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Connect via SSH Feature
by Johnson, Edward A. 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

Hopefully this is a newer feature, otherwise I totally overlooked this over the past year! [cid:ACFFBBBC-9380-48CA-9824-300B0B1F51C2] Is there a way to customize these connect commands? We have different usernames for our switches and linux boxes than the username that we log into Observium.

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revision 7026. maps problem
by Andrew Colin 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

Hi Guys I did an svn up today and it upgrade to revision 7026(professional edition) But now the maps are all zoomed in(see below) Any idea why

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Process to take Observium Support
by Chaman Rathee 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

Dear Team, Please suggest complete process to take support from observium. We have already purchased professional subscription. It is valid upto 2016-09-07. Kindly suggest process to take support. Please find attached file for your reference. ......... With Warm Regards, Chaman Rathee Mob. No. 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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weather overlay
by Fernando Fuentes 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Is there a way to the world map on the observium web ui? IE: http://openweathermap.org/maps Regards, -- Fernando Fuentes Supervisor & Senior Systems Administrator Email: ffuentes(a)aasteel.com American Alloy Steel, Inc. Houston, Texas Website: http://www.aasteel.com Phone: 713-744-4222 Fax: 713-300-5688

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Observium :- Server location sign problem.
by Chaman Rathee 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

My some server are located at Gurgaon and rest are at Chennai location. Servers located at Gurgaon are showing green circle with no. of server in map. But Others located at Chennai are showing green google map pointer icon without no. of server. I want to do change Chennai location sign ( same as Gurgaon location) ? Location sign also enclosed with mail. Please check and help us. ......... Chaman Rathee [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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SVN problems?
by Eduardo Schoedler 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Hi, Is there some problem with svn server? root@lin:/opt/observium# svn update && ./discovery.php -h none -u Updating '.': svn: E000104: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/trunk' svn: E000104: Error running context: Connection reset by peer Thanks. -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Diff. b/t location sign and circle sign?
by Chaman Rathee 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

What is difference in location sign and circle sign on observe graph? Location Sign :- [cid:image001.png@01D0F2E9.76F4F090] Circle Sign :- [cid:image002.png@01D0F2E9.76F4F090] ............. With Thanks and Regards, Chaman Rathee MoB No. :- 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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Observium host located at different location
by Chaman Rathee 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Dear Team, My Observium hosts are showing at north atlantic Ocean where server is located at Gurgaon,India. SNMP Configuration file is /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf of host have only single blue line. rocommunity <community_name> [cid:image001.png@01D0F082.6FD9BDE0] Please suggest needful on priority basis. .......... With Warm 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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Alerts
by Erwin Botas 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Hi, we would like to filter alarms on our air conditioning units based on the status as many are redundant but the sensors are always on and if the unit is standby for example the temp or humidity limits can be easily raised, at his moment the sensors and status are different entities and the condition s can't be settled Any clue how to make this? Sent from my iPhone Erwin Botas Gerente tecnologías de información [http://www.criticalcolocation.com/firma/logo.jpg] Tel.: +506 2010-5050 • Cel.: +506 8982-4885 • Fax.: +506 2223-7055 San José, CR • www.criticalcolocation.com [http://www.criticalcolocation.com/firma/line.jpg] NOTA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: "La información contenida en este mensaje y sus adjuntos es estrictamente confidencial y se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Si usted no es el destinatario indicado, cualquier divulgación, copia, distribución o uso del contenido de este documento es prohibido y será sancionado de acuerdo con la ley. Si recibió este mensaje por error, debe notificarlo de inmediato al remitente y destruirlo".

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Disabling polling on large number of ports
by AJ Schroeder 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Hello list, I have just added a bunch of our end user access switches to Observium (thanks to the devs adding Nortel support!). Anyway, I don't want to be alerted or notified if those particular ports go up or down. The only way I know how to stop alerting on ports is to toggle the alerts field in the ports properties of the specific device. However, whenever I select all the ports on a device that has a large number of ports (over 300) all the ports show that they are toggled to off, then I click save. When the page refreshes I only see about two-thirds of them are toggled off, the rest of them are still set to poll or alert. When I manually toggle some ports and click save, the setting doesn't save. Any help or insight on this would be appreciated. AJ Schroeder

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added a HP server over snmp
by Casper Allerslev Jensen 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Hi all, I have just added a HP server. added SNMP and set it up. The server connected fine to observium. Now i see Observium has support for HP but the data im getting is pretty mandatory server stuff so im wondering what the HP support is added? or did i do it wrong? As an example i was hoping to get some RAID info on the RAID 1 running on the server with the controller that was shipped. But all i see is C:\ which won't alert me if a disk fail.

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odd install issue with the DB
by Lyndon Labuschagne 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Hi I have no idea what I have done or missed? I have created the user and I can login to the observium database as the observium user, root@nms:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php $config['db_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['db_user'] = 'observium'; $config['db_pass'] = ’Not-The-Password'; $config['db_name'] = 'observium'; // Base directory $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; // Default community list to use when adding/discovering $config['snmp']['community'] = array(“public"); // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please see documentation for config help // Enable alerter (not available in CE) #$config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; MySQL Error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) If I try to load the page from my browser I see this $config['db_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['db_user'] = 'observium'; $config['db_pass'] = 'Not-The-Password'; $config['db_name'] = 'observium'; // Base directory $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; // Default community list to use when adding/discovering $config['snmp']['community'] = array(“public"); // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please see documentation for config help // Enable alerter (not available in CE) #$config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; MySQL Error: Access denied for user 'lyndonl'@'localhost' (using password: NO) Why it references my username via my browser is even more odd to me?

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All obserdium devices are located at latitude 37.7463058 and longitude 37.7463058
by Chaman Rathee 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Observium is showing my all server at :- R. Francisco de Arruda Furtado 6, 9500-605 Ponta Delgada, Portugal Latitude: 37.746306 | Longitude: -25.666857 This is default latitude and longitude in cinfig.php $config['geocoding']['default']['lat'] = "37.7463058"; // Default latitude $config['geocoding']['default']['lon'] = "-25.6668573"; // Default longitude .......... With Best Regards, Chaman Rathee Mob. No. +9109560055816 [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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are page counts possible on a per user basis (in adressbook) of a Ricoh / Aficio MP c305 printer?
by ecaroh 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

We got an Aficio MP C305 Printer where we want to get a monthly automated report of printed pages (bw/color) based on a per user basis (addressbook / print code) to make a print accounting possible. We still can count total numbers (also of all in one types like fax, copy, print and divided in colour/bw counts), but no counts on a per user basis. Does anybody knows whether it is generally possible to have per user counts (based on printer addressbook and user print code) and if so is there an oid? We do not need that functionality directly in observium… cause this is not monitoring but reporting, but it would be nice to get them via snmp automated monthly. Thanks in advance. ecaroh — sample for known oids for getting overall general counters. ## AFICO PAGECOUNTERS OIDDEVTOTAL="SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.367.3.2.1.2.19.5.1.9.1" OIDCOPYSW="SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.367.3.2.1.2.19.5.1.9.3" OIDCOPYCL="SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.367.3.2.1.2.19.5.1.9.5" OIDPRTSW="SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.367.3.2.1.2.19.5.1.9.9" OIDPRTCL="SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.367.3.2.1.2.19.5.1.9.11" OIDFAXSW="SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.367.3.2.1.2.19.5.1.9.6" PRINTER="aio.office-factory.net“ after getting counters we make calculations with difference between now and the day before. Output via E-Mail: PAGES PRINTED SINCE 20150912 Total: 303 Print_SW: 134 Print_color: 78 Copy_SW: 45 Copy_color: 34 Fax_SW: 12

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New Install Alerts Rebuild not Matching
by Cameron Murray 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Guys, We've done a fresh install for a customer and created a sample offline rule however when we run the rebuild the output states it matched however under the alert checks the device count is still 0 We've just recreated the DB and all devices with the same outcome. [cid:image001.png@01D0F068.E9049100] [cid:image002.png@01D0F068.E9049100] Regards, Cameron Murray Remote Support Engineer How am I doing? Please click here<http://www.techpath.com.au/contact-us/feedback/> to rate my work. [cid:image003.png@01D0F068.E9049100]<http://www.techpath.com.au/> P 1300 033 300 F 07 3809 3999 E cameron(a)techpath.com.au www.techpath.com.au<http://www.techpath.com.au> Unit 2/55 Tradelink Rd, Hillcrest QLD 4118 Formerly Betta Computer Services Pty Ltd [Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/techpathau> [Twitter]<http://twitter.com/techpathau> [LinkedIn]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/techpathau> Note: This message may contain privileged and confidential information that is the property of the intended recipient. The information herein is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, then you are requested to return e-mail to TechPath Pty Ltd and destroy any copies made. Copying or disseminating any of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of TechPath Pty Ltd.

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geomapping stopped to work
by Alessandro Arciero 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Hello, geomapping stopped to work after (I think) a svn update. With the same overidden (working well) location configured in about 100 devices, the new devices are not mapped (message: not found) the geolocalization is enabled. I solved with the lat, lot values. Attachements are self-explanatory :-) tnx alessandro arciero [cid:85329DA6-2C7B-48BA-9CD5-03F5D867586A][cid:C4A8EE78-1CD7-4576-81F8-F067C0AF8312] Alessandro Arciero Networking Management Multilink Friuli S.r.l. Attività di direzione e coordinamento Serenissima Partecipazioni S.p.A. Via Marconi 85 | 33010 Tavagnacco (UD), Italy One number/Tel. +39 0432 498511 | Fax +39 0432 498585 Email alessandro.arciero(a)multilinkfriuli.net<mailto:alessandro.arciero@multilinkfriuli.net> | www.multilinkfriuli.net<http://www.multilinkfriuli.net> Reg. Imprese di UD C.F./P.I. 02271850303 - R.E.A. di UD 248194 | Capitale sociale Euro 50.000,00 i.v. The information contained in this e-mail message and inside the respective attachments are confidential and reserved and are strictly for exclusively use by the intended recipient. The opinions therein and in case expressed, are those of the author: therefore the message doesn’t represent contractual commitment between Multilink Friuli S.r.l. and the recipient, and the company assume no responsibility regard the contents of the text and respective attachments, nor for any interception, changes or damages. Please don’t make copies, forward to thirds or conserve this message if you are not the right recipient. In case you incorrectly received this message, please resend to sender and erase it immediately and permanently from your personal computer.

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Geolocation bugs
by Attila Nagy 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Hi Adam and everyone! I have two small bugs to report. I'm using Observium CE 0.15.6.6430, I'm closely following the mail list, but if the below mentioned glitches/bugs were between solved, then sorry for wasting your time. 1. I had this problem for longer, but now I found the way to formulate it properly. We have sysLocation strings alike this: Qualitis Iroda / Iroda - 1131 Budapest, Béke utca 116 [47.541773,19.085868] Now when I check the "Geolocation" tab in the "Device Settings" I see following in the "Last Update Status": Geocoding ENABLED, try detect device coordinates: by REVERSE query (API: MAPQUEST, LAT: 47.541773, LON: 19.085868) - FOUND GEO API REQUEST: http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1/reverse.php?format=json&accept-lan… GEOLOCATION: Hungary (Country), Unknown (State), Budapesti kistérség (County), Budapest (City) GEO COORDINATES: 47.54163 (Latitude), 19.0859 (Longitude) The problem as I see, is that after using the coordinates given in the sysLocation string to make a reverse query to lookup the Country, State, County etc., the geocoding API returns some coordinates which corresponds to THEIR found geolocation. But the geocoding API sometimes can give really offset coordinates, especially for some bigger sites, where it gives back the entrance. So if there are coordinates specified in sysLocation, then they should be used to pinpoint the device, no matter what the geocoding API says. PS: the documentation also says: "But observium anyway will store in DB specified coordinates." But this is currently not true. 2. I stumbled upon this while trying to get the data out of the Last Update Status Field for previous bug. The fields in the "Geolocation" tab in the "Device Settings" are marked with attribute disabled="disabled", and if something should be made writable, then this attribute is removed. I would suggest using the readonly attribute, as that would enable focusing and selecting from the given field. Not to mention the pure logic would tell the same, those fields are unmodifiable, so readonly should be used. Regards, Attila

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Subinterfaces in "down" state
by Bjoern Engels 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Dear list, Observium reports sub-interfaces as down even if the parents are administratively down, ex.: set interfaces ge-0/0/0 disable set interfaces ge-0/0/0 unit 0 family ethernet-switching port-mode \ access This raises an alert for ge-0/0/0.0 Is it possible to ignore sub-interfaces if the parents are admin down? BR Björn -- Bjoern Engels OpenIT GmbH engels(a)openit.de In der Steele 33a-41 PGP keyID 0x67504AC1 D-40599 Duesseldorf ________________________________________________________________________ HRB 38815 Amtsgericht Duesseldorf USt-Id DE 812951861 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Oliver Haakert, Maurice Kemmann

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Missing memory history
by Jason Vanlandingham 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

I recently made some device changes and ran *discovery.php -h all* and *poller.php -h all*. Shortly after that I noticed that on one Windows 7 Pro box I'm monitoring, I no longer have any physical memory in the memory graph, just virtual memory. The entire history of it disappeared, and it hasn't started new or anything like that. I checked permissions on that workstation's rrd directory, and all looks good. I do have some backups of the rrd directories. Should I restore?

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NOC display for specific Graphs
by Ron Culler 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

I'm looking to see if the ability exists to create a group with only a specific set of graphs based on an App. Then be able to assign that group to a user to view Ron Culler

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RANCID integration
by Robbie Wright 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Been hacking around with rancid for a bit and stuck on this step: Run this command to create the folder structure: su - rancid /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs It is asking for a password, presumably for rancid, which we don't have. Again presuming here, that it was created by the installer. Trying hard to follow the instructions (exactly) and this is where I'm getting hung up. Thanks ahead of time for the help. Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <https://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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aacraid under linux
by Nikolay Shopik 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Anyone running RAID within aacraid and have working snmp sub-agent? I had working snmp under windows machine, but that include installing storage manager, does same apply to snmpd under linux?

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Fwd: Does observium support snapshot.
by Varun Nair (Tech-OPS) 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Hey All, Firstly, a big kudos to observium and for making the life of a n/w engineer tad better. :) Now to my query, I have a Subscription Edition installed. Was wondering if there is a way to setup two instances say master/slave where the master polls the data and sends a periodic snapshot to the slave. This is basically for backups. Any pointers in this regard would be much appreciated. Feel free to revert if any questions. Thanks Varun Nair -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Although Flipkart has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachments

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Support for EMC Isilon & NetApp cDOT
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hi! I saw on an old thread that it's a know fact that NetApp cDOT doesn't work well, apparently due to changes in the MIB from NetApp so they don't use the normal structure anymore. A case was opened with NetApp.....was there any traction on that so far ? Secondly, with Isilon it does pull a lot of info by default, but due to Isilon using something called SmartConnect which basically is a round-robin DNS, if you use the cluster name you get a new node every time which confuses Observium quite a lot. Is there a way to make it somehow consolidate or average the data from all nodes in a cluster so I don't have to create each node individually ? /Jesper

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Match for Cisco routers but not switches?
by Andrew Plas 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

I am looking to create an alert checker to send an alert when an Ethernet interface on a Cisco IOS router goes down- for example when the router is still up and available in monitoring, but a physical link is down due to a local switch failure, carrier CPE down, peer (unamanaged) router down... We receive syslogs of course, but these can occasionally get lost in the flood and not noticed as actionable by NOC staff. Is there an effective way to make a device match for Cisco routers, but not Cisco switches? The OS type both show up as "ios", and I haven't found something router-specific to successfully match on. I can do this individually by device name, but unfortunately our naming scheme isn't specific enough to match them all with *rt* or *wan or similar. As you can see below, I set the device match to "os equals ios" which includes switches that have a ton of link-down-but-enabled ports on them! Thank you, Andrew [image: Inline image 2]

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