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Observium on FLOSS Weekly
by Adam Armstrong 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Hi All, I'll be on the TWiT network show FLOSS Weekly next week on the 31st August talking about Observium with Randal Schwartz at 17:30 UK time (18:30 European / 09:30 Pacific). The unedited video/audio of the interview will be broadcast live, and the audio podcast available later. If you're interested in watching/listening head take a look at the site: http://twit.tv/FLOSS adam.

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collectd dns graphs ... short memory
by Zane Thomas 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

The dns and powerdns plugins provide only the same 2 hour snapshot in all four graphs. Does anyone know why that is? Some other collectd tabs, such as cpu, do provide broader time ranges in the four graphs.

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Observium and rancid integration
by Jenang Daftar 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

Hi, I'm trying to integrate rancid into observium. Here are what i've done: - Install observium and run it. Obeservium can collect statistic from device - Install rancid and run it. Rancid is collecting my device configuration - Enable rancid integration setting in observium: ### rancid integration $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/mpbn/configs/"; $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/gprs/configs/"; $config['rancid_ignorecomments'] = 0; # Ignore lines starting with # - Allow observium user to read rancid config (using observium user i can see the configuration collected by rancid) - I use the same hostname defined in my /etc/hosts for both observium and rancid But I couldn’t see any menu/link showed in Observium web page related to Rancid configuration. Regards, Zakki A Tigo Rwanda

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PATCH: raritan PDU current graphs
by Charlie Allom 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hi, Here is an additional PDU type with current graphs: patch: http://pastebin.com/YVqjMWAW mib: http://capslock.playlouder.com/PDU-MIB.txt (yes thats what they call it.. face->palm) icon: http://capslock.playlouder.com/raritan.png let me know if ive forgotten something. -- +442077294797 http://mediasp.com/

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PATCH: Citrix Netscaler
by Britt Treece 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Got some of the basic stuff working. Did my best to adhere to coding standards, etc. SVN patch file and requisite MIB can be found at the link below. I plan to start working on monitoring of additional metrics soon. http://www.box.net/shared/20mih8759xpkjhu5imm1 Britt Treece

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SSL support with LDAP?
by Bao Nguyen 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

>From the include/default.inc.php, I notice that LDAP is listed as support. Do anyone know if SSL is supported? ### LDAP Authentication $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; # v2 or v3 $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "ldap.yourserver.com"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "uid="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=People,dc=example,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = "cn=observium,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com"; thanks, -bn 0216331C

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Inventory for Juniper
by Jenang Daftar 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi, I have Juniper and ExtremeNetwork devices monitored by observium. ExtremeNetwork inventory is okay but failed on Juniper. Anybody succesfully monitor Juniper inventory? Any hint for me to troubleshoot it? Regards, Zakki A

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Aggregate CollectD Graphs
by John Macleod 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Is it possible to aggregate collectd graph data? We use Observium and the CollectD plugin to monitor several clusters. We would like to graph aggregate data from CollectD for a number of services. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks, John

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Exporting Data
by Jenang Daftar 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

Hi, I would like to export Data gathered by Observium into MS Excel file. Any hints on how to do that? regards, Zakki A Tigo Rwanda

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after IP Adress Change of an Cisco device not alle tabs are shown
by Letz Stefan / ACS 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hello All, after an IP-Address change of an Cisco IOS Device the Processor, Memory, Map, etc. Tabs are not shown anymore. The same IOS Version (Cisco IOS 12.4(25e) (ADVSECURITYK9)) is running on other routers (Cisco 1841 with same HW Config) and there these Tabs where shown. What can I do to make the Tabs visible again? Mit freundlichen Gr??en / Best regards Stefan Letz Team Manager Customer Services ACS Solutions GmbH Maximilianallee 4 04129 Leipzig Phone: +49 341 355913 45 Mobile: +49 151 11446409 Fax: +49 341 355913 11 www.acs-europe.de<http://www.acs-europe.de> [cid:gold_partner_2011.jpg@01334711ff144cc98e8bc095604f29eb] Amtsgericht Leipzig: HRB21111 USt-IdNr: DE814217083 Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Thomas Lindner

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Observium and Rancid Integration
by Jenang Daftar 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi, I'm trying to integrate rancid into observium. Here are what i've done: - Install observium and run it. Obeservium can collect statistic from device - Install rancid and run it. Rancid is collecting my device configuration - Enable rancid integration setting in observium: ### rancid integration $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/mpbn/configs/"; $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/gprs/configs/"; $config['rancid_ignorecomments'] = 0; # Ignore lines starting with # - Allow observium user to read rancid config (using observium user i can see the configuration collected by rancid) - I use the same hostname defined in my /etc/hosts for both observium and rancid But I couldn’t see any menu/link showed in Observium web page related to Rancid configuration. Regards, Zakki A Tigo Rwanda

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disable up/down notification
by Nikolay Shopik 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

I would like to disable notification when host host goes down. I didn't find option for that, only way is disable notifications altogether, but I still would like to receive notification about bgp flaps/interface errors/etc for example. Is this option not implement yet?

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Thanks and Wants More :)
by Jenang Daftar 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

Hi, Thank you very much on your hardwork on Observium. This week was my first installation. The process was smooth but on setup on apache rewrite mod. It is okay now. And I'm very happy that my Juniper got a lot of stuff monitored. I have some questions in my first week experience: 1. My Juniper router has many vrf routing instace with OSPF but it is not shown in the Routing-OSPF Device page. Any idea where can i start troubleshooting? 2. My Juniper Netscreen ISG 2000 and Extreme Black Diamond 8xxx doesn't have fans and temperature monitored. I tried to learn the way temperature in Juniper router monitored. Seems i can do on my own for Netscreen and Extreme. But when i did snmpwalk for the entire snmp table i didn't get temperature information on Netscreen and Extreme Switch. Any hints? Regards, Abu Azam

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test!
by Adam Armstrong 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

test? :)

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double graphs
by Nikolay Shopik 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

I have see that some devices (Cisco) having double Memory Pool graphs. It looks like this one overview page. Processor I/O 3825 chassis - Processor 3825 chassis - I/O Is there way to remove these, w/o deleting stat data of device or this is just bug?

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small bugg in bill page + patch
by Rob J. Epping 27 May '11

27 May '11

Hi All, I found a small bug in the bill page that makes the 24 Hour view generate an error. The patch for this can be found on <http://puther.home.xs4all.nl/observium-bill-1.diff> -- GRTNX, RobJE

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VRF Tab empty after upgrading to Observium 0.11.5.2295
by Bruce-Young Majola 13 May '11

13 May '11

Hi Adama, I just noticed that clicking on the VRFs tab under Routing shows no data; this issue only appeared after upgrading to version 2295 earlier today. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Disabling ARP table gathering
by Jeffrey Collyer 04 May '11

04 May '11

Is there an easy way to disable ARP table gathering on a per device basis. On some of our larger 6509 routers, dumping the large arp table every 5 minutes puts a bit of a load on them. It would also take some load off our observium server, not having to process all that data. If not, I'd like to suggest it as a future feature. Thanks Jeff

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bug in renamehost.php
by Rob J. Epping 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi, When renamehost.php is used to rename a host to an already existing name a strange situation is created. The patch <http://www.xs4all.nl/~puther/observium-renamhost.diff> is an attempt to fix this. Might be better to include these checks in the renamehost function though. -- GRTNX, RobJE

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MRV detection (was Re: [Observium-dev] r2009 - observer/trunk/includes)
by Rob J. Epping 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

Hi, Just found out that observium laks includes/discovery/os/mrvld.inc.php See attached diff GRTNX, RobJE On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:10 PM, <observium-commits(a)observium.org> wrote: > Author: adama > Date: 2011-04-03 18:10:36 +0100 (Sun, 03 Apr 2011) > New Revision: 2009 > > Modified: > observer/trunk/includes/static-config.php > Log: > MRV LambdaDriver detection. from robje > > > Modified: observer/trunk/includes/static-config.php > =================================================================== > --- observer/trunk/includes/static-config.php 2011-04-03 17:09:09 UTC (rev 2008) > +++ observer/trunk/includes/static-config.php 2011-04-03 17:10:36 UTC (rev 2009) -- GRTNX, RobJE

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static-config.php on line 707
by Nikolay Shopik 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Got lot of these, after 23 april. Undefined index: group in /opt/observium/includes/static-config.php on line 707. Should I ignore it?

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log errored interfaces in eventlog
by Nikolay Shopik 21 Apr '11

21 Apr '11

Is there option to log into eventlog when some interface have errors in it?

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Graph Template Missing error under Routing/Overview
by Bruce Majola 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Hi, I am running version 2108 on ubuntu 10.04 and everything is working okay except for the "Graph Template Missing" error when I click on the "Overview" button under the Routing tab. Is it an error with my upgrade or is the template still to be created? Thanks for the great application. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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New devices, feature requests, questions
by Paul Gear 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hi folks, I've been using Observium for a few weeks now and would like to start getting it work better with some of my unrecognised devices. Is there any general documentation about how to go about adding new device types? I'm not much of a PHP programmer, but i've done enough C & Java that i can usually muddle along. Which bits should i start hacking on? For what it's worth the main devices i'm looking to support are Xirrus wireless arrays. I notice that Netgear switches are explicitly mentioned as not supported, but the limitation listed in the wiki (that they don't support MAC addresses in the IF-MIB) doesn't appear to be completely accurate - at least for my GS-108T at home. Some features i think would be really great (and am prepared to work on): * Filtering on the global memory screen (health/memory/) so that we can view, e.g., just physical memory, or just virtual memory, etc. A simple drop-down at the top of the list would make sense to me. * The global storage screen (health/storage/nographs/) would make a lot more sense to me if the size of the area which was shaded was relative to the size of the storage. Making the width of the gauge grow on a logarithmic scale would make sense to me. And some questions and related suggestions: * When we ignore a port, does that prevent graphing and data collection on it, or just notification? I have a lot of edge switches for which i have no use of port up/down notifications, but if it is up, i would like to collect the interface stats. Perhaps the "ignore" tickbox needs to be split into "collect" and "notify"? * Why do HP switches show VLANs as ports, but then never provide any interface statistics for them? Thanks in advance, Paul

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Monitoring mySQL
by Pász Gergely 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hello! After trying out both the Python and the PHP snmp extenders in /scripts I still haven't managed to get mySQL monitoring working (while Apache monitoring works great). Though it works for some: http://www.observium.org/forum/index.php/topic,103.0.html I get the following error while using the PHP script: Applications: apache mysql...ERROR: /srv/observium/rrd/localhost/app-mysql-3.rrd: expected 79 data source readings (got 3) from N And I got a lot of zeros then some error if I use the Python one (I'm guessing it's because the /includes/poller/applications/mysql.inc.php expects name:value pairs) Any advice? Thanks, Pas

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