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Auto Discovery/Automate adding devices.
by Rudolf Hoehler 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Hello Team, Please can you assist me with the auto discovery. It's not working... :) I read in a mailing list archive dated Nov 2014, that it actually doesn't work? Is this still the case? Can I write my own script that adds devices from the backend? Should I use an API call or can I insert into the database directly? Further to that, 1. What happens if I try to add the same device again? Thinking from an automated system, the same hostname might have multiple interfaces that it is reachable on? 2. What happens if we change a device's host name - does observium create a new device? What is best practice when administering the system wrt device swop outs or hostname changes? Regards, Rudolf

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Interface ifAlias change at every poll
by Nick Ryce 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

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Forbidden Access Permissen Ubuntu 14.04.
by Florian Schnelle 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Hi everyone, I can´t access our new test installation. I don’t have any Apache knowledge and I guess that´s where the problem lays. I tried to create a vHost, as well as I tried to follow the instructions from the how to page regarding /etc/apache2/sites-available/default <Directory /opt/observium/html/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> Without any success. Help would be highly appreciated. Thanks and regards, Flo

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 60, Issue 37
by Mathias Giroud 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Hello, Can you help me for this integration ? https://gist.github.com/arekinath/3384869 Cordialement, GIROUD Mathias Tél.: +41 (0)27 519 00 46 Email: hello <mailto:hello@giroudmathias.ch> <mailto:marketing@giroudmathias.ch>@giroudmathias.ch <mailto:hello@giroudmathias.ch> Site: www.giroudmathias.ch <http://giroudmathias.ch/> This e-mail (including any attached documents) is intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, we kindly ask you not to review, retain, copy or distribute this message, and we ask you to notify the sender by reply e-mail immediately and delete this message from your system. Thank you. Le 07.07.15 13:00, « observium au nom de observium-request(a)observium.org » <observium-bounces(a)observium.org au nom de observium-request(a)observium.org> a écrit : >Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: mysql_fetch_array replacement? (Robert Williams) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 11:50:29 +0000 >From: Robert Williams <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com> >To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> >Subject: Re: [Observium] mysql_fetch_array replacement? >Message-ID: <fc447724ec8b486bb68bf179682629ea(a)CDC-EX2.cdc.local> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >Thanks guys, didn?t realise it was a php function ? > >Interestingly there were no errors at all, just a zero output from the function, which didn?t help! > >Anyway, the solution was indeed from the example given on here: > >foreach(dbFetchRows("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname") as $data) > >(Then the rest of the original code) > >So cheers for that! > > >Robert Williams >Custodian Data Centre >Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com >http://www.CustodianDC.com >From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong >Sent: 05 July 2015 18:54 >To: observium(a)observium.org >Subject: Re: [Observium] mysql_fetch_array replacement? > >I expect he's now using mysqli_* via the config option, which means mysql_* is no longer connected to a database :) > >adam. > >Sent from Mailbird<http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm_campai…> > >On 05/07/2015 18:43:14, Phillip Baker <phil(a)lchost.co.uk> wrote: >In fact, I?d be surprised if mysql_query is working if you?ve switched Observium to mysqli. What?s the actual error output of the script when you run it? > >Phil > >From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Robert Williams >Sent: 05 July 2015 13:51 >To: Observium Network Observation System (observium(a)observium.org) >Subject: [Observium] mysql_fetch_array replacement? > >Hi, > >After the SVN up on the 18th July the script we use for generating the Smokeping targets stopped producing any data (the list of slightly reformatted hostnames). The script itself was taken from this mailing list about 2 years ago and is as follows: > >#!/usr/bin/env php ><?php > >include("/opt/observium/includes/defaults.inc.php"); >include("/opt/observium/config.php"); >include("/opt/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php"); >include("/opt/observium/includes/functions.php"); > >echo "*** Targets ***\n\nprobe = FPing\n\nmenu = Top\ntitle = Network Latency Grapher\nremark = Welcome to SmokePing\n\n"; > >$query = mysql_query("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname"); > >while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { > $hostid = str_replace(".","_",$data['hostname']); > $hostname = $data['hostname']; > echo "+ $hostid\n\nhost = $hostname\n\n"; >} > >?> > >I can see that /includes/functions.php no longer exists but it?s replacement in functions.inc.php does not appear to have a function for mysql_fetch_array(). > >So my question is, can someone point me to the correct replacement function for this? I?ve had a look through it and can?t see what I?m looking for, but PHP is not my ?thing? so I?m missing it. > >Any assistance appreciated! > >Robert Williams >Custodian Data Centre >Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com> >http://www.CustodianDC.com >

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Device Alerts on the Frontpage
by Aaron Hite 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Guys, I have a question regarding alerts showing up on the frontpage. I have alerts coming to me via email when I have a alert checker looking at the memory going above 50% (testing this operation). But on the frontpage I do not see this show up in either the status boxes or under the device alerts section. I search around and can not find anything that I changed that would prevent this from showing up on the frontpage. I am sure I did something, but just not sure what? Any pointers or direction to start looking would be appreciated. Thanks, Aaron

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Linux Memory Alerts
by Jason LeBlanc 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Hi all, We're running PE 0.15.7.6539, it seems no matter what I set thresholds for on memory utilization for cached (I can ignore this..) and physical memory. I can look at the graphs and set thresholds to 90-95% and always get alarms. Any ideas or advice? Jason LeBlanc IT Consultant Direct: 678-387-5529 | Cell: 954-461-6492 [CTG-logo-TAG-COLOR] 2030 Powers Ferry Road SE | Suite 130 | Atlanta, GA 30339 Main: 404.352.3000 | Fax: 404.352.2962 | www.ctgatlanta.com

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virtual hosts stats
by Patrick Marquetecken 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

All, Is it possible to display traffic for several hosts ? Now I can see only the compete traffic for the http service, I would like to see the traffic for each virtual host. Or give me some pointers to get me on the way, BTW i’m not a programmer only a system engineer. Thanks

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Support
by Dave Bats 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Dear Observium Team,, We need your support on this, we try to install MIB's from Eltek(power supply tool) in Observium. We did receive the MIB's from Eltek. After install the MIB's and reboot we see that the system is trying to Read the Eltek MIB's but we see that OID's in the system are not recognized. Is there a way how we can solve this problem, do we need to add some script in Observium to make it work? You support is more than welcome! Kind Regards, Dave Bats

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mysql_fetch_array replacement?
by Robert Williams 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hi, After the SVN up on the 18th July the script we use for generating the Smokeping targets stopped producing any data (the list of slightly reformatted hostnames). The script itself was taken from this mailing list about 2 years ago and is as follows: #!/usr/bin/env php <?php include("/opt/observium/includes/defaults.inc.php"); include("/opt/observium/config.php"); include("/opt/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php"); include("/opt/observium/includes/functions.php"); echo "*** Targets ***\n\nprobe = FPing\n\nmenu = Top\ntitle = Network Latency Grapher\nremark = Welcome to SmokePing\n\n"; $query = mysql_query("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname"); while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { $hostid = str_replace(".","_",$data['hostname']); $hostname = $data['hostname']; echo "+ $hostid\n\nhost = $hostname\n\n"; } ?> I can see that /includes/functions.php no longer exists but it’s replacement in functions.inc.php does not appear to have a function for mysql_fetch_array(). So my question is, can someone point me to the correct replacement function for this? I’ve had a look through it and can’t see what I’m looking for, but PHP is not my ‘thing’ so I’m missing it. Any assistance appreciated! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Access to Alerts
by Andrew Colin 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hi Guys Is there a way to give a user that has "normal user" Level access to view their event logs as currently it doesn't allow. Kind Regards Andrew Colin Converged Telecoms (Pty) Ltd. Licensed Telecoms Operator : (0258/IECS/JAN/09) (0258/IECNS/JAN/09) Switchboard: +27 (0)10 591 4600 Email: <mailto:andrew@convergedgroup.net> andrew(a)convergedgroup.net Web: http://www.convergedgroup.net 75 Witkoppen Road, Northriding, Johannesburg, 2169 P O Box 7246, Weltevredenpark, 1715 This communication is confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you believe this message has been sent to you in error, please notify the sender by replying to this transmission and delete the message without disclosing it. Thank you.E-mail including attachments is susceptible to data corruption, interception, unauthorized amendment, tampering and viruses, and we only send and receive emails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, amendment, tampering or viruses or any consequences thereof.

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DD-WRT question
by Roland Hill 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hi, I run Observium on my home network, so appreciate the CE Edition (CE 0.15.6.6430). I have 2 dd-wrt based switches, and I remember when they were first discovered by Observium quite a while back, they displayed a dd-wrt logo on the device list. This hasn't occurred for a while now, and I just was interested to know if it is possible for this to happen? Screen shots attached fyi (hopefully they won't get stripped). This is a very minor question (hope the "noise is okay"), but if anyone has an answer I'd appreciate it. -- Regards, Roland Hill

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Re: [Observium] potential purchase issue
by Adam Armstrong 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Hi Andy, It seems sometimes the payment processor is a tiny bit slow at sending us subscription creation events. It is all automated, though! Usually on a Friday, too! Thanks, Adam. On 3 Jul 2015 11:28, "Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager)" <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk> wrote: > > Hi All, > > The subs are showing now, not sure if someone tweaked something somewhere. Still no email but thanks. > > Thanks > > Andy > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager) > Sent: 03 July 2015 10:39 > To: 'observium(a)observium.org' > Subject: [Observium] potential purchase issue > > > > Hi all, > > Who would I speak to about not having purchase confirmation come back from the paddle purchasing screen? > > I fought for ages to get my boss to approve of the spend and the hospital actually got a credit card in line with the requirements for the site. Now we’ve paid for the subs, got the big green tick under the hamster logo in the payment processing screen, but then after dropping back to the subs screen in the account area, it says we have no paid subscription. I also haven’t received an email yet, and it’s been a while. > > I am concerned! > > Thanks > > Andy Franks. > > > > > >

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Scaling adjustment for UPS sensors
by Robert Williams 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Hi, Is there a way to adjust the re-scaling for auxiliary UPS sensors? We’ve just been given some external sensors for our Riello units to play with; and whilst Observium can indeed see them, their temperatures are out by one decimal place: [cid:image001.png@01D0B4D2.A73E1560] (it should be 19.5C, obviously) The RH is fine interestingly, and this is only affecting the ‘external’ sensors in the NetMan card, not the built-in sensor. Interestingly, Riello also give out the ‘chassis’ temperature under the ‘battery’ temperature OID, which is why it shows our batteries as 27 degrees, they are not - and this is not Observium’s fault ☺ Anyway, is there a manual ‘tweak’ to correct the scaling for the temperature? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] ifSpeed/ifHighSpeed messages - HP C7000 Virtual Connect
by Oesterlin, Robert 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

We saw the same thing when we tested SolarWinds, so it’s definitely on the HP side. Pending me to get HP to actually fix the bug, can you think of a way I can suppress these messages, either filtering them out or limiting the SNMP response? Of course I can always tweak the code, but that’s a last resort option. Bob Oesterlin Sr Storage Engineer, Nuance Communications 507-269-0413

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ifSpeed/ifHighSpeed messages - HP C7000 Virtual Connect
by Oesterlin, Robert 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

We recently installed Observium and we’re receiving messages from the majority of our C7000 Virtual connects in the event log that look like this: 2015-07-03 06:28:32 lag27 Interface changed: [ifSpeed] 10000000000 -> 40000000000; [ifHighSpeed] 10000 -> 40000 2015-07-03 06:23:31 lag27 Interface changed: [ifSpeed] 40000000000 -> 10000000000; [ifHighSpeed] 40000 -> 10000 2015-07-02 23:58:34 lag27 Interface changed: [ifSpeed] 10000000000 -> 40000000000; [ifHighSpeed] 10000 -> 40000 2015-07-02 23:53:38 lag27 Interface changed: [ifSpeed] 40000000000 -> 10000000000; [ifHighSpeed] 40000 -> 10000 These VC’s have a 4 port LACP group to the core switch. I see nothing in the system log on either side that would indicate the interface speed is actually changing (link downs, errors) or other SNMP errors, so I’m inclined to think these message can be ignored. Any thoughts? If it’s a bug in the HP SNMP implementation on the VC’s I can submit a ticket. Otherwise I’d like to find a way to suppress them if I can. Bob Oesterlin Sr Storage Engineer, Nuance Communications 507-269-0413

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Re: [Observium] potential purchase issue
by Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager) 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Hi All, The subs are showing now, not sure if someone tweaked something somewhere. Still no email but thanks. Thanks Andy From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager) Sent: 03 July 2015 10:39 To: 'observium(a)observium.org' Subject: [Observium] potential purchase issue Hi all, Who would I speak to about not having purchase confirmation come back from the paddle purchasing screen? I fought for ages to get my boss to approve of the spend and the hospital actually got a credit card in line with the requirements for the site. Now we've paid for the subs, got the big green tick under the hamster logo in the payment processing screen, but then after dropping back to the subs screen in the account area, it says we have no paid subscription. I also haven't received an email yet, and it's been a while. I am concerned! Thanks Andy Franks.

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potential purchase issue
by Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager) 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Hi all, Who would I speak to about not having purchase confirmation come back from the paddle purchasing screen? I fought for ages to get my boss to approve of the spend and the hospital actually got a credit card in line with the requirements for the site. Now we've paid for the subs, got the big green tick under the hamster logo in the payment processing screen, but then after dropping back to the subs screen in the account area, it says we have no paid subscription. I also haven't received an email yet, and it's been a while. I am concerned! Thanks Andy Franks.

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DB problems
by Eduardo Schoedler 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Hi, I received the message: "Failed INSERT into DB, see details in 'db.log' inside log dir." when trying to insert ports in a billing... and there's nothing about the query in the log. -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Graphs
by Andrew Colin 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Hi Guys Is it possible to modify the look of the graphs to instead of showing up and down to show both going upwards but in a different color, similar to mrtg graphs Kind Regards Andrew Colin Converged Telecoms (Pty) Ltd. Licensed Telecoms Operator : (0258/IECS/JAN/09) (0258/IECNS/JAN/09) Switchboard: +27 (0)10 591 4600 Email: <mailto:andrew@convergedgroup.net> andrew(a)convergedgroup.net Web: http://www.convergedgroup.net 75 Witkoppen Road, Northriding, Johannesburg, 2169 P O Box 7246, Weltevredenpark, 1715 This communication is confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you believe this message has been sent to you in error, please notify the sender by replying to this transmission and delete the message without disclosing it. Thank you.E-mail including attachments is susceptible to data corruption, interception, unauthorized amendment, tampering and viruses, and we only send and receive emails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, amendment, tampering or viruses or any consequences thereof.

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Configuring map interface on new observium installation
by Andi Qirjazi 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Hi, I have just installed & configured observium for the first time. The first two devices are added and seems working, but I'm having problem displaying these devices on the map. All the time there is a blue sign on the middle on Atlantic ocean, it doesn't matter what I configure as device location. Please any idea how to configure the map? I have tried all the possible configurations at /opt/observium/config.php settings but with no success. This installation is behind a proxy server, but I have allowed all the traffic from observium host and I don't see any traffic from this host towards proxy server. thanks in advance, Andi Qirjazi

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How to purchase a Pro license
by Mike Driscoll 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

I want to upgrade our community instance to professional so I can make use of e-mail alerts. My company requires an invoice. How can I get a purchase quote/invoice in US dollars?

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Help understand log entries
by Rudolf Hoehler 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Hello All, Could some one help me decode a log entry in Observium? We get this entry every 5 minutes in Observium, but nothing changes on the interface (That we know of :) ). 2015-07-01 13:30:45 svs-za-jhb-ne-mse-001 ge-1/0/1.1557 Interface changed: [ifAlias] ABC CPE1 Interface | VRF:ABC-VRF | Vlan 1557 | CircuitNo:027JOHA1802009912345 -> ABC CPE1 Interface | VRF:ABC-VRF | Vlan 1557 | CircuitNo:027JOHA1802009901391 Is there a way to see what triggered this in Observium? Regards, Rudolf

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Device Storage graphs draw errors when in widescreen mode
by Louis Bailleul 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Hi, I have noticed an issue with the device filesystems graphs : they do not display correctly in widescreen mode. The RRD command/debug says : RRDTool Output: ERROR: Legend too long But if I paste the actual rrd command in the terminal, it runs fine and the output graph is correct too. It seems to be only happening with the filesystems usage graphs. I think something similar was reported on Jira but it didn't went far : http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1248 You can find attached screenshots of the issue. For the record I am 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 5.3.3 Python Python 2.6.6 MySQL 5.1.73 SNMP NET-SNMP 5.5 RRDtool 1.4.9 Best regards, Louis

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What triggers the 'device rebooted' alert?
by Michael Vieth 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

I am showing a device reboot alert but the uptime is shown to be over a year. The reboot is reported to happen last night precisely at midnight. Using version 0.15.3.6343 Cheers, [Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CA15C7.9F525A10] Michael Vieth | Network Engineer Nexa Technologies 801 E Campbell Rd. Ste 400 | Richardson, TX 75081 Phone: (972) 590-8669 x1906 www.nexatech.com<http://www.nexatech.com/>

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Observium Alerting SMSGlobal Integration
by Greg Lipschitz 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Hi All, We are looking to do more with alerting and get some form of SMS Alerting happening. We currently use SMS Global for our SMS Gateway both via API and Email > SMS. Has anyone done any wizardry around some SMS Gateway API integration in to Observium? We did the SMS Global API Integration in to PRTG and that works well just using a HTTP Post (http://www.smsglobal.com.au/http-api.php?action=sendsms&user=USER&password=…) Cheers, Greg Greg Lipschitz | Director | The Summit Group E: Greg(a)thesummitgroup.com.au<mailto:Greg@thesummitgroup.com.au> | W: www.thesummitgroup.com.au<http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au> The Summit Group (Australia) Pty Ltd | P: 1300 049 749 | Level 1, 39 Railway Road, Blackburn VIC 3130 The Summit Group (USA) LLC | P: 321 216 3844 | Suite 561, 40E Main Street, Newmark DE 19711 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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