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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 26 May '11

26 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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My next cut at the port edit UI
by Paul Gear 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi Adam & all, I wasn't really very happy with the previous version of my port edit screen. Latest cut is here: http://gear.dyndns.org/~paulgear/patches/observium-r2002-port-jquery.patch Screenshot of the old version is here: http://gear.dyndns.org/~paulgear/patches/port-edit-previous.png Screenshot of the new version is here: http://gear.dyndns.org/~paulgear/patches/port-edit-current.png The patch adds a few new buttons: * Reset: reset the form back to the way it was * Alerted: toggle all ports in red status (effectively setting all ports to the "recommended" settings) * Down: select ignore for all down ports (useful for quickly shutting up a noisy switch) I think these are useful functions, but i'm still not overly fond of the UI. The number of buttons makes it a bit ugly. However, i can't think of any better way to lay it out, and i definitely like having the functionality available. Any thoughts? Thanks, Paul P.S. I'd also suggest moving the uncompressed jquery.js aside and making the compressed version the default.

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Feature request: Create aggregate graphs
by Olof Kasselstrand 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hi there, Is it possible to create custom aggregate graphs? For example, if I want to see the total traffic in/out for one specific customer connecting on two switch ports. Or all traffic on all my peering ports. Or all peering traffic to one peer on three different ports etc. Thanks, Olof

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Cisco PIX
by John Macleod 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

I have a couple of older PIX models, 506 and 501, that we poll at client sites. Observium doesn't appear to identify these and only appears to poll interface stats. Is this a known issue? ___ John Macleod Alentus UK Limited Seymour House South Street Bromley BR1 1RH +44.(0)208.315.5800 +44.(0)208.315.5801 (Fax) www.alentus.co.uk | www.alentus.com "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail (and/or any attachment) contains information, which is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender. The information contained in this e-mail (and any attachments) is supplied in good faith, but the sender shall not be under any liability in damages or otherwise for any reliance that may be placed upon it by the recipient, nor does it constitute a contract in any way. Any comments or opinions expressed are those of the originator not of Alentus Corporation unless otherwise expressly stated."

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] r1970 - observer/trunk/html/js
by Paul Gear 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

On 24/03/11 23:04, observium-commits(a)observium.org wrote: > Author: adama > Date: 2011-03-24 13:04:31 +0000 (Thu, 24 Mar 2011) > New Revision: 1970 > > Added: > observer/trunk/html/js/jquery.js > Log: > add jquery 1.5.1 Don't forget to add the compacted version, too. Using that should considerably speed up page load times, especially over slow or heavily-loaded links. Paul

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Alerts
by John Macleod 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

I noticed the SMS code within alerts.php in a recent svn update. Any docs on this anywhere? Do the Alert triggers write to observium.log? "Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail (and/or any attachment) contains information, which is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use it for any purpose or disclose the contents to any person. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender. The information contained in this e-mail (and any attachments) is supplied in good faith, but the sender shall not be under any liability in damages or otherwise for any reliance that may be placed upon it by the recipient, nor does it constitute a contract in any way. Any comments or opinions expressed are those of the originator not of Alentus Corporation unless otherwise expressly stated."

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r1942 ignore ports
by Nikolay Shopik 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

r1942 release bring feature called ignore ports, but it looks like it doesn't work for me. When I selecting ports for ignore in settings and pressing save, it show this message "Device record unchanged. No update necessary." So what I'm doing wrong?

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Voice interfaces discovery
by Nikolay Shopik 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

I wondering if discovering analog voice interfaces is intended on Cisco platform or this is just bug? Currently discovery will add interfaces with media type - voiceOverIp, voiceFXO, voiceEncap, these interfaces doesn't provide any statistic over snmp, except UP/DOWN state. So I see no reason to draw graphs for them. Even better I'll be glad to get rid of them from regular IP ports, maybe move to different group, or just have option to ignore state/don't poll them?

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debian/ubuntu package
by Nikolay Shopik 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I'm willing to provide deb package for Observium if anybody started work on that, please let me know. Also it is possible to make Observium run from sub-directory instead of virtual-host, like that http://example.com/observium? I did tried some rewrite rules on apache w/o luck.

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Varnish application monitor
by Kristian Grønfeldt Sørensen 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hi list, First of all, i want to say that I'm impressed by Observium, and I'm really excited to see how this project evolves in the future. I'm writing this mail because I'm considering writing an application monitor for varnish ( http://www.varnish-cache.org/ ) for inclusion in Observium, but I don't want to start if anyone is already doing that, so please stop me if I'm about to reinvent the wheel. Regards Kristian Sørensen

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3 patches.
by Rob J. Epping 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Hi All, Thanks for this wonderfull product! I'm realy impressed. While working with observium I've made some improvements, see patches below. I hope it's the right format and the right way to send patches, as this is advanced svn for me :) root@eos:/opt# svn diff observium/ Index: observium/includes/services/dns/check.inc =================================================================== --- observium/includes/services/dns/check.inc (revision 1784) +++ observium/includes/services/dns/check.inc (working copy) @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ <?php -$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_dns -H ".$service['param']." -s ".$service['hostname']); +// provide some sane default +if ($service['service_param']) { $nsquery = $service['service_param']; } else { $nsquery = "localhost"; } +$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_dns -H ".$nsquery." -s ".$service['hostname']); + list($check, $time) = split("\|", $check); if(strstr($check, "DNS OK: ")) { Index: observium/includes/services/mysql/check.inc =================================================================== --- observium/includes/services/mysql/check.inc (revision 1784) +++ observium/includes/services/mysql/check.inc (working copy) @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ <?php -$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_mysql -H ".$service['hostname']." ".$service['service_param']); +// provide some sane default +if ($service['service_param']) { $dbname = $service['service_param']; } else { $dbname = "mysql"; } +$check = shell_exec($config['nagios_plugins'] . "/check_mysql -H ".$service['hostname']." ".$dbname); + list($check, $time) = split("\|", $check); if(strstr($check, "Uptime:")) { Index: observium/scan-snmp.php =================================================================== --- observium/scan-snmp.php (revision 1784) +++ observium/scan-snmp.php (working copy) @@ -10,7 +10,16 @@ $data = trim(`cat ips-scanned.txt | grep alive | cut -d" " -f 1 | egrep $search`); foreach( explode("\n", $data) as $ip) { - $snmp = shell_exec("snmpget -t 0.2 -v2c -c ".$config['community']." $ip sysName.0"); + // find community to use + for ($i=0; $i<count($config['snmp']['community']); $i++) { + echo($ip." ".$i." ".$config['snmp']['community'][$i]."\n"); + $snmp = shell_exec("snmpget -t 0.2 -v2c -c ".$config['snmp']['community'][$i]." $ip sysName.0"); + if(strstr($snmp, "STRING")) { + $community = $config['snmp']['community'][$i]; + $i=count($config['snmp']['community']) - 1 ; + echo("community : ".$community."\n"); + } + } if(strstr($snmp, "STRING")) { $hostname = trim(str_replace("SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: ","", $snmp)); if(mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(device_id) FROM devices WHERE hostname = '$hostname'"),0) == '0') { root@eos:/opt# -- GRTNX, RobJE

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Spam on wiki
by Paul Gear 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

Hi folks, The observium wiki seems to have become a spam hotbed recently. See here for an example: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=performance&go=Go What can we do about it? I was going to start cleaning, but i'm not sure where to begin, and i have a feeling they can spam faster than i can clean it up. Thanks, Paul

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