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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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Subversion
by Scott Brawner 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Since the subnet that our Observium server is blocked from the internet, I am unable to directly update using subversion. Anyone know a way to relay the subversion from svn à me with a windows client à the observium server? I SVN d/led the latest stable with Tortoise then FTPed it to the server but it seems to have broken some stuff. 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 weirdness
by Scott Brawner 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

I have had our net guy fill in the ifdescr with the appropriate string (I think) on some of the devices in order to get things to start working, but I'm seeing some weirdness. For example the string is set to: Transit: [200Mbit] {ATT-BKEC.946484 - Vz-46.KFGS.300721} And on the front page, the Overall Transit Traffic graph is showing up: But when I click on the graph to drill down, I get this: Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Any ideas? I'm on the CE version. 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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Smokeping Integration
by Robbie Wright 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

We've got smokeping up and running on the same server as observium and followed the instructions for integration. Graphs are displaying correctly in the smokeping web interface but observium is having "error drawing graph" issues. Ping tab has been added so it is reading the smokeping config correctly. RRD's are formatted based on the name of the host (using _ instead of . since smokeping doesn't support that), but still no joy. Any ideas? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 **For support issues, please email support(a)siuslawbroadband.com.**

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Draw/Syslog Errors
by Peter Nixon (UK SBS) 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Hi guys, I have encountered a bit of a weird error today, Observium is showing draw errors and missing syslogs for a couple (7) of my network devices. My switch configs are mirrored so the issue is not there, and I'm a bit lost considering this was working previously? Any suggestions are welcome! Kind regards, Pete Nixon Infrastructure Engineer UK SBS Tel: 01793 867798 Email: Peter.Nixon(a)ssc.rcuk.ac.uk<mailto:Peter.Nixon@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk> UK SBS, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, SN2 1FF [cid:image001.png@01CF2256.F74EC460] ____________________________________________________________ UK Shared Business Services Ltd. Registered in England and Wales as a limited company. Company number 6330639. Registered Office: North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 1FF. UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) is the new name for RCUK Shared Services Centre Ltd. While we migrate all our materials to the new name and new identity please bear with us. This email and any attachments are intended for the named addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify UK SBS immediately and do not disclose, distribute, or retain this email or any part of it. While UK SBS has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise risk of this e-mail or any attachments containing viruses, the recipient should carry out its own virus checks before opening the attachments. The Company does not accept any liability for any losses or damages which the recipient may sustain due to presence of any viruses. Any opinions expressed in this email (including attachments) are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the company's opinions. We will not accept responsibility for any commitments made by our employees outside the scope of our business. The Company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks for the purposes of preventing and detecting crime. ____________________________________________________________ This message has been scanned by the iCritical Email Security Service. For more information please visit http://www.icritical.com ____________________________________________________________

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Observium reporting
by Scott Brawner 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

All - Hello. We are evaluating Observium for our enterprise network metrics and are pretty impressed with the community package. However, before we invest in the subscription version, I have a few questions. 1. Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the subscription version? Our CIO is interested in measuring 95% on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze capacity planning. 2. How mature is the alerting in the subscription version? Is it possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a percentage of link speed and interface up/down? 3. I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the community version. Is it supposed to work? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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NetApp Clustered OnTap
by John P Arends 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

I’ve been testing the community edition for a few months and have been pretty impressed. I’m hoping to get the subscription version soon. Even small amounts of money can sometimes be difficult to spend with university bureaucracy. We have a few NetApp filers. The first is a bit older and is detected correctly and Observium gives quite a bit of useful information about it. The second is running the newer Clustered OnTap OS, and Observium has no idea what it is, doesn’t recognize it as a NetApp device or assign the correct icon, and doesn’t pull any data from it. Anyone have any idea if this is more up to date in the subscription version? If the person who wrote the NetApp support is willing, I can try to help out and see if we can figure out what changed. -John John Arends Senior Systems Engineer School of Communication Northwestern University

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Observium and IE
by Scott Brawner 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Apologies if this has been asked before. Observium pages appear to get pretty mangled in IE. Is there a workaround or fix for this? 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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Questions about alert system
by OCEANET - Cédric BASSAGET 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hello, Is there a way to change the check interval for alerts ? It seems to be 5 min by default, I would like to check every minute. Regards, Cédric -- OCEANET --------------------------------------------------------------- [AGENCE DU MANS] 7, rue des Frênes ZAC de la Pointe 72190 SARGE LES LE MANS [t] +33 (0)2.43.50.26.50 [f] +33 (0)2.43.72.21.14 [AGENCE D'ANGERS] 5, rue Fleming Angers Technopole 49066 ANGERS [t] +33 (0)2.41.19.28.65 [f] +33 (0)2.52.19.22.00 http://www.oceanet.com http://www.oceanet-telecom.com

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January Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi All, The condensed January changelog is up at : http://www.observium.org/Changelog#January_2014 Thanks, adam.

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Multiple Email Recipients
by JD 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

If this has been covered I am sorry, I have finally got my email working but now I need to have it emailing to multiple addresses, what is the proper syntax for this? -- JD

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Observium Subscription
by tech8.otelafrica 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi, We have subscribed to the subscription version of Observium. I sent my username and password hash to Adam as requested.( adama(a)observium.org) Does it take time for the next step forward to be taken?Just want to know if I did everything correctly. Regards Anton

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Observium HA
by Adriaan Smuts 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

Good day, We are on the subscription version of Observium and loving the product so far! I need to make Observium Highly Available as this is becoming one of our main monitoring systems. Is there any documentation on how to implement this? 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/> [cid:image001.png@01CF1DC0.705B1F20] [cid:image002.png@01CF1DC0.705B1F20]

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95% rule and scaling
by Scott Brawner 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Is Observium capable of measuring/calculating the 95% rule on interfaces? Also is it possible to change scaling on ports, for example even though one of my customer ports is set on the device at 100Mbps, the link itself is only capable of 20Mbps. Is it possible to change the scale on that particular port to reflect the manageable bandwidth? 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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WMI Poller
by Johnathon Voegeli 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Is there easy setup instructions to get the WMI Poller to work on the subscription version? I am wondering if maybe I have settings wrong on one end or the other. ~Johnathon

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Alert when BGP peer down?
by Ryan, Spencer J. 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

We're trying to get an alert check set up to alert us when a BGP peer is down, but it seems like no matter how we configure it the alert never triggers. Any help? Thanks! Spencer _______________________________________________________________ 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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