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need for a new support system, email lists are too limiting
by Tony Guadagno 06 May '22

06 May '22

Hi, as the recent 2 questions have shown (ldaps auth and ping only device monitoring) users have the same questions over and over. Currently, this system Observium uses for email lists (imho) is not cutting it. There is no place (that I now of) that we can search for old solutions, the emails don't seem to be archived anywhere. Have you considered switching off this to a discussion board software? I think it would be better for all. Just my 2 cents. tony

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LDAPS Authentication with Observium
by Valerie Lim 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hi I need advice on how to authenticate my LDAP server (Windows Server 2019) with my Observium client (v22.4.11952) which runs on Ubuntu v20.04 Desktop. 1. I've configured LDAPs certificate in my LDAP server as an .pfx file. How do I allow Observium to read the certificate so as to get authenticated by my LDAP server? 1. I've configured LDAP settings in my Observium's config.php file accordingly as advised & installed php module. However, Observium is still unable to authenticate via LDAP. LDAP query between Observium client (Ubuntu) and LDAP server (Windows) is working. So please advice on what additional steps is required on setting up LDAP on regards to both client & server side. 1. Attached is my config.php configuration. // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please s> $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "cn=Administrator,ou=acclivis,dc=domain01,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "xxxxxxxxxx"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['dn'] = "distinguishedName"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "user"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "server01.domain01.com"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 636; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = TRUE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "cn="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "nondn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com']['level'] = 10; Best Regards Valerie Lim

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Phantom suppressed alerts
by Dale Chambers 05 May '22

05 May '22

Afternoon, I am hoping you might be able to help me. I seem to have issues with the alerts where I have quite a few marked as supressed, but when you look at the suppressed alerts, I only see 5, but I cannot see how I can clear these phantom alerts. Are you able to help me? I am currently on version 22.3.11925 and this has been going on for probably a year now. A screenshot is provided so that you can see what I have occurring. [cid:image001.jpg@01D86097.CBC408E0] Many Thanks Dale CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY POLICY This communication is private and the information contained in this email and any attachments may be privileged, commercially sensitive, confidential, proprietary to NSSLGlobal Limited or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient or have been sent this in error, you are prohibited from using, copying, relying upon, or disseminating the information, and the sender disclaims any liability for such unauthorised use. Further, if you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message. In accordance with our email policy, emails sent or received may be monitored. Thank you. We have recently updated our Privacy Policy, which can be accessed at https://www.nsslglobal.com/uploads/documents/NSSLGlobal_Privacy_Policy.pdf We will hold and manage personal data that you provide us with in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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LDAPS Authentication Observium
by Valerie Lim 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hi Is there a log file in Observium for me to troubleshoot when I log in via LDAP? I want to verify the LDAP details I've keyed in my config.php is correct as I am still unable to log in via LDAP as per Tony's advice on LDAPS. Please advise if I am missing out any additional steps / packages required to as I am still relatively new to configuring LDAP / LDAPS for Observium. Attached are some information I configured so far: 1. Config.php [cid:image001.jpg@01D86091.7DDD9E30] 1. /etc/ldap/ldap.conf [cid:image002.jpg@01D86091.7DDD9E30] 1. Certificate Information (Configured via Windows LDAP Server) [cid:image003.jpg@01D86091.7DDD9E30][cid:image004.jpg@01D86091.7DDD9E30] 1. Already configured LDAPS on Windows LDAP Server (If require more screenshots to show what settings I've configured, I can provide) 2. Made changes to /opt/observium/config.php accordingly as shown in 1st screenshot 3. Made changes to /etc/ldap/ldap.conf accordingly as shown in 2nd screenshot 4. Did ldapquery sucessfully before configuring LDAPS to ensure Ubuntu host can query to Windows LDAP server. Best Regards Valerie Lim

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Microsoft server 2022 listed as 2019
by Tony Guadagno 04 May '22

04 May '22

I just noticed that server 2022 is being reported on observium as 2019....could this be updated pls Thanks

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Ubiquity Serial Numbers / Wireless (WLAN) mac
by Lyndon Labuschagne 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Hi A few years ago we were able to pull the Ubiquiti Radio MAC / Serial numbers from the Observium DB. I no longer see any serial numbers listed for Ubiquiti devices if I query the device table in the DB directly, and it’s not shown on the device screen in the Observium interface. When running a manual poller.php run the serial number field is <empty>, Is there something that changed on the Observium or Ubiquiti side or is the a module that I may need to enable? Any ideas or input would be welcome. Regards Lyndon

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FW: Observium LDAP Integration
by Valerie Lim 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

From: Valerie Lim Sent: Wednesday, 27 April 2022 10:07 am To: Adam Thompson <athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca> Cc: Ryan Tee <ryan.tee(a)acclivis.com>; Nirmolak Singh Bajaj <nirmolak.singhbajaj(a)acclivis.com> Subject: RE: Observium LDAP Integration Hi Adam Thanks for your response. I am able to successfully execute an LDAP query via command-line. Also, I will try to configure my LDAP server according to your advice & see the changes. Meanwhile, could you elaborate a bit more on what needs to be done on the client side for Observium? Currently, I am running Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 & have only enabled the base PHP module required for Observium to read LDAP settings. & other than enabling LDAP service on the server itself, is there any additional settings that needs to be done to allow client to reach LDAP server? I have attached below the command I've used for the LDAP query & some user details I've got via the query. Best Regards Valerie Lim Command used: ldapsearch -x -b "dc=domain01,dc=com" -H ldap://192.168.1.234 -D "cn=Administrator,ou=acclivis,dc=domain01,dc=com" -W "objectclass=user" Results: # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <dc=domain01,dc=com> with scope subtree # filter: objectclass=user # requesting: ALL # # Administrator, acclivis, domain01.com dn: CN=Administrator,OU= acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: user cn: Administrator description: Built-in account for administering the computer/domain distinguishedName: CN=Administrator,OU= acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com instanceType: 4 whenCreated: 20220413051658.0Z whenChanged: 20220427015103.0Z uSNCreated: 8196 memberOf: CN=Group Policy Creator Owners,CN=Users,DC=domain01,DC=com memberOf: CN=Domain Admins,CN=Users,DC=domain01,DC=com memberOf: CN=Enterprise Admins,CN=Users,DC=domain01,DC=com memberOf: CN=Schema Admins,CN=Users,DC=domain01,DC=com memberOf: CN=Administrators,CN=Builtin,DC=domain01,DC=com uSNChanged: 36881 name: Administrator objectGUID:: zY3U88tQd0CIs1ncaHNQ9A== userAccountControl: 66048 badPwdCount: 0 codePage: 0 countryCode: 0 badPasswordTime: 0 lastLogoff: 0 lastLogon: 132949181574995316 pwdLastSet: 132942924570197446 primaryGroupID: 513 objectSid:: AQUAAAAAAAUVAAAAL/6g3LnZPK6eKnuJ9AEAAA== adminCount: 1 accountExpires: 9223372036854775807 logonCount: 22 sAMAccountName: Administrator sAMAccountType: 805306368 objectCategory: CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=domain01,DC=com isCriticalSystemObject: TRUE dSCorePropagationData: 20220420091258.0Z dSCorePropagationData: 20220413053253.0Z dSCorePropagationData: 20220413053253.0Z dSCorePropagationData: 20220413051743.0Z dSCorePropagationData: 16010714042016.0Z lastLogonTimestamp: 132954978631684796 # gt09, acclivis, domain01.com dn: CN=gt09,OU= acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: user cn: gt09 givenName: gt09 distinguishedName: CN=gt09,OU= acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com instanceType: 4 whenCreated: 20220420085359.0Z whenChanged: 20220420090537.0Z displayName: gt09 uSNCreated: 32997 memberOf: CN=grouping,OU= acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com uSNChanged: 33031 name: gt09 objectGUID:: Q06xdIEFa0iWmks3+zuUTQ== userAccountControl: 66048 badPwdCount: 0 codePage: 0 countryCode: 0 badPasswordTime: 0 lastLogoff: 0 lastLogon: 0 pwdLastSet: 132949184398814009 primaryGroupID: 513 objectSid:: AQUAAAAAAAUVAAAAL/6g3LnZPK6eKnuJOggAAA== accountExpires: 9223372036854775807 logonCount: 0 sAMAccountName: gt09 sAMAccountType: 805306368 userPrincipalName: gt09(a)domain01.com<mailto:gt09@domain01.com> objectCategory: CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=domain01,DC=com dSCorePropagationData: 16010101000000.0Z mail: valerie.lim(a)acclivis.com<mailto:valerie.lim@acclivis.com> From: Adam Thompson <athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca>> Sent: Tuesday, 26 April 2022 9:29 pm To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: Valerie Lim <valerie.lim(a)acclivis.com<mailto:valerie.lim@acclivis.com>> Subject: RE: Observium LDAP Integration That's very similar to what we're doing here successfully. The differences I see are: $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "UserPrincipalName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['dn'] = "distinguishedname"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "person"; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "ldaps://xx.xx.xx"; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['CN=xx,OU=xx,DC=xx,DC=xx']['level'] = 10; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 636; This lets us log in with our full UPN, which happens to also be our email address. You may want to keep sAMAccountName if you want to log in with bare userids instead of UPNs. Not sure if the "dn" line is required or not, I don't remember what that does. Objectclass might also trip you up - "person" is the standard LDAP ObjectClass for an AD userid. Are you able to successfully execute an LDAP query from the command-line using "ldapsearch" (typically found in the "openldap-clients" package or similar)? I would start there, to prove your Observium server can actually reach your DC and run a query successfully, before trying to enable LDAP in Observium. You can't do a non-TLS LDAP bind on 389 by default, which is why we use 636 and ldaps. IIRC, something has to be done on the client (Observium) side to allow OpenLDAP to accept the internal AD-generated TLS certificate the AD server offers, but I can't find it right now. -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/> From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> On Behalf Of Valerie Lim via observium Sent: Monday, April 25, 2022 9:16 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Valerie Lim <valerie.lim(a)acclivis.com<mailto:valerie.lim@acclivis.com>> Subject: [Observium] Observium LDAP Integration Hi I am currently using professional v22.4.11952 for Observium. I am unable to authenticate my Observium via my LDAP server (Windows Server 2019). When 'ldap' is applied, authentication doesn't work. php module required for Observium has already been installed. Below is my config.php configuration: // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please s> $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=domain01,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "xxxxxxx"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "user"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "server01.domain01.com"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "cn="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "nondn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['test']['level'] = 10; Is there something I missing out on my LDAP configuration? Please advise. Thanks Best Regards Valerie Lim

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Observium LDAP Integration
by Valerie Lim 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

Hi I am currently using professional v22.4.11952 for Observium. I am unable to authenticate my Observium via my LDAP server (Windows Server 2019). When 'ldap' is applied, authentication doesn't work. php module required for Observium has already been installed. Below is my config.php configuration: // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please s> $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=domain01,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "xxxxxxx"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "user"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "server01.domain01.com"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "cn="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "cn=grouping,ou=acclivis,DC=domain01,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "nondn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['test']['level'] = 10; Is there something I missing out on my LDAP configuration? Please advise. Thanks Best Regards Valerie Lim

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Cloud networks monitoring option in Observium
by Jan Horacek 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

Good morning guys, I want to ask you if there is any development thread which will introduce cloud services monitoring into observium. I don`t mean the classic monitoring way of vhost via SNMP, but over API calls directly from the cloud tools. We are currently transferring our network capabilities from the standard setup to CloudWan and looking for the monitoring options and our vision is to concentrate monitoring features in observium dashboards. I appreciate any hints or tips. Thanks

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Aborted connection xxxxxx to db
by Ross [Eve IT] 21 Apr '22

21 Apr '22

Hello peoples, Hope you are all well! I know this is not specifically an observium issue, but was hoping someone could shed some light on the problem if they have also experienced it. This is on a new build, fresh install; Debian 11 using the automated observium script; Every time the cron job triggers, every 5 minutes, I get this warning. bservium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 09:35:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 9:35:01 15776 [Warning] Aborted connection 15776 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 09:40:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 9:40:01 15880 [Warning] Aborted connection 15880 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 09:45:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 9:45:01 15985 [Warning] Aborted connection 15985 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 09:50:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 9:50:01 16090 [Warning] Aborted connection 16090 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 09:55:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 9:55:01 16194 [Warning] Aborted connection 16194 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 10:00:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 10:00:01 16300 [Warning] Aborted connection 16300 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 10:05:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 10:05:01 16404 [Warning] Aborted connection 16404 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Apr 21 10:10:01 SoMuchForSubtlety mariadbd[13023]: 2022-04-21 10:10:01 16509 [Warning] Aborted connection 16509 to db: 'observium' user: 'observium' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) It doesn't seem to be affecting the application, Observium is graphing and monitoring just fine. Has anyone solved this issue? Kind regards, Ross.

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relative times/dates
by David Milton 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Hello, When trying to document events it’s more useful (at least to me) to see that something happened at 01:55 than it is to see it happened 9:23 hours ago. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful to know how long ago an event happened but it seems recently, knowing when the event happened is more important that knowing how long ago that was. Is there any way to disable temporarily or permanently the “relative” times in the event log and syslog? Thanks, Dave.

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how does "ignore until" under device/alert settings work?...looking for a "in maintenance" mode for a device
by Tony Guadagno 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Sorry if this is an obvious question but I have been playing with this and it does not behave the way I am expecting... under device properties/alerts there is an "ignore until" option as well as a "disable notifications" toggle.... [cid:image003.jpg@01D8530A.33555B80] If I set the "ignore until" to sometime in the future and I (for example) restart the device...I still get alerted. If I toggle the "disable notifications" , I do not get the notifications anymore...however, it stays disabled past the "ignore until" time How is this feature supposed to work? I am looking for a way to put a device in "maintenance mode" so that if I am upgrading etc...no alerts are generated and no notifications are sent.

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add-on?
by McGranahan, Jamen (VU) 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Is there an add-on or a separate module that will provide the DNS entries for each server? We have various servers running multiple websites and it would help us if we had one interface that contained this data along with everything else that Observium provides. Jamen McGranahan Associate Director of Library Technology & Digital Services Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University 615-343-1614 | jamen.mcgranahan(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:jamen.mcgranahan@vanderbilt.edu> he/his/him [cid:image001.png@01D8531B.9A603B90]

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Observium running in Ubuntu Server / How to ensure data at REST encrypted with AES256 / data encryption at rest
by Ryan Tee 17 Apr '22

17 Apr '22

Hi , Subject - Data encryption at REST ( AES256 ) How to verify and ensure data at REST encrypted with AES256 Observium running in Ubuntu Server. When at rest, data can be subject to malicious threats such as data theft or data corruption by obtaining physical access to the storage hardware. Do share us information if any comments for this. Thank you Regards Ryan **************************************** There are three states for digital data: data in use, data in transit and data at rest. * Data in use refers to active data stored in non-persistent volumes, typically RAM or CPU caches. * Data in transit is the state where data is transferred over a network, either private or public. * Data at rest means inactive data that is stored physically on persistent storage, i.e. disks, databases, data warehouses, mobile devices, archives, etc.

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Observium @ Ubuntu - - TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.3 is for communications between webservers and database servers ( different systems and machines )
by Ryan Tee 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi We are concerned security between Observium that running in Ubuntu systems ( 18.04 and 20.04 ) How to check and confirm TLS v1.2 or above had been configured as default , for communications between webservers and database servers ( different systems and machines ) Do share us information if any comments. Thank you. Regards Ryan

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Re: [Observium] ping only device monitoring
by adama＠observium.org 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

No one else is reading because at some point I accidentally replied directly instead of to the list 😊 But I did now! Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Sent: 13 April 2022 17:54 To: adama(a)observium.org Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Adam, I separate list that is independent would be good also…I hope others reading this will voice their support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks From: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 12:52 PM To: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring This is why we recommend the probe is attached to the Observium server’s own device entry in Observium. The ping-only host thing isn’t feasible in the existing devices paradigm, it would break the UI and a lot of other expectations about devices. Observium is 95% “showing data we got from SNMP”. The thing we’d likely create is a separate list of devices that didn’t support SNMP and didn’t actually interact with anything that currently exists in Observium, except probes, so we’d need a bunch of exceptions to the probe code to handle things with a device record and things without in the probes code. No one seems to ask much about it once we show them how to do the probes workaround, so we don’t look at it much. Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Sent: 13 April 2022 17:22 To: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Adam, I was able to get this all working, thanks for your help. Please excuse me if I am preaching to the choir but I do have some feedback. I want to start out by saying that I would love it if all devices supported SNMP, that would be ideal, but reality is that there are devices that will never have SNMP agents on them. In this particular case, it’s a banks ATM’s. For security reasons, SNMP will never be a feature for these devices. There are other examples as well, for instance, I also want to my ISP’s router so I can tell when I go down, are they down as well. So, ping only devices are abundant and persistent, they will not be going away. Setting up a probe will get me by, but there are several problems. The first is it seems you need to associate the probe with an existing host...so it looks like the probe is for that host (even though it is not). What happens if I delete the host...will the probes go away? Also, I have not yet seen a notification, but does the notification show the hosts name associated with the probe? If so, that will be confusing to techs who might not be aware they have to read further. What is really needed is the ability to add a device that is ping only and stand alone, not dependent on any other host. Obviously, all the info for that device would be unavailable except ping times but this would be much clearer. I think, given how important ping only devices can be, it should be a priority to get this right. Finally, let me say that I have worked in the past with MRTG and HP Openview and more recently with NagiosXI, PRTG and Shinken. Observium is BY FAR, the best of them. A ping only host is one of the few things that they all can do, but you cannot. Thanks for listening, if you want, I would be happy to put in a feature request. From: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 11:19 AM To: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Same way you alert on everything else, it’s just another entity type, similar to status with ok/alert status https://docs.observium.org/entities/#probes Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Sent: 13 April 2022 16:17 To: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Oh, so you just pick a host in the pulldown, but that gets ignored when you use -H? ok. is there a way to alert on a probe? From: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 11:12 AM To: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring You just override the default arguments on the probe, the documentation should explain that. Host is *almost* always -H Adam. From: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Sent: 13 April 2022 15:48 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Adam, I have been looking at probes, but the thing I don’t understand is how to add a probe when the device is not listed in Observium. I tried to overwrite the pulldown, but it does not allow that. Is there a way to add a device to the list? From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of adama--- via observium Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 10:44 AM To: 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] ping only device monitoring This is mentioned in the probes documentation. Just create ICMP probes on the Observium-server entry (or the closest partitioned poller) We might do something specific at some point, but it’ll basically just be the same thing but with the probes separated into a different list. Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 13 April 2022 15:41 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org <mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> > Subject: [Observium] ping only device monitoring Hi, I know this has been asked and answered before, but I cannot find anywhere to search old threads, so I need to ask again…. How do I configure Observium to monitor a device with ping but no SNMP ability? Thanks Tony

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wmi issues, need a syntax change
by Tony Guadagno 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, I am guessing that wmi polling is not used very much but I do use it and find it handy. If you do use it, you are probably aware that your event logs are filling up with this error: The server-side authentication level policy does not allow the user domain\wmiuser SID (S-1-5-21-99999-3660327915-2769000259-31856) from address 1.1.1.1 to activate DCOM server. Please raise the activation authentication level at least to RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_PKT_INTEGRITY in client application. I am getting 4 eventlog errors every polling interval (5 minutes) on every windows server. This is due to Microsoft enhancing security on wmi. (KB5004442-Manage changes for Windows DCOM Server Security Feature Bypass (CVE-2021-26414) (microsoft.com)<https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5004442-manage-changes-for-wind…>) There is a solution to this, you need to call wmi with pkt integrity enabled (wmic RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_PKT_INTEGRITY support · Issue #41 · greenbone/openvas-smb (github.com)<https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-smb/issues/41>). So, for example wmic --user=domain.local\\user --password= //server.domain.local "select * from Win32_ComputerSystem" - throws the error in the target servers event log...also, this will start failing next year. However wmic --user=domain.local\\user --password= //ncacn_ip_tcp:server.domain.local[sign] "select * from Win32_ComputerSystem" will not throw the error wrapping the target server in ncacn_ip_tcp: and [sign] fixes the issue. So, would it be possible for you to enhance Observium to make the wmi calls this way? Thanks Tony

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ping only device monitoring
by Tony Guadagno 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi, I know this has been asked and answered before, but I cannot find anywhere to search old threads, so I need to ask again.... How do I configure Observium to monitor a device with ping but no SNMP ability? Thanks Tony

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Date Preset
by Stuart Dyer 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

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FW: Total Core Traffic
by Peter Derissen 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Hello, We have a lot of core links in our network. The total graphs are show on top. [cid:image001.png@01D84A72.89424B20] When I click on 1 of the graphs I get an error. [cid:image002.png@01D84A72.89424B20] When I check the URL I see that its very long. Could that be the problem and is there a way I can fix that? https://10.230.11.81/graphs/type=multi-port_bits_separate/to=1649323537/id=… Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [cid:image003.png@01D84A72.89424B20]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurof…> Volg ons op Twitter<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> | Linkedin<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linke…> | Facebook<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faceb…> | Youtube<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…> Wilt u op de hoogte blijven van technische ontwikkelingen aan ons netwerk, nieuwe ICT ontwikkelingen en klantervaringen? Meld u dan aan voor onze maandelijkse nieuwsbrief<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmarketing…>. [cid:image004.jpg@01D84A72.89424B20]<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurof…> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Eurofiber only sends and receives e-mails on the basis that Eurofiber is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. Eurofiber Nederland B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam with number 34134377, VAT number NL 8088.51.524 B01. Eurofiber N.V. has its registered office at Belgicastraat 5 bus 7, 1930 Zaventem and is registered under national number 0435.204.851. Eurofiber France has its registered office at 21 Avenue de la Cr?ativit?, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq and is registered under national number FR 83.822.249.074.

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Monitoris MSSQL database size
by Rando Sui 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Hello, How do you monitor MSSQL specific measures, I would like to monitor Database size, how do you do that? Could I add database size to my Apps SQL server charts list? [cid:image002.png@01D84E8D.80A79050] Is there any indirect method, I gather7inject data to observium mysql and just display data from database and issue alerts? Greetings, Rando.

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Ubuntu LDAP
by Valerie Lim 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Hi, We would like to check does installing Observium affect any LDAP Ubuntu settings as we are unable to access LDAP server after Observium is being installed. Appreciate share with us, to configure setting config.php file in Observium systems. Regards Valerie

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Re: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker
by Tony Guadagno 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Adam, thanks, I will give this a shot Tony From: Adam Armstrong via observium Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2022 4:04 PM To: 'Observium' Cc: Adam Armstrong Subject: Re: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker Hi Tony, https://docs.observium.org/entities/#status You want something like association status_descr equals Source of Output Power test conditions status_name notequals normal adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 07 April 2022 20:34 To: Adam Armstrong via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Subject: [Observium] need some help with an alert checker Hi, I have been able to write some basic checks but I need a little help with this. I want to write a check to alert when my ups’ switch to battery. I think I can do that by checking if the “source of output power” is not normal, but I do not know how to translate that logic into conditions and associations..can someone help? Thanks BTW, is there an exchange where people post their checks for others to use? Tony

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need some help with an alert checker
by Tony Guadagno 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hi, I have been able to write some basic checks but I need a little help with this. I want to write a check to alert when my ups’ switch to battery. I think I can do that by checking if the “source of output power” is not normal, but I do not know how to translate that logic into conditions and associations..can someone help? Thanks BTW, is there an exchange where people post their checks for others to use? Tony

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Observium - how to encrypt data at rest with AES 256
by Ryan Tee 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi. Would like to inquire followings : How to encrypt data at rest with AES256 in Observium systems ? We plan to use 256-bit AES encryption ensures data is secure at rest. Could share with us information if any. Thank you. Regards Ryan

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