Adam Armstrong 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

Thanks for that informationless bit of moaning. Very helpful. A++++, would waste time reading again. Adam. Brian <brian(a)mailinator.com> wrote: >I've got a windows host (SBS 2008) that isn't reporting disk space for any >of it's drives - none are over 1tb. Working fine in Cacti however. (And as >to the server 2012 part of this thread - it looks like disk space may be >gone out of server 2012's SNMP anyway) > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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search MAC in FDB
by Jordan Paschalidis 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Hi, trying to use the search option in observium. If i go to FDB Tables and pick a random MAC-Address and enter it in the searchfield there is no result. Whereas when i do this with any other search-option (ipv4;MAC Address;ARP/NDP) and enter appropriately, there is an result. Tested with 0.13.8.4262 and 0.13.7.4172. Has anybody a solution for this? -- Mit freundlichem Gruß Jordan Paschalidis

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Re: [Observium] Average Packet Size on Cisco-Devices
by Adam Armstrong 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Probably related to lack of 64bit counters. Adam. Erik Klaassen <e.klaassen(a)fr-ix.nl> wrote: >> The graph relies on if[In|Uut][U|NU]castPkts existing on the host. If >> they're not populated, it won't work. >> >> There isn't really a fix if the devices don't expose those counters. > >Its working on our 6500, 37xx and 2960 switches. But not on some 37xx and all 3560's. >All if[In|Out][U|NU]castPkts are populated on all switches.. > >I tried to remove the .index from the mib dir, no luck. > >Erik >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Unknown OS - Cisco ACS-Server
by Chris 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Hello, I've got some CISCO-ACS-servers here. These appliances are linux-based systems and running a IOS-like application - with no access to the underlying OS. Anyway the SNMP agent behaves like running on a linux-server. Observium shows these Systems as "Unknown". is it possible to make the system known? currenty observium shows all "normal" linux-like graphs. (CPU/users/storage/and so on) here some snmp-vars for system detection: SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Cisco Secure Access Control System 5.4 SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.47.1.1.1.1.13.1 DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (66748343) 7 days, 17:24:43.43 SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: user SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: acs-server SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: serverroom SNMPv2-MIB::sysServices.0 = INTEGER: 12 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORLastChange.0 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.1 = OID: SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB::snmpFrameworkMIBCompliance SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.2 = OID: SNMP-MPD-MIB::snmpMPDCompliance SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.3 = OID: SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmMIBCompliance SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.4 = OID: SNMPv2-MIB::snmpMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.5 = OID: TCP-MIB::tcpMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.6 = OID: IP-MIB::ip SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.7 = OID: UDP-MIB::udpMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.8 = OID: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmBasicGroup SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.1 = STRING: The SNMP Management Architecture MIB. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.2 = STRING: The MIB for Message Processing and Dispatching. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.3 = STRING: The management information definitions for the SNMP User-based Security Model. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.4 = STRING: The MIB module for SNMPv2 entities SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.5 = STRING: The MIB module for managing TCP implementations SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.6 = STRING: The MIB module for managing IP and ICMP implementations SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.7 = STRING: The MIB module for managing UDP implementations SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.8 = STRING: View-based Access Control Model for SNMP. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.1 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.2 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.3 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.4 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.5 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.6 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.7 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.8 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 Do you need more details? Greetings and mni tnx in advance, Chris

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Geo location shows wrong place
by Pekka.Panula＠sofor.fi 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Hi Observium does not show correct geo locations on frontpage for most of our devices, servers, etc. How can i fix this? Regards, Pekka Panula

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orange ports?
by Peter Childs 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

What are orange ports? :) 'grey' = admin down 'red' = admin up, operational down 'blue' = all good 'Orange' = ??? [cid:6FC1FA51-A367-4A67-8C97-AB35EABE0924]

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Polling missed?
by Luis Quintana 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Out of curiosity, where would I begin looking for any issues with missed polls or graphs not showing data for a certain period of time? I have looked under /var/log and do not see anything that stands out. I'm not sure if there are any other locations i can investigate this on. I am running ubuntu server 12.04.3 LTS. Attached are a couple of graphs you can see the gap of data not presented, or possibly missing? The weird part is, i have about 90% of my devices that show this gap, but the other 10% doesnt. Theres no specific network device/factor that would be have created this either. Any thoughts/suggestions/ideas?

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display ip address
by Jordan Paschalidis 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Hi Guys, ist it possible to display the IP-Address of the Devices under like "Device Information" or in the device Overview (http://x.x.x.x/devices/) ? -- Jordan Paschalidis

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Windows server issue with disk space
by DaZZa 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Hi. I found Observium after reading a post on Reddit (if you're out there, whoever made the post, you have my eternal thanks!), and I've got it setup and running pretty much OK, but I've run into an issue with one specific Windows host. Observium accesses and sets it up OK except for one disk volume - the drive is approximately 15 Tb in size, but Observium is only reporting it as being 8Tb, and I can't figure out why. Can anyone suggest what I may have configured incorrectly? I initially used SNMP V1 to discover/configure this host - could that be the issue, perhaps? Thanks for any input, and a huge thanks to the guys (and gals?) who write this stuff, so that those of us who can't code our way out of a wet paper bag can still satisify the demands of manglement! DaZZa

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"No devices found" shown on Devices pages
by Stuart Shelton 08 Sep '13

08 Sep '13

Many of the pages beneath the "Devices" menu incorrectly display "No devices found". For example, choosing "All Devices" lists two devices, but clicking any of the controls in the '<div class="well">' segment - even the "Detail" button which is active by default - no longer shows the two devices but again reverts to "No devices found". Further down the "Devices" menu, "Servers (2)" is shown, but choosing this also displays "No devices found". Other menus, such as "Ports", appear to display all of their data correctly. This occurs with both SVN-3763 and the latest SVN-4451. When I spoke to another Observium user, they had the same issue, but no solution. Has anyone else seen this problem, or can anyone suggest anything I might do to resolve the issue? Many thanks, Stuart

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Automated CSV/XCL/etc Traffic Billing Report?
by Luis Quintana 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

I was looking at the Traffic Billing piece and was curious to know if there is a way to setup an automated monthly report for each individual "customer" that is listed under that area? I dont seem to find anything at the moment. Would be cool to automate that and shoot out the raw data, in addition to the graphs for each individual "customer" on a monthly basis to whatever email address(s) specified. Would that ever be a feature or does anyone know how it could be accomplished?

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Traffic Bill
by Maximilian Jacobsen 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Hi, thanks for the development of observium! I want to use Observium to calculate the traffic of my clients. Now I have the following problem: Under "used" always "0B" is displayed. The same goes for "Over Usage" where only "-" is displayed. In the bar where the traffic usage should be displayed in percent is nothing. In the observium main directory I have found the file poll- billing.php I run it, but unfortunately nothing has happened here. I would be very grateful for a little assistance. For your information: Observium 0.13.9.4451 -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Maximilian Jacobsen

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False service down alerts
by Wijdan Mohamed 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Hi, I get in the overview page false alarms that my ssh service is down since 43y 258d 19h 50m 43s, while its up and running. I get the same messages for http and smtp services in random hosts. Any idea how can I stop them? Thanks, Wijdan Mohamed Eltayeb Senior Infrastructure Engineer Infrastructure Department Tel: +249(0)183 740 840 Mob: +249(0)91 216 7725 Fax: +249-183-790864 Central Bank of Sudan Khartoum Branch Building-4th floor Osman Digna Street P.O.Box 12595- Khartoum - Sudan <http://www.ebs-sd.com/> www.ebs-sd.com P Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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is_file() usage for rrd file existance
by Peter Childs 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Gday folks. I'm fiddling around with remote RRD storage via rrdcached. Most of the rrdtool stuff is wrapped in includes/rrdtool.inc.php which is wonderful from this perspective. Not within this include is the usage of is_file() to determine the existence of an rrd file. In discovery the pattern is something like If( ! is_file( some.rrd ) ) { rrdtool_create ( … )} In graphing the pattern is something like If ( is_file( some.rrd ) { graph some stuff… } Would there be any support for moving this usage into a rrdtool_file_exists( ) thin wrapper for is_file ? This would make it much easier to extended includes/rrdtool.inc.php to support storage of RRD's on remote storage (and potentially distribute over multiple remote storage devices ..) Thoughts? I had a quick check for usage of scandir/readdir to determine all the rrd's in a 'device' directory, but this doesn't seem to be a common pattern. My other evil thought is to use rename_function/override_function to work around this, but it seems very very WRONG. Cheers, Peter

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Re: [Observium] Cisco LWAPP info
by Adam Armstrong 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

At the moment we don't really have much specifoc wireless support at all. Adding it involves writing code. Adam. Sturla Þórsson <stullith(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Switch HP Procurve 3800
by Daniel Fankhauser 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

OK, I ran an update from Observium 0.13.9.4449 to Observium v0.13.9.4450 Now 2 hours later, the problem is solved! The device is now recognized as: HP ProCurve KA.15.09.0009 Thank you very much. U made my day. Daniel -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mike Stupalov [mailto:landy2005@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. September 2013 17:33 An: Daniel Fankhauser Betreff: Re: [Observium] Switch HP Procurve 3800 On 04.09.2013 19:17, Daniel Fankhauser wrote: > Hi Mike > > Thanks. I did so (snmpwalk -v2c -Ovqn -c rocommunity ip-address sysObjectID) and the response is: > > Response: .1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.7.8.5.2 Check latest revision (r4450). > > Daniel > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Mike Stupalov [mailto:landy2005@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. September 2013 17:12 > An: Observium Network Observation System > Cc: Daniel Fankhauser > Betreff: Re: [Observium] Switch HP Procurve 3800 > > On 04.09.2013 19:03, Daniel Fankhauser wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I have a new HP Procurve 3800 switch stack which is recognized as >> "generic device" only. >> >> The device information show as: >> "HP Stack, revision KA.15.09.0009, ROM KA.15.06 >> (/ws/swbuildm/KA_rel_hartford_qaoff/code/build/tam(KA_rel_hartford_qaoff >> )) (Formerly ProCurve)" >> >> Does anyone have an idea how I could fix this? > > show: > snmpwalk -v2c -Ovqn -c <community> <device> sysObjectID > >> >> Thank you >> >> Daniel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > > -- Mike Stupalov

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Cisco LWAPP info
by Sturla Þórsson 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi all, I got a Cisco AIR-CT5508-K9 WLC controlling our LWAPP's and I was wondering if there's any way to get info on the LWAPP's in Observium? With kind regards, Sturla Thorsson

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Switch HP Procurve 3800
by Daniel Fankhauser 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi All I have a new HP Procurve 3800 switch stack which is recognized as "generic device" only. The device information show as: "HP Stack, revision KA.15.09.0009, ROM KA.15.06 (/ws/swbuildm/KA_rel_hartford_qaoff/code/build/tam(KA_rel_hartford_qaoff )) (Formerly ProCurve)" Does anyone have an idea how I could fix this? Thank you Daniel

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Raritan PDU MIB support
by Glen Whittle 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Would it be possible for MIBS for the Raritan metered PDU's to be added to Observium I have attached the MIBS from the device. Kind Regards, [cid:interactive_logo27dd.jpg]<http://www.interactivesa.co.za/> Glen Whittle | Solutions Architect ________________________________ Tel: +27 31 538 4132 Fax: +27 31 538 4970 Mobile: +27 81 394 2540 | www.interactivesa.co.za<http://www.interactivesa.co.za> [cid:spacer2abd.jpg] [cid:facebook6d63.png]<http://www.facebook.com/BlakeHoldings> [cid:twitter1792.png]<http://www.twitter.com/blake_tweets> [cid:youtube6cb.jpeg]<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcRXpUG6SvU&feature=youtu.be> [cid:map633f.png]<http://www.blake.co.za/contacts/> ________________________________ Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

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Dbm sensors and interface names
by Benjamin Abadie 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi, I'm watching the dBm sensors on a Brocade host, and I notice that on /health/metric=dbm/ and /device/device=X/tab=health/metric=dbm/ there is no sign of the port related to the values being displayed. See screenshots : http://i.imgur.com/UO0L74k.png http://i.imgur.com/39AnD2i.png Is this brocade specific ? If you need to try a patch, I'm available. Regards, Benjamin

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observium Syslog not recieving syslog msgs
by Glen Whittle 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi, I have been unable to get the syslog function to work and I can't find any info online that is helping I am just getting the follwoing msg on the webpage No syslog entries found! This device does not have any syslog entries. Check that the syslog daemon and Observium configuration options are set correctly, that this device is configured to send syslog to Observium and that there are no firewalls blocking the messages. See documentation<http://www.observium.org/wiki/Category:Documentation> and configuration options<http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Syslog_Settings> for more information. it may be something simple that I have missed (have followed the documentation on the website ) see far below for my syslog-ng.conf, syslog.php and config.php So far I have tested and my server is receiving syslog msg form my cisco devices I tested this by changing the destination d_observium to output to a file rather than "program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") template-escape(yes)); which worked beautifully any help would be appreciated. ---------------------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'] = "root"; $config['db_pass'] = "7:5Rs-W1"; $config['db_name'] = "observium"; // 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("public"); // Authentication Model $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_sla'] = 0; # Enable Cisco SLA collection and display //frontpage map $config['frontpage']['map']['region'] = "ZA"; $config['frontpage']['map']['resolution'] = "provinces"; $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = 5; $config['frontpage']['map']['realworld'] = false; $config['enable_syslog'] = 0; $config['syslog_filter'] = array("last message repeated", "Connection from UDP: [", "ipSystemStatsTable node ipSystemStatsOutFragOKs not implemented", "diskio.c: don't know how to handle"); ## Ignore some crappy stuff from SNMP daemon // End config.php -----------------syslog.php----------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env php <?php /** * Observium * * This file is part of Observium. * * @package observium * @subpackage syslog * @author Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> * @copyright (C) 2006 - 2012 Adam Armstrong * */ include("includes/defaults.inc.php"); include("config.php"); include("includes/definitions.inc.php"); include("includes/syslog.php"); include("includes/dbFacile.php"); include("includes/common.php"); include("includes/functions.php"); $i = "1"; $s = fopen('php://stdin','r'); while ($line = fgets($s)) { //logfile($line); // host || facility || priority || level || tag || timestamp || msg || program list($entry['host'],$entry['facility'],$entry['priority'], $entry['level'], $entry['tag'], $entry['timestamp'], $entry['msg'], $entry['program']) = explode("||", trim($line)); process_syslog($entry, 1); unset($entry); unset($line); $i++; } ?> -------------------------syslog-ng.conf----------------------- @version: 3.3 @include "scl.conf" options { chain_hostnames(0); keep_hostname(1); use_dns(no); }; ######################## # Sources ######################## source s_net { udp(); }; ######################## # Destinations ######################## destination d_observium { program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") template-escape(yes));}; ######################## # Filters ######################## ######################## # Log paths ######################## log { source(s_net); destination(d_observium); }; @include "/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/" Kind Regards, [cid:interactive_logo2f3d.jpg]<http://www.interactivesa.co.za/> Glen Whittle | Solutions Architect ________________________________ Tel: +27 31 538 4132 Fax: +27 31 538 4970 Mobile: +27 81 394 2540 | www.interactivesa.co.za<http://www.interactivesa.co.za> [cid:spacer20b6.jpg] [cid:facebook63e1.png]<http://www.facebook.com/BlakeHoldings> [cid:twitter74cb.png]<http://www.twitter.com/blake_tweets> [cid:youtubef39.jpeg]<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcRXpUG6SvU&feature=youtu.be> [cid:map31e.png]<http://www.blake.co.za/contacts/> ________________________________ Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. 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Chart for traffic percentage
by Rofiq Yuli 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi Can anyone show me how to display port Traffic % chart in observium, for hourly/daily/weekly chart ? (Traffic %, not Traffic bits). I've searched on the observium demo and can't find it. Regards Rofiq Yuli

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] r4418 - in observer/trunk: . attic html/pages includes/discovery
by Tom Laermans 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

On 09/02/2013 04:25 PM, observium-commits(a)observium.org wrote: > Author: adama > Date: 2013-09-02 16:25:32 +0200 (Mon, 02 Sep 2013) > New Revision: 4418 > > Modified: > observer/trunk/attic/scan-snmp.php > observer/trunk/html/pages/addhost.inc.php > observer/trunk/includes/discovery/functions.inc.php > Log: > addhost -> add_device, delhost -> delete_device, renamehost -> rename_device, addHost() -> add_device() > svn up -r 4416 includes/discovery/functions.inc.php to regain working Observium. Tom

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is discovery.php broken?
by Zach Underwood 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

When I run "/opt/observium/discovery.php -h all" I get no output. This morning the command was working. running version 4419 -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Re: [Observium] Sensors & syslog Questions
by w.mohamed＠ebs-sd.com 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

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Re: [Observium] Disabling 'Remember Me'
by Tom Laermans 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Pretty sure you are not running the latest version of observium, please svn up before reporting already fixed bugs. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Scott A. Davis" <scott.a.davis(a)gmail.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Disabling 'Remember Me' Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 23:50 That fixed it ... Thank you for your help!! --- scott a davis scott.a.davis [at] gmail [dot] com On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Niklas Larsson <niklas(a)tese.se> wrote: Hi, bug i php-mcrypt - edit /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini and change it to: ; Enable mcrypt extension module extension=mcrypt.so and restart httpd /niklas Scott A. Davis skrev 2013-08-30 22:48: Hi! After updating a week or two ago (after the security update), I installed php-mcrypt on my CentOS node. I also (for good measure, added the disable command (below) in the config.php. Restarted Apache, cleared cache, used multiple browsers, etc ... I still get the following notice/warning at the top of the screen when I log in. Observium now requires mcrypt to be installed for use by the "remember me" function. 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. Am I missing something? I just need to have it effectively disabled. Thanks in advance. --- scott a davis scott.a.davis [at] gmail [dot] 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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pach some errors (was Re: Front Page)
by Rob J. Epping 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Hi On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > > php -l config.php That made me run the following shell one-liner. for x in `find -name ".svn" -prune -o -type f -name "*php*" -print`; do php -l $x; done | grep -v "^No syntax errors detected in " The result (including patch) is in <http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-474> -- GRTNX, RobJE

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Disabling 'Remember Me'
by Scott A. Davis 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Hi! After updating a week or two ago (after the security update), I installed php-mcrypt on my CentOS node. I also (for good measure, added the disable command (below) in the config.php. Restarted Apache, cleared cache, used multiple browsers, etc ... I still get the following notice/warning at the top of the screen when I log in. Observium now requires mcrypt to be installed for use by the "remember me" function. 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. * * Am I missing something? I just need to have it effectively disabled. Thanks in advance. --- - scott a davis - scott.a.davis [at] gmail [dot] com

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Front Page
by Ryan Milton 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

I am looking to spice up my frontpage and am currently adding the minigraphs. Is there a way in the config to name each graph as opposed to a custom name for the field? How about with the legends, to select what is shown in the legend, so that they aren't 3x's as large as the graph itself? Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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rrd query...
by Peter Childs 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Am I reading this correctly... defaults.inc.php:$config['rrd_rra'] = " RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:2016 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:2976 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:1440 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:1440 "; So for a step of '300' (5 mins) we have 1 PDP @ 300seconds = 5 mins (x 2016) = 7 days of 5 minute intervals 6 PDPs @ 300seconds = 30mins (x 2976) = 62 days? 2 months? (of 30min averages) 24 PDPs @ 300seconds = 2 hour (x 1440) = 120 days (of 2 hour averages) 288 PDPs @ 300 seconds = 24 hours (x 1440) = 4 years? (of 1 day averages..) Cheers, Peter

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Tape Drive and library DELL ML6000 not recognised
by Mihai - Cristian Satmarean 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Hi, as I've seen there are a lot of DELL devices recognised properly, is there a chance that also Dell PoWerValut ML 6000 would be recognised? Thank you!

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User Creation Failed?
by Luis Quintana 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

I have been looking around to see what could be the problem for this. I installed a new copy of observium on ubuntu and have followed the instructions given. When I get to the area to create a user by leveraging ./adduser.php , i get a messages stating the User creation failed. Is there something I am overlooking when i do this or some data i can provide or look at that can pinpoint me in the right/general direction?

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update to the apps page
by Zach Underwood 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Can we get some info about BIND added to http://www.observium.org/wiki/Applications -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Kernel version looping events
by Robert Williams 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hi, Since the auto SVN / discover at 06:00 (BST) today, several of our servers are logging repeated events as follows: 2013-08-29 09:10:25 System kernel -> 2.6.32-71.18.1.el6-0.20.smp.gcc4.1.x86_64 It appears to be occurring on every 5 minute poll: [cid:image001.png@01CEA499.4E1120E0] This is only affecting machines which run pre-configured (static, non-updating) software such as OpenFiler which is the target in the example above. Also at the first poll after 06:00 today, most of the other linux boxes logged events similar to the above, but, they logged it just once and then stopped. I’ve got no idea why / how this would be logged continuously, especially as the result is identical each poll, so any pointers welcome :) Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] asa hostname chk
by Rob VanHooren 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

they're an ASA pair, the on-device hostname/sysName is always sync'd to be same same dns for the m0's can be (is) unique/different. wrapper logic on the addhost check to allow dup sysName if box (via e.g. sysDescr or sysObjectID) is ASA? dunno. R. Sent from my iPhone > > > > you have obviously same hostname on devices. > > what show these commands: > # sh run | i hostname > # sh run | i domain-name > > -- > Mike Stupalov > >

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@mike re: r4382, still grief // dup sysName
by Rob VanHooren 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

> ! vfw01a is the active ASA, addr .201; unique fqdn > ! vfw01b is the standby ASA addr .202; unique fqdn > > [root@nmis observium]# ./addhost.php csco-vfw01b theCommunity v2c > Trying v2c community ... > Already got device with SNMP-read sysName (CSCO-VFW01.adomain.com) > Could not reach csco-vfw01b with given SNMP community using v2c > Observium v0.13.8.4386 > >

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How can i add app mysql to my observium
by Robert Luczynski 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hello I have a CentOS 6.4 I want to add app tab to my observium. I was folllow in aplication mysql: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/MySQL Unix agent is enabled: root@g [/opt/observium]# telnet localhost 36602Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. mysql script work ok: root@g [/opt/observium]# /usr/lib/observium_agent/local/mysql <<<mysql>>> a0:5225549 a1:2200 a2:105805 a3:52579 a4:3774 a5:211779660 a6:1 a7:1 a8:-1 a9:-1 aa:8192 [...] ef:-1 eg:0 eh:1844224 ei:8388608 ej:3176 ek:890 puller info: ./poller.php all August 28, 2013, 9:49 - 1 devices polled in 0.739 secs MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[4/0s] Rows[30/0.01s] Column[0/0s] Update[22/0.01s] Insert[2/0.01s] Delete[0/0s] Thanks, Robert

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Average Packet Size on Cisco-Devices
by Chris 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hi There, I like seeing the Average Packet Size on Ports since 4361. But unfortunately I don't have data in graphs for all devices. It's working on: - 6500 VSS (Ten/Gig/Vlan/Po) (IOS 15.0) - ASA 55xx - Servers (Linux) - Riverbeds (Linux) - Cisco-WLAN-Controllers It's NOT working (empty graph) on: - 4500 (Ten/Gig/Po) - ASR1001 (Gig/Tu) (IOS 15.3S) - 7301 (Gig/Tu) (IOS 15.1M) - 28xx (Gig/Tu) (IOS 15.0M) - 18xx (Fa/Tu) (IOS 12.4T) Especially on our VPN-Rouers (73/28/ASR) this would be helpful. How can I debug some more things to get it working? Or how can I support you with information that you get it to work? Many thanks in advance, Chris

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Re: [Observium] slow polling of Cisco 4500 VSS switches
by Adam Armstrong 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hmm. We don't even do anything with the poe information, are we still collecting it? Does the 4500 have any poe blades? Pretty scary walking the poe table would take so long. Adam. Bastiaan Topper <B.Topper(a)korton.nl> wrote: >Hi Adam, > >Thanks for your help. I found the problem. Nothing to do with the 4500 switches. Was the PoE polling option, this is not working efficiently, so for now I disabled it. > >Polling times dropped to few seconds now. > >Regards, > >Bastiaan > > > >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >Van: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >Verzonden: woensdag 28 augustus 2013 19:39 >Aan: Observium Network Observation System >Onderwerp: Re: [Observium] slow polling of Cisco 4500 VSS switches > >On 2013-08-28 17:28, Bastiaan Topper wrote: >> Hi Adam, >> >> The problem is that it is not only with VSS switches. The screenshot >> is off a switch without VSS (so a normal 4500 switch, but with many >> interfaces). I also have 6500 switches (and even a 6500 VSS), these >> don't have the problem, but have a lot less interfaces. >> The 4500 switches don't all run the same IOS version. The VSS switches >> have 2 version, the not VSS switch has an other supervisor and much >> older IOS. >> >> Thing I noticed is that the port polling collects all metrics for all >> interfaces for every interface it polls. For big switches, this is a >> lott of info each time it polls an interface. If I do a debug it show >> very long lists of collected metrics (output of all the snmpbulkwalk >> commands per interface), each time for all interfaces. Could it be >> that the problem is there somewhere, or am I interpreting the output >> wrong? > >It's not actually all that much information, and 250 ports isn't really a lot. > >The issue is almost certainly a bug with counter collection on the 4500. > >Cisco doesn't seem to bother giving many shits about bugs on "enterprise" kit, they only seem to fix issues on "service provider" >kit. > >This just further cements my view that the 4500 is a largely pointless device that people only buy when they've been tricked by Cisco's sales and marketing splurge. > >adam. > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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RRD Graphs not showing
by Adam Summerfield 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

We have Observium installed on Ubuntu and it has been running for months... Just recently the RRD graphs have stopped appearing on the web pages I have upgraded to the latest version and it still is not working. The RRD files exist with the right permissions and the dates stamps are up to date. Can someone help please? Regards, Adam

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slow polling of Cisco 4500 VSS switches
by Bastiaan Topper 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi all, We have a very long poll time on some of the devices. We have a few Cisco 4500 switches with a lott of interfaces. For example a Cisco 4506 with 4x 48 ports linecard, the poll time for the device is: [cid:image001.png@01CEA3DD.702B0310] As you can see the poll time changed around 28/29 July. I disabled the device around 31 July, as you can see. We also have Cisco 4500 VSS setups with several hundreds of interfaces, these devices I disabled for now, because the poller couldn't keep up with it. Today I found some time to troubleshoot, and found the above statistics. Beside that a did a poll with debug on. It "hangs" very long on every interface of every device it polls. After looking into that, it seems that it collects all interfaces per metric it polls. I think that is the problem with devices with a big amount of interfaces, because it collects all statistics again for every interface. How can I fix this? Is this by design/Is this a bug? Or is it something in my setup? Regards, Bastiaan Topper Korton Group BV

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Re: [Observium] How can i add app mysql to my observium
by Tom Laermans 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Please read this email again, it will become clear... Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Robert Luczynski" <robert(a)byd.com.pl> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] How can i add app mysql to my observium Date: Wed, Aug 28, 2013 17:29 i have xinetd config from scripts/observium_agent_xinetd documentation: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Unix_Agent How can i check xinetd config file is ok? telnet can connect to port 3662 my xinetd config: service observium_agent { type = UNLISTED port = 36602 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/bin/observium_agent # configure the IP address(es) of your Observium server here: only_from = 127.0.0.1 # Don't be too verbose. Don't log every check. This might be # commented out for debugging. If this option is commented out # the default options will be used for this service. log_on_success = disable = no } On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Tom Laermans wrote: > Close, but no cigar yet ;-) > > Telnet didn't produce output, your xinetd config file is wrong; poller is not receiving your data. > > Tom > > On 08/28/2013 04:44 PM, Robert Luczynski wrote: >> I was running poller and dicovery script manually, rrd still doesn't have a rrd files... >> Cronjob setings is fine. >> >> >> >> >> On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Michael Sweikata wrote: >> >>> You have to run a poller and discovery after it's added to get those files generated. If your cron job is set up correctly and it will auto-poll devices every five minutes, just wait until the next cycle is complete, or run them manually. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Robert Luczynski >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:23 AM >>> To: Observium Network Observation System >>> Subject: Re: [Observium] How can i add app mysql to my observium >>> >>> Ok, i was missed mysql settings in observium panel. >>> I have app tab now, but graph is empty: (Error drawing graph) >>> >>> my rrd direcroty still does'n have a rrd files for mysql >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> >>> On Aug 28, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Robert Luczynski wrote: >>> >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> I have a CentOS 6.4 >>>> >>>> >>>> I want to add app tab to my observium. I was folllow in aplication mysql: >>>> http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/MySQL >>>> >>>> Unix agent is enabled: >>>> >>>> root@g [/opt/observium]# telnet localhost 36602Trying ::1... >>>> Connected to localhost. >>>> Escape character is '^]'. >>>> Connection closed by foreign host. >>>> >>>> mysql script work ok: >>>> >>>> root@g [/opt/observium]# /usr/lib/observium_agent/local/mysql >>>> <<<mysql>>> >>>> a0:5225549 >>>> a1:2200 >>>> a2:105805 >>>> a3:52579 >>>> a4:3774 >>>> a5:211779660 >>>> a6:1 >>>> a7:1 >>>> a8:-1 >>>> a9:-1 >>>> aa:8192 >>>> [...] >>>> ef:-1 >>>> eg:0 >>>> eh:1844224 >>>> ei:8388608 >>>> ej:3176 >>>> ek:890 >>>> >>>> puller info: >>>> >>>> ./poller.php all August 28, 2013, 9:49 - 1 devices polled in 0.739 secs >>>> MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[4/0s] Rows[30/0.01s] Column[0/0s] Update[22/0.01s] Insert[2/0.01s] Delete[0/0s] >>>> >>>> Thanks, Robert >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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missing Events Log in overview tab
by Micah Young 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi Is anyone else having problems viewing the Events Log in the Overview tab? I have been writing custom code but the issue only comes up when I update past revision 4367. Let me know. Thanks! Mike Y. ARDEN A Global Company Celebrating over 48 years of making your life more comfortable! This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. This OUTBOUND E-mail and Document(s) has been scanned by an Antivirus Server.

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Temperature Ipoman
by ColoCenter bv 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi all, Since a couple of updates(not sure which) the temperature sensor on a Ipoman is not working/shown anymore. i had one working and was being polled fine, but now i noticed it is gone. Not sure with which update it disappeared. I have this in my logs: 2013-08-25 18:01:26 System Sensor Deleted: temperature ipoman 1 EMD Temperature Can this be fixed? Thanks -- Alexander Lantink ColoCenter bv http://www.colocenter.nl info(a)colocenter.nl 079-7113500sure w

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Newbie ?s - map config
by McNett, Loren 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hello all, We’ve recently decided to move from Cacti, and tried Zenoss, and we’re now trying Observium. We’re *really* liking it. Device import went really well, and have been able to tune it to exactly what we need. I’m having issues with the map. The mapping of alerts is a pretty important feature for us, but I can’t seem to get it dialed in. You may certainly assume I know nothing about this mapping feature beyond the “Map Overview Settings” porton of the Configuration Options page. We’re a small campus so the scale of the map is not working out when we use the “US-565”. When the dots render they stack up. Is there a more ‘zoomed in’ option? How does one appropriately choose the ‘location’ data? If I can hop on google maps and put in a string and have it put a pin in the right building, is that string acceptable to use for the location field? I.E. “north hall library” gives me the correct location in google maps, does that mean I can use it for the location string? Since google maps has our building footprints drawn out, I’d prefer to use that layout, is it possible to switch it to that instead of the metro area shtick? Our map looks like this: [cid:image002.png@01CEA3E3.1FE973E0] Using the following in config.php //MAP data $config['frontpage']['map']['region'] = "US-565"; // See https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/geo$ $config['frontpage']['map']['resolution'] = "metros"; // Some region types such as US States (US-NY) require this to be changed t$ $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = 5; // Set the dotsize you want $config['frontpage']['map']['realworld'] = false; // Enable/Disable the realworld view (blue/green), if disabled default m$ Thanks! -Loren McNett

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active/standby pairs (esp. FW)
by Rob VanHooren 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

some gear that's put up in pairs insists on having the same hostname/sysName, e.g. ASAs. even though their m0 are uniquely reachable, there's no currently obvious way to watch the standby, since even though its DNS is unique, addhost sees sysName and rejects it as being a duplicate. ideas? tks, R.

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Incomplete device name (bug?)
by Richard Hartensveld 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi all, If I add a device with a hostname of br0.abcdefg , it will show up nicely on the front page, however, when I add a device with a hostname of br0.abcdefgh (or longer), the device's name will be 'br0' on the front page under "device alerts" and "Recent Eventlog Entries". If you hoover over the device name, he popup screen wil display the correct device name. Could this be a bug, or am I doing something wrong ? Thanks. gr, Richard

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Re: [Observium] OS Recognition
by Adam Armstrong 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

I am in the process of migrating this to the os script... :) Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >> Hi I just wanted to ask if observium is suppose to detect the flavour of linux or is this the correct behaviour? > >I think you want this part of the manual: >http://www.observium.org/wiki/Linux_Distribution_Detection > >Cheers :-) >Sander > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Mis-aligned data in memcached app
by Adam Armstrong 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Seems like a good idea. Adam. Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >Hi, > >When debugging why my memcached graphs weren't working I discovered the following problem: > >SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '41' AND `app_type` = 'memcached'] >Including: applications/memcached.inc.phpmemcachedmemcached(127.0.0.1:11211) >SQL[SELECT app_id FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '41' AND `app_instance` = '127.0.0.1:11211'] >RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/v25.invalpool.nl/app-memcached-127.0.0.1_11211.rrd N:64:2.0.16-stable:0:0:5:1045:6202:8:0:0:14045:129043:6202:0:0:0:0:7184655:13093279] >stdout[ERROR: /opt/observium/rrd/v25.invalpool.nl/app-memcached-127.0.0.1_11211.rrd: conversion of '2.0.16-stable' to float not complete: tail '.16-stable'] >stderr[]] > >Obviously the data in the rrdtool update command were wrong. A version number shouldn't be in there... So I looked at what the memcached agent script was returning and how that was parsed by the poller memcached module. It turns out that there is a difference. The agent script returns a list of values in this order: > >accepting_conns, auth_cmds, auth_errors, bytes, bytes_read, bytes_written, cas_badval, cas_hits, cas_misses, cmd_flush, cmd_get, cmd_set, cmd_touch, conn_yields, connection_structures, curr_connections, curr_items, decr_hits, decr_misses, delete_hits, delete_misses, evicted_unfetched, evictions, expired_unfetched, get_hits, get_misses, hash_bytes, hash_is_expanding, hash_power_level, incr_hits, incr_misses, libevent, limit_maxbytes, listen_disabled_num, pid, pointer_size, reclaimed, reserved_fds, rusage_system, rusage_user, threads, time, total_connections, total_items, touch_hits, touch_misses, uptime, version > >The poller module parses them in this order: > >accepting_conns, auth_cmds, auth_errors, bytes, bytes_read, bytes_written, cas_badval, cas_hits, cas_misses, cmd_flush, cmd_get, cmd_set, conn_yields, connection_structures, curr_connections, curr_items, decr_hits, decr_misses, delete_hits, delete_misses, evictions, get_hits, get_misses, incr_hits, incr_misses, limit_maxbytes, listen_disabled_num, pid, pointer_size, rusage_system, rusage_user, threads, time, total_connections, total_items, uptime, version > >As you can see this breaks at cmd_touch: the agent sends a variable the poller doesn't expect, and as the data is sent value-only it has no way to determine that the imput is in different places than it expects... > >What I suggest to do is the following: >- update the agent so that key:value is sent instead of just value >- update the poller module so that it can parse key:value input >- make the poller module also accept the current value-only input as a fall-back > >If we agree that this is the way forward I'll send in a patch. > >Cheers, >Sander > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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OS Recognition
by David Peall 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi I just wanted to ask if observium is suppose to detect the flavour of linux or is this the correct behaviour? Linux ns1.coza.net.za 3.2.0-30-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24 16:52:48 UTC 2012 x86_64 Hardware Generic x86 64-bit Operating System Linux 3.2.0-30-generic Regards -- David Peall

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Mis-aligned data in memcached app
by Sander Steffann 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi, When debugging why my memcached graphs weren't working I discovered the following problem: SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '41' AND `app_type` = 'memcached'] Including: applications/memcached.inc.phpmemcachedmemcached(127.0.0.1:11211) SQL[SELECT app_id FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '41' AND `app_instance` = '127.0.0.1:11211'] RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/v25.invalpool.nl/app-memcached-127.0.0.1_11211.rrd N:64:2.0.16-stable:0:0:5:1045:6202:8:0:0:14045:129043:6202:0:0:0:0:7184655:13093279] stdout[ERROR: /opt/observium/rrd/v25.invalpool.nl/app-memcached-127.0.0.1_11211.rrd: conversion of '2.0.16-stable' to float not complete: tail '.16-stable'] stderr[]] Obviously the data in the rrdtool update command were wrong. A version number shouldn't be in there... So I looked at what the memcached agent script was returning and how that was parsed by the poller memcached module. It turns out that there is a difference. The agent script returns a list of values in this order: accepting_conns, auth_cmds, auth_errors, bytes, bytes_read, bytes_written, cas_badval, cas_hits, cas_misses, cmd_flush, cmd_get, cmd_set, cmd_touch, conn_yields, connection_structures, curr_connections, curr_items, decr_hits, decr_misses, delete_hits, delete_misses, evicted_unfetched, evictions, expired_unfetched, get_hits, get_misses, hash_bytes, hash_is_expanding, hash_power_level, incr_hits, incr_misses, libevent, limit_maxbytes, listen_disabled_num, pid, pointer_size, reclaimed, reserved_fds, rusage_system, rusage_user, threads, time, total_connections, total_items, touch_hits, touch_misses, uptime, version The poller module parses them in this order: accepting_conns, auth_cmds, auth_errors, bytes, bytes_read, bytes_written, cas_badval, cas_hits, cas_misses, cmd_flush, cmd_get, cmd_set, conn_yields, connection_structures, curr_connections, curr_items, decr_hits, decr_misses, delete_hits, delete_misses, evictions, get_hits, get_misses, incr_hits, incr_misses, limit_maxbytes, listen_disabled_num, pid, pointer_size, rusage_system, rusage_user, threads, time, total_connections, total_items, uptime, version As you can see this breaks at cmd_touch: the agent sends a variable the poller doesn't expect, and as the data is sent value-only it has no way to determine that the imput is in different places than it expects... What I suggest to do is the following: - update the agent so that key:value is sent instead of just value - update the poller module so that it can parse key:value input - make the poller module also accept the current value-only input as a fall-back If we agree that this is the way forward I'll send in a patch. Cheers, Sander

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No graphic image after the svn update
by waqar 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

hi all i just updated my observium using svn. after the update the graph image is not displaying at all.. i quickly revert back to my orignal version that is 4280 but still not graph image . i have deleted one of my device and then add it back but still no graph image.. ps: to be clear i m talking about no graph image.

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Location debug : how ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

Hello, For some reason, on my observium at work, seems that location doesn't want to work. On device menun, still marked as "unkown". I tried to find is there is an issue with the location part, but on a setup at home, it is working. Location like Paris, FR / Belfort, FR still fail into unknown, so I wish to debug what happened, and how to fix it (maybe this an issue with my setup, but I cannot find where). Any hints about that? 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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Horizontal Scalability
by Ciro Iriarte 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hi!, anybody considered scaling adding more servers instead of going to a bigger one?. Using something like Open Grid Scheduler for example. Currently I'm maxing out our server (2 x Xeon E5-2630, 16 cores) with 37500 ports, 548 devices cplanning:~ # uptime 13:19pm up 151 days 3:03, 2 users, load average: 43.37, 43.00, 42.60 Regards, CI.-

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Apps incremental graph
by andres fariña 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

Hi All, Currently we are using app features to collect stats from our mobile platforms as troughput, for example Transactions Per Second. Is there an easy way to convert incremental RRD values to Transaction Per Second? Thanks for the help. Regards, Andres

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how to support observium
by Chris 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

Hi there, I'm very new to observium and I set up a lot of devices now to be monitored. As I'm managing a big network running on EIGRP I'm missing some things I formerly built in cacti "per hand". I had always an eye on EIGRP queries, EIGRP Topo routes, EIGRP updates and such things. Is it possible to support you to bring in some new graphs into observium? unfortunately I'm not an php-coder but I've got long-term experience in networking and snmp. Nice features where also: - Usage of ISDN-Channels on voice-routers/Gateways (cisco) - Working GFX on MGE-UPS (we've got a big Powerware-Galaxy and want to see output power, battery runtime, and so on) - Working GFX on SmartUPS (older RM1400 - APS OS 3.7.3) (I#m missing output load) - More Sensors monitored of cisco 4500s. and I think I will have many more Ideas ;-) Greetings and many thanks for this great piece of software! Chris

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Upgraded to latest SVN trunk
by James Bensley 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone on the Observium project. I updated last night a 2012 version of Observium to the very latest in SVN. Everything worked perfectly and I'm very happy with the results. Just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work, it isn't going unnoticed here! Kind regards, James.

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Re: [Observium] New Install working except Graph/RRD
by Adam Armstrong 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

I run it as root. That's still the documented way. Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >On 08/21/2013 08:24 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> The RRD directory doesn't actually need to be owned by www-data. >> >> If you want to run observium as a non-root user, chown it to that user. > >Is that the preferred method now? All of my installations still use >root since that was the documented method at the time I installed. > >Paul >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] New Install working except Graph/RRD
by Peter Casserly 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

I ran it as the root (sudo) and all is working now. Thank you for your quick responses. -Peter -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:56 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] New Install working except Graph/RRD Not root and not www-data, that's for sure. Who thought they knew better than the install guide, and managed to break it? The warnings are there for a reason :) adam. On 2013-08-20 21:36, Tom Laermans wrote: > And you are running the poller.php as which user? > > On 20/08/2013 21:34, Peter Casserly wrote: > > New to observium and I have it up and running on a new Ubuntu 13.04 > install. > > Everything seems to be working and polling the one device that I have > added. > > However…. > > It seems that none of the graphs are being generated. "Error Drawing > Graph" or "Draw Error" where the graphs should be. > > I reviewed the e-mail archives for similar issues but nothing seems to > fit. > > When I run the poller manually I see a few errors related to the RRD > directory and it looks like a permissions issue. > > ./poller.php -h all > > Observium v0.13.8.4312 > > Poller > > Starting polling run: > > fw.redacted.local 1 asa (cisco) > > Created directory : /opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local > > ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local/status.rrd': No > such file or directory > > ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local /ping.rrd': No > such file or directory > > ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local/ping_snmp.rrd': > No such file or directory > > Module [ unix-agent ] disabled globally. > > Using SNMP Agent sysUpTime (10086692 seconds) > > ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local/uptime.rrd': No > such file or directory > > Uptime: 116 days, 17h 51m 32s > > The CHOWN (chown www-data.www-data graphs rrd )commands have been run > per the install documentation and show up as this: > > drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 20 13:54 graphs > > drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 20 13:54 rrd > > Thank you in advance for any assistance > > -Peter > > ------------------------- > > The information in this transmittal (including attachments, if any) is > privileged and confidential and is intended only for the recipient(s) > listed above. Any review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying of > this transmittal is prohibited except by or on behalf of the intended > recipient. If you have received this transmittal in error, please > notify me immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of the > transmittal. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium [1] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] 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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rrdtool_info() redeclared issue
by Ray Parish 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

I am installing observium for the first time and getting a fatal error: [root@agsappl01 observium]# php -l includes/rrdtool.inc.php PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare rrdtool_info() in includes/rrdtool.inc.php on line 334 Fatal error: Cannot redeclare rrdtool_info() in includes/rrdtool.inc.php on line 334 Errors parsing includes/rrdtool.inc.php I am at svn revision 4313 To install, I had to comment out include_once($config['install_dir'] . "/includes/rrdtool.inc.php"); in includes/functions.php

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Re: [Observium] Error Drawing Graph
by Peter Casserly 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

Sorry. I replied to the wrong e-mail. I only have one personality that I know of. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:38 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Error Drawing Graph Do you have 2 separate identities, Peter? :> On 20/08/2013 22:29, Peter Casserly wrote: Screenshot attached of the Graph Errror(s) "It seems that none of the graphs are being generated. "Error Drawing Graph" or "Draw Error" where the graphs should be." There are placeholder images where the graphs should be. I don't believe is a value issue as I see traffic statistics in the "Ports" information pages but the ability to create the subdirectories and subsequent files defined in the original post. Created directory : /opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local/status.rrd': No such file or directory ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local /ping.rrd': No such file or directory ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local/ping_snmp.rrd': No such file or directory There are no files or folders created under the rrd and graphs directories. [cid:image001.png@01CE9DCB.451B1DD0] From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweikata Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:13 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Error Drawing Graph You'll have to be a bit more specific than that. Is it not drawing graphs at all? Are you getting NaN as values? Do you just not believe the numbers? Try doing a manual polling of the device through the console, and specify the -d flag for debugging, and see what comes back, with an optional -r to have it not update your values. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Eliezer Sousa Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:02 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Error Drawing Graph hello good afternoon everyone! some devices do not station generating the graph correctly. what causes this error in generating the graphics? [ass eliezer] ________________________________ The information in this transmittal (including attachments, if any) is privileged and confidential and is intended only for the recipient(s) listed above. Any review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this transmittal is prohibited except by or on behalf of the intended recipient. If you have received this transmittal in error, please notify me immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of the transmittal. Thank you. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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New Install working except Graph/RRD
by Peter Casserly 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

New to observium and I have it up and running on a new Ubuntu 13.04 install. Everything seems to be working and polling the one device that I have added. However.... It seems that none of the graphs are being generated. "Error Drawing Graph" or "Draw Error" where the graphs should be. I reviewed the e-mail archives for similar issues but nothing seems to fit. When I run the poller manually I see a few errors related to the RRD directory and it looks like a permissions issue. ./poller.php -h all Observium v0.13.8.4312 Poller Starting polling run: fw.redacted.local 1 asa (cisco) Created directory : /opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local/status.rrd': No such file or directory ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local /ping.rrd': No such file or directory ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local/ping_snmp.rrd': No such file or directory Module [ unix-agent ] disabled globally. Using SNMP Agent sysUpTime (10086692 seconds) ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local/uptime.rrd': No such file or directory Uptime: 116 days, 17h 51m 32s The CHOWN (chown www-data.www-data graphs rrd )commands have been run per the install documentation and show up as this: drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 20 13:54 graphs drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 20 13:54 rrd Thank you in advance for any assistance -Peter ________________________________ The information in this transmittal (including attachments, if any) is privileged and confidential and is intended only for the recipient(s) listed above. Any review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this transmittal is prohibited except by or on behalf of the intended recipient. If you have received this transmittal in error, please notify me immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of the transmittal. Thank you.

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Error Drawing Graph
by Eliezer Sousa 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

hello good afternoon everyone! some devices do not station generating the graph correctly. what causes this error in generating the graphics? ass eliezer

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Host up/down polling
by James Bensley 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

Hi All, Sometimes I get host down notifications from Observium at the start of a 5 minute poll. Five minutes later I get a host up alert for the same host. I believe that sometimes a busy host will drop the 5 minute "probe" from Observium which is presumably a UDP SNMP packet. As soon as I get such a notification I check the host in question, it is usually up unless it really has gone down, just a bit busy perhaps. [1] Where is this initial checking of device up/down state happening in the code? I have been looking through include/polling and I can see various scripts for different device types. Is there a generic host up/down check that happens for all devices, I'd like to hack in a "if a device recorded as up seems down, wait and check again a couple more times, then mark as down". Cheers, James. [1] So that is a separate issue I need to tackle, ensuring there is no packet loss to hosts and ensuring they aren't too busy to respond. I don't wish to discuss that here though.

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Lost sensors from PAN firewall
by Zafar Pravaiz 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

HI I am monitoring a pair of Palo Alto Firewall, recently i noticed one of the firewall not showing any traffic. I investigated and found there is not sensor showing in sensors list (screenshot attached). This happened recently any clue what happened and how to fix that? I don't want to delete and add the device again. Other PAN device show everything right. Thanks -- *Zafar Pravaiz *IT Senior Systems Engineer Information Technology Department AUS /> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: Tel +971 6 515 2164 Fax +971 6515 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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Re: [Observium] Broken lines in disk usage chart
by Jordan TUCKER 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

Hi, Just to say that the problem with broken lines in disk usage chart is not new, I saw this problem monthes ago and I didn't succeeded to find how this is happening, but I didn't try the debug mode. I will come back to you shortly if I find something. It happens only on Windows servers and for a few of my windows servers, especially 2003 servers, they don't do any storage graph at all. Jordan T.

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Login-Issue after Upgrade
by Patrick Kambach 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi all, after upgrading to 4305 the login failed; authlog tables shows "Logged In" and at the same timestamp "Authentication Failure". User / Password is correct. Br, Patrick - -- ConnectingBytes GmbH - "www.kambach.net" | In der Steele 35, 40599 Düsseldorf, Germany | Telefon: 0800 / 900 2580 - 1, Fax: 0800 / 900 2580 - 2 | Email: pkambach(a)kambach.net | Web: http://www.kambach.net | | Geschäftsführer: Patrick Kambach | Amtsgericht Düsseldorf, HRB 60009 | Ust-IdNr.: DE815028832, Steuernummer: 106/5736/0037 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAlISTeUACgkQCIR+kawbQF24uQCgmB2aq1Ih6/flrSOOdt/HoA70 uCsAn1Rb7GKk6dHuK+AClFUKO16c/PlU =HfMf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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svn update broke Ubiquiti airos
by Zach Underwood 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

The ports are now marked for delete in observium version= 0.13.8.4309 dc_ap 49 airos Ports : DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v1 -c public /usr/bin/snmpwalk -v1 -c public -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:dc_ap:161 ifDescr ifDescr.1 = lo ifDescr.2 = eth0 ifDescr.3 = eth1 ifDescr.4 = wifi0 ifDescr.5 = ath0 ifDescr.6 = ath1 ifDescr.7 = ath2 ifDescr.8 = eth0.100 ifDescr.9 = ath0.100 ifDescr.10 = eth0.1006 ifDescr.11 = ath0.1006 ifDescr.12 = br0 ifDescr.13 = br0.1006 ifDescr.14 = br0.100 -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Authentication system updates.
by Adam Armstrong 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Evening Guys. We've committed some changes to the way the 'remember me' function of the authentication system works, removing a few pretty serious security issues with the old login system. We encourage everyone to upgrade to latest as soon as possible. You may need to restart your browser and/or clear cookies if you can't log in after the upgrade is done. adam.

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svn broken
by Chris Stone 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Looks like the svn setup is broken: Your request was unable to be processed com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.DbException - SVN Client exception fetching content: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: E175002: OPTIONS of '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost) svn: E175002: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php' - SVN Client exception fetching content: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: E175002: OPTIONS of '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost) svn: E175002: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php' - org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: E175002: OPTIONS of '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost) svn: E175002: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php' - svn: E175002: OPTIONS of '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost) svn: E175002: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php' - svn: E175002: OPTIONS of '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost) svn: E175002: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php' You are running release CR2.10.4 FE2.10.4 (20130403093648 2013-04-03), please report your release number when reporting bugs. Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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the resources in Observium MIB
by Eliezer Sousa 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Hello, good afternoon everyone! I wonder how and when it is appropriate to use the resources in Observium MIB. ass eliezer

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Re: [Observium] Broken lines in disk usage chart
by Michael F. Kisser 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Hello, I have the same problem as well some servers on the network interface so big brakes in the lines. It started with this latest update. What's odd is the TX/RX white area does not match up top to bottom. So it's not like obervium could not reach the device. It's like it will process one but not the other at times TX/RX. Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:35:25 +0000 From: Kristjan Hinn - PERH <Kristjan.Hinn(a)regionaalhaigla.ee> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Broken lines in disk usage chart Message-ID: <FC8AD12ABE3FEC4E99A2D163779305AA06830B5B(a)MINERVA.regionaalhaigla.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, I have almost the same problem with window 2008 R2 network traffic graphs. I have 4 identical servers and each of them have 3 network cards. One of the servers is drawing graphs perfectly but 3 servers have problem with one network card, other 2 network cards on the server are drawing perfectly. But this one network card is messing up summarized graphs also. I haven't found anything what might cause it[cid:image001.png@01CE9CE9.574202E0] Any advice or hint is highly appriciated BR, Kristjan -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 6:18 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Broken lines in disk usage chart Hi, I doubt this has anything to do with us. You can see what data your device is reporting back by running the poller in debug mode: ./poller.php -h <hostname> -m storage -d -r You can see the data being returned via SNMP and what we interpret from it. adam. On 2013-08-19 00:54, Tom Henderson wrote: > What might be causing this disk usage chart to break up like this? > Looks like it started acting up after an upgrade a couple of weeks > ago. > > This is a windows 2008 r2 server and the disks are (mostly) iSCSI. It > seems to be the only server affected. > > Cheers > > Tom Henderson > > IT Manager | Pack & Company | 027 461 4403 | 09 929 2750 | > tom(a)pack.co.nz<mailto:tom@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. > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Broken lines in disk usage chart
by Tom Henderson 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

What might be causing this disk usage chart to break up like this? Looks like it started acting up after an upgrade a couple of weeks ago. This is a windows 2008 r2 server and the disks are (mostly) iSCSI. It seems to be the only server affected. [Image:Screen Shot 2013-08-19 at 10.59.18 AM.png] 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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Cisco IPv6 BGP peers
by David Peall 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

I've upgraded one of my Cisco 7200 routers to c7200p-adventerprisek9-mz.152-4.S.bin to support IPv6 peer monitoring. I am how ever getting some funny things instead of the IPv6 Peers addresses and other details aren't working like updates: .C..0.......... iBGP ipv6.unicast .C............. eBGP ipv6.unicast There seems to be a newer file from cisco here updated 2001/2010 as apposed to the one included 2001/2003: ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/v2/CISCO-BGP4-MIB.my Otherwise if there is more trouble shooting or snmp walks I can provide that can help solve this please let me know. Thanks in advance -- David Peall

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Ports page performance
by Adam Armstrong 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

Hi All, I've made some changes to how the ports page works to try to improve performance for people with very large installations. If you have issues with the /ports/ page speed, please test the speed of your install by loading /ports/, and trying with 1000 and 10000 ports page sizes. You need to refresh each page a few times to get an accurate page generation time. (the page generation time is at the bottom left) Then update your install with 'svn up' and run the same tests again. Please report back how much performance improvement you see, if any. I've also reduced some of the field sizes for the ports-state table which should reduce MySQL heap usage by about 20%. Thanks, adam.

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Re: [Observium] Cisco IPv6 BGP peers
by Adam Armstrong 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

IPv6 support on Cisco kit appears and disappears at random. This is a Cisco problem. Adam. David Peall <david(a)dnservices.co.za> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Postgresql Application Monitor
by Adam Armstrong 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

Hi, The entire applications system was a quick hack I put together in a few hours. Once we have alerting working we intend to try to come up with a better way of doing it. Until then, I wouldn't recommend putting much time in to it. You might have more luck using a munin plugin, if one exists. We can pull munin plugins via the agent. Adam. David Peall <david(a)dnservices.co.za> wrote: >Hi > >I must first say I am really enjoying using Observium its a great tool. > >I've got a postgresql server with several databases in different name spaces and several pg clusters and was wondering if there is support for that. I couldn't see how to do it using the examples it seems to only support 1 database in 1 cluster per server. > >Regards >-- >David Peall >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Postgresql Application Monitor
by David Peall 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

Hi I must first say I am really enjoying using Observium its a great tool. I've got a postgresql server with several databases in different name spaces and several pg clusters and was wondering if there is support for that. I couldn't see how to do it using the examples it seems to only support 1 database in 1 cluster per server. Regards -- David Peall

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Memory TAB empty on ESXi 5.1
by Philip Möller 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Hi, I have several ESXi5.1 polled by my Observium. Everything is fine except that I have no graphs on the "Memory" TAB. I can see the Real Memory in the Disk Usage TAB. Is there a way to report all Real Memory Graphs in the Memory TAB instead oft he Storage TAB for better overview ? Best, Philip Möller

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frontpage map disable
by Dennis Kruyt 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Hi, How can I disable the worldmap? Before I used this setting but after I setup a new server from svn this doesn't work any more... $config['frontpage']['map']['show'] = false; // Enable/Disable the map view Met vriendelijke groet, Dennis Kruyt,- Technical Consultant [cid:image001.png@01CE98DB.95FD2C60] Capitar IT Group BV Amsterdamseweg 34 B 6712 GJ Ede KvK: 52455785 T: +31 88 6950000 M: +31 6 43534490 W: www.capitar.com<http://www.capitar.com/> Deze e-mail is vertrouwelijk en uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. De algemene voorwaarden<http://www.capitar.com/index.php/nl/algemene-voorwaarden> van Capitar IT Group BV zijn van toepassing op offertes en prijsopgaves. Op deze email is de disclaimer van toepassing die te vinden is op webpagina "www.capitar.com/nl/disclaimer<http://www.capitar.com/nl/disclaimer>

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User levels
by Benjamin Abadie 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Hi, Are user levels implemented yet ? I know we can assign a level to a specific user when creating it, but is there a way to assign different rights to levels ? I see *_perms tables in DB, how should they be populated ? Regards, Benjamin Abadie

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Not detecting ATM Interfaces
by Colin Anderson 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Hi, We have a Cisco 7206 router with an OC3 ATM Port Adapter (PA-A3-OC3SMI=). The Ethernet and Serial interfaces show up in Observium, but it does not list the ATM interfaces. Is there anything we can do to get this to work? We have several hundred ATM sub interfaces on this card that I need to be able to monitor. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks, Colin Anderson Senior Network Engineer T3 Communications 239-333-3027 Direct/Cell c.anderson(a)t3com.net<mailto:c.anderson@t3com.net> http://www.t3com.com<http://www.t3com.com/>

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Observium stops working after r4260
by Laurens Vets 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Hello, This morning, I upgraded my r4200 installation to the latest release (r4280). After this update, "./discovery -h none" would not output anything when run. This also means that the DB was not updated to 080.sql. After a lot of troubleshooting I could not determine what went wrong and went back to r4200. Observium worked again after this. I then started upgrading per 10 releases and after r4260, Observium stops working (no output when running "./discovery -h none"). So, for me, r4260 is the last Observium release that works and r4261 is the first one that does not work anymore... This is on CentOS 6.4 with all updates installed: [root@bak observium]# ./scripts/os Linux|2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64|amd64|CentOS|6.4 [root@bak observium]# Is anybody else experiencing the same issue? Any idea what might be causing this? What additional things can I do to help solve this? -Laurens

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Re: [Observium] DMI
by Tom Laermans 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

That's all crap added by someone who felt it necessary to add checking kunk to scripts, now apparently it doesn't work. I'll keep it in mind, still on vacation atm :) Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "pechspilz" <pechspilz(a)o11.net> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] DMI Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 13:02 Hi Tom, I've applied some small fixes to the hddtemp and dmi scripts so they run under Ubuntu: dmi (line 12): if [[ `head -c1 /dev/mem 2>&1 | awk '{print $1}'` != 'head:' ]] --> double brackets hddtemp (line 10): nc=`which nc.traditional` --> Since nc has been replaced. Probably, it would be best to check if nc.traditional exists and if yes, us it instead of nc. Cheers, John On 10.8.2013 10:45, Tom Laermans wrote: > Hi, > > We currently use the serial number and the hardware model in the > device info. > > Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "pechspilz" <pechspilz(a)o11.net> > To: <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] DMI > Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 08:39 > > Hi, > > does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available > > in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it. > > _______________________________________________ > 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] DMI
by Tom Laermans 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

That's all crap added by someone who felt it necessary to add checking kunk to scripts, now apparently it doesn't work. I'll keep it in mind, still on vacation atm :) Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "pechspilz" <pechspilz(a)o11.net> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] DMI Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 13:02 Hi Tom, I've applied some small fixes to the hddtemp and dmi scripts so they run under Ubuntu: dmi (line 12): if [[ `head -c1 /dev/mem 2>&1 | awk '{print $1}'` != 'head:' ]] --> double brackets hddtemp (line 10): nc=`which nc.traditional` --> Since nc has been replaced. Probably, it would be best to check if nc.traditional exists and if yes, us it instead of nc. Cheers, John On 10.8.2013 10:45, Tom Laermans wrote: > Hi, > > We currently use the serial number and the hardware model in the > device info. > > Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "pechspilz" <pechspilz(a)o11.net> > To: <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] DMI > Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 08:39 > > Hi, > > does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available > > in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it. > > _______________________________________________ > 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] DMI
by Tom Laermans 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

Hi, We currently use the serial number and the hardware model in the device info. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "pechspilz" <pechspilz(a)o11.net> To: <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] DMI Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 08:39 Hi, does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] DMI
by Tom Laermans 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

Then why does the script exist, you think? Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] DMI Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 15:38 It is not at the moment. Adam. pechspilz <pechspilz(a)o11.net> wrote: >Hi, > >does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available >in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it. > >_______________________________________________ >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] DMI
by Adam Armstrong 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

It is not at the moment. Adam. pechspilz <pechspilz(a)o11.net> wrote: >Hi, > >does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available >in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it. > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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DMI
by pechspilz 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

Hi, does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it.

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confg storage
by Eliezer Sousa 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

good afternoon. how can I configure to show me observium disk space of storages devices or all registered servers. ass eliezer

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Observium Globe All Devices sit in Ocean
by Josh Hopper 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

What I have is more of a question.... * Environment: Sonicwall, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Dell PowerConnect 6224, Dell PowerConnect 3524, Dell PowerConnect 5448, ESX5 and ESX4 Description I have Observium 0.13.8.4256 installed. I believe this is the most updated version. I have entered a sysLocation on all of my devices and within the Observium GUI I set a sysLocation as well. All of my devices sit in the Atlantic ocean. Why? -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CE934A.6F0821F0] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565

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Re: [Observium] Snmppings
by Adam Armstrong 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Yeah. There are some nasty SNMP implementations around. Cisco and netsnmp is pretty to rock solid in terms of responding. Anything else and you might be hitting SNMP bugs, too. Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >There are also some pretty dodgy SNMP implementations out there which >take an eternity to poll; poller-wrapper.py seems to do a decent job of >compensating for this. > >On 08/09/2013 07:43 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> If a device is marked down, it'll tell you if it was because of ping or snmp in the eventlog. >> >> Either way, if you are having devices continually marked as down, it's an indicator of poor network connectivity or dodgy firewalling. >> >> Adam. >> >> Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >> >>> One thing about Observium, that I find frustrating, is that devices that are definitely up, that are definitely pingable with no drops still show as occasionally being off-line, or down. Sometimes this is worse, or better depending on SVN version. >>> >>> The only remedy seems to be that I have to stop monitoring device. What good is that? Are there any other things that I can do to look and tweak? >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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Performance optimisation (incl. RAM disk vs. SSD)
by Paul Gear 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Hi all, We've got some money in the budget to upgrade our struggling monitoring server, and i'm trying to optimise Observium. Here are our Observium installation stats: Total Up Down Ignored Disabled *Devices <http://observium.buq.org.au/devices/>* 153 <http://observium.buq.org.au/devices/> 138 up <http://observium.buq.org.au/devices/status=1/> 2 down <http://observium.buq.org.au/devices/status=0/> 1 ignored <http://observium.buq.org.au/devices/ignore=1/> 12 disabled <http://observium.buq.org.au/devices/disabled=1/> *Ports <http://observium.buq.org.au/ports/>* 8896 <http://observium.buq.org.au/ports/> 887 up <http://observium.buq.org.au/ports/state=up/> 118 down <http://observium.buq.org.au/ports/state=down/> 927 ignored <http://observium.buq.org.au/ports/ignore=1/> 6837 shutdown <http://observium.buq.org.au/ports/state=admindown/> We're currently running 4 cores, 12 GB RAM, 6 x 15K RPM 3.5" drives in RAID 10. We have about 20 GB of RRDs. Poller-wrapper.py runs with 32 workers and regularly goes over the 500-second mark. The web interface is quite sluggish despite php-xcache being installed. I'm wondering if anyone has done testing as to which is the better approach for RRD storage performance: RAM disk or SSD. RAM seems likely to offer better IOPS, but managing the RAM disk is obviously more overhead, and i'm concerned that syncing the RAM disk elsewhere will have too much of a performance hit while it happens (especially during reboot cycles). RAM is $25 per GB, whereas SSD is $3 per GB (or $25 per GB if you use "write intensive" SSDs - presumably these are rated for a larger number of lifetime writes?). My guess at a config for the new box: 12 cores, 64 GB RAM, 4 x 10K RPM 2.5" drives in RAID 10 for OS, 2 x SSD for /opt/observium/rrd. Any other recommendations about which hardware to put our money towards? Do we need to consider other issues like which type of file system to use for /opt/observium/rrd? Thanks in advance, Paul

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Observium without DNS
by observium＠velder.li 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Hi, I think it would be a good idea if it's possible to use observium without dns, or to overwrite the hostname used to get snmp data. I have some devices with internal and external IP adresses, and I'd like to use the internal IP for polling, but the external hostname for the device itself. Comments? Regards, Patrick

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Re: [Observium] Performance optimisation (incl. RAM disk vs. SSD)
by Adam Armstrong 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Go with the fastest processor cores you can find to make the web interface feel faster, especially with a lot of ports. Though, your install doesn't sound all that big... Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Snmppings
by Adam Armstrong 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

If a device is marked down, it'll tell you if it was because of ping or snmp in the eventlog. Either way, if you are having devices continually marked as down, it's an indicator of poor network connectivity or dodgy firewalling. Adam. Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >One thing about Observium, that I find frustrating, is that devices that are definitely up, that are definitely pingable with no drops still show as occasionally being off-line, or down. Sometimes this is worse, or better depending on SVN version. > >The only remedy seems to be that I have to stop monitoring device. What good is that? Are there any other things that I can do to look and tweak? >Sent from my iPhone >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Snmppings
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

One thing about Observium, that I find frustrating, is that devices that are definitely up, that are definitely pingable with no drops still show as occasionally being off-line, or down. Sometimes this is worse, or better depending on SVN version. The only remedy seems to be that I have to stop monitoring device. What good is that? Are there any other things that I can do to look and tweak? Sent from my iPhone

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Graph Legend
by Colin Anderson 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

When viewing the graphs for a switch it cuts off the names of the interfaces in the Legend (such as "FastEthern") making it so you can't tell one interface from another. Does anyone know if this can be adjusted in the code so it is able to output longer interface names? Sample output screenshot: [cid:image001.png@01CE9454.EBF02270] Thanks in advance, Colin Anderson

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bah re: override DNS
by Rob VanHooren 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

I think it would be a *terrible* idea for observium to work without dns. the fact that bofh Adam has pretty much forced it, is a very welcome sledgehammer against the sloppiness of incomplete node deployment habits. ditto with pingability imo. just be glad he didn't make A and PTR records have to match each other (and ^sysName$ too!) ... or at least have an extant PTR, something that is often overlooked. count your lucky stars; the only reason he probably didn't (yet?) is that it might have slowed things down a smidge. /grin/ worse, he could have run through checks against the entireties of rfcs 1122 and 1123, or also compared sysLocation against a LOC record query, before a node gets accepted. ps … perhaps some CNAME wrangling might work suitably for your case. split-horizon views in bind would do the trick for sure. for inspiration, have a chew through http://backreference.org/2010/02/01/geolocation-aware-dns-with-bind/ cheers, R. On 2013-08-08, at 4:26 AM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: >> I think it would be a good idea if it's possible to use observium without >> dns, or to overwrite the hostname used to get snmp data. >> I have some devices with internal and external IP adresses, and I'd like to >> use the internal IP for polling, but the external hostname for the device >> itself. >> >> Comments?

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Re: [Observium] Lost all port after svn update
by Tom Laermans 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Doesnt really help, you'd just be a week without ports with some bad luck :p Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Paul Gear" <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Lost all port after svn update Date: Thu, Aug 8, 2013 12:01 /me reverts to cron.weekly for updates... :-) On 08/08/2013 06:49 PM, Nikolay Shopik wrote: > Downgrade to 4262 and re-run discovery > > On 08/08/13 12:07, Rory Schellekens wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Today I did a svn update and afterwords the ./discovery -h none. But now it >> has marked all the ports as deleted. Anybody an idea how I can solve this? >> 2013-08-08 09:45:03 >> lo<http://10.44.41.186/device/device=1/tab=port/port=20/>Port was >> marked as DELETED 2013-08-08 >> 09:45:03 eth5 <http://10.44.41.186/device/device=1/tab=port/port=19/> Port >> was marked as DELETED 2013-08-08 09:45:03 >> eth4<http://10.44.41.186/device/device=1/tab=port/port=18/>Port was >> marked as DELETED 2013-08-08 >> 09:45:03 i4dd0 <http://10.44.41.186/device/device=1/tab=port/port=17/> Port >> was marked as DELETED 2013-08-08 09:45:03 >> i4dd1<http://10.44.41.186/device/device=1/tab=port/port=16/>Port was >> marked as DELETED >> >> With kind regards, >> >> Rory Schellekens >> >> ... _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Lost all port after svn update
by Rory Schellekens 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

Hi all, Today I did a svn update and afterwords the ./discovery -h none. But now it has marked all the ports as deleted. Anybody an idea how I can solve this? 2013-08-08 09:45:03 lo<http://10.44.41.186/device/device=1/tab=port/port=20/>Port was marked as DELETED 2013-08-08 09:45:03 eth5 <http://10.44.41.186/device/device=1/tab=port/port=19/> Port was marked as DELETED 2013-08-08 09:45:03 eth4<http://10.44.41.186/device/device=1/tab=port/port=18/>Port was marked as DELETED 2013-08-08 09:45:03 i4dd0 <http://10.44.41.186/device/device=1/tab=port/port=17/> Port was marked as DELETED 2013-08-08 09:45:03 i4dd1<http://10.44.41.186/device/device=1/tab=port/port=16/>Port was marked as DELETED With kind regards, Rory Schellekens

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crossbar history
by Peter Childs 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

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

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

07 Aug '13

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

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Linux Agent redesign
by Adam Armstrong 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

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

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OS/distro version parser
by Adam Armstrong 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

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

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

06 Aug '13

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

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Sensors
by simon schaller 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

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

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Permissions Issue:
by Ravindra Gupta 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

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

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

06 Aug '13

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

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Re: [Observium] Permissions Issue:
by Tom Laermans 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

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

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Re: [Observium] patch for rrdtool syntax
by Adam Armstrong 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

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

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decoupling UI instances from pollers/main instance
by Peter Childs 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

As a bit of thought food I have had some interesting success in decoupling a 'UI' instance of observium from the instance that is 'polling' etc (I will call that the 'main' instance). I installed another deployment of observium using the same SQL instance as the 'main' instance. The issues then are access to the RRDtool data. I complied a 'new' version of rrdtool on both main and 'ui' instance boxes from 'trunk' of rrdtool development. The current trunk has support for the 'FETCH' command from rrdcached (usually rrdcached is only used for caching writes to reduce IO load). I ran rrdcached instance on the 'main' box, and configured $config['rrdcached'] to point to the IP/port of the main box's rrdcached process. As rrdcached is looking for 'relative' names to the path it is running in I so I hacked rrdtool.inc.php (see below as example — do not apply this patch) There were various issues with graph syntax that cropped up due to changes in the syntax parsing in the 'trunk' version of RRDtool, but pretty easy to work around those with some minor formatting changes (I'm sure I haven't found them all). The other issue is that for various composite graphs 'is_file( $rrd_filename )' is called — I hacked around this by just dumping all the rrd files via rsync (nasty) on the local box. I assume this could be worked around with a rrd-file-exists() type function that could say 'yes' for 'remote' rrd files (I'm not sure yet how to determine that via the rrdcached protocol if at all possible… perhaps there are other possible solutions …) When rrdtool graph now draws a graph it hits rrdcached on the main box, gets all the metrics, and presto … So far I notice that Misc graph fails — see above .. Usually some syntax causing the 'new' parser to get sad Speed — there are noticeable delays in drawing some of the graphs as you whip around the UI. Its not 'glacial', and it is potentially not the end of the world, but I'd like to understand where these delays come from with decoupled rrdtool — I have a feeling that potentially the rrdcached is not dealing with a pile of concurrent requests well — there may be some ways to make this better, and/or work around this. Why oh why? Currently in my 'day job' we run lots of different systems for different networks doing metrics gathering and display. Most of them are 'topped' out despite large amounts of time over the years optimising them, putting in 'faster' stuff etc. I'd like a metric(s) backend that can eat whatever we need, and eats more based on adding more commodity hardware. If my metrics backend can 'talk' rrdcached protocol, and systems like Observium can use this, then I feel like this might be a 'good thing'. Need more polling, just split the pollers. Need more UI goodness, just add more UI nodes behind a http load balancer. Some of the new metrics backends have some interesting stuff — specifically I'm looking at the 'not-released-yet' OpenTSDB. I'm pretty sure it is not the 'right' thing for simple installations, but for larger platforms it looks appealing. Thoughts? Cheers, Peter Various hacks pjchilds@uitest:/opt/observium$ svn diff includes/rrdtool.inc.php Index: includes/rrdtool.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/rrdtool.inc.php (revision 4254) +++ includes/rrdtool.inc.php (working copy) @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ if ($config['rrdcached']) { + $options = str_replace( $config['rrd_dir']."/", '', $options ); fwrite($rrd_pipes[0], "graph --daemon " . $config['rrdcached'] . " $graph_file $options"); } else { fwrite($rrd_pipes[0], "graph $graph_file $options"); @@ -158,6 +159,7 @@ $cmd = "$command $filename $options"; if ($command != "create" && $config['rrdcached']) { + $options = str_replace( $config['rrd_dir']."/", '', $options ); $cmd .= " --daemon " . $config['rrdcached']; }

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patch for rrdtool syntax
by Peter Childs 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Gday folks. I have been looking at the 'trunk' version of rrdtool where some differences exist in the parsing of 'graph' commands. The attached patch prevents 'Unused Arguments' when rrdtool graph is called with 'empty' argument bits. I assume I have probably 'missed' some bits, and I understand this doesn't impact Observium users yet with currently released Ubuntu rrdtools packages, but I assume at some stage it will impact, and it might be good to 'miss' that impact ? Cheers, Peter

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Pages Missing CSS
by Steve Nelson 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Hi All I have now managed to at least get a build of Observium and also added a couple of test devices to poll. All seems well apart from one issue. All pages (apart from the initial index page) are appearing as if they had no CSS applied to them, also at the foor of each page I am seeing some mysql output which I am not sure should be there, items like : Time 0.005s MySQL Cell 0/0s Row 11/0.001s Rows 6/0s Column 0/0s Memory Cached 34.7kB Page 5.86MB Peak 6.14MB Any advice on getting the pages back on track would be great. Cheers Steve Steve Nelson 10Yr CCIE#10055, OSCP#3725 Senior Network Engineer steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net Telephone : 0845 5576355 Direct Line : 0191 6542060 Mobile : 07702247286

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Help
by Eliezer Sousa 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

hello, I wonder how I can monitor equipment that do not have snmp. I have some data links that do not use SNMP, and must monitor them. from already thank you for your help. ass eliezer

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Line colour selection
by Robert Williams 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Hi, I’m currently setting up some of our own custom BMS hardware on Observium (it’s all loosely based on Carel components). It’s going fine and I’ve got most of the sensors on there and graphing ok so far. They are mostly temperature, humidity and pressures. Anyway, the reason for this post is that I can’t find how Observium selects the colours for the lines on the graphs when temperatures are involved? I’m sure there is a pattern (or setting for it) but I can’t see it. I know it’s only cosmetic, but can someone point me in the right direction please? Cheers :) Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] Insufficient Permission Issue:
by Adam Armstrong 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Oh dear, and there was me thinking of looking at your login issues. Maybe not! You use Ubuntu/Debian because that is what we tell you to use. The vast majority of 'issues' reported by centos/rhel/etc users are related to 'features' and other braindeadness of their chosen distro. None of us use anything other than Debian/Ubuntu. Debian/Ubuntu is what we test on and Debian/Ubuntu are all we are prepared to discuss on this list. If you feel you know better, then you had better be able to make everything work properly yourself, because we *will* be rude to you for ignoring all of our warnings. After all, you get the service you pay for, right? Alternatively, I hear cacti runs fine on centos. Oh, and it hasn't helped our tolerance levels that most of the 'stupid' questions we get from people who want spoonfed step by step solutions come from centos users. It seems that stupidity and laziness often leads to choosing centos. Adam. Also notable is that thus far all of our major sponsors to date run Debian or Ubuntu. DaZZa <dazzagibbs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On 3 August 2013 22:15, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >> >> a) why centos > >Because Ubuntu is a pain in the backside for someone used to RHEL/SLES >type implementations? > >I use CentOS because I hate the way Ubuntu manages services, and >because I'm used to it. However, I don't belittle Ubuntu at every >opportunity, as seems to be the modus operandi here. I saw a quote by >someone who works in a mixed Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL shop the other day >which is particularly pertinent > >"I use XX because it works for me." > >Can we get away from the distro bashing and concentrate on fixing >issues? Yes, I know you use Ubuntu and love it, and I know you don't >want to support CentOS, but that doesn't mean the whole world needs to >follow you. > >You have an excellent product in Observium - it's a shame to see such >crap bringing it down for people who are only trying to make it work >(and, by definition, increase penetration of the product). > >DaZZa >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Insufficient Permission Issue:
by Adam Armstrong 04 Aug '13

04 Aug '13

I can't say I've encountered this or heard of it reported before. Are you sure? Adam. DaZZa <dazzagibbs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On 3 August 2013 16:34, Ravindra Gupta <ravindragupta9(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> We have configured observium monitor tool in centos 5.8, when we have >> requested url in the browser we got the below error. > >I get that one once in a while too - it generally means your login >session has timed out - if you try and access anything else, you'll >get dumped back to the main page and have to log back in. > >By "timed out", I mean "stopped working for reasons not necessarily >including inactivity", because I've had it happen between one click >and the next > >DaZZa >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Insufficient Permission Issue:
by Ravindra Gupta 04 Aug '13

04 Aug '13

Hii, We have configured observium monitor tool in centos 5.8, when we have requested url in the browser we got the below error. [image: Inline image 1]

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Re: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS
by Tom Laermans 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

If you want to tell us when to commit and not commit, you'd better be paying us during both of those timespans. Why don't you just no svn up before seeing what it does? Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Tristan Rhodes" <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS Date: Fri, Aug 2, 2013 18:34 Would it be possible to come up with a compromise solution that meets the requirements of stability and freshness? Here is one idea: What if SVN updates were only submitted on Sunday through Wednesday? Users can then update on the day of the week that meets their needs. For example, people who want to help test new (and potentially risky) code can update cron on Thursday or Friday. People who want a more stable environment choose Saturday. Of course, SVN updates would be made on any day to resolve an regression or bug that was found. What do you think of this idea? Cheers, Tristan On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: I update automatically in cron.daily. Because you tell me to. If i have to choose between shiny/new and stable, i will always choose stable, all other things being equal. On 08/02/2013 07:23 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: A majority of users actually seem to update pretty regularly. We assume this is because they like the new things (and the fixing of problems) rather than because we told them to, because the only people we tell to update regularly are the 10% of users present on this list :) Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: On 08/02/2013 07:03 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: On 2013-08-01 21:30, Stefan Milo wrote: A tool like observium is often used by people in Operations. People in Operations tend to favor stability over new features. The old if it's not broken mantra... Well then, you probably want to be using Cacti. Judging by the update habits of our existing userbase, they agree with us. "Agree" is much too strong a term; "tolerate" would be better; "it's better than using Cacti" would probably be more accurate than both. :-) _______________________________________________ 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 -- Tristan Rhodes Network Engineer Weber State University (801) 626-8549

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Re: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS
by Adam Armstrong 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

I think anyone who wanted something like this would be better served by paying attention to the svn changelog and only updating after a day or two of inactivity. All of the information needed is available. We won't adopt any practices which increase our workload without obvious benefit. Delaying svn commits is the #1 cause of the "missing include" bug being committed. Adam. Tristan Rhodes <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS
by Adam Armstrong 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

A majority of users actually seem to update pretty regularly. We assume this is because they like the new things (and the fixing of problems) rather than because we told them to, because the only people we tell to update regularly are the 10% of users present on this list :) Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >On 08/02/2013 07:03 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> On 2013-08-01 21:30, Stefan Milo wrote: >>> A tool like observium is often used by people in Operations. People in >>> Operations tend to favor stability over new features. The old if it's >>> not broken mantra... >> >> Well then, you probably want to be using Cacti. Judging by the update >> habits of our existing userbase, they agree with us. > >"Agree" is much too strong a term; "tolerate" would be better; "it's >better than using Cacti" would probably be more accurate than both. :-) > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Certain MySQL agent graphs not showing
by Shaun Bradley 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hi, Once again it's me. I have the mysql and apache agents running on a few machines and have observium picking the data up. This is working fine for apache and mostly for mysql, but I have missing graphs for 'process list' 'myisam indexes' (our dbs are mainly innodb based), table locks, and temporary objects. I have followed the agent instructions to a tee as far as I can see and have double checked my configuration, as well as googled for any info, but I am stuck on this one. Is there any way I can either remove these broken graph links or fill out the information? I can't see what I'd change to make them appear to be honest. Any pointers would be gratefully received. Thanks, Shaun

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Digital optics monitoring sensors - cisco 2960S
by Petr Gregor 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hi guys, I am successfully using observium in our network. Monitoring about 180 cisco switches. Thanks! I am however missing graphs for optics SFP modules. I can see the sensors in snmpwalk: > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1061 = STRING: TenGigabitEthernet1/0/1 > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1062 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Module Temperature Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1063 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Supply Voltage Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1064 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Bias Current Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1065 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Transmit Power Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1066 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Receive Power Sensor And I can see the sensors listed in inventory page in observium. There are however no values or graphs on the health page. Thank you for any tips. Gregy

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Locations menu
by Tom Henderson 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Hi All Perviously my Devices > Locations submenu would show the custom location entered on the device properties page (under Override sysLocation). Is there a setting to revert to this behaviour? I've tried using the $config['location_map'] setting, but this seems to only apply to the actual sysLocation, not the overriden value. On a side note I'd love to be able to get closer on the map. The closest I could get it was the whole of New Zealand, on which I have a single green spot covering the whole of Auckland! Thanks for the great product. 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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Web Interface display issue
by Colin Anderson 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

I've performed several installations, but have a problem with this one. The root/home webpage displays correctly, but all other pages lack the normal formatting. All of the menu items from across the top of the page are displayed as an unformatted bulleted list on everything except the root http://observium webpage. I compared my /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file to a working installation and it's exactly the same. I've gone back over the installation instructions twice. A2enmod rewrite is enabled, but I'm not sure it's working... If I click on the menu "Devices" -> "All Devices" it takes me to http://observium/devices/ with the trailing backslash. I can remove the trailing backslash and the page displays correctly. This doesn't seem to work with other pages further down the menu structure such as http://observium/devices/type=network/. The only difference between this installation and my other installations is that the others are on Debian 6 and this is Debian 7.1 (Wheezy). Sorry for the long explanation, but any help is MUCH appreciated. Thanks, Colin Anderson

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Another frontpage patch
by Paul Gear 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hi all, Here's another patch i've made to the front page, this time to add a "micrographs" function similar to the minigraphs, but with the difference that multiple sections are allowed, each corresponding to a row in the $config['frontpage']['micrographs'] array. Here's an example config excerpt: ... $config['frontpage']['order'] = array('device_status_boxes', 'minigraphs', 'micrographs', 'status_summary', 'eventlog'); ... $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['network']['ids'] = '1,device_bits,router1;2,device_bits,router2;3,device_bits,switch1;4,device_bits,firewall1;5,device_bits,firewall2'; $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['network']['title'] = 'Network'; $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['servers']['ids'] = '6,device_bits,vmhost1;7,device_bits,observium;8,device_bits,fileserver;9,device_bits,vmhost2;10,device_bits,backup'; $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['servers']['title'] = 'Servers'; ... This produces the following on the front page: Both the row labels and the graph labels are optional - if you leave them both out you get just a bare row of clickable graphs. There's no label justification, which looks a bit funny when labels are different lengths, but i figure people can just add space or whatever to make their front page look how they want it. Patch is attached and also available at http://libertysys.com.au/patches/observium/observium-r4209-micrographs.patch Hope you like it. Regards, Paul

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status
by Eliezer Sousa 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

hello guys, I would like to know how to change the refresh time of the equipment. because when charges that the equipment is down takes too long to update the status even when this is online. where can I change this time? thank you. ass eliezer

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Re: [Observium] Basic Installation Issue.
by Adam Armstrong 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hi Steve, I meant to reply to this earlier today. I would be willing to put money on this being caused by a authoritarian transparent proxy or over-ambitious layer 7 firewall. It smells like an intervening device deciding the connection is bad and cutting it off. I'm pretty sure it's nothing at our end else we'd be flooded by people complaining they're missing out on today's updates! Adam. Steve Nelson <steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net> wrote: >Hi All, > >I am having a very basic installation issue, however not being a major linux user I cannot seem to find a sensible answer online. > >I have a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS and all the associated packages installed as per the instructions at observium.org however when I try to check out the latest version using SVN I am getting the following error : > >root@CAL-MGT-MON:/home/nelsons# svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium >svn: OPTIONS of 'http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://www.observium.org) > >I have tried using HTTPS as a protocol but it seems the server is not listening on 443. > >Any help would be good. > >Many thanks > >Steve > > >Steve Nelson >10Yr CCIE#10055, OSCP#3725 >Senior Network Engineer >steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net > >Telephone : 0845 5576355 >Direct Line : 0191 6542060 >Mobile : 07702247286 > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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New installation of Observium
by Phibee Network Operation Center 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

hello, I just installed Observium and I discovered a little product. To help me integrate it into our SI, I have some questions: - I'm in the options menu as Customer or Pseudowire, but nowhere I see a button "create" what is normal? - At the location of routers, how to indicate the position of this one? - At Traffic Bills, is it possible that sending an email with the value précendent the 95th of the month for each link? - And finally, via the API, it is possible to recover the data to json rrd them into another application? including the graph generated by Traffic Bills Thank you in advance Jerome

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Re: [Observium] bgp vs bgo ?
by Adam Armstrong 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Haha. How did you notice that? We don't even use that part of that function to test it yet! :-) Adam. Peter Childs <pchilds(a)staff.iinet.net.au> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] bgp vs bgo ?
by Adam Armstrong 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Must be bored :-) Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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bgp vs bgo ?
by Peter Childs 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Should that be 'bgp' rather than 'bgo' ? +++ html/includes/functions.inc.php (revision 4227) (...) case "bgp_peer": if (empty($text)) { $text = "AS".$entity['bgpPeerRemoteAs'] ." ". $entity['bgpPeerRemoteAddr']. " ".truncate($entity['astext'], "30"); } - $link = generate_link($text, array('page' => 'device', 'device' => $entity['device_id'], 'tab' => 'health', 'metric' => 'storage')); + $link = generate_link($text, array('page' => 'device', 'device' => $entity['device_id'], 'tab' => 'routing', 'proto' => 'bgo')); break; case "netscaler_vsvr": if (empty($text)) { $text = $entity['vsvr_label']; }

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Re: [Observium] RANCID integration
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

One more thing, for the email, I use exim, so I'm assuming that running /usr/bin/newaliases tells the MTA about the changes below. From: Ryan Milton - MVS USA Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 3:43 PM To: 'Observium Network Observation System' Subject: RANCID integration Hi, I am trying to integrate RANCID for Observium, however the basic installation of rancid on Ubuntu 12.04 eludes me. Most tuts out there are for 11.04, or are quite dated. I have gotten to the point where running sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid Should produce the right files. I don't get that, rather I get this: rancid@ObserviumNYC:/$ sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 73: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-Amsterdam::: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 74: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-Amsterdam:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 75: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-New_York:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 76: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-New_York:: not found If anyone had successfully done this, I need some steps that I seem to be missing. I had installed cvs, manually. I do have /etc/aliases with some entries like: rancid-Amsterdam: noc */should that be noc@emailaddress??/* Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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Re: [Observium] Basic Installation Issue.
by Adam Armstrong 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

I hope not. If it is, it's some new level of selinux hell! Adam. Jason Lixfeld <jason(a)lixfeld.ca> wrote: >Could this be a SELinux thing? > >Sent from my iPhone > >On 2013-07-30, at 6:08 PM, Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> On 07/31/2013 07:57 AM, Steve Nelson wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am having a very basic installation issue, however not being a major linux user I cannot seem to find a sensible answer online. >>> >>> I have a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS and all the associated packages installed as per the instructions at observium.org however when I try to check out the latest version using SVN I am getting the following error : >>> >>> root@CAL-MGT-MON:/home/nelsons# svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium >>> svn: OPTIONS of 'http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://www.observium.org) >> >> Hi Steve, >> >> I think that's a fairly generic "Can't connect" message. If you're behind a firewall and normally proxy your HTTP traffic, you'll need to add something like this to ~/.subversion/servers: >> >> [global] >> http-proxy-host = proxy >> http-proxy-port = 3128-or-whatever >> http-proxy-username = username >> http-proxy-password = plaintext-pass >> >> Regards, >> Paul >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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Basic Installation Issue.
by Steve Nelson 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi All, I am having a very basic installation issue, however not being a major linux user I cannot seem to find a sensible answer online. I have a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS and all the associated packages installed as per the instructions at observium.org however when I try to check out the latest version using SVN I am getting the following error : root@CAL-MGT-MON:/home/nelsons# svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium svn: OPTIONS of 'http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://www.observium.org) I have tried using HTTPS as a protocol but it seems the server is not listening on 443. Any help would be good. Many thanks Steve Steve Nelson 10Yr CCIE#10055, OSCP#3725 Senior Network Engineer steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net Telephone : 0845 5576355 Direct Line : 0191 6542060 Mobile : 07702247286

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RANCID integration
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi, I am trying to integrate RANCID for Observium, however the basic installation of rancid on Ubuntu 12.04 eludes me. Most tuts out there are for 11.04, or are quite dated. I have gotten to the point where running sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid Should produce the right files. I don't get that, rather I get this: rancid@ObserviumNYC:/$ sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 73: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-Amsterdam::: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 74: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-Amsterdam:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 75: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-New_York:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 76: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-New_York:: not found If anyone had successfully done this, I need some steps that I seem to be missing. I had installed cvs, manually. I do have /etc/aliases with some entries like: rancid-Amsterdam: noc */should that be noc@emailaddress??/* Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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Sensors & syslog Questions
by Wijdan Mohamed 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi, I have been trying observium for the last few weeks and am happy with it. However, I couldn't get the sensors (temperature & voltage) and syslog to work. It doesn't even show up in the health drop down menu!. Does observium obtain the sensors data using lm-sensors or ipmi? And is there any other configurations steps to be done (other than in the wiki or documentation)?. Regarding syslog, I tried rsyslog and syslog-ng and followed the solutions posted in wiki & mailing list for similar issues but no luck!, the tab still says that no syslog entries found although its enabled and running (Note: I am using CentOS & RHEL). What am I missing exactly? Many Thanks,

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Re: [Observium] device down
by Adam Armstrong 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

I can absolutely assure you that this is not normal, your devices have a configuration error. :-) Adam Michael Sweikata <sweikatam1(a)nku.edu> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Axis labeling for graphs
by Roland Schwingel 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi... Maybe this is a novice question. I do have observium set up for a few days now and works quite well. Thanks to all involved. But there is one thing I do miss. Is it possible to label the axis for graphs? eg. the Diskusage graph. The x axis is the timeline (which is easy to detect) but the y axis is percentage of usage. But it would be way clearer if you would add label to the x and y axis to clearly know in which unit is measured here. Especially when you hop between graphs. Thanks for this good product, Roland Schwingel

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Re: [Observium] device down
by Adam Armstrong 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

If Observium thinks a device is down it's either because it can't ping it, or it doesn't get an SNMP response from it. Check you can snmpwalk the device from the Observium server. It's always the firewall, or the acls. Adam. Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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device down
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

So, I have to say that after reinstalling Observium, but keeping my config.php intact, everything works---almost too well. I know it needs tweaking because right now, I have a message that a device is down, and I am able to log into it. Not only that, but O tells me that the box has been down for some time, yet I am able to ping from it. What kind of tweak would this need? Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager Hawthorne, NJ o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 rmilton(a)mvsusa.com<mailto:rmilton@mvsusa.com>

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HELP ALERTS
by Eliezer Sousa 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

hello, my observium server is not sending email alerts. what can be? since already appreciate the help. ass eliezer

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Re: [Observium] why vm
by Rob VanHooren 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

many do this in enterprise environments to abstract away the underlying agony of lease-replacement or (oftentimes politically forced) hardware-refresh headaches. dedicate the entire esxi host to the one vm, rather than bare metal backup/restore|reinstall. R. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:01, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > > VMware seems to have brainwashed the entire planet into thinking things > get faster inside VMs, or that they make more efficient use of > resources. Very odd!

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Very Large Environment
by Joe Hoh 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. We are deploying Observium in a very large environment. We are upwards of 6,000 devices and 300,000 ports. I don't think we are going to be able to poll this in 5 minutes. This is what we have done so far: - Distributed polling - Polling - 8 VMs - 4core, 8GB RAM each - MySQL - 4 core, 8GB RAM - Web Interface - 4 core, 8GB RAM - NFS Server (for centralized /opt/observium - except for the MIBS directory, which is copied across each server) - moving to an EMC VNX in 2 weeks. - rrdcached being implemented (any assistance here is helpful) - Modified poller-wrapper.py to distribute the devices that poll within 120s across multiple instances of poller-wrapper.py running on multiple hosts. Devices that poll in more than 120s are polled on separate servers at 15 minute intervals. - poller-wrapper has been modified to allow for multiple instances just like poller.php with MODULUS distribution - Each instance of poller-wrapper.py gets an instance number and the total number of instances. - All of the devices with the last poll time < 120 seconds are MOD'ed with the device_id and the total number of instances and compared to the instance number - device_id MOD total_instances = this_instance - Tuning threads in each poller-wrapper.py - currently at 16 threads and 2 instances on each 4 vCPU server for 32 threads running at once or 8 threads per core - The DC is on the west coast and that presents latency problems. We may need to address with distributed polling - We are at 1024MB in php.ini - We are using xcache (tuning help is appreciated - or should we just turn it off)? My questions are: - How can I change the default RRD behavior to use 15 minute intervals instead of 5 minute intervals - 15 minutes x 2 weeks - 2 hours x 5 weeks - 4 hours x 12 months - We want to keep the max/min/average/87.5th percentile (since only 8 measurements per 2 hours) - I don't see the configuration items for that. - Would we be better with a few big boxes rather than small VMs?

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Re: [Observium] Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 28 Jul '13

28 Jul '13

Not enough spoon? Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Graphs
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 27 Jul '13

27 Jul '13

So, I uninstalled the whole mess, reinstalled everything. ONe thing that immediately worked was the emails from observium! This time I added only one machine manually. I don't really see that I did anything different. In fact, I kept my config.php and just pasted it in after I did the install and voila! Seems to be working now. However, I would add that on the installation procedures, it should be clarified that with the mysql, the coder needs to add the passwords for the users manually. Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager Hawthorne, NJ o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 rmilton(a)mvsusa.com<mailto:rmilton@mvsusa.com> On Jul 27, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Tracy Phillips <tracphil(a)mantoso.com<mailto:tracphil@mantoso.com>> wrote: On 07/27/2013 1:50 pm, Ryan Milton - MVS USA wrote: What do you think? It's really odd. Everything looks normal. Is /opt/observium on your local filesystem or is it in NFS mount? How many hosts are in your observium install so far? I am a little baffled. One thing that I do... not sure if it matters, is that I don't add any hosts by hand like in the install instructions. That is the only place I deviate. Tracy

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Re: [Observium] Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 27 Jul '13

27 Jul '13

All installation problems are solved by following the install guide properly. We long ago decided that trying to diagnose what people typed wrong just isn't worth the time and just recommend that people reinstall in most cases. Unless they want to pay us €1000 to fix it for them, of course :-) Adam. Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Please provide screenshots, otherwise no one will know what you actually mean. Adam. Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Graphs
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

I read the FAQ, and indeed that mysterious space after the ?> turned out to be the first problem. However, the problem now is that the live data doesn't show on the graphs anywhere. Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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ifLastchanged
by Benjamin Ballmert 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

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Re: [Observium] Memory draw error
by Adam Armstrong 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

That output is not actually related to memory pools, its from the ucd MiB used on Unix hosts. Adam. Austin Marsh <amarsh(a)clearwateranalytics.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Memory draw error
by Austin Marsh 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

I just did a fresh install of the newest observium (0.13.7.4200). Everything is working well except for my nexus 5k devices show a draw error for memory. Memory stats for the switches was working in previous observium releases. Here is the output from the poller below. I can get the memory from snmp via command line, I assume some mibs are messed up? /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c cwanro -OQUs -m UCD-SNMP-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:boi-sw10:161 memTotalSwap.0 memAvailSwap.0 memTotalReal.0 memAvailReal.0 memTotalFree.0 memShared.0 memBuffer.0 memCached.0 memTotalSwap.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memAvailSwap.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memTotalReal.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memAvailReal.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memTotalFree.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memShared.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memBuffer.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID memCached.0 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID ________________________________ NOTICE: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Clearwater Analytics and/or its affiliates that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately delete it. The information we provide is from sources Clearwater Analytics considers reliable, but Clearwater Analytics provides no warranties regarding the accuracy of the information. Further, nothing in the email should be construed as legal, financial, or tax advice, and any questions regarding the intended recipient's individual circumstances should be addressed to that recipient's lawyer and/or accountant.

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Re: [Observium] vrf dance
by Rob VanHooren 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

well then if nobody else out there gets it right, then that just screams "opportunity" for Observium! we can just all hope that it doesn't wind up giving Adam Mike and Tom too much brain damage. :-) R. PS: DNS separation I could see as logical for VDCs. But for VRFs? That's banannas to have to try do. Don't even know that it'd fully function. (e.g., traps etc. are pinned to source from just one vrf; how to map back the event blame of $other_vrf_"device" as culprit?) Screws loose in San Jose, for sure. Chris & Darius wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:01:59 -0400 > From: Chris Moody <chris(a)node-nine.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] remedies to overcome vrf dance? > Message-ID: <51F032B7.5060607(a)node-nine.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > I can say we've had nothing but pain in trying to get all the > context-mapping stuff recognized by pretty much every tool we use. > Because of how Cisco implemented this, even some of our inventory apps > are confused and think we have 3x more Nexus chassis than we actually do > because in their logic, each context-mapped VRF is a separate device. > IMHO, I -hate- the way Cisco has "updated" SNMP on the Nexus platform. > > One workaround we've had to use is to use DNS names per L3 interface, so > that we can refer to the vrf/device as say 'Nexus1_mgmt0.foo.com'(which > is part of the 'management' vrf) & 'Nexus1_eth1-1.foo.com'(which is part > of the 'vrf1' vrf). This way applications think of them as separate > devices due to the hostname/IP differences. > > -Chris > > On 7/24/13 1:29 PM, Darius Seroka wrote: >> Hi Rob, >> >> I posted a similar comment a few weeks/months back but my problem was >> with c6500's. Indeed it was the way cisco describes the vrf's so only >> thing that can be done is getting them to do their oid's more >> uniformly across their product range. I was not able to open a support >> request with the c6500s so dont have any tickets to refer to. >

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Re: [Observium] RRD Graphing problems
by Adam Armstrong 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Note that we can't assist with rhel/centos installs. Our recommended and tested platform is Debian/Ubuntu. Adam. Gerry Armstrong <bajangerry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I followed the http://www.observium.org/wiki/RHEL_SVN_Installation >guide step by step and had no errors with the process either. The >Poller is running and I am seeing from the cron log that it is doing >so and I also run it manually to see if i can get the data displayed. >I do see that there is traffic being recorded but for some reason it >is not being displayed. Since it is a new install I will wipe the >installation and start again from scratch and see if somehow I missed >a step. > >On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >> Its not clear what your problem is from your description. >> >> I can say the issue is 99% likely to be fixed by following the install guide properly. >> >> Adam. >> >> Gerry Armstrong <bajangerry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>Hi Guys, >>> >>>I am having a problem displaying data in the graphs. If I select an >>>interface that has traffic reported and drill down to the graph I see >>>all the graph entries with -nan but if I select the RealTime graph I >>>can see the traffic flow. Can anyone explain why this would be and how >>>I can resolve this? >>> >>>Thanks for any assistance with this. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Gerry >>>_______________________________________________ >>>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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RHEL install notes
by Zach Underwood 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Some things I found during a quick install setenforce 0 #This will disable selinux for this session vi /etc/selinux/config change "enforcing" to "permissive" The package "OpenIPMI-tools.x86_64" was not found the package name is "ipmitool.x86_64" -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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remedies to overcome vrf dance?
by Rob VanHooren 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

it appears that (non-global) VRFs (esp. wrt. RIB OIDs) somehow are seen by OBS only in my ASR 1ks and horde of c3750x. comparing with a handful of v6.1 Nexii 7k (and their vdc's), along with some archaic-but-still-v15 c3560s, the returned set is null. q1) need for the ugliness of snmp context mapping per vrf? q2) if so, is OBS prepared to iterate over the multiple communities per device? curious, R.

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Re: [Observium] inserting default schema
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

I very much doubt reinstalling mysql will make any difference at all. You probably want to try adding a user to mysql with the correct user/pass first. We do give a. Nice copy/pasteable example for that... Adam. Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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inserting default schema
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi, I am building an Observium server on a Dell server (not a vm) and have run into the problem that when I run the command, php includes/update/update.php I get: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user observium@localhost (using passwd: YES) Now, when I select user, host from mysql.user; I DO see the observium user. No, I cannot log into the mysql with observium user, however. So, I know I'm close, but I'm not there yet, any assistance would be great. Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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Re: [Observium] RRD Graphing problems
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Its not clear what your problem is from your description. I can say the issue is 99% likely to be fixed by following the install guide properly. Adam. Gerry Armstrong <bajangerry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Guys, > >I am having a problem displaying data in the graphs. If I select an >interface that has traffic reported and drill down to the graph I see >all the graph entries with -nan but if I select the RealTime graph I >can see the traffic flow. Can anyone explain why this would be and how >I can resolve this? > >Thanks for any assistance with this. > >Regards, >Gerry >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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RRD Graphing problems
by Gerry Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi Guys, I am having a problem displaying data in the graphs. If I select an interface that has traffic reported and drill down to the graph I see all the graph entries with -nan but if I select the RealTime graph I can see the traffic flow. Can anyone explain why this would be and how I can resolve this? Thanks for any assistance with this. Regards, Gerry

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Re: [Observium] remedies to overcome vrf dance?
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

There is no community indexing for the vrf MIBs as far as I have seen. It's quite common for Cisco to not bother implementing what they consider to be service provider MIBs on enterprise hardware. This is probably something you need to direct to Cisco. Note that we currently consider the vrf tracking in Observium to be broken and unusable. Adam. Rob VanHooren <rob_vanhooren(a)mac.com> wrote: >it appears that (non-global) VRFs (esp. wrt. RIB OIDs) somehow are seen by OBS only in my ASR 1ks and horde of c3750x. > >comparing with a handful of v6.1 Nexii 7k (and their vdc's), along with some archaic-but-still-v15 c3560s, the returned set is null. > >q1) need for the ugliness of snmp context mapping per vrf? >q2) if so, is OBS prepared to iterate over the multiple communities per device? > >curious, > >R. > > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] observium php session timeout affecting another application?
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

This stuff will be replaced sometime. Perhaps both we and cacti are using stupid cookie names? Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >On 24/07/2013 2:40, Eric wrote: >> i'm running two php applications on a LAMP machine. one is cacti, the >> other is observium. i'm using name-based virtual hosting with one IP >> address. when i have just the cacti virtual host running, i can stay >> logged in to cacti forever, i.e. my session never times out. when i >> enable the observium virtual host, cacti prompts me for my login >> credentials again after 1-2 minutes. i'm using LDAP authentication for >> cacti and the built-in authentication for observium (user added via >> adduser.php). any idea why that would be? >> >I think we do something with php session lifetime somewhere in the code >(?) but I have no idea why that would be affecting other apps... > >Tom >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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observium php session timeout affecting another application?
by Eric 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

i'm running two php applications on a LAMP machine. one is cacti, the other is observium. i'm using name-based virtual hosting with one IP address. when i have just the cacti virtual host running, i can stay logged in to cacti forever, i.e. my session never times out. when i enable the observium virtual host, cacti prompts me for my login credentials again after 1-2 minutes. i'm using LDAP authentication for cacti and the built-in authentication for observium (user added via adduser.php). any idea why that would be?

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Strange issue
by DaZZa 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hi folks. I've been noticing a strange issue when using Observium in the last couple of days which has me scratching my head. Occasionally, when I am browsing devices, or device components, I'll get a graph or image which just comes up reading "no authorisation" or similar - and anything else I click on results in my being kicked back to the logon screen. I don't *think* it's an inactivity timeout - at the times I have noticed this happening I specifically noticed it because I was in the middle of doing something. Is there something else I could have misconfigured which would cause this behaviour? Thanks. DaZZa

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Re: [Observium] Yamaha RTX1100 router support
by Adam Armstrong 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Please do not post modifications to Observium files to this list. (Or write them as 'guides' on blogs). It interferes with the svn update mechanism and causes significant issues to users who aren't familiar with RCS. The correct way to submit this is as a patch to jira.observium.org. Thanks, Adam. Daniele Dorigo <danieledorigo(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Yamaha RTX1100 router support
by Daniele Dorigo 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hi observium team and users, to anyone interested, I wrote a simple guide on how to support the device Yamaha RTX1100. http://ddtest.co.nf/howto/rtxobvhowto.html Hope it helps Daniele

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Alerting Update
by Adam Armstrong 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Morning Observiumites and Kickstarters. We're pleased to announce that we've reached a development milestone on the road to replacing all of our hated monitoring applications. The last 2 weeks spent in Amsterdam collaborating on the alerting system have been immensely productive, thanks to the great visionaries Maarten Moerman of eBay and Job Snijders of Atrato, we would like to thank them for their continuous support, Coke Zero and Appelkoeks. The fundamental schema for the alerting system have been defined and a basic working framework written. This week will be spent further improving and bug-fixing the framework so that we can move on to writing a UI to easily change the alert rule sets and associations. We'll provide some further details on how the system works soon! Thanks, Adam Armstrong - Project Leader

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Obvervium login issue
by untitledpower＠net.hr 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hello, I have an issue which I have been unable to resolve in the last 5 hourse. My Obversium login simply doesn't work. Nothing happens when I login using real username / password. When I try to login with wrong user/pass it wasy login invalid, but with the real login details nothing happens, no error, just gets me to login page again. I use RHEL6 and i did everything from the guide. Tried with both Apache and nginx, same error. error_log empty. How could I debug this further? I know DB is created successfully and admin users loaded to the mysql table sucessfully. Any help wold be appreciated.

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Event Logs Broken and Empty
by Michael Davies 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hi All, At some stage a wee back, a couple of months ago I think, something broke all the event log bits in Observium. I vaguely remember it breaking after one of the sql updates that took a long time to run on the eventlog table, but I'm not certain about that. Example images: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106803/work/observium1.PNG https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106803/work/observium2.PNG Table looks like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106803/work/eventlog.txt What might be the best way to fix this up? I'm not worried about any historical data so it's fine if emptying out that DB table is the fix. Thoughts? Regards and thanks, Michael. ______________________________________________________ This email is intended only for the person to which it is addressed and may contain confidential or legally privileged material. Any dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon the content of this email by persons other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the email from any computer. Opinions and other information in this email that do not relate to the business of my employer are not given nor endorsed by it. Unencrypted email is not secure and may not be authentic. If you have any doubts as to the contents please telephone to confirm. OceanaGold Corporation and its related entities accept no responsibility for changes made to this email or its attachments after transmission from OceanaGold Corporation and its related entities and do not guarantee that this email or attachments are virus or error free.

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Network mapping module
by Noruni 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hello Will observium integrate someday active network mapping module ? it should really interesting for users. Thanks Noru

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HTML mail
by Sander Steffann 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hi, I just noticed that my alert e-mails are looking funny. In r4203 the content-type of those messages was changed to text/html. Are the messages going to be HTML formatted in the near future? Otherwise it might be more appropriate to send text/plain instead as long as the content is plain text. Cheers, Sander

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VMware ESX 5.1.0 and observium
by Xavier Beaudouin 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hello, On another configuration I had on vmware esx polling shown all vm currently installed. Seems on my ESX 5.1.0 (with vmware essential license) the vm hosted by the server are not shown. Any ideas ? Regards, Xavier

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Re: [Observium] HTML mail
by Adam Armstrong 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

We already have an issue where round cube and android that I'm testing on display base64'd inline graph images, but maarten's outlook doesn't. Bleh! Adam. Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: >Don't forget implement broken HTML mails too for grumpy windows users with outlook express. :-D > >On 22.07.2013, at 1:03, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > >> Yes, we plan to accommodate both freebsd neck-beards and macbook hipsters. :) >> >> adam. >> >> On 2013-07-21 22:35, Job Snijders wrote: >>> Keep in mind that work is being done on the alerting code. I hope that >>> in the future both text and html versions are send to accommodate all >>> walks of life. >>> Job >>> Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I just noticed that my alert e-mails are looking funny. In r4203 the >>> content-type of those messages was changed to text/html. Are the >>> messages going to be HTML formatted in the near future? Otherwise it >>> might be more appropriate to send text/plain instead as long as the >>> content is plain text. >>> Cheers, >>> Sander >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Shaun Bradley 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hi Guys, me again I've googled for this but not found anything much, and I know it's not entirely observium-related but is there any way of specifying a different root device in snmpd.conf? I have a few VPS hosted systems and the root devices are different, some are /dev/simfs, others are /dev/xvda1 etc. Obviously this just produces a broken graph in observium so I'm wondering if there is a way of setting it and then having it picked up. Many thanks for any pointers. Shaun

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Re: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Adam Armstrong 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Oh. You were being confusing by talking about 'root device'. You mean the SNMP agent isn't reporting any file systems? Probably some permissions bullshit related to the virtualization platform. You don't need to mess with the netsnmp config at all really. Adam. Shaun Bradley <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Adam Armstrong 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

What does "graphs are broken" mean? Shaun Bradley <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Tom Laermans 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Why is it wrong? That is the question. Observium gets its data from your snmp agent, I have not had it fail even in linux-vserver jails. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Shaun Bradley" <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 18:28 Hi Guys, me again I’ve googled for this but not found anything much, and I know it’s not entirely observium-related but is there any way of specifying a different root device in snmpd.conf? I have a few VPS hosted systems and the root devices are different, some are /dev/simfs, others are /dev/xvda1 etc. Obviously this just produces a broken graph in observium so I’m wondering if there is a way of setting it and then having it picked up. Many thanks for any pointers. Shaun

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Re: [Observium] Varnish and PHP-FPM
by Tom Laermans 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

No. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "sdfg ssdfsdf" <huffrrrr(a)outlook.com> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Varnish and PHP-FPM Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 21:11 Hey all, Does Observium have the ability to monitor Varnish and PHP-FPM or does a patch not exist? Thanks guys!

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Varnish and PHP-FPM
by sdfg ssdfsdf 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Hey all, Does Observium have the ability to monitor Varnish and PHP-FPM or does a patch not exist? Thanks guys!

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Re: [Observium] interesting question on reddit
by Tom Laermans 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

RRD also stores deltas, but more importantly, RRD is way slower than MySQL for such single values. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Rob J. Epping" <rob.epping(a)gmail.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] interesting question on reddit Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 20:00 On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: [SNIP] > We can't "remember" errors, you only see ports with error counters that > incremented in the past 5 minutes. I thought remebering is done in RRD format :) -- GRTNX, RobJE _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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interesting question on reddit
by Stefan Milo 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

http://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1im94u/what_tools_for_monitorin… is it possible for observium to sort devices/ports by interface errors, discards etc? br stefan milo

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Re: [Observium] interesting question on reddit
by Tom Laermans 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Yes, I obviously put in bad cables to be able to test Observium :D Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Sander Steffann" <sander(a)steffann.nl> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] interesting question on reddit Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 16:07 Hi, > I don't know what Lists >> Errors" even is, but clicking "Errored (6)" under Ports gives me a list of 6 ports with errors. I was looking for that link but couldn't find it, until I realised that it only shows when there actually are ports with errors. Guess I have nothing to worry about :-) Cheers, Sander _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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SNMPv3-Only Discovery/Polling
by Daniel Preussker 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Hi, I recently set up another host. This time using SNMPv3. addhost.php worked fine and both Auth and Priv passed. discovery.php can't discover the host. poller.php can't poll the host. via snmpget I get responces to sysUpTime.0 but not to .1, .0, ... The snmpd.conf should grand the user full Readonly rights as I didn't specify any SubID to the user. Is this known? Is there a way around? Is there any example of a working snmpv3-only setup? Best regards, Daniel Preussker [ Security Consultant, Network & Protocol Security and Cryptography [ LPI & Novell Certified Linux Engineer and Researcher [ +49 178 600 96 30 [ Daniel(a)Preussker.Net [ http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x87E736968E490AA1

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Re : svn update issue
by simon schaller 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

hello shaun you are not on the good way. you have to be in /opt/observium for me like example. i am not sure but try it. --- Message initial --- De : "Shaun Bradley" <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> Envoyé : 18 juillet 2013 10:41 A : observium(a)observium.org Objet : [Observium] svn update issue Hi guys Trying to update observium with 'svn update' like I have been doing on another server, but on this server with a fresh install I am getting the following error. Skipped '.' Any pointers in the right direction would be great, I did a normal svn checkout for the install as per the guide. Many thanks, Shaun _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Collectd minigraphs on front page
by Frank Ortmann 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Hello We make fairly heavy use of the collectd capabilities of Observium. It really is a great feature for us. I have been investigating adding mini graphs to the front page. The guide helped me add graphs from SNMP-gathered data, but I was unable to add graphs from our collectd list. The current implementation requires an ID and a TYPE. Unfortunately, the collectd chart dos not contain these keys (see below). <IP>/graphs/type=device_collectd/device=15/c_plugin=<FOLDER_NAME>/c_type=counter/c_type_instance=<COUNTER_NAME>/to=1374136448/from=1374050048/ Has anyone been able to do this? Is it possible? Kind regards, Frank

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Re: [Observium] Config line for globally enabling Unix agent module
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

And do not edit defaults.inc.php, or your first born child will burst in to flames. Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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svn update issue
by Shaun Bradley 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Hi guys Trying to update observium with 'svn update' like I have been doing on another server, but on this server with a fresh install I am getting the following error. Skipped '.' Any pointers in the right direction would be great, I did a normal svn checkout for the install as per the guide. Many thanks, Shaun

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Re: [Observium] Monitor Munin Plugins
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Observium will draw graphs from munin plugins, yes. You need to use the UNIX agent. I'm not sure there is documentation for the munin stuff at the moment, but its not too complex Adam. AAbCC <aabcc1990(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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