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Observium developer meetin
by Adam Armstrong 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

Hi Guys, We recorded our most recent dev meeting, and thought some of you might be interested. http://meemsy.com/v/5726 It's probably of particular interest to people who want to use git and/or nginx :) Thanks, adam.

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Re: [Observium] ARP Table empty
by Adam Armstrong 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

It requires SNMP contexts, which are a pain. We've been wary of using them because then can cause huge poller delays on devices which don't support them. Adam. Tobias Brunner <tobias.brunner(a)nine.ch> wrote: >Hi, > >Thanks for the answer... > >The "Switchmap"-Project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/switchmap/) is able >to pull out the MAC address table from Cisco switches. It would be really nice >if Observium would be able to do it too, so I don't need to have that many >tools =) >I tried to see how Switchmap is doing it, but I did have some troubles >understanding it =( > >Cheers, >Tobias > >On Friday 15 February 2013 12:05:08 Nikolay Shopik wrote: >> arp table is different, if you want "show mac address-table" Cisco >> doesn't support q-bridge-mib, which is need to show you this kind >> information. >> >> On 15/02/13 11:48, Tobias Brunner wrote: >> > Hi list, >> > >> > The "ARP Table" on all ports is empty (f.e. >> > /device/device=95/tab=port/port=13844/view=arp/), I'm wondering why... >> > Shouldn't there be listed all MAC addresses in the MAC address table >> > ("show >> > mac address-table")? Or is this really just the MAC<->IP table? If yes, >> > are >> > MAC addresses tables saved in the Observium database to see which MAC >> > address is on which switchport? >> > Looking at the "ARP Table" from all Ports (f.e. >> > /device/device=95/tab=ports/view=arp/) there are MAC adresses which >> > belongs to an IP address. >> > >> > All devices are Cisco Switches or Brocade Router. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Tobias >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >-- >Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich >Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 13 >Skype nine.ch_support >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Graphics in jpg instead of png
by Alex Vitola 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

I can generate the graphics in jpg instead of png? att Alex Vitola

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Re: [Observium] ARP Table empty
by Adam Armstrong 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

We could use device attributes to disable it if it fails. But that might trigger if the device went down mid-poll :-\ Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >Maybe disable the module globally and then enable for devices which do? > >Or bail out after the first VLAN time out or so? > >Tom > >On 15/02/2013 16:17, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> It requires SNMP contexts, which are a pain. We've been wary of using them because then can cause huge poller delays on devices which don't support them. >> >> Adam. >> >> Tobias Brunner <tobias.brunner(a)nine.ch> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Thanks for the answer... >>> >>> The "Switchmap"-Project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/switchmap/) is able >>> to pull out the MAC address table from Cisco switches. It would be really nice >>> if Observium would be able to do it too, so I don't need to have that many >>> tools =) >>> I tried to see how Switchmap is doing it, but I did have some troubles >>> understanding it =( >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Tobias >>> >>> On Friday 15 February 2013 12:05:08 Nikolay Shopik wrote: >>>> arp table is different, if you want "show mac address-table" Cisco >>>> doesn't support q-bridge-mib, which is need to show you this kind >>>> information. >>>> >>>> On 15/02/13 11:48, Tobias Brunner wrote: >>>>> Hi list, >>>>> >>>>> The "ARP Table" on all ports is empty (f.e. >>>>> /device/device=95/tab=port/port=13844/view=arp/), I'm wondering why... >>>>> Shouldn't there be listed all MAC addresses in the MAC address table >>>>> ("show >>>>> mac address-table")? Or is this really just the MAC<->IP table? If yes, >>>>> are >>>>> MAC addresses tables saved in the Observium database to see which MAC >>>>> address is on which switchport? >>>>> Looking at the "ARP Table" from all Ports (f.e. >>>>> /device/device=95/tab=ports/view=arp/) there are MAC adresses which >>>>> belongs to an IP address. >>>>> >>>>> All devices are Cisco Switches or Brocade Router. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Tobias >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> observium mailing list >>>> observium(a)observium.org >>>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> -- >>> Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich >>> Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 13 >>> Skype nine.ch_support >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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ARP Table empty
by Tobias Brunner 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

Hi list, The "ARP Table" on all ports is empty (f.e. /device/device=95/tab=port/port=13844/view=arp/), I'm wondering why... Shouldn't there be listed all MAC addresses in the MAC address table ("show mac address-table")? Or is this really just the MAC<->IP table? If yes, are MAC addresses tables saved in the Observium database to see which MAC address is on which switchport? Looking at the "ARP Table" from all Ports (f.e. /device/device=95/tab=ports/view=arp/) there are MAC adresses which belongs to an IP address. All devices are Cisco Switches or Brocade Router. Cheers, Tobias -- Nine Internet Solutions AG, Albisriederstr. 243a, CH-8047 Zuerich Support +41 44 637 40 40 | Tel +41 44 637 40 00 | Direct +41 44 637 40 13 Skype nine.ch_support

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Integration with NFSEN
by Ariyanto Dewo 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hi, I’ve been evaluating observium for almost 6 months now and in general I’m really happy J. But I read in the manual that nfsen can be integrated with nfsen data, I’ve followed the manual but still nfsen data not shown in observium. Is there anything I missed? Thanks. Rgds, -dewo-

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Traffic realtime is not wotks
by Денис Хаба ров 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hi all. I using observium on debian+nginx+php-fpm. Recently I noticed that I do not work schedule traffic realtime. Instead of traffic data says: cannot get data about interface 2 All other data in order. Please tell me what is wrong?

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speed up the poller with poller-wrapper.py
by Job Snijders 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hi all, Are you not sleeping well because there are gaps in your graphs? Do you feel like your observium poller isn't putting enough effort into its sole task of polling every device and completing that task in less than 5 minutes? Fear not, a dirty script called "poller-wrapper.py" is here! I wrote a small wrapper that has a slightly more modern approach to getting things done. An issue with the multiple poller instances approach[1] is that when a single instance has to poll a few slow devices, that single instance cannot finish its work in time, while the instances that already finished their portion of the work will not 'help' the instance with the slow devices. This wrapper script will create a Queue with all the work that has to be done and launch a number of threads which will take work from the Queue until the queue is empty. This distributes the workload over the instances move evenly, thus improving performance and thus making it more likely to finish all the polling work within 5 minutes. You can easily test what number of threads works well with your environment by running the script a few times manually, here I run the script with 32 threads: root@observium:/opt/observium# python poller-wrapper.py 32 worker Thread-23 finished device 75 in 9 seconds worker Thread-25 finished device 84 in 2 seconds worker Thread-21 finished device 81 in 5 seconds <SNIP> worker Thread-23 finished device 98 in 81 seconds worker Thread-3 finished device 94 in 116 seconds worker Thread-32 finished device 93 in 126 seconds poller-wrapper polled 130 devices in 179 seconds with 32 workers root@observium:/opt/observium# Source: ------- URL: http://noc.as5580.net/~job/observium-poller-wrapper.py.txt Installation: ------------- cd /opt/observium wget http://noc.as5580.net/~job/observium-poller-wrapper.py.txt -O poller-wrapper.py Now open poller-wrapper.py with a text editor to change the database username & password. open /etc/cron.d/observium and replace this line: */5 * * * * root /opt/observium/poller.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 with something like this: */5 * * * * root python /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 16 >> /dev/null 2>&1 Kind regards, Job Snijders Atrato IP Networks [1] http://www.observium.org/wiki/Performance_tuning#Multiple_poller_instances

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Re: [Observium] no data in rrds
by Adam Armstrong 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

centos 5? Why? :'( Julian Rutz <mail(a)jurutz.com> wrote: >Hello, > >I just did a new installation of observium in our network and I pretty >much like it. > >Unfortunately, I do have the problem, that all graphs are empty while >f.ex. the temperature readings on the device overview page are fine. As >I figured, the RRD files seem the have only "NaN" values: > ><snip> > ><row><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>N >aN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v> >NaN</v></row> > ><row><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>N >aN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v> >NaN</v></row> ></snip> > >I am running Observium 0.13.2.3586 with RRDtool 1.4.7 on >2.6.18-348.1.1.el5.centos.plusPAE. > >Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance. > >Kind regards, > >Julian >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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no data in rrds
by Julian Rutz 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hello, I just did a new installation of observium in our network and I pretty much like it. Unfortunately, I do have the problem, that all graphs are empty while f.ex. the temperature readings on the device overview page are fine. As I figured, the RRD files seem the have only "NaN" values: <snip>  <row><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>N aN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v> NaN</v></row>  <row><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>N aN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v> NaN</v></row> </snip> I am running Observium 0.13.2.3586 with RRDtool 1.4.7 on 2.6.18-348.1.1.el5.centos.plusPAE. Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Julian

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Configuration Step Required
by Ravindra Gupta 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Dear Team, I have installed observium opensource using svn trunk in Linux system, when we have called webpage on url the page display totally blank. Can you provide me installation document for server side as well as client side.

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Re: [Observium] Poller performance
by Adam Armstrong 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Indeed, but I think its feature set is quite irrelevant here, and only likely to slow down rrd writing. 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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Bug
by observium＠velder.li 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi there i found a bug on the device page, see attachment. Regards

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Re: [Observium] Filters from the all devices page not working
by Adam Armstrong 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

You can put /debug=yes/ on the URL and will see the SQL query :-) Erwin Botas <ebotas(a)criticalcolocation.com> wrote: >Hi, Trying to filter from the "All Devices" page and even that all data fields are shown once you apply the filter no device is shown in the result. > >Any clue? > >Can somebody crosscheck if this is a problem with my installation or a bug? > >Regards, > >Erwin Botas >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Filters from the all devices page not working
by Erwin Botas 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi, Trying to filter from the "All Devices" page and even that all data fields are shown once you apply the filter no device is shown in the result. Any clue? Can somebody crosscheck if this is a problem with my installation or a bug? Regards, Erwin Botas

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Install Observium in Windows
by mpat＠oteresearch.gr 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hello, is there anyway to install observium in Windows machine? Best Regards.

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Re: [Observium] No Such Object available on this agent at this OID
by Tom Laermans 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Hi, What is the issue here? Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ravindra Gupta" <ravindragupta9(a)gmail.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org>, <observium-subscribe(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] No Such Object available on this agent at this OID Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 14:06 Dear Team, We are facing "No Such Object available on this agent at this OID" issue when we are running "./poller.php -h hostname.com -d".Both the service i.e snmpd or snmptrapd running properly on server side as well as client side. Server Side logs: SQL[SELECT `ifIndex`,`port_id`,`ifDescr` FROM `ports` WHERE `device_id` = '8'] DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c public /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c public -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udphostname.com:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex dot1dBasePortIfIndex = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID Remote side (hostname.com) logs: No Such Object available on this agent at this OID [root@hosrname ~]# snmpwalk -v 2c -c public localhost IP-MIB::ipAdEntIfIndex IP-MIB::ipAdEntIfIndex = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID

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No Such Object available on this agent at this OID
by Ravindra Gupta 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Dear Team, We are facing "No Such Object available on this agent at this OID" issue when we are running "./poller.php -h hostname.com -d".Both the service i.e snmpd or snmptrapd running properly on server side as well as client side. Server Side logs: SQL[SELECT `ifIndex`,`port_id`,`ifDescr` FROM `ports` WHERE `device_id` = '8'] DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c public /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c public -OQUs -m BRIDGE-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udphostname.com:161 dot1dBasePortIfIndex dot1dBasePortIfIndex = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID Remote side (*hostname.com*) logs: No Such Object available on this agent at this OID [root@hosrname ~]# snmpwalk -v 2c -c public localhost IP-MIB::ipAdEntIfIndex IP-MIB::ipAdEntIfIndex = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID

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IPMI Temperature
by observium＠velder.li 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

Hi there IPMI Temperature check doesn't work anymore on my SuperMicro 5017C-MTF machine (i think since i updated..) Is that a known bug? Regards, Patrick

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Re: [Observium] Optical Monitoring (DOM/DDM) on Brocade Switches
by Adam Armstrong 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

I added support for juniper-dom-mib a week or two ago, the sensors go in the same table as the other sensors, and there's also a per-port sensors tab. Cisco enumerate all of their sensors in cisco-entity-sensor-mib, so that has been done for many years :-) 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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Optical Monitoring (DOM/DDM) on Brocade Switches
by Matthias Cramer 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hi All After my mail this morning I could not wait and implemented it. Attached are the 3 necessary file in a tgz archive. I should work on XMR/MLX/CER and probably CSR (probably others). It does deffenetly not work on RX and FWS. I'm in contact with Brocade to find out a solution to do the same on RX switches. @Adam: Would be very nice if you could include it in svn. Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Optical Monitoring (DOM/DDM) on Brocade Switches
by Matthias Cramer 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hi All Has there already been an effort to implement Optical Monitoring for Brocade (or any other Vendor)? Would be relay nice to have some graphs of RX and TX power and the module temperature. Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Hosting/server/device donation.
by Adam Armstrong 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hi All, We've had quite a few offers of hosting recently, so I thought I'd explain why we don't take them and give some suggestions on else people could do instead. Firstly, we don't accept offers of hosting for the websites and repository of the project because we don't want to be beholden to anyone who could change their minds. It would likely cause significant disruption if we were to have the plug pulled on a donated server out of the blue! One of the big problems with writing and maintaining something like Observium is that it's difficult to ensure that everything works after changes. As we refactor code and add new features, support for specific devices sometimes acquires bugs or simply stops working. So one of the things which would be helpful would be access to various kinds of devices to add to the http://demo.observium.org installation both to better advertise the features of Observium as well as making sure bugs are found more quickly. For example, thanks to the SNMP access to a 7200 recently provided by Crosstel, we'll soon fix some bugs that left the Cisco MAC accounting feature broken since we switched to using MySQL memory tables for state. :) Thanks, adam. (also, don't forget to give us all of your cash because we are awesome, ok?)

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New front page format
by David Brodbeck 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Just wanted to say that I really like the new front page format. Alerts are displayed much more compactly *and* with more useful information, which is a nice trick. I did turn off the map, though, since everything I monitor is at one site. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

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Re: [Observium] Configuration Step Required
by Adam Armstrong 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

The application and Unix agent functionality is current in alpha, and not suitable for general use. If you can't make it work yourself, dont even try :-) Ravindra Gupta <ravindragupta9(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dear Adam, > >Any application required from client side to lookup the server like >nrpe, nsclient etc. > >On 2/6/13, Ravindra Gupta <ravindragupta9(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks Adam. >> >> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >> >>> SNMP agent configuration is dependent upon the device's os. >>> >>> We don't provide documentation for this, ask your vendor, or read the >>> documentation for net-snmp if you're using Linux. >>> >>> Adam. >>> >>> >>> Ravindra Gupta <ravindragupta9(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Dear Adam, >>> >>> can you provide me configuration step or any website url in which totally >>> define i.e how to configured server as well as client to observium. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> If you follow the install guide properly, it will work. >>>> >>>> adam. >>>> >>>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 23:17:56 +0530, Ravindra Gupta >>>> <ravindragupta9(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > Dear Team, >>>> > >>>> > I have installed observium opensource using svn trunk in Linux system, >>>> when >>>> > we have called webpage on url the page display totally blank. >>>> > >>>> > Can you provide me installation document for server side as well as >>>> client >>>> > side. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> Ravindra Gupta >> Linux Server Admin >> 91-9773596807 >> Skype ID:- ravindragupta9 >> > > >-- > > >Thanks & Regards, >Ravindra Gupta >Linux Server Admin >91-9773596807 >Skype ID:- ravindragupta9 >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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