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Re: [Observium] Syslog Integration
by Mike Stupalov 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hi Brian, you configured syslog daemon complete at same way in Pro as in CE? You use rsyslog daemon? How to debug syslog receiver (for rsyslog): 1. In Global Setting Edit -> Syslog -> Enable Syslog DEBUG 2. Validate that rsyslog daemon have permissions to write into logs dir: $ ls -l /opt/observium | grep logs 2.a Simple is add write permissions for all: $ sudo chmod 777 /opt/observium/logs 3. restart rsyslog: $ sudo service rsyslog restart 4. Now see debug.*.syslog files in logs dir: $ ls /opt/observium/logs/*.syslog When syslog msg from host received, here will added file: debug.<host>.syslog Where <host> is received hostname by rsyslog daemon, in your case this <host> must be complete same as device hostname in observium server. Inside this log files you will see full syslog messages like this: [2018/03/21 17:51:32 +0300] syslog.php(5563): <host>||4||6||6||sshd[9497]:||2018-03-21 17:51:32|| Received disconnect from 221.194.47.239 port 36596:11: [preauth]||sshd Here also <host> entry as first part of message. If <host> not same as device hostname (I think this is your trouble), than read this docs: http://docs.observium.org/syslog/#match-syslog-hostnameip-with-device > Brian Hilmers <mailto:bhilmers@scripps.edu> > 20 July 2018 at 02:07 > > Hello, > > Our organization recently upgraded from the Community version to > Professional. While using the Community version on Ubuntu 16.04 we > found syslog integration worked well and setup was easy following the > documentation. After purchasing a subscription, we installed Observium > on a new Ubuntu 16.04 machine, but cannot get syslog integration to > work. I have configured the target machine to send syslog messages to > Observium and, using tcpdump, can confirm the Observium server is > receiving messages on the correct port from the target with FQDN. > However, the Observium web interface show "no syslog entries." What is > the best way to diagnose and fix this problem? > > Brian Hilmers > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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Syslog Integration
by Brian Hilmers 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hello, Our organization recently upgraded from the Community version to Professional. While using the Community version on Ubuntu 16.04 we found syslog integration worked well and setup was easy following the documentation. After purchasing a subscription, we installed Observium on a new Ubuntu 16.04 machine, but cannot get syslog integration to work. I have configured the target machine to send syslog messages to Observium and, using tcpdump, can confirm the Observium server is receiving messages on the correct port from the target with FQDN. However, the Observium web interface show "no syslog entries." What is the best way to diagnose and fix this problem? Brian Hilmers

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What is the IPMI settings for?
by Simon Mousey Smith 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hi All This is going to sound like a complete daft question But whats the IPMI settings for under the properties of a server? I understand that IPMI is to restart server remotely, control, etc… But not sure what information it will get/help with in observium? Regards Simon - Hestor

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Port Utilization Alert Checker Assistance
by Jonathan HoSee 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hello Everyone, For the life of me I am unable to get devices to fall into the status column according to the documentation for port utilization alerts. I would appreciate you informing me what exactly I am doing wrong. Thank you once again. Jon

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nagios & munin plugins
by Thibault Richard 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hello, On the page http://docs.observium.org/config_options/ I see the config $config['nagios_plugins'] On my server, I see /usr/lib/observium_agent/scripts-available/munin Does it mean Nagios plugins & munin scripts could be used in Observium ? Best Regards Thibault

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Change Subscruber Password
by Nurbek Suleimanov 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

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Alert checker for high memory usage on Linux
by Paludan, Ulrik 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

I'm trying to setup a high memory usage alert on Ubuntu Linux hosts. I'm using type entity mempool_perc in alert test 'mempool_perc greater 90'. However mempool_perc reports all memory used, including cache/buffer memory used by Linux, but still available to be released for applications as necessary. So my alert checker generates false alerts as soon as memory usage including cache/buffer exceeds 90%, which it does quit often on most of my servers. How can I setup a memory alert checker for available physical memory below a certain threshold? Observium online guide states: 'On Unix/Linux systems we generate a special "Physical Memory" memory pool entity by calculating memory usage minus buffer and cache. Use this for alerting on Unix/Linux' But not really sure how to use that entity? Is the entity name 'Physical_Memory', does it return result in bytes, percentage ? Thanks in advance Med venlig hilsen | With kind regards | Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ulrik Paludan | IT Operations NOVASOL AS Virumgårdsvej 27 - DK 2830 Virum Phone +45 39 14 31 82 ulrik.paludan(a)novasol.com<mailto:ulrik.paludan@novasol.com> www.novasol.com | www.dansommer.dk<http://www.dansommer.dk/> | www.cuendet.com<http://www.cuendet.dk/> NOVASOL AS IS A WYNDHAM RENTALS COMPANY Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Flapping interfaces
by Andrew Lemin 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Hi, We are trying to create an Alert Checker to detect for flapping network interfaces. How can we do this with Observium? Is this possible? Thanks, Andy.

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Windows 10 Auto Discovery
by Connary, Scott 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Good day: I am working on getting our windows environment set for auto discovery. It is working for our switches once we enable LLDP and have the correct SNMP setting in place. With Windows 10 I am having no luck in having them auto discovered. I can manually add a windows workstation to Observium via the add feature. When looking at devices in Observium I can see that a switch sees the workstation NIC via LLDP. However it only sees it as a MAC and provides no further information on the system itself. Windows 10: 64Bit Symantec Endpoint Protection AV SNMP Enabled and properly configured. LLDP looks to be on in NIC features. LLTD does not stay on under Windows Services. Thank you, Scott

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Alert association including all devices with recent version
by Thibault Richard 15 Jul '18

15 Jul '18

Hello The "Entity Association Ruleset" has been recently modified On this screenshot you can see both type ("Memory usage" use the old syntax with "Device & Entity" . while "Device down" use the new syntax) My question is simple . as we are obliged to associate an "Alert check" to devices, how are we supposed to specify "All devices" ? It's indeed no longer possible to specify * I've achieved my goal by specifying "device.ignore notequals 1" but this is not intuitive at all. Is there an easier way to do it ? Best Regards Thibault

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Alerts for Cumulative Throughput
by Jonathan HoSee 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hello, is there a way to setup an alert checker to be set for a certain percentage of the cumulative throughput graphs much like you can with interface capacity? Please let me know what these particular settings are. Thanks, Jon

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Alerts table not refreshed after discovery
by Fabrice Charlier 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hi, We observed the following behavior with Observium Subscription Edition 18.7.8339. We have a alert checker define on used pourcentage on file systems. Previously, if we add a filesystem to a server, a new entry entry in the alert table associated with this alert checker was created. It seems to be not the case anymore. Note that the new filesystem is reported as found in the event log and that the monitoring part is working perfectly. Regards, Fabrice

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Graphs are showing 13MB throughput on a 6MB link
by Anthony Polselli 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

Just noticed that the bandwidth graphs are not reporting the correct throughput. I.e. a 6MB T-1 link is showing 13MB on the Out. This router is a Cisco 7204VXR. I just tried updating to the current version of Observium, patched the OS, and rebooted but no change. Thoughts? [NN with R Flattened_250 x 84] __________________________________________ Anthony Polselli Chief Technology Officer Natural Networks, Inc. 10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 San Diego, CA 92121 anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com<mailto:anthony@naturalnetworks.com> http://www.naturalnetworks.com<http://www.naturalnetworks.com/> (619) 222-3232, ext: 101 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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IoT snmp
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

hi i have an iot sensing temperature. iot respond snmp querys version 1, (confirmed by linux command), how to add to observium? Because i can't note: custom oid -- Saluda cordialmente

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Best practice for "Port Down"?
by Eric W. Bates 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

I quite like the idea that Observium notes "down" ports; however, in my case, most are false-positive in that they belong to users who power down after hours. Our normal port description for an unallocated port is "NXC" (No Xross Connect) to the "Ignore Ports by ifName/ifDescr" and that has helped. In a perfect world, I want to monitor all ports which interconnect between our switches, and all ports in the Data Center; but ignore everything else. Can I put a negated RegExp in "Ignore ports by ifAlias Regular Expression" instead? Thank you. -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112

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Re: [Observium] Syslog issue
by Mike Stupalov 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Hi, read this section: http://docs.observium.org/syslog/#match-syslog-hostnameip-with-device You have troubles with association between observium devices hostname and rsyslog received hosts. You must set preserve FQDN or just use associate by IP (as written in docs). > Satish Patel <mailto:satish.txt@gmail.com> > 11 July 2018 at 17:44 > I want to integrate syslog with my observium and i am following all > these steps http://docs.observium.org/syslog/ > > I am using rsyslog, I have point my Cisco gears to observium and i can > see in tcpdump logs are coming from cisco routers, now issue is i > can't see them in GUI interface, how do i troubleshoot now? > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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Problem with time range showing graph
by Fiberwide Sysadmins 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Hi all, i'm using Observium in our company, we start suffering a problem when we try to show a graph in a defined time frame, the result is like that the time frame selected and the graph are different time frame, for example I select From: 2018-07-10 09:03:5 To: 2018-07-10 10:11:56 but the graph show starting 11:00 ending 12:10 like the attached image, and if I try to select a time-frame ending in this moment, the graph is empty, i suppose because the real time-frame used will end in the future. What I've missed in my configuration ? Distinti saluti --- Davide Lima Daum - System & Network Engineer Fibering S.p.a. - www.fiberwide.com T: +39.02.00632100 F: +39.02.00632199 e: sysadmin(a)fiberwide.com

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Syslog issue
by Satish Patel 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

I want to integrate syslog with my observium and i am following all these steps http://docs.observium.org/syslog/ I am using rsyslog, I have point my Cisco gears to observium and i can see in tcpdump logs are coming from cisco routers, now issue is i can't see them in GUI interface, how do i troubleshoot now?

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No Alert Notification
by David Ross 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

I'm attempting to setup an alert notification that would get engaged only if SNMP and ICMP were down, so I've setup a device-down alert that is based upon the below two conditions. device_status_type snmp 0 device_status_type ping 0 I also have "Require all conditions" selected within the Alert Checker Conditions. When SNMP condition is met, Observium does mark the device as down and does not send a notification, as desired. However, when both conditions are met, Observium marks the device as down but does not send a notification. What am I missing? Regards, *David W. Ross, Sr.* Sr. Network Engineer 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor San Francisco, California 94105 415.589.4930 - O 415.926.3483 - C david.ross(a)salesforce.com <http://smart.salesforce.com/sig/david.ross//us_mb/default/link.html>

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how to exclude the CPU temperature readings when monitoring virtual machines?
by Thomas Stather 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Hi I am using Observium Professional 18.1.9011 (subscription). I am monitoring one virtual machine (Ubuntu, VMWare ESXi hosted) and noticed that the CPU temperatur is quite high with 100 degrees :) The question is now how to exclude this output for all virtual machines if possible? Thanks in advance! Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV Tel: +49 6221-486 628 Fax: +49 6221-486 561 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (MPImF) Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg Germany

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Is the snmp output from Aruba devices total rubbish or is something upfucked in my install.
by Rowlands Mark 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Observium 8.6.9263 (10th June 2018) OS Linux 4.4.0-116-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 16.04) Apache 2.4.18 (Ubuntu) PHP 7.0.30-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.12 MySQL 10.1.25-MariaDB-1~xenial (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.5.5 (rrdcached 1.5.5: unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock) Fping 3.13 (IPv4 and IPv6) I have a bunch of Aruba devices, WAP205H, IAP155, 303H and a single 7005. OS little varied but usually 6.4x or 6.5x. I am aware that the Aruba is not specifically supported but would expect basic snmp bandwidth info to be correct ( ish ) IAP155 and 7005 seem to report bandwidth traffic ok but the 205and 303 report nonsense. ( see the attached graph ) . Are there other Aruba users out there with similar issues or is it just me?

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Best practice for alert threshold per devices
by Thibault Richard 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

%Hello, Im trying to define different alert threshold per devices. Ive tried by proceeding like this : 1° Ive defined a global alarm for all my devices having disk over 90% Im associating this alert checks to every devices except those in a specific group 2° The group with id 17, correspond to devices for which I accept a disk filled under 95% 3° Ive defined a second alert check specifically for this Is it the good way to achieve my goal ? Is my syntax correct ? Best Regards Thibault

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access graph, and alerts using API
by Gupta, Vijay(AWF) 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hi Team, Using API, I was trying to retrieve below information but could not figure out from the documentation provided. * graph (for processor, memory, etc) * device alerts for a specific time period (say past week/month) * we can pull the alerts, but not for a specific time range Appreciate if you could please help. Best, Vijay

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RHEL 7 and php 7.0 loading
by Dash Brousseau 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I have a new os install for subscription of Observium on redhat 7 I can’t get the main page to work Website loads but it’s all texts. Trying with php 7.0.But there seems to be conflict between php 5.3 or difference between httpd24. I dont know In the error logs it doesn’t show anything wrong so I’m assuming its php problem In the browser I get this display all in text “* @copyright (C) 2006-2013 Adam Armstrong, (C) 2013-2016 Observium Limited * */ include("../includes/sql-config.inc.php"); include_once($config['html_dir'] . "/includes/functions.inc.php"); // Preflight checks if (!is_dir($config['rrd_dir'])) { print_error("RRD Directory is missing ({$config['rrd_dir']}). Graphing may fail."); } if (!is_dir($config['log_dir'])) { print_error("Log Directory is missing ({$config['log_dir']}). Logging may fail."); } if (!is_dir($config['temp_dir'])) { print_error("Temp Directory is missing ({$config['temp_dir']}). Graphing may fail."); } if (!is_writable($config['temp_dir'])) { print_error("Temp Directory is not writable ({$config['tmp_dir']}). Graphing may fail."); } if (ini_get('register_globals')) { $notifications[] = array('text' => 'The PHP Option "register_globals" enabled in the php.ini. Please disable it!', 'severity' => 'alert'); } //if (!function_exists('hash_exists')) //{ // $alerts[] = array('text' => 'The PHP `hash` module is missing This will cause editing and other forms to fail. Please install it.', 'severity' => 'danger'); //} if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, OBS_MIN_PHP_VERSION, '<')) { $notifications[] = array('text' => ' Your PHP version is too old. Your currently installed PHP version ' . PHP_VERSION . ' is older than the required minimum of ' . OBS_MIN_PHP_VERSION . '. Please upgrade your version of PHP to prevent possible incompatibilities and security problems.', 'severity' => 'danger'); } if (isset($config['alerts']['suppress']) && $config['alerts']['suppress']) { $notifications[] = array('text' => ' All Alert Notifications Suppressed” etc etc. But I follow the install guide at Observium website I even create a ticket with redhat I was directly here https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2662201 When I use httpd24-httpd to start apache,he doesn’t even reference /etc/httpd/conf.d/ where obersvium is. So observirum page doesn’t even load however the main apache site shows working php7.0 I will kill that and go back to this systemctl enable httpd systemctl start httpd And now I’m back at the same situation. When Observium loads just text Anyone got Observium to work on rheal 7 with php 7.0 Dash This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the intended addressee (or authorized to receive for the intended addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by e-mail then delete the message immediately. Francais: http://www.fundserv.com/fr/company/disclaimer<http://www.fundserv.com/francais/legal/disclaimer_email_ib.shtml>

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how to avoid false-positives (device down/up), on HPE switches and Aruba APs
by Thomas Stather 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi Observium: 18.1.9011 (stable, subscribtion) We are monitoring our networking infrastructure with Observium and for a long time, i am seeing some false-positives. The poller period is 5 minutes and i.e. on 10:00am Observium reports a switch beeing down, where at 10:05am it reports it as beeing up again. This happens to HPE network gear (switches) as well as to wireless APs (Aruba). I set |$config['ping']['debug'] = TRUE; ||$config['ping']['timeout'] = 500; ||| |in config.php and will now monitor if that helps. Is there anything else i can try to solve this issue?| Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV Tel: +49 6221-486 628 Fax: +49 6221-486 561 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (MPImF) Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg Germany

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SQL Query
by Andrew Lemin 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi Adam, Hope you are well. Just a quick question about the Observium database schema. I need to write a simple query that will return a list of device names and the IP addresses which Observium uses for its polling (we don’t need or want any other addresses). I had a look and found tables ‘devices’ and ‘ipv4_addresses’. And I can see the device_id foreign key etc, so obtaining all the IPs for a device is trivial enough. But I am not sure how to best filter for just the IP which Observium uses for polling. I recently built a DNS zone for our network team using PowerDNS, and I just need to export all the devices and their management IPs from Observium, so I can inject the records into PowerDNS. So nothing fancy, but we have a couple hundred records.. Kind regards, Andy Lemin

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Re: [Observium] Observium Graph issue
by Balaji-NOC Engineer 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Dear Team, After adding 400 devices in our observium pro version we are getting drops in our graph. Kindly help us to resolve this issue. Thanks & Regards…. K.Balaji NOC-Engineer Corporate Address: No:38/11 | Status Quo | 4th floor | Sterling Road | Nungambakkam | PH. 9940570099 |Chennai-600034 | 044 61556666 | Mail: noc_team(a)ficustelecom.in | Web: http://www.ficustelecom.com Note:: For further any services related issue, Kindly reach us on 044 61556666 /9677055555 or noc_team(a)ficustelecom.in /noc(a)ficustelecom.com

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Re: [Observium] SQL Query
by Mike Stupalov 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi, devices polling not use tables with *_addresses, only hostnames. Hostnames resolve IP during polling by DNS query (or system hosts file). > Andrew Lemin <mailto:AndrewL@4d-dc.com> > 6 July 2018 at 12:36 > > Hi Adam, > > Hope you are well. > > Just a quick question about the Observium database schema. > > I need to write a simple query that will return a list of device names > and the IP addresses which Observium uses for its polling (we don’t > need or want any other addresses). > > I had a look and found tables ‘devices’ and ‘ipv4_addresses’. > > And I can see the device_id foreign key etc, so obtaining /all/ the > IPs for a device is trivial enough. But I am not sure how to best > filter for just the IP which Observium uses for polling. > > I recently built a DNS zone for our network team using PowerDNS, and I > just need to export all the devices and their management IPs from > Observium, so I can inject the records into PowerDNS. So nothing > fancy, but we have a couple hundred records.. > > Kind regards, Andy Lemin > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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Using professional edition license for testing
by Erdem HAKI 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hello, I want to migrate Observium professional edition to a new server, my plan is to install everything and testing them on the new box before moving data(rrd, database etc.). I saw "The subscription license is valid for a single production installation and two testing or development installations." on the page so I want to make sure that how should I handle license operation. I only can see one user/pass for my subscription when I logged in. Can I use it on the new box to download another Observium professional edition and test my build before moving data while my production Observium is still operational? Best

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Possibility to disable/enable syslog view for user
by Klimek, Denis 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Hi, what would you think about adding another permission level to disable/enable the possibility to view the syslog entries of a device? We have the situation that some external users must have access to specific devices and graphs, but this also includes syslog entries... and we simply do not want to show them this log entries i.e. cli commands that have been executed. Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: 040 / 521 04 - 1049 Mobil: 0151 / 652 219 06 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/>

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average trend line to the aggregate storage graphs
by Richard Wigzell 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Hi, is it possible to add an average trend line to the aggregate storage graphs? Similar to what is on the standard usage Graph. We are looking for a way to do some simple and rough storage growth prediction for an number of volumes as an aggregate. If this is something we could do natively with Observium that would be great but if anyone has done something similar with the RRDs and can share that would also be good. [cid:image001.png@01D41347.5FD8B370] [cid:image002.png@01D41347.C1A5EEB0] Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CE9215.D39244B0]<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> Richard Wigzell Technical Lead, Storage Platforms IT Services | University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN T: 01865 616282 www.it.ox.ac.uk<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/>

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Cisco ADSL port only shows one speed
by Tim Bates 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hello experts.... I have 2 Cisco routers with ADSL ports. Observium is showing the low (outbound) speed on these ports, however I am more interested in the higher (inbound) speed. When we have line problems, the outbound speed generally doesn't change much (maybe by a few kbps), but the inbound can drop from ~7mbps to under 1mbps. This drastic inbound speed change is what I'd like to monitor, graph and get alerts on... Is there a way to get the other speed to show instead (or in addition)? I can see the Cisco ADSL MIB listed, and enabled, but this is obviously not enough. I can't see any other obvious settings, and Google was not my friend on this one. TB

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Graphs for Juniper SRX Showing incorrect speed spike
by TAN Lists 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hey All, I have a weird issue with some interface graphs for a SRX240H where it will show the speed spiking to 10+GB/s on a 1GB/s port and for the life of me, I can't figure out why. https://pasteboard.co/Hss2xMm.png Observium I think is polling the 32 bit OIDs, but the webUI says it is 64bit Polling with Cacti shows correct traffic on both 32 and 64 bit OIDs - https://pasteboard.co/Hss2agw.png I also see a similar issue with a SRX110H where the VDSL interface (which is hard capped to 12MB/s) is showing 50+MB/s which is not possible. https://pasteboard.co/Hss2kcf.png Not sure how else to debug this, I have a feeling that this might be an issue within Observium, but advice appreciated. Devices are: Juniper SRX240H JunOS 12.1X46-D72.2 (Internet Router) Juniper SRX110H2-VA JunOS 12.3X48-D55.4 (Internet Router) Version Information *Observium CE* 17.9.0 (25th September 2017) *OS* Linux 3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7) *Apache* 2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/5.6.36 *PHP* 5.6.36 *Python* 2.7.5 *MySQL* 5.5.56-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.5.56-MariaDB) *SNMP* NET-SNMP 5.7.2 *RRDtool* 1.6.0 Thoughts on fixing / troubleshooting appreciated Have tried deleting devices and re-adding, beyond that, not sure what else to do.

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Re: [Observium] Cisco ADSL port only shows one speed
by ron＠rjr-services.com 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

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9304 issues
by Joey Stanford 01 Jul '18

01 Jul '18

Hi, Overnight the update script brought us to 9304 and the schema up to 378. Immediately after, all of our devices when down and alerts went out. The problem was that the poller script SQL call was failing because it was looking for status = 1 and all of our boxes were in status = 0. poller couldn’t find the host even though the hostname matched hostname in devices. I did an “ update devices set status=1 where `disabled`=0; “ and poller started again but I’m sure something else it at play here. Joey

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Alert-check "down device" doesn't report devices down
by Thibault Richard 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

Hello I've something strange with a basic alert checker I've defined a basic alert-checker to check if my devices are down The test condition is device_status equals 0 I know it works because I already had some working case. I'm astonished because I have a case with devices shown as down : . but not reported by the alarm-checks The device is a Dell EqualLogic PS4210 Do you know what my mistake could be ? Best Regards Thibault

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Moving Data to new build
by Barry George 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

How/Can you move data (graphs, device information etc) from one Observium build to another new build? I have been evaluating a Turnkey Linux CE build of Observium adding some devices etc. We like it and have purchased a license for the PE edition. I've been having little success moving the Virtualbox hosted version to ESXi 6.x for production. So I was thinking of installing a new build ontop of Debian 9. Can I move our Vbox hosted data over or do I just suck it up and start again? Thanks, Barry

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group and alert
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

hi, how i can create an alert based on a group? (associate group-alert) is possible? or i do an alert and a group ? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Disabling arp-table discovery module
by Klimek, Denis 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Hi all, I would like to globally disable the arp-table discovery module. I already tried $config['poller_modules']['arp-table'] = FALSE; in config, but this is for the "poller modules" and not discovery modules. In the global discovery module web gui section there is no option for it. Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: 040 / 521 04 - 1049 Mobil: 0151 / 652 219 06 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/>

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SNMP + Ping Alerting
by David Ross 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Hello! I would like to setup an alert-checker that would send a notification only if a device is not reachable via both SNMP and ICMP. Is there documentation that explains specifically how to do this? Thanks! *David W. Ross, Sr.* Sr. Network Engineer 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor San Francisco, California 94105 415.589.4930 - O 415.926.3483 - C david.ross(a)salesforce.com <http://smart.salesforce.com/sig/david.ross//us_mb/default/link.html>

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Minor issue with data obtained vs displayed.
by Ron Marosko 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Howdy Adam et al., Just a minor issue that I've noticed. I'm doing WMI polling of my Windoze boxen, and it's generally working well. The information is getting fetched properly, and being displayed properly. However, I've got a few instances where I see the wmi component of the poller is fetching information properly (case in point my personal workstation): ##### Module Start: wmi ##### WMI Poller: Windows version updated: 10 Pro Insider Preview (10.0.17692) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5680 @ 3.33GHz o Module time 5.3163s But when I view the device overview page, I get the normal non-WMI indication of "Unknown Processor Type". Pointers on where to look? SQL db? Thanks, Ron -- Ron Marosko, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCIE No. 4526 (R/S), NN5DX Senior Network Engineer RJR Services, Inc. 1108 West Dickinson Blvd, Suite A Fort Stockton, TX 79735 USA o: +1 432 336 5600 x115 c: +1 432 290 6344 e: <mailto:ron@rjr-services.com> ron(a)rjr-services.com pgp pubkey: <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x778B3B0258AB8B5C> 0x58AB8B5C "To know me is to fly with me." -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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Alerting on Bandwidth
by Joey Stanford 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Hi Gang, I’m hoping someone can point me to the best answer for this… I can’t use network weathermap on my Observium server. I do need to monitoring available bandwidth on ports. Many ports on many of the 100 routers have different available bandwidths (e.g. our shot from one mountain to another might have a 100M ifspeed but due to the 30 mile link the actual throughput is 15M). I have some ideas: 1) use alerts to specify the router and port which is cumbersome (using ifInOctets_rate and ifOutOctets_rate) 2) query SQL directly and write a program to parse and display 3) Something I haven’t tested, just use the generic rule I have written and modify the ifspeed on the appropriate ports to what the actual bandwidth is. Any suggestions? Thanks, Joey

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Re: [Observium] mikrotik bgp monitor
by Mike Stupalov 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Hi, you should address this question to Mikrotik.. My answer is - when here will be BGP4-MIB in list: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:SNMP#Management_information_base_.28M… > Farshid Abediny <mailto:farshidabediny@gmail.com> > 24 June 2018 at 08:02 > Hello, > i want know when does observium want support mikrotik bgp session > monitoring ? > we have lot mikrotik routers and we need to monitor bgp session with > observium > thank you. > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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mikrotik bgp monitor
by Farshid Abediny 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Hello, i want know when does observium want support mikrotik bgp session monitoring ? we have lot mikrotik routers and we need to monitor bgp session with observium thank you.

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function not found
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Hi, I'm searching a MAC address on FDB Tables, but i can't view more results (like pages) -- Saluda cordialmente

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APC PDU values
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Not sure when this started (2 weeks ago?), but my APC PDUs (model AP8641) are alerting sensors on several banks. I checked the output values on the PDU and they are correctly reported BOTH on the PDU and in Observium. The issue lies at what Observium thinks the thresholds should be set to. On the PDU the thresholds are correct (16 warn and 20 max). But Observium is reporting the thresholds as 1.6 and 2 [cid:image001.png@01D40879.39B4EB10] Doing a discovery debug on the device I see this... [cid:image003.jpg@01D40879.D14D5C00] I feel that the SCALE value is being wrongly applied to several of the values, namely: rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.1 rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.2 rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.3 rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.4 rPDU2PhaseStatusCurrent.1 rPDU2PhaseStatusCurrent.2 Regards, derek

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Unable to create Device type alert checkers
by Neal, Christopher 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hello, We are suddenly unable to create new alert checkers for the device type in our observium instance. When the checker is created and we rebuild no machines are associated to the alert checker. We have a previous device up/down alert checker in place that still works but we are unable to add new devices to it. Other checkers such as storage can be created and seem to work fine. Any help would be appreciated. Best, Chris

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Cisco ASA IPSEC tunnels
by Christian Eriksson 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hi, Is it possible to have alerting for IPSEC tunnels? Could not find any entities for it Regards Christian

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Poller
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hi. How i can do poller manualy to a device from web? or an entire location

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Python Version Upgrade
by Mike Hyslop 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hi All. Are there any negative effects of upgrading python 2.7 to 3.5 from an observium viewpoint, I can see it's in use with the poller-wrapper.py Thanks in advance Mike.

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WSL FTW
by Rob VanHooren 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

well how about that. obs runs within the ubuntu of WSL. wouldn’t recommend anything full-blown on it, but perhaps good for demos and the like. me@win10pc:~$ uname -a Linux win10pc 4.4.0-17134-Microsoft #112-Microsoft Thu Jun 07 22:57:00 PST 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (ref. url https://s15.postimg.cc/kzduf9lij/Screen_Shot_2018-06-19_at_20.40.11.png )

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/opt/observium/mibs/DO NOT MODIFY THE CONTENTS OF THIS DIRECTORY breaks my AIDE config
by Hamilton, Kent 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Any chance we could get this changed to "DO_NOT_MODIFY_THE_CONTENTS_OF_THIS_DIRECTORY" instead? It breaks our Ubuntu AIDE config and I haven't found a workaround for it not being an AIDE expert. I've tried sed'ing it out in the Debian auto-configlet (/etc/aide/aide.conf.d/31_aide_observium) but that ends up breaking more things. -- [exegy-wrb-121x52] S. Kent Hamilton Senior Systems Administrator 349 Marshall Ave,. Suite 100 St. Louis, MO 63119 US Phone: +1 314-218-3558 Mobile: +1 636-634-1549 Email: KHamilton(a)Exegy.COM ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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Troubleshoot/Debug Geolocation?
by Mailing Lists 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Hi Guys, Is there a way to troubleshoot/debug the geolocation system? I thought we were using Google, and it reports that's what is configured, but it seems like in reality the lookups are using Yahoo? Perhaps the Google query is failing due to an issue with the API key, but how could I check this? I couldn't see anything obvious in the normal poller or discovery debugs for geolocation? Screenshot from a device that makes me thing something isn't working Thanks, Tim C

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Re: [Observium] LDP Neighbors, Syslog rules severity and program matching
by Mike Stupalov 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi, currently not possible select syslog alert rules by program and/or severity, but we are working on this ability. > Jason Neighbors <mailto:jneighbors@servpac.com> > 10 May 2018 at 08:38 > Hi, > > We've been running r9073 (2018-03) for a month now and it has turned > out to be a great addition to our environment. > > I was wondering if there are any plans to add support for MPLS LDP > neighbor info in the routing pages? That is something we wouldn't > mind paying a bit for. > > Also, regarding syslog rules, my rules to alert on message matches > work great but I couldn't find mention in the doc examples of matching > on severity or program name. Is it possible? > > Thank you. > > --- > Jason Neighbors > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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Observium Upgrade process stuck
by Andrey Gorodetzky 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hello Guys, I'm trying to upgrade (for a second time now) the Observium Community Edition server 14.2 to latest and the progress get stuck on the following for nearly 8 hours now. Followed those instructions: http://docs.observium.org/updating/#upgrade-to-latest-major-release Is there something that can be done here? Should we try to upgrade one version in a time (even if its possible)? Thanks ahead. [image: image.png] *Best Regards,* *Andrey Gorodetzky | TechOps Engineer* *Tel: +972 54 446 5202* *Mail: andrey(a)cloudshare.com <andrey(a)cloudshare.com>* [image: Capture] <http://www.cloudshare.com>

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Group Editor Interface
by Robert Williams 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi all, It may have been there for some time (as this is not frequently modified) but I've found that the group membership editor (Devices->Groups) doesn't seem to recognise historic rulesets which we have for some of our groups. Image below: In this example, the group matches servers with specific combinations of Distro and Version. Interestingly, the group actually continues to work just fine! The only issue is that I cannot make any changes to it with the graphical editor. I've had to update it in the DB (specifically changing one of the version numbers) for Debian, and it continues to show the desired results once the group is rebuilt. >From what I can see, the 'device.distro' and 'device.distro_ver' which we are using, are no longer valid items under 'device' in the GUI. Also, I don't "think" that any of the options there are an appropriate equivalent for this (Operating System is different I believe; and there is no numeric 'version' at all). This I presume is why the editor doesn't know how to handle these existing rules. Is this a quick fix, or the entrance to a rabbit hole? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centres https://www.CustodianDC.com

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Linux server RRDs-port info after server reboot gets messy
by Edvinas K 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hello, We started to use Observium for Linux server. So far everything was good, but after reboot of Linux server some ports swaped the data and show incorrect values. Is there any prevention to this ? on the server we're using net-snmp-utils

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LACP Member Monitoring/Speed Mismatch Alert Suggestion
by Klimek, Denis 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hi all, i would like ask all of you if someone knows a good solution how to trigger a speed mismatch against the configured link speed. I give you an example: Bundle-Ether1 has a port description of "Core: device [40Gbit] {abc} (notes)". So the bundle should have 40Gbit and I want now to create an alert to trigger a speed mismatch if a member goes down, then Bundle-Ether1 will report its updated speed i.e. 30Gbit and this should be compared and trigger somehow. Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: 040 / 521 04 - 1049 Mobil: 0151 / 652 219 06 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/>

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cannot update custom location
by Rowlands Mark 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

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Re: [Observium] Cisco Live US
by ron＠rjr-services.com 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

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Cisco Live US
by Markus Klock 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

Hi guys! Are any of you Observians(?) present at Cisco Live US, Orlando this week? Anyone interested in doing a meetup, maybe talk about how you use Observium, discuss feature whishlist? Or something like that? /Markus

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new version 18.5.9221
by Jacek.Dabrowski＠selgros.pl 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

Hello, I updated the observation to version 18.5.9221 (10th May 2018), all works only do not show graphics, what is wrong? [cid:image001.jpg@01D3FF65.417C47C0] Regards, Jacek Dąbrowski

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No pages after loging in
by Roland Hill 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

Hi list, Simple problem statement, as per the subject, I get no pages once I log into Observium. More Background. I'm running CE 17.9 edition and have done sucessfully since it's release. I have however update my OS to Ubuntu 18.04 and PHP-7.2. In searching I saw http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-2537 and assume my CE issue is a PHP7.2 related one. Is there anyway I can confirm this is a PHP7.2 issue? This is just on my home network (because I can), so nothing urgent and if the fix is "wait until the next release" then I'm good with that. -- Regards, Roland PGP Key 0xDA39319B = BCF0 1214 BAE9 5A3D 46FC 21A6 360D 9398 DA39 319B

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Create a shortcut to a live graph?
by Joe Brouillette 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Hey all, is there a way to create a shortcut to a live graph in Observium? I've used the "Link to Graph" button but that just creates a static picture of what's going on. I'd like to create a web page with graphs for my manager but those graphs need to display live data. Thanks, Joe Brouillette IT Specialist Link Transit 509.664.7643 jobee(a)linktransit.com<mailto:jobee@linktransit.com>

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unsubscribe
by Pavelas Sokolovas 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

unsubscribe Pavelas Sokolovas Custodian Data Centres https://www.CustodianDC.com

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Cisco ASR9k Optical Levels
by Richard Savage 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Hi Its seems as though Cisco in their wisdom have changed how the power levels are reported for optical SFP’s and they now by default report in mW and not dBm on the ASR9k platform. When observium SNMP’s them its pulling the mW values now and thus its throwing the sensor values off and creating alerts. Can observium be made to change these back to dBm readings using a simple calculation and pull the thresholds as well as before? Calculation: P(dBm) = 10 ⋅ log10( P(mW) / 1mW) This is whats seen on the CLI for the exact same port: Thresholds: Alarm High Warning High Warning Low Alarm Low Temperature: +95.000 C +90.000 C -20.000 C -25.000 C Voltage: 3.800 Volt 3.700 Volt 2.900 Volt 2.800 Volt Bias: 90.000 mAmps 80.000 mAmps 3.000 mAmps 2.000 mAmps Transmit Power: 1.59000 mW (2.01397 dBm) 1.26000 mW (1.00371 dBm) 0.20000 mW (-6.98970 dBm) 0.16000 mW (-7.95880 dBm) Receive Power: 1.26000 mW (1.00371 dBm) 1.00000 mW (0.00000 dBm) 0.01260 mW (-18.99629 dBm) 0.01000 mW (-20.00000 dBm) Temperature: 30.434 Voltage: 3.264 Volt Tx Bias: 33.722 mAmps Tx Power: 0.53550 mW (-2.71241 dBm) Rx Power: 0.22890 mW (-6.40354 dBm) Many Thanks Richard

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Info API
by Giuseppe 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi, on Observium Free, is it possible to export or import .json files or settings into .json files via the API? -- *Giuseppe Tripi**Technical Manager & Voip Engineer WishNetworks s.r.l Piazza Stazione 60, 90044 Carini - PA - Italy Fisso: +39 0918668741 Fax: +39 0919865393* *giuseppe.tripi(a)wishnet.it <mailto:giuseppe.tripi@wishnet.it> _www.wishnet.it_ <http:www.wishnet.it> *

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Alerting association changes
by Adam Armstrong 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi Guys, I've just committed some changes to extend the new rule parsing to alerting. At the moment we're just testing it, so it doesn't do an automatic migration (and there's no editing interface yet!) If you're using alerting (and are running the current version, not stable or CE), you can go to /migrate_alerts/ on your Observium installation to see if the rules will work properly when we make the change for real. Nothing will be changed at this point, we just generate the new rules and make sure their outcome matches what's in the database. If you get any errors, send me a screenshot of the page with the queries visible so we can fix it! Oh, and make sure you do an alerting rebuild first! Thanks, adam.

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Re: [Observium] Monitoring Windows Services
by Adam Armstrong 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hi, It doesn't. We don't do any monitoring of "services" on windows at all. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Rodriguez, Edson" <Edson.Rodriguez(a)sno.wednet.edu> To: "Observium" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 2018-05-31 18:36:54 Subject: Re: [Observium] Monitoring Windows Services >Thanks for the info. Hopefully this works for actual windows services >like DHCP, server service, and others. > > > >Edson > > > >From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Simon >Mousey Smith >Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 3:21 AM >To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> >Subject: Re: [Observium] Monitoring Windows Services > > > >Hi, > > > >This PDF works to get extra WMI info out of a windows server like CPU, >Name, HDD name > > > >http://jira.observium.org/secure/attachment/11319/WMIPoller-011013-1429-4.p… > >But standard SNMP seems to do the trick as its get other info like >network, cpu, memory, logged in, etc… > > > >Regards > > > >Simon > > > >>On 29 May 2018, at 19:27, Rodriguez, Edson >><Edson.Rodriguez(a)sno.wednet.edu> wrote: >> >> >> >>Any information about monitoring applications or windows services >>through SNMP, WMI or any other means through observium? >> >> >> >>We’re using the latest, subscription version of observium. >> >> >> >>Thanks! >> >> >> >>Edson >> >> >> >>Edson Rodriguez | SNOHOMISH SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 201 >>Technology Infrastructure, Network Supervisor >> >>Office: 360.563.7273 Helpdesk: 360.563.7275 >> >>www.sno.wednet.edu | Edson.Rodriguez(a)sno.wednet.edu >> >><image001.png> >> >><image002.png> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>observium mailing list >>observium(a)observium.org >>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > >

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Re: [Observium] Observium notification spam
by Mike Stupalov 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hi, Notification emails not have any duplicated headers. Any duplicates could be added by your intermediate MTAs. > Ricardo Franco Cantero <mailto:r.francocantero@tsp-bombeeck.nl> > 31 May 2018 at 16:10 > Hi, > > Our notifications (mail) aren't coming through anymore. > Our mailprovider is using Spam Experts and they're saying: > X-SpamExperts-Evidence: Bad header count. > ------------ > Emails should never contain duplicate headers such as "*Subject*" or > "*To*". In case such duplicate headers are found, the message will be > rejected until the underlying bug is fixed in the email sending software. > ----------- > What is the best thing we / you can do about this? > > Kind regards, > > Ricardo > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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Monitoring Windows Services
by Rodriguez, Edson 31 May '18

31 May '18

Any information about monitoring applications or windows services through SNMP, WMI or any other means through observium? We're using the latest, subscription version of observium. Thanks! Edson Edson Rodriguez | SNOHOMISH SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 201 Technology Infrastructure, Network Supervisor Office: 360.563.7273 Helpdesk: 360.563.7275 www.sno.wednet.edu<http://www.sno.wednet.edu/> | Edson.Rodriguez(a)sno.wednet.edu<mailto:Edson.Rodriguez@sno.wednet.edu> [cid:image001.png@01D35D35.E766F310] [cid:image002.png@01D0A751.EBBA0250]

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FS.COM FMT chassis full support
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 31 May '18

31 May '18

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Observium notification spam
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hi, Our notifications (mail) aren't coming through anymore. Our mailprovider is using Spam Experts and they're saying: X-SpamExperts-Evidence: Bad header count. ------------ Emails should never contain duplicate headers such as "Subject" or "To". In case such duplicate headers are found, the message will be rejected until the underlying bug is fixed in the email sending software. ----------- What is the best thing we / you can do about this? Kind regards, Ricardo

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Oracle E-SBC support
by Johnathon Voegeli 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hey guys, Does anyone here monitor an Oracle (AcmePacket) Session Border controller? I see it’s slightly supported, but does not support the ap-SIP function with SNMP. I am trying to get a custom OID to monitor a sip endpoint at least basic monitoring, but was curious if any one had any luck with anything more? I can manually add each OID for SIP Agent status, but it’s a manual process each time we add a customer/endpoint to each cluster and of course only provides a 1, 2, 3. I have it setup to alert on anything other than 3. Thanks in Advance! ~JV

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ASR1k subinterface
by Mirditor Kuçaj 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hello Does anybody has the issue about incorrect traffic pooling on subinterfaces over portchannel. The device is Cisco ASR1001-X. Earlier with subinterfaces on TE interface it was ok. [root@obs-55 observium]# php poller.php -h 262 --//-- +---------+--------------------+------------------+--------+----------+----- -----+---------+----------+--------+---------+----+ | ifIndex | Label | Type | Speed | BPS In | BPS Out | Data In | Data Out | PPS In | PPS Out | HC | +---------+--------------------+------------------+--------+----------+----- -----+---------+----------+--------+---------+----+ | 15 | Po1 | Virtual/Internal | 20Gbps | 10.7Gbps | 10.5Gbps | 284GB | 279GB | 1.6M | 1.58M | Y | | 16 | Po1.6 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 3.28kbps | 378bps | 91.3kB | 10.5kB | 2.98 | 43.8m | Y | | 17 | Po1.21 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 592kbps | 406bps | 16.1MB | 11.3kB | 650 | 0.8 | Y | | 18 | Po1.23 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 20.8Mbps | 2.19kbps | 565MB | 60.8kB | 15.1k | 4.26 | Y | | 19 | Po1.24 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 4.77Mbps | 5.23kbps | 129MB | 145kB | 4.26k | 10.1 | Y | | 20 | Po1.25 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 3.19Mbps | 2.66kbps | 86.7MB | 74kB | 2.45k | 5.2 | Y | | 21 | Po1.27 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 28Mbps | 4.24kbps | 761MB | 117kB | 8.72k | 8.14 | Y | Thx

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file that controls alarm output
by Mark Carter 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hi, what file controls alarm output? I have alarms going into a "Slack" channel and want to format them so they take up less lines. Currently an Alarm takes up 7 lines. Thank you Arthur

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Cisco 3750 Temperature
by Storer, Darren 29 May '18

29 May '18

Here's an odd one... Temperature is reported correctly by many models of Cisco catalyst devices but on one of the Observium nodes there are two 3750 switches with different behaviour. The 3750 with IOS 15 is okay and reports temperature but an older 3750 under IOS 12 doesn't return temperature, even though I feel sure that it did a few years ago. Observium version: 18.5.9244 (24th May 2018) Has anyone else observed this behaviour? Update: Just checked an old 2960, still on IOS 12 and found that it doesn't display temperature but a 2960 with IOS 15 is okay. Any advice gratefully received. Thanks Darren

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(no subject)
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hi, What would be the best way to create an alert on reboot? For example after a power outage? Would that be an alert checker with up_time less than 20 minutes? Or a syslog alert with /rebooted/ ? Kind regards, Ricardo Franco Cantero

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Observium CE 17.9.8859 LDAP authentication issue
by Jean-Francois Allain 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hello everybody, I did an upgrade of Observium recently from version 14.4.5229 to version 17.9.8859 and I have authentication issue with LDAP now. I was wondering if Observium CE 17.9.8859 was compatible with the following version of PHP LDAP module : php7.0-ldap Thanks in advance, -- *Jean-François Allain*

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Exclude device from geolocation
by Christian Eriksson 28 May '18

28 May '18

Hi, Is it possible to exclude a device from being targeted by the geolocation settings? In my case, I am polling a Cisco ASA security context and both physical devices in the HA cluster are on two different locations /Christian

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BGP polling inside VRF
by Jan Horacek 25 May '18

25 May '18

Hi guys, I`m not sure if this question was already answered or not, but I was asked to do research how Observium could monitor BGP peers inside the VRFs to alert us if any peer flaps or is down. I can set up alert notification based on the syslog, but this module is sending emails only and doesn`t show notification on the main dashboard. Do you have any idea if would be possible support snmp-context for every BGP peers in observium? Using SNMPv3 on all routers or how to display alerts on the dashboard based on syslog policy? Thanks Jan

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[Question] Problem Alert Mails
by San Rollheiser 24 May '18

24 May '18

Hi guys, sorry for bother you, but have a question about the email configuration. After the update a few versions back work fine the alerts by email. But now not work, only work my integration with Slack, but i need the email alerts. My configuration is this: config.php // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['email']['default'] = "alarmas(a)tinitix.com"; $config['email']['from'] = "Alarmas <alarmas@tinitix>"; $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; /include/defaults.inc.php // Mailer backend Settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Enable/Disable email globally $config['email']['from'] = TRUE; // Mail from. Default: "Observium" <observium@`hostname`> $config['email']['default'] = TRUE; // Default alert recipient $config['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; // Only use default recipient (all alerts send to default recipient) $config['email']['graphs'] = TRUE; // Allow graphs in mail body $config['email']['backend'] = 'smtp'; // Mail backend. Allowed: "mail" (PHP's built-in), "sendmail", "smtp". // sendmail backend specific options $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; // The location of the sendmail program. // smtp backend specific options $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'my_ip_smtp_server'; // Outgoing SMTP server name. $config['email']['smtp_port'] = '465'; // The port to connect. $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = '60'; // SMTP connection timeout in seconds. $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = 'ssl'; // Enable encryption. Use 'tls' or 'ssl' $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = TRUE; // Whether or not to use SMTP authentication. $config['email']['smtp_username'] = 'soporte(a)tinitix.com'; // SMTP username. Thx. BR Santiago

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Pulling VTI interface descriptions from a Centos 7 based router
by Ben Maschke 24 May '18

24 May '18

Hi guys, is there a way to pull interface descriptions from a Centos 7 based router? It's based on vti interfaces and the alias parameter: ip link set vti10 up mtu 1400 alias "test name" Observium only pulls the interface IP - and has ignored the description so far Thank you very much in advance -- *Ben Maschke* Senior System Engineer *Shazam* 26-28 Hammersmith Grove, London, W6 7HA Please consider the environment before printing this document Shazam Entertainment Limited is incorporated in England and Wales under company number 3998831 and its registered office is at 26-28 Hammersmith Grove, London W6 7HA.

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Re: [Observium] Location of a switch
by Adam Armstrong 23 May '18

23 May '18

Hi, We expect a street address in the location field (or more specifically a location field that can be parsed by whatever geolocation service is used). You can put coordinates directly into sysLocation inside square brackets like : http://docs.observium.org/config_options/#reverse-geocoding To quickly repoll the basic device data when testing you can do ./poller.php -h <hostname/device_id> -m system adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Thomas Peters" <TPeters(a)mcts.org> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 2018-05-22 21:41:48 Subject: [Observium] Location of a switch >I have installed Observium CE on CentOS 7.4 and am trying to get a >handle on the question of location for devices. > > > >I have 7 locations, all within the same city. I put in a default >location in the configuration, by longitude and latitude. Sure enough, >there’s a green checkmark on the map right where my main building is. > > > >For Nagios purposes, we have location codes that consist of the >company, site (may be omitted) building, and room. So you might find >something like mcts-ad-sr (admin building, server room) or >mcts-brg-1flidf (Bridge Street Garage, 1st floor IDF.) So far, I am >using the same arbitrary codes for Observium, in the SNMP “location” on >the switch. > > > >I was hoping to use these sort of codes to precisely locate a switch >for the humans that use Observium, while hoping there was already a >table built into the tool to translate the codes to map coordinates. > > > >I don’t know enough about the SNMP “location” code to understand if I’m >using it correctly. We have always just treated it as a free-text >locator code, usable only by my IT department. > > > >Does Observium expect to see a street address in there? I tried that; >doesn’t seem to work. I don’t have an API key for the geocoding, and it >probably won’t work anyhow, since all these devices have non-routable >10.x.x.x addresses, which geocoding can’t make sense of. > > > >Any help appreciated- > >Thanks. > > > > > > > >Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator | tpeters(a)mcts.org >Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk(a)mcts.org > >Milwaukee County Transit System <http://www.ridemcts.com/> > > > >1942 N 17th Street | Milwaukee, WI 53205 > >Check us out on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/mcts> & Twitter ><https://twitter.com/RideMCTS> > > >

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Now What? / Most busy ports?
by Thomas Peters 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hello all. Just installed Observium CE on CentOS 7.4 and am tinkering with it. It graphs, it discovers devices via CDP/XDP, it's really cool. Now what do I do with it? I know, I know, I should have had a destination in mind before I took to the road. But the program looked so cool that I installed it just to see what it could do. One question I would really like to have it answer for me is this: I have some period slow-downs on my network. Can I get Observium to show me the busiest ports on a switch, so I can track down the culprit (if it's due to traffic?) I've been prowling the interwebs for my information. That was a helpful method of getting information to install it and make it work, and comb out some of the early bugs, but I'm finding it harder to locate hints on how to rally exploit this excellent resource to make my network better/faster/stronger/able to leap tall packets in a single bound. Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator | tpeters(a)mcts.org<mailto:tpeters@mcts.org> Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk(a)mcts.org<mailto:helpdesk@mcts.org> Milwaukee County Transit System <http://www.ridemcts.com/> 1942 N 17th Street | Milwaukee, WI 53205 Check us out on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mcts> & Twitter <https://twitter.com/RideMCTS>

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Location of a switch
by Thomas Peters 22 May '18

22 May '18

I have installed Observium CE on CentOS 7.4 and am trying to get a handle on the question of location for devices. I have 7 locations, all within the same city. I put in a default location in the configuration, by longitude and latitude. Sure enough, there's a green checkmark on the map right where my main building is. For Nagios purposes, we have location codes that consist of the company, site (may be omitted) building, and room. So you might find something like mcts-ad-sr (admin building, server room) or mcts-brg-1flidf (Bridge Street Garage, 1st floor IDF.) So far, I am using the same arbitrary codes for Observium, in the SNMP "location" on the switch. I was hoping to use these sort of codes to precisely locate a switch for the humans that use Observium, while hoping there was already a table built into the tool to translate the codes to map coordinates. I don't know enough about the SNMP "location" code to understand if I'm using it correctly. We have always just treated it as a free-text locator code, usable only by my IT department. Does Observium expect to see a street address in there? I tried that; doesn't seem to work. I don't have an API key for the geocoding, and it probably won't work anyhow, since all these devices have non-routable 10.x.x.x addresses, which geocoding can't make sense of. Any help appreciated- Thanks. Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator | tpeters(a)mcts.org<mailto:tpeters@mcts.org> Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk(a)mcts.org<mailto:helpdesk@mcts.org> Milwaukee County Transit System <http://www.ridemcts.com/> 1942 N 17th Street | Milwaukee, WI 53205 Check us out on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mcts> & Twitter <https://twitter.com/RideMCTS>

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Scaling Observium
by Christian Eriksson 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hi, Anyone tried this? Will anything like this ever be officially supported? http://blog.best-practice.se/2017/10/scaling-observium-horizontally.html I rather have a single point of management for all my customers, if possible /Christian

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Re: [Observium] HTTP 500 error (adama@memetic.org)
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hi Adam, I turned off UFW firewall on Ubuntu server and updated but still the same result :-( Met vriendelijke groet, Ricardo Franco Cantero TSP Bombeeck Group BV Today's Topics: 1. Re: HTTP 500 error (adama(a)memetic.org) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 19:46:00 +0100 From: <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "'Observium'" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] HTTP 500 error Message-ID: <005901d3ee0f$4da81ea0$e8f85be0$(a)memetic.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This is pretty much always caused by an intervening firewall or transparent proxy breaking the HTTP session used by SVN. Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Ricardo Franco Cantero Sent: 17 May 2018 09:33 To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] HTTP 500 error Hi, When updating through putty, with sudo svn update it results into a HTTP 500 error. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Ricardo Franco Cantero

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Avaya Phone 9630G
by todevnull＠free.fr 22 May '18

22 May '18

Dear observium team, Just a quick one please, is the Avaya phone model 9630G is supported please ? I've tried to add the phone, but only classic SNMP stats are graphed and there is an observium icon instead of Avaya logo on the device list. Thanks in advance. Tarik.

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Database service crashes after update
by Brian Weeks 21 May '18

21 May '18

After updating to the latest version 18.5.9221 (stable) I ran the discovery.php -u to update it said (update syslog, may be long operation ~30-45min) after about 5 min I get an error Critical error: (2013) Lost connection to MySQL server during query. Restarting the service nor rebooting the server helps and I had to do a rollback from a checkpoint to get Observium to function again. Can you help me with this error? -- Brian Weeks Network Engineer CCNA, MCSE, ACMT, A+, Network+, Security+ Brenham ISD 1301 Niebuhr St. Brenham, TX 7783 Office: (979) 277-3760 ext. 2249 Email: bweeks(a)brenhamk-12.net Website: http://www.brenhamisd.net

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SRX4200 FAN status missing
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 21 May '18

21 May '18

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Did the revision update and my workstations are down now
by Joe Brouillette 19 May '18

19 May '18

Hey all, I did the revision update and I'm now currently at 18.5.9221. Since I did the update my workstations are all showing as down. I can ping them from my Observium server and I can run an snmpwalk on them from the Observium server. I tried running both ./discovery.php -d -h <some_host> and ./poller.php -d -h <some_host> and both of them have this warning: WARNING: 0 devices polled/discovered. Did you specify a device that does not exist? I tried to re-add a device but Observium says it has already been added. Am I missing something simple here? Thanks, Joe Brouillette IT Specialist 509.664.7643 jobee(a)linktransit.com<mailto:jobee@linktransit.com> [cid:image001.jpg@01D3ECEE.460F8470]

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HTTP 500 error
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 17 May '18

17 May '18

Hi, When updating through putty, with sudo svn update it results into a HTTP 500 error. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Ricardo Franco Cantero

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Obserivum Pro (Rolling 18.5.9220)
by Serghei Golipad 16 May '18

16 May '18

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Schedule alerting times
by Reisner Martin 16 May '18

16 May '18

Hi! We are running Observium Professional 18.5.9221 (10th May 2018) and are on the way of using more and more great features of Observium. At the moment we are working on Alerting Rules and they are working great - but... Is there a way to schedule alerting in a way that we have e-mail alerting only turing working hours? Or inverted in a way that we have e-mail alerting between a time-slot for example 00:00 to 06:00 o'clock an 18:00 to 00:00 o'clock? Thank you in advanced! With kind regards Martin

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configuration (alert rules) export
by Edvinas K 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hello, Is't possible to export custom Observium configuration. For example alert rules ?

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AUTO : Absence du bureau du 14 au 25 mai / Out of office from 14 to 25 may. (retour 28/05/2018)
by Olivier.BERTRAND＠galian.fr 15 May '18

15 May '18

Je suis absent(e) du bureau jusqu'au 28/05/2018 Bonjour, Je serais absent du bureau du 14 Mai au 25 Mai compris. Thank you for your e-mail, I will be out of office from 14 May to 25 May and unable to respond at this time. En cas d'urgence, vous pouvez contacter Jean-Luc Ky à cette adresse : Jean-luc.ky(a)galian.fr Should the matter be important, please contact Jean-Luc Ky at Jean-luc.ky(a)galian.fr in my absence. Cordialement, Regards, Remarque : ceci est une réponse automatique à votre message "[Observium] configuration (alert rules) export" envoyé le 15/05/2018 14:17:50. C'est la seule notification que vous recevrez pendant l'absence de cette personne. Olivier BERTRAND Ingénieur Systèmes et Réseaux Olivier.BERTRAND(a)galian.fr Tél: 01 44 95 22 34 || 89 rue La Boétie 75008 Paris || www.galian.fr Description : pictoPensez à l'environnement, n'imprimez ce mail que si vous en avez besoin version 1.0.g1

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Customizing Alert email notification
by Edvinas K 14 May '18

14 May '18

Hello, Is't possible to customize Observium Alert email - that in email subject space i would get an entity description too ? Thanks

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Alert Checkers broken when caching is enabled
by Andrew Lemin 14 May '18

14 May '18

Hi, Not sure if this is special to our setup, but we have found that when we enable caching (with the cache driver set to Auto), the Alert Checkers page stops displaying. We have disabled caching again for now which has restored the Alert Checkers, so it's not a critical issue. But thought we'd share this finding. Thanks, Andy.

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Expanded Eaton UPS Support - xupsEnvironment
by Mailing Lists 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hi, Would it be possible to expand the Eaton UPS monitoring support to include the contact sensors contained within 'xupsEnvironment' so we can alert on the open/closed state of the sensors? The device does appear to provide this information through SNMP (sensor 'type', 'status' and 'name' it's just not captured by Observium as best as I can tell. I can provide SNMP outputs, or possibly access to the device, as required to assist with this request Many Thanks, Tim C

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Upgrading
by Joe Brouillette 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hey all, I can't seem to figure out how to upgrade my Observium to the new revision. I tried svn update but that didn't work. Per the Upgrading the Subscription Edition web page I tried svn update -r 18.5.9221 and when that failed tried svn update -r 9221 but that failed too. I was going to download the new installer but I didn't want to overwrite my current installation. So how do I upgrade my current Observium install? Thanks, Joe Brouillette IT Specialist 509.664.7643 jobee(a)linktransit.com<mailto:jobee@linktransit.com> [cid:image001.jpg@01D3E924.7DD8EFE0]

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blank window
by Raimundas Šlepikas 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hi, i tried on few different PC, blank windows apears randomly. Any ideas please ? -- UAB "Kauno internetos sistemos' R.

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New Iconset
by Klimek, Denis 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hi all, we've just updated this morning to the latest version 18.5.9221 (10th May 2018) and see that the iconset has changed. It looks very strange... ports are now using a Yellow ! Attention, Profil Menue (right top) a temperature icon, BGP Icon is now a paper clip?! Are you sure you want to keep them? They look so mismatched in Observium. Is there any way to get the old iconset back? They looked much much more better than the current one :/ Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: 040 / 521 04 - 1049 Mobil: 0151 / 652 219 06 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/>

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Re: [Observium] New Iconset
by Mike Stupalov 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hi, please refresh page one more time :P > Klimek, Denis <mailto:DKlimek@Stadtwerke-Norderstedt.de> > 11 May 2018 at 09:31 > > Hi all, > > we’ve just updated this morning to the latest version 18.5.9221 (10th > May 2018) and see that the iconset has changed. > > It looks very strange… ports are now using a Yellow ! Attention, > Profil Menue (right top) a temperature icon, BGP Icon is now a paper > clip?! > > Are you sure you want to keep them? They look so mismatched in > Observium. Is there any way to get the old iconset back? They looked > much much more better than the current one :/ > > Mit freundlichem Gruß > > Stadtwerke Norderstedt > > *Denis Klimek* > > Professional Network Engineer > > IP-Systemtechnik > > Tel: 040 / 521 04 – 1049 > > Mobil: 0151 / 652 219 06 > > dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de > <mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> > > www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de <http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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LDP Neighbors, Syslog rules severity and program matching
by Jason Neighbors 10 May '18

10 May '18

Hi, We've been running r9073 (2018-03) for a month now and it has turned out to be a great addition to our environment. I was wondering if there are any plans to add support for MPLS LDP neighbor info in the routing pages? That is something we wouldn't mind paying a bit for. Also, regarding syslog rules, my rules to alert on message matches work great but I couldn't find mention in the doc examples of matching on severity or program name. Is it possible? Thank you. --- Jason Neighbors

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SENAO (Engenius) support for dual band products
by Serge Caron 09 May '18

09 May '18

Greetings! Quote from Adam : "The archives died during a server move, and the mailing list software is voodoo, so they never came back". Apologies for asking something that is probably old news. The Community Edition ships with Senao (Engenius) MIBs dated 2013.11.25. This is fine for older devices such as the EAP9550 and we get proper data (such as number of wireless clients). However, it seems all modern dual band devices such as the (older) EAP600 and the (newer) ECB1750 always report 1 as the number of wireless clients (as well as other broken stats). Are there updated MIBs compatible to observium for these products? Regards, Serge Caron

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Corporate authentication process - questions
by Jan Horacek 08 May '18

08 May '18

Hello gents, I need your advice if anybody of you were integrating Observium to corporate authentication processes? In our company is authentication driven by SAML or oAuth which I don`t see as supported in Observium documentation and need to get help if possible how to integrate Observium to SAML or to oAUTH process. Question is also going to Adam and developers as we are using professional license. I`ll appreciate any hints or guides. Thanks Jan

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exporting info to grafana dashboard
by Edvinas K 08 May '18

08 May '18

Hello, We need to reuse Observium data and to draw a interface traffic graphs in Grafana dashboard. Since Observium doesnt support exportation to Influxdb - is there are any other ways to export to Grafana Board ? Thanks

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[Question] Is possible add MIBs?
by San Rollheiser 07 May '18

07 May '18

Hi, how are you? Only have a one question, on the site of Ubiquiti have a Custom MiBs for AirFiber i possible add this MiBs in Observium? I think this MIB have more addition info about the AirFiber Status. BR Santiago

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Performance issue
by todevnull＠free.fr 05 May '18

05 May '18

Hello all, After a long period of test, i'm putting in production this great software in my company. The server is quite good generaly in term of performance except for the disks ... According to the fact that a polling task shouldn't exceed 5 min, i'm in some trouble ... :-/ A polling session (not the first one), needs 25min to be completed :_( Except the fact that i should optimize my rrd storage, is there is some particular settings for such installation ? Thanks in advance for your help. Tarik. 2x intel xeon X5650 (total of 24 threads), 24GB of RAM, RAID 5 logical drive with 3x15k disks

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Linux detected as engenius wifi
by Marcelo Roccasalva 05 May '18

05 May '18

Hi, I running Observium CE 0.14.11.6000 (docker). I have 50 devices, half of them are Linux CentOS 6 and 7 and suddenly they appear as: Linux blh1 2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 4 00:57:44 UTC 2016 x86_64 Operating System EnGenius Access Point "blh1" Any help appreciated... -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que esta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda)

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Customizing Login screen
by mal＠platinumnetworks.com.au 04 May '18

04 May '18

Adam - I run the subscription edition. Do you have any problems if I customise the login page and replace the hamster with our company logo? Thanks Mal

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Professional Query
by Duncan Mooi 03 May '18

03 May '18

Hi, Is it possible to get a trial copy of Professional before purchasing, we would like to test it fully before committing.. Regards, DM

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Generate Monthly report
by Haryanto Jayusman 03 May '18

03 May '18

Hi, Where is the feature on Community Edition for : The ability to view a weekly/monthly report of information from specific devices. The ability to report: -Traffic -Errors -Device Up/Downs -High Mem/CPU Email reports each week/month.

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Anybody else see this article about observium from ITWorld
by Sam Jones 02 May '18

02 May '18

https://www.itworld.com/article/3269279/network-monitoring/review-observium… Disagree with most of the cons! *Sam Jones *

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Most up to date API Documentation
by Stephan Roy 01 May '18

01 May '18

Hi, We’ve recently purchased Observium to automate how we collect bandwidth usage data for billing our clients. By luck, I was able to find the /api/v0/bills endpoint which does not exist in the documentation at http://docs.observium.org/api/. After seeing that I’m wondering if there are other undocumented endpoints, or query parameters that could be useful. Does anyone have access to the most recent API doc that they could send me or point me towards? Thanks, Steph

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Problem with the new CLICKATELL API
by Eric LESIGNE 01 May '18

01 May '18

Hello, Clickatell's SMS notification service has changed its API mode. The configuration in OBSERVIUM no longer allows to use to send SMS on the new platform. On the Clickatell site the configuration of the old API mode is no longer accessible. I'm looking for a solution so that it can work with the new API mode. The new mode of operation: https://platform.clickatell.com/messages/http/send?apiKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=… <https://platform.clickatell.com/messages/http/send?apiKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=…> Instead of: https: //api.clickatell.com <http://api.clickatell.com/>&/http/sendmsg user = password = xxxx xxxx xxxx = api_id & to = & text = xxxx xxxx? Thank you for your help.

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Graph Interpretation Questions
by TLee 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

Good morning/ evening! I have a complete Ovservium noob question to ask that i am a little embarrassed to ask, but i’m biting the bullet! Currently running the subscription edition on a CentOS install - everything patched and current as of yesterday. My question is about the graphs. I have attached a pic of a graph from a single port on a cisco switch - and i am interesred in the ‘In’ traffic —> there is a single, green, ‘in’ reference in the legend, but there are three distinct green indicators in the graph —> which one actually correllates to ‘In’, and why are there multiples. Thanks! TL Sent from encrypted [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch). Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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observium graph not showing anything
by Nicholas 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

Hi, Good day. I have problem with my observium graph not showing anything. I aldi make sure the config.php does not have empty line, tried switching browser, give permission to rrd folder. but it still not showing anything. My /opt/observium/logs does not give any error. May I know how may I trobleshoot this? Attached is some information from my observium server. My setup is on centos7 and my monitoring device is a windows 10 latop. Also, in graph 2, the timing in the filter and the timing in the graph is different. (refer to graph2.jpg) I did perform time modification after setup observium and the time on the graph did changed to the correct time. But the filter is showing different time. I try remove the observium folder, and reunpack, drop database and recreate the database. Still the result is the same. I wonder if this is the reason the graph is not working. Really appreciate if anyone can help out on this. -- Thank you. Regards, Nicholas

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Change in license and user
by Carlos Alvarado Lobo 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

Hi all, - In a Pro subscription, can the license username and email user be changed? I need to deliver the license to third party with their credentials! - How can I purchase 3 years of updates? I need to deliver 3 years of updates for a project! or I have to purchase it year by year! Thanks! Carlos

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alert check
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

Hi, we have an alert check of a port state, but iftype can be ethernetCsmacd or gigabitEthernet How I can create an alert with these condition? Entity-> ifType equals ethernetCsmacd or gigabitEthernet ??? Port is enabled, but operationally down Port ifAdminStatus equals upifOperStatus notequals up ALL * ifType equals ethernetCsmacd -- Saluda cordialmente

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Syslog rules
by Rami Kytölä 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

Hi, Is there a way to get Syslog rules/alerts to work? Syslogs are configured and are populating database: [cid:image001.png@01D3DCB8.A9247BB0] Syslogs are also linked to correct devices with correct priorities. We have set-up few rules: [cid:image002.png@01D3DCB8.A9247BB0] But if I try with our test rule: [cid:image003.png@01D3DCB8.A9247BB0] Then if I search from the syslog: [cid:image004.png@01D3DCB8.E2C65BE0] --------------------------------------------------- Ramiky -----------------------------------------------------

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Professional Edition Subcription
by Carlos Alvarado Lobo 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Hi all! I have a Community Edition installed, and I purchased a Professional License. Can I upgrade the community edition in a testing installation?? and then install the license in the production installation? the testing and production installations are in different hardware! We need to made testing with notification before put on production! Thanks in advance. Carlos Alvarado

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Re: [Observium] cisco c3850 sensor warnings
by Adam Armstrong 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Hi, These sensors are all below the "low warning" threshold. These thresholds should be set automatically by the switch, but Cisco sometimes drop the ball on this (and then hit it with a brick just to be sure). The first sensor's low warning threshold is 31C, whereas the current value is 19C, which is below that. You can manually set the thresholds for these entries in the devices's settings on the "sensors" tab. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Wiethoff, Helge" <Helge.Wiethoff(a)thga.de> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 2018-04-24 09:49:18 Subject: [Observium] cisco c3850 sensor warnings >Hi everyone, > >I have a small problem with our Cisco WS-C3850-24T-E switches. The >temperature sensors are marked "down" in the overview and "warning" in >the >detail view. >The actual values do not indicate a problem with the temperature. We >use >Observium Professional r9195. > >Does anyone have any idea why the sensors are marked this way and how I >can >get them into "Up"-state? > > >cheers, >Helge

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port alert monitor
by Farshid Abediny 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Hello, we have create a port monitor alert in observium for alert us when a port have shutdown by one of our staff and the content of alert is : require any ifAdminStatus equals down ifOperStatus equals up right now the problem is that observium do not alert us when a port is shutdown by a staff, how can i fix this ?/ thanks

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cisco c3850 sensor warnings
by Wiethoff, Helge 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Hi everyone, I have a small problem with our Cisco WS-C3850-24T-E switches. The temperature sensors are marked "down" in the overview and "warning" in the detail view. The actual values do not indicate a problem with the temperature. We use Observium Professional r9195. Does anyone have any idea why the sensors are marked this way and how I can get them into "Up"-state? cheers, Helge

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More IP on same device
by Luca Sasdelli 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Hi, we use Observium to monitor even some firewalls from the outside, to check the connectivity status; does it exist any way to override the "Already got device" error when the SNMP is already within the database, just for some devices? Just as a hint, a way to use more IPs to gain the same device, and relative availability graph only, would be great. Best Luca

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aggregate Disk IO graph
by Richard Wigzell 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Hello, is there a way to create an aggregate Disk IO graph for multiple devices ? We have a number of LHN nodes that give us this information in the graphs/type=device_diskio_ops tab and it would be useful to not have to add them up manually. [cid:image001.jpg@01CE9215.D39244B0]<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> Richard Wigzell Technical Lead, Storage Platforms IT Services | University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN T: 01865 616282 www.it.ox.ac.uk<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/>

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Observium frequently losts "Ignore Until" information
by Edvinas K 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Hello, I've some alerts which i want to ignore till some time. So im pressing "Ignore until". But sometimes this information gets lost and alert appears again. In these situation "Ignore until" button in clean. I think it's have something to do with NX-OS software. Is there any workaround ? The only workaround at this time is to exclude that devices in alert rules. What is very uncomfortable.. Thank you

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Automate a Maintenance Window
by Tomas Morales 21 Apr '18

21 Apr '18

Hi all We have some Observium instances and we want to be able to automate the generation of a maintenance window via a script instead of having to login in each GUI and generate it. Is there any commands or mysql entry we can add to do this? Thanks in advance tomas --- LMAX Exchange, Yellow Building, 1A Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN http://www.LMAX.com/ Recognised by the most prestigious technology and business awards Financial technology awards 2017 Best FX trading venue, Fund Technology & WSL Awards 2016 Best trading & execution venue, HFM US Technology Awards FX industry awards 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 Winner, Profit & Loss Readers' Choice Awards 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 Winner, WSL Institutional Trading Awards Business growth awards 2016, 2015 Winner, Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 2015, 2014, 2013, Winner, The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 2016, 2015 Winner, Deloitte EMEA Technology Fast 500 2015 Winner, Tech City UK Future 50 --- FX and CFDs are leveraged products that can result in losses exceeding your deposit. They are not suitable for everyone so please ensure you fully understand the risks involved. This message and its attachments are confidential, may not be disclosed or used by any person other than the addressee and are intended only for the named recipient(s). This message is not intended for any recipient(s) who based on their nationality, place of business, domicile or for any other reason, is/are subject to local laws or regulations which prohibit the provision of such products and services. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete any copies of this message. LMAX Exchange Group is a holding company of LMAX Limited and LMAX Broker Limited. LMAX Exchange is a trading name of LMAX Limited, which operates a multilateral trading facility, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (firm registration number 509778) and is a company registered in England and Wales (number 6505809). LMAX Global is a trading name of LMAX Broker Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (firm reference number 783200) and is a company registered in England and Wales (number 10819525). LMAX Hong Kong Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LMAX Broker Limited, trading as LMAX Global, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (firm reference number 783200).

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General Questions for a New User
by Carlos Alvarado Lobo 21 Apr '18

21 Apr '18

Dear Sirs: I’m a new user and I currently have a suscription license. I have some questions and I need your support to resolve them! 1- How many devices can manage the platform using a production license (Supcription Edition)? and How many the Community Edition? Is it limited by the amount of equipment or by the parameters to be monitored? I have a project to monitor 300 UPS APC and 5 parameter per device and I need to confirm if it is possible !! 2- Right now, I have Observium installed on a Dell R230 server, Intel Xeon E3-1220V3 / 3.1 GHz, 8 GB DDR3L SDRAM, 2 TB hard drive capacity; I need to document or validate that Observium can be installed without problems on this server! 3- Regarding the license, How can I differentiate between a test installation and the production environment? We need to made testing with notification before put on production! 4- How can I get the Observium documentation in pdf? Regards, Carlos Alvarado

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Enhancement request
by Andrew Lemin 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Hi, Just two small enhancement requests ;) 1) We love the Search feature to search for IPs and MACs, a true time saver. And adding the ability to sort by the columns would be fantastic. After doing a search for all loopbacks for example, it would be great if we could sort the resulting list by the "Device", "Interface", "Address" or "Description" columns. The list currently seems to sort by "Address", but alphabetically not numerically etc. Use case example, I am programming some explicit-paths for some traffic engineering tunnels, and so I need to find the loopbacks of every router along the path to which I want to fix the TE tunnel. I can search for all loopbacks no problem, but we have lots or them as routers also have multiple loopbacks.. However I am just interesting in "Lo0" on every single router. So after doing the search for all loopbacks, if we could then just click on the "Interface" column heading, that would put all the Lo0's first.. voilà :) 2) We also love the simplicity and power provided by utilizing the [] {} () brackets on descriptions to store the values into the different database fields. But the CDR [] is limited. This is probably one of the most powerful features, as it allows you to not have to configure monitoring, but instead to only configure the network and monitoring then automatically does its thing and follows the network :) We would like to do more with the [CDR] field, but are hamstrung by the fact that the CDR is not converted into bits in the database. The star feature would be to create an alert checker that fires when utilisation breaches the configured CDR. We know this has been requested and requires some code reworking.. We just wanted to add our names to the list of users after this feature. Thanks again for your time and creating such a great project. Because it is so good we still have on our roadmap a desire to put in some time and effort to contribute to the project, and figure out all the OIDs and their mappings etc and attempt to write a page for showing LDP neighbours and various other MPLS things. Given time I am determined to get around to this ;) Best regards, Andy Lemin.

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Re: [Observium] Autodiscover - LLDP discovery
by Adam Armstrong 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

The original design of Observium was to enforce valid hostnames. We no longer enforce this for adding devices (because some networks are run by insane people who like looking at huge lists of nearly identical IPs), but a lot of the autodiscovery code still uses sysName and forward dns lookups to verify if a device should really be autodiscovered. Changing this behaviour would involve time, so one would have to be persuasive with one's justification. :> adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Christian Eriksson" <christian.eriksson(a)advania.se> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 2018-04-16 11:10:03 Subject: [Observium] Autodiscover - LLDP discovery >Hello > > > >Is it possible for Observium to add devices based on the management >address that is returned by LLDP if SysName does not resolve? Don’t get >me wrong, we use DNS, but sometimes a customer network is not known to >us > > > >Regards > >Christian >

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Sensors info
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

We have a Access Point connected to HP 2530PoE switch and show power of a port is over limit, but value was setup on switch. Observium not show current value only show value configured. -- Saluda cordialmente

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Need some help with scheduled maintenance
by Richard Kuhns 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

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APC ATS - Output/Input voltage
by Jacek.Dabrowski＠selgros.pl 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Hello, I have a problem with Rack-mount Transfer Switches from APC Observium shows zero voltage but OidView returns the correct values, what is wrong ? [cid:image002.jpg@01D3D570.2D830110] [cid:image004.jpg@01D3D570.2D830110] [cid:image009.jpg@01D3D570.2D830110] [cid:image010.jpg@01D3D570.2D830110] Best regards, Jacek Dąbrowski

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observium pro licensce question
by Edvinas K 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

Hello, For some mistake we've two Observium Pro licences. When im logging into "client area" how to know which licence is mapped to which instance ?

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Add sysname to alerts email
by Maurizio Mazzocco 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

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Autodiscover - LLDP discovery
by Christian Eriksson 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Hello Is it possible for Observium to add devices based on the management address that is returned by LLDP if SysName does not resolve? Don't get me wrong, we use DNS, but sometimes a customer network is not known to us Regards Christian

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Feature request: MAC address lookup
by Attila Nagy 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Hi Adam! I was looking at the ARP/NDP table on the Ports page of some of our machines and currently it displays the vendor of the given device in a tooltip. But it would make much more sense to display - if the MAC address is known - the machine that has the given MAC address instead. Opinion? Has this any chance to get implemented? Regards, Tylla

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skip ping
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

We have configured all devices with ICMP responses. but it make more slow the network, how can we change this option directly on database (skip ping)? -- Saluda cordialmente

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LDAP auth vs AD server
by Elmar K. Bins 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Hello everybody, I can't access the archives somehow, so if there's a simple direct pointer for this... I've played around with the LDAP config quite a bit now to get it to auth users versus our AD server. So far so good, the somewhat obscure OBS_DEBUG option helps. I believe (!) auth works now, but I have an interesting effect and can still not log into Observium: 1. I use my AD user and the WRONG password I get a lot of debug output, ending in - expected - "Invalid credentials". So far, so good. 2. I use my AD user and the CORRECT password I get ZERO output regarding LDAP, I see generic debugging and versioning output though: --------------------------------- CMD[/usr/bin/svn info /opt/observium] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.015s] STDOUT[ Path: /opt/observium Working Copy Root Path: /opt/observium URL: http://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/branches/stable Relative URL: ^/observium/branches/stable Repository Root: http://svn.observium.org/svn Repository UUID: 61d68cd4-352d-0410-923a-c4978735b2b8 Revision: 9166 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: adama Last Changed Rev: 9073 Last Changed Date: 2018-03-02 22:37:46 +0000 (Fri, 02 Mar 2018) ] ... some MySQL SELECTs ... ending in STDOUT[ anx-i-observium0101 ] × Load class 'Net_IPv6' from '/opt/observium/libs/pear/Net/IPv6.php': OK CACHE DISABLED. Disabled in config. × Load class 'Mobile_Detect' from '/opt/observium/libs/Mobile/Detect.php': OK --------------------------------- I also get the login mask again. Before I sanitize and share config snippets (which parts would be relevant?) - is this a known issue, or is it special to certain configuration options? Any pointers, help, etc. greatly appreciated. Yours, Elmar.

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getting error in Observium db.log, filling disk on observium server
by Sam Jones 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Receiving this error in the Observium db.log, filling disk on observium server. How may I resolve it to be able to get the cbqos graphs for all devices capable. poller.php(9989): Failed dbQuery (#1114 - The table 'ports_cbqos' is full), Query: INSERT INTO `ports_cbqos` (...... Observium version: 18.3.9073 (stable) *Sam Jones* Idaho State University

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FortiADC
by Hamilton, Kent 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

I'd asked in the Jira some time ago about getting support for the Fortinet FortiADC load balancers included in Observium and was told this was something that would normally require some $$. When I asked about contacting me directly about it and the cost I've heard nothing back on it nor was the Jira request updated the last time I looked. Could someone get in touch with me about this please? -- [exegy_119x45_xparent]<https://www.exegy.com/> S. Kent Hamilton Senior Systems Administrator 349 Marshall Ave, Saint Louis, MO US 63119 Work: +1 314-218-3558 Mobile: +1 636-634-1549 Email: KHamilton(a)Exegy.COM<mailto:KHamilton@Exegy.COM> ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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problem upgrading subscription edition
by niklaas＠0rb.it 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Hello, I have problems upgrading my Observium installation, get following message when doing the svn update: svn: E155036: Please see the 'svn upgrade' command svn: E155036: The working copy at '/opt/observium/mibs/zte' is too old (format 10) to work with client version '1.9.5 (r1770682)' (expects format 31). You need to upgrade the working copy first. Any idea how to fix that the correct way? Because just doing the svn upgrade on the affected folders does not seem to do it the right way imho. Kind Regards, N.

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RRDTool problem
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

i have lastest version of observium on centos 6.9 (updated), but i can't execute command /usr/bin/rrdtool graph --daemon unix:/var/run/rrdcached/rrdcached.sock /tmp/deaGEezkxp3ZEtS3.png -Y --lower-limit 0 --upper-limit 100 --start 1520865855 --end 1520952255 --width 1152 --height 300 -c BACK#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEA#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEB#EEEEEE00 -c FONT#000000 -c CANVAS#FFFFFF00 -c GRID#a5a5a5 -c MGRID#FF9999 -c FRAME#5e5e5e -c ARROW#5e5e5e -R normal --font LEGEND:8:'DroidSansMono,DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DroidSansMono,DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal -E COMMENT:'Usage ' COMMENT:' Now' COMMENT:' Avg' COMMENT:' Min' COMMENT:' Max' COMMENT:'\l' DEF:ds0=10.250.16.1/processor-cpm-1000.rrd:usage:AVERAGE DEF:ds0min=10.250.16.1/processor-cpm-1000.rrd:usage:MIN DEF:ds0max= 10.250.16.1/processor-cpm-1000.rrd:usage:MAX LINE1.25:ds0#1f78b4:'Switch 1 ' GPRINT:ds0:LAST:%6.1lf%s GPRINT:ds0:AVERAGE:%6.1lf%s GPRINT:ds0min:MIN:%6.1lf%s GPRINT:ds0max:MAX:%6.1lf%s COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:0#555555 system return "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" -- Saluda cordialmente

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A graph that doesn't quite match the data
by Richard Kuhns 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Hello, Here's a screenshot of 2 Traffic graphs for a 10G port on a Cisco 6509. The second (week) graph seems accurate, with the spike indicating a little over 300M bits/s. The first (day) graph indicates that the same spike is only 200M bits/s. The actual numbers under the graphs agree that the max is 337.03M. Traffic Why doesn't the first graph show the actual value? This is on v 18.3.9125. Thanks, -- Richard Kuhns <rjk(a)wintek.com> Wintek Corporation 427 N 6th Street Lafayette, IN 47901-2211 Main: 765-742-8428 Direct: 765-269-8541

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For how long graphs are available in observium?
by Vikas Kumar 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Hi everyone, I want to know for how long the observium graphs are available ? The default I can see in the UI is for 2 years Is it configurable if yes then for how long ? Regards -- <http://moodi.org/> *Vikas Kumar | ** Hospitality & PR Coordinator* *Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay* *+91-9694532954 | mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com <mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com>* [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/vikas.cse.iitb> <https://mailtrack.io/> Sent with Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…>

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Re: [Observium] Function gone missing
by Adam Armstrong 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

I had a look at that function the other day, and nothing has changed with it for quite a while. Probably the weathermap script isn't including the correct files, though this stuff hasn't changed for quite some time. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Mike Hyslop" <mike.hyslop(a)theaccesspoint.co.uk> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 2018-04-04 07:08:28 Subject: [Observium] Function gone missing >Hi guys. > > > >I have noticed that our weathermap has stopped updating, when I run it >in debug mode it moans about function check_extension_exists() being >missing. > > > >I have had a quick look through the source and can’t see that function >anywhere. > > > >Not sure if its been depreciated or renamed (or if it was surplus to >requirements and simply removed) > > > >Cheers. > > >Mike Hyslop >Senior Infrastructure Engineer >mike.hyslop(a)theaccesspoint.co.uk > >DDI: 020 8102 1121 Office: 020 3189 2645 > >www.theaccesspoint.co.uk >Accesspoint | Unit 7 | Ashton Gate | Ashton Road | Harold Hill | RM3 >8UF > > Please think of the environment before you print this email > > >This document should only be read by those persons to whom it is >addressed. Accordingly, Accesspoint Group Holdings Ltd and its >subsidiary companies disclaim all responsibility and accept no >liability (including in negligence) for the consequences of any such >persons other than the addressee acting, or refraining from acting, on >such information prior to the receipt by those persons of subsequent >written confirmation. If you have received this e-mail message in >error, please notify us immediately by telephone (0203 189 2645). >Please also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any form >of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, >distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message is strictly >prohibited. Accesspoint Group Holdings Ltd, Accesspoint Technologies >Ltd and Accesspoint Legal Services Ltd are companies registered in >England and Wales. www.theaccesspoint.co.uk > >The risk of fraud relating to emails and bank account details has >increased. We will NOT email you to tell you that our bank account >details have changed; any such email is a scam. Please check our bank >account details with us in person if you are in any doubt. We will not >accept responsibility if you transfer money into an incorrect account. >

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Re: [Observium] Port Labeling
by Mike Stupalov 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Hi, port_label is cleaned field (from unusefull information), generated based on multiple possible Oids (ie ifDescr, ifName). But anyway in db such fields ifDescr and ifName stored as is without changes and can used for alerts, etc. port_label is short as possible for display in most pages. I not see reasons for keep such data ( - Printer) for display in port names. This exactly should be stored in ifAlias (wich is port description). But.. if your device not support correct ifAlias, I can try to parse ifAlias for that os. Attach debug discovery: ./discovery.php -d -m os,ports -h <device> > Christian <mailto:cyberdoc@cmreynolds.org> > 5 April 2018 at 18:37 > Hello, > > I was introduced to Observium in early March, and coming from a Nagios > / Cacti type of monitoring, I am completely impressed with the power > of Observium. I have CE 17.9.0 and am in the process of deploying it > at my location. > > I have a couple of smart switches that support SNMP, but are not > capable of a Port label. Thus, Observium shows the switch as Port 1, > Port 2, Port 3 instead of my desired “Port 1 - Bandwidth Control” > “Port 2 - Linux Server” “Port 3 - Printer” … that sort of thing. > > I found that I could use NaviCat to edit the MySQL database to > properly label the ports, but then the next polling cycle restores the > generic port label 5 minutes later. > > > Is there any way for me to modify the polling to leave the label > alone? I don’t want to look into “locking” the [port_label] field of > the database tables. > > If I may also ask, is there any way to tell Observium that a down port > is the normal (green) condition? I have some switches with ports that > are not active, and if something is plugged into them, an alert would > be handy. > > Thank you again for this amazing software. > > Christian > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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Rx/Tx Port Errors
by Erdem HAKI 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Hello, I see several Rx/Tx port errors on my Observium. For example it says Tx: 25 on the home page, but when I click on the interface, the "Errors" graph shows me that Tx 118.69m, and I can not see anything wrong with the Tx when I check the interface errors from the router CLI. How can I verify these alarms are false positive or not? Alarms are not router specific, I got alarms from both Nokia and Juniper boxes. Best

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Rancid for different devices
by Travis Garrison 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Wanted to check with everyone to make sure its not builtin or I'm missing something simple before I create my own script. Any way to automatically create the config to backup Cisco, Mikrotik and other devices through rancid? We have rancid setup for Cisco currently and want to start backing up our Mikrotik and Ubiquiti routers. Thanks Travis

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Port Labeling
by Christian 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Hello, I was introduced to Observium in early March, and coming from a Nagios / Cacti type of monitoring, I am completely impressed with the power of Observium. I have CE 17.9.0 and am in the process of deploying it at my location. I have a couple of smart switches that support SNMP, but are not capable of a Port label. Thus, Observium shows the switch as Port 1, Port 2, Port 3 instead of my desired “Port 1 - Bandwidth Control” “Port 2 - Linux Server” “Port 3 - Printer” … that sort of thing. I found that I could use NaviCat to edit the MySQL database to properly label the ports, but then the next polling cycle restores the generic port label 5 minutes later. Is there any way for me to modify the polling to leave the label alone? I don’t want to look into “locking” the [port_label] field of the database tables. If I may also ask, is there any way to tell Observium that a down port is the normal (green) condition? I have some switches with ports that are not active, and if something is plugged into them, an alert would be handy. Thank you again for this amazing software. Christian

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Function gone missing
by Mike Hyslop 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Hi guys. I have noticed that our weathermap has stopped updating, when I run it in debug mode it moans about function check_extension_exists() being missing. I have had a quick look through the source and can't see that function anywhere. Not sure if its been depreciated or renamed (or if it was surplus to requirements and simply removed) Cheers. [Accesspoint Logo] [Roundel Logo] Mike Hyslop Senior Infrastructure Engineer [email icon] mike.hyslop(a)theaccesspoint.co.uk [phone icon] DDI: 020 8102 1121 Office: 020 3189 2645 [website icon] www.theaccesspoint.co.uk<http://www.theaccesspoint.co.uk> [address icon] Accesspoint | Unit 7 | Ashton Gate | Ashton Road | Harold Hill | RM3 8UF [group logos] [website icon] Please think of the environment before you print this email This document should only be read by those persons to whom it is addressed. Accordingly, Accesspoint Group Holdings Ltd and its subsidiary companies disclaim all responsibility and accept no liability (including in negligence) for the consequences of any such persons other than the addressee acting, or refraining from acting, on such information prior to the receipt by those persons of subsequent written confirmation. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone (0203 189 2645). Please also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. Accesspoint Group Holdings Ltd, Accesspoint Technologies Ltd and Accesspoint Legal Services Ltd are companies registered in England and Wales. www.theaccesspoint.co.uk<http://www.theaccesspoint.co.uk/> The risk of fraud relating to emails and bank account details has increased. We will NOT email you to tell you that our bank account details have changed; any such email is a scam. Please check our bank account details with us in person if you are in any doubt. We will not accept responsibility if you transfer money into an incorrect account.

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"External Web URL" not set or incorrect,
by Eric W. Bates 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

I'm getting the message: Setting 'web_url' for "External Web URL" not set or incorrect, please update on Global Settings Edit page. I'm currently connecting to the URL: https://observium.whoi.edu/ And the setting is: http://observium.whoi.edu/ However, the settings page will not accept the 's' character. Every time I add it, it simply disappears again. The defaults in includes/defaults.inc.php has: #$config['base_url'] = "http://localhost/"; // Not recomend change this, only if autodetect wrong. Used in WUI #$config['web_url'] = "http://localhost:80/"; // This same as base_url but used only in cli for example in alerts Should I change to: $config['web_url'] = "https://localhost:443/" -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112

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BitRRD: Blockchain-based data storage for Observium
by Adam Armstrong 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

Hi Guys, We're proud to announce that we're switching to BitRRD, the new blockchain-based metric storage format. http://www.observium.org/blockchain/ The migration should be seemless, provided your server has 6-8 GPUs installed when you perform the update. Thanks, adam.

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taildrops counted as errors since junos 15.X on EX series
by Arne Van Theemsche 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

Hi, we started to upgrade our juniper EX switches to 15.X release and notice a change of behaviour in error reporting at interface level in observium the problem lays that taildrops (which are activated by default and cannot just be, and isn't even a good practice to disable them) are now reported as errors in observium Output errors: Carrier transitions: 29, Errors: 0, Drops: 177209, Collisions: 0, Aged packets: 0, FIFO errors: 0, HS link CRC errors: 0, MTU errors: 0, Resource errors: 0 show interfaces queue xe-0/0/4 .... Tail-dropped packets : 177209 ...... prior to 15.X we only received reports/mails if the Errors Value was > 0. Honestly, we only care about errors, because taildrops will always happen from time to time I don't know if this is a change in behaviour of juniper snmp counters or that this is a flag in observium we can toggle? thx Arne

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Question on Traffic Comparison widget
by Aaron Mayfield 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

I’ve been messing around with the Default Dashboard since I noticed it recently. What should the Traffic Comparison widget show? For me, I’m getting the red Draw Error: [cid:image001.png@01D3BD1D.F03E1CA0] Is this something that should be working as of now? Thanks Aaron Mayfield

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Create Load Averages Alert Checker
by H Box 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Hi All, I create successfully a alert for device downtime and diskspace use, but cannot find the right info to create a alert for load averages into http://www.observium.org/docs/entities Can someone help me with this? Thanks allot for your feedback.

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Re: [Observium] Can't write new info to Observium
by Karolis Birgėla 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

On 2017.02.22 14:00, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Can't write new info to Observium I've attached a picture of how it looks like in the device search. You can see that some devices don't have their models written. It's actually important, as we have many devices in Observium.

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Clearing Alerts
by mal＠platinumnetworks.com.au 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Hi all - I have created my very first alert checker and can see that it creates and alert according to the checker criteria. My checker looks for speed on a port and alerts if ge 100M. >From what I can see, once that alert has been created I do not have the ability to 'clear' the alert so even if the port speed drops below 100M the alert remains in failed state and if the checker criteria are met again a new alert is not created. My use case is that I need to monitor the bandwidth utilisation on this specific port on an ongoing basis and be alerted each time the speed exceeds say 100M. Appreciate any pointers to show me where I am going wrong. Cheers Mal

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Switch ignored ports
by Luca Sasdelli 26 Mar '18

26 Mar '18

Hi all, on a switch only I see all phy ports as ignored: +---------+-----------+----------+---------+-----------+-----------+---------+ | ifIndex | ifDescr | ifName | ifAlias | ifType | Oper St | Ignored | | | | | | | atus | | +---------+-----------+----------+---------+-----------+-----------+---------+ | 1 | Host Data | host.1.1 | ... | propVirtu | up | no | | | Port | | | al | | | | 2 | Enterpris | lo.1.1 | ... | softwareL | up | no | | | e Network | | | oopback | | | | | s, Inc. S | | | | | | | | ... | | | | | | | 12001 | Enterasys | ge.1.1 | ... | ethernetC | up | yes | | | Networks | | | smacd | | | | | , Inc. 10 | | | | | | | | ... | | | | | | | 12002 | Enterasys | ge.1.2 | ... | ethernetC | up | yes | | | Networks | | | smacd | | | | | , Inc. 10 | | | | | | On the same network there are other Enterasys/Extreme Networks switches and they're regularly discovered. I've deleted and re-created the switch entry, but it doesn't change. What checks should I do? Cheers Luca

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Traffic Accounting
by Serghei Golipad 26 Mar '18

26 Mar '18

Guys, Is there anyway of setting traffic accounting graphs to MRTG style too? Thank you. PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. CDW Limited is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of CDW Finance Holdings Limited. CDW Finance Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for CDW Limited trading as CDW. The registered office for CDW Finance Holdings Limited (Company Number 05872067) and its UK group undertakings is 10 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RB. VAT Registration 902 1949 39. Confidentiality: This e-mail contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail and then delete the original. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on any information contained in this e-mail. You must not inform any other person other than CDW or the sender of its existence. For more information about CDW please visit www.uk.cdw.com

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export to Influx question (any news ?)
by Edvinas K 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Hello, Is't possible officially or there're some ways to export data to influx Db and then use it on grafana ? Thanks

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Switch ports disappearing
by Luca Sasdelli 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Hi all, I've a TP-Link T2600-28TS whose ports are continuously detected and then deleted after 2-10 minutes: this happens about every 6 hours, while other switches in the same environment does have normal behaviour. Of course the switch does operate normally all the time. 2018-03-24 18:45:38Interface was marked as DELETED2018-03-24 18:38:55Interface DELETED mark removed2018-03-24 12:45:39Interface was marked as DELETED2018-03-24 12:38:44Interface DELETED mark removed2018-03-24 06:41:37Interface was marked as DELETED2018-03-24 06:39:44Interface DELETED mark removed2018-03-24 00:45:43Interface was marked as DELETED2018-03-24 00:38:49Interface DELETED mark removed2018-03-23 18:50:39Interface was marked as DELETED2018-03-23 18:39:30Interface DELETED mark removed Any ideas? Thanks Luca

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Re: [Observium] Switch ports disappearing
by Mike Stupalov 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Try to enable separate_walk feature for device: https://screenshots.firefox.com/rpjjOJdKtCQtvSmg/demo.observium.ru > Luca Sasdelli <mailto:luca@sasdelli.it> > 25 March 2018 at 00:08 > Hi Markus, > it is within 60sec all the time (avg 55,1", max 104,6"). > As per comparison, a switch stack with 96 ports on same network is polled with 12,4" average and 54,6" max. > Cheers > Luca > ------ Messaggio originale ------ > Da: "Markus Klock" <markus(a)best-practice.se <mailto:markus@best-practice.se>> > A: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> > Inviato: 24/03/2018 21.17.15 > Oggetto: Re: [Observium] Switch ports disappearing > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > Markus Klock <mailto:markus@best-practice.se> > 24 March 2018 at 23:17 > How does the device performance look? Is polling completed in less than 300s? > /Markus > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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Monitor VPN
by Hermes J. Martinez 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

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FW: Defining Groups
by mal＠platinumnetworks.com.au 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Thanks Adam – Have updated to rolling (9128) and can see the groups is now different but I am still not seeing any members in my group ☹. I am thinking that the ruleset itself is not working because I created another group that does work using “device.hostname match *qld*”. Is the ruleset definition ‘port.port_descr_descr match *L3*’ correct if I want all ports with a parsed description including L3? My port description is something like… CUST: ABC Cust (Channel Wireless L3)…….. I was expecting the ruleset to match on *L3* and return results including L3. Thanks From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of Ron Marosko Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:05 PM To: 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Defining Groups Fixed. Thank you! From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:17 PM To: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Defining Groups It dose help if I remove all of the debugging! Try now :) adam. Adam Armstrong Managing Director & Lead Architect Observium Limited http://www.observium.org http://docs.observium.org http://jira.observium.org On 2018-03-24 01:07:25, Ron Marosko <ron(a)rjr-services.com <mailto:ron@rjr-services.com> > wrote: Howdy Adam, I was seeing this on build 9125, just svn upped to 9126, and still seeing the same thing on a discover run: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function r() in /opt/observium/includes/groups.inc.php:1036 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/groups.inc.php(1009): update_group_table(Array) #1 /opt/observium/discovery.php(191): update_group_tables() #2 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/groups.inc.php on line 1036 root@observium:/opt/observium# …Ron From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of McDonald Richards Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 6:52 PM To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Defining Groups Perfect :) On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > wrote: Ok, I've removed the r() call. Thankfully because it failed, it won't have progressed the schema counter, so you can re-run it now! Thanks, adam. Adam Armstrong Managing Director & Lead Architect Observium Limited http://www.observium.org http://docs.observium.org http://jira.observium.org On 2018-03-23 23:46:05, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > wrote: shit :) Adam Armstrong Managing Director & Lead Architect Observium Limited http://www.observium.org http://docs.observium.org http://jira.observium.org On 2018-03-23 23:45:14, McDonald Richards <mcdonald.richards(a)gmail.com <mailto:mcdonald.richards@gmail.com> > wrote: Updating to 9125 threw these errors on a Centos based install: -- Updating database/file schema 367 -> 368 # (php) Migrating groups to new format PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function r() in /opt/observium/includes/groups.inc.php:738 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/update/368.php(14): parse_qb_ruleset('port', Array) #1 /opt/observium/includes/functions.inc.php(304): include('/opt/observium/...') #2 /opt/observium/includes/update/update.php(143): include_wrapper('/opt/observium/...') #3 /opt/observium/discovery.php(119): include('/opt/observium/...') #4 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/groups.inc.php on line 738 Observium 18.3.9125 (23rd March 2018) OS Linux 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7) Apache 2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.0.25 SVN/1.7.14 PHP 7.0.25 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.5 MySQL 5.5.56-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.5.56-MariaDB) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.2 RRDtool 1.6.0 Any tips? On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org <mailto:adama@memetic.org> > wrote: Hi, The groups matching system has recently been rewritten. Please update to the latest SVN :) (This might be difficult if you chose to use the stable branch, since these changes aren't in stable yet) Adam. Sent from BlueMail <http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=12512> On 23 Mar 2018, at 23:16, mal(a)platinumnetworks.com.au <mailto:mal@platinumnetworks.com.au> wrote: Hey all – probably a dumb newbie questions so apologies… I am trying to define groups based on the contents of the port description. I am using this as a training ground before I move on to alert checkers! I have edited the port description to include L3 and I can see that Observium is retrieving the port descriptions correctly however I do not seem to be able to define a group correctly. I have created a group as below: i.e. Based on containing “L3” in the port description add to the group. I can confirm that there are 15+ devices containing “L3” – example… If I do a search on ports containing L3 I retrieve the full list of devices. I originally thought I had made the query too tight but I’ve tried a number of broad combinations and never seem to have any members found. I am using 18.3.9073 (3rd March 2018). What am I missing? 😊 Cheers Mal _____ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Alert Checks
by Eduardo Silvestre 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Hello Guys, I'm trying to figure out some way to check "out of sync" state of APC ATS 7724. I've tried this way but didn't work: Any idea to implement this? Best Regards,

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Defining Groups
by mal＠platinumnetworks.com.au 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Hey all – probably a dumb newbie questions so apologies… I am trying to define groups based on the contents of the port description. I am using this as a training ground before I move on to alert checkers! I have edited the port description to include L3 and I can see that Observium is retrieving the port descriptions correctly however I do not seem to be able to define a group correctly. I have created a group as below: i.e. Based on containing “L3” in the port description add to the group. I can confirm that there are 15+ devices containing “L3” – example… If I do a search on ports containing L3 I retrieve the full list of devices. I originally thought I had made the query too tight but I’ve tried a number of broad combinations and never seem to have any members found. I am using 18.3.9073 (3rd March 2018). What am I missing? 😊 Cheers Mal

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Snmp location question
by Pico Leto 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

What kind of hierarchical format can be used for snmp location on devices that are polled with Observium? Is it possible to include cage information as well as location?

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Syslog part messages
by Simon Mousey Smith 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hi All Has anybody else seen this recently in an SVN update? For some reason the syslog is only show part of a syslog message from our switches and inserting into observium? Also where has this [Program][Tags] appeared from? Regards Simon

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export availability rrds
by Gerd Müller 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hi list, we use observium for monitoring a lot of devices. Now I need to report the availability per device through a report. Is there any option to export those values? What would be the best way to do this? Thanks Gerd Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards Gerd Müller • Proact Deutschland GmbH Service Manager Telefon: +49 911 30999 293 • Fax: +49 911 30999 99 Südwestpark 43 • 90449 Nürnberg • Germany Gerd.Mueller(a)proact.de • www.proact.de Amtsgericht Nürnberg • HRB 18320 Geschäftsführer: Oliver Kügow • Richard Müller • Jakob Høholdt – Delivering Business Agility –

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Observium – Netapp
by Krenek Milan DiS. 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hello, Can you please integrate to Observium – Netapp. Actually we have basic graphs with volumes, but we miss there fail disk and others environment items. IOPS operations will be of course fine to have in graphs. ☺ In attachment is last mibs file from netapp for version 9.2 [cid:image001.png@01D39B73.17F25C60] Thanks S přátelským pozdravem / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Milan Křenek IT - Infrastructure Team / CZ [Zambelli] Unsere AGB finden Sie auf www.zambelli.cz<https://www.zambelli.cz/index.php?id=321>

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Changing SNMP community for multiple devices
by Christian Eriksson 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hi, We have x amount of switches that we need to change SNMP community on. Is there an easy way of doing it instead of 1-by-1 in web GUI? Regards Christian

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Traffic Accounting
by mal＠platinumnetworks.com.au 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hi all - Have just upgraded to the subscription version and looking to understand what functionality I can get out of the traffic accounting. There are 2 initial aims I'd like to get some thoughts about. 1. Creating alert/email notification based on the outbound total traffic from specific ports. Example: if total outbound data for the current billing period is equal to 50% of quota, email customer. Similarly for say 75%, 90% and 100% of quota. 2. Configure bill to compare only outbound traffic to quota when calculating overusage. I am hoping someone may have tried previously and can give me some direction. Appreciate any thoughts. Mal

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New device / custom graph
by Steffen Schwebel 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

Greetings o/ I have an instance with observium running and am trying to add a new device/graph for it. There seems to be little information for this. I tried looking into the mailing list archive as well at http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/ but get a 403. So, forgive me for asking again what must be a frequent question. My device is a PDU from "Gude" described by MIB GUDEADS-PDU818X. I can see that there are already devices from "Gude" in the source like "Gude Expert PDU" described by GUDEADS-PDU8110-MIB but so far I have not been successful. Are there any documents, guides or anything that you can recommend? Any help is greatly appreciated. Best regards, Steffen Schwebel

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NTP agent issue
by Ron Marosko 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

Howdy Adam, et. al., I've run into an issue with the agent ntpd script on certain of my servers where the command "ntpdc -c iostats" times out with no response. However, the equivalent command used with ntpq works fine and provides the correct information Witness: root@observium:/opt/observium# ntpdc -c iostats localhost: timed out, nothing received ***Request timed out root@observium:/opt/observium# ntpq -c iostats time since reset: 1116387 receive buffers: 10 free receive buffers: 9 used receive buffers: 0 low water refills: 1 dropped packets: 0 ignored packets: 0 received packets: 140116 packets sent: 145459 packet send failures: 0 input wakeups: 140118 useful input wakeups: 140118 root@observium:/opt/observium# Yes, that is actually on the VM running observium. For simplicity of minimum changes to the script, I made the following change: // START SETTINGS /// $ntpq = "ntpq"; $ntpdc = "ntpq"; // END SETTINGS /// End result is this: You can see where I made the change to the script yesterday afternoon. The related version of ntpd is: ntpd - NTP daemon program - Ver. 4.2.8p4 I don't know if you want to push this out as a change overall, but wanted to make you aware of this so that it's documented somewhere at least. Regards, Ron -- Ron Marosko, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCIE No. 4526 (R/S), NN5DX Senior Network Engineer RJR Services, Inc. 1108 West Dickinson Blvd, Suite A Fort Stockton, TX 79735 USA o: +1 432 336 5600 x115 c: +1 432 290 6344 e: <mailto:ron@rjr-services.com> ron(a)rjr-services.com pgp pubkey: <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x778B3B0258AB8B5C> 0x58AB8B5C "To know me is to fly with me." -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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Pseudowires
by Peter Derissen 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

Hello, In the menu Ports -> Pseudowires -> All types i can only find the pseudowires that start on a cisco machine. Nu juniper are in that list (there are a few as destination node). Do I have to configure something to show the Juniper routing instances? Regards, Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [EF-logo_rood_RGB -handtekening]<http://www.eurofiber.nl/> Volg ons op Twitter<https://twitter.com/Eurofiber> | Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurofiber> | Youtube<https://www.youtube.com/user/Eurofibergroup> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Eurofiber only sends and receives e-mails on the basis that Eurofiber is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. Eurofiber Nederland B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam with number 34134377, VAT number NL 8088.51.524 B01.

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Port Percent Graph looks messy (9107)
by Serghei Golipad 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

Hi, Has anyone else encountered this issue after latest updates (rolling). Graph format is set to 'none' [cid:image001.jpg@01D3BF8D.6E924510] Thank you. PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. CDW Limited is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of CDW Finance Holdings Limited. CDW Finance Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for CDW Limited trading as CDW. The registered office for CDW Finance Holdings Limited (Company Number 05872067) and its UK group undertakings is 10 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RB. VAT Registration 902 1949 39. Confidentiality: This e-mail contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail and then delete the original. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on any information contained in this e-mail. You must not inform any other person other than CDW or the sender of its existence. For more information about CDW please visit www.uk.cdw.com

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CBQoS
by Ian Armstrong 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Hi When the CBQoS feature will be fully released? I am using the unofficial (?) feature in the CE edition (about below). I have purchased a subscription but the CBQoS isn't supported their yet. I'm finding it a bit buggy (understandably since it hasn't been officially released). Ian Observium CE 17.9.0 (25th September 2017) OS Linux 4.4.0-62-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 16.04) Apache 2.4.18 (Ubuntu) PHP 7.0.25-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.12 MySQL 5.7.17-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.5.5 Ian Armstrong Principal Academic Staff Member School of Information Technology DDI: +64 4 830 3055 Email: ian.armstrong(a)weltec.ac.nz<mailto:joe.serci@weltec.ac.nz> URL: www.weltec.ac.nz<http://www.weltec.ac.nz/> WelTec Private Bag 39803, Lower Hutt 5045 Wellington, New Zealand [1504644128592_PastedImage]

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How to configure libvirt in observium CE?
by Vikas Kumar 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Hello all, I want to configure libvirt in observium. Can someone please help me how to do that? -- <http://moodi.org/> *Vikas Kumar | ** Hospitality & PR Coordinator* *Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay* *+91-9694532954 | mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com <mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com>* [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/vikas.cse.iitb> <https://mailtrack.io/> Sent with Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…>

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any examples of developing a new PDU in observium?
by Darrell Budic 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Going to try and setup a couple Starline Bus heads in observium, basically a big PDU with it’s own MIBS. http://www.starlinepower.com, the Critical Power Monitoring units. Anyone have any examples of something similar or a new PDU that could point me in the right direction for this? Thanks, -Darrell

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Logging changes to Observium
by Josh Williams 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Is there a way to log who is doing what whithin Observium? I would like to be able to tell who is adding or deleting devices, making changes to the config, or making any changes to Observium for that matter. I am not able (allowed) to lock down the config by making changes in the config.php. I have to keep the configs open to be changed by anyone on the team. This is truthfully a null point as the admin and root passwords are mandated to be stored in our team password vault anyway. I'd like a way to make others accountable for their actions. Thanks, Josh

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proxmox support
by Art Stephens 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

I see these php scripts at https://github.com/pgmillon/observium/tree/master/includes/polling/unix-age… DO I just copy the script to the appropriate folder? -- Arthur Stephens Senior Network Administrator Ptera Inc. PO Box 135 24001 E Mission Suite 50 Liberty Lake, WA 99019 509-927-7837 ptera.com | facebook.com/PteraInc | twitter.com/Ptera ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This message may contain confidential and/or propriety information, and is intended for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any use by others is strictly prohibited. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and are not intended to represent those of the company."

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Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 16 Port 10G missing light levels
by Kaiser, Erich 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Looks like most of the stats are there except for optical light levels? Erich Kaiser The Fusion Network erich(a)gotfusion.net Office: 815-570-3101

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disabling alert re-notification.
by Edvinas K 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

Hello, i wanted to know if it's possible to turn off alert resending. I see we have this option in config.php: $config['alerts']['interval'] = 86400; // How frequently to re-send a notification for a continuing alert condition do changing it to zero will stop it ? Thank you

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templates for send text plain messages
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

how it works the emial templates? i need send notifications to SMS (customized). Email more short's or a Text plain . -- Saluda cordialmente

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Add ap9606 using powernet-mib
by Simon Mousey Smith 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

Hi All Im trying to work out how to add power information to observium (manually as it doesnt seem to be picked up) I currently monitor a ap9212 power switch (network card is a ap9606) but it only gives me lan stats and no power information I found if I added the powernet-mib to my mid browser and then did a walk on the apc private oid .1.3.6.1.4.1.318 it revealed all sorts of information which is very useful! I can provide read access to the device if need be I would be so happy if we can get power statuses off these tho :D Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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User configurable device-specific Connect Via link
by Randy Schultz 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Posted this earlier today in Jira as an Improvement but got to thinking I should have first emailed here... ***************** Am an MSP / MSSP that's new to Observium... See from the Device drop down the ability to Connect Via Telnet / SSH / etc to some of my devices (eg Vmware) but don't see this option for my (SonicWALL) firewalls. Would very much like to have the ability to manually configure a device-specific Connect Via link. For example... https://1.2.3.4 https://1.2.3.4:4443 I've looked through several of the MySQL tables where I thought I might find this info but couldn't find anything. Am I just missing it or is this not an option today? -- Randy Schultz

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FQDN in syslg
by Luca Sasdelli 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Hi, does it exist a config value to show the devices FQDN within Syslog? Here we monitor devices from several companies and it would be needed, to discriminate between them. Thanks Luca

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RANCID integration
by Martin Snygg 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Hi We have a RANCID installation on another server than Observium is running on, is there a way to integrate that? Looks pretty straightforward if RANCID is installed on the same machine as Observium but not if it is on another machine. Martin Snygg

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RANCID integration
by Martin Snygg 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Hi We have a RANCID installation on another server than Observium is running on, is there a way to integrate that? Looks pretty straightforward if RANCID is installed on the same machine as Observium but not if it is on another machine. Martin Snygg

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FDB table
by todevnull＠free.fr 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Hello all, First of all, i would like to tanks all people that made this great tool ! :) I'm still preparaing the migration from our old tool to Observium. So, i am playing/testing it with some Cisco devices. A strange thing that i observed is that the FDB tables show mac addresses on switch interfaces that are in trunk mode only (dot1Q flagged). Do i need to setup or declare something somewhere ? Thank in advance for your help. Tarik. Observium 18.3.9076 (6th March 2018) OS Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 [amd64] (Debian 8.5) Apache 2.4.10 (Debian) PHP 5.6.23-0+deb8u1 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.9 MySQL 5.5.50-0+deb8u1 (extension: mysqli 5.0.11-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.2.1 RRDtool 1.4.8

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Importing MIB file
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

Hi, We have a MIB file which we want to import, preferably through the GUI. How can we do this? Met vriendelijke groet, Ricardo Franco Cantero

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Update Errors
by Joey Stanford 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

Hi, Running /opt/observium/discovery.php -u has suddenly started throwing errors. Any thoughts on a fix? # root @ observium in ~ [8:19:51] $ /opt/observium/discovery.php -u MIB search path: /opt/observium/mibs:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp Cannot find module (SNMPv2-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (IF-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (IP-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (TCP-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (UDP-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (HOST-RESOURCES-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (DISMAN-EVENT-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (DISMAN-SCHEDULE-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (MTA-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB): At line 0 in (none) Cannot find module (SNMPv2-TC): At line 15 in /opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp/UCD-DISKIO-MIB Cannot find module (SNMPv2-SMI): At line 34 in /opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB Cannot find module (HCNUM-TC): At line 37 in /opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB Cannot find module (SNMPv2-TC): At line 40 in /opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB Did not find 'enterprises' in module #-1 (/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB) Did not find 'CounterBasedGauge64' in module #-1 (/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB) Did not find 'DisplayString' in module #-1 (/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB) Did not find 'TruthValue' in module #-1 (/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB) Unlinked OID in UCD-SNMP-MIB: ucdavis ::= { enterprises 2021 } Undefined identifier: enterprises near line 42 of /opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB …..etc….

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MAC accounting problem
by Art Stephens 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

I have MAC accounting enabled on our BGP router trying to see what the usage is of our transit provider is over our peering link. They send me a graph for the week that looks like this. My graph on Observium looks like this. Any adjustments that I can make to fix this? Thanks in advance. P.S. Yes they verified that is their MAC address. -- Arthur Stephens Senior Network Administrator Ptera Inc. PO Box 135 24001 E Mission Suite 50 Liberty Lake, WA 99019 509-927-7837 ptera.com | facebook.com/PteraInc | twitter.com/Ptera ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This message may contain confidential and/or propriety information, and is intended for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any use by others is strictly prohibited. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and are not intended to represent those of the company."

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Mounted storage not seen
by Luca Sasdelli 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Hi, one of our servers has an external network storage, mounted as /mnt/sb1. Here the df printout: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 1905166276 1441999032 366367400 80% / udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev tmpfs 6548756 687344 5861412 11% /run tmpfs 16371888 0 16371888 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs 16371888 0 16371888 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda2 499656 56712 416732 12% /boot //u162796.your-storagebox.de/backup 10485760000 3640645235 6845114765 35% /mnt/sb1 tmpfs 3274380 0 3274380 0% /run/user/0 The poller.php can't find the mounted storage instead: ##### Starting polling run at 2018-03-01 10:24:27 ##### ##### xxxxxxxxxx [61] ##### o OS linux o OS Group unix o Last poll duration 0.57 seconds o Last Polled 2018-03-01 10:23:21 o SNMP Version v2c o Device status Device is reachable by PING (3.13ms) and SNMP (13.49ms) o Modules Enabled system, os, storage ##### Module Start: system ##### o SNMPv2-MIB o Uptime 213 days, 40m 39s o Last reboot 2017-07-31 10:44:06 o sysObjectID .1.3.6.1.4.1.8072.3.2.10 o snmpEngineID 80001F88805E3A691D7D1EF25800000000 o sysDescr Linux xxxxxxxxxx 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 (2017-06-26) x86_64 o sysName xxxxxxxxxx o Location Nuremberg, Germany o Module time 0.1379s ##### Module Start: os ##### o OS Poller Group o Hardware Generic x86 [64bit] o Version 3.16.0-4-amd64 o Features <empty> o Serial <empty> o Asset <empty> o Module time 0.2439s ##### Module Start: storage ##### +-------+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+ | Label | Type | Index | Total | Used | Free | Perc | +-------+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+ | / | host-resources-mib | 31 | 1.77TB | 1.34TB | 441GB | 75.69% | | /boot | host-resources-mib | 55 | 487MB | 55.3MB | 432MB | 11.35% | +-------+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+ o Module time 0.0723s ##### xxxxxxxxxx [61] completed poller modules at 2018-03-01 10:24:28 ##### o Graphs [checked] ping, ping_snmp, uptime, storage o Poller time 0.5446 seconds o Updated Data uptime, last_polled, last_polled_timetaken ##### Completed polling run at 2018-03-01 10:24:28 ##### o Devices Polled 1 o Poller Time 0.575 secs o Memory usage 12MB (peak: 14MB) o MySQL Usage Insert[1/0.007s] Update[12/0.071s] Delete[1/0.012s] Cell[2/0s] Row[17/0.007s] Rows[10/0.004s] Col[0/0s] (0.101s 17.518%) o RRDTool Usage update[6/0.007s] (0.007s 1.25%) o SNMP Usage snmpget[16/0.327s] snmpwalk[1/0.044s] (0.371s 64.468%) Did I miss something? Observium Professional 18.1.9011 under debian 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u2 (2018-02-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks Luca

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Migrating to a new server
by Josh Williams 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

We just purchased an upgraded server in which to host Observium on and I would like to know the “best” way to migrate over all of our monitored devices. I’m not concerned with any of the graphed data being migrated, or any of the old Observium config. I only want to do a mass export of all of the devices and their properties. Will a dump of the ‘devices’ and ‘devices_locations’ tables suffice? Are there other tables/directories/configs I need to be concerned about? Thanks, Josh Williams Bureau of Technology Management WI Department of Corrections

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Re: [Observium] SNMP on AXIS IP Cameras
by kayasaman 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

Hi, I can't say for Axis bit definitely success with Hikvision to a point. Observium does scan poll add the camera. If needing to be remote monitored from an external network over WAN there are many different ways of doing it. One way could be to use an ipsec vpn tunnel with gre then use a routing protocol like ospf . Then you could use acls as to what gets to the monitoring system etc... Regards, Kaya Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: Get Smarts - Web Dev <dev(a)getsmarts.com.au> Date: 2/28/18 12:40 (GMT+00:00) To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] SNMP on AXIS IP Cameras Hi Team, Has anyone had any experiences in monitoring AXIS IP Cameras sitting on an internal private network. We have a client with 20 AXIS IP Cameras sitting on a private network who requires outside monitoring of there equipment. We have been reviewing and testing port forwarding etc however would appreciate any feedback or advice that anyone may have on a simple solution (If possible) to add all 20 cameras to our Observium servers. Thank you and Regards, Jeff BarlowThe Development Team | Get Smarts Email: dev(a)getsmarts.com.au

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