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professional version
by Александр Горбачев 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Hi! I'm using comunity based version and I'm really like it. But I want to try professional version with all new features. There is the question - I'm working for 2 companies, so can I purchase professional version and use it as 2 different instances in each company I've working in? Best regards! -- С уважением, ведущий инженер ООО "Виндекс Сервис" Горбачев Александр

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DNS Aliases
by Cardinal-Richards, Emma 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hi, I understand that Observium needs the hostnames to be valid, so we tweaked our hosts file with a regex to add an alias to match the device hostnames (as our initial names had some extra info in the names not on the hosts). But this appears to allow me to add devices manually but autodiscovery doesn't seem to be working. Does Observium need it to be the 'main' resolvable hostname rather than an alias? Regards, Emma

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Billing View display issue
by Spencer Gaw 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hey all, We made a topographical change to a portion of our network last night - to be specific, we separated a large fiber ring into two smaller rings. After this change was made, the Billing View in Traffic Accounting is not displaying new data. Here's the kicker, the data is there; 24 Hour View and Monthly View display as expected. It seems to only affect the Billing View - screenshots attached. This isn't so much of a problem, just an oddity that I noticed. Anyone have a theory here? Regards, SG

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UNIX Agent won't work
by Christian Becker 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hi There, I’ve installed UNIX Agent on a Debian system and was able to telnet the agent from my observium system: A part of the Telnet-Response: **** <<<netctr>>> 1400773673 lo 287442552 471313 0 0 0 0 0 0 287442552 471313 0 0 0 0 0 0 eth1 89487928 532097 0 7300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 eth0 449561362 4730635 0 15 0 0 0 0 831621260 862556 0 0 0 0 0 0 <<<postfix_mailq>>> Mail queue is empty <<<local>>> 1 0 1 0 12159 **** But the poller only returns this result: Observium UNIX Agent: execution time: 165ms No include: No include:Observium No include:df No include:mounts No include:ps No include:mem No include:cpu No include:uptime No include:lnx_if:sep(58) No include:tcp_conn_stats No include:md No include:diskstat No include:kernel No include:netctr No include:postfix_mailq No include:local Has anyone an idea, why he can’t gather information? Best regards Chris

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Cisco WLC monitoring
by Сережка Хомяков 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hi all! I know, this is a pretty discussed topic, but from this discussions plans and current state of Cisco's WLC monitoring are not obvious. When I've tried to add it to Observium, it wa correctly identified as Wi-Fi device type, but only device traffic and system temperature are shown on the main page, no CPU, memory are available. WLC model is 2106. Can anyone plaese clarify this? --- Best, Sergey Homyakov

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Re: [Observium] 4k
by Rob VanHooren 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

imo, 1920 will be common for quite a while yet. any chance you can make the scaling formulaic, based on a config parameter? that way you only have to do it once, forever. (bonus: mbp folks are happy, you can be lazy when 8k shows up, etc…) R. On May 27, 2014, at 1:56, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Hi All, > > Are any of you running 4k displays yet? > > We've been thinking about how to handle larger displays and were > considering jumping straight from the existing 1280px wide to 3840px > rather than building a 'widescreen' mode on 1920px. > > I think it would be most noticeable in the amount and resolution of the > graphs we could display. We could effectively fit twice the amount of > data into each graph. It would probably require quite a lot of work, so > it's important we get the resolution correct! > > (no, i don't care about your macbook pro's silly resolution) > > adam.

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PostgreSQL Application monitoring
by David Peall 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hi I want to monitor Postgres servers and was wondering the best way to go about this. On the master server there are several clusters each with a number of databases. On the replication servers the same exists but I’d like to monitor the streaming replication delay. I’m just wondering what the best layout would be to bring the data into Observium? Regards — David Peall

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Windows Eventlogs and Observium Syslogs
by Jeremy Alberts 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hello, At the moment I am receiving Windows Eventlogs in Observium by using the Correlog Syslog agent. Is anybody else using something similar? Are there other ways to accomplish this? Kind Regards Jeremy Alberts

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MIB files to compile?
by Ray, Bjoern Karsten 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

Hi there, this may sound a bit stupid but I need to know this for sure: MIB files in Observium don't have to be compiled but to be available under /opt/obersium/mibs/ or(!)/opt/obersium/mibs/[vendor]? Background is a strange feeling that some MIBs are not used at all - so the second question is: how to validate that Observium uses the correct ones so I can verify either that I've done something incomplete or the affected MIBs are not valid or incomplete at all. Thanks in advance! Björn

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Palo Alto New MIBs
by Chip Pleasants 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

Hi All, I'm wondering if there is being work done or if its on a to do list to add the new MIB attributes for Palo Alto firewalls? There are a few new VPN OID's we'd like to monitor. Let me know if this a donation topic, and feel free to contact me privately. Thanks, Chip

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ricoh toner level 150%
by Simon Smith 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

Hi, i think i might have found a bug with SNMP and ricoh printer? for some reason the panel is showing toner levels for our Ricoh MP C4000 are all 150%... i didnt realise i had a special printer with extra toner :P where should i be looking for this bug? when i do an snmpwalk on the printer, i cant find any value thats 150% Regards SASmith Simon Smith --------------------------------------- Administrator of zeplin.co.uk ---------------------------------------

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Graphing Apple Airport traffic
by Steve Evans 01 Jun '14

01 Jun '14

Firstly, I have to say how impressed I am with the clean, purposeful implementation of Observium. One of the main reasons I was looking for such an SNMP network manager was to monitor my four apple airport base stations. Whilst Observium recognises such devices, and graphs the wirelessNumber from the AIRPORT-BASESTATION-3-MIB if does not graph the corresponding physicalInterfacesTable traffic. Whilst the ifTable is graphed this doesn't actually include the wireless connections. This information would be very useful to determine how many packets are being passed on the wireless interface and at what speed. I've yet to dig into the structure of the code much, but presumably the physicalInterfacesTable could be logged/graphed using code very similar to that used for the ifTable. Something that would also be very useful, would be to list the currently attached clients which could be reported in a similar manner to the ARP/NDP Table using information sourced from the wirelessClientsTable to display MAC address and speed/signal strength/noise. This information could be instantaneous rather than logged as the airport base stations appear not to actually return the number of packets passed despite the MIB supporting this. This looks like the simpler task. Finally, some might be interested in the DHCP allocations, but as I run all my base stations in bridged mode that wouldn't be of interest to be. So, before I start looking at the code, I thought I should ask if anybody is already looking into this? Thanks, Steve

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Re: [Observium] About IfAlias max length
by Adam Armstrong 30 May '14

30 May '14

Your question makes no sense... Paolo Giustiniani wrote:

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Geocoding debugging help
by Chris Moody 30 May '14

30 May '14

Howdy folks. Can anyone please help provide me some syntax to try debugging the geocoding calls that place devices properly on the map? I'm running 2 installations[Observium CE 0.13.10.4586]: - 1 test host (geocoding works great) - 1 production host (geocoding isn't working) The prod host is behind proxies whereas the test host is not, so I'm next to 110% positive that this is what's preventing the geocoding calls from functioning, but I could use a hand in how to further debug the details of where/how it's failing. I've specified the proxy server details in the config.php file, but am not confident that connections are actually getting through. It's quite possible that the geocoding URLs are not currently permitted through the proxies. I need some more ammo though to go back to my proxy admins so that I can get their help in permitting this connectivity if it's denied. Are thereany commands I can run or debugging flags I can toggle to help extract more details? I've tried both the mapquest & google provider to no avail, so need to get deeper under the hood to troubleshoot further. Any insights or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Cheers, -Chris

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Re: [Observium] Geocoding debugging help
by Chris Ely 29 May '14

29 May '14

You could tcpdump on both the prod and tests hosts then show the results to your proxy admins. Best Regards, Chris Ely On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Chris Moody <chris(a)node-nine.com> wrote: > Howdy folks. > > Can anyone please help provide me some syntax to try debugging the geocoding > calls that place devices properly on the map? > > I'm running 2 installations [Observium CE 0.13.10.4586]: > - 1 test host (geocoding works great) > - 1 production host (geocoding isn't working) > > The prod host is behind proxies whereas the test host is not, so I'm next to > 110% positive that this is what's preventing the geocoding calls from > functioning, but I could use a hand in how to further debug the details of > where/how it's failing. I've specified the proxy server details in the > config.php file, but am not confident that connections are actually getting > through. It's quite possible that the geocoding URLs are not currently > permitted through the proxies. I need some more ammo though to go back to > my proxy admins so that I can get their help in permitting this connectivity > if it's denied. > > Are there any commands I can run or debugging flags I can toggle to help > extract more details? > > I've tried both the mapquest & google provider to no avail, so need to get > deeper under the hood to troubleshoot further. > > Any insights or suggestions are greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > -Chris > >

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About graphic sum
by Paolo Giustiniani 29 May '14

29 May '14

Hello, are new and observium use to monitor traffic connections dsl. I need to add some traffic graphs selected by me. is it possible?

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disable Geo-View
by Stefan 29 May '14

29 May '14

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About IfAlias max length
by Paolo Giustiniani 29 May '14

29 May '14

Hello, how can set max length in ifAlias / description in Observium? Thanks

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Device status changed to Down (snmp)
by overige＠vanderpoel.com.au 29 May '14

29 May '14

Hi, I recently installed Observium CE and noticed some very weird behavior. Observium monitors currently 3 devices: 1 Debian Server + 1 Debian workstation + 1 Ubuntu workstation. The Debian workstation is shutdown overnight and rebooted in the morning, nicely shown in the Event logging: Shutdown: *<date time> System Device status changed to Down (ping)* Reboot: *<date time> System Device status changed to Up <date time> Reboot Device rebooted after <hours min sec> * That's all fine. But now the weird thing is that for the Server the Event log says almost at the same time: *<date time> System Device status changed to Down (snmp)* and when the workstation is rebooted, the Server Event log says at almost the same time: *<date time> System Device status changed to Up* Graphs for the server don't get updated/have data for the time the Debian workstation is down. The Ubuntu workstation runs 24/7 and graphs get properly updated during time the Debian workstation is down. I would expect that what happened with the workstation should have no effect on the data collection of the Server. Details: Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 OS Debian 7 (Server + Workstation) Ubuntu 10.40 LTS (Workstation 24/7) How do I get this working properly? Thanx, Pieter

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svn 5536 apache 500?
by Norman Todd 29 May '14

29 May '14

is anyone else seeing a 500 apache error and blank login after upgrade to 5536? im not seeing anything in the logs to suggest errors, and it was working fine prior to upgrade last entry in observium.log is just prior to upgrade machine is ubuntu precise running observium on amazon ec2 beautifully. if I’m alone on this it must be the machine/instance thanks in advance NT

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SNMP Trap Receiver?
by Hamilton, Kent 28 May '14

28 May '14

Any plans for adding an SNMP trap and/or syslog receiver and correlating events with the correct devices? ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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Odd issue with recent update - UnpingableRRD & UnpingableMySQL
by Andrew Davis 28 May '14

28 May '14

All, We’ve been running Observium on Ubnutu 12.04 for a little over a year now, and after applying the latest community update, we seem to have devices periodically reporting as down. The error I’m getting is bouncing between UnpingableMySQL and UnpingableRRD. With debug enabled, this is an example of what we’re seeing: /poller.php -h itups03-02.net.internal Observium v0.14.4.5229 Poller Starting polling run: SQL[SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'itups03-02.net.internal' ORDER BY `device_id` ASC] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = '40'] SQL[SELECT * FROM devices_attribs WHERE `device_id` = '40'] itups03-02.net.internal 40 apc UnpingableRRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/itups03-02.net.internal/status.rrd N:0] stdout[OK u:0.00 s:0.00 r:0.05] stderr[]] RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/itups03-02.net.internal/ping.rrd N:U] stdout[OK u:0.00 s:0.00 r:0.06] stderr[]] RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/itups03-02.net.internal/ping_snmp.rrd N:U] stdout[OK u:0.00 s:0.00 r:0.06] stderr[]] SQL[INSERT INTO `perf_times` (`type`,`doing`,`start`,`duration`,`devices`) VALUES ('poll','itups03-02.net.internal','1401246542.664','0.066','1')] ./poller.php itups03-02.net.internal May 27, 2014, 20:09 - 1 devices polled in 0.066 secs MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[1/0s] Rows[1/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[1/0s] Delete[0/0s] Any advice on where we can look? Seems like the only way to get them back up is to keep running the poller for the particular host until the poller runs. Thanks! Andrew Davis IT Systems J. David Gladstone Institutes

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IPSec Tunnels
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 28 May '14

28 May '14

All, I've noticed that for Cisco ASAs the Routing--IPSec Tunnels section is not accurate. It lists all tunnels that have ever been made and marks them as active, even though the tunnel may not exist anymore. I believe that the OID shows the active tunnels is 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.2.3.1.7 Also, is there a way to alert on this list changing? V0.14.5.5533 Best regards, derek _______________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [Observium] spam device type
by Rob VanHooren 28 May '14

28 May '14

'firewall' type close enough? (covers anything UTM-ish...) imo. > On May 28, 2014, at 8:49, 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: Monitoring Interface names (Pawe? Tyll) > 2. Re: Monitoring Interface names (Pawe? Tyll) > 3. Observium - Device types (Adriaan Smuts) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:28:04 +0200 > From: Pawe? Tyll <ofca(a)ofca.me> > To: Markus Klock <markus(a)best-practice.se> > Cc: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Monitoring Interface names > Message-ID: <16110040385.20140528142804(a)ofca.me> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > >> Pawel: you are not confusing ifName with?ifDescr perhaps? > Nope; we are using lots of tunnels and they are named indicating > customer names. I never was a fan of eth0, eth1, eth1337 and stuff and > I use proper interface names that have sense to humans pretty much > everywhere I can. Both FreeBSD and Mikrotik lets you name interfaces > how you see fit. Unfortunately FreeBSD doesn't expose description in > SNMP, which I'd love to use to describe customers (ID, bw). > > Our use for Observium is mainly monitoring our access network and > customers' CPEs. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:29:44 +0200 > From: Pawe? Tyll <ofca(a)ofca.me> > To: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > Cc: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Monitoring Interface names > Message-ID: <453820384.20140528142944(a)ofca.me> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >> Seems like a bizarre thing to monitor. Are you doing this one some >> brain-dead platform that lets you change ifNames, like Extreme? > Worse. Mikrotik ;) > >> I don't think it's something which is particularly overhead-intensive, >> but it still strikes me as an odd thing to want to monitor. > Too many admins. Some of them have arbitrary approach to keeping > things tidy ;> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:49:13 +0200 > From: Adriaan Smuts <adriaan.smuts(a)webafrica.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] Observium - Device types > Message-ID: > <6AFE6591FCB270428ADB45B94F35DA4461EDB3202D(a)wacptexch.corp.webafrica.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Guys, > > Would it be possible to add a new device type to Observium? We would like a device type for 'Spam Filter' devices. It doesn't have to automatically change the Type to it, we can do that manually. > > The current list: > [cid:image001.png@01CF7A83.FDC3DD50] > > Regards > > Adriaan Smuts > > Systems Administrator - Windows > > [file:///C:\Users\adriaan\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] > > ________________________________ > > Direct Line > > +27 21 464 9565 > > Reception > > 086 000 9500 > > Website > > www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/> > > > > >

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Observium - Device types
by Adriaan Smuts 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hi Guys, Would it be possible to add a new device type to Observium? We would like a device type for 'Spam Filter' devices. It doesn't have to automatically change the Type to it, we can do that manually. The current list: [cid:image001.png@01CF7A83.FDC3DD50] Regards Adriaan Smuts Systems Administrator - Windows [file:///C:\Users\adriaan\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] ________________________________ Direct Line +27 21 464 9565 Reception 086 000 9500 Website www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/>

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