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Re: [Observium] Question regarding switch Ports
by Klimek, Denis 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Hi Fredrik, you can try creating a custom port group of relevant ports and ask for a feature request in Observium Jira to add „Percentage View“ in „Aggregate Graphs“ view for custom port groups. Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Carrier Manager & Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: +49 (0) 40 / 521 04 – 1049 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/> Von: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> im Auftrag von Svensson Fredrik A via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Antworten an: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Datum: Mittwoch, 15. April 2020 um 15:19 An: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Svensson Fredrik A <fredrik.a.svensson(a)rjl.se> Betreff: [Observium] Question regarding switch Ports Hello! We have this nice status-graph in observium: [cid:image001.png@01D6133A.DAFA3570] Is it possible to get an output of a procentage of used user-ports? In my example I have 17/27 = 63% utilization of ports. I dont want to count in ports that are shutdown, often trunk or sfp-ports. Vlan interfaces /port-channels and so on is also counted as UP, but I dont really care about that. Regards Fredrik

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Observium on CentOS 8
by Michael Spaulding 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

Has anyone had any luck installing Observium on Centos/RHEL 8 yet? And is there any plan to support it in the future? I'm trying to do so and not getting any errors, but I've also been unable to get the graphing to work. The only packages I've been unable to install are php-sodium and MySQL-python, but I got the impression they weren't absolutely necessary from the basic software requirements. The RRD commands appear to run correctly: RRDTool Output: 1233x369 RRDtool Runtime: 0.073s | Total time: 0.074s Michael Spaulding | Systems Administrator Information Technology | Division of Student Affairs 1259 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-1259 ph: 979.458.9223 | mspaulding(a)tamu.edu | doit.tamu.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

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Problems with Customer graphs since upgrading
by Shawn L 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

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Mikrotik SNMP issue
by Pieter Meyer 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

Hi Guys I have picked up that some things has changed on the Mikrotik Mib, I have seen the below in the eventlog, This causes that you cannot filter for CHR routers under devices Hardware changed: 'CHR' -> '' Serial changed: 'xxxxxxxxxx' -> '' 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 map <https://goo.gl/maps/WHe3soT1fHm> | website <http://www.convergedgroup.net/> | company blog <http://www.convergedgroup.net/blog/> | linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/company/converged-telecoms> CAUTION: This email and any attachments may contain information that is confidential and subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately and erase this email and any attachments. Thank you. DISCLAIMER: To the maximum extent permitted by law, Converged Group is not liable (including in respect of negligence) for viruses or other defects or for changes made to this email or to any attachments. Before opening or using attachments, check them for viruses and other defects. The information contained in this document is confidential to the addressee and is not the view nor the official policy of Converged Group unless otherwise stated.

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Using Observium after moving VM
by Leo Dano 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

Hello all, Been scratching my head on this one. All I did is move the Observium VM from one network to another (closed). I cannot seem to figure out why I cannot add new hosts. No firewalls in the way. SNMP verified running on the host. Hosts are pinging each other. Is there a command to verify what is wrong between Observium and a host and why it's not adding? I am using public as the SNMP community name. One thing that does seem odd is this message when trying to add a host. No reply on given community *** using v2c, it showing the 3 asterisks versus it saying public. Any suggestions would be awesome! Leo

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Apache dies with Segmentation Fault
by Beulen, Klaus 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

Hi, we are currently using Observium CE 19.8.10000 as a test installation to monitor part of our switch/router infrastructure (currently about 290 devices, mostly Cisco). From time to time we have problems accessing the UI, the web browser just answers "Page does not work - observium did not send an answer - ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE". When I check the error.log in /var/logs/apache, I find lots of lines like ... [Wed Apr 08 14:44:44.362412 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1367] AH00051: child pid 27005 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2 [Wed Apr 08 14:44:44.362479 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1367] AH00051: child pid 1696 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2 [Wed Apr 08 14:44:53.366005 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1367] AH00051: child pid 7903 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2 ... Is this a known bug/error in this version, or did I eventually configure something wrong? All packages are up to date ("apt update; apt upgrade"). Regards, Klaus.

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How to exclude temperature sensors from virtual machines?
by Thomas Stather 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi We are using Observium Professional: 20.2.10301 (rolling) Some of our VMs (ESXi) have temperature sensors shown in Observium (either green 100deg. or red 0deg.). This doesn't make any sense and i am searching for a way to disable this. The strange thing is that this happens only for some of our VMs (regardless of the distribution). Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV, VCP6.5-DCV Tel: +49 6221 486 628 Fax: +49 6221 486 561 Bevor Sie diese Mail ausdrucken, prüfen Sie bitte ob dies wirklich nötig ist. Umweltschutz geht uns alle an!

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FortiGate Firewall Sessions counter lost
by Wouter de Man 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Professional version, upgrade from 20.2.10261 to 20.4.10354. Since this upgrade, the counter 'Firewall Sessions', which reflected the sessions just fine on the FortiGate, are deleted.

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An Event Log annoyance
by Richard Kuhns 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hello, I'm currently running Observium 20.4.10353(rolling) in my test (home office) environment. I had to restart everything 2 days ago when I brought in a new desk and rearranged. I'm monitoring 4 devices: a server (running observium), a Cisco ASA 5505 firewall, a Cisco wireless access point, and an APC UPS with Web/SNMP Management card. Everything is working fine since the restart, except that every 5 minutes I get a new entry in the Event log telling me about how my ASA rebooted; I'm attaching a screenshot. That's the only device that's showing up in the event log. How can I convince observium that it doesn't need to keep telling me about it? Thanks, - Richard -- Richard Kuhns <rjk(a)wintek.com> Systems Administrator Wintek Powered by Tipmont Main: 765-742-8428 Direct: 765-269-8541

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svn.log not updated?
by Svensson Fredrik A 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi all, https://www.observium.org/svn.log Is this not updated anymore? I have found it very good to see if there are any news for my equipment. Regards Fredrik

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Issues with IP SLA
by Cartas, Mauro S. 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

Hello experts, Need some help to understand how observium handles IPSLA probes links. We have a fully working weathermap with IP sla information (jitter, echo, etc) all nice with nodes and links. Links are configured this way: LINK A-B INFOURL /graphs/type=sla_jitter/id=10495/ OVERLIBGRAPH /graph.php?height=100&width=512&id=10495&type=sla_jitter&legend=no INBWFORMAT {link:this:bandwidth_in:%0} OUTBWFORMAT {link:this:bandwidth_out:%d} BWLABELPOS 50 50 TARGET gauge:../../rrd/router_A/sla_jitter-cisco-rttmon-mib-1100020-LMR_IO.rrd:rtt:rtt NODES Chicago Washington BANDWIDTH 34 Now the problem that we have is that when observium server loses connectivity with router_A (i.e. network outage, check below) It will generate a new ID for the link to the graphic hence we have to go to the editor and update INFOURL and OVERLIBGRAPH ID values. As shown below the ID is 12961 for SLA 1100020 whereas above the ID configured was 10495. [cid:image002.jpg@01D6075C.16B03280] [cid:image006.jpg@01D6075C.16B03280] This becomes very annoying as we cannot maintain a fully working IPSLA map and we're not sure why it's constantly generating new ids. [cid:image007.jpg@01D6075C.16B03280] Hope there is a way to force this ID not to change and remain static no matter what happens as the device ID never changes. Thanks in advance! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauro S. Cartas Global WAN Team Contact: E-mail: acc-ngwan(a)accenture.com<mailto:acc-ngwan@accenture.com> Phone 1: +91 80 496 61103 (GMT 00:00 to 10:00 on weekdays and any time on Weekends) Phone 2: +420 225 071 060 (GMT 07:00 to 24:00 on weekdays only) ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. Your privacy is important to us. Accenture uses your personal data only in compliance with data protection laws. For further information on how Accenture processes your personal data, please see our privacy statement at https://www.accenture.com/us-en/privacy-policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com

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07 Apr '20

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Traffic Comparison widget wrong after moving interfaces between routers
by Darrell Budic 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

Folk, I recently added some new routers and then moved interfaces from the old to the new. The transit and peering graphs picked up the new interfaces just fine, but the Traffic Comparison widget on the front page hasn’t. Any ideas on getting it to update? Observium pro 20.3.10324 (stable). I’ve tried deleting and re-adding the widget, and it’s had a discovery run since the change. Thanks, -Darrell

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Alerting switch stack status
by Eric W. Bates 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

I want to alert whenever one switch in a stack drops out. And I need help composing a checker. Specifically, I have stacks of cisco 2960-X switches linked via flex stack modules such that they appear as a single switch for purposes of ping'ing or snmp. On occasion, one switch in the stack will fail, but the rest of the stack stays on-line and continues to respond to pings, etc. I believe I want to watch the Status entity: Stack is redundant CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB::cswRingRedundant.0 https://mibs.observium.org/mib/CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB/#cswRingRedundant Each stacking module has two cables and one runs cables such that all the switches are in a big loop. cswRingRedundant is a boolean that indicates that such a loop is intact. So it will be False if a switch dies or simply if a cable is unplugged (also a desirable alert). If the switch is a standalone with no stacking modules installed, you get: "No Such Object available on this agent at this OID" I've created a Status entry: <?xml version="1.0"?> <templates> <template type="alert" description="Autogenerated observium template" version="0.91" created="Wed, 01 Apr 2020 11:51:32 -0400" observium="20.2.10302" id="fbe29724e648671f6e2095e9425d7515"> <entity_type>status</entity_type> <name>2960_stack_loop_redundancy</name> <message>Stack loop redundancy has failed (might be a missing stack switch)</message> <severity>crit</severity> <suppress_recovery>0</suppress_recovery> <delay>0</delay> <conditions_and>1</conditions_and> <conditions>status_name == Stack is redundant</conditions> <conditions>status_event == warn</conditions> <conditions_complex>status_name == Stack is redundant AND status_event == warn</conditions_complex> </template> </templates> It doesn't appear to be working (I have one switch with a cable unplugged it should alert on). Do I just have to wait 5 minutes? Or does it read the status from the database? Is that the correct "status_name?" I copied it from the Health --> Status page "Description" column. Should it be quoted? The export XML doesn't include the associations, but I included: device.hardware regexp /.*WS-C2960X-.*/ I don't really know what the value of "device.hardware" might be, but I'm assuming it's the same as the field labeled "Vendor/Hardware" shown on the front page for a given switch? Thanks for your time. -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112 -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112

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Port group and aggregated graphs
by Daniel Johansson 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Hi I added a port group to be able to have an aggregated graph but the graph does not seems to aggregate the ports usage in one graph. See the attached pictures as reference. Site1 have 137Mbit in and 160Mbit out and a spike at over 200Mbit Site2 have 38Mbit in and 80 out and a spike at over 140Mbit The aggregated graph does not show much more than a bit over 100Mbit both in and out in total and with the spike it should show around 340Mbit What has caused this irregularity to happen and should it be like this? ---- Regards Daniel

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Aggregate Graphs of Application Data??
by Altheide, Richard 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Does Observium have a capability to present aggregate graphs of data collected from applications like it has for port data? For example, I would like an aggregate graph of my OpenVPN connections from multiple servers. Richard Altheide Network Engineer, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Query Regarding professional licence renewal
by Mohammed Kokani 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Dear Experts, Need some clarification on licence renewal. We had auto-renewal for professional licence, but save card for payment was expired and we updated new card details for renewal, unfortunately our finance team purchased new licence it seems, can we cancel the new purchase and renew the old licence. Your response is highly appreciated. *Thanks & Regards* *Mohammed Suhail | System Engineer* *Tel : +1-888-853-7733* PGP Fingerprint : 026B 6CEB CC08 152D 9372 0F51 DDFB 6758 6924 FBCC [image: cid:image016.png@01D321AA.4A00A6F0]

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sort by bps or pps
by Farshid Abediny 29 Mar '20

29 Mar '20

Hello, I want to know can we have a dashboard and sort port switches by pps or bps ? THank you.

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Re: [Observium] Dynamic Network Map
by Chris Wopat 28 Mar '20

28 Mar '20

This does exist, go to <your_url>/map.php Its use varies greatly on the number of devices you have. It uses `dot` from `graphviz` which you must have installed and configured in config.php ($config['dot']) Also each port shows LLDP neighbors if you go to /neighbors/, and there should be a sub-tab of an interface called 'Map' to show you 1 level of connections. Also, please share your php7 changes for weathermap to that project, we did similar a few years ago but Im not sure if they actually got committed. > > From: Richard Wigzell [mailto:richard.wigzell@it.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 10:21 AM > To: Methe, Mike <mmethe(a)brattlebororetreat.org>; 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: RE: Dynamic Network Map > > Yes, we already make extensive use of the php-weathermap plugin with some code modifications to better support php7. > > What we are looking for is something that will dynamically draw a network relationship map using XDP data, with the ability to limit the scope to a defined set of devices. > > Weathermap is good for showing network utilization of infrastructure networks (well understood, defined use and good documentation) but not so useful for our ad-hoc or campus stuff (so yeah we don't know what this switch in this cupboard is for but if it goes off this breaks etc). >

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Dynamic Network Map
by Richard Wigzell 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Hello, This is a feature we would find very useful, a dynamic network map that can be confined to a defined group of switches (e.g. from LibreNMS https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Network-Map/ ). Is this something Observium can already do? Or something that could be added? We are currently using Observium Enterprise (20.2.10291) and have zero interest in also running LibreNMS (or anything else) but this is feature we would really appreciate. The use case we are trying to address is the new on boarding of campus networks previously run by local IT that now fall under our remit (often with little or very poor or just wrong documentation). Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CE9215.D39244B0]<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> Richard Wigzell Technical Lead, Storage Platforms IT Services | University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN T: 01865 616282 www.it.ox.ac.uk<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/>

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Microsoft Direct Access and SNMP
by Daniel Johansson 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Hi I'm wondering if anyone on the list uses MS DA server and can get any good statistics from it to show in observium. Either directly supporten in observium or via custom OID. Right now I'm looking to graph information about how many users are connected at the same time. ---- Regards Daniel

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Re: [Observium] asterisk?
by Tony Guadagno 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Observium….is this something you would consider adding? Tony From: Tony Guadagno via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 8:01 AM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] asterisk? Well, the response is overwhelming!!!!! I think it would be a great addition to add asterisk snmp support! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!! Tony From: Josh Benner via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 7:54 AM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Josh Benner<mailto:joshb@aweber.com> Subject: Re: [Observium] asterisk? We use asterisk, and at my last job we ran hundreds of asterisk servers. -- Josh Benner Team Lead - Platform Support Engineering Send smarter emails based on open and click tags. AWeber Automations is here.<https://www.aweber.com/email-automation.htm?utm_source=awemail&utm_medium=e…> …And We’re Hiring!<https://www.aweber.com/careers.htm?utm_source=awemail&utm_medium=email&utm_…> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:21 PM adama--- via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: Hi, I’m not sure if we actually have any collection for that. How reliable/stable is it? I seem to recall we have an asterisk agent app that uses the CLI tools to collect data? You can use the custom oid stuff, but it’s a pain/impossible if there are indexed tables. How widespread is asterisk use amongst the userbase these days? Adam. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 19 March 2020 20:13 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] asterisk? Sorry, hit send too soon https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+MIB+Definitions tony From: Tony Guadagno via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:12 PM To: Chris Macneill via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: [Observium] asterisk? Hi, i have configured my freepbx server (asterisk 16) for snmp and observium is showing it as a Linux server. I have asterisk configured for snmp, can observium be configured to show asterisk data? This is a link to the mib Tony Guadagno Guadagno Consulting O +1 585 577 1003 C +1 585 703 6700 E tonyg(a)guadagnoconsulting.com<mailto:tonyg@guadagnoconsulting.com> _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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- Possibility of https certificate validity alert?
by David Schrok 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hello everyone, Was wondering if it possible for Observium to create an alert for https certificate validity check? Anyone managed to do this or is it not possible? In an ideal case I want an alert 90 days before the certificate expires. With kind regards David S.

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Run script after discovery (hook)
by Klimek, Denis 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hi all, due some vendor bug’s, mistakes, fails I would to run an external script after Observium finished the process of discovering. Is there any available method to execute a external script after discovery.php finished the check of a device? Stay health. Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Carrier Manager & Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: +49 (0) 40 / 521 04 – 1049 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/>

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How to add per Port Graphs?
by Meyer, Florian 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Hi Guys, I need to add some per port graphs via definitions. Does anybody have experience in adding new graphs to the port-graphs? Regards, i. A. Florian Meyer IT-Systemadministrator Dezernat IT Universitätsmedizin Rostock Rembrandtstr. 17a 18057 Rostock Tel.: +49 381 494 3364 Fax: +49 381 494 3302 <http://it.med.uni-rostock.de/> http://it.med.uni-rostock.de Tel. Network Operations Center: +49 381 494 3388

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