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ping only device monitoring
by Tony Guadagno 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, I know this has been asked and answered before, but I cannot find anywhere to search old threads, so I need to ask again.... How do I configure Observium to monitor a device with ping but no SNMP ability? Thanks Tony

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Date Preset
by Stuart Dyer 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi Everyone, Does anyone know how to change the default date present [cid:image001.png@01D84E76.FA5F0BB0] When viewing a graph I would like the default graph to be the last Calendar month e.g if it is march show April 1 to 30 Regards, Stuart Dyer IT Administrator Phone: +61 2 8020 2063 | E-mail: stuart.dyer(a)innovit.com<mailto:stuart.dyer@innovit.com> [innovit-logo (002) trans 2018] Bringing quality to Master Data MLC Centre, Level 56 19-29 Martin Place <https://goo.gl/maps/2yiiJ2YC4H9SBjYX6> Sydney NSW 2000<https://goo.gl/maps/2yiiJ2YC4H9SBjYX6> Tel: +612 8020 2000 Fax: +612 8020 2099 Web: www.innovit.com<http://www.innovit.com/> Australasia | North America | Europe Follow us on LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovit-australia-pty-ltd?trk=public_profi…> This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information, which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail or using any of the following contact details.

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FW: Total Core Traffic
by Peter Derissen 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Hello, We have a lot of core links in our network. The total graphs are show on top. [cid:image001.png@01D84A72.89424B20] When I click on 1 of the graphs I get an error. [cid:image002.png@01D84A72.89424B20] When I check the URL I see that its very long. Could that be the problem and is there a way I can fix that? https://10.230.11.81/graphs/type=multi-port_bits_separate/to=1649323537/id=… Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [cid:image003.png@01D84A72.89424B20]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurof…> Volg ons op Twitter<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> | Linkedin<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linke…> | Facebook<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faceb…> | Youtube<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…> Wilt u op de hoogte blijven van technische ontwikkelingen aan ons netwerk, nieuwe ICT ontwikkelingen en klantervaringen? Meld u dan aan voor onze maandelijkse nieuwsbrief<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmarketing…>. [cid:image004.jpg@01D84A72.89424B20]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurof…> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Eurofiber only sends and receives e-mails on the basis that Eurofiber is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. Eurofiber Nederland B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam with number 34134377, VAT number NL 8088.51.524 B01. Eurofiber N.V. has its registered office at Belgicastraat 5 bus 7, 1930 Zaventem and is registered under national number 0435.204.851. Eurofiber France has its registered office at 21 Avenue de la Cr?ativit?, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq and is registered under national number FR 83.822.249.074.

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Monitoris MSSQL database size
by Rando Sui 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Hello, How do you monitor MSSQL specific measures, I would like to monitor Database size, how do you do that? Could I add database size to my Apps SQL server charts list? [cid:image002.png@01D84E8D.80A79050] Is there any indirect method, I gather7inject data to observium mysql and just display data from database and issue alerts? Greetings, Rando.

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Ubuntu LDAP
by Valerie Lim 11 Apr '22

11 Apr '22

Hi, We would like to check does installing Observium affect any LDAP Ubuntu settings as we are unable to access LDAP server after Observium is being installed. Appreciate share with us, to configure setting config.php file in Observium systems. Regards Valerie

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Re: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker
by Tony Guadagno 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Adam, thanks, I will give this a shot Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2022 4:04 PM To: 'Observium' Cc: Adam Armstrong Subject: Re: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker Hi Tony, https://docs.observium.org/entities/#status You want something like association status_descr equals Source of Output Power test conditions status_name notequals normal adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 07 April 2022 20:34 To: Adam Armstrong via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Subject: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker Hi, I have been able to write some basic checks but I need a little help with this. I want to write a check to alert when my ups’ switch to battery. I think I can do that by checking if the “source of output power” is not normal, but I do not know how to translate that logic into conditions and associations..can someone help? Thanks BTW, is there an exchange where people post their checks for others to use? Tony

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need some help with an alert checker
by Tony Guadagno 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hi, I have been able to write some basic checks but I need a little help with this. I want to write a check to alert when my ups’ switch to battery. I think I can do that by checking if the “source of output power” is not normal, but I do not know how to translate that logic into conditions and associations..can someone help? Thanks BTW, is there an exchange where people post their checks for others to use? Tony

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Observium - how to encrypt data at rest with AES 256
by Ryan Tee 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi. Would like to inquire followings : How to encrypt data at rest with AES256 in Observium systems ? We plan to use 256-bit AES encryption ensures data is secure at rest. Could share with us information if any. Thank you. Regards Ryan

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Observium - database Security Server and TCP database port uses TLS v1.2 or above for communications
by Ryan Tee 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi , We would like to check followings in Observium systems. How to make sure that, in Observium systems, database Security Server and TCP database port uses TLS v1.2 or above for communications. This is to ensure communication is secured. Appreciate share with us, to configure setting config.php file in Observium systems. Regards Ryan [cid:image001.png@01D84810.72D22180]

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questions about email alert notification formats
by Tony Guadagno 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Hi, I have 2 questions about this. First, is it possible to attach a notification format per contact. We are sending out text alert notifications using number(a)vtext.com<mailto:number@vtext.com> and I think the format is too big for vtext.com to accept. Is it possible that on a contact, scale down the notification? Second, is it possible to change the format of the general "recover" email? thanks Tony

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unix-agent for Proxmox
by walter＠onda.ch 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Hello Adam Is it possible to collect also LXC with this script? Or maybe in the future? The command for do this ist: pvesh get /nodes/$(hostname)/lxc --output-format=json-pretty Regards Walter

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Re: [Observium] Observium LDAP integration
by Nirmolak Singh Bajaj 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Hi, I am having an integration problem with my LDAP server. This is my config for the LDAP. It is based on what the Observium website shows. Could you let me know where I am going wrong? Looking forward to your support. $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=lab,DC=local"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = " "; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['dn'] = "distinguishedname"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "user"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "lab.local"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "CN="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",OU=mvc,DC=lab,DC=local"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("DC=lab,DC=local"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "DC=lab,DC=local"; $config['auth_ldap_bindanonymous'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "nodn"; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['mvc']['level'] = 10; [cid:image001.png@01D84552.881C71F0] [cid:image002.png@01D84552.881C71F0] Warmest Regards, Nirmolak Singh

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What to do when all optimizations fails ...
by Graf Vincent 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Hello, Although I double check every tuning guide from the website, I'm in trouble with my Observium installation. First of all, the size of the network is huge... From the Statistics on about page : - 1023 Devices - 57K Ports - 51K Sensors - 128 GB RRD - 20GB DB I run the latest version of Observium with PHP 7.3 on a Debian 10 physical server. It is a dual Intel Xeon 6248 2.5Ghz (20C/40T) equipped with 3 RAID groups : - RAID1 for the OS - RAID1 for the RRD files and Observium application - RAID5 for the database All the disks are SSD. The number of poller is set to 48 and the whole polling time has an average of 264s and a max of @334s (I just increase the poller to 60 today...). I do housekeeping every week to cut off the event log and other stuff older than 30 days. I also use fast userspace caching with php-apcu For the port discovery, some of ports are ignored like vlans, control plan, stack interface, voice-port, etc... The installation runs like a big diesel machine ... not so fast but very robust. My problem is that it takes more than 30 seconds to get the detail of simple 48 ports switch ... and much more when I try to load a detailed backbone with many more ports. Do you have any suggestion to improve the GUI responsiveness ? Thank you for your time Kind regards Vincent

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Re: [Observium] Observium product evolution
by Adam Armstrong 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Hi Nilesh, We don't really do the sales process thing, we don't have any sales staff at all, only developers. You can see most of the platform using the CE version. Thanks, Adam. From: observium <mailman-bounces(a)postman.memetic.org> On Behalf Of nilesh.patil(a)wwindia.com Sent: 30 March 2022 12:51 To: observium(a)observium.org; observium-owner(a)observium.org Cc: 'Gagan Gupta' <gagankumar.gupta(a)wwindia.com>; 'Mayur Pawar' <mayur.pawar(a)wwindia.com>; 'Rahul Galande' <rahul.galande(a)wwindia.com> Subject: RE: Observium product evolution ++++observium-owner(a)observium.org <mailto:++++observium-owner@observium.org> Regards, Nilesh Patil From: nilesh.patil(a)wwindia.com <mailto:nilesh.patil@wwindia.com> <nilesh.patil(a)wwindia.com <mailto:nilesh.patil@wwindia.com> > Sent: 30 March 2022 16:45 To: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Gagan Gupta <gagankumar.gupta(a)wwindia.com <mailto:gagankumar.gupta@wwindia.com> >; Mayur Pawar <mayur.pawar(a)wwindia.com <mailto:mayur.pawar@wwindia.com> >; Rahul Galande <rahul.galande(a)wwindia.com <mailto:rahul.galande@wwindia.com> > Subject: Observium product evolution Dear Observium, This Nilesh Patil from Web Werks India Pvt. Ltd. We have been looking for this product for our network infra monitoring and for the billing purpose. For this product can we have the POC for enterprise level. It will also be appreciated if we can have call for initial engagement. Waiting for your prompt response and availability for the call. Thanks & Regards, Nilesh Patil. Manager, Network Web Werks India Pvt. Ltd. Contact : 86565 48433 Data Center Services | Hosted IT Infrastructure | Cloud Services Managed Services | Infrastructure Application | Network Services

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Add peer-name to BGP notifications
by Steffen Klemer 29 Mar '22

29 Mar '22

Hey there, for some reasons not everyone of us is fluent with IPs and AS numbers so I'd like to propose to add some kind of descriptive info to the routing alerts. For us sth. like: /var/www/observium/includes/entities.inc.php:1789 $entity['entity_name'] = "AS".$entity['bgpPeerRemoteAs'] ." ". $addr ." ". $entity['reverse_dns']; would be a good enough/great solution. Merry Christmas for everyone celebrating it and/or some calm days from Göttingen, Germany. Steffen -- Steffen Klemer Arbeitsgruppe "Netze" Tel.: +49 551 39 30204, E-Mail: steffen.klemer(a)gwdg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Burckhardtweg 4, 37077 Göttingen, URL: https://gwdg.de Support: Tel.: +49 551 39-30 000, URL: https://gwdg.de/support Sekretariat: Tel.: +49 551 39-30 001, E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen, Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Trying to not alert on an interface in monitoring mode
by Lars Joergensen 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Hey all I'm trying to build an alert that will go off in an interface is operationally down but not disabled. A fringe case is a span port where the operational state is "monitoring". It still triggers on these conditions (both are required to be true): [cid:image001.png@01D8405C.2132B5D0] (It says "suppressed" because the previous definition of the alarm was "IfOperStatus notequals up" and we suppressed it at that time) Can anybody help me see through what's wrong in my definition? Best regards Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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vlan table cleanup?
by Adam Thompson 25 Mar '22

25 Mar '22

We’re noticing that the VLANs page (Ports-->VLANs) is less useful than it could be, because it seems to keep around every VLAN that has ever existed on every device that has ever existed. I also don’t see anything in …/includes/housekeeping/* that would address this. It’s so bad/useless at this point that 1701 records are from devices that don’t even exist anymore (vs. 4409 where the parent device at least still exists, even if the VLAN doesn’t). A similar problem exists in vlans_fdb. Is there some housekeeping mechanism that is supposed to take care of this, that I can go troubleshoot? Or is it just an oversight/omission? And if not, can I just do a “DELETE FROM vlans WHERE NOT EXISTS ( <query on ‘device’> )” (and something similar on vlans_fdb) to clean it up? Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

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New Buffalo terastations do now discover as Storage, they show up as linux servers
by Tony Guadagno 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Hi, I opened this Jira, can you take a look? Thanks [OBS-4064] New Buffalo Terastation classified as linux server, not storage like older models - Observium<https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-4064> Tony

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IPMI discrete unit sensors
by Karl-André Skevik 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Hello, We have several machines with IPMI configured in observium. Some of these machines have had hardware failures, such as power supply or disk failures, and we can see the failure status when polling the machines via ipmitool, but there are no warnings reported by observium. The unit of these sensor values is "discrete". Does observium support this type of sensor, and if so, is it possible to configure observium to warn about failures in these sensors? Regards,

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Rancid + Observium Integration
by Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Hallo, I have Rancid integrated into Observium but as it is, not all the devices have the config tab. Additionally, those with the config tab do not update the configs as set. I'd appreciate your help. I followed the documentation below: RANCID Integration - Observium<https://docs.observium.org/rancid/> Regards, Joyce

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restarting snmp service on windows server flags the server as down in observium
by Tony Guadagno 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Hi, I have an alert that says if the device_uptime is less than 360, alert that the server was down. I happened to restart the snmp service on several of my servers and was surprised to find the alert triggered. I am guessing that when snmp restarts, the uptime counter goes to zero? Is there any way to get a true read of the uptime? I am trying to alert if the server rebooted within the poling window. thanks Tony

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Alert for summarized sensors value
by Laszlo Nemeth 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Hello, i have a lot alert checks witch can alert for a sensors, and these are working great. But now i would like to create an alert like this: I would like to receive an alert if the PDU hostname match PDU-*-1, and BANK1 + BANK2 + BANK 3 value greather than 10. So if the summarized BANKs value is greather than 10. So my question is Observium support this alert type where the multiple sensor's summarized value is the condition? Thanks Br Laszlo

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Full support for FS Switch's.
by Kevin Riahi 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Hey Adam, I like to Request full SNMP support for FS.com switches. Currently a lot of info in left out. Such as Temps, Fans, Power Supply status Etc. Specifically S5860-20SQ. https://www.fs.com/products/108710.html MIB Files: [ https://img-en.fs.com/file/user_manual/s5860-series-swithes-snmp-mib-files.… | https://img-en.fs.com/file/user_manual/s5860-series-swithes-snmp-mib-files.… ] Additional info that may be helpful: https://img-en.fs.com/file/user_manual/s5860-series-switches-snmp-template-… Thank you Kevin Riahi kevin.riahi(a)envoi.com https://www.envoi.com

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Question BGP peers in VRF
by Sandoiu Mihai 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Hi I am evaluating Observium for reading the number of received bgp routes on ASR9000 routers. I have successfully discovered one of our testrouters and I can see the bgp peers in the liste. However it only detects the vpnv4/vpnv6 bgp peers. It does not detect the bgp peers inside vrfs. Is there any possibility to do so? Apparently they should be read in CISCO-BGP4-MIB Regards Mihai

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Huawei CPU Graph is not showing
by Farshid Abediny 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Hello, I have a huawei 6851-48S6Q and i added this to my observium, but i could not see the CPU Graph, Can somebody help me to solve this problem? Thank you. Regards

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