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Application Stats
by Ciro Iriarte 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Hi!, what's the state of application data collection?. I had stats for mysql and apache on my original install, but after it's reincarnation the application collection doesn't seem to work any more, was that moved to the unix agent? We would like to include application counters to observium and most of them are custom developments. Today we have cacti installs everywhere, but having all that info in one place would be great. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Re: [Observium] browsable archives and (sub)domains in hostnames
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

I would fire you guys so hard.... :-) Adam. Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >Hi, > >> Including domain.tld is a little overkill, no? > >Oh, for displaying in Observium: certainly! > >> Maybe a config option to strip the words to the right of x number of dots so folks can decide if they want to add domain.tld or just device.pop.whatever.whatever? >> >> For me, I have device.rack.site.city.domain.tld so my requirements would be different than just device.site.domain.tld. > >That's a very hierarchical name :-) >Sander > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

I had 100 centos boxes to maintain last year and wrote it. I have never used sles, so it would be unmaintainable. Adam. 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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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Read the redhat installation instructions properly, this is trivially obvious. You did not follow them properly. You thought you knew better. This has resulted in you looking foolish. Adam. ilkay.karadam(a)servisturk.com.tr wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Interesting way to talk to someone who's code you run without reading first... ilkay.karadam(a)servisturk.com.tr wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Better for you, perhaps. Our policy is not to spoon feed information we have already provided in the install documentation. If you are not capable of following it, you should not be using observium. We only have limited time to work on the project and do not believe supporting lazy users is an efficient use of that time. Adam. ilkay.karadam(a)servisturk.com.tr wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by ilkay.karadam＠servisturk.com.tr 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by ilkay.karadam＠servisturk.com.tr 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

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Poller performance
by Ciro Iriarte 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Hi!, I've been running Observium on SLES11 for almost a year. This was on a 8 vCPU + 2GB RAM VMware guest with a 30GB RRD footprint. After adding about 320 new hosts (all of them, network gear) the RRD database went to 130GB and the little machine got peaks of 3k IOPS. The I/O wait was rather hi and the machine would suddently stop responding (Hypervisor stats showed 0% CPU usage). So, I've migrated the installation to a physical machine running Solaris 11 (I know, it's not supported) and without any tunning (mysql/zfs are candidates) I'm seeing polling of 41 devices in about an hour. Is this usual/expected? -- ./poller.php 0/24 February 13, 2013, 18:27 - 27 devices polled in 4048. secs ./poller.php 7/24 February 13, 2013, 18:27 - 27 devices polled in 4075. secs ./poller.php 0/24 February 13, 2013, 18:28 - 27 devices polled in 3803. secs ./poller.php 22/24 February 13, 2013, 18:28 - 27 devices polled in 4404. secs ./poller.php 3/24 February 13, 2013, 18:28 - 28 devices polled in 4417. secs -- IOPS climbed to 5k, comments? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by ilkay.karadam＠servisturk.com.tr 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

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can anyone tell me what is this?
by ilkay.karadam＠servisturk.com.tr 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

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Re: [Observium] Postgres Support (Corey Robertson)
by Corey Robertson 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

I'm with Morgan. I honestly look forward to these gems :) thanks for the whit Adama On Mar 15, 2013, at 11:00 PM, 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: Postgres Support (Adam Armstrong) > 2. Re: browsable archives and (sub)domains in hostnames > (Morgan McLean) > 3. Re: Smokeping Integration (Paul Gear) > 4. Re: Postgres Support (Ciro Iriarte) > 5. Re: Poller performance (Ciro Iriarte) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:00:51 +0000 > From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Postgres Support > Message-ID: <7f31733976f14ca39580a76d9a74a178@localhost> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > my stupid webmail client wouldn't let me put an inline image :( > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:53:34 -0700, Morgan McLean <wrx230(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> Half the time, I come to this list for entertainment. Today, it has >> delivered. >> >> Thanks! >> Morgan >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:31 PM, R00T SHELL >> <denizenofearth(a)gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Thanks everyone. >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Tom Laermans >>> <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 15/03/2013 21:31, R00T SHELL wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Everyone, >>>> >>>> Instead of MySQL as the backend data store, is Postgres an option here >>>> please? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> >>>> [image: Futurama Fry - not sure if serious or just trolling] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:47:29 -0700 > From: Morgan McLean <wrx230(a)gmail.com> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] browsable archives and (sub)domains in > hostnames > Message-ID: > <CAPiLEQf1ezSgj+Z_0MVS3Qvz+E1r4T=oiZOpjvnEZKkFyMjC_A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Make it a config option and submit it as a patch! > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Andreas R?del < > observium(a)blueeyedcreature.net> wrote: > >> thanks so much! >> >> works >> >> >> Andreas >> >> >> >> On 15 March 2013 12:29, Michiel Klaver <michiel(a)klaver.it> wrote: >> >>> At 15-03-2013 09:59, Andreas R?del wrote: >>>> Hi, Observium >>>> >>>> 2) I need some hint where I can change the behaviour of observium to cut >>>> avay domains after the first dot - we used subdomains to segment our >>>> hardware so now all devices are called the same on the overview screen. >>>> (alarms / events) >>>> >>>> Example: >>>> switch1.site1.country1 >>>> switch1.site2.country1 >>>> switch1.site1.country2 >>>> and so on.. >>>> (I know it's boring but we ran out of elven names at one point...) ;) >>>> >>>> on the overview page they would all be called "switch1" >>>> when I go to "devices" everything is just fine >>>> >>>> can this be changed somewhere? could not find in config.php and don't >>> dare >>>> editing the other files >>> >>> >>> It's not changeable as config option, but located here: >>> /opt/observium/includes/common.php >>> >>> Search for line 149: >>> function shorthost($hostname, $len=12) >>> >>> And change 12 to 30, or something that fit's your needs... >>> >>> >>> THIS IS A QUICK HACK, COULD BREAK SVN, NO SUPPORT. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > -- > Thanks, > Morgan >

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Postgres Support
by R00T SHELL 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Hi Everyone, Instead of MySQL as the backend data store, is Postgres an option here please? Thanks!

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Smokeping Integration
by Tim Calvin 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Trying to get some assistance on integrating Smokeping into Observium. Unable to get the ping tab to appear under my devices. I have read the documentation and seem to have everything in order. Not sure if it is just the way I have the devices named or something else. Smokeping's html files are located at: /var/www/smokeping/ I have edited Observium's config.php to include the following: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/www/smokeping/"; Observium is using identical hostnames to the ones from the Smokeping config snippet below. I can access the Smokeping webpage and can verify it is working properly. Am I missing something? + dlls-asr9k_tlsn_net host = dlls-asr9k.tlsn.net + sant-asr9k_tlsn_net host = sant-asr9k.tlsn.net + mdld-asr9k_tlsn_net host = mdld-asr9k.tlsn.net Thanks in advance. Tim

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the netscaler graphing is amazing
by Stefan Milo 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

i just wanted to say thank you for an amazing product. im graphing cisco, force10, pfsense, citrix netscalers you name it... everything always looks amazing, clean and simple. i just donated (small donation, but everything counts i guess) to your project as my way of saying thank you. br stefan milo

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Verifying timeouts
by Bryan Socha 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

We've been using observium for well over a year now and extrememly happy with it. We have devices all over the world and recently started to see some strange reboot, high cpu loads and device up/down messages when the devices appear to be ok I recently noticed it seems to be the ones further away. I noticed the log really doesn't specify anything specific and my php skills are not up to snuff so I was wondering how would one go about verifying if we are seeing timeouts on the polling to know the best way to rectify the situation we are experiencing. Can someone verify is say the timeout of a cpu poll would actually how max cpu load? Thanks, Bryan

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solarflare SFN5162F nic not showing on graph
by Mihai - Cristian Satmarean 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

*Hi, Solarflare* SFN5162F Dual Port Card is not graphed at all OS openindiana 148 Driver 3.0.5 is something known? Best!

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Re: [Observium] dell force10 s4810 mib and dell m1000e blade chassis
by Adam Armstrong 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Oh. You don't need to do much to update. It's documented on the wiki. svn up ./discovery.php -h new And it'll be updated. Mihai - Cristian Satmarean <mihai.satmarean(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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addhost.php
by Ravindra Gupta 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Hi Team, Can we use IP address instance of Hostname ./addhost.php test.observium.inpublic v2c Can we use below IP address on addhost.php. ./addhost.php 10.0.0.25 public v2c

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snmp custom oid graphing
by Tsvetan Blagoev 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Hello ! First of all, thank you for the gr8 product and keep up the good work :) I am using observium in a small infrastructure (ESXi servers and linux appliances with snmp enabled) and I am facing two problems: -monitoring ESXi performance metrics - those are not exposed via snmp, so I have installed VMware CIM binaries to query the host machines. However, I am not aware how to pass data to observium afterwards and get a performance graph. -graphing data from a custom snmp OID ( snmp exec or extend) Thanks in advance! Best Regards, TSVETAN BLAGOEV QA Engineer, Axway Business Park Sofia Mladost 4, Build. 11B, Fl. 2 1766 Sofia tblagoev(a)axway.com<mailto:tblagoev@axway.com> - http://www.axway.com P Before printing, think about the environment.

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Re: [Observium] pfsense device id not working in v.3716
by Adam Armstrong 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Remember, always svn up before posting, else you might look silly. Mike Stupalov <landy2005(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On 03/12/2013 01:04 PM, Stefan Milo wrote: >> i recently did an upgrade from version 3476 to version 3716. >> >> today i added a new pfsense device to my install, but the device id isn't recognized. >> >> i confirmed the error on a different install of observium with the same version. >> >> see attached screenshot. >> >> is it a bug, or is it just me? :) > > >Please use latest revision. This bug fixed in r3732. > >> >> br >> >> stefan milo >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > > >-- >Mike Stupalov > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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pfsense device id not working in v.3716
by Stefan Milo 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

i recently did an upgrade from version 3476 to version 3716. today i added a new pfsense device to my install, but the device id isn't recognized. i confirmed the error on a different install of observium with the same version. see attached screenshot. is it a bug, or is it just me? :) br stefan milo

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All graphs not plotting
by orznew orznew 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Hi All, I've added a Dlink DES and a HP Procurve switch in my observium. Observium can lean about my used and unused port, but the graphs doesn't plot. Anything to be done to plot? Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] Minimum Hardware Requirments
by Adam Armstrong 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Requirements depend upon scale. From single CPU VM to 24 core server with raided ssds. Rizwan Tw1 <riz.tw1(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] Minimum Hardware Requirments
by Tom Laermans 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Hi Muhammad, Based on the information you provided: a dedicated server running ubuntu 12.10 with a cpu, memory and a hard drive. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Rizwan Tw1" <riz.tw1(a)gmail.com> To: <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Minimum Hardware Requirments Date: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 11:44 Hi All, I am employed in an ISP. Currently my company is looking for possible evaluation of Observium as NMS for our Metro and MPLS setup. Please share the minimum hardware requirements for the installation ASAP. Thanks Regards Muhammad Rizwan Azher

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