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Question about user accounts / passwd reset
by Erik Bais 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi, Is there any news on the topic of users being able to reset their own password (pref via new passwd being send to them after they click on a received link ?) Regards, Erik Bais

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new device
by Sebastien Guilbaud 15 May '12

15 May '12

Hi, I was trying to add support for NRG Printers (Ricoh-clones), following the method found in the Developing/NewOS page and i'm blocked on the fourth step ('Add an OS text name and possibly other settings in includes/static-config.php'), but this file is almost empty, and the only other place with detection logic seems to be includes/definitions.inc.php but the header is quite deterrent :-) ######################################################### # NO CHANGES TO THIS FILE, IT IS NOT USER-EDITABLE # ######################################################### # YES, THAT MEANS YOU # ######################################################### I've walked past the disclaimer and tried to add the new os type inside, and everything works now, is it the right method ? best regards -- seb

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Developing
by Adam Armstrong 15 May '12

15 May '12

I think it's worth pointing out that if you're planning to do any development, you should come to our IRC channel, #observium on freenode. It's usually a lot quicker to get questions answered, and you might save yourself a lot of time by not copying the wrong bit of code. adam.

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Observium with an MFSYS25
by Ian Armstrong 14 May '12

14 May '12

Has anyone got Observium to recognise the switch module on an Intel MFSYS25 compute chassis by any chance? Observium finds the controller very easily, but doesn't find any of the switch ports. Thanks Ian

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] Added support for Aruba Wireless APs and Controllers
by Rob J. Epping 12 May '12

12 May '12

Hi Ethan, This should go to observium(a)observium.org. observium-dev(a)observium.org is used for SVN updates GRTNX, RobJE On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ethan Sommer <sommere(a)gac.edu> wrote: > I have added support for aruba networks controllers and access points. > > I created an "improvement" in the bug tracker and attached a patch. > http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-50 > > One thing which is a bit unusual is that the aruba access points don't have > an SNMP agent themselves. Instead you can get information about each access > point from the controller it is connected to. I added support for the access > points in a similar manner to getting information about ports of a switch. > > I attempted to keep the code consistent with the organization and style of > the rest of observium, but I'm sure there are changes that should be made. > I'm not particularly attached to any specific choices I made, other than > that I'd love to see the code included in observium so that we can continue > to collect statistics about our wireless network using the mainline code. > > If you would like access to a controller to test against, I can poke a hole > in our firewall for one or two of the core observium developers to access > the controllers via snmp. > > I'd also be happy to make any changes myself and resubmit if there are > things blocking adding the code. > > Thanks, > Ethan > > -- > Ethan Sommer > Associate Director of Core Services > Gustavus Technology Services > 507-933-7042 > > > _______________________________________________ > observium-dev mailing list > observium-dev(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium-dev > -- GRTNX, RobJE

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BGP prefix graphs error
by Dario Calamai 12 May '12

12 May '12

Hi all, with new v0.12.5.3161 there is an Error Drawing Graph in BGP prefix graphs. I deleted cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd and re-run discovery and poller. the poller output return thi error: Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.7 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.9 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.13 ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.16 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.17 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.18 discovery seem to be ok. POLLER DEBUG: Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.13 /usr/bin/rrdtool create /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/bgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.rrd DS:bgpPeerOutUpdates:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerInUpdates:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerOutTotal:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerInTotal:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerEstablished:GAUGE:600:0:U ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive OK u:0.00 s:0.03 r:14.73 update /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/bgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.rrd N:1805:268:247831::2343362 SQL[UPDATE `bgpPeers` set `bgpPeerState` ='established',`bgpPeerAdminStatus` ='start',`bgpPeerFsmEstablishedTime` ='2343362',`bgpPeerInUpdates` ='268',`bgpLocalAddr` ='193.xxx.xxx.xxx',`bgpPeerOutUpdates` ='1805' WHERE `device_id` = '1' AND `bgpPeerIdentifier` = '193.xxx.xxx.13'] SQL[SELECT * FROM bgpPeers_cbgp WHERE `device_id` = '1' AND bgpPeerIdentifier = '193.xxx.xxx.13'] ipv4 unicast /usr/bin/snmpget -M /var/www/html/observium/mibs -m CISCO-BGP4-MIB -Ovq -v2c -cxxxxxxxx 1:161 cbgpPeerAcceptedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerDeniedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerPrefixAdminLimit.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerPrefixThreshold.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerPrefixClearThreshold.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerAdvertisedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerSuppressedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerWithdrawnPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast 103 21 10000 75 70 3262 0 1887 SQL[UPDATE `bgpPeers_cbgp` set `AcceptedPrefixes` ='103',`DeniedPrefixes` ='21',`PrefixAdminLimit` ='',`PrefixThreshold` ='75',`PrefixClearThreshold` ='70',`AdvertisedPrefixes` ='3262',`SuppressedPrefixes` ='0',`WithdrawnPrefixes` ='1887' WHERE `device_id` = '1' AND bgpPeerIdentifier = '193.xxx.xxx.13' AND afi = 'ipv4' AND safi = 'unicast'] /usr/bin/rrdtool create /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd DS:AcceptedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:DeniedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:AdvertisedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:SuppressedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:WithdrawnPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive ERROR: opening '/var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/bgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.rrd': No such file or directory update /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd N:103:21:3262:0:1887 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.16 ERROR: opening '/var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd': No such file or directory dario -- http://www.playnet.it phone +39 055 3226622 - fax +39 055 3226444 Brain Technology s.p.a. - AS 13284 http://www.linkedin.com/in/dariocalamai

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Discovery duplicating all cisco switches.
by Erwin Botas 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hi, I'm having trouble with the recent updates and all the cisco switches keeps duplicating by CDP Neighbor Discovery. Any clue? Regards, Erwin

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Observium and Quagga
by Philippe Le Brouster 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hi, I'm currently using observium in some small ISPs and I plan to checks BGP peers from quagga with observium. Does someone has already put together observium and quagga ? Regards, -- Philippe Le Brouster

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0.12.5.3160 update - getting alerts that everything is rebooted
by Chris Stone 11 May '12

11 May '12

FYI - just updated to 0.12.5.3160 and as things get polled, I seem to be getting alerts on everything that they have rebooted - which they have not.... Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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Re: [Observium] Issues installing Observium on Ubuntu 10.04.4
by Bruce-Young Majola 10 May '12

10 May '12

Hi, I am baffled about exactly the same thing; why is it using something not configured. I do not know about config.php.inc, below are the credentials configured on the config.php file including what I have configured on the database itself. ### Database config $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; $config['db_user'] = "observium"; $config['db_pass'] = "xxxxxx"; $config['db_name'] = "observium"; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'xxxxxx'; I can also connect to the database using the configured credentials; brucem@ubuntu:/opt/observium$ mysql -u observium -pxxxxxx Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 35 Server version: 5.1.62-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> I have changed the password for security reasons From: Yucong Sun (???) <sunyucong(a)gmail.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Issues installing Observium on Ubuntu 10.04.4 server Message-ID: <CAJygYd1kANps+y3BPpBwUDxO6Pt21403St2zpS2NhoR8g4S2XA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 are you sure you configured the DB params in config.php.inc ? it seems you are trying to access using root and empty password. Regards, Bruce-Young Majola

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No graphs displayed
by Ian Armstrong 10 May '12

10 May '12

Sorry if this is a newbie question I have installed Observium on a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 installation. Everything has gone absolutely perfectly. I used apt-get and installed all of the required packages as per the Ubutu installation page. It is running OK and has discovered the devices on my network. However, there is no information on any graphs. Not a single one. All the ports are correctly detected and it reading IP addresses and arp caches and most other information including CDP. No information on any graph and some are simply saying draw error. Syslog is reporting the cron jobs setup as per the instructions (below) are running without error. 33 */6 * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root /opt/observium/poller.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 Help appreciated. Ian

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Issues installing Observium on Ubuntu 10.04.4 server
by Bruce-Young Majola 10 May '12

10 May '12

Hi, I am trying to install the latest version Observium on a new Ubuntu 10.04.4 server and I for some reason cannot get past the inserting default schema stage, see the errors I am getting below. brucem@ubuntu:/opt/observium$ sudo php includes/sql-schema/update.php PHP Notice: Undefined index: alerts in /opt/observium/includes/functions.php on line 21 -- Updating database schema 000 -> 001 ...PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 ..................... ..................... 019 -> 020 ...PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 Everything up to this stage went without a glitch including configuring the correct DB credentials in the config.php file and also on the MySQL database itself, so I am not sure where I am going wrong. I will appreciate any help. Thank. Regards, Bruce-Young Majola

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SNMPv3 Support
by Adam Armstrong 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi All, We just committed SNMPv3 support in r3156. If any of you have been waiting for it, you can try it now. It's been tested for a month or so now and seems to work well. adam.

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rrdcached working?
by Jeffrey Ollie 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi, I discovered Observium a few days ago and I really like what I see so far. However, I'm running into some issues trying to scale up to the size of my network. The first issue that I thought I'd bring up is rrdcached support... is it actually working? I've got an rrdcached instance running but as far as I can tell Observium isn't making any real use of it. I switched to a TCP/IP socket for rrdcached and I can see a TCP/IP socket being opened but no data or commands are ever sent across the socket... Can anyone clue me in as to what I may be doing wrong? I'm running rev 3149 on a Fedora 16 system. -- Jeff Ollie

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negative values on netstat graphs
by Nikolay Shopik 09 May '12

09 May '12

Here is exampele of negative values drawing on graph while values are positive is this intended? http://demo.observium.org/graphs/type=device_netstat_snmp/id=33/to=13363435… Also on my installation graphs doesn't show negative lines, until you press "hide legend", but preview [day,week,month selection] are correctly drawn.

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SNMP Location can't have forward-slash
by Robert Williams 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi, Just noticed a small issue, when an SNMP 'location' contains a forward slash (/) then the link doesn't work in the location's menu, for example: With a location set to "THN/TFM-10/C5" on the device, the link is auto-generated as "http://<server>/devices/location=THN%2FTFM-10%2FC5/" which then results in the error: Not Found The requested URL /devices/location=THN/TFM-10/C5/ was not found on this server. Currently running: Observium 0.12.4.2956 Apache 2.2.20 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.7 MySQL 5.1.62-0ubuntu0.11.10.1-log This isn't critical at all, but since I just noticed it I thought I'd mention it :) Cheers! Robert Williams Backline / Operations Team Custodian DataCentre tel: +44 (0)1622 230382 email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt

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Possibility too acknowledge items in Overview
by Mattias Gyllenvarg 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi All We see alot of jabber on the Overview page that is not really necessary and makes it hard too differ important information from trivial information. We would like too be able too Acknowledge items in the Overview so that it is not spammed with ports that are down for known reasons. Perhaps you could comment on the Ack and/or mark with a category (maintenance, power outage etc etc). Additionally I think that keywords in descriptions could generate different results in the overview (like ports are aggregated but for states). So that ports that are marked for installation and waiting for link should be hidden when down and shown green when up so that the provisioning team notices this and can take action. I see somewhere you can define a regexp that will look at the interface description and when true would inverse the up/down relationship. Also, bug, when the uptime counter loops on IOS devices they are marked as reloaded. -- *Med Vänliga Hälsningar - Best Regards* *Mattias Gyllenvarg* *Nätutveckling* Bredband2 - bara hårda paket Tel: +46 406219712

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Graphs on main page
by Chris Stone 07 May '12

07 May '12

I see the demo has some graphs on the overall system overview page. Looked around and don't see how to specify graphs to be shown there. How is this accomplished? Thanks. Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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BRIDGE-MIB keep track of mac
by Nikolay Shopik 06 May '12

06 May '12

Does observium using BRIDGE-MIB to keep track mac addresses? I see it included in mib dir, but I unable to find any way to see mac addresses on switches. Basically I'm talking about this functionality http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_tech_note09186a008…

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join mailing list
by eric machine 04 May '12

04 May '12

like to join mailing list

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NLNOG Ring
by Adam Armstrong 01 May '12

01 May '12

Hi All, I'd like to direct your attention to another project run by some friends of mine: the NLNOG RING. The project is based around the goals of making network debugging much easier. When trying to debug complex problems and plan future upgrades, a point of view from outside your network is absolutely essential. Seeing what others see is incredibly useful when dealing with a variety of network problems. Well known examples are 'it works for even numbered ip address, but not for odd numbered ip address via this and this route'. To streamline such debugging the NLNOG RING was formed. In essence the project is very simple: you make a (virtual) machine available to the RING, and you gain access on all other servers which are part of the RING. The project currently has 98 nodes, located on 89 participant networks in 24 countries. The RING provides tools to trivially launch a ping from all these nodes and summarize the results to, other examples are distributed tracerouting and MTU testing. The RING also maintains a record of latencies between nodes using smokeping to help identify historic problems. Before applying to join, keep the following requirements in mind: * The organisation you work for has BGP routers connected to the "Default Free Zone". * Your organisation has its own ASN, IPv4 and IPv6 prefix(es). * You have enable or configure rights on those routers. * You have permission from your organisation to become involved in the NLNOG RING. Have a look at https://ring.nlnog.net/for more information. You can also email ring-admins(a)ring.nlnog.net with any questions you have. adam.

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Subdirectory
by churnd dnruhc 01 May '12

01 May '12

Is it possible to use observium on a webserver as a subdirectory, i.e. https://server/observium? I'm a small shop that's part of a bigger organization & I don't have access to DNS to create a subdomain. Apologies if this has been answered already. I did a quick search & saw a similar question asked, but the thread didn't seem to contain an answer I could see. TIA

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Re: [Observium] Ironware CPU Patch
by Adam Armstrong 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

The old one is also hundredths. The only kid which gives while units is one of the new ones. Adam. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Matthias Cramer <matthias.cramer(a)iway.ch> wrote: Hi Adam On 30/04/12 15:29, Adam Armstrong wrote: > The newer OIDs come from a newer version of the MIB. > > Incidentally, 1300 / 100 is 13. If it was displaying 0.13, then there is some maths failure within the polling code (or discovery is storing the wrong settings in the database). True, I noticed that. Observium seams to do everything right for this OID, but it is not getting this oid, it is getting the "old" one. And there I get real percents back. Attached is a Screenshot of that MIB part. The real question is in my opinion, how to get the new OID to work. The Processor discovery as it is now can in my opinion only detect the old one. 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 _____________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Ironware CPU Patch
by Matthias Cramer 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi The scale of the discovered CPU's on Ironware based geer is off by factor 100. This patch will fix that. Tested on Brocade XMR4000 Regards Matthias Index: includes/discovery/processors/ironware.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/discovery/processors/ironware.inc.php (revision 3098) +++ includes/discovery/processors/ironware.inc.php (working copy) @@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ { $usage_oid = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.1991.1.1.2.11.1.1.6." . $index; $usage = $entry['snAgentCpuUtil100thPercent']; - $precision = 100; + $precision = 1; } elseif ($entry['snAgentCpuUtilValue']) { $usage_oid = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.1991.1.1.2.11.1.1.4." . $index; $usage = $entry['snAgentCpuUtilValue']; - $precision = 100; + $precision = 1; } list($slot, $instance, $interval) = explode(".", $index); -- 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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Web links
by Mark Murphy 28 Apr '12

28 Apr '12

I have installed the software and I get the login page bur every link I click on after that gives a 404 error. This is a Ubuntu server and the default web is only the monitoring software. I made the updates according to the install instructions.

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