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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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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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