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port/alert limit
by Ilias Kourtoudis 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

hi, We are very pleased by the use of the subscription version so far. At the moment we are monitoring 3.600 ports and have around 5000 alerts but the goal is to reach around 40.000 ports. Will this be a problem? I already see cpu load whenever i add a host with over 500 ports that is not evenly distributed if increase the cores of my machine. Please advise and keep up the great work. Regards, ilias kurtuðis GreenQloud HOps Mobile / Farsími: (+30) 6945251977 s <//paula(a)greenqloud.com>kype : ilias.kurtudis www.greenqloud.com The World's First Truly Green(tm) Cloud IaaS Tölvuský (GreenQloud) ehf Borgartún 25 105 Reykjavik Iceland WWA

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Re: [Observium] Alerts setup in Web Gui
by Jonathan Green 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Hello there: We recently installed Observium, and cannot locate 'Alerts' w/in the web gui. Do we have to install something additional, or are we missing something? Thank you. -Jonathan

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Sensor alert templates by device type
by Robbie Wright 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Noticed some new sensor alerts that popped up by default a few revs back now. Super sweet, firstly, so nice work guys. Secondly, the defaults naturally aren't quite right, ie 0. Is it possible to set a default sensor type by device/platform/OS rather than individually? For example, system voltage on one of our routers has a default of 2 to 2.7v, while it is actually running at 23.5 and thus throwing alerts. Can we set all networking devices or iOS switches or iOS version 12.?? to have the same defaults? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 **For support issues, please email support(a)siuslawbroadband.com.**

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[BUG] I got a blank page
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Hi all ! Since a little modification on the config.php (adding a filter in [bad_if]) I got a blank page on my enterprise http://observium and the "./discovery.php -h none" doesn't output any information ... (usually it outputs the version - in green) I got the same problem last week when I updated the svn folder with CRON that force me to revert to an older version of my server ... Of course I reboot all the services (apache2, mysql ...) and I have upgraded the memory limit in the php.ini (like mentioned in the Observium FAQ) ... Any clues ? Somebody got the same problem ? Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81

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Graph Issue
by Tim Smith 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

Hi all, I am having problems with generating graphs for my Observium install. What I have managed to find out is that that the system executes the following command: rrdtool graph /tmp/C9DwA903iBza9yzw.png --alt-autoscale-max --rigid -E --start 1390482368 --end 1390568768 --width 1159 --height 300 -c BACK#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEA#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEB#EEEEEE00 -c FONT#000000 -c CANVAS#FFFFFF00 -c GRID#a5a5a5 -c MGRID#FF9999 -c FRAME#5e5e5e -c ARROW#5e5e5e -R normal --font LEGEND:8:'DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal COMMENT:'Bits/s Cur Avg Max' COMMENT:'Total' COMMENT:'\n' CDEF:inB= CDEF:outB= CDEF:octets=inB,outB,+ CDEF:doutB=outB,-1,* CDEF:inbits=inB,8,* CDEF:outbits=outB,8,* CDEF:bits=inbits,outbits,+ CDEF:doutbits=doutB,8,* VDEF:95thin=inbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:95thout=outbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:d95thout=doutbits,5,PERCENT VDEF:totin=inB,TOTAL VDEF:avein=inbits,AVERAGE VDEF:totout=outB,TOTAL VDEF:aveout=outbits,AVERAGE VDEF:tot=octets,TOTAL COMMENT:' \n' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:'Total In ': GPRINT:inbits:LAST:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:AVERAGE:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MAX:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:totin:%5.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\n' HRULE:999999999999990#FFFFFF:' Out': GPRINT:outbits:LAST:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:AVERAGE:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MAX:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:totout:%5.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\n' HRULE:999999999999990#FFFFFF:' Agg': GPRINT:bits:LAST:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:AVERAGE:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MAX:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:tot:%5.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\n' HRULE:0#999999 The error returned is: RRDTool Output: ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:inB=' I would imagine this is a config issue but I am not sure where to look. Any help would be gratefully received! Cheers, Tim

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Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Ok thanks for your answers guys :-) I'll update manually all the sysContact for now or make some redirection in my mails. And yes Maarten, your "ticket" in Jira is what I want ;-) Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message 1 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:52:34 +0000 From: "Moerman, Maarten" <mmoerman(a)ebay.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert Message-ID: <CF07F646.36AF6%mmoerman(a)ebay.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" I?ve already added a Jira/feature request for that some time ago: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-635 Would it work what?s described there? Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message 2 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:44:22 +0100 From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert Message-ID: <52E24406.4030109(a)powersource.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Hi Adrien, This is currently not possible, it is planned however but I don't know what time frame. Tom

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Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hi Observiumers ! Is it possible to specify the email contact for each "alert checker" without setting it on the sysContact of all the devices ? It's to send emails for different recipients that are related to the alerts and not the devices :-) PS: I'm running the latest version of Observium (susbscription edition) Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg]

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Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert
by Moerman, Maarten 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

I’ve already added a Jira/feature request for that some time ago: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-635 Would it work what’s described there? Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com From: "BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances]" <adrien.bertrand(a)assurances.bpce.fr<mailto:adrien.bertrand@assurances.bpce.fr>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Friday, January 24, 2014 at 9:24 AM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert Hi Observiumers ! Is it possible to specify the email contact for each “alert checker” without setting it on the sysContact of all the devices ? It’s to send emails for different recipients that are related to the alerts and not the devices :-) PS: I’m running the latest version of Observium (susbscription edition) Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg]

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Custom Fields
by Christopher Murrell 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hello, We are very very interested in Observium to use as our Monitoring system, but we would like to have some custom fields on the device information. We would be willing to donate a nice amount to you guys as well if we can have this done as a custom feature for us. If you guys could do this please send me an email. Also do you have an ETA when the full alert system will be working? *Christopher* Murrell Hypernia Corporation *Email:* christopher(a)staff.hypernia.com *Desk: *(+44) (0) 1722 568687 <04401722658687> *Cell Phone:* (+44) (0) 7761636028 <0447761636028> [image: http://hypernia.com/images/signature/skype.png]chrisjmuk [image: http://hypernia.com/images/signature/home.jpg]www.hypernia.com [image: http://hypernia.com/images/signature/hypernia-superpod.jpg] *Confidentiality Note:* The information contained in this transmission is legally privileged and confidential, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Thank you!

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Graphics
by Maxence Maireaux 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hello, I can not seem to generate graphics on Observium. The graphics are present but there is no curve above, you have a solution? I try on the local server and a remote server. I put some image illustrated my point. Thank you for your help. Regards, Maxence -- ------------- Cordialement, Maxence Maireaux

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Alerts
by JD 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

I am Looking for some Guidance on setting up alerts I am not getting alerts to my email which is a google apps account Current config // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Default Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "jd(a)remote.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "jd(a)remote.com<mailto:jd@remote.com >"; $config['email_from'] = "Observium <alerts(a)local.com<mailto:alerts@local.com >>"; $config['email_backend'] = "smtp"; $config['email_backend'] = "sendmail"; $config['email_smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['email_smtp_port'] = 25; $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['port']['ifdown'] = TRUE; // Port Bandwith $config['alerts']['port_util_alert'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['port_util_perc'] = 85; -- JD

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Alerting Question
by Chip Pleasants 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

I'm getting emails and not sure if its my alarm settings or something else is Here's the email contents. Maybe someone good verify my setting for this alarm are correct? ALERT Modify Alert Processor Usage Greater Than 80% Entity Processor 1 Conditions processor_usage gt 80% (9) Metrics processor_usage = 9 Duration 18h 36m 21s Device Device cisco.switch.net Hardware catalyst3560G48PS Operating System Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE5 IPBASEK9 Location DC Uptime 113 days, 11h 2m 20s

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Error in install
by Maxence Maireaux 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

Hello, I can not ainstaller Observium, I receive the following error: php includes/update/update.php PHP Fatal error: Class 'Console_Color2' not found in /home/observium/includes/common.php on line 386 Grieve for my very bad english, I'm french. -- ------------- Cordialement, Maxence Maireaux

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Remove Geofoo from Observium using Strings
by henrik hansen 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Hello guys, at the moment we are not a subscribed customer, so maybe this mail is obsolet. We would love to have a feature to remove GeoLocation thing unter Devices-> Locations. In our environment the snmp location is filled with some kind of customer ID. Like: U100432. It would be great if observium could only group our switches by the customer id in the snmp location field. Thanks for your great work. Henrik

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FOSDEM meetup?
by Tom Laermans 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Hi guys, FOSDEM, Europe's largest (I think?) open source meetup is coming up in a few weeks (1-2 feb). I'll be there on saturday, so in case there's anyone also going there who wants to meet up/catch up/buy me a sandwich ;> /have a chat/... by all means let's do that then. I'm not Adam, so please leave the tar and feathers at home - We'll make sure to get him here next year, with a big "FUCK GPL" t-shirt, and put him on stage vs RMS though. ;-) Tom

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Traffic Bills Oddity
by Matt Martin 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

We're using the traffic bills module and are a "paid" customer. However, sometime in October, customers that we bill for usage over a wireless link (using UBNT kit), only show 0.00. Traffic can still be seen on the port on the traffic bills screen, but collection of the data seems stuck. There are multiple customers per UBNT node and they are all seeing the same issue. Traffic bills on switches and routers appear fine however. Any idea where to start on trying to fix, or diagnose this. Matt

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Port Properties Alert Question and Odd Behavior
by Chip Pleasants 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Is there a way to see all Ports that have been disabled for altering? I enabled email alerts in config.php for port percentage, but seeing some odd behavior with the percentage portion with the physical interfaces inside a etherchannel interface. Below are a couple emails I received. The bandwidth mentioned in the email is more than the physical interface. Is there another option I need to turn on or off to account for this behavior? Any suggestions are appreciated. This physical interface didn't go over 444M. The port channel have 8 physical link in it. Port saturation threshold alarm: cisco.switch.com on GigabitEthernet3/1 Rates:1.63Gbps/11.6kbps(163/0) >85% of 1Gbps Another email This physical interface hit a 1G. The port channel has 2 physical links in it. Port saturation threshold alarm: cisco.switch.com on GigabitEthernet2/25 Rates:147Mbps/6.62Gbps(15/662) >85% of 1Gbps added to config.php $config['alerts']['port_util_alert'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['port_util_perc'] = 85; Thanks, Chip

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Mail alert and \n that should not be here.
by Xavier Beaudouin 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Hi there, Using alert on Observium Community (will try to ask for a fund for my work to help the project), I realize there is some strange thing in the mails sent by observium.. Seems there is a \n\n on the headers that brake the mail format. Looking at the code, I didn't saw where it was, and I wish to share if some people here has same issues. Header extract (old alerting stuff) : ---//--- Subject: Temperature Alarm: amazon CPU Temperature X-Priority: 3 Message-Id: <20140120070238.662C8180184CC(a)observium.censored> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:02:38 +0100 (CET) To: undisclosed-recipients: ; X-Zimbra-DL: sadm@censored Reply-To: "sadm@censored" <sadm@censored> Message-ID: <213ce88117d32aaeeb4296589d88c8f4@observium> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:02:38 +0100 Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Temperature Alarm: amazon CPU Temperature is over threshold: 61C (> 60C) ---//--- Header extract (new alerting system) : ---//--- From: "Observium " <sysadmin@censored> Subject: RECOVER: [esx4] [storage] [] Disk space is more than 80 percent used. Please do something X-Priority: 3 Message-Id: <20140120071634.DA1F0180184CC(a)observium.consored> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:16:34 +0100 (CET) To: undisclosed-recipients: ; X-Zimbra-DL: sadm@censored Reply-To: "sadm@censored" <sadm@censored> Content-type: text/html Message-ID: <cf3e1676772a4b83c02777f1dedfb49b@observium> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:16:34 +0100 ---//--- Seems there is an extra \n on the "Reply-To" header... I have tryed to find if sendmail based / smtp (even local smtp) was an issue, didn't find why. The issue is the same on other observium (home) without zimbra as mta/mua. Regards, Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01 Why Top posting is bad : http://ck.wikia.com/wiki/TopPosting

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Google MAPS Integration
by Nicholas Porter 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Unfortunately not being a Developer I'm finding it hard to get my hands on documentation to implement the use of google maps in the overview page. If this is possible for a net admin to achieve without in-depth dev knowledge please point me in the correct direction. Ideally would like to mimic the overview page that has been used on the demo page on the observium site. Thank you in advance ############################################################################################# The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Furthermore, the information contained in this message, and any attachments thereto, is for information purposes only and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of the company. #############################################################################################

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Device Alerts that won't go away
by ryan 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Hello all, I have attached an image of the alerts in question, the names and locations have been removed. It only happens on these two servers out of 20+ different servers. What causes this behavior ? I cannot seem to find any differences between servers. I am using the community edition on centos 6.5 , if that helps at all. Thanks, R. Prihoda

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RRD Graph Issues
by William Brown 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi, I recently just added the Collectd plugin and I noticed that with my first device that the top graphs for my device are blank, however the ones that are represented in the collectd section are fine. Anyone seen this and know how to fix it? Thanks Will

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Submission of code
by John Millington 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi Everyone, I've recently added some minor functionality to assist with the monitoring of our networks. A summary of this would be: * ShoreTel OS Logo * ShoreTel OS definition * Added SonicWall firewall CPU OID and related graphing * Added Sonicwall firewall active sessions discovery and graph definition for this To achieve this, there are a couple of extra .inc.php files and some addition snippets added to existing files. I understand that you prefer code submissions through wget from a website and I can arrange this, but firstly would like to know if you are interested in adding my code (following a review of course) to the product. Would make my pulls from SVN much easier!! Thanks, John.

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Updating Observium
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi, What is the « best practice » for keeping up to date the subscribed edition ? Stopping the cron jobs, updating with the svn, launching the discovery.php and start the cron jobs ? Or lauching the svn directly (without stopping the poller) is ok ? Regards, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg]

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Display IP address of the device ( DNS resolved ) in front of the device name ?
by Supun Rathnayake 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi all, We have a small suggestion, is it possible to add a new feature to display the IP address of the device ( DNS resolved IP of the device ) may be in front of the device name / or at the top of the device page etc. ( at any prominent place ) This is really helpful in identification and further trouble shooting etc., as most of the network engineers are dealing with the IP addresses rather than the hostname in day to day operations. Thanks in advance. -- With Best Regards, Supun Rathnayake Lanka communication Services (Pvt) Ltd. 65C, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07. Sri Lanka. Tel: +94-11-2437545 http://www.lankacom.net http://blog.lankacom.net

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Wait time to access subscribed version
by colin.barker＠bluesky.co.uk 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Hi all Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction. We put through payment for the subscribed version of Observium on Tuesday evening, and very shortly afterwards I emailed Adam with the encrypted htpassword line that he required to add to the SVN. However we have not had any word back on if this has been done or not (and testing, it seems to deny us so I am guessing not). I emailed a chase today, but I was wondering if there was a wait time on getting access, as I don't want to keep bugging when I should be waiting. Thanks in advance Regards Colin Barker Manager of Infrastructure and Security ................................................. Blue Sky Hosting Ltd | http://www.bluesky.co.uk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BlueSkyHosting Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/blueskyhosting LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/1j5eiur Sales / Enquiries : +44 (0) 20 7183 5854 | Helpdesk : +44 (0) 844 700 2759 or +44 (0) 844 478 0274 | Fax : +44 (0) 20 7183 5855 | Send support queries to:support@bluesky.co.uk ................................................................................................................... The UK's largest Lotus Domino hosting provider. Managed hosting for Cloud based IBM, Microsoft and Open Source solutions.

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