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

30 Jul '13

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

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Basic Installation Issue.
by Steve Nelson 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

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

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

30 Jul '13

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

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Sensors & syslog Questions
by Wijdan Mohamed 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

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

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

30 Jul '13

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

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Axis labeling for graphs
by Roland Schwingel 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

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

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

30 Jul '13

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

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device down
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

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

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HELP ALERTS
by Eliezer Sousa 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

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

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

29 Jul '13

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

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