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Brocade ifAlias
by Daniel Hooper 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Hi All, Recently installed Observium today and very impressed so far, I have been busily migrating a boot load of stuff out of the not so free anymore Opsview into Observium all day. For my Cisco kit it's working great, unfortunately I'm hitting a few road blocks with my shiny new Brocade DC-6910 switches. I made a change to a poller include file to detect ironware / foundry switches and added the BR6910 string, what I still can't figure out is the ifAlias on the Brocades, it just comes back as 'Ethernet Port 3 on Unit 1' every time regardless of what the physical interface description is configured to. Anyone got any ideas on how to get around this one? Thanks -Dan

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Upgrade to 3316
by Laurens Vets 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Hello, I have an observium installation which was installed by tar.gz. I updated today via svn and afterwards the interface doesn't when I click anywhere... The Overview page is always displayed... Any idea what might be wrong?

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Dell M1000 Blade Chassis
by Dennis Kruyt 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Hi, Here a small patch for a Dell M1000 Blade Chassis so that the Dell logo shows up for it's DRAC interface. Wget link http://kruyt.org/m1000-drac.patch Index: drac.inc.php =================================================================== --- drac.inc.php (revision 3314) +++ drac.inc.php (working copy) @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ if (!$os) { if (strstr($sysDescr, "Dell Out-of-band SNMP Agent for Remote Access Controller")) { $os = "drac"; } + if (strstr($sysDescr, "This system component provides a complete set of remote management functions for modular servers")) { $os = "drac"; } } -?> \ No newline at end of file +?>

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Apache SNMP script changes
by Tom Laermans 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi, As previously requested on the list, here's a heads up for potential breakage, revision 3315 removes support for apache stats through the snmpd extend script. Please switch to the agent script, you can find it in /opt/observium/scripts/agent-local/apache. Thanks, Tom

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IRC channel moved
by Tom Laermans 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi guys (& girls?), We moved our irc channel #observium from Freenode to OFTC. Please update your bookmarks/IRC clients/... and don't forget to part the old channel and join the new one ;-) Tom

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setup new devices, missing data
by Nenad 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi, I installed yesterday observium and add some first devices: HP Procurve 2900 Switches (public, v2c) Cisco ASA (private, v2c) Juniper MX80 (private, v2c) APC AP8853 PDU's (private, v1) Observium show me graphs for the Interfaces, but nothing more like: - Powerusage on PDU - BGP Peerings, CPU usage, Memory, Temperature usage on Juniper Router - Memory/CPU usage on Cisco ASA - Memory usage on HP Switch I added to the config.php: $config['enable_bgp'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['amperes'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['celsius'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['dBm'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['voltsDC'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['voltsAC'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['watts'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['truthvalue'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['specialEnum'] = 1; I used addhost.php to add the devices, and set a cronjob for poller.php. Did I forget something? Cheers, Nenad

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Net App devices
by Sonny Kupka 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Hello, Does anyone have a trick for getting good information from a NetApp using observium? Disk stats .. failed drive.. etc.. Thanks. Sonny

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"Device rebooted" message every 5 minutes after customer server replaced
by Andrew Beals 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

I upgraded one of our client's servers a couple of days ago by pushing all of its data onto a new image on AWS. Since I re-enabled Observium monitoring on it (same IP address as the old one), I've been getting a "device rebooted" message every 5 minutes from Observium. Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Device Rebooted : hostname 1 day, 18h 17m 23s ago. How do I make it stop? -- Andrew Beals Cell: 913-787-7538 Desk: 913-948-8782 E-mail: ABeals(a)mersoft.com

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PowerDNS
by Aaron Mayfield 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

I think during one of the recent updates, my powerDNS graphs broke. Has anyone else experienced this? Here is the output of ./poller.php -h 8 -d (with host 8 being one of my DNS servers): **************************************************** Notice: Undefined index: poll_applications in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 189 including: includes/polling/applications.inc.php SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '8' SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '8'] Applications: SQL[SELECT `graph` FROM `device_graphs` WHERE `device_id` = '8'] uptime netstat_ip netstat_ip_frag netstat_tcp netstat_udp netstat_icmp netstat_icmp_info netstat_snmp netstat_snmp_pkt hr_processes hr_users ucd_cpu ucd_swap_io ucd_io ucd_contexts ucd_interrupts ucd_memory ucd_load ipsystemstats_ipv4 ipsystemstats_ipv4_frag ipsystemstats_ipv6 ipsystemstats_ipv6_frag Polled in 0.938 second **************************************************** Here is the mysql query result on this: mysql> SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '8'\G *************************** 1. row *************************** app_id: 3 device_id: 8 app_type: powerdns app_state: UNKNOWN app_status: 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> **************************************************** As you can see, Observium doesn't seem to be picking up on the fact that there is a registered application for the host. Does anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

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trouble ignoring switch ports - update broke functionality
by Henrik Lund Kramshøj 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

Hi All I have Observium running for some time and currently at [hlk@wiseguy01 observium]$ sudo svn up At revision 3310. After Observium SVN upgrade I cannot seem to ignore certain ports from Dell PowerConnect switches (might not be only those) from high port numbers I get "Device record unchanged. No update necessary." this happens currently on two switch stacks that are quite large, both 10 units single port 9/0/35 on one stack lots of ports from units 8, 9, 10 on the other stack Those cannot be ignored. I tested using ports 1/0/4 and 7/0/51 that I can ignore/unignore another port on this switch. also tried removing the switch completely and adding it again. Any pointers or ideas? Where to look for this - used to work fine. BTW I noticed to other ports were changed today - we moved a server, and changing those on a Dell 8024F gave the expected " 2 Device record updated." and were updated fine. Best regards Henrik -- Henrik Lund Kramshøj, Follower of the Great Way of Unix hlk(a)kramse.org hlk(a)solidonetworks.com +45 2026 6000 cand.scient CISSP http://solidonetworks.com/ Network Security is a business enabler

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Sensors not picking up, get rediscovered 4 times a day
by Morgan McLean 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

My logs look like this...any idea why its not picking up? I have about 50 juniper devices, an APC device and a couple others and it doesn't seem to monitor or graph any of the sensors. I have seen some information about sensor configuration under config.php, but it wasn't very helpful. Every time the discovery runs, or maybe its the poller, not sure, it finds all these sensors for every device, but it does nothing with them. Is there a switch I need to flip? Thanks! Morgan 21/Jun/12 12:39:04Sensor Added: temperature junos 6.1.0.0 TFEB MX8021/Jun/12 12:39:04Sensor Added: temperature junos 6.1.1.0 TFEB Intake21/Jun/12 12:39:04Sensor Added: temperature junos 9.1.0.0 Routing Engine21/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 6.1.0.0 descr TFEB MX8021/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 7.1.0.0 descr FPC @ 0/*/*21/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 7.2.0.0 descr FPC @ 1/*/*21/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 9.1.0.0 descr Routing Engine

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up / down gives no warning
by Ian Armstrong 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Hi, Observium has been working very well over the past few months and now I want to begin tailoring it for our network specifically. We use an Ubuntu install as per the instructions and had no install problems. On the overview page we get an orange warning for a non-ignored link that goes into the (Cisco) down/down state BUT NOT when they are up/down. Is this a setting, bug or feature? If it can be changed does anyone know how - I would like a warning for any link that goes down/down and up/down. I have looked through the documentation, options and settings but find nothing. I also tried [alert][port][ifdown] as a long shot. Any help would be great. Thanks Ian

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custom scripts
by mhoffmann＠arcor.de 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

Hello, i have many Allied Telesis Switches. Most Values are covered by the RADLAN-Mib, but some Values like Temp or PowerConsumption are not available inside SNMP. Is there a Wrapper or a other possibility to get this values? I think about a script which read the values and offer it to observium.

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Apache authentication
by Ciro Iriarte 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Hi, can someone confirm me if observium supports external (apache2) authentication?, I'm looking for kerberos authentication against AD. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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How to monitor ASA connection table ?
by inlee 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Hi I just installed observium. ASA is polling all the information from ASA 55xx except connection count. How can i add polling ASA connection count?

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Speaking of Observium's pretty graphsŠ
by Andrew Beals 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

One of our clients uses a very large HP ProCurve 4108gl switch as the central hub of their network. When I'm looking at traffic graphs from it for large spaces of time, I invariably see it pegged to +/- 20Gbps because of some traffic spikes during the day (e.g. Windows clients talking to WSUS and downloading their patches). If I zoom in on one of the "empty" stretches of time, I see that there is actually some traffic flowing – it's just so small in comparison that it gets flatlined by the spikes. What I'd like to be able to do is to change the graph from a linear one in the Y (bps) axis to a logarithmic one, so I can see my traffic. For example, here's the past 24 hours: [cid:5CBC68CF-394E-403F-9F59-AB51C6450F66] (The rrdtool command that produces this graph is truly impressive and only crawls out of its blue box with the last set of CDEF statements before the giant list of AREA statements.) (All graphs generated for this e-mail use the same time span on the same hardware) I know, I know, "Use the Source, Luke!", but I've only watched the commits fly past, not actually dug into the code past the config file (and this doesn't appear to be a configuration option). rrdtool_graph() is called in three places, and fortunately only defined in one. Applying the obvious small patch: Index: html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php =================================================================== --- html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (revision 3268) +++ html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (working copy) @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ if ($rrd_options) { + $rrd_options .= " --logarithmic"; rrdtool_graph($graphfile, $rrd_options); if ($debug) { echo($rrd_cmd); } if (is_file($graphfile)) Nets me this: [cid:806F0C8F-84AE-4C4F-8D2D-04802B3A5EB7] Which could probably use a little more tweaking. I'd rather see SI "-bi-" units on the left rather than scientific notation. Also, it does tend to whack the CPU pretty hard figuring it all out, pegging both of the CPUs in the old ml350 I'm using for monitoring. Running "rrdgraph" at "nice +4" (or better) would likely be a win w/r/t data collection. This patch: Index: html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php =================================================================== --- html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (revision 3268) +++ html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (working copy) @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ if ($rrd_options) { + $rrd_options .= " --logarithmic --units=si"; rrdtool_graph($graphfile, $rrd_options); if ($debug) { echo($rrd_cmd); } if (is_file($graphfile)) Nets this: [cid:4C488D23-BF57-49B9-BBBE-C2D43F0E17AF] I'm pretty happy with this, overall. For those who are curious, the ProCurve Switch 4108gl has a claimed capacity of: routing/switching capacity 36.6 Gbps Throughput up to 71.4 mpps Being able to tweak individual graphs to show logarithmically would probably be nice, just to save some CPU for graphs that don't really need it. -- Andrew Beals Cell: 913-787-7538 Desk: 913-948-8782 E-mail: ABeals(a)mersoft.com<mailto:ABeals@mersoft.com>

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Vyatta
by Adam Blackington 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Any ideas on getting Vyatta recognized? We keep seeing it as a generic device, and can't seem to get it working. :-/ Running v2c communities. *Adam Blackington* | Solutions Engineer *LionLink* *Networks *| www.lionlink.net | AS54098 O: (571) 451.2300 | D: (571) 482.1490 | E: ablackington(a)lionlink.net

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Having troubles with BGP
by Sonny Kupka 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Hello, I'm testing out Observium for use. I have run in to an issue where BGP for 3 Peers show up as down (They are shutdown in switch configuration) and 2 other peers on another switch is showing the same thing.. Peer is shutdown on the switch.. I can't find anywhere to check ignore to have the Observium ignore the peers which are down .. I tried searching all over for this information but thus far I haven't been successful. Thanks for you time! Sonny

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Pretty Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Hi All, It occurs to me that one of the reasons we've managed to keep the project alive for 6 years is that everyone loves graphs. It's one thing to store a bunch of numbers and draw a line, but it's a totally different thing to craft a pretty graph from those numbers. If any of you have graphs or pages that look particularly good, feel free to email us a screenshot, it'd be nice to break up the deafening torrent of inane cat pictures, right? We might even use them on the screenshots page :) adam.

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Editing user passwords
by Chris Stone 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Just had a user that could not, for whatever reason, log into our Observium installation. So, I was going to reset the password, but editing the user, found nothing there to do that. Seems that there is no way for anyone other than each user to edit passwords after the account is initially created? And if that user cannot log in, they cannot do it. I ended up deleting the login, recreating it, and then re-linking the devices, ports and bills the user has access to. Did I miss something? Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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95 percentil Traffic Bill
by edouard alias 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

Hello, I might misundertood something but are traffic bills working, On an interface with a 100 Mbps 95 %ile, If I check the month view I see Monday this morning a 90 M rate peak On the 24 h view I see my 300 M peak on Monday morning. Is it right ? is due to having an average value from a more far sight on the month graph ? cf screen shot (sorry for my poor English)

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Cannot login after upgrade
by Charles Nadeau 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Hello, On April 19th, I installed the last version of Observium from the Ubuntu instructions there http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation (I am using Ubuntu 10.10 server). Everything worked, I gathered a lot of interesting data about my devices, I was happy. Yesterday, I updated to the very latest version of Observium following the instructions there http://www.observium.org/wiki/Using_SVN#Upgrading_to_the_very_latest_version. After completing this upgrade, I can't log in Observium anymore and it doesn't poll the devices as specified in /etc/cron.d/observium. Today I installed the last stable release following http://www.observium.org/wiki/Using_SVN#Upgrading_to_a_specific_release_of_… that it would solve my 2 problems but they remain. What would be the simplest way to re-install everything without losing my data? Thanks! Charles -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/

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Cannot add "traffic bill".
by Niclas Tollgård 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi, Anyone else having problems to add a "Traffic Bill"? When I press "Add Bill" the URL changes to http://observium/bills/add/ but nothing happens. Any ideas? Regards, Nic Tollgard

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Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) Support
by John Macleod 28 May '12

28 May '12

I manage numerous CUBE devices in my environment. I would like to use Observium for monitoring. The CUBE deployment is essentially an IP-IP voice gateway with two (or more) dial peers. Currently, they just show as they should as standard Cisco routers. Per the following link http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6790/gatecont/ps5640/w… there are some applicable Cisco MIBS for monitoring the voice elements of these devices, they appear to use the same voice MIBs as other Cisco devices, such as the AS5xxx. I do not know if it is possible during discovery/polling to see if voice is enabled on the platform or not and show/hide the applicable polled data? I would have no issue opening up a CUBE device for testing if anyone is interested. Thanks, John

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Jira and Fisheye
by Adam Armstrong 25 May '12

25 May '12

Hi All, Just to remind everyone we have a Jira installation for reporting bugs. It's helpful when reporting things as it means I don't forget about them (which I have a habit of doing). It's a lot easier when I get some time to just look at Jira and clear out a couple than trying to remember what things people have reported via email. http://jira.observium.org We also have a Fisheye installation at http://fisheye.observium.org which gives a nice interface to our code. If you're reporting an error with a graph on a particular module, it's often helpful to send examples of the rrd files and an entry from the database (if you know how), as otherwise it can be a nightmare for us to test. adam.

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