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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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Interface Uptime as a Percentage
by Bruce Guthrie 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi, With the information Observium currently collects is it possible to obtain the percentage uptime of a given interface for a day, a week, a month? Thanks and regards, Bruce

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Rancid SVN integration makes apache2 crash
by Ole Hansen 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi, We're using Observium Subscription-version on a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server. I've configured the Rancid-integration and the basic "show configuration" works, but as soon as i click the button for a previous version Apache restarts with: [Mon Nov 10 10:33:09.544998 2014] [core:notice] [pid 1327] AH00051: child pid 1337 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /tmp/dump I've configured apache to core dump into /tmp/dump and gdb tells me: Core was generated by `/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start'. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00007f82cbbf0398 in is_numeric_string_ex (allow_errors=-1, oflow_info=0x0, dval=<synthetic pointer>, lval=0x1, length=<optimized out>, str=0x7f82c198cf38 "164") at /build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/Zend/zend_operators.h:255 255 /build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/Zend/zend_operators.h: No such file or directory. I'm suspecting some svn permissions or likewise, but my www-data user (which runs apache) is a member of the rancid group and should have permission to read the files. Any clues where to look? -- Ole Hansen

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by Pierre Menard 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

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Configuring E-mail Alert Settings
by Jacob Chavez 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hello, which file should I edit to configure and enable e-mail notifications for when a device is down? I need assistance configuring the mail backend settings and the alert itself. I was working on config.php, but haven't had success with messages being sent while a device is offline. Below is what I have thus far. // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Default Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "you(a)yourdomain.org"; $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['interval'] = 86400; $config['alerts']['bgp']['whitelist'] = NULL; $config['uptime_warning'] ="84600"; $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['email']['from'] = NULL; $config['email']['default'] = "XXXXX(a)XXXX.com"; $config['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "Observium <XXXX(a)XXXXX.com>"; $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['email']['smtp_port'] = 25; $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = 10; $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = NULL; $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = FALSE; $config['email']['smtp_username'] = NULL; $config['email']['smtp_password'] = NULL; // End config.php Thanks! -- *Jacob Chavez - IT Support Technician Traffic Management, Inc. * *Toll Free: *800-763-3999 *Direct: *562-264-2275 *Mobile: *562-537-6205 *Fax: *562-424-0266 www.trafficmanagement.com California - Great Lakes - San Jose California License # 785804, Class C31 - Traffic Control Services - Sales and Rentals - Permits and Consulting - Engineering - Training

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Syslogging & Expansion
by Lane Eckley 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi Everyone, We are considering the possibility of using Observium's syslog capability to handle the syslog output of 50 machines which will be spitting out roughly 300K lines of log per hour for a grand total in the ball park 360,000,000 log entries per 24 hours. Has anyone used/attempted to handle this volume of logging with Observium in the past? If so, would you mind sharing your experience? I am also looking for feedback on hardware suggestions for both the Observium machine as well for the standalone database server. Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks, -Lane

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Newbie... Cambium PTP wireless sorta contribution
by Ron Marosko 08 Nov '14

08 Nov '14

Greetings, New to the product, new to the list, trying it out to see if this will work for us. and I like what I see so far. I note with glee the upcoming support of the Cambium Canopy products with the patch filed under OBSERVIUM-1055, but also see that it's only for the PMP product line. Now it's important to note I'm a network engineer, not a coder, so I'm not sure how to go about some of the more (heck, even the lesser!) intricate details of PHP programming. I've been able to make it as far as the following for the os.inc.php include, but submission of same for the project. I have no idea how to go about doing, and again I'll point back to not being someone who knows how to write code. Just for testing sake, I put the following stuff into my own installation and tested, the discovery php is properly discovering/classifying the devices, and the poller phps being called are fetching the proper information from the devices. Thus, I submit for further determination for the os.inc.php: // Cambium PTP800 $os = "ptp800"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cambium PTP800"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "wireless"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "cambium"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.17713.8"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "CAMBIUM-PTP800-V2-MIB"; // Cambium PTP400/600 $os = "ptp400"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cambium PTP400/600"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "wireless"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "cambium"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.17713.1"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB"; For the polling/os part, I submit: ptp800.inc.php $version = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::softwareVersion.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $hardware = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::productName.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $serial = trim(snmp_get($device, "CAMBIUM-PTP800-MIB::rFUSerial.0", "-OQv"),'"'); ptp400.inc.php $version = trim(snmp_get($device, "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB::softwareVersion.0", "-OQv"),'"'); $hardware = trim(snmp_get($device, "MOTOROLA-PTP-MIB::productName.0", "-OQv"),'"'); Now there are a lot of other pollable items in the MIBs, but I have no idea how to integrate any graphs or anything like that... I was looking (or trying to look at) the canopy.inc.php that is part of the -1055 patch, but it looks like a lot of gobbledygook to me.. just like Cisco router/switch configs may look to some of ya'll. Thus, if anyone can help with the PHP side of the stuff, I can handle the networking side. Regards, Ron -- Ron Marosko, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCIE No. 4526 (R/S), NN5DX Senior Network Engineer DirectBytes, LLC. 1108 West Dickinson Blvd, Suite A Fort Stockton, TX 79735 USA o: +1 432 336 5600 x115 c: +1 432 290 6344 e: ron(a)rjr-services.com pgp pubkey: <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x778B3B0258AB8B5C> 0x58AB8B5C "To know me is to fly with me."

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hostname underscore
by Rob VanHooren 08 Nov '14

08 Nov '14

<oldgrump> underscore is an illegal character for a hostname, per RFC. you may thank a generation of miseducated Microsoft admins for thinking otherwise & polluting the world's DNS gene pool only to cause such untold suffering as this. dashes are perfectly fine because they're not illegitimate characters wrongly used by people who should have known better. bastards. </oldgrump> cheers, R. typogaphical errors courtesy of iPad. On Nov 7, 2014, at 16:55, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: >> does not show due to the underscore in the name. Not sure >> why. Dashes seem to be fine though.

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smokeping ping tab now showing up on device
by Rory Schramm 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

H Guys, I'm having a problem with getting smokeping working with some of my devices. I have smokeping setup and it's working correctly ( I'm able to go to the smokeping cgi and see the graphs, etc). However the ping tab for smokeping isn't showing up for the device in observium. The device name is the same in both observium and smokeping. However, it's working fine for one of my switches but not the rest. I don't beleive it's a permission as I'm able to get it working with one of our switches. I added the following to my config for smokeping: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/";<mailto:observium@observium.org> The device in question is a cisco 3825 router. Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 Apache 2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 Thanks, Rory ________________________________ The information contained in this transmission is privileged and/or confidential information intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please contact North Island Credit Union at info(a)myisland.com<mailto:info@myisland.com> if you received this transmission in error.

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SNMP Location string parsing
by Ulrik Ivers 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi all, We use the geocoding functionality in Observium to place the devices on the front page map. All is working reasonably well. Today we set the SNMP sysLocation field locally in each device to street address ("Street, City, Country") We would like to be able to add "non-Geolocation" information to the sysLocation string without messing up the geolocation functionality. For example, we would like to add "Room 34, Rack 2" to the sysLocation. Is there functionality in Obervium to do this today? E.g. putting the extra information in "()" or other special characters? Regards, /Ulrik Ivers

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Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi Guys, I totally forgot to do the Changelog for the past 2 months, so here it is! http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog adam.

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Rivered Steelhead support
by Colin Stubbs 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi All Riverbed MIB's are in both Observium stable and trunk... but there's no explicit Riverbed definition in os.inc.php. Was this removed at some point for a reason? Or is someone already working on Riverbed specific discovery and polling code? Thanks -Colin

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Possible to create alerts for MySQL metrics contained in the MySQL agent?
by Hogan Whittall 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

We're trying to find a way to generate alerts on various MySQL metrics, it looks like all of the metrics are already in the monitor agent/graphs. What is involved in getting those metrics into the alerter/alert checker? This is for Pro. Thanks! -Hogan

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Nexus 5596 polling slowness
by Daniel Bliss 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hello, Just curious if anyone else is seeing long polling times for Nexus 5596UP switches. Everything else in our deployment is responding in a timely manner and there are no bottlenecks on the Observium server at this point. ./poller.php: access2-2a.sj2 - 1 devices polled in 243.6 secs Polling times in the high 200 second range are not uncommon while most all of our other high port density devices are well under 30 seconds. If anyone has found a NXOS software version that works better than others please let me know. We have tried on various software version 5,6 and 7 releases. I can only imagine this is a Cisco issue but thought I'd ask here in case anyone solved it. Regards, Dan Bliss

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Cisco ASA failover
by Carlos Martinez 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

I noticed that a pair of firewalls I had failed over about a month ago but the only thing showing in the logs of the device was that the mac addresses all changed. Is there a way to get better alerting on failover? I know the stateful failover are almost sub second but logs are generated. Not sure if you can monitor that with SNMP but figured I would throw that out there. Carlos

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