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device urls by hostname not id. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Vers: CE 0.16.1.7533 I've found that editing html/includes/entities/device.inc.php, line 478 return generate_url(array('page' => 'device', 'device' => $device ['device_id']), $vars); -> return generate_url(array('page' => 'device', 'device' => $device ['hostname']), $vars); produces urls that are hostname based. The questions are: was this the right place ? was there a variable somewhere i had to turn on to make this happen ? thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) FCoA ITS peter.hine(a)familycourt.gov.au ********************************************************************** 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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CE 0.16.1.7533 graph errors
by Roland Hill 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Hi, Firstly, a big thanks to the Dev team for releasing the latest CE version; very much appreciated. Since the upgrade my "Custom traffic graphs" just have the "Error drawing graph" message. Secondly, I also note the SNMP Statistic graphs on all devices have the same message. As I just use Observium on my home network "because I can" none of this is critical for me but I'd thought I'd pass on my observations. Thanks again for the release (my DD-WRT devices now report correctly ;-)). -- Regards, Roland PGP Key 0xDA39319B = BCF0 1214 BAE9 5A3D 46FC 21A6 360D 9398 DA39 319B

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Hostname change
by Christian Gerbrandt 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Hi, when I setup Observium for the first time, I used a local only DNS setup. In the meantime, we created a corporate wide DNS setup for our Lab. Old devices are still available, but obviously show up with their old hostname. Is there an easy way to change the hostname of a device? Regards, Christian

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device down alerts
by Serghei Golipad 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Guys, I've disabled ICMP checks yet I'm still getting device down alert "ping failed". Is there something special I need to do to fix this? Cheers PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. Kelway (UK) Ltd is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of Kelway Holdings Limited. Kelway Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for Kelway (UK) Limited trading as Kelway. The registered office for Kelway 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 Kelway or the sender of its existence. For more information about Kelway please visit www.kelway.co.uk

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When will be new CE version ?
by Gediminas Karčmarinas 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Hello, When will be new CE version ?

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Custom OID - SNMP error
by Fredrik Winäs 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hi All I'm using 0.16.1.7527 (stable) I have added a custom OID in the GUI but i dont get any data logged. (hope the screenshots gets included here) [cid:image001.png@01D15916.D69E82C0] Device: Paloalto Firewall (PA-5060) OID: .1.3.6.1.4.1.25461.2.1.2.5.1.3 (did try with/without the leading dot) OID type: GAUGE (tested with COUNTER too ) In the properties under device I can see that it has problems with the OID [cid:image002.png@01D15916.D69E82C0] Under SNMP errors This OID works perfectly in HP IMC and Solarwinds SNMP tools. Med Vänlig Hälsning Fredrik Winäs tel +46 31 762 02 43 fredrik.winas(a)cgit.se<mailto:fredrik.winas@cgit.se> www.cgit.se<http://www.cgit.se/> CGit AB Taljegårdsgatan 11C SE-431 53 Mölndal

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Issue with alert system
by Aurélien PERRODY 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hello Since version Observium Professional 0.15.11.7200 I can't receive email alert. It worked until this version. My actual version: Observium 0.16.1.7533 (26th January 2016). Here my simple alert checker (device down) [cid:image001.png@01D158F6.F24CBED0] I can send and receive an email test with this command (so I exclude an issue with my mail server) root@xxxxxx:/opt/observium# php test_alert.php -a xxxxxxx here the configuration of the contact: [cid:image004.png@01D158F7.61721D50] And finally the screenshot of global settings: [cid:image003.png@01D158F7.ABC11820] Can you please tell me what's wrong with the conf? Something is missing? Many thanks for support Best Aurélien

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Update issue
by Jens.Altrock＠STADT-NW.DE 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hey folks, Am new to Observium, so sorry if my question may be dumb :-/ Updated tot he actual Community Edition as described on http://www.observium.org/docs/updating/ Worked finer, but when calling discovery to update database nothing happens except: #/opt/observium/discovery.php -u Observium CE 0.15.6.6430 Discovery Current Revision : 6430 New Revision : 7533 Website also says: Observium CE 0.15.6.6430 Not sure if this is my fault or if i got something wrong? Regards, Jens Wichtiger Hinweis f?r Mitteilungen an die Stadtverwaltung Neustadt: F?r die rechtsverbindliche elektronische Kommunikation mit der Stadtverwaltung Neustadt an der Weinstra?e steht Ihnen ausschlie?lich folgende E-Mail-Adresse zur Verf?gung: stv-neustadt-weinstrasse(a)poststelle.rlp.de Bitte beachten Sie unsere Hinweise unter http://www.neustadt.eu/impressum#email

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Monitor OSX system. Problem with reported size for NFS share and monitor processes
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hi there. Monitoring a osx "server" with observium. To get it to see the NF shares I added this to snmpd.conf: skipNFSInHostResources 0 storageUseNFS 2 This worked and I now see the shares. The large NAS is reported with wrong sizes though. Expected is this: df -ah |grep midskog filmddn:/ddnnas0/midskog 958Ti 193Ti 765Ti 21% 7479476 692520524 1% /Volumes/midskog Reported in observium is: Size: 208GB Used: 915GB Free: -707GB I actually think this could be an net-snmp bug in OSX but I'm not sure. When I snmpwalk locally I see this for that particular mount: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.61 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.61 = STRING: /Volumes/midskog HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.61 = INTEGER: 512 Bytes HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.61 = INTEGER: 436207616 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.61 = INTEGER: 1920024576 Any one that had similar issues and found a solution? Next issue is that i try to monitor a process called 'nsd'. I have added it so snmpd.conf and when i walk the device locally I see it: filmserver01:snmp filmserver01$ snmpwalk -c public -v2c localhost UCD-SNMP-MIB::prTable UCD-SNMP-MIB::prIndex.1 = INTEGER: 1 UCD-SNMP-MIB::prNames.1 = STRING: nsd UCD-SNMP-MIB::prMin.1 = INTEGER: 0 UCD-SNMP-MIB::prMax.1 = INTEGER: 1 UCD-SNMP-MIB::prCount.1 = INTEGER: 1 UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrorFlag.1 = INTEGER: noError(0) UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrMessage.1 = STRING: UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrFix.1 = INTEGER: noError(0) UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrFixCmd.1 = STRING: But observium doesn't pick it up. Is this something that isn't supported or am I missing something? Cheers and thanks. -- Henrik Cednert cto | td | compositor Filmlance International Direct + 46 (0)704 71 89 54

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Display of VRF's defined on a particular device in addition to globally?
by Steve Costaras 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Is there a way to display what VRF's are defined on a particular switch like you can vlans/ports/etc, in addition to globally? I'm running 0.16.17407. We have several thousand VRF's, being able to see what VRF's are actually defined on a device would really be nice opposed to having to log in each time when tracking things down. Since observium is obviously pulling this data to come up with the global view, it has to have it recorded. I think this would just be a display/parsing item? Is this something that may be included in a future version? Thanks. Steve

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how to disable mib via config.php?
by Gediminas Karčmarinas 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

in default.inc.php is: $config['mibs']['EtherLike-MIB']['enable'] = 1; I try in config.php $config['mibs']['EtherLike-MIB']['disable'] = 1; or $config['mibs']['EtherLike-MIB']['enable'] = 0; But it don't disable this mib. How to disable mib ? Thanks

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Email issue
by Matt Zillmann 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Hello everyone, I am stuck on setting up email for alerting on Observium. I am running Centos7 and the latest Stable version of Observium (subscription version). What is needed to configure this? Or what is recommended? Thank you, Matt

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Problem on some graphs - Percent Utilisation
by Alexandre Corso 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Hi everybody. I had a problem on some graph on my observium, for exemple graph Percent Utilisation of ports. I looked into the errors: RRDTool Output: ERROR: Unused Arguments "" in command : HRULE:100#555:: I modified my file : /opt/observium/html/includes/graphs/port/percent.inc.php - - line 25 $defs .= ' HRULE:100#555::'; + + line 25 $defs .= ' HRULE:100#555:'; - - line 26 $defs .= ' HRULE:-100#555::'; + + line 26 $defs .= ' HRULE:-100#555:’; I removed one ‘’:’’ at the end and it’s working. Is it a mistake ? Regards, -- Alexandre Corso acorso(a)franceix.net

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Adding a new graph
by David Pinkerton 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Observium newbie... This maybe a question that has been answered a million time but I've not been able to find an answer. I have an Avaya 4524 switch that is not in a climate controlled environment. I wish to graph the temperature within Observium. I know the OID is 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.1.6.3.7.1.1.5 and the calibration is .5 degreee. ( ie. 70 = 35 degrees) I can view this in the switches GUI and by snmpwalk. I have confirmed Observium is using the correct MIB for the device. Can someone point me to a newbie guide. (My php skills are minimal)

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Alerts ifType eq ethernetCsmacd
by Joey Stanford 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Howdy, I wanted to thank everyone for the great support on this mailing list. I have another puzzler…the last one I hope. At the bottom of https://www.observium.org/docs/alerting_examples/ there are two alerts that rely on ifType eq ethernetCsmacd For some odd reason when I rebuild they don’t want to apply to any of my devices. As soon as I change that to “*” they bring in all the devices. I went out and pulled the data on the Mikrotik router ports and they are responding with this same ifType. I checked it vis snmpwalk and also on a test router using http://ip/device/device=1/tab=port/port=1/view=data/ I’ve tried spelling out equals, wrapping ethernetCsmacd in quotes (view=data says it’s a 14 character string), and a few other things but I haven’t found the right incantation. These two entries currently match the examples and the demo server. I’ve ensured that I have non-disabled ports and non-ignored ports that should be recognized. &debug=1 reveals SELECT `alert_status` FROM `alert_table` WHERE 1 AND `alert_test_id` = '7' AND (( `device_id` NOT IN (55) AND (`device_id` != ‘' AND `device_id` IS NOT NULL))) ORDER BY `device_id`, `alert_test_id`, `entity_type`, `entity_id` DESC (not there wasn’t a LIMIT 0,100 at the end of that select like on other alerts…aside from that this select is the same as the other alerts) Anyway that select returned 0 hits despite me having well over 100 active ports with that ifType. Any suggestions on how to debug this further? Thanks, Joey

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Is there something like "bad_ifalias" ?
by Hábner Teixeira Costa 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Hi everyone, the company where I work is an ISP and they have big routers like MX-960 and ASR-9010.This devices supports thousands of interfaces and we use it to connect to our customers.I would like to know whether is possible to ignore our customers interfaces based on ifAlias like we do with ifDesc (bad_if)?Thank you! Hábner

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Observium: Pre-auth and security questions
by Nate Mellendorf 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Tom, I overlooked that setting and made the suggested change. However, Observium still seems to prompt for credentials after I sign in with basic auth. I changed the login mechanism to http-auth as well: $config['auth_mechanism'] = "http-auth"; I'll keep working on this, and report back if I can get it working. Thank you. Nate Mellendorf | NETWORK ANALYST | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 www.NetgainHosting.com The information contained in this email message is for the designated recipient only and may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any information contained within is strictly prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 5:24 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 66, Issue 168 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. BGP LocalAs fails on ASR9K (Andr? Mamitzsch) 2. Problem on some graphs - Percent Utilisation (Alexandre Corso) 3. Re: Problem on some graphs - Percent Utilisation (Adam Armstrong) 4. Re: Observium: Pre-auth and security questions (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:05:26 +0100 From: Andr? Mamitzsch <andre(a)mamitzsch.de> To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] BGP LocalAs fails on ASR9K Message-ID: <56A5F366.9050403(a)mamitzsch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, we discovered an issue with CISCO ASR9K and 4byte ASN's - the ASR return "0" when querying the BGP4-MIB parameter "bgpLocalAs". This stops observium from discovering the BGP sessions. I have done some research and found that Juniper devices seem to have a similar problem which was fixed in the polling / discovery script already. The same should be done for Cisco. The CISCO-BGP4-MIB included in Observium is somewhat outdated - CISCO introduced a parameter "cbgplocalAs" in a later version which delivers the correct result. Could you please look into this ? Thanks Andre

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frontpage is great and all but can I have a second page?
by James Murty 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

I’m looking a using Observium to generate a number of metric specific dashboards for routers and switches I have around the country. The $config['frontpage']['minigraphs']['ids’] = “<id>,<metric>,<title>”; configuration looks like it’ll give me what I want but ideally I just have those minigraphs on a page by themselves. Is there a way to define a seconds page? i.e. $config[‘minigraphpage']['minigraphs']['ids’] = “<id>,<metric>,<title>”; and have that show on a second screen? - james

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BGP LocalAs fails on ASR9K
by André Mamitzsch 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Hi, we discovered an issue with CISCO ASR9K and 4byte ASN's - the ASR return "0" when querying the BGP4-MIB parameter "bgpLocalAs". This stops observium from discovering the BGP sessions. I have done some research and found that Juniper devices seem to have a similar problem which was fixed in the polling / discovery script already. The same should be done for Cisco. The CISCO-BGP4-MIB included in Observium is somewhat outdated - CISCO introduced a parameter "cbgplocalAs" in a later version which delivers the correct result. Could you please look into this ? Thanks Andre

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VMware
by Stefaans Mostert (GBL) 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

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device to device links
by Joey Stanford 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

Hi, I ran across a graphing script on github that caught my eye. It reportedly graphs device to device links in Observium (sort of like cacti + Network Weathermap). It uses a table called obserium.links which I don’t have. Google hasn’t been able to give me any leads other than, of course, the developer. I’m wondering if anyone happens to know if it’s possible to associate device ports in this manner… e.g. Device 25, port 287 links to Device 37, port 460. Today I use cacti and weathermap for this. Thanks, Joey

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MySQL Agent Innodb
by evo 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

Hi, i am a private user of the Observium CE, and I wanted to ask If the MySQL agent will already be fixed in the ne CE release, otherwise I would happily provide a patch for the agent I made just a moment ago when I updated my MariaDB Server to 10 and the innodb query stopped working[0], since it's removed with version 10 and version 5.6.1 of MySQL[1]. If you'd want me to do that, I also would rewrite the whole agent to use mysqli instead of mysql, since it's considered deprecated for some time now[2]. with kind regards Valentin [0]https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/xtradbinnodb-server-system-variables/#h… [1]https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=63383 [2]http://php.net/manual/de/migration55.deprecated.php

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Arbor Network's MIBs
by Ryan, Spencer 23 Jan '16

23 Jan '16

Great to see Arbor MIB's getting updated in the SVN checkouts :) I don't monitor any of our own products, but I'm going to talk to the Peakflow guys and see if I can get access to some of the lab gear. We have at least one setup (not sure if it's TMS or SP) that gets about ~8Gb/s of anonymous traffic from a few ISPs. Should give me some useful data in Observium. Keep up the good work guys! *Spencer Ryan* | Senior Systems Administrator | sryan(a)arbor.net *Arbor Networks* +1.734.794.5033 (d) | +1.734.846.2053 (m) www.arbornetworks.com

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Manually setting global temperature thresholds
by Joey Stanford 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi, I have a bit of a puzzler and I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I’m monitoring a number of Mikrotik devices. I’m unable to set the temperature thresholds on the device. They all seem to report different thresholds despite the fact that they are all spec’d at -30c to 70c. Instead of going into each device’s settings in Observium and making a custom threshold, is there any way for me to do it in the config file? or some other way using “os eq routeros”? Thanks, Joey

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4 Byte BGP ASN's
by Serghei Golipad 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Guys, Have you made any progress with 4 Byte ASNs? 23456 doesn't look very nice :( Cheers PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. Kelway (UK) Ltd is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of Kelway Holdings Limited. Kelway Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for Kelway (UK) Limited trading as Kelway. The registered office for Kelway 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 Kelway or the sender of its existence. For more information about Kelway please visit www.kelway.co.uk

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