- observium - lists.observium.org

Horizontal Scalability
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

Hi!, anybody considered scaling adding more servers instead of going to a bigger one?. Using something like Open Grid Scheduler for example. Currently I'm maxing out our server (2 x Xeon E5-2630, 16 cores) with 37500 ports, 548 devices cplanning:~ # uptime 13:19pm up 151 days 3:03, 2 users, load average: 43.37, 43.00, 42.60 Regards, CI.-

4 7

Apps incremental graph
by andres fariña 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

Hi All, Currently we are using app features to collect stats from our mobile platforms as troughput, for example Transactions Per Second. Is there an easy way to convert incremental RRD values to Transaction Per Second? Thanks for the help. Regards, Andres

1 0

how to support observium
by Chris 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

Hi there, I'm very new to observium and I set up a lot of devices now to be monitored. As I'm managing a big network running on EIGRP I'm missing some things I formerly built in cacti "per hand". I had always an eye on EIGRP queries, EIGRP Topo routes, EIGRP updates and such things. Is it possible to support you to bring in some new graphs into observium? unfortunately I'm not an php-coder but I've got long-term experience in networking and snmp. Nice features where also: - Usage of ISDN-Channels on voice-routers/Gateways (cisco) - Working GFX on MGE-UPS (we've got a big Powerware-Galaxy and want to see output power, battery runtime, and so on) - Working GFX on SmartUPS (older RM1400 - APS OS 3.7.3) (I#m missing output load) - More Sensors monitored of cisco 4500s. and I think I will have many more Ideas ;-) Greetings and many thanks for this great piece of software! Chris

1 0

Upgraded to latest SVN trunk
by James Bensley 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone on the Observium project. I updated last night a 2012 version of Observium to the very latest in SVN. Everything worked perfectly and I'm very happy with the results. Just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work, it isn't going unnoticed here! Kind regards, James.

1 0

Re: [Observium] New Install working except Graph/RRD
by Adam Armstrong 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

I run it as root. That's still the documented way. Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >On 08/21/2013 08:24 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> The RRD directory doesn't actually need to be owned by www-data. >> >> If you want to run observium as a non-root user, chown it to that user. > >Is that the preferred method now? All of my installations still use >root since that was the documented method at the time I installed. > >Paul >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

1 0

Re: [Observium] New Install working except Graph/RRD
by Peter Casserly 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

I ran it as the root (sudo) and all is working now. Thank you for your quick responses. -Peter -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:56 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] New Install working except Graph/RRD Not root and not www-data, that's for sure. Who thought they knew better than the install guide, and managed to break it? The warnings are there for a reason :) adam. On 2013-08-20 21:36, Tom Laermans wrote: > And you are running the poller.php as which user? > > On 20/08/2013 21:34, Peter Casserly wrote: > > New to observium and I have it up and running on a new Ubuntu 13.04 > install. > > Everything seems to be working and polling the one device that I have > added. > > However…. > > It seems that none of the graphs are being generated. "Error Drawing > Graph" or "Draw Error" where the graphs should be. > > I reviewed the e-mail archives for similar issues but nothing seems to > fit. > > When I run the poller manually I see a few errors related to the RRD > directory and it looks like a permissions issue. > > ./poller.php -h all > > Observium v0.13.8.4312 > > Poller > > Starting polling run: > > fw.redacted.local 1 asa (cisco) > > Created directory : /opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local > > ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local/status.rrd': No > such file or directory > > ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local /ping.rrd': No > such file or directory > > ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local/ping_snmp.rrd': > No such file or directory > > Module [ unix-agent ] disabled globally. > > Using SNMP Agent sysUpTime (10086692 seconds) > > ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local/uptime.rrd': No > such file or directory > > Uptime: 116 days, 17h 51m 32s > > The CHOWN (chown www-data.www-data graphs rrd )commands have been run > per the install documentation and show up as this: > > drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 20 13:54 graphs > > drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 20 13:54 rrd > > Thank you in advance for any assistance > > -Peter > > ------------------------- > > The information in this transmittal (including attachments, if any) is > privileged and confidential and is intended only for the recipient(s) > listed above. Any review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying of > this transmittal is prohibited except by or on behalf of the intended > recipient. If you have received this transmittal in error, please > notify me immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of the > transmittal. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium [1] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] 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

3 2

rrdtool_info() redeclared issue
by Ray Parish 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

I am installing observium for the first time and getting a fatal error: [root@agsappl01 observium]# php -l includes/rrdtool.inc.php PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare rrdtool_info() in includes/rrdtool.inc.php on line 334 Fatal error: Cannot redeclare rrdtool_info() in includes/rrdtool.inc.php on line 334 Errors parsing includes/rrdtool.inc.php I am at svn revision 4313 To install, I had to comment out include_once($config['install_dir'] . "/includes/rrdtool.inc.php"); in includes/functions.php

2 2

Re: [Observium] Error Drawing Graph
by Peter Casserly 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

Sorry. I replied to the wrong e-mail. I only have one personality that I know of. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:38 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Error Drawing Graph Do you have 2 separate identities, Peter? :> On 20/08/2013 22:29, Peter Casserly wrote: Screenshot attached of the Graph Errror(s) "It seems that none of the graphs are being generated. "Error Drawing Graph" or "Draw Error" where the graphs should be." There are placeholder images where the graphs should be. I don't believe is a value issue as I see traffic statistics in the "Ports" information pages but the ability to create the subdirectories and subsequent files defined in the original post. Created directory : /opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local/status.rrd': No such file or directory ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local /ping.rrd': No such file or directory ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local/ping_snmp.rrd': No such file or directory There are no files or folders created under the rrd and graphs directories. [cid:image001.png@01CE9DCB.451B1DD0] From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweikata Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:13 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Error Drawing Graph You'll have to be a bit more specific than that. Is it not drawing graphs at all? Are you getting NaN as values? Do you just not believe the numbers? Try doing a manual polling of the device through the console, and specify the -d flag for debugging, and see what comes back, with an optional -r to have it not update your values. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Eliezer Sousa Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:02 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Error Drawing Graph hello good afternoon everyone! some devices do not station generating the graph correctly. what causes this error in generating the graphics? [ass eliezer] ________________________________ The information in this transmittal (including attachments, if any) is privileged and confidential and is intended only for the recipient(s) listed above. Any review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this transmittal is prohibited except by or on behalf of the intended recipient. If you have received this transmittal in error, please notify me immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of the transmittal. Thank you. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

1 0

New Install working except Graph/RRD
by Peter Casserly 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

New to observium and I have it up and running on a new Ubuntu 13.04 install. Everything seems to be working and polling the one device that I have added. However.... It seems that none of the graphs are being generated. "Error Drawing Graph" or "Draw Error" where the graphs should be. I reviewed the e-mail archives for similar issues but nothing seems to fit. When I run the poller manually I see a few errors related to the RRD directory and it looks like a permissions issue. ./poller.php -h all Observium v0.13.8.4312 Poller Starting polling run: fw.redacted.local 1 asa (cisco) Created directory : /opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw. redacted.local/status.rrd': No such file or directory ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local /ping.rrd': No such file or directory ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local/ping_snmp.rrd': No such file or directory Module [ unix-agent ] disabled globally. Using SNMP Agent sysUpTime (10086692 seconds) ERROR: creating '/opt/observium/rrd/fw.redacted.local/uptime.rrd': No such file or directory Uptime: 116 days, 17h 51m 32s The CHOWN (chown www-data.www-data graphs rrd )commands have been run per the install documentation and show up as this: drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 20 13:54 graphs drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 20 13:54 rrd Thank you in advance for any assistance -Peter ________________________________ The information in this transmittal (including attachments, if any) is privileged and confidential and is intended only for the recipient(s) listed above. Any review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this transmittal is prohibited except by or on behalf of the intended recipient. If you have received this transmittal in error, please notify me immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of the transmittal. Thank you.

3 2

Error Drawing Graph
by Eliezer Sousa 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

hello good afternoon everyone! some devices do not station generating the graph correctly. what causes this error in generating the graphics? ass eliezer

4 3

Host up/down polling
by James Bensley 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

Hi All, Sometimes I get host down notifications from Observium at the start of a 5 minute poll. Five minutes later I get a host up alert for the same host. I believe that sometimes a busy host will drop the 5 minute "probe" from Observium which is presumably a UDP SNMP packet. As soon as I get such a notification I check the host in question, it is usually up unless it really has gone down, just a bit busy perhaps. [1] Where is this initial checking of device up/down state happening in the code? I have been looking through include/polling and I can see various scripts for different device types. Is there a generic host up/down check that happens for all devices, I'd like to hack in a "if a device recorded as up seems down, wait and check again a couple more times, then mark as down". Cheers, James. [1] So that is a separate issue I need to tackle, ensuring there is no packet loss to hosts and ensuring they aren't too busy to respond. I don't wish to discuss that here though.

3 5

Lost sensors from PAN firewall
by Zafar Pravaiz 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

HI I am monitoring a pair of Palo Alto Firewall, recently i noticed one of the firewall not showing any traffic. I investigated and found there is not sensor showing in sensors list (screenshot attached). This happened recently any clue what happened and how to fix that? I don't want to delete and add the device again. Other PAN device show everything right. Thanks -- *Zafar Pravaiz *IT Senior Systems Engineer Information Technology Department AUS /> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: Tel +971 6 515 2164 Fax +971 6515 2112 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu <http://www.aus.edu/> zpravaiz(a)aus.edu <mailto:youremail@aus.edu>

1 1

Re: [Observium] Broken lines in disk usage chart
by Jordan TUCKER 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

Hi, Just to say that the problem with broken lines in disk usage chart is not new, I saw this problem monthes ago and I didn't succeeded to find how this is happening, but I didn't try the debug mode. I will come back to you shortly if I find something. It happens only on Windows servers and for a few of my windows servers, especially 2003 servers, they don't do any storage graph at all. Jordan T.

1 0

Login-Issue after Upgrade
by Patrick Kambach 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi all, after upgrading to 4305 the login failed; authlog tables shows "Logged In" and at the same timestamp "Authentication Failure". User / Password is correct. Br, Patrick - -- ConnectingBytes GmbH - "www.kambach.net" | In der Steele 35, 40599 Düsseldorf, Germany | Telefon: 0800 / 900 2580 - 1, Fax: 0800 / 900 2580 - 2 | Email: pkambach(a)kambach.net | Web: http://www.kambach.net | | Geschäftsführer: Patrick Kambach | Amtsgericht Düsseldorf, HRB 60009 | Ust-IdNr.: DE815028832, Steuernummer: 106/5736/0037 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAlISTeUACgkQCIR+kawbQF24uQCgmB2aq1Ih6/flrSOOdt/HoA70 uCsAn1Rb7GKk6dHuK+AClFUKO16c/PlU =HfMf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

6 10

svn update broke Ubiquiti airos
by Zach Underwood 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

The ports are now marked for delete in observium version= 0.13.8.4309 dc_ap 49 airos Ports : DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v1 -c public /usr/bin/snmpwalk -v1 -c public -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:dc_ap:161 ifDescr ifDescr.1 = lo ifDescr.2 = eth0 ifDescr.3 = eth1 ifDescr.4 = wifi0 ifDescr.5 = ath0 ifDescr.6 = ath1 ifDescr.7 = ath2 ifDescr.8 = eth0.100 ifDescr.9 = ath0.100 ifDescr.10 = eth0.1006 ifDescr.11 = ath0.1006 ifDescr.12 = br0 ifDescr.13 = br0.1006 ifDescr.14 = br0.100 -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

1 0

Authentication system updates.
by Adam Armstrong 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Evening Guys. We've committed some changes to the way the 'remember me' function of the authentication system works, removing a few pretty serious security issues with the old login system. We encourage everyone to upgrade to latest as soon as possible. You may need to restart your browser and/or clear cookies if you can't log in after the upgrade is done. adam.

1 0

svn broken
by Chris Stone 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Looks like the svn setup is broken: Your request was unable to be processed com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.DbException - SVN Client exception fetching content: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: E175002: OPTIONS of '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost) svn: E175002: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php' - SVN Client exception fetching content: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: E175002: OPTIONS of '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost) svn: E175002: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php' - org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: E175002: OPTIONS of '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost) svn: E175002: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php' - svn: E175002: OPTIONS of '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost) svn: E175002: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php' - svn: E175002: OPTIONS of '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost) svn: E175002: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/observer/trunk/html/pages/bill/infoboxes.inc.php' You are running release CR2.10.4 FE2.10.4 (20130403093648 2013-04-03), please report your release number when reporting bugs. Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

3 3

the resources in Observium MIB
by Eliezer Sousa 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Hello, good afternoon everyone! I wonder how and when it is appropriate to use the resources in Observium MIB. ass eliezer

2 1

Re: [Observium] Broken lines in disk usage chart
by Michael F. Kisser 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Hello, I have the same problem as well some servers on the network interface so big brakes in the lines. It started with this latest update. What's odd is the TX/RX white area does not match up top to bottom. So it's not like obervium could not reach the device. It's like it will process one but not the other at times TX/RX. Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:35:25 +0000 From: Kristjan Hinn - PERH <Kristjan.Hinn(a)regionaalhaigla.ee> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Broken lines in disk usage chart Message-ID: <FC8AD12ABE3FEC4E99A2D163779305AA06830B5B(a)MINERVA.regionaalhaigla.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, I have almost the same problem with window 2008 R2 network traffic graphs. I have 4 identical servers and each of them have 3 network cards. One of the servers is drawing graphs perfectly but 3 servers have problem with one network card, other 2 network cards on the server are drawing perfectly. But this one network card is messing up summarized graphs also. I haven't found anything what might cause it[cid:image001.png@01CE9CE9.574202E0] Any advice or hint is highly appriciated BR, Kristjan -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 6:18 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Broken lines in disk usage chart Hi, I doubt this has anything to do with us. You can see what data your device is reporting back by running the poller in debug mode: ./poller.php -h <hostname> -m storage -d -r You can see the data being returned via SNMP and what we interpret from it. adam. On 2013-08-19 00:54, Tom Henderson wrote: > What might be causing this disk usage chart to break up like this? > Looks like it started acting up after an upgrade a couple of weeks > ago. > > This is a windows 2008 r2 server and the disks are (mostly) iSCSI. It > seems to be the only server affected. > > Cheers > > Tom Henderson > > IT Manager | Pack & Company | 027 461 4403 | 09 929 2750 | > tom(a)pack.co.nz<mailto:tom@pack.co.nz> > > -- > > ------------------------- > > 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<mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

2 1

Broken lines in disk usage chart
by Tom Henderson 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

What might be causing this disk usage chart to break up like this? Looks like it started acting up after an upgrade a couple of weeks ago. This is a windows 2008 r2 server and the disks are (mostly) iSCSI. It seems to be the only server affected. [Image:Screen Shot 2013-08-19 at 10.59.18 AM.png] Cheers Tom Henderson IT Manager | Pack & Company | 027 461 4403 | 09 929 2750 | tom(a)pack.co.nz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------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.

3 2

Cisco IPv6 BGP peers
by David Peall 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

I've upgraded one of my Cisco 7200 routers to c7200p-adventerprisek9-mz.152-4.S.bin to support IPv6 peer monitoring. I am how ever getting some funny things instead of the IPv6 Peers addresses and other details aren't working like updates: .C..0.......... iBGP ipv6.unicast .C............. eBGP ipv6.unicast There seems to be a newer file from cisco here updated 2001/2010 as apposed to the one included 2001/2003: ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/v2/CISCO-BGP4-MIB.my Otherwise if there is more trouble shooting or snmp walks I can provide that can help solve this please let me know. Thanks in advance -- David Peall

2 1

Ports page performance
by Adam Armstrong 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

Hi All, I've made some changes to how the ports page works to try to improve performance for people with very large installations. If you have issues with the /ports/ page speed, please test the speed of your install by loading /ports/, and trying with 1000 and 10000 ports page sizes. You need to refresh each page a few times to get an accurate page generation time. (the page generation time is at the bottom left) Then update your install with 'svn up' and run the same tests again. Please report back how much performance improvement you see, if any. I've also reduced some of the field sizes for the ports-state table which should reduce MySQL heap usage by about 20%. Thanks, adam.

1 0

Re: [Observium] Cisco IPv6 BGP peers
by Adam Armstrong 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

IPv6 support on Cisco kit appears and disappears at random. This is a Cisco problem. Adam. David Peall <david(a)dnservices.co.za> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

1 0

Re: [Observium] Postgresql Application Monitor
by Adam Armstrong 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

Hi, The entire applications system was a quick hack I put together in a few hours. Once we have alerting working we intend to try to come up with a better way of doing it. Until then, I wouldn't recommend putting much time in to it. You might have more luck using a munin plugin, if one exists. We can pull munin plugins via the agent. Adam. David Peall <david(a)dnservices.co.za> wrote: >Hi > >I must first say I am really enjoying using Observium its a great tool. > >I've got a postgresql server with several databases in different name spaces and several pg clusters and was wondering if there is support for that. I couldn't see how to do it using the examples it seems to only support 1 database in 1 cluster per server. > >Regards >-- >David Peall >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

1 0

Postgresql Application Monitor
by David Peall 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

Hi I must first say I am really enjoying using Observium its a great tool. I've got a postgresql server with several databases in different name spaces and several pg clusters and was wondering if there is support for that. I couldn't see how to do it using the examples it seems to only support 1 database in 1 cluster per server. Regards -- David Peall

1 0