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Adding new OS and types of devices
by Jon Auer 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

1) I have some devices that aren't known to Observium that I'd like to track. I've followed the instructions at http://observium.org/wiki/Developing/NewOS and made a new OS type for Ubiquiti EdgeOS routers. Diff here: http://www.tapodi.net/~jda/dev/edgeos.diff <http://www.tapodi.net/%7Ejda/dev/edgeos.diff> Did I do that correctly, and if so, how do I contribute it back into Observium? 2) Is there a preferred way to handle point to multipoint aggregation devices such as DSLAMs, GPON OLTs, and Wireless APs where you have client signal levels, modulation, etc? In particular I'd like to add support for Ubiquiti and Canopy APs where one would track multiple metrics for each associated client in addition to metrics from the device itself. E.g. Stats for the downlink can be gathered from the AP, but uplink has to be gathered from the client radios. Clients are only loosely associated with APs (they are discovered through a AP, can migrate to other APs, and don't have a static IP address). Client devices like this break the hostname-required rule but perhaps it isn't mandatory if they are discovered via the AP? <http://observium.org/wiki/Developing/NewOS>

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Re: [Observium] Problem very LONG poll times
by Zach Underwood 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

UPDATE:I just recheck and the polling is back to where it should be. Now time to fine what happened. On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Zach Underwood <zunder1990(a)gmail.com>wrote: > I ran "snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 216.105.128.35" on my observium host and > another host. I have listed the time it took to run the command. > > observim = 2m29.119s (this is a vm) > other host = 3m22.429s ( this dell PE2900 with 8gb ram and 2x quad cpu) > > > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Cameron Daniel <cdaniel(a)nurve.com.au>wrote: > >> What about if you snmpwalk your switch from the server. Does it respond >> quickly or is it slower than you'd expect, ie line by line on a host <10ms >> away? >> >> That should help narrow down whether or not it's a local issue >> >> >> >> -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Problem very LONG poll times
by Zach Underwood 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

Last night when I went to bed the avg polling on a device was 5-50 sec and then morning it is 300-600 sec per device. My system is a vmware VM with 4 vcpu. 4gb ram and 15k drives in a SAN. I have check the easy stuff like SAN load or CPU load and look fine. Please help. -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Re: [Observium] Problem very LONG poll times
by Tom Laermans 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

Mysql on the same machine? What does show processlist or mytop say? Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Zach Underwood" <zunder1990(a)gmail.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Problem very LONG poll times Date: Sat, Jun 22, 2013 22:21 Ok I pick one network switch and disable about 75% of the unused module on this switch and I got the poll down to 109 sec. This same 24 port switch was taking only 10sec to poll. In watch the debug poll on a few devices it looks like all of the modules are slow. On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: Even less of an idea now. What happens if you try to run one of the snmp queries it runs? Have you noticed any particular module being slow? On 2013-06-22 19:38, Zach Underwood wrote: Here is top. This was taken during a poll There is almost no network traffic. This vm is only uesd for observium. [root@observium init.d]# top top - 14:12:01 up 3:34, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Tasks: 143 total, 1 running, 142 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.4%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3924572k total, 591700k used, 3332872k free, 42380k buffers Swap: 4063224k total, 0k used, 4063224k free, 282400k cached PID to kill: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 10878 root 20 0 116m 3044 1656 S 1.0 0.1 0:00.06 /usr/bin/snmpget -v1 -c -Otv -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:p 10862 root 20 0 15024 1344 1012 R 0.5 0.0 0:00.06 top 1 root 20 0 19356 1572 1268 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.65 /sbin/init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 [kthreadd] 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 [migration/0] 4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 [ksoftirqd/0] -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website [1] My photes [2] Links: ------ [1] http://zachunderwood.me [2] http://zunder1990.openphoto.me _______________________________________________ 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 -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT)My website My photes

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[26F-1954B6F9-04B5] when i start observium i look 66% CPU usage on Switch
by noc.rodrigo.araujo＠itmnetworks.com.br 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

Hello All, Thank you for all suggestions and tips one by one i will test tonight Best Regards, Rodrigo Araujo ITMNETWORKS

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Re: [Observium] Exclude interfaces with empty ifDescr
by Joe Hoh 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

Adam, You are right - I have confused ifAlias with ifDescr. Let's say that I have 1,000 Ethernet ports on Access Switches that are for desktop/laptop connections. These are going to be up/down randomly and I don't care. I don't want to investigate bandwidth or errors on them individually ALL of the time. I only want to do this when I am investigating a problem. I cannot Admin Down these interfaces - users need to use them I don't want to gather stats on them - because of storage/overhead/long polling I don't want to manage ifAliases on them - what would I name them - users move and come and go all of the time. I want to include uplinks and crosslinks and the device details only - not the end-user ports. I just want to exclude them from Observium as 'Ignored' How can I do that? Joe

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Cisco 4900M temperature sensors not displayed
by Sidney Boumendil 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

Hi list, On all the 4900M monitored, inlet and outlet temperature sensors from fixed and removable modules are not displayed as soon as a transceiver supporting DOM and reporting temperature is present in the chassis. I observed this behaviour on two different Observium installation version 4162 and 4016. Anyone else also seen this? Thanks Sidney

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Re: [Observium] [26F-1954B6F9-04B5] when i start observium i look 66% CPU usage on Switch
by Adam Armstrong 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Seems likely to me. Adam. Fletcher Haynes <fhaynes(a)willamette.edu> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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[26F-1954B6F9-04B5] when i start observium i look 66% CPU usage on Switch
by noc.rodrigo.araujo＠itmnetworks.com.br 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hello All, i'm new on here. i look on my HP Switch CPU usage = 66% when i stop the Observium, the CPU usage on Switch Down to 7% when i start the Observium again, the CPU usage Up to 66% again could someone tell me what might be causing so much CPU usage on the switch? Thanks, Rodrigo Araujo ITMNETWORKS

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[26F-1954B6F9-04B5] when i start observium i look 66% CPU usage on Switch
by noc.rodrigo.araujo＠itmnetworks.com.br 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hello Mike Robbert, thanks for your reply the solution for me is stop SNMP polling of my HP Switch Ports ? or stop all SNMP polling for all devices connected on my HP Switch ? thanks, Rodrigo Araujo ITMNETWORKS

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Re: [Observium] Exclude interfaces with empty ifDescr
by Adam Armstrong 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

You are confusing ifDescr and ifAlias. This is a strange thing to want to do, and against our design goals. Adam. Joe Hoh <jhoh(a)costco.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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NFSEN name mapping
by Julian Rutz 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hello, I am running revision 4151 on debian 7.1 and I am trying integrate nfsen into observium. Unfortunately, the tab does not show up and if I try to manually access the nfsen-tab the graphs are empty with the error "Error Drawing Graph". The graphs are looking fine in the webinterface of nfsen. Therefor I suspect a problem with the name mapping. Hostname in Observium: ch-bb-r1.domain.tld file-names in $nfsen_rrds: ch-bb-r1.rrd root@observer:/opt/observium# cat config.php | grep nfsen $config['nfsen_enable'] = 1; $config['nfsen_rrds'] = "/opt/nfsen/profiles-stat/live/"; $config['nfsen_split_char'] = "_"; $config['nfsen_suffix'] = "_domain_tld"; Permissions should be fine as well: 1311140 2628 -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 2687848 Jun 18 16:05 /opt/nfsen/profiles-stat/live/ch-bb-r1.rrd Can you see any obvious misconfiguration in here? Thanks in advance for your effort on this. Kind regards, Julian

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Exclude interfaces with empty ifDescr
by Joe Hoh 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

We have discovered only 21 devices and have 3266 ports. We will have over 2,000 devices. I want to ignore ports where ifDescr is null or whitespace. Currently, I have: $config['bad_if_regexp'][] = array("/^$/","","/\A\s*+\z/"); This is _not_ working, or at least it is not working for EXISTING, DISCOVERED ports. Please show me the way! I want to be able to remove the ifDescr from the network gear and have it stop being monitored and vice-versa (add an ifDescr and have it start being monitored). Thanks! I'm sure I just have something messed up in the regex.

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is /inventory/ broken @ r4159?
by Rob VanHooren 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

am not anymore getting the page generated from http://myObsHost/inventory/ neither directly, nor from the navbar button. config has 1 set for enable_inventory (and api, iirc) individual inventory still shows per-device view, but no aggregate global list anymore... is it me? or has something broken "recently" ? fwiw, this is on r4159 thanks, R. Sent from my iPad

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net insight
by Essen, Arie-Jan van 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hi all, Is there anyone out there in the Observium community working with Netinsight Fibre equipment http://www.netinsight.net/ In Observium Arie Jan van Essen Broadcast Engineer RF ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Chello DMC Chellomedia Direct Programming B.V. Berghaus Plaza . Kon. Wilhelminaplein 2-4 . 1062 HK Amsterdam . P.O. Box 69353 . 1060CK Amsterdam T: +31 (0)20 77 88614 . M: +31 (0)6 5239 0790 . F: +31 2077 88677 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Chamber of Commerce No: 34186803 . Amsterdam This message (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete this email immediately from your systems and destroy all copies of it. You may not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print or copy this email or any part of it if you are not the intended recipient

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 35, Issue 33
by Bart Teunis 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hello Adam, Yes I did no luck for me.... Now I found out that it also goes for the following graphs - accurate view - transfer graphs - historical view In the billing module and my thoughts are that this is related to the jpgraph part of it Bart -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Namens observium-request(a)observium.org Verzonden: donderdag 13 juni 2013 13:00 Aan: observium(a)observium.org Onderwerp: observium Digest, Vol 35, Issue 33 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. JPGraph, accurate bills, image link broken (Bart Teunis) 2. Re: JPGraph, accurate bills, image link broken (Adam Armstrong) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:05:43 +0200 From: "Bart Teunis" <bteunis(a)a2b-internet.com> To: <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] JPGraph, accurate bills, image link broken Message-ID: <027d01ce6765$2b606ae0$822140a0$(a)a2b-internet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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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Re: [Observium] does anybody success setup observium to query h3c devices?
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

The 3com/h3c/huawei/HP MiB situation is messy. Its on my list to untangle :) Adam. darkblue <darkblue2000(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Health probe not added
by Hynek Med 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hi, I have noticed that there's no health (temperature, dBm) measurement for one of interfaces on a Cisco 6500. Other ports are measured, traffic and erros on this port is measured. How to fix that? How to re-add a device / force scan of health probes ? Thanks, Hynek -- Hynek Med PRO-ZETA a.s. Tiskarska 10/257 108 00 Praha 10 Czech Republic

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Re: [Observium] SVN commit comments, overall usability of SVN code
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Thankfully a publicly announced svn repository makes it virtually impossible for Trojans to be committed. Unlike tar.gz. Checkmate, naysayers! Adam. David Brodbeck <brodbd(a)uw.edu> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] SVN commit comments, overall usability of SVN code
by Adam Armstrong 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

You can get a refund from the front desk. Adam. Sebastian Wiesinger <observium(a)ml.karotte.org> wrote: >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 >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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does anybody success setup observium to query h3c devices?
by darkblue 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

I have a lot of h3c network gear to monitor, such as s5500, s3100 and F100E. but it seems that observium is not compatible with h3c's device.

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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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