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Re: [Observium] Graphs only work when debuging
by Tom Laermans 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

See faq entry about whitespace in your config file. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Brian Morgan" <bluedogs(a)gmail.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Graphs only work when debuging Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2012 14:34 Hello, On a fresh install of observium on ubuntu 12.04 (LAMP) we are having issues with the graphs not showing up. The graphs display as a broken image icon. If you access the image url directly that is loading /graph.php?.... you still get a broken image. But when you try to debug the issue, (we append &debug=1 to the url) the image displays correctly. Turning on debuging on the parent page yields no useful data, and the graphs are still broken images, but we assume that is because the debug variable isn't passed down to the image url. The graphs are getting generated in the /tmp directory and have valid data. I am at a loss of where to look to figure out what we either forgot to do or have misconfigured. Subversion shows that we are upto date at version 3360 Thank you, Brian _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Graphs only work when debuging
by Adam Armstrong 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Reinstall and follow the guide properly. Adam. Brian Morgan <bluedogs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hello, >On a fresh install of observium on ubuntu 12.04 (LAMP) we are having >issues with the graphs not showing up. >The graphs display as a broken image icon. > >If you access the image url directly that is loading /graph.php?.... >you still get a broken image. >But when you try to debug the issue, (we append &debug=1 to the url) >the image displays correctly. >Turning on debuging on the parent page yields no useful data, and the >graphs are still broken images, >but we assume that is because the debug variable isn't passed down to >the image url. > >The graphs are getting generated in the /tmp directory and have valid data. > >I am at a loss of where to look to figure out what we either forgot to >do or have misconfigured. > >Subversion shows that we are upto date at version 3360 > >Thank you, >Brian >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Graphs only work when debuging
by Brian Morgan 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Hello, On a fresh install of observium on ubuntu 12.04 (LAMP) we are having issues with the graphs not showing up. The graphs display as a broken image icon. If you access the image url directly that is loading /graph.php?.... you still get a broken image. But when you try to debug the issue, (we append &debug=1 to the url) the image displays correctly. Turning on debuging on the parent page yields no useful data, and the graphs are still broken images, but we assume that is because the debug variable isn't passed down to the image url. The graphs are getting generated in the /tmp directory and have valid data. I am at a loss of where to look to figure out what we either forgot to do or have misconfigured. Subversion shows that we are upto date at version 3360 Thank you, Brian

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Re: [Observium] Checkpoint Firewall Support?
by Adam Armstrong 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

The code is the documentation, mostly. Adam. Steve Costaras <stevecs(a)chaven.com> wrote: > >I'm just starting to look at observium for some monitoring. I see that it supports cisco based firewalls (ASA/PIX) but it does not currently support checkpoint. > >Checkpoint mainly runs on top of redhat linux. I'm able to get the general linux stats but not the firewall specific stats (connections/vpn/etc) similar to what's available with the cisco asa support. > >Basically, I'm asking if anyone has managed to get this to work. Or barring that, any information as to how to add support? > > >Steve > > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Post saturation warnings / alerts disabled ?
by Maarten De Wispelaere 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Dear all, For some reason, I'm getting Port saturation threshold warnings for ports on a switch where I have disabled 'alerting' for that specific port. Is that normal ? Or some kind of bug ? I'm new to Observium, so I can't compare to previous versions. Thanks in advance, Maarten De Wispelaere IBCN - Ghent University

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Re: [Observium] Observium Not logged in!
by BREUVART Jean-Jacques 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

I’ve try with Opera, Firefox and IE and having the same problem. Cordialement, greatings. Jean-Jacques Breuvart (75.42.39) P Please consider the environmental impact of needlessly printing this e-mail. De : observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Dan Draghici Envoyé : mardi 7 août 2012 13:17 À : 'Observium Network Observation System' Objet : Re: [Observium] Observium Not logged in! Try a different browser ? I too, noticed some display problems on IE. Dan From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of BREUVART Jean-Jacques Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 2:09 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Observium Not logged in! I’ve installed a new server under Ubuntu server like describe in the documentation. I’ve create a user (adduser) I’ve create a host (addhost), running discovery and poller without error. But, when I try to connect I’ve no login page, only the logo Observium and in the top right “ Widescreen | Not logged in!” Any idea ? Jean-Jacques Breuvart Ce message provient d’un cabinet d’avocats et contient des informations confidentielles protégées par le secret professionnel. Au cas où il ne vous serait pas destiné, nous vous remercions de bien vouloir nous en aviser immédiatement et de le supprimer. Gide Loyrette Nouel ne peut être tenu responsable en cas de modification d’un message électronique ou d’une pièce jointe sans son accord écrit. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. fait partie de Gide Loyrette Nouel, un cabinet d’avocats international ayant ses bureaux à Alger, Bruxelles, Bucarest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Hô Chi Minh Ville, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kiev, Londres, Moscou, New York, Paris, Pékin, Saint-Pétersbourg, Shanghai, Tunis et Varsovie. Une liste des associés de chaque bureau vous sera fournie sur demande. This e-mail is sent by a law firm and may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and any attachments and notify us immediately. Gide Loyrette Nouel is not liable if an e-mail or attachment is altered without its written consent. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. is part of Gide Loyrette Nouel, an international law firm, with offices in Algiers, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kyiv, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Shanghai, Tunis and Warsaw. A list of partners at each office can be provided upon request. Ce message provient d’un cabinet d’avocats et contient des informations confidentielles protégées par le secret professionnel. Au cas où il ne vous serait pas destiné, nous vous remercions de bien vouloir nous en aviser immédiatement et de le supprimer. Gide Loyrette Nouel ne peut être tenu responsable en cas de modification d’un message électronique ou d’une pièce jointe sans son accord écrit. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. fait partie de Gide Loyrette Nouel, un cabinet d’avocats international ayant ses bureaux à Alger, Bruxelles, Bucarest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Hô Chi Minh Ville, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kiev, Londres, Moscou, New York, Paris, Pékin, Saint-Pétersbourg, Shanghai, Tunis et Varsovie. Une liste des associés de chaque bureau vous sera fournie sur demande. This e-mail is sent by a law firm and may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and any attachments and notify us immediately. Gide Loyrette Nouel is not liable if an e-mail or attachment is altered without its written consent. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. is part of Gide Loyrette Nouel, an international law firm, with offices in Algiers, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kyiv, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Shanghai, Tunis and Warsaw. A list of partners at each office can be provided upon request.

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Re: [Observium] adding IPv6-only hosts fails
by Adam Armstrong 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Well, I'm just about to go off to mexico for a few months, so not until after that. :-) Adam. Job Snijders <job(a)instituut.net> wrote: >Adam, > >On 7 aug. 2012, at 22:18, Adam Armstrong wrote: > >> On 07/08/2012 21:17, Moerman, Maarten wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> root@irime:/opt/observium# ./addhost.php pi2.meerval.net >>>> hey_adam_come_drink_beer_in_amsterdam >>> When will you actually be coming to drink beer in Amsterdam? >> >> Are you offering free aklompendation? > >Yes, if I'm in the country and nothing weird comes up you can crash at my place. No problem, no english breakfast. :-) > >When are we dating? > >Kind regards, > >Job >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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adding IPv6-only hosts fails
by Job Snijders 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Hi all, I'm trying to add a cute little device which only has static IPv6 address. But it fails for some reason which might have something to do with that legacy IPv4 protocol. root@irime:/opt/observium# dig +short pi2.meerval.net root@irime:/opt/observium# dig +short aaaa pi2.meerval.net 2001:67c:208c:10:821f:2ff:fe4b:3932 root@irime:/opt/observium# root@irime:/opt/observium# ./addhost.php pi2.meerval.net hey_adam_come_drink_beer_in_amsterdam Could not resolve pi2.meerval.net Could not resolve pi2.meerval.net Could not resolve pi2.meerval.net Could not resolve pi2.meerval.net Observium v0.12.7.3353 Add Host Tool Usage (SNMPv1/2c): ./addhost.php <hostname> [community] [v1|v2c] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Usage (SNMPv3) : Config Defaults : ./addhost.php <hostname> any v3 [user] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] No Auth, No Priv : ./addhost.php <hostname> nanp v3 [user] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Auth, No Priv : ./addhost.php <hostname> anp v3 <user> <password> [md5|sha] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Auth, Priv : ./addhost.php <hostname> ap v3 <user> <password> <enckey> [md5|sha] [aes|dsa] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] Remember to run discovery for the host afterwards. Kind regards, Job

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Observium Not logged in!
by BREUVART Jean-Jacques 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

I've installed a new server under Ubuntu server like describe in the documentation. I've create a user (adduser) I've create a host (addhost), running discovery and poller without error. But, when I try to connect I've no login page, only the logo Observium and in the top right " Widescreen | Not logged in!" Any idea ? Jean-Jacques Breuvart Ce message provient d’un cabinet d’avocats et contient des informations confidentielles protégées par le secret professionnel. Au cas où il ne vous serait pas destiné, nous vous remercions de bien vouloir nous en aviser immédiatement et de le supprimer. Gide Loyrette Nouel ne peut être tenu responsable en cas de modification d’un message électronique ou d’une pièce jointe sans son accord écrit. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. fait partie de Gide Loyrette Nouel, un cabinet d’avocats international ayant ses bureaux à Alger, Bruxelles, Bucarest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Hô Chi Minh Ville, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kiev, Londres, Moscou, New York, Paris, Pékin, Saint-Pétersbourg, Shanghai, Tunis et Varsovie. Une liste des associés de chaque bureau vous sera fournie sur demande. This e-mail is sent by a law firm and may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and any attachments and notify us immediately. Gide Loyrette Nouel is not liable if an e-mail or attachment is altered without its written consent. Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. is part of Gide Loyrette Nouel, an international law firm, with offices in Algiers, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Casablanca, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kyiv, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Shanghai, Tunis and Warsaw. A list of partners at each office can be provided upon request.

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Alert emails not working
by Shekhar Basnet 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

Hello List, I used to get emails of alerts (including BGP, temperature) but not anymore. I keep on doing SVN updates every week. I noticed that the emails were not coming after many updates. I've not changed any settings. I wonder what is wrong. I have set SNMP contact as 'netadmin' in all my routers. Observium was sending emails to this alias. Anybody knows how to fix this? Current version is as below:- Apache: 2.2.3 (CentOS) PHP: 5.1.6 MySQL: 5.0.77 RRDtool: 1.4.5 Observium: 0.12.8.3358 Config.php is as below:- ### ADDED - Alert Settings $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = NULL; ## Default alert recipient $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; ## Only use default recipient $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; ## Enable email alerts #$config['alerts']['port']['ifdown'] = TRUE; ## Generate alerts for ports that go down

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Installation help with menu items
by Dave Badia 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Hi - I have a new installation of observium running on apache on gentoo. When I go to the main page (http://myserver/observium/html/) it looks similar to the demo and I see the data. But, when I click on the menu items, they don't work. For example, if I click on Locations I get The requested URL /index.php/locations// was not found on this server. Any ideas as to what I've configured incorrectly? Thanks Dave

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Cisco 2900 Router VRF display Issue
by Moermond, Timothy 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Hi, I have situation where Observium shows VRF information for all of my 2800 series routers but not my 2900 series router. Also the config tab is not showing up either from the rancid integration, but it does for all of my 2800 series routers. I have removed and added the router back but that did not seem to change anything. All of other information appears to be displaying and rancid is pulling the configuration without any issues. Has anyone run into this? The 2900 is running IOS ver. 15.0(1)M3. Tim

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Recent changes on the billing pages - CPU hogging of poll-billing.php
by Erik Bais 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Hi, I would like to start with that the recent changes look really good on the billing pages. Excellent job, I like it. Over the last few weeks minor changes have been done to these pages and I was wondering if anything was also done to the file: /opt/observium/poll-billing.php or the tables used for it. That process currently takes about 40 minutes on our environment, while I hoped that upgrading to an Equillogic with 16 SAS drives with RAID10 for more IOPS would fix the issue, while it did improve a bit, the result is the similar. Could it be that there are indices missing? Or is there something else which could be done that might improve this? I can create some indices myself to see if things improve in a shadow environment, but I'm not sure if that would break things with future SVN update's if done in production ? Regards, Erik Bais >From the mysql-slow-query log: # User@Host: observium[observium] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 0.002977 Lock_time: 0.000189 Rows_sent: 2 Rows_examined: 278 SET timestamp=1343723771; SELECT * FROM `bill_ports` as P, `ports` as I, `devices` as D WHERE P.bill_id='68' AND I.port_id = P.port_id AND D.device_id = I.device_id; # Time: 120731 10:36:27 # User@Host: observium[observium] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 0.006157 Lock_time: 0.000172 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 276 SET timestamp=1343723787; SELECT * FROM `bill_ports` as P, `ports` as I, `devices` as D WHERE P.bill_id='170' AND I.port_id = P.port_id AND D.device_id = I.device_id; # User@Host: observium[observium] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 0.003924 Lock_time: 0.000129 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 276 SET timestamp=1343723787; SELECT * FROM `bill_ports` as P, `ports` as I, `devices` as D WHERE P.bill_id='156' AND I.port_id = P.port_id AND D.device_id = I.device_id; # User@Host: observium[observium] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 0.002853 Lock_time: 0.000198 Rows_sent: 2 Rows_examined: 278 SET timestamp=1343723787; SELECT * FROM `bill_ports` as P, `ports` as I, `devices` as D WHERE P.bill_id='140' AND I.port_id = P.port_id AND D.device_id = I.device_id; # User@Host: observium[observium] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 0.001970 Lock_time: 0.000166 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 276 SET timestamp=1343723787; SELECT * FROM `bill_ports` as P, `ports` as I, `devices` as D WHERE P.bill_id='116' AND I.port_id = P.port_id AND D.device_id = I.device_id; Top output: Tasks: 189 total, 1 running, 188 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 73.6%us, 16.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 9.1%id, 1.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 74.2%us, 16.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 9.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 75.6%us, 14.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 10.0%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 72.8%us, 16.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 10.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 12307228k total, 1980332k used, 10326896k free, 141572k buffers Swap: 7340028k total, 0k used, 7340028k free, 1098304k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 17981 mysql 20 0 4058m 208m 7840 S 329 1.7 284:02.92 mysqld 25265 root 20 0 192m 16m 6608 S 1 0.1 0:10.13 php 13586 root 20 0 192m 16m 6608 S 1 0.1 0:00.69 php 16609 root 20 0 192m 16m 6608 S 1 0.1 0:05.56 php 11807 root 20 0 192m 16m 6608 S 1 0.1 0:06.75 php 26474 root 20 0 192m 16m 6608 S 1 0.1 0:03.88 php Processes running after 1.5 hours: root 2272 2259 0 09:50 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 2279 2272 0 09:50 ? 00:00:08 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 3757 3747 0 10:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 3760 3757 0 10:25 ? 00:00:02 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 6983 6972 0 09:55 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 6991 6983 0 09:55 ? 00:00:07 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 8755 8743 0 10:30 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 8759 8755 0 10:30 ? 00:00:01 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 11514 11501 0 09:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 11522 11514 0 09:25 ? 00:00:13 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 11803 11793 0 10:00 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 11807 11803 0 10:00 ? 00:00:06 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 13578 13566 0 10:35 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 13586 13578 0 10:35 ? 00:00:00 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 15995 15983 0 09:30 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 15998 15995 0 09:30 ? 00:00:11 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 16605 16595 0 10:05 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 16609 16605 0 10:05 ? 00:00:05 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 20583 20573 0 09:35 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 20586 20583 0 09:35 ? 00:00:11 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 21514 21504 0 10:10 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 21519 21514 0 10:10 ? 00:00:04 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 25260 25252 0 09:40 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 25265 25260 0 09:40 ? 00:00:10 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 26469 26457 0 10:15 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 26474 26469 0 10:15 ? 00:00:03 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 29987 29976 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 29990 29987 0 09:45 ? 00:00:09 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root 31342 31332 0 10:20 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /opt/observium/poll-billing.php >> /dev/null 2>&1 root 31347 31342 0 10:20 ? 00:00:02 php /opt/observium/poll-billing.php root@portal:/var/log/mysql# ps -ef | grep poll-billing | wc -l 30

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custom menubar
by Cushard Michael 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi, I'm assuming print-menubar-custom.inc.php allows you to add custom menu items to the menu bar. How does it work? I cannot seem to find any documentation regarding its functionality. Regards, Michael

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checkmk windows agent
by Dennis Kruyt 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Now there is coming more and more support for the unix agent in Observium, I was wondering will there also be coming support for windows agent? This is not much different then the unix agent, so very easy to implement. http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_windows.html Cheers...

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Re: [Observium] Upper case letters?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

You get what you pay for :D On 26/07/2012 15:07, Dan Draghici wrote: > > Ok I understand. Thanks for your reply > > P.S. No need for the supperiority attitude. > > Dan > > *From:*observium-bounces@observium.org > [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *On Behalf Of *Adam Armstrong > *Sent:* Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:54 PM > *To:* Observium Network Observation System > *Subject:* Re: [Observium] Upper case letters? > > On 26/07/2012 14:47, Dan Draghici wrote: > > Hello, > > I`ve installed observium and it works great so far but I have a > small issue. > > I see that it automatically makes the device names into lowercase > letters. For example if you type "CoreRouter" it will end up > showing as "corerouter". Is it possible to make the names with > uppercase? > > I have a rather large network and having the names of the devices > show up with uppercase would really help when browsing through > observium. > > > Having a decent naming scheme would help more. Hostnames are lower > case, deal with it. > > adam. > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Upper case letters?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

On 26/07/2012 14:47, Dan Draghici wrote: > > Hello, > > I`ve installed observium and it works great so far but I have a small > issue. > > I see that it automatically makes the device names into lowercase > letters. For example if you type "CoreRouter" it will end up showing > as "corerouter". Is it possible to make the names with uppercase? > > I have a rather large network and having the names of the devices show > up with uppercase would really help when browsing through observium. > > Having a decent naming scheme would help more. Hostnames are lower case, deal with it. adam.

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Upper case letters?
by Dan Draghici 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hello, I`ve installed observium and it works great so far but I have a small issue. I see that it automatically makes the device names into lowercase letters. For example if you type "CoreRouter" it will end up showing as "corerouter". Is it possible to make the names with uppercase? I have a rather large network and having the names of the devices show up with uppercase would really help when browsing through observium. Thanks, Dan D.

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Another integration question...nfsen
by Morgan McLean 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

I don't think I'm being as retarded with this one. Sorry if I am. nfsen running for a single firewall cluster at the moment, cfw.sv.domain.com. I can view nfsen's interface and see all of the data etc, so I know my netflow is working properly and nfsen can run reports on it etc. I get cannot generate graph when going to the nfsen tab directly via url options, it does not show up in tabs list otherwise. Is there something major here I'm doing wrong? IE smokeping I pointed to png files instead of RRD files :). I've tried temporary universal read write etc for testing purposes, didn't help. I tried using the nfsen_suffix option at first, but ended up ditching that and spelling out the entire hostname under nfsen to eliminate a possible trouble spot. nfsen output on start: [root(a)netmon01.ops bin]# ./nfsen start Starting nfcapd:(cfw_sv_domain_com)[7154] Starting nfsend. Directory, rrd file: [root(a)netmon01.ops live]# pwd /opt/nfsendata/profiles-stat/live [root(a)netmon01.ops live]# ll total 2860 -rw-rw-r-- 1 netflow apache 2687848 Jul 22 18:35 cfw_sv_domain_com.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 14727 Jul 22 18:35 flows-day.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 18817 Jul 22 18:35 flows-month.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 16145 Jul 22 18:35 flows-week.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 17712 Jul 22 18:35 flows-year.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 20324 Jul 22 18:35 packets-day.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 19281 Jul 22 18:35 packets-month.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 19349 Jul 22 18:35 packets-week.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 18379 Jul 22 18:35 packets-year.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 netflow apache 258 Jul 22 18:35 profile.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 15728 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-day.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 19764 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-month.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 15163 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-week.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 17352 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-year.png observium config: $config['nfsen_enable'] = 1; $config['nfsen_rrds'] = "/opt/nfsendata/profiles-stat/live/"; $config['nfsen_split_char'] = "_"; #$config['nfsen_suffix'] = ""; fqdn is under 19 char Thanks, Morgan

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Ignoring down / notconnected ports
by Benedikt Sveinsson 22 Jul '12

22 Jul '12

Hi - I have not been able to find this, we started trying/using Observium for few weeks. We intend to use it mostly to compliment our current monitoring software. We are impressed with it, but the main intention is graphing and helping us troubleshooting. We are monitoring large 6500 switches and we have a number of ports that we intentionally keep in the cisco notconnected state. The front page of Observium is then riddled with the "Port Down" messages. Can this be suppressed / ignored ? I hope I'm not asking a question that has been answered many times, but google fails me here - and I'm still getting around understanding how Observium functions. Kveðja / With regards Benedikt Sveinsson Senior Network Engineer CCP Operations [Description: Description: Description: Description: signature] Netfang / Email benedikt(a)ccpgames.com<mailto:benedikt@ccpgames.com> GSM / Mobile. +354 691-6445 Grandagarði 8 * 101 Reykjavík * Iceland * http://www.ccpgames.com<http://www.ccpgames.com/>

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Smokeping integration
by Morgan McLean 21 Jul '12

21 Jul '12

Hi, I have a machine named techops01, I have a directory /opt/smokeping/ that is running smokeping. cache/ has the png files etc. I've tried pointing to both, readding the host, rediscovering, nothing. Additionally, smokeping does not allow "." in the host name. I saw somebody had a patch for observium to add conversion of '_' to '.' , did this ever make it into code? I haven't seen a flag ### smokeping testing $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/opt/smokeping/cache/"; also tried ### smokeping testing $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/opt/smokeping/"; Its not a permissions issue, its 777 now for testing purposes. Thank you! Morgan

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What's the secret
by Sonny Kupka 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Hello, I have been messing with Observium off and on for the last month. I noticed one of my devices is showing up under Ports > Customer Only thing I can find different for this interface is the desc has CUST: at beginning of the description. I can't find any docs on this feature.. Any someone point me in the right direction.. How to get all customer ports showing up? Thanks. Sonny

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New billing interface
by Chris Stone 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Adam, Nice work on the new billing interface - like the new look. Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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generate-map.sh
by Morgan McLean 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

I tried searching around but found nothing on this. It would appear this script generates some larger network map, maybe more conclusive, I don't know. Its broken in a few ways, is this supposed to work or is this old stuff thats stuck around? I temporarily fixed a couple errors I was getting, but even so the map.dot file or whichever it dumps its initial payload into was turning up empty. Thanks, Morgan

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New install only shows website header.
by Lasse Leegaard 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

I just did my first install of observium after a very convicing demo by a friend. However the website only loads the header (or parts of it). When I add /debug to the address I get this output Notice: Undefined index: page_title in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 107 Notice: Undefined index: widescreen in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 125 Notice: Undefined index: bare in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 217 Notice: Undefined index: widescreen in /opt/observium/html/includes/header.inc.php on line 18 Widescreen<http://observium.brandbil.dk/debug?widescreen=yes>| Notice: Undefined index: authenticated in /opt/observium/html/includes/header.inc.php on line 25 Not logged in! Fatal error: Class 'Net_IPv6' not found in /opt/observium/html/includes/header.inc.php on line 32 For installation I followed this guide and also created a virtual host to run the observium webserver from: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation I did everything and all the guide says - in that order - and did not do anything other than that. Obviously it seems like a problem with the Net_IPv6 package in PHP. Ubuntu is 10.04 and I meet all the requirements set forth in the requirements section of the install page. I am aware it might not be an observium error as such, but the googles is not really that helfull and my own skills are lacking a bit when it comes to webservers. -- -Lasse-

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blank graphs
by Miguel Alejandro González 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

So I followed the ubuntu svn installation tutorial and managed to get observium to run... (commenting the function gethostbyname) But anyway... So far I have been able to log in to the web app and... the app has recorded all the info from the device I want to monitor... but somehow all the graphs are blank with nan values The device in question right now is in idle mode, just receiving packets from network equipment and sometimes ICMP (ping) packets. So maybe I'm doing this wrong and it needs to be in active mode receiving all kinds of requests.... but even the memory and processes graphs are blank... What could it be? Cron? I'm missing some configuration? Do I need to follow more of your documents? I'm a little confused... sorry I'm a n00b using this app I following these tuts: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation (Completed the Installation section and the Debian > 6.0 and Ubuntu > 11.04 section) http://www.observium.org/wiki/NetSNMPd_Client_Configuration Regards!

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observiums .htaccess en apache server-status
by Dennis Kruyt 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

The observiums .htaccess in /opt/Observium/html is blocking the server-status. So by default I cant read the server-status of the Observium machine. I think thisd line should be added, so you can run Observium and have access to the server-status. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status Dennis,-

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Installing observium
by Miguel Alejandro González 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

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

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

13 Jul '12

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

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

12 Jul '12

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

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

10 Jul '12

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

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

10 Jul '12

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

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LDAP Authentication
by Moermond, Timothy 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

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

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Brocade ifAlias
by Daniel Hooper 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

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

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Upgrade to 3316
by Laurens Vets 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

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

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Dell M1000 Blade Chassis
by Dennis Kruyt 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

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

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Apache SNMP script changes
by Tom Laermans 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

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

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IRC channel moved
by Tom Laermans 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi guys (& girls?), We moved our irc channel #observium from Freenode to OFTC. Please update your bookmarks/IRC clients/... and don't forget to part the old channel and join the new one ;-) Tom

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setup new devices, missing data
by Nenad 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi, I installed yesterday observium and add some first devices: HP Procurve 2900 Switches (public, v2c) Cisco ASA (private, v2c) Juniper MX80 (private, v2c) APC AP8853 PDU's (private, v1) Observium show me graphs for the Interfaces, but nothing more like: - Powerusage on PDU - BGP Peerings, CPU usage, Memory, Temperature usage on Juniper Router - Memory/CPU usage on Cisco ASA - Memory usage on HP Switch I added to the config.php: $config['enable_bgp'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['amperes'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['celsius'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['dBm'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['voltsDC'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['voltsAC'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['watts'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['truthvalue'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['specialEnum'] = 1; I used addhost.php to add the devices, and set a cronjob for poller.php. Did I forget something? Cheers, Nenad

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Net App devices
by Sonny Kupka 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Hello, Does anyone have a trick for getting good information from a NetApp using observium? Disk stats .. failed drive.. etc.. Thanks. Sonny

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"Device rebooted" message every 5 minutes after customer server replaced
by Andrew Beals 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

I upgraded one of our client's servers a couple of days ago by pushing all of its data onto a new image on AWS. Since I re-enabled Observium monitoring on it (same IP address as the old one), I've been getting a "device rebooted" message every 5 minutes from Observium. Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Device Rebooted : hostname 1 day, 18h 17m 23s ago. How do I make it stop? -- Andrew Beals Cell: 913-787-7538 Desk: 913-948-8782 E-mail: ABeals(a)mersoft.com

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PowerDNS
by Aaron Mayfield 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

I think during one of the recent updates, my powerDNS graphs broke. Has anyone else experienced this? Here is the output of ./poller.php -h 8 -d (with host 8 being one of my DNS servers): **************************************************** Notice: Undefined index: poll_applications in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 189 including: includes/polling/applications.inc.php SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '8' SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '8'] Applications: SQL[SELECT `graph` FROM `device_graphs` WHERE `device_id` = '8'] uptime netstat_ip netstat_ip_frag netstat_tcp netstat_udp netstat_icmp netstat_icmp_info netstat_snmp netstat_snmp_pkt hr_processes hr_users ucd_cpu ucd_swap_io ucd_io ucd_contexts ucd_interrupts ucd_memory ucd_load ipsystemstats_ipv4 ipsystemstats_ipv4_frag ipsystemstats_ipv6 ipsystemstats_ipv6_frag Polled in 0.938 second **************************************************** Here is the mysql query result on this: mysql> SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '8'\G *************************** 1. row *************************** app_id: 3 device_id: 8 app_type: powerdns app_state: UNKNOWN app_status: 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> **************************************************** As you can see, Observium doesn't seem to be picking up on the fact that there is a registered application for the host. Does anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

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trouble ignoring switch ports - update broke functionality
by Henrik Lund Kramshøj 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

Hi All I have Observium running for some time and currently at [hlk@wiseguy01 observium]$ sudo svn up At revision 3310. After Observium SVN upgrade I cannot seem to ignore certain ports from Dell PowerConnect switches (might not be only those) from high port numbers I get "Device record unchanged. No update necessary." this happens currently on two switch stacks that are quite large, both 10 units single port 9/0/35 on one stack lots of ports from units 8, 9, 10 on the other stack Those cannot be ignored. I tested using ports 1/0/4 and 7/0/51 that I can ignore/unignore another port on this switch. also tried removing the switch completely and adding it again. Any pointers or ideas? Where to look for this - used to work fine. BTW I noticed to other ports were changed today - we moved a server, and changing those on a Dell 8024F gave the expected " 2 Device record updated." and were updated fine. Best regards Henrik -- Henrik Lund Kramshøj, Follower of the Great Way of Unix hlk(a)kramse.org hlk(a)solidonetworks.com +45 2026 6000 cand.scient CISSP http://solidonetworks.com/ Network Security is a business enabler

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Sensors not picking up, get rediscovered 4 times a day
by Morgan McLean 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

My logs look like this...any idea why its not picking up? I have about 50 juniper devices, an APC device and a couple others and it doesn't seem to monitor or graph any of the sensors. I have seen some information about sensor configuration under config.php, but it wasn't very helpful. Every time the discovery runs, or maybe its the poller, not sure, it finds all these sensors for every device, but it does nothing with them. Is there a switch I need to flip? Thanks! Morgan 21/Jun/12 12:39:04Sensor Added: temperature junos 6.1.0.0 TFEB MX8021/Jun/12 12:39:04Sensor Added: temperature junos 6.1.1.0 TFEB Intake21/Jun/12 12:39:04Sensor Added: temperature junos 9.1.0.0 Routing Engine21/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 6.1.0.0 descr TFEB MX8021/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 7.1.0.0 descr FPC @ 0/*/*21/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 7.2.0.0 descr FPC @ 1/*/*21/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 9.1.0.0 descr Routing Engine

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up / down gives no warning
by Ian Armstrong 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Hi, Observium has been working very well over the past few months and now I want to begin tailoring it for our network specifically. We use an Ubuntu install as per the instructions and had no install problems. On the overview page we get an orange warning for a non-ignored link that goes into the (Cisco) down/down state BUT NOT when they are up/down. Is this a setting, bug or feature? If it can be changed does anyone know how - I would like a warning for any link that goes down/down and up/down. I have looked through the documentation, options and settings but find nothing. I also tried [alert][port][ifdown] as a long shot. Any help would be great. Thanks Ian

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custom scripts
by mhoffmann＠arcor.de 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

Hello, i have many Allied Telesis Switches. Most Values are covered by the RADLAN-Mib, but some Values like Temp or PowerConsumption are not available inside SNMP. Is there a Wrapper or a other possibility to get this values? I think about a script which read the values and offer it to observium.

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Apache authentication
by Ciro Iriarte 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Hi, can someone confirm me if observium supports external (apache2) authentication?, I'm looking for kerberos authentication against AD. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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How to monitor ASA connection table ?
by inlee 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Hi I just installed observium. ASA is polling all the information from ASA 55xx except connection count. How can i add polling ASA connection count?

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Speaking of Observium's pretty graphsŠ
by Andrew Beals 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

One of our clients uses a very large HP ProCurve 4108gl switch as the central hub of their network. When I'm looking at traffic graphs from it for large spaces of time, I invariably see it pegged to +/- 20Gbps because of some traffic spikes during the day (e.g. Windows clients talking to WSUS and downloading their patches). If I zoom in on one of the "empty" stretches of time, I see that there is actually some traffic flowing – it's just so small in comparison that it gets flatlined by the spikes. What I'd like to be able to do is to change the graph from a linear one in the Y (bps) axis to a logarithmic one, so I can see my traffic. For example, here's the past 24 hours: [cid:5CBC68CF-394E-403F-9F59-AB51C6450F66] (The rrdtool command that produces this graph is truly impressive and only crawls out of its blue box with the last set of CDEF statements before the giant list of AREA statements.) (All graphs generated for this e-mail use the same time span on the same hardware) I know, I know, "Use the Source, Luke!", but I've only watched the commits fly past, not actually dug into the code past the config file (and this doesn't appear to be a configuration option). rrdtool_graph() is called in three places, and fortunately only defined in one. Applying the obvious small patch: Index: html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php =================================================================== --- html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (revision 3268) +++ html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (working copy) @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ if ($rrd_options) { + $rrd_options .= " --logarithmic"; rrdtool_graph($graphfile, $rrd_options); if ($debug) { echo($rrd_cmd); } if (is_file($graphfile)) Nets me this: [cid:806F0C8F-84AE-4C4F-8D2D-04802B3A5EB7] Which could probably use a little more tweaking. I'd rather see SI "-bi-" units on the left rather than scientific notation. Also, it does tend to whack the CPU pretty hard figuring it all out, pegging both of the CPUs in the old ml350 I'm using for monitoring. Running "rrdgraph" at "nice +4" (or better) would likely be a win w/r/t data collection. This patch: Index: html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php =================================================================== --- html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (revision 3268) +++ html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (working copy) @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ if ($rrd_options) { + $rrd_options .= " --logarithmic --units=si"; rrdtool_graph($graphfile, $rrd_options); if ($debug) { echo($rrd_cmd); } if (is_file($graphfile)) Nets this: [cid:4C488D23-BF57-49B9-BBBE-C2D43F0E17AF] I'm pretty happy with this, overall. For those who are curious, the ProCurve Switch 4108gl has a claimed capacity of: routing/switching capacity 36.6 Gbps Throughput up to 71.4 mpps Being able to tweak individual graphs to show logarithmically would probably be nice, just to save some CPU for graphs that don't really need it. -- Andrew Beals Cell: 913-787-7538 Desk: 913-948-8782 E-mail: ABeals(a)mersoft.com<mailto:ABeals@mersoft.com>

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Vyatta
by Adam Blackington 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Any ideas on getting Vyatta recognized? We keep seeing it as a generic device, and can't seem to get it working. :-/ Running v2c communities. *Adam Blackington* | Solutions Engineer *LionLink* *Networks *| www.lionlink.net | AS54098 O: (571) 451.2300 | D: (571) 482.1490 | E: ablackington(a)lionlink.net

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Having troubles with BGP
by Sonny Kupka 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Hello, I'm testing out Observium for use. I have run in to an issue where BGP for 3 Peers show up as down (They are shutdown in switch configuration) and 2 other peers on another switch is showing the same thing.. Peer is shutdown on the switch.. I can't find anywhere to check ignore to have the Observium ignore the peers which are down .. I tried searching all over for this information but thus far I haven't been successful. Thanks for you time! Sonny

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Pretty Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Hi All, It occurs to me that one of the reasons we've managed to keep the project alive for 6 years is that everyone loves graphs. It's one thing to store a bunch of numbers and draw a line, but it's a totally different thing to craft a pretty graph from those numbers. If any of you have graphs or pages that look particularly good, feel free to email us a screenshot, it'd be nice to break up the deafening torrent of inane cat pictures, right? We might even use them on the screenshots page :) adam.

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Editing user passwords
by Chris Stone 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Just had a user that could not, for whatever reason, log into our Observium installation. So, I was going to reset the password, but editing the user, found nothing there to do that. Seems that there is no way for anyone other than each user to edit passwords after the account is initially created? And if that user cannot log in, they cannot do it. I ended up deleting the login, recreating it, and then re-linking the devices, ports and bills the user has access to. Did I miss something? Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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95 percentil Traffic Bill
by edouard alias 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

Hello, I might misundertood something but are traffic bills working, On an interface with a 100 Mbps 95 %ile, If I check the month view I see Monday this morning a 90 M rate peak On the 24 h view I see my 300 M peak on Monday morning. Is it right ? is due to having an average value from a more far sight on the month graph ? cf screen shot (sorry for my poor English)

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Cannot login after upgrade
by Charles Nadeau 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Hello, On April 19th, I installed the last version of Observium from the Ubuntu instructions there http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation (I am using Ubuntu 10.10 server). Everything worked, I gathered a lot of interesting data about my devices, I was happy. Yesterday, I updated to the very latest version of Observium following the instructions there http://www.observium.org/wiki/Using_SVN#Upgrading_to_the_very_latest_version. After completing this upgrade, I can't log in Observium anymore and it doesn't poll the devices as specified in /etc/cron.d/observium. Today I installed the last stable release following http://www.observium.org/wiki/Using_SVN#Upgrading_to_a_specific_release_of_… that it would solve my 2 problems but they remain. What would be the simplest way to re-install everything without losing my data? Thanks! Charles -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/

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Cannot add "traffic bill".
by Niclas Tollgård 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi, Anyone else having problems to add a "Traffic Bill"? When I press "Add Bill" the URL changes to http://observium/bills/add/ but nothing happens. Any ideas? Regards, Nic Tollgard

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Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) Support
by John Macleod 28 May '12

28 May '12

I manage numerous CUBE devices in my environment. I would like to use Observium for monitoring. The CUBE deployment is essentially an IP-IP voice gateway with two (or more) dial peers. Currently, they just show as they should as standard Cisco routers. Per the following link http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6790/gatecont/ps5640/w… there are some applicable Cisco MIBS for monitoring the voice elements of these devices, they appear to use the same voice MIBs as other Cisco devices, such as the AS5xxx. I do not know if it is possible during discovery/polling to see if voice is enabled on the platform or not and show/hide the applicable polled data? I would have no issue opening up a CUBE device for testing if anyone is interested. Thanks, John

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Jira and Fisheye
by Adam Armstrong 25 May '12

25 May '12

Hi All, Just to remind everyone we have a Jira installation for reporting bugs. It's helpful when reporting things as it means I don't forget about them (which I have a habit of doing). It's a lot easier when I get some time to just look at Jira and clear out a couple than trying to remember what things people have reported via email. http://jira.observium.org We also have a Fisheye installation at http://fisheye.observium.org which gives a nice interface to our code. If you're reporting an error with a graph on a particular module, it's often helpful to send examples of the rrd files and an entry from the database (if you know how), as otherwise it can be a nightmare for us to test. adam.

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Cisco ASA IPsec Tunnels graphs missing
by Николаев Виталий 24 May '12

24 May '12

Greetings everyone! Since revision 3167 in device Cisco ASAipsec tunnels graphs (Routing - IPSEC Tunnels) are missing, showing only basic information about tunnels. Regards, Vitaly Nikolayev

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Sensors displaying NaN on the device page
by Erwin Botas 23 May '12

23 May '12

Can please somebody point me, one of the latest updates kill the current value in this view, if I go to the graphics the date is still there. Thanks in advance Erwin

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Public Graphing Display
by Adam Blackington 23 May '12

23 May '12

The FAQ's and Configuration state that I can display graphs without requiring a username or password. This is great... but... here's the question I've made the appropriate modifications to config.php, however, what URL do I use to get to the public graphs? I tried looking at the URL of generated images, however, that doesn't seem to be correct. So you can understand my goal: I run a colocation company and require my customers to be able to review their bandwidth statistics. I utilize WHMCS and would like them to be able to view their graphs within their portal, thus, I've added the IP address of my WHMCS server as an 'authenticated' IP in config.php I'm thinking, once I can understand how to display the graphs, that I can use the port id as a variable to develop a custom module to display the graphs. So my questions are: After permitting an IP address to be able to view graphs without username/password, what is the syntax of the URL for displaying these graphs? It would be awesome to be able to integrate a custom range selection, but I'd really just settle for static generation of past 24 hours, past month, and past year.

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New install problems
by Mike Hyde 22 May '12

22 May '12

I have done a new install on a Freebsd box using the instructions here: http://www.observium.org/wiki/FreeBSD_SVN_Installation I have everything installed, but when I go to the webpage I run into this: *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string() in * /usr/local/share/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php* on line *1144* * * I do show the xml.so extension installed in php. Any ideas what to check? No errors show up in the logs. * * * *

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missing data in graphs.
by Michael Ponto 22 May '12

22 May '12

As a newbie I am sure I am doing something wrong, but don't know what. I have Observium installed in new install of Ubuntu 10.04 and it is seeing the snmp for users from the edge router at each of 7 locations much of the data comes in such as tem and CPU load but no carts are created anyplace. The forms for the graphs do open but all are without any data lines. The graphs have a -nan listed for data. Michael Ponto Network Administrator PARKHILL SMITH & COOPER | 4222 85th Street | Lubbock, Texas 79423 | 806.473.2200 | team-psc.com<http://www.team-psc.com/>

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Ability to add bills broken in 0.12.5.3195?
by Chris Stone 17 May '12

17 May '12

Tried to add a new bill from a port detail page and nothing. Tried to add from the Bills listing page using the Add Bill link and nothing - just returns to the bills listing page. Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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Question about user accounts / passwd reset
by Erik Bais 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi, Is there any news on the topic of users being able to reset their own password (pref via new passwd being send to them after they click on a received link ?) Regards, Erik Bais

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new device
by Sebastien Guilbaud 15 May '12

15 May '12

Hi, I was trying to add support for NRG Printers (Ricoh-clones), following the method found in the Developing/NewOS page and i'm blocked on the fourth step ('Add an OS text name and possibly other settings in includes/static-config.php'), but this file is almost empty, and the only other place with detection logic seems to be includes/definitions.inc.php but the header is quite deterrent :-) ######################################################### # NO CHANGES TO THIS FILE, IT IS NOT USER-EDITABLE # ######################################################### # YES, THAT MEANS YOU # ######################################################### I've walked past the disclaimer and tried to add the new os type inside, and everything works now, is it the right method ? best regards -- seb

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Developing
by Adam Armstrong 15 May '12

15 May '12

I think it's worth pointing out that if you're planning to do any development, you should come to our IRC channel, #observium on freenode. It's usually a lot quicker to get questions answered, and you might save yourself a lot of time by not copying the wrong bit of code. adam.

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Observium with an MFSYS25
by Ian Armstrong 14 May '12

14 May '12

Has anyone got Observium to recognise the switch module on an Intel MFSYS25 compute chassis by any chance? Observium finds the controller very easily, but doesn't find any of the switch ports. Thanks Ian

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] Added support for Aruba Wireless APs and Controllers
by Rob J. Epping 12 May '12

12 May '12

Hi Ethan, This should go to observium(a)observium.org. observium-dev(a)observium.org is used for SVN updates GRTNX, RobJE On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ethan Sommer <sommere(a)gac.edu> wrote: > I have added support for aruba networks controllers and access points. > > I created an "improvement" in the bug tracker and attached a patch. > http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-50 > > One thing which is a bit unusual is that the aruba access points don't have > an SNMP agent themselves. Instead you can get information about each access > point from the controller it is connected to. I added support for the access > points in a similar manner to getting information about ports of a switch. > > I attempted to keep the code consistent with the organization and style of > the rest of observium, but I'm sure there are changes that should be made. > I'm not particularly attached to any specific choices I made, other than > that I'd love to see the code included in observium so that we can continue > to collect statistics about our wireless network using the mainline code. > > If you would like access to a controller to test against, I can poke a hole > in our firewall for one or two of the core observium developers to access > the controllers via snmp. > > I'd also be happy to make any changes myself and resubmit if there are > things blocking adding the code. > > Thanks, > Ethan > > -- > Ethan Sommer > Associate Director of Core Services > Gustavus Technology Services > 507-933-7042 > > > _______________________________________________ > observium-dev mailing list > observium-dev(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium-dev > -- GRTNX, RobJE

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BGP prefix graphs error
by Dario Calamai 12 May '12

12 May '12

Hi all, with new v0.12.5.3161 there is an Error Drawing Graph in BGP prefix graphs. I deleted cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd and re-run discovery and poller. the poller output return thi error: Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.7 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.9 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.13 ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.16 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.17 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.18 discovery seem to be ok. POLLER DEBUG: Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.13 /usr/bin/rrdtool create /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/bgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.rrd DS:bgpPeerOutUpdates:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerInUpdates:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerOutTotal:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerInTotal:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerEstablished:GAUGE:600:0:U ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive OK u:0.00 s:0.03 r:14.73 update /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/bgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.rrd N:1805:268:247831::2343362 SQL[UPDATE `bgpPeers` set `bgpPeerState` ='established',`bgpPeerAdminStatus` ='start',`bgpPeerFsmEstablishedTime` ='2343362',`bgpPeerInUpdates` ='268',`bgpLocalAddr` ='193.xxx.xxx.xxx',`bgpPeerOutUpdates` ='1805' WHERE `device_id` = '1' AND `bgpPeerIdentifier` = '193.xxx.xxx.13'] SQL[SELECT * FROM bgpPeers_cbgp WHERE `device_id` = '1' AND bgpPeerIdentifier = '193.xxx.xxx.13'] ipv4 unicast /usr/bin/snmpget -M /var/www/html/observium/mibs -m CISCO-BGP4-MIB -Ovq -v2c -cxxxxxxxx 1:161 cbgpPeerAcceptedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerDeniedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerPrefixAdminLimit.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerPrefixThreshold.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerPrefixClearThreshold.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerAdvertisedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerSuppressedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerWithdrawnPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast 103 21 10000 75 70 3262 0 1887 SQL[UPDATE `bgpPeers_cbgp` set `AcceptedPrefixes` ='103',`DeniedPrefixes` ='21',`PrefixAdminLimit` ='',`PrefixThreshold` ='75',`PrefixClearThreshold` ='70',`AdvertisedPrefixes` ='3262',`SuppressedPrefixes` ='0',`WithdrawnPrefixes` ='1887' WHERE `device_id` = '1' AND bgpPeerIdentifier = '193.xxx.xxx.13' AND afi = 'ipv4' AND safi = 'unicast'] /usr/bin/rrdtool create /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd DS:AcceptedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:DeniedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:AdvertisedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:SuppressedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:WithdrawnPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive ERROR: opening '/var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/bgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.rrd': No such file or directory update /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd N:103:21:3262:0:1887 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.16 ERROR: opening '/var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd': No such file or directory dario -- http://www.playnet.it phone +39 055 3226622 - fax +39 055 3226444 Brain Technology s.p.a. - AS 13284 http://www.linkedin.com/in/dariocalamai

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Discovery duplicating all cisco switches.
by Erwin Botas 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hi, I'm having trouble with the recent updates and all the cisco switches keeps duplicating by CDP Neighbor Discovery. Any clue? Regards, Erwin

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Observium and Quagga
by Philippe Le Brouster 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hi, I'm currently using observium in some small ISPs and I plan to checks BGP peers from quagga with observium. Does someone has already put together observium and quagga ? Regards, -- Philippe Le Brouster

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0.12.5.3160 update - getting alerts that everything is rebooted
by Chris Stone 10 May '12

10 May '12

FYI - just updated to 0.12.5.3160 and as things get polled, I seem to be getting alerts on everything that they have rebooted - which they have not.... Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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Re: [Observium] Issues installing Observium on Ubuntu 10.04.4
by Bruce-Young Majola 10 May '12

10 May '12

Hi, I am baffled about exactly the same thing; why is it using something not configured. I do not know about config.php.inc, below are the credentials configured on the config.php file including what I have configured on the database itself. ### Database config $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; $config['db_user'] = "observium"; $config['db_pass'] = "xxxxxx"; $config['db_name'] = "observium"; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'xxxxxx'; I can also connect to the database using the configured credentials; brucem@ubuntu:/opt/observium$ mysql -u observium -pxxxxxx Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 35 Server version: 5.1.62-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> I have changed the password for security reasons From: Yucong Sun (???) <sunyucong(a)gmail.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Issues installing Observium on Ubuntu 10.04.4 server Message-ID: <CAJygYd1kANps+y3BPpBwUDxO6Pt21403St2zpS2NhoR8g4S2XA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 are you sure you configured the DB params in config.php.inc ? it seems you are trying to access using root and empty password. Regards, Bruce-Young Majola

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No graphs displayed
by Ian Armstrong 10 May '12

10 May '12

Sorry if this is a newbie question I have installed Observium on a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 installation. Everything has gone absolutely perfectly. I used apt-get and installed all of the required packages as per the Ubutu installation page. It is running OK and has discovered the devices on my network. However, there is no information on any graphs. Not a single one. All the ports are correctly detected and it reading IP addresses and arp caches and most other information including CDP. No information on any graph and some are simply saying draw error. Syslog is reporting the cron jobs setup as per the instructions (below) are running without error. 33 */6 * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root /opt/observium/poller.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 Help appreciated. Ian

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Issues installing Observium on Ubuntu 10.04.4 server
by Bruce-Young Majola 10 May '12

10 May '12

Hi, I am trying to install the latest version Observium on a new Ubuntu 10.04.4 server and I for some reason cannot get past the inserting default schema stage, see the errors I am getting below. brucem@ubuntu:/opt/observium$ sudo php includes/sql-schema/update.php PHP Notice: Undefined index: alerts in /opt/observium/includes/functions.php on line 21 -- Updating database schema 000 -> 001 ...PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 ..................... ..................... 019 -> 020 ...PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 Everything up to this stage went without a glitch including configuring the correct DB credentials in the config.php file and also on the MySQL database itself, so I am not sure where I am going wrong. I will appreciate any help. Thank. Regards, Bruce-Young Majola

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SNMPv3 Support
by Adam Armstrong 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi All, We just committed SNMPv3 support in r3156. If any of you have been waiting for it, you can try it now. It's been tested for a month or so now and seems to work well. adam.

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rrdcached working?
by Jeffrey Ollie 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi, I discovered Observium a few days ago and I really like what I see so far. However, I'm running into some issues trying to scale up to the size of my network. The first issue that I thought I'd bring up is rrdcached support... is it actually working? I've got an rrdcached instance running but as far as I can tell Observium isn't making any real use of it. I switched to a TCP/IP socket for rrdcached and I can see a TCP/IP socket being opened but no data or commands are ever sent across the socket... Can anyone clue me in as to what I may be doing wrong? I'm running rev 3149 on a Fedora 16 system. -- Jeff Ollie

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negative values on netstat graphs
by Nikolay Shopik 09 May '12

09 May '12

Here is exampele of negative values drawing on graph while values are positive is this intended? http://demo.observium.org/graphs/type=device_netstat_snmp/id=33/to=13363435… Also on my installation graphs doesn't show negative lines, until you press "hide legend", but preview [day,week,month selection] are correctly drawn.

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SNMP Location can't have forward-slash
by Robert Williams 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi, Just noticed a small issue, when an SNMP 'location' contains a forward slash (/) then the link doesn't work in the location's menu, for example: With a location set to "THN/TFM-10/C5" on the device, the link is auto-generated as "http://<server>/devices/location=THN%2FTFM-10%2FC5/" which then results in the error: Not Found The requested URL /devices/location=THN/TFM-10/C5/ was not found on this server. Currently running: Observium 0.12.4.2956 Apache 2.2.20 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.7 MySQL 5.1.62-0ubuntu0.11.10.1-log This isn't critical at all, but since I just noticed it I thought I'd mention it :) Cheers! Robert Williams Backline / Operations Team Custodian DataCentre tel: +44 (0)1622 230382 email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt

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Possibility too acknowledge items in Overview
by Mattias Gyllenvarg 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi All We see alot of jabber on the Overview page that is not really necessary and makes it hard too differ important information from trivial information. We would like too be able too Acknowledge items in the Overview so that it is not spammed with ports that are down for known reasons. Perhaps you could comment on the Ack and/or mark with a category (maintenance, power outage etc etc). Additionally I think that keywords in descriptions could generate different results in the overview (like ports are aggregated but for states). So that ports that are marked for installation and waiting for link should be hidden when down and shown green when up so that the provisioning team notices this and can take action. I see somewhere you can define a regexp that will look at the interface description and when true would inverse the up/down relationship. Also, bug, when the uptime counter loops on IOS devices they are marked as reloaded. -- *Med Vänliga Hälsningar - Best Regards* *Mattias Gyllenvarg* *Nätutveckling* Bredband2 - bara hårda paket Tel: +46 406219712

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Graphs on main page
by Chris Stone 07 May '12

07 May '12

I see the demo has some graphs on the overall system overview page. Looked around and don't see how to specify graphs to be shown there. How is this accomplished? Thanks. Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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BRIDGE-MIB keep track of mac
by Nikolay Shopik 06 May '12

06 May '12

Does observium using BRIDGE-MIB to keep track mac addresses? I see it included in mib dir, but I unable to find any way to see mac addresses on switches. Basically I'm talking about this functionality http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_tech_note09186a008…

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join mailing list
by eric machine 04 May '12

04 May '12

like to join mailing list

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NLNOG Ring
by Adam Armstrong 01 May '12

01 May '12

Hi All, I'd like to direct your attention to another project run by some friends of mine: the NLNOG RING. The project is based around the goals of making network debugging much easier. When trying to debug complex problems and plan future upgrades, a point of view from outside your network is absolutely essential. Seeing what others see is incredibly useful when dealing with a variety of network problems. Well known examples are 'it works for even numbered ip address, but not for odd numbered ip address via this and this route'. To streamline such debugging the NLNOG RING was formed. In essence the project is very simple: you make a (virtual) machine available to the RING, and you gain access on all other servers which are part of the RING. The project currently has 98 nodes, located on 89 participant networks in 24 countries. The RING provides tools to trivially launch a ping from all these nodes and summarize the results to, other examples are distributed tracerouting and MTU testing. The RING also maintains a record of latencies between nodes using smokeping to help identify historic problems. Before applying to join, keep the following requirements in mind: * The organisation you work for has BGP routers connected to the "Default Free Zone". * Your organisation has its own ASN, IPv4 and IPv6 prefix(es). * You have enable or configure rights on those routers. * You have permission from your organisation to become involved in the NLNOG RING. Have a look at https://ring.nlnog.net/for more information. You can also email ring-admins(a)ring.nlnog.net with any questions you have. adam.

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Subdirectory
by churnd dnruhc 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Is it possible to use observium on a webserver as a subdirectory, i.e. https://server/observium? I'm a small shop that's part of a bigger organization & I don't have access to DNS to create a subdomain. Apologies if this has been answered already. I did a quick search & saw a similar question asked, but the thread didn't seem to contain an answer I could see. TIA

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Re: [Observium] Ironware CPU Patch
by Adam Armstrong 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

The old one is also hundredths. The only kid which gives while units is one of the new ones. Adam. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Matthias Cramer <matthias.cramer(a)iway.ch> wrote: Hi Adam On 30/04/12 15:29, Adam Armstrong wrote: > The newer OIDs come from a newer version of the MIB. > > Incidentally, 1300 / 100 is 13. If it was displaying 0.13, then there is some maths failure within the polling code (or discovery is storing the wrong settings in the database). True, I noticed that. Observium seams to do everything right for this OID, but it is not getting this oid, it is getting the "old" one. And there I get real percents back. Attached is a Screenshot of that MIB part. The real question is in my opinion, how to get the new OID to work. The Processor discovery as it is now can in my opinion only detect the old one. Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250 _____________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Ironware CPU Patch
by Matthias Cramer 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi The scale of the discovered CPU's on Ironware based geer is off by factor 100. This patch will fix that. Tested on Brocade XMR4000 Regards Matthias Index: includes/discovery/processors/ironware.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/discovery/processors/ironware.inc.php (revision 3098) +++ includes/discovery/processors/ironware.inc.php (working copy) @@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ { $usage_oid = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.1991.1.1.2.11.1.1.6." . $index; $usage = $entry['snAgentCpuUtil100thPercent']; - $precision = 100; + $precision = 1; } elseif ($entry['snAgentCpuUtilValue']) { $usage_oid = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.1991.1.1.2.11.1.1.4." . $index; $usage = $entry['snAgentCpuUtilValue']; - $precision = 100; + $precision = 1; } list($slot, $instance, $interval) = explode(".", $index); -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Web links
by Mark Murphy 28 Apr '12

28 Apr '12

I have installed the software and I get the login page bur every link I click on after that gives a 404 error. This is a Ubuntu server and the default web is only the monitoring software. I made the updates according to the install instructions.

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No VLANs tab / Cisco 2960S / 0.12.4.3087
by Adam Armstrong 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

Aha. This is because we check for 1,2 and two, three for vtp version. This will be fixed later today, i'm just rewriting the discovery module to be more sane. adam. On 2012-04-27 07:15, Damien BASTIE wrote: > One result : > > SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.9.9.46.1.1.1.0 = INTEGER: 3 > > ________________________________________ > De : Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] > Date d'envoi : vendredi 27 avril 2012 00:25 > À : Damien BASTIE > Objet : Re: RE : [Observium] No VLANs tab / Cisco 2960S / 0.12.4.3087 > > and : > > > > .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.46.1.1.1.0 > > > > adam. >

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No VLANs tab / Cisco 2960S / 0.12.4.3087
by Damien BASTIE 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Hi, I am testing Observium for the first time I have no VLANs tab for a stack Cisco 2960S, it is normal ? Cisco 2960 S / cat29xxStack / C2960S-UNIVERSALK9-M / Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE2 (UNIVERSALK9) If i can send any debug no problem ! Regards, Damien

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data missing on BGP IPv4 prefixes graphs
by Dario Calamai 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Hello! there are an "Error Drawing Graph" on BGP IPv4 Prefixes page graphs. (/routing/protocol=bgp/type=all/graph=prefixes_ipv4unicast/view=graphs/) I don't know if this error appears in last update... little question about mail notification: do you have disabled the notification of DOWN of a BGP Peer? it works when peering is going UP or FLAP only! many thanks! dario -- http://www.playnet.it phone +39 055 3226622 - fax +39 055 3226444 Brain Technology s.p.a. - AS 13284 http://www.linkedin.com/in/dariocalamai

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problem with Sentry3-MIB, 3 phase CDU's
by Darrell Budic 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

Hi, Running Observium 0.11.12.2749 on SL5 for this issue. Updated to 3069 and still has the same issues. But anyway: Noticed my Sentry CDU's were not picking up current or voltage information, tracked it down to a issue with the MIB. Not sure if it's the MIB in general or my version of the snmp utilities, but the discovery module complains it can't find the MIB when run in debug mode. Turns out my snmpget doesn't like the whitespace before the "Sentry3-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN" line. I removed the whitespace and discovered the sensors. Then I noticed I had 3 phase CDU's, and the discovery code for the Sentrys only deals with 1 phase units. Here's the diffs of my hack to enable detection of all 3 phases. I think this will work on single phase units as well, although it will probably take a little longer as it scans for the nonexistent phases. I have no single phase units to test it on, however, so YMMV. 16c16,20 < $infeed_oids = snmp_walk($device, "infeedID.$towers.1", "-Osqn", "Sentry3-MIB"); --- > # These PDUs may have > 1 infeed for 3 phase systems > $phase=1; > while ($phase <= 3) { > > $infeed_oids = snmp_walk($device, "infeedID.$towers.$phase", "-Osqn", "Sentry3-MIB"); 31c35 < $infeed_oid = "1.3.6.1.4.1.1718.3.2.2.1.7." . $towers . ".1"; --- > $infeed_oid = "1.3.6.1.4.1.1718.3.2.2.1.7." . $towers . "." . $phase; 33c37 < $descr_string = snmp_get($device,"infeedID.$towers.$infeed_index", "-Ovq", "Sentry3-MIB"); --- > $descr_string = snmp_get($device,"infeedID.$towers.$phase", "-Ovq", "Sentry3-MIB"); 37,38c41,42 < $high_warn_limit = snmp_get($device,"infeedLoadHighThresh.$towers.$infeed_index", "-Ovq", "Sentry3-MIB"); < $high_limit = snmp_get($device,"infeedCapacity.$towers.$infeed_index", "-Ovq", "Sentry3-MIB"); --- > $high_warn_limit = snmp_get($device,"infeedLoadHighThresh.$towers.$phase", "-Ovq", "Sentry3-MIB"); > $high_limit = snmp_get($device,"infeedCapacity.$towers.$phase", "-Ovq", "Sentry3-MIB"); 42c46 < discover_sensor($valid['sensor'], 'current', $device, $infeed_oid, $towers, 'sentry3', $descr, $divisor, $multiplier, $low_limit, $low_warn_limit, $high_warn_limit, $high_limit, $current); --- > discover_sensor($valid['sensor'], 'current', $device, $infeed_oid, "$towers.$phase" , 'sentry3', $descr, $divisor, $multiplier, $low_limit, $low_warn_limit, $high_warn_limit, $high_limit, $current); 48c52 < $outlet_oids = snmp_walk($device, "outletLoadValue.$towers.1", "-Osqn", "Sentry3-MIB"); --- > $outlet_oids = snmp_walk($device, "outletLoadValue.$towers.$phase", "-Osqn", "Sentry3-MIB"); 61c65 < $outletsuffix = "$towers.$infeed_index.$outlet_index"; --- > $outletsuffix = "$towers.$phase.$outlet_index"; 103a108,109 > $phase++; > } //if($phase) Hope it helps someone :) Thanks for the nice work! -Darrell

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Data collection stopped
by Chris Stone 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Data collection stopped today - running build 3060 - was working fine with that for awhile, so not sure what happened. Running poller manually I get the error: dot3StatsDuplexStatus/usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c public -OQUs -m EtherLike-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:axis-core-01.axint.net:161 dot3StatsDuplexStatus dot3StatsDuplexStatus = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `ports` WHERE `device_id` = '1' AND `ifType` = 'adsl'] /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c public -OQUs -m Q-BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:axis-core-01.axint.net:161 dot1qPortVlanTable dot1qPortVlanTable = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -O QUs -v2c -c public -M /opt/observium/mibs -m Q-BRIDGE-MIB udp:axis-core-01.axint.net:161 dot1qVlanCurrentEgressPorts 2>/dev/null dot1qVlanCurrentEgressPorts = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c public -OQUs -m Q-BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:axis-core-01.axint.net:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex dot1dBasePortIfIndex = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID SQL[SELECT * FROM `ports` WHERE `device_id` = '1'] Port lo(1) PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /opt/observium/includes/polling/ports.inc.php on line 168 Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /opt/observium/includes/polling/ports.inc.php on line 168 Suggestions? Anyone else seeing this? Oh, this is PHP 5.3.10 and Observium build 3060. -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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I/O wait
by Ciro Iriarte 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Hi!, I noticed just today that observium doesn't graph i/o wait time from CPU usage. Only user/nice/system/idle, i/o wait is not provided by SNMP or it's just missing in Observium? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Remove ports from Web Overview
by Philip Möller 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Hi, I have a performance issue with the Observium Web Interface. The Apache2 webserver needs about 4-5 minutes to load all graphs of some devices. The devices are CISCO NEXUS 5548 switches with CISCO NEXUS 2248 FEX (Fabric Extenders). One 5548 switch will have about 7488 Interfaces when fully populated (48 local interfaces + 48 local virtual interfaces + 24 * 52 + 52 interfaces for the extenders). I do not need to monitor or graph all the edge / access layer ports but only the backbone ports ( 144 ports ). As far as I understand the documentation all ports flagged as disabled are not polled any more and all ports that are deleted are not shown by the Apache2. Unfortunately the poller.php run updates disabled = 0 for all ports found on the device and they are back in the web interface overview. I cannot find the statement in the poller.php debug output but all Ports with deleted = 1 set manually are updated to deleted = 0 after a poller.php run. My question is if there is any way to delete available ports I do not want to have in the web overview or to drain those ports from the web interface. With bet regards, --- Philip Möller Senior Linux Systemadministrator International IT Operations Bigpoint GmbH Drehbahn 47-48 20354 Hamburg | Germany Tel: +49(0)40.88 1413-356 Cell: +49(0)151 27471095 E-Mail: p.moeller(a)bigpoint.net<mailto:p.moeller@bigpoint.net> --- CEO: Heiko Hubertz Business Registration: HRB-Hamburg 94148

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Re: [Observium] Date Picker broken
by Timo Ament 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hi Folks, same issue as Bruce - setting the Date Picker reverts you back to the start-page. Normally, when opening a graph the url is something like: http://observium/graphs/type=customer_bits/to=1334238800/id=server/from=133… Now when changing the time-range and klicking "update" the URL is beeing transformed into: http://observium/index.php/graphs/type=customer_bits/to=1334238800/id=serve… When i remove the index.php from the url i am getting the desired result. Currently running 3026 Regards Timo Am 12.04.2012 13:00, schrieb observium-request(a)observium.org: > Re: Date Picker broken

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Date Picker broken
by Bruce-Young Majola 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Hi, Please have a look at the date picker for graphs, it looks to be broken and the latest version of Observium. It takes you back to the "Home" page whenever you click the Update button. Is anyone having the same issue? Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Device Graphs page blank
by Chris Stone 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Not sure when this started, but I've got a couple of Linux servers where suddenly the Graphs tab on them blank. The page layout is all there, but the part under the heading Graphs where the graphs and netstats links and graphs should be is empty. Checked the apache logs and see nothing there indicating any problem and poller.php runs fine - one of them: Observium Poller v0.12.4.3008 Starting polling run: pegasus.domain.com 65 linux (unix) Using hrSystemUptime (384:13:39:50.94) Uptime: 1 years, 19 days, 13h 39m 50s Hardware: Generic x86 64-bit Version: 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 Features: CentOS 5.7 Processor Intel Xeon 2.80GHz... 10% Processor Intel Xeon 2.80GHz... 9% Processor Intel Xeon 2.80GHz... 11% Processor Intel Xeon 2.80GHz... 11% Mempool Physical memory: 88.23% Mempool Virtual memory: 43.62% Mempool Swap space: 0.52% Storage /: 19% Storage /boot: 35% Polling Netstats: IP TCP UDP ICMP SNMP HR Stats: Processes Users Polling IP-MIB ipSystemStats ipv4 ipv6 Caching Oids: ifEntry ifXEntry dot3StatsDuplexStatus Port lo(1) HC HC VLAN == bps(37.4kbps/37.4kbps)bytes(434kB/434kB)pkts(38.9pps/38.9pps) Port eth0(2) HC HC dot3Duplex VLAN == bps(340kbps/336kbps)bytes(3.86MB/3.81MB)pkts(153pps/149pps) Port eth1(3) HC dot3Duplex VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Port sit0(4) HC VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Module [ bgp-peers ] disabled on host. Module [ junose-atm-vp ] disabled on host. Module [ toner ] disabled on host. Checking UCD DiskIO MIB: sda sda1 sda2 sda3 Applications: apache mailscanner Module [ wifi ] disabled on host. Module [ ospf ] disabled on host. Module [ cisco-ipsec-flow-monitor ] disabled on host. Module [ cisco-remote-access-monitor ] disabled on host. Module [ cisco-cef ] disabled on host. Module [ cisco-mac-accounting ] disabled on host. Module [ cipsec-tunnels ] disabled on host. Module [ cisco-ace-loadbalancer ] disabled on host. Module [ cisco-ace-serverfarms ] disabled on host. Module [ netscaler-vsvr ] disabled on host. Entity Physical: Module [ unix-agent ] disabled globally. Polled in 1.292 seconds UPDATED! MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[3/0s] Rows[11/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[14/0.01s] Insert[1/0s] Delete[0/0s] Ran poller also in debug mode and saw no errors - everything appeared normal. Just see this on a couple of CentOS 5.x and CentOS 6.x servers - have many others (same OSs) that are fine.... Ideas? Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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IPSLA snmp monitoring
by Bruce-Young Majola 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hi, I have upgraded to the latest version of Observium to try out IPSLA monitoring features; I have specifically configured IPSLA for ICMP Echo operation. The graph legends are there however nothing is being graphed in Observium. Regards Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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doc bug at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Services
by Andrew Beals 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Someone needs to s/Paramaters/Parameters/ On the wiki page @ http://www.observium.org/wiki/Services -- Andrew Beals c: 913-787-7538 ABeals(a)mersoft.com

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Can not see device pages
by Zafar Pravaiz 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Hi After updating to latest release i am not able to see the device in brower. When every i click on any device from default page i get noting. Here is the debug from apache log. Any body have any idea? Thanks [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] an unknown filter was not added: INCLUDES [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] an unknown filter was not added: INCLUDES [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: fetchrow_sec in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 213 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: fetchrow in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 214 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: fetchrows_sec in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 174 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: fetchrows in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 175 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 80 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant yes - assumed 'yes' in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 83 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 80 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant yes - assumed 'yes' in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 83 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: widescreen in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 144 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: bare in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 238 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: widescreen in /opt/observium/html/includes/header.inc.php on line 18 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: devices in /opt/observium/html/includes/topnav.inc.php on line 13 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: count in /opt/observium/html/includes/topnav.inc.php on line 13 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: device_types in /opt/observium/html/includes/topnav.inc.php on line 18 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: in /opt/observium/html/includes/topnav.inc.php on line 18 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: network in /opt/observium/html/includes/topnav.inc.php on line 18 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: loadbalancer in /opt/observium/html/includes/topnav.inc.php on line 18 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: server in /opt/observium/html/includes/topnav.inc.php on line 18 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: firewall in /opt/observium/html/includes/topnav.inc.php on line 18 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: wireless in /opt/observium/html/includes/topnav.inc.php on line 18 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant bgcolour - assumed 'bgcolour' in /opt/observium/html/includes/topnav.inc.php on line 67 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: locations in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 452 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 452 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: ignore_dev_location in /opt/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 450 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: admindown in /opt/observium/html/includes/print-menubar.php on line 288 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: deleted in /opt/observium/html/includes/print-menubar.php on line 290 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: humidity in /opt/observium/html/includes/print-menubar.php on line 347 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: frequency in /opt/observium/html/includes/print-menubar.php on line 362 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: power in /opt/observium/html/includes/print-menubar.php on line 362 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: fetchcell_sec in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 236 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: fetchcell in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 237 NET-SNMP version: 5.4.2.1 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: devel in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 254 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:51 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: devel in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 254 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:52 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: fetchcol in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 301 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:52 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined index: fetchcol_sec in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 301 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:52 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: neg in /opt/observium/includes/common.php on line 498 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:52 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: neg in /opt/observium/includes/common.php on line 498 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:52 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: neg in /opt/observium/includes/common.php on line 498 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:52 2012] [error] [client 192.168.128.52] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: pagetitle in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 328 [Sun Apr 08 09:58:52 2012] [debug] mod_deflate.c(615): [client 192.168.128.52] Zlib: Compressed 4145488 to 81959 : URL /observium/index.php/device/device=2/debug/ -- *Zafar Pravaiz *

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some patches.
by Rob J. Epping 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

Hi, Here are some patches I made to my Observium install. <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-rebooted-fix.diff> Only show rebooted systems on front page when uptime > 0 For SNMP-agents that do not report uptime (EMC VNX5300 for one) <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-axis.diff> Also detects Axis video servers. <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-dell-unix-sn.diff> Detect Dell servicetag as serialnumber through dell MIB on "unix" systems, <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-dell-windows.diff> Detect Dell systems and servivcetag the same way as on "unix" <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-esx-linux.diff> Access VMware mibs through net-snmp using config from <http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_snmp_config.pdf> <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-procurve-sn.diff> Get serial-number for HP switches. <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-rename-host.diff> Improvements to command-line rename-host Can these be include in Observium? THNX! BTW: can you also include Paul Gear's <paul(a)libertysys.com.au> patch for non-FQDN rancid? <http://libertysys.com.au/patches/observium/observium-r2339-rancid-non-fqdn.…> And the fortigate patches from Matthias Cramer which <matthias.cramer(a)iway.ch> i've made available for download on <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-fortigate.diff> and <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-fgt-proc.diff> Both were send to the mailinglist a while ago. -- GRTNX, RobJE

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PIX 501 support
by Chris Stone 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

I have a couple of Cisco PIX 501's setup in Observium, but they are being seen only as Generic Devices: Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(5) Operating System Generic Device Contact support(a)axint.net Location Denver, CO Uptime 291 days, 22h 45m 55s And the only graphs I am getting are Uptime and the ethernet port counters (traffic, packets, etc). Nothing for memory or cpu. Both firewalls are the same - here's the info on one of them: voip-fw# show ver Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(5) Cisco PIX Device Manager Version 3.0(4) Compiled on Thu 04-Aug-05 21:40 by morlee voip-fw up 291 days 22 hours Hardware: PIX-501, 16 MB RAM, CPU Am5x86 133 MHz Flash E28F640J3 @ 0x3000000, 8MB BIOS Flash E28F640J3 @ 0xfffd8000, 128KB 0: ethernet0: address is 0016.c836.223a, irq 9 1: ethernet1: address is 0016.c836.223c, irq 10 Licensed Features: Failover: Disabled VPN-DES: Enabled VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled Maximum Physical Interfaces: 2 Maximum Interfaces: 2 Cut-through Proxy: Enabled Guards: Enabled URL-filtering: Enabled Inside Hosts: 10 Throughput: Unlimited IKE peers: 10 My understanding was that PIX firewalls were supported. Is what I am getting all the support there currently is? Or is there something else I need to do to enable cpu and memory counters. I had them setup in Cacti previously, so it would seem that the SNMP counters do exist. -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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netstat graph broken
by Nikolay Shopik 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Hey, Just noticed that netstat graphs seems broken, not all graphs are drawn, r2922 is here.

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ATM interfaces not showing on Device Overview
by Bruce-Young Majola 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hi Adam, I am having a strange issues which I need your help in troubleshooting. I have this 7606 which has ATM interfaces configured but the problem is that when I discover this device, all the interfaces are discovered include ATM ones but as soon as the poller runs, they disappear again. I am not sure how to fix this issues. I am running the latest version of Observium. Thanks for your help. After discovery After poller has run Regards, Bruce Majola DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] r2955 - in observer/trunk: . includes includes/polling
by Paul Gear 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

On 05/04/12 04:10, observium-commits(a)observium.org wrote: > Author: adama > Date: 2012-04-04 19:10:45 +0100 (Wed, 04 Apr 2012) > New Revision: 2955 > ... > Log: > Add support for memcached to poller for current bps/pps for ports and ability to disable writing these values to MySQL. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR LARGE INSTALLS. Also PROCEED WITH CAUTION. How many ports == "LARGE INSTALLS"?

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Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script
by Andrew Beals 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Rather than modifying the poller script, simply commenting out the "mibs :" line at the bottom of /etc/snmp/snmp.conf on your Observium server box is sufficient to get the polling to work correctly. Ubuntu put that line in citing "licensing issues" with the MIBs.

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rrd time selection is wrong
by Nikolay Shopik 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

It seems like when you select time to show graph it doesn't take in consideration timezone. Basically if I select from 18:00 till now and press update time in "From" field update to 22:00 (I have GMT+4 zone). You can click update multiply times and graph time will be moving after each click.

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VRF Names truncated in version 0.12.4.2946
by Bruce-Young Majola 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Hi, I just upgraded to the latest version of Observium and I noticed after running discovery that the VRF descriptions are now truncated, see below. Before upgrade: After upgrade Regards, Bruce Majola DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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SNMPv3 implementation
by Guillaume Leclanche 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Hello, attached is the patch for the implementation of SNMPv3. I've been testing it on my system and devices, and it seems to be working properly. Since it's a core function of the soft, I guess it would be good that other people give it a try before it is committed. I use NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3. Be careful that a few files use direct calls to net-snmp instead of calling observium library functions. It means that those calls will not work with an snmpv3 device. includes/discovery/cisco-mac-accounting.inc.php: $datas = shell_exec($config['snmpbulkwalk'] . " -M ".$config['mibdir']." -m CISCO-IP-STAT-MIB -Oqn -".$device['snmpver']." -c ".$device['community']." ".$device['hostname']." cipMacSwitchedBytes"); includes/discovery/cisco-pw.inc.php: $oids = shell_exec($config['snmpwalk'] . " -M " . $config['mibdir'] . " -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MIB -CI -Ln -Osqn -" . $device['snmpver'] . " -c " . $device['community'] . " " . $device['hostname'].":".$device['port'] . " cpwVcID"); includes/discovery/cisco-pw.inc.php: list($cpw_remote_id) = explode(":", shell_exec($config['snmpget'] . " -M " . $config['mibdir'] . " -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -Ln -Osqnv -" . $device['snmpver'] . " -c " . $device['community'] . " " . $device['hostname'].":".$device['port'] . " cpwVcMplsPeerLdpID." . $cpwOid)); includes/discovery/cisco-pw.inc.php: $interface_descr = trim(shell_exec($config['snmpwalk'] . " -M " . $config['mibdir'] . " -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MIB -Oqvn -" . $device['snmpver'] . " -c " . $device['community'] . " " . $device['hostname'].":".$device['port'] . " cpwVcName." . $cpwOid)); includes/discovery/temperatures/adva.inc.php: $temperature_chassis = trim(shell_exec($config['snmpget'] . " -M " . $config['mibdir'] . " -O qv -$snmpver -c $community $hostname:$port $oid_chassis")); includes/discovery/temperatures/adva.inc.php: $temperature_stm16 = trim(shell_exec($config['snmpget'] . " -M " . $config['mibdir'] . " -O qv -$snmpver -c $community $hostname:$port $oid_stm16")); includes/discovery/temperatures/adva.inc.php: $temperature_hss1 = trim(shell_exec($config['snmpget'] . " -M " . $config['mibdir'] . " -O qv -$snmpver -c $community $hostname:$port $oid_hss1")); includes/discovery/temperatures/adva.inc.php: $temperature_hss2 = trim(shell_exec($config['snmpget'] . " -M " . $config['mibdir'] . " -O qv -$snmpver -c $community $hostname:$port $oid_hss2")); includes/discovery/cisco-vrf.inc.php: $vrf['name'] = trim(shell_exec($config['snmpget'] . " -M " . $config['mibdir'] . " -m MPLS-VPN-MIB -Ln -Osq -" . $device['snmpver'] . " -c " . $device['community'] . " " . $device['hostname'].":".$device['port'] . " mplsVpnVrfRouteDistinguisher.".$vrf['oid'])); includes/discovery/cisco-vrf.inc.php: $vrf['mplsVpnVrfDescription'] = trim(shell_exec($config['snmpget'] . " -M " . $config['mibdir'] . " -m MPLS-VPN-MIB -Ln -Osqvn -" . $device['snmpver'] . " -c " . $device['community'] . " " . $device['hostname'].":".$device['port'] . " mplsVpnVrfDescription.".$vrf['oid'])); includes/discovery/cisco-vrf.inc.php: $ports = shell_exec($config['snmpwalk'] . " -M " . $config['mibdir'] . " -m MPLS-VPN-MIB -CI -Ln -Osqn -" . $device['snmpver'] . " -c " . $device['community'] . " " . $device['hostname'].":".$device['port'] . " $ports_oid"); includes/polling/os/ironware.inc.php:$hardware = trim(exec($config['snmpget'] . " -M ".$config['mibdir'] . " -O vqs -m FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB:FOUNDRY-SN-ROOT-MIB -" . $device['snmpver'] . " -c " . $device['community'] . " " . includes/polling/os/ironware.inc.php:$version = trim(exec($config['snmpget'] . " -M ".$config['mibdir'] . " -O vqs -m FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB:FOUNDRY-SN-ROOT-MIB -" . $device['snmpver'] . " -c " . $device['community'] . " " . includes/polling/os/speedtouch.inc.php:$loop = shell_exec($config['snmpget'] . " -M ".$config['mibdir'] . ' -Ovq -v1 -c '.$device['community'].' '.$device['hostname'].' ifDescr.101'); I will send a patch to fix cisco-vrf after this mail, but the other files will still be incompatible with snmpv3 (keep your devices in SNMPv2 if you use any of the incompatible calls). Guillaume

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Cisco-vrf discovery - huge performance improvement
by Guillaume Leclanche 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Hi, As I wanted to make Cisco VRF discovery SNMPv3-compatible, I realized that it was actually very slow. So I change the philosophy of it (bulkwalk all SNMP info first then analyze in the code), and here's the result for a device with 500 VRFs: Old version : Discovered in 65.83 seconds New version : Discovered in 3.234 seconds At the same time I made it SNMPv3-compatible, and I added the support for CISCO-L3VPN-STD-MIB that is the more recent MIB and the only one supported on the latest releases of IOS/IOS-XR. I tested it with Cisco Hw and it's fine, but for the other vendors implementing the MIB, somebody else will have to test it :) Guillaume

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Re: [Observium] Legend shows not-existent interfaces
by Nikolay Shopik 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Adam, Thanks, you right. Forgot to purge these deleted interfaces, my bad. On 29/03/12 14:21, Adam Armstrong wrote: > The duplicate interfaces are almost certainly instances where the device > has rebooted and the interface has changed ifIndex. Check the ports > table for ports for that device_id, you'll probably find duplicated > ifDescrs with different ifIndexes, with the older copies being labelled > as deleted. > > We still draw these interfaces to keep the shape of the graph. (and > that's one of the reasons we keep deleted interfaces in the database). > > adam. > > > On 2012-03-29 11:18, Nikolay Shopik wrote: >> Hi Adam, >> >> Here is graph and debug output. >> >> On 29/03/12 13:11, Adam Armstrong wrote: >>> Do you have an example? >>> >>> run the graph URL with&debug=1 on the end. >>> >>> adam. >>> >>> >>> On 2012-03-29 09:06, Nikolay Shopik wrote: >>>> When you open Total Traffic graph, you may see in Legend interfaces >>>> which doesn't really exist on this device. >>>> Additionally sometimes you may see duplicate interfaces in Legend, >>>> which >>>> do exist. >>>> I wonder what may cause of this and to fix 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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Legend shows not-existent interfaces
by Nikolay Shopik 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

When you open Total Traffic graph, you may see in Legend interfaces which doesn't really exist on this device. Additionally sometimes you may see duplicate interfaces in Legend, which do exist. I wonder what may cause of this and to fix it?

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Get Interface UP and DOWN mails for ignored ports since about r2922
by Matthias Cramer 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hi Adam and All since about r2922 I get DOWN and UP alert mail for Ports ignored by $config['bad_if_regexp'][] = "/^tnl[0-9]/"; Looks like this is not checked when sending mail, only on the web front end. Would be very very nice if that can be fixed. Regards Matthias P.S. What about my Patches (Fortiigate & Communifate Pro) will the be included soon or do you need anything from me? -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zurich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Not all filesystems added to Observium
by Ciro Iriarte 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Hi, I have this working without issues for RHEL5 and SLES11, but on a openSUSE host the filesystems built on top of LVM are not shown... The walk gives them all: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.10 = STRING: Swap space HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.31 = STRING: / HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.32 = STRING: /usr/local/pgsql HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.34 = STRING: /dev/shm HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.35 = STRING: /run HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.39 = STRING: /sys/fs/cgroup HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.50 = STRING: /var/lock HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.51 = STRING: /var/run HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.56 = STRING: /media HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.57 = STRING: /boot But observium only shows info for /boot, /dev/shm, /media /run,/sys/fs/cgroup, /var/lock and /var/run. On SLES I don't see "in memory/not real" filesystems like /proc or /sys. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Observium 2901 Break
by Zafar Pravaiz 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

hi After upgrading the observium it show all device down. When i run the discovery it shows as follow. Observium v0.12.3.2901 Discovery MySQL: Cell[1/0s] Row[1/0s] Rows[1/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[0/0s] Delete[0/0s]?? Any fix? -- *Zafar Pravaiz *IT Senior Systems Engineer Information Technology Department AUS /> <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] [Observium-dev] FortiGate Support
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

This is what i was actually replying to, HERP DERP. Also, please use the observium list, observium-dev is mostly just svn. adam. On 2012-02-07 08:15, Matthias Cramer wrote: > Hi > > I'm new on this list, hope this is the right place. > I've improved the Fortigate Support a bit. Moved everything to the newest MIB and added memory and cpu support. > > Attached is a patch based on the current SVN tree. > > Regards > > Matthias > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium-dev mailing list > observium-dev(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium-dev

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Re: [Observium] bug report: Billing Traffic
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Lol. that is awesome. There is clearly some odd bug in there. Are you able to give me access to the server to try to work out what it is? adam. On 2012-03-16 14:15, Timbo a la Bazzi wrote: > > Here is the printscreen! > > *Van:*observium-bounces@observium.org > [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *Namens *Adam Armstrong > *Verzonden:* vrijdag 16 maart 2012 13:58 > *Aan:* Observium Network Observation System > *Onderwerp:* Re: [Observium] bug report: Billing Traffic > > can you show us a screenshot from "accurate graphs" for that same bill? > > thanks, > adam. > > On 2012-03-16 11:49, Timbo a la Bazzi wrote: > > Hi There, > > How can I make a bug report? The forum is closed for registration, the > bugtracker also, so I hope this is the correct way and I can help in > the future maybe, because the software is awesome! > > I have the following situation: > > The polling is done correctly and it shows the same results as cacti > for my switch. Buw when I add billing and make a bill for a port with > Quota the first time I add for example 20GB it shows like 20B. If i > then edit it it shows correctly as 20GB (so not 2.0E-8), so there is a > work around. > > When I add a bill for multiple ports the sum is totally wrong. > > For example. I made a bill of 5 ports and 5 bills of each port, so I > can check. > > If a manually sum the 5 bills/ports I get around 80GB. But when I look > at the SUMMED bill it says 1.47PB > > I have added the billing feature this way: > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Billing > > What am I doing wrong and if it is a bug how can I correct it? > > So there are 2 problems: > > initial quota is set wrong, but can be corrected. -> Bug with a work > around > > quota calculated to high values -> bug or misconfiguration, but I > can't find anything about it: > > So you can see the sum of the 5 ports are 9.36Gbps and it are 5x > 100MBit ports ;-) > > The switch that I am monitoring is a HP2524 > > Thanks in advance! > > Tim Schoondergang > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] bug report: Billing Traffic
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

can you show us a screenshot from "accurate graphs" for that same bill? thanks, adam. On 2012-03-16 11:49, Timbo a la Bazzi wrote: > > Hi There, > > How can I make a bug report? The forum is closed for registration, the > bugtracker also, so I hope this is the correct way and I can help in > the future maybe, because the software is awesome! > > I have the following situation: > > The polling is done correctly and it shows the same results as cacti > for my switch. Buw when I add billing and make a bill for a port with > Quota the first time I add for example 20GB it shows like 20B. If i > then edit it it shows correctly as 20GB (so not 2.0E-8), so there is a > work around. > > When I add a bill for multiple ports the sum is totally wrong. > > For example. I made a bill of 5 ports and 5 bills of each port, so I > can check. > > If a manually sum the 5 bills/ports I get around 80GB. But when I look > at the SUMMED bill it says 1.47PB > > I have added the billing feature this way: > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Billing > > What am I doing wrong and if it is a bug how can I correct it? > > So there are 2 problems: > > initial quota is set wrong, but can be corrected. -> Bug with a work > around > > quota calculated to high values -> bug or misconfiguration, but I > can't find anything about it: > > So you can see the sum of the 5 ports are 9.36Gbps and it are 5x > 100MBit ports ;-) > > The switch that I am monitoring is a HP2524 > > Thanks in advance! > > Tim Schoondergang > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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bug report: Billing Traffic
by Timbo a la Bazzi 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi There, How can I make a bug report? The forum is closed for registration, the bugtracker also, so I hope this is the correct way and I can help in the future maybe, because the software is awesome! I have the following situation: The polling is done correctly and it shows the same results as cacti for my switch. Buw when I add billing and make a bill for a port with Quota the first time I add for example 20GB it shows like 20B. If i then edit it it shows correctly as 20GB (so not 2.0E-8), so there is a work around. When I add a bill for multiple ports the sum is totally wrong. For example. I made a bill of 5 ports and 5 bills of each port, so I can check. If a manually sum the 5 bills/ports I get around 80GB. But when I look at the SUMMED bill it says 1.47PB I have added the billing feature this way: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Billing What am I doing wrong and if it is a bug how can I correct it? So there are 2 problems: initial quota is set wrong, but can be corrected. -> Bug with a work around quota calculated to high values -> bug or misconfiguration, but I can't find anything about it: So you can see the sum of the 5 ports are 9.36Gbps and it are 5x 100MBit ports ;-) The switch that I am monitoring is a HP2524 Thanks in advance! Tim Schoondergang

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] OS Detection for Cisco SMB Linux Products
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi Matthias, Please update the patch to use the correct discovery/polling mechanism for the CPU load. We stopped building specific rrds a long time ago, it should be detected the same way as memory pools. Shouldn't be too hard to do :) Thanks, adam. On 2012-02-10 06:36, Matthias Cramer wrote: > Hi > > Added Linux Variant detection for Cisco SMB Products (tested with an AP541N) > > Regards > > Matthias > > Index: includes/static-config.php > =================================================================== > --- includes/static-config.php (revision 2860) > +++ includes/static-config.php (working copy) > @@ -66,7 +66,14 @@ > $config['os'][$os]['over'][2]['graph'] = "device_mempool"; > $config['os'][$os]['over'][2]['text'] = "Memory Usage"; > > +$os = "ciscosmblinux"; > +$config['os'][$os]['type'] = "wireless"; > +$config['os'][$os]['group'] = "unix"; > +$config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cisco SMB Linux"; > +$config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "cisco"; > > Index: includes/discovery/os/linux.inc.php > =================================================================== > --- includes/discovery/os/linux.inc.php (revision 2860) > +++ includes/discovery/os/linux.inc.php (working copy) > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ > if (strpos($entPhysicalMfgName, "QNAP") !== FALSE) { $os = "qnap";} > elseif(strstr($sysObjectId, ".1.3.6.1.4.1.5528.100.20.10.2014")) { $os = "netbotz"; } > elseif(strstr($sysDescr, "endian")) { $os = "endian"; } > - > + elseif(preg_match("/Cisco Small Business/", $sysDescr)) { $os = "ciscosmblinux"; } > } > > } > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium-dev mailing list > observium-dev(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium-dev

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Basic Communigate Pro support
by Matthias Cramer 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hi All I wrote a application plug-in to add basic support for the Communigate Pro Mail server suite. Communigates own snmp server needs to be run at port 10161 Hope is is of some interest and will be added to the repository. Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] FortiGate Support
by Rob J. Epping 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Hi Matthias, On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Matthias Cramer <matthias.cramer(a)iway.ch> wrote: > Hi > > I'm new on this list, hope this is the right place. > I've improved the Fortigate Support a bit. Moved everything to the newest MIB and added memory and cpu support. > > Attached is a patch based on the current SVN tree. THNX 4 the patch! Your patch fixes version discovery and active sessions polling (at least these were not working for me) and adds a lot of other nice stuff. I hope this gets imported into SVN. > Regards > > Matthias -- GRTNX, RobJE

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Graphic on Processor usage
by Ciro Iriarte 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hi, hope someone can clarify this to me. On the processor usage graph I see max usage reaching ~30% but on the info printed at the end of the graph it says ~67%. Am I missing something ?. Ref: http://imageshack.us/f/593/cpub.png/ Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Last update, upgrading schema fails
by Ciro Iriarte 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi, reporting a schema failure with rev2880: ------------------- wwwrun@cplanning:/opt/observium> php includes/sql-schema/update.php -d SQL[SELECT version FROM `dbSchema`] SQL[SELECT revision FROM `dbSchema`] -- Transitioning from old revision-based schema to database version system -- Updating database schema 006 -> 007 ...ALTER TABLE `dbSchema` DROP `revision`; You can't delete all columns with ALTER TABLE; use DROP TABLE instead done (1 errors). SQL[INSERT INTO `dbSchema` (`version`) VALUES ('007')] PHP Warning: QDB - Insert failed. in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 77 PHP Notice: Undefined index: insert_sec in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 86 PHP Notice: Undefined index: insert in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 87 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: id in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 89 -- Done ------------------- Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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blank screen browser
by norujames 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Hello all my server worked well for few days. but now, when i go to the website, i have a blank screen, with following message on error_log: [Sun Mar 11 17:44:24 2012] [error] an unknown filter was not added: INCLUDES [Sun Mar 11 17:44:24 2012] [error] an unknown filter was not added: INCLUDES someone can help me to resolve the problem ? Thanks norujames

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Supported devices
by norujames 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Hello Someone can tell me if Observium support Redback ericsson devices ? btw, how to create or add new devices to supported ? Thanks norujames

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discovery.php repeatedly trying to upgrade database
by David Brodbeck 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

I did an svn up recently, and am now at r2879. I ran discovery.php to update the database afterwards, and it went fine; however, now my discovery.php processes hang trying to install old database updates: $ ./discovery.php -h new Observium v0.12.2.2879 Discovery -- Updating database schema 000 -> 001 ... done (0 errors). 001 -> 002 ... The result is the discovery.php processes stack up and eventually exceed the database connection limit. Any ideas on why it persists on trying to update my already up-to-date database? -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

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Oracle perf data anyone?
by Ciro Iriarte 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi!, anyone put together a script to collect performance data for Oracle DB ?. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Cisco ACE rservers graph does not display
by Zafar Pravaiz 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi For my Cisco ACE i can not see Rserver graphs. Is there any clue why? Please see the attachment. Thanks

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rev 2884 broke polling
by Nikolay Shopik 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hey guys, After latest update which is rev 2884 all devices reported as down by observium.

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AS400
by Ciro Iriarte 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hi, if anyone has interest and time to add AS400 on iseries support I can provide sample data using SNMPSIM. I found the following documentation: >From IBM: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg244504.pdf http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/books/sc415412.… Which MIBs are used: http://lists.skills-1st.co.uk/mharc/html/nv-l/2001-01/msg00237.html MIB definitions (the 5 mentioned above are included here): http://www.mibdepot.com/cgi-bin/vendor_index.cgi?r=ibm Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Traffic
by Nuno Dias 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hi, I'm testing the observium and already added a couple of devices, (several switch one router and some linux boxes) All this devices have at least 1Gb network cards or ports in the case of switchs, some have 10Gb ports. But in my graphs I have at most 100/120 Mb peaks, but I'm sure that I have more traffic in some ports, because I have other monitoring system (cacti) showing that. I remember that in cacti I had to configure the counters to be 64-bits and convert bytes in bits. So, do I need to configure in observium this kind of things? if yes where? or this is some kind of bug? Thanks Nuno -- Nuno Dias <ndias(a)lip.pt> LIP

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Limit Views and devices groups
by Ciro Iriarte 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hi!, how do you guys scale in heterogeneous administrative environments?. For example: - Within an administrative domain would be nice to group the devices involved in a particular high level service. - Currently I have a mix of devices and would like to see them all, but some administrator for example would like to see only their hardware. Would it be possible to limit access to a set of devices?. >From what I know, the only way right now would be to have many observium instances for different people, but that would be an issue if some people would like to see all the hardware.... Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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LDAP authentication with AD
by Bao Nguyen 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Does anyone know the correct parameters for binding with Active Directory for Observium? Is there a way to make it use SSL? I've used the configuration below but get a blank page after attempting to login. I have not tried dig through the logs to find out what's the issues are but if someone know of the correct parameters I would love to try it first. #$config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; # default, other options: ldap, http-auth #$config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; # v2 or v3 #$config['auth_ldap_server'] = "beernuts.ad.ucsd.edu"; #$config['auth_ldap_port'] = 636; #$config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=SDSC,dc=UCSD,dc=EDU"; thanks, -bn 0216331C

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widescreen ports graphs
by Nikolay Shopik 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hey Adam, Just quick note, that widescreen mode on ports graph doesn't working property. These 4 graphs should fill all available width, but instead using proportion from normal mode. And I wonder if there way we could able to select multiply different port types, like transit+peering. I mean come up with different control where you could select not only one state?

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Re: [Observium] C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more
by Tom Laermans 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Robert, Do you know what revision you were running when it still worked? Probably something broke or disappeared or so when you updated a few weeks ago and didnt get fixed until now... Tom ----- Reply message ----- From: "Robert Williams" <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com> To: "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012 10:55 Hi all, I'm still not getting very far with this one :( Out of desperation I deleted and re-added one 6509 chassis and now it doesn't even show the stats for the fabric, it's just missing the whole "Catalyst 6k Crossbar" section? I'm running the latest (2854) revision. Any ideas please? Robert Williams Backline / Operations Team Custodian DataCentre tel: +44 (0)1622 230382 email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt -----Original Message----- From: Robert Williams Sent: 01 February 2012 16:53 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more Hi Guys, For some (unknown) reason all of our catalyst chassis (650x-E) have recently stopped recording data for their Crossbar usage on all their cards. Data is visible up to a couple of weeks ago, but then stops and nothing more has been recorded since. The permission on the rrd are fine, and the file itself hasn't been modified since the day the data stopped being recorded. Interestingly, the usage 'bar' next to the (blank) graph shows usage on it correctly. So, as a test, I moved the rrd files for one chassis out of its folder then did a full redetect of the one host in question. Since then it doesn't appear to have made any effort to re-create the RRD file :( So, any ideas on why this one element would stop working suddenly? Or alternatively, is there a way to 'force' Observium to re-create it's rrd files for specific sensors on demand? Any input most welcome :) Cheers, _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more
by Robert Williams 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Hi Guys, For some (unknown) reason all of our catalyst chassis (650x-E) have recently stopped recording data for their Crossbar usage on all their cards. Data is visible up to a couple of weeks ago, but then stops and nothing more has been recorded since. The permission on the rrd are fine, and the file itself hasn't been modified since the day the data stopped being recorded. Interestingly, the usage 'bar' next to the (blank) graph shows usage on it correctly. So, as a test, I moved the rrd files for one chassis out of its folder then did a full redetect of the one host in question. Since then it doesn't appear to have made any effort to re-create the RRD file :( So, any ideas on why this one element would stop working suddenly? Or alternatively, is there a way to 'force' Observium to re-create it's rrd files for specific sensors on demand? Any input most welcome :) Cheers, Robert Williams Backline / Operations Team Custodian DataCentre tel: +44 (0)1622 230382 email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt

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no mail after down of a BGP peer
by Dario Calamai 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hello! the mail notification doesn't work after a down of a BGP peer. it works when peering is going UP or FLAP! I tried to understand where the problem was but I didn't succeed.. :( thanks! Dario -- http://www.playnet.it phone +39 055 3226622 - fax +39 055 3226444 Brain Technology s.p.a. - AS 13284 http://www.linkedin.com/in/dariocalamai

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Notifications for Ports in error-state
by Timo Ament 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hello, is there a way o configure observium to send out a notification, whenever a port is erroring and shown as such under the Ports-tab? Regards Timo

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Quickguide: Installation on SLES11
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

I don't see a way to create a user on the Wiki so I'm posting it here, hope people with wiki access can add it: ## # Initial Repos ## SLES11 + SLE11-SDK + Updates ## # Pre-requisites ## # Additional repositories zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/utilities/SLE_11_SP1 network:utilities # Prepackaged installation zypper in apache2-mod_php5 php5-mysql php5-gd php5-snmp php5-pear net-snmp graphviz-gd graphviz subversion mysql rrdtool fping ImageMagick whois mtr nmap ipmitool # Additional modules using PEAR pear install Net_IPv6 pear install Net_IPv4 # For monitoring VMs using libvirt zypper in libvirt # Checkout of Observium from SVN cd /opt svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium ## # Data Base ## # DB+user Creation mysql> create database observium; mysql> grant all privileges on observium.* to 'observium'@'localhost' -> identified by '<pass>'; # Schema creation cd observium mysql -u observium -p observium < database-schema.sql <pass> # Update config.php to include DB connection info cp config.php{.default,} vi config.php # Schema updates for F in database-update*;do scripts/update-sql.php $F;done # RRD and graphs directory creation mkdir graphs rrd chown wwwrun: graphs/ rrd/ ## # PATHS ## # fping vi config.php -- $config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping"; -- ## # Apache ## # Enable Mod Rewrite a2enmod rewrite # apache vhost configuration vi /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/observium.conf -- <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/ ServerName observium.<domain> CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log <Directory "/opt/observium/html/"> AllowOverride All Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> -- # Log destination directory mkdir /opt/observium/logs/ chown wwwrun: /opt/observium/logs/ # Startup rcapache2 start chkconfig apache2 on ## # Users (for production, better configure LDAP) ## # Admins, level 10 /opt/observium/adduser.php user1 pass 10 ## # Devices ## # Adding new devices cd /opt/observium/ && ./addhost.php <hostname> <community> v2c # Discovery inicial + colecta de datos ./discovery.php -h all ./poller.php -h all # Enable data collection using cron vi /etc/cron.d/observium -- 33 */6 * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 0 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 2 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 3 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 4 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 5 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 6 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 7 >> /dev/null 2>&1 ## # Performance Tunning ## # Install XCache, build package from src.rpm (install required dependencies for compilation if needed) mkdir ~/tmp cd ~/tmp wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php:/extensions/SLE_11/sr… rpmbuild --rebuild php5-xcache-1.3.2-2.1.src.rpm # Install result from above command # Restart apache rcapache2 restart That's all, this should work on openSUSE also, just make sure to use repositories for the correct version of distribution. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Feature Request/Suggestion: Trending
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, it would be really helpful for Capacity Planning to include Trending support, as far as I know, RRDTool already has support for it. Maybe adding trending on all graphs is not the best option, because for one graph there are many data sources, and while one can choose what one thinks would be the most obvious candidate another user might need to do the trending using other datasource... Maybe adding a separate TAB where one can choose what to graph with trending would be the most "universal" solution, or maybe a mix of both, graph the obvious by default and enable and "advanced" tab for trending on demand... Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Collectd alongside Observium
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, I'll try asking again splitting topics... Does collectd add new data/features not available with SNMP polling?, should I implement collectd alongside a new Observium installation?. Also, which version plays nice with Observium today?, 4.10 or 5.0? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Load Graph, 'm'illions?
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Sorry if this has been asked before, couldn't find the answer in a quick search. Graphing Linux load average on a busy machine I see integer numbers, which is expected "20" for example, but graphing an almost idle machine (load 0.22), it's graphed as 220 m. Is there something I need to adjust?, is a RRD limitation? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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"Could not ping <host>" from Web UI
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, I managed to install Observium rev2831 on SLES11SP1, and it's working great!! Trying to add hosts by CLI I was getting the "cannot ping" message, fixed it adding "$config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping";" to config.php. Now, I keep getting the same trying to use the Web UI to add a hosts, apparently it's not using the config['fping'] variable. Is that possible? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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rev 2846 -> all int macaddrs=00:00:00:00:00:00
by Dario Calamai 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

thi is the diff with -6 rev: Index: includes/polling/ports.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/polling/ports.inc.php (revisione 2840) +++ includes/polling/ports.inc.php (copia locale) @@ -182,14 +177,7 @@ if (strpos($this_port['ifPhysAddress'], ":")) { list($a_a, $a_b, $a_c, $a_d, $a_e, $a_f) = explode(":", $this_port['ifPhysAddress']); - $ah_a = zeropad($a_a); - $ah_b = zeropad($a_b); - $ah_c = zeropad($a_c); - $ah_d = zeropad($a_d); - $ah_e = zeropad($a_e); - $ah_f = zeropad($a_f); - #$this_port['ifPhysAddress'] = $ah_a.":".$ah_b.":".$ah_c.":".$ah_d.":".$ah_e.":".$ah_f; - $this_port['ifPhysAddress'] = $ah_a.$ah_b.$ah_c.$ah_d.$ah_e.$ah_f; + $this_port['ifPhysAddress'] = zeropad($ah_a).zeropad($ah_b).zeropad($ah_c).zeropad($ah_d).zeropad($ah_e).zeropad($ah_f); } "zeropad($ah_N)" in last +line should be without "h": $ah_N are absent variables! ;) ++++ $this_port['ifPhysAddress'] = zeropad($a_a).zeropad($a_b).zeropad($a_c).zeropad($a_d).zeropad($a_e).zeropad($a_f); dario -- http://www.playnet.it phone +39 055 3226622 - fax +39 055 3226444 Brain Technology s.p.a. - AS 13284 http://www.linkedin.com/in/dariocalamai

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Looking for FabricOS and Eaton Rack Monitor support
by Ciro Iriarte 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Any pointers/help to add support for: - Brocade SAN Switches (FabricOS): Added as unknown device, some traffic data saved. Snmpwalk output: http://pastebin.com/WAq90sFA - Eaton Powerware Rack Monitor: Recognized as UPS (!), no environment data saved. Snmpwalk output: http://pastebin.com/xdT0La6T MIB: http://pastebin.com/gH2W9dvK I kinda suck at php, but would be nice to add support for this devices.. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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VLAN Tabs missing?
by Bruce-Young Majola 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi, I just upgraded to the latest version and I noticed that the VLAN Tab is now gone. Although I can still see what VLAN; VLAN number to be precise; an interface belongs to under the device Ports tab, I cannot see any VLAN name like I used to before. Is this by design or has something gone awry with the later code releases? Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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syslog on netscreen
by Nicola Percacciante 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi, i enabled the syslogd for hp procurve switch works correctly example _2012-01-20 18:27:44_ FFI port A1-High collision or drop rate. See help. _2012-01-20 18:27:44_ FFI port A2-High collision or drop rate. See help. for juniper netscreen i get only that msg _2011-12-15 23:40:56_ NETSCREEN DEVICE_ID=018508200900 _2011-12-15 22:28:56_ NETSCREEN DEVICE_ID=018508200900 In the LOG on linux box i see the follow syslogd raw Jan 23 12:10:39 192.168.198.71 SSG140: NetScreen device_id=0185082009000680 [Root]system-critical-00026: IPSEC tunnel with ID 4000000c fails to authenticate the packet. (2012-01-23 12:10:48) Any idea ? Nicola

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Initial doubts
by Ciro Iriarte 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

Hi, I posted some questions in the forum, but the maillist seems to be a lot more active, so I'll summarize them here: 1- Trending Support: Is that on the roadmap?, from what I've read RRD already supports trending.. 2- Collectd: I see there's support for collectd, should I implement it alongside observium?, would that duplicate data?. Which version works nice with observium?, 4.10 or 5.0? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Changing password for an other user
by Fältman, Mikael 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

How do I change password for a user that has forgotten his password ? I know how to change my own password but not for an other user. Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Patch to monitor by-outlet APC MasterSwitch bars
by Jordan Kirby 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hi, We have recently installed some APC power bars that can be monitored by outlet (AP8653). I have written a patch for Observium (attached) that creates sensor for each of the ports on a AP8653. The patch also includes getting the input voltage for the newer "rPDU2" type power bars. I found the snmp queries to be slow against these new apcs when returning the current information, hence the increased timeout. Any suggestions/improvements are more than welcome! Regards Jordan

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No authorisation to app apache
by Fältman, Mikael 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hi My "normal users" can access the page App >> Apache (they are granted access to the device) but the graphs is not displaying. Only the text "No authorization" and a pink graph showing no values. Is this a bugg or do I have to grant access other than to the device for the users ? The Administrator classed users have no problem. Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script
by Adam Armstrong 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Aha. Sounds like new behaviour in Ubuntu copied from debian upstream. Its very annoying, as you discovered. Ill need ti mention it in the install guide, as currently its only a footnote for debian! Adam. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: Actually: Ubuntu 11.10 Upgraded the distro not long a go. //Mikael Från: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] För Adam Armstrong Skickat: den 30 november 2011 22:15 Till: Observium Network Observation System Ämne: Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script Debian? Or another braindead distro which breaks snmp by removing mibs? Adam -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: Ah. That was a good switch ! OUTPUT from debug (not working): SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '24'] Applications: /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c nmspublic -O qv -M /opt/observium/mibs/ udp:liss-bro-fep1:161 nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101 nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> nsExtendOutputFull) So I added “NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::” to the file “includes/polling/applications/apache.inc.php” and it solved the problem. Now it all works as expected. New OUTPUT from debug (working): SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '24'] Applications: /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c nmspublic -O qv -M /opt/observium/mibs/ udp:liss-bro-fep1:161 NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101 Is it a bug or did I miss something. Some ENV param maybe ? Thank you ! Mikael Från: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] För Adam Armstrong Skickat: den 30 november 2011 19:34 Till: Observium Network Observation System Ämne: Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script Run the Poller for that host in debug. ./poller.php -h <host> -d Adam -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: ”Observium 0.11.10.2693” I have set up Observium as instructed to monitor an apache server. Everything seems work fine except that there is no data in the graphs . Doing a manual snmp poll from Observium server returns data and the /tmp/apache-snmp file is creataed on the remote server so I know that the script has been executed. (Snmpwalk -O qv -v2c -c xx webhost NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull -M /opt/observium/mibs) Adding the App to the Device in Observium worked. mysql> select * from applications; +--------+-----------+----------+ | app_id | device_id | app_type | +--------+-----------+----------+ | 1 | 24 | apache | +--------+-----------+----------+ 1 rows in set (0.00 sec) The graphs are created under Apps->Apache But there is no data ! When running the poller.php scrip everythings seems fine. The script outputs: Applications: apache The RRDs is created and the timestamp on the file is updated every 5 min. app-apache-1.rrd A rrdtool dump shows only NAN BUT ! The file /tmp/apache-snmp is not created on the remote server when the poller.php script runs !? (I have removed it after testing) It seems that the poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script on the remote server ! Am I missing something ? Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com | www.logica.com Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script
by Fältman, Mikael 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

”Observium 0.11.10.2693” I have set up Observium as instructed to monitor an apache server. Everything seems work fine except that there is no data in the graphs . Doing a manual snmp poll from Observium server returns data and the /tmp/apache-snmp file is creataed on the remote server so I know that the script has been executed. (Snmpwalk -O qv -v2c -c xx webhost NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull -M /opt/observium/mibs) Adding the App to the Device in Observium worked. mysql> select * from applications; +--------+-----------+----------+ | app_id | device_id | app_type | +--------+-----------+----------+ | 1 | 24 | apache | +--------+-----------+----------+ 1 rows in set (0.00 sec) The graphs are created under Apps->Apache But there is no data ! When running the poller.php scrip everythings seems fine. The script outputs: Applications: apache The RRDs is created and the timestamp on the file is updated every 5 min. app-apache-1.rrd A rrdtool dump shows only NAN BUT ! The file /tmp/apache-snmp is not created on the remote server when the poller.php script runs !? (I have removed it after testing) It seems that the poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script on the remote server ! Am I missing something ? Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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draw NA values using different color
by Nikolay Shopik 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hey, I'm just find this graph http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?displaymode=n;start=2011-11-30%2012:2… And though it will be nice (if possible) to draw empty(NA) values using different color, like on graph I show.

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sorting type on ports tab changed?
by Nikolay Shopik 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hi, Does sorting order recently changed on ports tab? When I sort by name of port right now it sort like this GigabitEthernet0/1 GigabitEthernet0/10 GigabitEthernet0/11 etc but before it was 0/1, 0/2, 0/3, etc.

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VLANs Tab empty after an upgrade
by Bruce-Young Majola 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

HI, I have updated to version 0.11.11.2734 and noticed that the VLANs Tab is now empty and does not even show the "Powered by xxxxxx" at the bottom of the page. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Abnormal spike in billing graphs - r2719
by Berant Lemmenes 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hello, I've just recently setup Observium and noticed a strange spike in reported usage for one billing item, that wasn't reported in the actual interfaces stats. I've attached three screen shots, one of the accurate billing page for the billing entry in question, the 2nd for the interface page under the device, and the 3rd for the same interface as seen from a cricket install. As you can see the physical interface graphs in Observium or cricket don't show this extended period of ~ 8Gb/s that show up in the mysql based graphs. Looking at bill_data for the bill_id in question there were 45 entries where in_delta was exactly 309525032051591 while out_delta continues to change. Here is an example row: 31, 2011-11-10 17:35:06, 299, 309525032052787, 309525032051591, 1196 This has only manifested in this one billing. Let me know if there is anything else I can look at or provide that would assist. Thank you in advance. Thanks, Berant

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Database Question
by Letz Stefan / ACS 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Hello List, we use observium to monitor about 200 network devices including syslog, ipsec, and smokeping. What we see is an excessive growing off database every time we make an svn update. Could everyone else see this phenomen? Mit freundlichen Gr??en / Best regards Stefan Letz Team Manager Customer Services ACS Solutions GmbH Maximilianallee 4 04129 Leipzig Phone: +49 341 355913 45 Mobile: +49 151 11446409 Fax: +49 341 355913 11 www.acs-europe.de<http://www.acs-europe.de> [cid:gold_partner_2011.jpg@10d693991e784a969efcef6bb72627ac] Amtsgericht Leipzig: HRB21111 USt-IdNr: DE814217083 Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Thomas Lindner

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Billing question
by Berant Lemmenes 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

I have a quick question to confirm what data is used to determine an overage... I believe I'm understanding the code/database correctly in that it calculates the 95th percentile for both in and out (rate_95th_in/rate_95th_out) and then whichever one is larger is stored as rate_95th and that is what is used for the value that the overage is based on. I just ask because we see ~4-5 times more entries that are over their limit with Observium than with our previous system (which granted was horribly cobbled together, and last maintained in the early 00's), and I just wanted to make sure it wasn't taking the sum of in and out for the calculation. Thanks! Berant

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Re: [Observium] Potential bugs - r2726
by Adam Armstrong 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

This is currently by design. We could do with something to make it prettier though. Berant Lemmenes <berant(a)lemmenes.com> wrote: >Yeah looks like both my non billing issues were PHP RAM limited, thanks for >the pointer. > >The only other non billing related thing is the global settings link just >pulls up a text listing of the various array's that the settings are stored >in. > >Thanks, >Berant > >On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > >> >> Ports page is probably down to memory limits on PHP. check logs. >> >> The billing page is being reworked at the moment, and some things might >> not work :) >> >> adam. >> >> >> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:19:15 -0500, Berant Lemmenes <berant(a)lemmenes.com> >> wrote: >> > Some of these could be known issues but I didn't see anything in the >> > bugtracker and wanted to see if they were somehow unique to my >> > installation. >> > >> > There are a couple pages that completely error out, the browser get's a >> > failure trying to load. For me that is the main Inventory page under the >> > overview tab, and the all ports page. I have currently 30 devices with >> ~16k >> > ports in my system. >> > >> > For a page like the all ports page I would expect that to take some time >> to >> > render as it's pulling together a lot of info for 16k interfaces, >> however >> > after maybe 1-2 seconds it fails. >> > >> > Filtering under the traffic bills page doesn't seem to work, when >> > I first started entering Bills I know I was able to filter by over/under >> > quota, however now that I have 67 in it doesn't seem to work. Also I'm >> not >> > sure what the 'All Customers' drop down is supposed to filter on as I've >> > filled out all the customer/bill related fields when adding a new bill >> and >> > it never populates. >> > >> > In general I don't see any place to look for clues as to what is failing >> on >> > the page failures, as the apache error.log doesn't have anything and the >> > observium.log file is only poller items. Can I enable more verbose >> logging >> > into the observium.log file somehow? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Berant >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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Cisco ASA Remote Access Sessions getting Error Drawing Graph
by Jeff Collyer 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Using Observium to monitor several pairs of Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls. On the graphs/firewall page /observium/device/device=27/tab=graphs/group=firewall/ the very last graph is labeled Remote Access Sessions. I'm getting the ubiquitous "Error Drawing Graph" on that row of graphs. whats my next debugging step? The apache logs don't show any errors, so I'm guessing its somewhere in the Observium or RRDtool layers. Observium 0.11.11.2726 Apache 2.2.14 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.10 MySQL 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 Thanks ---- Jeff

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Potential bugs - r2726
by Berant Lemmenes 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Some of these could be known issues but I didn't see anything in the bugtracker and wanted to see if they were somehow unique to my installation. There are a couple pages that completely error out, the browser get's a failure trying to load. For me that is the main Inventory page under the overview tab, and the all ports page. I have currently 30 devices with ~16k ports in my system. For a page like the all ports page I would expect that to take some time to render as it's pulling together a lot of info for 16k interfaces, however after maybe 1-2 seconds it fails. Filtering under the traffic bills page doesn't seem to work, when I first started entering Bills I know I was able to filter by over/under quota, however now that I have 67 in it doesn't seem to work. Also I'm not sure what the 'All Customers' drop down is supposed to filter on as I've filled out all the customer/bill related fields when adding a new bill and it never populates. In general I don't see any place to look for clues as to what is failing on the page failures, as the apache error.log doesn't have anything and the observium.log file is only poller items. Can I enable more verbose logging into the observium.log file somehow? Thanks, Berant

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Toner MIB?
by Matthew Coene 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Anyone else suddenly have their toner MIB / graphing charts go straight to 0 / nan%?? Can't be sure when it started happening... can only say it used to work... Experienced in svn v2705... Just updated to v2714 to see if its fixed... Cheers, Matt

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NetApp Storage
by Brian Davis 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Does anyone know if it is possible to graph the storage usage on NetApp with Observium? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Davis Concepts NREC bda(a)conceptsnrec.com<mailto:bda@conceptsnrec.com> ________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email. ________________________________ The information contained in this communication and any attachment(s) and/or link(s) hereto may contain proprietary and/or confidential information, which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure, and is intended only for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return it to the sender immediately and delete the original message from your computer system. If you have any questions concerning this message, please contact the sender.

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non-unicast packet OID
by Nikolay Shopik 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hey Adam, What OID is used to generate stat about non-unicast packet, does these below correct? 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.2 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.3 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.4 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.5 I'm trying catch some error in stat which cause to show as 500M non-unicast packets, which is damn huge.

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Re: [Observium] dlink snmp
by Adam Armstrong 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

I see this reasonably often on cheaper kit. Lots of dell switches do it too. You can disable poller/discovery modules with hyte web interface. Perhaps disable them all then enable one by one to see which it is? Adam. Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: >Hey, > >Does anyone here monitor D-link switches via SNMP? We had small devices >which is pooling just fine, with pretty limited support, but still ok. >And now trying out DGS-3120-24TC and it seems dying under snmp load when >you add it on observium. >And by dying I mean it become bunch of useless metal until you reboot >it. So I wonder maybe anyone know which OID cause such behavior. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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New user introduction - Scaling questions
by Berant Lemmenes 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hello everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself to the list and complement the authors on a fantastic tool! As a little background on our deployment, I work for a Midwestern US ISP/NSP and I found Observium by looking for a replacement solution for our severely aging 95th percentile burstable billing system. However I was blown away by Observium once I got it running. We're now looking at replacing several systems with it focusing on interface/data polling, we have a separate system that we will continue maintain to do SNMP trap handling. Right now we have just shy of 16k interfaces across 30 nodes, with another dozen or two to add to complete our cisco L3/L2 devices. I'm interested in adding new device types for our Cisco 15454 SONET and MSTP systems (and have read the Developing/NewOS document), however if these devices were to be added it would take our device count up north of 600, with a massive increase in interfaces. So I want to make sure I've got things setup well before going down that road. While performance is doing great thus far I'm concerned about things I can do to scale the system. Currently the system is a Xen VM with 4 cores and 4GB of ram, and the load average is staying right around 4 with 40% average CPU usage. Since we're not interested in alerting for interface/node up/down with Observium I've configured each device to ignore and disable alerting. I've also took out the various menu items poller modules for things that we don't need as well. And I need to look into interface names that can be ignored etc as well. I've not yet tried rrdcached but I'd like to see what impact that has on existing load. Does anyone else have any recommendations or additional best practices? I have some thoughts ideas on potential features that could be useful for other ISP users as well, however I don't want to flood the list right off the bat with an even more rambling email. Observium is a great tool, and though I'm not a programmer I'd love to help out however I can. Thanks, Berant

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dlink snmp
by Nikolay Shopik 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hey, Does anyone here monitor D-link switches via SNMP? We had small devices which is pooling just fine, with pretty limited support, but still ok. And now trying out DGS-3120-24TC and it seems dying under snmp load when you add it on observium. And by dying I mean it become bunch of useless metal until you reboot it. So I wonder maybe anyone know which OID cause such behavior.

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Anyone using 95th Billing?
by Mahomed Hussein 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi Is anyone using 95th billing in observium? I've been having slowness issues with it, so I setup a new server, downloaded the latest version and cleared all the billing tables and let it start polling again. This was fine and the polling has been working. The page was loading in less than a second. As the days have gone on, the bills page has been getting slower and slower and now takes at least 20 seconds to load. I am just wondering if this is normal or if there is something wrong. Thanks. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Senior Operations Engineer [cid:image936b14.jpg@74cffa9e.a72241e4]<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Tel: +44 (0)1622 230 382 Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:support@CustodianDC.com> Web: www.CustodianDC.com<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Status: status.CustDC.net<http://status.custdc.net/> [cid:image98c948.png@112a1189.765f4e73] ISO:27001 IS:567248 Click to view our email disclaimer<http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt>

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one month legend wrong
by Nikolay Shopik 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

One month graph show wrong legend, there only two weeks of legend, but graph is actual month. Basically there only two Mondays in one month. :)

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Cisco Switch VLANs now working
by Bruce-Young Majola 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Yeah!! the VLAN feature is working properly now on the Cisco switch. Regards Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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auto-refresh on individual port graph broken
by Nikolay Shopik 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

It seems, autorefresh is broken when you select device go into ports and select specific graph to view it on full-screen. Actual refresh is working and you can force it by pressing F5 but graph doesn't update until you click again on one of time-window graph.

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word "Used" on cisco memory graph
by Nikolay Shopik 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

It seems word "Used" on Cisco memory graph misplaced, it should be above percent value, but currently it above total memory.

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light blue peak on graph
by Nikolay Shopik 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

So I got one device polled by cacti and observium. And see difference in peaks (outbound as example). What I see is light blue color peaks are bigger than show in cacti but regular blue outline in observium graph match cacti peak. Is light blue peak is interpolation of data, how its caclucated or where it comes from?

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html title depend on open window
by Nikolay Shopik 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Is it possible to change HTML title to something more descriptive? Like when you open summary page of device you will have name of device in title instead current static "Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring"? This helps when you navigate in observium and want to go back and all previous pages named same :). So you have to know how much level you want go back.

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Re: [Observium] Having problems with device map after upgrade
by Bruce-Young Majola 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi, Has anyone experienced the issue detailed below? It occurred after upgrading to a newer version a couple of days back. I have since upgraded to the latest version and the problem is still there. Please help!! DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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huge peaks on interfaces 10-100Gig
by Nikolay Shopik 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

We seeing once in while really huge peaks on some devices. In past we seen such when installing new device or/and doing maintenance on it. So we just ignore them in past, because they only broke graphs once in time. Does anyone seeing this too? Basically this looks like huge peak (10-100G) for about 5-10 min(2 scans). I've seen this on different devices, but all of them are Cisco afaik.

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netstat legend
by Nikolay Shopik 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

Most of netstat graphs have 4 rows but legend says "current, averange,max). Only IP fragmetations have 3 rows/3 description. So what's up with 4 row in other graphs, probably should say current,min,avg,max?

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Include Server Port Type?
by Matthew Gyurgyik 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

The wiki[1] lists Server as a valid port type. The parser does all the work so that http://observium.ndcls.local/iftype/type=server/ works. All that is needed is a config option and a menu item. I have a patch that add these two things. However, codekiller brought up a valid point that all you'd have to do is search for server. http://observium.ndcls.local/ports/ifAlias=server/format=list_basic/ This works just as well, for me. Therefore I ask, do we want a menu link for the server port type? Yes - I'll provide a patch No - I'll create a wiki account and remove the offending information ~pyther [1] http://www.observium.org/wiki/Interface_Description_Parsing

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Some device traffic graphs are not working anymore
by Bruce-Young Majola 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Hi, I noticed that after upgrading to the latest version of Observium, (0.11.10.2674); traffic graphs do not work anymore on some device; see screenshot below. Polling or discovering the affected devices does not help either. Regards Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Code to Delete interfaces that match bad_if?
by Matthew Gyurgyik 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

So I spent a lot of time digging through the code to figure out how bad_if works. I wanted to remove the stacking "ports" there were showing up. Added this code to my config: $config['bad_if'][] = "stack"; However the ports weren't getting removed. Upon further investigation I found that the current code only prevents the addition of a match. However, if the port is already in the database nothing is done. Is this the desired behaviour or should ports that match be removed from the database? ~pyther

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map.php?format=svg is gone
by Nikolay Shopik 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hey, It seems now localhost/map.php?format=svg is no more working, is this intended? I understand this is never been supported, but I've been using it to draw full network map and this is work perfect for me.

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CollectD Integration - Graphing
by John Macleod 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

I'm looking to customize the CollectD graphs, specifically for the DNS plug to overlay the Rcode and Qtype data, similar to the CollectD plugin example: http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:DNS Could anyone point me in the right direction on this? The current graphed output isn't very useful.

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CDP Neighbours
by Bruce-Young Majola 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi, I have just noticed that the Neighbours option has disappeared under the Ports Tab for some of the devices we monitor via Observium; this looks to have happened after upgrading to version 0.11.10.2654. Is it something to do with my upgrade or is there something broken. The issue is that some do display the Neighbours Option on the same version so I am at odds about what is wrong. By the way, I have not disabled CDP on these device so that is not the problem. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Dell OMSA
by John Macleod 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

I am curious what attributes of Dell's OMSA snmpd integration are polled by Observium? Pre OMSA install the host was identified as Generic, post OMSA install/SNMP SMUX integration it polls the model correctly but nothing else. Hardware is a PowerEdge 1950 III. Some quick googling suggests that the OIDs for PE 1950, 2650, 2950, etc are not the same - although temp, voltage, fan, etc should be available, and is via the OMSA interface. Thought I would reach out to any fellow Dell + Observium users. Thanks, John

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2641 > 2644 = Broken addhost.php
by John Macleod 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

A svn update this afternoon from 2641 - 2644 appears to have broken ./addhost.php: ./addhost.php some.host.com blah v2c Always returns: No reply on community public Even with an incorrect community: ./addhost.php some.host.com blah1 v2c No reply on community public I can walk the device from the observium host without issue...

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95th Billing is inaccurate
by Mahomed Hussein 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi We are having some more trouble with 95th billing. It seems that even on clients who are using very little (or nothing at all as they aren't using the ports yet) are showing an over usage on their 95th. Is there an easy way to correct this? Will I have to clear the database to fix this? I've pasted a screenshot below. [cid:image001.png@01CC7E96.2D3405C0] Any help will be sincerely appreciated. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Senior Operations Engineer [cid:image962245.jpg@2da0f5a1.91a247af]<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Tel: +44 (0)1622 230 382 Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:support@CustodianDC.com> Web: www.CustodianDC.com<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Status: status.CustDC.net<http://status.custdc.net/> [cid:image846350.png@64f4e49a.03424297] ISO:27001 IS:567248 Click to view our email disclaimer<http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt>

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graphs directory empty
by Doug MacKintosh 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Folks, So my graphs directory is empty. Thinking that this may be path issue (given that I have all the required supporting software installed), can someone tell me (a) what program generates the output that will go into the graphs directory and (b) which PHP scripts call that program? Thanks... Doug

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Cisco ASA Overview graph not working
by Bruce-Young Majola 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi, I upgraded to the latest version of Observium (0.11.9.2550) and now the Cisco ASA traffic graph in the overview tab is showing "Error Drawing Graph". However when I hover the mouse over the graph area I can see the correct graphs in the pop-up window. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Traffic graph error
by Doug MacKintosh 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Folks, Observium newbie here. I have it set up and running and thus far all is well other than port traffic graphs. When one tries to view these the following error is produced: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: http://observium.foo.bar/graph-realtime.php?type=bits&id=3&interval=2 Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> Observium revision is 2547 (current as of this writing). Anyone else have this problem? Suggestions will be received with appreciation. Thanks... Doug

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port monitoring links broken
by Nikolay Shopik 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

http://demo.observium.org/ports/device_id=45/state=up/format=graph_bits/ Click on any graph this will bring you to broken summary page instead page of interface. That was working, can't say then it broke (updating every night).

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Re: [Observium] Traffic bills page taking over a minute to display
by Mahomed Hussein 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi Can anyone please help or provide some tips of where to start checking? It now becoming pretty unusable. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Senior Operations Engineer [cid:image8c376c.jpg@5c3feea6.0860423b]<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Tel: +44 (0)1622 230 382 Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:support@CustodianDC.com> Web: www.CustodianDC.com<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Status: status.CustDC.net<http://status.custdc.net/> [cid:imagea72a25.png@94a57a1c.c10e4664] ISO:27001 IS:567248 Click to view our email disclaimer<http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt> From: Mahomed Hussein Sent: 31 August 2011 09:52 To: 'observium(a)observium.org' Subject: Traffic bills page taking over a minute to display Hi We've been adding customers to the billing section and after a strange occurrence a few weeks ago (which we attributed to time changes between the VM and the ESX host), the billing page has been very slow to generate. Please could you let me know if there is anything I can do to check/fix the problem? Below is how long the most recent page display took: MySQL: Cell 63/0s Row 404/38.23s Rows 8/0.65s Column 189/56.87s Generated in 95.36 seconds. This is happening in the latest dev release of Google Chrome, Opera 11.50 and IE9 (I haven't tested firefox). I have already rebooted the server. Below is the system information. Observium 0.11.8.2404 Apache 2.2.17 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.5-1ubuntu7.2 MySQL 5.1.54-1ubuntu4 Any help will be sincerely appreciated. Kind regards,

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Alerts
by John Macleod 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Where did the config go to disable this? I can't find it in my config.php or config.php.default files... "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail (and/or any attachment) contains information, which is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender. The information contained in this e-mail (and any attachments) is supplied in good faith, but the sender shall not be under any liability in damages or otherwise for any reliance that may be placed upon it by the recipient, nor does it constitute a contract in any way. Any comments or opinions expressed are those of the originator not of Alentus Corporation unless otherwise expressly stated."

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Remove User does not work
by Bruce-Young Majola 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, The remove user feature does not seem to be working. Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Small device traffic overview graph is broken
by Bruce-Young Majola 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, The latest changes on version 0.11.9.2537 seem to have broken the small top-right Device Traffic graph. It shows Draw Error now. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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apache_scoreboard.inc wrong graphs
by Dennis Kruyt 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, It seems that there is is a small error in the apache scoreboard, some graphs are switched the keepalive and start.. I think it should be like this. Index: includes/graphs/application/apache_scoreboard.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/graphs/application/apache_scoreboard.inc.php (revision 2515) +++ includes/graphs/application/apache_scoreboard.inc.php (working copy) @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ } $rrd_options .= ' DEF:a='.$rrd_filename.':sb_wait:AVERAGE '; -$rrd_options .= 'DEF:b='.$rrd_filename.':sb_start:AVERAGE '; +$rrd_options .= 'DEF:e='.$rrd_filename.':sb_start:AVERAGE '; $rrd_options .= 'DEF:c='.$rrd_filename.':sb_reading:AVERAGE '; $rrd_options .= 'DEF:d='.$rrd_filename.':sb_writing:AVERAGE '; -$rrd_options .= 'DEF:e='.$rrd_filename.':sb_keepalive:AVERAGE '; +$rrd_options .= 'DEF:b='.$rrd_filename.':sb_keepalive:AVERAGE '; $rrd_options .= 'DEF:f='.$rrd_filename.':sb_dns:AVERAGE '; $rrd_options .= 'DEF:g='.$rrd_filename.':sb_closing:AVERAGE '; $rrd_options .= 'DEF:h='.$rrd_filename.':sb_logging:AVERAGE '; Regards, Dennis Kruyt,-

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VTY
by Bruce-Young Majola 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi Adam, We have a need for the capability to monitor and graph the vty sessions on our Cisco gear since we have services that rely on the vty lines availability in order to work. I have digged and searched the Cisco website; link below; for info and it looks to be possible to do something like this using the OLD-CISCO-TS-MIB. I would like to have this graphed under the device Netstat tab, probably under the current UDP Statistics graph. I am specifically wanting to monitor the a number of active virtual-terminal at any one time. I am willing to program it into Observium if I can be shown how. I would appreciate you help. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_tech_note09186a008… Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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