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recovering upload/download figures from dumped DB file
by Tshering DHENDUP 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Dear Admin, Unfortunately, I forgot to take the backup of the rrd directory but I did take the backup of the dumped mysql. Is there a way/queries to get the upload/download figures from the database? Or is there a way like MRTG to get the graphs displayed by importing the dumped DB file to the new Observium system? Regards -- Tshering DHENDUP(MR) Systems DrukNet (Internet, Data & Enterprise Services) Bhutan Telecom www.bt.bt

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Windows MIBS
by Darian Jimenez 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

are all windows MIBs loaded in observium? Can i add more if they are not there? I would like to see services on windows machine, is this possible at all?

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growl? Re: sms
by Rob VanHooren 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

a while back (mailinglist archive search), there was someone who used the observium API to get alerts into a growl listener, which would dump it e.g. into prowl on ios or android device. maybe growl can get it into sms too. Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPad > On Dec 23, 2014, at 4:53 PM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > SMS gateway

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Unable to update polling/alerts toggles
by Travis Kreikemeier 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Large 3750 switch stack, unable to update polling/alerts toggles in Observium. Seems to only update the first 333 ports. Been an issue for a while. Observium 0.14.12.6098 (stable) If you toggle just one of those high ports by itself, you get this message "Device record unchanged. No update necessary." If you toggle it with some lower ports, the lower ports will update by not the very high ports. Thanks TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Re: [Observium] Alert by sms
by Welisson Tomé 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hi Xavier, >Hi, > >Doing a SMS gateway with perl or gnokii is really easy. Even Gnokii can have a look in a SQL database to get the data to send to sms. I don't know the project gnokii, i will to research more about it, but i don't have idea how to do it be integrated with Observium and the alert be sending at exactly moment that there is a problem with some device. >The main problem is "IP SMS" gateway there is on the network. I understand observium team, and really using plain SMTP with >small messages can be better to be done than adding an extra code. So, i understand about this main problem, but, not is necessary there is an "IP SMS" on the network, because with a modem 3G/4G, we can send sms using the tool gsmssender [¹], together with nagios[²], [¹]http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man8/gsmsendsms.8.html [²]https://securfox.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/how-to-configure-nagios-to-send… Regards -- Welisson Tomé br.linkedin.com/in/welissontome/

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Rancid revisions within Observium
by Chip Pleasants 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hi all, I'm in need of some help troubleshooting why I can't see Rancid revisions with Observium any longer. It was working for almost four months and suddenly stopped. I haven't been able to tell if any of packages changed without my knowledge. I've gone through the document below and everything seems to work. The apache logs don't show anything of concern. I've running RHEL 6.5. I attached a php debug file. Anyone have suggestions? Thanks, Chip http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.checking.php [root@server logs]# pecl list Installed packages, channel pecl.php.net: ========================================= Package Version State pecl_http 2.0.7 stable propro 1.0.0 stable radius 1.2.7 stable raphf 1.0.4 stable svn 1.0.2 stable [root@server logs]# [root@server logs]# pear config-show Configuration (channel pear.php.net): ===================================== Auto-discover new Channels auto_discover <not set> Default Channel default_channel pear.php.net HTTP Proxy Server Address http_proxy http://proxycorp.server.net:8080/ PEAR server [DEPRECATED] master_server pear.php.net Default Channel Mirror preferred_mirror pear.php.net Remote Configuration File remote_config <not set> PEAR executables directory bin_dir /usr/bin PEAR documentation directory doc_dir /usr/share/pear/doc PHP extension directory ext_dir /usr/lib64/php/modules PEAR directory php_dir /usr/share/pear PEAR Installer cache directory cache_dir /var/cache/php-pear PEAR configuration file cfg_dir /etc/pear directory PEAR data directory data_dir /usr/share/pear/data PEAR Installer download download_dir /tmp/pear/download directory PHP CLI/CGI binary php_bin /usr/bin/php php.ini location php_ini <not set> --program-prefix passed to php_prefix <not set> PHP's ./configure --program-suffix passed to php_suffix <not set> PHP's ./configure PEAR Installer temp directory temp_dir /var/tmp PEAR test directory test_dir /usr/share/pear/test PEAR www files directory www_dir /var/www/html Cache TimeToLive cache_ttl 3600 Preferred Package State preferred_state stable Unix file mask umask 22 Debug Log Level verbose 1 PEAR password (for password <not set> maintainers) Signature Handling Program sig_bin /usr/bin/gpg Signature Key Directory sig_keydir /etc/pearkeys Signature Key Id sig_keyid <not set> Package Signature Type sig_type gpg PEAR username (for username <not set> maintainers) User Configuration File Filename /root/.pearrc System Configuration File Filename /etc/pear.conf

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Observium logs
by Darian Jimenez 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Im trying to troubleshoot some devices but when I look at the logs the last log i get is from the 18th of decembers. Any idea why I don't get any recent logs?

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EU VAT changes
by Adam Armstrong 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hi All, This is mostly only relevant to people within the EU. In January new EU-wide rules come into effect regarding the collection of VAT on cross-border digital transactions. Anyone who sells a digital product in the EU will now be required to collect 2 "non contradictory" forms of identification from every customer in order to verify their country of residence. They will then be required to charge that customer VAT at their country of residence's local rate and then pay that VAT to their country of residence's tax collection agency. This effectively means that you need to know and track the VAT rates in all 28 EU states, as well as ascertain the location of any customer before they can be given a price. You're not required to retain all of this information for 10 years, and ANY tax collection agency in the EU is now entitled to access to your company's financial records. This applies to everyone, and has no threshold. Within your own countries, you only collect VAT once you hit a certain threshold, which in the UK is £80k. Under the new rules everyone is required to collect VAT in every other EU country, even if they're not required to collect it in their home country. This also means that even if you're not required to collect VAT in your own country, you still have to register for VAT in your home country and produce VAT returns. You also have to produce VAT returns for EVERY COUNTRY WITHIN WHICH YOU HAVE A CUSTOMER. In the UK we have a government system which allows us to send a single unified VAT return for all EU countries to our tax collection agency, and they will forward the relevant data on, but I'm not sure if that exists in all countries. If you're in the EU and understand how truly insane this is, please sign this petition : https://www.change.org/p/pierre-moscovici-a-unilateral-suspension-of-the-in… If you're in the UK, there is also this : https://www.change.org/p/vince-cable-mp-uphold-the-vat-exemption-threshold-… The fallout from this is that I may have to suspend sales of Observium subscriptions in the EU starting on January 1st, since I simply don't have the ability to handle the administrative overhead involved. Thanks, adam.

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Renewing subscription
by Carlos Martinez 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

I went to update this morning and it prompted me for my SVN credentials and would not take them, I assume my subscription expired, how do I renew and maintain the same user/pass?

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Latency Alert
by Hamilton, Kent 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Anyone have an alert check for latency to a device? Is it possible? I don't really see anything that fits. ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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aggregate alert emails?
by Zhenhui Liang 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Hi, Is it possible to aggregate alert emails? When a switch does fail, it might generate thousands of alerts. For our case maybe even thousands of txt messages to a pager. Is it possible to configure observium to detect such kind of massive alerts and aggregate them to only send a few alerts out? Thanks. —Zhenhui

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Bad location - lat\long?
by Mike Hammett 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

I put the lat/long that GMaps reports for a given location into the SNMP location. When I search for that lat\long in GMaps, it goes to the correct location. When I look at the Observium map, it's about 2 miles off, straight south. I have included screen shots of the different positions and coordinates. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

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Map questions
by John Brown 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Hi I have a couple of questions about the google map on Observium: 1. Is there away to have the map center on a point and zoom into that point to a certain level of zoom, as the default. The reason I ask is we have most of our infra-structure in a single city, and a few "interconnection / peering pop's" in other states. For normal use we would prefer that the default location and zoom level be on our core service city. 2. Is there away to have a KML/KMZ file added into the map being displayed by Observium. For example, it would be handing to show our fiber ring along with the tear drop icons that Observium displays. As extra credit it would be nice to render a polygon either Green, Yellow or Red depending on status.... Thanks

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Re: [Observium] FW: Observium mailing list
by Nate Mellendorf 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

I believe this can be marked as resolved. All of our devices were listed as offline this morning, which was caused by the following: http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQs#All_my_hosts_seem_down_to_Observium_.2F_… I followed the guide, and removed .index from the noted directory. As soon as I did that, everything started polling again. At around the same time, I also found this: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Poller-wrapper.py Our poller was set to use 3 threads, so I bumped it up to 12. After review, I found that my alert checker was now listing devices as checking in and passing the offline test. I faked an outage on a test device, which triggered the e-mail alert. Thanks again for the assistance on this. I'll have to dig into the snmp bug a little bit, but all is now working as it should. Regards, 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<http://www.netgainhosting.com/> [cid:image002.png@01D01D29.BE602120] ________________________________ 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. From: Nate Mellendorf Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 7:46 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: RE: observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 102 Tom, Thank you very much for looking at my configuration. I failed to note earlier, that I receive the same results when I change the delay of this alert back down to 0. For the sake of my own sanity though, I went back and changed it just now. I triggered a false device outage, which failed to trigger the alert. Something odd I am seeing, is that Observium is now listing 8 devices as having passed the alert check, with 464 devices still listed as never checked. As you can see from my screen shots earlier, that the alert checked never listed any devices as having been successfully checked. They were all greyed out. As you've confirmed that the alert checker is configured correctly, I'm somewhat stumped. I'll keep digging, as this is a feature I'd really like to get working. Side Note: Our CPU and RAM are not hitting 100% utilization on our host, so now I'm suspicious of we're just pushing the Observium platform a little too hard. There are occasions when loading Observium takes longer than expected. When I create a new alert and regenerate them, the page seems to timeout. (I've included the graphs of our disk I/O, as It's been suggested before as something to keep an eye on.) Any other thoughts or insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for your time on both the project and on this thread. [cid:image004.jpg@01D01D29.BE4F3130] Regards, 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 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. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 7:06 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 102 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@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<mailto:observium-request@observium.org> You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-owner@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: FW: Observium mailing list (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 02:06:09 +0100 From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx<mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx>> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] FW: Observium mailing list Message-ID: <54961D01.3070002(a)powersource.cx<mailto:54961D01.3070002@powersource.cx>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Hi Nate, You set the "delay" to 1 which means Observium will wait 1 extra poll to see if the alert condition restores itself (which it seems to do judging by your alert log - hence no alert). Tom On 18/12/2014 04:09, Nate Mellendorf wrote: > > Good evening all, > > After much trial and error, I?ve been unsuccessful in implementing a > simple up/down device alert within Observium. > > As I searched around the web for a solution, It seemed as though this > hasn?t been much of an issue for most users. > > Here?s some additional documentation I followed to try and fix it myself: > > http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612(Nice work on this one) > > https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg05915.html > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker > > I?m starting think that my configuration file (config.php) could have > something to do with it. I?ve included it, along with multiple > snip-its to try and assist you in seeing my work. > > If anyone has any suggestions on this, they would be greatly > appreciated. I?ve been working on this on and off for the past few > days now, and I?ve had no success in generating an offline alert.The > alert log shows the test as failed, but delayed. It never actually > send out an e-mail. My apologies in advance, if this turns out to be > user error. > > Thanks in advance for any time put into this. If there is anything > else I can provide to further assist in troubleshooting, please let me > know. > > I?d be more than happy to provide it. > > *Omitted config.php:* > > *?* > > // Enable alerter > > $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter']= TRUE; > > // Disable page refresh > > $config['page_refresh']= "300";## Refresh the page every xx seconds > > // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) > > $config['email']['default']= "nate.mellendorf(a)netgainhosting.com > <mailto:nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com>"; > > $config['alerts']['email']['from']= "observium(a)netgainhosting.com > <mailto:observium@netgainhosting.com>"; > > $config['email']['default_only']= TRUE; > > $config['email']['enable']= TRUE;// Disables OLD alerting system > > $config['alerts']['interval']= 310; > > *?* > > /Sensitive information has been omitted./ > > *The alert I?ve configured:*(image)** > > *Here is what I see when I?ve review the alert:*(image)** > > *Here?s the alert log that?s generated:*(image) > > (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.) > > *Finally, here is what?s found when I review the logs of an offline > device:*(image)** > > Thanks again everyone, > > *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* <http://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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 102
by Nate Mellendorf 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Tom, Thank you very much for looking at my configuration. I failed to note earlier, that I receive the same results when I change the delay of this alert back down to 0. For the sake of my own sanity though, I went back and changed it just now. I triggered a false device outage, which failed to trigger the alert. Something odd I am seeing, is that Observium is now listing 8 devices as having passed the alert check, with 464 devices still listed as never checked. As you can see from my screen shots earlier, that the alert checked never listed any devices as having been successfully checked. They were all greyed out. As you've confirmed that the alert checker is configured correctly, I'm somewhat stumped. I'll keep digging, as this is a feature I'd really like to get working. Side Note: Our CPU and RAM are not hitting 100% utilization on our host, so now I'm suspicious of we're just pushing the Observium platform a little too hard. There are occasions when loading Observium takes longer than expected. When I create a new alert and regenerate them, the page seems to timeout. (I've included the graphs of our disk I/O, as It's been suggested before as something to keep an eye on.) Any other thoughts or insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for your time on both the project and on this thread. [cid:image002.jpg@01D01C8D.86635E50] Regards, 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 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. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 7:06 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 102 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@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<mailto:observium-request@observium.org> You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-owner@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: FW: Observium mailing list (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 02:06:09 +0100 From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx<mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx>> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] FW: Observium mailing list Message-ID: <54961D01.3070002(a)powersource.cx<mailto:54961D01.3070002@powersource.cx>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Hi Nate, You set the "delay" to 1 which means Observium will wait 1 extra poll to see if the alert condition restores itself (which it seems to do judging by your alert log - hence no alert). Tom On 18/12/2014 04:09, Nate Mellendorf wrote: > > Good evening all, > > After much trial and error, I?ve been unsuccessful in implementing a > simple up/down device alert within Observium. > > As I searched around the web for a solution, It seemed as though this > hasn?t been much of an issue for most users. > > Here?s some additional documentation I followed to try and fix it myself: > > http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612(Nice work on this one) > > https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg05915.html > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker > > I?m starting think that my configuration file (config.php) could have > something to do with it. I?ve included it, along with multiple > snip-its to try and assist you in seeing my work. > > If anyone has any suggestions on this, they would be greatly > appreciated. I?ve been working on this on and off for the past few > days now, and I?ve had no success in generating an offline alert.The > alert log shows the test as failed, but delayed. It never actually > send out an e-mail. My apologies in advance, if this turns out to be > user error. > > Thanks in advance for any time put into this. If there is anything > else I can provide to further assist in troubleshooting, please let me > know. > > I?d be more than happy to provide it. > > *Omitted config.php:* > > *?* > > // Enable alerter > > $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter']= TRUE; > > // Disable page refresh > > $config['page_refresh']= "300";## Refresh the page every xx seconds > > // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) > > $config['email']['default']= "nate.mellendorf(a)netgainhosting.com > <mailto:nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com>"; > > $config['alerts']['email']['from']= "observium(a)netgainhosting.com > <mailto:observium@netgainhosting.com>"; > > $config['email']['default_only']= TRUE; > > $config['email']['enable']= TRUE;// Disables OLD alerting system > > $config['alerts']['interval']= 310; > > *?* > > /Sensitive information has been omitted./ > > *The alert I?ve configured:*(image)** > > *Here is what I see when I?ve review the alert:*(image)** > > *Here?s the alert log that?s generated:*(image) > > (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.) > > *Finally, here is what?s found when I review the logs of an offline > device:*(image)** > > Thanks again everyone, > > *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* <http://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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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FW: Observium mailing list
by Nate Mellendorf 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Good evening all, After much trial and error, I've been unsuccessful in implementing a simple up/down device alert within Observium. As I searched around the web for a solution, It seemed as though this hasn't been much of an issue for most users. Here's some additional documentation I followed to try and fix it myself: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612 (Nice work on this one) https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg05915.html http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker I'm starting think that my configuration file (config.php) could have something to do with it. I've included it, along with multiple snip-its to try and assist you in seeing my work. If anyone has any suggestions on this, they would be greatly appreciated. I've been working on this on and off for the past few days now, and I've had no success in generating an offline alert. The alert log shows the test as failed, but delayed. It never actually send out an e-mail. My apologies in advance, if this turns out to be user error. Thanks in advance for any time put into this. If there is anything else I can provide to further assist in troubleshooting, please let me know. I'd be more than happy to provide it. Omitted config.php: ... // Enable alerter $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; // Disable page refresh $config['page_refresh'] = "300"; ## Refresh the page every xx seconds // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['email']['default'] = "nate.mellendorf(a)netgainhosting.com<mailto:nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com>"; $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "observium(a)netgainhosting.com<mailto:observium@netgainhosting.com>"; $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Disables OLD alerting system $config['alerts']['interval'] = 310; ... Sensitive information has been omitted. The alert I've configured: (image) [cid:image005.jpg@01D01A3D.CD665F70] Here is what I see when I've review the alert: (image) [cid:image006.jpg@01D01A3D.CD665F70] Here's the alert log that's generated: (image) (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.) [cid:image008.jpg@01D01A3D.CD665F70] Finally, here is what's found when I review the logs of an offline device: (image) [cid:image009.jpg@01D01A3D.CD665F70] Thanks again everyone, 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<http://www.netgainhosting.com/> [cid:image007.png@01D017BA.8560E4A0] ________________________________ 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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Alerting for applications (with unix-agent)
by Vladislav Solovei 20 Dec '14

20 Dec '14

Hi, all :-) Tell me, please... It is possible to add alert checkers for applications? PowerDNS queries, on example, etc..?

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Script to discovery and poll new devices
by Darian Jimenez 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Hello, I have a quick simple script to go through a text file and add_device, discovery it and poll it. However the only portion that works fine is the add_device. the discovery nor poller.php is actually doing what it should. however If I run the command separately outside of the script it discovers the device as well as polls it. the host name is right because I'm using echo within the script to show the name for each loop. If i use ./disocvery.php -h new that works fine and I guess it's a work around, however ./poller.php -h new does not work. below is the script I'm running. while read host do echo $host /opt/observium/add_device.php $host /opt/observium/discovery.php -h $host /opt/observium/poller.php -h $host done < Servers/dailyserverlist.txt

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Sliding window in graph views
by Brendan Hide 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Good day, all When viewing graphs, I often find that we want to keep a specific graph open for a long period - days or weeks even, and preferably to view the most recent information. A minor issue is that when clicking on the pre-provided thumbnails for the "6 Hours", "24 Hours", et al. graphs, it opens a specific time window. If the page is refreshed after a while, it shows old data rather than current data. A sliding window works already - just that probably very few people know about the "feature". Two minor changes are required to have the thumbnail links refer to the sliding window: Exclude the to= parameter - it appears this defaults to now() Set the from= parameter to an offset The following is an example of a 6-hour sliding window: https://<observium_host>/graphs/device=<devid>/type=device_processor/from=-14400 -- __________ Brendan Hide http://swiftspirit.co.za/ http://www.webafrica.co.za/?AFF1E97

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 91
by Nate Mellendorf 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

Adam and Joe, Thank you for your feedback on this. It would be nice to have a few default alerts built directly into the platform. That said, I understand that the time needed to implement something like that could be hard to reserve. As for the configuration I submitted, does the behavior of the alert seem to be correct? I was curious of up / down alerting was implemented (as the walkthrough suggests), but has yet to be verified as fully functional. I have an alert that checks for half-duplex interfaces, and it works like a charm. Observium will send off e-mails every 5 minutes about it, but I get nothing about a device status being up or down. We have What's Up Gold taking care of these alerts for now, but that's really all that it's doing. I know there are alternatives to this, but It would be so great to keep everything within Observium. :) Regards, 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 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. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 1:01 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 91 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: Observium mailing list (Joseph L. Brunner) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:00:19 +0000 From: "Joseph L. Brunner" <joe(a)affirmedsystems.com> To: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org>, Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list Message-ID: <2E86D2A5DF7FFA40A41B8C7FCA38F8742049FA(a)affmdex2k10.affmdcorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Not putting the product down ? it?s the best $100 thing in the world. But, I?m saying with logicmonitor ? all things just start coming at you and that?s pretty good. Now, I?m sure they have a major team writing those alerts and you have the $100 a year thing ? I?m saying opening it up on kickstarter ? we would donate ? the Observium interface is better. Just cant seem to get alerts to fire 100% of the time in a relatively quick fashion ? From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 01:23 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list I don't even know how we would do that :) What we have now is the most automated I could think of making it. We would have preferred to have some means of default hard-coded alerts, but I've not come up with a good way to do that yet. :) adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Joseph L. Brunner" <joe(a)affirmedsystems.com<mailto:joe@affirmedsystems.com>> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Sent: 12/17/2014 11:27:40 PM Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list Yeah, the alerts suck. We use Observium to wow the business folks ? but use other things to poll and generate an email? They should bite the bullet, do another kickstarter and raise like $200K so the alerts will be AUTO GENERATED and UNIVERSAL for all things it can find ? like logicmonitor. Just to get off logicmonitor I would donate -Joe From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Nate Mellendorf Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:10 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: [Observium] FW: Observium mailing list Good evening all, After much trial and error, I?ve been unsuccessful in implementing a simple up/down device alert within Observium. As I searched around the web for a solution, It seemed as though this hasn?t been much of an issue for most users. Here?s some additional documentation I followed to try and fix it myself: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612 (Nice work on this one) https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg05915.html http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker I?m starting think that my configuration file (config.php) could have something to do with it. I?ve included it, along with multiple snip-its to try and assist you in seeing my work. If anyone has any suggestions on this, they would be greatly appreciated. I?ve been working on this on and off for the past few days now, and I?ve had no success in generating an offline alert. The alert log shows the test as failed, but delayed. It never actually send out an e-mail. My apologies in advance, if this turns out to be user error. Thanks in advance for any time put into this. If there is anything else I can provide to further assist in troubleshooting, please let me know. I?d be more than happy to provide it. Omitted config.php: ? // Enable alerter $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; // Disable page refresh $config['page_refresh'] = "300"; ## Refresh the page every xx seconds // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['email']['default'] = "nate.mellendorf(a)netgainhosting.com<mailto:nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com>"; $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "observium(a)netgainhosting.com<mailto:observium@netgainhosting.com>"; $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Disables OLD alerting system $config['alerts']['interval'] = 310; ? Sensitive information has been omitted. The alert I?ve configured: (image) [cid:image001.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80] Here is what I see when I?ve review the alert: (image) [cid:image002.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80] Here?s the alert log that?s generated: (image) (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.) [cid:image003.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80] Finally, here is what?s found when I review the logs of an offline device: (image) [cid:image004.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80] Thanks again everyone, 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<http://www.netgainhosting.com/> [cid:image005.png@01D01A66.5E9E3F80] ________________________________ 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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alert association bug
by Zhenhui Liang 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

It seems on the alert settings, on the association part, if you configure more than 1 associations, only the very last one can be modified or deleted. Other associations above the last line, if you click either modify or delete, there’s no effect.

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Alerts and Descriptions
by Josh Hopper 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

How do I set an alert so that if a switch port without a description is not alerted on? I have descriptions on all ports that I want to monitor. I can't shut the others because some should always be up. Logic: If AdminInterface and PortStatus is Down AND PortDescription = "" then Alert Me This is what I have now. I can filter things that have some form of a description but I'm not sure how to use a description that is blank. See image below. [cid:image001.png@01D019FC.1994F5B0] -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image002.jpg@01D019FC.1994F5B0] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Marc Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:52 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert logs to big Hi, Thanks guys the housekeeping thingy did the trick :) On 09/12/14 17:14, Tom Laermans wrote: Check this post on the mailing list as it hasn't really made it into the docs yet: http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/2014-July/007264.html On 09/12/2014 16:44, Mathieu POUSSIN wrote: Hello, This is possible and native. Check the housekeeper script and configuration options. Best regards, Mathieu De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Marc Envoyé : mardi 9 décembre 2014 06:51 À : observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> >> Observium Network Observation System Objet : [Observium] Alert logs to big Hi all, I don't know if its asks already but is it possible to automaticly delete old alert logs from de db just like the logrotation on a linux system. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Marc de Rooy Technische medewerker Datacenter Engineer Flexwebhosting/FXW DISCLAIMER De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, vragen wij u het volgende: gebruik de inhoud niet; informeer de afzender door het bericht te retourneren; en vernietig de inhoud. The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please do not use the contents, inform us immediately and delete its content. _______________________________________________ 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 -- Met vriendelijke groet, Marc de Rooy Technische medewerker Datacenter Engineer Flexwebhosting/FXW DISCLAIMER De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, vragen wij u het volgende: gebruik de inhoud niet; informeer de afzender door het bericht te retourneren; en vernietig de inhoud. The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please do not use the contents, inform us immediately and delete its content.

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Alert logs to big
by Marc 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Hi all, I don't know if its asks already but is it possible to automaticly delete old alert logs from de db just like the logrotation on a linux system. -- *Met vriendelijke groet,* Marc de Rooy Technische medewerker Datacenter Engineer Flexwebhosting/FXW DISCLAIMER De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, vragen wij u het volgende: gebruik de inhoud niet; informeer de afzender door het bericht te retourneren; en vernietig de inhoud. The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please do not use the contents, inform us immediately and delete its content.

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junos logical sub interface state
by Zhenhui Liang 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Hi, I shutdown all unused ports to make the alerter life easier. But after I done so, all good except ae ports sub interfaces still shows on observium as failed even though the main ae physical ports already administratively down. For instace, ae11: show interfaces ae11 Physical interface: ae11, Administratively down, Physical link is Down But observium still complain ae11.0 failed check: show interfaces ae11.0 Logical interface ae11.0 (Index 153) (SNMP ifIndex 982) How do we ignore logical interfaces when setting up alerter? My current condition is: ifAdminStatus equals up ifOperStatus equals down Thank you. —Zhenhui

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Observium SNMP polling crashes various Adtran devices
by John Brown 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Hi, We recently installed Observium in an effort to replace our aging Cacti and Nagios systems. We are running the latest code checked out of SVN (We paid the money to Adam for the Professional Version) Today we added 180+ Adtran based devices to the system. All 180+ devices began rebooting. They would become stable for a few hours and then start rebooting again. Important to note that most of these items have been in our network for 3+ years, are running recent code, and have been rock solid stable for their entire service life. Cacti and Nagios poll them every minute and have been doing so for the past 3 years. Insert Observium and the devices start failing. My initial feeling is that there is something in the way Observium does its SNMP. Curious if anyone else has experienced this or something like this. Its caused us to halt putting more devices on Observium. Devices are TA 5000 / TA 352 GPON ONT's, TA 9xx iad's When I add a single device via add_device <name> and then do a discover.php -h new as soon as the code hits ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB the adtran device reboots noc@observium:/home/observium# ./discovery.php -h new Observium 0.14.12.6107 Discovery ont-03.sip.pon-1-6-1.fttx.XXX.YYYYY.net 38 adtran-aos (adtran-aos) Module [ os ] time: 0.0005s Ports : .... Module [ ports ] time: 0.1889s Port Stacks: Module [ ports-stack ] time: 0.0774s Processors : ADTRAN-AOSCPU + hrDevice: Module [ processors ] time: 0.2734s Memory : ADTRAN-AOSCPU + Module [ mempools ] time: 0.2019s IPv4 Addresses : .. Module [ ipv4-addresses ] time: 0.1366s IPv6 Addresses : Module [ ipv6-addresses ] time: 0.5068s Sensors: ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB

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