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Subscriber license for Enterprise project
by Garrett Pye 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

The site indicates a Professional Edition can be available for Open Source projects and curious if I am testing this in an Enterprise environment if that would qualify for this edition? Curious about the grouping feature and especially the threshold alerting to compare with Nagios currently in use in our production environment. //Garrett

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Mailing list archive
by Eric 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Does the mailing list archive have a new home? Haven't been able to view it for quite some time from the subscribe page.

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OpenStreetMap slow?
by Ron Marosko 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

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Observium device capacity and SIP
by Garrett Pye 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Currently testing Observium in lab environment with an initial 90 HP devices to possibly propose migrate away from Nagios. I don't see in the documentation if there is a performance limit reached if and when I add another 40 devices. Also, does this same platform support SIP error logging traffic or is it limited to discovered enabled modules? //Garrett

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32 vs 64 iftable counters
by Andrew Dul 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Hello, We have some switches which have broken 64bit iftable snmp counters. I've opened a bug report w/ the vendor, but don't have an ETA on a fix at this time. The 32bit counters seem to be working ok. Is there a way to tell Observium to just use the 32bit counters? Thanks, Andrew

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How to trigger a geolocation update ????? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Hi, I have some devices where i have had to manually set the location. I am seeing, since CE:16.10.8128, that the devices with custom locations are not updating their geolocation info and are reporting unknown for all location info. abxbuild2,"Albury, AU",au,New South Wales,Albury City Council,Albury abxmain1,"Albury, AU",au,New South Wales,Albury City Council,Albury abxrt011,"Albury, AU",unknown,Unknown,Unknown,Unknown abxsw011,"Albury, AU",unknown,Unknown,Unknown,Unknown abxups1,"Albury, AU",au,New South Wales,Albury City Council,Albury I tried with abxrt011 to change the location to "Albury, AU" (extra space) which correctly triggered as an update to the custom location, but no geocode update occurred normally I see event log lines like ... |-----------------+-----------+-----------> |2017-01-05 |dc6ipvcmcu1|dc6ipvcmcu1| |09:18:59 | | | |-----------------+-----------+-----------> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |Geolocation (YAHOO) -> [-35.280552, 149.125417] Australia (Country), Australian Capital Territory (State), | |Unknown (County), Canberra (City) | >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| so could there be a bug for custom locations ?? what file is the geolocation lookup occuring in ? thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) Corporate Services | Federal Court of Australia ********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail (including any attachments) is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. It is noted that legal privilege is not waived because you have read this e-mail. **********************************************************************

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HP iLO IP address compatibility
by Garrett Pye 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Is there a configuration Observium has to include HP iLO interface IP? Currently it looks like neither adding a device or port inventory does not support monitoring the iLO port. *Garrett Pye* *CNOC Engineer | Business Class Voice* 5800 S. Quebec St, Greenwood Village, CO 80111

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topology Map
by ridwan 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Hi list, is it possible to draw topology map in observium ?, we are planning to display our LAN Topology on big screen TV Rgds Ridwan

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modify device overview
by Ted G. Freitas 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

I was wondering if there is a way that the device overview screen can be modified so that we see the syslog-alerts instead of the full syslog? Also can this be added to the main overview screen as well? Thanks in advance!

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Adding a ptpd application to unix-agent
by Adrian Murphy 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

Hi, I have been playing with ptpd on my network to see how it behaves compared to ntp. I really like the observium monitoring of ntp. I use Observium CE 0.16.10.8128 (6th October 2016) on FreeBSD 10.3 & 11.0 So, I had a crack at implementing ptpd as an application for unix-agent guided by http://observium.org/docs/developing/add_app/ which says: “• RRD formats are defiend in includes/definitions/rrdtypes.inc.php” But this doesn’t exist in my installation and I am suspecting config['rrd_types'] is defined in includes/definitions/definitions.dat which I don’t know how to read. So when polling the servers with ptpd, I get this error: “Cannot create RRD for type ptpd-slave - not found in definitions!” Is there anyway I can get past this? Or is this something I shouldn’t be doing? I went back through old observium mailing list mail and found: Subject: Re: [Observium] custom unix-agent application > On 24 Nov 2016, at 7:20 pm, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > > Hi Yogi, > > I've rewriting this application code and it'll be committed to the repository sometime soon. You'd missing out a few definition entries and had copied an old method of building applications. > > The application was being deleted because you weren't using update_application(). > > Once it's run for a while here and I can see that it all works, I'll commit it to the SVN, and you'll be able to update and use it then. > > Thanks, > adam. > > Sent from Mailbird > On 22/11/2016 08:51:06, Yogi Sofiharja <yogi_sofiharja(a)biznetgio.com> wrote: > > Dear Community, > > > I am creating application to monitor disk response time at VM level using ioping. > > But every time i run the poller with debugger, i’ve got no error but my application always been deleted by the system because its lastpolled is 0. i’ve try to follow the documentation, but its seems like i can’t get solution. > > Do you guys have any solution for this or you have the same problem? I’m worried this means I will not be able to make it work in Observium CE. HNY & Cheers, Adrian

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Authentication log bug
by Observium 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Hi Adam and team, We found a bug in the authentication log this evening. One of our guys tried logging in to our Observium but couldn't remember his username. However, when he tried logging in he used an uppercase letter in his username, and it still allocated the attempted login to his user account, even though Observium uses case-sensitive usernames and the attempted login would be different from his actual user account - his username is "lee", but he (incorrectly) tried "Lee". Testing with my own account shows that any username with the same spelling will show up under that account, even though the users are not the same. Kind regards, Alex

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AVTech devices
by Philippe Laurent 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Just purchased the Pro version of Observium (damn good looking stuff) and am running 0.16.12.8292. Looking at the JIRA, I understand that AVTech devices are a pain due to the way the vendor writes the MIB. Nonetheless, their equipment and expandability is good, and they do provide SNMP data that can be harvested. I've purchased, and intend to standardize on the 12E model of the device. I see that the 4E and the 24E are Observium supported devices (to some degree). Who can I hire to get the 12E inserted supported by Observium at the current MIB version as provide by AVTech? Philippe

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Moving Observium
by William Bauer 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

So I have my new CentOS7 system ready to go, moving from a CentOS6 VM. I thought I'd found it before, but I can't find instructions for moving observium to a different system (same x86_64 architecture). I can move the RRDs, but isn't there more to it, like migrating mysql data? I've looked through the documentation. Perhaps I'm just looking for the wrong text. Any links someone can point to, or instructions for moving from one host to another? Thanks. Bill

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Question about port tags.
by Sander Koorneef 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

Hi guys, I have two ports in my environment with some tags on it. Observium recognizes it as a Customer and some other details. But the thing is; one port is a stacking port without label (1/2/3, what you don't see), and the other one is disabled and also without a label. Maybe I overlooked something. Never created the labels in the first place. The question: how can I clean this up? I can remember that this popped up after a upgrade recently, but cannot remember the version of it :( [cid:86df4c60-7d68-4e23-a87a-19e8b881c859] [cid:a5013af3-87a3-48b2-8ece-5fb44f33ee4f] Running Observium 0.16.11.8262 (27th November 2016) Rolling. With kind regards, Sander Koorneef

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Serverscheck with Observium
by Idzma Zakaria 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

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Observium Polling via SSH
by Cailean Keniston 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

Hi All, I have an environment that uses Observium but a lot of our systems that we need to keep track of and poll are having ICMP echo requests turned off which makes polling a little difficult. So after making backup copies of the files I am starting to make a module that polls via SSH. Currently it's in the "works under conditions X" stage and I had to bake it into some of the includes code (hence the copies). I guess my main question is this something anyone is interested in being submitted as an option? I'm currently working on the ability to make it more of an automated process, and set up a flag that toggles whether the poller works with ping or ssh. But, if this is so niche that it's not really something cares about then cool, but I thought I would ask in case it could be a useful feature to add for others? And, if it is something that might seem useful then if there's a preferred method of adding it over putting it directly into the existing code I'm perfectly willing to go that route instead so I'm not messing with anyone's flow. Thanks, Cailean

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Error
by Jason Vanlandingham 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

First time I've seen this. It showed up once today, and once on 24 Nov. I would expect an error like this to happen every time this ran or not at all. What is this? Executable '/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py' doesn't belong to any package and ProcessUnpackaged is set to 'no'

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Observium: sensor class question
by David Schrok 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

Hi all, Question: Is there a way to map a sensor to another sensor class? Currently I have a sensor that shows up as a temperature sensor which in fact is a humidity sensor. Would be great if I can map the sensor or OID value as humidity. With kind regards, David Disclaimer ( http://www.avans.nl/over-avans/e-mail-disclaimer )

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Re: [Observium] Updates to CentOS7 instructions?
by Max Krabbenhöft 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

Had problems with this a few months back too. Used this thread to get rpms working again. https://github.com/repoforge/rpms/issues/375 /Max On Dec 22, 2016 07:47, William Bauer <bbauer(a)scripps.edu> wrote: I'm replacing a poorly performing VM running CentOS6 with a real computer running CentOS7. The two commands (listed below) early on in the CentOS7 instructions appear to be invalid. I'm not super Linux literate as I know more of the BSD and Solaris worlds. Are there replacement sources for these? Here are the ones currently failing (I've tried no more of the instructions). I suppose these could be only temporary failures: rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el7.rf.… Any help is appreciated. Bill _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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atime necessary?
by William Bauer 24 Dec '16

24 Dec '16

Being a BSD and Solaris guy (ZFS for years!), I brought up my new Observium installation putting mariadb on one ZFS mirror, and Observium on another. One thing that can improve performance is by disabling the atime attribute on a filesystem. Does Observium or mysql/mariadb care about this, or can I safely disable it on either or both filesystems? It won't impact the normal timestamps, just the tracking of the last access time of individual files. Thanks again.

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Re: [Observium] Moving Observium
by Cody Cook 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to- migrate-a-mysql-database-between-two-servers That creates and migrates a database. You will also need to add and give permissions for a user on your new MySQL server. The installation instructions should explain how that's done since it is the same commands. Then update the config file for Observium to match your new setup. This is probably a basic skill you should know outside of using Observium. On Dec 22, 2016 1:15 PM, "William Bauer" <bbauer(a)scripps.edu> wrote: > Are there instructions somewhere for moving Observium? I don't know how > to migrate mysql. I was hoping there are concise Observium instructions, > much like the excellent install page. > ------------------------------ > *From:* Cody Cook > *Sent:* Thu Dec 22 13:07:30 PST 2016 > *To:* Observium Network Observation System > *Subject:* Re: [Observium] Moving Observium > > You'll need to also migrate and redirect your MySQL database too. > > On Dec 22, 2016 12:45 PM, "William Bauer" <bbauer(a)scripps.edu> wrote: > >> So I have my new CentOS7 system ready to go, moving from a CentOS6 VM. I >> thought I'd found it before, but I can't find instructions for moving >> observium to a different system (same x86_64 architecture). I can move the >> RRDs, but isn't there more to it, like migrating mysql data? >> >> I've looked through the documentation. Perhaps I'm just looking for the >> wrong text. Any links someone can point to, or instructions for moving >> from one host to another? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Bill >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > ------------------------------ > NOTE: This message was trained as non-spam. If this is wrong, please > correct the training as soon as possible. > > > > ------------------------------ > > 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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Updates to CentOS7 instructions?
by William Bauer 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

I'm replacing a poorly performing VM running CentOS6 with a real computer running CentOS7. The two commands (listed below) early on in the CentOS7 instructions appear to be invalid. I'm not super Linux literate as I know more of the BSD and Solaris worlds. Are there replacement sources for these? Here are the ones currently failing (I've tried no more of the instructions). I suppose these could be only temporary failures: rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el7.rf.… Any help is appreciated. Bill

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Wireless Networks
by Stef Renders 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

Hi All, We recently started adding customer's wireless environments in our Observium installation. I'm not sure whether this was ever available, but I can tell that observium is discovering my SSID's since I can see them in the database, however, I don't seem to find any reference to them in the interface. Anyone has an idea how far this was ever implemented ? Our customer is using Ruckus. And it seems only the wifi_wlans table is being populated: Kind regards

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suppress tiles on front page
by Vater, Wolfgang 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

Hi there, I created alerts for port errors and discards to be notified if there are more than 25. But on my front page I get a tile for each port with port errors, even if it is only 1 error. Is this customizable? I would like to be able to suppress this for ports where I know this happens but can't do anything about it (because someone else doesn't want to fix their device), or raise the threshold so something higher than 1? Wolfgang Wolfgang Vater | Lead Client Architect | Enterprise Services Unisys Deutschland GmbH | +49 162 255 9338 | wolfgang.vater(a)unisys.com | Philipp-Reis-Str. 2 | 65795 Hattersheim [unisys_logo]<http://www.unisys.com/> Unisys Deutschland GmbH | Geschäftsführer: Sandro Lindner & Dr. Uwe Heckert | Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hattersheim | Amtsgericht: Frankfurt/Main HRB 7929 THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. DIESE E-MAIL IST AUSSCHLIESSLICH FÜR DEN ADRESSATEN BESTIMMT UND KANN VERTRAULICHE INFORMATIONEN ENTHALTEN. Sollten Sie nicht der Adressat dieser Informationen sein, bitten wir Sie, sich mit dem Absender in Verbindung zu setzen und die Informationen von Ihren Endgeräten zu entfernen. [Grey_LI]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/unisys> [Grey_TW] <http://twitter.com/unisyscorp> [Grey_GP] <https://plus.google.com/+UnisysCorp/posts> [Grey_YT] <http://www.youtube.com/theunisyschannel> [Grey_FB] <http://www.facebook.com/unisyscorp> [Grey_Vimeo] <https://vimeo.com/unisys> [Grey_UB] <http://blogs.unisys.com/>

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2 x feature request : Avoiding multiple entries for same devices & subgroups
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

Hi! 1. Especially with autodiscovery I get the same devices created multiple times as the hostname differ and Observium don't seem to always properly identify that the sysName and SNMP ID is the same. What I end up with is either the same device being in there twice. I also have this issue on some solutions using clustering and internal DNS & DHCP so nodes can have multiple IPs and DNS names and change these over time so the only constant is SNMP sysName and SNMP ID. What I am doing now as a workaround is to disable all but one entry per device when I see these duplicates, but it would be great to either have a better check to avoid this from the very beginning, or potentially to have something like what is present for syslog host mapping to allow a N to 1 mapping of devices like : $config['device']['host_map']['foo.bar'] = 'bar.foo'; // device hostname/sysname $config['device']['host_map']['foo.bar'] = 'foo.foo'; // device hostname/sysname With something like this in config.php I could then delete the duplicate entries and they would not be auto discovered again, and I'd avoid having to disable them. 2. The other thing is that it would be great if it was possible to create subgroups for devices, ports and custom OIDs. When having lots of groups for different areas or lots of custom OIDs it quickly gets crowded and having the ability to organize these in a group hierachy would be great, similar to how locations are grouped by country when using geo-coding. /Jesper

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