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Merge rrds
by Simon Smith 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Hi All, Im just wondering how to merge two rrds together? I have moved our hosting from locally to aws I decided to start a fresh rather than coping the DB and RRDs over (personal reasons) So the id numbers of hosts are different, including dns etc I would like to preserve the rrd graphs if thats possible from the old install Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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Problem with the update
by Mario Pascal Necker 06 Mar '21

06 Mar '21

Hello I become this error Message from the update. [cid:image001.png@01D7127F.C5982CB0] Thx mario -- ✓ Geprüft von IKARUS anti.virus http://www.ikarussecurity.com

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what version of php and maria can I use?
by Tony Guadagno 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '21

Hi, I did look at the recommendations and it says 7.2+ so, can I use 7.4? what about 8? Same question for maria, looks like you like 10.3, can I use more current versions? Thanks Tony

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Re: [Observium] what version of php and maria can I use?
by Tony Guadagno 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '21

Ok, great, what about Maria, is there an upper limit? On Mar 5, 2021 2:33 PM, "Joelly, Alexander via observium" <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: Observium on PHP 7.4 works fine - PHP 8 is not supported yet. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: Friday, 5 March 2021 19:50 To: Adam Armstrong via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org> Subject: [Observium] what version of php and maria can I use? WARNING: This e-mail originated from outside of Magna. Be cautious with links and attachments. ________________________________ Hi, I did look at the recommendations and it says 7.2+ so, can I use 7.4? what about 8? Same question for maria, looks like you like 10.3, can I use more current versions? Thanks Tony

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Need to Add Genexis OLT/ONT Device
by Prasun Kumar Mitra (NOC) 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '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. They have provided us MIB of the devices(Link Provided below) but we are unable to make it work. In this regard we need support to add this device so that we can monitor those devices. Please let us know what we need to do . Link : Genexis MIB Link <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rd7F9cl9sRGAcfAp5ydz3jxGJdHpeZ-f/view?usp=…> 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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Syslog Integration
by Shawn L 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

We recently implemented syslog integration. One thing that we miss however is having the logs in the syslog file. It's great to see them in Observium, but there are times where it's easier to grep the syslog file itself to see what's going on. Is there a way to keep the log entries in the syslog files, and still deliver copies to Observium? Thanks Shawn

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Observium Installation on Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster))
by Polaris Networks Support 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Hi, I'm having trouble installing Observium, from the script, on a Raspberry Pi 4 running: root@raspberrypi:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release: 10 Codename: buster Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong, based on the output below please? root@raspberrypi:~# wget http://www.observium.org/observium_installscript.sh --2021-03-03 11:31:53-- http://www.observium.org/observium_installscript.sh Resolving www.observium.org (www.observium.org)... 185.94.140.56 Connecting to www.observium.org (www.observium.org)|185.94.140.56|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://www.observium.org/observium_installscript.sh [following] --2021-03-03 11:31:53-- https://www.observium.org/observium_installscript.sh Connecting to www.observium.org (www.observium.org)|185.94.140.56|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 17916 (17K) [text/x-sh] Saving to: ‘observium_installscript.sh’ observium_installsc 100%[===================>] 17.50K --.-KB/s in 0.002s 2021-03-03 11:31:53 (10.1 MB/s) - ‘observium_installscript.sh’ saved [17916/17916] root@raspberrypi:~# chmod +x observium_installscript.sh root@raspberrypi:~# ./observium_installscript.sh WARNING: Apache default config found, this script will overwrite that config and your current config will be lost Continue? 1) Yes 2) No #? 1 Apache config will be overwritten... ___ _ _ / _ \| |__ ___ ___ _ ____ _(_)_ _ _ __ ___ | | | | '_ \/ __|/ _ \ '__\ \ / / | | | | '_ ` _ \ | |_| | |_) \__ \ __/ | \ V /| | |_| | | | | | | \___/|_.__/|___/\___|_| \_/ |_|\__,_|_| |_| |_| Welcome to Observium automatic installscript Please choose which verision of Observium you would like to install 1. Observium Community Edition 2. Observium Pro Edition stable (requires account at https://www.observium.org/subs/) 3. Observium Pro Edition rolling (requires account at https://www.observium.org/subs/) 4. Install the UNIX-Agent 5. Install the SNMPD (snmpd-config will be overwritten) (1-5):1you choose 1 dpkg-query: no packages found matching mysql-server dpkg-query: no packages found matching mariadb-server [*] No MySQL server detected in this server, installing MySQL... Choose a MySQL root password [*] Beginning package installtion, this might take up to 30min [*] We are on Debian 8.x, installing packages... E: Unable to locate package libapache2-mod-php7.0 E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libapache2-mod-php7.0' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libapache2-mod-php7.0' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-cli E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-cli' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-cli' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-mysql E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-mysql' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-mysql' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-mysqli E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-mysqli' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-mysqli' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-gd E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-gd' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-gd' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-mcrypt E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-mcrypt' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-mcrypt' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-json E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-json' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-json' E: Package 'mysql-server' has no installation candidate E: Package 'mysql-client' has no installation candidate root@raspberrypi:~# Thank you, Jon Bennell *Polaris Networks Support* *T: *+44 203 397 3535 *W: *www.polarisnetworks.co.uk *The e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose either the message or any information contained in the message. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this e-mail and notify the sender immediately. * *Any views or opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender only, unless otherwise stated. All copyright in any Polaris Networks Limited material in this e-mail is reserved.* *All e-mails, incoming and outgoing, may be recorded by Polaris Networks Limited and monitored for legitimate business purposes.* *Polaris Networks Limited exclude all liability for any loss or damage arising or resulting from the receipt, use or transmission of this e-mail to the fullest extent permitted by law.*

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Disable netstats for device type
by Robert Williams 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Hi! We have a large number of 'Geist' PDU devices, each of which takes around 20-30 seconds to complete the 'netstats' poller element (due to the nasty tiny-brain device, not Observium): There is no data of value to us collected from this, so I'd like to just disable netstat collection for all current and future Geist devices. Is there a way to do this which doesn't involve clicking on each one and disabling that module manually? [cid:image001.png@01D70F52.9DBE2C60] I've trawled the DB as best I can to try to see where I can do this, but unable to identify where module enable/disablement is done. Closest I found is within the devices table, there is device_state and the netstats element is encoded in there in a way I cannot grasp unfortunately. Devices can be easily matched with: select * from devices where vendor like "geist" - so I'm hoping I can make a change globally somehow? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centres https://www.CustodianDC.com

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Backup options for the MySQL database
by Michael Kelly 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Hi Everybody, I recently started a new role at a company that uses Observium to monitor a fairly large estate. Observium (Professional edition) was originally installed on an EC2 instance running Debian 8 and MySQL 5.5 by someone who has long since departed the company. My task is to bring it all up to date and document it. I've created a new instance running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and MySQL 8.0.23 and testing the migration process hasn't thrown up any problems. One of the things my predecessor didn't do was to set up any backup regime for the database. As it happens, /var/lib/mysql is a logical volume and I've been looking at using lvm snapshots as part of a backup process. The basic idea would be to: Connect to the mysql daemon and issue a 'FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK' command. Create the LVM snapshot. Connect to the daemon and issue a 'UNLOCK TABLES' command. Do something with the snapshot. My questions are: Is this a good idea? Will it give me a consistent backup? Is there a better way? Thanks in advance, Michael.

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Port usage monitoring
by Simon Smith 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi All, I wondered if anybody has been able to setup alerts for port usage? I would like to monitor a machines network port, and if it goes above say 20GB worth of upload in like 3 weeks then alert me? I think I might need the billing part of observium setup for this but im not sure? Kindest Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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Graphs not displaying recent traffic
by Luis Londoño 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Hello, For some reason, none of my graphs are showing any recent information. The last graphs being shown are from a few weeks ago. This is happening on all my devices I have in Observium. I just updated to r 21.2.11038 and still seeing the same thing. I am on rrdtool v1.7.2 [cid:image001.jpg@01D709C5.16A61770] How do I get my graphs to come back?

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jquery.js
by Mark Rowlands 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

/opt/observium/html/js/Jsquery-min.js /*! jQuery v2.2.4 | (c) jQuery Foundation | jquery.org/license */ Any chance you could bump this to 3.5 ? , The security people are complaining about EOL unsupported software. ☹ ( i.e https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-565129 )

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Observium + gradaba
by Luis Olavarrieta 20 Feb '21

20 Feb '21

Has anyone interfaced observium with ágrafa a to create a dashboard? Which tables should be read for it? Enviado desde mi iPhone

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Interface utilization metrics
by Kania, Piotr 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

Hello Everyone, I want to pull interface utilization metrics from mysql DB and make it a daily report. Got bunch devices I am interested in, each of them has got few interfaces I would like to get metrics for. Graphs are showing all the info I would like to get from DB like max, min and avg values for In and Out octets. Where in DB I can find historical data for device XXX, interface YYY, date ZZZ. So far I was able to run something like below, but that doesn't give me any option to select historical data. I must say that I was browsing through whole DB table by table and I couldn't find anything related to previous dates. My query: select dev.sysName, dev.device_id, prt.port_id, prt.ifSpeed, prt.ifInOctets, prt.ifInOctets_rate, prt.ifInOctets_perc, prt.ifOutOctets, prt.ifOutOctets_rate, prt.ifOutOctets_perc from observium.devices as dev inner join observium.ports as prt on dev.device_id = prt.device_id where dev.sysName = 'XXX' and prt.port_label = 'Eth2' Any help hips, guides are more than appreciated. Regards, Piotr Kania CREDIT SUISSE (POLAND) SP. Z O.O. Credit Suisse CoE OPS Wroclaw | Monitoring & Instrumentation Solutions, MBHJ 711 Atrium 2 | Warsaw 00-849 | EMEA Phone +48 22 359 8668 piotr.kania(a)credit-suisse.com<mailto:piotr.kania@credit-suisse.com> | www.credit-suisse.com<http://www.credit-suisse.com> =============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ===============================================================================

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OSPF discovery & CISCO-VPC-MIB
by Marian Rychtecky 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

Hi Adam and all Observium enthusiasts, I have two questions. First - is there any trick to find out why OSPF discovery is working on one router and not the other? I have the global setting enabled, and the OSPF module is enabled too, but only 1 router is being discovered as OSPF enabled. Am I missing something? Second - any plans integrating CISCO-VPC-MIB for vPC pairs of Cisco Nexus switches? Thank you very much for any response, Marian -- Marian Rychtecký mr(a)nix.cz Phone +420 724 397 441 NIX.CZ z.s.p.o. Americká 23, Praha 2 130 52 Czech Republic http://www.nix.cz

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Need Explain about Legend Details on DiskIO Graph
by Aulia Rahman 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Dear All, Can someone explain me the details of legend on Disk IO page refers to ? Health > Disk I/O: First graph with legend bps "<" & ">" (blue and green graph) What does k, M, none suffix mean ? Second graph with legend Operations/sec "Rx" & "Tx" (red & orange graph) What does m, u, none suffix mean ?

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best practices regarding interface switching and historical data
by Arne Van Theemsche 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

Hi, I was wondering how you guys tackle the problem of changing the port of (e.g. your transit uplink) to another physical port & historical data. Since rrd's are stored under "port-<snmpid>" format, this event causes you by default to loose your historical data. Or even worse, you have to change your routing engine with a more recent version, and after replacing it seems all your snmp id's are changed. this is certainly of importance for our interfaces which have a label that automatically creates aggregates graphs. How I do this until now is copying the rrd file to the new location, but this seems so... dirty kind regards Arene

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emails alerts stopped working
by Pieter Meyer 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Hi, Seems Email alerts stopped working, we are currently using Observium 21.2.10990 email.inc.php ./test_alert.php -c 3 Observium 21.2.10990 Test Alert Notification o Notifying [email] Default alert email: {"email":"cvtvoice(a)convergedgroup.net"}PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /opt/observium/includes/alerting/email.inc.php on line 131 Regards Pieter Meyer Converged Group | Licensed ISP 0258/IECNS/JAN/09 75 Witkoppen Rd, North Riding, Gauteng, 2162 Office: +27 10 591 4600 | Mobile: +27 83 233 6614

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wrong values in billing module
by Volker Lieder 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Hi, we are using the Pro/Subscription and use the billing module. A customer of us notices us, that the billing information is wrong. I checked information from billing module for december for the customer (95/5 374Mbit). Also i check 95/5 of the port directly i get a value of 204Mbit, 95/5 How is this difference possible? Any other persons here with same problems? Best regards, Volker

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Device & bad_if_regexp
by Arrigo 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Hi All. Is there a way to associate a device in /bad_if_regexp /parameter in /config.php /file? I mean: I want to exclude "GigabitEthernet0/3/4.*" subinterfaces on a specific device, but the same interface is also on other devices. My actual config.php setup is: $config['bad_if_regexp'][] = "/GigabitEthernet0\/3\/4\.[123]+/"; $config['bad_if_regexp'][] = "/GigabitEthernet0\/3\/4\.[456789][0-9]{0,2}$/"; Thanks, Arrigo.

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Ubuntu update problem.
by Peltokangas Mikko 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

Hello, I updated my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04 and my Observium wont update devices events anymore. Services are up, but where I should search problem? I have latest updates from Observium (20.21.10924) -- Terveisin, Mikko Peltokangas, järjestelmäasiantuntija Alavuden kaupunki gsm:+358-44-516 3120 (myös Whatsapp) email:mikko.peltokangas@alavus.fi

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Arista switches per-VLAN traffic stats?
by Adam Thompson 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

I observe (pun not intended) that on our Arista switches, unlike the Cisco NX9ks we run, Observium isn’t able to collect per-VLAN traffic stats. This is kind of a problem for us… Arista’s willing to help diagnose, but wants to know what MIB trees are being polled to gather this info. Can anyone tell me what MIBs / OID trees Observium is looking for? Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

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PHP error after update
by luca＠sasdelli.it 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php on line 540 .and blank web page with HTTP ERROR 500 Any hint? Thanks Luca

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mysql poller times increased 2x after Maria DB upgrade from 5.x to 10.3
by Edvinas Kairys 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

hello, Mysql poller times increased 2x after Maria DB upgrade from 5.x to 10.3 [image: image.png] I dont know if this is supposed to be or not ? dunno if i 'feel' any slowness, but i want to ask for your info. Thanks for any input

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local db vs remote
by Edvinas Kairys 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Hello, I see that Observium supports remote database, recently when i was thinking how to autobackup database, i came accross to the idea that i could use remote db functionality to send db data to some centralized location. Has anybode tried to use remote db for Observium ? Thanks

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