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TZ
by Frank Lahr 15 Jun '14

15 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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Re: [Observium] observium does not work with recent versions of MySQL
by Steffen Klemer 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Am Fri, 06.06.2014 um 19:17 schrieb Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx>: > This has indeed come up a few years ago already and is effectively a > non-mysql-default strict setting. > Are you sure this is not an OpenSuSE config default? It might also be an OpenSUSE default. I read somewhere that this would be a 'feature' of recent versions of mysql. I could only get rid of it with an explicit sql-mode="" in my.cnf whereas I couldn't find another config file anywhere on the system. But wouldn't it make more sense to just add a default value of "0" to all columns? I mean in the long run. /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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observium does not work with recent versions of MySQL
by Steffen Klemer 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hey everybody, I don't know whether this already came up, but with recent versions of mysql (like in the latest openSUSE) many features (VLANs, Ports, Routing, Events) of observium are no longer accessible. This is because of a new default "sql_mode = strict_trans_tables" which don't longer allow constructs like INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('4713') in tables without default values for the other columns. The solution was a sql-mode="" in my.cnf. I suppose this will sooner or later also hit Debian/ Ubuntu. Perhaps you might fix this in one of the following versions? Otherwise observium over fulfilled all my needs and wishes. Thank you for this wonderful piece of software! cheers /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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mikrotik ip add/remove not working
by Simon Smith 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi people, we have a mikrotik unit that we monitor and we have a PPPOE interface on it, that we monitor the PPPOE interface sadly drops every so often and the IP on it changes … ( I know dynamic ip for pppoe is bad, we are in process of sorting out a static ip ) but for some reason the observium, doesn’t notice the interface ip was removed then readded or even changed !? it notices that the interface is offline and alerts me… but not the IP change or re-add can someone look into this, or tell me where i could begin looking to find the problem regards Simon

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observium.log file rotate
by Simon Smith 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi All, i have created a request for a feature http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-872 observium.log file rotate yes i can set it up manually to do it via webmin but would be easier if observium did itself… regards Simon

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System snmpEngineID changed
by Simon Smith 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi All, hoping someones got some light on this error i’m seeing every so often... I monitor one of our Mailcleaners (http://www.mailcleaner.org) and every time I restart the mailcleaner service or the mailcleaner itself i get the following message in Observium System snmpEngineID changed: 80001F8880BF0033479D178E5300000000 -> 80001F8880DC0B531E1F92915300000000 (probably the device was replaced). The device will be rediscovered. if i look in my snmpd.conf all i see is the following com2sec local 127.0.0.1 mailcleaner com2sec local X.X.X.X mailcleaner com2sec local 127.0.0.1 mailcleaner group MyROGroup v1 local group MyROGroup v2c local group MyROGroup usm local view all included .1 80 access MyROGroup "" any noauth exact all none none exec getmsgs /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_today_stats.pl -m exec getspams /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_today_stats.pl -s exec getbytes /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_today_stats.pl -b exec getvirus /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_today_stats.pl -v exec getstatus /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_status.pl -s exec getspools /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_status.pl -p exec getload /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_status.pl -l exec getdisks /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_status.pl -d exec getmem /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_status.pl -m exec getstats /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_today_stats.pl -B perl push (@INC, "/usr/mailcleaner/lib"); require SNMPAgent; SNMPAgent->init(); syslocation XXXXX syscontact XXXXX disk / 100000 disk /var 100000 #This line allows Observium to detect the host OS if the distro script is installed ( ADDED MANUALLY ) extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.1 distro /usr/bin/distro Anyone have any ideas how I can clear this error or get rid of it ? Regards Simon

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Observium Subscription on RHEL
by Cardinal-Richards, Emma 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi, If we were thinking of moving to the subscription service with some service options for feature development etc but our VM infrastructure is RHEL would we be unable to get the development service as the OS is unsupported or is it just the installation process that's unsupported? Regards, Emma

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Observium Subscription
by Jeremy Alberts 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hello, I wanted to upgrade to Observium Profesional. I dont want to use PayPal, but want to use a credit card. The problem is that thats not possible from The Netherlands. What to do? Kind Regards, Jeremy

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Cannot add hosts
by RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

I am having trouble adding hosts root@Observium:/opt/observium# ./add_device.php sun.solar.lan public v2c Observium v0.14.4.5229 Add Device(s) Try to add sun.solar.lan: Trying v2c community public ... No reply on community public using v2c. Could not reach sun.solar.lan with given SNMP community using v2c. Devices skipped: 1. NOTE i know form the docs that hostnames are important so i thought i would send this info too nslookup sun.solar.lan Server: 10.0.0.110 Address: 10.0.0.110#53 Name: sun.solar.lan Address: 10.254.254.254 Computer King CaN-Mail Surveillance King http://computerking.ca http://canmail.org http://surveillanceking.net Surveillance - Sales Service - Hosting Backup Internet Based Surveillance Systems Custom Service Pac kages Secure IMAP Email - Automated Remote Backups - Photo Blogs - Online ERP and Accounting Packages

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MongoDB graph
by Beruben, Daniel 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Hello Team, Do we have something in the pipe about to graph mongodb with observium ? If not Can I open a request for that ? Thx http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/monitor-with-snmp/ Daniel

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