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Polling
by Wes Kennedy 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

I recently added in 25 new routers to be monitored and as of two hours later, they haven't been polled. They have all been Discovered properly, but not polled. All of my existing hosts are polling just fine. Has anyone seen this? -Wes

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add power usuages
by Khapare Joshi 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

I added one of my HP enclouser, and ran the ./discovery.php -h it does not discover these : Temperatures: Humidity : Voltages: Frequencies: Current: Power: Fanspeeds : how do i get these into my observium ? also, is there a way to integrate total power in observium ? I get the total by snmpwalk : snmpwalk -c public -v2c test01.local enterprises.232.22.2.5.1.1.1.10 |awk '{ sum+=$4} END {print sum}' thank KV

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switch errors meaning
by Mihai - Cristian Satmarean 31 May '13

31 May '13

Hi, I would like to ask what the switch errors mean, I have approx. 300 m Discards In on one several ports constantly and on other ports Discards Out. Please help me understand what is that. Thank you!

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voltaire device
by Khapare Joshi 30 May '13

30 May '13

i have added my infiniband switch. It adds and produce the graph etc. but observium seem not recognize. as its icon comes with ? . maybe its matter of adding image for that device ? same thing with HP storage p2000 boxes Has anybody monitoring Infiniband switches with observium ? K

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Help with ldap group access/permissions
by Tracy Phillips 30 May '13

30 May '13

Hi, I have configured Observium to authenticate against ldap and it works great. This is my configuration for authentication: $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "ldap.example.net"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = FALSE; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "uid="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=People,dc=example,dc=net"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = "cn=observium,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=net"; Everything works as expected until I get to this point. When I go to add a new device or view the global configuration, I get the message: ERROR You have insufficient permissions to view this page. I have confirmed that I am in the observium-admin group. This is what I have for group permissions: $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=net"; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['observium-admin']['level'] = 10; There is nothing relevant in the observium.log. Is there something that I am missing or does anyone have thought that might help me resolve this issue? Thanks in advance for any hints you can throw my way! Tracy

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I want to say THANK YOU
by Zach Underwood 30 May '13

30 May '13

I work for a small ISP. For the past few weeks things have been running slow on the network. After working on and off of the problem for some time will no fix, I had to take a break from the problem. So I setup a VM running centos, I installed your software (the rhel howto has some mistakes). I then added the core switches and routers, 9 devices later I had the core mapped. After the software was running for 10 mins I started to see a problem. The core router that links up two ISP with BGP was having interface errors. Comes to find out the interfaces was running at half duplex. After fixing the duplex error the network came back to life. I would like to say thank for the software and I am a kickstarter supporter. -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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SNMP Printer polling
by Matthew Coene 30 May '13

30 May '13

Good morning everyone... Ok.. I have my Canon printers working polling when using jetdirect as the OS type in separate include files in /observium/includes/discovery/os/, I was hoping to make them their own icon, and subset in the definitions.inc.php but seeing as how jetdirect is already declared as its own (I assume string?) (forgive me I am not a programmer)... Can I still make a separate definitions entry code block and split the 'jetdirect' code to a separate entity so I can leave the HP printers stuff alone and do the Canon separately?? Cheers, M.

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Re: [Observium] Canon printers
by Adam Armstrong 30 May '13

30 May '13

Tom has the printer fetish. It's probably not hard for him to add if proper MIBs exist. I think you're all weirdos for monitoring printers, though... Adam. Matthew Coene <mcoene(a)Bacardi.com> wrote: > >Good afternoon anyone... > >Was just curious as to whether anyone has had any luck integrating MIBS so >Canon iR series can be parsed as proper printers and have stats / toner >polled correctly?? > >I was a little spoiled at my last position where all printers were HP / >Konica and supported out of the box... Now not so much... > >Thanks in advance... > >Matt.C. > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] SNMP Ubuntu
by Tom Laermans 30 May '13

30 May '13

Same way you monitor any other net-snmp box; see our documentation. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Alex Vitola" <alex.vitola(a)gmail.com> To: "L - Observium" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] SNMP Ubuntu Date: Wed, May 29, 2013 19:36 how to monitor cpu and memory using snmp in ubuntu 12:04? Only network graphs are shown Alex Sandro de Lacerda Vitola http://br.linkedin.com/in/vitolahttp://www.vitola.net.br

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Re: [Observium] Little more help with SNMP/MIB for Canon.
by Adam Armstrong 30 May '13

30 May '13

Try to detect it using sysobjectid. Doing it via sysdescr is discouraged in new code. You can probably catch them all with a single string match that way. Adam. Matthew Coene <mcoene(a)Bacardi.com> wrote: >Holy Hell... It works... > >Copied the jetdirect.inc.php to a new file called canon.inc.php > >snmpwalked... seems the sysDescr is unique to each model so I will just >replicate as necessary to reflect our fleet... > >I suppose the issue now is that because it is polling via "jetdirect" it is >assigning a HP logo... > >Small potatoes however... > >I am getting consumable and page counts for the beancounters... > >Cheers, > >Matt. > > > > >From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> >To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org>, >Date: 05/29/2013 05:08 PM >Subject: Re: [Observium] Little more help with SNMP/MIB for Canon. >Sent by: "observium" <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> > > > >You'd need to create a new is type for canon printers. > >Then you can permit that is to find things using the jet direct MIBs. > >Adam. > >Matthew Coene <mcoene(a)Bacardi.com> wrote: > >> >>Good Afternoon All, >> >>Tom, Looks like you were right... Tried snmpwalking our Canon devices >with >>the HP-LASERJET-COMMON MIB... >> >>Looking at the rest of the code, specifically the "jetdirect" bits that >you >>mentioned... >> >><?php >> >>if (!$os) >>{ >> if (strstr($sysDescr, "JETDIRECT")) { $os = "jetdirect"; } >> else if (strstr($sysDescr, "HP ETHERNET MULTI-ENVIRONMENT")) { $os = >>"jetdirect"; } >> else if (strstr($sysObjectId, ".1.3.6.1.4.1.11.1")) { $os = >>"jetdirect"; } >>} >> >>I can say that the OID string that seems to be the most common to the ID >>is... (actually there are a few) >> >>iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.9.2.1.8.1.1 = STRING: "Canon" >> >> >>I am hoping there might be some way to just adapt the existing framework, >>to use the the new OID / MIB to report the Canon's specifically instead of >>generic? >> >>Am I even remotely on some sort of right track or way off on some far >>removed dead end tangent?? >> >>Cheers, >> >>Matt. >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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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Re: [Observium] Little more help with SNMP/MIB for Canon.
by Adam Armstrong 29 May '13

29 May '13

You'd need to create a new is type for canon printers. Then you can permit that is to find things using the jet direct MIBs. Adam. Matthew Coene <mcoene(a)Bacardi.com> wrote: > >Good Afternoon All, > >Tom, Looks like you were right... Tried snmpwalking our Canon devices with >the HP-LASERJET-COMMON MIB... > >Looking at the rest of the code, specifically the "jetdirect" bits that you >mentioned... > ><?php > >if (!$os) >{ > if (strstr($sysDescr, "JETDIRECT")) { $os = "jetdirect"; } > else if (strstr($sysDescr, "HP ETHERNET MULTI-ENVIRONMENT")) { $os = >"jetdirect"; } > else if (strstr($sysObjectId, ".1.3.6.1.4.1.11.1")) { $os = >"jetdirect"; } >} > >I can say that the OID string that seems to be the most common to the ID >is... (actually there are a few) > >iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.9.2.1.8.1.1 = STRING: "Canon" > > >I am hoping there might be some way to just adapt the existing framework, >to use the the new OID / MIB to report the Canon's specifically instead of >generic? > >Am I even remotely on some sort of right track or way off on some far >removed dead end tangent?? > >Cheers, > >Matt. > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Hardware scaling
by Adam Armstrong 29 May '13

29 May '13

Hi All, I put together a very basic set of scaling guidelines : http://www.observium.org/wiki/Hardware_Scaling My sample size is quite limited, do any of you have useful numbers from large (>10k ports) installations? How much RAM does your /ports/ page take? (mouse over the perf on the bottom bar). How much average CPU load does your system have, and what CPU is it? (assuming the host is Observium-only) What storage back-end do you use, and how well is it scaling? Thanks, adam.

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map not showing
by Khapare Joshi 29 May '13

29 May '13

newbie here, I have 0.13.5.4047 version and world map is not showing in front page. Also, i could not configure alert, when i click on alert it does not gives me any option to configure. maybe this is simple somewhere config ? but earlier I installed 0.13.5.3992 and world map is displayed.

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Re: [Observium] map not showing
by Adam Armstrong 29 May '13

29 May '13

There is no alerting. The tab is a ui placeholder. You need to explicitly enable the map by adding the freontpage order array. Its documented on the site. Adam. Khapare Joshi <khapare77(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Little more help with SNMP/MIB for Canon.
by Matthew Coene 29 May '13

29 May '13

Good Afternoon All, Tom, Looks like you were right... Tried snmpwalking our Canon devices with the HP-LASERJET-COMMON MIB... Looking at the rest of the code, specifically the "jetdirect" bits that you mentioned... <?php if (!$os) { if (strstr($sysDescr, "JETDIRECT")) { $os = "jetdirect"; } else if (strstr($sysDescr, "HP ETHERNET MULTI-ENVIRONMENT")) { $os = "jetdirect"; } else if (strstr($sysObjectId, ".1.3.6.1.4.1.11.1")) { $os = "jetdirect"; } } I can say that the OID string that seems to be the most common to the ID is... (actually there are a few) iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.9.2.1.8.1.1 = STRING: "Canon" I am hoping there might be some way to just adapt the existing framework, to use the the new OID / MIB to report the Canon's specifically instead of generic? Am I even remotely on some sort of right track or way off on some far removed dead end tangent?? Cheers, Matt.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 34, Issue 77
by Wes Kennedy 29 May '13

29 May '13

Im positive I added them. What I ended up having to do was check the box to have them ignored, run the poller manually, uncheck that box then run the poller manually again. Now they're working just fine. It was just extremely odd. -Wes On 5/29/13 1:55 PM, "observium-request(a)observium.org" <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: >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. Re: Graphics issue (David Torres) > 2. Polling (Wes Kennedy) > 3. Re: Polling (Nikolay Shopik) > 4. Re: Polling (Adam Armstrong) > 5. SNMP Ubuntu (Alex Vitola) > 6. Re: SNMP Ubuntu (Alex Vitola) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 08:16:54 -0600 (CST) >From: David Torres <d.torres(a)ct.co.cr> >To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> >Subject: Re: [Observium] Graphics issue >Message-ID: <23878121.180651369837014091.JavaMail.root@poseidon> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > >Thank you for all your soon answers, > >So apparently I will need to move all to a real stuff. Well if so, what >should be the best conditions I have keep for the application running >sufficiently well ?, I mean RAM requirements, disk space, BW and so on. > >Thank you > >Regards > >----- Mensaje original ----- >De: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> >Para: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >Enviados: Mi?rcoles, 29 de Mayo 2013 1:21:55 GMT -06:00 Centroam?rica >Asunto: Re: [Observium] Graphics issue > >If you have devices being polled more than 7.5 minutes apart, this will >cause missing data as RRD will not generate an average and will just >insert a null value, leading to the white space. > >We recommend not running Observium in a VM or on shared storage as it >tends to cause these kinds of issues when the host/storage resources is >being used by other applications. > >adam. > >On 2013-05-29 08:06, Bj?rn Rhoads wrote: >> I had the same problem with Observium and ~100 devices with observium >> running in a KVM instance, for me it turned out that disk iops wasn't >> enough, so the pollers didn't finish before the next round started. I >> just got a small SSD and put the Observium virtual machine on that and >> everything worked ok since then. >> >> If your banding is of the same sort you should see that periodically >> you have too many pollers running at the same time. >> >> /Bj?rn R >> >> On 2013-05-29 08:57, Nikolay Shopik wrote: >> This faq section for different issue, has nothing to do with >> whitespace rrdtool. Is this device sits next to observium or in some >> remote location? If this on remote site this is mostly packet lost >> >> On 29.05.2013, at 6:58, David Torres <d.torres(a)ct.co.cr> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've been using observium a while ago and since the beginning the tool >> showed me the graphics like I show you in the attached picture. >> >> There are several "white spaces" marked on the time period (X axis), >> where the tools is not showing information. I read the FAQs section and >> I found this advice: >> >> "I'm getting a blank browser window on some pages, but not others", so >> I incremented the PHP memory parameter from 128M to 384M whithin the >> php.ini file >> but this did not work either so I come to you beggin your advice in >> order to resolve this problem. Besides I have 90 network equipments >> monitored with the observium application on a virtual server (6 GB of >> ram and 3 CPUs 3.0 Ghz). >> >> >> >> thank you so much for any help >> >> >> Regards >> <graphs.png> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:35:17 +0000 >From: Wes Kennedy <wkennedy(a)lan.us> >To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> >Subject: [Observium] Polling >Message-ID: <CDCBA684.31EC%wkennedy(a)lan.us> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >I recently added in 25 new routers to be monitored and as of two hours >later, they haven't been polled. They have all been Discovered properly, >but not polled. All of my existing hosts are polling just fine. Has >anyone seen this? > >-Wes >

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SNMP Ubuntu
by Alex Vitola 29 May '13

29 May '13

how to monitor cpu and memory using snmp in ubuntu 12:04? Only network graphs are shown Alex Sandro de Lacerda Vitola http://br.linkedin.com/in/vitola http://www.vitola.net.br

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Graphics issue
by David Torres 29 May '13

29 May '13

Hi all, I've been using observium a while ago and since the beginning the tool showed me the graphics like I show you in the attached picture. There are several "white spaces" marked on the time period (X axis), where the tools is not showing information. I read the FAQs section and I found this advice: "I'm getting a blank browser window on some pages, but not others", so I incremented the PHP memory parameter from 128M to 384M whithin the php.ini file but this did not work either so I come to you beggin your advice in order to resolve this problem. Besides I have 90 network equipments monitored with the observium application on a virtual server (6 GB of ram and 3 CPUs 3.0 Ghz). thank you so much for any help Regards

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Location
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 29 May '13

29 May '13

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Manually fix bogus RRD data?
by Alex Pressé 28 May '13

28 May '13

I have a router which was running glorious cisco code with a marvelous bug where the number of active ipsec tunnels kept increasing until I put a better IOS on it. So now I have a graph where the ipsec tunnels shoots to tens of thousands of ipsec tunnels, making the long term views pointless. Is there some easy way I can loop through a date range or similar and set the number of ipsec tunnels to some other number (like 10 instead of 22,000)? -- Alex Presse "How much net work could a network work if a network could net work?"

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After Update IfDesc not IfName
by mhoffmann＠arcor.de 28 May '13

28 May '13

Hi, after the last upgrade, i only gte the Interface Descriptions instead the Interface Names. Thats bad. How could i got the IfNames at the Device View? Michael

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Re: [Observium] IPV6 BGP Session Alerts
by Adam Armstrong 27 May '13

27 May '13

Many devices do not correctly populate IPv6 sessions in SNMP. Are you running oldish code? Adam. Mahomed Hussein <Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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hpasm - temperatures, voltage and fans in Observium
by Niklas Larsson 27 May '13

27 May '13

Hi, we have a couple of HP Proliant DL360/380 servers that has hpasm installed, I can get data from: snmpwalk -c public -v2c -M /opt/observium/mibs host.example.com 1.3.6.1.4.1.232 ( http://pastebin.com/JvsNVMhY ) The question is if Observium has support for hpasm? We are really happy with the supermicro support and are hoping that we could get the same information from the HP as well. /niklas

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How to completely remove a device
by Lasse Leegaard 26 May '13

26 May '13

Hey, I have decomissioned a FreeBSD server and then wanted to remove it from observium. I would assume that clikcing on the "delete device" button would do the trick, but alas I still see the server on my device list. I have also tried editing the device and deleting it from there to no effect - it says it isn't there any more. Do I need to remove it and all data concerning it manually from the database and is there an easy way to do that? -Lasse-

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New user - Few questions
by Simon Mott 26 May '13

26 May '13

Hi all im pretty new to observium but i am loving how easy it is to use so far! I have a couple of minor issues though 1) i have added two servers that are configured almost identically and observium has only picked up the lm-sensors info for one of them - is there a way i can force it to get this info from the second server? 2) On the note of lm-sensors - Observium is parsing the output of lm-sensors and treating the threshold values as actual sensors - can i make it just outright not graph these whilst keeping the actual sensor data? 3) I have a windows server added to observium and i am getting a load of ports that i dont care about - same question as above - can i make observium ignore these ports and not even list them/try to graph them? 4) i have unix agent installed on a server exposing hddtemp data but sometimes when observium polls it doesnt detect all hard disks or sometimes none at all (whilst at the same time i confirm hddtemp is working as expected and showing all disks) Any ideas whats causing this? Thanks

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