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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 31 Aug '16

31 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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Problem to update machine location
by Bernard Savonet (M) 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Hi, I have moved some virtual servers to another data center. I have updated their syslocation code in their snmp file /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf Snmpwalk and poller display the right (new) syslocation code, but Observium does not. Which items did I miss on the checklist? Thx Bernard

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App alerting
by Neil French 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

I saw a few weeks back a commit 8083 added "Add ability to store JSON data for apps.” and got all excited. Is this the starting for app-based alerting? I have amended my FreeSWITCH poller to store an array in my app name in readiness for the potential of some app-alerting goodness and see it now gets logged in a new column applications.app_json. If only there were a way to create an alert checker that polled it! :) Maybe like Device Match: "os equals linux” Entity Match: “application equals freeswitch”, condition: "peaksessionspersecond greater 10”? Cheers, Neil.

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ubuntu upgrade 14.04->16.04; VRF list is not showing?
by Steve Costaras 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Tried a test upgrade here on a system running observium professional (0.16.8.8086). Ubuntu upgrade went fine, added in mcrypt, php7.0. Was able to get into observium and most items looked ok that I could find with the exception of the VRF listing. (attached) The other areas, BGP, OSPF, etc all list out fine. The VRF section, as you can see lists the 2151 VRF's that we have but they are not displayed/listed. I checked php.ini, memory limit was set to 1024M which is the same I had w/ php5 under 14.04. Went back to 14.04 and figured I'd ask if anyone here who's done a similar upgrade has seen anything similar or any ideas on what else I can check?

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Log's spammed by "Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0'" for two devices after svn up.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Hi there. Since the 19th of July, when I most probably svn up'ed, I have two identical devices that spams the logs with "Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0'". They're 2 Tandberg LTO libraries and the're no sensor monitored in it, since not supported, but only the admin interface availability. The interestng thing about the alert is that it's always the same. 2016-07-23 08:12:21 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 08:06:47 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 08:01:41 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:56:47 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:51:44 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:46:52 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:41:48 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:37:21 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:31:45 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:26:44 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:21:42 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:16:50 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:11:43 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:07:19 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 07:01:44 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:56:46 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:51:43 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:47:20 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:41:41 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:36:53 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:32:17 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0'; [ifLastChange] '2016-06-17 17:28:42' -> '2016-06-17 17:27:10' 2016-07-23 06:26:44 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:21:45 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:16:45 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:11:44 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:06:45 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' 2016-07-23 06:01:50 CS8900 Interface changed: [ifAdminStatus] '' -> '0' Have something changed that can cause this? Is more info needed? If so, what? Cheers and thanks -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ]

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Apache Error
by Dano, Leo 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Was looking at the apache error logs and keep seeing this. [Fri Aug 26 13:44:44.148360 2016] [:error] [pid 7759] [client 129.46.71.218:64087] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /opt/observium/html/includes/status-summary.inc.php on line 166 Should I be concerned? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Question about Google Maps
by Mike Khalil 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

i just setup observium yesterday and i am very pleased with it. the only thing that isn't working for me is google maps thinks that Michigan USA is in Ponte Delgada? what i'm i doing wrong? -- *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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ARP policer counter
by Eduardo Schoedler 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

Hi Observium Team, Is there a chance to add arp packets counters to the interface graphics? JUNIPER-FIREWALL-MIB::jnxFWCounterPacketCount."__default_arp_policer__"."__default_arp_policer__".policer = Counter64: 0 JUNIPER-FIREWALL-MIB::jnxFWCounterPacketCount."ARP-POLICER-ge-1/0/0.0-inet-arp"."ARP-POLICER-ge-1/0/0.0-inet-arp".policer = Counter64: 0 JUNIPER-FIREWALL-MIB::jnxFWCounterPacketCount."ARP-POLICER-ge-4/0/0.0-inet-arp"."ARP-POLICER-ge-4/0/0.0-inet-arp".policer = Counter64: 376 Thanks! -- Eduardo Schoedler

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New Version alert on Subscription Version?
by Dano, Leo 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

How do we update the subscription version? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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test
by Adam Armstrong 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

test

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