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Random few questions
by Simon Smith 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Hi All, I've got a few random questions that probably have simply answers too Ive checked our poller performance logs and its showing ’total time for all devices as 463.46s’ Is this a worry? Should it be under the 300s as the poller is set to run every 5 min? The highest device we have according to the poller performance is a mikrotik hex s router and that takes 30 seconds to poll, again is this normal? Also the poller performance for that device is showing its taking about 15seconds just to poll the ports module but again it only has 5 ports? Kindest Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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backing up Observium server
by Edvinas Kairys 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Hello, I know that if i want to have a fully backup i need 3 things. 1) Mysql dump 2) copy of config.php 3)and copy of .rrd folder. My question is: Do it's enough to have first two things: MYSQL dump and copy of config.php ? Because old traffic data (.rrd) is not so critical as loosing all the rules/alerts of Observium (and weathermap which is on other directory)

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PHP Weathermap
by Adam Armstrong 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

Hi Guys, For those of you using PHP Weathermap, how many of you are using template/include features? How complex after the weathermaps you're making? Thanks, Adam.

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please add support for the NetApp E2800 Series (mib enclosed)
by Tony Guadagno 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Thanks Tony

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Twilio integration
by Philippe Laurent 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Observium Developers - We use Twilio for MFG alerting when text/call escalation is required beyond email and PA voice alerts. I see that Observium does not have native Twilio integration. Beyond leveraging the Observium API for Twilio integration, would you be willing to natively extend Observium to include Twilio so that we can extend our use of that tool within the native toolset? I would be happy to donate my Enterprise hours towards the development and future inclusion in Observium for all to use. Philippe

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Alert Checker for an "App" (mysql)?
by Marc Jakobs 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Hello, I want to create an alert that informs me, when the network traffic on a mysql-database ("Application_mysql_network_traffic") on below a certain treshold. What I really want to see is if the mysqld process is running or not and I try to achieve this by looking at this stat which will be zero when mysqld has been terminated. I did not find any information on how to create alerts for apps in the official documentation. Does anyone has a hint for me how to to that? Many thanks and best regards, Marc

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Historical Data Graph
by Tasnim Tamanna 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Everyday at a certain time, all historical graph data gets deleted. This is happening for all devices except one. Can anyone tell what could be wrong?

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interface description parsing
by Tasnim Tamanna 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Hi All, For interface description parsing, I have copied the whole *port-descr-parser.inc.php *file to *custom-port-descr-parser.inc.php *file, and added below lines in the new file: cust: *cust_name* [*speed*] (*a_note*) {*circuit_id*} Finally, added below lines in *config.php* file: $config['int_transit'] = 1; // Enable Transit Types $config['int_peering'] = 1; // Enable Peering Types $config['int_core'] = 1; // Enable Core Port Types $config['int_customers'] = 1; // Enable Customer Port Parsing $config['port_descr_parser'] = "includes/custom-port-descr-parser.inc.php"; But it's not working. Need help :-(

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Aggregating two Graphs in observium | 22-Nov-2020
by Tasnim Tamanna 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Hi, Can anyone please help me with aggregating two graphs in observium? I have not found any documentation on this. Regards Tasnim Tamanna Dhaka, Bangladesh 8801316814417

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AUTO: Marios Palechoros is out of the office (returning 14/12/2020)
by Marios.P＠crowe.com.cy 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

I am out of the office until 14/12/2020. I will have access to my emails, however for urgent matters please contact: George Paroutis: georgep(a)siviriventures.com / 22473186 Note: This is an automated response to your message "[Observium] Same Subnet devices" sent on 7/12/2020 6:30:34 μμ. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Upgrade Fail
by Nash, Bob 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Upgraded our subscription version of Observium to the latest release that was displayed on the webpage and after upgrading, NO devices are being monitored/discovered. This was working perfectly fine prior to the upgrade. Need assistance as soon as possible. Sincerely, Bob

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Observium not working after upgrade
by Nash, Bob 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Just upgraded to current subscription version and Observium is no longer working. Need help!

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cisco ip local pool usage monitoring
by Matteo Sgalaberni 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Hello, I want to monitor the ip local pool usage of a cisco device in Observium. I found the respective mibs already present on Observium source code tree: ./mibs/cisco/CISCO-IP-LOCAL-POOL-MIB ./mibs/cisco/CISCO-IP-ADDRESS-POOL-MIB Is there a way to add these graphs in order to monitor ip local pool usage of the device monitored? Thanks Matteo

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Bug in alert email for BGP AFI/SAFI?
by Johann Mallet 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

Hello, I have tried the BGP AFI/SAFI alert and seems to have a bug in email/alert/entity when alert/recovery was sent. The alert name in subject and alert/entity in tab seems to be missing. Also, the device line seems in double (in all of my alerts). https://i.imgur.com/91xVpLI.png https://i.imgur.com/CZJANWz.png Johann

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TLS 1.3 and Opsgenie
by Adam Armstrong 28 Nov '20

28 Nov '20

Hi Guys, A number of services are moving their APIs to require TLS 1.3 because of a vulnerability in TLS 1.2, which means you need to be running pretty recent versions of PHP and OpenSSL to access them. PHP needs to be 7.4. Opsgenie is already requiring TLS 1.3, so if you're using them for your alerting, please make sure you're running a recent enough version of PHP for the API calls to function. You can test this on your system with the test_alert.php CLI script in the Observium root directory. In general, Observium is a fairly demanding PHP application so it's good practice to try to keep PHP as up to date as possible. We've seen some very nice performance improvements over the past few years, and 8.0 is going to bring even more. For this reason we don't recommend running Observium on distributions like RHEL/CentOS which hold old versions for as long as possible. Thanks, Adam.

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Dashboard based on Port Description ?
by Pieter De Wit 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Hey Guys, Is there a way to create a dashboard that will include all graphs of ports that match a certain description ? Dynamically that is :) Cheers, Pieter

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CE No RRD Updates Since Upgrade to 20.9
by Scott Driemeier-Showers 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

I run two instances of Observium. Professional is installed at the office and CE is installed in my home lab. I followed the steps to upgrade CE (I know, everyone says that) in my lab from 19.8 to 20.9 on November 8 and none of the graphs have updated since. I have rebooted, checked permissions, verified all expected services are running, etc. Reviewing the event log in the Web UI and the logs on the server all show activity. The timestamps of the individual RRD files are updating every time poller runs - just nothing happening in the UI. Can someone help me think of anything else to check? CentOS 7.9 MariaDB 10.3.27-1 PHP 7.2.34 (OPcache Enabled) Thanks, Scott

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OSPF Neighbour ID isn't always the IP address
by Pieter De Wit 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

Hey Guys, I noted this morning when I added a device that Observium tries to auto discover the OSPF Neighbours - this is awesome, but won’t work in our env. (Firewalls and IDs) ##### Module Start: neighbours ##### o LLDP-MIB o CISCO-CDP-MIB o OSPF-MIB o Trying to discover host 10.x.x.255 (10.x.x.255) through OSPF (ospf) o Trying to discover host 10.y.y.255 (10.y.y.255) through OSPF (ospf) o Trying to discover host 10.y.y.0 (10.y.y.0) through OSPF (ospf) We force our ID’s to be higher or lower depending on what we need. I tried to see if the real IP address is in the SNMP dump, but my SNMP magic is failing :( Cheers, Pieter

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Limit Radius user to specific devices/ports
by Joelly, Alexander 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

I’m authenticating against RSA , set the groupmemberattr Filter-ID and some auth_radius_groups with different privilege levels. What i could not figure out is how i can limit one Filter-ID to just a specific device or port. In the GUI it’s possible to configure some Roles, once added they cannot be removed anymore via the GUI? Thanks, Alex

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STP in Observium
by Torstein Eide 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Hi Observium On Jira multiple people ask for status on adding Old/RSTP/MSTP Spanning tree protocol. So it sounds like it is a much sought after feature. https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3509 https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-1853 In OBS-3509 I have added proposals on how the database and a layout for the frontend. Based on that Observium has excellent handling of port status and layer 3 features. What is stopping us from implementing it? -- Torstein Eide Torsteine(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Observium] Graph Data Missing after Upgrade RAM
by Aulia Rahman 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

Dear Adam, Sorry to resend because I didn't get the answer, thanks before. > It’s likely that you need more CPU, rather than more RAM. Ending up in these out of memory scenarios are usually because the CPU was too slow and too many processes piled up. The processor full if there's a poll is running after that it will normal again. I've follow the tutorial to using persistent ramdisk https://docs.observium.org/persistent_ramdisk/ If ramdisk, RAM and swap are full, does the RRD still written ? Because in that condition, the graph not written and there's an error when access the gui: *"DB Error 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)*" after restart the DB service it will normal again. please advice. >If you can’t see historic data, it means the RRD containing the historical data has been somehow overwritten. Observium won’t do this by itself, so somehow you managed to delete or move the original RRDs. >You can restore the RRDs from backup, and it should write to these. I can manual restore from backup of the backup ramdisk, thanks. Because when I try to manual extract the ramdisk data from LZOP first backup file it end with error. > Though, if the RRDs have somehow disappeared, I’d check to make sure you don’t have some form of filesystem/storage corruption, because the two might be linked. After investigate, when the shutdown process, the ramdisk didn't write the latest data before the server turn off. Because I didn't see any log about Ramdisk write data to hardisk. How to achieve it ? because in the document didn't explain detail about it. When startup process it succesfull load the data from ramdsk via rc.local script but the data loaded is corrupt, I can confrm this because when I try to manual extract from LZOP compression end with error, only some graph can be restored. Please advice. > BTW, please don’t send images to the mailing list. Sorry I've resend the mail but forgot to cancel the first one. Demikian yang dapat kami sampaikan, terimakasih. Regards, Aulia Rahman On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 3:36 PM Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org> wrote: > It’s likely that you need more CPU, rather than more RAM. Ending up in > these out of memory scenarios are usually because the CPU was too slow and > too many processes piled up. > > > > If you can’t see historic data, it means the RRD containing the historical > data has been somehow overwritten. Observium won’t do this by itself, so > somehow you managed to delete or move the original RRDs. > > > > You can restore the RRDs from backup, and it should write to these. > > > > Though, if the RRDs have somehow disappeared, I’d check to make sure you > don’t have some form of filesystem/storage corruption, because the two > might be linked. > > > > BTW, please don’t send images to the mailing list. > > > > Thanks, > > Adam. > > > > > > Demikian yang dapat kami sampaikan, terimakasih. > > > > Regards, > > Aulia Rahman > > > > >

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New OS support
by Craig Smith 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

Hello, I'm looking for someone that can add support for a couple of Telco Systems (www.telco.com) models (T-Marc 3308 & T-Marc 3348S) to Observium. I can provide MIBs and access remotely to the devices for development. My company is willing to pay a resonable price for a set of agreed features being supported, and for the work to be contributed to Observium.

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Ignore device through cli
by Svensson Fredrik A 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Hello! I´d like another system to set status on a device to ignore in observium, is there a cli-command for that? Regards Fredrik

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No pages after CE upgrade
by Arrigo Savio 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Hi all. I update Community Edition to Version 20.9. I followed steps reported in page https://docs.observium.org/updating/ <https://docs.observium.org/updating/> cd /opt mv observium observium_old}} wget -Oobservium-community-latest.tar.gz https://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz <https://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz> tar zxvf observium-community-latest.tar.gz}} mv /opt/observium_old/rrd observium/ mv /opt/observium_old/logs observium/}} mv /opt/observium_old/config.php observium/ I update DB schema and PHP scripts (discovery and poller) work correcty. I can see homepage, but if I try to enter devices section https://observium2.qcom.it/device, <https://observium2.qcom.it/device,> I receive a blank page with "File not found" message. Any ideas? Thanks. Arrigo

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WG: question and a problem in Check alert
by Tibi, Saleh 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

Hi guys, our instance: observium 20.10.10799(rolling) i have two issues (a question and a problem ) in the subject Alert Checkers. The question: Is it Possible to configure my alert Checkers that test two different sensors (different entities ) I have two sensor - flowrate Sensor - Valve Sensor For example like this: Require all conditions: (flowrate Sensor)sensor_value eq 0 (Valve Sensor)sensor_value eq 0 What I saw in the documentation that we can check only one entity at a time. The Problem: Steps: 1- Creating new alert Checker 2- filtering devices or sensors in Entity Association Ruleset (for example: Sensor Group in WaterSensor) 3- save changes (all sensor will be listed ) 4- rebuild 5- all sensor appearing in status unknown 6- wait a 3 or 4 minutes all sensors will disappear any advices or hint ? thx in advanced an have a nice Day Saleh Tibi Mit freundlichen Grüßen Saleh Tibi ---------------------------------------------- Ing: Saleh Tibi (Herr) IT-Spezialist für Maschinensäle und Überwachung Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologie (ZIM)|Raum 25.41.02.27 Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Universitaetsstrasse 1 40225 Duesseldorf Email: Tibi.saleh(a)uni-duesseldorf.de<mailto:Tibi.saleh@uni-duesseldorf.de> Phone: +49-(0)211-81-14051

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