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Re: [Observium] vrf dance
by Rob VanHooren 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

well then if nobody else out there gets it right, then that just screams "opportunity" for Observium! we can just all hope that it doesn't wind up giving Adam Mike and Tom too much brain damage. :-) R. PS: DNS separation I could see as logical for VDCs. But for VRFs? That's banannas to have to try do. Don't even know that it'd fully function. (e.g., traps etc. are pinned to source from just one vrf; how to map back the event blame of $other_vrf_"device" as culprit?) Screws loose in San Jose, for sure. Chris & Darius wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:01:59 -0400 > From: Chris Moody <chris(a)node-nine.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] remedies to overcome vrf dance? > Message-ID: <51F032B7.5060607(a)node-nine.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > I can say we've had nothing but pain in trying to get all the > context-mapping stuff recognized by pretty much every tool we use. > Because of how Cisco implemented this, even some of our inventory apps > are confused and think we have 3x more Nexus chassis than we actually do > because in their logic, each context-mapped VRF is a separate device. > IMHO, I -hate- the way Cisco has "updated" SNMP on the Nexus platform. > > One workaround we've had to use is to use DNS names per L3 interface, so > that we can refer to the vrf/device as say 'Nexus1_mgmt0.foo.com'(which > is part of the 'management' vrf) & 'Nexus1_eth1-1.foo.com'(which is part > of the 'vrf1' vrf). This way applications think of them as separate > devices due to the hostname/IP differences. > > -Chris > > On 7/24/13 1:29 PM, Darius Seroka wrote: >> Hi Rob, >> >> I posted a similar comment a few weeks/months back but my problem was >> with c6500's. Indeed it was the way cisco describes the vrf's so only >> thing that can be done is getting them to do their oid's more >> uniformly across their product range. I was not able to open a support >> request with the c6500s so dont have any tickets to refer to. >

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Re: [Observium] RRD Graphing problems
by Adam Armstrong 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Note that we can't assist with rhel/centos installs. Our recommended and tested platform is Debian/Ubuntu. Adam. Gerry Armstrong <bajangerry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I followed the http://www.observium.org/wiki/RHEL_SVN_Installation >guide step by step and had no errors with the process either. The >Poller is running and I am seeing from the cron log that it is doing >so and I also run it manually to see if i can get the data displayed. >I do see that there is traffic being recorded but for some reason it >is not being displayed. Since it is a new install I will wipe the >installation and start again from scratch and see if somehow I missed >a step. > >On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >> Its not clear what your problem is from your description. >> >> I can say the issue is 99% likely to be fixed by following the install guide properly. >> >> Adam. >> >> Gerry Armstrong <bajangerry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>Hi Guys, >>> >>>I am having a problem displaying data in the graphs. If I select an >>>interface that has traffic reported and drill down to the graph I see >>>all the graph entries with -nan but if I select the RealTime graph I >>>can see the traffic flow. Can anyone explain why this would be and how >>>I can resolve this? >>> >>>Thanks for any assistance with this. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Gerry >>>_______________________________________________ >>>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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RHEL install notes
by Zach Underwood 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Some things I found during a quick install setenforce 0 #This will disable selinux for this session vi /etc/selinux/config change "enforcing" to "permissive" The package "OpenIPMI-tools.x86_64" was not found the package name is "ipmitool.x86_64" -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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remedies to overcome vrf dance?
by Rob VanHooren 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

it appears that (non-global) VRFs (esp. wrt. RIB OIDs) somehow are seen by OBS only in my ASR 1ks and horde of c3750x. comparing with a handful of v6.1 Nexii 7k (and their vdc's), along with some archaic-but-still-v15 c3560s, the returned set is null. q1) need for the ugliness of snmp context mapping per vrf? q2) if so, is OBS prepared to iterate over the multiple communities per device? curious, R.

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Re: [Observium] inserting default schema
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

I very much doubt reinstalling mysql will make any difference at all. You probably want to try adding a user to mysql with the correct user/pass first. We do give a. Nice copy/pasteable example for that... 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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inserting default schema
by Ryan Milton - MVS USA 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi, I am building an Observium server on a Dell server (not a vm) and have run into the problem that when I run the command, php includes/update/update.php I get: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user observium@localhost (using passwd: YES) Now, when I select user, host from mysql.user; I DO see the observium user. No, I cannot log into the mysql with observium user, however. So, I know I'm close, but I'm not there yet, any assistance would be great. Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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Re: [Observium] RRD Graphing problems
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Its not clear what your problem is from your description. I can say the issue is 99% likely to be fixed by following the install guide properly. Adam. Gerry Armstrong <bajangerry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Guys, > >I am having a problem displaying data in the graphs. If I select an >interface that has traffic reported and drill down to the graph I see >all the graph entries with -nan but if I select the RealTime graph I >can see the traffic flow. Can anyone explain why this would be and how >I can resolve this? > >Thanks for any assistance with this. > >Regards, >Gerry >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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RRD Graphing problems
by Gerry Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi Guys, I am having a problem displaying data in the graphs. If I select an interface that has traffic reported and drill down to the graph I see all the graph entries with -nan but if I select the RealTime graph I can see the traffic flow. Can anyone explain why this would be and how I can resolve this? Thanks for any assistance with this. Regards, Gerry

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Re: [Observium] remedies to overcome vrf dance?
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

There is no community indexing for the vrf MIBs as far as I have seen. It's quite common for Cisco to not bother implementing what they consider to be service provider MIBs on enterprise hardware. This is probably something you need to direct to Cisco. Note that we currently consider the vrf tracking in Observium to be broken and unusable. Adam. Rob VanHooren <rob_vanhooren(a)mac.com> wrote: >it appears that (non-global) VRFs (esp. wrt. RIB OIDs) somehow are seen by OBS only in my ASR 1ks and horde of c3750x. > >comparing with a handful of v6.1 Nexii 7k (and their vdc's), along with some archaic-but-still-v15 c3560s, the returned set is null. > >q1) need for the ugliness of snmp context mapping per vrf? >q2) if so, is OBS prepared to iterate over the multiple communities per device? > >curious, > >R. > > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] observium php session timeout affecting another application?
by Adam Armstrong 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

This stuff will be replaced sometime. Perhaps both we and cacti are using stupid cookie names? Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >On 24/07/2013 2:40, Eric wrote: >> i'm running two php applications on a LAMP machine. one is cacti, the >> other is observium. i'm using name-based virtual hosting with one IP >> address. when i have just the cacti virtual host running, i can stay >> logged in to cacti forever, i.e. my session never times out. when i >> enable the observium virtual host, cacti prompts me for my login >> credentials again after 1-2 minutes. i'm using LDAP authentication for >> cacti and the built-in authentication for observium (user added via >> adduser.php). any idea why that would be? >> >I think we do something with php session lifetime somewhere in the code >(?) but I have no idea why that would be affecting other apps... > >Tom >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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observium php session timeout affecting another application?
by Eric 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

i'm running two php applications on a LAMP machine. one is cacti, the other is observium. i'm using name-based virtual hosting with one IP address. when i have just the cacti virtual host running, i can stay logged in to cacti forever, i.e. my session never times out. when i enable the observium virtual host, cacti prompts me for my login credentials again after 1-2 minutes. i'm using LDAP authentication for cacti and the built-in authentication for observium (user added via adduser.php). any idea why that would be?

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Strange issue
by DaZZa 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Hi folks. I've been noticing a strange issue when using Observium in the last couple of days which has me scratching my head. Occasionally, when I am browsing devices, or device components, I'll get a graph or image which just comes up reading "no authorisation" or similar - and anything else I click on results in my being kicked back to the logon screen. I don't *think* it's an inactivity timeout - at the times I have noticed this happening I specifically noticed it because I was in the middle of doing something. Is there something else I could have misconfigured which would cause this behaviour? Thanks. DaZZa

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Re: [Observium] Yamaha RTX1100 router support
by Adam Armstrong 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Please do not post modifications to Observium files to this list. (Or write them as 'guides' on blogs). It interferes with the svn update mechanism and causes significant issues to users who aren't familiar with RCS. The correct way to submit this is as a patch to jira.observium.org. Thanks, Adam. Daniele Dorigo <danieledorigo(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Yamaha RTX1100 router support
by Daniele Dorigo 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hi observium team and users, to anyone interested, I wrote a simple guide on how to support the device Yamaha RTX1100. http://ddtest.co.nf/howto/rtxobvhowto.html Hope it helps Daniele

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Alerting Update
by Adam Armstrong 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Morning Observiumites and Kickstarters. We're pleased to announce that we've reached a development milestone on the road to replacing all of our hated monitoring applications. The last 2 weeks spent in Amsterdam collaborating on the alerting system have been immensely productive, thanks to the great visionaries Maarten Moerman of eBay and Job Snijders of Atrato, we would like to thank them for their continuous support, Coke Zero and Appelkoeks. The fundamental schema for the alerting system have been defined and a basic working framework written. This week will be spent further improving and bug-fixing the framework so that we can move on to writing a UI to easily change the alert rule sets and associations. We'll provide some further details on how the system works soon! Thanks, Adam Armstrong - Project Leader

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Obvervium login issue
by untitledpower＠net.hr 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hello, I have an issue which I have been unable to resolve in the last 5 hourse. My Obversium login simply doesn't work. Nothing happens when I login using real username / password. When I try to login with wrong user/pass it wasy login invalid, but with the real login details nothing happens, no error, just gets me to login page again. I use RHEL6 and i did everything from the guide. Tried with both Apache and nginx, same error. error_log empty. How could I debug this further? I know DB is created successfully and admin users loaded to the mysql table sucessfully. Any help wold be appreciated.

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Event Logs Broken and Empty
by Michael Davies 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hi All, At some stage a wee back, a couple of months ago I think, something broke all the event log bits in Observium. I vaguely remember it breaking after one of the sql updates that took a long time to run on the eventlog table, but I'm not certain about that. Example images: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106803/work/observium1.PNG https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106803/work/observium2.PNG Table looks like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106803/work/eventlog.txt What might be the best way to fix this up? I'm not worried about any historical data so it's fine if emptying out that DB table is the fix. Thoughts? Regards and thanks, Michael. ______________________________________________________ This email is intended only for the person to which it is addressed and may contain confidential or legally privileged material. Any dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon the content of this email by persons other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the email from any computer. Opinions and other information in this email that do not relate to the business of my employer are not given nor endorsed by it. Unencrypted email is not secure and may not be authentic. If you have any doubts as to the contents please telephone to confirm. OceanaGold Corporation and its related entities accept no responsibility for changes made to this email or its attachments after transmission from OceanaGold Corporation and its related entities and do not guarantee that this email or attachments are virus or error free.

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Network mapping module
by Noruni 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hello Will observium integrate someday active network mapping module ? it should really interesting for users. Thanks Noru

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HTML mail
by Sander Steffann 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hi, I just noticed that my alert e-mails are looking funny. In r4203 the content-type of those messages was changed to text/html. Are the messages going to be HTML formatted in the near future? Otherwise it might be more appropriate to send text/plain instead as long as the content is plain text. Cheers, Sander

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VMware ESX 5.1.0 and observium
by Xavier Beaudouin 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hello, On another configuration I had on vmware esx polling shown all vm currently installed. Seems on my ESX 5.1.0 (with vmware essential license) the vm hosted by the server are not shown. Any ideas ? Regards, Xavier

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Re: [Observium] HTML mail
by Adam Armstrong 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

We already have an issue where round cube and android that I'm testing on display base64'd inline graph images, but maarten's outlook doesn't. Bleh! Adam. Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: >Don't forget implement broken HTML mails too for grumpy windows users with outlook express. :-D > >On 22.07.2013, at 1:03, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > >> Yes, we plan to accommodate both freebsd neck-beards and macbook hipsters. :) >> >> adam. >> >> On 2013-07-21 22:35, Job Snijders wrote: >>> Keep in mind that work is being done on the alerting code. I hope that >>> in the future both text and html versions are send to accommodate all >>> walks of life. >>> Job >>> Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I just noticed that my alert e-mails are looking funny. In r4203 the >>> content-type of those messages was changed to text/html. Are the >>> messages going to be HTML formatted in the near future? Otherwise it >>> might be more appropriate to send text/plain instead as long as the >>> content is plain text. >>> Cheers, >>> Sander >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Shaun Bradley 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Hi Guys, me again I've googled for this but not found anything much, and I know it's not entirely observium-related but is there any way of specifying a different root device in snmpd.conf? I have a few VPS hosted systems and the root devices are different, some are /dev/simfs, others are /dev/xvda1 etc. Obviously this just produces a broken graph in observium so I'm wondering if there is a way of setting it and then having it picked up. Many thanks for any pointers. Shaun

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Re: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Adam Armstrong 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Oh. You were being confusing by talking about 'root device'. You mean the SNMP agent isn't reporting any file systems? Probably some permissions bullshit related to the virtualization platform. You don't need to mess with the netsnmp config at all really. Adam. Shaun Bradley <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Adam Armstrong 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

What does "graphs are broken" mean? Shaun Bradley <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf
by Tom Laermans 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Why is it wrong? That is the question. Observium gets its data from your snmp agent, I have not had it fail even in linux-vserver jails. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Shaun Bradley" <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] VPS root devices in snmpd.conf Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 18:28 Hi Guys, me again I’ve googled for this but not found anything much, and I know it’s not entirely observium-related but is there any way of specifying a different root device in snmpd.conf? I have a few VPS hosted systems and the root devices are different, some are /dev/simfs, others are /dev/xvda1 etc. Obviously this just produces a broken graph in observium so I’m wondering if there is a way of setting it and then having it picked up. Many thanks for any pointers. Shaun

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