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Everything is DOWN after svn UP :-)
by Gabriel Zamorski 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Hello, Yesterday after upgrading observium (like everyday morning) we got hundreds of alerts. It seems that observium could not connect to any machine using SNMP - I checked this from console via ./poller.php and every server was unreachable, so I had to rollback to the earlier revision. Do you know anything about this? Regards, G.

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CBQOS does not appear to work under NX-OS
by Stephen Fulton 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Hi there, I have a Cisco Nexus 7k running the NX-OS 6.2 train, and I've noticed that while Observium picks up on CBQOS for interfaces, there is no data being graphed. Observium does detect the class-maps/policy-maps, but no results in the graphs. There are errors on one port that should be picked up, but I'm not seeing it reflected. What can be done? BTW, I'm using the subscription version, latest stable (0.15.11.7203). -- Stephen

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Zenoss Integration Sync
by Rudy Pancaro 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Has anyone every integrated Observium and Zenoss together. Zenoss is another networking monitoring platform, but the platform could use a more friendly GUI. The Observium GUI is very nice. Please let me know if this is possible. I believe that Observium and Nagios integrates with one another, but our organization uses Zenoss. Thank you.

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Device check and down alert question
by Ron Culler 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

I have noticed that I see down notices in Observium often when the snmp check fails (I have only seen this when checking servers (Windows/Linux). The device is up and a ping/icmp check would see this but because the snmp check had a problem I get a down indication. Sometimes it has to deal with the snmp service on the host being checked hanging or crashing, other times I have seen load or congestion cause it. Is there an option or would it make sense to add a feature that would check snmp first and in the event of an error fall back and do a ping/icmp check to see if the device is up or not? It would be beneficial to see if the server is up and get a notice about a snmp check failure. I could also see a check flow that would check snmp first, if it errored it would check with a ping, if the ping returns wait for the next snmp check before sending the notice or marking the device down. Ron Culler

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recreate interface to down/up -event
by Geno 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Hallo, i have the following problem. I server of mine a VPN-Service. This vpn-service restart some times (and with it it recreate a network interface with the same name "vpn-interface"). Observium delete the interface and create a new one (with the same name). The Question, is it possible to detect it and make a down up event out of it (and a mac change)? So it will use the same rrds, graphs and so on. Nice Wishes Geno

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Creating a table with Unix-agent
by Daniel Kasen 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Using the unix agent I can create graphs, but what if I wanted to just add a table to the apps tab? Basically what I am trying to do is keep an up-to-date table of custom strings for linux servers. *Daniel Kasen | REDFIN | Data Center Operations Engineerdaniel.kasen(a)redfin.com <daniel.kasen(a)redfin.com> | Tel: 206-859-2826 2025 1st Ave, Ste 500 | Seattle, WA 98121*

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CAMBIUM ePMP 1000 shown as Generic MIPS
by Federico Olivieri 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Hi All, I have just received from the vendor the MIBs for the CAMBIUM ePMP for FW version 2.5.1 and 2.4.2 (renamed CAMBIUM-ePMP-2.5.1-MIB and CAMBIUM-ePMP-2.4.2-MIB) I put them under the MIB folder root@T1000:/opt/observium/mibs/cambium# ls -l total 944 -rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 222338 Dec 2 15:06 CAMBIUM-ePMP-2.4.2-MIB -rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 215949 Dec 2 15:06 CAMBIUM-ePMP-2.5.1-MIB -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 164656 Nov 20 2014 CAMBIUM-PTP800-V2-MIB -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 13857 Nov 20 2014 MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB -rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 121942 Nov 4 2014 WHISP-APS-MIB -rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 107218 Nov 4 2014 WHISP-BOX-MIBV2-MIB -rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 3715 Nov 4 2014 WHISP-GLOBAL-REG-MIB -rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 96040 Nov 4 2014 WHISP-SM-MIB -rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 2416 Nov 4 2014 WHISP-TCV2-MIB root@T1000:/opt/observium/mibs/cambium# but OBSERVIUM still shows the antennas as generic "Linux server" [image: Immagine incorporata 1] Maybe I missed a step. There is something else that I need to do? Thanks for your help Federico

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Webpage Display
by Aaron Hite 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

I upgrade to 0.15.11.7224 (30th November 2015) today and noticed that my webpage doesn’t display widescreen anymore. Both the normal and widescreen display the same way. My graphs now wrap and create multiple rows for display. Anyone else have this problem, or any thoughts on a solution? Thanks, Aaron

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Cannot get nginx perf graphs to show up
by Tsvetan Blagoev (c) 01 Dec '15

01 Dec '15

>From observium box, I try telnet 192.168.10.101 36602 which is my remote nginx server, dumps system info plus nginx section with some counters; Application section and graphs never show for this host. I have also enabled explicitly unix agent from the agents tab of the configuration page. Am I missing something ? Regards, Tsener [PS CoE] Tsvetan Blagoev / Tsener Infrastructure and Tools Engineer, PS CoE +359 2 80 41627 -- Office +359 889 850 359 -- Mobile

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API Details
by Kyle Hunter 01 Dec '15

01 Dec '15

Hey, I’ve been looking around and there appears to be 2 different APIs in observium. Is there a specific one which will be removed and the other updated? Thanks, Kyle Kyle Hunter | Network Engineer | The Summit Group E: khunter(a)thesummitgroup.com.au<mailto:khunter@thesummitgroup.com.au> | W: The Summit Group (Australia) Pty Ltd | P: | Level 1, 39 Railway Road, Blackburn VIC 3130 The Summit Group (USA) LLC | P: 321 216 3844 | Suite 1003, 364E Main Street, Middletown DE 19709 Postal: P.O. Box 3225, Doncaster East VIC 3109 Follow us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/thesummitgroup/> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/company/1942329> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/summitgroupau/>

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Memory utilization increasing continuously .......................!
by Chaman Rathee 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Hi Team, I am monitoring 200 devices. But my memory utilization of server is continuously increasing. When my available physical memory comes near 20%, then my observium server starts dropouts/gaps in graph. Please help me . ......... 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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Disable CDP neighbour discovery?
by Ulrik Ivers 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Hi, Is it possible to disable neighbour discovery via CDP but still leave it enabled for LLDP? The reason for asking is that we are a 100% LLDP shop, but some equipment run both CDP and LLDP. When looking at the tab "Neighbours" of such a device the neighbours are listed twice, one with protocol LLDP and one with protocol CDP. We would like to only do neighbour discovery via LLDP, if possible. I've looked through the options files and the documentation but haven't been able to find a setting to disable CDP. Regards, /Ulrik Ivers

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Location menu - hierarchical without GeoLocation?
by Ulrik Ivers 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Hi again, Corrected some typos to make the explanation a bit more understandable ... /Ulrik Hi, Trying to figure out whether it's possible to have the Location menu on the front page being hierarchical with GeoLocation DISABLED. Is this possible? Running version 7203. Our snmp location strings in our devices are on the format of: City, Building, Floor We'd like to have the Location menu on the frontpage being displayed hierarchical something like this: Location City A [3] Building A [3] Floor X [2] Floor Y [1] At the moment the menu looks like this with THREE devices of which TWO have the same location string Location City A, Building A, Floor X City A, Building A, Floor Y Any suggestions would be welcome. Regards, /Ulrik Ivers

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Location menu - hierarchical without GeoLocation?
by Ulrik Ivers 29 Nov '15

29 Nov '15

Hi, Trying to figure out whether it's possible to have the Location menu on the front page being hierarchical with GeoLocation DISABLED. Is this possible? Running version 7203. Our snmp location strings in our devices are on the format of: City, Building, Floor We'd like to have the Location menu on the frontpage being displayed hierarchical something like this: Location City A [3] Building A [3] Floor X [2] Floor Y [1] At the moment the menu looks like this with tree devices of which to have the same location string Location City A, Building A, Floor X City A, Building A, Floor Y Any suggestions would be welcome. Regards, /Ulrik Ivers

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Map error?
by linuxthefish 28 Nov '15

28 Nov '15

Hi, Why does my Observium show a blue sea and not the normal location markers? Thanks!

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App monitoring - What am I missing??
by Scott A. Davis 27 Nov '15

27 Nov '15

Hello - Trying to set up the apache monitor on the same server where Observium is running (I figured that would be easiest). I can't seem to figure out what I am missing. Sorry for being verbose ... Just need to make sure I am covering all my bases. Any suggestions are appreciated. Version Information *Observium CE* 0.15.6.6430 *OS* Linux 2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 6.7) *Apache* 2.2.15 *PHP* 5.4.44 *Python* Python 2.6.6 *MySQL* 5.5.45 *SNMP* NET-SNMP 5.5 *RRDtool* 1.3.8 * Copied /opt/observium/scripts/observium_agent_xinetd -> /etc/xinetd.d/ [root@zen xinet.d]# ls -la observium_agent_xinetd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 650 Nov 26 18:33 observium_agent_xinetd * Copied /opt/observium/scripts/observium_agent -> /usr/bin [root@zen bin]# ls -la observium_agent -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12K Nov 26 18:31 observium_agent* * Made directories: mkdir /usr/lib/observium_agent /usr/lib/observium_agent/local * Copied /opt/observium/scripts/agent-local/apache -> /usr/lib/observium_agent/local [root@zen local]# ls -la total 64K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 26 17:46 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 26 17:43 ../ -rwxrw-rw- 1 1000 1000 2.9K Nov 26 18:31 apache* -rwxrw-rw- 1 1000 1000 51K Nov 26 19:12 mysql* * Edited /etc/xinetd.d/observium_agent_xinetd only_from = 127.0.0.01 ::1 (Also added my reap IPv4 address to that line for good posterity) * Made sure I had port 33602 open on the firewall (and even disabled firewall at times) service xinetd restart [root@zen conf]# service xinetd restart Stopping xinetd: [ OK ] Starting xinetd: [ OK ] * _httpd.conf says:_ ExtendedStatus On <Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from ::1 Allow from <my real IPv4 address> Allow from <my home address> </Location> I can access that just fine. * Ensured the agent port setting in Device Settings->Agent was correct * Ensured the unix-agent module was enabled in Settings->Modules What am I missing? Help. Thank you!!

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GeoLocation not correct
by Scott A. Davis 27 Nov '15

27 Nov '15

Hi - Not sure if this is an Observium issue or not, but in all the time I've used the community version, I've never had this problem. My screen shot is here: http://imgur.com/D9waqhG I have 3 servers. Two in TX, which show up accurately, and one in Atlanta, which shows up in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Observium shows its location as "Unknown" my snmpd.conf is as follows (with XXXXX marking non-relevant info) syslocation Atlanta, Georgia rocommunity XXXXXX sysname tsundoku.XXXXXXX.XXX syscontact scott.a.davis(a)gmail.com I have other servers with similar snmpd.conf on that map showing up fine. For syslocation, I have also tried Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, etc ... Nothing changes. Any reason why this would happen? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Custom OIDs are fantastic
by Tim Vaughan 27 Nov '15

27 Nov '15

Just wanted to say thankyou for adding support for Custom OIDs. Using a combination of this article http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=649 and this one http://awesomeadmin.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/monitoring-cisco-wireless-contro… I was able to add graphs to track how many clients are on each of our individual access points. So far I think it's working, even if it is a pain to calculate which AP MAC address translates to which OID....

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dell UPS and PDU
by BROSSEAU Benoit 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

Hello, We are a new observium customer and we are trilled with what we see. Our instance just detected about everything on our pretty extensive network BUT we have a couple of items showing up as GENERIC DEVICE thoses are Dell 6606 PDU and Dell 10000w UPS. Since the pdu are just rebranded APC and the UPS rebranded EATON is there a way to make thoses work ? thanks

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enquiry about invoice
by Ankit Dubey 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

Hi, Please let me know - will I get an invoice when I will pay to get the subscription as that invoice will be required for reimbursement of invoice amount from my organization. Best regards Ankit Dubey ________________________________ 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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Custom Contacts
by lom＠digitelitalia.com 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

How to associate a custom contact in an alert checker? I create the contacts, but I don't know how to associate to an alert checker. I'm using Professional version, upgraded from SVN at 7221 release. Thank you. digitel Ing. Lorenzo Mainardi Via della Fortezza 6 - 50129 Firenze <http://www.digitelitalia.com/> www.digitelitalia.com - 800 901 669 Tel +39 055 4624933 Fax +39 055 4624 947 lom(a)digitelitalia.com <mailto:lom@digitelitalia.com>

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Contacts / Alert Checks
by Spencer Ryan 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

I see I can create custom contacts, but I don't see a way to associate an alert check to that contact. Am I just missing this? I saw an old post from adam saying there was no way to do it in the UI but that was a few months ago. I'd really like to define a destination email address for specific alert checks in our use case. Any help? *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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MySQL application
by Geoff Johnson 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

The instructions for configuring the MySQL application at https://observium.org/w/Application/MySQL are unclear about where the database user must be created. Do the user create steps need to be done on every host running MySQL that you want to monitor, or just once on the Observium server? I assume that it's the former, just looking for clarification. Thanks, Geoff

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Lot of DB errors
by Bastiaan Topper 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Hi, I receive a lot of DB errors on my Observium server every polling interval. [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10471' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10471') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10472' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10472') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10473' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10473') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10474' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10474') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10476' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10476') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10477' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10477') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10478' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10478') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10480' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10480') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10481' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10481') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10482' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10482') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10484' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10484') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10485' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10485') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10486' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10486') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10488' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10488') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10489' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10489') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10490' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10490') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10491' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10491') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10493' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10493') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10494' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10494') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '10495' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('10495') [2015/11/22 13:11:31 +0100] poller.php(14640): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '67419' for key 'PRIMARY'), Query: INSERT INTO `alert_table-state` (`alert_table_id`) VALUES ('67419') Every 5 minutes I have thousands of these errors in my error log (db.log in the observium logs folder). What could cause this? And how can I troubleshoot this? I already tried to delete a few from the mentioned entries from the database, but it recreates them and still returns the errors. Almost all errors are for the alert_table-state table. Thanks and regards, Bastiaan

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Debugging rsyslog
by Tim Vaughan 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

I have a number of devices on separate VLANs to my Observium server. They are configured to send their logs via syslog to Observium. I have firewall rules in place on our router to allow this traffic between VLANs and I can see the traffic being passed in firewall logs. However, the log messages never seem to make it into Observium. How can I go about debugging rsyslog to see whether the logs arrive correctly at the server and are correctly processed by rsyslogd?

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