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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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