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ifLastChange usage query
by Peter Childs 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Looking at an operational issue where we had a small interface flap between polls, so link state between polls hasn't changed, but iFLastChange has. Looking at the 'data' view through the UI for the port ifLastChanged doesn't appeared to have changed, and looking through the poller code it appears perhaps it is only updated on a change of operational/admin status on a port? Would there be any use in poller updating it in the db if it was different to the existing value in the port cache ? It would be interesting to be able to alert on 'ifLastChange' < 'some value' .. Or just have the update in the EventLog so when having a look-see at a device it is apparent that a link flap has occurred. A visual indicator in ports basic/detailed view for 'last change' < 'some global config value' like a little exclamation mark or something potentially could be useful to operators to 'spot' issues. Imagine being able to view ports, sort on 'LastChange' during an incident to 'spot' potential causes of issues? Would any of this make sense to anyone? Cheers, Peter

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FW: Cannot Add Device in WUI
by Md. Anamul Haque Rana 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Dear Concern, I can add device in command mode in observium but can not add device in WUI. The error I found is give bellow: Could not ping DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom. 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (1) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (2) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (3) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied Please help me BR\\ Md. Anamul Haque Rana Officer, ITOD Dutch Bangla Bank Limited IP Phone: +88 09666322017, Ex-221

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Allied Telesis Support
by Patrick Gawthorne 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Hi All, Currently playing with Observium which is brilliant, except when an Allied Telesis switch (running Alliedware Plus) is discovered only basic info is retrieved (Uptime, OS, location, etc), which then causes the issue of halting auto discovery.. The specific model is an AT-9000/28SP. Anyone aware if this switch is supported or not? Cheers, Pat This email, together with any attachments, is intended for the named recipient(s) only and may contain privileged and confidential information. If received in error, please inform the sender as quickly as possible and delete this email and any copies from your computer network. If not an intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute or rely on it, and any form of disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this email is prohibited. Unless stated otherwise, this email represents only the views of the sender and not the views of Pacific Lutheran College.

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question about cisco switch discovery/polling
by Steve Dubinskiy 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

we've got a Cisco WS-C4510R+E switch after discovering and polling it,, it now shows 3 entries for each port 1 is the expected/desired one "64-bit" port and 2 unknown/undesired "Controlled" and "Uncontrolled" 32-bit ports. question why are we seeing them ? how to we get rid of them ? this is making management of this device painfully slow .. takes more then 30 seconds (closer to one minute) for the page to load thanks -Steve -- *This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, copy, use or disclose this communication. Please also notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete all copies of it from your system. *

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Re: [Observium] IPMI setup
by Christian Gerbrandt 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

You still need SNMP to poll the device. Once added you can configure IPMI to gather stats from IPMI. On Aug 05, 2014, at 02:35 PM, Matthew Green <mephi(a)mephi.co.uk> wrote: Hi, From the reading I've done it seems that Observium supports IPMI and I've got a Supermicro motherboard I'd like to get stats from. However, I can't see any way to configure the device, if I try to add devices it only lets me poll over SNMP, which the Supermicro board doesn't seem to allow. Other than stating that you need IPMItools installed, the Observium documentation doesn't provide any details about how IPMI devices should be configured. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Discoverying and polling VRF, OSPF and BGP Processes on Nexus 7K : where to start coding
by Mathieu MILLET 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, I would like to give a try to code some PHP Patchs, so that Observium can discover VRF, OSPF, BGP and so on Nexus 7K platform (our reference will be Nexus 7700 with NX-OS 6.2). We are implementing "VRF-Lite" style (no MPLS), so according to Cisco documentation, it is mandatory to map in NX-OS configuration, a SNMP Context (v3) to each instance of VRF, OSPF, BGP, whatever .... My try will be to first discover the context mapping with this Cisco MIB : CISCO-CONTEXT-MAPPING-MIB.my and then to iterate on these mappings using an additional function like "get snmp walk/bulk with context" on these contexts. Do you have any advice how I could do that ? Which files should I implement / pacth ? Which files could I use as examples and inspiration ? Also, I plan to make patch against the last open release (SVN revision 5229). Is that a problem ? Thank you in advance for your help, Sincerely yours, Mathieu. -- Mathieu MILLET mailto:obs@htam.net

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Cisco Active PPP Sessions
by tromp wezelman 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, With the following OID is it possible to show the active PPP sessions: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.150.1.1.1.0 Is it possible to add/make a graph with the active PPP sessions when using cisco equipment like ASR1002 Example: root@observium:/opt/observium# snmpwalk -v2c -On -c noc devicename .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.150.1.1.1 .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.150.1.1.1.0 = Gauge32: 7545 Perhaps just as the following topic: http://forums.cacti.net/about37860.html Thanks, Tromp

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1 minute bandwidth graphs
by Anthony Polselli 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

If I change crontab to pull every 1 minute, can I drill-down tighter on a graph? [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB00A.54AA6B50] __________________________________________ 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 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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adjusting bandwidth graphs to what the client is paying for
by Anthony Polselli 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, Just checking out the software for the first time and really liking it. We are using PRTG now and of the things we like about it is per interface we are monitoring, we can set the max x-axis value. It helps our tech's to know what speed Internet connection a client is paying for. We will hand off a 100Mbps interface to the client, but if they are only paying for 20Mbps, we will shape the traffic down to 20Mbps on the router. When you look at the percent graph in Observium, it's based on a 100Mbps max possible speed instead of 20Mbps. Thanks!

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Cannot Add Device
by Josh Hopper 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

I'm having an issue adding a new switch to Observium. It is a Dell PowerConnect. administrator@network-monitoring:/opt/observium$ ./discovery.php -h core-sw-tx-01.purafilter2000.com monitor v2c Observium v0.14.8.5732 Discovery Current Revision : 5732 New Revision : 5734 WARNING: 0 devices discovered. Did you specify a device that does not exist? MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[20/0s] Rows[2/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[0/0s] Delete[0/0s] However, the switch is live.... User Name:admin Password:******** core-sw-tx-01> en Password: Password:******** core-sw-tx-01# core-sw-tx-01# sh run port jumbo-frame vlan database vlan 200 exit voice vlan oui-table add 000181 Nortel__________________ voice vlan oui-table add 0001e3 Siemens_AG_phone________ voice vlan oui-table add 00036b Cisco_phone_____________ voice vlan oui-table add 00096e Avaya___________________ voice vlan oui-table add 000fe2 H3C_Aolynk______________ voice vlan oui-table add 001049 Shoretel________________ voice vlan oui-table add 0060b9 Philips_and_NEC_AG_phone voice vlan oui-table add 00907a Polycom/Veritel_phone___ voice vlan oui-table add 00e0bb 3Com_phone______________ port-channel load-balance src-dst-ip iscsi target port 860 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 3260 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 9876 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 20002 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 20003 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 25555 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi enable hostname core-sw-tx-01 line telnet password ddcf8cf8c5849d6b72e1142f3694881bc39d1560 encrypted exit enable password level 15 encrypted ddcf8cf8c5849d6b72e1142f3694881bc39d1560 username admin password encrypted ddcf8cf8c5849d6b72e1142f3694881bc39d1560 snmp-server community monitor rw 192.168.40.114 view Default sntp server 192.168.40.24 poll ! And I setup the DNS as well.... Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\jhopper>ping core-sw-tx-01 Pinging core-sw-tx-01.purafilter2000.com [192.168.60.2] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=54 Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=54 Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=54 Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=54 Ping statistics for 192.168.60.2: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 53ms, Average = 52ms C:\Users\jhopper>nslookup core-sw-tx-01 Server: gpsvr03.homeimpressions.local Address: 192.168.1.20 Name: core-sw-tx-01.purafilter2000.com Address: 192.168.60.2 C:\Users\jhopper> Anyone know why? :/ -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB00C.28668FE0] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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