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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 07 Apr '14

07 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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Getting all current alerts
by Meir Akrish 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

Hi I would like to integrate Observium with my Zabbix Is there is a way, via MySQL or via API or similar to get all current open alerts in Observium ? BR Meir -- *Meir Akrish* NOC Manager // *Kenshoo* *Office* +972 3 7466500 *478 // *Mobile* +972 50 6688399 [image: Kenshoo logo] <http://kenshoo.com/> *Infinite Optimization(tm)* powered by Infinite *Innovation* -- This e-mail, as well as any attached document, may contain material which is confidential and privileged and may include trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights that are proprietary to Kenshoo Ltd, its subsidiaries or affiliates ("Kenshoo"). This e-mail and its attachments may be read, copied and used only by the addressee for the purpose(s) for which it was disclosed herein. If you have received it in error, please destroy the message and any attachment, and contact us immediately. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, reliance, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message without Kenshoo's express permission is strictly prohibited.

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Cisco temperature sensors threshold
by Meir Akrish 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

since there is no way that I know of creating alert checkers on temperature sensors can it be adjusted system wide ? or the only way is per device ? BR Meir -- This e-mail, as well as any attached document, may contain material which is confidential and privileged and may include trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights that are proprietary to Kenshoo Ltd, its subsidiaries or affiliates ("Kenshoo"). This e-mail and its attachments may be read, copied and used only by the addressee for the purpose(s) for which it was disclosed herein. If you have received it in error, please destroy the message and any attachment, and contact us immediately. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, reliance, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message without Kenshoo's express permission is strictly prohibited.

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Alerts Reccomendation
by Josh Hopper 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

Please consider adding a feature that lets you disable alerts by location. That way when I want to disable 50 devices for down time I can in one motion rather than 50 or more. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CF50CC.7166D9B0] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Observium integration with Nagios XI
by Burgess, Andrew 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Good morning I would like to have some information on integrating the Observium system with our existing Nagios XI 2012R2.9 monitoring tool. I have seen that these two products work together but would like some further information on how to configure this. Thanks Kind Regards Andrew Burgess Junior Infrastructure Engineer | Bourne Leisure IT | One Park Lane | Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4YL Phone: 01442 286286| Email: Andrew.Burgess(a)Bourne-Leisure.co.uk<mailto:Andrew.Burgess@Bourne-Leisure.co.uk> [cid:image001.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] [cid:image002.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] [cid:image003.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] [cid:image004.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] Something nice to say about us?: IT-Teamstar(a)bourne-leisure.co.uk<mailto:IT-Teamstar@bourne-leisure.co.uk> This email is strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). It may contain personal and confidential information and as such may be protected by the Data Protection Act 1998. If this email has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Any views or opinions expressed within this email are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of Bourne Leisure Limited. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computer practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. BOURNE LEISURE LTD - REGISTERED IN ENGLAND NO. 4011660. REGISTERED OFFICE: 1 PARK LANE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HERTFORDSHIRE HP2 4YL This email message has been scanned and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.co.uk

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Re: [Observium] Search Bug
by Andrej Kurlovic 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Thank you Mike. It is working now. Regards, Andrej Kurlovic _____________________________________________________________________ The opinions either expressed or implied in this message are those of the sender and not necessarily those of Frontline Consultancy and Business Services Ltd. This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp

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Search Bug
by Andrej Kurlovic 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Good Day Observium, I noticed one bug with Observium. Let's say I have a switch with user ports. Users are come and go, so I would like to disable alerts on them for Port Down State on the main page (see screenshot) [cid:image001.png@01CF4FDE.15C3A0F0] To do that I will go to device setting page->Ports https://observium.frontline/device/device=34/tab=edit/section=ports/ and Toggle alerts to No (see screenshot) [cid:image003.png@01CF4FDE.34DDF850] As soon as I save this, port is no longer appear in the main page as intended, but what is does as well - I can't search for the port in the search bar anymore (see screenshot examples below) Before toggle alerts off (Alerts=Yes): [cid:image002.png@01CF4FDF.27FC9640] After I toggle alerts off (Alerts=No) [cid:image004.png@01CF4FDF.27FC9640] This happens instantaneously as soon as I toggle alerts to No, and when I toggle back to Yes I can search port again. Can you please advise if this is expected behaviour? Because what I want is to disable alerts for user ports, to ensure that on the main page only alerts for important ports appear, however I still want to be able to search ports (with Alerts set to NO) using search box. Thank you in advance, Regards, Andrej Kurlovic Network and Security Manager Frontline Consultancy _____________________________________________________________________ The opinions either expressed or implied in this message are those of the sender and not necessarily those of Frontline Consultancy and Business Services Ltd. This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp

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Feature Request: filter by snmp system contact
by Martin Smith 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hello developers, I would like to request the ability to filter by the SysContact field. Devices and ports already have the ability to be filtered by states, speeds, media, port types and locations; I think it would be beneficial to add snmp contact as well. Mostly, I'd like to see it added to the filter header on both the devices and ports pages. [cid:image002.jpg@01CF4F2A.DE764F70] For companies who use the same system contact on all their devices this may have limited value. However, hosting providers could use the feature to filter by device ownership or local network engineer. As we often manage/monitor many devices owned by other companies. Thanks for your consideration of this request, Martin Smith | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320-257-6607 | 877.797.4700 x170

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Re: [Observium] Discovery crashing UPS management card
by Steve Kersley 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

> > > > For the record, Eaton have confirmed that they have reproduced the fault > on the 9xx range of UPSes including on the latest revision of management > card so it is being raised as a bug and is not just an issue with my particular > hardware. > That's good, I guess (hope) they'll release a fixed version... > > We can't really get around the table reading. What you could do in the > meanwhile is add UPS-MIB to the $config['os']['powerware']['mibs'] > array, and remove XUPS-MIB from there. Note that it'll affect all your > powerware UPSes... but I guess that should stop it from crashing. > Barring any bugs in their UPS-MIB table walk code *G*. > > Ideal situation would be to not crash on a simple table walk of course ;-) > > Tom Just upgraded to this week's latest community release, and it is presumably now not walking the tree, as it is no longer triggering this crash, and is now picking up the other voltages correctly. Great job on fixing a bug that wasn't yours to fix before I'd even told you about it :-) Hopefully Eaton will be equally efficient! Am very impressed with what I've seen so far in Observium in a week's dabbling. Am certainly contemplating taking out a subscription to stay current once I've done some more testing and added the rest of our equipment in, and ideally found some way to make it talk to the equipment that doesn't do SNMP... Steve.

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strange discovery behaviour
by Bastiaan Topper 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hi, We have a few Cisco routers monitored by Observium which lose their attributes over time. When I do a manual discovery the memory/processor/ip address and BGP peers are correctly added. But over time (between minutes and hours, as you can see below) the information is removed. [cid:image001.png@01CF4D9A.03605160] Then information about BGP or processor/memory disappear. After a manual discovery of the device they are added back, but again after a while they disappear. [cid:image005.png@01CF4D9A.566ADCE0] Is this some kind of bug? Do you need any debug information from me, please let me know!? Thanks. Met vriendelijke groet, Bastiaan Topper

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Re: [Observium] Discovery crashing UPS management card
by Steve Kersley 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

> It's not a separate module, we don't have toggles for MIBs at this point. We > could add this of course. > > I don't think powerware has UPS-MIB in its mibs list right now, do they > (also) support it? > Enabling both will give you duplicate readings, I have uncommitted > unfinished code to do away with the dupes. > This particular UPS certainly responds to requests on the upsMIB OIDs (my old homebrew monitoring reads voltages from those). For the record, Eaton have confirmed that they have reproduced the fault on the 9xx range of UPSes including on the latest revision of management card so it is being raised as a bug and is not just an issue with my particular hardware. Steve.

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Device page not building correct
by A. Lantink 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hi all, Since a couple of builds i have a problem with the device page. I didn't mention it yet, since I couldn't exactly reproduce since which update the error occurred, and hoped it would go away after some other updates. But it's still here. The page is somehow not completely generated. See below the example of device=1, but all devices have the same problem. The HTML source can be viewed here: http://www.colocenter.nl/observium_device_source.txt It just stops. Running the latest SVN version(5176). The main page, and for example the ports page work fine. It's just the device page. http://www.colostats.nl/devices/ works fine, but http://www.colostats.nl/device/device=ID/ wont. Any idea's what his might be causing? Kind regards, Alexander

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API calls return blank page
by Spencer Gaw 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hey guys, After upgrading my test Observium server to revision 5188, all API calls return a blank page. Going through the Apache error logs, I found: /[Tue Apr 01 16:37:13 2014] [error] [client //REDACTED//] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_vars() in /opt/observium/html/api.php on line 26/ Comparing this section of api.php to my production Observium server running revision 5167, there are some differences: *r5188 api.php* /$vars = get_vars('GET');// //$vars['module'] = (!empty($vars['module']) ? $vars['module'] : "demo"); /*r5167 api.php */foreach ($_GET as $key=>$get_var) {// // if (!empty($get_var)) {// // $vars[$key] = filter_var($get_var, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);// // }// //}/* *Any ideas where to start on this one? Admittedly, PHP is Greek to me but hopefully this means something to you folks over in Dev Land. If there's any additional info you'd like, please feel free to ask. Regards, SG

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imbedded alert graphs missing in alert emails using outlook / gmail
by Martin Smith 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hello, I'm aware that the imbedded image problem has been discussed on here previously. I believe the final answer was "outlook sucks". Both outlook and Gmail web are unable to display the images, but my android email application works. I asked one of our support guys to take a peak and help shed some light on the matter. According to him, it might boil down to using a cid tag instead of a data tag to imbed the image. I have no idea what that means, but hopefully it will help an intelligent developer. Thanks for any and all help into this matter. I'd love to see graphs in my alerts! I've included his email below for additional details: ------ The specific image in question that is not loading is embedded as a base64 encoded image, with a data tag instead of cid tag for the source URL in the message source. Outlook uses Word for composing and displaying emails, and apparently Word does not support the method by which the png file was embedded, as it does not use a cid tag. The PNG format itself is not the issue, because I was able to acquire the original image, paste it into a new email in Outlook, and send it to myself, and it shows up just fine. Looking at the source in that scenario, the PNG source is using a cid tag. I'm uncertain how the message in question is being generated, and whether the method by which it's embedding the image can be altered, but ultimately it seems like the current method is unsupported by Outlook/Word, and I have not yet found any good fixes or workarounds, other than to change the embedding method, or to run a command in Outlook that will open the email in a web browser, which will then display the image in question. Supporting evidence: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/be82ffd0-66ec-4f9f-847… http://forums.textcontrol.com/showthread.php?325334-Image-SaveAsData-when-s… http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16349655/outlook-does-not-display-valid-… ------ Regards, Martin Smith | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320-257-6607 | 877.797.4700 x170

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Help with a simple email setting
by Jake Hansen 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Sorry if this has been posted before but I have been trying to find it for a few hours now. I'm trying to find where the system sets the emailto field when hosts go down. Right now, when a host goes down, somehow its still emailing the old email address sometimes. I have grep -R the entire /opt/observium folder but nothing comes up. I have also tried to set the following setting to no avail $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "netops(a)blah.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Default Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "netops(a)blah.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; But sometimes some of the emails(not all) will still go out to our old email address help(a)blah.com I cant for the life of me figure out how to fix it and have been scouring the observium docs to no avail. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks! -- Jake Hansen Sr. Network Administrator ZTelco / Zray Technologies, Inc. 858-431-4411 Direct 858-565-2155 Office

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Re: [Observium] CEF thingey
by Damien Burke 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

No it isn't. It's a gif. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 6:31 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Device page not building correct That is an accurate, real-time representation of the CEF table on your router. On 2014-03-31 15:50, Damien Burke wrote: > Uh, > > From [ Routing > All BGP Sessions > CEF ] the following is seen: > http://i.imgur.com/1xzcEeV.png [1] > > What is this? > > DAMIEN BURKE > SupremeBytes, LLC > P.O. Box 13746 | Columbus, Ohio 43213 > Office (614) 636-4923 | Phone (614) 636-4875 | Fax (614) 636-4877 > http://www.supremebytes.com [2] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://i.imgur.com/1xzcEeV.png > [2] http://www.supremebytes.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Services
by Sebring, Jeremy A. 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

??Hello all, We are fairly new to observium and are having problems with getting server services to be happy. All of our servers are showing as all of their services are down and have been down for 44+ years. All of the services are up and running. We are at a loss on how to fix this. Thanks for your help! -Jeremy

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Memory Graph Error Device HP
by Michel Braga Guimaraes 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hi. I'd like to know why the memory graph is getting error when it is going to build the graph. I'll attach here the discovery and pooler debug here. Please could some one help me? [image: Inline image 1] -- *Michel Braga Guimarães* ITIL v3 Foundation Certified Professional Cisco Certified Network Associate - CSCO12533973 (62) 8217-9857 // (62) 3954-2544 email: michelbragaguimaraes(a)gmail.com skype: michelbragaguimaraes ___________________________________

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