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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Adam, I totally see your point, and am surprised that it's only a 12% uptake to be honest. As an aside question - what methods of payment for the professional product are supported and how do I go about it? Still need to sweet-talk the boss but it's looking promising. Cheers - keep up the good work. Andy. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 09 October 2014 17:20 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 On 2014-10-09 17:15, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer wrote: > Glad it helped someone. > > Blown away by how decent this software is, I hope they keep up the > community thing/open source thing. Companies like smoothwall have > pretty much ditched their open source bit altogether which is a big > shame. That's probably because maintaining both generates a shitstorm of support bullshit from free-edition users. We find we get more hassle from people who don't pay than people who do, which slowly edges us away from bothering to release CE. For us CE is really just advertising. We do it because ~12% of users upgrade to subscriptions. Really, no company should be running something like Observium operationally without the updates that's in subscription. It's too much of a liability for the price! :) adam. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Glad it helped someone. Blown away by how decent this software is, I hope they keep up the community thing/open source thing. Companies like smoothwall have pretty much ditched their open source bit altogether which is a big shame. Cheers Andy From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tristan Rhodes Sent: 09 October 2014 17:12 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 Thanks Andy! I used your email to fix that on my CE version (hoping to get SE). Tristan Tristan Rhodes Network Engineer Weber State University 801.626.8549 On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk> wrote: Ah, that’s good. Thought it might help some of us “try before you buy” types. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Lukasz Sztukowski Sent: 08 October 2014 14:28 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 This is fixed in pro version already ;) 2014-10-07 23:40 GMT+02:00 Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk>: Hi all, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I’ve noticed with the current community version of observium (14.4/5229) that I installed today that on line 24 of includes/discovery/sensors.inc.php : include(“includes/discovery/senors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php”); Should probably read include(“includes/discovery/sensors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php”); It made my procurve temperature pickup work again anyway. Probably been documented somewhere but I couldn’t find it. Do I qualify for a free pro version now? J Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Pozdrawiam Łukasz Sztukowski Zanim wydrukujesz, pomyśl o środowisku _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Ah, that’s good. Thought it might help some of us “try before you buy” types. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Lukasz Sztukowski Sent: 08 October 2014 14:28 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Sensors not working - 14.4 This is fixed in pro version already ;) 2014-10-07 23:40 GMT+02:00 Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer <Andy.Franks(a)sath.nhs.uk>: Hi all, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I’ve noticed with the current community version of observium (14.4/5229) that I installed today that on line 24 of includes/discovery/sensors.inc.php : include(“includes/discovery/senors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php”); Should probably read include(“includes/discovery/sensors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php”); It made my procurve temperature pickup work again anyway. Probably been documented somewhere but I couldn’t find it. Do I qualify for a free pro version now? J Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Pozdrawiam Łukasz Sztukowski Zanim wydrukujesz, pomyśl o środowisku

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APC InRow cooling
by Lakhwinder Singh 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hello I am not able to see graphs (Fan speed, Air) for APC InRow cooling unit in Observium. I did a patch from following location still I am not able to get the graphs. http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1020 Thanks a lot in advance. Regards

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Sensors not working - 14.4
by Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hi all, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I've noticed with the current community version of observium (14.4/5229) that I installed today that on line 24 of includes/discovery/sensors.inc.php : include("includes/discovery/senors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php"); Should probably read include("includes/discovery/sensors/entity-sensor-mib-inc-php"); It made my procurve temperature pickup work again anyway. Probably been documented somewhere but I couldn't find it. Do I qualify for a free pro version now? :-) Cheers Andy

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Assistance with Email alerts
by Robin Cook 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hello, I am running the paid/SVN version of observium and I have tried a couple of times to setup email alerts and each time I end up breaking my config and having to restore it. Does anyone have any sample configurations I can look at/copy from for simple alerts to a single email address via a network SMTP relay? e.g. mail from observium(a)domain.com<mailto:observium@domain.com> to alerts(a)domain.com<mailto:alerts@domain.com>? Do I require a local postfix install for mail to be dropped into? Many thanks, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Bluecoat MIBs
by Adam Armstrong 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hi Guys, Does anyone have access to full Bluecoat MIBs? Specifically I'm looking for BLUECOAT-SG-ICAP-MIB, but the rest would be nice too! Thanks, adam.

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Syslog filters
by Markus Klock 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hello! I'm trying to apply some syslog-filters and have for example added this to my config.php: $config['syslog']['filter'][] = 'ROUTING-MLDP-5-BRANCH'; $config['syslog']['filter'][] = "Successfully authenticated user \'rancid\'"; However I still get messages containing these strings Do I need some kind of wildcard or what could be wrong? BR, Markus

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Overview timestamp delta broken
by Ben Steele 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Since I installed Observium a few weeks ago I have noticed that the overview timestamp for syslog and event log delta is wrong for most (not all) devices, this is prevalent on the main overview and the specific device overview page. By wrong I mean "-1y -1d -xh." etc.. Hovering over the incorrect entry pops up the correct timestamp so I think it's just the logic in calculating the delta between current time and that event that's broken, also viewing the syslogs and entry logs directly with the original timestamp is fine as well. I checked my local timezone and php timezone just to be sure and they are reporting correctly, I would imagine this would break the original timestamp anyway which is not the problem here. Hover over example: I find it particularly weird as not every device is doing this, the ones that are have no real pattern either, mixture of N7K,N5K,ASA etc and some even have a mixture of working and broken entries (individual device overview): [image: Inline image 1] Anyone else seen this, any ideas? Cheers.

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Alerts
by Josh Hopper 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

I'm a noob and I apologize. I'm having trouble determining if it's the Alert Checkers I am setting up that is not sending me mail or if it's the new mail settings. I've just moved from the old alerts to the new ones. A test goes as follows: administrator@network-monitoring:/opt/observium$ ./test_mail.php -h apc-pdu-02.purafilter2000.com Observium v0.14.10.5859 Test E-mail Configuration My Hostname: network-monitoring.purafilter2000.com E-mails ENABLED globally E-mails use PHP-builtin MAIL backend E-mails send from: ITObserviumNotify(a)purafilter2000.com Try send test notification for apc-pdu-02.purafilter2000.com to these email(s): ITObserviumNotify(a)purafilter2000.com Notification for apc-pdu-02.purafilter2000.com SENT. I do have POSTFIX installed. And below is an image of a few of my alerts I've been trying: [cid:image001.png@01CFDEE7.26E27260] Assistance would be awesome. I want device down/up, ping, port utilization, some stuff for storage, etc. However, if someone could point me in the right direction on getting alerts from one checker I think I can noodle my way around the others. Thanks. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image002.jpg@01CFDEE7.26E27260] 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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sysLocation location_map rewrite
by Tylla 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hi! I've done my homework and found the previous messages about this subject, nevertheless I would like to express my opinion. I think the current solution (by giving the coordinates in square brackets at the end of the overridden location string) is acceptable, but in the long run the actual location (coordinates) and the user readable location should be kept separate. I mean normally the sysLocation should contain some human readable/understandable string about the location of the server, but the real location - for computer usage - is best given with a Lat/Lon coordinate pair. I think these shouldn't be mixed and only the human readable location should be displayed on the GUI. Anyway, the documentation should be extended with these informations. Maybe the custom_rewrite_location function should be mentioned too, which is used by the code if it is defined in the config.php and could help people with special needs. I'm a new user, so please spare me if I'm wrong. :) Tylla

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Is there a upgrade to CE edition coming soon?
by Yucong Sun 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hi.. according to http://observium.org/wiki/Download_Community_Edition, the last release is 6month ago today. Is there a release coming soon ? :-p Cheers.

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Guidence needed to fix my Alert Checkers
by Joy, Jees 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hello All, Thank you for the previous support you all provided. I need assistance again to finding the root cause, I often get false alarm on my servers (Windows and Linux). I have 2 Alarm Checkers, 1. System Uptime, it basically checks if any server's uptime is less than 5 minutes, it notify me. 2. Does a ping and snmp check every one minute, if it couldn't reach it alerts me. One of the server, I understand and the issue is with NIC teaming and it flaps, that I have arranged change management ticket so will be fixing it soon. But what I don't understand is, System Uptime triggers stating the uptime has been changed. But in reality no change has been happened. Also sometimes it alerts me Ping checker, for normal servers without bonding/teaming on both Unix and Windows. I checked the system loads, all of them are normal. Could you please let me know your thoughts and any help if available. I wonder if my Alert Checker configuration is wrong. Below is my alert checkers [cid:image001.png@01CFE164.62A0FA90] Best Regards, Jees Joy Internal IT **************************************************************** "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. " ****************************************************************

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- high availability
by Paolo De Michele 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

hi everybody, anyone know if it is possible set up observium in high availability? I'm thinking to use it for all my servers but I have necessity to have 2 or more nodes anyone can help me? thanks in advance cheers

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Re: [Observium] - high availability
by Marco Spicuglia 04 Oct '14

04 Oct '14

hi Adam, HA is often a requirement from the enterprise world. Monitoring systems are often considered business critical, which means guaranteed HA. I'd appreciate a HA observium setup too. Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> Date: 03/10/2014 13:48 (GMT+01:00) To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] - high availability What is the value of high availability for a non-service affecting support application? Needless complication for no appreciable gain is the cornerstone of all IT failure. Adam. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On 3 October 2014 11:49:07 Paolo De Michele <paolo(a)paolodemichele.it> wrote: > hi everybody, > > anyone know if it is possible set up observium in high availability? > I'm thinking to use it for all my servers but I have necessity to have 2 > or more nodes > > anyone can help me? > thanks in advance > > cheers > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Alerts
by Josh Hopper 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

Is it possible to use the old alerts in the newest version of Observium? Of course, they might have to be enabled. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFDD5F.9E801720] 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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Re: [Observium] rename graph
by Support 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Hi, I've made exactly that on the link of the wiki but although the command line work fine (see bottom) in the graph i'm not be able to see the description of interface the remote host is an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS the observium is update to current release 0.14.9.5846 :~# snmpwalk -v2c -c public 172.16.xx.xx .1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18 IF-MIB::ifAlias.1 = STRING: IF-MIB::ifAlias.2 = STRING: Primary Interface IF-MIB::ifAlias.3 = STRING: regards, Giuseppe _____________________________________________________________________ NUCKLEO Information Technology Solutions Support & Delivery Team http://www.nuckleo.com _____________________________________________________________________ Di Venerdì, 26-09-2014 alle 19:50 Adam Armstrong ha scritto: Hi, This is normally done by setting the port description on the device. We don't allow setting of configuration which can be done on devices in the UI as it encourages bad operational habits. Linux hosts don't have the ability to set port descriptions, so you have to rely on a script to inject the descriptions into SNMP. This script will do it for Ubuntu/Debian http://www.observium.org/wiki/IfAlias_descriptions_on_Debian/Ubuntu Thanks, adam. On 2014-09-24 10:23, Support wrote: > Hi, > is possible to rename single graph? > like 'Internet Traffic' instead of generic eth0 > > regards, > Giuseppe > > _____________________________________________________________________ > NUCKLEO Information Technology Solutions > Support & Delivery Team > http://www.nuckleo.com [1] > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://www.nuckleo.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Known bug in the gui ?
by Raphael Mazelier 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Hello, Sorry if it was a know bug but I have a very frustrating bug in the seach bar or link in the overview page. When I click on ports down, or ports disabled I have an empty set result. (but the count is OK). http://observium.test.net/ports/state=down/ => empty set http://observium.test.net/ports/state=admindown/ => empty set Another customic bug is clicking on ignored/alert/ sensors link redirect me to http://observium.test.net/health/ but there is no search bar ?! Thanks for this great project anyway. -- Raphael Mazelier

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Default Alerts stop working.
by Zafar Pravaiz 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Dear All, I notice that default email alerts for device down, UP, reboot and BGP flapping etc has stop working. I don’t configure any alert checker. It was working fine but suddenly stop working. Any clue? my local mail MTA is working fine. Thanks Zafar Pravaiz IT Senior Systems Engineer Information Technology Department Tel +971 6 515 2164 Fax +971 6 515 2112 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu <http://www.aus.edu/> zpravaiz(a)aus.edu <mailto:youremail@aus.edu>

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Observium and MediaWiki
by Senses0 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

If any of you are using a local wiki powered by MediaWiki, you might find this useful. http://senses0.blogspot.com/2014/09/observium-and-mediawiki.html

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"Shell Shock" BASH exploit announced - Patch your boxes
by tonto＠decoygaming.com.au 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

Hey all, This isn't technically about Observium but felt it was worth bringing to your attention. https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2014/09/24/Bourne-Again-Shell… A bash exploit has been announced that allows remote code execution. Updates are available for Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL via APT/YUM. Might be an idea to patch your Observium boxes. Regards, Matt "Tonto" Harper - DecoyGaming

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Sensor Subtypes
by Milton Ngan 27 Sep '14

27 Sep '14

So what is the direction that the sensors are heading? Are subtypes going to go away? Or are they the way forward? I saw that alerting for subtypes was just removed, and that the recommendation is to use the general sensor class for alerting. Alerting for subtypes can be made to work with a simple change, however it would also break the generic sensor type. I am just trying to understand if I should just ignore the sensor subtypes altogether because a generic sensor alerting infrastructure is where things are headed. M.

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graph color
by Zhenhui Liang 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Guys, This might be a general RRD question. So in almost all graphing, we have those shaded color area and solid color line. Although I have a general idea on what they mean, I still want some official explanations regarding their meanings. Thanks. I attached a cpu usage graph here as an example. We have grey shaded area, and solid red line. I guess the red line is some kind of moving average? While grey shows spikes? Or how else could I inteprete this? Thanks a lot. Zhenhui[cid:2CB03DFE-FFA0-4DA8-9438-EB2732F92119]

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rename graph
by Support 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi, is possible to rename single graph? like 'Internet Traffic' instead of generic eth0 regards, Giuseppe _____________________________________________________________________ NUCKLEO Information Technology Solutions Support & Delivery Team http://www.nuckleo.com _____________________________________________________________________

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Trail the alerting functionality
by Vini 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi All, I am evaluating Observium for a job and I was wondering if any of you know of a way to enable the alerting functionality as a trail? I could not find anything on the website about it but if I cannot trial it first and compare to the other options I have I won't be able to make a case to pay for the subscription. Any info would be much appreciated. Thanks Vin

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