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Re: [Observium] Observium Community / Professional
by Adam Armstrong 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

Win... Rar... I don't even. Leslie-Alexandre DENIS <infoslad(a)gmail.com> wrote: >As for me the tar.gz provided at >http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz is corrupted >(opened with WinRAR). Don't think it's on me, just saying. > >Regards >Le 06/10/2013 17:55, Adam Armstrong a écrit : >> They were already on the Ubuntu/Debian guide, I've added them to the >> RHEL/Centos/etc guide. >> >> I think there is some scope for merging the guides, actually... >> >> adam. >> >> >> On 2013-10-06 16:39, Jared Beaulieu wrote: >>> Does the install page need to be updated with a link to the tar file >>> for the Open Source edition? >>> >>> - Jared >>> >>> ------------------------- >>> FROM: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> >>> TO: observium(a)observium.org >>> SENT: Friday, October 4, 2013 11:48 AM >>> SUBJECT: [Observium] Observium Community / Professional >>> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> As we talked about in April, to sustain development we need to develop a >>> revenue stream. >>> >>> The temporary solution in April was the Kickstarter, which funded 6 >>> months of development for the alerting system. To fund development after >>> that, we've decided to try a relatively inexpensive subscription scheme. >>> >>> http://www.observium.org/Edition_Split [1] >>> >>> The intention is to provide enough for free to keep the people who >>> wouldn't ever pay happy, and try to keep the price low enough that >>> everyone else can pay without worrying too much about it. >>> >>> We've set the subscription at £100/year. If you were a Kickstarter >>> supporter, you'll get a free subscription for a while, because we're >>> nice like that. >>> >>> Comments? :) >>> >>> adam. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium [2] >>> >>> >>> >>> Links: >>> ------ >>> [1] http://www.observium.org/Edition_Split >>> [2] 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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sign up for pro service
by Zach Underwood 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

I am backer of $100 on kickstarter, how do I get a log on for the pro version of svn. -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT,UACA) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photos <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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boo! re: mkpasswd
by Rob VanHooren 06 Oct '13

06 Oct '13

boo! md5 is deprecated. (read: cracked) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6151 sha1 is likely to suffer the same fate. able to use at least sha256 ? R. On 2013-10-06, at 7:00 AM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Send me a password hash from 'mkpasswd -5' and a username and I'll add > you to the user list. > > Thanks, > adam.

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Re: [Observium] Observium Community / Professional
by Gerwin Krist 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

Hi, I understand the change. And personally I think the price is oke, but I don't hope it will sky-rocket in the near feature. For us the MOST important thing is the Alerting (eg. IF up/down) part. But right now it's very limited and not working very well for us. Make it more less-complicated would be nice :-D When we can use it as reliable monitoring platform too, we are in! One other part: also support RHEL/CENTOS. It's an widely used enterprise OS and can't be ignored imho. - Gerwin

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No Auth - adding new graph_type
by Micah Young 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Hi, So I'm adding a new graph type and new sub-type but even as an administrator, it shows up as the pinked out No-Auth image. Did I miss a step? Mike Y. ________________________________ ARDEN A Global Company Celebrating over 48 years of making your life more comfortable! This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. This OUTBOUND E-mail and Document(s) has been scanned by an Antivirus Server.

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Bug in SLA addition?
by Eric Stewart 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Putting together a test box on CentOS 6.4 today to get a feel for it. If it works for us (though there are some hurdles), we'll look at it as a long term replacement to our largely homegrown MRTG installation. One of the many things I was happy to find that Observium is doing out of the box is Cisco IP SLA graphing. However, I'm running into an issue. The rrds are not being created and the graphs are empty. I set up config.php to enable_sla, and taking a clue from something I came across in the archives, I ran: ./poller.php -d -h <hostname> In the debug, a couple of things show up: SLA 121: jitter IP SLA SVC to Villages Low Priority... RRD[/usr/bin/rrdtool create /usr/local/apps/observium/rrd/<hostname>/sla-121.rrd \ DS:rtt:GAUGE:600:0:300000 --step 300 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:2016 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:2976 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:1440 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:1440 RRA:MIN:0.5:6:1440 RRA:MIN:0.5:96:360 RRA:MIN:0.5:288:1440 RRA:MAX:0.5:6:1440 RRA:MAX:0.5:96:360 RRA:MAX:0.5:288:1440 ] ERROR: can't parse argument ' DS:rtt:GAUGE:600:0:300000' 17ms at 2013-10-03 11:11:59RRD[cmd[update /usr/local/apps/observium/rrd/<hostname>/sla-121.rrd 1380813119:17] stdout[ERROR: opening '/usr/local/apps/observium/rrd/<hostname>/sla-121.rrd': No such file or directory] stderr[]] SLA 130: jitter IP SLA SVC to Mote High Priority... RRD[/usr/bin/rrdtool create /usr/local/apps/observium/rrd/<hostname>/sla-130.rrd \ DS:rtt:GAUGE:600:0:300000 --step 300 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:2016 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:2976 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:1440 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:1440 RRA:MIN:0.5:6:1440 RRA:MIN:0.5:96:360 RRA:MIN:0.5:288:1440 RRA:MAX:0.5:6:1440 RRA:MAX:0.5:96:360 RRA:MAX:0.5:288:1440 ] ERROR: can't parse argument ' DS:rtt:GAUGE:600:0:300000' 10ms at 2013-10-03 11:12:03RRD[cmd[update /usr/local/apps/observium/rrd/<hostname>/sla-130.rrd 1380813123:10] stdout[ERROR: opening '/usr/local/apps/observium/rrd/<hostname>/sla-130.rrd': No such file or directory] stderr[]] So obviously there's an "ERROR" there about parsing one of the arguments fed to the file creation. Any ideas? -- Eric Stewart - Network Administrator - eric(a)usf.edu University of South Florida, Information Technology

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Running observium on multiple hosts
by Eric Stewart 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

I'm looking for some feedback/ideas on how others may have implemented Observium in a multi-site capacity. We are currently using MRTG to provide our data collection and graphing. While Observium isn't a perfect replacement for us, it goes a long way towards replacing much of what MRTG does. Our current setup involves a large university campus. We have core, distribution, and access layers, and at the distribution layers we've implemented monitoring systems for packet capture and (you guessed it) MRTG. This allows for: - Data collection to continue even if a distribution layer site is isolated from the core - Prevents data collection bandwidth from impacting the core Our MRTG data presentation is largely homegrown, and how we go about it isn't important. What I'm looking for are suggestions on how one might take a multi-server setup and allow someone to search or navigate to a given building or switch without having to guess as to which distribution site it's out of. Ideas rattling around my head right now involve: - Coding up the search function so that it not only searches the local site, but also all of the other servers - Coming up with some static page that indicates that a given building is off of a given installation - this one I don't like so much So I'm wondering if this is something someone else has put time and effort into and has a viable solution. -- Eric Stewart - Network Administrator - eric(a)usf.edu University of South Florida, Information Technology

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Device Alerts
by James Bensley 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Hi everyone, On the main front page of Observium (the Overview/dashboard), the device alerts table never seems to empty. I guess it works on a maximum number of entries scheme, new alerts are displayed at the top as they occur and old ones are dropped off the bottom. It looks like we always have problems on our NOC display. Is it possible to remove items from the list, clear them off somehow? Many thanks, James.

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Re: [Observium] bgp idle
by Rob VanHooren 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

shut the neighbor and it'll go away within 5min when the remote is ready, unshut that neighbor. R. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 2, 2013, at 14:32, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: >> hen that remote peer is >> ready, they will re-establish the peering session, until I don't need >> to know the session is idle :)

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Need help with 2 minor issues
by Wes Zastrow 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

I'm having difficulty with 2 settings: I've added: $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = 5; This is not changing the size of the dot. I've also added: $config['title_image'] = "images/my-logo.png"; This is not changing the logo on the top left of the web interface. Your help is greatly appreciated, thanks! ~Wes CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic message transmission contains information from assure360, which may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the content of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the original message and any attachment without reading or saving in any manner.

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Re: [Observium] Device Alerts
by Adam Armstrong 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

That page is how it is, you cant remove things from it because its showing state. Rebooted information goes away after 24 hours. Its actually showing you devices with uptime below 24 hours. Adam. James Bensley <jwbensley(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Tom, > >Thanks for the response. > >I don't think I was very clear before, so I will try to be clearer now; > >Here is a screen shot of the device alerts pane at present ; >http://i.imgur.com/SNpEPXD.png > >My first query is how long will those "device rebooted" notifications >be there? OK, some devices where rebooted, I have seen this and am >thankful for this, I have also acted upon this information, now I do >not need to see that information anymore, especially 10 hours after it >occurred and I've dealt with it. Now do you see why I would like to be >able to "clear off" alerts? > >Also looking at that screen shot, you will see some idle BGP sessions. >One if those is long term (in relation to BGP timers, it will be down >for a week or so), so I don't want that alert there for the next week, >again I'd like to be able to clear it off. When that remote peer is >ready, they will re-establish the peering session, until I don't need >to know the session is idle :) > >Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. > >Many thanks, >James. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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separate diskio graphs for different devices
by Mihai - Cristian Satmarean 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Hi all, is it possible to have a separate graph for each entity in the DiskIO? Scenario is that we try to monitor ZFS server and there are over 200 Filesystems that are shown on top of each other making the graph impossible to use. Thanks!

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Graphs broken after update
by Evgeniy Movlyan 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Hi to all. My observium worked perfect for about a month. But yesterday i made an update (to rev. 4572): #cd /opt/observium #svn update #./discovery.php -h none After that i have next problem: - in servers overview tab all graphs ok - when i'm clicking for example on Memory Usage graph, all is ok. I can see graph for last 24 hours - but when i'm clicking on Show legend/Graph previous/etc there is no graph Thanks for your help, and sorry for my english. -- Regards, Evgenii Movlian

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Re: [Observium] Cisco 4900M temperature sensors not displayed
by Adam Armstrong 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Sounds like typical Cisco bugs. You should probably verify that your device is populating the correct MIBs before you moan at us. Adam. Sidney Boumendil <sidney.boumendil(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Adding a custom OID ?
by Mihai Tanasescu 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hello, I'm a newbie with Observium having just installed it, but now a question has popped up in my head that I could not find a clear answer to by googling. I have a couple of Linux hosts for which I also added in the net-snmpd conf a counter for the number of imapd & others processes. How could I add to a small part of the existing graphed servers, this OID ? (or where should I look in the conf ?) I was thinking maybe defining a new template (if this is the working principle) and adding there these OIDs also for the discovery phase. Can someone advise me at least where to start my question with ? I'm a bit confused at the moment. Thanks, Mihai

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How to use removespikes.php?
by Alex Pressé 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

If I try to use removespokes.php, I always get the error FATAL: File '' does not exist. root@CORPLNMS01:/opt/observium/rrd/phlinfrtr01# ../../scripts/removespikes.php -R port-10.rrd FATAL: File '' does not exist. The same named perl script runs but doesn't remove 1gbit spikes on 2mbit links... -- Alex Presse "How much net work could a network work if a network could net work?"

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Aggregate Graphing?
by Luis Quintana 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

I was looking at the graphing off of the main page, where you select All Devices, then Bits, and had a quick question about this. I assume this is an aggregate of all interfaces being displayed. What I am curious to know is if the graphs show interfaces that are "technically" duplicates? For example, a straight interface on a juniper device can be ge-1/0/0, but because there is a unit attached to the interface, sort of like a sub-interface, ge-1/0/0.0 shows up as well. The problem here is, its the same statistics for both of the interfaces, in this example. So, if the aggregate graph is looking at all interfaces and includes both in the aggregate graph, well than the aggregate is not correct? Not sure if I explained it correctly, and if not, please let me know. What i am getting at is, it seems as though there is duplicate information being aggregated so the graphs is not accurate, from what it looks like. Thoughts?

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Cisco ASA per VPN-tunnel traffic
by Pekka.Panula＠sofor.fi 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Hi Could use Cisco ASA per VPN tunnel traffic stats. I think its available thru SNMP ? So my Observium does not show them, so its not currently collecting info per vpn-tunnel ? Regards, Pekka Panula

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Re: [Observium] Weird Patterns on Screen in Routing section under CEF?
by Tom Laermans 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

We havent found a way to visualize cef so we just display the magic inside your router's memory right now. Enjoy.... Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Luis Quintana" <sla07(a)earthlink.net> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Weird Patterns on Screen in Routing section under CEF? Date: Thu, Sep 26, 2013 19:16 So, am I the only one that has seen this? Like watching scrambled tv. Not sure what thats about but i only see it when i clicked on the CEF tab under the Routing section. Very trippy hah!

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Weird Patterns on Screen in Routing section under CEF?
by Luis Quintana 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

So, am I the only one that has seen this? Like watching scrambled tv. Not sure what thats about but i only see it when i clicked on the CEF tab under the Routing section. Very trippy hah!

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Problems after sync to 4532
by Andrew Hunstiger 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Sorry if this is the wrong channel to send this to. Not sure what happened, but after syncing to the latest version the web portal seems to be broken. Checking the logs the poller is still working, I just can't access the web page any more. Checking the error logs the only two events that keep popping up when I try to load the page are: [Wed Sep 25 09:29:53 2013] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SL in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 212 [Wed Sep 25 09:52:04 2013] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SL in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 215 Line 212 points to the start of what I pasted in below. The only part that stood out to me (I honestly have no idea what I am doing, just trying to troubleshoot) is what I highlighted below: { // Warn about lack of mcrypt unless told not to. <<<<<<< .mine <<<<<<< .mine <<<<<<< .mine if($config['login_remember_me'] = FALSE && (!function_exists('mcrypt_decrypt') || !function_exists('mcrypt_encrypt'))) ======= if($config['login_remember_me'] == TRUE && (!function_exists('mcrypt_decrypt') || !function_exists('mcrypt_encrypt'))) ======= if($config['login_remember_me'] = TRUE && (!function_exists('mcrypt_decrypt') || !function_exists('mcrypt_encrypt'))) ======= if($config['login_remember_me'] == TRUE && (!function_exists('mcrypt_decrypt') || !function_exists('mcrypt_encrypt'))) >>>>>>> .r4532 >>>>>>> .r4471 >>>>>>> .r4532 { print_error('Observium now requires mcrypt to be installed for use by the "remember me" function. Please install the php5-mcrypt package on Ubuntu/Debian or the php-mcrypt package on RHEL/Centos. Alternatively, you can disable this $ } // Authenticated. Print a page. if (isset($vars['page']) && !strstr("..", $vars['page']) && is_file("pages/" . $vars['page'] . ".inc.php")) { include("pages/" . $vars['page'] . ".inc.php"); } else { if (isset($config['front_page']) && is_file($config['front_page'])) { include($config['front_page']); } else { include("pages/front/default.php"); } } } } Once I commented those lines out, the page was able to load without any problems. // <<<<<<< .mine // <<<<<<< .mine // <<<<<<< .mine if($config['login_remember_me'] = FALSE && (!function_exists('mcrypt_decrypt') || !function_exists('mcrypt_encrypt'))) // ======= if($config['login_remember_me'] == TRUE && (!function_exists('mcrypt_decrypt') || !function_exists('mcrypt_encrypt'))) // ======= if($config['login_remember_me'] = TRUE && (!function_exists('mcrypt_decrypt') || !function_exists('mcrypt_encrypt'))) // ======= if($config['login_remember_me'] == TRUE && (!function_exists('mcrypt_decrypt') || !function_exists('mcrypt_encrypt'))) // >>>>>>> .r4532 // >>>>>>> .r4471 // >>>>>>> .r4532 Also, once I did the sync, there was an error (wish I wrote it down first) when running the "./discovery.php -h none" command. I had to follow the following article to fix the problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16677558/startup-unable-to-load-dynamic-… Andrew [Description: Description: Description: email_web address] Andrew Hunstiger - Network Administrator I 1500 N. Greenville Ave., Suite 500 Richardson, TX 75081 Phone: 972.866.3545 Fax: 972.866.3301 Email: Andrew.Hunstiger(a)argodata.com<mailto:Andrew.Hunstiger@argodata.com> --------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: This electronic mail transmission is confidential, may be privileged and should be read or retained only by the intended recipient. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete it from your system.

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Re: [Observium] notify
by Rob VanHooren 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

on that note, when considering thresholds in the alert system, one desirable feature may be to trigger on 'zero' as well as some upper bound. i.e., my demarc might be just fine, but if somebody stops sending me traffic on a provisioned link, release the hounds! (because they'll blame my link anyway) R. On 2013-09-26, at 7:00 AM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: >> Is there a way to configure Observium to notify us when there is >> packet loss to any of the configured devices? > > Nope. > > adam.

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packet loss
by Joshua Elson 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Is there a way to configure Observium to notify us when there is packet loss to any of the configured devices? ________________________________ This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic mail or its contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety.

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port charts are broke
by Zach Underwood 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

version=4534 os=centos 6.4 64bit The error "[Wed Sep 25 15:10:26 2013] [error] [client 192.168.128.151] File does not exist: /opt/observium/html/graphs, referer: http://192.168.128.240/graphs/type=port_bits/to=1380136072/id=1533/from=138… " Here is a screenshot [image: Inline image 1] -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT,UACA) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photos <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Re: [Observium] Interface description, auto-add to billing?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Oh man. This is an ancient historical feature from like 2009 that I think broke in 2009 :) The enabling/disabling option is still in the config. But it won't work. Adam Luis Quintana <sla07(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >I could have sworn I had seen something where I can enable an auto-add feature in order for ports to be automatically added, into the billing piece, with a particular pattern in the port description. Is this something that is available or will be available? i cant seem to find it again for some reason and I remember even seeing the pattern that was given, which would need to change in my particular instance. Any ideas on this one? >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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