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Patch: rancid integration
by Steffen Klemer 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

Hey, for me (recent ubuntu) the rancid integration wasn't working quite well. The following patch corrects this: --- showconfig.inc.php.old 2014-06-17 18:05:06.341845752 +0200 +++ showconfig.inc.php 2014-06-17 18:03:08.336048633 +0200 @@ -72,12 +72,12 @@ if ($config['rancid_ignorecomments']) { - $lines = explode('\n',$text); + $lines = explode(PHP_EOL,$text); for ($i = 0;$i < count($lines);$i++) { - if ($lines[$i][0] == '#') { unset($lines[$i]); } + if ($lines[$i][0] == '!') { unset($lines[$i]); } } - $text = join('\n',$lines); + $text = join(PHP_EOL,$lines); } $text = '<pre class="prettyprint linenums">' . PHP_EOL . $text; 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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Alerting/Entity type changes
by Adam Armstrong 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

Hi All, We're bringing some changes soon to how entity types are used, especially in relation to groups and alerts. We're turning each sensor type into its own entity type, so you can now create "Humidity" sensors : http://alpha.memetic.org/~adama/snaps/14-06-16-f2h10.53.png People using alerting, is this as useful as I think it is? Thanks, adam.

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ppp0 and tun0 shown as down
by Pieter De Wit 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

Hi List, We currently monitor some dd-wrt devices. Observium is showing tun0 and ppp0 as down. I am guessing this is due to the interface speed set to 0. Is there a way to bypass this check ? It does look a bit weird to have a down interface with traffic on it. We are currently running the community ed. Changing to pro soon. Thanks, Pieter

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Re: [Observium] Overview of VLANs
by Steffen Klemer 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

No comment on this? Am Fr, 13.06.2014 um 08:23 schrieb "Klemer, Steffen" <steffen.klemer(a)gwdg.de>: > Hey everybody, > > in nedi there is a nice feature where I can see all devices (and > ports) with a specific vlan on a map. Is there any similar feature in > observium which I just missed to find? > > Would it be possible to extend the search on the ports-page to also > specify VLANs? Would you accept external patches for stuff like this? > > I also wrote a small extension for querying the number of active > connections on a FWSM (and possibly ASA). Is there interest to get > this upstream? /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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Re: [Observium] Observium] Alerting/Entity type changes
by Adam Armstrong 16 Jun '14

16 Jun '14

Yeah, you are confused. Humidity is an example. Rather than alerts being created for 'sensors' they can now be created for 'temperature' or other sensor types directly. Also, humidity is important in a data centre environment, and is monitored by a lot of environmental monitoring systems along with temperature. Adam. Simon Smith wrote: Hi Admin, what would you use the Humidity sensor for? i throught the whole idea of Observium was to monitor Networks and Servers ??? or have i completely got the wrong end of the stick ? Regards Simon On 16 Jun 2014, at 22:48, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > We're bringing some changes soon to how entity types are used, especially in relation to groups and alerts. > > We're turning each sensor type into its own entity type, so you can now create "Humidity" sensors : > > http://alpha.memetic.org/~adama/snaps/14-06-16-f2h10.53.png > > People using alerting, is this as useful as I think it is? > > Thanks, > adam. > _______________________________________________ > 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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apc power switch
by Simon Smith 16 Jun '14

16 Jun '14

Hi all, We currently use an old APC power switch to remotely switch servers on and off and the observium can detect its an APC :-) however i don’t get any graphs for it ? no power usage? no temperature ? nothing ? is the any form of graphs i could get outta it for use with the observium ? the web card is an old AP9606 and the unit is an AP9212 Regards Simon

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DRBD with Unix Agent, doesn't show data on Graphics
by Ximena Cardinali 16 Jun '14

16 Jun '14

Hello, I have implemented the DRBD with the Unix Agent on one of the nodes of our Storage Cluster but sadly I cannot see any Info on the Graphics in Observium. Agent is running ok on the Server. I've also manually run the drbd script on the Server, and I actually get some info. Is there anything that I'm missing to configure on the monitored node? Do I need any particular additional configuration? Here is the output of the script on the server: ;---------- drbd1: SecConUpT, drbd2: SecConUpT, drbd3: SecConUpT, drbd4: SecConUpT, drbd5: SecConUpT, drbd6: SecConUpT, drbd7: SecConUpT, drbd8: SecConUpT, drbd9: SecConUpT, drbd10: SecConUpT, drbd11: SecConUpT, drbd12: SecConUpT, drbd13: SecConUpT, drbd14: SecConUpT, drbd15: SecConUpT, drbd16: SecConUpT, drbd17: SecConUpT, drbd18: SecConUpT, drbd19: SecUncUpT, drbd21: SecConUpT, drbd22: SecConUpT|ns=0|nr=105240328|dw=105240328|dr=0|al=0|bm=685|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=358431024|dw=358431024|dr=0|al=0|bm=12804|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1400615948|dw=1400615948|dr=0|al=0|bm=31995|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=324175284|dw=324175284|dr=0|al=0|bm=12796|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=209573664|dw=209573664|dr=0|al=0|bm=31996|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1428176220|dw=1428176220|dr=0|al=0|bm=15999|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=629091580|dw=629091580|dr=0|al=0|bm=16002|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=41382196|dw=41382196|dr=0|al=0|bm=31999|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1576124856|dw=1576124856|dr=0|al=0|bm=51194|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=75854484|dw=75854484|dr=0|al=0|bm=31997|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1663257472|dw=1663257472|dr=0|al=0|bm=16001|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=486811636|dw=486811636|dr=0|al=0|bm=31997|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1700698668|dw=1700698668|dr=0|al=0|bm=31981|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=314575488|dw=314575488|dr=0|al=0|bm=19200|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1729119028|dw=1729119028|dr=0|al=0|bm=31993|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=21851228|dw=21851228|dr=0|al=0|bm=44796|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=305119416|dw=305119416|dr=0|al=0|bm=12800|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=308338344|dw=308338344|dr=0|al=0|bm=12800|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=120016416|dw=120016416|dr=0|al=0|bm=6405|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=75605064|dw=75605064|dr=0|al=0|bm=3200|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=981644564|dw=981644564|dr=0|al=0|bm=31856|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0| ;---------- And here is a Screenshot of one of the Graphics with no Info: BTW, I run the poller manually a few times. I will appreciate some insight on this one. Cheers, X.

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Ubiquiti Support
by Keefe John 15 Jun '14

15 Jun '14

Hello, Would it be possible to support the new Ubiquiti MIB? That is really the only thing holding me back from buying the paid version. Thanks! Keefe John Ethoplex

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Re: [Observium] TZ
by Adam Armstrong 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

Wait until the time catches up with where it was before you changes time zone. Enjoy your giant spikes. Adam. Frank Lahr wrote:

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TZ
by Frank Lahr 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

Hey, I noticed an Observium server had the wrong timezone. I set it to the correct tz, but now all my graphs for all my devices are not updating anymore (blank from the time I switched the tz). Polling and Discovery are fine. How to fix the issue? Thanks -- Frank

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Smokeping, Rancid and Observium
by Teixeira, Mike 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

Yeah you are hijacking a thread, but whatever. I'll change the subject line and start a new thread :) I have rancid and websvn running on the same box. That box is separate from observium. I did this because I wanted rancid to run on a vm. Having it on a VM gives me somewhat of redundancy. Depending on the number of threads and number of devices you give rancid, it could interfere with observium. The server that runs observium comes into play as well. The more devices and more ports you have, the more threads you need. Observium is much more important to me than rancid; however, rancid is really important. That is another reason why I separated them. Then I have an NFS mount between rancid and observium so it can see rancid. I don't have a history of configurations in observium. I am not sure how that works. That's where websvn excels. With websvn the network guys can see what changed between revisions. So with websvn, I didn't spend much time on setting up history of configuration changes in observium. I haven't setup smokeping. The network guys always tell me they don't care about icmp testing to determine latency. Mainly because some routers/switches, that participate in QoS, will make icmp lowest priority and put the router traffic, voice traffic, and sometimes video traffic (depending on the device) higher priority. The part that I love though is when I am working with them to troubleshoot a network problem, they want a trace route. I always say to them well I thought you didn't care about icmp and trace route uses icmp. :) Inside observium in the graph section of the device in the subsection of poller, it shows icmp response. I think that is enough for me and the network guys. Mike From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Peter Casserly Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 8:03 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Rancid can't get CVS working For those using a WebSVN or similar application: Are you running that on a separate server or all on the same server? I have Observium and rancid running fine but want to add SmokPing and WebSVN. I don't want to create a mess running too many services running on one server. Looking for feedback on best practices/success vs. failure stories. Apologies in advance if this reply is off topic or hijacking the thread.

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Unbound graphics
by Eduardo Schoedler 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

Hi people, Can you provide support for total current users for Unbound? # unbound-control stats | grep 'total.requestlist.current.user' total.requestlist.current.user=14242 Thanks! -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Rancid can't get CVS working
by Benoit Lambert 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

I have a working installation of rancid and I can see the current configuration of my devices. Question: How do I view the old configurations (previous versions). I noticed when I view the config it says "Latest"....I'm assuming I can set it up to view old configs. Just don't know how.

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Overview of VLANs
by Steffen Klemer 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

Hey everybody, in nedi there is a nice feature where I can see all devices (and ports) with a specific vlan on a map. Is there any similar feature in observium which I just missed to find? Would it be possible to extend the search on the ports-page to also specify VLANs? Would you accept external patches for stuff like this? I also wrote a small extension for querying the number of active connections on a FWSM (and possibly ASA). Is there interest to get this upstream? lg /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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Latency alert check
by Eduardo Schoedler 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Hi people, How can I use alert checks to monitor host latency? Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Pagination of Ports > Customers
by Senses0 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Hi, Currently I have about 100 devices and 8000+ ports (dot1q sub interfaces, pseudowires, etc). I don't have any performance issues. But... Currently I have 300+ interfaces classified as "customer". It takes about 9 seconds for the page to load because everything get loaded all at once. My actual customer interfaces would easily exceed 1000. Is there a way I can paginate Ports > Customers? Much like how it's presented in Ports > All Ports? Or is this something that is currently not possible? Thanks

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Rancid SVN diffs not showing
by Benoit Lambert 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

I set Rancid up with SVN instead, but when I make a change and re-run "rancid-run" there is still only the "Latest" tab in observium. I know that observium only goes into the directory and retrieves the configurations and displays it, but how do I display the older version? Rancid configs need to have identical names to the host devices in observium.... If I point observium to search for configs in "$config['rancid_configs'][] = '/usr/local/rancid/var/networking/configs';" how does it know which is old and new? Or is there something I'm missing?

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spanning-tree information
by Stefan Milo 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Hi Is it possible to see spanning-tree information in observium? Just the usual stuff like root bridge, forwarding, discarding etc. I have a mix of cisco and hp switches, but i can't seem to find the stp tab anywhere... BR Stefan Milo

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Custom Groups of Ports
by Martin Smith 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

I love when I have an problem and someone already resolved it, but it was left out of documentation. Could someone please put the following into the default.inc? //$config['int_groups'] = array("EsxData","EsxMgmt","EsxiSCSI","EQL","Mgmt","LAGs","PI","DRAC"); \\Add<file:///\\Add> custom port groups to top menu as defined in Interface_Description_Parsing Found here: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-299 Thank you, 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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Rancid SVN diffs not showing
by Benoit Lambert 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

I set Rancid up with SVN instead, but when I make a change and re-run "rancid-run" there is still only the "Latest" tab in observium. I know that observium only goes into the directory and retrieves the configurations and displays it, but how do I display the older version? Rancid configs need to have identical names to the host devices in observium.... If I point observium to search for configs in "$config['rancid_configs'][] = '/usr/local/rancid/var/networking/configs';" how does it know which is old and new? Or is there something I'm missing? Thanks in advance for any help! Much appreciated!

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Clear eventlog
by Nick Beacham 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Is there a simple way to clear the eventlog? Thank you, Nicholas Beacham Desk: 515-369-7121 Cell: 515-865-3700

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Mikrotik number of client on WiFi interface
by Franjo Posavec 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

It will be great if there will be support for number of clients on mikrotik wifi access point do you have in plans to support this? best regards, -- Franjo Posavec system administrator entitas d.o.o. T: +385 (0)40 600 002 S: franjo.posavec

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apc powernet-mib
by Simon Smith 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Hi, i have been able to get ahold of a new version of the PowerNet-MIB thats used for the APC power units if anyones interested :) also could someone update the svn with the new mib file aswell ? ftp://ftp.apc.com/apc/public/software/pnetmib/mib/411/powernet411.mib Regards Simon

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Observium Gone Crazy, bro?
by Ryan Milton 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hi All, I have an unusual issue in that after the last two updates (not that it was as a result), that Observium slams me with some 3000 "up/down" messages of all the devices in my network. The emails all come in a flood over a couple of minutes. Is there any reason that this should occur within Observium? Thanks, Ry

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monitor mdadm
by Simon Smith 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

Hi All, does observium monitor MDADM as yet? im about to setup a few machines with software raid via linux’s MDADM Regards Simon

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