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Device names on front page Google map?
by Ulrik Ivers 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi, I'm new to Observium, so please be tolerant if I ask a stupid question. On the Google map on the front page - is it possible to have the device names displayed? Either "always" or when hovering on the green place marker. Now when I hover I get a label stating "1 hosts", "2 hosts" etc depending on the number of devices that have identical location. I've looked through the documentation and searched old discussion archives but haven't been able to find anything regarding this. Regards, /Ulrik Ivers

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Re: [Observium] 6k Clock 2 status alarms
by Moerman, Maarten 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

I’m suffering from the same issue since last week or so. I’ve filed http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-795 for this to get this solved/fixed. I didn’t exactly know what it was related to, but thanks for figuring that out! Thx, Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com From: Robert Williams <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM To: "Observium Network Observation System (observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>)" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] 6k Clock 2 status alarms Hi, Just a minor bug (or feature tweak, depending on your perspective!) when someone is next in the relevant area: [cid:image001.png@01CF5649.04D8EB80] The clock sensor number 2 on all 6k Catalyst chassis should probably not ‘alarm’ by default when it’s not in use. There will always be only one of the two clocks in use, so some kind of logic tweak is needed to treat this differently otherwise you always have a load of status warnings for the category of “State” under “Health”. Unless you go through them all and disable them, but then you won’t get an event when they do become active (which is usually a bad thing as something else has failed). I’ve seen it show up as these two names depending what IOS it’s running: OSR-7600 Clock FRU 2 - clock 2 clock-inuse Sensor<http://observium.cdc.local/graphs/id=579946/type=sensor_state> OSR-7600 Clock FRU 2 In Using Sensor - Clock 2 In Using Sensor<http://observium.cdc.local/graphs/id=580144/type=sensor_state> Actually, since there is also a value for the ‘ok-ness’ of the sensors it is probably worth totally skipping the ‘in-use’ element for the default alarming purposes, imho. If you need more info from me then let me know, cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com> http://www.CustodianDC.com

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device status boxes on the front page show disabled devices
by Henrik Lund Kramshøj 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi We have a problem with the front page, the red alert boxes are shown for devices that are disabled. We use the config.php $config['frontpage']['order'] = array('status_summary', 'device_status_boxes', 'device_status', 'overall_traffic' ); and I guess its the device_status_boxes is the one. Did something change, or do we need to change something? Devices shown (some of them) has check mark in: "Disable Disables polling and discovery. Device ignore Device ignore. " So they shouldnt show up, didnt sometime before - but unknown when they stopped working correctly. Version, subscription, did a svn up today. man apr 14 09:14:08 CEST 2014 Best regards Henrik -- Henrik Lund Kramshøj, Follower of the Great Way of Unix internet samurai cand.scient CISSP hlk(a)kramse.org hlk(a)solidonetworks.com +45 2026 6000 http://solidonetworks.com/ Network Security is a business enabler

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6k Clock 2 status alarms
by Robert Williams 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Hi, Just a minor bug (or feature tweak, depending on your perspective!) when someone is next in the relevant area: [cid:image001.png@01CF5649.04D8EB80] The clock sensor number 2 on all 6k Catalyst chassis should probably not ‘alarm’ by default when it’s not in use. There will always be only one of the two clocks in use, so some kind of logic tweak is needed to treat this differently otherwise you always have a load of status warnings for the category of “State” under “Health”. Unless you go through them all and disable them, but then you won’t get an event when they do become active (which is usually a bad thing as something else has failed). I’ve seen it show up as these two names depending what IOS it’s running: OSR-7600 Clock FRU 2 - clock 2 clock-inuse Sensor<http://observium.cdc.local/graphs/id=579946/type=sensor_state> OSR-7600 Clock FRU 2 In Using Sensor - Clock 2 In Using Sensor<http://observium.cdc.local/graphs/id=580144/type=sensor_state> Actually, since there is also a value for the ‘ok-ness’ of the sensors it is probably worth totally skipping the ‘in-use’ element for the default alarming purposes, imho. If you need more info from me then let me know, cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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How best to tell Observium that VMware is no longer unix [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

Back in the bad old days, esx was run on a version of RedHat Linux (RHEL). Now they run their own kernel. During discovery, i noticed that the unix agent was trying to be contacted and also has (unix). Reasonably sure VMware won't support it. Your native VM detection and polling is sufficient anyway. adlvm03 6 vmware (unix) Module [ junose-atm-vp ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ipsec-flow-monitor ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-remote-access-monitor ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-cef ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-sla ] excluded for device. Module [ arista-software-ip-forwarding ] excluded for device. Module [ cipsec-tunnels ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ace-loadbalancer ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ace-serverfarms ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-cbqos ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-eigrp ] excluded for device. Module [ netscaler-vsvr ] excluded for device. Module [ aruba-controller ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-vpdn ] disabled globally. Module [ wmi ] disabled globally. Observium UNIX Agent: Connection to UNIX agent on tcp://adlvm03:36602 failed. ERROR: 110 Connection timed out Connection to UNIX agent on tcp://adlvm03:6556 failed. ERROR: 110 Connection timed out Sensors: Module time: 20.0376s Uptime: 129 days, 2h 18m 13s Module time: 0.308s VMware VM: thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) FCoA ITS peter.hine(a)familycourt.gov.au ********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail (including any attachments) is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. It is noted that legal privilege is not waived because you have read this e-mail. **********************************************************************

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Frontpage alert hostnames
by Spencer Gaw 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

Hey all, Has anyone noticed that some devices display the subdomain in their hostname on frontpage alerts and others do not? Example: Here are the hostnames configured on each device: /ring-rmcit.ftc> system show host-name// // //+------------------------------ HOST NAME -------------------------------+// //| Oper | ring-rmcit.ftc |// //| User | ring-rmcit.ftc |// //| DHCP | |// //+------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+// // //sw01.cos> system show host-name// // //+------------------------------ HOST NAME -------------------------------+// //| Oper | sw01.cos |// //| User | sw01.cos |// //| DHCP | |// //+------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+/ /redacted(a)access03.den> show version | match hostname// //Hostname: access03.den /Any ideas here? / /Regards, SG

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Enhancement Request: Latest Reported Operating System
by techuser6＠gmail.com 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

It would be nice if there was another column next to "Operating System" for Network devices that had the latest reported IOS from Cisco/Dell. That way one could easily see which devices need to be upgraded to the latest IOS to ensure that security and bug fixes are addressed.

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Device Ignore
by Marco Spicuglia 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi there, running last stable version. If I disable/ignore a decommissioned device, then it still shows up as "down" in the frontpage device alerts module, while the alarm should disappear instead. Kind regards, Marco Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, Marco Spicuglia Network engineer - Programmer ReasonNet B.V. Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 1042AZ Amsterdam W. www.reasonnet.com E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com T. F. ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code.

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Upgrades blow up my frontpage graphs
by Scott Brawner 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

It seems like every time there's a major upgrade with a sql script, my front page graphs go completely apeshit. Should look like this (in the first case) Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. o. 843-308-2364 m. 843-814-3912 Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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Trapeze/Juniper wireless controller
by Adam Armstrong 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi All, Does anyone have a Trapeze/Juniper wireless controller they'd be willing to give us SNMP read access to so we can add support for it? (similarly for other wireless controllers, but initially we're looking for Trapeze/Juniper :) Thanks, adam.

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Turning off some alerts
by Luca Salvatore 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi Been running observium for a while but with alerting turned off. I turned it on recently and got spammed with so many alerts I had to turn it off again. I can't really find how I can tune the alert setting anywhere. Can this be done via the web or do I need to go to the config files? I'm on version 0.13.9.4493, basically i only want alerts for specific things, not every single event. If i go to the alerts section there is no option to configure any thing, there is no 'add alert' button as described in this link http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker Is the alerting functions only available in the current version? thanks

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Deleted status
by Teixeira, Mike 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hello, When we have ports in deleted status, is there an automagic process to purge those ports? Thanks, Mike

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ifInOctets_perc / ifOutOctets_perc
by Ryan, Spencer J. 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi All, Anyone know if these percentages are based on physical speed of the port or of they use the speed set via the "bandwidth" statement? ________________________________ Spencer Ryan | Systems Engineer Miller Canfield<http://www.millercanfield.com> 150 West Jefferson, Suite 2500 Detroit, Michigan 48226 (USA) T +1.313.496.7547 | F +1.313.496.7699 | Mobile +1.734.846.2053 ryan(a)millercanfield.com<mailto:ryan@millercanfield.com> ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 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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LDAPS Authentication
by Ellery Weber 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hey guys, I'm trying to get LDAP (through AD) authentication setup on the subscription version of Observium, and am running into some difficulties. My first question - does Observium only do a simple bind, or can it connect using SASL? We do not currently allow simple binds in our domain. Thanks for any assistance you can provide, [SELCO Community Credit Union] Ellery Weber, CCENT Network Administrator SELCO Community Credit Union Eugene - Downtown Corporate Headquarters Phone/Fax: 541-686-5349 | Cell: 541-357-9505 | eweber(a)selco.org<mailto:eweber@selco.org> selco.org<https://www.selco.org/> | facebook<http://www.facebook.com/SELCOCCU> | twitter<http://twitter.com/selcoccu> This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of a specific individual or entity or specific individuals or entities and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may constitute as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may represent a tortious interference with a confidential business relationship(s). If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and (i) permanently destroy this message if a facsimile; (ii) permanently delete this message immediately if this is an electronic communication; permanently destroy any electronic or printed copies of this electronic communication.

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rancid multiple config/diff versions within observium
by Chip Pleasants 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

I have rancid working today within Observium, although I do not see multiple version ro config/diffs of the configurations like saw some time ago. I did migrate servers therefore its possible a configuration or permissions issue on the new server. On my previous server a couple months ago I was able to look at past diffs within observium. Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks, Chip

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Enhancement Request: Export Inventory to CSV
by techuser6＠gmail.com 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

It would be really nice if there was a way to export the Inventory to a CSV. This would greatly help with renewing maintenance and SmartNet Contracts for Cisco Devices.

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Multiple Pollers Guidance
by Chip Pleasants 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

When there are multiple pollers via NFS how do they pick the devices to poll? Basically how to they not step all over each other polling the same nodes? I'm seeing snmp and ping alerts like 15 or so every hour come in that didn't come in when it was a single server solution. It does seem to be the same 20 or so devices. These particular devices do typically take around 60 sec to poll. Looking at devices that generated alerts their cpu, snmp response time, and ping time was all over the place. Meaning cpu doubled (10% to 20%), ping times went up to 200ms from 10ms, and snmp response time average when from 50ms to 556ms. I'm wondering if I was polling these devices multiple times within 5 minutes? Would this be related to NFS IO issues? I reverted back to a single solution for now. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. -Chip Config Sniplet $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['snmp']['timeout'] = 6; $config['snmp']['retries'] = 3; $config['snmp']['max-rep'] = 10; $config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping -t2000";

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Calculating availability
by Tom Henderson 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Good morning list. Does anyone know if Observium is able to show the total uptime (or downtime) between two points in time? Is this be something the billing module can handle? Cheers Tom Henderson IT Manager | Pack & Company | 027 461 4403 | 09 929 2750 | tom(a)pack.co.nz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not disclose, copy, or distribute any information contained in or attached to it, or take any action/inaction based on it. Please contact us immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and not of Pack & Company (NZ) Limited (the "Company"), however any intellectual property contained in or attached to this email is the property of the Company. Thank you.

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Ubiquiti AirOS MIB
by Robbie Wright 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

UBNT has finally released their officially supported MIB's in their most recent release. I know a few folks are lurking on this list that would love to see those MIB's officially supported and a few of us more than happy to pay for said support in Observium. Todd/Adam/Mike, an interest in taking this on as a sponsored improvement? I can send you the MIB privately if you'd like a sneak peek. Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 **For support issues, please email support(a)siuslawbroadband.com.**

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Remote SysLogging
by Marco Spicuglia 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Hello there, it seems that I have some issues with remote syslogging. Some network devices work well, some others don't. The problem seems to be related to the Observium host, I think, as running syslog-ng -Fevd on my observium server, shows that log entries are coming in also from the devices that do not have any log entry in the GUI. It seems that syslog-ng gets the log entries, but they do not get properly passed to Observium, for some reason, at least for some devices. Therefore, those entries do not show up in the mysql database and thus neither in the GUI. I had this problem also on two other Observium hosts I have tried, but only since an upgrade I performed around October 2013. Before it was working fine for all those devices. Anything I can check/do for fixing this? Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Marco Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, Marco Spicuglia Network engineer - Programmer ReasonNet B.V. Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 1042AZ Amsterdam W. www.reasonnet.com E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com T. F. ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code.

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Recalculate history usage data
by Jimmy Samuel García Hynds 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Hello, >From time to time I have this huge spikes in the traffic bills that are abnormal, in those cases I just change those values to 0 in the database, I replace them in the bill_data table, and the charts return to normal, I do not mind losing 10 or 20 minutes of readings. This is my question, Is there a way to recalculate the historical data? That data is updated even if I delete the date in the bill_data table, and I do not want to screw up my installation. Best Regards. ________________________________ AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este e-mail contiene informacion que es confidencial y solo puede ser utilizada por las personas o entidades a la cuales esta dirigida. Si usted no es el destinatario autorizado, cualquier modificacion, retension, difusion o copia total o parcial esta prohibida. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.

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Re: [Observium] How do I get linux boxes to show up in the inventory?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hello Adam, Thank you for your quick response back. Which table is used to populate the inventory section of observium? I’ll poke it a bit and see what I can do with it.. Thanks again, Ricardo > Adam Armstrong Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:03:12 -0700 > > Hi, > > The inventory page is for cisco/juniper/extreme linecard and other components. It populates from a different table. > adam. > > On 2014-04-07 12:26, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: > Hello again! > > I noticed there’s an inventory option for Observium. I’m wondering > if there’s a way to get the linux boxes that are being monitored by > observium into the inventory list? it’d be a nice way to keep track > of things, even if I need to make manual modifications to the > database. I’ve already added the serial #’s for the systems, and I > was hoping that would be enough for the inventory page on observium to > populate, but it wasn’t. > > Thanks, > Ricardo > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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How do I get linux boxes to show up in the inventory?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hello again! I noticed there’s an inventory option for Observium. I’m wondering if there’s a way to get the linux boxes that are being monitored by observium into the inventory list? it’d be a nice way to keep track of things, even if I need to make manual modifications to the database. I’ve already added the serial #’s for the systems, and I was hoping that would be enough for the inventory page on observium to populate, but it wasn’t. Thanks, Ricardo

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Port Properties do not work
by Marco Zberg 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hi Currently I feel stuck with an quite ordinary process, disabling of polling and alerts. Normally (on another Observium instance) we deactivate all ports with ifOperStatus=down and ifAdminStatus=down via select/update statement directy in mysql. On our affected Observium instance we have plenty of ports we do not like to poll and keep them deactivated. We have Cisco Catalyst 4507 in use, which are equipped with 400 customer ports (downstream). It is unpractical to activate them all and would overload our Observium with too may SNMP requests. We manually keep the upstream ports (10G Ethernet, Port-Channel etc.) and some specific customer ports activated. When I toggle the ports manually (yes or no) or via "Toggle All" button, it says: "Device record unchanged. No update necessary". Effectively nothing has changed and the ports are still active which should be deactivated. This problem affects the "Polling" and "Alerts" function. Maybe there is a workaround possible via manual update in the mysql DB? Currently we use Rev. 5163. BR, Marco Zberg [cid:image003.png@01CF4A6C.51881570] [cid:image002.png@01CF4A6D.47CF91B0] besuchen sie unsere neue website unter www.arcade.ch<http://www.arcade.ch> ____________________________ [cid:image005.png@01CF4A70.69C95AF0] marco zberg teamleader whitelabel & ott marco.zberg(a)arcade.ch arcade solutions ag winkelriedstrasse 37 6003 luzern tel +41 41 417 31 73 www.arcade.ch cloud + connectivity + ict ____________________________

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March changelog and new Community Edition release
by Adam Armstrong 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hi All, The new March changelog is available at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#March_2014 Since it's been 6 months since the last release, we've released a new Community Edition .tar.gz at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Download_Community_Edition Thanks, adam.

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