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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 23 Jul '13

23 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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Re: [Observium] Varnish and PHP-FPM
by Tom Laermans 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

No. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "sdfg ssdfsdf" <huffrrrr(a)outlook.com> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Varnish and PHP-FPM Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 21:11 Hey all, Does Observium have the ability to monitor Varnish and PHP-FPM or does a patch not exist? Thanks guys!

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Varnish and PHP-FPM
by sdfg ssdfsdf 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Hey all, Does Observium have the ability to monitor Varnish and PHP-FPM or does a patch not exist? Thanks guys!

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Re: [Observium] interesting question on reddit
by Tom Laermans 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

RRD also stores deltas, but more importantly, RRD is way slower than MySQL for such single values. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Rob J. Epping" <rob.epping(a)gmail.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] interesting question on reddit Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 20:00 On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: [SNIP] > We can't "remember" errors, you only see ports with error counters that > incremented in the past 5 minutes. I thought remebering is done in RRD format :) -- GRTNX, RobJE _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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interesting question on reddit
by Stefan Milo 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

http://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/1im94u/what_tools_for_monitorin… is it possible for observium to sort devices/ports by interface errors, discards etc? br stefan milo

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Re: [Observium] interesting question on reddit
by Tom Laermans 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Yes, I obviously put in bad cables to be able to test Observium :D Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Sander Steffann" <sander(a)steffann.nl> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] interesting question on reddit Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 16:07 Hi, > I don't know what Lists >> Errors" even is, but clicking "Errored (6)" under Ports gives me a list of 6 ports with errors. I was looking for that link but couldn't find it, until I realised that it only shows when there actually are ports with errors. Guess I have nothing to worry about :-) Cheers, Sander _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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SNMPv3-Only Discovery/Polling
by Daniel Preussker 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Hi, I recently set up another host. This time using SNMPv3. addhost.php worked fine and both Auth and Priv passed. discovery.php can't discover the host. poller.php can't poll the host. via snmpget I get responces to sysUpTime.0 but not to .1, .0, ... The snmpd.conf should grand the user full Readonly rights as I didn't specify any SubID to the user. Is this known? Is there a way around? Is there any example of a working snmpv3-only setup? Best regards, Daniel Preussker [ Security Consultant, Network & Protocol Security and Cryptography [ LPI & Novell Certified Linux Engineer and Researcher [ +49 178 600 96 30 [ Daniel(a)Preussker.Net [ http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x87E736968E490AA1

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Re : svn update issue
by simon schaller 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

hello shaun you are not on the good way. you have to be in /opt/observium for me like example. i am not sure but try it. --- Message initial --- De : "Shaun Bradley" <Shaun.Bradley(a)marketingsource.co.uk> Envoyé : 18 juillet 2013 10:41 A : observium(a)observium.org Objet : [Observium] svn update issue Hi guys Trying to update observium with 'svn update' like I have been doing on another server, but on this server with a fresh install I am getting the following error. Skipped '.' Any pointers in the right direction would be great, I did a normal svn checkout for the install as per the guide. Many thanks, Shaun _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Collectd minigraphs on front page
by Frank Ortmann 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Hello We make fairly heavy use of the collectd capabilities of Observium. It really is a great feature for us. I have been investigating adding mini graphs to the front page. The guide helped me add graphs from SNMP-gathered data, but I was unable to add graphs from our collectd list. The current implementation requires an ID and a TYPE. Unfortunately, the collectd chart dos not contain these keys (see below). <IP>/graphs/type=device_collectd/device=15/c_plugin=<FOLDER_NAME>/c_type=counter/c_type_instance=<COUNTER_NAME>/to=1374136448/from=1374050048/ Has anyone been able to do this? Is it possible? Kind regards, Frank

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Re: [Observium] Config line for globally enabling Unix agent module
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

And do not edit defaults.inc.php, or your first born child will burst in to flames. Adam. 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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svn update issue
by Shaun Bradley 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Hi guys Trying to update observium with 'svn update' like I have been doing on another server, but on this server with a fresh install I am getting the following error. Skipped '.' Any pointers in the right direction would be great, I did a normal svn checkout for the install as per the guide. Many thanks, Shaun

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