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Adding a Group to user profile
by Andres Pugawko 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

Hello Guys! It is posible to add a Port Group to a "Normal User" profile ?? Regards Andres Pugawko Network Engineer

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Better poller for Observium
by Alex Povolotsky 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

Hello While Observium has a nice interface, it's database lacks foreign keys a lot, and poller.php is AWFUL. It's slow and unreadable. I've started a new, about 40-50 times lighter observium poller https://github.com/tarkhil/observium-poller It supports only SNMP for now, and is work-in-progress. Only os, processor and memory modules are working, and ports is about 50% finished. If anyone is interested, please join. I'm sure to complete SNMP support for Cisco, but quite unsure if I'll be interested in implementing much else. Alex

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Interesting experiment with poll over SSH
by Peter Childs 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

We have a host about 320ms from our observium node (yes.. The other side of the planet). Doing a full poll circa 650-700ms (including mac and bgp tables... Its a IOS-XR ASR9K ..). Adjusting the Cr/max-reps did increase speeds, and caused several nasty snmpd explosions on the chassis. As a exercise in interest I spun up a VM much closer to the host, unpacked /opt/observium/mibs etc and configured snmp on that remote host. Then did this root@obs1:/opt/observium# diff -c includes/snmp.inc.php.orig includes/snmp.inc.php *** includes/snmp.inc.php.orig 2014-07-23 17:43:53.720274321 +0930 --- includes/snmp.inc.php 2014-07-23 17:56:23.092286235 +0930 *************** *** 333,338 **** --- 333,345 ---- // Add the OID(s) to the strong $cmd .= " ".$oids; + if( $device['hostname'] == 'faraway.router.com' ){ + $cmd = "ssh -i ~x/x.pem x@remote-poller-node -C " . escapeshellarg($cmd) ; + } This was interesting, but the ssh establishment phase for each snmp execution was a lot of overhead.. So I also did this root@obs1:/opt/observium# cat ~/.ssh/config Host remote-poller-node # HostName machine1.example.org ControlPath ~/.ssh/controlmasters/%r@%h:%p ControlMaster auto ControlPersist 10m This means that a ssh 'master instance' was setup at the start of the poll, and hangs around in the background between executions of various snmpcmd's during the poll. Full poll went from 650-700ms -> ~170ms Thought this might be of interest to some people. Cheers, Peter

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Alert checks with load average ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Dear Observium gurus, Do you know if it is possible to make alert uppon load average (1minutes) like for example if load average if > 5.0 (this is a random value, but here is an idea). Kind 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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About Vmware / Observium
by Paolo De Michele 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

hi guys, I have a problem with a machine via vmware (esxi 5.1) because I can't be able to modify the locality to setup the correct point into the world map in the world map the point result completely wrong I have other machines via gnu/linux and it works perfectly in the snmp options I cannot setup the locality somebody has had an issue like that? thanks in advance, regards

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Stop Email Alerts
by Kiru Pananthan 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Dear all new to observium, how do we stop the email alerts from observium to our email account setup earlier, we are getting an device up/down alerts every 5 minutes for all our windows virtual machines and network devices. thanks kiru -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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[SOLVED] Housekeeping not deleting records if you have a stupid number to kill.
by Crozier, Doug 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

I have a rather old and crufty installation of Observium (now at 5668) with over 70 million syslog, eventlog, and timing records that are older than 7 days. The first time I ran housekeeping -s to trim syslog messages it took about 30 minutes to return showing 42 million records. Just to be sure I was actually done deleting 42 million records, I re-ran the command. The same 42 million records were found. Meh. I ran the housekeeping in debug mode and noticed that I didn't have posix support installed. So I installed the php-process package and tried again. Still no records deleted. I tried deleting fewer records by keeping 18 months worth and that didn't help either. Here's the debug output from attempting to delete records older than 7 days: [root@xxx ~]# php /opt/observium/housekeeping.php -s -d DEBUG! SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `syslog` WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`timestamp`) < 1405322208;] 42123350 syslog entries from before 2014-07-14 15:16:48 will be deleted [y/N]: y SQL[DELETE FROM `syslog` WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`timestamp`) < 1405322208;] Syslog housekeeping: deleted entries Deleting the eventlog records also fails to remove the records: [root@xxxx observium]# php housekeeping.php -e -d DEBUG! SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `eventlog` WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`timestamp`) < 1380059875;] 29289378 eventlog entries from before 2013-09-25 05:57:55 will be deleted [y/N]: y SQL[DELETE FROM `eventlog` WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`timestamp`) < 1380059875] Event log housekeeping: deleted entries (As an aside, I'm not sure, but there may be a semi-colon missing on the delete statement for event log records.) What I eventually found was that trying to delete this many records exhausts the lock table (?). ERROR 1206 (HY000): The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size Issuing the same command from the mysql CLI and adding a 10,000,000 limit allowed the deletion to work correctly mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `eventlog` WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`timestamp`) < 1380059875; +----------+ | COUNT(*) | +----------+ | 28177378 | +----------+ 1 row in set (51.76 sec) mysql> DELETE FROM `eventlog` WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`timestamp`) < 1380059875 LIMIT 10000000; Query OK, 10000000 rows affected (3 min 40.32 sec) mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `eventlog` WHERE UNIX_TIMESTAMP(`timestamp`) < 1380059875; +----------+ | COUNT(*) | +----------+ | 18177378 | +----------+ 1 row in set (37.01 sec) Interesting to note that deleting 10 million records at a time with the LIMIT statement doesn't always work. Adjusting the LIMIT up and down eventually got me where I was going. Now that I have it the system down to a reasonable number of records, a nightly/weekly cron job should do just fine. Thanks for the effort you put into this Tom. For me, this was like a hardware upgrade.

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About PPPOE / VPDN
by Paolo Giustiniani 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

I would like to monitor several interfaces pppoe connections. I enabled the feature and vpdn pppoe # $ config ['bad_if'] [] = "pppoe-"; $ config ['poller_modules'] ['cisco-vpdn'] = 1; The process of self discovery did not detect it. The command show vpdn order properly connections. How can I do?

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 48, Issue 97
by Kiru Pananthan 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Hi Peter the machine we are polling is windows VM and also getting for the network switches also On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:55 AM, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > 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: Device up / Down (Peter Persson) > 2. Does this product have server agents? (Chris Lawrence) > 3. Re: Does this product have server agents? (Adam Armstrong) > 4. Re: About PPPOE / VPDN (Adam Armstrong) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:09:56 +0200 > From: Peter Persson <peter.persson(a)bredband2.se> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Device up / Down > Message-ID: > < > CAPwoXysEEEmTBwWxGZFK6NdnsxoAujz40Oy+s8Pj2wbrWcgdPg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > The machines doesnt respond as requested. > What type of machines are you polling? > > And thank you for your notice that the mail is confidential, I will not > show this mail for anyone! > > > 2014-07-19 2:41 GMT+02:00 Kiru Pananthan <kirup(a)aism.edu.my>: > > > Dear all > > We are getting an alerts message for every five minutes for 5 > > machines. Stating Device up: / Device Down > > > > Thanks > > Kiru > > > > -- > > *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are > > confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also > be > > privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not > > the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please > > notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not > copy, > > disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this > > e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and > all > > affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility > > for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, > any > > internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or > > from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or > > opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do > not > > necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia > > and > > all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may > > be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all > > affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business > > reasons. > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > >

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Meru Networks Controllers + Access Points
by Sean Huggans 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Any chance to have Meru Networks wireless controllers added? Running a model MC1550 managing 11 Aps and would love to be able to pull it in. Sean Huggans I.S. Services Manager Network Operations Engineer Minneola Healthcare shuggans(a)minneolahealthcare.com [image: A+_CE_tiny]

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Login issue. IP works hostname does not?
by Scott Benninger 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

I have a strange issue that I cannot resolve. I have a recent install of the community edition on Ubuntu 14.04. Only difference is the sites available directive changes to make it work compared to the official install docs. Everything was working perfectly and I could login via IP, hostname, or FQDN. The server is a VMware VM and I forgot to install the VMware tools so our VMware monitoring software would stop complaining. I installed the tools and rebooted and now I can only login via the IP. If I try via hostname etc the form just clears with no errors. Adding /debug=1/ shows the mysql commands etc but no errors. I have checked all the hostname settings, defaulted the host file, checked the apache and site configs and nothing working. Seems like a php issue to me. Any ideas? Thanks in advance and my apologies if this something simple that I have missed. Scott

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alert checker missing
by Dash Brousseau 20 Jul '14

20 Jul '14

I updated observium thinking I can create alerts based on http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker But I don’t have add check on the menu bar Is that only for the professional paid version? 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 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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Does this product have server agents?
by Chris Lawrence 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

I work for an MSP and am looking for a solution that has agents that act as collectors/relays to the main server. This networks and devices that need to be monitored are not directly connected on. PRTG has something like this - if that helps you understand what I'm asking about. Chris Lawrence Director of IT, Solutions and Services 888.825.6748 Support 480.663.6322 Direct 480.200.7875 Cell Chris.Lawrence(a)ValorGlobal.com<mailto:Chris.Lawrence@ValorGlobal.com> [cid:image001.png@01CF865C.4CF93F30]<http://valorglobal.com/> CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system.

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Device up / Down
by Kiru Pananthan 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Dear all We are getting an alerts message for every five minutes for 5 machines. Stating Device up: / Device Down Thanks Kiru -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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Moving obvsevium to a new host
by Ryan, Spencer J. 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Hi All, We are going to migrate our Observium install (paid) to a different VM, same architecture and everything. I ended up pulling down the latest version from SVN, but to move the actual data over do I need to move anything other than the RRD directory, the config file, and the MySQL database? Thanks! -Spencer _______________________________________________________________ NOTICE TO PERSONS SUBJECT TO UNITED STATES TAXATION (MCPS) DISCLOSURE UNDER TREASURY CIRCULAR 230: The United States Federal tax advice, if any, contained in this document and its attachments may not be used or referred to in the promoting, marketing or recommending of any entity, investment plan or arrangement, nor is such advice intended or written to be used, and may not be used, by a taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding Federal tax penalties. _______________________________________________________________

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Housekeeping script
by Tom Laermans 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Hi everyone, Yesterday I committed a housekeeping script to clean up after Observium. If you have a nice number of devices combined with a long running time of Observium, you're sure to have a gigantic database of event log, syslog and performance timing information. Some of you have resorted to periodically truncating tables - fear no more, housekeeping.php is here! You have a choice of specifying either -a for all modules or s, e, r, p and/or t for specific things. Apart from that, there are options in the configuration to set before most of these things actually do anything. What it does: -s Cleans up syslog data, based on the age of the entries. Configured by $config['housekeeping']['syslog']['age'] = 0; // Maximum age of syslog entries in seconds; 0 to disable i.e. 7*86400 for 7 days. -e Cleans up eventlog data, based on the age of the entries. Configured by $config['housekeeping']['eventlog']['age'] = 0; // Maximum age of eventlog entries in seconds; 0 to disable i.e. 30*86400 for 30 days. -r Cleans up RRD files, there are 2 options here: Cleanup of RRD files with a modification time of a certain age. Ports that are gone, sensors that are gone, erroneaously created RRD files due to bugs or hardware changes, etc. Configured by $config['housekeeping']['rrd']['age'] = 0; // Maximum age of unused rrd files in seconds before automatically purging; 0 to disable i.e. 90*86400 for 90 days. Cleanup of invalid RRD files. Requires $config['file'] to be set correctly to the path of the "file" magic utility. Runs over all .rrd files to see if they are identified as RRDTool Databases. They can sometimes get corrupted (0 bytes, half a file) when your disk/ramdrive is full. When they exist, they are not recreated even if they're invalid. Consequently RRDtool refuses to add data into them as they are not valid RRD database files. This scripts deletes any .rrd file not identified as RRDTool. Configured by $config['housekeeping']['rrd']['invalid'] = TRUE; // Delete .rrd files that are not valid RRD files (eg created with a full disk) Note: this defaults to true currently. Handle with care. -p Cleans up deleted ports. You can do this manually by using the purge button in the web interface, but one could probably safely assume if a port has not returned after 30 days it really is gone. Shorter could be useful in your environment, mine is set to 7 days. Configured by $config['housekeeping']['deleted_ports']['age'] = 0; // Maximum age of deleted ports in seconds before automatically purging; 0 to disable i.e. 30*86400 for 30 days. -t: Cleans up perf time information. Observium keeps performance times per module, per device and per run. This quickly accumulates into a giant number of rows in the database. Configured by $config['housekeeping']['timing']['age'] = 0; // Maximum age of timing (discovery and poll time) entries in seconds; 0 to disable i.e. 7*86400 for 7 days. Housekeeping logs into housekeeping.log in the log_dir. (*) I recommend putting this into cron, daily or weekly (yes, even though the age is set in seconds, I don't recommend running it every minute ;), but only after you've run it manually once. It'll take quite a while the first time to clean up large databases. The "check for invalid RRD files" is probably quite I/O heavy. i'll be documenting this on the wiki soonish. (*) log_dir was also added as a new configuration directive, it defaults to ${installdir}/logs which will be created automatically for you if possible. Tom

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alert temp checker
by Benoit Lambert 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Hello again, 6 temp_greater_65<https://syst3092.bellnordiq.net/alert_check/alert_test_id=6/> Temperature is greater than 65 Celsius! sensor_value greater 65 * temperature 69 0/0/0/0/69 6 temp_greater_65<https://syst3092.bellnordiq.net/alert_check/alert_test_id=6/> Temperature is greater than 65 Celsius! sensor_value greater 65 * sensor_class equals temperature 69 0/0/0/0/69 Neither of these seems to work... It's not checking them, can anyone explain why? Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)

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Issue with discovery.php -h all and certain cisco devices
by David Lagace 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Hello, I've run into a problem where the discovery cron seems to error out. I noticed this in checking the polling times where it was at almost 3 days. I ran discovery.php -h all manually from the shell and noticed it would error out to prompt when scanning the same switch everytime. When I put the device causing the issue in ignore it would go through untill it hit another device that errrored it out. If I run it on the host only it also seems to error out: <SNIP> ./discovery.php -h mksc-dob-lab-sw1 Observium v0.14.7.5654 Discovery Current Revision : 5654 New Revision : 5659 mksc-dob-lab-sw1 433 ios (cisco) OLD: ios, NEW: ios --- Ports : ........................................................... Port Stacks: Processors : CISCO-ENTITY-QFP-MIB CISCO-PROCESS-MIB . hrDevice: Memory : CISCO-ENTITY-QFP-MIB CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB ... HOST-RESOURCES-MIB IPv4 Addresses : . IPv6 Addresses : Sensors: CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB CISCO-ENVMON-MIB .. Fans . ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB Storage : Inventory: Physical Inventory : ............................................................... hrDevice : Discovery protocols: LLDP-MIB CISCO-CDP-MIB .obs@MTPTSMON01:/opt/observium </SNIP> Here with added debug <SNIP> SQL[SELECT * FROM `ports` WHERE `device_id` = '433' AND `ifIndex` = '10101'] SQL[SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `sysName` = 'MKSC-DOB-1A-ASW1.MKSC.CA' OR `hostname` = 'MKSC-DOB-1A-ASW1.MKSC.CA'] SQL[SELECT `port_id` FROM `ports` WHERE (`ifDescr` = 'GigabitEthernet3/0/41' OR `ifName` = 'GigabitEthernet3/0/41') AND `device_id` = '263'] SQL[SELECT * FROM `links` WHERE `local_port_id` = '26157' AND `remote_hostname` = 'MKSC-DOB-1A-ASW1.MKSC.CA' AND `protocol` = 'cdp' AND `remote_port` = 'GigabitEthernet3/0/41'] . SQL[SELECT * FROM `ports` WHERE `device_id` = '433' AND `ifIndex` = '10104'] SQL[SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `sysName` = 'Blee' OR `hostname` = 'Blee'] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function nicecase() in /opt/observium/includes/discovery/functions.inc.php on line 151 Fatal error: Call to undefined function nicecase() in /opt/observium/includes/discovery/functions.inc.php on line 151 </SNIP> Anyone seen this issue? Thanks for your help! --Dave

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Barracuda Spam Firewall Support
by Sveatoslav Persianov 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Hello Observium Team, We bought an Observium Pro subscription and found out that Barracuda Spam Firewall devices are not supported. Would you be so kind to give an estimation, when Observium will support these devices, or if you actually plan to add them to supported devices list? Thank you. Best regards, Sveatoslav PERSIANOV Informational Systems Engineer Informational Systems Services Department S.E. Special Telecommunications Center Tel : +373 60 300 591 Email : sveatoslav.persianov(a)cts.md Web : www.cts.md Acest mesaj si orice fisiere atasate acestuia sunt permise spre utilizare doar destinatarului si poate contine informatie cu acces restrictionat. Daca nu sunteti un destinatar sau autorizat in alt mod de a primi acest mesaj, va aducem la cunostinta ca dezvaluirea, copierea sau distribuirea acestui mesaj este strict interzisa si poate fi ilegala. Daca ati primit acest mesaj din greseala, va rugam sa informati imediat IS CTS la adresa de raspuns si sa stergeti acest mesaj din sistem. This e-mail message and any attachments are only for the use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential information. If you are not an addressee or otherwise authorized to receive this message, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying or distribution of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this email by mistake, please inform S.E. CTS immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message from your system.

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Ubuntu 14.04 Support?
by William Jimenez 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Hello I am curious if there are any plans at the present to support Ubuntu 14.04. Thanks, William

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Device not yet discovered
by Kiru Pananthan 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Dear all getting error message as below for few machines in observium, how this can be fixed This device has not yet been successfully discovered. System information and statistics will not be populated and graphs will not draw. This device should be automatically discovered within 10 minutes. Thanks Kiru -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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alert checker email alert
by Gorbachev Anthony 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Hi All, I am not receiving email alerts for the below checks also the alerted status says never and I can't find any documents online for the same. Can anyone please point me in the right direction ? -- Regards, Gorbachev Anthony

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Discovery crashing UPS management card
by Steve Kersley 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Good morning all, I'm a recent adopter of Observium so still finding my feet and slowly learning how best to set it up. However, I have noticed that since installing it, it was reporting that my main UPS management card was rebooting every 6 hours. The UPS is an Eaton 9SX 5000i + battery pack, with Network-MS management card, firmware HF which is the latest available for card tech level 16. Dabbling more, it seems that it's the discovery process that is causing it, specifically when it walks the xupsOutput table (.1.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4) in the Powerware MIB, the UPS management card immediately stops responding and reboots. It actually appears to be crashing on doing a GetNext on .1.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.7.0, which is beyond the defined values in that table. The UPS continues to operate, but the management card stops. This also means that Observium has only managed to discover the 'input' voltage - output, bypass and current/power readings all just read as zero as the card has stopped responding when it tries to read those. The poll runs fine and gets data from the input voltage sensor. Clearly this is not an Observium issue: I can reproduce the reboot with a simple snmpwalk on the commandline, which should be a valid operation on a published MIB. I do have a ticket open with the manufacturer, although the first response was 'does it work with our management software?'. It may even be a fault on my unit, but I don't have more than one of these to test. I'm assuming there's a reason for the discovery module to need to walk the tables rather than just read the specific values - presumably bigger UPS units might have multiple metered AC inputs and outputs rather than just the one? I could disable sensor discovery, which will stop the reboots but that won't let it learn about the additional sensors that it still hasn't found. Unless I can manually insert data into the database for the poller to pick up? Alternatively, is there a way for me to override the detection of a Powerware UPS and use the generic UPS MIB rather than the XUPS MIB? Any other thoughts? Steve.

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Ubuntu 12.04? Does r5229 work on Ubuntu 14.04?
by Rob Townley 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Loving observium, but noticed some issues with it detecting well over 448 ports on a switch that nothing was plugged into except two patch cables but then i just happened to notice php version on Ubuntu 12.04. The Ubuntu installation directions had some conflicting information: Requires php5.4 but Ubuntu 12.04 does not includes php5.3 only. Recommend LTS, but recommend 13.04 which is not LTS. Does not mention 14.04 LTS. The existing community download is from April which provides another reason that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will not work well since there has not been another release since then. So i am trying to decide to add a PPA for php5.4 or do i upgrade the entire OS to 14.04? Will the April 2014 (SVN# 5229 ) Observium release work just fine on 14.04.

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Large number of ports on switch? Juniper VC/VCF EX/QFX
by Paul Meys 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hi, I'm running into a problem when trying to view a junipersetup. It is a virtual chassis fabric with 2x QFX51 and 2x EX43 When you open the device, in the list of ports, the last ones don't appear: 2/0/14, ge-2/0/15, ge-2/0/16, ge-2/0/17, ge-2/0/18, ge-2/0/19, ge-2/0/20, ge-2/0/21, ge-2/0/22, ge-2/0/23, ge-2/0/24, ge-2/0/25, ge-2/0/26, ge-2/0/27, ge-2/0/28, ge-2/0/29, ge-2/0/30, ge-2/0/31, ge-2/0/32, ge-2/0/33, ge-2/0/34, ge-2/0/35, ge-2/0/36, ge-2/0/37, ge-2/0/38, ge-2/0/39, ge-2/0/40, ge-2/0/41, ge-2/0/42, ge-2/0/43, ge-2/0/44, ge-2/0/45, ge-2/0/46, ge-2/0/47, ge-2/0/0.0, xe-0/0/0, xe-0/0/2, xe-0/0/0.0, xe-0/0/2.0, xe-0/0/1, xe-0/0/1.0, xe-0/0/3, xe-0/0/3.0, xe-1/0/0, xe-1/0/0.0, xe-1/0/1, xe-1/0/1.0, xe-1/0/2, xe-1/0/2.0, xe-1/0/3, xe-1/0/3.0, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , When I click on "Ports": I have a lot of "empty" rows at the end. I also added a trunk-interface ( ae0 ) with does not appear in the list. Is it possible the QFX/ex4300 is not yet recognised ? I also have a (Juniper) switch with almost 600 ports with almost the same problem. ( 10x EX4200 ) Is there a port-limit ? Thank you Kind regards, Paul Paul Meys Milla-IT - creative minds think alike Berkenrodelei 51 2660 Hoboken-Belgium paul(a)milla-it.be<mailto:paul@milla-it.be> http://www.milla-it.be<http://www.milla-it.be/> BE 0892.650.418 +32 498 62 19 94 IT: Hosting / Security / Network / Consultancy ?

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