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overview page on a device
by Jeremy Spiesser Azuria 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hello, for some time, the home page of devices is no longer displayed. I have no error in the apache logs and php. So how do I enable debug? thank you ------------------------- Jeremy SPIESSER dir +33(0)144543000 fax +33(0)959862250 gsm +33(0)622128175 ------------------------- SARL AZURIA 34 Bd des Italiens F-75009 PARIS http://www.azuria.com ------------------------------------------ The information in this email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure, and are intended for the named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use the information in this email or any files transmitted with it. ------------------------------------------------

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Possible to ignore interfaces without description with the bad_if_ filter?
by Fredrik Korsbäck 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hello list. As the topic suggests. My enviroment somewhat relies on ports in the network having a interface description, graphing, billing, provisioning, rancid, and a few other stuffs gets activated whenever a description get set. I would like Observium to behave in such manner aswell - ive put up a feature request on this in Jira but now that ive read up abit more i realise that this could possible be achieved through the built-in filters. Has anyone built a smart regexp or something with the already available filters? We run a juniper-setup with alot of pretty beefy routers so there is about 600 interfaces on each machine, where i would like to graph at tops 100 of them, the 100 with a description :) And thanks for a great monitoring tool! Br, -- Fredrik Korsbäck

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Re: [Observium] Adding Bind9 stats into Observium for trending/graphing?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Tom and everyone, Thanks for the information. I got the powers that be to open up the observium port and I’ve been getting some great data ever since. I appreciate the assistance. Ricardo On some random date Tom wrote: Nope. Tom On 22/02/2014 00:19, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: > I can't use the observium agent on my dns server actually. While snmp is an approved app, the observium agent is not. Is there no way for me to give Observium a list of OIDs to poll and graph, ala a cacti xml file? > > Thanks, > Ricardo > > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Cameron Daniel wrote: > >> On 2014-02-22 7:24 am, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: >>> I've recently (as in the last 3 or 4 days) began configuring >>> Observium for the purpose of getting some good trending data out of my >>> bind servers. I noticed in the demo, there is an APP drop down, and >>> BIND is listed as one of the supported applications. I am having a >>> difficult time figuring out how to get Observium to monitor my bind >>> servers however. >> The application monitoring comes from the unix agent - http://www.observium.org/wiki/UNIX_Agent >> >> It's not too difficult to set up, the files you need are in /opt/observium/scripts. Once you've got the agent working, you may need to enable it under the Poller Modules for the specific host.

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ITWatchDog Support ?
by Ryan Prihoda 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hey all, I have a WatchDog 15-P environmental monitor I'd like to see the temperature in observium. Do you all have any plans to support this device ? I did not see it listed on the supported devices page. Thanks, R. Prihoda

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GeoLocation
by Johnathon Voegeli 17 Mar '14

17 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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Getting billing data out of Observium via SQL
by Scott Brawner 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

I'm looking to get the billing data out of observium for monthly executive reviews. For some reason the CIO wants it in Excel (boo.) What I'm interested in mostly are the Avg in, Avg out, 95th in and 95th out for each billed circuit on a monthly basis. If anyone has done this, please let me know how or if you have queries, I'd love to see them. Thanks! Best regards, Scott Brawner

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Fortinet Support
by Ninja Data 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

I wanted to start by saying Observium is so awesome! I wish I would of found it sooner! So I'm trying to add my Fortinet firewalls to Observium. I see that I can add specific MIBs for Fortigates, but I didn't see the latest D series on the list. I'm not exactly sure how to add the Fortigates. I'm unable to create a DNS entry for the firewall, and I know it's dependent on DNS. I'm very new and not exactly sure how to go about this addon. Can anybody shed some light and point me in the right direction. Also, I read that if a custom MIB wasn't written for the device that one can donate. How do I go about doing that? I would love to see the latest Fortinets(and older of course) in Observium. Cheers,

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New user - network topo map question
by LC Jones 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

New observium user with question on topology map. Under device>ports>map .... I have one device with 5 ports pointing to their respective far end ports. Three arrows are gray (gig-eth), one arrow is blue (gig-eth) and one arrow is red (tengig-eth). What is the difference between a gray arrow, blue arrow and red arrow? lcjones

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device_ucd_load Graphs
by Daniel Knights 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Hi, Hoping someone can help. Since upgrading to the latest version using the SVN the device_ucd_load graphs have stopped generating and are no longer displayed within Observium. We use an external website and link to these graphs so our clients can view the server load and it'd be handy to get them working again. Were they disabled/removed in the latest version? Is there any way to get them back? Thanks

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FreeBSD Instalation
by Michel Braga Guimaraes 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

How, everyone. I'd like to know if someone there has Observium installed in a FreeBSD server. I have one Observium installed in a FreeBSD server, and other installed in a Ubuntu Server. The Ubuntu one works perfectly, but in my FreeBSD, there is no that Health tab, that shows me Processors information, Mempool information, Power information. That velocimeter icon,([image: Inline image 1]), doesn't shows up for me, I don't know if it can be some mib missing, but I don~t think so, cause I already installed net-snmp, I configured snmp.conf with snmpconf -i and etc... I don't know what else to do. Do someone there has a recipe, to make Observium works properly on FreeBSD? Best Regards, -- *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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Locations dropdown on front page
by Scott Brawner 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Was wondering if there were any plans to implement sorting on the Locations dropdown, it's a little messy. 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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Alerts for users
by Joarli Leandro [INITNET] 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Hi, I setting a new user for access only 2 server on my Observium. The access is ok, but in the top, the box alerts show 7 on total...not only 2 for the 2 servers of client. I have only 7 alerts in all the system. See the picture below. Thanks -- Joarli Leandro Tel: (11) 4478-6171 jleandro(a)initnet.com.br

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Graphing used RAM from free command
by David Reagan 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

When looking at RAM usage, the number I've always cared the most about is the number from the "used" column and "-/+ buffers/cache" row when I run the "free" command. Like: # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 16389700 15802892 586808 0 622824 3345472 -/+ buffers/cache: 11834596 4555104 Swap: 4089852 51536 4038316 I don't see any graph that looks like it contains that information. I see the memory pool graph, but it show much higher usage that I actually have because of how Linux manages RAM. So, any thoughts on how I could get Observium to graph what I want? Thanks! David Reagan Web Systems Administrator Information Technology Lane Community College Office Phone: 541-463-3376 Email: reagand(a)lanecc.edu

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How do i match more then one hostname in one alert check
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

[cid:image001.png@01CF3ED3.83EDE020] This does not work I only want up and down on core ports. Med venlig hilsen | Best regards Thomas Raabo Netværksansvarlig CCIE #33466 Zitcom A/S Telefon: 70 40 00 00 E-mail: kontakt(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:kontakt@zitcom.dk> Direkte: 69 10 60 18 Direkte: tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk> [cid:image005.jpg@01CEDC86.E897E480]<http://www.zitcom.dk/>

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Missing graph
by Paolo De Michele 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Ei guys, I followed the wiki instrunctions but actually I didn't see graphic data I'm using CentOS 6.4 x32 but I didn't understand this problem rrdtool are installed and the directory /opt/observium/ is chowned by apache:apache How can I fix it? Thanks in advance Regards

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Smokeping tab gone on holiday
by Robert Williams 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi – our Smokeping tab has vanished mysteriously. Not sure exactly when but definitely within the last week. The setting is still there: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/"; Plus the script which auto-generates the Targets file with the correct formatting is still there also and running ok (extract below): echo "*** Targets ***\n\nprobe = FPing\n\nmenu = Top\ntitle = Network Latency Grapher\nremark = Welcome to SmokePing\n\n"; $query = mysql_query("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `ignore`=0 AND `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname"); while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { $hostid = str_replace(".","_",$data['hostname']); $hostname = $data['hostname']; echo "+ $hostid\n\nhost = $hostname\n\n"; } Making hosts that look like: + sw-msl-pab-52_mastv_local host = sw-msl-pab-52.mastv.local So the targets file itself looks good and the Smokeping site is running fine if you browse it directly. The RRDs are all in /var/lib/smokeping/ and we are SVN up’ing daily. Host names are unchanged and it has been working fine for over a year so I’m lost as to why it would disappear now. It’s gone for all hosts as far as I can tell? I have no idea how to debug it as it’s not a poller / discovery thing, so any pointers as to what might be broken please? Cheers :) Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Observium time
by Joshua Elson 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Is it possible to change observium to pacific daylight time (PDT)? When we bring up our graphs it seems it's in GMT or some other format 9 hours off which is a pain to pinpoint exact times things are happening. Thanks in advance, Josh ________________________________ This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic mail or its contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety.

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Billing Module and Bill Date
by Chris Bissell 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

I had a question on how the Bill Date is implemented. Currently we have it set to 1 as our normal billing cycle is the 1st through last day of the month. However the process of getting the API data from Observium and getting that data into our Billing system is a manual process. The API data I'm getting is from the 'type=list' format which doesn't appear to accept start and end dates. I'd like to use this API call simply because it has the billing value of 95th already calculated per bill. My question is if our billing system makes that API call on April 3rd, what data does it get? Does it get the last full month from March 1st through 31st, or is it getting the data from April 1st through April 3rd? -- Chris Bissell - CTO FRII - 970.212.0723 cbissell(a)frii.net

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Prevent creation of RRD files on ignored/disabled ports
by Remco Bressers 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

I'm running Observium on a fairly large network with a few Cisco 7200's running 1000+ subinterfaces and 1000+ virtual-access interfaces. These interfaces are ignored with the "bad_if_regexp" configuration variable in config.php but RRD files are still generated and the "device total traffic" graph takes ages to generate which is not optimal. The RRD files are using lot's of diskspace and we're really only interested in uplinks instead of customer interfaces. Is there a way to prevent interfaces in the bad_if or bad_if_regexp to be polled altogether without writing RRD files? Kind regards, Remco Bressers Signet B.V.

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Cisco ACE 4710 ServerFarms
by Christopher Noyes 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

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traffic 0bps / 0pps
by Gregory Storme 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Hi, I'm running Observium 0.14.3.5094 on Debian 7, followed the installation guide. The problem is that the traffic, displayed under the ports overview, is 0bps / 0pps. When hovering over that port, or clicking on it, the graphs do display the traffic correctly. Some devices their ports do display the traffic number as well, but the majority doesn't. I can't figure out why the traffic on some ports is displayed correct, while it's not on all the others. I don't think it's not a problem on the devices being polled, because I'm running 2 observium versions for testing purposes (0.13.10.4585 & 0.14.3.5094), and on v13 the traffic for device X is displayed correctly, while on v14 the traffic for that device is 0bps/0pps on all ports (graphs work fine). And the other way around for device Y. These are Cisco and Juniper devices being polled. All the graphs work fine. I have attached these screenshots to clarify what I mean: The port graphs:

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Enable Eventlog RSS
by Onno van der Leun 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Hi, I noticed a new feature in the changelog of februari: Add RSS/ATOM output for eventlogs So I just updated to 0.14.3.5094 but can't find the RSS feed option anywhere? Could someone please tell me how to get the RSS output of events? Regards, Onno.

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Host down and up every 5 min.
by Joarli Leandro [INITNET] 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Good morning, I have a problem I can not solve. I have two installations of observium, CE and SUBSCRIPTION, on 2 different servers. My hosts are all down , 5 minutes after up. In both servers. When I go to check, no host had fallen, and neither appears in the logs instability. I installed another server, running only the SNMP and a dedicated link, and even then it falls and rises in 5 minutes. What can it be? All three devices are dedicated to Observium, 1 physical machine, and another virtual. The client host only with SNMP are physical. All in 3 diferents Datacenter. See an example below. 2014-03-10 13:25:02 Machine1 System Device status changed to Up 2014-03-10 13:25:02 Machine2 System Device status changed to Up 2014-03-10 13:20:04 Machine1 System Device status changed to Down (ping) 2014-03-10 13:20:04 Machine2 System Device status changed to Down (ping) -- Joarli Leandro Tel: (11) 4478-6171 jleandro(a)initnet.com.br

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Re: [Observium] Smokeping tab gone on holiday
by Tim Calvin 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

Having same issues. No ping tab. Everything configured the same as when it was working. Not sure what SVN it disappeared. Running Latest. From: Robert Williams <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com>> Reply-To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 4:47 AM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Smokeping tab gone on holiday Hi - our Smokeping tab has vanished mysteriously. Not sure exactly when but definitely within the last week. The setting is still there: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/"; Plus the script which auto-generates the Targets file with the correct formatting is still there also and running ok (extract below): echo "*** Targets ***\n\nprobe = FPing\n\nmenu = Top\ntitle = Network Latency Grapher\nremark = Welcome to SmokePing\n\n"; $query = mysql_query("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `ignore`=0 AND `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname"); while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { $hostid = str_replace(".","_",$data['hostname']); $hostname = $data['hostname']; echo "+ $hostid\n\nhost = $hostname\n\n"; } Making hosts that look like: + sw-msl-pab-52_mastv_local host = sw-msl-pab-52.mastv.local So the targets file itself looks good and the Smokeping site is running fine if you browse it directly. The RRDs are all in /var/lib/smokeping/ and we are SVN up'ing daily. Host names are unchanged and it has been working fine for over a year so I'm lost as to why it would disappear now. It's gone for all hosts as far as I can tell? I have no idea how to debug it as it's not a poller / discovery thing, so any pointers as to what might be broken please? Cheers :) Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com> http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Alert on Reboot Device?
by Ryan, Spencer J. 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

Is there a way to trigger an alert when a device reboots? If that isn't possible could we trigger if "Uptime" is under some preset amount of time? ________________________________ 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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