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Help with alerts for CISCO ASA IPSEC VPNS on Observium GUI of Community version
by Muhammad Waqas 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

I am new to Observium community, as i recently installed observium community version on EC2 instance and i want to originate the Alerts if there is an outage on Cisco ASA IPSEC VPNS so how do i configure the alerts if you can help me with all the settings in the Alert checker.It will be really helpful as i found it very hard to configure alerts Checker IPSEC SITE TO SITE VPN Alert Checker configuration required on GUI ? BR, Muhammad Waqas

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IPv6 total graphs
by Matteo Sgalaberni 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Hello, I'm using the Port description Parsing to aggregate graphs in the section "Transit" and "Core". It's very useful so I can know the total traffic that is forwarded on my network. On all devices I have also the IPv6 graphs inside the device interface. Question1) I would like to see the total traffic differentiated by ipv4/ipv6 on the same way of tab "Transit/Core". I want to know the total traffic IPv6 that is forwarded globally or by transits. Question 2) The graph "Device total traffic in bits/sec." report the total traffic I immagine. Is is possible to have that total traffic of the device differentiated by ipv4/ipv6? Thanks Matteo

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Help Request
by Matthew Haney 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

I'm not sure if this is the correct manner, but I'm looking for some kind of support. We are using Observium with ops genie, and around March of this year our Alerts are way less than normal. We'd get 10-25 a day, no almost nothing. I have 0 background in any database knowledge, and can really only fumble my way through Linux commands.

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FDB devices 3Com
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

Hi, in our work we have yet many devices 3Com 4210, 3com 4210 Poe and 3com 4500. On this devices we can't get FDB table, can't search a MAC Address on fastly to know where is a PC connected. how i can solve this? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Windows Services
by Stuart Dyer 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

Hi Everyone, I'm on an old build of the community edition, 20.9.10731 (22nd September 2020). Noted in the demo on the website Observium can monitor windows services on windows servers. If I upgrade to the latest community edition does that come with the ability to monitor windows services or do I need to go to the paid edition ? if so can I use an alert checker to send an email if a specific windows service changes its status from running to anything other than running ? Regards, Stuart Dyer IT Administrator PTO: 19th August 2022 to 29th August 2022 Phone: +61 2 8020 2063 | E-mail: stuart.dyer(a)innovit.com<mailto:stuart.dyer@innovit.com> [innovit-logo (002) trans 2018] Bringing quality to Master Data MLC Centre, Level 56 19-29 Martin Place <https://goo.gl/maps/2yiiJ2YC4H9SBjYX6> Sydney NSW 2000<https://goo.gl/maps/2yiiJ2YC4H9SBjYX6> Tel: +612 8020 2000 Fax: +612 8020 2099 Web: www.innovit.com<http://www.innovit.com/> Australasia | North America | Europe Follow us on LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovit-australia-pty-ltd?trk=public_profi…> This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information, which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail or using any of the following contact details.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 140, Issue 9
by Sandoiu Mihai 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

Found it, fixed it https://observium.observium.narkive.com/vnZ2kHpr/ios-xr-snmp-server-context… Working like a charm Mihai

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Re: [Observium] Dashboard Rotation
by Mati 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to configure observium with several dashboards and after every 15 seconds have the dashboard change to a different configuration? So, for example, on Dashboard 1 i have all the bandwidth graphs and on Dashboard 2 all the alerts and event logs, the dashboard will automatically change every 15 seconds or so... Thanks in advance

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Distributed Polling
by Milton Ngan 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Are many people using Distributed Polling? We are just playing around with it now. How many devices can you typically poll per thread in under 5 minutes? Some of this is also a function of how much latency you have between your pollers and your devices and how "slow" your devices are. But we are having to throw a lot threads (>200) at this to ensure we get our 1200+ devices polling under 5 minutes. The RRD and DB backends are not the bottleneck, it is purely the latency of the SNMP polling we need to overcome. The longest devices take between 150-200s depending on what else is hitting it at the time (e.g discovery + poller). So we need a fair number threads just to get these out of the way. I was wondering if sorting the most expensive devices first could help avoid getting two slow devices back to back. Also, it would be nice to have the system use a queue to schedule the work rather than a hard partition. This avoids the problem of losing 1/Nth of your devices when you lose a poller. With a queue you would just lose 1/Nth of the threads. If you had enough spare capacity you could ride through the downtime of a single poller. Cheer Milton

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Network Traffic Map is not working any more - error 500
by Henrik Aarfeldt 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Hello, The new Network Traffic Map did work the other day - great. Yesterday it stopped working in our installation (22.6.12145) with an error 500. I was wondering if it's our installation that's the problem, or an issue with Observium code ? I think it's a beta function - just wanted to inform. -- Med venlig hilsen | Best regards | Mit freundlichen Grüßen | Cordialement | आपकी ईमानदारी से Henrik Aarfeldt Drift > Driftsstyring > Overvågning Overvågning + SårbarhedsKortlægning + SvartidsMålinger + NetværksKvalitetsMålinger + Elastic. Mobil: +45 2494 8281 Mail: Henrik.Aarfeldt(a)RegionH.dk Region Hovedstaden Center for It og Medicoteknologi, CIMT Borgervænget 7, 3. sal 2100 København Ø Bliv vores nye kollega i et spændende miljø. https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=342&ProjectId=241… ________________________________ Region Hovedstaden anvender de personoplysninger, du giver os i forbindelse med din henvendelse. Du kan læse mere om formålet med anvendelsen samt dine rettigheder på vores hjemmeside: www.regionh.dk/persondatapolitik

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PBX monitoring
by Luis Olavarrieta 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

Hi guys, is anyone monitoring VoIP PBX? SIP trunks? Which brands are you monitoring? What info are you able to get? I need to monitor some UNIFY (it used to be Siemens) and they have the MIBS available in their partner portal, how do you add them?? Regards, Luis

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Timeticks in Custom OID
by Philipp Helo Rehs 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

Hello, i would like to monitor dot1dStpTimeSinceTopologyChange (numeric oid 1.3.6.1.2.1.17.2.3.0) which is a Timetick. I have tried it as Gauce and also as Counter but always gives Draw Errors and not values. Do you have any idea how to do this? Kind regards Philipp -- Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologie Kompetenzzentrum für wissenschaftliches Rechnen und Speichern Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1 Raum 25.41.00.51 40225 Düsseldorf / Germany Tel: +49-211-81-15557

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Custom OIDS and billing
by David Milton 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Hello, We are using the Juniper DCU MIB to track member traffic for billing purposes. We have two upstream transit providers and have created custom OID entries for each member and transit provider for IPv4 and IPv6. The end result is four custom OIDs per member. Ideally we would like to use the traffic accounting module and assign the four custom OID graphs to one bill but can’t figure out how. Is there a way to combine the four OIDs into a single stacked graph so we can see the aggregate of all traffic to both providers? Is there an alternative way to do this short of doing it manually with rrd? Lastly, is there any planned support for the Juniper DCU MIB so we can use this to monitor members transit traffic? Thanks, Dave Milton SRNet Operations

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question
by Aleksander 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

is it ok? [image: image.png]

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reports?
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

hi, How i can get a daily report of devices available (mail, pdf or something)? I mean i want get a report of cpu state (load %, available) of eacheone, every day. It is possible? -- Saluda cordialmente

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PHP 8.1 & CE 22.5
by Mark Kamichoff 05 Jun '22

05 Jun '22

Hi - I had a happy persona/home Observium CE 19.x install on Debian (testing) running w/MySQL 5.5 and PHP 7.0 that I finally decided to upgrade to MariaDB 10.6 / PHP 8.1 and am running into some issues. 1) I did the PHP 8.1 upgrade first without touching anything else. I started getting the following: % /opt/observium/discovery.php -u PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: mysqli_query(): Argument #2 ($query) cannot be empty in /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php:291 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php(291): mysqli_query() #1 /opt/observium/includes/db.inc.php(225): dbCallQuery() #2 /opt/observium/includes/sql-config.inc.php(97): dbQuery() #3 /opt/observium/discovery.php(19): include('...') #4 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php on line 291 I get something similar in the web interface: [Sun Jun 05 14:59:53.435049 2022] [php:error] [pid 3255678] [client 2620:6:2003:105:2d8:61ff:fe0f:853:54778] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: mysqli_query(): Argument #2 ($query) cannot be empty in /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php:291\nStack trace:\n#0 /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php(291): mysqli_query()\n#1 /opt/observium/includes/db.inc.php(225): dbCallQuery()\n#2 /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php(391): dbQuery()\n#3 /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php(176): dbFetchRow()\n#4 /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php(300): get_obs_attrib()\n#5 /opt/observium/includes/sql-config.inc.php(75): get_db_version()\n#6 /opt/observium/html/index.php(13): include('...')\n#7 {main}\n thrown in /opt/observium/includes/db/mysqli.inc.php on line 291 2) I decided to upgrade to Observium CE 22.5. No change. I even cleaned up my config.php and removed some obsolete items. 3) I upgraded MySQL 5.5 -> MariaDB 10.6. No change. The CE 22.5 announcement indicated PHP8 should be supported now. However, I'm wondering if that doesn't include PHP 8.1. Does anyone have CE 22.5 running successfully on Debian with PHP 8.1? If so, did you have to tweak anything to get it to work? If there's something obvious in the docs I've missed please just post a link and indicate RTFM ;) Thanks in advance! Some info: (atlantis:14:56:EDT)% env php --version PHP Warning: PHP Startup: ^(text/|application/xhtml\+xml) (offset=0): unrecognised compile-time option bit(s) in Unknown on line 0 PHP 8.1.5 (cli) (built: Apr 21 2022 09:51:30) (NTS) Copyright (c) The PHP Group Zend Engine v4.1.5, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v8.1.5, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies (atlantis:14:56:EDT)% dpkg -l | grep -i php8 ii libapache2-mod-php8.1 8.1.5-1 amd64 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (Apache 2 module) ii php8.1 8.1.5-1 all server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage) ii php8.1-apcu 5.1.21+4.0.11-7 amd64 APC User Cache for PHP ii php8.1-bcmath 8.1.5-1 amd64 Bcmath module for PHP ii php8.1-cli 8.1.5-1 amd64 command-line interpreter for the PHP scripting language ii php8.1-common 8.1.5-1 amd64 documentation, examples and common module for PHP ii php8.1-curl 8.1.5-1 amd64 CURL module for PHP ii php8.1-gd 8.1.5-1 amd64 GD module for PHP ii php8.1-mbstring 8.1.5-1 amd64 MBSTRING module for PHP ii php8.1-mysql 8.1.5-1 amd64 MySQL module for PHP ii php8.1-opcache 8.1.5-1 amd64 Zend OpCache module for PHP ii php8.1-readline 8.1.5-1 amd64 readline module for PHP ii php8.1-xml 8.1.5-1 amd64 DOM, SimpleXML, XML, and XSL module for PHP (atlantis:14:56:EDT)% dpkg -l | grep -i mariadb ii libmariadb3:amd64 1:10.6.7-3 amd64 MariaDB database client library ii mariadb-client-10.6 1:10.6.7-3 amd64 MariaDB database client binaries ii mariadb-client-core-10.6 1:10.6.7-3 amd64 MariaDB database core client binaries ii mariadb-common 1:10.6.7-3 all MariaDB common configuration files ii mariadb-server 1:10.6.7-3 all MariaDB database server (metapackage depending on the latest version) ii mariadb-server-10.6 1:10.6.7-3 amd64 MariaDB database server binaries ii mariadb-server-core-10.6 1:10.6.7-3 amd64 MariaDB database core server files (atlantis:14:56:EDT)% - Mark -- Mark Kamichoff prox(a)prolixium.com https://www.prolixium.com/

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Juniper DCU MIB
by David Milton 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

Helo, We are using the Juniper DCU MIB to track member traffic for billing purposes. We have two upstream service providers and have created custom OID entries for each provider for IPv4 and IPv6 and each member. That gives us 4 custom OIDs per member. I was hoping to use the traffic accounting module and assign the 4 custom OID graphs to one bill but can’t figure out how. Another option would be to take the four graphs and produce a stacked graph containing the 4 graph values. Or would a group work? Is what I want to do possible with Observium? Is there any planned support for the Juniper DCU MIB so we can use this to monitor members transit traffic? Thanks, Dave.

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Windows Server Unknown Processor Type
by greggy862 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Hello, How can I solve Unknown Processor type for my windows servers? Regards, Greg

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Alert emails from pollers
by Lars Joergensen 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

Hi A new discovery from our partitioned pollers today: Alert emails are sent out from the poller, not the main Observium instance. We can work around it, but since we have pollers in some pretty firewalled networks, it's going to be an effort. We always thought of pollers as just data collection agents. Can this behavior be changed in the configuration somewhere, or is it just the way it works? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Issue with Didactum device (after firmwareupdate, generic device)
by Thomas Stather 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

Hi We are running Observium Professional r12000 Recently, we upgraded the firmware of one of our Didactum sensors and noticed, that after the firmware upgrade, Obersvium handled it as a generic device instead with all sensors beeing removed. 3d 16h 50m it-temp-002 <https://observium.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/device/device=214/> OS changed: didactum-ems -> generic The sysObjectID is .1.3.6.1.4.1.46501 and according to the following ticket, it should be working from r11479 onwards https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3814 What are we doing wrong here? Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV, VCP6.5-DCV Tel: +49 6221 486 628 Fax: +49 6221 486 561 Bevor Sie diese Mail ausdrucken, prüfen Sie bitte ob dies wirklich nötig ist. Umweltschutz geht uns alle an!

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troubble in map info
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

Hi, we are running observium 22.2.11868 (stable), and set location to many places. i'm testing test_geo.php but i get REQUEST[ https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=sausalito&addressdetails=1&for… ] REQUEST STATUS[FALSE] REQUEST RUNTIME[0.5921s] RESPONSE CODE[408 Request Timeout] Geocoding ENABLED, try detect device coordinates: by FORWARD query (API: OPENSTREETMAP, sysLocation: sausalito) - GEO API REQUEST: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=sausalito&addressdetails=1&for… +---------------+-----+-----+---------+-------+--------+------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Geo: API | Lat | Lon | Country | State | County | City | Error | +---------------+-----+-----+---------+-------+--------+------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | openstreetmap | - | - | - | - | - | - | REQUEST[ https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=sausalito&addressdetails=1&for…] REQUEST STATUS[FALSE] REQUEST RUNTIME[0.5921s] RESPON | | | | | | | | | SE CODE[408 Request Timeout] | +---------------+-----+-----+---------+-------+--------+------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ i goto same url requested and work fine... what's worng? warnings is not showed in map -- Saluda cordialmente

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Pollers not picking up orders
by Lars Joergensen 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

Hey list I think we discussed this before, but I forget the answer and my searching skills fail me. We have several pollers returning data to a main instance. When we create new devices and tell them to be handled by for example "poller2", we can see that the order to do so is created in the database. But it's never picked up by the poller. Is there a cronjob I need to set up to fix this? [cid:image001.png@01D86B97.036B3160] Best regards Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Device neighbours map drawing
by Henrik Aarfeldt 27 May '22

27 May '22

Hi there, We have been using Observium for many years (Subscription version) Recently the devices neighbours map has been unusable, because it has been drawn in vertical, which makes in extremely small (like 8mm height) Normally it has been drawn in horizontal, and can be used with many neighbours. Is there a setting somewhere, so it can be tilted and usable again ? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Version Information Observium 22.5.12042 (24th May 2022) OS Linux 5.4.0-110-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 20.04) Apache 2.4.41 (Ubuntu) PHP 7.4.3 (OPcache: ENABLED) (Memory: 128MB) Python 3.8.10 MySQL 8.0.29-0ubuntu0.20.04.3 (extension: mysqli 7.4.3) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.8 RRDtool 1.7.2 Fping 4.2 (IPv4 and IPv6) -- DB size 679MB RRD size 122GB Devices 379 Ports 37794 IPv4 Addresses 3022 IPv4 Networks 4817 IPv6 Addresses 25 IPv6 Networks 1 Services Applications 0 Processors 1540 Memory pools 1135 Storage Entries 3 Disk I/O Entries 0 HR-MIB Entries 925 Entity-MIB Entries 65306 Syslog Entries 0 Eventlog Entries 1009110 Sensors 1844 Printer Supplies 0 Netscaler VServers 0 Netscaler Services 0 Virtual Machines 0 IP SLAs 170 -- Med venlig hilsen | Best regards | Mit freundlichen Grüßen | Cordialement | आपकी ईमानदारी से Henrik Aarfeldt Drift > Driftsstyring > Overvågning Overvågning + SårbarhedsKortlægning + SvartidsMålinger + NetværksKvalitetsMålinger + Elastic. Mobil: +45 2494 8281 Mail: Henrik.Aarfeldt(a)RegionH.dk Region Hovedstaden Center for It og Medicoteknologi, CIMT Borgervænget 7, 3. sal 2100 København Ø ________________________________ Region Hovedstaden anvender de personoplysninger, du giver os i forbindelse med din henvendelse. Du kan læse mere om formålet med anvendelsen samt dine rettigheder på vores hjemmeside: www.regionh.dk/persondatapolitik

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probes alert boxes
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 26 May '22

26 May '22

Hi, I can see an alert box when a probe alert? How? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Network map - non administrators
by Henrik Aarfeldt 26 May '22

26 May '22

Hi guys, The Network Map - is there any way to view it as non administrator ? Is there a role that can be used, that will allow this usage ? Thanks in advance. -- Med venlig hilsen | Best regards | Mit freundlichen Grüßen | Cordialement | आपकी ईमानदारी से Henrik Aarfeldt Drift > Driftsstyring > Overvågning Overvågning + SårbarhedsKortlægning + SvartidsMålinger + NetværksKvalitetsMålinger + Elastic. Mobil: +45 2494 8281 Mail: Henrik.Aarfeldt(a)RegionH.dk Region Hovedstaden Center for It og Medicoteknologi, CIMT Borgervænget 7, 3. sal 2100 København Ø ________________________________ Region Hovedstaden anvender de personoplysninger, du giver os i forbindelse med din henvendelse. Du kan læse mere om formålet med anvendelsen samt dine rettigheder på vores hjemmeside: www.regionh.dk/persondatapolitik

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New Community Edition 22.5 Release.
by Adam Armstrong 25 May '22

25 May '22

We've just released new Community Edition 22.5. The release covers 376 commits since the last release, and a very large number of changes! The new release can be installed using the upgrade instructions in our documentation: https://docs.observium.org/updating/#upgrade-to-latest-major-release Please make sure you meet these minimum requirements beforehand: MySQL 5.6.5 / MariaDB 10.0, PHP 7.1, rrdtool 1.6. We strongly recommend PHP >7.2 and rrdtool >1.7. PHP8 should now be supported for compatibility with the latest distributions. A raw changelog can be found at https://www.observium.org/svn.log Adam.

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