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Unable to add standby Cisco ASA
by Erik INGEBERG 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Hi, I'm trying to add the standby Cisco ASA firewalls we have in our active/standby failover pairs. I am able to add our ASA-SM (ASA service modules), but not the "normal" ASA's or PIX firewalls. Unfortunately, a Cisco ASA failover pair shares the same "sysName" and "snmpEngineID". This is not configurable on the ASA firewalls. When I try to add a standby ASA (with a different hostname / IP address) I get the following error: Already got device with SNMP-read sysName (xxxxxxxxxxx) and 'snmpEngineID' = xxxxxxxxxxx (xxxxxxxxxxx). I see that this is because of a check in "functions.php". Is there any workaround you can think of to allow us to add the standby devices? It is essential for us to monitor them, and we were also hoping to use Observium as our hardware inventory database (which is now missing all standby ASA's). Regards, Erik

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Setting up Alerts
by Marco Marques 19 Feb '14

19 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? Thanks, Marco

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Does observium do a full snmp walk each time the poller for stats run?
by Reigner Yrastorza 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Does observium do a full snmp walk each time the poller for stats run? We are seeing a high load/ports failing on our OOB cisco routers/switches (which are not high-end devices), when we have observium monitoring it. Thanks!

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Alert Conditions
by Teixeira, Mike 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Hello, Is there a list of alert conditions somewhere that I can reference? I have ports that I would like to alert if the throughput drops below X. Thanks, Mike

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Subscription
by David Peall 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Hi I’m looking at subscribing to the Subscription Edition do you provide some sort of invoice if I sign up? Something to claim back the expense. Regards — David Peall

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alerter.php
by Johnathon Voegeli 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the alerter.php file for? Should I have this in crontab now? I must have missed something during an SVN update. ~JV Johnathon Voegeli jvoegeli(a)voigtie.com

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Alerts Drop in traffic
by tech8.otelafrica 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hi guys, Can the alert system be setup to monitor a drop/or spike in traffic? If so,how do we set it up? Regards Anton

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Email Alerts Question
by Chip Pleasants 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hi, I'm hoping someone could kind and provide a little assistance. I'm wondering how would I go about changing the server name in the email alerts. Right now its localhost in the hyperlinks. I looked in the documentation and tried googled but couldn't find anything. Thanks, Chip

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Congrats Observium Team!!!
by Adriaan Smuts 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hi Guys, Just wanted to congratulate the Observium team for revision 5000! Observium has come a long way and I'm sure we are all looking forward to see the product grow and evolve! Once again congrats to Adam and his team and thanks for the awesome app! Regards Adriaan Smuts Systems Administrator [file:///C:\Users\adriaan.CORP\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] ________________________________ Direct Line +27 21 464 9565 Reception 086 000 9500 Website www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/>

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APC InRow Cooling support
by Bruce Winters 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

I would like to graph the air temp and air flow in these in row cooling units. I see some APC ups support but not these units. Any pointers on how I would go about it? I am willing to do the leg work. I just don't know how to start. Here is the info on the unit. http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=ACRC500&tab… Bruce

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CentOS authentication timeout
by Teixeira, Mike 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hello, I started to have an intermittent issue with users being forced to login when they browse the webpage. I have the timeout settings defined in php.ini: session.use_cookies = 1 session.use_only_cookies = 1 session.cookie_lifetime = 259200 session.cookie_path = / session.cookie_domain = session.cookie_httponly = Socket timeouts are set to the following in php.ini: default_socket_timeout = 259200 I did have a lifetime cookie set to 0 and socket_timeout to 14400. Users that had the issue had a cookie. My authentication mechanism is AD-LDAP. Any other advice on where to look to find out why users are being forced to login intermittently? I have had a hard time tracking this issue down since it is so intermittent. Thanks, Mike

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Persistence of data in Observium
by Teixeira, Mike 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Hello, Recently our network team upgraded one of our devices. Upon doing so some of the ifIndexes changed on the device. So we lost some history on some of the ports where the ifindex changed. Another situation, we use the port description mapping for tracking transit, peering, core ports. We moved a peer from one switch to another in one of our ports to upgrade the capacity. When we did that we lost the history in the aggregate graph because the old port doesn't have the port description anymore denoting it is a peer. Any tips on how to keep history on ports in those situations? I was thinking of outputting the data to a separate RRD or database. But, then I don't get to use the awesome observium interface to view that data. Thanks, Mike

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Re: [Observium] Transit link not working
by Scott Brawner 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Looks like the ifAlias text column in the ports table is limited to 64b. Is there a reason for that? Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 From: Scott Brawner Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:32 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Transit link not working On the front page I've enabled the overall <class> traffic today. But when I click on the Transit Graph to drill down to iftype/type=transit/, I get "None Found". I have 2 ports on 2 different routers set to type Transit with the following strings in ifAlias: Router 1: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=1/tab=port/port=1/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BMEC.959625 - Vz-13.KRGN.57 Router 2: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=2/tab=port/port=13/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BKEC.946484 - Vz-46.KFGS.30 Looks like they get cut off too.. What's the string max for those? 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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Transit link not working
by Scott Brawner 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

On the front page I've enabled the overall <class> traffic today. But when I click on the Transit Graph to drill down to iftype/type=transit/, I get "None Found". I have 2 ports on 2 different routers set to type Transit with the following strings in ifAlias: Router 1: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=1/tab=port/port=1/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BMEC.959625 - Vz-13.KRGN.57 Router 2: <https://sd-observium01.kratos.us/device/device=2/tab=port/port=13/> GigabitEthernet0/0/0 Transit: [200Mbit] AVPN (13979) {ATT-BKEC.946484 - Vz-46.KFGS.30 Looks like they get cut off too.. What's the string max for those? 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 over https
by Scott Brawner 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Is there anything I need to keep in mind when I switch the observium web server over to ssl besides just the standard apache stuff? Best regards, Scott Brawner

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Billing
by Scott Brawner 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Possible to put billing on front page? DO I have to code it into the frontpage default php? 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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Ping settings don't apply when set in config.php
by Nathan Phelan 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Hi Guys, I've just updated our version to the subscription one and found several of our devices now show in Observium as going up and down. After a big of digging it looks like this is because their latency is around the 50ms mark and they fluctuate up and down around 5ms so the default ping timeout times out. I tried setting the following in config.php but the behaviour did not change. Ping Settings $config['ping']['timeout'] = 500; # timeout in ms $config['ping']['retries'] = 6; # how many times to retry the query I added a bit of code to the debug to print out the values of $timeout and $retries in the isPingable function and found that it didn't matter what was set in config.php the values would always end up at $timeout=50 and $retries=1. I set them manually in the function just above $sleep and it kicked in and worked and the up/down notifications behaved as they used to. Have I goofed up the config.php somehow (I used the same as above) or is something else NQR somewhere? All other options in config.php seem to work and php -l config.php returns "No syntax errors detected in config.php" Cheers, Nathan Phelan

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NFS application monitor
by Tom Taylor 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Howdy, Does anyone have any info on how to set up the NFS application monitoring? I've taken a read through of the install docs and there's no mention of the NFS monitor. Any ideas ? -TT Tom Taylor Head of Engineering, Chicago T +1 312 605 8900 [http://www.themill.com/logos/MillLogo.png] The Mill 54 West Hubbard Street, Suite 502, Chicago, IL, 60654 themill.com | <http://www.themill.com/> themillblog.com | <http://www.themillblog.com/> @millchannel | <https://twitter.com/millchannel> facebook.com/millchannel<http://www.facebook.com/millchannel>

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Observium Home Page - Sensors
by Adriaan Smuts 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hi Guys, Can someone please fix the links on the sensors section of the home page (please see below or attached). [cid:image001.png@01CF240B.61979D00] If you click on ports/devices under Down it takes you to the down devices or ports, but on sensors it just takes you to the health page. Example: http://observium.domain.com/devices/status=0/ (Devices down link) Example: http://observium.domain.com/health/ (Sensors down link) I hope the above makes sense... :) PS: Our sensors are on Dell/SuperMicro IPMI devices. Regards Adriaan Smuts Systems Administrator [file:///C:\Users\adriaan.CORP\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] ________________________________ Direct Line +27 21 464 9565 Reception 086 000 9500 Website www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/>

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Geocoding
by Scott Brawner 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

OK I'll admit I was goofing around, in config.php I changed the geocoding API setting from google to mapquest for like ten seconds. Most of my sites are now clumped in the island off Portugal now. I've tried editing the sysLocations and rediscovering/polling to no avail. Halp! Now what? 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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ifAlias Script replacement
by Sascha Schaal 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

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MAC Accounting
by James Bensley 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hi All, I'm sure this was discussed a while back but I've searched the mailing list and can't find anything. Is MAC accounting still supported in Observium or is this feature present in the code but awaiting removal? If it is support how are people using it? I am testing on Cisco IOS devices and its not working very well for me. I have configure under a physical interface the following: ip accounting output-packets ip accounting mac-address input ip accounting mac-address output I have some juniper MX tin in the lab I can test. Is this feature supported on Juniper too, would one perhaps have to configure "mac-learn-enable" as per this document? http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.2/topics/usage-guidelines/int… Below are the results I am getting from a Cisco 2821 for example running c2800nm-adventerprisek9-mz.124-25f.bin; All MACs have no IP addresses: http://i.imgur.com/CMBPjHf.png If I switch to the graph view they are all blank: http://i.imgur.com/nlaRqar.png If I click on any graph I get a permissions error (my user account is in the admins group): http://i.imgur.com/NcwKy8O.png The Top10 is partially working, it seems to be missing a lot of data: http://i.imgur.com/NraRHVc.png I have the same results (most data is missing) on a Cisco 1841 running c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.124-25f.bin in our office. Many thanks, James.

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SVN working but not working
by Scott Brawner 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

I finally got svn to work by proxying it through a server with actual internet access. I love how I have to make an end-run around the network guys so I can give them what they want. Hilarious. Anyway I did the svn co http://..... Blah blah and it seemed to work properly. Then I run discovery and get this. (poller does the same thing) ./discovery.php -h dc-m-sitelink svn: '/opt/observium' is not a working copy Observium v0.SVN.ERROR Discovery Do I need to wipe and reinstall? I'd prefer not to as I have ~50 hosts set up and everything is otherwise working well. 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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Discovery stuck on updating
by Nitesh Mistry 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

When I run discovery.php -h none the update process is stuck at... Please help. bservium:/opt/observium# ./discovery.php -h none Observium v0.14.2.4966 Discovery -- Updating database/file schema 080 -> 081 ... (db) done. 081 -> 082 ... (db) (STUCK HERE) Thanks Nitesh

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LDAP auth and permissions levels
by Scott Brawner 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hi all- I'm using level 10 for admins and that is working fine, however, with level 1 users they can log in but cannot see any devices or ports. Is there something else I need to set up inside the application? Using latest stable svn. 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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