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Email alerts - supposed to have rrd images?
by Matt Ladewig 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

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

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Moving config to a fresh install
by Scott Brawner 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

How hard is it to move/copy the Observium config to a newly built machine? 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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Observium Graph Issue . Draw Error .
by Andrei Stana 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hello everyone , I have a problem regarding the drawing of the graph in observium . Snmpd is running , rrdcached is running . When i run : root@host:/opt/observium# ./poller.php -h all -d i saw that a receive some lines with the following error : [ERROR: rrdcached: Permission denied ] The rrdcached daemon is running like this : root@host:/opt/observium# ps fax | grep rrdcached 26356 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | \_ grep --color=auto rrdcached 15833 ? Ssl 0:01 /usr/bin/rrdcached -l unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock -j /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ -F -b /var/lib/rrdcached/db -B / -p /var/run/rrdcached.pid if i go and edit the rrdcached and remove -B option and then i restart de rrdcached service i do not get anymore ERROR after i run ./poller.php -h all -d . Suggetions anyone ? Multumesc. Andrei. Andrei Stana Team Leader 3G RAN Pitesti Rcs & Rds Pitesti http://www.rcs-rds.ro Office : 0348-400425 Vodafone : 0720-956507 Digi.Mobil : 0770 048196 Digi.Oriunde: 0770048196 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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localhost:36602 failed
by Andrei Stana 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hello , I have a problem with the connexion on the localhost via port 36602 . What i am trying to do is to generate graphs for postfix , mysql and apache. I follow the instructions from observium.org/wiki regarding the unix-agent. I still receiving the following ERROR in poller.php root@host:/opt/observium# tail -f /opt/observium/observium.log Connection to UNIX agent on tcp://localhost:36602 failed. ERROR: 111 Connection refused Connection to UNIX agent on tcp://localhost:6556 failed. ERROR: 111 Connection refused Any suggestion !? Andrei Stana Rcs & Rds Pitesti http://www.rcs-rds.ro Office : 0348-400425 Vodafone : 0720-956507 Digi.Mobil : 0770 048196 Digi.Oriunde: 0770048196 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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half duplex ethernet alert?
by Matt Ladewig 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Could ifDuplex be added as an checker metric? We'd like to setup an alert to keep an eye on this for us, but currently ifDuplex doesn't return a value in the array. It would be very helpful if it could be added. Thanks, Matt [cid:image001.png@01CF33AE.2D30C250]

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"Mempool" noise in event logs...
by Michael Loftis 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Is there any way to get the current noise in the event logs from mempool away? Basically every time discovery is run/rerun I get spurious "updated" events for everything. Cisco, Juniper, Dell PowerConnect, and I think Linux, all effected. 2014-02-27 17:08:51sea-1810-c4-c6506MempoolMemory pool updated: type cemp, index 2001.1, descr CPU of Module 3 - Processor 2014-02-27 17:08:51sea-1810-c4-c6506MempoolMemory pool updated: type cemp, index 1001.1, descr CPU of Module 1 - Processor 2014-02-27 17:08:21c3mx.seaMempoolMemory pool updated: type junos, index 9.2.0.0, descr Routing Engine 1 2014-02-27 17:08:21c3mx.seaMempoolMemory pool updated: type junos, index 9.1.0.0, descr Routing Engine 0 2014-02-27 17:08:21c3mx.seaMempoolMemory pool updated: type junos, index 7.11.0.0, descr FPC: DPC 4x 10GE R @ 10/*/* -- "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." -- Samuel Butler

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Juniper Optical Interface Diagnostics
by Peter Smith 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hi, I have subscribed and installed the stable version of Observium using SVN. I would like to know if there is an option to turn on optical diagnostic information for Juniper network devices as the current graphs do not show this. I am mostly interested in TX and RX power levels. This information is available via snmp. I have currently added EX4500 and EX4550 switches to the monitoring. Thanks, Peter

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Juniper Optical Interface Diagnostics
by Chris Wopat 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

> From: Peter Smith <helsvell(a)gmail.com> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Subject: [Observium] Juniper Optical Interface Diagnostics > Message-ID: > <CAHmLRvVGX_4d0bWwqBGQBQT6sf_K_CprBN9JiL2EBMhH7Fx3WA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > I have subscribed and installed the stable version of Observium using SVN. > I would like to know if there is an option to turn on optical diagnostic > information for Juniper network devices as the current graphs do not show > this. I am mostly interested in TX and RX power levels. This information > is available via snmp. I have currently added EX4500 and EX4550 switches > to the monitoring. What OID are you using? When I tried this last (a year ago, ex4500) the data was not available via SNMP without extra scripts installed on the device. This may have been a limitation of my using SFP and not SFP+ on the device however. --Chris

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Memory usage on ASR9k
by Robert Williams 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hi, This might be my lack of understanding of the memory pools' representations in Observium, or it might be a bug. There seems to be a significant difference in the memory being reported by Observium and that which is reported by the device. Here is the console output for the two processors (SP and RSP) along with the graph values from Observium: #sh mem sum location 0/0/CPU0 Physical Memory: 8192M total Application Memory : 8004M (5264M available) <- approx. 34% used Image: 59M (bootram: 59M) Reserved: 128M, IOMem: 0, flashfsys: 0 Total shared window: 347M #sh mem sum location 0/RSP0/CPU0 Physical Memory: 8192M total (4688M available) <- approx. 41% used Application Memory : 8002M (4688M available) Image: 61M (bootram: 61M) Reserved: 128M, IOMem: 0, flashfsys: 0 Total shared window: 133M The "Reserved" and "Image" ones are always 100% - but that's a different issue I think. What I'm more interested in is the RSP and SP "Processor" element, which both show very different amounts to the real usage. In fact, I can't even remotely line them up with anything on the box itself. So, any ideas or am I just reading this all wrong? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Customers configuration
by Scott Brawner 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

How do you add customers and assign bills to them 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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AD auth
by John P Arends 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

AD authentication isn’t working for me and I’d like to look at some logs to try to figure out what might be going wrong, but I cant figure out where to look. Any suggestions?

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Viewing Mac addresses known on each device/vlan/port?
by Damien Gardner 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hi Folks, Sorry if this has been asked before, google wasn't helping much. Does Observium have the ability to tell me what MAC Addresses have been learnt on any given device, or preferably ports on a device? I was about to go write some php code to find a missing IPMI device via SNMP queries, and one of my coworkers suggested seeing if we can find it from Observium already? Thanks, Damien -- Damien Gardner Jnr Level 3 Systems Admin Office Address: 2/2 Teamster Close, Tuggerah NSW 2259 Postal Address: PO Box 3187, Tuggerah NSW 2259 Direct: | Network Ops: +61 2 8115 8850 | Main Switch: +61 2 8115 8888 Web: www.serversaustralia.com.au

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Alert Checker if SNMP oid | Dell Power
by Guilherme de Freitas Figueiredo 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hi! there is some form to create some alert using a specifc SNMP oid? I say this because I'm trying to create an alert for a Dell switch in which it alarms if one of the sources of power is turned off, the SNMP oid is the SNMPv2-SMI :: enterprises.674.10895.3000.1.2.110.7.2.1.3.11 already in observium envMonSupplyState.11 is apparently the same has to be greater than 1, so I already tried the following: envMonSupplyState.11 gt 1 and SNMPv2-SMI :: enterprises.674.10895.3000.1.2.110.7.2.1.3.11 gt 1 []s! -- Guilherme de Freitas Figueiredo

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Re: [Observium] Weirdness with a site with 32-bit ports
by Scott Brawner 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

This is happening with all my 1921 routers, all started on the 5th or 6th. Help? Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 From: Scott Brawner Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 10:57 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Weirdness with a site with 32-bit ports I am going through the sites and I noticed that on the overview page that nothing is showing in the traffic graph for one of our sites. 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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Weirdness with a site with 32-bit ports
by Scott Brawner 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

I am going through the sites and I noticed that on the overview page that nothing is showing in the traffic graph for one of our sites. But when I look at the ports themselves, they are showing traffic: Then when I go into port config, I see this: It looks like it stopped showing traffic on the 5th or 6th. Any ideas? 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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IPMI values from server running VMWare
by Niclas Tollgård 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Until recently I've been able to retrieve values using IPMI on my servers running ESXi. This option now seems to have been removed? It's still available for my servers running Linux but not ESXi. Any specific reason for this? Is it something I can turn back on again? I'm thinking it's a "hardware" thing and not dependant on the OS it's running. Regards, Nic

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Mailing alert system
by tech8.otelafrica 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hey guys, Could you assist as to how we can set up alerts. I pretty much want the system to send an email when a device goes down. How would I go about setting this up? Regards Anton

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New alerts
by Johnathon Voegeli 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

I am awful at using this new alerting system. Can someone give me a hint on how to setup a temperature alert? Just the basics and I'll work from there. -JV

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Re: [Observium] LDAP Auth not able to use level 10
by Jeff Courtade 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Use the hostname ui.tadj1.adjuggler.net. -- Thanks, Jeff Courtade Director of Systems Engineering Adjuggler Inc http://www.adjuggler.com M: 240.507.6116 -------- Original message -------- From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> Date:02/20/2014 5:47 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] LDAP Auth not able to use level 10 Hi Rutger, The problem has been seen here on the list a few times already, but unfortunately I can't replicate it. :[ I presume access to your Observium install is out of the question? Tom On 20/02/2014 20:29, Rutger Truyers wrote: Hi, I've set up the ldap authentication with AD. The LDAP binding , Search and Authentication is all succesfull. even the group matching is perfect. But I'm not able to provide the group a level 10 authentication. When authenticating the user in the correct group can't see any device. Greetings. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Classifying port types
by Scott Brawner 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

As an aside, it would be awesome to be able to assign port roles via the web interface instead of depending on the snmp attribute. Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 From: Scott Brawner Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:45 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Classifying port types I still can't get the classified port types (transit/peering/customer) to work properly. The main graph on the home page works but when I click the link, I get Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Same with Peering. I have the text 'transit' and/or 'peering' in the description for the ports. It appears to be sort of working. just would like that drill down to work. 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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Classifying port types
by Scott Brawner 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

I still can't get the classified port types (transit/peering/customer) to work properly. The main graph on the home page works but when I click the link, I get Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Same with Peering. I have the text 'transit' and/or 'peering' in the description for the ports. It appears to be sort of working. just would like that drill down to work. 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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MRV LX console servers
by Rutger Bevaart 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hello list, I have a couple of MRV LX4000 console servers that I added to Observium. I do not care much about port utilisation but it is nice to know if one drops off the radar and get an alert. However, the boxes are not recognised by Observium and get this ugly question mark icon in the device list. A quick Google did not reveal anything related to these boxes and Observium, did anyone play around with adding these devices and get them recognised properly? They basically run a BusyBox Linux... Regards, Rutger

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strange numbers from nortel switch
by Tom De Puysseleyr 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hi I'm trying to setup Observium to poll all of our switches, and so far I just love it. Great job guys! I hope to convince the management to subscribe soon, but for now we'll have to do with the community version. Let me try to explain my issue. I am polling a dual stack of Nortel Baystack 5510-24T switches using snmp v2c. All ports of unit 1 and ports 1 - 6 of unit 2 look fine. The graphics (bits/sec) for port 7 to 24 of unit 2 are strange though. Port 7 is not used, no device is connected to it at all. The average traffic according to the graphs is around 30Gbit/s. All other ports after port 7 show the exact same numbers. So first I tried to reset all port statistics on the switch. The graphs showed 0 bits/s for a few minutes, but then after let's say 30 minutes it shows a current bandwidth of 8Gbit/s. I tried deleting the device from Observium and added it again, but it seems that all counters are still there. When I look at the port using telnet, all counters are 0. I know that this switch is not in the supported devices list, but as far as I know the default snmp pollings should provide correct numbers for bandwidth statistics, no? Any help is greatly appreciated! Regards, Tom De Puysseleyr

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Adding Bind9 stats into Observium for trending/graphing?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Hello, I do not see a away to search the mailing list so please excuse me if this question has been asked before. I've recently (as in the last 3 or 4 days) began configuring Observium for the purpose of getting some good trending data out of my bind servers. I noticed in the demo, there is an APP drop down, and BIND is listed as one of the supported applications. I am having a difficult time figuring out how to get Observium to monitor my bind servers however. I do get LOTS of great throughput data and cpu usage so that will be very helpful. I have installed the bind9-snmp setup from bayour.com and am abe to read bind statistics using SNMP, but I have no idea how to get these values to be polled and graphed by Observium. If setting up the bind9-stats through SNMP is not the proper way to graph the bind stats, can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Ricardo Meleschi

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Need help getting the new alert system to send mail
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

It never sends and i dont see anything in the email log. //Alert $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Observium Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk>"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; No emails are send on alerts So I tried to change the email backend $config['email_backend'] = 'sendmail'; That did not help. So I did a test to check the php mail module. <?php $to = "tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk>"; $subject = "Test mail"; $message = "Hello! This is a simple email message."; $from = "test(a)mgmt3.network.zitcom.dk<mailto:test@mgmt3.network.zitcom.dk>"; $headers = "From:" . $from; mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers); echo "Mail Sent."; ?> And that worked fine. What is the problem? I have an alert in Observium ☺ [cid:image001.png@01CF1D04.808888E0] Med venlig hilsen | Best regards Thomas Raabo Netværksansvarlig CCIE #33466 Zitcom A/S Telefon: 70 40 00 00 E-mail: kontakt(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:kontakt@zitcom.dk> Direkte: 69 10 60 18 Direkte: tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk> [cid:image005.jpg@01CEDC86.E897E480]<http://www.zitcom.dk/>

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