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host_id in pollers table
by Brad Bendy 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Hi, We have a image we have been deploying at remote sites for the poller. This was a clone and added a new site and running into issues. Looking at the poller table I see the hostid in not different across some of the hosts, assuming his because we cloned the image. What is this hostid referenced from? We made new SSH keys on each host but there must be something else this from and not really sure how to change it. Thanks

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Acknowledgments to alerts
by Lars Joergensen 26 Jul '21

26 Jul '21

Hi all We're really pleased with Observium, and are actually looking to using it as the main network monitoring tool. What we miss is a way to add a comment when you acknowledge an alert. Something along the lines of "stuff is acting up again. John is looking at it. Trouble ticket XX1234." Is this something that is being considered? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Change default sensor thresholds?
by Lars Joergensen 25 Jul '21

25 Jul '21

Hi It seems many of our Aruba SFP's have TX power set about the threshold defined for them somewhere in Observium. Rather than changing all of them manually, I would like to do a global change for these. Is that possible? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 132, Issue 11
by Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

Hallo, Thanks for your answer. I am very new to Observium and would like to know how to get to the command line of the Observium host. Regards, Joyce -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> Im Auftrag von observium-request(a)observium.org Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Juli 2021 13:00 An: observium(a)observium.org Betreff: observium Digest, Vol 132, Issue 11 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. Problem Adding New Device (Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm)) 2. Re: Problem Adding New Device (Ahmed Rahal) 3. Re: Problem Adding New Device (Adam Armstrong) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:39:35 +0000 From: "Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm)" <J.Njoroge(a)ulm.de> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Problem Adding New Device Message-ID: <59e016f19ffa485da62f2760e8d554c8(a)sus-ex-01-wp.stadtulm.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hallo, I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. I use the same parameters for the other devices but with the few that couldn't be added, I am getting the following message. [cid:image001.png@01D778CD.53F2F860] I have tried to change SNMP authentication using different protocol versions but I still get an error message. [cid:image002.png@01D778CE.B3F939D0] [cid:image003.png@01D778CE.D3F95D50] Obsevium version is Observium CE 20.9.10731. I will appreciate your help. 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Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 21113 bytes Desc: image003.png URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20210714/672568e…> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:05:55 -0400 From: Ahmed Rahal <arahal(a)fibrenoire.ca> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Problem Adding New Device Message-ID: <CAHaNNBULsv0gxYZrN3PPXpLowEdYuWEPUbvcH3aurs_-t0jEMw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Joyce, Try debugging on the command line from the Observium host: snmpwalk -v2c -c <your_snmpv2_community> 172.30.2.21 This should pull a lot of text. If this command does not succeed, make sure you can reach your target on port 161/udp (check your firewalls). If snmpwalk returns content, try adding the node through the command line: /opt/observium/add_device.php 172.30.2.21 <your_snmpv2_community> That will likely tell you what's wrong. HTH, Ahmed. Le mer. 14 juill. 2021, à 10 h 39, Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) via observium <observium(a)observium.org> a écrit : > Hallo, > > > > I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. > I use the same parameters for the other devices but with the few that > couldn't be added, I am getting the following message. > > > > > > I have tried to change SNMP authentication using different protocol > versions but I still get an error message. > > > > > > > > Obsevium version is Observium CE 20.9.10731. > > > > I will appreciate your help. > > > > Regards, > > Joyce > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > -- Ahmed Rahal Administrateur de Systèmes / Systems Administrator *Fibrenoire* - www.fibrenoire.ca A: 550 , avenue Beaumont, bureau 320, Montréal (Québec) H3N 1V1 arahal(a)fibrenoire.ca Twitter: @fibrenoire -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 21113 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20210714/4a81156…> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:08:35 +0100 From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Problem Adding New Device Message-ID: <6B77A19F-AB64-4F85-9821-E366D51E2AB5(a)getmailspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Better to just fetch sysObjectID.0 or sysDescr.0 instead of a walk to start with. snmpget -v2c -c <community> 172.30.2.21 sysDescr.0 Using v3 auth on commandline is messy, I'd recommend making it work with v2c if you don't understand the complexities. adam. On Jul 14 2021, at 5:05 pm, Ahmed Rahal via observium <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > Hi Joyce, > > Try debugging on the command line from the Observium host: > snmpwalk -v2c -c <your_snmpv2_community> 172.30.2.21 > > This should pull a lot of text. > If this command does not succeed, make sure you can reach your target on port 161/udp (check your firewalls). > > > If snmpwalk returns content, try adding the node through the command line: > /opt/observium/add_device.php 172.30.2.21 <your_snmpv2_community> > > > That will likely tell you what's wrong. > > HTH, > > Ahmed. > Le mer. 14 juill. 2021, à 10 h 39, Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) via observium <observium(a)observium.org (mailto:observium@observium.org)> a écrit : > > Hallo, > > > > > > I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. 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Unable to poll a once working Device
by Oberreiter Andreas 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hi there, I have multiple environmental Devices which are working fine for years now. A view weeks ago one of was shown as unable to poll. A SNMPwalk for the Device works fine. I've tried to add the device via it's IP no luck there. I've rebooted the Server and the Device multiple times. I flushed the DNS cache. Attached are the debug Output of a poller run of a working Device poll_tempboxnl.txt and of the non-working Device poll_tempboxnz.txt as well as the discovery and snmpwalk output. xxx_tempboxnl.txt working. xxx_tempboxnz.txt not working. Any suggestions are welcome. Best regards Andras

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Problem Adding New Device
by Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) 14 Jul '21

14 Jul '21

Hallo, I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. I use the same parameters for the other devices but with the few that couldn't be added, I am getting the following message. [cid:image001.png@01D778CD.53F2F860] I have tried to change SNMP authentication using different protocol versions but I still get an error message. [cid:image002.png@01D778CE.B3F939D0] [cid:image003.png@01D778CE.D3F95D50] Obsevium version is Observium CE 20.9.10731. I will appreciate your help. Regards, Joyce

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Re: [Observium] Invalid targets and datasource
by Mati 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Dear All, I have been struggling getting PHP Weathermap working properly on Observium and would really appreciate your help.. I've noticed that the percentage values on the links is not working and the traffic load is continuously at 0.00%. We are currently using the following software versions.. *Observium* 21.5.11304 (6th May 2021) *OS* Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 [amd64] (Debian 8) *Apache* 2.4.10 (Debian) *PHP* 5.6.38-0+deb8u1 (OPcache: ENABLED) (Memory: 128MB) *Python* 2.7.9 *MySQL* 5.5.60-0+deb8u1 (extension: mysqli 5.5.60) *SNMP* NET-SNMP 5.7.2.1 *RRDtool* 1.4.8 The results from map-poller.php are as follows: WARNING: configs//example.conf: OVERLIBGRAPH is used, but HTMLSTYLE is static. This is probably wrong. [WMWARN41] PHP Notice: Undefined index: uptime in /var/opt/observium/html/weathermap/lib/datasources/WeatherMapDataSource_observium.php on line 53 PHP Notice: Undefined index: uptime in /var/opt/observium/html/weathermap/lib/datasources/WeatherMapDataSource_observium.php on line 53 WARNING: configs//Core_062021.conf: ProcessTargets: LINK hex.asr9k-pe1, target: /opt/observium/rrd/hex.asr9k-pe1/port-415.rrd:INOCTETS:OUTOCTETS on config line 69 of configs//Core_062021.conf was not recognised as a valid TARGET [WMWARN08] Kind Regards MP

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Unable to create Alert Checker
by David Milton 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Hello, I'm having a strange problem creating alert checkers. I first noticed this today and updated to the latest edition: 21.7.11450. I'm working on a test server and was attempting to re-create all of the alert checkers currently on my production systems and then add a few more; I would like to monitor power supply input state as well as air intake temperatures and produce alerts when a power supply is "down" and when intake air temperatures go above something like 45C. This has been prompted by some problems lately where power redundancy was lost and where we had an air conditioner failure. An earlier warning than having the hardware go into thermal shutdown is very much needed. So on my test server I can go through the basic process of creating the alert checker; alert checks -> Create new checker. In this case I click BGP Peer, fill in the name, message, use 1 for the delay and the conditions: bgpPeerAdminStatus notequals stop bgpPeerState notequals established Unfortunately, when I click "Add Checker" nothing happens. I've verified this is not likely the browser or is something pretty universal to all of my browsers because I can duplicate this in current versions Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome. Both Opera and Chrome are fresh installations done today but I did try disabling all extensions in Firefox and Safari to see if those were a problem. I searched through the documentation but couldn't find anything about browser compatibility or known conflicts. This used to work but it's been quite some time since I've wanted to add new checks. Is there something else I'm missing? Thanks, Dave.

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Thermal Alarm Bug
by Joey Stanford 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Hi Adam (et al), When Obs pulls in a sensor_value of NULL it gets interpreted as a zero and thus triggers alerts. Can we prevent that somehow? Joey > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Observium" <observium(a)rmham.org> > Subject: ALERT: [radio-westcreek.devilshead.rmham] [sensor] [System] Thermal Alarm - Temperature out of threshold > Date: July 9, 2021 at 14:43:53 MDT > To: netops(a)rmham.org > > ALERT Modify <http://observium.rmham.org/device/device=182/tab=alert/alert_entry=23319/> > Alert Thermal Alarm - Temperature out of threshold > Entity System <http://observium.rmham.org/device/device=182/tab=health/metric=temperature/…> > Conditions sensor_value less -25 ("") > Metrics sensor_value = > Duration 5h 43s (2021-07-09 09:43:10) > Device > Device radio-westcreek.devilshead.rmham <http://observium.rmham.org/device/device=182/> > Hardware RB911-5HacD > Operating System Mikrotik RouterOS 6.47.10 (Level 3) > Location DevilsHead, [39.260394,-105.101844] > Uptime 7m 28s > sensor_graph > > <http://observium.rmham.org/graph.php?type=sensor_graph&id=3629> > > E-mail sent to: netops(a)rmham.org <mailto:netops@rmham.org> > E-mail sent at: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 14:43:53 -0600 > > -- > Observium Professional 21.7.11470 <https://www.observium.org/>

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APCu Caching not working?
by Milton Ngan 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

I have noticed that when I enable webUI caching, that the page loads don’t speed up. It regularly takes 3 seconds to render a page, although the tool tip at the bottom shows APCu caching is enabled. However, if I force the cache driver to “files”, then I see a huge speed up (page loads drop to about 100-200ms). Is there some extra config to get APCu working correctly? I didn’t see anything in the docs, but I could have missed it.

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(no subject)
by DerBeWie 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

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Notification Transports
by Nelson Lopes 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Wed like to add Pager Duty as a notification transport but I dont see it as an option in contact. Currently running Professional edition of Observium. Do we need an Enterprise edition. If not, what am I missing? Thanks in advance,

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Distributed polling
by Milton Ngan 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

I was looking at the distributed polling feature as we have a geographically distributed network and polling slow devices from half way across the globe takes a long time. It turns out that putting a poller closer to the device doesn’t actually help. The SNMP polling times go down a bit, but the SQL times go up a lot because there are hundreds of SQL queries that get run for every polled device. This can easily add another 1-2 minutes to your polls depending on how many metrics are being polled. So, it seems to me that the distributed feature only works if the poller is still reasonably close to the database, otherwise the latency per query eats up any gains you might have from reducing the SNMP latency. Are there plans to try to reduce the number of queries a poller makes to make geographically distributed polling less latency sensitive? Cheers Milton

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Alert on Entity Group
by Philipp Rehs 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Hello, we want to create alert checkers for entities (mostly storage entities) which are only assigned to some entities in special groups. Building the groups is possible but it is not possible to add a association rule based on entitiy group membership. it is just possible to do it on device group membership or entity attributes. There is no entitiy / storage group option. Any idea how to solve this? Kind regards Philipp Rehs -- --------------------------- Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologie Kompetenzzentrum für wissenschaftliches Rechnen und Speichern Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1 Raum 25.41.00.51 40225 Düsseldorf / Germany Tel: +49-211-81-15557

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RANCID integration with Huawei CloudEngine
by Hernan Moguilevsky 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

Hi, This is not an Observium question really. But perhaps someone had the same issue. Did anyone managed to integrate RANCID with Huawei CloudEngine? I have no problem with Huawei S line. If someone solved it, please share. Thanks. Regards. -- /Hernan Moguilevsky/ Badajoz 45, piso 17 Las Condes | Santiago | CHILE *T* 56 22840 9984 (Ext 140) | *ASNs* 61522 / 61524 /61525 /61526 /61527 /64112

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OSPF neighbor - Huawei
by henrique＠infovaletelecom.com.br 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Good afternoon, Someone managed to monitor ospf neighbors using huawei 6730 device ?

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alert checkers windows after migration to new server is blank
by Edvinas Kairys 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

Hello, After migration to new service, using mysql dump and then restore, on the new server i see alert checkers windows blank, even the page source displays the alerts. Any clues ? using Observium Subscriber edition. [image: image.png]

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monitoring 3CX
by Luis Olavarrieta 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Is anyone monitoring a 3CX server in linux? I am able to monitor the OS, but not the app as running Asterisk in other boxes. If you are able to do it, please advice on how to! Thanks!

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Empty alerts via telegram bot
by Aleksandr Vedernikov 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hey! After updating to release 21.6.11399 (14th June 2021), notifications via the telegram bot stopped working. Empty messages arrive. When testing sending via the command ./test_alert.php -c 1 notification come. -- Best regards, Vedernikov Alexander Chief Engineer, ORI UTsTiEO Ural State Law University ============================ <http://www.usla.ru/> www.usla.ru

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Missing information in alert emails
by Haris Hajlovac | HTL 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

Hello, Since we've upgraded Observium to the latest version (21.6.11399 (stable)) the alert emails we receive are missing information for most of the devices. Prior to the upgrade email alerts looked like this: After the upgrade alert e-mails look like this: We can revert the virtual machine to the state prior to upgarde but we'd prefer to have it running the latest version of Observium. Does anybody ha san idea on what could be the problem here? Thanks. Kind regardss, Haris

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rule creation training
by Luis Olavarrieta 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

Hi team, is there someone how could give me training creating rules? This (after a negotiation) will be a paid service. Regards, Luis

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Observium dropping off intermittently
by Mills, Stuart 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Hi, Every now and again I have an issue with Observium as it will read devices offline and show down (DNS) however when I restart Observium devices come back. I have run DCDIAG, and DNS is working ok, can anyone shed any light on this issue? -- Kind Regards *Stuart J Mills* *Systems Administrator* *Dresden International School* Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Germany *Phone:* +49(0)351 44007 32 smills(a)dresden-is.de www.dresden-is.de *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch -- *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch* *

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Nested or pass through server configuration
by paulkitteringham＠axisstudiosgroup.com 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Hi, We have two Observium servers at different locations, can we enable one as a master or pass through, so we can see the second location via the main/primary location server ? Many thanks -- *Paul Kitteringham* Senior System Administrator +44(0)7900221989 axisstudiosgroup.com Glasgow. London. Bristol.

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Extract Network Date for Network MAP
by Mills, Stuart 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hi, Does Observium offer a way to extract Network data to create a MAP? -- Kind Regards *Stuart J Mills* *Systems Administrator* *Dresden International School* Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Germany *Phone:* +49(0)351 44007 18 <+49%20351%204400718> smills(a)dresden-is.de www.dresden-is.de *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch -- *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch* *

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RANCID integration question
by Adam Thompson 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

I'd like to integrate our RANCID install with our Observium install, but the "generate-rancid.php" script includes over 100 devices that we have SNMP access to but not SSH, and excludes some other virtual devices that I do want to include. The script appears to simply key off whether the device is classed as "hardware" or not, which isn't adequate for us. Are there any enhancements to that script on the wings? If not, can I just manually edit the generated list and never re-run the script automatically (despite the warning in it)? Thanks, -Adam

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