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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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Syslog view sort order by date
by Stempien, Dave 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Hello, Is it possible to sort the syslog messages in both the syslog view and in the dashboard widget by date? The event log shows newest entries on top but syslog shows oldest (which is 30 days – the number of days in our case that we retain syslog data). Thanks, -- David Stempien, University of Rochester University IT - Core Technology Services Tel: 585.276.6957 Email: david.stempien(a)rochester.edu<mailto:david.stempien@rochester.edu>

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Polling partitioning / distributed polling
by Brad Bendy 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Hi, I've set this up per what I can find in the docs. Master server has RRDcached running, MySQL and web server. I have another server acting as poller server. I go to that server and add hosts, the host add find. All the graphs are failing and on the local server i t shows nothing in the RRD dir (which is right I would think), on the remote hosts it shows RRD files but when I do a debug I see "file already exists" and it does on the remote server. Looking at the rrd.journal file I see updates being issued and see no errors. On the polling server I have added: $config['rrdcached'] = "x.x.x.x:42217"; $config['rrd']['no_local'] = TRUE; And updated cron to: */5 * * * * observium /opt/observium/observium-wrapper -i 1 -n 0 discovery --host new >> /dev/null 2>&1 # Run multithreaded poller wrapper every 5 minutes */5 * * * * observium /opt/observium/observium-wrapper -i 1 -n 0 poller >> /dev/null 2>&1 As I have one poller server and this is the first one. I see no other errors in other logs but all graphs show "error drawing graph". Is there something else in my config I am missing to make this work? Thanks

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support for PacketLight - in-progress case OBS-3176
by Henrik Aarfeldt 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Hi, There is an in-progress case with support for PacketLight DWDM boxes. It seems to be from December 2019 and with Mike Stupalov as assignee. https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3176?jql=text%20~%20%22packetlight%22 Any news regarding when this will be working ? We have some new PacletLight boxes we would like to monitor, and there dosen't seem to be any sensors available. TIA. -- Henrik Aarfeldt Region Hovedstaden Center for IT, Medico & Telefoni (CIMT) Borgervænget 7, 3. sal 2100 København Ø ________________________________ Region Hovedstaden anvender de personoplysninger, du giver os i forbindelse med din henvendelse. Du kan læse mere om formålet med anvendelsen samt dine rettigheder på vores hjemmeside: www.regionh.dk/persondatapolitik

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Graph Data Missing after Upgrade RAM
by Aulia Rahman 11 Nov '20

11 Nov '20

Dear All, I'm using Observium 20.1.10233 (stable) Enterprise version. Observium sometime error on database when access from web Image1.jpeg At that time the graph stop add new data. there's a notification in console like picture below, so I need to restart the database service. image2.png Access server and try to see HTOP image3.png Then check the log image4.png After restart database service, the graph starts to add new data again. Then, I upgraded the server RAM from 12 GB to 24 GB on 9 November 2020 at night. This server uses ramdisk configuration on SSD. After the server booted up the graph didn't add new data until today 11 November 2020 at 00:00 the graph started to add new data again. But, all previous data graphs on all devices before 11 November 2020 are missing. Here's the screenshot for the missing data for example on one device after upgrade. image5.png Here's the HTOP from the observium server after upgrade image6.png I've restore to date 8 and 7 November but the all graph show "Draw Graph Error" image7.jpeg & image8.jpeg When check the rrd folder from the server restore, It just only show a few device folder. I assume that folder still hold on ramdisk, but if I see log for ramdisk it sync every 2-5 minutes to hardisk. Please tell me step-by-step how to troubleshoot & recover it. All image you can see on this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u8sx3_a_qJN9Kpr_gmgEND3MsV4Vd0Vj?us… Demikian yang dapat kami sampaikan, terimakasih. Regards, Aulia Rahman

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Trial version for a period of 30 days, “3data”company.
by Alexander Agoshkov 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, Being the representatives of one of the largest data centers in Russia – “3data”company, we are considering the use of Observium system to monitor our network. At the moment, the testing of the monitoring of our network with the help of the Community version has given us completely positive results. We would like to transfer to the paid Professional version, but before it we need to have some additional testing on the Professional version. Therefore, we would like to ask you for a trial version for a period of 30 days. We also would like to express our gratitude for your creating and developing of the monitoring system and we are looking forward to our further cooperation. Yours faithfully, Agoshkov Alexander | IT support engineer | 3data Premium Data Centers +7 (495) 800-18-00 | + 7 (963) 762-48-04 | aag(a)3data.ru<mailto:aag@3data.ru> | 3data.ru<http://3data.ru/>

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Rancid git with remote pollers
by Brad Bendy 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Hi, I know this is slightly off topic but was wondering if anyone has ran into this. We have rancid on our remote pollers working and grabbing configs. Now on a single Observium instance you just enable it in the config and the integration works spot on as the SVN/GIT is local. Has anyone got this to work where they store the configs locally on the remote poller and then push a copy to the master observium box so they show up in the GUI? Or are you using a central GIT server on the master and just the proper settings in the rancid.conf file? Thanks

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Observium Entreprise Edition and multiple pollers?
by Johann Mallet 06 Nov '20

06 Nov '20

Hello, Do you have any guide about Entreprise Edition? How do multiple pollers working on different servers work? Do we need to use RRDCached and/or NFS shares? Or poller instances store on local servers and Observium interface make proxy for RRD data? Best Regards, Johann

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Widget Configuration
by Ahmed Rahal 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Hi ! I saw that the widgets on dashboards can have specific configurations (database table 'dash_widgets', field 'widget_config') but I seem to find no documentation about this. Also the UI somehow does not allow me to change any of the parameters. Am I missing something here ? Ahmed.

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alerts examples / service monitoring
by Luis Olavarrieta 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

Hey guys, i am trying to set a group alarm where all my routers are on it. But I am not able to have it set correctly, and in the alerts configurations webpage is not clear enough. Can you please help me on how to set an alarm for any item on a group when a router is down? Also, is there some other page to learn about alarm creations? Also, now that I am sending this email, I need to check services (apache / sql / etc) I saw there was a couple of scripts to be set into the snmp.conf file, how can I create other to monitor different services? Thanks in advace!!!

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MSSQL monitoring
by Rando Sui 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Hello, Has anybody developed some additional metrics for MSSQL WMI monitoring? Is there instructions how to advance or add new metrics for MSSQL? Greetings, Rando Sui.

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Re: [Observium] Windows Service, Alerts
by Christos Aivazoglou 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

Hello guys, Sorry to bother again, Can anyone help * Is there any alert rule to monitor windows service if is running or not ? (WINDOWS) * Is there any way to monitor and also create alert based on power machine state? (ESXI) Thank you very much Best regards, Christos Aivazoglou VIPA Group <http://www.vipa.ch/> www.vipa.ch This e-mail, and any files and attachments transmitted with it, is confidential. It is intended for the sole use of the named recipients(s) only. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify us by replying to this message and then permanently delete it. Any views and opinions expressed are those of the individual author/sender and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by VIPA Lausanne S.A. or any associated or related company. This e-mail transmission is not binding for the purposes of forming a contract and does not form a contractual obligation of any type From: Christos Aivazoglou <christos.aivazoglou(a)vipa.ch> Sent: Δευτέρα, 26 Οκτωβρίου 2020 12:43 μμ To: 'observium(a)observium.org' <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: 'adama(a)observium.org' <adama(a)observium.org> Subject: Windows Service, Alerts Hello All, * Is there any alert rule to monitor windows service if is running or not ? (WINDOWS) * Is there any way to monitor and also create alert based on power machine state? (ESXI) Thank you very much. Best regards, Christos Aivazoglou VIPA Group <http://www.vipa.ch/> www.vipa.ch This e-mail, and any files and attachments transmitted with it, is confidential. It is intended for the sole use of the named recipients(s) only. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify us by replying to this message and then permanently delete it. Any views and opinions expressed are those of the individual author/sender and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by VIPA Lausanne S.A. or any associated or related company. This e-mail transmission is not binding for the purposes of forming a contract and does not form a contractual obligation of any type

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Event log noise
by John Borrow 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

Hi all, Our event log is clogging up with multiple current and voltage threshold entries, for example see below; Current gi24 PoE Current above threshold: 0.158 A (> 0.1155 A) Current gi3 PoE Current above threshold: 0.115 A (> 0.102 A) Voltage gi24 PoE Voltage above threshold: 119 V (> 63.25 V) Voltage gi9 PoE Voltage above threshold: 113 V (> 60.95 V) Apologies if this is a dumb question, as I'm knew to the software, but does anyone know a good way of removing these entries besides adjusting the threshold of every network device. Monitoring voltages and currents isn't a high priority for us, so happy to turn these off globally. Many thanks for your help. Regards, John Borrow Systems Administrator T: 02 8438 9432 M: 0419 269267 BENEDICT HEAD OFFICE 11a Narabang Way, Belrose NSW 2085 PO Box 431, Frenchs Forest NSW 1640 T (02) 9986 3500 www.benedict.com.au

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Additional portpercent element/widget on frontpage?
by Gumilar Siegfried MSc. 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

Hello! I would love to be able to add a second Traffic Comparison (portpercent) with different port groups to our dashboard. Is that somehow possible? Right now I can add a second "Traffic Composition" Widget in the dashboard edit mode, but it still uses the same port groups as the other one. This is how our current configuration looks like: $config['frontpage']['order'] = array('status_summary', 'map', 'overall_traffic', 'portpercent', 'device_status', 'altert_table', 'syslog', 'eventlog'); $config['frontpage']['portpercent']['Peering'] = array('group' => 5); $config['frontpage']['portpercent']['Transit'] = array('group' => 6); $config['frontpage']['portpercent']['options'] = array('graph_format' => 'single'); In my opinion, it would be best if you could simply use portpercent2, for example, to configure the next widget. Regards, Siegfried

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Deleted wrong device...
by Basile Bluntschli 28 Oct '20

28 Oct '20

Hi All anyone any good ideas to restore a device which was deleted...? The RRDs are still in place. However this device is not currently in production anymore. But it is needed for the statistics older then 10 Months... Any ideas? Kind regards Basile

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graphing total PoE
by Eric W. Bates 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

We use a lot of cisco 2960 PoE switches in stacks and we want to know the total demand of the stack. Currently Observium gives us a separate "PoE Group n" for each switch in the stack so those are handy subtotals. But is there a way to create a custom graph with the sum of all the PoE Groups? -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112

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top VLANs
by Farshid Abediny 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hello, we have around 800x VLANs for 6-7x Switches, is there anyway sort VLANs by pps or bps and show top 10 somewhere? thank you.

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Discovery ignore hosts
by Lars Joergensen 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hi I have this pattern in ignore hosts: [cid:image001.png@01D6A93A.177F62F0] But this one keeps getting discovered every day: [cid:image002.png@01D6A93A.177F62F0] Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Device Graphs are not drawing
by Dulanjaya Oshaka 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hello I am an absolute beginner to Observium and Linux. I installed Observium in my environment as Syslog and SNMP server. I added some Cisco Catalyst 9500 series, 9200 and Nexus N3k Series switches. After I added those devices, In some devices are not drawing Graphs (like System, Traffic statistics etc). What is the issue for this and How I fix this? I have another question. I need to add more Hard disk space to my ubuntu VM that I installed in Observium. But there is some issue to expand my root disk. I installed Observium also in my Root partition. Because of this I have planned to create an another partition using LVM and move Observium to that partition. Is this possible? If so, How I do that and How can I see the mount point in Observium? Thanks and Regards Dulanjaya Oshaka

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Windows Service, Alerts
by Christos Aivazoglou 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hello All, * Is there any alert rule to monitor windows service if is running or not ? (WINDOWS) * Is there any way to monitor and also create alert based on power machine state? (ESXI) Thank you very much. Best regards, Christos Aivazoglou VIPA Group <http://www.vipa.ch/> www.vipa.ch This e-mail, and any files and attachments transmitted with it, is confidential. It is intended for the sole use of the named recipients(s) only. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify us by replying to this message and then permanently delete it. Any views and opinions expressed are those of the individual author/sender and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by VIPA Lausanne S.A. or any associated or related company. This e-mail transmission is not binding for the purposes of forming a contract and does not form a contractual obligation of any type

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Cisco Wifi APs registered twice
by Lars Joergensen 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Hi We had a power mishap which resulted in the Cisco wifi controller rebooting. After that all the AP's got registered twice in observium. Deleting the controller and re-adding it didn't clear up the issue. I manually deleted all entries from the wifi_aps table and got the thing working correct. It's not a big issue, but it should be an easy change to only add unique APs, based on name or MAC, to the database. Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Graphs keep reset randomly and losing previous history
by Gordon Cheng (gocheng) 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

Hi Adam and Observium team: We recently started having an issue with our Observium (20.9.10749) that the graphs for different devices would restart and all its previous history would be gone: [Graphical user interface Description automatically generated] And we usually see the following ‘messages’ under /var/log around that time: Oct 18 05:07:13 sjc-observium-1 rrdcached[1495]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd) failed with status -1. (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1603020715 when last update time is 1603021928 (minimum one second step)) Oct 19 05:12:05 sjc-observium-1 rrdcached[14841]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd) failed with status -1. (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1603106221 when last update time is 1603108322 (minimum one second step)) Oct 20 05:32:47 sjc-observium-1 rrdcached[14471]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd) failed with status -1. (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1603194156 when last update time is 1603194737 (minimum one second step)) We have tried restarting the rrdcached process, and deleting the rrdcached files which are not updated for some time (with the command “find * -type f -mtime +5 -delete” under the rrd directory). But they don’t help much. Do you have any suggestions how we can further investigate and troubleshoot this? Thanks. - Gordon

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Error drawing graph (can not parse an empty rpn expression)
by McGregor, Kevin 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

I just upgraded from 19.8 to 20.9 CE. In both I've been having the same problem: Everything works as expected, except two devices (of 19) produce a big pink box instead of a chart for the "Ports" widget on the Overview page for the devices. The chart is titled "Error Drawing Graph". Other similar devices (same OS version, etc.) all show a normal-looking chart in the same place. The devices are "SunOS <hostname> 5.11 11.4.25.75.3 sun4v". Most other devices of the same version work, just not two of them. When I click on the chart, I get the Ports page and a bigger version of the same chart. Selecting "RRD Command" produces this below the pink box: Description Device total traffic in bits/sec. Performance & Output RRDTool Output: ERROR: can not parse an empty rpn expression RRDtool Runtime: 0.011s | Total time: 0.012s RRDTool Command /usr/bin/rrdtool graph /tmp/DZSTkOrAZmZQeckq.png -g -Y --alt-autoscale --rigid --start 1603133061 --end 1603219461 --width 1152 --height 300 -c BACK#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEA#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEB#EEEEEE00 -c FONT#000000 -c CANVAS#FFFFFF00 -c GRID#a5a5a5 -c MGRID#FF9999 -c FRAME#5e5e5e -c ARROW#5e5e5e -R normal --font LEGEND:8:'DroidSansMono,DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DroidSansMono,DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal -E CDEF:inB= CDEF:outB= CDEF:octets=inB,outB,+ CDEF:doutB=outB,-1,* CDEF:inbits=inB,8,* CDEF:outbits=outB,8,* CDEF:bits=inbits,outbits,+ CDEF:doutbits=doutB,8,* VDEF:95thin=inbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:95thout=outbits,95,PERCENT CDEF:pout_tmp=doutbits,-1,* VDEF:dpout_tmp=pout_tmp,95,PERCENT CDEF:dpout_tmp2=doutbits,doutbits,-,dpout_tmp,-1,*,+ VDEF:d95thout=dpout_tmp2,FIRST VDEF:totin=inB,TOTAL VDEF:avein=inbits,AVERAGE VDEF:totout=outB,TOTAL VDEF:aveout=outbits,AVERAGE VDEF:tot=octets,TOTAL COMMENT:' \l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:'Total Rx' GPRINT:inbits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totin:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:' Tx' GPRINT:outbits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totout:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:' Agg' GPRINT:bits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:tot:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:0#999999 RRDTool Files Used /opt/observium/rrd/<hostname>/port-2.rrd /opt/observium/rrd/<hostname>/port-1.rrd Would someone please give me a place to start looking for the problem? Thanks!

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