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Re: [Observium] ifAlias Script replacement
by tromp wezelman 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi Sascha, This script worked well for us, but not anymore. No output is generated if i test it on the command line. How can i debug this? Thanks, Tromp

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Assistance with Port Alert Checker
by Chip Pleasants 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi all, I'm looking for a little help figuring our why my port alert checker didn't seem to work.I set up port alert checker to trigger when greater than 80%. The actual usage was at 100% for a couple hours. This is a gigabit interface set to 100m with a bandwidth statement. The screen shot reflects the 100m speed correctly. I've attached a couple screen shots with my port and alert check. Any ideas why it didn't fire off? Thanks, Chip

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Exim module problem
by Manuele Di Nunzio 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi al All, I've added at Unix agent the exim module (I've already apache). But Observium can't locate this module. If I type from local server 'telnet myip 36602' there are the exim information. What could be the problem? Thank You in advance for your help

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Performance
by Desir Antoine 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi, A solution for a large network like yours could be using a distributed architecture. Here is a feedback from our usage : Current architecture in our organisation graphs 2000 devices and 70k ports and target is 6000 devices. We have built a farm of Observium pollers ( 6 physical servers ) and 1 more for mysql server (+Apache for GUI). Our 6 poller servers are 70% CPU idle and disks are ok for now. We progressively are adding new devices. We did a small patch in mysql scheme, to add a "poller_id" into devices table. At each new device added, script "add_device.php" choose the poller the least used (based on numbers of devices per poller server). Each poller asks to SQL Server devices with its poller_id. The GUI server can read via NFS all rrd files stored in pollers. Hardware used for each poller is HP DL360 Gen7 / 4 GB RAM / 6 disks SAS 10k Raid 1+0 / 2*E5620 2.40Ghz (4 cores each). Here is a diagram : http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img538/3225/iMXiYb.png By the way, may it be a good idea to add this distributed feature for monitoring of large platforms (adding the poller_id field into devices table) ? Cheers, Antoine Desir ________________________________ Ce message et les pi?ces jointes sont confidentiels et r?serv?s ? l'usage exclusif de ses destinataires. Il peut ?galement ?tre prot?g? par le secret professionnel. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en avertir imm?diatement l'exp?diteur et de le d?truire. L'int?grit? du message ne pouvant ?tre assur?e sur Internet, la responsabilit? de Worldline ne pourra ?tre recherch?e quant au contenu de ce message. Bien que les meilleurs efforts soient faits pour maintenir cette transmission exempte de tout virus, l'exp?diteur ne donne aucune garantie ? cet ?gard et sa responsabilit? ne saurait ?tre recherch?e pour tout dommage r?sultant d'un virus transmis. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Worldline liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted.

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E-mail Notifications & Backend Settings
by Jacob Chavez 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hello, does anyone know which parameters need to be added within config.php to enable e-mail notifications. Also, where do I configure the backend settings? Is that in config.php as well? Below is what I got from the documentation and I was able to send a test e-mail from Observium, but not receive a message if a device was down when I tested that portion. Any help is appreciated. Thank you! Jacob Email backend settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; Enable/Disable send email globally $config['email']['from'] = NULL; Mail from. Default: "Observium" <observium@`hostname -f`> $config['email']['default'] = NULL; Default alert recipient $config['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; Only use default recipient (all alerts send to default recipient) $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; Mail backend. Allowed: "mail" (PHP's built-in), "sendmail", "smtp". $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; // The location of the sendmail program. Sendmail specific options $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; // Outgoing SMTP server name. $config['email']['smtp_port'] = 25; // The port to connect. $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = 10; // SMTP connection timeout in seconds. $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = NULL; // Enable encryption. Use 'tls' or 'ssl' $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = FALSE; // Whether or not to use SMTP authentication. $config['email']['smtp_username'] = NULL; // SMTP username. $config['email']['smtp_password'] = NULL; // Password for SMTP authentication. SMTP specific options For test email settings use test_mail.php script from main observium dirrectory.

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Power Statistics
by Josh Hopper 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

How do I make an alert for power where it alerts me if my amperage (current) is over 80%. For me that would be about 11 AMPs on my UPS. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFFFFF.5CF8B420] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Junos 4-byte ASN support
by bt 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hello, I tried digging through the mailing archives but jet lag from my recent trip is stymieing my efforts in finding relevant threads. I'm running 0.14.11.5945 and notice that 4-byte ASN is still not supported. We use 4-byte ASN for the greater range as we eventually plan to run eBGP down to our servers. On Junos devices -- anything from MX, QFX to SRX -- I notice that ASNs show as a negative integer (example "-94967243"). On our Cisco's, they show up as our favorite 23456. The main question is: Are the negative integers a limitation of the Junos MIB? On those individual devices I do not have a "tab=routing/proto=bgp/", the BGP sessions do not show up at all under the general "routing -> BGP All Sessions" tab, and consequently we're missing a large chunk of our network and we don't have any BGP alerts (though I have all the above with Cisco Nexus gear). Are there any workarounds or plans to support 4-byte ASN in Observium, specifically with Junos equipment? Thank you! bt

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Linux Load Average Alert Check
by Lane Eckley 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hi Guys, Has there been any changes to the alerting system that will allow us to create a check for a Linux system’s load average? Looking through the list archives it appears it wasn’t yet supported back in August, but I am unsure if that may have changed since then. Thanks! -Lane

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Auto-discovery Woes
by Garland McAlexander 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

I'm having some major issues with Auto-discovery (read, I can't seem to get it working at all). Here is what I have in my config: $config['autodiscovery']['xdp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via discovery protocols (CDP, LLDP, FDP, AMAP and other) $config['autodiscovery']['ospf'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via OSPF $config['autodiscovery']['bgp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via iBGP $config['autodiscovery']['libvirt'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts found via libvirt $config['autodiscovery']['ip_nets'] = array("10.0.0.0/8"); // Networks to permit autodiscovery $config['discover_services'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover services via SNMP on devices of type "server" I'm using resolution via hosts file, and I have about 150 machines there. However, autodiscovery seems to do nothing.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 52, Issue 51
by Brett Jones 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hi there, We monitor APC pdu's here and have set up the following metrics: 41 PDU SENSOR ALARM notification of a warning/alert/down event on sensor sensor_event eq warning sensor_event eq alert sensor_event eq down type match power * This then picks up on all the sensors on that device: power banks 1 and 2 , power supply and voltage. Then if you go into the the node, click settings and then "sensor" you can manually set the min/ max for each one . once this hits it will alarm! Hope this helps ndex MIB Type Class Descr Current Min Max Custom Limits Reset Limits Alerts rPDULoadStatusLoad.1 apc current Bank Total 8.1A xx rPDULoadStatusLoad.2 apc current Bank 1 6.2A xx rPDULoadStatusLoad.3 apc current Bank 2 1.8A rPDUIdentDevicePowerWatts.0 apc power Input 1.86kW rPDUIdentDeviceLinetoLineVoltage.0 apc voltage Line-to-Line 230V rPDUPowerSupply1Status.0 powernet-rpdusupply1-state state Power Supply 1 powerSupplyOneOk Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net E:support@voip-unlimited.net Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: 14 November 2014 16:38 To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 52, Issue 51 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. Power Statistics (Josh Hopper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:37:25 -0500 From: Josh Hopper <joshhopper(a)protectplus.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Power Statistics Message-ID: <5BBFC1D5E54E9341821836E23038ADEC04DC527A21E1@SVR-EXCHANGE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" How do I make an alert for power where it alerts me if my amperage (current) is over 80%. For me that would be about 11 AMPs on my UPS. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFFFFF.5CF8B420] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Memory Metrics
by Josh Hopper 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

I'm having a little trouble. Metrics mempool_free mempool_perc mempool_used Using the above how would I properly setup an alert to notify me if my memory being used is over 65%? I'm not sure I understand how to properly use _free, _perc and _used. -- Sincerely, Josh Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Re: [Observium] CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB
by Mike Stupalov 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

You need disable 'fdb-table' poller module (in device edit -> module tab) On your device too many active vlans, on cisco devices FDB entries stored in separate contexts for each vlan. That why for cisco devices walked BRIDGE-MIB::dot1dTpFdbEntry as many times as have active vlans on device. Module [ fdb-table ] time: 329.5584s On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Marco Spicuglia < Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > > thank you for picking this up. > > Please find attached the debug output about one of our Nexus, with vlan > module and vtp mib already disabled via de GUI. > > I kindly ask you to avoid the public distribution of this file and to > immediately destroy it after your analysis has been completed, please. > > Thanks in advance for your time. > > > Best regards, > > Marco Spicuglia > > ReasonNet.com > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> on behalf of Mike > Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> > *Sent:* 13 November 2014 11:16 > *To:* observium(a)observium.org > *Subject:* Re: [Observium] CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB > > Hi, > > On 13.11.2014 13:11, Marco Spicuglia wrote: > > Hello there, > > > how can I disable CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB from the GUI? > > If possible, send me debug output for poller: > ./poller.php -d -h <your_nexus> > > This is the Nexus polling killer, but I can't find it in the list of > MIBs that I can disable. > > I'm running rev. 5975 stable > > > Cheers, > > Marco > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > -- > Mike Stupalovhttp://observium.org > > -- Mike Stupalov http://observium.org/

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Re: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance
by Adam Armstrong 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Well, seems that's our list drama for the winter sorted. He's been removed and banned, so no need to reply to him. :) BACK TO OUR NORMAL PROGRAMMING. NOTHING TO SEE HERE! ------ Original Message ------ From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 11/14/2014 1:09:44 AM Subject: RE: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance >I wish you good luck and hope you get well soon. >Please confirm that you will cancel the subscription. >Br >Ole Bryde > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of >Adam Armstrong >Sent: den 14 november 2014 08:06 >To: Observium Network Observation System >Subject: Re: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance > >You need to look up the word "harass". You're the one harassing me. > >Fuck off. > >------ Original Message ------ >From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >Sent: 11/14/2014 1:03:39 AM >Subject: [Observium] FW: Re[6]: Performance > >>Well, aint you the perfect gentleman. >>I want to cancel my subscription for Observium, that should be pretty >>obvious. >>You constantly harass and abuse the people in the mailinglist, why ? >>The platform you provided is pretty good, but does that in any way >>compensate for you poor manners ? >>I have no idea what is eating you, but as you so elegantly put it, I >>most certainly will "Go away" >>Also , as you are well aware, I have never utilized the subscription , >>so maybe a refund would be in place.. >>I urge you to get some social training or at least get laid once in a >>while, could do you some actual good. >> >>Have a nice day >>Br >>Ole Bryde >> >> >> >> >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:50 >>To: Bryde, Ole >>Subject: Re[6]: [Observium] Performance >> >>You got irritated that I said something mean about something you have >>deployed on the mailing list so you felt the need to email me >>*directly* to display your irritation like some kind of passive >>aggressive alpha-neckbeard. >> >>I don't give a fuck what you think. Go away. >> >>adam. >> >>------ Original Message ------ >>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> >>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:46:22 AM >>Subject: RE: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance >> >>>So you are basically calling me a liar? >>>Wow. >>> >>>Ole >>> >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:43 >>>To: Bryde, Ole >>>Subject: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>I long ago learned not to believe a single word said by someone who >>>is >>>defending something they have deployed. >>> >>>adam. >>> >>>------ Original Message ------ >>>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> >>>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:28:50 AM >>>Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>>Well , I guess we have different experiences then. >>>>We have VSS pairs that have been running perfectly for several >>>>years. >>>>(including patching) >>>>We have stacks for our access layer that works just fine. >>>> >>>>You provide us with a great product, to unbeatable price, but, >>>>pissing up your "customers" leg could be considered rude. No ? >>>> >>>>//Ole >>>> >>>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>>>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:20 >>>>To: Bryde, Ole >>>>Subject: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance >>>> >>>>Greatly increased surface area for software failure. >>>> >>>>Pretty much every deployment of stacked/virtual chassis switches >>>>I've >>>>encountered has had issues be them simple performance issues from >>>>intra-stack communication to serious problems like configuration >>>>corruption and instability. >>>> >>>>VSS is the poster child of "stacking: not even once". >>>> >>>>adam. >>>> >>>> >>>>------ Original Message ------ >>>>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>>>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network >>>>Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:17:17 AM >>>>Subject: RE: [Observium] Performance >>>> >>>>>Really ? >>>>>How come ? Please elaborate on that. >>>>> >>>>>Ole Bryde >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>>From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf >>>>>Of Adam Armstrong >>>>>Sent: den 13 november 2014 18:21 >>>>>To: Observium Network Observation System >>>>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>>>> >>>>>Stacking switches is pretty naive. >>>>> >>>>>adam. >>>>> >>>>>------ Original Message ------ >>>>>From: "Raphael Mazelier" <raph(a)futomaki.net> >>>>>To: observium(a)observium.org >>>>>Sent: 11/12/2014 4:09:49 AM >>>>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>>>> >>>>>>Observium is great tool, have a nice gui, made plenty of things... >>>>>>But the poller is "naive". >>>>>> >>>>>>For example I have a couple of stacked EX3300 I cannot poll with >>>>>>observium (the snmp is slow on this equipemnt ok). >>>>>> >>>>>>Think about that : in observium the poll of this equipment take >>>>>>more than 5min (so it is unusable), in cacti with spine 20s. >>>>>> >>>>>>Doing snmpbulwalk on all oid is not always the better solution.... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Le 11/11/14 22:12, Spencer Gaw a écrit : >>>>>>>Oh great, this guy again... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Regards, >>>>>>> >>>>>>>SG >>>>>>> >>>>>>>On 11/11/2014 1:58 PM, Alex Povolotsky wrote: >>>>>>>>I'm working on about 20 times better poller for Observium, >>>>>>>>current one is awful. Mysql should not be a bottleneck, I guess. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>observium mailing list >>>>>>observium(a)observium.org >>>>>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>>>> >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>observium mailing list >>>>>observium(a)observium.org >>>>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>>> >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>observium mailing list >>observium(a)observium.org >>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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FW: Re[6]: Performance
by Bryde, Ole 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Well, aint you the perfect gentleman. I want to cancel my subscription for Observium, that should be pretty obvious. You constantly harass and abuse the people in the mailinglist, why ? The platform you provided is pretty good, but does that in any way compensate for you poor manners ? I have no idea what is eating you, but as you so elegantly put it, I most certainly will "Go away" Also , as you are well aware, I have never utilized the subscription , so maybe a refund would be in place.. I urge you to get some social training or at least get laid once in a while, could do you some actual good. Have a nice day Br Ole Bryde -----Original Message----- From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:50 To: Bryde, Ole Subject: Re[6]: [Observium] Performance You got irritated that I said something mean about something you have deployed on the mailing list so you felt the need to email me *directly* to display your irritation like some kind of passive aggressive alpha-neckbeard. I don't give a fuck what you think. Go away. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> Sent: 11/14/2014 12:46:22 AM Subject: RE: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance >So you are basically calling me a liar? >Wow. > >Ole > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:43 >To: Bryde, Ole >Subject: Re[4]: [Observium] Performance > >I long ago learned not to believe a single word said by someone who is >defending something they have deployed. > >adam. > >------ Original Message ------ >From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org> >Sent: 11/14/2014 12:28:50 AM >Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance > >>Well , I guess we have different experiences then. >>We have VSS pairs that have been running perfectly for several years. >>(including patching) >>We have stacks for our access layer that works just fine. >> >>You provide us with a great product, to unbeatable price, but, pissing >>up your "customers" leg could be considered rude. No ? >> >>//Ole >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >>Sent: den 14 november 2014 07:20 >>To: Bryde, Ole >>Subject: Re[2]: [Observium] Performance >> >>Greatly increased surface area for software failure. >> >>Pretty much every deployment of stacked/virtual chassis switches I've >>encountered has had issues be them simple performance issues from >>intra-stack communication to serious problems like configuration >>corruption and instability. >> >>VSS is the poster child of "stacking: not even once". >> >>adam. >> >> >>------ Original Message ------ >>From: "Bryde, Ole" <Ole.Bryde(a)sonymobile.com> >>To: "'Adam Armstrong'" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network >>Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>Sent: 11/14/2014 12:17:17 AM >>Subject: RE: [Observium] Performance >> >>>Really ? >>>How come ? Please elaborate on that. >>> >>>Ole Bryde >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of >>>Adam Armstrong >>>Sent: den 13 november 2014 18:21 >>>To: Observium Network Observation System >>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>Stacking switches is pretty naive. >>> >>>adam. >>> >>>------ Original Message ------ >>>From: "Raphael Mazelier" <raph(a)futomaki.net> >>>To: observium(a)observium.org >>>Sent: 11/12/2014 4:09:49 AM >>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Performance >>> >>>>Observium is great tool, have a nice gui, made plenty of things... >>>>But the poller is "naive". >>>> >>>>For example I have a couple of stacked EX3300 I cannot poll with >>>>observium (the snmp is slow on this equipemnt ok). >>>> >>>>Think about that : in observium the poll of this equipment take more >>>>than 5min (so it is unusable), in cacti with spine 20s. >>>> >>>>Doing snmpbulwalk on all oid is not always the better solution.... >>>> >>>> >>>>Le 11/11/14 22:12, Spencer Gaw a écrit : >>>>>Oh great, this guy again... >>>>> >>>>>Regards, >>>>> >>>>>SG >>>>> >>>>>On 11/11/2014 1:58 PM, Alex Povolotsky wrote: >>>>>>I'm working on about 20 times better poller for Observium, current >>>>>>one is awful. Mysql should not be a bottleneck, I guess. >>>>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>observium mailing list >>>>observium(a)observium.org >>>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>observium mailing list >>>observium(a)observium.org >>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >

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Performance
by Morten Guldager 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

'Aloha! I'm in the process of evaluating observium for my organisation's needs. We have some instances running already, but my task is to do the evaluation in a more structured way. I have some questions which I will keep in different posts to keep the threads clean. Performance: We are looking at a network currently consisting of 4000 devices with close to 100'000 ports. These devices are well known to observium and a subset of them got auto discovered just fine. But how about performance. Will it require vast amounts of computing power? Also, our network grows quite rapidly, might be 50% bigger 12 months ahead. I found an old thread from July 2013 where Joe Hoh describing a complex multi server setup to scale observium to something approx 2-3 times my current needs. Will I have to go through similar "struggles" to get it working? Or has observium changed much to make it scale different than it did 1.5 year ago? Pointers to information regarding scaling observium are most welcome. -- /Morten %-)

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Setting up alerts
by Sanjeev Gupta 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi, I am using svn 5973. I am trying to setup an Alert Checker. No matter what I do, I get an error that the alert name must be unique. I have tried strange names in the "Alert Name" field, but everything seems to be taken :-( Leaving the entity field blank, gives me another error. I am trying to setup, to start with, alerting if a port on the upstream router runs at 80%. Please see http://postimg.org/image/ah4h97ly7/ Checking what alerts exist gives me this page: http://postimg.org/image/sl08oy6y1/ I delete them all, and they reappear after a Regenerate. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://sg.linkedin.com/in/ghane

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hddtemp from arch linux workstation PC
by David Ford 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hello, I wonder if anyone has the local HDDTEMP script working on an Archlinux PC that could help me. It works fine on my server (ubuntu), but I just get intermittent output of 1 disk (sda) and no temp reading at all from the Arch linux PC. It seems to be: if [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ `$nc -zv $hostname $port 2>&1 | awk '{print $5}'` = "open" ] that causes the error and I am not knowledgeable enough to work out a solution. nc localhost 7634 outputs... |/dev/sda|TOSHIBA THNSNH128GBST|30|C||/dev/sdb|ST500DM002-1BD142|32|C||/dev/sdc|Hitachi HDT725050VLA360|38|C| Thank you, Fordy. #!/bin/sh # hddtemp sensor readings # needs hddtemp daemon listening on (at least) localhost # requires netcat to be installed and in the path # (c) 2012, Tom Laermans for Observium hostname="localhost" port=7634 nc=`which nc` if [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ `$nc -zv $hostname $port 2>&1 | awk '{print $5}'` = "open" ] then echo '<<<hddtemp>>>' $nc $hostname $port echo fi

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Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled
by Richard Boezerooij 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi Xavier, When I deactivate the WMI storage module, I don't get any information about storage. I also get only the total installed memory, but not the usage of it. Regards, Richard ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:00:18 +0100 (CET) From: Xavier Beaudouin <xavier.beaudouin(a)hsoftware.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled Message-ID: <534948181.88198.1415869218802.JavaMail.zimbra(a)hsoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi, > Unfortunately, your solution has not worked for me. > The wmi polling module was already enabled. I get the storage > information, but not the graphs. I want to use the graphs to > proactively monitor the storage on the servers. > > Is there another solution? Seems that WMI storage module can be picky. In our side, we decided that Storage module used is using SNMP and desactivate WMI Storage module. Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01 ------------------------------ De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door dit bericht te retourneren. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Incassade staat niet in voor de juistheid en volledigheid van dit e-mailbericht. Niet gegarandeerd kan worden dat dit bericht vrij is van virussen noch dat dit bij de geadresseerde is overgekomen zonder inbreuk of tussenkomst van onbevoegde derden.

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CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB
by Marco Spicuglia 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hello there, how can I disable CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB from the GUI? This is the Nexus polling killer, but I can't find it in the list of MIBs that I can disable. I'm running rev. 5975 stable Cheers, Marco

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Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled
by Richard Boezerooij 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi Simon, Unfortunately, your solution has not worked for me. The wmi polling module was already enabled. I get the storage information, but not the graphs. I want to use the graphs to proactively monitor the storage on the servers. Is there another solution? Regards, Richard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:30:53 +0000 From: Simon Smith <simonsmith5521(a)gmail.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled Message-ID: <09F2EFCE-BC2B-4E00-9363-6F81E8EE31D4(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi i had this issue too! I simple enabled the wmi polling and that got the storage information and other info too Please give this a try and see if it works :) http://jira.observium.org/secure/attachment/11319/WMIPoller-011013-1429-4.p… Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd > On 12 Nov 2014, at 3:22 pm, Richard Boezerooij <R.Boezerooij(a)incassade.nl> wrote: > > Hello, > > Several (virtual) servers (Windows 2008 R2) do not show the storage graphs in Observium. On these servers the poller module keeps switching to disabled. The amount of storage used do show up on these servers. > > Other servers, same configuration, do show the storage graphs. On these servers the storage poller module do stay enabled. > > I?ve checked and restarted the SNMP service locally on these servers. > I?ve updated CorreLog (syslog agent) on the servers to the latest version. > Observium is installed on a Ubuntu server. I?ve updated Observium to 0.14.11.5963. > > How can I fix this problem? > > Kind regards, > Richard > ------------------------------ De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door dit bericht te retourneren. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Incassade staat niet in voor de juistheid en volledigheid van dit e-mailbericht. Niet gegarandeerd kan worden dat dit bericht vrij is van virussen noch dat dit bij de geadresseerde is overgekomen zonder inbreuk of tussenkomst van onbevoegde derden.

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Odd devices
by Morten Guldager 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

'Aloha! I promised you more questions for use in my evaluation process, here comes the next one: Odd devices: besides the 4000 routers and switches in my previous post, our business does a great deal of video transmissions. This is handled with crazy video codec boxes which sometimes have very limited SNMP capabilities. I face two problems: - it cant be autodiscovered; the MIB simply doesn't that. I have a database describing exactly what we have and how it's configured. - it's covered by NDAs, so I cant event tell you much about it. I would like to graph various parameters in these devices using observium, but I guess I will have to implement these myself. (or hire somebody to sign the NDA and hack something together for me). Also, sometimes the concept needing graphing isn't really bound to a single device, but more a collation of multiple states from multiple devices. I understand that observium isn't really meant to be extensible by the end customer (me) by simply tweaking configuration. I read "It's not as simple as "adding the MIB", actual code needs to be written to support the device and its features. You could learn PHP and familiarise yourself with the Observium codebase and write support for it yourself." as a warning, as i'm nowhere a competent PHP hacker. Think the questions are: - is observium at all the right tool for the job? (a goal is to limit the number of tools the NOC has to learn) - can observium live in an non-auto-discovery world? - can observium handle abstract measurements not bound to a specific device? -- /Morten %-)

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No storage graphs and storage module keeps switching to disabled
by Richard Boezerooij 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Hello, Several (virtual) servers (Windows 2008 R2) do not show the storage graphs in Observium. On these servers the poller module keeps switching to disabled. The amount of storage used do show up on these servers. Other servers, same configuration, do show the storage graphs. On these servers the storage poller module do stay enabled. I've checked and restarted the SNMP service locally on these servers. I've updated CorreLog (syslog agent) on the servers to the latest version. Observium is installed on a Ubuntu server. I've updated Observium to 0.14.11.5963. How can I fix this problem? Kind regards, Richard De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door dit bericht te retourneren. Aan de inhoud van deze e-mail kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Incassade staat niet in voor de juistheid en volledigheid van dit e-mailbericht. Niet gegarandeerd kan worden dat dit bericht vrij is van virussen noch dat dit bij de geadresseerde is overgekomen zonder inbreuk of tussenkomst van onbevoegde derden.

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s/MySQL/MariaDB/ ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

Hi, I have tried some times ago to change the MySQL server into MariaDB on my Observium server (community), but it seems that is breaking some parts of Observium and doesn't seems to update things. Anybody here have a good experience about moving MySQL to MariaDB with observium ? Regards, Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01

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Re: [Observium] san
by Rob VanHooren 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

josh> I have mine on EMC. Does just fine. ditto (iSCSI). VAAI ESXi 55u2 vm's too; noop kernel elevator and etc other tweaks for the guests. one on a Nimble (cached with violin), and another on a QNAP (cached with slc ssd). bonded dual 10gigE +8k jumbo though. probably makes a big difference vs. 2 or 4G FC back-ended with creaky legacy FCAL spinners. ymmv. depends *highly* upon how well the environment is built for i/o ... which is likely why Adam has the wisdom to be wary & prefers DAS on a physical host. Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPhone > On Nov 11, 2014, at 17:45, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > I have mine on an EMC. Does just fine.

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mysql listed in modules when should be wmi
by Simon Smith 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi All not sure if this is a bug ive found or simple me being dumb! ive just enabled a 2008r2 server with WMI to monitor it abit more… and ive noticed in the Timing panel of the device its listed the module mssql ? the mssql wasn’t listed before i enabled the WMI module for the device? shouldn’t it read WMI ? ive attached a screenshot showing what i mean Regards Simon

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