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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 12 Feb '14

12 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 12 Feb '14

12 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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No graphs linux
by Tamino Grentzius 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hi, I am new to observium and after having multiple deploys I discovered that it works mostly really well, but on my linux machines it seems I have an error with drawing the graphs for memory, cpu and that... Anyone got a tip where I should start (client/server side) I have no clue at this point :) My esxi works, my cisco works, but no linux... :| Cheers, Tamino

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Api question
by Marc 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hi All, First off all observium rocks :) I'm using observium for the testing purpose the CE version and I want to test the api but i get no result back in de data login is succeeded. api.php?username=[me]&password=idonttell&module=inventory&device=71 And the result is {"login":{"success":{"code":"101","msg":"User authentification succeeded"}},"data":[]} And yes the device is pressent --SNIP-- rrdtool graph /tmp/t21fHtvFkNKxDMW5.png -g --alt-autoscale-max --rigid -E --start 1391802941 --end 139188934 --SNIP-- php version PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u7 restclient from philsturgeon codeigniter 2.1.4 -- *Met vriendelijke groet,* Marc de Rooy Technische medewerker Datacenter Engineer Flexwebhosting/FXW DISCLAIMER De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, vragen wij u het volgende: gebruik de inhoud niet; informeer de afzender door het bericht te retourneren; en vernietig de inhoud. The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please do not use the contents, inform us immediately and delete its content.

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Scaling Observium with Rancid, Smokeping, and Syslog-ng
by Chip Pleasants 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Anyone have suggestions or real world experiences they could share scaling Observium with Rancid, Smokeping, and Syslog-ng. I have about 1000 router/switches in my network that equate to about 30k of interfaces. Half the interfaces will probably be down, although I'm not sure that makes a difference. Basically I'm wondering if I should break out my tools to individual VMs and use something like NFS for Observium to be able to see Rancid,Smokeping, and Syslog-ng data. Feel free to shoot me a private note. I appreciate any feedback. -Chip

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ad ldap config brings up a blank page
by Chip Pleasants 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

I'm hoping someone could provide a little assistance helping me debug this problem. I'm seeing a blank home page when I change the authentication type to ldap. As soon as I put it back to mysql the home page displays. I'm using a working ldap config currently be used on a Ubuntu 12.04. I'm attempting to migrate over to a corporate supported RHEL 6 box. I dont see anything any log file indicating an ldap issue or configuration. Here's my ldap config. SELinux is disabled. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks. -Chip // Authentication Model #Required LDAP Settings $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "CN=foo,OU=foo,OU=foo Users,OU=foo,DC=foo,DC=foo,DC=NET"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "foo"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "person"; $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "foo-adc05.foo.net"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = "false"; #User Account $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "cn="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",OU=foo,OU=foor Users,OU=foo,DC=foo,DC=foo,DC=NET"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = "CN=foo,OU=foo,OU=E-mail foo,OU=foo Groups,OU=foo,DC=foo,DC=foo,DC=NET"; $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "OU=foo,OU=E-mail foo,OU=foo Groups,OU=foo,DC=foo,DC=foo,DC=NET"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "fulldn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['foo']['level'] = 10;

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Re: [Observium] The new alerting system.
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

Look at the attached mails.. Got the mail again today. Thomas Please make sure these are the /same/ entities. None of the dates match, the duration on the alert doesn't match the GUI screenshot. adam.

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The new alerting system.
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

I keep getting the same alerts on mail now. The alerts have never gone OK but have stayed in Error mode. I run the alerter.php via crontab. Med venlig hilsen | Best regards Thomas Raabo Netværksansvarlig CCIE #33466 Zitcom A/S Telefon: 70 40 00 00 E-mail: kontakt(a)zitcom.dk Direkte: 69 10 60 18 Direkte: tr(a)zitcom.dk

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@observium_svn
by Adam Armstrong 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Hi Guys, It seems that the mongtards at Twitter have made some more changes to their clusterfuck of an API, breaking the SVN -> Twitter gateway for the zillionth time. So, it's not working until further notice. Thanks, Obam^WTwitter. adam.

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Email alerts - Duration
by Ryan, Spencer J. 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Is the "Duration" field in email alerts working as intended? I offlined a BGP peer to force an alert and the first ALERT message says "Duration 6 days, 16h 59m 55s" If this is trying to tell me the last time it alerted it is incorrect, because this router was offline on Monday for maintenance. Additionally when it came back up (under 10 minutes) I would expect the duration to tell me how long the alert was active, instead I get this: 6 days, 17h 9m 44s. That's the 10 minutes (two polling cycles) the device was off. But where is the rest of that value coming from? Running SVN 4922 Thanks, ________________________________ Spencer Ryan | Systems Engineer Miller Canfield<http://www.millercanfield.com> 150 West Jefferson, Suite 2500 Detroit, Michigan 48226 (USA) T +1.313.496.7547 | F +1.313.496.7699 | Mobile +1.734.846.2053 ryan(a)millercanfield.com<mailto:ryan@millercanfield.com> ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ NOTICE TO PERSONS SUBJECT TO UNITED STATES TAXATION (MCPS) DISCLOSURE UNDER TREASURY CIRCULAR 230: The United States Federal tax advice, if any, contained in this document and its attachments may not be used or referred to in the promoting, marketing or recommending of any entity, investment plan or arrangement, nor is such advice intended or written to be used, and may not be used, by a taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding Federal tax penalties. _______________________________________________________________

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Paid initial install/setup
by Sam Munzani 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Hi Adam, Do you provide initial configuration of Observium as professional services? If so, what are your rates? I need Observium to do following. 1. Standard discovery and monitoring of about 20 devices. 18 Cisco ASA firewalls, a few routers and a few switches. 2. Get alerts to work via email. If something goes down/up, want an alert 3. Get syslog module working. Collect syslog from all devices. May be setup syslog filters(if possible via Observium or syslog-ng) and alert on some messages. 4. Integrate with Smokeping - Optional. Not a show stopper. 5. Integrate with rancid - Optional. Not a show stopper. Thanks, Sam

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have a look at this
by Zach Underwood 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

One of the largest ISP in Russia is using observium. http://www.gblnet.net/ the obervium page http://www.gblnet.ru/ there main webpage -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT,UACA) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photos <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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