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Re: [Observium] Pages Missing CSS
by Adam Armstrong 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

A majority of users actually seem to update pretty regularly. We assume this is because they like the new things (and the fixing of problems) rather than because we told them to, because the only people we tell to update regularly are the 10% of users present on this list :) Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >On 08/02/2013 07:03 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> On 2013-08-01 21:30, Stefan Milo wrote: >>> A tool like observium is often used by people in Operations. People in >>> Operations tend to favor stability over new features. The old if it's >>> not broken mantra... >> >> Well then, you probably want to be using Cacti. Judging by the update >> habits of our existing userbase, they agree with us. > >"Agree" is much too strong a term; "tolerate" would be better; "it's >better than using Cacti" would probably be more accurate than both. :-) > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Certain MySQL agent graphs not showing
by Shaun Bradley 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hi, Once again it's me. I have the mysql and apache agents running on a few machines and have observium picking the data up. This is working fine for apache and mostly for mysql, but I have missing graphs for 'process list' 'myisam indexes' (our dbs are mainly innodb based), table locks, and temporary objects. I have followed the agent instructions to a tee as far as I can see and have double checked my configuration, as well as googled for any info, but I am stuck on this one. Is there any way I can either remove these broken graph links or fill out the information? I can't see what I'd change to make them appear to be honest. Any pointers would be gratefully received. Thanks, Shaun

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Digital optics monitoring sensors - cisco 2960S
by Petr Gregor 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hi guys, I am successfully using observium in our network. Monitoring about 180 cisco switches. Thanks! I am however missing graphs for optics SFP modules. I can see the sensors in snmpwalk: > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1061 = STRING: TenGigabitEthernet1/0/1 > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1062 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Module Temperature Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1063 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Supply Voltage Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1064 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Bias Current Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1065 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Transmit Power Sensor > ENTITY-MIB::entPhysicalName.1066 = STRING: Te1/0/1 Receive Power Sensor And I can see the sensors listed in inventory page in observium. There are however no values or graphs on the health page. Thank you for any tips. Gregy

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Locations menu
by Tom Henderson 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hi All Perviously my Devices > Locations submenu would show the custom location entered on the device properties page (under Override sysLocation). Is there a setting to revert to this behaviour? I've tried using the $config['location_map'] setting, but this seems to only apply to the actual sysLocation, not the overriden value. On a side note I'd love to be able to get closer on the map. The closest I could get it was the whole of New Zealand, on which I have a single green spot covering the whole of Auckland! Thanks for the great product. 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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Web Interface display issue
by Colin Anderson 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

I've performed several installations, but have a problem with this one. The root/home webpage displays correctly, but all other pages lack the normal formatting. All of the menu items from across the top of the page are displayed as an unformatted bulleted list on everything except the root http://observium webpage. I compared my /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file to a working installation and it's exactly the same. I've gone back over the installation instructions twice. A2enmod rewrite is enabled, but I'm not sure it's working... If I click on the menu "Devices" -> "All Devices" it takes me to http://observium/devices/ with the trailing backslash. I can remove the trailing backslash and the page displays correctly. This doesn't seem to work with other pages further down the menu structure such as http://observium/devices/type=network/. The only difference between this installation and my other installations is that the others are on Debian 6 and this is Debian 7.1 (Wheezy). Sorry for the long explanation, but any help is MUCH appreciated. Thanks, Colin Anderson

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Another frontpage patch
by Paul Gear 01 Aug '13

01 Aug '13

Hi all, Here's another patch i've made to the front page, this time to add a "micrographs" function similar to the minigraphs, but with the difference that multiple sections are allowed, each corresponding to a row in the $config['frontpage']['micrographs'] array. Here's an example config excerpt: ... $config['frontpage']['order'] = array('device_status_boxes', 'minigraphs', 'micrographs', 'status_summary', 'eventlog'); ... $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['network']['ids'] = '1,device_bits,router1;2,device_bits,router2;3,device_bits,switch1;4,device_bits,firewall1;5,device_bits,firewall2'; $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['network']['title'] = 'Network'; $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['servers']['ids'] = '6,device_bits,vmhost1;7,device_bits,observium;8,device_bits,fileserver;9,device_bits,vmhost2;10,device_bits,backup'; $config['frontpage']['micrographs']['servers']['title'] = 'Servers'; ... This produces the following on the front page: Both the row labels and the graph labels are optional - if you leave them both out you get just a bare row of clickable graphs. There's no label justification, which looks a bit funny when labels are different lengths, but i figure people can just add space or whatever to make their front page look how they want it. Patch is attached and also available at http://libertysys.com.au/patches/observium/observium-r4209-micrographs.patch Hope you like it. Regards, Paul

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status
by Eliezer Sousa 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

hello guys, I would like to know how to change the refresh time of the equipment. because when charges that the equipment is down takes too long to update the status even when this is online. where can I change this time? thank you. ass eliezer

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Re: [Observium] Basic Installation Issue.
by Adam Armstrong 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hi Steve, I meant to reply to this earlier today. I would be willing to put money on this being caused by a authoritarian transparent proxy or over-ambitious layer 7 firewall. It smells like an intervening device deciding the connection is bad and cutting it off. I'm pretty sure it's nothing at our end else we'd be flooded by people complaining they're missing out on today's updates! Adam. Steve Nelson <steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net> wrote: >Hi All, > >I am having a very basic installation issue, however not being a major linux user I cannot seem to find a sensible answer online. > >I have a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS and all the associated packages installed as per the instructions at observium.org however when I try to check out the latest version using SVN I am getting the following error : > >root@CAL-MGT-MON:/home/nelsons# svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium >svn: OPTIONS of 'http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://www.observium.org) > >I have tried using HTTPS as a protocol but it seems the server is not listening on 443. > >Any help would be good. > >Many thanks > >Steve > > >Steve Nelson >10Yr CCIE#10055, OSCP#3725 >Senior Network Engineer >steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net > >Telephone : 0845 5576355 >Direct Line : 0191 6542060 >Mobile : 07702247286 > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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New installation of Observium
by Phibee Network Operation Center 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

hello, I just installed Observium and I discovered a little product. To help me integrate it into our SI, I have some questions: - I'm in the options menu as Customer or Pseudowire, but nowhere I see a button "create" what is normal? - At the location of routers, how to indicate the position of this one? - At Traffic Bills, is it possible that sending an email with the value précendent the 95th of the month for each link? - And finally, via the API, it is possible to recover the data to json rrd them into another application? including the graph generated by Traffic Bills Thank you in advance Jerome

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Re: [Observium] bgp vs bgo ?
by Adam Armstrong 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Haha. How did you notice that? We don't even use that part of that function to test it yet! :-) Adam. Peter Childs <pchilds(a)staff.iinet.net.au> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] bgp vs bgo ?
by Adam Armstrong 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Must be bored :-) Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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bgp vs bgo ?
by Peter Childs 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Should that be 'bgp' rather than 'bgo' ? +++ html/includes/functions.inc.php (revision 4227) (...) case "bgp_peer": if (empty($text)) { $text = "AS".$entity['bgpPeerRemoteAs'] ." ". $entity['bgpPeerRemoteAddr']. " ".truncate($entity['astext'], "30"); } - $link = generate_link($text, array('page' => 'device', 'device' => $entity['device_id'], 'tab' => 'health', 'metric' => 'storage')); + $link = generate_link($text, array('page' => 'device', 'device' => $entity['device_id'], 'tab' => 'routing', 'proto' => 'bgo')); break; case "netscaler_vsvr": if (empty($text)) { $text = $entity['vsvr_label']; }

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Re: [Observium] RANCID integration
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

One more thing, for the email, I use exim, so I'm assuming that running /usr/bin/newaliases tells the MTA about the changes below. From: Ryan Milton - MVS USA Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 3:43 PM To: 'Observium Network Observation System' Subject: RANCID integration Hi, I am trying to integrate RANCID for Observium, however the basic installation of rancid on Ubuntu 12.04 eludes me. Most tuts out there are for 11.04, or are quite dated. I have gotten to the point where running sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid Should produce the right files. I don't get that, rather I get this: rancid@ObserviumNYC:/$ sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 73: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-Amsterdam::: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 74: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-Amsterdam:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 75: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-New_York:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 76: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-New_York:: not found If anyone had successfully done this, I need some steps that I seem to be missing. I had installed cvs, manually. I do have /etc/aliases with some entries like: rancid-Amsterdam: noc */should that be noc@emailaddress??/* Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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Re: [Observium] Basic Installation Issue.
by Adam Armstrong 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

I hope not. If it is, it's some new level of selinux hell! Adam. Jason Lixfeld <jason(a)lixfeld.ca> wrote: >Could this be a SELinux thing? > >Sent from my iPhone > >On 2013-07-30, at 6:08 PM, Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> On 07/31/2013 07:57 AM, Steve Nelson wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am having a very basic installation issue, however not being a major linux user I cannot seem to find a sensible answer online. >>> >>> I have a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS and all the associated packages installed as per the instructions at observium.org however when I try to check out the latest version using SVN I am getting the following error : >>> >>> root@CAL-MGT-MON:/home/nelsons# svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium >>> svn: OPTIONS of 'http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://www.observium.org) >> >> Hi Steve, >> >> I think that's a fairly generic "Can't connect" message. If you're behind a firewall and normally proxy your HTTP traffic, you'll need to add something like this to ~/.subversion/servers: >> >> [global] >> http-proxy-host = proxy >> http-proxy-port = 3128-or-whatever >> http-proxy-username = username >> http-proxy-password = plaintext-pass >> >> Regards, >> Paul >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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Basic Installation Issue.
by Steve Nelson 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hi All, I am having a very basic installation issue, however not being a major linux user I cannot seem to find a sensible answer online. I have a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04LTS and all the associated packages installed as per the instructions at observium.org however when I try to check out the latest version using SVN I am getting the following error : root@CAL-MGT-MON:/home/nelsons# svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium svn: OPTIONS of 'http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://www.observium.org) I have tried using HTTPS as a protocol but it seems the server is not listening on 443. Any help would be good. Many thanks Steve Steve Nelson 10Yr CCIE#10055, OSCP#3725 Senior Network Engineer steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net Telephone : 0845 5576355 Direct Line : 0191 6542060 Mobile : 07702247286

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RANCID integration
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi, I am trying to integrate RANCID for Observium, however the basic installation of rancid on Ubuntu 12.04 eludes me. Most tuts out there are for 11.04, or are quite dated. I have gotten to the point where running sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid Should produce the right files. I don't get that, rather I get this: rancid@ObserviumNYC:/$ sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 73: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-Amsterdam::: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 74: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-Amsterdam:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 75: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-New_York:: not found /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs: 76: /etc/rancid/rancid.conf: rancid-admin-New_York:: not found If anyone had successfully done this, I need some steps that I seem to be missing. I had installed cvs, manually. I do have /etc/aliases with some entries like: rancid-Amsterdam: noc */should that be noc@emailaddress??/* Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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Sensors & syslog Questions
by Wijdan Mohamed 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi, I have been trying observium for the last few weeks and am happy with it. However, I couldn't get the sensors (temperature & voltage) and syslog to work. It doesn't even show up in the health drop down menu!. Does observium obtain the sensors data using lm-sensors or ipmi? And is there any other configurations steps to be done (other than in the wiki or documentation)?. Regarding syslog, I tried rsyslog and syslog-ng and followed the solutions posted in wiki & mailing list for similar issues but no luck!, the tab still says that no syslog entries found although its enabled and running (Note: I am using CentOS & RHEL). What am I missing exactly? Many Thanks,

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Re: [Observium] device down
by Adam Armstrong 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

I can absolutely assure you that this is not normal, your devices have a configuration error. :-) Adam Michael Sweikata <sweikatam1(a)nku.edu> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Axis labeling for graphs
by Roland Schwingel 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi... Maybe this is a novice question. I do have observium set up for a few days now and works quite well. Thanks to all involved. But there is one thing I do miss. Is it possible to label the axis for graphs? eg. the Diskusage graph. The x axis is the timeline (which is easy to detect) but the y axis is percentage of usage. But it would be way clearer if you would add label to the x and y axis to clearly know in which unit is measured here. Especially when you hop between graphs. Thanks for this good product, Roland Schwingel

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Re: [Observium] device down
by Adam Armstrong 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

If Observium thinks a device is down it's either because it can't ping it, or it doesn't get an SNMP response from it. Check you can snmpwalk the device from the Observium server. It's always the firewall, or the acls. Adam. Ryan Milton - MVS USA <RMilton(a)mvsusa.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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device down
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

So, I have to say that after reinstalling Observium, but keeping my config.php intact, everything works---almost too well. I know it needs tweaking because right now, I have a message that a device is down, and I am able to log into it. Not only that, but O tells me that the box has been down for some time, yet I am able to ping from it. What kind of tweak would this need? Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager Hawthorne, NJ o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230 rmilton(a)mvsusa.com<mailto:rmilton@mvsusa.com>

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HELP ALERTS
by Eliezer Sousa 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

hello, my observium server is not sending email alerts. what can be? since already appreciate the help. ass eliezer

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Re: [Observium] why vm
by Rob VanHooren 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

many do this in enterprise environments to abstract away the underlying agony of lease-replacement or (oftentimes politically forced) hardware-refresh headaches. dedicate the entire esxi host to the one vm, rather than bare metal backup/restore|reinstall. R. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:01, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > > VMware seems to have brainwashed the entire planet into thinking things > get faster inside VMs, or that they make more efficient use of > resources. Very odd!

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Very Large Environment
by Joe Hoh 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. We are deploying Observium in a very large environment. We are upwards of 6,000 devices and 300,000 ports. I don't think we are going to be able to poll this in 5 minutes. This is what we have done so far: - Distributed polling - Polling - 8 VMs - 4core, 8GB RAM each - MySQL - 4 core, 8GB RAM - Web Interface - 4 core, 8GB RAM - NFS Server (for centralized /opt/observium - except for the MIBS directory, which is copied across each server) - moving to an EMC VNX in 2 weeks. - rrdcached being implemented (any assistance here is helpful) - Modified poller-wrapper.py to distribute the devices that poll within 120s across multiple instances of poller-wrapper.py running on multiple hosts. Devices that poll in more than 120s are polled on separate servers at 15 minute intervals. - poller-wrapper has been modified to allow for multiple instances just like poller.php with MODULUS distribution - Each instance of poller-wrapper.py gets an instance number and the total number of instances. - All of the devices with the last poll time < 120 seconds are MOD'ed with the device_id and the total number of instances and compared to the instance number - device_id MOD total_instances = this_instance - Tuning threads in each poller-wrapper.py - currently at 16 threads and 2 instances on each 4 vCPU server for 32 threads running at once or 8 threads per core - The DC is on the west coast and that presents latency problems. We may need to address with distributed polling - We are at 1024MB in php.ini - We are using xcache (tuning help is appreciated - or should we just turn it off)? My questions are: - How can I change the default RRD behavior to use 15 minute intervals instead of 5 minute intervals - 15 minutes x 2 weeks - 2 hours x 5 weeks - 4 hours x 12 months - We want to keep the max/min/average/87.5th percentile (since only 8 measurements per 2 hours) - I don't see the configuration items for that. - Would we be better with a few big boxes rather than small VMs?

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Re: [Observium] Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 28 Jul '13

28 Jul '13

Not enough spoon? Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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