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Server drive space
by Darian Jimenez 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hello, I want to monitor windows servers for C drive space. While I had a policy that was using the storage_perc gt 90 and it was working fine, I want to monitor instead just for servers with 5 GB of space or less, on any drive for now, then narrow it to certain drives. I put storage_free lt 5 (thinking this would look for 5GB or less, maybe its 5% or less not sure) but it's throwing some alerts that are not true. I get some servers with the art and when I check it shows as if the C drive had 0 B left, but in reality they have 11 GB and more free. Any idea how I can accomplish what I want? Thanks, Darian

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php5-mcrypt
by Robbie Wright 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Running Ubuntu 14.04 and getting this error message: The extension 'mcrypt' is missing. This extension required for use by the "remember me" feature. Please install the php5-mcrypt package on Ubuntu/Debian or the php-mcrypt package on RHEL/Centos. Alternatively, you can disable this feature by setting $config['login_remember_me'] = FALSE; in your config. We've uninstalled and reinstalled it twice now and still getting this error. Any else bumped into this issue before? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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cisco 1841 / memory / draw error
by Massimo Sala 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u14 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB-1~wheezy-log SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-SPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(6)T11, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) How can I troubleshoot the memory graphs generation ? All the other graphs are fine. Best regards, Sala

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Re: [Observium] alert repeat?
by Zhenhui Liang 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

I found an option to do ignore until ok on the interface settings. But it is really unrealistic to do this manually for hundreds of ports. Any easier way to achieve this? I do want to monitor ports status, but I don¹t want to get a flood of alerts every 24 hours. Thanks a lot. On 10/22/14, 6:40 PM, "Zhenhui Liang" <ZhenhuiLiang(a)eharmony.com> wrote: >Hi, > >We have some switches with thousands of ports. I know, we don¹t have >administrative down for unused ports. So I set up port down alerts for >all ports, so that the initial alert of the down ports, I just ignore so >I know those are ports already down. So the theory is that for any >following alerts, I will look into them. > >But I found out observium will send out the massive port down alerts >exactly in 24 hours frequency. How do I disable the persistent alerting? >I want observium only alert me once for an event period. > >Thanks a lot. > > >‹Zhenhui >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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95th percentile and billing module - possible discrepancies
by colin.barker＠bluesky.co.uk 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi I thought I would post here first, just in case what I am seeing isn't a bug, and just me just mis-understanding the calculations. Just a quick setup - we currently are billed on a 95th percentile from an ISP, which we have two physical ethernet connections plugged into two different HP ProCurve switches. I have created a Bill under Traffic Accounting, and set the billing type as 95th @ 50 Mbps, and added both the ports for our connections so I am able to see both under "Bill Ports". This has been running for about 6 - 7 months now, calculating away. While going back through our reports, I noticed that in September we had an overage marked in Observium as 11.4Mbps (Actual usage 61.4Mbps). However the bill we got from the ISP gave us an overage of 30.38Mbps (Actual usage 80.38Mbps). So I went to look deeper and got the break downs I needed. Our ISP gave us the following for the highest 95th: Link1: 50.375Mbps Link2: 30.005Mbps Total: 80.38Mbps I then looked on Observium for the graphs for the two ports, and they reported the following for the highest 95th: Link1: 49.64Mbps Link2: 30.44Mbps Total: 80.08Mbps I can accept that two different systems there may be a very small discrepancy with the larger numbers - which is fine, however -- the problem arrives when the billing calculations comes in, and shows the values as above (11.4Mbps over, 61.4Mbps usage). I have uploaded the two port graphs and a screen grab from the billing page to show in more detail the above numbers here: http://imgur.com/a/iErfo I just want to check I have not missed something that is staring me in the face in regards to the calculations, and if I am, please let me know! Thanks in advance. Regards Colin Barker

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error on svn update
by Damien Burke 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

This issue just popped up. I verified that the username/pw for my paid subscription is valid. I can reach the svn.observium.org url from the server (tested with curl). I do still however get this error: root@observium:/opt/observium# svn update svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/observium/trunk': Could not read status line: Connection reset by peer (http://svn.observium.org) wat?

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alert repeat?
by Zhenhui Liang 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi, We have some switches with thousands of ports. I know, we don’t have administrative down for unused ports. So I set up port down alerts for all ports, so that the initial alert of the down ports, I just ignore so I know those are ports already down. So the theory is that for any following alerts, I will look into them. But I found out observium will send out the massive port down alerts exactly in 24 hours frequency. How do I disable the persistent alerting? I want observium only alert me once for an event period. Thanks a lot. —Zhenhui

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 84
by Rutger Bevaart 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

On 22 Oct 2014, at 09:38, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: ? > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Rutger Bevaart <rutger(a)xconnect24.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I can confirm that the issue is gone in 5903! >> >> Thanks Mike & Joe for the excellent input (and fix)! >> >> Let me know if any additional input, debugging or testing. >> >> Regards, >> Rutger I have been too quick to judge, the issue is still there, although it seems to be less. Ideas?

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Overriding location codes
by Robbie Wright 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

We've got custom locations defined in config.php so all of our devices use a 3 or 4 digit location code for snmp, Observium reads the location code, checks config.php and sets the full address. We have some devices that do not have location in snmp so we set it manually by overriding it in the device settings. However, overriding sysLocation and providing a custom location does not compare that location to what is setup in the config.php. So can a custom location setting check config.php for the value? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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polling issues with 5897
by Rutger Bevaart 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Hi, Updated to the latest svn version yesterday, after which I immediately had issues with the poller. Updated from a release about two weeks older. Now I get up/down for different devices, sometimes complete BGP neighbours down on others. Device down alerts on snmp, etc. I increased the number of poller processes in the crontab and increased snap timeout values etc. However, I still have graphs with large parts missing because of this. Checked poller times, kept an eye on the processes running and logs. Some devices take 120s to poll completely, but all polling is done in about 2 minutes. Still I get these errors, other than the upgrade no changes have been made to firewalls, policies, etc. Any clues? Do I need to upgrade php? Regards, Rutger

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Re: [Observium] polling issues with 5897
by Rutger Bevaart 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

On 21 Oct 2014, at 21:13, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:27:50 -0400 > From: Joseph Zancocchio <joseph(a)nyi.net> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Subject: Re: [Observium] polling issues with 5897 > Message-ID: <54466D66.70006(a)nyi.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" > > I believe I have been experiencing the same issue with the latest stable > update, and have narrowed down the problem I have seen to the changes > made in revision 5884. Can you try to svn up -r 5883 (make sure to > switch to the current branch if you are using the stable currently) and > see if everything works, and if so, svn up -r 5884 to see if the > behavior returns? > > -Joe I can confirm that after reverting back to 5883 the problem disappears. Polling takes a similar amount of time on both versions. Will let it run for a night and upgrade a single version tomorrow to see if the issue reappears. Regards, Rutger

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memory graph / draw error
by Massimo Sala 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Hi I just installed Observium on Debian 7.6 : Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 Apache nginx/1.2.1 PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u14 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB-1~wheezy-log SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 I have added 80 routers ( Cisco / Juniper / HP ) and most of them display fine. On some devices, the memory graph show "draw error". How can I troubleshoot this ? Best regards, Sala

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memory graphs / how to disable
by Massimo Sala 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

per subject, we have only routers and we are interested only in traffic graphs. best regards, Sala

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Re: [Observium] Ruckus Access points
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Can I add extreme/Enterasys to this too? :-) -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Eduardo Schoedler Sent: 20 October 2014 16:09 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Ruckus Access points +1 That will be great. I can provide information (snmpwalks, etc) about Ruckus ZoneDirector. 2014-10-20 12:45 GMT-02:00 Lakhwinder Singh <luckymuk.330(a)gmail.com>: > Hello all > Is anybody managing Ruckus access points with observium? All the > ruckus access points are presented as Generic device and I would also > like to get graphs for number of users connected, for all the SSIDs. > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > -- Eduardo Schoedler _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Ruckus Access points
by Lakhwinder Singh 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hello all Is anybody managing Ruckus access points with observium? All the ruckus access points are presented as Generic device and I would also like to get graphs for number of users connected, for all the SSIDs. Thanks

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Re: [Observium] wmi calls
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi Dennis, Are you willing to make a contribution to the open source thing irrespective of the code looking better? Just need to prove things to the boss. ;-) Andy From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Kruyt Sent: 20 October 2014 12:46 To: 'Adam Armstrong'; 'Observium Network Observation System' Subject: Re: [Observium] wmi calls Hi, We are using WMI, we also already extend it to include more. When the code looks better we’ll send a patch… Dennis,- Van: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Namens Adam Armstrong Verzonden: zaterdag 18 oktober 2014 4:46 Aan: Observium Network Observation System Onderwerp: Re: [Observium] wmi calls Hi Andy, The WMI code was contributed by a user who seems to have vanished. I'm not sure if there's anyone around who knows how it works, certainly myself and the other official developers don't have any WMI experience. I've never used it and I'm not sure if anyone else is using it. The lack of replies suggests the latter. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer" <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk> To: observium(a)observium.org Sent: 11/10/2014 08:30:26 Subject: [Observium] wmi calls Hi all, I’m trying to get observium work with some of our windows servers, particularly for mssql and exchange stuff. Couple of Q’s – Exchange – it’s not pickup up any data, but maybe this is because we’re using 2003 – is this “supported”. I use the quotes as the wmi stuff is listed as very much in development so possibly not working.. MSSQL – again no data, all zeros like with exchange. I tried the polling.php wmi specific command, but I can’t see any wmi stuff particularly – just the standard snmp. Thanks in advance andy

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wmi calls
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi all, I'm trying to get observium work with some of our windows servers, particularly for mssql and exchange stuff. Couple of Q's - Exchange - it's not pickup up any data, but maybe this is because we're using 2003 - is this "supported". I use the quotes as the wmi stuff is listed as very much in development so possibly not working.. MSSQL - again no data, all zeros like with exchange. I tried the polling.php wmi specific command, but I can't see any wmi stuff particularly - just the standard snmp. Thanks in advance andy

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Re: [Observium] wmi calls
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi Adam, Thanks. Tricky this – I’m trying to sell observium to management, who are playing hardball and trying things like netsight from extreme (any negatives for this!?). Anyway, monitoring exchange and MSSQL are big positives towards my argument. WMIC is used for the connection and querying, so perhaps I’d best look at the php behind it if time permits. Cheers Andy From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 18 October 2014 03:46 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] wmi calls Hi Andy, The WMI code was contributed by a user who seems to have vanished. I'm not sure if there's anyone around who knows how it works, certainly myself and the other official developers don't have any WMI experience. I've never used it and I'm not sure if anyone else is using it. The lack of replies suggests the latter. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer" <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk> To: observium(a)observium.org Sent: 11/10/2014 08:30:26 Subject: [Observium] wmi calls Hi all, I’m trying to get observium work with some of our windows servers, particularly for mssql and exchange stuff. Couple of Q’s – Exchange – it’s not pickup up any data, but maybe this is because we’re using 2003 – is this “supported”. I use the quotes as the wmi stuff is listed as very much in development so possibly not working.. MSSQL – again no data, all zeros like with exchange. I tried the polling.php wmi specific command, but I can’t see any wmi stuff particularly – just the standard snmp. Thanks in advance andy

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 71
by Casper A.. Jensen 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Hi Joseph Thanks for your answer :) But that doesnt address my questions :)... Though it assures me the software is alive and well 😁 Sendt fra min HTC-telefon ----- Reply message ----- Fra: observium-request(a)observium.org Til: <observium(a)observium.org> Emne: observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 71 Dato: søn., okt. 19, 2014 13:00 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: How excatly does the alert and customer feature work in observium pro edition (Joseph L. Brunner) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 07:27:08 +0000 From: "Joseph L. Brunner" <joe(a)affirmedsystems.com> To: "'observium(a)observium.org'" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] How excatly does the alert and customer feature work in observium pro edition Message-ID: <2E86D2A5DF7FFA40A41B8C7FCA38F874167BBA(a)affmdex2k10.affmdcorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Casper - I run Affirmed Systems - we managed over 15000 servers and 5000 amazon instances for clients. 60/40 our servers vs. Customer owned servers. We switched from opmanager to observium in July. Clients love the dashboard and look of observium. I would say observium is one of if not the best. We previously used logicmonitor, nagios, opmanager, cacti and others. The monitoring in observium is limited - to what scripts you can write and integrate with the platform. We use lots of other things - monit, mmonit, bash scripts, smokeping - but for our internal client dashboard - observium has the look, feel and functionality of a champion. Thanks From: Casper A.. Jensen [mailto:casper@dingit.dk] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 03:15 AM To: observium(a)observium.org <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] How excatly does the alert and customer feature work in observium pro edition Hi all, I tried asking this on the forum: http://observiumforum.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/78-thnking-of-buyi… but after 22 views no one hasn't answered.. I tried the IRC but it seemed to be closed? I was told by the bot that my chat messages wasn't sent to channel.. So now i try here.. I run a IT consultant company and we are maybe planing on using observium. For now we have a test installation of the free version running to much success! Besides the ease of use through SNMP we do look to the customer feature and alert feature you get with the pro edition. How much is built into the alert feature? is it only mail or does it also support text? What is ment by rule based grouping? And maybe the most important one of all. The customer feature? can i use it to separate my different clients so its easier to oversee what devices belong to what client? or is it more for the billing feature? This product looks vary promising! [cid:c75c4e27901f51261e79bbaff4f6c3d7888eb284@zimbra] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20141019/84943d9…> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium ------------------------------ End of observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 71 *****************************************

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How excatly does the alert and customer feature work in observium pro edition
by Casper A.. Jensen 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Hi all, I tried asking this on the forum: http://observiumforum.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/78-thnking-of-buyi… but after 22 views no one hasn't answered.. I tried the IRC but it seemed to be closed? I was told by the bot that my chat messages wasn't sent to channel.. So now i try here.. I run a IT consultant company and we are maybe planing on using observium. For now we have a test installation of the free version running to much success! Besides the ease of use through SNMP we do look to the customer feature and alert feature you get with the pro edition. How much is built into the alert feature? is it only mail or does it also support text? What is ment by rule based grouping? And maybe the most important one of all. The customer feature? can i use it to separate my different clients so its easier to oversee what devices belong to what client? or is it more for the billing feature? This product looks vary promising!

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User/Client Account Login Interface
by Dimitar, GlobeIX 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

Hi guys, I just subscribed, I'm reviewing the Demo and wanted to ask: - Does Observium has user/client account login interface, as I was not able to find one? - Does the sub-section "Peering" in "Ports" visualize data collected on a Layer 2 peering switch for example? Best Regards Dimitar GlobeIX E-Mail: da(a)globeix.net Tel: 1-212-671-0112; Instant Messengers: ICQ: 28348789; Skype: (Aeromit) Dimitar Avramov

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Cisco ASA site-2-site vpn
by Jurè Wennekes 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

I can see site2site tunnels as active and can see the traffic but can we also monitor its state and alert on this? Or get a site2site uptime number? Jure Met vriendelijke groet, Jurè Wennekes Loko IT-specialisten Mast 13 Postbus 146 3890 AC Zeewolde T. 036-521 93 20 W. http://www.loko.nl [cid:image4e0438.JPG@4abffce1.48b95aaf] Meer informatie op www.ikstapoverop.nl.

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High CPU SNMP ENGINE
by Dash Brousseau 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

I added Obersvium for one of our workstation cisco switch which has most ports filled up WS-C3560X-48 12.2(53)SE2 Now the switch gets huge CPU spikes at random times And it points to SNMP ENGINE PID Runtime(ms) Invoked uSecs 5Sec 1Min 5Min TTY Process 263 959593774 37162365 25821 81.62% 19.01% 7.03% 0 SNMP ENGINE 263 960182122 37166258 25834 75.33% 12.91% 5.58% 0 SNMP ENGINE Is there a way to lower the cpu spikes? Updated Observium? Update Switch OS? ? Limit polling information? 12.2.53 Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 Apache 2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.4 MySQL 5.5.34-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 Dash Brousseau This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the intended addressee (or authorized to receive for the intended addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by e-mail then delete the message immediately. Francais: http://www.fundserv.com/fr/company/disclaimer<http://www.fundserv.com/francais/legal/disclaimer_email_ib.shtml>

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Polling script
by Darian Jimenez 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Has anyone done a script where it can every 30 minutes or every hour read server names from a text file and add the device and discovery and poll it automatically ? I want to be able to add servers into the domain and have observium discovery them automatically via snmp. Sent from my iPhone

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Integrated smokeping graph appearance
by Justin Miller 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

The integrated smokeping graphs don't have the same appearance as they do in smokeping itself. Is there a way to make the graphs have the same appearance? Also, the data represented in Observium doesn't appear to match smokeping when looking at the variance. I've attached examples. I realize that it's the same rrd being drawn but it's just the representation of the data that is different. Smokeping 2.6.8 and Observium 0.14.10.5883 Justin

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