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Ruckus discovery Segmentation fault
by Eduardo Schoedler 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

root@lin:/opt/observium# ./discovery.php -h new Observium 0.15.2.6237 Discovery ruckus-ap-xxxx-08 51 ruckus Module [ os ] time: 0.0002s Ports : ................................. Module [ ports ] time: 0.0831s Port Stacks: Module [ ports-stack ] time: 0.0167s Processors : hrDevice: Module [ processors ] time: 0.0358s Memory : Module [ mempools ] time: 0.0197s IPv4 Addresses : ... Module [ ipv4-addresses ] time: 0.044s IPv6 Addresses : Module [ ipv6-addresses ] time: 0.0911s Sensors: ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB Module [ sensors ] time: 0.3078s Storage : Module [ storage ] time: 0.0657s Inventory : ENTITY-MIB HOST-RESOURCES-MIB Module [ inventory ] time: 0.0926s Discovery protocols: LLDP-MIB CISCO-CDP-MIB Module [ discovery-protocols ] time: 0.1048s OSPF Neighbours: Module [ ospf-autodiscovery ] time: 0.0192s ARP/NDP Tables : ++ Module [ arp-table ] time: 0.0247s Module [ junose-atm-vp ] time: 0.0003s BGP Sessions: No BGP on host Module [ bgp-peers ] time: 0.0181s VLANs: Q-BRIDGE-MIB Module [ vlans ] time: 0.0522s Module [ mac-accounting ] time: 0.0004s Pseudowires : PW-STD-MIB Module [ pseudowires ] time: 0.0288s Module [ cisco-vrf ] time: 0.0006s Module [ cisco-sla ] time: 0.0003s Module [ vmware-vminfo ] time: 0.0002s Cisco Class-based QoS: QoS not configured. Module [ cisco-cbqos ] time: 0.0908s Module [ libvirt-vminfo ] time: 0.0005s UCD Disk IO : Module [ ucd-diskio ] time: 0.0397s Wifi: RUCKUS-RADIO-MIB ++Segmentation fault (core dumped) Debug here: http://pastebin.com/kSDMQZ17 Thanks, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Cisco ASA 8.3 IPsec Graphing issues
by Michael Poezyn 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Hi I have two ASA's I graph in observium , one running 8.2(5) and the other 8.3. The issue I have is that on 8.2(5) the IPsec tunnel graphs all work 100% and everything is picked up but when trying to query the 8.3 version I get no graphs for the ipsec tunnel graphs. Is there anything specific I need to do to get the 8.3 ipsec tunnel graphs working ? Thanks Mike ############################################################################################# The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Furthermore, the information contained in this message, and any attachments thereto, is for information purposes only and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of the company. #############################################################################################

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php time zone issue
by Aaron Smith 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Hi there, I'm having an issue with the time zone settings in PHP that are causing the dates and times to show up like in the screenshot below. [cid:image002.png@01D04603.E5407F80] After searching for a bit I found a thread that mentioned that the time zone needed to be set in the php.ini file (/etc/php5/cli/php.ini). I changed the setting and restarted apache but the date and time are still showing incorrectly in Observium. I even restarted the sever to no aval. Here is a snippet of the php.ini time/date config [Date] ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions ; http://php.net/date.timezone date.timezone = Australia/Sydney ; http://php.net/date.default-latitude ;date.default_latitude = 31.7667 ; http://php.net/date.default-longitude ;date.default_longitude = 35.2333 ; http://php.net/date.sunrise-zenith ;date.sunrise_zenith = 90.583333 ; http://php.net/date.sunset-zenith ;date.sunset_zenith = 90.583333 Is there anything I have missed? Thanks, Aaron

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Disk IO not graphing?
by Kaya Saman 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hi, I've got an issue with Observium build: CE 0.14.11.6000 The Disk IO doesn't seem to be graphing any more?? Using snmpwalk I can get the mib for it: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunParameters.95709 = STRING: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.15.1.1.5" It seems that none of my hosts have it working for a while; case for both FreeBSd and Linux. The rest of the graphs are fine and are updating properly! Running the discovery.php manually the output for diskio is: UCD Disk IO : .... Module [ ucd-diskio ] time: 0.0205s The poller shows the diskio is being polled but it seems no data is returned. Has anyone got any suggestions? Config files are same and haven't changed at all... Regards, Kaya

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unknown processor type
by Simon Smith 08 Feb '15

08 Feb '15

Hi All, Quick question, probably a simple answer to be far I run the discovery.php every 3 hours and all the time i see this in the Event Logs Processor updated: index (NUM), mob hr, descry Unknown Processor Type is the a way of disabling these messages? i currently use WMI to get the processors and os on a few of our windows machines to get the details and stuff, and these are the machines i get these messages with Regards Simon

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Manual override of location does not then apply the location information in config.php
by Robert Hatch 07 Feb '15

07 Feb '15

Dear Mike, This is still not working for me. I have upgraded, polled, unchecked and rechecked the override box but still no joy. This is the line in the config that works perfectly for the snmp devices that correctly report HEX as their location. $config['location_map']['HEX'] = "Harbour Exchange Square, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England, United Kingdom"; And this is a screen shot of the node as requested is below. As you can see the location of the device does not then reconcile to the full address following a rediscover. BW rob [cid:image005.png@01D041AA.36987030] From: Mike Stupalov (JIRA) [mailto:jira@observium.org] Sent: 29 January 2015 20:33 To: Robert Hatch Subject: [OBS-JIRA] (OBSERVIUM-1133) Manual override of location does not then apply the location information in config.php [cid:image001.png@01D041A9.ED5F0410] Mike Stupalov<http://jira.observium.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=landy> resolved as Fixed Observium<http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM> / [cid:image002.png@01D041A9.ED5F0410] <http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1133> OBSERVIUM-1133<http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1133> Manual override of location does not then apply the location information in config.php<http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1133> Change By: Mike Stupalov<http://jira.observium.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=landy> Status: Open Resolved Resolution: Fixed [cid:image003.png@01D041A9.ED5F0410]<http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1133#add-comment> Add Comment<http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1133#add-comment> This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252-sha1:aa34325) [cid:image004.png@01D041A9.ED5F0410]

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Re: [Observium] [OBS-JIRA] (OBSERVIUM-1133) Manual override of location does not then apply the location information in config.php
by Robert Hatch 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

Dear Mike, This is still not working for me. I have upgraded, polled, unchecked and rechecked the override box but still no joy. This is the line in the config that works perfectly for the snmp devices that correctly report HEX as their location. $config['location_map']['HEX'] = "Harbour Exchange Square, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England, United Kingdom"; And this is a screen shot of the node as requested is below. As you can see the location of the device does not then reconcile to the full address following a rediscover. BW rob [cid:image005.png@01D041AA.36987030] From: Mike Stupalov (JIRA) [mailto:jira@observium.org] Sent: 29 January 2015 20:33 To: Robert Hatch Subject: [OBS-JIRA] (OBSERVIUM-1133) Manual override of location does not then apply the location information in config.php [cid:image001.png@01D041A9.ED5F0410] Mike Stupalov<http://jira.observium.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=landy> resolved as Fixed Observium<http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM> / [cid:image002.png@01D041A9.ED5F0410] <http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1133> OBSERVIUM-1133<http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1133> Manual override of location does not then apply the location information in config.php<http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1133> Change By: Mike Stupalov<http://jira.observium.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=landy> Status: Open Resolved Resolution: Fixed [cid:image003.png@01D041A9.ED5F0410]<http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1133#add-comment> Add Comment<http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1133#add-comment> This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252-sha1:aa34325) [cid:image004.png@01D041A9.ED5F0410]

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Swap in alerting
by Teemu Grönqvist 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Hello! Does anyone know how could I create an alert check for swap usage? I'd like to alert if something like 10% swap is used, but I have no idea what name swap has in the alerting system. Thank you, Teemu Grönqvist Net9 Oy

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How to setup alerting for Checkpoint Firewall failover
by Michael Poezyn 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Hi All I am new to this product and have been playing with trying to setup alerting. The Checkpoint MIB is able to pick up which firewall node is active and standby in an HA cluster and I was wondering if anyone know what the conditions need to be for the Alert Checker to monitor when this state changes ? I have tried a few iterations at the alert checker with no success Any help would be appreciated Thanks Mike ############################################################################################# The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Furthermore, the information contained in this message, and any attachments thereto, is for information purposes only and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of the company. #############################################################################################

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 55, Issue 19
by Michael Poezyn 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Thanks for the reply but the image unfortunately didn't come through ? -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2015 9:59 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 55, Issue 19 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: OS Definition Change Request (Mike Stupalov) 2. Re: How to setup alerting for Checkpoint Firewall failover (?ukasz Sztukowski) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 11:26:42 +0400 From: Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] OS Definition Change Request Message-ID: <CAL9uo4jtz7xjh8NSDZN2yU1undshcGptXqwOhXQmm4nUVVmV=A(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Basic OS detection added in r6248. On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Kevin Jacobson <kevin(a)kjake.net> wrote: > Some changes that would be handy in my environment. Please add them? > > Observium already supports AXIS Print Servers, Cameras, and Video > Servers but doesn't see Video *Encoder*. > > sysObjectID*=>*.1.3.6.1.4.1.368 > sysDescr*=>*; AXIS P7214; Network Video Encoder; 5.50.4; May 23 2014 > 12:23; 197.2; 1; > > fwiw, I don't know if this is useful, but AXIS does publish a Video > MIB (which I don't think works with my firmware, ha): > http://www.axis.com/techsup/software/video_mib/index.htm > > > ShoreTel makes some ok VOIP equipment that is SNMP enabled, though it > is minimal with info... > > sysObjectID*=>*.1.3.6.1.4.1.5329.1.1.1 > sysDescr*=>*ShoreGear SG-220T1A > > sysObjectID*=>*.1.3.6.1.4.1.5329.1.1.1 > sysDescr*=>*ShoreGear SA-100 > > Panasonic makes printers (MFDs) too, but the typical jetdirect toner > OID reports -3. > > sysObjectID*=>*.1.3.6.1.4.1.258.406.3.1.13 > sysDescr*=>*Panasonic DP-8045 > > sysObjectID*=>*.1.3.6.1.4.1.258.406.3.1.13 > sysDescr*=>*Panasonic DP-8060 > > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.2.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.2.1.2 = INTEGER: 1 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.2.1.3 = INTEGER: 1 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.2.1.4 = INTEGER: 1 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.3.1.1 = INTEGER: 0 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.3.1.2 = INTEGER: 0 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.3.1.3 = INTEGER: 0 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.3.1.4 = INTEGER: 0 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.4.1.1 = INTEGER: 3 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.4.1.2 = INTEGER: 4 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.4.1.3 = INTEGER: 3 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.4.1.4 = INTEGER: 3 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.5.1.1 = INTEGER: 3 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.5.1.2 = INTEGER: 4 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.5.1.3 = INTEGER: 10 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.5.1.4 = INTEGER: 32 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.6.1.1 = STRING: "Toner" > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.6.1.2 = STRING: "Toner Waste Container" > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.6.1.3 = STRING: "Developer Unit" > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.6.1.4 = STRING: "FQ-SS66 Staples" > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.7.1.1 = INTEGER: 7 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.7.1.2 = INTEGER: 7 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.7.1.3 = INTEGER: 7 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.7.1.4 = INTEGER: 8 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.8.1.1 = INTEGER: 35000 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.8.1.2 = INTEGER: 240000 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.8.1.3 = INTEGER: 240000 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.8.1.4 = INTEGER: 5000 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.9.1.1 = INTEGER: -3 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.9.1.2 = INTEGER: -3 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.9.1.3 = INTEGER: -3 > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.43.11.1.1.9.1.4 = INTEGER: -3 > > > Thanks! > > p.s. I am a subscription user. > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > -- Mike Stupalov http://observium.org/

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Alert Checks - color coding
by David Roush 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

Hello, I was just wondering if someone could explain the grey field in the "entities" column on the Alert Checks page. Are these entities that match the alert check filters and simply aren't polled for whatever reason? For example: [cid:image001.png@01D04055.D8744240] What is the "138" number representing in this case? Thanks, Dave

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by Talk Jesus 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

Talk Jesus Forums www.talkjesus.com From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 11:36 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checks - color coding Good point! Didn't think of that [yet]. We should store or check that somewhere so we can alert people on it using the alert thing in the bottom bar. Tom On 02/04/2015 05:34 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: This is probably caused by insufficient mysql heap space. Adam. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On 4 February 2015 10:14:37 David Roush <mailto:DRoush@denovo-us.com> <DRoush(a)denovo-us.com> wrote: Thanks Tom. There are a large number of disabled ports which would explain the huge numbers I see for checks like "Interface utilization". Here are a few that don't pertain to interfaces: What does this indicate to you? Is there any other information that I can provide would be relevant? Thanks, Dave From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:03 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checks - color coding David, It shouldn't be. Either there's a bug, or perhaps you disabled/ignored some ports in Observium? In that case, the poller won't send metrics to the alerter. Tom On 02/04/2015 04:52 PM, David Roush wrote: Thanks for the quick response Tom. These numbers stay pretty solid across all of the alert checks, I assume this indicates a potential resource limitation? Dave From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 8:47 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checks - color coding Dave, Indeed - status unknown / not polled (yet). Tom On 02/04/2015 04:41 PM, David Roush wrote: Hello, I was just wondering if someone could explain the grey field in the "entities" column on the Alert Checks page. Are these entities that match the alert check filters and simply aren't polled for whatever reason? For example: What is the "138" number representing in this case? Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Storage usage with RAID
by Cyrill Matenaers 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

Hi all, in my Observium the storage usage of an hardware or software RAID 5 (megaraid or mdadm) device is shown as for example -5277% free at hosts overview page. df -h shows the correct 16% used. Any ideas how to correct this? Regards, Cyrill

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no messages in event log for 2 days
by Simon Smith 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

Hi All Ive had no Messages appear in my Event Logs panel for the past 2 days? where would be the best place to start checking if ive got a code problem or maybe an SVN update has goofed it up? Only reason I ask this is because we have had a few devices today go on and off alot and there are no entries in the Event Log Panel of them going off and on but yet ive been getting the email alerts? Regards Simon

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An interesting issue with Cisco 2960Cs...
by Richard Kuhns 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Hi all, This is just on the order of a 'watch out' notice. We're currently on 0.15.1.6206, but had the same issue with earlier versions and with the CE. We have 5 Cisco 2960Cs that we monitor, and all were taking horrible amounts of time to poll. Always at least 200 seconds, and often over 300. After some experiment, we discovered that they apparently don't care to talk about CEF (Cisco Express Forwarding). If Observium asks them about it, the CPU usage climbs above 60% and stays there for quite a while. If I go to the device --> edit --> Modules and disable cicso-cef, everything is fine. The CPU drops under 5%, and the poll time is 5 seconds or less. I'm pretty sure we're not losing any useful info, since I don't believe the 2960Cs support CEF in the first place. As I said, this is just a heads up. Observium is a great tool. Thanks! -- Richard Kuhns <rjk(a)wintek.com> Main Number: 765-742-8428 Wintek Corporation Direct: 765-269-8541 427 N 6th Street Internet Support: 765-269-8503 Lafayette, IN 47901-2211 Consulting: 765-269-8504

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Per-user timezone settings
by Steve Costaras 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Been playing w/ observium CE 14.11.6000. We have people in several timezones, currently I have the observium system configured itself for UTC, but it would be better if there was a way to have each user account have their own 'local' timezone setting so that the graphs would show up in their local timezone. Is there any way to accomplish this? Thanks, Steve

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OT: GMail (WAS: RE: Not Receiving Alerts ??)
by Phillip Baker 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Off topic rant: In case this wasn’t already obvious from this symptom, nobody should use Gmail for anything important. Some of our customers (one a google apps “partner” or whatever) have seen it silently drop mails including invoice mails etc (despite aligned SPF, DKIM, DMARC, reverse dns, and no current reputational issue). Even if anything is wrong with the message, they shouldn’t be silently dropping mail on the floor. It’s unbelievably broken as a model for handling “spam” which is what I presume they think they’re doing. It’s just about adequate for a personal searchable mailing list archive. That’s about it. Phil From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Torsten-Sven Urbas Sent: 02 February 2015 07:12 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Not Receiving Alerts ?? Thats interesting. We do see the same issue with google mail. Basically, only recoveries make it through, i barely see a single alert in my mailbox. /Torsten 2015-01-31 3:21 GMT+01:00 Michael Loftis <mloftis(a)wgops.com<mailto:mloftis@wgops.com>>: Gmail randomly eats mail nowadays. I have had an ongoing g issue with it discarding (not flagging as spam) alerts from observium. Specifically my port down alerts. Recovery for the same port comes through just fine. Other alerts and recoveries are all fine. -- Torsten-Sven Urbas ==== Bitte beachten Sie unsere neuen Rufnummern ==== ProfitBricks GmbH • Greifswalder Str. 207 • D - 10405 Berlin Tel: +49 (30) 57700 8234 • Mobile: +49 (170) 77 38 251 • Fax: +49 (30) 57700 8296 www.profitbricks.de<http://www.profitbricks.de/> • torsten-sven.urbas(a)profitbricks.com<mailto:torsten-sven.urbas@profitbricks.com> Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin. Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 125506 B. Geschäftsführer: Andreas Gauger, Achim Weiss. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Speed up graph rendering
by Louis Bailleul 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Hi, I am currently using Observium on 149 switches with a total of 10173 ports. I can't say that anything is wrong with it, but the web interface seems a bit slow especially when you want to display pages with a lot of graphs. Observium is currently running in a VM with 4 xeon E5-2650 cores and 3Gb of ram. It's virtual disks are on a local raid5 composed of 10K SAS disks. Observium report that it's VM use on average 25% of its CPUs with spikes at 40% when the web interface is heavily used. The disk I/O doesn't go past 150 ops OUT and rare spikes at 50 IN. Anyone could advise on what kind of hardware or software tweaking could help speed up the thing ? Are they special requirements/tunnings for the rrd storage or the mysql database ? Best regards, Louis

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Not Receiving Alerts ??
by Andres P 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Hi Observium Team! Since 14 Jan I'm not receiving Alerts It seems to be a problem of the mail server. I did the following test, and not receive it. Any idea? root@Observium:/opt/observium# ./test_mail.php -h rcn-rou-01 Observium 0.15.1.6218 Test E-mail Configuration See mail backend options here: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Email_backend_settings My Hostname: Observium.Observium.cabase.org.ar E-mails ENABLED globally ($config['email']['enable']) E-mails use PHP-builtin MAIL backend ($config['email']['backend']) E-mails use these default recipient(s) ($config['email']['default']): noc(a)cabase.org.ar E-mails send from ($config['email']['from']): "Observium" <observium(a)Observium.Observium.cabase.org.ar> E-mails send to recipients based on default recipient from config and/or device sysContact. Try send test notification for rcn-rou-01 to these email(s): noc(a)cabase.org.ar Notification for rcn-rou-01 SENT.

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Re: [Observium] Java JVM Monitoring
by Jurasovic Kresimir 01 Feb '15

01 Feb '15

Hi Tom, Thank you for the feeedback. I will look into code for shoutcast and memcached for implementation details. Right now I am trying to cover as much as information as possible. Code it already publicly available on Bitbucket. I am willing to share the results when I complete all the graphs I need and make some usefull tutorial. Will send all the info when I am done. Best regards, Krešimir === Heya, That sounds very interesting! I hope you'll share the result with us. Our app system is a bit basic, but it supports application "instances". I've never actually implemented something with those myself, but things like shoutcast or memcached can support multiple installs on a machine. I think that's the direction you need, but I have no practical information.. check their observium-side code to see how to use, feel free to sollicit feedback either by this list or on IRC. Tom On 23/01/2015 22:18, Kresimir Jurasovic wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the beginning phase of using Observium. I have everything > set-up and working. No problems so far. > > One feature I am missing is Java JVM Monitoring. In your Bug Tracker I > found the following ticket: > > http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-554?jql=text%20~%20%22JVM%22 > > In it you mention that this should be implemented using unix-agent. > This is perfectly fine by me. > I have implemented a Java application which is run by unix-agent and > retrieves data from the JVM using the JMX protocol. I have graphs > set-up and so far every is running ok. > > There is only one feature I cannot figure out how to implement. This > feature is very important for me. In most cases there will be more > then one JVM on a single machine. From monitoring perspective this > should be treated as separate application but handled by the same > agent. Is this even possible on Observium? If it is can you please > point me to the right code so I can see how this is done. > > Thanks, > Kre?imir > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Monitoring Logs
by Constantinos Coudounaris 31 Jan '15

31 Jan '15

Hello everyone, I'm trying to setup observium to monitor logs but i'm having some issues. I've configured rsyslog and i've followed the instructions at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Rsyslog_Syslog_Server however I get the following error in observium. I've configured the following files: /etc/rsyslog.conf - added forwarding rule to observium rule aswell as the following. The spool files get created successfully. $WorkDirectory /var/lib/rsyslog # where to place spool files $ActionQueueFileName fwdRule1 # unique name prefix for spool files $ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace 1g # 1gb space limit (use as much as possible) $ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on # save messages to disk on shutdown $ActionQueueType LinkedList # run asynchronously $ActionResumeRetryCount -1 # infinite retries if host is down /etc/rsyslog.d/30-observium.conf - added as per observium documentation Error Message I get in Observium: No syslog entries found! This device does not have any syslog entries. Check that the syslog daemon and Observium configuration options are set correctly, that this device is configured to send syslog to Observium and that there are no firewalls blocking the messages. Thank you. -- Constantinos Coudounaris

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rrdcached worked for me! (Or "How to solve gaps in your graphs")
by Tristan Rhodes 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

I was seeing gaps in my Observium graphs, so I knew that something was wrong with my system. The output from the Observium "poller-wrapper.py" cron job has statistics on how long it takes to complete each polling cycle. These are scheduled every 5 minutes (300 seconds). Here is what I found: "INFO: poller-wrapper polled 312 devices in 1142 seconds with 20 workers WARNING: the process took more than 5 minutes to finish, you need faster hardware or more threads INFO: in sequential style polling the elapsed time would have been: 21663 seconds WARNING: Consider setting a minimum of 77 threads. (This does not constitute professional advice!)" I tried increasing threads on the poller-wrapper.py cron job, but this did not speed things up. The "top" command showed me that this system was always waiting for disk I/O, which is indicated by a high value for "wa". I decided to give rrdcached a try, after reading this blog: http://blog.best-practice.se/2014/10/using-rrdcached-with-observium.html With rrdcached enabled, I am finally completing my polls with 5-minutes! INFO: poller-wrapper polled 312 devices in 51 seconds with 20 workers Yes, it went from 1142 seconds to 51 seconds, over 22 times faster! I know people have said the web interface would be slower, but from my perspective it is loading much faster now that rrdcached is saving some disk IOPS for Apache. (Disclaimer: I have compiled and installed rrdtool 1.4.9 to try to maximize speed on the web-interface) I hope this help people who are bottle-necked on IOPS from their disks, like I was. Cheers, Tristan *Tristan Rhodes* Network Engineer Weber State University 801.626.8549

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Slow polling for ports.inc.php module
by Jaynee Shah 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Hi, We have heavily loaded Brocade MLXe routers, and polling time is very high for these devices. The same is seen for few Arista switches (at longer distances) as well. This certainly is related to IF-MIB, trying to poll lots of data statistics for all interfaces, resulting in ports.inc.php module run time of ~150sec+. Ideally, we want to reduce this polling time to <60sec. time /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -Cr60 -v2c -c 'jtv' -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /home/jtv/observium//mibs/rfc:/home/jtv/observium//mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'br02.lhr02':'161' ifEntry real 0m57.616s user 0m0.044s sys 0m0.012s time /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -Cr60 -v2c -c 'jtv' -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /home/jtv/observium//mibs/rfc:/home/jtv/observium//mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'br02.lhr02':'161' ifXEntry real 0m52.763s user 0m0.032s sys 0m0.024s We do not care about some of the interface statistics, for example, mtu, speed, duplex, promiscuous mode, trunk, vlan, etc. We only want interface traffic in/out and error statistics. Is there a way to selectively modify any discovery/polling/MIB files, and only keep the statistics we are interested in? Thanks, Jaynee

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Not Receiving Alerts ??
by Andres P 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

Hi Observium Team, >From last two weeks I left to receive my Alerts. I did a test

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