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Observium Enterprise Edition
by Ischer Etienne 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hello there, I'm using Observium Professional for quite a time now and I'm interested in the Enterprise edition, but I was not able to find the documentation about it. More precisely, the architecture considerations and how to migrate from professional edition. I would be grateful if someone can point me where I can find those informations. Thx a lot. Regards Etienne

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Show value on graph when hovering over an item
by Luis Londoño 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Would be helpful to be able to see the value of a point on a graph when hovering over it instead of having to look at the left axis and estimate what the value is.

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Memory Info calculated wring for RHEL 7 Device
by Oberreiter Andreas 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Hello all, I have a Red Head Enterprise Linux 7 Device for which the Free Memory is calculated wrong. (I think) All worked fine until 3 Weeks ago, now I get a wrong free memory value. The poller Module for Memopools reads: +-----------------+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ | Label | Type | Index | Total | Used | Free | Perc | +-----------------+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ | Virtual memory | HOST-RESOURCES-MIB | 3 | 47.5GB | 15.2GB | 32.3GB | 31.99% | | Memory buffers | HOST-RESOURCES-MIB | 6 | 15.5GB | 52.4MB | 15.4GB | 0.33% | | Swap space | HOST-RESOURCES-MIB | 10 | 32GB | 602MB | 31.4GB | 1.84% | | Physical Memory | UCD-SNMP-MIB | 0 | 15.5GB | 14.6GB | 912MB | 94.25% | +-----------------+--------------------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ A free -m reads: total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 15871 2629 884 8662 12357 4209 Swap: 32767 602 32165 Kind regards Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ing. Andreas Oberreiter (EDV) -- --- ÖBAU - Nadlinger --- Tel.: 02742/72042-79 Fax.: 02742/72042-7879 mailto:a.oberreiter@nadlinger.at www.nadlinger.at Impressum: Baumarkt Nadlinger Handelsges.m.b.H. Porschestraße 29 3100 St. Pölten Firmenbuch FN 89076 w, LG St. Pölten DVR: 835935 Tel.: +43 2742 72042 Fax.: +43 2742 72042 7800 E-Mail.: mailto:nadlinger@nadlinger.at

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Mailer configuration
by Ray Poorman 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

Hello all, I have tried repeatedly configuring the mailer agent with limited success. The PHP “email” fails to send via hosts as the from address is not working, it ends up sending as root(a)observium.cstreet.local even if I set the from address. When I set it to use postfix/sendmail from localhost I can get emails to send, and the from address is correct, but then it uses an old hostname “devnew65” as the dns name, which gets it rejected. I have been able to get a couple through our local mail server but the outside gets rejected. I have tried using authentication and it just doesn’t work and is rejected before authentication even takes place due to it’s source ip / dns. Any advice? The debug doesn’t show the actual mailing process or the php command or I would just write a quick php script to test it. Ray -- Ray Poorman, CTO CSS Integration & Communications 1911 C St Bellingham WA 98225 360-671-4878

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username in libvirt discovery
by Marcelo Roccasalva 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

Hi, Is there a way to include a username in ssh connection for virtual machines discovery? I have to use qemu+ssh://username@libvirt.host/system Thanks in advance, -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que esta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda)

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Alert transports do not work any more
by Marco Spicuglia 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

Hey Guys, I had a fully functional Observium Enterprise installation up to last week, but no alerts are sent out any more today. The alerts log says my alert has been sent out, but this is not the case. If I check the postfix queue, the email related to that alert is stuck in the queue, as it's trying to send the message to who@where, which is obviously not correct. The contacts are still fine though, 4 in total. Our Telegram group also did not receive any message, which has nothing to do with email. I believe something broke in the transport system. Could anyone help to understand what is going on? It definitely did work before. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Marco

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Custom Dashboards
by Daniel Johansson 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

Hi I just created a custom dashboard. Is it possible to set this one as a new default dashboard? And if that works, is it also possible to set specific custom dashboards / user? Regards Daniel

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Alert checkers triggering on down/0 speed interfaces
by Ryan, Spencer 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

Since updating to 10134 we've seen some odd behavior out of our high interface utilization alerts. The alert itself is very simple, device matches *, entity is ifType equals ethernetCsmacd, and the test conditions are any of: ifInOctets_perc ge 80 ifOutOctets_perc ge 80 Which has worked fine forever. Now it's throwing alarms on an odd mix of devices (UBNT, Palo Alto, Arista, Kemp VLM, Infoblox) for ports that are down/down loopbacks or HA interfaces not connected. All of the ports it is alarming on show this in the data (Speed 0, and down/down): ifSpeed=>0 ifHighSpeed=>0 ifOperStatus=>down ifAdminStatus=>down Any idea what changed or why it's alarming on these now? I'm guessing its trying to do the 80% math on....0 but I'd imagine that shouldn't even run if the port is admin+operationally down. This is a mgmt interface on an arista (which is unconnected and admin down): https://pastebin.com/JsNvre40 As you can see the *_perc calcs are 0, it almost seems some kind of divide by 0 error. Thanks in advance! Spencer Ryan | Senior Systems Administrator | spencer.ryan(a)netscout.com<mailto:spencer.ryan@netscout.com> Arbor Networks | The security division of NETSCOUT +1.734.794.5033 (d) | +1.734.846.2053 (m) www.arbornetworks.com<http://www.arbornetworks.com/>

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Errors in DB.log / No RRD Graphs more
by Wissen, Tobias (EDV) 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

Hi there, i gor several errors in the db.log obs@observium:/opt/observium/logs$ tail db.log [2019/10/18 12:16:24 +0200] poller.php(3286): Failed dbQuery (#1146 - Table 'observium.lsp' doesn't exist), Query: SELECT * FROM `lsp` WHERE `device_id` = '7' [2019/10/18 12:16:24 +0200] poller.php(3255): Failed dbQuery (#1146 - Table 'observium.lsp' doesn't exist), Query: SELECT * FROM `lsp` WHERE `device_id` = '18' [2019/10/18 12:16:24 +0200] poller.php(3344): Failed dbQuery (#1146 - Table 'observium.lsp' doesn't exist), Query: SELECT * FROM `lsp` WHERE `device_id` = '6' [2019/10/18 12:16:24 +0200] poller.php(3080): Failed dbQuery (#1146 - Table 'observium.lsp' doesn't exist), Query: SELECT * FROM `lsp` WHERE `device_id` = '10' [2019/10/18 12:16:25 +0200] poller.php(3151): Failed dbQuery (#1146 - Table 'observium.lsp' doesn't exist), Query: SELECT * FROM `lsp` WHERE `device_id` = '13' [2019/10/18 12:16:25 +0200] poller.php(3254): Failed dbQuery (#1146 - Table 'observium.lsp' doesn't exist), Query: SELECT * FROM `lsp` WHERE `device_id` = '17' [2019/10/18 12:16:25 +0200] poller.php(3158): Failed dbQuery (#1146 - Table 'observium.lsp' doesn't exist), Query: SELECT * FROM `lsp` WHERE `device_id` = '12' [2019/10/18 12:16:25 +0200] poller.php(3193): Failed dbQuery (#1146 - Table 'observium.lsp' doesn't exist), Query: SELECT * FROM `lsp` WHERE `device_id` = '11' [2019/10/18 12:16:25 +0200] poller.php(3253): Failed dbQuery (#1146 - Table 'observium.lsp' doesn't exist), Query: SELECT * FROM `lsp` WHERE `device_id` = '14' [2019/10/18 12:16:27 +0200] poller.php(3109): Failed dbQuery (#1146 - Table 'observium.lsp' doesn't exist), Query: SELECT * FROM `lsp` WHERE `device_id` = '15' AND: I got no RRD Graphs no longer. [cid:image001.png@01D585AE.6878F960] [cid:image002.png@01D585AE.6878F960] [...] [cid:image003.png@01D585AE.6878F960] Can somebody help? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Tobias Wissen

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False Positive Alert if sensor_value is "NULL" / "FALSE"
by Klimek, Denis 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Hey all, is there any way to check with an alert condition if the return value for i.e. is "NULL" and/or "FALSE"? I have the case that we removed SFP+ transceivers from Extreme devices and the device is now not replying with any value for this OID check. The SQL database contains "0.00000" for the affected sensor. My current alert looks like: https://pastebin.com/f17b9gfW Example Alert (Web View): https://ibb.co/pfP27KD 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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Too many ports on a windows workstation
by Gianpaolo Racca 20 Oct '19

20 Oct '19

Hi everybody, I searched the docs for some hints about my problem but I didn't find anything. I'm very new to observium. I installed it in a docker container on a linux nas and I'm very happy with it. The main concern is that on a windows workstation (a nuc box) I have a LOT of interfaces listed: a lot of ethernet, a lot of tunnel interfaces. The other machines I monitor which are linux (computer or raspberry) don't show the same behaviour. Can you please point me in the right direction? Thanks and have a nice day, Gianpaolo

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Fix for random logout
by Niklas Larsson 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

Hi, I spent some time figuring out why I got randomly logged out from the webpage and submitted a patch to https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3132 Basically it was the session_regenerate_id() call that caused it, so I adopted the https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-regenerate-id.php suggested way. Well it works for me, try it out if you have the same issue. /niklas

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Failure in notification of syslog alerts of the Ob server itself
by Shekhar Basnet 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

Hello, Observium is setup to email syslog alerts and it is doing so without any issues of all devices. I have a requirement to email some log alerts of the Observium server to the network team. I did the usual stuff of adding syslog rule and associating with a contact address. The logs (/var/log/messages) are matched by this syslog rule. I can see those matched lines in the Ob GUI. Yet strangely, an email is never triggered. Initially I thought it could be due to the log message and so I tried matching some other log lines, but always the log messages are matched by the syslog rule but email is never triggered. The contact address gets emails of all other alerts. Is there some other settings to enable Observium to email logs of it's own? Am running rsyslog and postfix on the Ob server. [root@observium sbasnet]# rsyslogd -v rsyslogd 8.24.0-34.el7, compiled with: PLATFORM: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu PLATFORM (lsb_release -d): FEATURE_REGEXP: Yes GSSAPI Kerberos 5 support: Yes FEATURE_DEBUG (debug build, slow code): No 32bit Atomic operations supported: Yes 64bit Atomic operations supported: Yes memory allocator: system default Runtime Instrumentation (slow code): No uuid support: Yes Number of Bits in RainerScript integers: 64 [root@observium sbasnet]# postconf mail_version mail_version = 2.10.1 *Observium CE* 19.8.10000 (22nd August 2019) *OS* Linux 3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7) *Apache* 2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/5.6.40 mod_perl/2.0.10 Perl/v5.16.3 *PHP* 5.6.40 (OPcache: ENABLED) *Python* 2.7.5 *MySQL* 5.5.60-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.5.60-MariaDB) *SNMP* NET-SNMP 5.7.2 *RRDtool* 1.4.8 *Fping* 3.10 (IPv4 only) Thanks for help. Shekhar -- DISCLAIMER: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. IRS CIRCULAR 230 DISCLOSURE: Any U.S. tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein.(FR08-i203d)

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Kohler generator issue
by Tony Guadagno 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Hi, a while ago you added support for the Kohler Generators. (thanks). I am noticing some issues. 1. The generator is listed as in “alarm status” all the time, no matter whats going on with the generator 2. When the generator goes under load, the observium state does not change to reflect that. I have attached 2 screen shots to illustrate as well as a txt file with the corresponding snmpwalk outputs. Also, Kohler has updated the mib, I have attached that as well, can you update the code base with this? thanks Tony

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Tiny diff (adding probes)
by Aaron Finney 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Hello maintainer friends, I'm not sure the proper protocol to request merging of small added bits, but I added two additional nprobe plugins, check_haproxy and check_ldap, to my install. The diff for probes.inc.php is below, but it also required a small modification to the check_ldap perl script (update hard-coded module dir). The LDAP probe I used is the version in the nagios-probe-contrib package Debian package, not the compiled C version distributed via the plugins tarfile from nagios.org; I used it because the contrib/perl version allows anonymous binding for just a basic service health check and doesn't require user/pwd/base-DN. Aaron Index: includes/definitions/entities/probes.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/definitions/entities/probes.inc.php (revision 10122) +++ includes/definitions/entities/probes.inc.php (working copy) @@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ $config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests FTP connections'; $config['probes'][$probe]['args']['default'] = "-H %hostname%"; +$probe = 'check_haproxy'; +$config['probes'][$probe]['enable'] = 1; +$config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests HAProxy health by parsing the stats page'; +$config['probes'][$probe]['args']['default'] = "-H %hostname%"; + $probe = 'check_imap'; $config['probes'][$probe]['enable'] = 1; $config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests IMAP connections'; @@ -68,6 +73,11 @@ $config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests Jabber connections'; $config['probes'][$probe]['args']['default'] = "-H %hostname%"; +$probe = 'check_ldap'; +$config['probes'][$probe]['enable'] = 1; +$config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests LDAP/LDAPS connections'; +$config['probes'][$probe]['args']['default'] = "-H %hostname%"; + $probe = 'check_nntp'; $config['probes'][$probe]['enable'] = 1; $config['probes'][$probe]['descr'] = 'Tests NNTP connections'; -- *Aaron Finney*Infrastructure Engineering | OpenX 888 East Walnut Street, 2nd Floor | Pasadena, CA 91101 o: +1 (626) 466-1141 x6035 | aaron.finney(a)openx.com

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Mass Changes Ports Config (Alerting)
by Wissen, Tobias (EDV) 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Hello, is there a way to set the alerts for all ports centrally to (ignore alerts) true? Would you like to set the alerts separately for each device in a later step. [cid:image001.png@01D58365.30219360] Mit freundlichen Grüßen Tobias Wissen

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cookies error
by Edvinas Kairys 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Hello, After last stable update we're getting cookies error when entering the observium fronted page. After cookies deletion it starts to work, but only for some time. Is there any information to prevent this from happening ? "redirected you too many times. Try clearing your cookies <https://support.google.com/chrome?p=rl_error&hl=en-US>."

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Strange poller/graph behavior with Palo Alto
by Aaron Finney 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

Heya Adam et al, I'm trying to help the corp side of the house monitor a handful of Palo Alto firewalls (3220s/850s) using Observium, and am seeing the gptunnels and sessions graphs being alternately added/deleted each run. Example: ##### firewall.spaghetti.foo.baz [55] completed poller modules at > 2019-10-13 09:07:03 ##### > o Graphs [checked] availability, ping, ping_snmp, uptime, fanspeed, > temperature, processor, mempool, storage, bits, hr_users, poller_perf, > pollersnmp_count,pollersnmp_times, > pollersnmp_errors_count, pollersnmp_errors_times, pollerdb_count, > pollerdb_times,pollermemory_perf > o Graphs [added] panos_sessions, panos_gptunnels > o Poller time 5.6106 seconds > o Updated Data uptime, last_polled, last_polled_timetaken, > device_state and the very next run: ##### firewall.spaghetti.foo.baz [55] completed poller modules at > 2019-10-13 09:07:31 ##### > o Graphs [deleted] panos_sessions, panos_gptunnels > o Graphs [checked] availability, ping, ping_snmp, uptime, fanspeed, > temperature, processor, mempool, storage, bits, hr_users, poller_perf, > pollersnmp_count,pollersnmp_times, > pollersnmp_errors_count, pollersnmp_errors_times, pollerdb_count, > pollerdb_times,pollermemory_perf > o Poller time 5.6037 seconds > o Updated Data uptime, last_polled, last_polled_timetaken, > device_state This pattern repeats ad inifitum - any ideas? Aaron

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automated backup from all configs?
by Farshid Abediny 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

Hello, I want to know is there any way to have FTP schedule backup from observium from all configs? RRD, Database, Rancid, ... ?

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disable verify peer for smtp
by Farshid Abediny 12 Oct '19

12 Oct '19

Hello, is there anyway that disable verify peer for smtp option in php ? because when we have tls with self signed certificate php mailer can not connect to our servers. Thanks

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Alerting on custom application values
by Phillip Weller 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Greetings All, Can you set an alert on a value imported from a custom application? E.g, if I’m tracking the %CPU and %Memory of a specific application on a linux host, can I set an alert check on something like cpu greater 50? All graphs are working fine. I know the values are being received by Observium. But its not clear to me what the entity, or even the entity type, would be. Thanks! Regards, Phil Weller

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Changing graph colours to improve readability
by Chris Tomkins 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Hi, I sent this to the list last week but I'm 99% sure it bounced. Apologies if anyone has already seen it. ---- I'm just wondering, has anyone dabbled with getting rrdtool to use more contrasting colours for composite graphs? We have some graphs, such as peering graphs, that are made up of 15+ components, and each component is currently a nearly identical shade of green or purple, which means that even with the legend enabled it is very difficult to see which component is which. I'm imagining that instead of using shades of green, you could use a rainbow of very distinctly different colours and readability would improve. I'm interested to hear whether anyone has tried to do this before, or if it's a non-starter for some reason. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Tomkins | Senior Network Engineer (Linux/Network) christ(a)brandwatch.com Office: +44 (0)1273 448 949 NEW YORK | BOSTON | BRIGHTON | LONDON | BERLIN | STUTTGART | PARIS | SINGAPORE | SYDNEY <https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/digital-consumer-intelligence/>

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error in svn
by Edvinas Kairys 10 Oct '19

10 Oct '19

Hello, I can't switch to rolling version. I got this type of error. [observium]# svn switch https://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/trunk svn: E155025: 'http://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/branches/stable' is not the same repository as 'https://svn.observium.org/svn'

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hdarray script enhancement
by Attila Nagy 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Hi everyone! We would like to slightly enhance the Unix agent hdarray script (which provides infos about the local RAID controllers). Actually we would like to add support for some HP controllers, but to make things simpler we would need some nice output from the script. So if some of you have some RAID controllers supported by this script would you mind sharing some output of this script? Thanks, Tylla

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Parent Devices
by Luis Piña 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Hello, I am trying to make an Alert for a Parent Device, but I need the sons devices doesn´t alert. I doi have an nt know how to say, but example. If a had a switch alerted, I don´t want an Alert of the devices connected to it. Tnks

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