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BlueCat monitoring
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Hi! I created a few custom OID entries for BlueCat (DNS). This works well as the DNS OIDs are straight forward. For the DHCP part of this product, using custom OIDs won't cut it as one have to traverse each subnet for data, so I wanted to know if anyone is working on enhanced BlueCat already ? /Jesper

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session time out
by Farshid Abediny 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Hello, we have a problem with observium when we login to observium wait some minutes 1-2 minutes observium logout us automatically and we shoudl reenter it seems session expired within 1-2 minutes or when we go to all device and set basic and choose a device then it logout us and we should reneter that, any idea how solve this? thanks,

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remove previous configs in rancid with observium
by Farshid Abediny 12 Jun '16

12 Jun '16

Hello, i go to /var/rancid/observium/configs and remove all configs but in observium web panel still show previous configs how can i fix it? thanks,

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Re: [Observium] Cool Output of APC in-row cooler, random enormous spikes.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

I'll be damned. That was probably just pure luck but it alerted faster than expected. Please see screenshot link displaying the alert mail, because they to look a tad odd: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ynr67ior7at3e3/mailalert.png. It lasted for 5 minutes, or actually just a brief moment within the polling period, but look at the duration in the recovery email. Really odd. By the way, are there templates where we can configure the layout of the email alerts (subject, what it displays in body and more)? Here is a screenshot of the graph created from the data in previous command. https://www.dropbox.com/s/nw47m75tj601gmh/csv_graph.png So yes. There's spikes in the data and I guess they don't show up in data center expert because they run some filter at it or just ignore random peaks or something. The value of the peaks in the now collected data is ALWAYS 20480 which in some way feels significant since it's constant and feels like some sort of unit max value. Not sure if there's other higher peaks as well because what I see in Observium is higher or if the scale of the axis there is off, not sure but here's another screenshot. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0whwzf7wf34j8uu/observium_graph.png But, feels like an APC issue then so guess I'll have the pleasure of once again dealing with that support. =/ Cheers and thanks for the help Adam. -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ] From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of Henrik Cednert <henrik.cednert(a)filmlance.se<mailto:henrik.cednert@filmlance.se>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Friday 10 June 2016 at 15:27 To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cool Output of APC in-row cooler, random enormous spikes. Thanks Adam Polling it every second now and storing to a log file for investigation with this. #!/bin/bash while true; do sleep 1 timestamp=$(date +"%T") sensor_value=$(/usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'public' -Pu -OQUs -m PowerNet-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp:/opt/observium/mibs/apc 'udp':'acrc02':'161' coolingUnitStatusAnalogValue.1.10) printf "$timestamp,$sensor_value\n" >>/home/neo/Documents/acrc02_coolingUnitStatusAnalogValue.1.10.txt done I'll be back and ask for advice when I get the next alert. =) Cheers and thanks -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ] From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org<mailto:adama@memetic.org>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Friday 10 June 2016 at 14:45 To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cool Output of APC in-row cooler, random enormous spikes. Hi Henrik, Sensors are all "gauges", so there's no real concept of spikes the way there is for ports (which are counters). If we're getting a spike, it's either that the device is sending the wrong data, or that the device is sending a number which hasn't been adjusted for the scale the device uses. It'll be the first if the 1.6-1.9 doesn't have any relation to the "real" number, and the latter if it's just off by a few orders of magnitude. It's pretty unlikely that we could do any bad maths, maths is easy, and such bugs would present much more regularly. These sorts of things are pretty common on many vendor's SNMP implementations. You might be able to see it in action by frequently polling the sensor in question's OID and logging the value. adam. Sent from Mailbird<http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm_campai…> On 10/06/2016 13:40:59, Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) <henrik.cednert(a)filmlance.se<mailto:henrik.cednert@filmlance.se>> wrote: Hello Monitoring two APC in-row coolers. One of them gets some weird 1.6-1.9M watts spikes every now and then. Once a day or such, without regularity. I have started to monitor the same device in Schneider Data Center Expert just to see if it's a device or monitoring issue. There's no spikes there so I do think it's something with Observium and this particular unit. The other unit is fine and no spikes there. Only difference is that the load on this one is smaller and at times down to 0. I do see that there's an option to log spikes in the config file. But not sure I can monitor a sensor with it since it says port and wants and ID. Can I debug these spikes in some way? Cheers and thanks -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ] _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Cool Output of APC in-row cooler, random enormous spikes.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Hello Monitoring two APC in-row coolers. One of them gets some weird 1.6-1.9M watts spikes every now and then. Once a day or such, without regularity. I have started to monitor the same device in Schneider Data Center Expert just to see if it's a device or monitoring issue. There's no spikes there so I do think it's something with Observium and this particular unit. The other unit is fine and no spikes there. Only difference is that the load on this one is smaller and at times down to 0. I do see that there's an option to log spikes in the config file. But not sure I can monitor a sensor with it since it says port and wants and ID. Can I debug these spikes in some way? 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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Dell/Force10 S60. Missing a few sensors/objects
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Hi there Let me start with apologise if I use the wrong terminology here, heard a few times on IRC that I need to read-up on MIB and OID's. =) My brain refuse to fulle understand it though, not sure why. Have added a Force10 s60 switch to observium. Mostly it's fine but I do miss sensors for PSU and the Fans. Here's a discovery.php -dd of the device: http://pastebin.com/D7FNqgVi Here's an (attempt) of snmpwalking it. Still not sure I do this the right way... http://pastebin.com/DnkZtkvX At around line 1788 and forward you can see the PSU and fan objects (line numbers in this paste is wrong). 1. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chStackUnitNumFanTrays.1 = INTEGER: 2 2. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chStackUnitNumFanTrays.2 = INTEGER: 0 3. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chStackUnitNumPowerSupplies.1 = INTEGER: 1 4. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chStackUnitNumPowerSupplies.2 = INTEGER: 0 5. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chStackUnitNumPluggableModules.1 = INTEGER: 2 6. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chStackUnitNumPluggableModules.2 = INTEGER: 0 7. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chStackUnitRowStatus.1 = INTEGER: active(1) 8. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chStackUnitRowStatus.2 = INTEGER: active(1) 9. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chSysPowerSupplyIndex.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 10. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chSysPowerSupplyIndex.1.2 = INTEGER: 2 11. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chSysPowerSupplyOperStatus.1.1 = INTEGER: up(1) 12. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chSysPowerSupplyOperStatus.1.2 = INTEGER: down(2) 13. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chSysPowerSupplyType.1.1 = INTEGER: ac(1) 14. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chSysPowerSupplyType.1.2 = INTEGER: 0 15. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chSysFanTrayIndex.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 16. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chSysFanTrayIndex.1.2 = INTEGER: 2 17. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chSysFanTrayOperStatus.1.1 = INTEGER: up(1) 18. F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB::chSysFanTrayOperStatus.1.2 = INTEGER: up(1) I looked at the documentation for something about expanding on existing device support. Couldn't find that and I assume it's not that easy? Have anyone added support for this in their observium installation or can point me in the direction on how to go about it (in a friendly way...). 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 check suppressed
by Eduardo Schoedler 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Hi, In what reasons can occur "Checks failed but alert suppressed by [ENT]"? What mean "[ent]"? Thank you. -- Eduardo Schoedler

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DB Memory Ports state
by AbdelBaki Yacine Tounsi 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

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Proper procedure in Observium for hardware replacement?
by Derek 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

So, I had a question regarding hardware replacement. I recently replaced several Cisco 2811 routers with Cisco ISR 4331's, and kept the same host name. After the swap, I noticed I wasn't getting any graphs for data flow on the serial interfaces. I attempted running discovery on them again, and waited for a few polling cycles, but still go no data. In the end, I ended up deleting the devices completely out of Observium, including the RRD files, and re-adding. After this was done, everything showed up correctly. So, as I will be doing more of these soon, is there a specific process I should follow for these? Maybe rename the old device to a different hostname, then add the new device? The historical data wasn't critical, so I'm not too bothered losing it, but I would like to avoid it if possible. Thanks, Derek

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spam out there
by Jason Vanlandingham 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Heads up: I got some targeted spam. The listed from address is Russian, and the text is: Hi, Look what they have for you, I guess it's worth reading, more info here <http://slurukeste.cctvessentials.info/lnrayiga> (scuzzy link removed) Hope this helps, Observium Network Observation System

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some questions about alerting
by Farshid Abediny 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Hello, i want know how can i create following condition for my switch in observium ? 1. when unitcast pps or bps exceed more than X pps 1.2. when multicast pps or bps exceed more than X pps 1.3. when broadcast pps or bps exceed more than X pps 2. when switch port status will be down and up alert me, thanks,

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No longer retrieving software version
by Daniel Olynsma 08 Jun '16

08 Jun '16

Hi, we are running 0.16.6.7912(rolling). After a recent svn update, the SW version is not being reported correctly After running the poller.php on a single device with '-dd' options the below is seen. I have tried software versions on the product that did used to report the version. However they now are not. Has something changed recently that we have failed to update? ? ----------------- including: includes/polling/os.inc.php ##### Module Start: os ##### o OS Poller OS CMD[/usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c 'public' -Pu -OsvQU -m AT-SETUP-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'amf-r2':'161' currSoftVersion.0] CMD EXITCODE[1] CMD RUNTIME[0.006s] STDOUT[ ] STDERR[ MIB search path: /opt/observium/mibs Cannot find module (AT-SETUP-MIB): At line 1 in (none) currSoftVersion.0: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> currSoftVersion) ] SNMP STATUS[FALSE] SNMP ERROR - device: 97, cmd: snmpget, options: -OsvQU, mib: 'AT-SETUP-MIB', oid: 'currSoftVersion.0', cmd exitcode: 1, snmp error code: #996, reason: 'MIB or oid not found', runtime: 0.0060188770294189 o Hardware AW+ o Version <empty> o Features <empty> o Serial <empty> o Asset <empty> o Module time 0.0084s including: includes/polling/ipmi.inc.php ##### Module Start: ipmi ##### ----------------- Regards, Daniel

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Out of office
by ffuentes＠aasteel.com 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

I will be out starting 06/07/16 and coming back 06/14/16, but I will check on my email periodically. Please contact the IS Department for any issues.

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website formatting is borken
by Christopher Barry 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

Greets, I signed up to the mailing list just to point out that the page header on all documentation pages is half-obscured by the menu bar and looks like crap. In the picture, it's the 'Screenshots' header, but it's on all pages. Thought you might want to know that. http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=103988 Yes, it's scrolled all the way up... Also, having a simple contact email address at the bottom of the homepage for this type of thing would certainly be nice. I had to jump through a bunch of hoops (sign up, wait for moderation, put image on paste site, blah, blah, etc.) just to tell you this out of the goodness of my heart. Likely nobody else will do this - and I'm not even using this product! You're welcome. Running: Debian sid Firefox ESR 45.1.1

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Out of office
by ffuentes＠aasteel.com 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

I will be out starting 06/07/16 and coming back 06/14/16, but I will check on my email periodically. Please contact the IS Department for any issues.

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Out of office
by ffuentes＠aasteel.com 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

I will be out starting 06/07/16 till 06/17/16 on vacation, but I will check on my email periodically. Please contact the IS Department for any issues.

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Port Types
by Lyndon Labuschagne 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

Hi All How exactly do I flag a port as Core, Peering, Transit etc? I didn't see anything in the documentation but I may have missed it, if someone could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated

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Broken Graphs
by Shoaib Ahmed 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

Hello Everyone! I have recently updated toObservium CE 0.16.1.7533 <http://www.observium.org/> i am facing broken graph issue i googled but haven't find anything except for updating to latest stable version but still facing broken graph issues for long date range (for example, graph range for 2 weeks, monthly and yearly ranges). i have also update rrdtool to RRDtool 1.6.0 but still facing same issues. I have create graphs from command line but still getting broken graphs, Can anyone help me solving this issue ? I have attached sample image, Thanks in advance :) Cheers! Best Regards, SHOAIB AHMED. http://about.me/shoaib.mw

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Need to upgrade from Ubuntu 12 to 14
by Dano, Leo 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Hello All, Our Corp Linux images keep us from using the Canonical way to upgrade, which means I need to reimage my server with Ubuntu 14. My question is what is the process in backing up and restoring all the Observium pieces? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Syslog Rules
by Serghei Golipad 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Guys, First of all a big thank you for finally implementing Syslog alerts!!! ☺ I have a bit of a problem, I’m unable to delete Syslog Rule i.e. there is no option to do so, I guess this is still in progress / experimental? Cheers PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. CDW Limited is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of CDW Finance Holdings Limited. CDW Finance Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for CDW Limited trading as CDW. The registered office for CDW Finance Holdings Limited (Company Number 05872067) and its UK group undertakings is 10 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RB. VAT Registration 902 1949 39. Confidentiality: This e-mail contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail and then delete the original. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on any information contained in this e-mail. You must not inform any other person other than CDW or the sender of its existence. For more information about CDW please visit www.uk.cdw.com

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Apps graphs in Observium
by Mads Boye 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Hello. I am using Observium to monitor two postfix servers. However the APPS summary site, does not show the postfix graph. From what i can gather it seems that there is a mismatch in what application name the apps overview page uses and the apps subpage for the individual server. i.e. the postfix server app subpage calls http://observium.my.server.bla/graphs/to=1465199547/id=10/type=applicat ion_postfix_sent/from=1465113147/ and the apps overview calls: http://observium.monitor.srv.aau.dk/graphs/to=1465199603/from=146511320 3/legend=no/type=application_postfix_mailgraph_sent/id=10/ if i remove the "mailgraph" part form the last link the correct graph shows. I've tried to add the postfix application to the "includes/definitions/apps.inc.php with no luck. If the application name is correct it cannot find the graph postfix_sent etc. <?php // Definitions related to the applications system // Application graph definitions $config['app']['moodle']['top'] = array('users', 'mobile'); $config['app']['varnish']['top'] = array('backend', 'cache', 'lru'); $config['app']['postfix_mailgraph']['top'] = array('sent', 'spam', 'reject'); // End application definitions I might be overlooking something or doing it wrong, but it seems that the mismatch should be corrected? I have added both postfix scripts form scripts/agent-local And a second question. I've made a custom Observium app for monitoring an application, which is working fine. My problem is that i wish to extend the agent to monitor some extra paramters. RRDtool now says that there is no entry for the new DS in the rrd file. Is there a way to update the RRD file, so i do not have to delete it and loose the historical data from the other parts that i monitor? Let me know if you need additional informations on both problems. Best Regards, Mads.

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Rancid integration - Cannot see old versions anymore
by Andy Lemin 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Hi, Hopefully this will be a simple question and I've just misconfigured something, anyway.. We have rancid working great before, and when you go to the Config tab, it showed you the latest configuration, as well as the configuration revision history. However after upgrading the server to Jessie (probably unrelated but seemed to break a couple weeks around this time), we now only see the latest config only and not the history anymore? We have these settings; $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/observium/configs/"; $config['rancid_ignorecomments'] = 0; And we have done this; http://www.observium.org/docs/rancid/ It all works, just only shows the most recent? We need to roll some config back and couldn't.. Cheers, Andy. -- *Download our latest free guide here <https://www.brandwatch.com/competitive-intelligence-guide/>*

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Recent Events timestamps
by Jacob Bisby 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Hi all I've just migrated our Observium installation over to a PHP7 based install (much quicker than the PHP5 based install so far). Everything seems fine except for the Recent Events list on the front page - the "time" counter since the event occurred has started getting stuck at 0 seconds for some reason, but the tooltip that pops up when you mouse over the 0s timestamps shows the correct time that the event occurred at. Is PHP7 a no-no for Observium at this point? - Jacob Bisby

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Re: [Observium] Group bug
by Laszlo Nemeth 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

Yes, you are right ☺ So ok, the Ports menu shows the groups that contain ports group and we have two groups menu now (Globe, Ports). :) Sorry. But in this case I think the Ports -> Groups has to be the default value is the “Port”. Like in the Globe->Groups there is the “All” is the default value. But nothing in the Ports->Groups. It shows nothing until I press the “Port” on this page. Laszlo From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> on behalf of Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Date: Thursday 2 June 2016 at 16:10 To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Group bug Are you honestly asking why non-ports groups dont show in the ports menu? Oo Adam. Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r> On 2 Jun 2016, at 10:54, Laszlo Nemeth <laszlo.nemeth(a)emarsys.com<mailto:laszlo.nemeth@emarsys.com>> wrote: Hello We used the 7793. Added 3 group with interface sum in the Ports menu. Later add 2 sensors group there. The Ports menu shows 3 member, but there was 5. (3 interface, 2 sensors). If we click to the Sensors we see our sensors groups. Now we upgraded to 7900. We see the Group in the Ports menu AND the first menu too! The first menu shows 5, the Ports shows 3 groups. Click on the first menu’s groups: shows all 5 groups. Great ☺ Click on the Ports menu’s group: shows nothing. But there if I click to the “ALL”, it shows 5 groups (3 interfaces, 2 sensors). Laszlo ________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Group bug
by Laszlo Nemeth 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

Hello We used the 7793. Added 3 group with interface sum in the Ports menu. Later add 2 sensors group there. The Ports menu shows 3 member, but there was 5. (3 interface, 2 sensors). If we click to the Sensors we see our sensors groups. Now we upgraded to 7900. We see the Group in the Ports menu AND the first menu too! The first menu shows 5, the Ports shows 3 groups. Click on the first menu’s groups: shows all 5 groups. Great ☺ Click on the Ports menu’s group: shows nothing. But there if I click to the “ALL”, it shows 5 groups (3 interfaces, 2 sensors). Laszlo

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