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Selective Alerts?
by Hamilton, Kent 08 May '14

08 May '14

I'm new to Observium, and was playing with email alerting. Is there a way to selectively disable alerts? For example I'd like to disable over-under voltage alerts from systems. Even in my test set up which only includes 300 devices leaving those types of alerts enabled resulted in over 800 emails last night. -- [exegy_119x45_xparent]<http://www.exegy.com/> S. Kent Hamilton Senior Network Engineer 349 Marshall Ave | Suite 100 Saint Louis, MO 63119 US Phone: +1 314.218.3558 FAX: +1 314.218.3601 Email: KHamilton(a)Exegy.com<mailto:KHamilton@Exegy.com> ________________________________ 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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L2tp not creating interfaces
by Oliver Paget 08 May '14

08 May '14

Hi folks, wonderful product :):) I was just wondering if the L2tp section is in dev or is completed. I can't get it to work and as far as I have troubleshooted I can see that there are not any ports being picked up when my lns is scanned for this functionality to work. I haven't configured anything specific, it appears as you just snmp scan the device and it should pick the session tracking up for the l2tp tab. I can see everything else is working, am I missing something> Cheers, OJ

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Power Supplys
by Matthias Cramer 07 May '14

07 May '14

Dear List Is there a general Idea hos to handle power supplies in observium? Via a sensor seams somewhat wrong for me, because I do not get any voltage or similar readings, only presence and status info. What I like to do us to monitor power supplies for presence and failure especially of Brocade MLXe and ICX devices. Mib description of that is at page 116 (92) and on of the following document: http://www.brocadechina.com/download/fsx/Unified_IP_MIB_Oct2011_Reference.p… Also nice would be something similar for fans as staring on page 118 (94). Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zurich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Load monitoring
by Fabrice Charlier 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hi all, We would like to trigger an alarm when the load is too high on our servers monitored by observium. If I understand correctly this documentation page (*), it's not possible to create an alarm based on load? There is some plan to implement this option? Thanks, Fabrice (*) http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes

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Alert Checker in CE
by Jeremy Alberts 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hello, This question could have been asked a few times now, but I cant find the answer in the mailing list archive. My question is: Before the new release in April the alerting system was checked and in brackets 'Future Release'. In April the new CE release was released. Is the alerting system present in the new CE version? If so, how can I create alert checkers on for example storage? With kind regards, Jeremy Alberts

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Distro Script - CloudLinux
by Adriaan Smuts 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hi Guys, Can you please add CloudLinux to the /usr/bin/distro script? # uname -r 2.6.32-458.23.2.lve1.2.52.el6.x86_64 # /usr/bin/distro RedHat 6.5 http://www.cloudlinux.com/ 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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Two question..
by Joarli Leandro [INITNET] 05 May '14

05 May '14

Hi, I updated my observium subs today and now I have two new troubles. First - In some devices, the temp1 show 39000ºC...in testing with observium agent, he show me 39º C. I run ./discovery.php -h none after the update. Second - All my servers show show me the services are down...how I configure this feature?? All servers i have, the ssh and http services are running. Regards -- Joarli Leandro Tel: (11) 4478-6171 jleandro(a)initnet.com.br

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cisco cbqos mib?
by Chip Pleasants 05 May '14

05 May '14

Is there support for the cisco cbqos mib? I see it in Sensors, but not sure if I need special config entries or not looking in the right place. Thanks, Chip

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Lost APC Outlet Graphs
by Nicholas Schmidt 03 May '14

03 May '14

I can't pinpoint exactly when it happened but I just noticed this after I updated to the latest subscriber version. I use APC PDUs which allows per outlet SNMP monitoring. Graphing of each outlet was working previously but it is no longer there. The device information is correct: APC Web/SNMP Management Card (MB:v3.8.6 PF:v5.1.4 PN:apc_hw05_aos_514.bin AF1:v5.1.2 AN1:apc_hw05_rpdu2g_512.bin MN:AP8681 HR:02 SN: ZA1248014109 MD:11/23/2012) RRDs of each outlet still exist in the RRD directory: sensor-power-apc-rPDU2OutletMeteredStatusPower.6.rrd sensor-power-apc-rPDU2OutletMeteredStatusPower.7.rrd sensor-power-apc-rPDU2OutletMeteredStatusPower.8.rrd sensor-power-apc-rPDU2OutletMeteredStatusPower.9.rrd But none of the graphs are present Voltage, Current, and Power graphs for each phase are still properly being graphed. Any help?

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How to upgrade the Community edition
by Jeremy Alberts 02 May '14

02 May '14

Hello, The old site had a 'howto' about updating the community edition. Where can I find it on the new site? kind regards, Jeremy

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Alert checker for device down
by Erik INGEBERG 02 May '14

02 May '14

Hi, Is there a way for using the new alerting system to send an e-mail when a device goes down? I see in the wiki that there is a "device_status" metric, but I can't figure out how to use it. There is no "Device" entity type when I try to make a new alert checker. Is this feature still in development? Erik

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Error Drawing Graph During Rollover For Port Errors
by Chip Pleasants 02 May '14

02 May '14

Hi, I get a "Error Drawing Graph" for Port Error graphs when rolling over or going into the graph. I see a error looking at the rrdtool information. "RRDTool Output: ERROR: Not a valid vname: totinB0 in line GPRINT:totinB0:%6.2lf%sB ". I'd really appreciate if anyone could help me fix this or provide some information. Thanks, -Chip [image: Inline image 1] [image: Inline image 2]

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Website on phone browsers
by Stefano Cordio 02 May '14

02 May '14

Hey guys, I tried to open the website on my android phone with three different browsers (native, firefox, chrome), but it seems that the header is hungry for space! :-) Cheers, Stefano

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Strange temperature and voltage readings
by Matthew A Harper 02 May '14

02 May '14

Hi Guys, First time posting - Be gentle ;) I've recently implemented Observium for our department and am absolutely loving it. However after an update this morning I have noticed that some devices are reporting weird readings for their sensors. Temperature and voltage specifically are reporting absurd variables (2209 degrees CPU temp / 1.45KV on a 1.2V rail). http://i.imgur.com/MG5NBA8.png - Random sample of temperature http://i.imgur.com/u8Emr3J.png - Random sample of voltage This issue seems to affect CISCO hardware but does not seem to be specific to a particular model or software revision and has only occurred since the DB Schema was updated this morning. Is anyone else seeing similar results with version 5405? Oh and yes, I confirmed these devices are not on fire or being struck by lightning. :) Regards, Matt. *********************************************************************** WARNING: This email (including any attachments) may contain legally privileged, confidential or private information and may be protected by copyright. You may only use it if you are the person(s) it was intended to be sent to and if you use it in an authorised way. No one is allowed to use, review, alter, transmit, disclose, distribute, print or copy this email without appropriate authority. If this email was not intended for you and was sent to you by mistake, please telephone or email me immediately, destroy any hardcopies of this email and delete it and any copies of it from your computer system. Any right which the sender may have under copyright law, and any legal privilege and confidentiality attached to this email is not waived or destroyed by that mistake. It is your responsibility to ensure that this email does not contain and is not affected by computer viruses, defects or interference by third parties or replication problems (including incompatibility with your computer system). Opinions contained in this email do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Department of Transport and Main Roads, or endorsed organisations utilising the same infrastructure. ***********************************************************************

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Re: [Observium] Snmptrap Integration?
by Adam Armstrong 02 May '14

02 May '14

We don't do snmptraps. Adam. Ryan Prihoda wrote: Hey all, Is there any way for observium to display snmptraps, specifically from dell dracs ? I see on the wiki that snmptt integration is possible but experimental. I have configured a test drac, snmptrapd, and snmptt. I can see in /var/log/messages that the test message from the drac is reaching the server, but I don't see it showing up in observium. Am I overlooking something fundamental ? Is this even possible ? Thanks, R.Prihoda _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Snmptrap Integration?
by Ryan Prihoda 02 May '14

02 May '14

Hey all, Is there any way for observium to display snmptraps, specifically from dell dracs ? I see on the wiki that snmptt integration is possible but experimental. I have configured a test drac, snmptrapd, and snmptt. I can see in /var/log/messages that the test message from the drac is reaching the server, but I don't see it showing up in observium. Am I overlooking something fundamental ? Is this even possible ? Thanks, R.Prihoda

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April Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 01 May '14

01 May '14

Hi All, The condensed April Changelog is at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#April_2014 Thanks, adam.

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BGP update count missing
by Matt Ladewig 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

After updating from 5391 to 5399, BGP prefix update counts are not showing in the graphs, or in the up and down arrow counts next to each session. The total prefix counts are graphing correctly. All BGP sessions are missing the update counts. Matt UniVoIP [observium_bgp_5399.PNG]

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2 things with alerting
by Bastiaan Topper 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Hi, We have 2 strange things with the alerting system since a few days. - 1. The frontpage displays ports up/down, even when the alerting for that port is disabled in the device settings. Is this normal? Because this wasn't till a few days ago. [cid:image001.png@01CF5ED2.3C5BB560] [cid:image002.png@01CF5ED2.3C5BB560] - 2. Some alert checks worked fine for months, but now they fail. (I only have the database output, because the http://observium/alert_checks/ links returns a blank page, maybe because the result is too big?): [cid:image003.png@01CF5ED2.7A406F60] I attached the debug poll of one of the devices. The polling debug output returns: Checking alert 4 associated by 4 replaced @sensor_limit with 5.92 from entity. Testing: sensor_value greater 5.92 (value: 5.187) FAIL replaced @sensor_limit_low with 4.37 from entity. Testing: sensor_value less 4.37 (value: 5.187) OK Checks failed. Generate alert. What I expect (and what it did for the last months) this alert rule to do, is to fail when the sensor value is not between the threshold ranges. It looks like it is only for the voltage and current sensors. [cid:image004.png@01CF5ED4.23531980] When I check the settings and alerting thresholds, they look fine to me. [cid:image005.png@01CF5ED4.23531980] Am I doing something wrong? Or is this some kind of bug? Thanks and regards, Bastiaan Topper

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Graphs not graphing after update.
by Tom Taylor 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Howdy, Having a strange problem, after updating too the latest version my graphs seem to have stopped working. There are files in the /rrd dir, I've double checked the path in config.php for fping and everything seems to be correct. Could someone point me in the right direction on what to look out for ? -TT Tom Taylor Head of Engineering, Chicago T +1 312 605 8900 The Mill 54 West Hubbard Street, Suite 502, Chicago, IL 60654 www.themill.com | www.themillblog.com | www.twitter.com/millchannel | www.facebook.com/millchannel

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Alerting not working on short flap
by Gregoire Tourres 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hey guys I have a weird problem on alerting system. One of my ethernet interface of a device went down for 10 minutes. I can see the flap in observium eventlog : 2014-04-29 15:18:28eth port-1-1-1-1Interface changed: [ifOperStatus] down -> up2014-04-29 15:08:28eth port-1-1-1-1Interface changed: [ifOperStatus] up -> down I have a specific alerting probe on "ifOperStatus equals down" but it has not been triggered : <http://observium.sipartech.fr/alert_check/alert_test_id=1/>ETH PORT-1-1-1-1 Checks OK14s2h 59m 42s*Never* It usually work, but not this time. Is there a log or something that could help me understand why it did not ring the bell ? Greg

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Billing - Circuit ID on main page
by Tim Calvin 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

My question is in regards to the blue circle with the "i" located on the main billing page. This used to display the circuit ID when you hover the mouse over this icon. Noticed it hasn't been working for me for quite some time. Not sure what revision it stopped. It was very helpful as we have several customers with multiple circuits so now I have to click on each one until I find the circuit ID I am interested in. If there is a way to get this feature re-added then I would greatly appreciate it. If adding it back is complex due to recent code changes then I understand that as well. Just wanted to check. Thanks, Tim Calvin Texas Lone Star Network

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All interfaces on Brocade FESX series disappeard (rev 5390)
by Julian Rutz 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hello, I just figured that since last week, all interfaces on our Brocade FESX switches disappeared. In the eventlog, I do see entries like this: 2014-04-25 11:15:47 Gi3 Interface was marked as DELETED 2014-04-25 11:15:47 Gi2 Interface was marked as DELETED 2014-04-25 11:15:47 Gi1 Interface was marked as DELETED Since then, I do receive these log-entries related to virtual ethernet interfaces (vlan-interfaces) every few hours until now: 2014-04-27 02:20:30 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-26 20:20:20 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-26 20:20:20 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-26 14:20:31 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-26 14:20:31 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-26 08:20:32 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-26 08:20:31 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-26 02:20:28 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-26 02:20:28 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-25 20:28:19 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-25 20:28:19 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-25 14:24:23 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-25 14:23:07 v26 IPv4 added: X.Y.220.61/ 2014-04-25 12:23:57 v26 IPv4 removed: X.Y.220.61/0 2014-04-25 12:23:57 v26 IPv4 changed: X.Y.220.61/26 -> X.Y.220.61/ I am not sure if this is related to the latest svn update or if something changed in our observium-configuration. Any hint is appreciated. Kind regards, Julian

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renamed block devices
by Tony Lill 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Observium CE 0.13.10.4585 doesn't seem to handle renamed block devices very gracefully. I added some disks to one of my boxes, which caused the old sda and sdb to come up as sdb and sdd. Now on the disk i/o page some devices are missing, some appear twice, most are displaying incorrect info. I've attached the contents of the ucd_diskio table. sdc and it's partitions are missing and a number of the others are duplicated. How do I clear up this mess? Ideally I'd like to keep the old data so I could see what effect the changes I'm making has. - -- Tony Lill, OCT, ajlill(a)AJLC.Waterloo.ON.CA President, A. J. Lill Consultants (519) 650 0660 539 Grand Valley Dr., Cambridge, Ont. N3H 2S2 (519) 241 2461 - --------------- http://www.ajlc.waterloo.on.ca/ ---------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlMfrVAACgkQGS8yZq1uvxDMvwCff66JvTYJMebz+J6sdq7M5DSy 1DcAnRNL7haZlrK7KF0psYodjVCcmQEA =bMYY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Device Traffic Overview Graph Legend
by Jake Turner 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

Hi all, Just in case anybody else has spotted this and wants to fix it. The problem I was seeing (in the community edition at least) was that when ‘Show Legend’ was clicked on the Device Bits Graph page, the interface names would only have 10 characters as the image below shows: [cid:4474A50E-FFD7-439C-B557-8AB5663E872B@turnerhouse.local] With Cisco devices this renders the legend pretty useless as almost all the interfaces have FastEthernet/GigabitEthernet/TenGig etc. in front of the interface number. To fix this the file /html/includes/graphs/generic_multi_separated.inc.php needs to be modified. Lines 28 & 29 just need more space: $rrd_options .= " COMMENT:'$units_descr Cur Avg Max'"; if (!$nototal) { $rrd_options .= " COMMENT:' Total'"; } Line 81 will have the number 10 after the comma on rrdtool_escape: ($rrd['descr'], 10). This basically strips the interface to that length. In order for the interfaces on my 6500 to show nicely I changed this number to be 25: rrdtool_escape($rrd['descr'], 25). If you decide to go for a different number you should modify lines 28 & 29 too to make sure the ‘Cur, Avg, Max and Total’ headers are in line with the stats below. Then you just need to change for the ‘outbits' as well: substr(str_pad('', 25),0,25). The graph will/should then display like the below. Much more useful :) [cid:937DFBEE-EE5A-4F3E-8B38-AE6466900BE5@turnerhouse.local] An alternative would be to use ifName rather than ifDescr but I can’t be bothered to figure out how to do that. Jake Turner

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