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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5
by Dan Nelson 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

1 Virtual Server, 67 Devices, 1265 Ports running great. Thanks Dan Nelson Nutraceutical Corporation Network Administrator 801-334-3702

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Procedure to add a MIB file for a device already monitored by Observium
by Charles Nadeau 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hello, I put a MIB file in /opt/observium/mibs/ for a device whose interfaces I already monitor with SNMP. In order to have Observium uses the MIB to monitor all its components do I just run "/opt/observium/discovery.php -h new" again or do I have to modify "config.php" then run "/opt/observium/discovery.php -h new"? Thanks! Charles -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 28, Issue 1
by Charles Nadeau 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:00 PM, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:43:25 +0400 > From: Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Procedure to add a MIB file for a device > already monitored by Observium > Message-ID: <5092362D.9000403(a)inblock.ru> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Nope, > > MIB just describe these counters it won't add support to observium. > Patch is need to add support of new device/mib Can you tell me where and what to add, I could give it a go then share it if I am successful. Thanks! Charles

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IP SLA
by John Macleod 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

I have setup two devices with IP SLA, however I am not getting anything in Observium. One is a Cisco 877W 12.4(24)T6, the other is a Cisco 2901 15.1(4)M3. I verified that the IP SLA module is enabled, I must be missing something?

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fresh installation, no login screen
by Elad Eyal (Ubiqam) 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I've followed the installation instructions to the letter, and while I can get to the observium webpage, I can see observium logo and the text "Big Graphs | Widescreen | Not logged in!" on the top right of the page, I can't see anything else. Furthermore, when I look at the HTML source of the page delivered, it ends with " Not logged in!" and not with </HTML> as I would expect. The machine is a brand new Amazon EC3 VM running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. I'd appriciate any help. I don't see anything of interest in the apache logs. The same client (browser) works OK for the live demo. thanks Elad

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Custom port descriptinos
by Michael Cushard 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi, I see that the ability to add custom port descriptins is available, but I cannot find any instructions to how to actually do it. What is the procedure for adding custom port descriptions? Regards, Michael Cushard

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Device Traffic Graph
by Bruno Galeppe 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hi, I set up several devices on Obervium, no problem so far, except for the Traffic Graphs which remain empty. For example : http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/168961data.jpg The RRD file exist, but the data always return 0.00 How can I debug that ? Is there an snmpwalk command to help understand the problem ? Regards,

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Various questions (BGP/Discovery/Pseudowires/Hostname truncating)
by Jason Lixfeld 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

First off, let me say thanks to the developers of Observium. This piece of code is one of the most amazing pieces of code I have used for my network monitoring purposes to date. I have a few questions that I'm hoping someone can answer - BGP: ---- I have a few eBGP speakers that live inside a VRF. Observium picks up the VRFs just fine, but the routing tab for the device only seems to show the BGP sessions that exist in the global (non-VRF) table. Is it possible to show the BGP sessions that exist inside a VRF? Pseudowires: ------------ I see lots of data inside the pseudowires table on the observium database, but I don't see any of that inside the pseudowires tab from within a device where I know pseudowires are configured. These pseudowires exist on IOS boxes, IOS-XR boxes and IOS-XE boxes. I do see a few. Observium > Ports > Pseudowires shows me 11 pseuowires. 6 of them are duplicates of one another while 5 are unique. The database shows hundreds. While looking through a ./discovery.php -d I ran against one of our XR boxes, I did see this: Cisco Pseudowires : SQL[SELECT * FROM `pseudowires` WHERE `device_id` = '1'] DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcID cpwVcID = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcName cpwVcName = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcType cpwVcType = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcPsnType cpwVcPsnType = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcDescr cpwVcDescr = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c ************ /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c ************ -OQUs -m CISCO-IETF-PW-MPLS-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:router:161 cpwVcMplsPeerLdpID cpwVcMplsPeerLdpID = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID That seems to show that pseudowire support for XR isn't there yet? Is that on the road map, by chance? Discovery: ---------- There are a couple of devices that aren't getting discovered for some reason. The IP that their hostname resolves to is within the 'nets' arrays configured inside config.php and I have other SNMP devices that reach those boxes, so I know the SNMP side is sound. Likewise, I can see the device in question in the CDP table of an adjacent device, so I know that part is working as well. I've looked at a ./discovery -d of an adjacent device hoping to see a clue about why the device is being skipped, but nothing is striking out at me. Hostname truncating: -------------------- We name our devices <device><device_number>.<pop>.<city>.domain.tld. In the devices view, it shows the full device name no problem. In the VRF view, for example, however, it shows only <device><device_number>, truncating the pop and city portions. If anyone has any insight or guidance on these issues, I'd be grateful! Thanks in advance.

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Unable to get non-MySQL Auth working - 500 error
by Chris Moody 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hello. First off, let me say that this project is AWESOME!!! I am blown away at how comprehensive the graphing is across our network gear. Bravo. That said, I need a hand in figuring out why I cannot seem to get any auth-method other than mysql to work. If I so much as toggle to any other auth-method (ldap or http-auth), I immediately get a 500 'Internal Error' when I try to hit the Observium login page. I'm ultimately trying to get auth to the application to be handled via LDAP, but I can do it via either the observium-ldap component or via http-auth combined with mod_authz_ldap... makes me no difference. I've had some success w. mod_authz_ldap in that I can get authentication to actually pass for a user account (I am able to bypass the login promptsuccessfully), but as soon as I auth, I hit the dreaded 500. I'm not able to find anything in any http logs regarding what might be possibly throwing the 500. lsof lists any open filehandles for httpd, so I've checked every possible file that logs could be directed to, but no cluesthus far. This particular box is a RHEL5 running Observium 0.12.10.3396 Any ideas are welcome. Cheers, -Chris

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unix agent polling broken in 3397 - likely a couple of versions before too
by Chris Stone 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

No data for servers using the unix agent for a couple of weeks now. Have Observium build 3397 installed. Just had a chance to do some troubleshooting... Running poller update on a specific server in debug mode reveals the apparent problem: ======================================================================================= including: includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php PHP Warning: include(includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 192 Warning: include(includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 192 PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening 'includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 192 Warning: include(): Failed opening 'includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 192 ======================================================================================= Fixed (worked around) by running: ln -s /opt/observium/includes/polling/unix-agent.inc.php /opt/observium/includes/polling/unix_agent.inc.php Added to Jira as well: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-154 Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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Backing Up Observium
by Mahomed Hussein 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hi I need to ensure our install of Observium is fully backed up and I'd rather not backup the entire VM. Could you please confirm if all I need to backup are: * /opt/observium directory * Observium database * /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default What I'd like to achieve from the backups is to spin up a new VM instance, run through the install steps to get the required components installed, then restore the files so that Observium then just runs as it was at the point of the last backup. I have tried checking the FAQ and a search of the mailing list but I couldn't find any specific instructions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Custodian DataCentre email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com

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Port Utilization Alerts
by Adam Blackington 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Observium folk, Anyway I can configure alerting based on utilization? For example, if I want to receive an email if a port hits 75% port utilization. --Adam Blackington

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HIgh CPU on ASR
by Roza 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

After adding ASR 1002 (used as PPPOE termination) to Observium, CPU on ASR raised to 90%, and stayed that way, untill I blocked it (after 30 minutes). Normal CPU is aroiund 10%. Is this a normal? Don't think so.... ASR1002 has cca 5000 connected users. iRoza

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Cisco CUCM Support
by John Macleod 13 Oct '12

13 Oct '12

Has anyone looked into fully supporting the Cisco UCM stuff? It looks like it is mainly a mix of Cisco CCM and Cisco/HP/IBM hardware mibs depending on what platform it is on. I specifically have UCM5xx series, the SMB PBX in a box - CME variant and the larger full Unified Communications Manager 5000 systems, running the linux-derived UCM apps on Cisco branded UCS, IBM or HP hardware. I did find this: http://smbitsolutions.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/2-may-2011-1341/ I do have a system I could expose for testing if someone is up for this? I have the same request for Cisco CUBE (SIP-SIP) gateway support, which looks like it is just a mib on the relevant supported hardware. I believe it is the same mib for standard SIP monitoring on other Cisco platforms, but I could be wrong. At the moment the UCM 5000 shows as a generic server, with standard net-snmp type support, and the CUBE devices just show as routers. I currently use a Cacti install alongside my Observium systems for the sole purpose of monitoring the above. Would be nice to stick to one. Thanks, John

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Observium behind proxy
by Max León 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Hello, I need to publish an observium instance to the DMZ. The simplest approach is by proxy using Nginx. I have the configuration set, well I think, problem is that on authentication it loops on the login, any idea why this might be? Thank you. Max Atentamente, Max León

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vlan ids nor port member not updated ??
by Rachid Zarouali 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Hy all, i'm using observium since 2 weeks now, i found a strange behavior. it can detect vlan defined in a switch at first, but it doesn't update them (removed or added vlans) nor update vlan port member. is there anything wrong with my observium deployment ? switch: D-Link DGS-3120 and D-Link DES-1210 any clues truely appreciated, i can't figure out what is going wrong :( Regards, Xinity

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web site and svn down
by Chris Stone 06 Oct '12

06 Oct '12

Problems with web site and svn? Not able to access either from the US this morning... [root@axis-noc opt]# mtr --report --report-cycles=10 www.observium.org HOST: axis-noc.axint.net Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- ai-core.axint.net 0.0% 10 1.4 1.0 0.5 2.9 0.7 2.|-- fa0-2.na01.b009854-0.den0 0.0% 10 1.3 1.2 0.7 1.6 0.3 3.|-- vl3509.mag02.den01.atlas. 0.0% 10 2.7 23.6 0.6 81.8 36.0 4.|-- te7-4.ccr01.den01.atlas.c 0.0% 10 1.4 52.6 0.7 174.7 63.0 5.|-- te0-2-0-7.mpd21.mci01.atl 0.0% 10 13.3 13.7 12.6 16.0 1.1 6.|-- te0-2-0-5.ccr21.dfw01.atl 0.0% 10 23.8 23.5 22.6 24.9 0.7 7.|-- te2-1.ccr01.dfw03.atlas.c 20.0% 10 23.5 86.3 23.5 178.2 62.5 8.|-- teleglobe.dfw03.atlas.cog 0.0% 10 24.4 23.7 22.5 25.2 1.1 9.|-- dal-2-6k.tx.us 0.0% 10 23.5 26.1 23.2 34.0 3.7 10.|-- dal-1-6k.tx.us 0.0% 10 23.5 23.8 23.4 24.2 0.3 11.|-- nwk-1-6k.nj.us 30.0% 10 98.8 61.2 53.7 98.8 16.7 12.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.|-- rbx-g1-a9.fr.eu 0.0% 10 127.6 136.8 127.4 211.8 26.4 14.|-- vss-5a-6k.fr.eu 0.0% 10 127.6 139.8 127.6 201.4 25.8 | `|-- 178.33.100.30 15.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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Watchguard Support
by John Macleod 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

I see that there is a some type of discovery entries for the "firebox" however there is no firebox include file. I have two Watchguard Firebox XTM810 devices that I would like to monitor. Am I missing something, or is there a reason they are not present? Thanks, John

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Re: [Observium] SSD for better performance
by Adam Armstrong 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Its the android mail client. It has no config options. Might switch to something else. Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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custom graph questions, almost done
by Mark Chaney 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

So I am not sure if this belongs on the dev list as I am not really doing core dev work and I am not currently subscribed to it. I will definitely contribute my work back to you guys though (if you wanted it). Its for graphing md3000i performance data (stupid thing isnt accessible through snmp, so its basically data attached to the management host). Anyway, I have been following the following example: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Developing/NewGraph and I am not sure about few things. 1) What are the following values for? Specifically the Pages/pages part. I understand that it cycles through the stats that i have setup, but I am not sure about the words Pages/pages. foreach ($stats as $stat) { $i++; $rrd_list[$i]['filename'] = $rrd_filename; $rrd_list[$i]['descr'] = "Pages " . ucfirst($stat); $rrd_list[$i]['ds'] = "pages" . ucfirst($stat); } 2) Now that I have the agent script created and the rest of the scripts in the tutorial, how am I supposed to activate it for a host? I am assuming it should probably be "activated" within the applications list? If so, I am guessing there is logic missing in that example tutorial on how to add it to the list of application options? 3) Is creating a diff and reapplying after every upgrade really the recommended method? Its to bad all the definitions are in a single file or else that might be a little easier to manage. 4) Any idea what type of logic i should be using to figuring out the proper numbers for the rrd graph settigns in this code section? rrdtool_create($rrd_filename, "--step 300 \ DS:pagesShared:GAUGE:600:0:125000000000 \ DS:pagesSharing:GAUGE:600:0:125000000000 \ DS:pagesUnshared:GAUGE:600:0:125000000000 ".$config['rrd_rra']); 5) What format should the agent script output be in? I am guessing it should be one per line? Right now my output is like so: <<md3000i>> total_io=3158.0 read_percentage=27.9 cache_hit_percentage=93.2 current_kbps=22475.2 current_iops=631.6 6) Last question: Is there any way to have certain agent scripts to be polled at slower intervals? This check takes about 5 seconds and is probably a resource hog on the management host since the script has to run a stupid java cli app. The management server in this case is the same host as the observium system, so I wouldnt have a problem not using the agent and just doing a cron if that was somehow an option. Thanks for you help. I know I had a lot of detailed questions. I sincerely appreciate the help. -Mark (MACScr)

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unix-agent scripts conflicting with check_mk
by Mark Chaney 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

I cant seem to use any of the unix-agent scripts with check_mk as it ruins all the check_mk local script results. Basically any existing scripts start giving an error in the check_mk gui and state "Check output not found in local checks". If I reinventory the host, none of the scripts show up at all. As soon as i remove the observium local agent scripts from the check_mk local folder and I reinvetory the host, everything is fine again. I am unfortunately not sure what our options are though. The only thing I can think of is to somehow serialize the data so that it shows up on one line for each script, then is parsed back out by observium once it receives it. That way we easily ignore them within our main.mk files. Can't really do that now because of how there are so many lines for each result (apache/mysql for example). Thoughts? Im quite surprised this hasn't already been an issue. I am running check_mk 1.2.0p3 and observium 0.12.9.3385. - MACscr

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Re: [Observium] Links not working
by Will McDermott 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Awesome, that works. Thank you! Just for historical reasons: I changed Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all to Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all --Will >>> Tom Laermans 09/28/12 5:20 PM >>> Hi, You don't have allowoverride set up [as detailed in the install guide, but probably in a part that you didn't need due to no vhost], so .htaccess doesn't take effect, ergo no rewrite rules even though the module is loaded. Tom On 29/09/2012 1:29, Will McDermott wrote: > Thank you for your quick response! > > I double checked mod_rewrite and it looks like it's running: > > root@mon:/etc/apache2/mods-available# a2enmod rewrite > Module rewrite already enabled > > Also I have ovservium running in the root. I do not have a domain name associated with the server, Is that a problem? > > --Will > > >>>> Mark Chaney 09/28/12 4:16 PM >>> > You probably dont have mod_rewrite enabled. Also note that observium > has to run within the root directory of a domain or subdomain. > > On 2012-09-28 18:06, Will McDermott wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I just installed Observium from SVN on Ubuntu Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. I >> fallowed the Ubuntu installation guide. Observium comes up but when I >> log in. But when I click any of the links at the top they say "Not >> found" and give a invalid URL. For example when I click Devices> Add >> Devices it sends me to server.com/addhost/ which doesn't exist, >> because in the addhost directory is in a subdirectory called "pages." >> Did I miss something during the install? I have tried it a couple >> times, and reinstalled the server. >> >> Thanks! >> >> --Will >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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

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Re: [Observium] Links not working
by Will McDermott 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Thank you for your quick response! I double checked mod_rewrite and it looks like it's running: root@mon:/etc/apache2/mods-available# a2enmod rewrite Module rewrite already enabled Also I have ovservium running in the root. I do not have a domain name associated with the server, Is that a problem? --Will >>> Mark Chaney 09/28/12 4:16 PM >>> You probably dont have mod_rewrite enabled. Also note that observium has to run within the root directory of a domain or subdomain. On 2012-09-28 18:06, Will McDermott wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Observium from SVN on Ubuntu Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. I > fallowed the Ubuntu installation guide. Observium comes up but when I > log in. But when I click any of the links at the top they say "Not > found" and give a invalid URL. For example when I click Devices> Add > Devices it sends me to server.com/addhost/ which doesn't exist, > because in the addhost directory is in a subdirectory called "pages." > Did I miss something during the install? I have tried it a couple > times, and reinstalled the server. > > Thanks! > > --Will > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Links not working
by Will McDermott 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Hello, I just installed Observium from SVN on Ubuntu Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. I fallowed the Ubuntu installation guide. Observium comes up but when I log in. But when I click any of the links at the top they say "Not found" and give a invalid URL. For example when I click Devices> Add Devices it sends me to server.com/addhost/ which doesn't exist, because in the addhost directory is in a subdirectory called "pages." Did I miss something during the install? I have tried it a couple times, and reinstalled the server. Thanks! --Will

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Re: [Observium] How to add linux server?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

Documentation or features, its a simple choice. Andrey Lebedev <alg(a)condensa.ru> wrote: >On 2012-09-25 23:41:31 +0100, Tom Laermans said: > >> On 26/09/2012 0:38, Andrey Lebedev wrote: >>> >>> Tell us how you found it? >>> >>> http://www.observium.org/wiki/Documentation - nothing >>> http://www.observium.org/wiki/Main_Page - link to Professional Services >>> http://www.observium.org/wiki/Main_Page -> search -> word "Services" >>> -> appropriate page >>> >>> But. Thanks! >>> I'm find it. >> The last one, indeed. It's not linked anywhere because it's deprecated, >> unsupported and buggy. >> >> Tom >Annoying. But I think I can cope without this feature. >Once again I want to say - this is a good product, but it is not very >good documentation. >However - it's "as is". >Thank all for your help. And clarifications. > >Andrey > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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