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Wrong ports counter / reset counter
by Onno van der Leun 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, I've some weird behaviour with observium. Since some time the ports counter on the frontpage is displaying wrong values. Eg. It's showing that there are 264 ports down, but when I click the link, there are only 23 ports down. Also when I add up the up, down, ignored and disabled ports, the total number (13326) is less than the number observium shows under 'total' (14991) Does anyone have an idea where to look? Or is there a way to reset the counters? Thanks! Onno.

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Ubuntu 13.10 and Apache 2.4 virtualhost permission fix
by Pirmin Sidler - Computerline 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, Maybe you want to include, in the installation tutorial, the solution tot he virtualhost permission problem under Ubuntu 13.10 : Solution ist to have a virtualhost like this ( "Require all granted" is the key option) : VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/ ServerName test.domain.tld CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /opt/observium/html/> Require all granted Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> I think it will be help a lot of users as this is the only issue I met with the Ubuntu 13.10 distro. Best regards! Freundliche Grüsse, Pirmin Sidler System & Netzwerk Ingenieur [cid:image001.jpg@01CF4821.C97F2F70] Computerline GmbH Schellenrain 5 CH-6210 Sursee Tel. +41 41 525 20 70 Niederlassungen Gibelstrasse 3, CH-6231 Schlierbach Badenerstrasse 808, CH-8048 Zürich Tel. +41 44 500 50 20 www.computerline.com<http://www.computerline.com/>

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asynchronous interface alerting
by Bastiaan Topper 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi all, Is there any way of alerting on TX/RX load of an interface (ATM and other xDSL interfaces)? We use mostly Cisco and so we can configure bandwidth and bandwidth receive, so we could define the asynchronous bandwidths. Observium gets the ifSpeed from the bandwidth value, so if we define an alert for TX/RX load, it will almost always report on wrong loads. Interface bandwidth is adopted from the ATM sync speeds, but this is the TX load, the RX load isn't reported on the interface normally. We could define this manually or Observium could maybe get this from the DSL statistics. [cid:image001.png@01CF473C.15E85030] [cid:image002.png@01CF473C.15E85030] So use the TX and RX values from the DSL statistics: [cid:image003.png@01CF473C.80BD6760] Is this already possible or could this otherwise be built? Met vriendelijke groet, Bastiaan Topper

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 44, Issue 76
by Sud, Raman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi Tom, Thank you for the response I actually did the following command and it still wont work. Is 'observium db password' the root password for mysql ? Do I need to create a user called observium on mysql? >mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost' >IDENTIFIED BY '<observium db password>'; Thanks again Raman -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:26 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 44, Issue 76 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. permissions issue (Sud, Raman) 2. Re: unix agent bind (Erik Klaassen) 3. Re: permissions issue (Tom Henderson) 4. "Overall Peering Traffic" graph broken (Shane O'Brien) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:07:29 +0000 From: "Sud, Raman" <Raman.Sud(a)ironmountain.com> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] permissions issue Message-ID: <53AC088EA7E63C49B9B4A1D87C0E2B4001A920(a)NUMEXMBP05.na.imtn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Folks, I am new to observium and I did the install as per the website. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Debian_Ubuntu_Installation when I put observium username in the config.php file and the corresponding password $config['db_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['db_user'] = 'observium'; $config['db_pass'] = 'password11'; $config['db_name'] = 'observium'; and run php includes/update/update.php command.. it fails with the following message root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php MySQL Error: Access denied for user 'observium'@'localhost' (using password: YES) root@Status:/opt/observium# if I change it to root, it works root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php root@Status:/opt/observium# root@Status:/opt/observium# I can do discovery and polling via the cli though but I see nothing on the web portal However, when I log into the web portal, and try to add a device it tells me Permission error You have insufficient permissions to view this page. When I go to my settings: it tells me Device permission level no access! What am I missing here :) Any guidance would be greatly appreciated The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email, you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse or copying or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message.

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Best managed PDU for *NIX style systems for snmp support?
by Kaya Saman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, I've been using Observium for a few months now and really enjoy it! I currently have a fully managed/switched PDU which has been under RMA for what feels like forever and the best advice the manufacturer could give me was to return the unit back to my reseller?? I'm not quite sure what's going to happen with it yet so I just wanted to know what the best or most compatible PDU is for *NIX systems?? I'm running Observium on FreeBSD 10 64bit. Basically the current PDU I have keeps bombing out under SNMP queries as snmpwalking the device either comes up with "snmp timed out" or totally the wrong protocol?? It's supposed to support v1 and v3 but the MIB response I get is for v2c? I know that Observium supports APC and two others as per listed on the Support page on the site. Which one is the most NIX friendly? Having read the documentation for the APC models, they can be updated over FTP or SCP which is perfect unlike my current model which needs an M$ exe program and since my network is OpenSource only OS wise it's basically an issue..... It seems to be a bad SNMP stack in my opinion as I've never had any issues using SNMP previously with many different vendors for network and peripheral devices. Observium even goes as far as graphing my HP print servers Toner values which is soo cool :-) Can anyone give me any advice? -- I was actually looking at this model: http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP… as a replacement. Many thanks. Kaya

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unix agent bind
by Erik Klaassen 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

i just added a bind machine successful to observium. Most of the stats and rrd's are working except for the resolving tab ( and cache content and outgoing queries). Is this because of the lack of stats from my bind? How to investigate this? the bind machine is just preforming recursion no authoritative zones. Thanks, Erik

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permissions issue
by Sud, Raman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi Folks, I am new to observium and I did the install as per the website. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Debian_Ubuntu_Installation when I put observium username in the config.php file and the corresponding password $config['db_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['db_user'] = 'observium'; $config['db_pass'] = 'password11'; $config['db_name'] = 'observium'; and run php includes/update/update.php command.. it fails with the following message root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php MySQL Error: Access denied for user 'observium'@'localhost' (using password: YES) root@Status:/opt/observium# if I change it to root, it works root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php root@Status:/opt/observium# root@Status:/opt/observium# I can do discovery and polling via the cli though but I see nothing on the web portal However, when I log into the web portal, and try to add a device it tells me Permission error You have insufficient permissions to view this page. When I go to my settings: it tells me Device permission level no access! What am I missing here :) Any guidance would be greatly appreciated The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email, you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse or copying or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message.

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"Overall Peering Traffic" graph broken
by Shane O'Brien 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

We are having an issue where the "Overall Peering Traffic Today" Graph on our front page is broken. When we try and use the option to "Disable broken graphs" it removes all the graphs from our front page. Is there any way to remove the "Overall Peering Traffic Today" graph without effecting the others? Thank you in advance for your assistance! -Shane

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Qlogic Sanbox 5602 Support
by Christian Gerbrandt 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Hi group, I was wondering about how to add support for a Qlogic Sanbox 5602 FC switch. >From all the info I gathered so far, it is using the Fibre Alliance MIB. I already added it to our Observium instalaltion, but I'm not able to get all information via SNMP. Only LAN ports are showing up, and some general infos are missing. Has anyone maybe started working on adding this device, or can tell me how to best add it? Many thanks, Christian

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Mail Alerts
by tech8.otelafrica 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

Hi Guys Struggling to get mails to send from our server.When having a look in var/log I dont see anything attempting to send out in the logs. Under config.php I have the following configured: $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "alerts(a)otelafrica.com"; $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['email_from'] = "Observium dev <observium.otel.co.za>"; $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; I have included a snapshot as well,please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. Regards Anton

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Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface
by Marco Spicuglia 22 Mar '14

22 Mar '14

Hi Adam, I thought I had replied already, but I didn't see my message coming through, so I give it another try. I did import the devices table into the new system, run the discovery and copied the rrds. Everything worked perfectly.. However, I should have imported the ports table as well, because all ports id have changed and our integrated systems relying on those id's were in panic. We were running Debian Wheezy 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 with PHP Version 5.4.4-14+deb7u8, Apache/2.2.22 and MySql 5.5.31 Thanks a lot for your help, our monitoring system is running again :) Cheers, 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.________________________________________ From: Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] Sent: 18 March 2014 20:18 To: Marco Spicuglia Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface Make sure you run discovery to upgrade the database, as the author stuff has changed and needs the new table format. Adam. On 18 Mar 2014 09:05, Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, thanks for your response. > No filesystem is full on the whole harddrive. > > > 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.________________________________________ > From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] On Behalf Of Chris K. [kulish.com(a)gmail.com] > Sent: 18 March 2014 15:18 > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > Check if filesystem is full. > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@reasonnet.com>> wrote: > Hello there, > > I wonder if anybody can help me. > > After upgrading from community to subscription version, I was happily browsing the new features, but after some time (about half hour) all users here got logged out and nobody could login any more. > No error messages, we just get the login page again. > > My hard disk is not full. > I successfully created a new admin user but also cannot login. > I cleaned the cache, the history and the cookies of the browser. > If I check the table authlog in the database, it reports both old and new admin as regularly logged in. > > Is there anything I am missing? Any step I forgot during upgrade? Any cache/session I should clear server side? > > Your help is welcome. > > 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<http://www.reasonnet.com> > E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@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.________________________________________ > From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Luis Quintana [sla07(a)earthlink.net<mailto:sla07@earthlink.net>] > Sent: 12 February 2014 16:04 > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > I greatly appreciate the help on it too!! Thanks guys! > > On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:02 AM, "Kulish, Chris" <chris.kulish(a)pioneer.com<mailto:chris.kulish@pioneer.com>> wrote: > > > Simple is my middle name! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:27 PM > > To: Observium Network Observation System > > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > > > On 2014-02-11 11:50, Kulish, Chris wrote: > >> If the filesystem full? > > > > Want simple solutions, ask a simple person. > > > > adam. > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains > > information that may be Privileged, confidential or copyrighted under > > applicable law. 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GeoLocation
by Johnathon Voegeli 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Quick question... We are a small WISP and I am trying to add all the WAPs to the map... if I do something like this: $config['location_map']['VIE Office'] = "35.476475, -80.992856"; It looks perfect on the map, however under the location menu of course it shows these coordinates as well... Is there anyway to get the SysLocation to show in the location field, but the map display correctly? Or is this a pipe dream. ~JV

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Session issues - automatically logged out frequently/instantly
by Chris Wopat 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hi list folks, I've had an issue with Observium since I *think* 4152 (http://fisheye.observium.org/changelog/Observium?cs=4152) where some authentication stuff was changed. Symptoms are once you log in, your next click may have your session already expired. As an example, I can log in, type something in the search bar, it may immediately report that the session is expired. If I simply leave the browser open on a page, it typically will just auto expire at some random period of time, all of which is under an hour. It appears to be very random so difficult to troubleshoot. This happens weather you choose to save your session or not. I've enabled PHP session debugging to write to files, contents of those seem fine. I've also cleared out `users_ckeys` table, no changes. I've also enabled php error logging in my apache config, but observium is overwritting this with ini_set all over the place which makes that somewhat futile. I've tested this on multiple systems, with built in auth and LDAP auth. Common denominator in this case is that my systems are FreeBSD, not Linux. Basically I'm checking if anyone else has encountered this at all, or if any other FreeBSD users are NOT having any issues. Info about my main observium install: FreeBSD 9.1 PHP+Modules 5.4.20 I've tested with PHP's APC on and off php Memory limit = 256 I've mentioned this with devs many times over the last 6 months, they effectively consider FreeBSD unsupported so don't really care. It all certainly worked perfectly prior to that auth update, nothing has changed on my systems since then except standard package updates. Thoughts? --Chris

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KVM Virtual Machine Monitoring
by Lane Eckley 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hi Guys, Our purchase of the subscription version of Observium is pending, but meanwhile I am looking to see if anyone has been using the KVM virtual machine monitoring built into Observium. I am curious if Observium is pulling the CPU, RAM, etc. for the KVM virtual machines running on each of the hypervisors or if its only monitoring whether the virtual machine is powered on or not. I read over the documentation, but unfortunately was unable to get it working at all thus far and am assuming its due to the free version not supporting. Thanks in advance! -Lane

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Problems with MIBS included with observium...
by Ricardo M Meleschi 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hello, Does anyone else see a large number of MIBs that cause errors when attempting to do snmp walks/gets? When I had the free version of Observium, I simply removed the offending MIBs from /opt/observium/mibs but since I have moved to the SVN version, this may become more of an annoyance since I will be updating frequently, and may actually need the MIBs as I find other uses for Observium. I'm getting many errors similar to this: Cannot find module (ZYXEL-MIB): At line 10 in /opt/observium/mibs/220AQV1C0-private However, in this case (and probably many others) ZYXEL-MIB exists just fine in /opt/observium/mibs/zyxel/ZYXEL-MIB. My snmp.conf is as follows: /opt/observium/mibs# cat /etc/snmp/snmp.conf # # As the snmp packages come without MIB files due to license reasons, loading # of MIBs is disabled by default. If you added the MIBs you can reenable # loaging them by commenting out the following line. #mibDirs +/sw/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp:/opt/observium/mibs mibDirs +/opt/observium/mibs mibs all showMibErrors no I am sure I'm just missing something simple but it's escaping me at the moment. Thanks, Ricardo Meleschi

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Broken jpgraph Images
by John Macleod 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

I have never used the "billing" side of Observium even though I have been using several (subscription) instances of Observium for a while now. Today I wanted to play with the Billing features and followed the jpgraph install prompt, however the graphs appear as broken images. With the debug=1 flag I see the following: > $varsSELECT * FROM `devices_perms` WHERE `user_id` = '1' string(51) SELECT * FROM `ports_perms` WHERE `user_id` = '1' string(49) SELECT * FROM `bill_perms` WHERE `user_id` = '1' string(48) SELECT * from `bills` WHERE `bill_id`= '2' LIMIT 1 string(50) SELECT count(`delta`) FROM `bill_data` WHERE `bill_id` = '2' AND `timestamp` >= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1393653600' ) AND `timestamp` <= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1396328399' ) string(158) SELECT *, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(timestamp) AS formatted_date FROM bill_data WHERE bill_id = '2' AND `timestamp` >= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1393653600' ) AND `timestamp` <= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1396328399' ) ORDER BY timestamp ASC string(209) JpGraph Error: 25082 Illegal sizes specified for width or height when creating an image, (width=0, height=0) Thanks! John

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Cannot Login via Web Interface
by Luis Quintana 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Not sure what direction to go with this. My instance of observium has been working great ever since I deployed it. A peer of mine decided to add hosts to the host file, and in doing so, somehow messed with something that does not allow us to log back in via web/gui. I can ssh to the device and have looked at every possible log in /var/log, but do not see anything that stands out. I also try to investigate the log while I attempt logging in via gui, and nothing is seen. I took a look at the install documentation to see if anything stands out there, that may lead me in the right direction but do not find anything, other than probably reinstalling which I am trying to avoid (i'll have to look at how to preserve current files, etc once reinstalling if i go down that road). Is there anything else that I can possibly look at to get a better direction and try to isolate this? I can't imagine him modifying the /etc/hosts file would affect logging into observium via the front end gui. Thanks for any help you guys can provide!

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Web Session Expired
by Chip Pleasants 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hoping someone could point me in the right direction. When I click on the Temperature Under Health on the main heading I get a red "No Auth" on all the mini graphs. I also I see "Session Expired, Please Login Again!" when I roll over the device name on that same page. This happen every time I perform this action no matter if I have just logged in. This only happen for Temperature under the main heading. I don't see the behavior on any other graph. Even when I go into any device click Health and then Temperature I can see the graph and do not get the "No Auth". I am using ldap against AD for my authentication. I've looked at the apache logs and don't see any glaring issues. PHP and Apache should have defaults. I sess the sessions in /var/lib/php/session/ being created. Any suggestions on troubleshooting this odd behavior? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Thanks, Chip

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Some problems with device polling.
by Sergey T 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi! There is a problem with some devices. polling fulfills, but no changes to the mysql. sql query configured correctly (if i run in devug mode ./poller.php -d -h xx and its screen output manually add to the database - all works correctly) remove the device and add it again does not help with such a device, the above problems have -- Sergey Tkachenko CTO Soniko-Svyaz +38-050-3266737

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Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface
by Tom Laermans 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi Marco, If you no longer trust your database, copy over the rrd folder, then run add_device.php for all your hosts. You could do this with a for loop if you extract the hostnames from your old devices table. That said, I doubt there will be much wrong with your devices table, your plan should work just as well. However, I'm quite intrigued as to what causes/d your issue. Tom Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: >Hi Adam, > > thanks for your reply. I get no extra info by adding /debug=1/ to the url. >You had also suggested to launch a new discovery for upgrading the database, but that's actually what probably broke the system, as the database is the only thing I had insanely not made a backup of, before upgrading. >Now a roll back does not work, probably because the database is corrupted. > >As somebody stated earlier, it looks very much like a php session issue. >However, what I do know is that I re-made a fresh installation by using the stable version this time, and it worked. > >Now the question is: >how can I move the devices database without importing the corruption to the new database? >If I just import the devices tables and the rrd folder and I launch a discovery, would that work? > >thanks 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.________________________________________ >From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] >Sent: 19 March 2014 05:45 >To: Observium Network Observation System >Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > >Hi, > >There were some changes made recently, but no one who upgraded reported >any issues at the time. > >It's particularly odd if it happens to a /new/ installation (assuming it >also had a new database). > >Do you get anything useful if you put /debug=1/ in the URL? > >adam. > > >On 2014-03-18 09:49, Marco Spicuglia wrote: >> I restarted Apache and rebooted the server, still the same. >> I tried making a fresh Observium installation with a new database, new >> admins and by trying with the trunk and the stable version. Same >> result. >> No partition is full. The tmp partition has a 2% usage only. The only >> observium files I get in there are observium-agent-apache and >> observium-agent-mysql. >> I cannot find any related error message anywhere. What's weird is that >> it was working fine, then it suddenly stopped. >> No idea what happened, but this is a production monitoring system for >> us and I have to fix it asap! >> Rolling back to the old backup did not work either, still cannot login. >> >> Looking forward to hear from anybody who may have any other suggestion. >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> 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.________________________________________ >> From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom >> Laermans [tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx] >> Sent: 18 March 2014 15:56 >> To: Observium Network Observation System >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface >> >> Marco specified that's not the case, however, those are all the >> symptoms of failing PHP session creation indeed. >> >> Check if /tmp also isn't full? >> >> I had the same issue on my test box a few days ago; there an apache >> restart fixed it. No idea what caused it. >> >> On 18/03/2014 15:18, Chris K. wrote: >> Check if filesystem is full. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Marco Spicuglia >> <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@reasonnet.com>> >> wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> I wonder if anybody can help me. >> >> After upgrading from community to subscription version, I was happily >> browsing the new features, but after some time (about half hour) all >> users here got logged out and nobody could login any more. >> No error messages, we just get the login page again. >> >> My hard disk is not full. >> I successfully created a new admin user but also cannot login. >> I cleaned the cache, the history and the cookies of the browser. >> If I check the table authlog in the database, it reports both old and >> new admin as regularly logged in. >> >> Is there anything I am missing? Any step I forgot during upgrade? Any >> cache/session I should clear server side? >> >> Your help is welcome. >> >> 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<http://www.reasonnet.com> >> E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@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.________________________________________ >> From: observium >> [observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] >> On Behalf Of Luis Quintana >> [sla07(a)earthlink.net<mailto:sla07@earthlink.net>] >> Sent: 12 February 2014 16:04 >> To: Observium Network Observation System >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface >> >> I greatly appreciate the help on it too!! Thanks guys! >> >> On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:02 AM, "Kulish, Chris" >> <chris.kulish(a)pioneer.com<mailto:chris.kulish@pioneer.com>> wrote: >> >> Simple is my middle name! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: observium >> [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] >> On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong >> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:27 PM >> To: Observium Network Observation System >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface >> >> On 2014-02-11 11:50, Kulish, Chris wrote: >> If the filesystem full? >> >> Want simple solutions, ask a simple person. >> >> adam. >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >> This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains >> information that may be Privileged, confidential or copyrighted under >> applicable law. 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install observium through cpanel
by tech8.otelafrica 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi Guys I was asked to find out if anyone knows if we can install observium through cpanel? Regards Anton

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Alerts
by Josh Hopper 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Is there a guide on how to best setup alerts for all devices? I found: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker I want to set thresholds for DISK, RAM, CPU, UP/DOWN, and RX/TX Limits for all devices. Is there a particular Device Association or Entity Association I'm supposed to use? I figured I would set some general and then get specific with alerts by hostname for specific instances I want to monitor. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CF4208.DDB37150] 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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svn update not fully working (v0.14.2.5106)
by Marco Zberg 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi guys Currently I wonder why I can't update to the latest version from SVN? We have 2 observium instances, if I do a "svn update" one installation does not update to the latest version. It will always update the revision (5106) but not to the latest v0.14.3.5106, instead it will have v0.14.2.5106. *** [root@vsrvobs01 observium]# svn update At revision 5106. [root@vsrvobs01 observium]# /opt/observium/discovery.php -h none Observium v0.14.2.5106 Discovery Current Revision : 5106 MySQL: Cell[2/0s] Row[16/0s] Rows[3/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[0/0s] Delete[0/0s] *** Thanks for any help or tipps. BR Marco 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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Alert Emails
by Nicholas Schmidt 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Ive followed the documentation but cannot get email alerting working. I see nothing in my mail log from Observium and other mailings on the system work without issue (RANCID, using the mail command from shell) so I believe it related to something I am doing wrong in Observium or PHP. It also looks as though whats in config.php.default doesn't match whats documented in the wiki. Ill gladly update it once I figure out which is correct. I am running Observium build 0.14.3.5112 on Debian 5.5.35-0 My config.php based on config.php.defaults , which differs slightly from http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Alert_Settings $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Network Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "noc(a)mediamath.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; -Nick

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WSMan integration - several questions
by Sascha Schaal 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

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