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health/overview page is there a way to change what is presented?
by Steve Costaras 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

I am using observium community edition to monitor a couple systems. Noticed a couple items that seem to make some of the graphs not too useful. The health / Overview section for file systems is the first. It shows file systems with no problem, however it's graphing the file systems based on their percentage used NOT their used byte size. I don't know how others are using this, but here we grow file systems frequently which this produces graphs like the attached. Is there a way to either change what metric is graphed (bytes/ not percentage) or have a another overview graph of file systems with capacity used. This gets much more important with ZFS when you add new vdev's or expand them as like the graph will expand all filesystems on that pool which doesn't seem to be too useful and there can be hundreds. Another question on the same page is the operations/second graphs. This is displaying data twice or more when you are using device mapper you see both the sd* devices as well as the dm-* devices. This is very bad when you're talking about 100's of physical drives (seeing 200 or more depending on how you have it set up with partitions devices). Is there a way to filter out dm-* devices so only sd* ones are calculated/graphed? Steve

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Interface Traffic trend
by KENNETH D MILLER II 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Is there a config option or change I need to make to get the interface traffic trend option to work? I'm running the latest CE version. RRDtool 1.38 and 1.47 versions. I've only have this running a month, but thought there would be enough data to see a trend. Also, where would I load MIBs and configure OIDs for Brocade VDX gear? Thanks in advance, Ken

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Re-enable host where discovery has been disabled?
by David Lagace 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Hello all, I seem to be in a bit of a pickle. On one of my hosts I enabled the 'Disables polling and discovery' to not have it report while working on it but now I can't seem to find the host to reenable the polling and discovery. I can see reference to it in the 'Delete Devices' page with the caption [disabled] next to it but not anywhere else. Just wondering where or how I can re-enable this host. Thanks for your help, --Dave

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Differing values
by Cardinal-Richards, Emma 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Hi, On (seemingly all) our device port pages I get different values in the legends on the page of graphs vs their respective hover over pop-up graphs? In theory I thought they're showing the same timeframe/data? Regards, Emma

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LDAP Authentication
by Paolo Giustiniani 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Hello, I use ldap to authenticate my users. Unfortunately for the users admin if using ldap, after login there are no graphics and no administrative leave. What can I check? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rispetta l'ambiente: se non ti è necessario, non stampare questa mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note in ottemperanza al Decreto Legislativo 196/2003 sulla Tutela dei Dati Personali: Il presente messaggio e gli eventuali allegati sono rivolti unicamente all'attenzione del destinatario ed il relativo contenuto potrebbe avere carattere riservato e ne e' vietata la diffusione in qualunque modo eseguita. Nel caso in cui aveste ricevuto questa mail per errore, Vi invitiamo ad avvertire il mittente al più presto a mezzo posta elettronica ed a distruggere il messaggio erroneamente ricevuto.

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Re: [Observium] Re-enable host where discovery has been disabled?
by Chris Ely 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

Go to the device page and click the little cog or gear icon in the top right corner. You can re-enable polling and discovery there. -cely On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, David Lagace <dave(a)deelite.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > I seem to be in a bit of a pickle. On one of my hosts I enabled the > 'Disables polling and discovery' to not have it report while working on it > but now I can't seem to find the host to reenable the polling and > discovery. > > I can see reference to it in the 'Delete Devices' page with the caption > [disabled] next to it but not anywhere else. Just wondering where or how > I can re-enable this host. > > Thanks for your help, > > --Dave > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Inquiry
by Lala, Rajiv 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Good Morning, I am interested in purchasing support that will used with the open source version of Observium for my company. How should I proceed in doing so? Thanks, Rajiv Lala Buyer Technology Procurement Corporate Finance Division Phone: 312-338-2759 Mobile: 312-208-8480 rajiv.lala(a)cmegroup.com<mailto:rajiv.lala@cmegroup.com> CME Group 20 South Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 www.cmegroup.com<http://www.cmegroup.com/>

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Custom "alias" for port
by Ibrahim Tachijian 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Is there no way to set a custom alias for a given port? I want to set the name to "Peering: XXXX" so that it matches the peering type. The reason is because my ex2500 juniper is not properly sending the "name" of the port via snmp thats configured in the switch. Additionally the EX2500 switch (juniper) is shown as Generic. -- Ibrahim Tachijian Net Sat AB

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Processor, Memory pool and Sensors deleted on Cisco device
by Matthias Cramer 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Hi After doing a "svn update" this evening all proceccors, memory pools and sensors disapeared on a cisco 892 router which I rediscovered manualy after the update, Log: 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 6 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 5 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 4 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 3 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 2 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 1 33m 12s Mempool Memory pool removed: mib cisco-enhanced-mempool-mib, index 1.2, descr C892FSP-K9 (I/O) 33m 12s Mempool Memory pool removed: mib cisco-enhanced-mempool-mib, index 1.1, descr C892FSP-K9 (Processor) 33m 12s Processor Processor removed: type cpm index 1 descr Processor 1 Any idea what caused this? Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zurich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Re: [Observium] Alert Checker for Netscaler
by Adam Armstrong 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

There are no undocumented metrics. You have to request them. :) You can't check a service inside a vserver, as the entities don't work that way. You can, however, check the status of a service independently. Adam. Martin Smith wrote:

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Alert Checker for Netscaler
by Martin Smith 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Hello everyone, How can I find available values to be used with the alerting system for metrics that are not documented in the wiki? http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes For example, a service inside a vserver's status changes to "down". Or when the bandwidth per vserver exceeds a specified value? Basically, I'm lost on how to find new metrics and attributes... :[ Thanks in advance for your time, Martin Smith | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320-257-6607 | 877.797.4700 x170

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Re: [Observium] Uncaught bounce notification
by Adam Armstrong 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Protip guys: If you go on holiday and set a "vacation" autoresponder on an account subscribed to our mailing lists, you will be banned for life. FOR FUCKING LIFE. adam. On 2014-07-01 10:51, mailman-bounces(a)observium.org wrote: > The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce > format was not recognized, or no member addresses could be extracted > from it. This mailing list has been configured to send all > unrecognized bounce messages to the list administrator(s). > > For more information see: > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/observium/bounce > > > Return-Path: <vacation(a)skylink.cz> > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by postman.memetic.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3933B9B8 > for <observium-bounces(a)lists.memetic.org>; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:51:32 > +0100 (BST) > X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavis+SpamAssassin+ClamAV and more at > postman.memetic.org > Received: from postman.memetic.org ([127.0.0.1]) > by localhost (postman.memetic.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port > 10024) > with ESMTP id ooamX0QotsFU for <observium-bounces(a)lists.memetic.org>; > Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:51:30 +0100 (BST) > Received: from mailserver.skylink.cz (email.skylink.cz [81.91.221.7]) > by postman.memetic.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF193B9C4 > for <observium-bounces(a)observium.org>; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:51:22 +0100 > (BST) > Received: by mailserver.skylink.cz (Postfix, from userid 8) > id 96CEB4237; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 17:50:38 +0200 (CEST) > From: dvolny(a)ezilly.cz > To: observium-bounces(a)observium.org > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Subject: =?UTF-8?B?T24gdmFjYXRpb24gbWVzc2FnZQ==?= > X-Loop: jamcp virtual vacation > Message-Id: <20140701155038.96CEB4237(a)mailserver.skylink.cz> > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 17:50:38 +0200 (CEST) > > Dear sender, > > I am out of the office with limited access to my email. > For urgent operational IT issues please contact the EZilly Helpdesk at > helpdesk(a)ezilly.cz > > Kind regards, > David Volný

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syslog -> cleaning the database...
by Xavier Beaudouin 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi There, Looking after a reason why I got soooooo long time to see some firewall I saw that despite the // Syslog stuff $config['enable_syslog'] = 1; $config['syslog_age'] = "1 month"; On configuration, the old syslog informations are not deleted. I created a small php script to clean that (using crontab), do you like to have this contrib ? (It is somewhat easy, but if you don't have time to make that, then, I will be pleased to create a jira with this file). /Xavier

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Odd issue with Syslog collection
by Anthony Mattke 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

On a recent install of observium, I’ve noticed some oddities with Syslog collection… Some devices are being collected just fine, but others are not. In the example screenshot included below, my firewall ***10, and one switch ***04 are both being collected just fine. But the switches 75***** and *****50 are not. http://i.imgur.com/nxupFzJ.png One thing I noticed was that someone had turned on “service sequence-numbers” on the ****04 switch. (The ASA has no such feature that I know of.. ) When I disabled this service, the collection stopped working on that device! Example here…http://i.imgur.com/HViWcTk.png Thoughts? Thanks!! -Tony

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ios-xr etc syslog
by Rob VanHooren 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

to make it go away, could try getting rid of the "service log sequence numbers" (or whatever exact syntax it is) in the device's ios config if you don't need the sequence numbering for audit, that's easier than trying to hack in a new syslog-ng.conf template. luck, R.

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Syslog parsing: Issue from IOS XR devices
by Senses0 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

Hi, I have few devices running Cisco IOS XR. I am sending syslog messages from all devices to Observium. Everything is fine except for the log messages sent by routers running IOS XR. Instead of log Program name, messages sent by XR devices contain an incrementing sequence number, which is being parsed as log Program (Incrementing sequence number being parsed as syslog program = bad. real bad). The actual program name appears much later within the message. I have gone through the sylog configuration guide for XR routers. Couldnt find anything that would alter the message format of what is being sent. I also configured "logging facility syslog" in XR devices, but that didnt resolve the issue. To better explain my situation, I have attached a screenshot. Hopefully it would help. Oh and I am subscriber :) Thanks, Senn

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Windows individual performance counter
by Stefan 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

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Re: [Observium] location
by Rob VanHooren 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

… DNS LOC records were invented for this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOC_record just a thought. R. On Jun 26, 2014, at 7:00, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > The location parsing stuff does need looked at a bit more.

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GPS data on Syslocation
by Ciro Iriarte 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Hi! , out of curiosity, is there any prevision to locate devices with actual GPS data, stored in the Syslocation field for example?. Regards, Ciro -- Ciro Iriarte http://iriarte.it --

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Re: [Observium] Syslog from NX-OS device
by Steffen Klemer 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Am Tue, 24.06.2014 um 14:49 schrieb Ole Hansen <oha(a)netic.dk>: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get syslog (using syslog-ng) from some NX-OS devices > into Observium, but so far no luck. > > I'm using the following syslog-ng configuration > > template t_observium { > template > ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY > $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n"); template-escape(yes); }; For me it works with destination d_observium { program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") template-escape(yes)); }; > 10.10.10.10||local7||info||info||be||2014-06-24 16:43:08||Jun 24 > 14:43:07: %SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP: list flow denied udp > 192.168.10.10(137) -> 192.168.11.10(137), 5 packets ||147696 > 10.10.10.11||local7||notice||notice||bd||2014-06-24 16:43:16||2014 > Jun 24 16:43:16.724 CEST: %SYSMGR-5-CFGWRITE_STARTED: Configuration > copy started (PID 2143).|| I see an ip-addresses instead of a hostname in your first field here. iirc observium can only work with hostnames and especially needs the hostname in the first field to be identical to the one in the database (i.e. with or without FQDN), therefor I set use_dns(yes) and use_fqdn(no) instead of keep_hostname(yes) like it is written in the manual. It total it looks like this for me: options { chain_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); use_dns(yes); use_fqdn(no); owner("root"); group("adm"); perm(0640); stats_freq(0); bad_hostname("^gconfd$"); }; But you can also set a hostname in nx-os and redefine the logging very fine granular. /Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: Steffen.Klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 39 172361 __________________________________________________________________ GWDG Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598

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nxos syslog
by Rob VanHooren 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

is the nexus' L3 in the global (default) vrf? if *not* then it won't (easily?) work until cisco fixes the (being kind here) "oddball way" that mib exposure happens on the nxos platform. a workaround could be to map out things with snmp contexts that tie in a string per vrf ... but imo that doesn't scale effectively. join the party: go beat up TAC and your sales rep. for how stupid their implementation -- of something pretty fundamental -- is. luck, R. Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPhone

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NXOS vrfs == OID grief
by Rob VanHooren 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

it seems vrfs aren't discovered, since the OIDs are not found. this leads to all sorts of unhappiness, since with no ipaddr (mgmt vrf) winds up with no syslog, no routing, no nothing except L2 info. who can I send the walk to? (would rather not post it to the list or jira) thanks, R. [me@host ~] ./discovery.php -h theN7k -m cisco-vrf -d DEBUG! theN7k 135 nxos (cisco) VRFs : DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' -Osqn -m MPLS-L3VPN-STD-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'theN7k':'161' mplsL3VpnVrfRD .1.3.6.1.2.1.10.166.11.1.2.2.1.4 No Such Object available on this agent at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' -Osqn -m MPLS-VPN-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'theN7k':'161' mplsVpnVrfRouteDistinguisher .1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.2.1.3 No Such Object available on this agent at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' -Osqn -m MPLS-VPN-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'theN7k':'161' .1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.2.1.2 .1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.2.1.2 No Such Object available on this agent at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' -Osqn -m MPLS-VPN-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'theN7k':'161' .1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.1.1.2 .1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.1.1.2 No Such Object available on this agent at this OID

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Timeout: No Response from xxxx
by George 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Hi, I have latest observium installed and running on a Ubuntu 12.04.4 server and am trying to add another same Ubuntu server to the observium server. I've set up snmpd on the target host. When I run the snmpstatus command from the observium server I get a Timeour: No Response. I've installed the mibs and everything else according to the docs. I can see in the syslog of the target host that the observium server hits it. I can run successfully snmpstatus on the target host and query itself. I can run snmpstatus successfully from another CentOS server. It works from everywhere except the observium server. There are no firewalls involved. Am I doing anything wrong? What info can I send you to help me debug it. Please help Thanks

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Syslog from NX-OS device
by Ole Hansen 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Hi, I'm trying to get syslog (using syslog-ng) from some NX-OS devices into Observium, but so far no luck. I'm using the following syslog-ng configuration template t_observium { template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n"); template-escape(yes); }; destination d_observium { program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template (t_observium)); }; Works fine for IOS-devices The output that would be sent to syslog.php i can see by adding: destination d_foo { file("/tmp/foo.log" template(t_observium)); }; and the following output is in my file: 10.10.10.10||local7||info||info||be||2014-06-24 16:43:08||Jun 24 14:43:07: %SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP: list flow denied udp 192.168.10.10(137) -> 192.168.11.10(137), 5 packets ||147696 10.10.10.11||local7||notice||notice||bd||2014-06-24 16:43:16||2014 Jun 24 16:43:16.724 CEST: %SYSMGR-5-CFGWRITE_STARTED: Configuration copy started (PID 2143).|| any ideas? I've tried uncommenting the debug part of syslog.php, but i don't get any output in /tmp/syslog.out or /tmp/syslog.err Oh, and by the way. Syslog from Fabric-OS devices works fine as well. Netic A/S Ole Hansen Mail: oha(a)netic.dk Mobil: +45 23253747 Fastnet: +45 96356187

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How to use kemp mibs
by Stefan 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

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