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Google map not showing devices after fresh install of Subscription Version
by Dano, Leo 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Finally got everything to work, well at least I thought. Ldap, alerts, etc are all good now. Except I just get a blue map with no host locations. I made sure to put my location in each host properties. Any thoughts? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Call to undefined function check_valid_sensors() on IPMI & Unix-agent polling
by Oliver Baker 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hi there, When polling with either IPMI or unix-agent modules enabled, the polling run stops with this error: Sensors: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function check_valid_sensors() in /opt/observium/includes/polling/unix-agent.inc.php on line 174 I've updated to the latest non-stable release, and no change. I've also historically had this issue and cleared my /opt/observium directory and re-installed but no change. Any ideas? Happy to provide more info if needed. Many thanks Olly

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Adding users for alerts?
by Dano, Leo 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hello all, Is there any way to add multiple users to receive the alerts? Right now, in the config.php it sends all alerts to myself. Is there a way to add users via the webpage? I am using ldap auth. Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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NetApp c-DOT updates
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hi! I just updated to 7961 and saw that NetApp c-Dot is now reporting volumes like it has done for long on OnTAP 7. Great :-) However, the total and used capacity are all 0, so something with the Index is wrong or simply not done yet. Anyone knows if this is a known issue and being worked on, or ? /Jesper

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Re: [Observium] Steps to add custom oid
by Moerman, Maarten 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi Steve, What do you mean, not getting any data? You said the graphs show up fine? Care to share a screenshot? Also copying the mibs doesn’t work, as this is custom OIDs, the whole meaning behind it, is that you don’t need the MIBs for that. Maarten Moerman From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of "Kramling, Steven" <Steve.Kramling(a)Sensus.com<mailto:Steve.Kramling@Sensus.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 5:18 PM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Steps to add custom oid Hi, I could use some guidance here. I have recently upgraded to the subscription version of Observium so that I could add some custom oids to graph. I am running on CentOS 7. I followed the guide here: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=649 No problem adding the oids and applying them to the devices. Graphs show up fine but I cannot get any data. I have also copied the MIBs to the /opt/observium/mibs directory. The MIBs have a *.txt extension on them. I have tried removing this but still no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Steve

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Steps to add custom oid
by Kramling, Steven 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi, I could use some guidance here. I have recently upgraded to the subscription version of Observium so that I could add some custom oids to graph. I am running on CentOS 7. I followed the guide here: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=649 No problem adding the oids and applying them to the devices. Graphs show up fine but I cannot get any data. I have also copied the MIBs to the /opt/observium/mibs directory. The MIBs have a *.txt extension on them. I have tried removing this but still no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Steve

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JpGraph
by Michaël MORELIERE 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi, I try to install jpgraph. I follow the instruction : No Jpgraph installed *Jpgraph has been removed from the Observium repositories and must now be installed separately* * Please download from http://jpgraph.net/download/ and unpack to html/includes/jpgraph. * Remove the theme definition from the bottom of html/includes/jpgraph/src/jpg-config.inc.php when I refresh the page a get a jpgraph error 25121. Anyone can help me on this ? -- Michaël MORELIERE

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A few Q's for the roadmap...IS-IS support, data sources, etc.
by Aaron Finney 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

I know this has been asked/answered, but the whole archives thing...what's the history behind [the lack of] support for IS-IS data in Observium, are there any plans to add it at any point, and would it be of value to anyone else? Even basics like warning on adjacency changes, tracking neighbors over time, etc. would be great...I would personally find it of value for an additional sanity check during maintenances or outages - an ISIS health overview tab for a device with the ISO address/area, participating interfaces, and stats. Generalizing the data pool: any current thoughts around creating an abstraction layer between Observium and its data source? Mysql as the sole backend presents some challenges for us in trying to scale Observium to production. OBQL? :) Sort-of on the tails of that last question, has there been any discussion about adapting Observium to take advantage of network devices which emit metrics using thrift/protobuf? E.g. using some other data pipeline/collection system as a data source...or even doing the collection itself and doing the necessary quantization/processing to produce a useable view. Last one in that train of thought, any thoughts around incorporating additional data collectors other than simple snmp polling (e.g. facebook's udppinger or fbtracert)? Aaron -- *Aaron Finney*Network Engineer | OpenX 888 East Walnut Street, 2nd Floor | Pasadena, CA 91101 o: +1 (626) 466-1141 x6035 | aaron.finney(a)openx.com *Advertising Age Best Places to Work <http://openx.com/press-releases/openx-named-as-one-of-advertising-ages-top-…>* *Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™ <http://openx.com/press-releases/openx-ranked-3rd-fastest-growing-software-c…>* www.openx.com <http://www.openx.com/>| Twitter <http://twitter.com/openx>| Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/OpenX>| LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/company/openx/products>| YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/openxvideos>

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Observium Mailinglist archive gone?
by Roland Schwingel 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi... I just wanted to browse the mailinglist archive but it is not working. Just shows a 404 page. From Observium.org I have opened http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium This still worked. But clicking on "observium archives" directs me to http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/ which is not found. Roland

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Alert for port-channel summary?
by Laszlo Nemeth 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hello, We have Cisco Nexus switches with VPC configuration. On the switches are configured a portchannel (in VPC with 2x10G ethernet) to the same 3. device. The problem is: I would like to create an alert if the traffic to the 3. device more than 8G I have to get an alert. Now because the 2 nexus just show only the own port-channel traffic, if one portchannel traffic on switch#1 is 6G and on the switch#2 is 5G the 8G alert doesn’t work. But because of the redundancy in this case I have to get an alert because the aggregated traffic is 11G (and if one of the 10G goes down this traffic is overloaded). The alert is: Test: ifOutOctets_perc gt 80 Device Match / Entity Match Hostname match *switch* ifAlias match *to 3. device* So it cover the switch#1 and switch#2 and the port-channel interfaces with description “2x10G to 3. device” but this alert check the port-channels like a line not an aggregated traffic. Is there any option to add two device’s interfaces and create an alert for this summary? Or can I create an alert for a port group aggregated traffic? This would be great in this case too. Thanks BR Laszlo

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Frequent drop outs from WebUI
by Roland Schwingel 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi... I am running Observium for quite a while now. But there is one thing that bugs me. I first thought this is a bug and would be fixed at some time but I am updating Observium frequently from svn yet with no change. I am frequently dropped out of Observium with an authentication error. I log in (with LDAP authbackend) just fine. But sometimes after 30 minutes, sometimes even after a few seconds I am dropped out of Observium. When I click the "Remember me" (Cookie) button this lasts a little longer. Sometimes I am immediately kicked directly after logging in. This is also logged in Observiums "Authentication log" as "Authentication Failure" in the very same second as the "Logged in" event occured. Is anything known about this? Or is it just a nifty PHP config variable about session handling I forgot to set? Thanks for your help, Roland

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JunOS autodiscovery where SNMP is in a routing-instance
by Jason Lixfeld 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hi, I’ve been reading up on how to interact with a JunOS device where the SNMP agent is contained in a VRF (Routing Instance). In order to poll it properly, I’m required to use '<Routing_Instance_Name>@commmunity' instead of just ‘community’. I think I’ve covered this off in the config.php by adding the equivalent to the proper array: $config['snmp']['community'] = array(“comm",”MANAGEMENT@comm”); While reading up on the autodiscovery process itself in the documentation, it says: "Devices must return valid, resolvable sysName” When I poll it manually, sysName returns <Routing_Instance_Name>@hostname: SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: MANAGEMENT(a)lab01.juniper Does that mean MANAGEMENT(a)lab01.juniper needs to resolve, or will Observium truncate MANAGEMENT@ when trying to resolve the rest of what is in sysName? Thanks!

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Turn off the map?
by Sean Drury 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hi All, I've looked through http://www.observium.org/docs/config_options/ a few times now and can see options for maps - I don't need to use the map feature so how do I turn it off? That is, remove it from the front page? Regards, Sean. This email has been scanned by the ES1000.

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Re: [Observium] New Community Edition Date
by ron＠rjr-services.com 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

New community editions are released not less than 60 days after the last person to ask about a community release. Your inquiry has reset the 60 day counter. ;-) (just kidding!!!!!) Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Andrew White <andywhite(a)gmail.com> Date: 7/19/16 2:41 PM (GMT-06:00) To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] New Community Edition Date -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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New Community Edition Date
by Andrew White 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hi, Is there a date for the next community edition ? All I can see is that there should be one every 6 months, and last was 26th Jan. Thanks ! Loving Observium ! Andy

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Google map does not show
by Nixon, Anthony S. 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Worked during installed. Now map does not show with "Oops! Something went wrong. The page didn't load Google Maps correctly. See the JavaScript console for technical details." Is this an api issue? How to fix or update to get working? Using Observium CE 0.16.1.7533 ----------------------------------------- This message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the addressee and contains information that is PROPRIETARY and CONFIDENTIAL. It may be used only by the addressee and may not be divulged without the express consent of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately. Thank you.

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Port description
by MTiVi＠google 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hello, all! If I use port description like "Peering: something [40Mbit]" how can I use speed in Observium? Does interface speed (from IfAlias) saved to DB? I expect that I can see traffic graph and select scale to this speed. http://observium.org/docs/port_descr_parsing/

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Making an alert for mapped interfaces
by Heston Kan 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hey All, I want to create an alert if any interface between two managed/discovered devices in Observium. This includes switchers and routers, servers...etc. I'd also like these to be based on Observium's device Mapping that is available per device. In the checker conditions I'd put hostname matches * but under the checker device and entity association. There's no entity for mapped devices whether it be via CDP/LLDP or detected from observium itself. Perhaps I'm missing the obvious. Thanks! Heston

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Subscription Version not showing "Storage" correctly?
by Dano, Leo 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello all, I have two instances of Observium running with two different hostnames. One is Community and one is the Subscription version. My Community version on is showing storage correctly. My Subscription version is not. All the partitions are showing as 100% free and green when I know / can't be 0bytes as well as all other partitions. Is this a bug? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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How does SYSLOG Alerting work?
by Сережка Хомяков 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello! Thanks for higly awaited feature with SYSLOG alerting! Just playing with it, I was unable to make it working (of course, with knowledge of PCRE). The example of my test Alert was based on *SYS-5-CONFIG_I:Configured* message from IOS router. Can you advice on how the regexp should look like and how does SYSLOG Alerter work - on a poll or triggered on a log receipt? -- Best, Sergey

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alert 'time of recovery' reports recovery of previous recovery...
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello This was touched upon in another discussion but as a sidetrack no solution was found. Pretty much all my alerts 'time or recovery' reports the time of this entities PREVIOUS recovery. So the time reported are always pretty bonkers. I can see that with the help of timestamp on the emails , slack notifications and the timestamp of previous recovery. And for the very first recovery of a device/sensor the duration is list as "unknown". Any idea of what's going on and what I can kick on to make it work properly? =) 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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Alert on device status = degraded
by Daniel Horth 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Howdy all I have a steelhead that is showing “Degraded” status in Observium due to a power supply issue. In Observium I can see the status “degraded” at this location: https://observium/device/device=12/tab=health/metric=status/id=123/ I can also see that the status changed 8 days ago. DB sample:  <database name="observium">  <table name="status"> <column name="status_id">123</column> <column name="status_deleted">0</column> <column name="device_id">12</column> <column name="poller_type">snmp</column> <column name="status_oid">.1.3.6.1.4.1.17163.1.1.2.7.0</column> <column name="status_mib">NULL</column> <column name="status_object">NULL</column> <column name="status_index">systemHealth.0</column> <column name="status_type">steelhead-system-state</column> <column name="status_descr">System Health</column> <column name="entPhysicalIndex">NULL</column> <column name="entPhysicalClass">chassis</column> <column name="entPhysicalIndex_measured">NULL</column> <column name="measured_class">NULL</column> <column name="measured_entity">NULL</column> <column name="status_ignore">0</column> <column name="status_disable">0</column> </table>  <table name="status-state"> <column name="status_id">123</column> <column name="status_value">30000</column> <column name="status_polled">1468819524</column> <column name="status_last_change">1468104632</column> <column name="status_event">alert</column> <column name="status_name">degraded</column> </table> </database> I am trying to set up an alert in Observium such that when a device status / System Health changes I am notified. Is there a way to access values from status-state table in setting up alerts? Thanks

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pps metic
by Matthias Cramer 16 Jul '16

16 Jul '16

Hi There Is there a metric for normal packets per second and not only unicast packets (ifInUcastPkts_rate) and also a metric for non unicast packets per second. According to the doc at http://www.observium.org/docs/entities/#metrics_1 this is not existent... I would like to make an alert on high pps and if possible on high non unicast pps. Any hint is appreciated. Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zurich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Tripp-lite UPS Alerts
by Johnston, Tom 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

I’m trying to set up alerting for our tripplite when it goes on battery. I cannot get it to work properly for some reason. Entity Type: Status Check Conditions: upsOutputSource.0 ne normal Device Match: os eq poweralert Entity Match: * Observium Version: 0.16.7.7983 (professional) -A debug from observium yields a value of: upsOutputSource.0 = normal (the normal changes to state of “Battery” when on battery) -Even if I change my check conditions to eq normal to test the alert it does not trigger an alert. -I also tried check conditions of * and that did not help. Also we lost power and the event log showed the following: -Also tried just upsOutputSource (without the .0) Source of Output Power<http://epsobservium.isd273.org/device/device=337/tab=health/metric=status/i…> Status Alert: hs-6509-ups.isd273.org Source of Output Power entered ALERT state: battery (previous: normal) Any help would be appreciated -Tom

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Setting up LDAP Auth
by Dano, Leo 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Hello all, Anyone care to share your config settings? I am having a hard time setting this up. Please remove your domain info in the reply. /opt/observium/config.php Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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