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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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Monitoring Interface names
by Paweł Tyll 28 May '14

28 May '14

I would like to ensure that interface names conform to certain standard. I'm stuck at 'Check Conditions' phase of making an alert. If I understand everything right, then there's no ifName metric available for a match condition, or am I doing something else wrong? Any suggestions? If I'm right, then can ifName be added as a metric?

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Re: [Observium] ntpd offset
by Adam Armstrong 28 May '14

28 May '14

http://tech.kulish.com/2007/10/30/ntp-ntpq-output-explained/ Simon Smith wrote:

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ntpd offset
by Simon Smith 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hi People, hoping someone can explain this in stupid terms for me… I’ve added in the ntpd script to watch a few of our servers and I’ve noticed one of our servers the offset is high then low then high then low can someone explain to me how to NTP works and what is the offset, Jitter, Noise, Stability ? sorry to ask a stupid question! im only 21 and I am currently doing a degree in networking ... Regards Simon

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Custom script on alert
by Franjo Posavec 27 May '14

27 May '14

Hi, We are planning to suscribe to ObserviumPro, and vondering if is possible to run custom script for alerting? scrip will trigger custom asterisk script to make gsm call. Best regards, -- Franjo Posavec system administrator entitas d.o.o. T: +385 (0)40 600 002 S: franjo.posavec

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4k displays
by Adam Armstrong 27 May '14

27 May '14

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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device reboot
by Charlie Burns 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hello, This morning 2 XR devices randomly flagged on observium as rebooted. Both devices asr9001 running XR 4.3.4 have 2 week uptimes and no events this morning. Thanks, Charlie Burns

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cosmetic question
by Ray, Bjoern Karsten 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi there, I have two routers in different location connected over IPSEC-VPN. Both devices are actively monitored which works fine. Now I am wondering how to make this interconnect visible on the map. Is there an option I have overseen? Alternatively if IPSEC isn't "supported" in this way what protocols would result in a visible connection? Thanks in advance! Björn

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Feature request: Firewall flow statistics
by Erwin Heringa 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi all, We would like to graph the amount of sessions through our Juniper SRX firewalls with Observium. (snmp oid: .1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.3.39.1.12.1.1.1.6.0) It would be a really nice feature and in the past (when we used cacti) it has helped us detecting a problem with software on one of our servers. I'd really like to see that in Oberservium and maybe others can benefit as well. Met vriendelijke groet, kind regards, Erwin Heringa SIDN | Meander 501 | 6825 MD | Postbus 5022 | 6802 EA | ARNHEM T +31 (0)26 352 55 59 | F +31 (0)26 352 55 05 erwin.heringa(a)sidn.nl | www.sidn.nl

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missing port description in traffic bills edit mode
by Andre Mamitzsch 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi, I just wanted to change a traffic bill and delete a port, if editing the traffic bill, the port list on the right hand side shows only the delete button but no port description. I found that in revision 5521 and verified it with Firefox, Chrome and Safari. So it does not seem to be browser specific. Could you please look into it ? Regards, Andre

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Transceiver Power error in fiber interface
by Zafar Pravaiz 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi After upgrading to latest observium i start getting loads of following errors. I don't understand is this a threshold set problem or some IOS bug? Can some one please shed some light? Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Dbm Alarm: sfsw1 Te2/1 Receive Power Sensor - TenGigabitEthernet2/1 Receive Power Sensor is over threshold: -2.5dBm (> -40dBm) Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Dbm Alarm: sfsw1 Te2/2 Receive Power Sensor - TenGigabitEthernet2/2 Receive Power Sensor is over threshold: -2.6dBm (> -40dBm) Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Voltage Alarm: sfsw1 Te2/1 Supply Voltage Sensor - TenGigabitEthernet2/1 Supply Voltage Sensor is over threshold: 0V (> 0V) Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Dbm Alarm: sfsw2 Te2/1 Receive Power Sensor - TenGigabitEthernet2/1 Receive Power Sensor is over threshold: -2.8dBm (> -40dBm) Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Dbm Alarm: coresw1.aus.edu Te5/4 Receive Power Sensor - TenGigabitEthernet5/4 Receive Power Sensor is over threshold: 0dBm (> -40dBm) SFSW1#sh interfaces transceiver detail Transceiver monitoring is disabled for all interfaces. mA: milliamperes, dBm: decibels (milliwatts), NA or N/A: not applicable. ++ : high alarm, + : high warning, - : low warning, -- : low alarm. A2D readouts (if they differ), are reported in parentheses. The threshold values are calibrated. High Alarm High Warn Low Warn Low Alarm Temperature Threshold Threshold Threshold Threshold Port (Celsius) (Celsius) (Celsius) (Celsius) (Celsius) ---------- ------------------ ---------- --------- --------- --------- Te2/1 29.5 ++ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Te2/2 29.1 ++ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 High Alarm High Warn Low Warn Low Alarm Voltage Threshold Threshold Threshold Threshold Port (Volts) (Volts) (Volts) (Volts) (Volts) ---------- --------------- ---------- --------- --------- --------- Te2/1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Te2/2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 High Alarm High Warn Low Warn Low Alarm Current Threshold Threshold Threshold Threshold Port (milliamperes) (mA) (mA) (mA) (mA) ---------- ----------------- ---------- --------- --------- --------- Te2/1 6.1 ++ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Te2/2 6.7 ++ 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Optical High Alarm High Warn Low Warn Low Alarm Transmit Power Threshold Threshold Threshold Threshold Port (dBm) (dBm) (dBm) (dBm) (dBm) ---------- ----------------- ---------- --------- --------- --------- Te2/1 -2.9 ++ -40.0 -40.0 -40.0 -40.0 Te2/2 -2.6 ++ -40.0 -40.0 -40.0 -40.0 Optical High Alarm High Warn Low Warn Low Alarm Receive Power Threshold Threshold Threshold Threshold Port (dBm) (dBm) (dBm) (dBm) (dBm) ---------- ----------------- ---------- --------- --------- --------- Te2/1 -2.5 ++ -40.0 -40.0 -40.0 -40.0 Te2/2 -2.6 ++ -40.0 -40.0 -40.0 -40.0 Thanks -- *Zafar Pravaiz *IT Senior Systems Engineer Information Technology Department AUS /> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: Tel +971 6 515 2164 Fax +971 6515 2112 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu <http://www.aus.edu/> zpravaiz(a)aus.edu <mailto:youremail@aus.edu>

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FW: SNMP unreachable
by Micah Young 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi Currently I am able to run an snmpwalk on my devices from bash, however all devices appear down in my Observium instance due to snmp. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this may be the case? -Mike Y. ARDEN A Global Company Celebrating over 50 years of making your life more comfortable! This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. This OUTBOUND E-mail and Document(s) has been scanned by an Antivirus Server.

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WMI Module Observium
by Jeremy Alberts 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hello, I have the following case. I am useing Observium to monitor a few Windows Server 200 R2 VM's. Some machines can't get there disks polled because of a BDEdrive partition (because of this partition the poll times go up to 60 sec/per machine as wel). As workarround i have disabled the storage poller module (the polling time goes down to 3 sec), and enabled the WMI poller module. The wmi poller module works nice. Polling of the Disk partition works as wel! There is only one problem, the graphs/logs for diskspace dont get written to the rdd files when using the wmi disk poller module. Is this a know problem and if so, is there a fix or setting that I could use? Kind regards, Jeremy

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{Disarmed} Health Processor Usage sorting according to the Usage ?
by Supun Rathnayake 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi , The current health monitoring top menu report ( http://x.x.x.x/health/metric=processor/ ) displays the items in the alphabetical order of the device name. But it would great if we can get this sorted by actual usage, so that it gives like "Top CPU Usages like report" This is just a suggestion, what do you all think , the same thing could be applied to other metrics as well for the time being I just edited the /opt/observium/html/pages/health/processor.inc.php file and set $processors = array_sort_by($processors, 'processor_usage', SORT_DESC, SORT_NUMBER, 'processor_descr', SORT_ASC, SORT_STRING); to get this effect. but my worry is, this will be overwritten when we do the svn upgrades :-) With Best Regards, Supun Rathnayake Lanka communication Services (Pvt) Ltd. 65C, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07. Sri Lanka. Tel:+94-11-2437545 <tel:%2B94-11-2437545> http://www.lankacom.net http://blog.lankacom.net

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Graphing/data problem
by Joshua Elson 22 May '14

22 May '14

Hi guys, We just started having this problem on Friday and am not sure where to look for the problem. Some of our data just doesn't show up anymore. See the attached image. Some servers work fine and some don't. The 6 hour view will work ok, but the historical data seems to have disappeard. We are seeing odd ?'s on many of the graphs installed of numbers. Here is the SVN info: [root@noc observium]# svn info Path: . URL: http://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/trunk Repository Root: http://svn.observium.org/svn Repository UUID: 61d68cd4-352d-0410-923a-c4978735b2b8 Revision: 5503 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: adama Last Changed Rev: 5503 Last Changed Date: 2014-05-19 01:40:38 -0700 (Mon, 19 May 2014) Any help is greatly appreciated! Josh Elson | Linux Systems Administrator MaxLinear | www.maxlinear.com<http://www.maxlinear.com/> 2051 Palomar Airport Road, Suite 100 | Carlsbad, CA 92011 [Description: Description: http://wiki/download/attachments/1704274/Maxlinear+Logo.png?version=1&modif…] ________________________________ This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic mail or its contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety.

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Mikrotik RouterOS 6 Sensors
by Christian Mladek 22 May '14

22 May '14

Hy observium-users, we're using observium with many devices and all sensors report a correct state. But with Mikrotik RB2011 we're getting temperature and voltage warnings from "System 0". The reported values seem ok, but the thresholds are wrong. e.g. temperature 0C - 5.6C, voltage 1.04V - 1.4V how can we fix this behaviour? screens attached: [cid:image001.png@01CF75D6.499A3DD0] [cid:image002.png@01CF75D6.499A3DD0] Thx, Ing. Christian Mladek hotze.com GmbH A-6020 Innsbruck, Eduard-Bodem-Gasse 6 Telefon: +43 512 353640-0 Fax: +43 512 353640-50 Support: DW 910 Verkauf: DW 920 Buchhaltung: DW 930 Informationen gem. UGB: FB Nr. 287217d, LG Innsbruck, vgl. http://impressum.hotze.com/ Sämtliche Leistungen werden ausschliesslich auf Grundlage unserer AGB erbracht, diese können Sie hier nachlesen: http://www.hotze.com/ueber_uns/agb/

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Alerting
by Jeremy Alberts 22 May '14

22 May '14

Hello, Is it possible to configure an alert on certain syslogs? With kind regards, Jeremy

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