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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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Error: Blank Page - Alert Checks
by Nate Mellendorf 09 Aug '15

09 Aug '15

Good evening, everyone. I've been having some trouble with the alert checks portion of Observium for quite some time now. Whenever I click Alert Checks from the global dropdown menu, an empty white page is displayed. This was working before, and (unfortunately) I'm not certain when it stopped. I know It's not related to any recent updates, as it's been this way for a few months now. We just haven't had time to investigate it further. Example URL: http://obsevium.testing.local/alert_checks/ I've renamed the following files in hopes that it was a simple corruption issue. However, the issue still persists. $ sudo svn update && php discovery.php -u Restored 'html/pages/alert_log.inc.php' Restored 'html/pages/alert_checks.inc.php' Restored 'html/pages/alerts.inc.php' Restored 'html/pages/alert_check.inc.php' At revision 6859. -- Database is up to date. Has anyone seen this before? I'd be more than happy to provide additional debug output. Images: Thank you. Nate Mellendorf | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 <http://www.netgainhosting.com/> www.NetgainHosting.com _____ The information contained in this email message is for the designated recipient only and may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any information contained within is strictly prohibited.

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Sensor Alerts
by Andre Geißler 07 Aug '15

07 Aug '15

Hi Is there a way to calculate in Alerts Tests? I think it's better to know temperature is quite close to sensor limit than it has already reached. At the moment we are checking temperature with "|sensor_value greater @sensor_limit|" but would like to be informed a little bit earlier|.| || |I can imagine to do it like that "|||sensor_value greater @sensor_limit - 2|" or "|||sensor_value greater @sensor_limit| * 0,95"| || Andre

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Abnormal value for the alert duration on observium alerts
by Supun Rathnayake 07 Aug '15

07 Aug '15

Hi Observium Team, Wondering whether the Observium team had a chance to looking into this pending issue http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-906 -- With Best Regards, Supun Rathnayake Lanka communication Services (Pvt) Ltd. 65C, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07. Sri Lanka. Tel: +94-11-2437545 http://www.lankacom.net

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Re: [Observium] RANCID Script
by Nate Mellendorf 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Here's an example of my CRON job for RANCID: 30 23 * * * root php /core1/observium/scripts/generate-rancid.php > /var/lib/rancid/all/router.db && chown rancid: /var/lib/rancid/all/router.db Not quite sure why yours isn't working though. Permissions, maybe? Nate Mellendorf | NETWORK ANALYST | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 www.NetgainHosting.com -----Original Message----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 10:01:25 +0000 From: "chott(a)praha1.net" <chott(a)praha1.net> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] RANCID Script Message-ID: <8DE59ADBFC8D06458B47A51E9C02A25CB8A759F6(a)exchange1.airess.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Hello team i have question about Automation of /opt/observium/scripts/generate-rancid.php i have added this 0 5 * * * /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-run #hourly router dump 50 23 * * * /usr/bin/find /var/lib/rancid/logs -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; Into Crontab, but yesterday we are add new switch but Rancid doesnt have in ROUTERS DB file after run manualy /opt/observium/scripts/generate-rancid.php new switch is now in rancid DB file Tomas [email-header-praha1] Tomas Chott technick? ?editel chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net> Phone: +420 245 004 005 Mobile: +420 604 930 119 Metropolitn? s?? 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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Port status changes
by Andre Geißler 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Hi Could it be possible to show the ports last state change on the port overview page? Something like Port up/down since 2015/08/04 09:33 Port up/down for 1d 3h 10m 30s Maybe as a new column or right below the port's description? Andre Geißler

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RANCID Script
by chott＠praha1.net 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Hello team i have question about Automation of /opt/observium/scripts/generate-rancid.php i have added this 0 5 * * * /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-run #hourly router dump 50 23 * * * /usr/bin/find /var/lib/rancid/logs -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; Into Crontab, but yesterday we are add new switch but Rancid doesnt have in ROUTERS DB file after run manualy /opt/observium/scripts/generate-rancid.php new switch is now in rancid DB file Tomas [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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95th graph mismatch
by Andrés Pugawko 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Hi Adam, I have an issue measuring 95 percentile interface using two different methods. If I go to the Port page for a specific interface and select a date range for example from 2015-07-01 00:00:00 to 2015-08-01 00:00:00 the 95 % for IN traffic is 563.87M Meanwhile if i take the same measure using the traffic accounting for this interface the 95% is 685M There is something I ain't understand? Or is really an issue? -- Regards Andrés Enviado desde la aplicación myMail para Android -------- Forwarded message -------- De: "Julio Policarpo - NOC CABASE" < noc.julio(a)cabase.org.ar> CC: < andres(a)cabase.org.ar> Fecha: miércoles, 05 agosto 2015, 06:49PM -03:00 Asunto: Graficos del 95th Observium >Andres, te mando los dos gráficos. > >Saludos!!!! > >Julio Policarpo >NOC CABASE > >Suipacha 128 - Piso 3° F >C1008AAD Buenos Aires - Argentina >Tel: (54-11) 4326-0777 int. 109 >www.cabase.org.ar > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. >www.avast.com

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Plaining LDAP for login
by chott＠praha1.net 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Hello team, we are plaining LDAP authentication for Observium. What happend if LDAP server is not available ? And can i combine LDAP and MySQL logins? For example LDAP for company Users and MySQL for customers/viewers Regards, Tomas [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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Device Not able to Add
by Joy, Jees (KVH) 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Hello All, I am not able to add 2 devices. These are the longest distance & latency devices in our network 124 ms. I wonder if latency have any play while adding the device. Other than these devices I can add almost all other device. Below is the command which I am trying to use to add the device. I alos have tried test commands also, please find my out put below. ./add_device.php <devicename> <communityname> Observium v0.14.10.6812 Add Device(s) Try to add <devicename>: Could not ping <devicename>. Devices skipped: 1. snmpget -v2c -c <community> <device> sysObjectID.0 SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3224.1.52 Please help. Best Regards, Jees Joy Internal IT "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. "

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