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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.

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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>

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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.

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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-----

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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>

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Re: [Observium] Cisco IPv6 BGP peers
by Adam Armstrong 18 Aug '13

18 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

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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

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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

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Memory TAB empty on ESXi 5.1
by Philip Möller 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Hi, I have several ESXi5.1 polled by my Observium. Everything is fine except that I have no graphs on the "Memory" TAB. I can see the Real Memory in the Disk Usage TAB. Is there a way to report all Real Memory Graphs in the Memory TAB instead oft he Storage TAB for better overview ? Best, Philip Möller

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frontpage map disable
by Dennis Kruyt 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Hi, How can I disable the worldmap? Before I used this setting but after I setup a new server from svn this doesn't work any more... $config['frontpage']['map']['show'] = false; // Enable/Disable the map view Met vriendelijke groet, Dennis Kruyt,- Technical Consultant [cid:image001.png@01CE98DB.95FD2C60] Capitar IT Group BV Amsterdamseweg 34 B 6712 GJ Ede KvK: 52455785 T: +31 88 6950000 M: +31 6 43534490 W: www.capitar.com<http://www.capitar.com/> Deze e-mail is vertrouwelijk en uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. De algemene voorwaarden<http://www.capitar.com/index.php/nl/algemene-voorwaarden> van Capitar IT Group BV zijn van toepassing op offertes en prijsopgaves. Op deze email is de disclaimer van toepassing die te vinden is op webpagina "www.capitar.com/nl/disclaimer<http://www.capitar.com/nl/disclaimer>

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User levels
by Benjamin Abadie 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Hi, Are user levels implemented yet ? I know we can assign a level to a specific user when creating it, but is there a way to assign different rights to levels ? I see *_perms tables in DB, how should they be populated ? Regards, Benjamin Abadie

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Not detecting ATM Interfaces
by Colin Anderson 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Hi, We have a Cisco 7206 router with an OC3 ATM Port Adapter (PA-A3-OC3SMI=). The Ethernet and Serial interfaces show up in Observium, but it does not list the ATM interfaces. Is there anything we can do to get this to work? We have several hundred ATM sub interfaces on this card that I need to be able to monitor. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks, Colin Anderson Senior Network Engineer T3 Communications 239-333-3027 Direct/Cell c.anderson(a)t3com.net<mailto:c.anderson@t3com.net> http://www.t3com.com<http://www.t3com.com/>

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Observium stops working after r4260
by Laurens Vets 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Hello, This morning, I upgraded my r4200 installation to the latest release (r4280). After this update, "./discovery -h none" would not output anything when run. This also means that the DB was not updated to 080.sql. After a lot of troubleshooting I could not determine what went wrong and went back to r4200. Observium worked again after this. I then started upgrading per 10 releases and after r4260, Observium stops working (no output when running "./discovery -h none"). So, for me, r4260 is the last Observium release that works and r4261 is the first one that does not work anymore... This is on CentOS 6.4 with all updates installed: [root@bak observium]# ./scripts/os Linux|2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64|amd64|CentOS|6.4 [root@bak observium]# Is anybody else experiencing the same issue? Any idea what might be causing this? What additional things can I do to help solve this? -Laurens

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Re: [Observium] DMI
by Tom Laermans 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

That's all crap added by someone who felt it necessary to add checking kunk to scripts, now apparently it doesn't work. I'll keep it in mind, still on vacation atm :) Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "pechspilz" <pechspilz(a)o11.net> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] DMI Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 13:02 Hi Tom, I've applied some small fixes to the hddtemp and dmi scripts so they run under Ubuntu: dmi (line 12): if [[ `head -c1 /dev/mem 2>&1 | awk '{print $1}'` != 'head:' ]] --> double brackets hddtemp (line 10): nc=`which nc.traditional` --> Since nc has been replaced. Probably, it would be best to check if nc.traditional exists and if yes, us it instead of nc. Cheers, John On 10.8.2013 10:45, Tom Laermans wrote: > Hi, > > We currently use the serial number and the hardware model in the > device info. > > Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "pechspilz" <pechspilz(a)o11.net> > To: <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] DMI > Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 08:39 > > Hi, > > does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available > > in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Re: [Observium] DMI
by Tom Laermans 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

That's all crap added by someone who felt it necessary to add checking kunk to scripts, now apparently it doesn't work. I'll keep it in mind, still on vacation atm :) Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "pechspilz" <pechspilz(a)o11.net> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] DMI Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 13:02 Hi Tom, I've applied some small fixes to the hddtemp and dmi scripts so they run under Ubuntu: dmi (line 12): if [[ `head -c1 /dev/mem 2>&1 | awk '{print $1}'` != 'head:' ]] --> double brackets hddtemp (line 10): nc=`which nc.traditional` --> Since nc has been replaced. Probably, it would be best to check if nc.traditional exists and if yes, us it instead of nc. Cheers, John On 10.8.2013 10:45, Tom Laermans wrote: > Hi, > > We currently use the serial number and the hardware model in the > device info. > > Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "pechspilz" <pechspilz(a)o11.net> > To: <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] DMI > Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 08:39 > > Hi, > > does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available > > in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Re: [Observium] DMI
by Tom Laermans 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

Hi, We currently use the serial number and the hardware model in the device info. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "pechspilz" <pechspilz(a)o11.net> To: <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] DMI Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 08:39 Hi, does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] DMI
by Tom Laermans 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

Then why does the script exist, you think? Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] DMI Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 15:38 It is not at the moment. Adam. pechspilz <pechspilz(a)o11.net> wrote: >Hi, > >does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available >in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it. > >_______________________________________________ >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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Re: [Observium] DMI
by Adam Armstrong 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

It is not at the moment. Adam. pechspilz <pechspilz(a)o11.net> wrote: >Hi, > >does anyone know if the results from the dmi agent script is available >in Observium? So far I've been unable to locate it. > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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