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SVN commit comments, overall usability of SVN code
by Sebastian Wiesinger 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hello, I'm testing out Observium and I like a lot of the things that Observium does. But what really irks me is the way and style of releasing new versions and committing to the SVN repository. 1) Commit messages. To quickly get a feel what changed between revisions I consult the svn log. That is the primary source of information. In the Observium SVN this often leads me to read things like this: r4147 - CODE, Y U NO LOOK RITE r4140 - Me need your soul, more souls. >:-> r4139 - you're not ready for this. :) r4125 - disable whatever the fuck that is r4101 - add some crappy errors And on and on. Things like that make me question the code quality that is committed to the repository. What kind of project do you want to be with these kind of commit messages? Mind you, I know that many people use cheeky or funny commit messages but normally they include some kind of explanation/context to see what has changed. That's missing here. This hurts the project. It projects an immature image. 2) Follow up to this: How is code quality review done? What are the procedures to decide when code is added to the repository and how do you make sure that the repository is stable for the majority of the users? Also I noticed that you do not separate code and HTML output which is another source of potential problems and accidental breakage. Is it planned to rewrite this to use a templating system? Regards Sebastian -- GPG Key: 0x93A0B9CE (F4F6 B1A3 866B 26E9 450A 9D82 58A2 D94A 93A0 B9CE) 'Are you Death?' ... IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE. -- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

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Observium Map Bug
by observium＠velder.li 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hello there One of my locations is down (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). But observium shows my atlanta location offline. Mouseover still shows Frankfurt. Bug? Regards patrick

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Re: [Observium] JPGraph, accurate bills, image link broken
by Adam Armstrong 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Did you disable the stuff at the bottom of the config? Bart Teunis <bteunis(a)a2b-internet.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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JPGraph, accurate bills, image link broken
by Bart Teunis 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

To all, I updated my observium and found out that jpgraph is not coming with the SVN anymore. So I installed this according the instructions I found in my observium installation. Some how the link to the accurate img remains broken, so I could use some help with this, two questions: 1. Is this a known issue 2. How can I solve this Regards, Bart Teunis Bart Teunis | A2B Internet BV | +31 85 90 20 410 ( Office ) | +31 6 57 88 48 47 ( Dutch cell ) | <mailto:bteunis@a2b-internet.com> bteunis(a)a2b-internet.com |

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AP Statistics from Cisco WLC
by Fletcher Haynes 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Hello, Observium has been awesome so far...I am wondering if there are plans to support AP discovery and statistics from Cisco WiSMs? We have several hundred APs in lightweight mode we would like to monitor. If there are no current development efforts in that area, I may take a crack at it...

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Inversing in and out
by Benjamin Abadie 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hi, I'm looking for a way to reverse in and out position in port graphs. That is, display positive values for outbound, and negative ones for inbound. It can be interesting for a CDN, which mostly send its data to other ASes (booooo ! ;] ) I found a variable "$inverse" which *seems* to do what I want to do : > /opt/observium 0 # grep --exclude-dir=".svn" -n -r "\$inverse" > html/includes/graphs/generic_multi_data.inc.php:48: if ($inverse) { $in = 'out'; $out = 'in'; } else { $in = 'in'; $out = 'out'; } > html/includes/graphs/generic_multi_bits.inc.php:39: if ($inverse) { $in = 'out'; $out = 'in'; } else { $in = 'in'; $out = 'out'; } > html/includes/graphs/generic_data.inc.php:28:if ($inverse) { $in = 'out'; $out = 'in'; } else { $in = 'in'; $out = 'out'; } > html/includes/graphs/multiport/bits_trio.inc.php:17: if (strstr($inverse, "a")) { $in = "OUT"; $out = "IN"; } else { $in = "IN"; $out = "OUT"; } > html/includes/graphs/multiport/bits_trio.inc.php:37: if (strstr($inverse, "b")) { $in = "OUT"; $out = "IN"; } else { $in = "IN"; $out = "OUT"; } > html/includes/graphs/multiport/bits_trio.inc.php:57: if (strstr($inverse, "c")) { $in = "OUT"; $out = "IN"; } else { $in = "IN"; $out = "OUT"; } > html/includes/graphs/multiport/bits_duo.inc.php:45:if ($inverse) { $in = 'out'; $out = 'in'; } else { $in = 'in'; $out = 'out'; } But setting it to true does not seem to change anything. Am I completely mistaken ? If not, how should I use this ? I know it's not an official feature (or I would have found a config option) but I'm just messing around a little with observium's code... ;) Regards, Benjamin Abadie

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IPMI broken again?
by observium＠velder.li 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hi Is anyone also seeing problems with IPMI? (NA at Fanspeed, flapping fans etc..) Regards

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Re: [Observium] backend DB
by Adam Armstrong 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

The post from the ex-mysql security guy from a few months ago detailing oracles lack of fucks? Alex Pressé <alex.presse(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Negative values in the ICMP graphics
by Javier Lopez 08 Jun '13

08 Jun '13

Hello, I'm running Observium 0.13.6.4115 updated today and I see negative values in the ICMP graphics, it also fails to draw the preview images. I update Observium weekly from svn. http://i.imgur.com/xGCoaHJ.png http://i.imgur.com/3Hmtj2A.png The same Draw error is visible in the ICMP Statistics, ICMP Informational Statistics, IP Statistics and UDP Statistics graphics. Any clue to get it fix it is welcome, thanks in advance. Cheers

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Setup problem
by Richard Davies 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

Hi I am looking to implement snmp monitoring for the servers and network devices we support. I am looking at opennms and observium, and have them both running, monitoring some of our internal servers and devices. Observium is running on debian 7 - Wheezy. I believe I followed the debian specific installation instructions exactly, and Observium is up and running. I have configured it to monitor 2 of our Windows servers, 2 LINUX servers, a cisco router and sonicwall firewall. The initial discovery seems to have worked. However the olling does not seem to be working from cron. Looking at the observium.log > /opt/observium/discovery.php new June 5, 2013, 15:25 - 0 devices > discovered in 0. > 006 secs > /opt/observium/discovery.php new June 5, 2013, 15:30 - 0 devices > discovered in 0. > 007 secs > /opt/observium/discovery.php new June 5, 2013, 15:35 - 0 devices > discovered in 0. > 005 secs > ... discovery is running from cron every 5 mins as expected, but there is no mention in the log of poller.php running. I am sure I have been stupid and am missing something simple. All the graphs have a title Error Drawing Graph, guess that is because there is no data. Any help and advice would be appreciated, where to look to resolve the issues. Richard

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Re: [Observium] Setup problem
by Adam Armstrong 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

Its largely unreliable because it relies on parts of the poller code working properly when run as the apache process. We rarely test it, and a lot of that code is horrific to debug. Adam. Alex Pressé <alex.presse(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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frontpage event status > 24h?
by Rob VanHooren 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

hi, is there a quick way to adjust the frontage status to show events longer than 24h? i.e., tweak the time period for this config.php:$config['frontpage']['device_status']['ports'] = true; // Show the down ports (Last 24 hours) to be longer. dont' care so much about ports, but more the larger transient events (e.g., device rebooted). anyone? thanks! R. (ps adam, pls. nuke the nonmember @gmail dupe post that's queued up for moderation)

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Observium Ubuntu Server. Ports>All ports blank page
by Dhendup 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

Dear Team, Please do help me solve the following issues: Recently I added few more devices into the observium. To my surprise, when I click on Ports---> All Ports, the page show is blank. Before the addition of the additional devices, the interface work fine. I tried to dig the issues by putting debug=yes into the URL: I get the following output. SQL[SELECT sensor_class,COUNT(sensor_id) AS c FROM sensors GROUP BY sensor_class ORDER BY sensor_class ] SQL[SELECT COUNT(`app_id`) FROM `applications`] devices WHERE status = '1' AND `ignore` = '0' AND `disabled` = '0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM devices WHERE status = '0' AND `ignore` = '0' AND `disabled` = '0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM devices WHERE `ignore` = '1' AND `disabled` = '0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM devices WHERE `disabled` = '1'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ports WHERE deleted = '0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ports AS I, devices AS D WHERE I.deleted = '0' AND I.ifOperStatus = 'up' AND I.ignore = '0' AND I.device_id = D.device_id AND D.ignore = '0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ports AS I, devices AS D WHERE I.deleted = '0' AND I.ifOperStatus = 'down' AND I.ifAdminStatus = 'up' AND I.ignore = '0' AND D.device_id = I.device_id AND D.ignore = '0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ports AS I, devices AS D WHERE I.deleted = '0' AND I.ifAdminStatus = 'down' AND I.ignore = '0' AND D.device_id = I.device_id AND D.ignore = '0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ports AS I, devices AS D WHERE I.deleted = '0' AND D.device_id = I.device_id AND (I.ignore = '1' OR D.ignore = '1')] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ports AS I, devices AS D WHERE I.deleted = '0' AND D.device_id = I.device_id AND (I.ignore = '0' OR D.ignore = '0') AND (I.ifInErrors_delta > '0' OR I.ifOutErrors_delta > '0')] SQL[SELECT COUNT(service_id) FROM services] SQL[SELECT COUNT(service_id) FROM services WHERE service_status = '1' AND service_ignore ='0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(service_id) FROM services WHERE service_status = '0' AND service_ignore = '0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(service_id) FROM services WHERE service_ignore = '1'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(service_id) FROM services WHERE service_disabled = '1'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM sensors] SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM sensors WHERE sensor_status = '1' AND sensor_ignore ='0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM sensors WHERE sensor_status = '0' AND sensor_ignore = '0'] SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM sensors WHERE sensor_ignore = '1'] Device Alerts SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` AS D WHERE D.status = 0 AND D.ignore = 0 ORDER BY D.hostname ASC] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` AS D WHERE D.status = 1 AND D.uptime > 0 AND D.uptime < 84600 AND D.ignore = 0 ORDER BY D.hostname ASC] SQL[SELECT * FROM `ports` AS I LEFT JOIN `devices` AS D ON I.device_id = D.device_id WHERE I.ifOperStatus = 'down' AND I.ifAdminStatus = 'up' AND I.ignore = 0 AND I.deleted = 0 AND D.ignore = 0 AND I.ifLastChange >= DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 24 HOUR) ORDER BY I.ifLastChange DESC, D.hostname ASC, I.ifDescr * 1 ASC ] SQL[SELECT * FROM `services` AS S LEFT JOIN `devices` AS D ON S.device_id = D.device_id WHERE S.service_status = 'down' AND S.service_ignore = 0 AND D.ignore = 0 ORDER BY D.hostname ASC] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` AS D LEFT JOIN bgpPeers AS B ON B.device_id = D.device_id WHERE (bgpPeerAdminStatus = 'start' OR bgpPeerAdminStatus = 'running') AND bgpPeerState != 'established' AND D.ignore = 0 ORDER BY D.hostname ASC] Your help will be appreciated. Regards

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24h && DWIM
by Rob VanHooren 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

hrrrumph. who'da thought a grep for 86400 isn't the same as a grep for 84600. $ sudo yum install do-what-I-mean /grin/ Thanks Paul. R. On 2013-06-06, at 6:59 PM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > root@localhost:/opt/observium# grep uptime includes/defaults.inc.php > $config['uptime_warning'] = "84600"; // Time in > seconds to display a "Device Rebooted" Alert. 0 to disable warnings.

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Re: [Observium] Add ignore iftype
by Adam Armstrong 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

In that case it needs to be matched using the ifdescr filters not the iftype filters. :-D Adam. Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: >looks like its "other" > >On 05.06.2013 21:31, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> You managed to find the ifDescr in an snmpwalk, try looking for the ifType. >> >> Adam. >> >> Kody <kklorres(a)nexeosolutions.com> wrote: >> >>> Adam Armstrong <adama@...> writes: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> What ifType? >>>> >>> >>> Adam, >>> If the above is not what your are looking for and EFXS is not the ifType. >>> Then I do not know what you are looking for. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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cannot add hosts anymore
by Ted 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

I am running version 0.13.6.4133 and noticed that I cannot add hosts anymore. The web interface doesn't error out but when I try the command line I get: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function getHostOS() in /opt/observium/includes/functions.php on line 497 Can anyone else reproduce that...or advise on how to fix it. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] cannot add hosts anymore
by Adam Armstrong 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

I'm sure comrade landy will fix it shortly :-) Ted <theodore.dd(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I am running version 0.13.6.4133 and noticed that I cannot add hosts anymore. >The web interface doesn't error out but when I try the command line I get: > > PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function getHostOS() in >/opt/observium/includes/functions.php on line 497 > > >Can anyone else reproduce that...or advise on how to fix it. Thank you. > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Billing started giving unrealistic P95s
by Hynek Med 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

Probably somewhere between r3465 to r3981 (yes, I know) billing started producing wrong results. now at 4102, the situation remains the same. I do run the discovery script after each update. Graphs (quick graphs) look fine with real traffic accounted, but the calculated P95 is unrealistically low (something like 1/3 of the real P95, but this ratio is different for each case). Both with single VLAN and multiple VLAN bills. One of the bills (with id=1) works completely fine though. Any ideas where to look at / what to compare at the working case with the non-working case? Thanks, Hynek -- Hynek Med PRO-ZETA a.s. Tiskarska 10/257 108 00 Praha 10 Czech Republic

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ExtremeXOS cpu and temp
by Marco Pirovano 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

Hello, I'm running Observium 0.13.6.4110 on FreeBSD 8.3 In our network we have a lot of ExtremeXOS switch, so I tried to write a code for CPU e Temperature monitoring. For Temperature OID = 1.3.6.1.4.1.1916.1.1.1.8.0 "Current temperature in degrees celcius measured inside device enclosure". For CPU OID = 1.3.6.1.4.1.1916.1.32.1.4.1.9.0 "The CPU utilization by system resources. This is the utilization of the system resources in the last 5 minutes". I test the script with: - BD8810 ExtremeXOS version 12.6.2.10 - X460 ExtremeXOS version 12.5.4.5 - X450e ExtremeXOS version 12.6.4.1 - X450a ExtremeXOS version 12.3.3.6 - X440 ExtremeXOS (Stack) version 15.1.4.3 For Memory Observium displayed the status without doing anything. This is my first tentative, so test and let me know. Thanks. Ciao Marco -- Marco Pirovano Infrastrutture e Tecnologie Area Sistemi Informatici e Telematici Universita' Bocconi via Gobbi, 5 - 20136 Milano Tel. +39 02 5836.3173 Fax. +39 02 5836.3160 --- Se credi nei giovani di talento, investi sul loro futuro. Dai il tuo 5x1000 alla Bocconi cf: 80024610158. E' importante. E' per loro. www.unibocconi.it/5x1000 Please note that the above message is addressed only to individuals filing Italian income tax returns. ---

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Re: [Observium] Add ignore iftype
by Adam Armstrong 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

You managed to find the ifDescr in an snmpwalk, try looking for the ifType. Adam. Kody <kklorres(a)nexeosolutions.com> wrote: >Adam Armstrong <adama@...> writes: > >> >> >> What ifType? >> > >Adam, >If the above is not what your are looking for and EFXS is not the ifType. >Then I do not know what you are looking for. > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Add ignore iftype
by Kody 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

I have many of the following ports on Cisco voice routers with PRI voice lines. I would like add them to the ignore list but everything I try will keep finding them. Am I missing something? This is from the snmpwalk. ifDescr.536 = STRING: EFXS 50/0/400 *** this one router has 400+ of them and they all show up in the router *** ifDescr.537 = STRING: Voice Encapsulation (POTS) Peer: 20208 *** Same here many show up on each router *** Some of the lines I have added to see if it will ignore them. But no luck. $config['bad_iftype'][] = "EFXS"; $config['bad_iftype'][] = "EFXS 50/0/1"; $config['bad_if_regexp'][] = "EFXS.*"; Thanks for any help.

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IP SLAs
by Robert Williams 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Hi guys, I’ve just noticed that Observium is showing up Cisco IP SLA targets (didn’t know the feature was there!) – however it doesn’t actually log any values. All the entries IDs and targets are in there (correctly) though: [cid:image003.png@01CE61C9.7B3A9280] It would be cool if they worked (now I’ve spotted it!). They are all recording NaN so I’m not sure if there is simply something not setup correctly on the Cisco side in order for Observium to be able to read it; or maybe if there a ‘supported’ setup of the IPSLA entries on the Cisco I’m meant to follow? The existing config for them is pretty uninteresting: ip sla 139 icmp-echo 10.0.5.139 frequency 10 ip sla schedule 139 life forever start-time now ip sla reaction-configuration 139 react timeout threshold-type immediate action-type trapOnly If a debug would help then I’ll post one, but first I wanted to check if it’s just not fully supported yet (or a known issue). Just curious as I’ve only just noticed it, but it’s probably been there forever ☺ Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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High latency poller performance
by Adam Armstrong 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Hi All, I've been testing some improvements to the Poller when deployed in high latency situations (polling hosts on different continents, for example). It involved some SNMP tweaks to pull more OIDs per round-trip, but has varying support in different OSes, so we're making it a hardcoded per-OS attribute. It seems to work particularly well on Cisco IOS, IOS-XR and Arista devices. http://alpha.memetic.org/~adama/snaps/fwy8vmmvii.png Shows the performance gains on a selection of Cisco IOS devices. I'll be committing the changes later today, disabled as default. If anyone wants to test them for us before we enable them as default, give us a shout. adam.

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Re: [Observium] eigrp b0rken?
by Adam Armstrong 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Eigrp was committed by mistake a while back. One day it might get finished, time permitting :-) Rob VanHooren <rob_vanhooren(a)mac.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Observium Integration with Munin
by Scott A. Davis 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Hello! First of all, thanks for a great monitoring tool! Second, apologies in advance if my topic has been covered elsewhere. I scanned the mailing list and documentation but did not find what I need. I have Observium and Munin functioning separately on the sane node. I would like to import some of the graphs that Munin has created into Observium. I am not exactly sure how to even start that project. - Is there a simple way to do it? - Are there step-by-step instructions that a semi-novice can follow? Thanks in advance! [SD]

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