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slow polling of Cisco 4500 VSS switches
by Bastiaan Topper 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi all, We have a very long poll time on some of the devices. We have a few Cisco 4500 switches with a lott of interfaces. For example a Cisco 4506 with 4x 48 ports linecard, the poll time for the device is: [cid:image001.png@01CEA3DD.702B0310] As you can see the poll time changed around 28/29 July. I disabled the device around 31 July, as you can see. We also have Cisco 4500 VSS setups with several hundreds of interfaces, these devices I disabled for now, because the poller couldn't keep up with it. Today I found some time to troubleshoot, and found the above statistics. Beside that a did a poll with debug on. It "hangs" very long on every interface of every device it polls. After looking into that, it seems that it collects all interfaces per metric it polls. I think that is the problem with devices with a big amount of interfaces, because it collects all statistics again for every interface. How can I fix this? Is this by design/Is this a bug? Or is it something in my setup? Regards, Bastiaan Topper Korton Group BV

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Re: [Observium] How can i add app mysql to my observium
by Tom Laermans 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Please read this email again, it will become clear... Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Robert Luczynski" <robert(a)byd.com.pl> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] How can i add app mysql to my observium Date: Wed, Aug 28, 2013 17:29 i have xinetd config from scripts/observium_agent_xinetd documentation: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Unix_Agent How can i check xinetd config file is ok? telnet can connect to port 3662 my xinetd config: service observium_agent { type = UNLISTED port = 36602 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/bin/observium_agent # configure the IP address(es) of your Observium server here: only_from = 127.0.0.1 # Don't be too verbose. Don't log every check. This might be # commented out for debugging. If this option is commented out # the default options will be used for this service. log_on_success = disable = no } On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Tom Laermans wrote: > Close, but no cigar yet ;-) > > Telnet didn't produce output, your xinetd config file is wrong; poller is not receiving your data. > > Tom > > On 08/28/2013 04:44 PM, Robert Luczynski wrote: >> I was running poller and dicovery script manually, rrd still doesn't have a rrd files... >> Cronjob setings is fine. >> >> >> >> >> On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Michael Sweikata wrote: >> >>> You have to run a poller and discovery after it's added to get those files generated. If your cron job is set up correctly and it will auto-poll devices every five minutes, just wait until the next cycle is complete, or run them manually. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Robert Luczynski >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:23 AM >>> To: Observium Network Observation System >>> Subject: Re: [Observium] How can i add app mysql to my observium >>> >>> Ok, i was missed mysql settings in observium panel. >>> I have app tab now, but graph is empty: (Error drawing graph) >>> >>> my rrd direcroty still does'n have a rrd files for mysql >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> >>> On Aug 28, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Robert Luczynski wrote: >>> >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> I have a CentOS 6.4 >>>> >>>> >>>> I want to add app tab to my observium. I was folllow in aplication mysql: >>>> http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/MySQL >>>> >>>> Unix agent is enabled: >>>> >>>> root@g [/opt/observium]# telnet localhost 36602Trying ::1... >>>> Connected to localhost. >>>> Escape character is '^]'. >>>> Connection closed by foreign host. >>>> >>>> mysql script work ok: >>>> >>>> root@g [/opt/observium]# /usr/lib/observium_agent/local/mysql >>>> <<<mysql>>> >>>> a0:5225549 >>>> a1:2200 >>>> a2:105805 >>>> a3:52579 >>>> a4:3774 >>>> a5:211779660 >>>> a6:1 >>>> a7:1 >>>> a8:-1 >>>> a9:-1 >>>> aa:8192 >>>> [...] >>>> ef:-1 >>>> eg:0 >>>> eh:1844224 >>>> ei:8388608 >>>> ej:3176 >>>> ek:890 >>>> >>>> puller info: >>>> >>>> ./poller.php all August 28, 2013, 9:49 - 1 devices polled in 0.739 secs >>>> MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[4/0s] Rows[30/0.01s] Column[0/0s] Update[22/0.01s] Insert[2/0.01s] Delete[0/0s] >>>> >>>> Thanks, Robert >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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missing Events Log in overview tab
by Micah Young 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi Is anyone else having problems viewing the Events Log in the Overview tab? I have been writing custom code but the issue only comes up when I update past revision 4367. Let me know. Thanks! Mike Y. ARDEN A Global Company Celebrating over 48 years of making your life more comfortable! This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. This OUTBOUND E-mail and Document(s) has been scanned by an Antivirus Server.

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Temperature Ipoman
by ColoCenter bv 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi all, Since a couple of updates(not sure which) the temperature sensor on a Ipoman is not working/shown anymore. i had one working and was being polled fine, but now i noticed it is gone. Not sure with which update it disappeared. I have this in my logs: 2013-08-25 18:01:26 System Sensor Deleted: temperature ipoman 1 EMD Temperature Can this be fixed? Thanks -- Alexander Lantink ColoCenter bv http://www.colocenter.nl info(a)colocenter.nl 079-7113500sure w

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Newbie ?s - map config
by McNett, Loren 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hello all, We’ve recently decided to move from Cacti, and tried Zenoss, and we’re now trying Observium. We’re *really* liking it. Device import went really well, and have been able to tune it to exactly what we need. I’m having issues with the map. The mapping of alerts is a pretty important feature for us, but I can’t seem to get it dialed in. You may certainly assume I know nothing about this mapping feature beyond the “Map Overview Settings” porton of the Configuration Options page. We’re a small campus so the scale of the map is not working out when we use the “US-565”. When the dots render they stack up. Is there a more ‘zoomed in’ option? How does one appropriately choose the ‘location’ data? If I can hop on google maps and put in a string and have it put a pin in the right building, is that string acceptable to use for the location field? I.E. “north hall library” gives me the correct location in google maps, does that mean I can use it for the location string? Since google maps has our building footprints drawn out, I’d prefer to use that layout, is it possible to switch it to that instead of the metro area shtick? Our map looks like this: [cid:image002.png@01CEA3E3.1FE973E0] Using the following in config.php //MAP data $config['frontpage']['map']['region'] = "US-565"; // See https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/geo$ $config['frontpage']['map']['resolution'] = "metros"; // Some region types such as US States (US-NY) require this to be changed t$ $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = 5; // Set the dotsize you want $config['frontpage']['map']['realworld'] = false; // Enable/Disable the realworld view (blue/green), if disabled default m$ Thanks! -Loren McNett

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active/standby pairs (esp. FW)
by Rob VanHooren 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

some gear that's put up in pairs insists on having the same hostname/sysName, e.g. ASAs. even though their m0 are uniquely reachable, there's no currently obvious way to watch the standby, since even though its DNS is unique, addhost sees sysName and rejects it as being a duplicate. ideas? tks, R.

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Incomplete device name (bug?)
by Richard Hartensveld 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi all, If I add a device with a hostname of br0.abcdefg , it will show up nicely on the front page, however, when I add a device with a hostname of br0.abcdefgh (or longer), the device's name will be 'br0' on the front page under "device alerts" and "Recent Eventlog Entries". If you hoover over the device name, he popup screen wil display the correct device name. Could this be a bug, or am I doing something wrong ? Thanks. gr, Richard

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Re: [Observium] OS Recognition
by Adam Armstrong 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

I am in the process of migrating this to the os script... :) Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >> Hi I just wanted to ask if observium is suppose to detect the flavour of linux or is this the correct behaviour? > >I think you want this part of the manual: >http://www.observium.org/wiki/Linux_Distribution_Detection > >Cheers :-) >Sander > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Mis-aligned data in memcached app
by Adam Armstrong 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Seems like a good idea. Adam. Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >Hi, > >When debugging why my memcached graphs weren't working I discovered the following problem: > >SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '41' AND `app_type` = 'memcached'] >Including: applications/memcached.inc.phpmemcachedmemcached(127.0.0.1:11211) >SQL[SELECT app_id FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '41' AND `app_instance` = '127.0.0.1:11211'] >RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/v25.invalpool.nl/app-memcached-127.0.0.1_11211.rrd N:64:2.0.16-stable:0:0:5:1045:6202:8:0:0:14045:129043:6202:0:0:0:0:7184655:13093279] >stdout[ERROR: /opt/observium/rrd/v25.invalpool.nl/app-memcached-127.0.0.1_11211.rrd: conversion of '2.0.16-stable' to float not complete: tail '.16-stable'] >stderr[]] > >Obviously the data in the rrdtool update command were wrong. A version number shouldn't be in there... So I looked at what the memcached agent script was returning and how that was parsed by the poller memcached module. It turns out that there is a difference. The agent script returns a list of values in this order: > >accepting_conns, auth_cmds, auth_errors, bytes, bytes_read, bytes_written, cas_badval, cas_hits, cas_misses, cmd_flush, cmd_get, cmd_set, cmd_touch, conn_yields, connection_structures, curr_connections, curr_items, decr_hits, decr_misses, delete_hits, delete_misses, evicted_unfetched, evictions, expired_unfetched, get_hits, get_misses, hash_bytes, hash_is_expanding, hash_power_level, incr_hits, incr_misses, libevent, limit_maxbytes, listen_disabled_num, pid, pointer_size, reclaimed, reserved_fds, rusage_system, rusage_user, threads, time, total_connections, total_items, touch_hits, touch_misses, uptime, version > >The poller module parses them in this order: > >accepting_conns, auth_cmds, auth_errors, bytes, bytes_read, bytes_written, cas_badval, cas_hits, cas_misses, cmd_flush, cmd_get, cmd_set, conn_yields, connection_structures, curr_connections, curr_items, decr_hits, decr_misses, delete_hits, delete_misses, evictions, get_hits, get_misses, incr_hits, incr_misses, limit_maxbytes, listen_disabled_num, pid, pointer_size, rusage_system, rusage_user, threads, time, total_connections, total_items, uptime, version > >As you can see this breaks at cmd_touch: the agent sends a variable the poller doesn't expect, and as the data is sent value-only it has no way to determine that the imput is in different places than it expects... > >What I suggest to do is the following: >- update the agent so that key:value is sent instead of just value >- update the poller module so that it can parse key:value input >- make the poller module also accept the current value-only input as a fall-back > >If we agree that this is the way forward I'll send in a patch. > >Cheers, >Sander > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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OS Recognition
by David Peall 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi I just wanted to ask if observium is suppose to detect the flavour of linux or is this the correct behaviour? Linux ns1.coza.net.za 3.2.0-30-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24 16:52:48 UTC 2012 x86_64 Hardware Generic x86 64-bit Operating System Linux 3.2.0-30-generic Regards -- David Peall

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