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Observium device discovery
by Christopher N Callison 05 May '21

05 May '21

I have a Cisco 9130axi AP that is running in embedded controller mode. I am not able to monitor traffic or user statistics on the WLANs like I did with my WLC2504. I do not see any wireless related MIBS attached to the device. Is there a way to force discovery for certain features or MIBS? Or do I have to add my own custom OID? Chris

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Google Secure LDAP - Working with a hack
by Pieter De Wit 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi Guys, I have Google Secure LDAP working with Observium, but it requires a hack and hopefully the devs can implement this into the code base (after fixing my even more of my hacky hacks :) ) In config.php: $config['auth_ldap_server']="ldap://127.0.0.1:1636”; // We using the stunnel method $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 1636; // Not needed - at least, not that I could find $config['auth_ldap_starttls']=false; // Implemented with stunnel $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=Secure_LDAP,ou=Users,dc=example,dc=com”; // Fix this for your domain unset ($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['cn=observium']['level'] = 10; // Google does something funky with “groups" In html/includes/authentication/ldap.inc.php: After line 932: else { $filter="(&(".$dn.")".ldap_filter_create ($attribute, $value).")"; $ret=ldap_search ($ds,”dc=example,dc=com",$filter); // TODO : We need to figure out if ($ret !==FALSE) { $compare=TRUE; } } In a nutshell, ldap_compare doesn’t work for Google Secure LDAP - pretty much like https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3611 <https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3611> but then, if the ldap_read fails, we fallback to just doing a search for the “group” and where memberUid is the username provided. It might be worthwhile to look into setting a LDAP type variable and reacting to that. Hopefully this makes sense :) Cheers, Pieter

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Google Secure LDAP
by Pieter De Wit 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi Everyone, Has anyone got Observium to authenticate against Google Secure LDAP *and* return a usable user level ? My authentication passes, but I always end up with a user level of 0. I am using the stunnel method to try and simplify things. Thanks, Pieter

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How do you enable debugging ?
by Pieter De Wit 04 May '21

04 May '21

I’m failing hard at finding this one….specifically, I need to debug LDAP membership for authentication :) Thanks :)

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Observium Backups
by Terry Stone 04 May '21

04 May '21

When backing up rrd with tar zcvf observium-rrd.tar.gz rrd I get the following message: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Is this OK or should I use the --absolute-names option? Also I am getting some messages saying file changed as we read it. This is understandable but do i need to do anything while running the backup to stop this from happening? Thanks in advance.

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CBQOS Class Names only show "/"
by Evan Alexandre 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hello, I am a new user testing out Observium as a means of monitoring Cisco Class-Based Quality of Service (CBQoS). I have successfully added devices running Cisco IOS-XR 6.6.3 to the system for monitoring. However, the CBQoS tab of my device's ports is currently not showing any name for the different classes of policy maps applied to the ports. Instead, where the name should be, there is only "/ (output)". See attachment for screenshot of this issue. I believe this issue matches the following Jira ticket: https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3130?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.s… Is there a known resolution or workaround this issue? System Details: Observium Version: Observium CE 20.9 OS: CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) Thanks, Evan

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More probes please (part 2 :) )
by Pieter De Wit 02 May '21

02 May '21

Hey Guys, Can we please add check_procs to the probe list ? Thanks :)

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Paging on bigger pages
by Pieter De Wit 02 May '21

02 May '21

Hi All, I noted that you can enable paging on the devices pages, but is there a way to enable it on other pages that I have missed ? We have massive load balancer pages that are now causing browsers to crash (had to give the server 32gig of ram to render said pages :) ) Or even a search page would do - anything to make the page smaller :D Thanks !

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Adding "more" probes ?
by Pieter De Wit 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi, How can I use a probe that is not listed in “Probes” - like check_dns ? Thanks, Pieter

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Wish list
by Terry Stone 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Rather than re-invent the wheel writing a script does anyone have a script that can be run as a con job to backup rrd files, observium database and config.php to an external server. Thanks.

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Removal Request
by David Ross 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Hello! Please remove my email address from your email list; I am no longer on the team that uses Observium. Thank you! Respectfully, *David W. Ross, Sr.* Network Infrastructure Engineering Sr. Network Engineer 415.926.3483 - C david.ross(a)salesforce.com <https://smart.salesforce.com/sig/david.ross//us_mb/default/link.html>

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Optimisations for huge lb_pools
by Pieter De Wit 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Hi Guys, We have some pretty large lb_virtuals (12000 entries), lb_pools (180000 entries) tables. I found that the poller was struggling to keep up with this (understandable IMHO). What I did find was MySQL appeared to be the bottleneck so after some debugging I added the following indexes: create index lb_virtuals_idx_1 on lb_virtuals (device_id,virt_name); create index lb_pools_idx_1 on lb_pools (device_id,pool_name); create index lb_snatpools_idx_1 on lb_snatpools (device_id,snatpool_name); The middle one had the biggest impact, since that is the biggest table. Here is the polling result showing the difference: Time Duration 2021-04-29 17:05:02 56s 2021-04-29 17:00:02 4m 19s Hopefully this can help someone else if they have an issue like this (I hope not for your sanity :D ) or perhaps the devs can advise a better way of doing it :) P.S. - The issue was that polling kept running over each other and that cause it to spiral out of control, data gaps where getting bigger and bigger and MySQL was pinned at 250-300% CPU (4 core box this) Cheers, Pieter

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Probes check_snmp_win
by Jacek.Dabrowski＠selgros.pl 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

How to use Probes for check_snmp_win, I can't find it in the documentation, maybe someone will tell [cid:image001.png@01D73852.510E3BC0] [cid:image002.png@01D73852.510E3BC0] Pozdrawiam Jacek Dąbrowski

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New Port Alert Checks Not Working
by Andre Geißler 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Hi all I configured a port alert check and set test condition to "ifOperStatus eq down" and asssociation ruleset to "Port ifAlias match *!!!*". I can see entities (276 ports) are matched correctly but are listed without the device the ports belong to. Status of alert never changes from "0 0 0 0 276" It seems associations works fine but checks aren't executed no matter which association and conditions I try. A much more complex port check I configured years ago is working fine, new ones aren't. I'm on 21.4.11258 Thanks a lot Andre

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bug?
by Eric Sigurdsson 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Is there a bug in the installation script? I tried to use the installation script for a fresh install on Debian 10.9. The script said I had Debian 9 and aborted. I made a fresh install av Debian and tried again. The same result. I have Debian 10.9 and the installation script says Debian 9. Is this a bug or what is the problem? ES

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Add Device API - Option to provide poller id as parameter.
by Midhun Kandoth 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hi All, I am using observium apis to add devices to observium in a partitioned poller setup. But the current add device api (POST /api/v0/devices/) is not accepting poller_id as a parameter. Currently I am using MySQL Query to add devices to observium with poller_id. I could see that the API is in active development state. So it will be great if you can incorporate this request as well. Best, Midhun Kandoth

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Genexis OLT/ONT Device issues
by Prasun Kumar Mitra (NOC) 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hi , We are using an OLT/ONT device Brand "Genexis" (http://www.genexis.co.in). Currently we have added Genexis- SOLT33-08P for testing. But it's *not working fully as we are not getting connected ONT information*. We have contacted the device vendor team. The *technical head of vender team is in CC " Mr. Satyam Bharati" *and they also want their devices to be compatible with observium*. *Anything needed from vendors can be made available by their team, In this regard we need support to add this device in observium so that we can monitor those devices. Please guide us what we need to do. Thanks & Regards, Prasun Mitra Alliance NOC Alliance Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd. 1st Floor, P 26/1, Dr Nani Gopal Roy Chowdhuri Ave, Entally Kolkata, West Bengal 700014 Contact No.- 1800 1200 300

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Observium graphs not populated on Cisco
by Thodoris Lakiotis 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

*Hello there,* *We have just added a new 1002-X ASR with the following software.* *Cisco IOS Software [Amsterdam], ASR1000 Software (X86_64_LINUX_IOSD-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 17.3.3* *The device is polled just fine, all Interfaces, included subifs indexed correctly and everything seems ok.* *But observium shows data on only on physical interfaces, but not to Subinterfaces.* *To be more specific, it graphs only physical interfaces, but not routed VLAN interfaces.* *Have you ever seen anything like this?* Thodoris

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linux persitance SNMP indexes
by Edvinas Kairys 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Hello, As i know there're no plans to workaround not persistent SNMP indexes 'feature' in Observium. But maybe there any linux snmp persistence workaround suitable for Observium, and its plugins (for example, weathermap) to leave the linux snmp if indexes unchanged after server reboot, etc ? Thank you

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Changing some devices to only poll every 10 or 15 minutes temporariliy?
by Damien Gardner 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Hi all, I have a bit of an oddball one, hoping it's not horrible to be able to do... We have a few devices which have recently started taking > 5 mins to complete polling. This is leaving large gaps in our logs, and is also effecting discovery (as the polling of the devices are piling up on top of themselves and pushing load on those devices up heavily). For now I've just turned off polling on those devices, but that's not ideal either.. Is there a way to be able to just poll those manually at say 10 or 15 minute intervals? I shoved them into a group and excluded that group from our polls - and then ran poller.php -h deviceid on one device in cron every 15 mins to see how it would go - but we just get no graphs.. Also as a test, tried using rrdtool tune --step 900 to change the step size to 15 mins, but also no go (didn't really entirely expect it to..) Is there a not-horrible (or if it has to be, I'm ok with horrible in the short-term until the vendor can figure out what on earth is going on..) way to get these being polled on a 15-minute interval and also going into rrd's? (We're on the current paid subscription version, if that helps) Thanks, Damien [https://info.serversaustralia.com.au/hubfs/Brand-2018/logo-font-sau.gif] Damien Gardner Jnr Senior Dev Ops P: (02) 8115 8812 4 Amy Close, Wyong, NSW 2259 Need assistance? We are here 24/7 +61 2 8115 8888 [Sent from Front]

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Unable to delete alert checkers
by Luis Londoño 26 Mar '21

26 Mar '21

Cant delete an alert checker. When I click on Delete the confirmation prompt comes up and the checkbox is already selected but the delete alert is disabled. Unchecking the box enabled the button but clicking it doesn't delete the alert. We are on 21.3.11160 (24th March 2021) [cid:image001.png@01D7216C.5095D420] Did find in the HTML to enable the button when the checkbox is pressed was to remove the "disabled=1" [cid:image002.png@01D7216C.8C292410]

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[PATCH] Support kamcmd and kamctl in kamailio local script
by Kevin Riahi 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Adam, What is the outlook on deploying this patch? https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3431 Thank you Kevin Riahi

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Fix for small issue in poller-wrapper.py
by Damien Gardner 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Hi Team, Been pulling my hair out for a large chunk of the day trying to sort out why our Huawei devices stopped polling after I split out polling run into two lots (one excluding the huawei devices group, one including it) Seems that when you enable debug with poller-wrapper.py<http://poller-wrapper.py/> (-d), it's passing a string to substring.check_call rather than a file, so it throws an exception and doesn't run the poller. The diff below is an example that seems to fix this issue (though I'm a php dev, not python, so someone who knows python might have a nicer way to do it..) root@observium:/opt/observium# svn diff poller-wrapper.py<http://poller-wrapper.py> Index: poller-wrapper.py<http://poller-wrapper.py> =================================================================== --- poller-wrapper.py<http://poller-wrapper.py> (revision 11124) +++ poller-wrapper.py<http://poller-wrapper.py> (working copy) @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ command_args.extend(command_list) command_args.append(device_id) if debug: - command_out = temp_path + '/observium_' + process + '_' + str(device_id) + '.debug' + command_out = open(temp_path + '/observium_' + process + '_' + str(device_id) + '.debug', 'w') #print(command_args) #debug subprocess.check_call(map(str, command_args), stdout=command_out, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) (This doesn't fix the group being polled but nothing appearing in the DB or RRDs, but I'm still trying to figure out what's going on there, I'm sure it's something borked in our DB or something..) Thanks, DG [https://info.serversaustralia.com.au/hubfs/Brand-2018/logo-font-sau.gif] Damien Gardner Jnr Senior Dev Ops P: (02) 8115 8812 4 Amy Close, Wyong, NSW 2259 Need assistance? We are here 24/7 +61 2 8115 8888 [Sent from Front]

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Limiting eventlog collection
by Michael Kelly 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Hi, is there any way I can fine tune the collection of Informational/Debugging events? We have rather a lot of them. mysql> select count(*) from eventlog where severity in (6,7) and timestamp > '2021-03'; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 18500339 | +----------+ 1 row in set, 2 warnings (35.82 sec) Regards, Michael.

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No graphs for 64bit network ports on arm
by Simon Smith 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Hi All, Ive spotted a few weird issue with my new setup running on arm? 1. The first 4 ports on our TPLink switches are being detected as 64Bit and then the rest of the ports are 32Bit ? 2. the 64bit graphs are showing 0 for everything, even though the output from the command line shows stats? (See https://pastebin.com/raw/qP4T1Fa9 <https://pastebin.com/raw/qP4T1Fa9>) 3. The graphs are being generated so the RRDs are fine, but the graphs are blank? Regards Simon

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