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Observium - net-snmp process unresponsive
by Laurent Dumont 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hi gents, I have a CentOS 6.6 install with net-snmp running. I'm using SNMPv3 Auth and Encryption with Observium polling devices every five minutes. On one of my Centos server, the net-snmp process will die after 24-36 hours of running. It seems to be hitting my system maximum file open limit which is set to 1024. > > [root@mail net-snmp-5.7]# ulimit -n > > 1024 > > [root@mail ~]# lsof -p 26907 | wc -l > > 1071 > > [root@mail net-snmp-5.7]# lsof -p 26907 > > snmpd 26907 root 166r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 167r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 168r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 169r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 170r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 171r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 172r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 173r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 174r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 175r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 176r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 177r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 178r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 179r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > #tail /var/log/snmpd.log > > cannot open /proc/net/dev ... > > /proc/partitions: Too many open files > > /proc/stat: Too many open files > > /proc/partitions: Too many open files > > /proc/stat: Too many open files > > could not create socket > > /proc/partitions: Too many open files > > /proc/stat: Too many open files > > cannot open /proc/net/dev ... > > /proc/partitions: Too many open files > > /proc/stat: Too many open files > > /proc/partitions: Too many open files > > /proc/stat: Too many open files That number will keep increasing till it trips the 1024 limit. It seems that CentOS is frozen to net-snmp 5.5 and I'm don't really want to use anything that I can't easily manage with "yum". The weird thing is that I have another server with the same config/CentOS version/Net-Snmp version and I have no issues with the snmp process on that server. Anything else I could try to troubleshoot the issue? Thanks!

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Pwr consumption on JunOS
by Gavin Henry 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Hi all, What is everyone doing to pick up power usage for Juniper routers and switches other than via their PDU stats? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry.

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Merry Christmas
by Simon Schmitz 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

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Syslog-ng no log after upgrade
by chott＠praha1.net 27 Dec '14

27 Dec '14

Hello, today i check some Syslog and after upgrade i dont have any Remote Syslog messages. Is there some change in CE build 6000 ? Tomas

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Need to create sensors and better support for Ubiquiti radio devices
by John Brown 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

I'm looking for help to improve the support of Ubiquiti microwave radio support in Observium. Mainly focused on the AirFiber 24 and AirFiber 5 products, along with the Rocket series. Would need the ability to alarm on RF Signal level changes (out side of acceptable range, etc). Same with receive Ether CRC on the radio's ether interface. Anyone interested in helping. There would some $$ avail.

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Enable / Disable RANCID on a per device basis
by Nate Mellendorf 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

Hello everyone, I've implemented the RANCID integration feature, which has been working quite well over the past week. I'm very excited to have config diffs on the same page as the health of each device. It's little features like this that are allowing us to leverage Observium over other monitoring platforms. That said, I was curious about a related Observium feature request. Would it be possible to configure a RANCID on/off switch on the device settings page? Please allow me to clarify this further. When I run generate-rancid.php, It's going to generate a router.db for all of the devices listed within observium. While this is amazing and extremely useful, not all devices within Observium need to be added to this list. My idea is to add a switch that determines whether the device will be added to the router.db. That way, when our CRON job runs each night to update router.db, it only does so for the devices we know RANCID can log into. Again, this is just an idea I wanted to share. If you feel there is something I could do to get around this, please let me know. As of right now, I generate the new router.db myself and manually remove each device I know shouldn't be listed. Thanks in advance, 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@01D02109.328DCB00] ________________________________ 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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Many false positives
by John Brown 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Hi I'm trying to troubleshoot the many false positives we are receiving from OB. The system will report a host as down, yet our legacy Nagios and out-of-band Pingdom do not show the host as down. It doesn't appear that OB records in the log what specifically is making OB think the host is down. I've increased the SNMP time out value to 3 seconds (which seems very long) and that has helped with some hosts, mostly Mikrotiks. But I doubt that our Juniper MX480's (which are lightly loaded) should need such long time frame to respond. How can I get OB to report what is the actual trigger for its "Host Down" alerts ?? Are there tweaks for performance monitoring / testing ?? Thank you in advance..

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Trango Radios, wish list, support in Observium, $$
by John Brown 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Hi, We are using lots of Trango microwave radios and would like to see better support for them in Observium. I'm willing to put a few $$ towards that integration and support....

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set device for customer
by Simon Smith 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Hi All, I have a feeling is more of a daft / random question, but ill ask it anyways Is it possible to set a list of devices for a customer in the customer view under the Ports menu? I can’t change the description of every single interface like described in here http://www.observium.org/wiki/Interface_Description_Parsing I would rather have a customer view of all there devices I understand i could create a user for the customer and assign those devices to that user, but thats not a view for myself as Admin the other issue i have is the Devices are assigned all over the place and not in one location either ? Regards Simon

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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. 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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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