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Observium Professional Edition
by Kacper Czerwonka 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Hello, I've got quick question. I must to bay 3 Prof subscriptions. I've bought first. What will happen if I push again "Purchase Subscription"? First will extend or I will have second subscription? Best regards, Kacper Czerwonka.

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processors no rrd graphs
by Simon Smith 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Hi All having a strange issue for some reason when i originally added a server, it only found 4 processors, (the server actually had 2 x quad core xeons) i did an observium update recently and suddenly 8 processors now appear but the processors graph is just showing ERROR now ive been able to find the issue the 4 new processors arnt putting any data into the rrd files ? RRDTool Output: ERROR: mmaping file '/opt/observium/rrd/ad.rbs/processor-hr-13.rrd': Invalid argument -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Sep 2 08:50 processor-hr-10.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Sep 2 08:50 processor-hr-11.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Sep 2 08:50 processor-hr-12.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 26 18:35 processor-hr-13.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 26 18:35 processor-hr-14.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 26 18:35 processor-hr-15.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 26 18:35 processor-hr-16.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Aug 26 18:30 processor-hr-5.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Aug 26 18:30 processor-hr-6.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Aug 26 18:30 processor-hr-7.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Aug 26 18:30 processor-hr-8.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Sep 2 08:50 processor-hr-9.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117272 Sep 2 08:50 processor-hr-average-1.rrd what is the best way to fix this or even debug this? Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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Disable email alerts
by Sjoerd de Vries 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Hi all, When temporarily disabling email alerts we used to set: $config['email']['enable'] = FALSE; As per: http://www.observium.org/docs/config_options/#email-backend-settings <http://www.observium.org/docs/config_options/#email-backend-settings> However this is no longer working. Is this a bug or can we (temporarily) disable all alerts in a better way? Kind Regards, Sjoerd

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Device availability - possible feature request?
by Lyndon Labuschagne 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Hi For the purposes of alerting, is availability a a metric that can be used, and if not is it possible to add somthing where we could create an alert i.e. Type device device_availabilty le 99.5% Device Match * Entity Match * Delay 1 The issue I see is that the duration or scope is a defining factor, i.e availability over X days or X months etc

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Alerts interval.
by Gabriel Zamorski 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Hello, I have this parameter $config['alerts']['interval’] with a value 86400 to resend alert notification after a day. Is there any option to have custom intervals depending on alert checker name or.. device name or something?

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I/O Latency Metric Alert?
by Robert Williams 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Hi, Is there an attachment point for alerts to be triggered from the metric of I/O Latency? Reason for asking is that I could do with an alert checker which would have spotted this issue (the scale is in seconds!): It went unnoticed overnight until it crippled a virtual host when users started accessing VMs on it this morning. The underlying fault was a RAID card issue, but nothing else detected it and I've just found that Observium 'knew' about it, but we have not alerts which would have caught this. Any ideas? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Observium maps and locations
by Tomasz Karczewski 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Today my maps changed from Google to openstreetmap (in configuration file I have defined google?!). Meanwhile some locations are not in proper places. Could you tell me what happened? J Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci olman tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.pl http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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SNMP MIB Import
by David Schrok 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Hello, Is there a wau to import MIB’s for devices that aren’t supported by Observium yet? I bought a new environment sensor which isn’t recognized by observium. I have the MIB’s, just don’t know how to import, if that is even possible. Any help? With Kind Regards, David Disclaimer ( http://www.avans.nl/over-avans/e-mail-disclaimer )

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Alerts on Availability
by Lyndon Labuschagne 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Hi Is it possible to alert on a service if the availability is lower than X% I didn't see anything in the example that seem to do this but I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction

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Device Commets and notes
by Andy Lemin 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Hi, I can see that a ticket has been raised for adding a place to add comments and notes to devices on ticket OBSERVUM-249 http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-249 The workaround is to use the Description field. However this field is too small to store much useful info, and cannot be read easily as the field does not expand to show more characters. It would be really nice to have the field be able to show all our device notes, currently you can see the information is clipped beyond 65 CHARS as seen below in this example; Thanks and keep up the great work (we love Observium here) :) Cheers, Andy *Linux ar1406 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2 (2016-04-08) x86_64* Description Old Hypervisor running some networking VMs etc. The disk mode is Hardware Generic x86 [64bit] Operating system Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 System name ar1406 Contact Me <me(a)example.org> Location Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Uptime 106 days, 20h 10m 13s

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IPMI
by Laurence Mayer 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Hi, I have two servers both with IPMI ports enabled and working. Within Observium I have configured the IPMI Settings for both servers. For one of the servers Observium displays the relevant IPMI information (e.g, CPU Temp etc) however for the second server, the information is not displayed. Firmware are identical. I have confirmed the IPMI configuration a number of times and connectivity does not appear to be the issue. Anyway to troubleshoot this? Thanks Laurence

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HP Storage
by ffuentes 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Any plans on adding HP MSA 2040 as a supported device? The custom MIB from HP is available to the public. Regards, -- Fernando Fuentes Supervisor & Senior Systems Administrator Email: ffuentes(a)aasteel.com American Alloy Steel, Inc. Houston, Texas Website: http://www.aasteel.com Phone: 713-744-4222 Fax: 713-300-5688

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billing outbound/95th same values
by Gregory Storme 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hi, We configured a billing type CDR/95th, but notice the values for outbound & 95th percentile are the same.Screenshot of the historical usage overview: We have a subscription and this is on version 0.16.3.7703 (22nd March 2016).Today we updated to version 0.16.8.8068 (23rd August 2016). Is this a known issue or it something wrong on our side? Regards, Gregory

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APC NetBotz. Support for 'Dry contact inputs'....?
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hello Not sure if this is the proper channel for feature requests. But it would be awesome to have support for the ‘Dry contact inputs’ on the APC NetBotz devices. Still not sure how to do a proper likeable snmpwalk so someone will probably shake their head and wave their fist in fury over this one. But hey, at least I tired. =) Snmpwalk output: http://pastebin.com/qcV8vX98 That one have 4 connected ‘dry contact inputs’ and you can see their name under for instance ‘emsProbeConfigProbeName.<n>’, ‘emsProbeStatusProbeName.<n>’ and ‘emsInputContactConfigInputContactName.<n>’ and then some... Also normal state and current state are represented in that walk. This particular netbotz is in charge of switching to secondary cooling circuit and firing those pumps up in case of failure on main circuit. So would be really nice to have that monitored in Observium. =) Cheers and thanks Ps. If my snmpwalk sucks, tell me once and for all how to do it and how it is supposed to look. =) -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ]

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PHP Error
by Nurbek Suleimanov 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

Hi, support! Please help me, about this problem, when i make discovery all device, i see always this error: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 22 bytes) in /opt/observium/includes/snmp.i Thanks best regard Nurbek

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Not seeing unix system graphs
by Glenn Cooper 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

I’ve got a CentOS 6.7 VM (that runs my Observium instance, currently at version 8068-stable) that I’m trying to monitor with the unix agent described here: http://www.observium.org/docs/unix_agent/ Installation of the agent went fine, as did the telnet testing from the host itself. I got a bunch of data via telnet. Also, SNMP has already been configured on the server and it’s polling itself properly (as far as I can tell) From my Observium web page, I see the system and can some details for it. The Overview shows me high level system info (kernel version, hostname, Location, uptime, etc) and the Event Log. Graphs only show Agent Execution Time, Ping Response, SNMP Response, and Poller Duration. From looking at the live demo on the Observium website, I’m assuming I should be seeing a bunch of additional data (processors, memory, netstat data, load averages, etc, etc, etc). I’ve taken a look at the device configuration settings and can’t see anything that I’m missing. Any ideas for what to look at next will be much appreciated. Thanks, Glenn Cooper

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Observium group alerting?
by Andrew.Jones＠kiewit.com 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Can the grouping system be utilized for alerting at this time? Example: setup alert checker to monitor device status of a group of devices and send single alert if any of those devices goes down. Or is the grouping feature only used for information viewing and scheduled maintenance? We are looking at options for suppressing amount of alerts that can occur at some of our larger locations. Thanks for your help! [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CB9CF5.E087FC40] Andrew Jones Sr. IM Technician, Network Kiewit Corporation 12720 I st, Omaha, NE 68137 402-938-4402 402-214-2681 cell www.kiewit.com<http://www.kiewit.com>

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Feature Request
by Mike Khalil 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hello, Can you guys integrate your next release with DataDog? Datadog has their API open source thanks, -- *Michael Khalil* | System Administrator *CONTROLTEC* 999 Republic Drive, Suite 100, Allen Park, MI 48101 *P* 313.438.5107 *F* 313.982.1305 *www.control-tec.com <http://www.control-tec.com/>* *This e-mail, and any attachments, is intended solely for use by the addressee(s) named above.* *It may contain confidential or proprietary information of Control-Tec LLC, its subsidiaries, affiliates or business partners.* *If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail or are an unauthorized recipient of the information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or any attachments, is strictly prohibited.* *If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and permanently delete the original and any copies or printouts.* *Computer viruses can be transmitted via email.* *The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses.* *Control-Tec LLC accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail.*

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bind_cache failing to write via RRDCached
by Robert Williams 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hi, Having a good time today…! Got another oddity since the upgrade of the Observium server itself to 16.04 unfortunately :( In summary, all servers running BIND (they are still on 14.04) have now got zero ‘cache content’ stats since the Observium server was upgraded on Tuesday. However, all the other BIND stats are working OK: [cid:image001.jpg@01D1D944.38CA7190] Looking at the debug output, it is getting the data fine, and it’s writing out the values to RRDCacheD OK. I tried disabling RRDCacheD – it started working straight away. So, it looks like RRDCacheD (version 1.5.5 under 16.04) is unhappy with writing the ‘Cache’ elements content output for BIND. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s either: 1) something to do with the quantity of DS elements within that RRD (all 42 of them) 2) something relating to the use of an “!” in the name of the elements (that’s a proper random guess) The write attempt is: mupdate /opt/observium/rrd/x.y.net/app-bind-23-cache-default.rrd N:6:3:::392500:799:13060:27296:825744:29:17815:555:67263:160:8::9660:2238:49:382:23:14:::::::259181:22:2::45094::26347::::::6715::::::: My old RRDCacheD config was: DISABLE=0 OPTS="-w 1800 -z 1800 -f 3600 -s www-data -l unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock -j /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ -F -b /opt/observium/rrd -B" MAXWAIT=30 ENABLE_COREFILES=0 The new config has different parameters, so I’ve setup as follows: DAEMON=/usr/bin/rrdcached WRITE_TIMEOUT=1800 WRITE_JITTER=1800 BASE_PATH=/opt/observium/rrd/ JOURNAL_PATH=/var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ PIDFILE=/var/run/rrdcached.pid SOCKFILE=/var/run/rrdcached.sock SOCKGROUP=www-data BASE_OPTIONS="-F -B" Does anyone know of anything which could cause this? Or a magic value in RRDCacheD like “maximum number of DS elements”…? Cheers, Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Device rediscover issue
by Tomasz Karczewski 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hi, I'm trying to rediscover one of my devices and when i use command "/usr/bin/php /opt/observium/discovery.php -h <myhost>" Result is: WARNING: 0 devices discovered. Did you specify a device that does not exist? Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci olman tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.pl http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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RANCID tab gone after update to 8068
by Robbie Wright 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

As the title says, upgraded via svn to 8068 and the config tab is gone. Integration to smokeping still works, as well as the user agents and everything else, but no rancid. Rancid setup is still in the config file too. Anyone else seen it disappear after any update? On a side note, svn is reporting at revision 8069 while the gui is reporting 8068. Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <https://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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Ldap issues with edit users
by Dano, Leo 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Hi All, If anyone is using the ldap piece, I need your assistance. When you navigate to users --> edit users, it says no users in database, then any navigation to any other link, it brings you to the login screen. Most of the time, it will never load the edit users page and you can no longer navigate anything. Closing the tab out on the browser doesn't help either. Observium becomes unresponsive. Very rarely, it will actually show the users. It seems like something is clearing some cache in the background. Anyone experiencing these issues with ldap? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Email Alerts
by Mike Khalil 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Hello, i know that Observium was made so that it can send alerts from an internal email server but is there any way to get it to work with GMAIL? and if not what do i have to do to write my own script so that it sends me alerts to my GMAIL account. -- *Michael Khalil* | System Administrator *CONTROLTEC* 999 Republic Drive, Suite 100, Allen Park, MI 48101 *P* 313.438.5107 *F* 313.982.1305 *www.control-tec.com <http://www.control-tec.com/>* *This e-mail, and any attachments, is intended solely for use by the addressee(s) named above.* *It may contain confidential or proprietary information of Control-Tec LLC, its subsidiaries, affiliates or business partners.* *If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail or are an unauthorized recipient of the information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or any attachments, is strictly prohibited.* *If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and permanently delete the original and any copies or printouts.* *Computer viruses can be transmitted via email.* *The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses.* *Control-Tec LLC accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail.*

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Time on X-axis of graphs is 1 hour off.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Hello What setting have I missed when my time on the X-axis on the graphs is one hour off (-1). Time of alerts are okay. So only the graph that shows -1 hour. ‘date’ on the server shows proper date and time. Cheers -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ]

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Active Directory Services
by Ciro Iriarte 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hi!, anybody tried to get capacity metrics for AD services?, like DHCP scopes, LDAP connections, etc?. DHCP scope is exported by SNMP, for SCOPE capacity and usage, but given generic OID feature can graph a single data source, it's dificult to make that counter useful. Any suggestions? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://iriarte.it --

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