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Does per-user permission exist in LDAP?
by Cody Cook 15 Nov '15

15 Nov '15

Now that I'm LDAP authenticating to my domain, am I completely restricted to using auth_ldap_groups to set permissions? In the UI, I can go to User > Edit Users, drop down the list to see my domain users, but when I try to apply changes to these users (setting Global Read, or Normal user), I am redirected to the Observium User Management screen with no visible changes to any user account. There's no notification to tell me what went wrong or that editing LDAP user permissions is not possible. After switching to LDAP, Observium no longer provides authentication errors, and I'm getting something to the same effect when trying to edit users. Clicking on a user in my level 10 shows me that this user is an administrator, but users in my level 1 are showing disabled. The drop down list shows the same level 10 users as disabled as well. /debug doesn't help since it reloads the page. profile_sql doesn't seem to show me every SQL query being made. Observium 0.15.11.7173 (rolling)

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 61, Issue 74
by Marko Uusitalo 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

unsubscribe Marko Uusitalo Senior Lecturer Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences Bulevardi 31 00180 HELSINKI FINLAND GSM +358 50 3525 975 Email Marko.uusitalo(a)metropolia.fi www.metropolia.fi/en ________________________________________ Lähettäjä: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] käyttäjän observium-request(a)observium.org [observium-request(a)observium.org] puolesta Lähetetty: 12. elokuuta 2015 9:50 Vastaanottaja: observium(a)observium.org Aihe: observium Digest, Vol 61, Issue 74 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. Re: 'Duplicate entry' issues on vlans_fdb (Aaron Mayfield) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 06:50:01 +0000 From: Aaron Mayfield <amayfield(a)artisaninfrastructure.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] 'Duplicate entry' issues on vlans_fdb Message-ID: <f42b01e9c6a44b1783eb4bc895f324f9(a)NG-USA-MXAI.neverfailgroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Yeah this seems to be a performance issue of some type and the fdb table stuff seems like a side effect. I?m scratching my head as to why it worked fine before the upgrade. In fact, here is the observium.log output before/after the upgrade: [2015/08/11 10:42:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(23384): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 131 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 10:47:12 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(3121): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 131 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 10:52:13 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(15078): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 132 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 10:57:13 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(27618): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 131 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:02:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(7205): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 132 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:07:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(19611): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 132 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:12:12 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(31781): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 131 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:17:15 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(11383): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 133 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:22:15 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(23688): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 133 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:27:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(3412): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 133 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:32:10 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(15327): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 128 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:37:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(27814): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 132 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:42:13 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(7491): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 132 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:47:13 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(19987): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 131 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:52:15 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(32100): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 133 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 11:57:14 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(11743): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 133 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 12:02:22 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(23906): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 140 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 12:06:52 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(4395): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 111 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 12:21:24 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(11770): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 683 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 12:38:09 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(17020): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 1388 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 12:48:30 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(26555): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 1708 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 13:06:30 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(2438): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 2487 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 13:12:30 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(9984): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 2548 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 13:31:56 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(19437): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 3414 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 13:40:50 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(25290): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 3647 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 13:55:34 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(956): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 4231 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 14:02:54 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(7354): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 4370 seconds with 8 workers [2015/08/11 14:20:50 -0500] poller-wrapper.py(14288): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 45 devices in 5147 seconds with 8 workers I did the upgrade and then the poller starts running poorly. Then I see the side effect of the of the duplicate entries with the fdb table because the poller processes are running so slowly they are stacking on top of each other. So I have some kind of performance issue. One strange thing, I only have 45 devices I?m polling, yet the port count under the Port menu says I have 44859 ports. That must be a miscalculation of some type or my database is messed up somewhere. Not sure if related or not. Going to continue to try the poller manually and see if I can figure out where the slowdown is. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 1:33 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] 'Duplicate entry' issues on vlans_fdb Man, why didn't I think of this? This sounds like the problem. I guess something caused your poller processes to get confused, and they ended up running in parallel, not unthinkable when the same part of the poller process runs for so long, 74 seconds for the fdb-table module. If you don't /really/ need this data, I'd recommend disabling it. It's one of the trade offs we have to make between performance and data. If you still want the fdb data, you can force that module to be run using a less-often scheduled process in cron like ./poller.php -h all -m fdb-table Note that this will break whatever graphs (fdb count?) that fdb-table produces, but you'll still have the data in the database. adam. On 12/08/2015 07:28:55, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx<mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx>> wrote: If you're running multiple simultaneous pollers against the same device is not unthinkable they'll all be trying to insert the same data into the table... Tom On Aug 12, 2015 8:02 AM, Aaron Mayfield wrote: > > Here is the requested output. I had to kill all the other poller processes running on the system to get it to run (they were hosing the CPU). Oddly enough, once I killed all the other processes, I didn?t any problems running it (back to being fast). Also don?t seem to be getting the errors in the db.log when running the poller ?one-at-a-time?. > > > > > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 11:52 PM > To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] 'Duplicate entry' issues on vlans_fdb > > > > Hi Aaron, > > > > These seem to be gone from my db.log. Could you send me a ./poller.php -h 54 -m fdb-table -d ? > > > > Thanks, > > adam. >> >> On 12/08/2015 05:01:53, Aaron Mayfield wrote: >> >> Just today I updated to the latest and greatest (0.15.8.6882). I was several revisions behind and several database updates were done as a result. After the update, I noticed my poller.php processes started taking all the CPU, started getting gaps in the graphs, etc. I noticed thousands of these entries in db.log: >> >> >> [2015/08/11 22:01:02 -0500] poller.php(21342): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '54-2083-6ef88537f91f' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('54','2083','220115','6ef88537f91f','learned') >> [2015/08/11 22:01:02 -0500] poller.php(21342): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '54-2084-005056a927c2' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('54','2084','220115','005056a927c2','learned') >> [2015/08/11 22:01:02 -0500] poller.php(21342): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '54-2084-a66aaf0bf4cc' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('54','2084','220115','a66aaf0bf4cc','learned') >> [2015/08/11 22:01:02 -0500] poller.php(21342): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '54-2085-228a3d193c66' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('54','2085','220115','228a3d193c66','learned') >> [2015/08/11 22:01:02 -0500] poller.php(21342): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '54-2086-0ee7c729643b' for key 'dev_vlan_mac'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('54','2086','220115','0ee7c729643b','learned') >> >> If I run a poller process against a switch manually, everything seems to run fine with the exception of the fdb-table module, which is taking over 600 seconds to run. >> >> Here is the schema of my vlans_fdb file: >> >> mysql> show columns from vlans_fdb >> -> ; >> +-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ >> | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | >> +-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ >> | device_id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | | >> | vlan_id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | | >> | port_id | int(11) | YES | MUL | NULL | | >> | mac_address | varchar(32) | NO | PRI | NULL | | >> | fdb_status | varchar(32) | NO | | NULL | | >> +-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ >> 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) >> >> mysql> >> mysql> show index from vlans_fdb >> -> ; >> +-----------+------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+---- ----+--------+------+------------+---------+ >> | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub art | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | >> +-----------+------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+---- ----+--------+------+------------+---------+ >> | vlans_fdb | 0 | dev_vlan_mac | 1 | device_id | A | 15 | ULL | NULL | | BTREE | | >> | vlans_fdb | 0 | dev_vlan_mac | 2 | vlan_id | A | 18348 | ULL | NULL | | BTREE | | >> | vlans_fdb | 0 | dev_vlan_mac | 3 | mac_address | A | 128440 | ULL | NULL | | BTREE | | >> | vlans_fdb | 1 | device_id | 1 | device_id | A | 78 | ULL | NULL | | BTREE | | >> | vlans_fdb | 1 | port_id | 1 | port_id | A | 431 | ULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | >> +-----------+------------+--------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+---- ----+--------+------+------------+---------+ >> 5 rows in set (0.04 sec) >> >> mysql> >> >> Does my table structure look right? 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What boolean operators are available when creating groups ?
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

Hi! I've been using equals and match and wildcard (*) when aggregating together data in the group feature, however I now have to create a group where I need to exclude certain things and select others with wildcard. I am not sure this works, and I can't find anything in the documentation about it. basically I need to include all hosts with a certain hostname pattern, except a few ones with a slightly different pattern. If I wrote it in two lines, it would be like this : hostname match foo-is*.bar.com hostname != foo-is4*.bar.com Anyway way to do this ? /Jesper

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Updating SNMP from v1 to v3
by Timothy Kaufman 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

Hello, We have about 80 devices that we are updating from SNMP v1 to v3. I can¹t seem to find a way to do this in bulk either from CLI or from web UI. I can update the devices one by one in the web ui, if I try from the CLI with the add_user.php script it complains about the device being known. Can someone offer some insight on how I might accomplish this without changing each device individually in the UI? Thanks Tim

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Port Descriptions on Linux hosts?
by Telsin 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

I’ve got someRHEL boxes running as routers in Observium, and I’m wondering how to apply names to them so they get picked up as Transit, Peering, Customer, etc. Any solution for this? Thanks! -Darrell

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ports graphs errors
by Jeffrey d'Ambly 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

I’m seeing something odd with my Cisco ASA, for some reason the ports summary graph isn’t working. What is odd is that each of the individual interfaces are working fine. It looks like there is something wrong with the RRD command, how can I fix this? RRDTool Output: ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:inB=' Total time: 0.017 | RRDtool time: 0.015s RRDTool Command rrdtool graph /tmp/WyzPqJz6C3QdevQB.png -g --alt-autoscale --rigid --start 1447085684 --end 1447172084 --width 1159 --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:'DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal -E CDEF:inB= CDEF:outB= CDEF:octets=inB,outB,+ CDEF:doutB=outB,-1,* CDEF:inbits=inB,8,* CDEF:outbits=outB,8,* CDEF:bits=inbits,outbits,+ CDEF:doutbits=doutB,8,* VDEF:95thin=inbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:95thout=outbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:d95thout=doutbits,5,PERCENT VDEF:totin=inB,TOTAL VDEF:avein=inbits,AVERAGE VDEF:totout=outB,TOTAL VDEF:aveout=outbits,AVERAGE VDEF:tot=octets,TOTAL COMMENT:' \l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:'Total Rx': GPRINT:inbits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totin:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:' Tx': GPRINT:outbits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totout:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:' Agg': GPRINT:bits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:tot:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:0#999999 RRDTool Files Used No RRD information returned. This may be because the graph module doesn't yet return this data.

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Slack Integration
by Guilherme de Freitas Figueiredo 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

Hello! on the directory alerts exists the slack.inc.php. directory in the alerts there is slack.inc.php. researched on the Internet (http://www.rickheil.com/?p=35#comment-39) and also in the full dump of the observium config file and saw that there are integration options with the slack. I tried to apply them but without success. someone already managed to do this integration? Below are the configs: $config['alerts']['slack']['username'] = "Observium"; $config['alerts']['slack']['channel'] = "#cgr"; $config['alerts']['slack']['url'] = " https://hooks.slack.com/services/T0BMNB4UC/B0BMU32QY/xeUSiseEo2qGlXKOACLR5Z… "; $config['alerts']['slack']['webhook_url'] = " https://hooks.slack.com/services/T0BMNB4UC/B0BMU32QY/xeUSiseEo2qGlXKOACLR5Z… "; $config['alerts']['slack']['default']['contact'] = "channel::#cgr||username::Observium||url:: https://hooks.slack.com/services/T0BMNB4UC/B0BMU32QY/xeUSiseEo2qGlXKOACLR5Z… "; Best Regards! []s! -- Guilherme de Freitas Figueiredo

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Re: [Observium] OSPF nei alerts
by Samarasinghe, Sujith 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

Team, can we not use the ospf neighbor counts -1 to trigger a alert? Sujith. Confidentiality Note: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by returning it to the sender and delete this copy from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Active Directory help
by Cody Cook 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi everyone, I know this subject is touched on in the past but any help from anyone who has this working would be appreciated. I've been following the FAQ for LDAP login via Active Directory but I always come across the same error. Fatal error: LDAP TLS required but not successfully negotiated [Connect error] In /debug, I see that it connects but then inserts a line saying that Auth failed. https://doc.rotten.soy/buqar.vhdl In my Windows Server 2012 R2 box, I see this line come up in the Event Viewer: "A fatal alert was generated and sent to the remote endpoint. This may result in termination of the connection. The TLS protocol defined fatal error code is 10. The Windows SChannel error state is 10." This is one of the more recent configs I've tried. https://doc.rotten.soy/wosej.php My filtered dsquery information is... https://doc.rotten.soy/inure.tex Things I've tried modifying: auth_ldap_binddn, I've tried changing this but this doesn't seem to be my problem since it appears to connect. (Should I have some kind of special rights for this user)? auth_ldap_suffix, This one I'm not sure exactly what the string is looking for. The actual CN of a user won't include the CN=Builtin. I've tried without. auth_ldap_group, tried with and without Domain Users CN. auth_ldap_groups, tried the full LDAP path and also just the "Domain Admins"/"Domain Users" What am I missing? :( Any help is greatly appreciated in what I am doing wrong. Is it a problem with my Server 2012 install and something I need to change? Is it a problem in one of the packages installed for Observium? Cody

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SVN Password
by Robbie Wright 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

My SVN password is no longer working. How do we tell if a subscription has expired? Do we get a notice when they do expire? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <https://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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menu css error
by Simon Smith 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi All, not sure if this is a CSS error or a STUPID IE error we leave observium running on a windows 7 IE 11 computer for monitoring reasons however when i however over the menus, the styling is small and wrong! attached screenshot showing what i mean regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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Adding MiBs to Observium
by Oliver Marshall 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi all What's the best way to add MiBs to Observium? Specifically I want to support HP MSM 760 WiFi controllers and also Smoothwall firewalls. Olly

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OSPF alerts from Observium syslogs
by Samarasinghe, Sujith 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi , Did anyone succeeded triggering alerts through Observium syslog? Thanks, Sujith. Confidentiality Note: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by returning it to the sender and delete this copy from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Setting up email alert notifications
by Alex Winder ＠ M5i 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

Hi, I'm looking to set up alert notifications to help with the monitoring of the devices which we already have loaded into Observium, but having some trouble. See below attached image. This is how I currently have alert checkers set. As you can see there are 0 entities being loaded into all alert checks, despite using all devices, and I can't find anything about how to get entities to load. Could someone assist me in how to successfully set up the notifications? We have over 200 devices being monitored in Observium, adding email notifications would improve the system dramatically for us. Regards, Alex.

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Adding device IPs rather than hostnames
by Oliver Marshall 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Is it possible to allow an IP for a device to be entered in to the Add Device screen rather than requiring a hostname? Olly

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RANCID Integration with RHEL
by Johnson, Edward A. 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

I’m trying to install RANCID on Observium using the doc http://www.observium.org/docs/rancid/. I get as far as Run this command to create the folder structure: su - rancid /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs but get -bash: /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: No such file or directory Is there a different directory when running Observium on RHEL that I should be using to create the folder structure?

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BlueWalker/PowerWalker EPPC UPS
by Glyn Parker 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Hei, I have an BlueWalker (Powerwalker) UPS and added support for my (VFI2000 LCD) as attached. This should work for all VFIs and others with the same god dam ObjectID of .1.3.6.1.4.1.935.10.1 (which should be all EPPC manufactured units). Im not an expert in Observium or all things SNMP, but this was my work. If others find it useful, then great. PS: Dont read this Yes its yet another UPS MIB which EPPC could have done with RFC1628. The unit supports RFC1628 but not enough to be ideal ;( I didnt want to make some bastard mix of both MIBS as that's just twice the mess. Best regards /Glyn

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Re: [Observium] CASA CMTS - 32bit counters used instead of 64bit.
by T-MONT Administrator 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Hi Tom, I'm not sure if I got your point :) Casa c2200 CMTS does respond with 64bit counters, for example: # snmpget -v2c -c xxxx 1.1.1.1 IF-MIB::ifHCOutOctets.77 IF-MIB::ifHCInOctets.77 IF-MIB::ifHCOutOctets.77 = Counter64: 2351994689934 IF-MIB::ifHCInOctets.77 = Counter64: 319195830460 I was wondering if it's possible to force Observium to query those. Regards, Pawel > If you make the device reply with 64bit counters, we'll happily use > them. > That includes using v2c/v3, as v1 does not do HC counters!

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Can i mysql DB as a different server in Observium.....?
by Chaman Rathee 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Hi , Can I use mysql DB as a different server in observium ? If yes, I need to change only DB parameter in config.php or something else. $config['db_host'] = "Remote_Server_IP"; $config['db_user'] = "root"; $config['db_pass'] = "PAss032014"; $config['db_name'] = "observium"; ......... With Best Regards, Chaman Rathee Mob. No:- +91-9560055816 [Fabrikam] Privileged or confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), please delete this message and kindly notify the sender by an emailed reply. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of Progression and its associate entities shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by them.

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Graphs not drawing after update to rev 7172
by Tim Vaughan 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

This afternoon I updated my installation to 7172 via svn. Since then, my graphs are being drawn blank (e.g. this one of the poller duration: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3183918/pollergraph.png. Ignore the earlier gap, it's the one from about 1630 onwards I'm talking about). I've done *./discovery.php -u* as normal and have manually run *./poller.php -h all*. I have checked /pollerlog and it doesn't appear to be running automatically by cron as usual. Any ideas? Tim

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LDAP Issue
by Quentin Beggs 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Hi - I'm trying to configure LDAP authentication according to the authentication page on the observium website, but it doesn't appear to be working. If I try a login that should work or one that doesn't work the result is the same - the login fields blank out again with no error message. Just wondering how I go about fixing this? Alternatively is there any log files that can offer some explanation as to why it's not working? I've had a look but can't find any. Thanks, Quentin

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CASA CMTS - 32bit counters used instead of 64bit.
by T-MONT Administrator 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Hi, I'm trying to monitor CASA c2200 CMTS device with Observium; it gets recognized as "casa-dcts". The problem is that Observium doesn't use 64bit interface counters but 32bit for downstream and upstream interfaces. This results in gaps in the traffic graphs when traffic counter overflows. How can I force Observium to switch to use 64bit counters instead of 32bit? Thanks! Pawel

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Issue with traffic volume graph for asymmetric interfaces.
by T-MONT Administrator 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Hi Adam, Any chances to implement this change? Thaks & Regards, Pawel > Fixing this would need a little bit of rewriting of the graph > definition.

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Dropout and graph problems in graphs.............!
by Chaman Rathee 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Is there anyone who is monitoring 200 devices in Observium? Because I am facing dropout and gap problem in graphs. CPU and Physical Memory utilization also goes more than 80%. Server detail is here:- Machine Type :- VM ( Guest OS) Physical Memory :- 12GB Swap Size :- 4GB No. Of CPU :- 8 Note:- We are monitoring 200 devices in Observium. [cid:image001.png@01D116E8.95AF6A60] ......... With Best Regards, Chaman Rathee Mob. No:- +91-9560055816 [Fabrikam] Privileged or confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), please delete this message and kindly notify the sender by an emailed reply. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of Progression and its associate entities shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by them.

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Issue with traffic volume graph for asymmetric interfaces.
by T-MONT Administrator 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Hi guys, I have problem with graphing traffic graphs for one of my Observium monitored device; problem occurs when it comes to graph traffic for asymmetric interfaces - ones that only send or receive traffic. The problem is that when such interface is queried on the device for actual traffic values the response is: for only-sending interface: Rx OID -> noSuchInstance, TxOID -> actual bits for only-receiving interface: Rx OID -> actual bits, TxOID -> noSuchInstance Those values as used then to populate corresponding RRD file which results in series of "NaN"s for INOCTETS or OUTOCTETS data stores. The result is that traffic graph plotted from this RRD is corrupted - like this example: http://i66.tinypic.com/7281fo.png Currently my Observium instance is at revision 7167. Could you share with me any ideas how to resole this issue? Thank you & Regards! Pawel

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