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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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Re: [Observium] rancid etc.
by Rob VanHooren 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Dan, consider lighting up a websvn instance in parallel to obs, pointed at your rancid depot. it’s got a nice layout, and you get a bit more in the granularity toolbag (e.g. permissions). our auditors love it. you lose a bit of the SPoG effect, but really it’s an ideal drill-down. aside: top 3 wish list (e.g., after obs alerting gets finished): - eigrp feature-parity with ospf/bgp - f5, palo & checkpoint device support (rancid is weak here also, so obs is in good company /grin/ ) - auto-thresholding sexiness (a math-inclined list member offered to contribute some framework for this a while back?) alerting wishlist items: - bark at me when the route count of established routing peer sessions (esp. bgp) changes from $baseline - bark at me for threshold deviations, esp. unnaturally lower-bound ones (e.g., ckt that normally pumps nMbps flatlines to zero) (tells me my edge peers probably did something stupid that they will blame me for anyway. knowing about it first helps. LOL). ps: - scale of syslog ingestion (or possibly the regurgitation thereof) might warrant some love. 7MM/day entries in volume makes for dreadfully long page loads. - anyone have the mysql agent script poking at an instance of mariadb? are your results in obs fully populated? (processList, innoDBinsertBuffer, innoDBsemaphore,innoDBxactns?) - am working on some integration ideas with gestio & rwhois, so that subnet links in obs, esp. for rfc1918 space can become useful info (has anyone gone down this road already?) cheers, R. On Jan 29, 2014, at 21:34, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > From: Daniel Rolfe <daniel.rolfe.au(a)gmail.com> >> Is there any way to give config access to global read accounts ?

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Temperature in Fahrenheit
by Johnathon Voegeli 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

I am trying to get the devices to show Temperature in Fahrenheit instead if Celsius. I changed the config to show: $config['allow_entity_sensor']['celsius'] = 0; But this seems to have no effect. Any ideas? ~John

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ifAlias script
by Robert Brooks 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Hi, the script on http://www.observium.org/wiki/IfAlias_descriptions_on_Debian/Ubuntu wasn't working for me when doing an snmp walk. Individual values were being reported, but the -n option didn't work. Attached is an amended version which is working for me in both cases. Regards, Rob

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Syntax description of Alerting Device/Enity match
by Matthias Cramer 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Dear All Is there a description of all operators possible in the Device Entity match ? So far I have found/used: lt, gt, match Is there a possibility to "or" things together in stead of default "and" so that eg this is possible: (os match linux) and (os match windows) Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Language support for Observium
by Christian Balzereit 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Is there a language support planned? Could do the german translation.

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Dell/Force 10 support
by Bruce Winters 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Hello, I am new to the group. Are there any plans to support Force 10 switches? Bruce Winters

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BGP Alarms on Front Page
by Chip Pleasants 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Is there anyway to disable single router from displaying any BGP related alarms? I went into the devices properties/modules and disabled the bgp-peers modules for the specific device, but it didn't seem to change the front page alarms. Thanks, Chip

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growl/prowl
by Rob VanHooren 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

somebody on the list did a bit of work last year to get alerts out via growl (iDevice: “prowl”) using the obs API. remind who that was? did it ever go anywhere? I recall having got it sort-of-working before it went on the back burner; want to resurrect the effort if possible. thx. R. apologies for needing the reminder(s). sadly, my operating platform is hobbled by a 60’s-era single-core analog CPU and a rather stingy amount of (non-ECC) memory.

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Rancid config access
by Daniel Rolfe 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Is there any way to give config access to global read accounts ? I'm on the CE version at work but... Regards, Daniel

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New kind of device
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Hi all ! I know that I ask about a lot of functionalities ... but you like me for that :-) So I'll to be as clear as possible (and as "English" as possible ...). Is it possible to add a new kind of device that is only polled with ping ? The primary goal is to know when distant server (hosted by partners) aren't reachable without asking to have access to their snmp daemon and community ... I imagine that it can be a huge work because it needs to bypass a lot of code but you could have think about it ... ? To be simple for everyone, this kind of device can be a new sort of server but without any snmp information (no device panel / no ports panel, etc...) and just be polled by the ping. And when a hosts is down the alerter send a mail / trap and the index.php put an information box to warn on "device down" like any others hosts. Sincerely, Adrien Bertrand - Information Security Administrator BPCE Assurances, 88 av de France 75013 Paris

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