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Previous months Traffic Accounting?
by John May 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Is it possible to have Observium store/generate more than one previous month of Traffic Accounting reports? - John -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- John May : President http://www.pointinspace.com/ Point In Space Internet Solutions 800.664.8610 919.338.8198 Professional FileMaker Pro, MySQL, PHP & Lasso Hosting on shared, virtual and hardware dedicated servers

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duplicate entries in vminfo table . [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

vCE 0.16.1.7533 going to the VMs tab of a vmWare server shows duplicate entries. hunting this down in the code shows the following in html/pages/device/vm.inc.php foreach (dbFetchRows("SELECT * FROM vminfo WHERE device_id = ? ORDER BY vm_name", array($device['device_id'])) as $vm) { print_vm_row($vm, $device); } so running it on the command line echo 'SELECT * FROM vminfo WHERE device_id = '586' ORDER BY vm_name' | mysql --user=observium --password=not_my_pass observium reveals the entries to be duplicated in the table. they all seem to have the last field as a difference. there must be something missing in the code for adding the entries to not find the first entries and update them. " 2586 586 vmware cbr-desktop E: tools not running 3072 2 powered off 4239aa20-542a-f088-dedf-afb508da6a9c NULL 2757 586 vmware cbr-desktop E: tools not running 3072 2 powered off 4239aa20-542a-f088-dedf-afb508da6a9c vmware-snmp " either NULL or vmware-snmp. Can someone in the Team give me a sql to remove the bad rows ? 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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after SVN updatw
by Nick Morgan 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi, Im getting the following trying to run ./discovery –none after updating via SVN pureblue@observe:~$ cd observium pureblue@observe:~/observium$ ./discovery.php -none PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/home/pureblue/observium/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/pureblue/observium/includes/sql-config.inc.php on line 26 pureblue@observe:~/observium$ Anyone point me in the right direction? Kind Regards

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Re: [Observium] cdp neighbor and mac address questions
by Thedude 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

No, I get the exact same thing. Curious as to what the fix is. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID On Feb 2, 2016 7:19 AM, Randy Mahurin <randymahurin(a)boisestate.edu> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've just completed a new install of Observium, version 0.16.1.7535 (27th January 2016), and have a couple of questions in hopes that someone can point me to the correct debugging process. > > 1) The mac address information on the port is of the port itself, rather than the connected device. We are strictly Cisco in our switching, most are 2960 variety with some 3750 and 3850 mixed in. I see in the demo software, the mac address on the port pages shows that of the client. Also, several months ago, we ran a small version of Observium (since decommissioned) and the client mac populated. > > 2) Auto discovery based on CDP seems really sporadic, several neighbors will be added, but some will not. SNMP settings are the same across the board and CDP discovered neighbors can be added manually without issue. > > Is there any chance someone has come across these before? > > Thank you > > > -- > Randy Mahurin > Office of Information Technology > Boise State University > 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID, 83725-1249 > Phone: (208) 426-4003

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cdp neighbor and mac address questions
by Randy Mahurin 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hello, I've just completed a new install of Observium, version 0.16.1.7535 (27th January 2016), and have a couple of questions in hopes that someone can point me to the correct debugging process. 1) The mac address information on the port is of the port itself, rather than the connected device. We are strictly Cisco in our switching, most are 2960 variety with some 3750 and 3850 mixed in. I see in the demo software, the mac address on the port pages shows that of the client. Also, several months ago, we ran a small version of Observium (since decommissioned) and the client mac populated. 2) Auto discovery based on CDP seems really sporadic, several neighbors will be added, but some will not. SNMP settings are the same across the board and CDP discovered neighbors can be added manually without issue. Is there any chance someone has come across these before? Thank you -- Randy Mahurin Office of Information Technology Boise State University 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID, 83725-1249 Phone: (208) 426-4003

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Some questions regarding Observium
by Jens.Altrock＠STADT-NW.DE 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hey guys, Have some questions I haven't found answers yet :-/ 1. Read about someone requesting checking and alerting of (os) services, is this already implemented or will it be? 2. Any chance to get to know about new community versions? Couldn't find something on website :-/ 3. Some of our switches have kind of leaks in their graphiocs (see pic on mail, from an ATI 8000GS/24POE). Not sure where this comes from, any ideas? Maybe any debug ideas? Haven't found any special events in Eventlog (except some SNMP down/up errors) Thanks fort he help, and sorry if questions are a bit dumb. 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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Observium impact on Juniper CPUs
by Raphael Maunier 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Folks, Just sharing experience using Observium and Juniper EX / MX equipments. I exchanged with Adam and Juniper tac about some issues on some EX4550 having CPU at 100% with no result in solving the issue with a log of tweak in Observium / Junos . I changed the server 3 days ago, faster stronger better :) And voila , CPU dropped on all devices, with the same config.php ! The previous one was not a small server ( aka VM ) but the vm was not as strong as this one. I only had the issue with Juniper equipment not with cisco / Arista . So if you are facing the same issue ( and I exchanged with a few of you ) , you know what to do :) Raphael PS : I still have some EX4550 deleting interfaces from time to time, but I will open another thread !

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RRD failures
by Joey Stanford 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Howdy, Recently RRD graphs (created by Smokeping) have stopped working. The RRD files are still there and being generated. They display correctly in Smokeping. config.php is unchanged and correct. &debug=1 or a particular setting gives me RRD CMD[%ygraph —daemon unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock /tmp/cYlMIYCEzB411tYX.png -Y --lower-limit 0 --alt-autoscale-max --rigid --start 1454281028 --end 1454367428 --width 1152 --height 300 -c BACK#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEA#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEB#EEEEEE00 -c FONT#000000 -c CANVAS#FFFFFF00 -c GRID#a5a5a5 -c MGRID#FF9999 -c FRAME#5e5e5e -c ARROW#5e5e5e -R normal --font LEGEND:8:'DroidSansMono,DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DroidSansMono,DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal -E COMMENT:' RTT Loss SDev RTT\:SDev\l' DEF:median0=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:median:AVERAGE CDEF:dm0=median0,UN,0,median0,IF DEF:loss0=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:loss:AVERAGE CDEF:ploss0=loss0,20,/,100,* DEF:pin0p1=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping1:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p1=pin0p1,UN,0,pin0p1,IF DEF:pin0p2=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping2:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p2=pin0p2,UN,0,pin0p2,IF DEF:pin0p3=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping3:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p3=pin0p3,UN,0,pin0p3,IF DEF:pin0p4=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping4:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p4=pin0p4,UN,0,pin0p4,IF DEF:pin0p5=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping5:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p5=pin0p5,UN,0,pin0p5,IF DEF:pin0p6=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping6:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p6=pin0p6,UN,0,pin0p6,IF DEF:pin0p7=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping7:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p7=pin0p7,UN,0,pin0p7,IF DEF:pin0p8=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping8:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p8=pin0p8,UN,0,pin0p8,IF DEF:pin0p9=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping9:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p9=pin0p9,UN,0,pin0p9,IF DEF:pin0p10=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping10:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p10=pin0p10,UN,0,pin0p10,IF DEF:pin0p11=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping11:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p11=pin0p11,UN,0,pin0p11,IF DEF:pin0p12=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping12:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p12=pin0p12,UN,0,pin0p12,IF DEF:pin0p13=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping13:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p13=pin0p13,UN,0,pin0p13,IF DEF:pin0p14=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping14:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p14=pin0p14,UN,0,pin0p14,IF DEF:pin0p15=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping15:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p15=pin0p15,UN,0,pin0p15,IF DEF:pin0p16=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping16:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p16=pin0p16,UN,0,pin0p16,IF DEF:pin0p17=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping17:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p17=pin0p17,UN,0,pin0p17,IF DEF:pin0p18=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping18:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p18=pin0p18,UN,0,pin0p18,IF DEF:pin0p19=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping19:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p19=pin0p19,UN,0,pin0p19,IF DEF:pin0p20=/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd:ping20:AVERAGE CDEF:p0p20=pin0p20,UN,0,pin0p20,IF CDEF:pings0=20,p0p1,UN,p0p2,UN,+,p0p3,UN,+,p0p4,UN,+,p0p5,UN,+,p0p6,UN,+,p0p7,UN,+,p0p8,UN,+,p0p9,UN,+,p0p10,UN,+,p0p11,UN,+,p0p12,UN,+,p0p13,UN,+,p0p14,UN,+,p0p15,UN,+,p0p16,UN,+,p0p17,UN,+,p0p18,UN,+,p0p19,UN,+,p0p20,UN,+,- CDEF:m0=p0p1,p0p2,+,p0p3,+,p0p4,+,p0p5,+,p0p6,+,p0p7,+,p0p8,+,p0p9,+,p0p10,+,p0p11,+,p0p12,+,p0p13,+,p0p14,+,p0p15,+,p0p16,+,p0p17,+,p0p18,+,p0p19,+,p0p20,+,pings0,/ CDEF:sdev0=p0p1,m0,-,DUP,*,p0p2,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p3,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p4,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p5,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p6,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p7,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p8,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p9,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p10,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p11,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p12,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p13,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p14,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p15,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p16,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p17,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p18,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p19,m0,-,DUP,*,+,p0p20,m0,-,DUP,*,+,pings0,/,SQRT CDEF:dmlow0=dm0,sdev0,2,/,- CDEF:s2d0=sdev0 CDEF:ploss_all=0,ploss0,+,1,/ CDEF:dm_all=0,dm0,+,1,/ CDEF:sd_all=0,s2d0,+,1,/ CDEF:dmlow_all=dm_all,sd_all,2,/,- AREA:dmlow_all AREA:sd_all#AAAAAA::STACK LINE1:dm_all#CC0000:'Average ' VDEF:avmed=dm_all,AVERAGE VDEF:avsd=sd_all,AVERAGE CDEF:msr=dm_all,POP,avmed,avsd,/ VDEF:avmsr=msr,AVERAGE GPRINT:avmed:'%5.1lf%ss' GPRINT:ploss_all:AVERAGE:'%5.1lf%%' GPRINT:avsd:'%5.1lf%Ss' GPRINT:avmsr:'%5.1lf%s\l'%n] × RRD RUNTIME[0.0471s] RRD STDOUT[ERROR: rrdc_flush (/var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd) failed with status -1.] RRD_STATUS[FALSE] The path listed above is correct. e.g. $ ls -al /var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd -rw-r—r— 1 smokeping smokeping 2986808 Feb 1 16:01 /var/lib/smokeping/Observium/10_30_90_100.rrd I did some googling and found that rrdc is for RRD Cache which I was running. I had installed it per http://blog.best-practice.se/2014/10/using-rrdcached-with-observium.html I’ve apt-get purge rrdcache, commented out the config.php entry, rebooted, and now I have no graphs (but I do have .rrd files). I’m wondering if anyone could give me some pointers as to where to go next. Thanks, Joey

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VMs Tab missing
by Matt Zillmann 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello everyone, I am having a bizarre issue with one of my hosts. I have a cluster of hosts for a VMware ESXI 6 environment and have discovered and polled them successfully. However, there is one host that is not displaying the VMs tab. Has anyone had a similar issue before? I have the latest version of the subscription edition of Observium running on CentOS7. Thanks, Matt.

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Alerts for QNAP storage
by Matt Zillmann 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello all, I am working on setting up alerting for a QNAP storage device. I have the latest version of the subscription version of Observium. What I would like is to be able to have Observium send me an email when a hard drive fails. The drives show up under the status portion of the device page. Any idea of how to set this up (if possible)? Thanks, Matt.

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Re: [Observium] Bogus Sensor Alerts?
by Christian Gerbrandt 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Did some tweaking. When I click on the link, this is the URL which opens: /health/metric=sensors/event=alert%2Cwarning/ Showing nothing. Same for ignored: /health/metric=sensors/event=ignore/ But when I change the URL a bit like this: /health/metric=sensors/state=Down I can see the 12 alerts (which are from a Device I ignore anyway). Changed the polling as well now so they are no longer reported. But it looks like there is a problem with the URL being created on the main overview page. On Feb 01, 2016, at 02:41 PM, Christian Gerbrandt <derchris(a)me.com> wrote: Hi, Today I checked some stuff in Observium. I can see the overview on the main page for Devices, Ports and Sensors. With the Sensors it is showing me 12 alert in the Down column. Clicking on the link doesn't show anything. Checking all Sensors, I can see some in red, but only 4 in total. Anyone knows what this is, or how I can get this fixed. Thanks, Christian

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observium and Sophos Puremessage MIBS
by Watson Kamanga 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

HI Any one monitoring Sophos Puremessage using observium . I will to like to display all the other telemetry from the box , at the moment all i have is ping response . Regards Watson

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Bogus Sensor Alerts?
by Christian Gerbrandt 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi, Today I checked some stuff in Observium. I can see the overview on the main page for Devices, Ports and Sensors. With the Sensors it is showing me 12 alert in the Down column. Clicking on the link doesn't show anything. Checking all Sensors, I can see some in red, but only 4 in total. Anyone knows what this is, or how I can get this fixed. Thanks, Christian

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SNMP Error
by Andrew Colin 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi Guys Since the latest update on the pro edition on 2 debian servers we get the following when Observium tryies to walk to them They are running Debian 7.9 3.10.0-8-pve imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 12028 due to rate-limiting now Observium is unable to query them any ideas why?

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switch missing interface data
by Simon Smith 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi All not sure if this is a bug or maybe something wrong with our switch? we added a TP-Link 8 port gigabit switch to monitor as we wanted to see what data we could get for some reason, observium has listed all interfaces as Ethernet Interface ? also it appears the vlans are also being found as lans, as well ? no port 1 port 2 etc just Ethernet Interface and Vlan ? what ive also found is on the interfaces page the plans are showing these blue arrows with the ethernet interface name ? never seen it before? any ideas? attached is screenshots, poller log and discovery log if people what help :) Simon

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Disable email notification every 5 minutes
by Laszlo Nemeth 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello I installed the latest CE (0.16.1.7533) and set up some alerts with email notification. It is working great, but now i get lot of mails in every 5 minutes from the same alerts. Can i set up that get email only when the alarm caused or resolved? So just 2 mails (or get mails in X minutes (e.g. In every 1 hors) not in every 5 minutes? Thanks! Laszlo

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SNMP Trap based Notifications
by Gagandeep Mann 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Is there any way to configure OSPF Link Down Alert/Notification. Can we generate Notifications based on SNMP traps or any alternate based on Syslog. Best regards Gagandeep Mann ________________________________ This E-Mail may contain Confidential and/or legally privileged Information and is meant for the intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this e-mail in error and are not the intended recipient/s, Kindly notify the sender and then delete this e-mail immediately from your system. You are also hereby notified that any use, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail, its contents or its attachment/s other than by its intended recipient/s is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Internet Communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be delayed, intercepted, corrupted, lost, or contain viruses. Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited does not accept any liability for any errors, omissions, viruses or computer problems experienced by any recipient as a result of this e-mail.

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Billing problem
by Eduardo Schoedler 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi, Quick graphs isn't showing the graph: [image: Imagem inline 1] [image: Imagem inline 2] This billing have 2 interfaces, which I disabled it in a few minutes ago: [image: Imagem inline 3][image: Imagem inline 4] But I have data for the last 24 hours, so why the Billing View graph is errored? Thank you. Regards, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Friendly names for devices/hosts and interfaces/ports
by Juan Asensio Sánchez 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi, is there any option to add friendly names to hosts and interfaces? For example, our hostnames are normalized (lx0001), so I would like to show them in Observium as pro-jboss-1, px-mysql-3, dev-apache-6, etc. and see them in all places, next to the hostname, Is this possible? The same for host interfaces, por example, eth0 or eno16780032 to be shown as "service", "management", "backend", "backup", "storage", etc. We have a paid subscription, is there any kind of development included?

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Re: [Observium] Hostname change
by Christian Gerbrandt 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Thanks, that did the trick ;) On Jan 28, 2016, at 03:13 PM, Simon Smith <simonsmith5521(a)gmail.com> wrote: i believe u looking for this root@observium:~# /opt/observium/rename_device.php Observium 0.16.1.7538 Rename Device USAGE: rename_device.php <old hostname> <new hostname> OPTIONS: -p Skip icmp echo checks, device renamed only by SNMP checks DEBUGGING OPTIONS: -d Enable debugging output. -dd More verbose debugging output. Simon On 28 Jan 2016, at 3:04 pm, Christian Gerbrandt <derchris(a)me.com> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Images in alerts
by Anders Johansson 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi, I've seen that alerts include an image, base encoded in the actual html file, but the image is never displayed. Now I'm using that Redmond build software to read mails, perhaps that's why it's not working? Anyone else with outlook who can see the graph included in the alerts? //Anders

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db.log errors
by Anders Johansson 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Hi, I've on a fresh install of observium, from the latest SVN (not the stable) I'm seeing errors in the SQL log, mostly duplicate entry of various kinds: [2016/01/29 06:07:11 +0100] poller.php(17259): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '17-2-984be1747168-4934' for key 'dev_vlan_mac_port'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('17','2','4934','XXXXXXXXXX','learned') But also: [2016/01/28 16:01:05 +0100] (5756): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column '' in 'field list'), Query: SELECT `` FROM `slas` WHERE `device_id` = '24'; [2016/01/28 16:01:05 +0100] (5756): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column '' in 'field list'), Query: SELECT `` FROM `pseudowires` WHERE `device_id` = '24'; [2016/01/28 16:01:05 +0100] (5756): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'device_id' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT `alert_test_id` FROM `alert_tests` WHERE `device_id` = '24'; [2016/01/28 16:01:05 +0100] (5756): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'device_id' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT `maint_id` FROM `alerts_maint` WHERE `device_id` = '24'; [2016/01/28 16:01:05 +0100] (5756): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'device_id' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT `group_id` FROM `groups` WHERE `device_id` = '24'; I guess the 2:th errors are just possible to ignore if logic has changed, but the first ones are a bit worrying, perhaps there is a mismatch in the MySQL? (I'm on RHEL 6.7) //Anders

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Observium: Pre-auth and security questions
by Nate Mellendorf 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Tom, Thank you for your input. This has been a bit of a learning experience for me. After researching and playing around with Apache, I was able to enable basic authentication using htpasswd. When I attempt to access Observium, I'm prompted for credentials as expected. Once I login with the creds I've configured, I land at the Observium form based authentication page. I'm trying to pass the username and password provided to htpasswd, and send them to Observium on the backend. As you noted earlier, It seems like I should be able to do this with the remote user variable. However, I can't seem to get it to work. I've listed my current virtual host config below. I enabled a2enmod headers and restarted Apache with no luck. I'm curious if you know if there's something I'm missing. I'll keep digging and working away at this, but I thought I'd provide an update to the mailing list. Other users may find it helpful if we sort it out. Many thanks, <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/ CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log <Directory "/opt/observium/html/"> AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Content" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd Require valid-user Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{ENV:REMOTE_USER} (.+) RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-User %{ENV:REMOTE_USER}e </Directory> </VirtualHost> - NM -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 6:11 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 66, Issue 96 Send observium mailing list submissions to <mailto:observium@observium.org> observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <mailto:observium-request@observium.org> observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at <mailto:observium-owner@observium.org> 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. Re: Observium: Pre-auth and security questions (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:10:43 +0100 From: Tom Laermans < <mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx> tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> To: Observium Network Observation System < <mailto:observium@observium.org> observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium: Pre-auth and security questions Message-ID: < <mailto:569ADC03.1000002@powersource.cx> 569ADC03.1000002(a)powersource.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Hi Nate, We support trusting Apache with the auth (ie mod_auth_kerb, mod_auth_ldap, htpasswd, etc) by using its supplied REMOTE_USER variable - this works with at least the LDAP and MySQL backends; if your SSO setup could fill in these fields, you should be good. This bypasses our login forms of course. I use SSO with Kerberos (AD) tickets, handled by mod_auth_kerb. We also have an http-auth backend, but I don't think that will do what you want it to. There's also a CAS backend, fairly new, I have no idea how to use it but I don't think it could work with your netscaler setup. Tom On 16/01/2016 23:52, Nate Mellendorf wrote: > > Good evening everyone, > > I?ve been trying to configure Observium with a forms based SSO solution. > > My reasoning for this, is that I?d like to minimize the attack surface > for Observium when published to the Internet. > > As Observium supports groups, I thought it would be extremely > beneficial for clients to view their throughput at anytime from anywhere. > > I was curious if anyone in the community is using pre-authentication, > or if you?re publishing Observium directly to the Internet. > > I?m not as familiar with Apache and PHP, so hardening the service > through pre-auth seemed like a good first step. > > Unfortunately, I can?t quite get pre-auth to work. Observium uses > forms based authentication, which is hard to capture on the platform > I?m using. > > Here?s a link, if you?re curious on how I?m trying to capture it: > > <http://fritsesblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/link-to-netscaler-form-sso-kb> http://fritsesblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/link-to-netscaler-form-sso-kb. > html > > If I could get Observium to use basic authentication, I think I could > get it to work. Do we know if this is possible? A better question, is > pre-auth even necessary here? > > Aside from HTTPS, iptables, firewalling, and locking down SSH/root, > what other steps do you take to secure your Observium server? Do you > think that allowing Internet access is unwise at this time? > > Thank you for any input on insight into this. This is a concern of > mine that I?m trying to address. > > Your suggestions and opinions are very much appreciated. > > Regards, > > - NM > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > <mailto:observium@observium.org> observium(a)observium.org > <http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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does anyone else use http-auth ? . [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

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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unset locations and missing location on drop down [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

ver: CE 0.16.1.7533 The two attached pictures show that i have 11 devices with unset location, which is strange as i've not added any equipment. when clicking on the location UNSET, i get the second picture, which is "No devices found". the other thing to note is when selecting the location drop down, it only shows up to Townsville. I have one more, Wollongong. So it appears to be showing $count locations not $count+1 (+1 for the UNSET entry) Wollongong is not listed out of alpha order. Selecting Wollongong from the Locations menu correctly shows equipment in the results, but still doesn't list Wollongong in the Locations drop down. (Embedded image moved to file: pic60288.gif) (Embedded image moved to file: pic64895.gif) 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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