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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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Port Descriptions
by gregorcy 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Hi, I am trying to setup port descriptions but I am not sure where I tell observium which port is a "core" port. This is a link to the documentation but I am not sure where to specify it. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Interface_Description_Parsing Thanks for the help, -- Cheers, Brian Gregorcy IT Manager University of Utah Department of Chemical Engineering 801.585.7170

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monitoring/alerting
by Joshua Elson 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Hi All, Does Observium have the capabilities to monitor and alert when file systems grow above a certain threshold? Say 80% full? I didn't see this in the documentation. 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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Re: [Observium] excel
by Rob VanHooren 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

fwiw, could pull sql data with odbc too. did that recently, to save a cow orker ... he was fearing hundreds of cut & pastes. maybe I shoulda let him suffer? <evil grin> R. Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPad > On Mar 6, 2014, at 4:37 PM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > 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. February Changelog (Adam Armstrong) > 2. Graph Data in Excel (Luis Quintana) > 3. monitoring/alerting (Joshua Elson) > 4. Re: Graph Data in Excel (Adam Armstrong) > 5. Re: Graph Data in Excel (Shayne Lebrun) > 6. Re: monitoring/alerting (Adam Armstrong) > 7. Re: Graph Data in Excel (Luis Quintana) > 8. Re: Graph Data in Excel (Luis Quintana) > 9. Re: Graphing Apple Airport traffic (Steve Evans) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:21:18 -0600 > From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Subject: [Observium] February Changelog > Message-ID: <d06e945c01b583cf085f5a727381d4e2(a)memetic.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Le changelogue du februarois > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#February_2014 > > adam. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 14:37:49 -0600 > From: Luis Quintana <sla07(a)earthlink.net> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] Graph Data in Excel > Message-ID: <C1C8BA97-11A3-4981-A26C-620CA597D0E7(a)earthlink.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Is there any way to pull graph data into an excel sheet? It seems like it would be something that I need to export off of a specific rrd file and convert to csv/excel, or is there any other way to do this? > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:41:18 +0000 > From: Joshua Elson <jelson(a)maxlinear.com> > To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] monitoring/alerting > Message-ID: > <C20071DB41B55E42A74D4CABEDB29B05271BC825(a)USMXLMBX01.maxlinear.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi All, > Does Observium have the capabilities to monitor and alert when file systems grow above a certain threshold? Say 80% full? > > I didn't see this in the documentation. > > 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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Graph Data in Excel
by Luis Quintana 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Is there any way to pull graph data into an excel sheet? It seems like it would be something that I need to export off of a specific rrd file and convert to csv/excel, or is there any other way to do this?

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February Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Le changelogue du februarois http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#February_2014 adam.

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GlusterFS / Partition
by Daniel Beruben 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hi, We use GlusterFS for our storages and we have partitions more than 73 TB , in Observium it's seem notrecognized. It shows us that 8TB. What is the status ? Someone has an idea? a tweak? **************************************************************************************************************** nagios-plugins-snmp-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64 net-snmp-libs-5.5-49.el6.x86_64 net-snmp-5.5-49.el6.x86_64 net-snmp-utils-5.5-49.el6.x86_64 10:57:04 AM Linux 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux **************************************************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /dev/md4 73T 35M 73T 1% /brick0 /dev/md9 73T 35M 73T 1% /brick1 /dev/md10 73T 35M 73T 1% /brick2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beruben Daniel

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smokeping graphs in observium (loss of information)
by Martin Smith 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hello, I have a quick question about Smokeping integration with Observium. It's working but the graphs are displayed with less information. Is it possible for Observium to display the graphs in the same fashion as native Smokeping? For example, smoke goes "up" from the baseline, packet loss displayed in a different color according to percent loss. Comparison image here: http://s14.postimg.org/vti7xyo5t/smokeping_vs_observium.png Thank you for your time, -Martin

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Re: [Observium] Port tracking issue with IPv6
by Maxence BITTERLI 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

I didn't change anything on my observium server, I got no traffic since I added these servers. ls -l /opt/observium/rrd/s29.inter.net/port-* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-1.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-2.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-3.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-4.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-5.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-6.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ s29.inter.net/port-7.rrd I added my poller output with debug option. Thanks for your answer. Maxence 2014-03-05 12:36 GMT+01:00 Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx>: > Permission problem on your RRD file? Run poller with debug option to see > what's going on. > > v6 is certainly not related. > > > On 03/05/2014 10:17 AM, Maxence BITTERLI wrote: > > Hi, > > On some machines (debian 6 & 7) I don't have any output of my bandwidth. > Port information are correct, I can see correct MAC and all IP address > associated to this port but my graph are empty. > > Poller output for eth0 : > [ifIndex] => 4 > [ifDescr] => eth0 > [ifType] => ethernetCsmacd > [ifMtu] => 1500 > [ifSpeed] => 1000000000 > [ifPhysAddress] => 8:x0:xe:xc:ex:xe > [ifAdminStatus] => up > [ifOperStatus] => up > [ifLastChange] => 0:0:00:00.00 > [ifInOctets] => 529940242 > [ifInUcastPkts] => 225555807 > [ifInNUcastPkts] => 0 > [ifInDiscards] => 0 > [ifInErrors] => 0 > [ifInUnknownProtos] => 0 > [ifOutOctets] => 1075923292 > [ifOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 > [ifOutNUcastPkts] => 0 > [ifOutDiscards] => 0 > [ifOutErrors] => 0 > [ifOutQLen] => 0 > [ifSpecific] => zeroDotZero > [ifName] => eth0 > [ifInMulticastPkts] => 0 > [ifInBroadcastPkts] => 0 > [ifOutMulticastPkts] => 0 > [ifOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 > [ifHCInOctets] => 56364515090 > [ifHCInUcastPkts] => 225555807 > [ifHCInMulticastPkts] => 0 > [ifHCInBroadcastPkts] => 0 > [ifHCOutOctets] => 275953830236 > [ifHCOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 > [ifHCOutMulticastPkts] => 0 > [ifHCOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 > [ifHighSpeed] => 1000 > [ifPromiscuousMode] => false > [ifConnectorPresent] => true > [ifAlias] => > [ifCounterDiscontinuityTime] => 0:0:00:00.00 > > Linux 3.10.9-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 (Debian 7) > This interface support IPv4 & IPv6 and I actually have some traffic on > it. > > At first I thougth it was a probleme with IPv4 + v6 but I also got an > old machine with IPv4 only and this machine got empty graph too. > > Any idea to solve this ? > > Maxence > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > >

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S Dnem Rozhdeniya!
by Rob VanHooren 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

and *nobody* took a moment to say it yesterday? better late than never :-) cheers, R. > On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:09 AM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > 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. Re: Graphing Apple Airport traffic (Adam Armstrong) > 2. Re: Graphing Apple Airport traffic (Tom Laermans) > 3. Re: Port tracking issue with IPv6 (Maxence BITTERLI) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:50:44 -0600 > From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Graphing Apple Airport traffic > Message-ID: <15b4e7a93cae33d4399a815bbd24074e(a)memetic.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > Depends upon how it's done, probably not with the stuff being dropped > into "graphs", but if it's written in a sensible fashion I can probably > move it to a better place. > > adam. > >> On 2014-03-05 19:57, Steve Evans wrote: >> Some hacking later, I have each of my airport base stations reporting >> the WiFi stats seen by their clients thus: >> >> Is this of interest for the greater good? >> >> Steve >> >> On 23 Feb 2014, at 22:46, Steve Evans <Steve(a)SCEvans.com> wrote: >> >> Tracking roaming could be very useful for understanding where wifi >> access points are needed. Much of the power in data is the associations >> between it. Several years ago I authored the SUN-PLATFORM-MIB as an >> extension to the ENTITY-MIB. That was all about associations. >> >> Steve >> >> On 23 Feb 2014, at 21:55, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >> >> On 2014-02-23 14:50, Steve Evans wrote: >> One challenge, if graphing the wirelessClientsTable, would be the fact >> that as the clients came and went their corresponding entries in the >> tables would come and go. There would therefore be gaps in the >> recording of packets associated with these nodes. That's a fairly >> simple concept, but how would you manage roaming whereby a client hops >> between base stations? Would you try to tie these together so that a >> trace of traffic associated with such a client, irrespective of base >> station would be available? I think that decision might shape any >> framework; ie would it be base station or client centric? Of course >> more than one view may be desirable. >> >> And you see why no one has written any software to do this before... >> >> I try to stay away from recording any history for transient things, >> we'll store a count and sometimes a snapshot of the state, but more >> than that usually not. >> >> Though, it depends how useful it would be in the end. We do store >> history for MAC accounting, and this is vaguely similar. >> >> adam. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:00:28 +0100 > From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Graphing Apple Airport traffic > Message-ID: <53182B1C.3040806(a)powersource.cx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > The current very simple "wifi client count" was/is also under > graphs/wireless, which is probably why it's there in Steve's patch. :-) > >> On 06/03/2014 03:50, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> >> Depends upon how it's done, probably not with the stuff being dropped >> into "graphs", but if it's written in a sensible fashion I can >> probably move it to a better place. >> >> adam. >> >>> On 2014-03-05 19:57, Steve Evans wrote: >>> Some hacking later, I have each of my airport base stations reporting >>> the WiFi stats seen by their clients thus: >>> >>> Is this of interest for the greater good? >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> On 23 Feb 2014, at 22:46, Steve Evans <Steve(a)SCEvans.com> wrote: >>> >>> Tracking roaming could be very useful for understanding where wifi >>> access points are needed. Much of the power in data is the >>> associations between it. Several years ago I authored the >>> SUN-PLATFORM-MIB as an extension to the ENTITY-MIB. That was all >>> about associations. >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> On 23 Feb 2014, at 21:55, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 2014-02-23 14:50, Steve Evans wrote: >>> One challenge, if graphing the wirelessClientsTable, would be the fact >>> that as the clients came and went their corresponding entries in the >>> tables would come and go. There would therefore be gaps in the >>> recording of packets associated with these nodes. That's a fairly >>> simple concept, but how would you manage roaming whereby a client hops >>> between base stations? Would you try to tie these together so that a >>> trace of traffic associated with such a client, irrespective of base >>> station would be available? I think that decision might shape any >>> framework; ie would it be base station or client centric? Of course >>> more than one view may be desirable. >>> >>> And you see why no one has written any software to do this before... >>> >>> I try to stay away from recording any history for transient things, >>> we'll store a count and sometimes a snapshot of the state, but more >>> than that usually not. >>> >>> Though, it depends how useful it would be in the end. We do store >>> history for MAC accounting, and this is vaguely similar. >>> >>> adam. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:11:59 +0100 > From: Maxence BITTERLI <maxence(a)definima.com> > To: observium <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Port tracking issue with IPv6 > Message-ID: > <CAN1+dXc-STXEws4p0vdduNKD=Hn0DZ4yRL3iX561aXpnYMw_pg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I didn't change anything on my observium server, I got no traffic since I > added these servers. > ls -l /opt/observium/rrd/s29.inter.net/port-* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-1.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-2.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-3.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-4.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-5.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-6.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1739144 mars 6 11:00 /opt/observium/rrd/ > s29.inter.net/port-7.rrd > > I added my poller output with debug option. > > Thanks for your answer. > > > Maxence > > > 2014-03-05 12:36 GMT+01:00 Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx>: > >> Permission problem on your RRD file? Run poller with debug option to see >> what's going on. >> >> v6 is certainly not related. >> >> >> On 03/05/2014 10:17 AM, Maxence BITTERLI wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On some machines (debian 6 & 7) I don't have any output of my bandwidth. >> Port information are correct, I can see correct MAC and all IP address >> associated to this port but my graph are empty. >> >> Poller output for eth0 : >> [ifIndex] => 4 >> [ifDescr] => eth0 >> [ifType] => ethernetCsmacd >> [ifMtu] => 1500 >> [ifSpeed] => 1000000000 >> [ifPhysAddress] => 8:x0:xe:xc:ex:xe >> [ifAdminStatus] => up >> [ifOperStatus] => up >> [ifLastChange] => 0:0:00:00.00 >> [ifInOctets] => 529940242 >> [ifInUcastPkts] => 225555807 >> [ifInNUcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifInDiscards] => 0 >> [ifInErrors] => 0 >> [ifInUnknownProtos] => 0 >> [ifOutOctets] => 1075923292 >> [ifOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 >> [ifOutNUcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifOutDiscards] => 0 >> [ifOutErrors] => 0 >> [ifOutQLen] => 0 >> [ifSpecific] => zeroDotZero >> [ifName] => eth0 >> [ifInMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifInBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifOutMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCInOctets] => 56364515090 >> [ifHCInUcastPkts] => 225555807 >> [ifHCInMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCInBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCOutOctets] => 275953830236 >> [ifHCOutUcastPkts] => 280183099 >> [ifHCOutMulticastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHCOutBroadcastPkts] => 0 >> [ifHighSpeed] => 1000 >> [ifPromiscuousMode] => false >> [ifConnectorPresent] => true >> [ifAlias] => >> [ifCounterDiscontinuityTime] => 0:0:00:00.00 >> >> Linux 3.10.9-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 (Debian 7) >> This interface support IPv4 & IPv6 and I actually have some traffic on >> it. >> >> At first I thougth it was a probleme with IPv4 + v6 but I also got an >> old machine with IPv4 only and this machine got empty graph too. >> >> Any idea to solve this ? >> >> Maxence >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Polling Taking Longer than 5 minutes for a few devices
by Chip Pleasants 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

I have a few devices that take longer than 5 minutes to poll. Looking at the polling information Observium provides it reports 999.99s for two of the three and the third one reports 975.37s under Last Polled. I believe the result of taking to long o poll is the breaks I see in my graphs for only these three devices. These boxes have about 150 vlan interfaces and are fully populated 6509s. I have adjusted the poller-wrapper.py to 10 and $config['snmp']['max-rep'] = 10 right now. A 4 processor VM averages about 60 cpu utilization constantly. The Server's Disk IO Ops/sec average is about 110. Today I only have 52 out of 1300 devices loaded into it. Any suggestions to speed up the polling on these few boxes or is the only solution add another polling server and do odd even or something of that nature. Maybe there is another issue I'm not seeing? Thanks in advance for any assistance/direction. -Chip

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F5 Load Balancers
by Adam Mills 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Has any done any development on monitoring of F5s? Around monitoring of VIPs, conns per second, pool members, etc? -- Adam Mills Network Engineer Email: amills(a)riotgames.com Mobile: +1(702)595-2188 Skype: thegeneralmills IGN: GeneralMills (NA/OCE/LAs/BR), RiotGeneral(EUN/EUW) [image: Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image003.png@01CCBFC7.77B37AF0] www.riotgames.com www.leagueoflegends.com

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overall_traffic on front page, showing peering when peering is disabled.
by Matt Ladewig 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

I have transit, customer, and core traffic interfaces descriptions setup and working. No peering interfaces have been defined. Peering interfaces menu items are disabled with $config['int_peering'] = 0; However, when overall_traffic is added to the $config['frontpage']['order'] array, "Overall Peering Traffic Today" and "Overall Transit & Peering Traffic This Month" headers are displayed with broken image placeholders that link back to the url/iftype/type=peering/ and url/iftype/type=peering%2Ctransit/ respectively. Not a big issue, but from a consistency standpoint, it would make sense to disable the overall peering traffic views if $config['int_peering'] = 0; is set. Matt

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mysqld.sock error?
by Luis Quintana 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

I have been recently seeing this error pop up, whenever trying to login to my observium instance, and was wondering if anyone had experienced this before. This is an install I did back around October of 2013 and other then expanding the hdd, a month or so ago, I havent really messed with the settings (the first time i saw this was about a week and a half ago or so). After searching on google a little bit, it seems like the socket trying to be leveraged is at location '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' yet when i do a search for '-type s', i only see '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'. The '/etc/mysql/my.cnf' file already lists "socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock" though. Should I just modify the my.cnf file to include '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'? This is the error I get: MySQL Error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)

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observium not showing mac addressses Cisco Switch WS-C3750X-48P-S
by techuser6＠gmail.com 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Problem: I have a Cisco Switch that is not showing the MAC addresses in Observium. I have configured SNMP as according to the IPV4 instructions on the main observium website. My other Cisco devices are showing MAC address information fine. I can do a show mac address-table and everything appears when SSH into the switch. Can someone please advise what I am missing or how to get observium to start showing the MAC addresses of this device? Model number : WS-C3750X-48P-S * 1 54 WS-C3750X-48P 12.2(55)SE C3750E-UNIVERSALK9-M Thanks

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Observium as inventory mgmt?
by Daniel Kasen 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hello all, I've been playing around for the last week and want to say really nice work thus far. But I was wondering if anyone is using this as an inventory system that would be comparable to racktables? Basically allow the user to create a table with software versions acquired through the Unix agent module (not the rpm plugin as this ignores tar installs). From everything I've seen so far it looks like this is more focused on adding custom graphs and not simple text. Have I missed something obvious here, or is this an improper use of the tool on my part? *Daniel Kasen | Data Center Operations Engineer*

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