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Defunct processes
by kai＠angry-monk.com 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Hey, Ever since I installed observium I've been getting lost of defunct "sh" processes showing up in my process list. I'm running Ubuntu Linux. 14.04 LTS Linux ***** 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm running the latest version of the Open source edition (installed 2 days ago) and I see this in my process list all the time since the install. www-data 27725 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28164 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:42 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28589 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:47 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28989 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:52 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28991 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:52 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 29398 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:57 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 29810 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:02 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 29820 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:02 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 30656 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:12 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 31062 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:17 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 31074 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:17 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 31903 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:27 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32698 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32700 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32722 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32732 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> Any Suggestions? Kai

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Re: [Observium] Billing
by Anthony Polselli 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Netflow Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -----Original Message----- From: Mike Grant [mikeg(a)itcl.co.nz] Received: Tuesday, 12 Aug 2014, 2:04PM To: observium(a)observium.org [observium(a)observium.org] Subject: [Observium] Billing I have the subscription version and have the billing working. What I am trying to do is work out if I can only bill certain traffic. i.e. I only want to charge for international traffic at a $ per MB rate but charge nothing for local traffic. I’m using a Mikrotik Cloudcore router, the international data goes out one gateway and the domestic out another. So I really only want to bill the data for a port that goes in and out one particular gateway. Anyone doing anything like this? Thanks, Mike.

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Sensor_value alerts do not process
by Alain Gyger 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

I'm using SVN version 5742 and all of my alerts work except those that are supposed to check a sensor_value metric. I'm able to check and get emails for alerts on processor_usage, toner_current, and mempool_perc, to name a few, so I know the system is working. When I run the alerter.php script against one of the hosts indicated under the processor_usage alert and I get "1 Status: OK" messages. But when I run alerter.php against a host indicated under the sensor_value alert for Battery Capacity or for APC UPS Temperature I get "-1 Unknown status". The graphs for these sensors are fine, the MySQL table sensors-state lists the correct values as well. My configuration for temperature looks like this: Entity Type: Temperature Delay: 1 Status: 0/0/0/0/2 Check Conditions: Require any condition Tests: sensor_value gt 40 Device Match: type match power Entity Match: sensor_descr match Temp* The alert checker seems fine, but it looks like the tests are failing when they are run. Has anyone else had the same issues with sensor_value alerts? Or is this feature not quite ready to be used?

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Re: [Observium] buying the paid version
by Anthony Polselli 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Thanks, but already did that step on Friday Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -----Original Message----- From: Travis Kreikemeier [travis(a)travko.com] Received: Monday, 11 Aug 2014, 8:07PM To: Observium Network Observation System [observium(a)observium.org] Subject: Re: [Observium] buying the paid version Anthony, Hope this helps. http://www.observium.org/subscribed/ TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Polselli Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 9:57 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] buying the paid version Hi all, On Friday, I purchased the paid version and really anxious to get it up and running but my login isn’t working yet. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction of who to contact about this… Thanks, [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB5B0.8D5456E0] __________________________________________ Anthony Polselli, Chief Technology Officer Natural Networks, Inc. 10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 San Diego, CA 92121 anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com<mailto:anthony@naturalnetworks.com> http://www.naturalnetworks.com<http://www.naturalnetworks.com/> (619) 222-3232 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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buying the paid version
by Anthony Polselli 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Hi all, On Friday, I purchased the paid version and really anxious to get it up and running but my login isn't working yet. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction of who to contact about this... Thanks, [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB59E.416545D0] __________________________________________ Anthony Polselli, Chief Technology Officer Natural Networks, Inc. 10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 San Diego, CA 92121 anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com<mailto:anthony@naturalnetworks.com> http://www.naturalnetworks.com<http://www.naturalnetworks.com/> (619) 222-3232 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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Map Settings
by chott＠praha1.net 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Hello, How i can set HOME location in Map? Or can i set some zoom? Like default Street address? Tomas

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No port names in traffic accounting
by Travis Kreikemeier 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

When adding a Calix E7 port to a customer in traffic accounting. All of the interfaces in the drop down are blank, so hard to figure out which one to select. A work around I have been doing is going to the switch port and clicking "Create Bill". Would like to add the ports in the traffic accounting area. [cid:image003.jpg@01CFB49E.C9494B50] Some of the ports on the device: [cid:image004.jpg@01CFB49E.C9494B50] TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Clean up duplicate ports in DB?
by Hogan Whittall 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Long story short, there was a period of time where hosts were added and removed from Observium a number of times (Essentially all hosts added, deleted, added, etc). In general, there were no ill effects other than losing the previous graph data and ports not being deleted from the DB when hosts were removed. So now I have this. mysql> select count(*) from ports; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 20701 | +----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) 907+5+1+582 = 1495 So there are a number of stale/orphaned port entries in the DB. What would be the best way to fix this? Thanks! -Hogan

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IPMI setup
by Matthew Green 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Hi, >From the reading I've done it seems that Observium supports IPMI and I've got a Supermicro motherboard I'd like to get stats from. However, I can't see any way to configure the device, if I try to add devices it only lets me poll over SNMP, which the Supermicro board doesn't seem to allow. Other than stating that you need IPMItools installed, the Observium documentation doesn't provide any details about how IPMI devices should be configured. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers, Matt

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Weird database issue?
by Nick Pais 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Hi guys, It's been a while since I posted on here, but I made a fresh Observium installation (for the moment, yes, it's CE, can't convince the CEO to shell out that cash for Pro yet...) however I'm having a weird issue with the table ports-state: root@comet:/opt/observium# ./poller.php -h 1 -d | grep -C2 MEMORY\ DB SQL[INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('1')] Certain MEMORY DB error for table 'ports-state'. SQL[UPDATE `ports-state` set `poll_time` ='1407517231',`poll_period` ='1407517231',`ifInOctets` ='2974209',`ifOutOctets` ='2974209',`ifInErrors` ='0',`ifOutErrors` ='0',`ifInUcastPkts` ='10310',`ifOutUcastPkts` ='10310',`ifInOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOutOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOctets_rate` ='0',`ifUcastPkts_rate` ='0',`ifErrors_rate` ='0' WHERE `port_id` = '1'] -- SQL[INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('2')] Certain MEMORY DB error for table 'ports-state'. SQL[UPDATE `ports-state` set `poll_time` ='1407517231',`poll_period` ='1407517231',`ifInOctets` ='997162274',`ifOutOctets` ='12070347',`ifInErrors` ='0',`ifOutErrors` ='0',`ifInUcastPkts` ='929556',`ifOutUcastPkts` ='92562',`ifInOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOutOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOctets_rate` ='0',`ifUcastPkts_rate` ='0',`ifErrors_rate` ='0' WHERE `port_id` = '2'] -- SQL[INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('3')] Certain MEMORY DB error for table 'ports-state'. SQL[UPDATE `ports-state` set `poll_time` ='1407517231',`poll_period` ='1407517231',`ifInOctets` ='17012646',`ifOutOctets` ='369532358',`ifInErrors` ='0',`ifOutErrors` ='0',`ifInUcastPkts` ='74830',`ifOutUcastPkts` ='550361',`ifInOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOutOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOctets_rate` ='0',`ifUcastPkts_rate` ='0',`ifErrors_rate` ='0' WHERE `port_id` = '3'] root@comet:/opt/observium# This in turn doesn't enable the "current" port speeds on the web and when I look in the database itself, the table is empty. Has anyone come accross this before? Is there a way to fix this? Details: OS: Debian 7.6 PHP: 5.4.4-14+deb7u12 MySQL: 5.6.15 Observium: v0.14.4.5229 Thanks in advance guys!

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Patch for Jira ticket 333 throws error
by Laurens Vets 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Hello, I've installed Netdisco 2 with the Observium plugin. This plugin allows Netdisco to show graphs and open interface pages in Observium from within Netdisco. This is also related to Jira ticket 333. When I open a URL, http://observium.server//device/hostname=name.domainname/tab=port/ifdescr=R…) in Netdisco, I get the following error: "Invalid device/port combination. The port/device combination was invalid. Please retype and try again.". However, the correct page is shown in Observium... Any idea what generates this error message?

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Bind graph problems
by Brad Pearpoint 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi all, I have a problem with my bind graphs in Observium 0.14.8.5736 with RRDtool 1.4.7. I have the Unix-agent configured with the bind plugin on two dev DNS servers. These DNS servers are under really low load, just a couple of requests a minute at most. If I run dns# ./bind | grep -i req-in,Q I receive: req-in,QUERY:1562 Which is correct. Then on my Observium box if I run: obs# rrdtool info /opt/observium/rrd/dns2 /app-bind-1-req-in.rrd | grep query ds[query].index = 0 ds[query].type = "DERIVE" ds[query].minimal_heartbeat = 600 ds[query].min = 0.0000000000e+00 ds[query].max = 7.5000000000e+06 ds[query].last_ds = "1562" <<<<<<<<< Looks good ds[query].value = 0.0000000000e+00 ds[query].unknown_sec = 0 But my graphs in the web interface of totally wrong. My incoming requests graph is showing 100-250 million. Any tips of where to start looking to solve this? Thanks, Brad

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No description names on Calix
by Travis Kreikemeier 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

In Observium we are not getting any port descriptions on Calix E7 active ports, nor are we getting ONT names on GPON. Something we need to change or needs to be added to Observium? Thanks! [cid:image001.png@01CFB227.ED080C30] TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Ubuntu vs CentOS
by Anthony Polselli 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi all, We are looking at purchasing the software and want to know which platform is better? We are a CentOS shop, but if we need paid support or want some custom development done, would Ubuntu be better? Thanks, [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB213.F86539E0] __________________________________________ Anthony Polselli, Chief Technology Officer Natural Networks, Inc. 10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 San Diego, CA 92121 anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com<mailto:anthony@naturalnetworks.com> http://www.naturalnetworks.com<http://www.naturalnetworks.com/> (619) 222-3232 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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billing module / e-mail
by Anthony Polselli 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Is it possible to get an automated monthly e-mail listing all of the clients that went over on usage? [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB19F.8FF099A0] __________________________________________ Anthony Polselli, Chief Technology Officer Natural Networks, Inc. 10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 San Diego, CA 92121 anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com<mailto:anthony@naturalnetworks.com> http://www.naturalnetworks.com<http://www.naturalnetworks.com/> (619) 222-3232 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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Re: [Observium] Freeradius monitoring
by Tomasz Karczewski 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Anyone? Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.pl http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Karczewski Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:12 AM To: 'Observium Network Observation System' Subject: [Observium] Freeradius monitoring Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to monitor freeradius application in observium. It's hard to find anything. Could you help me with that? Tnx Thomas

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API access key
by Greg Lipschitz 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Evening All, I've noticed in the settings, the option for "API access key" but it doesn't yet seem that it's implemented. We're currently looking at doing some development to pull the graphs for services from Observium and inject them in to our Client Portal so that clients get nice pretty graphs. Has anyone done something similar? Some guidance or pointers would be great :) Cheers! Greg Greg Lipschitz Director Summit IT Management<http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au> | Summit Internet<http://www.summitinternet.com.au> | Summit Creative<http://www.summitcreative.com.au> - ‘reach your peak’ Divisions of The Summit Group (Australia) Pty Ltd Phone (Australia): 1300 049 749 Phone (US & Canada): (321) 216 3844 E-mail: Greg(a)thesummitgroup.com.au<mailto:Greg@thesummitgroup.com.au> Internet: http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au/<http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au> Address: Level 1, 39 Railway Road, Blackburn VIC 3130 Postal: P.O. Box 3225, Doncaster East VIC 3109 Follow us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/thesummitgroup/> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/company/1942329> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/summitgroupau/> -- ExchangeDefender Message Security: Click below to verify authenticity https://admin.exchangedefender.com/verify.php?id=s77BXM8O023601&from=greg@t…

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windows wmi monitoring
by Simon Smith 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi All, hoping someone can help, altho I'm sure this has been answered in the past? i just can’t find the webpage or emails from it at all i want to monitor a few windows machines i have setup the SNMP correctly and all is well but the processor is being detected as Unknown Processor Type due to windows being a tool! i read somewhere that i could use the WMI to fix this issue plus get more outta the windows machine dos anyone have a guide or instructions how to setup the WMI correctly to identify things for observium? Regards Simon

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How to add SNMP support in observium for ambient Temperature
by observium＠willfahrt.net 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Hi all, I hope someone can help, I'm sure this has been answered before? - Sorry in advance! I want to monitor a few Linux machines with ambient temperature sensing devices. The NetSNMPd Client Configuration is working and I get a successful response as you can see: ~# snmpget -v 2c temphost -c public .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.10 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystem.9 = Gauge32: 23000 How can I modify the host configuration to add the ambient Temperature information in the Observium? Best regards, Jens

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ifLastChange usage query
by Peter Childs 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Looking at an operational issue where we had a small interface flap between polls, so link state between polls hasn't changed, but iFLastChange has. Looking at the 'data' view through the UI for the port ifLastChanged doesn't appeared to have changed, and looking through the poller code it appears perhaps it is only updated on a change of operational/admin status on a port? Would there be any use in poller updating it in the db if it was different to the existing value in the port cache ? It would be interesting to be able to alert on 'ifLastChange' < 'some value' .. Or just have the update in the EventLog so when having a look-see at a device it is apparent that a link flap has occurred. A visual indicator in ports basic/detailed view for 'last change' < 'some global config value' like a little exclamation mark or something potentially could be useful to operators to 'spot' issues. Imagine being able to view ports, sort on 'LastChange' during an incident to 'spot' potential causes of issues? Would any of this make sense to anyone? Cheers, Peter

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FW: Cannot Add Device in WUI
by Md. Anamul Haque Rana 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Dear Concern, I can add device in command mode in observium but can not add device in WUI. The error I found is give bellow: Could not ping DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom. 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (1) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (2) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (3) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied Please help me BR\\ Md. Anamul Haque Rana Officer, ITOD Dutch Bangla Bank Limited IP Phone: +88 09666322017, Ex-221

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Allied Telesis Support
by Patrick Gawthorne 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Hi All, Currently playing with Observium which is brilliant, except when an Allied Telesis switch (running Alliedware Plus) is discovered only basic info is retrieved (Uptime, OS, location, etc), which then causes the issue of halting auto discovery.. The specific model is an AT-9000/28SP. Anyone aware if this switch is supported or not? Cheers, Pat This email, together with any attachments, is intended for the named recipient(s) only and may contain privileged and confidential information. If received in error, please inform the sender as quickly as possible and delete this email and any copies from your computer network. If not an intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute or rely on it, and any form of disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this email is prohibited. Unless stated otherwise, this email represents only the views of the sender and not the views of Pacific Lutheran College.

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question about cisco switch discovery/polling
by Steve Dubinskiy 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

we've got a Cisco WS-C4510R+E switch after discovering and polling it,, it now shows 3 entries for each port 1 is the expected/desired one "64-bit" port and 2 unknown/undesired "Controlled" and "Uncontrolled" 32-bit ports. question why are we seeing them ? how to we get rid of them ? this is making management of this device painfully slow .. takes more then 30 seconds (closer to one minute) for the page to load thanks -Steve -- *This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, copy, use or disclose this communication. Please also notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete all copies of it from your system. *

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Re: [Observium] IPMI setup
by Christian Gerbrandt 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

You still need SNMP to poll the device. Once added you can configure IPMI to gather stats from IPMI. On Aug 05, 2014, at 02:35 PM, Matthew Green <mephi(a)mephi.co.uk> wrote: Hi, From the reading I've done it seems that Observium supports IPMI and I've got a Supermicro motherboard I'd like to get stats from. However, I can't see any way to configure the device, if I try to add devices it only lets me poll over SNMP, which the Supermicro board doesn't seem to allow. Other than stating that you need IPMItools installed, the Observium documentation doesn't provide any details about how IPMI devices should be configured. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Discoverying and polling VRF, OSPF and BGP Processes on Nexus 7K : where to start coding
by Mathieu MILLET 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, I would like to give a try to code some PHP Patchs, so that Observium can discover VRF, OSPF, BGP and so on Nexus 7K platform (our reference will be Nexus 7700 with NX-OS 6.2). We are implementing "VRF-Lite" style (no MPLS), so according to Cisco documentation, it is mandatory to map in NX-OS configuration, a SNMP Context (v3) to each instance of VRF, OSPF, BGP, whatever .... My try will be to first discover the context mapping with this Cisco MIB : CISCO-CONTEXT-MAPPING-MIB.my and then to iterate on these mappings using an additional function like "get snmp walk/bulk with context" on these contexts. Do you have any advice how I could do that ? Which files should I implement / pacth ? Which files could I use as examples and inspiration ? Also, I plan to make patch against the last open release (SVN revision 5229). Is that a problem ? Thank you in advance for your help, Sincerely yours, Mathieu. -- Mathieu MILLET mailto:obs@htam.net

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