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by Karsten Schwarz 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

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Incorrect memory graph for large RAM amount
by Louis Bailleul 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Hi, Just discovered a weirdness when I added a server that has 3TB of RAM : the ucd_memory graph is totally messed up. It only displays negative amount of Cache/Shared buffers. The legend shows that it didn't handle the 3TB correctly. But it seems to be fine for the health/memory view where the correct amount is displayed everywhere. I have attached the debug output of the poller for this device. Best regards, Louis

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Better performance on older hardware
by Louis Bailleul 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Hi, I am in the process of qualifying some hardware to run Observium (planning to deploy it in about 25 locations). So I was trying to evaluate the hardware we currently have which consist of Dell R610 and IBM X3550. So we can gauge what we need. The R610 has : - 2x Intel X5660 (6 cores 2.8Ghz + hyperthreading) == total of 12 physical cores and 24 logical - 96Gb of DDR3 1333Mhz - 6x300GB 10K SAS configured as one raid1 of 2 disks for mysql and OS and a raid5 of 4 disks for rrds. - 1Gb network interface The X3550 has : - 2x Intel L5420 (4 cores 2.5Ghz) == total of 8 physical cores - 32Gb of DDR2 266Mhz - 2x200Gb 7.5K SATA configured as one for mysql and OS and one for rrds - 1 Gb network interface So reading this, it seems easy to guess which one should be faster. I am currently testing using : Observium CE 0.15.6.6430 OS Linux 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 6.2) Apache 2.2.15 (CentOS) PHP 5.6.11 Python 2.6.6 MySQL 5.6.26-log SNMP NET-SNMP 5.5 RRDtool 1.4.9 From my testing, the poller perform a quite better on the R610 than on the X3550 : Polling the same 310 linux boxes (The slowest devices taking around 35 seconds) this gives an average of : - 8 threads : R610 : 169 seconds X3550 : 213 seconds - 12 threads : R610 : 69 seconds X3550 : 156 seconds - 24 threads R610 : 41 seconds X3550 : 107 seconds - 36 threads R610 : 41 seconds X3550 : 160 seconds - 64 threads R610 : 37 seconds X3550 : 225 seconds - 96 Threads R610 : 40 seconds X3550 : Still running Ok we clearly have a winner here. Bottom line for the poller, you can come close to the time taken by your slowest devices if you add more threads. But it seems that you need quite a few cores available to be able to increase the number of threads without decreasing the efficiency. This was kind of expected. Where the thing becomes weird it's on the web interface and especially the graph rendering : On average starting with a clear cache, the same Linux device page render (graphs included) consistently in about 1 second on the X3550 and in about 4 seconds on the R610 (screenshot attached). Where it became even worse : if you ask the X3550 to connect to the mysql database of the R610 and export the rrds of the R610 over NFS ... the X3550 still render the page faster (still around 1 second). Any guess on what is going on here ? It doesn't seem right that a machine that is definitely faster accessing mysql and updating rrds would be 4 times slower when rendering graphs. Best regards, Louis

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backup data
by Farshid Abediny 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Hi, how can we backup observium data that if our VMs lost we can recover data ? only backup of database rrd/ logs/ folder is enough? thanks,

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Re: [Observium] can't ping error from inside Observium
by Tom Laermans 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Disagree! :) On Aug 13, 2015 5:45 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > > Oh yes. I keep forgetting people can add from the web interface. > > I vote to remove adding from the web interface. Again. > > adam. >> >> On 13/08/2015 16:36:40, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >> >> Most likely selinux is not letting apache exec fping. >> >> Tom >> >> On Aug 13, 2015 3:24 PM, Michael Ponto wrote: >> > >> > Good morning all >> > I have a new server setup with Centos 7 and Observium >> > Everything looks good except I can't add any devices. >> > I get an error that says it can't ping the device. >> > >> > I can ping when logged in from the terminal by IP and by Name. >> > FPing also works from the console. >> > IP tables and Firewall have been turned off for trouble shooting. >> > I can add users etc. >> > This is a replacement box so the devices are all configured correctly. >> > >> > Total loss here. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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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Re: [Observium] can't ping error from inside Observium
by Tom Laermans 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

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Re: [Observium] can't ping error from inside Observium
by ron＠rjr-services.com 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

As a CLI person, I agree with Adam. :-) Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [Observium] Alert checking on port state change
by Tom Laermans 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Protip: the below statement is not true, there's a toggle for number of seconds to renotify. But indeed, no per-checker config, that one is true ;) Tom On Aug 13, 2015 7:03 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > At the moment Observium is hardcoded to re-notify alerts after 24 hours. > > I think that your use case would be helped by being able to turn this off on a per-checker basis. > > I'll add it to the list :) > > Adam. > > Sent with AquaMail for Android > http://www.aqua-mail.com > > On 12 August 2015 9:02:30 pm Tim Vaughan <tim(a)timvaughan.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Hi all, I'm starting to get my head around Observium alerts. >> >> I want to be alerted if a switch port that was previously down comes up, and vice versa. I don't want to get repeatedly alerted when a port is down (or up), only when it changes state. At the moment I'm using tests "ifAdminStatus equals up" and "ifOperStatus notequals up" for one alert, but I appear to be getting notifications each time the poller runs. Any suggestions on how I can get what I want? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tim >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>

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Re: [Observium] can't ping error from inside Observium
by Tom Laermans 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Most likely selinux is not letting apache exec fping. Tom On Aug 13, 2015 3:24 PM, Michael Ponto <MPonto(a)team-psc.com> wrote: > > Good morning all > I have a new server setup with Centos 7 and Observium > Everything looks good except I can't add any devices. > I get an error that says it can't ping the device. > > I can ping when logged in from the terminal by IP and by Name. > FPing also works from the console. > IP tables and Firewall have been turned off for trouble shooting. > I can add users etc. > This is a replacement box so the devices are all configured correctly. > > Total loss here. > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Alert checking on port state change
by Tim Vaughan 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Hi all, I'm starting to get my head around Observium alerts. I want to be alerted if a switch port that was previously down comes up, and vice versa. I don't want to get repeatedly alerted when a port is down (or up), only when it changes state. At the moment I'm using tests "ifAdminStatus equals up" and "ifOperStatus notequals up" for one alert, but I appear to be getting notifications each time the poller runs. Any suggestions on how I can get what I want? Cheers, Tim

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can't ping error from inside Observium
by Michael Ponto 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Good morning all I have a new server setup with Centos 7 and Observium Everything looks good except I can't add any devices. I get an error that says it can't ping the device. I can ping when logged in from the terminal by IP and by Name. FPing also works from the console. IP tables and Firewall have been turned off for trouble shooting. I can add users etc. This is a replacement box so the devices are all configured correctly. Total loss here.

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Re: [Observium] svn Checksum mismatch error
by Tom Laermans 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

I'll give you that, though i'm pretty sure they also switched to snmp-mibs-downloader :) On Aug 13, 2015 7:51 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > > Ubuntu doesn't seem to have quite so much OS-zealotry-fuelled hatred for its users as Debian, though! ;) > > adam. >> >> On 13/08/2015 06:49:46, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >> >> >> On Aug 13, 2015 7:01 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> > >> > Also, I'd recommend Ubuntu, it has fewer strange quirks than Debian. :) >> >> I highly recommend Debian over Ubuntu for exactly that reason :) >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] false device down alerts
by Rudolf Hoehler 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Hello Sujith, When you set an alert you can set the number of polling runs before the alert actually fires. Under Alert Checkers set the "Alert Delay" for the checker to 3 or 4 and see if the results improve. If you are polling every minute you might start a polling run while the previous polling run is still happening. I would up this from 1 minute to about 2 or 3 minutes at least. Would be good to hear other comments on the fast polling time. Rudolf From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of "Samarasinghe, Sujith" <Sujith.Samarasinghe(a)Squarepoint-Capital.com<mailto:Sujith.Samarasinghe@Squarepoint-Capital.com>> Reply-To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Thursday 13 August 2015 at 07:14 To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] false device down alerts Hi Team, How to avoid false device down alerts? I think it just single ping and small network glitch on observium server to monitor device alerts are device down. I am polling every minutes though. Is there any way to let observium at least poll second time and alert device is down? 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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Re: [Observium] svn Checksum mismatch error
by Tom Laermans 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

On Aug 13, 2015 7:01 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > > Also, I'd recommend Ubuntu, it has fewer strange quirks than Debian. :) I highly recommend Debian over Ubuntu for exactly that reason :)

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false device down alerts
by Samarasinghe, Sujith 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Hi Team, How to avoid false device down alerts? I think it just single ping and small network glitch on observium server to monitor device alerts are device down. I am polling every minutes though. Is there any way to let observium at least poll second time and alert device is down? 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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svn Checksum mismatch error
by Johnson, Edward A. 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

We have been running Observium under RHEL 6 for over a year now. After one of the last updates, I noticed that php 5.4 or newer was needed. Unfortunately, php 5.3.3 is current in RHN but I was able to update to 5.4 using a different repository. Then I had an issue with xcache not being available for 5.4. This brings me to my current problem. I decided to go with the approved distro, Debian. My problem is that when I try to execute "svn co http://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/branches/stable observium", I get a few files and then randomly get the error “Checksum mismatch for ‘/opt/observium/somefilename.extension’ If I blow away the /opt/observium directory and run the command again, a different file gives me that error.

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'Duplicate entry' issues on vlans_fdb
by Aaron Mayfield 12 Aug '15

12 Aug '15

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? I see someone else on the list has had this same issue, but there is no indication that this should be a problem in the latest version. What should I check? Thanks for any help. Aaron Mayfield Cloud Expert Networking Specialist 12400 Hwy. 71 W. Suite 350-407 Austin, TX 78738 T. 512.600.4297 www.artisaninfrastructure.com Partner portal: https://portal.vpdc.us Partner support: support(a)artisaninfrastructure.com 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. Please note that any views or opinions present in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally the recipient should check this email and any attachment for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. (Proprietary & Confidential – Artisan Infrastructure, Inc. et all.)

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Link to device - Feature request
by chott＠praha1.net 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Hello team, i have question about create link in observium for open in new tab GUI of device config for example if iam in Device Overview, create some Icon or Text link to open New Tab for Device GUI configuration HTTP? Or SSH plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-us/firefox/addon/firessh/ Tom [email-header-praha1] Tomas Chott technický ředitel chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net> Phone: +420 245 004 005 Mobile: +420 604 930 119 Metropolitní síť Praha 1 z.s.p.o. Jindrisska 18 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic www.praha1.net<http://www.praha1.net> [Popis: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/praha1net> <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tomas-chott/49/97a/1aa>

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Mikrotik SwitchOS long poller
by chott＠praha1.net 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Hello team, we have Mikrotik Switch OS model RB260GS, there is Poller/Discovery Timing about 751s [X] There is Discovery log attached [email-header-praha1] Tomas Chott technický ředitel chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net> Phone: +420 245 004 005 Mobile: +420 604 930 119 Metropolitní síť Praha 1 z.s.p.o. Jindrisska 18 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic www.praha1.net<http://www.praha1.net> [Popis: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/praha1net> <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tomas-chott/49/97a/1aa>

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Broken graph.
by Zafar Pravaiz 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Dear All, I am getting gap in graph for many devices. Any idea what needs to done to fix this. Help Appreciated. Thanks Zafar Pravaiz IT Senior Network Engineer Information Technology Department Tel +971 6 515 2164 Fax +971 6 515 2112 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu <http://www.aus.edu/> zpravaiz(a)aus.edu <mailto:youremail@aus.edu>

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Re: [Observium] links to graphs
by Jeffrey d'Ambly 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Got it working didn’t realize there was a config option for this $config['allow_unauth_graphs'] = 1; # Allow graphs to be viewed by anyone —jeff From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of Jeffrey <jeffrey.dambly(a)jasper.com<mailto:jeffrey.dambly@jasper.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Monday, August 10, 2015 at 1:36 PM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] links to graphs I’m trying to create a simple dashboard view of some IP SLA graphs using Observium Enterprise, and I was wondering what I needed to do to pull these graphs into the dashboard. Linking to them staticly doesn’t work due to authentication. Is there a built in way I can auth and get a cookie for this? —Jeff

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links to graphs
by Jeffrey d'Ambly 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

I’m trying to create a simple dashboard view of some IP SLA graphs using Observium Enterprise, and I was wondering what I needed to do to pull these graphs into the dashboard. Linking to them staticly doesn’t work due to authentication. Is there a built in way I can auth and get a cookie for this? —Jeff

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[sh] <defunct>
by Simon Smith 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

Hi All, i did an update this morning to latest SVN and working fine (thumbs up) I then disabled the cron job to update PHP, MySQL and Apache as I’m still using 5.3, 5.2 and 2.2 (updated to 5.6, 5.5 and 2.4) now the apache has just completely gone tits up !? I’m seeing about 50 of ' [sh] <defunct> ' in my ‘ ps aux ‘ erm, where do i begin to start looking? i updated using https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php5-5.6 <https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php5-5.6> as I’m running ubuntu 12.04 lts regards Simon

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Customer billing
by Jan Kuiper 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

Hi, I want to search for bills, but the bill search function does only give all bills instead of the requested Bill Name. Has anyone the same issue, if no what can I do wrong or fix it? I am running the stable version 6833. [cid:image002.png@01D0D38F.90DC38C0] Met vriendelijke groet / Kind Regards, Jan Kuiper [cid:image001.jpg@01CF62F0.6DBAB760] Piramide ICT Services | Kollergang 9 | 7773 NG Hardenberg | Postbus 220 | 7770 AE Hardenberg info(a)piramide.nl<mailto:info@piramide.nl> | http://www.piramide.nl | +31 (0)523 261 387 Disclaimer Deze e-mail is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Verstrekking aan en gebruik door anderen is niet toegestaan. Piramide sluit iedere aansprakelijkheid uit die voortvloeit uit elektronische verzending.

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RRD Graphs
by Andre Geißler 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

Hello Looks like the sizes of RRD graphs aren't correct. If in widescreen mode they are too big. In normal mode they are too small. See my attached Images. Andre

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