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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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Storage alerts
by Johnathon Voegeli 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Is it possible to create an alert based on storage % yet? I've tried several ways and failed in a fiery crash. -JV

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Port tracking issue with IPv6
by Maxence BITTERLI 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

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

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please unsubscribe my account
by Rendani Nenzhelele 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

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App Bind - No rrd file
by Maxence BITTERLI 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hi, I enabled bind apps on 2 servers but actually I got no rrd file on my observium server but on the web interface I can see both of them with pic embed but corrupted. Any clue ? Where should I check to try to debug it ? If I try telnet localhost 36602, I can see <<<app-bind-0>>> And I got an output of 1185 lines for this apps, maybe my results is too long ? Thanks for your help :) Maxence

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Re: [Observium] Storage alerts
by Adam Armstrong 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

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Brocade VDX Support?
by Aaron Mayfield 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

I notice my Brocade routers seem to work fine in Observium. What about VDX switches? Does anyone know if Observium can work with these? Currently evaluating switches for our network, and would like to know if this would be a possible issue... Thanks

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Help - Syslog-NG
by Hardcastle, Iain (CBC - Hamilton) 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi all, I have an observium system running quite happily. I've tried to integrate the syslogging functionality but getting strange results. Not sure whether the problem lies with syslog-ng, PHP or the sucking of data into Observium. Let me explain: With syslog-ng started in foreground mode 'syslog-ng -Fevd' everything works as expected. I see syslog packets coming in via tcpdump, I see the log flash up on the terminal and it correctly routes into the right part of the Observium front end. With syslog-ng started as a daemon (the desired config setup), nothing gets to Observium. I can still see the syslog packets in tcpdump obviously but I'm blind as to what happens to the messages after that. One thing I have noticed is that when running syslog-ng in foreground mode, I see "Starting destination program; cmdline='/opt/observium/syslog.php'" in the startup messages and a corresponding process in the ps -lax output "php /opt/observium/syslog.php" With syslog-ng started as a daemon, I do not see this php process. Bit stuck as to where to look next. Has anyone seen this behavior before? Centos6.5 and standard packages and configs. System works great otherwise/ Cheers iain Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see http://www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and its member firms.

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How to disable the "Overall Peering" graph?
by Shane O'Brien 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hello! We are experiencing an issue where we currently have no peering traffic and our Overall Peering graph on our Observium landing page is broken. We'd like to remove it, but when we select the option to not display broken graphs. It removes all of our graphs and not just the single broken one. Any guidance or assistance is appreciated. -Shane

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App Bind - No rrd file
by Maxence BITTERLI 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi, I enabled bind apps on 2 servers but actually I got no rrd file on my observium server but on the web interface I can see both of them with pic embed but corrupted. Any clue ? Where should I check to try to debug it ? If I try telnet localhost 36602, I can see <<<app-bind-0>>> And I got 1185 lines for this apps, maybe my results is too long ? Maxence

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change port name/description?
by Tom De Puysseleyr 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi again, SNMP traps are working (thanks to the wiki), so now I can see nearly immediately when a port on a switch goes down. However, something like "Nortel Networks BayStack 5510-24T Ethernet Switch Module - Unit 1 Port 1" doesn't say much about what exactly went down. Just an idea: would it be possible to provide a way to edit the port names? Mvg, Tom De Puysseleyr Afdeling Informatica T +32 (0) 15 565 238 F +32 (0) 15 565 240 www.belorta.be Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Mempool updates every 6 hours?
by Matt Ladewig 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

This started on the 27th, on my hp gear. I believe I went from 5019 to 5050 around that time. Now at 5058. >From the event log from one device. All HP procurves showing the same. 2014-02-28 12:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-28 12:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-28 06:33:10 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-28 06:33:10 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-28 00:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-28 00:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-27 18:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-27 18:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-27 12:33:10 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-27 12:33:10 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-27 06:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-27 06:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1 2014-02-27 00:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpGlobal, index 1, descr Global Memory 1 2014-02-27 00:33:09 Mempool Memory pool updated: type hpLocal, index 1, descr Local Memory 1

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Vyatta snmpd errors in ports module
by Robert Williams 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

Hi, On the latest version of Vyatta (6.6 R1) we are getting these errors for every physical port on every poller run: snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth5| snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth0| snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth3| snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth2| snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth4| snmpd[3872]: access:dot3StatsTable,interface_ioctl_dot3Stats_get, cannot get stats information for interface |eth1| However everything on the graphs looks fine. I’ve tracked it down to the ports module, which when run by itself causes the errors on the Vyatta box: (The stats are low because it’s not actually in production and only eth4 and eth4.497 are link-up) router.name 311 vyatta (unix) Uptime: 4h 23m 4s Module time: 0.0684s Hardware: Version: Features: VC6.6R1 Serial: Asset: Module time: 0.0132s Caching Oids: ifEntry ifXEntry dot3StatsDuplexStatus Port Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller(2) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller(3) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller(4) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller(5) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection(6) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(20.6kbps/13.8kbps)bytes(58kB/38.9kB)pkts(12.9pps/13.0pps) Checking alerts Port Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection(7) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port eth4.497(8) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(18.3kbps/13.0kbps)bytes(51.5kB/36.5kB)pkts(12.9pps/13.0pps) Checking alerts Module time: 0.3932s Polled in 0.5376 seconds Now this doesn’t occur when polling Vyatta 6.5 R1 so I appreciate it’s probably something which has changed in the Vyatta (or it is now logging something which previously it has ignored). However, to stand a hope of getting it sorted I wondered if anyone could suggest what part of the ‘ports’ module could possibly cause an error like this in the snmpd of the Vyatta? Then I can try to take it up on the Vyatta forums, but at the moment I can’t even explain which I’m trying to poll when the error occurs because I don’t know what steps in the ports module are likely to cause this. Any suggestions / pointers welcome! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Frontpage settings
by Scott Brawner 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

What are all the web pieces you can put on the front page? I'd like to see what's in the /alerts/ page on the front page in the manner it's displayed on the /alerts/page. Possible? 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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inline images
by Rob VanHooren 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

consider, is there a way to adjust the construction of alert messages so images can be attached rather than inline. then, add a config.php lever to toggle between inline vs. attached. takes care of those environments where netadmin has no control over the mail client. just my CAD$0.02 thanks R. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 28, 2014, at 13:39, 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: Email alerts - supposed to have rrd images? (Scott Brawner) > 2. Re: Email alerts - supposed to have rrd images? (Tom Laermans) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:19:20 +0000 > From: Scott Brawner <Scott.Brawner(a)kratosdefense.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Email alerts - supposed to have rrd images? > Message-ID: > <921F9F8F3697FD4BB023C0963EE7073A1E83A6FD(a)SD-MB02.wfinet.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > How do we get this working for Outlook. > > > > Thanks, > Scott Brawner > Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom > Laermans > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:22 AM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Email alerts - supposed to have rrd images? > > > > Hi, > > The image is included in the html you posted. It's an inline image, not all > e-mail clients (notably Outlook) support this format. > > Tom > > On 15/02/2014 06:48, Matt Ladewig wrote: > > All - > > > > When I receive an alert based on an alerting check, I get a box at the > bottom of the alert that looks like images are supposed to be included, but > they aren't able to resolve. Checking the email's html, there isn't a url > included with the listed images. The html is attached. Any insight would be > appreciated - > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > >

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