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Syslog-ng integration
by Randy Coburn 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

Hi All, I was wondering if someone could help with the syslog-ng intergration. For some reason not all my switches seem to be getting logs even though the syslogs are getting sent to the observium server. Below is the syslog-ng config. ## Observium Syslog-ng config chain_hostnames(0); keep_hostname(yes); use_dns(no); ## Observium Syslog-ng config ## Observium Syslog-ng config source s_net { udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(5544)); udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514)); }; destination d_observium { program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") template-escape(yes)); file("/var/log/observium"); }; log { source(s_net); destination(d_observium); }; ## Observium Syslog-ng config As you can see I have a file syslog to show that the logs are coming in. What parameters does observium need to log a syslog message against a device. Randy Coburn NewVoiceMedia are proud gold sponsors of Dreamforce. Use our promo code EC13NEWVO to register and save $100: [Dreamforce | Join The Customer Company Revolution | Nov 18-21, 2013 | San Francisco]<http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/> www.newvoicemedia.com<http://www.newvoicemedia.com> Click here<http://www.newvoicemedia.com/customers/> to see what our customers think Click here<http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N300000025yAGE…> to see our integration with salesforce.com Follow NewVoiceMedia on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/NewVoiceMedia/137330659646514?v=wall>, Flickr<http://www.flickr.com/photos/newvoicemedia/>, LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/company/newvoicemedia>, Twitter<https://twitter.com/NewVoiceMedia> Registered Office: NewVoiceMedia Ltd, Belvedere, Basing View, Basingstoke, Hampshire. RG21 4HG. NewVoiceMedia Registered in England No: 3602868 This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of NewVoiceMedia. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.

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why is the DNS query rate so high?
by David Newman 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

Thanks for clues in troubleshooting a problem with high DNS query rates from Observium. I've been looking at Observium for network monitoring, and really like it so far, except that makes repeated DNS queries at a very high rate. For example, an Observium box monitors an old Cisco 2651XM router in the same physical location. Running a capture on the DNS server, we see the Observium box made over 200 queries for the router's hostname in a 7-second interval. Also, the DNS server correctly responded to every one of these, usually within 20 ms. What would cause so many DNS queries (and apparent non-caching of the responses)? This behavior is thrashing the logs on the DNS servers. This is with Observium Community Edition 0.13.10.4586 running on Debian Wheezy. Thanks again dn

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Ldap ad authentication levels
by F.Reenders＠utwente.nl 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

Hi, Is there someone who has the permission levels like 10 for admin working with ad ldap groups? The ad ldap authentication itself is working for me but I get a screen with 0 devices then. If it just doesn't work I can stop trying. Regards, Frederik Reenders

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Latest subscription version and Map issues
by Chris Pelling 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

Evening all :-) I have had a quick look at the google page listed in the the doc, and also had a good search of google in general. I have a smallish but problematic issue with the overview page. In the old version (before update) I did not have any issue with this, howver the page defaults to the USA, and well I am in the UK - I have tried playing around with the region setting in the Docs (not a lot is discussed about "what" it actually does, but i have had a good play) to no avail. Google api doc page mentioned setting the region to "England" so I set : [map] => Array ( [region] => England [resolution] => countries [dotsize] => 10 [realworld] => [api] => google-mc [zooms_per_click] => 1 But it still defaults to the USA (middle of) :/ Now the second issue is we have set the device properties > System Location to be "Greenwich View Place, London, UK" which initially showed the devices in the correct place, then after an hour or two, its now 3 miles off to the East :( (and there I was thinking - wow thats good) :) So any help - guidance would be much appreciated :) -- Kind regards, Chris

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Junos health monitoring removed?
by Rutger Bevaart 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Hi, Just a quick question. For some reason my temperature sensors disappeared on Juniper / Junos gear. Observium log shows many of these: Sensor Deleted: temperature junos 9.1.0.0 Routing Engine 0 Running latest version from pro/svn, just updated to 4670 to be sure. Any clues? Regards, Rutger

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Searching in the FDB-Tables
by Wiethoff, Helge 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Hi all :-) When i search for a specific mac-address inside the FDB-Table i get no results with the default search options. Only if i deactivate the Options for Vlan and VLAN names. You can see in the screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0t18gycxw28ex56/fdb-table.png (equivalent for VLAN names... There is a blank entry selected https://www.dropbox.com/s/nx0dwkldj1vch7c/fdb-tables2.png ). Now my question: Is this the intended behavior? :) How are those default options set? Best regards, Helge ________________________________ Helge Wiethoff Medienzentrum Telefon: +49 (234) 968 8717 Fax: +49 (234) 968 3453 E-Mail: Wiethoff(a)tfh-bochum.de Technische Fachhochschule Georg Agricola für Rohstoff, Energie und Umwelt zu Bochum Staatlich anerkannte Fachhochschule der DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH Herner Straße 45 44787 Bochum http://www.tfh-bochum.de ________________________________ Träger: DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH Sitz der Gesellschaft: Bochum Registergericht: Amtsgericht Bochum Handelsregister: B 4052 Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kretschmann (Vorsitzender) Manfred Freitag

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Re: [Observium] Storage alerts
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Maybe it's active in the pro version ? Adrien De : BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] Envoyé : mardi 15 octobre 2013 10:55 À : 'observium(a)observium.org' Objet : Storage alerts Hi everyone, I'm using the old alerting system for hosts down and it works fine :-) But now I want to use the old or new one to know when my servers have data storage > 90% of their capacity. Is it possible ? And I'm always with the last SVN free version (I'm waiting for my Chief to buy the subscription). Thanks a lot, Adrien

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User Levels
by Jeremy Custenborder 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Excuse me if this is already documented some place. What is the lowest user level that will have read access to everything? Are the levels documented anywhere?

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inventory api not work
by Keyman 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

hi, all i enable API like this: // Simple Observium API Settings $config['api']['enabled'] = 1; $config['api']['module']['inventory'] = 1; and then i use http://x.x.x.x/api.php?username=admin&password=admin&module=inventory&devic… to export data, but retured : {"login":{"success":{"code":"101","msg":"User authentification succeeded"}},"data":[]} the device id is right, i can find inventory data from url http://x.x.x.x/device/device=4/tab=entphysical/ what's wrong about this ? thanks for your answer. yuan

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Storage alerts
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hi everyone, I'm using the old alerting system for hosts down and it works fine :-) But now I want to use the old or new one to know when my servers have data storage > 90% of their capacity. Is it possible ? And I'm always with the last SVN free version (I'm waiting for my Chief to buy the subscription). Thanks a lot, Adrien

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Geolocation through proxy
by Christian Hügel 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hi, is there a way to use the geolocation feature through a proxy with authentication? Our network policy doesn´t admint anonymous access through the proxy. Thx. Chris

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Empty ADSL and SLA rrd
by David George 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Morning all, I've just started trailing observium, and it's looking like a great system. Router health and interface counters seems to be logged and graphed correctly, so it's starting to look like a viable alternative to some of the larger closed source systems. I especially like the simplicity of the design which should allow for some additional sensor development down the that I'll submit back. So kudos on the system, I quite like it. Now - onto the issue, and I'm assuming given the size of the user-base this is likely to be configuration, but I've read and re-read the related doco and I'm unable to find anything wrong. I've added a Cisco 877 device, port counters and health are being logged and graphed correctly, but the ip-sla statistics and adsl line statistics are not. The header line includes dsl stats, and those stats appear to update according to the polling schedule, but the graphs do not. Also, the file timestamp is NOT updating on the adsl RRD file. it is however updating on the sla rrd file. rrdtool dump reveals that the rrd file contains no rows that have a value. config file contains $config['enable_ports_adsl'] = 1; # Enable ADSL-LINE-MIB $config['enable_sla'] = 1; Observium CE 0.13.10.4585 Apache 2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.8 MySQL 5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 RRDtool 1.4.7 [cid:image001.png@01CEC983.247047C0] [cid:image002.png@01CEC983.247047C0]

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Did the config setting mibdir get removed?
by Jeremy Custenborder 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Guys, We used mibdir heavily in our environment. After updating I see everything is going back to the default /opt/observium/mibs. What can we do to correct this? Has the setting changed? J

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Error during polling: ERROR: unknown option 's'
by Jeremy Custenborder 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Have any of you run into this before? I'm running centos 6.4. ERROR: unknown option 's' ERROR: unknown option 's' ERROR: unknown option 's' Module [ unix-agent ] disabled globally. Using SNMP Agent sysUpTime (4488767 seconds) ERROR: unknown option 's' Uptime: 51 days, 22h 52m 47s Module time: 5.0179s Hardware: cisco2811 Version: 15.1(4)M6 Features: ADVSECURITYK9 Serial: Asset: Module time: 1.0249sIPMI: Module time: 0.0087sSensors: Checking (snmp) temperature chassis ERROR: unknown option 's' 26 C Checking alerts Module time: 1.0116sProcessor Processor 1 ERROR: unknown option 's' 1% Checking alerts Module time: 1.025sMempool Processor: 25.95% ERROR: unknown option 's' Checking alerts Mempool I/O: 60.08% ERROR: unknown option 's' Checking alerts Mempool 2811 chassis - Processor: 25.95% ERROR: unknown option 's' Checking alerts Mempool 2811 chassis - I/O: 60.08% ERROR: unknown option 's' Checking alerts Module time: 8.8415sModule time: 0.0025sPolling Netstats: IPERROR: unknown option 's' TCPERROR: unknown option 's' UDPERROR: unknown option 's' ICMPERROR: unknown option 's' SNMPERROR: unknown option 's'

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CE: Broken detailed Collectd charts
by Frank Ortmann 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Hi I installed the community edition at the time of the split and have come across an issue with the detailed charts. When I click on the Collectd tab I see the various charts as expected. See the attached screenshot. However, when I then click on one of the charts to see more detail, I get the broken image icon. I would expect to see something like the following: I am doing something wrong, or is this a bug? Thanks, Frank

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Test of List Posting
by Ron Wingfield 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

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poller performance
by F.Reenders＠utwente.nl 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Hi, I'm having problems with the performance of the poller. We have 200 switches and almost 16000 ports included and the poller is having trouble getting them checked in 5 minutes. With 20 threads it's working with a load of 15. When I add more threads it takes longer to get the data from switches. With less threads it also doesn't check all switches in 5 minutes. I'm using new fast hardware. I've implemented all the performance tuning tips on the observium site. I also disabled the checking of fbd-table, arp-table and mac-accounting. When I debug the poller the ports check takes the longest. About 90 % of the total time. 1 switch takes about 8 to 10 seconds now. Is there a way to speed it up? Maybe I can extend the check cycle time to 10 minutes? Distributed poller instances? Regards, Frederik Reenders | ICTS Operation Centre | University of Twente | ICT Service Centre | ICTS Server Operation | P.O.Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands | Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede | Campus building: Spiegel, room 416 | T: +31 53 489 2653/6723 | f.reenders(a)utwente.nl | www.utwente.nl/icts/en/

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Brocade FastIron SX 1600, IronWare Version 07.0.01cT3e1
by Danilo Marques de Gouveia 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

Hello guys, I'm testing Observium in the company that I work, it's working great, however we realize that Observium is not getting the processors and memory utilization from ours FastIron SX family, which includes SX 800 and SX 1600. The Brocade MLX family that we use are working fine and we are able to get proc and memory, I guess that it's a MIB problem but I couldn't find it on google. Does anyone has this switches been monitored by observium? Below is the version info from observium: *Observium CE*0.13.10.4585 *Apache*2.2.16 (Debian) *PHP*5.3.3-7+squeeze17 * MySQL*5.1.66-0+squeeze1 *RRDtool*1.4.3 Thanks in advance, -- Danilo Marques de Gouveia

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monitoring SFP interfaces on Juniper EX3300
by Rodrigo Augusto 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

Hi folks! Does anyone have any idea what I have to do to monitoring my 10GB interfaces on juniper ex3300?! On my MX observium monitoring normally ut on my ex3300 cant see DBM page. What I have to do to solve this?! Rodrigo Augusto Gestor de T.I. Grupo Connectoway http://www.connectoway.com.br <http://www.connectoway.com.br/> http://www.1telecom.com.br <http://www.1telecom.com.br/> * rodrigo(a)connectoway.com.br <mailto:rodrigo@connectoway.com.br> ( (81) 3366-7376 ( (81) 8184-3646 ( INOC-DBA 52965*100

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] r4545 - in observer/branches/devel/html/pages/device: . overview
by Paul Gear 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

On 10/10/2013 06:29 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: > On 2013-09-28 03:12, Paul Gear wrote: >> On 09/26/2013 03:25 PM, observium-commits(a)observium.org wrote: >> Author: adama >> Date: 2013-09-26 07:25:19 +0200 (Thu, 26 Sep 2013) >> New Revision: 4545 >> >> Added: >> observer/branches/devel/html/pages/device/overview/processors-unix.inc.php >> >> Modified: >> observer/branches/devel/html/pages/device/overview.inc.php >> Log: >> more useful processor overview for unix hosts >> >> IMO, ucd_cpu (a.k.a. detailed processor) would be a better processor >> overview for Unix hosts; at least it includes a breakdown of the >> usage. Even better would be finding one that includes iowait time >> (I'm not sure if net-snmp exposes this). > > We don't read observium-dev, it's just svn spam. you need to > cross-post these to observium :> > > We could probably pull io-wait from the agent. P.S. It also should be called utilisation, not load. Load & utilisation are two separate figures and mixing their names is confusing. Paul

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Devices not visible from drop down for user level less than 5
by Andrej K 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

Hi to all of you, I have found following problem,Normal user can`t see devices on map, also devices are not shown from upper drop down menu. Same with ports. Any ideas ? Thank you all. I use R4586 Andrej Kolakovic

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Moving to the Subscription Edition on CentOS
by Stefano Cordio 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

Hello guys, I'd like to inform you that on my CentOS 6.4 I followed the steps for moving the installation (http://www.observium.org/wiki/Edition_Split#How_do_I_move_to_the_Subscripti on_Edition.3F), but I also had to move the logs folder: mv observium-old/logs observium otherwise the Apache startup gave that error on /var/log/httpd/error_log: (2)No such file or directory: httpd: could not open error log file /opt/observium/logs/error_log. Unable to open logs Kind Regards, Stefano

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Power meter error graphs
by Ryan Milton 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

I have a number of power meters from tripplite and obviously they don't have network statistics for traffic. So, I get the attached errors for the ports graphs on the overview page and when I click on the ports, where it takes you to the graphs of all the traffic. I want to be able to disable the display of this, since everything else is correct. Is there an element in code somewhere that I can just comment that out or something? Regards, Ryan Milton MVS Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 www.mvsusa.com<http://www.mvsusa.com/> [MVS final logo GOOD very small]

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Wrong data in CPU Load graph
by Christian Hügel 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

Hi, the graphs for the CPU load of a linux server are not accurate. The CPU shows in vSphere client a load of 40-50% but in observium all 4 cores are permanently at 90%. Does anybody know why this happens? Thx Chris

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URL Tracking
by Ryan Milton 11 Oct '13

11 Oct '13

I have been enjoying my Observium installation quite a lot, and I love the nice graphs of traffic and ports. Given that this level of detail can be pulled from the devices, is there anyone/anyway who have been able to use that info to create a URL tracker that could show to what URL's a source IP is going? I'd love to be able to integrate something like that into Observium. Regards, Ryan Milton MVS Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 www.mvsusa.com<http://www.mvsusa.com/> [MVS final logo GOOD very small]

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