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Alert email nightmare!
by List User 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

After a recent update, I have this one device which sends me these alerts, multiple times. I've got around 250x of these over the last 2 days. Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Device Rebooted : bravo.redspeedservers.com 4 days, 6h 11m 40s ago. ------------------- Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Device:bravo.redspeedservers.com Interface: eth0 Is this a bug or something?

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Re: [Observium] mac-accounting rolls over at ~100Mbit/s
by Adam Armstrong 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Didnt I already fix this? Mattias Gyllenvarg <Mattias.Gyllenvarg(a)Bredband2.se> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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mac-accounting rolls over at ~100Mbit/s
by Mattias Gyllenvarg 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Dear Adam I was looking at the mac-accounting feature and noticed that it never goes over ~114Mbit/s. Seem to remember that the same thing happend in cacti when using 32bit values. Device is Cisco ASR9010 RSP2. PS. Sweet project, much appreciated. -- *Med Vänliga Hälsningar - Best Regards* *Mattias Gyllenvarg* *Nätutveckling* Bredband2 Tel: +46 406219712

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Re: [Observium] Cisco memory pools not being recorded
by Adam Armstrong 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Already fixed, pay attention! :) Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: >Is it broken for good, or are there plans to fix it in future? > >Matt. > >On 10/04/2013, at 4:19 PM, Nikolay Shopik wrote: > >> its recent changes broke it when new memory pool added for unix host on summary page >> >> On 10.04.2013, at 9:18, Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Mac Address Switch Ports
by Adam Armstrong 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

What do you think they should report? Do you know that each port actually has a different Mac? Stefan Milo <stefan(a)zendata.dk> wrote: >they're powerconnects, not force10.... big difference. :) > >i have multiple observium installations with force10 s25n, powerconnect 6224 and lots of different cisco switches. > >on the force10 and powerconnects i see the same as you, with the same mac address on all interfaces. on my cisco devices theres different mac's on the ports. > >so it's either a bug in FTOS and Powerconnect, or it's something deep within observium. > >br > >stefan milo >________________________________________ >Fra: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] På vegne af Alex Vitola [alex.vitola(a)gmail.com] >Sendt: 9. april 2013 18:57 >Til: L - Observium >Emne: [Observium] Mac Address Switch Ports > >The same mac address for all port in all devices(dell 6248, force10). It's correct? > > >mysql> use observium; >Database changed >mysql> select device_id,ifDescr,ifPhysAddress from ports where device_id=5 limit 10; >+-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+ >| device_id | ifDescr | ifPhysAddress | >+-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+ >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 1 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 2 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 3 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 4 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 5 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 6 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 7 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 8 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 9 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >| 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 10 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da | >+-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+ >10 rows in set (0.00 sec) > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Mac Address Switch Ports
by Alex Vitola 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

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Re: [Observium] Mac Address Switch Ports
by Adam Armstrong 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

This is common on some switch types. :) Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >Hi Alex, > >Looks like my Dell 6248s are reporting the same. All other devices have >different ones, it may be a bug in the dell firmware but not in >Observium :) > >Tom > >On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 13:57 -0300, Alex Vitola wrote: >> The same mac address for all port in all devices(dell 6248, force10). >> It's correct? >> >> >> >> >> mysql> use observium; >> Database changed >> mysql> select device_id,ifDescr,ifPhysAddress from ports where >> device_id=5 limit 10; >> +-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+ >> | device_id | ifDescr | ifPhysAddress >> | >> +-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+ >> | 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 1 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da >> | >> | 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 2 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da >> | >> | 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 3 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da >> | >> | 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 4 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da >> | >> | 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 5 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da >> | >> | 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 6 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da >> | >> | 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 7 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da >> | >> | 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 8 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da >> | >> | 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 9 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da >> | >> | 5 | Unit: 1 Slot: 0 Port: 10 Gigabit - Level | 5c260adb03da >> | >> +-----------+------------------------------------------+---------------+ >> 10 rows in set (0.00 sec) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] bug at html/includes/graphs/generic_multi_line.inc.php
by Adam Armstrong 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

When I remember... :D Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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bug at html/includes/graphs/generic_multi_line.inc.php
by andres fariña 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi all, I´ve found a bug at html/includes/graphs/generic_multi_line.inc.php with wrong order of data shown as Avg, Min, Max at graph. Here is the fix --- /opt/observium-wks/html/includes/graphs/generic_multi_line.inc.php 2013-03-12 15:44:22.000000000 -0300 +++ html/includes/graphs/generic_multi_line.inc.php 2013-04-03 18:03:27.000000000 -0400 @@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ foreach ($rrd_list as $i => $rrd) } if(in_array("lst", $data_show)) { $rrd_optionsb .= " GPRINT:".$id.":LAST:%6.1lf%s"; } + if(in_array("avg", $data_show)) { $rrd_optionsb .= " GPRINT:".$id.":AVERAGE:%6.1lf%s"; } if(in_array("min", $data_show)) { $rrd_optionsb .= " GPRINT:".$id."min:MIN:%6.1lf%s"; } if(in_array("max", $data_show)) { $rrd_optionsb .= " GPRINT:".$id."max:MAX:%6.1lf%s"; } - if(in_array("avg", $data_show)) { $rrd_optionsb .= " GPRINT:".$id.":AVERAGE:%6.1lf%s"; } $rrd_optionsb .= " COMMENT:'\\l'"; $iter++; And the result: Before After Could someone help commiting this? Regards, Edgar

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Pagination issue
by Michael Robbert 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just noticed in our instance of Observium if we load the "Ports -> All ports" page it has a pagination selector at the top, but it appears to be showing all ports on one page rather than the 100 that appears to be the default. This was producing 500 errors until I increased the PHP memory to 1024M. Now it is grinding the browser to a crawl. Should this or could this page load only the first 100 entries by default? We have a similar problem with the inventory page, but it doesn't appear to have pagination enabled. I'd like to request that has an enhancement unless it is supposed to already be there and my instance is just messed up. Thanks, Mike Robbert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRXwjlAAoJEFmgPOBxQDtBGcIH+gMhDl6bNdpGytWFwv6jdgYW ZCACXyi3ikvSyY+JM/FtvO94SVeP1htUWdl9bUqQfI8tdKJL9AgkK9KGHmF08KZe Elb4W8TrSxWaodtG0gDO+rFFf+lPRYWsli4AT+rmEhoJ3mpxRDVBEiA/Z/5+h1qd fVPo3Q+yRHBC9HOE3OLC3wcbsIJywxGyS8uEFPW4nPC/Cbt/em1fEVppMi6wsGZZ Sl2S+CZr2Tgf9+L/LmOaAsRDqrvfyqsFiTu22JMj9KRffPNF+y+32C3R27+xTlua hGkJ7I7ArEw1a5GgUwQWC68jqaKcTQXJAtO5EhY8qaL/MCtDQgrrww1SCHefqTs= =oI/I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Observium] Graphs don't show
by Adam Armstrong 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Screenshots? 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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Graphs don't show
by Bart Teunis 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi All, At the moment I have an issue that some of my graphs dont show well and something in the overusage calculation as well. - I see no graph for overusage - I see no correct overusage. According to my system a client is using 2,58 Mbps (1 allowed) and the overusage is 2,58 Mbps as well. Is this a familiar issue ? Regards, Bart Teunis Bart Teunis | A2B Internet BV | +31 299 707 115 ( Office ) | +31 6 57 88 48 47 ( Dutch cell ) | <mailto:bteunis@a2b-internet.com> bteunis(a)a2b-internet.com |

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Observium Session Timeout
by Saulo Zimbaro 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

It´s possible to change session timeout ? Prompt me log in screen frequently. thks, -- *Saulo Zimbaro* Mobile ) (+55) 21 9800-0100 *saulozimbaro(a)gmail.com *saulo(a)zimbaro.com

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Re: [Observium] Asterisk SNMP support
by Adam Armstrong 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Yes. Though if you can give me access to your dev install I can fix up the graphs and stuff before I commit it. I can't easily test things I don't have :) Adam Pieter De Wit <pieter(a)insync.za.net> wrote: >On 7/04/2013 21:02, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> I might have remembered wrong. There is as graphs array populated by modules which defines things in the graphs tab. >> >> The ucd modules do this. >> >> The graph defs are a huge section in either defaults.inc.php or definitions.inc.php. >> >> I forget, and not at a computer at the moment :-) >> >> Pieter De Wit <pieter(a)insync.za.net> wrote: >> >> >Hey Adam, > >I finally got the graphs drawn etc. (some of them at least) but the >graphs are showing "device*asterisk_iax2" below the title - any ideas on >what I missed ? > >Also, how would I send you the "patch" just as a SVN diff and attach the >new files ? > >Thanks, > >Pieter >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Asterisk SNMP support
by Adam Armstrong 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

I might have remembered wrong. There is as graphs array populated by modules which defines things in the graphs tab. The ucd modules do this. The graph defs are a huge section in either defaults.inc.php or definitions.inc.php. I forget, and not at a computer at the moment :-) Pieter De Wit <pieter(a)insync.za.net> wrote: >On 7/04/2013 18:48, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> Drop it into an rrd and add in entry into $graps_enabled matching the graph type which will draw it. >> >> You also need a graph type def in definitions. >> >> Adam. >> >> ><snip> > >Hey Adam, > >I'm sorry - but I don't see where I do the definitions and the adding of >entries in graph_enabled (or graphs_enabled - which I can't find :( ) > >Thanks, > >Pieter >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Asterisk SNMP support
by Adam Armstrong 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Drop it into an rrd and add in entry into $graps_enabled matching the graph type which will draw it. You also need a graph type def in definitions. Adam. Pieter De Wit <pieter(a)insync.za.net> wrote: >On 7/04/2013 09:50, Tom Laermans wrote: >> On 6/04/2013 23:02, Pieter De Wit wrote: >>> <snip> >>> >>> I can give you access to the box via SNMP or a dump of the OID's >>> (it's small) if you want to have a look. >>> >>> I pastebin'ed it: >>> http://pastebin.com/nCyzbV44 >> Are you sure you mean what you say when you say that >> >> > It's not really a hack though, it's enabling SNMP in Asterisk. The >> agent will have to fetch the data from Asterisk and, imho, it's going >> to be more complicated code (Talking to Asterisk via CLI or AMI is a >> pain to get this type of data) >> >> I see pretty much no useful info in their MIB, and this dump confirms it. >> >> Number of active calls seems to be the only graphable output. >> >> Tom >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >Hey Tom, > >Yip - I am sure :) I have written am AMI and it's painful. As for the >enabling SNMP part, there is 4 lines of config to add, 2 to Asterisk and >2 to snmpd.conf. I am happy to maintain the wiki page on this. > >The only thing I want is, as you say, the number of active calls. There >is nothing else in the dump, nor anything else that I can think of that >is useful. > >The way I see this playing out that we will have 12 graphs, one per >channel type of the active number of calls. The other "usefull" info is >the "enabled" features, like transfer, but I am not sure how we going to >display that. For "version 1" I think we stick to the number of channels. > >Now I just need to figure out how to get this into the DB and then I >will work on the poller includes. > >Cheers, > >Pieter >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Asterisk SNMP support
by Pieter De Wit 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Hi Guys, Do you guys know if there is plans to support Asterisk monitoring via SNMP in the near future ? Cheers, Pieter

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pixeled cef screen
by Donald T. Currie 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

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LDAP Configuration
by Michael Sweikata 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Hey everyone; Answers so far have been wonderful. I've been pouring through the archives trying to find a good example for LDAP Authentication, and I believe I have the authentication portion working correctly, however security permissions in Observium aren't working correctly. If I provide the correct credentials, it lets me through but the main page has no content. If I provide incorrect credentials, it spits me back out to the login page. The structure of the containers is correct, the AD Security Group 'Network Ops' is the group our Network Management team uses, so I want us to have full access (level 10), and is located in (Canonical name): hh.nku.edu/NKU/HH/Groups/Security/Network Ops I've tried it with 'Domain Users' instead of 'Network Ops' but no dice there either. And yes, I have double-checked that my account is a member of the 'Network Ops' group, I didn't get fired today. My level 7 and level 1 groups have been commented out just to try and simplify any issues. My config.php (relevant portions) look like: // Authentication Model #Required LDAP Settings $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "nkuserv1.hh.nku.edu"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = "false"; #User Account $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "cn="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",OU=Faculty_Staff,OU=Users,OU=HH,OU=NKU,DC=hh,DC=nku,DC=edu"; #Required Group Membership $config['auth_ldap_group'] = "cn=Network Ops,OU=Security,OU=Groups,OU=HH,OU=NKU,dc=hh,dc=nku,dc=edu"; $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "ou=Security,ou=Groups,ou=hh,ou=nku,dc=hh,dc=nku,dc=edu"; #Optional LDAP Settings $config['auth_ldap_groups']['Network Ops']['level'] = 10; #$config['auth_ldap_groups']['Domain Admins']['level'] = 7; #$config['auth_ldap_groups']['Lab Admins']['level'] = 1; So, if anyone has any ideas or can help with this, it'd be greatly appreciated.

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Re: [Observium] False "device rebooted" message
by Adam Armstrong 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

All counters. But we can't guarantee any of them exist at that point in the poller, or that they were ever greater than zero. Adam. Morgan McLean <wrx230(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] False "device rebooted" message
by Adam Armstrong 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

It comes from SNMP. What does the uptime graph show? Stefano Lobrano <stefano.lobrano(a)staff.aruba.it> wrote: >Hello List, >I'm testing observium to monitor network devices in our datacenter, I've >added a range of different devices and it seems all good, but today it >has given me a false notice about a couple of nexus 5000 that are >reported as "rebooted" while the switches are correctly reporting uptime >of more than 600 days... >All the other hosts are reported without errors, apparently. > >I've looked in the mailing list archive and I found similar issues, with >server, but I understand that was something resolved. > >Where does observium takes the info about reboot? > >Observium is installed in a VM: >Observium 0.13.3.3824 >Apache 2.2.22 (Ubuntu) >PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.6 >MySQL 5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 >RRDtool 1.4.7 > >Thanks, >Stefano >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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observium alert not working
by Abul Bashar Azad 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Hi Observium Team, BDCOM is one of the big ISP and IP Telephony Service provider in Bangladesh I am deploy it in my IP Telephony network. I am follow your documentation step by step. I am add host and view all the graph its working fine. But I can not see any alert message. I am configure it but its not working. Could you please help me how can i get specific alert like my ram memory 75% use, Processor 60% use. I need customised alert to monitor my netwrok device properly . I am wating for your valuable feedback. -- With regards --- Md. Abul Bashar Azad Assistant Manager, IPTSP *BDCOM Online Limited* IP Phone : 09666333666 Cell: +8801818301627

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Re: [Observium] Observium Storage Requirements
by Tom Laermans 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Next to the rrd requirements, you may want to put some pruning in place for the eventlog and syslog tables. Size of storage per device depends on what is monitored on it. But as said in other answers the data files itself do not expand. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Michael Sweikata" <sweikatam1(a)nku.edu> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Observium Storage Requirements Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2013 16:51 Hey everyone; I mentioned in a previous e-mail that we’re rolling out a deployment of Observium, and we absolutely love the product. I know that it’s designed as a historical data gathering tool, but I am concerned about the storage requirements for the system. I have approximately 600 routers and switches on my campus, and eventually would like to get my servers involved (pushing the device count beyond two-thousand), and I’m concerned at the storage requirements for this. I couldn’t find this information anywhere online, so I figured I would check with you guys. Does Observium have any kind of roll-over archiving for device history beyond a certain point, or will it continually just grow the data in the files?

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Re: [Observium] Observium Storage Requirements
by Adam Armstrong 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Observium uses red, which is fixed size round robin database. You can find information about how it works online. Perhaps we should document this too. Data usage for a single host shouldn't grow over time, except event log entries and the like. For an installation of that size you might want to use ssd or solid state ram drives. Spindles just won't survive the I/o load. Adam. Michael Sweikata <sweikatam1(a)nku.edu> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Observium Storage Requirements
by Michael Sweikata 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Hey everyone; I mentioned in a previous e-mail that we're rolling out a deployment of Observium, and we absolutely love the product. I know that it's designed as a historical data gathering tool, but I am concerned about the storage requirements for the system. I have approximately 600 routers and switches on my campus, and eventually would like to get my servers involved (pushing the device count beyond two-thousand), and I'm concerned at the storage requirements for this. I couldn't find this information anywhere online, so I figured I would check with you guys. Does Observium have any kind of roll-over archiving for device history beyond a certain point, or will it continually just grow the data in the files?

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