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Re: [Observium] Billing question
by Chris Pelling 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Ok, I'll bung ?50 into a kitty with some beer tokens too anyone else want to chip in ? Sent from Chris on the move... ----- Reply message ----- From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Billing question Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 17:33 On 2013-11-06 16:43, Chris Pelling wrote: > 'ello all, > > Will there in the future do we know of think be an option for billing > of power ? Just a thought, and worth asking :-) > This has been something that we've been looking at for quite a while. I don't think there's very much code we could share, so it would be quite a large chunk of work (not made any easier by every vendor storing this information in a different place, and in a different format). You are the first person who's asked for it though, until now it was just something we'd thought of :) adam. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Billing question
by Chris Pelling 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

I'll also mention then how about something else that might be useful and that's a domains expiring ticker for this important domains that you simply can't not renew. Me being a domain registrar 9hs nothing tho do with out :-D Sent from Chris on the move... ----- Reply message ----- From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Billing question Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 17:33 On 2013-11-06 16:43, Chris Pelling wrote: > 'ello all, > > Will there in the future do we know of think be an option for billing > of power ? Just a thought, and worth asking :-) > This has been something that we've been looking at for quite a while. I don't think there's very much code we could share, so it would be quite a large chunk of work (not made any easier by every vendor storing this information in a different place, and in a different format). You are the first person who's asked for it though, until now it was just something we'd thought of :) adam. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Billing question
by Chris Pelling 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

'ello all, Will there in the future do we know of think be an option for billing of power ? Just a thought, and worth asking :-) Kind regards, Chris

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Compensating for hostname changes
by Jason Lixfeld 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

My company wants to institute a naming convention change and as such, we'd need to update the hostnames in Observium to match. I presume that Observium will not magically update anything if a hostname changes, and I'm sure others have gone through this activity in the past, so I'd like feedback on what's the best way to go about it and any caveats. From my very limited perspective on the matter, I think all I need to do is change the hostnames in the hostname column of the devices table in conjunction with renaming the $observium/rrds/$hostname to match the change. Yes? No? Maybe So? Thanks in advance.

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Re: [Observium] ServerTech Sentry3 Graphs & Infeeds
by KELLY, Christopher 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Hey Tom (and anyone else with Sentry3 Rails), Fix for this one was in an earlier message > http://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg00519.html Make sure you have the latest MIB and add the code to sentry3-mib.inc.php in …/observium/includes/discovery/sensors Also, you were right about the graphs Tom – tweaked the cron jobs and all is well! ________________________________ This e-mail is sent by Suncorp Group Limited ABN 66 145 290 124 or one of its related entities "Suncorp". Suncorp may be contacted at Level 18, 36 Wickham Terrace, Brisbane or on 13 11 55 or at suncorp.com.au. The content of this e-mail is the view of the sender or stated author and does not necessarily reflect the view of Suncorp. The content, including attachments, is a confidential communication between Suncorp and the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this e-mail, including attachments, is unauthorised and expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and delete the e-mail and any attachments from your system. 　

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lingering snmp queries?
by David Peall 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Have i set the timeouts incorrectly because these should have stopped? date time : Tue Oct 29 13:39:53 SAST 2013 ps awux returns the following: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 19497 0.0 0.2 23356 2332 ? S 12:41 0:00 /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t 1000 -r 3 -v2c -c -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp udp:servername:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex root 20410 0.0 0.0 4400 612 ? S 12:45 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t '1000' -r '3' -v2c -c 'snmpstring'@1 -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'servername':'161' dot1dBasePortIfIndex 2>/dev/null root 20411 0.0 0.2 23356 2408 ? S 12:45 0:00 /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t 1000 -r 3 -v2c -c -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp udp:servername:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex root 24591 0.0 0.0 4400 612 ? S 12:50 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t '1000' -r '3' -v2c -c 'snmpstring'@1 -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'servername':'161' dot1dBasePortIfIndex 2>/dev/null root 24592 0.0 0.2 23356 2408 ? S 12:50 0:00 /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t 1000 -r 3 -v2c -c -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp udp:servername:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex root 24840 0.0 0.0 4400 616 ? S 12:51 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t '1000' -r '3' -v2c -c 'snmpstring'@1 -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'servername':'161' dot1dBasePortIfIndex 2>/dev/null root 24841 0.0 0.2 23356 2408 ? S 12:51 0:00 /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t 1000 -r 3 -v2c -c -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp udp:servername:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex root 25873 0.0 0.0 4400 612 ? S 12:55 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t '1000' -r '3' -v2c -c 'snmpstring'@1 -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'servername':'161' dot1dBasePortIfIndex 2>/dev/null root 25876 0.0 0.2 23356 2408 ? S 12:55 0:00 /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t 1000 -r 3 -v2c -c -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp udp:servername:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex root 26090 0.0 0.0 4400 612 ? S 12:55 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -t '1000' -r '3' -v2c -c 'snmpstring'@1 -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'servername':'161' dot1dBasePortIfIndex 2>/dev/null Thanks — David Peall

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ServerTech Sentry3 Graphs & Infeeds
by KELLY, Christopher 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Hi guys, Hoping someone can point me in the right direction or lend a hand – I have installed Observium CE 0.13.10.4585 to RHEL 6 and have it up and running. Added a couple of power rails, however none of the graphs are populating (no network traffic, uptime or voltage). But, all of the devices added are reporting back their current load and status. [cid:image001.png@01CED48E.68EA1960] [cid:image003.png@01CED48E.68EA1960] [cid:image004.png@01CED48E.68EA1960] Also noticed that Observium is only reporting on 2 of the 4 Current Infeeds (as per 1st screenshot) – is there a way to enable Observium to display the other 4 feeds? [cid:image005.png@01CED48E.68EA1960] Cheers! ________________________________ This e-mail is sent by Suncorp Group Limited ABN 66 145 290 124 or one of its related entities "Suncorp". Suncorp may be contacted at Level 18, 36 Wickham Terrace, Brisbane or on 13 11 55 or at suncorp.com.au. The content of this e-mail is the view of the sender or stated author and does not necessarily reflect the view of Suncorp. The content, including attachments, is a confidential communication between Suncorp and the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this e-mail, including attachments, is unauthorised and expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and delete the e-mail and any attachments from your system. 　

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Upgrade to 4737 broke some graphs
by Chris Pelling 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Hi Guys, Upgraded today using "svn update" to 4737 from 4760 and 2 switch graphs (dell) stopped showing data, cisco, vyatta and one dell unaffected. For example, we have 2 x Dell M6220 stacked blades *a and c* and 1 x Dell M6348 stacked blade switch all in M1000e chassis. a = worked before and after, graph looks aok b = worked before, now stopped c = worked before, now stopped An interesting observation, if I drill down to a port on B, and click realtime, its showing realtime information - so we know that works. Billing also seems unaffected, just the graphs at : /devices/type=network/format=graphs/graph=bits/ stopped for these 2 devices (albeit one is identical to a working device) exactly at the time of upgrade. I confirmed we did do the upgrade as per the wiki : svn update ./discovery.php -h none So now stumped, what can I do to get them back showing the current data (they have the historical few hours before update) and/or what can I run to aid in finding a poss issue ? :-) -- Kind regards, Chris

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Re: [Observium] Alerting...
by Adam Armstrong 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

There is a page on the wiki explaining the basics. Its still a bit of a work in progress, but some people already find it useful... Adam. Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S <tr(a)zitcom.dk> wrote: >Is there any documentation on the new alerting system? > >Is there a way to turn off all the old alerting stuff and start using the new stuff? > >/Thomas >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Alerting...
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Is there any documentation on the new alerting system? Is there a way to turn off all the old alerting stuff and start using the new stuff? /Thomas

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Fwd: Regarding developers attitude...
by Doychin Dokov 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Hi all, I would just like to share my experience with the attitude of Adam towards general minor web-interface issue reported by a paying customer (me). I've reported that the OSPF stats look very confusing and provided a screenshot which shows the issue. The inital response I got was "jira is not for general complaining". My answer was: "Where do we do so, then? Now that Observium is paid, we deserve some proper attention to problems, at least.... Not just the close-it-as-fast-as-you-can attitude you have so far.... Also, I'm more than willing to fix it myself by looking at the BGP code, so was jast curios if there is any plan to already rework the OSPF pages, as what is seen on the screenshot is really of no use - and I guess your opinion is the same as well." Which resulted in these comments from Tom Laermans and Adam Armstrong: "I believe you are confused about what exactly it is that you paid for." "You're definitely doing the right thing to make sure we add the features you want..." And then the issue was completely deleted.... So, I'd like to point these things: * why do we get such an attitude against the money kindly "asked" from us? Being a kickstarter supporter for the alerting system, I kind of felt being lied to, since the Observium developers decided that one has to get a license to receive the full functionality which the funding was raised for in the first place... Anyways, I understand the need for more revenue, but not the attitude at all. * this is in no way requesting a new feature. Is just a report, plus marked as of minor importance, which shows a feature already available in Observium being kind-of unusable. This makes me completely not understand the way developers behaved. * i've asked Adam in a personal e-mail what's the reason for this attitude. Since he did not get the guts to reply, I hope he does it here. I'd very much want to know what I've done wrong to provoke such an attitude. * this is not the first time one of the developers would say "idiot" to a (paying) user. So go ahead, shoot me. Thank you for your time and sorry about the need to post this here. Kind regards, - D. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adam Armstrong (JIRA) <jira(a)observium.org> Date: 2013/11/3 Subject: [OBS-JIRA] (OBSERVIUM-571) OSPF stats are a mess To: dokov(a)silistra.tv Adam Armstrong<http://jira.observium.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=adama>deleted [image: Bug] OBSERVIUM-571 *OSPF stats are a mess* <http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-571> This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

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Help troubleshooting auto discovery
by Jason Lixfeld 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

I added a new box to my network last week, but Observium hasn't seemed to have picked it up yet. I'm trying to troubleshoot it, but short of proving ping, CDP and snmpwalk on the box work fine and manually running the discovery cron job, I'm not sure what else to do in terms of troubleshooting. Can anyone lend a pointer? CentOS 6.3 (Final) Observium 0.13.11.4743 [root@monitor01 observium]# /opt/observium/discovery.php -d -h new DEBUG! Observium v0.13.11.4743 Discovery Schema update disabled by -h new, run with -h none to perform it manually. SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE status = 1 AND disabled = 0 AND (`last_discovered` IS NULL OR `last_discovered` = '0000-00-00 00:00:00') ORDER BY device_id DESC] /opt/observium/discovery.php new November 5, 2013, 8:16 - 0 devices discovered in 0.002 secs MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[0/0s] Rows[1/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[0/0s] Delete[0/0s] [root@monitor01 observium]# mysql> select hostname from devices where hostname like 'bfr01.905king%'; Empty set (0.00 sec) mysql> RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:bfr01.151FrontStW01.YYZ#sh cdp neigh te0/2/0/14 detail Tue Nov 5 08:09:06.390 EST ------------------------- Device ID: bfr01.905KingStW01.YYZ SysName : bfr01.905KingStW01.YYZ Entry address(es): IPv4 address: * Platform: cisco ASR9K Series, Capabilities: Router Interface: TenGigE0/2/0/14 Port ID (outgoing port): TenGigE0/1/0/0 Holdtime : 166 sec Version : Cisco IOS XR Software, Version 4.3.2[Default] Copyright (c) 2013 by Cisco Systems, Inc. advertisement version: 2 Duplex: full RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:bfr01.151FrontStW01.YYZ# [root@monitor01 observium]# snmpwalk -v2c -c * bfr01.905KingStW01.YYZ sysDescr SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: "Cisco IOS XR Software (Cisco ASR9K Series), Version 4.3.2[Default] Copyright (c) 2013 by Cisco Systems, Inc." [root@monitor01 observium]# ping -c 1 bfr01.905KingStW01.yyz PING bfr01.905KingStW01.yyz (10.219.49.22) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from bfr01.905KingStW01.YYZ (10.219.49.22): icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=0.862 ms --- bfr01.905KingStW01.yyz ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 1ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.862/0.862/0.862/0.000 ms [root@monitor01 observium]# Thanks in advance, eh! ;)

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Re: [Observium] :-)
by Rob VanHooren 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

it’s Canada. Everybody knows everybody. He’s in the next igloo a few streets over. :-P On Nov 5, 2013, at 8:04, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > know eachother? :P > > adam.

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Setting up Observium as a Virtual Directory
by Norris Ward 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Hi all, I am trying to setup Observium in a proof of concept environment. When I try to make it a virtual directory on the linnux Debian server, the attached webpage is what I get compared to when i make the web root that of the observium html path. How can I fix this?

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Re: [Observium] Error drawing Graph
by Adam Armstrong 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

I monitor devices with 100ms+ latency, so that isn't a problem. More of a problem is badly written SNMP stacks :-( Adam Roman <rromanyak(a)squarespace.com> wrote: >Thanks Adam for your feedback, I'll upgrade observing yo the latest version, if it still doesn't work than I'll just install it locally in the remote data center and see if it works there > >Roman > >Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 30, 2013, at 9:11 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >> >>> On 2013-10-30 17:44, Roman Romanyak wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> I'm having strange issue, and spend a lot of time troubleshooting this >>> without any success. >>> Getting error 'error drawing graph' only for some devices only - >>> EX4200 switches, which are located in the remote datacenter. After I >>> started seeing issue, I install another switch here in local >>> datacenter and added it to observium and its working good. Could be >>> the issue in latency - the delay is about 30ms? >>> discovery and poller scripts run good, the only thing I noticed that >>> for the devices that don't work I in rrd/<device_name>/ files >>> port-###.rrd are missing. The CPU and Memory graphs are working good, >>> only network graphs are having errors. >> >> Make sure you're running the latest version, there were some issues with a change earlier this week. >> >> JunOS is a special little butterfly and needs special attention sometimes... >> >> Latency won't really have that effect, the only thing that is likely to is failing to receive data from the switch, which may be fixed in the latest revisions. >> >> adam. >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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observium just stops after switching to subscription.
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

If i run discovery.php -h none I get no output. The only way I could get it going again was to uncomment this line in common.php if (file_exists($config['install_dir']."/includes/debug/ref.inc.php")) { include($config['install_dir']."/includes/debug/ref.inc.php"); $ref_loaded = TRUE; } Whats my problem? I´am running centos. Thomas

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new feature request
by Rob VanHooren 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Tom/Mike I suggest to implement this new feature for Adam, ASAP: http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-19856.aspx ;-) R. On Nov 3, 2013, at 17:13, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Either read what's come before, or say nothing. > > FUCKING HELL.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 40, Issue 9
by Corey Robertson 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

I think the majority of these complaints have come from users who have forgotten this is a grassroots, homegrown effort, which single handedly out performs many other NMS systems albeit paid or free. If you expect answers and resolution to every minute detail which you don't like, put you money where your mouth is. The Observium team has been more than gracious to continue to develop such a great monitoring platform and keep it going while still maintaining the open source ideals. > On Nov 3, 2013, at 4:13 PM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Fwd: Regarding developers attitude... (Adam Armstrong) > 2. Re: Fwd: Regarding developers attitude... (Adam Armstrong) > 3. Re: Fwd: Regarding developers attitude... (Doychin Dokov) > 4. Re: observium just stops after switching to subscription. > (Tom Laermans) > 5. Re: Fwd: Regarding developers attitude... (Tom Laermans) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:43:01 +0000 > From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Fwd: Regarding developers attitude... > Message-ID: <fde9ac9c729e4be8f2eebf3be002bb08(a)memetic.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Fuck off, cuntmuppet. > > Either read what's come before, or say nothing. > > FUCKING HELL. > > >> On 2013-11-03 20:52, Tom Henderson wrote: >> Maybe take it offline gents? Of at least off list? http://xkcd.com/438/ >> [1] >> >> A simple "Hi $user, this is covered on the wiki here: $url. Thanks for >> using observium." would be trivial to implement with any email >> templating system. Even "Sorry, $feature is not currently in the >> timeline because of $reasons." would be better than getting in an >> argument. >> >> Cheers >> >> Tom >> >> -- >> >> ------------------------- >> >> If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not >> disclose, copy, or distribute any information contained in or attached >> to it, or take any action/inaction based on it. Please contact us >> immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views or >> opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and >> not of Pack & Company (NZ) Limited (the "Company"), however any >> intellectual property contained in or attached to this email is the >> property of the Company. Thank you. >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] http://xkcd.com/438/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:44:16 +0000 > From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Fwd: Regarding developers attitude... > Message-ID: <80652049ab831e346e2bec554d8ee638(a)memetic.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > >> On 2013-11-03 21:40, Doychin Dokov wrote: >> As my first message says, I've tried to contact Adam on his personal >> e-mail to get an idea for the reason for this attitude, to no avail. >> >> One more time, I've not requested a new feature or anything else, I >> just reported an already-existing part of observium not looking >> correctly, asked if it's a leftover and planned to be reworked, as the >> similar BGP stats look fine, and even offered to work on it. >> >> There are no $reasons for such $attitude, and it's not the first time >> it happens, so I wanted to know why, and how is this considered >> normal? > > You did none of those things. > > So now i'm going to add liar to the list of reasons why we will no > longer accept any communication from you. > > adam. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 00:04:59 +0200 > From: Doychin Dokov <dokov(a)silistra.tv> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Fwd: Regarding developers attitude... > Message-ID: > <CALD-xbC4JXP68OFZdJmCcwy-ysN=o3pHjstd=LpujhZADRFGow(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Adam, > > Everyone would have seen with their eyes what I have offered, if you have > not deleted the issue in jira! > > Also, I have pasted my exact reply in my first email, here it is once again: > > "Now that Observium is paid, we deserve some proper attention to problems, > at least.... Not just the close-it-as-fast-as-you-can attitude you have so > far.... > > Also, I'm more than willing to fix it myself by looking at the BGP code, so > was jast curios if there is any plan to already rework the OSPF pages, as > what is seen on the screenshot is really of no use - and I guess your > opinion is the same as well." > > > I'm very much sure you have read it, as you and Tom Laermans have replied > to it that i have no idea what I have paid for.... > > So, naming me a "liar" is completely inappropriate, and is a true > confirmation about your inability to communicate normally with people. You > are digging observium's grave. > > - D. > > > > > 2013/11/3 Doychin Dokov <dokov(a)silistra.tv> > >> As my first message says, I've tried to contact Adam on his personal >> e-mail to get an idea for the reason for this attitude, to no avail. >> >> One more time, I've not requested a new feature or anything else, I just >> reported an already-existing part of observium not looking correctly, asked >> if it's a leftover and planned to be reworked, as the similar BGP stats >> look fine, and even offered to work on it. >> >> There are no $reasons for such $attitude, and it's not the first time it >> happens, so I wanted to know why, and how is this considered normal? >> >> - D. >> >> >> 2013/11/3 Tom Henderson <tom(a)pack.co.nz> >> >>> Maybe take it offline gents? Of at least off list? http://xkcd.com/438/ >>> >>> A simple "Hi $user, this is covered on the wiki here: $url. Thanks for >>> using observium." would be trivial to implement with any email templating >>> system. Even "Sorry, $feature is not currently in the timeline because of >>> $reasons." would be better than getting in an argument. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not >>> disclose, copy, or distribute any information contained in or attached to >>> it, or take any action/inaction based on it. Please contact us immediately, >>> and delete this email from your system. Any views or opinions presented in >>> this email are solely those of the author and not of Pack & Company (NZ) >>> Limited (the "Company"), however any intellectual property contained in or >>> attached to this email is the property of the Company. Thank you. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Minor OSPF page fixes
by Sander Steffann 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

So, here are a few minor quick fixes to device/routing/ospf. I hope this lessens the tension here a bit. Index: html/pages/device/routing/ospf.inc.php =================================================================== --- html/pages/device/routing/ospf.inc.php (revision 4732) +++ html/pages/device/routing/ospf.inc.php (working copy) @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ echo('</tr>'); echo('<tr bgcolor="'.$area_bg.'">'); - echo('<td colspan=7>'); + echo('<td colspan=4>'); echo('<table width=100% border=0 cellpadding=5>'); echo('<tr><th></th><th>Port</th><th>Status</th><th>Port Type</th><th>Port State</th></tr>'); @@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ $port_enabled = '<span style="color: #aaaaaa">disabled</span>'; } + // Fix label + $ospfport['label'] = $ospfport['ifDescr']; + echo('<tr bgcolor="'.$port_bg.'">'); echo(' <td width=15></td>'); echo(' <td><strong>'. generate_port_link($ospfport) . '</strong></td>'); Cheers, Sander

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How to use the new alerting system.
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

I would like to create a 80 % interface utilzation alarm. If the threshold hits 5 times the alert should be generated. Do we have any documentation on the new interface? Thomas

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October Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 02 Nov '13

02 Nov '13

Hi Guys, Here's the condensed version of the changes for October: Also visible at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#October_2013 Major Improvements and Additions Extensive improvements to sensor display code and definitions. Extensive restructuring to sensor discovery including linking sensors to OSes via MIB simplifying the process of adding new OSes and sensor types. WMI-based poller for retrieving extra data from Windows. Improves CPU/Storage polling and adds Exchange and MSSQL metrics collection. Major rewrite to integrate and expand PowerNet-MIB support for APC devices Allow the use of max-reps on snmpbulkwalk. Vastly improves walking of large tables on supported devices, particularly IOS, Arista and Linux. New Google Maps API-based map complete with point clustering, auto-centring and zooming support to replace the old Google Charts API map Improvements and Additions Support for AVTECH RoomAlert 24E Detection of Toshiba eStudio printers Detection of DIGI USB servers Barracuda NG FW detection Support for airflow sensors. Support for state sensors on SensorProbe / Minkel SRMS. Allow device hostname as a parameter instead of device_id Support for processor and memory on Cisco QFP Collect Dell Service Tag from Dell PowerConnect devices HH3C memory pool and processor polling from HH3C-ENTITY-MIB RADLAN state sensors from RADLAN-HWENVIROMENT MIB Microsens OS and temperature sensors detection Procera detection NetAPP filesystem discovery and polling via the storage system Additional Dell PowerConnect sysObjectIDs Dell-Vendor-MIB sensors Netbotz support Support for two new sensors types; Capacity and Runtime. Primarily used for UPSes and other battery-related devices. Audiocodes Mediant detection Bugfixes Fix Cisco SLA support Some improvements to handling of invalid devices and graph types Improved limits for timeouts/retries on SNMP operations Applications with multiple instances are now accessed via a drop-down Warning if devices have never been polled/discovered now works correctly Fix API to correctly use the authentication system instead of hardcoded database authentication. Correctly use user id in LDAP auth to allow per-device and per-entity permissions Fix Cisco BGP session address formatting Make sure that the RRD directory is correctly renamed when renaming a device Debugging / Troubleshooting Add a page to output the data Observium holds about a port for debugging/troubleshooting purposes.

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Re: [Observium] control device ports via SNMP
by Adam Armstrong 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

No, we don't have any features which allow control of the devices at all. Adam. Bogdan Ghita <bvghita(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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control device ports via SNMP
by Bogdan Ghita 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hello I've been looking through the features of Observium but couldn't find out whether it includes functionality to disable or enable individual ports on a (monitored) switch/router via SNMP. I understand that this lies outside the scope of the software, but I thought I'd ask just in case it's there (or can be enabled optionally) and I missed it. If it isn't, could anybody recommend a management/monitoring software able to provide this? Best regards Bogdan

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Re: [Observium] graphe on pose
by Adam Armstrong 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

What version does observium say on the bottom left? Adam. Zoran Lukenic <z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr> wrote: >I'm on the last version. I install the new server with SVN 2 days ago. >My network is ok. All server are in datacenter with 1G or 10G switches. >I have 2 observium on 2 difrent server and network and I have same problem. >My Centreon, cacti, intermapper do the same thing and my graphs are full. > >The pooler is like you write in your doc: > >more /etc/cron.d/observium >33 */6 * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 >* /5 * * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new /dev/null 2>&1 >* /5 * * * * root /opt/observium/pooler-wrapper.py 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1 > > > > >--- >Zoran Lukenic >z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr >--- >Groupe Mediactive >3-4-10, cité Paradis 75010 Paris >Tel : +33 1 55 28 80 60 >Fax : +33 1 55 28 80 61 >Support technique : 0 892 494 777 >www.groupe-mediactive.fr >Twitter : @mediactivegroup > > >________________________________________ >De : Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] >Date d'envoi : jeudi 31 octobre 2013 05:55 >À : Observium Network Observation System >Objet : Re: [Observium] graphe on pose > >This is most certainly related to network conditions or polling frequency. > >The poller must run every 5 minutes. > >Make sure you are running the latest version (svn update) > >Adam. > >Zoran Lukenic <z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr> wrote: > >>I didn't know that the screenshot will not be able in the mail. >>So I have problems with all graphs on all devices. My graphs are OK but they have some hole. Some time 30min, some time more. >>I have this same devices on my cacti, behind same firewall and I don't have this problem. >> >>ps: I don't know if I do the right thing for answer. >> >>------------------------------ >> >>Message: 2 >>Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:34:09 +0000 >>From: Zoran Lukenic <z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr> >>To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> >>Subject: [Observium] graphe on pose >>Message-ID: >> <286037ABC3D0D74DB5172245EF4597970144239E(a)srv-exchange01.exchange.mediactive.fr> >> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >>Hello, >> >>I have some problem with my graphe ( cf: screenshot ) >> >>I looked in FAQ and some Mailing Liste archive but I didn't find any one with the same problem. >> >>do you have some idea where to look? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>--- >>Zoran Lukenic >>z.lukenic(a)mediactive.fr<mailto:z.lukenic@mediactive.fr> >>--- >>Groupe Mediactive >>3-4-10, cit? Paradis 75010 Paris >>Tel : +33 1 55 28 80 60 >>Fax : +33 1 55 28 80 61 >>Support technique : 0 892 494 777 >>www.groupe-mediactive.fr<http://www.groupe-mediactive.fr/> >>Twitter : @mediactivegroup >>[cid:FB003B7F-1839-4401-8DAE-B37B718E4644] >>

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Frontpage map show province with ISO 3166-2
by Florian Znottka 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hello! Observium works for me like a charm, but I have a problem with the frontpage map: I can't get a province with a region ISO 3166-2 code (e.g. DE-SH) as a full map on the frontpage. Only working configuration is to show the whole country (e.g. DE) which is a bit to big. All co-locations of our servers are too close to each other (20 miles) , so that you can't figure out on the map, which location is which. My config.php so far: $config['frontpage']['map']['resolution'] = "provinces"; $config['frontpage']['map']['region'] = "DE-SH"; $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = "1"; error-message: Request map does not exist. Is my config file incorrect or does it not work? Or is there another method to zoom in on the map? Thanks for help Kind Regards Florian

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