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GUI Question - Gear Symbols
by Gumilar Siegfried MSc. 13 May '19

13 May '19

Hello! I just wanted to know if anyone else is also bothered by these two gear symbols exactly on top of each other: [cid:image001.png@01D509AD.836627C0] It seems I always pick the wrong icon on principle. :) Regards, Siegfried

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Auto Discovery Issue
by HARESH KHANNA 13 May '19

13 May '19

Dear Team, What has to be done for auto discovery of devices. Regards, Haresh Khanna

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SMSBox - Add SMSC
by Jeff Waddell 11 May '19

11 May '19

Can the smsc variable be added to the SMSBox item? - its just another web variable My work around was adding to the username variable $config['smsbox']['user'] = 'ob_user&smsc=serverid' This tells the Kannel server which SMPP Bind to send the message out

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Stop Emails when our internet is down
by Altanshagai Nyamdeleg 09 May '19

09 May '19

Hello Members, Good Afternoon/Evening, We have got a professional license and enjoying Observium product so far. I have a question for you guys all, please! I want to stop monitoring email for temp if our internet is down as we monitor devices in other sites, We get a lot of emails when our internet is down. How do you guys do this? Thank you. Alt

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Auto Discovery
by HARESH KHANNA 09 May '19

09 May '19

How to enable auto discovery

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Unix-agent added to linux storage box but observium excludes it
by Cody Cook 09 May '19

09 May '19

[image: image.png] The unix-agent is excluded for this device but it runs and responds to unix-agent when using telnet. I have tried to manually discover and poll the unix-agent module with their respective php scripts but I still couldn't get any details to happen. Is there an override in the mysql database or an option I can force in config.php to force enable unix-agent at the device level? Thank you, Cody

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Houskeeping question
by Joelly, Alexander 07 May '19

07 May '19

Hello, Currently with multiple distributed and partinioned pollers I only have the poller-wrapper.php process in the 5min schedule on the pollers and the discovery and housekeeping on the rrd-cache server. Is that okay or do I need to run the discovery and housekeeping also on the pollers? I'm asking because I have a device deleted, last rrd file was updated on 25. April and housekeeping settings 'RRD File Max Age' & 'Remove Deleted Ports Age' to 7d - and I actually set 'Remove Deleted Ports Age' to 2d but still have the rrd directory of the deleted device. Thought I would set the pollers 'only' for polling and do the discovery and housekeeping on the rrd server (as it's probably more efficient?) or is it not working that way? Thanks, Alex

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Access Credentials
by HARESH KHANNA 07 May '19

07 May '19

Dear Team, Now i am able to get webpage of my observium server through web but i am not able to login what user & pass shld i use to login. Or i have to create user on server first. Regards, Haresh Khanna

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WEBPAGE ISSUE
by HARESH KHANNA 07 May '19

07 May '19

Hi there, I have installed community version on my centos7 version, when i try to access it through web http://xxx.xx.xx.xx i get testing apache web page. kindly help Regards, Haresh Khanna

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Adjust rrd step size per device
by Steffen Klemer 06 May '19

06 May '19

Hey list, how much work would it be to have an option to adjust the rrd step size per device? Background is that we have a HP/H3C chassis that even with latest firmware takes average 1000s to poll; with fdb already disabled. 98% of the time is spent in the ports module, polling ifEntry and ifxEntry. We'd really like to at least get an hourly graph of the traffic which is better then nothing. The idea is to put this dev into its own group and have a different cron job for it (excluding this group from the default one). We do have a case with HP that is open for 2 years so the 'tell the vendor that their SNMP engine is crap'-part was already done... lg Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: steffen.klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 201 2170 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GWDG - Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen Service-Hotline: Tel: +49 551 201-1523 E-Mail: support(a)gwdg.de Kontakt: Tel: 0551 201-1510 Fax: 0551 201-2150 E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de WWW: https://www.gwdg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen, Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 ------------------------------------------------------------------

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RRDCached issue - HELP!
by Hamilton, Kent 06 May '19

06 May '19

Starting this weekend rrdcached appears to have stopped working correctly. Has anyone seen an issue with this? We've been using it for a long time and it seems to have broken totally early Sat morning (somewhere around 1 to 2 AM) Running the poller with debug doesn't give me a status any more, and I have hundreds of rrdtool processes being spawned to the point it actually took over most of the disk IO on our NAS on Saturday. /opt/observium# poller.php -h localhost -m system -dd | grep RRD RRDtool 1.7.0 Copyright by Tobias Oetiker <tobi(a)oetiker.ch> RRDCacheD 1.7.0 o RRDtool 1.7.0 (rrdcached 1.7.0: unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock) RRD PIPE OPEN[TRUE] o RRDTool Usage (0s 0%) RRD PIPE CLOSE[TRUE] The host setup is: Ubuntu 18.04 Observium Professional 19.5.9870 PHP Weathermap 0.97b rrdcached 1.7.0-1build1 rrdtool-1.7.0-1build1 PHP 7.2 The rrdcached command line is /usr/bin/rrdcached -B -R -F -L -w 1800 -z 1800 -f 3600 -t 10 -b /opt/observium/rrd -j /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ -G www-data -U www-data -p /var/run/rrdcached.pid -s www-data -m 0660 -l unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock Really need to get this one solved if anyone can offer help. ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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Pollers and RRD files
by Joelly, Alexander 05 May '19

05 May '19

Hi, When using a dedicated rrd caching server - for what is the local /opt/observium/rrd caching folder used for? In our setup we created a dedicated rrd-caching server and several distributed and partitioned pollers and would expect the rrd's are only written/updated on the rrd-caching server and do not need much diskspace on the pollers but it seems the rrd's are also written on the pollers? Is that on purpose (fallback - rrd server unavailable) or what is the need of the rrd's on the pollers when using a rrd-caching server? Thanks, Alex

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Monitor power watts
by Simon Mousey Smith 03 May '19

03 May '19

Hi All, Im trying to find out if the is a way to monitor power watts of our servers? We currently monitor a few HP server, which ALREADY show the power watts, as they have the iLO integrated and the power management chip, so all good there But the is a few which don’t have iLO or the power chips So can i monitor the power watts from within linux or windows at all? Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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BGP Neighbor Descriptions
by Richard Savage 02 May '19

02 May '19

Hi We have observium v19.4.9840 (rolling) setup and working great with alerting for BGP sessions going down. For BGP sessions with public AS Numbers this works well as it shows up which AS number and who the AS number is assigned to as gone down: But when its a private AS number with a private IP, its then much harder to distinguish what the BGP neighbor is related to without logging into the router and looking at the neighbor and the neighbor descriptions set against the BGP neighbor: In most routers you can set a description against a BGP neighbor in the config. Is it possible to get this description attached to the BGP neighbor in observium thus then adding it to the alert when the BGP neighbor goes down? This is the config on a Cisco ASR9K for the above neighbor: router bgp 65000 neighbor 100.127.18.181 description USG1-GREE Could this description be pulled and added to the neighbor and thus alert? More than happy to provide some debug if required and any SNMP data that might be helpful. Many Thanks Richard

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Auto Discovery
by Adam R. Koczarski 02 May '19

02 May '19

Hello, I’m new to this group and to Observium. A friend turned me on to it a few weeks ago. I have Observium 19.3.9774 running on Ubuntu 18.04.2LTS. Everything is working great! I’ve added my switches and LLDP and SNMP data is flowing in and all of the cross-references have been established. My question pertains to adding new devices. I can successfully add new devices via the GUI or the CLI as described in the documentation. My friend was telling me he <thinks> devices can be detected and added to the device list automatically via some sort of discovery?? Is this a thing or is he pulling my leg? Thanks! _____________________________ Adam Koczarski P.E., S.E. IT Director Magnusson Klemencic Associates 1301 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3200 Seattle, WA 98101-2699 United States Direct: +1 206 215 8365 Main: +1 206 292 1200 LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/company/magnusson-klemencic-associates> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magnusson-Klemencic-Associates/2945909072755…> | www.MKA.com<http://www.mka.com/> _____________________________

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new alert checks?
by Tony Guadagno 02 May '19

02 May '19

Hi, I am currently using the current ce version (Observium CE 18.9.9420). After upgrading from the previous ce version, i see the alert checks have completely changed. the alert checks i had still seem to function, but when I try to modify them, the fields are all different....I am getting the impression that there is an alert conversion script? I have looked for docs on how to use the new alert checks but cannot find any. Can you please point me to a page that explains how to use the new alert checks and how to fix the upgraded alert checks. thanks! Tony

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Voltage/Current Sensor anomalies on Cisco SG200/SF300 switches
by Serge Caron 01 May '19

01 May '19

Greetings! I have a number of SF300-24P (802.3af), SF300-24PP (802.3at), SF300-48P, and SG200-26P Cisco switches, all at firmware revision 1.4.8.6 (There is a newer firmware 1.4.10.06 published 4 days ago: I will install this only if required). The voltage/current sensors are constantly complaining that they are either under/over threshold. For example, below are the logs on a port drawing 3500 mW for a Ubiquiti Unifi access point model UAP-AC-M: voltage range from 0V (!) to 92V for a device that should draw 37 to 57 V PoE levels. I have 29 of these devices scattered over the network and I can rule out simple malfunction of any/all devices. More intriguing is the 0.0975A current "threshold" used to issue these warnings: it does not make sense if Watts are still the product of Volts by Ampps ;-). Is it possible that the MiB for these devices is out of whack? I recently updated my Observium CE to 18.9.9420 (5th September 2018) but this issue has been annoying me for quite some time. Please note that I have similar results for all kinds of IP cameras : however, I do not have issues for ports that are connected to Cisco SG200-08 PoE switches and for which the only warnings I get is when the output voltage suddenly drops to zero. Unfortunately, these devices do not support SNMP. Kind regards, Serge Caron 2019-04-29 21:02:10 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 92 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 20:20:49 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 90 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 20:00:37 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 92 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 19:35:24 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 81 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 18:07:02 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 30 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 17:57:25 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 31 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 17:50:40 fa14 PoE Current Current fa14 PoE Current above threshold: 0.139 A (> 0.0975 A) 2019-04-29 17:46:41 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 31 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 17:00:36 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 31 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 16:52:34 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 31 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 15:07:18 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 84 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 14:57:19 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 80 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 14:42:43 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 62 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 14:42:43 fa14 PoE Current Current fa14 PoE Current above threshold: 0.113 A (> 0.0975 A) 2019-04-29 14:22:06 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 31 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 14:22:06 fa14 PoE Current Current fa14 PoE Current above threshold: 0.112 A (> 0.0975 A) 2019-04-29 14:10:37 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 92 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 13:47:30 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 38 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 13:22:27 fa14 PoE Current Current fa14 PoE Current above threshold: 0.112 A (> 0.0975 A) 2019-04-29 13:05:35 fa14 PoE Current Current fa14 PoE Current above threshold: 0.114 A (> 0.0975 A) 2019-04-29 12:41:57 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 0 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 12:25:23 fa14 PoE Current Current fa14 PoE Current above threshold: 0.112 A (> 0.0975 A) 2019-04-29 11:21:58 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 90 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 10:52:05 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 32 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 10:46:03 fa14 PoE Current Current fa14 PoE Current above threshold: 0.11 A (> 0.0975 A) 2019-04-29 10:30:36 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 39 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 10:25:34 fa14 PoE Current Current fa14 PoE Current above threshold: 0.11 A (> 0.0975 A) 2019-04-29 10:00:24 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 82 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 09:06:30 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 33 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 08:55:46 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 104 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 08:40:50 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 90 V (> 60.95 V) 2019-04-29 07:37:17 fa14 PoE Current Current fa14 PoE Current above threshold: 0.11 A (> 0.0975 A) 2019-04-29 07:16:51 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage under threshold: 32 V (< 45.05 V) 2019-04-29 07:07:29 fa14 PoE Current Current fa14 PoE Current above threshold: 0.11 A (> 0.0975 A) 2019-04-29 07:00:34 fa14 PoE Voltage Voltage fa14 PoE Voltage above threshold: 84 V (> 60.95 V)

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Billing Module
by Gabriel Cambronero 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Hello Is there a way that we can add "Alert Checkers" for this module? I look forward to hearing back from you. Best Regards, -- [image: https://www.racknation.cr/firma.jpg] * Gabriel Cambronero S* * Infrastructure Manager* * RACKNATION Costa Rica* Email: gcambronero(a)racknation.cr Tel: (506) 4000-2133 Cel: (506) 8813-3048 http://www.RackNation.cr <http://www.racknation.cr/> This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Racknation. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Este mensaje y cualquier archivo adjunto son confidenciales y pueden contener información privilegiada o estar protegidos de alguna forma contra su divulgación. Cualquier punto de vista u opiniones expresadas son exclusivas del autor y no representan necesariamente las de Racknation. Si usted no es el destinatario previsto, no debe copiar este mensaje ni ninguno de sus archivos adjuntos, como tampoco informar sobre su contenido a ninguna otra persona. Si ha recibido esta transmisión por error, rogamos que lo comunique inmediatamente al remitente y elimine de su sistema el mensaje y todos los archivos adjuntos que éste pueda contener.

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VRRP
by Christian Eriksson 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Hi, Are there any plans in monitoring VRRP on devices and map it to the alerting system? Vänliga hälsningar / Best regards, [Advania_Trappa_CMYK] Christian Eriksson System Consultant [cid:image003.png@01D4FF4C.9FF22170]<mailto:christian.eriksson@advania.com>[Advania-Bikupa Facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/advania.se/>[Advania-Bikupa LinkedIn]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/advania-ab/> +4641090488<tel:+4641090488> | +46761400400<tel:+46761400400> www.advania.se<http://www.advania.se/> | Stockholm<https://www.google.se/maps/place/Advania+Sverige+AB/@59.3062176,18.0278762,…> Ledande på att skapa kundnöjdhet [En bild som visar skärmbild Beskrivning genererad med hög exakthet]

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Strange behavior traffic accounting
by Vladimir R 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

Hello. I am faced with a strange traffic accounting system behavior. The system displays different values of the allowed value in the "Bill Summary" (7Gbps) and "Historical Usage" for April (1.2Gbps). Illustration on the screenshot in the attachments. Please help understand why different values are displayed. -- The best regards! Vladimir R.

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apcupsd UPS monitoring
by Nagy Attila 27 Apr '19

27 Apr '19

Hi All, we have a few Linux servers which are fed through APC Smart UPSs. Rather small ones, so no network management card, they are being monitored by apcupsd. We would be very happy to see the/some values of the UPSs in Observium. What I've done: I extended snmpd with a script from https://github.com/jirutka/apcupsd-snmp which makes some values from apcupsd available under |.1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1| which in turn belongs to PowerNet-MIB (aka APC). I can read those values with snmpwalk (see p.s.) so the script works. Observium already contains PowerNet-MIB, but no graph for these values are appearing. I suppose Observium does not query for PowerNet-MIB for anything other than APC OS, or maybe it looks for some other conditions as well? My question: is there a way to make Observium query and use these values for other OS's (like Linux) as well ? Regards, Tylla Ps: please feel free to correct any bad assumption/statement I made! Ps: here is my current output (MIB errors excluded) from snmpwalk in case it helps: snmpwalk -m ALL -v 2c -c public localhost .1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1 PowerNet-MIB::upsBasicIdentModel.0 = STRING: "Smart-UPS 750" PowerNet-MIB::upsBasicIdentName.0 = STRING: "test" PowerNet-MIB::upsAdvIdentFirmwareRevision.0 = STRING: "COM 02.1 / UPS.05.I" PowerNet-MIB::upsAdvIdentSerialNumber.0 = STRING: "AS1108112010" PowerNet-MIB::upsBasicBatteryTimeOnBattery.0 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 PowerNet-MIB::upsAdvBatteryCapacity.0 = Gauge32: 100 PowerNet-MIB::upsAdvBatteryRunTimeRemaining.0 = Timeticks: (144000) 0:24:00.00 PowerNet-MIB::upsAdvBatteryNominalVoltage.0 = INTEGER: 24 PowerNet-MIB::upsAdvBatteryActualVoltage.0 = INTEGER: 27 PowerNet-MIB::upsBasicOutputStatus.0 = INTEGER: onLine(2) PowerNet-MIB::upsAdvConfigAlarm.0 = INTEGER: never(3) PowerNet-MIB::upsAdvConfigLowBatteryRunTime.0 = Timeticks: (30000) 0:05:00.00

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Point me to "bulk changes" document
by Dana Bostic 26 Apr '19

26 Apr '19

Is there a document somewhere that will show me how to make "bulk" changes. An example would be how do I change a sensors Warn level for all my UPSs? I don't want to go though 200 of them, I want to change the default warning, etc. Caterpillar: Confidential Green

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Bulk group creation via API/DB query/something else?
by Brandwatch NOC 26 Apr '19

26 Apr '19

Hi, I need to bulk create a large number of sensor groups. I would really rather not do that by hand in the GUI. Any automatable method would be fine - API/script/DB query/something else. I had a quick look around but couldn't find anything in the documentation - I would appreciate a quick nudge in the right direction. 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 | SINGAPORE | SYDNEY | PARIS <https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/brandwatch-and-crimson-hexagon/>

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Migrated from 16.04 to 18.04 and rrd stopped writing?
by Simon Mousey Smith 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

Hi All Im trying to find out if I have done something wrong or maybe missed something? I have done a migrate from ubuntu 16.04 to ubuntu 18.04 and now ALL of my RRDs have stopped being written? 1. mysqldump to backup, scp file to new server, then mysql to restore 2. Scp the whole rrd folder from old server to new server 3. Scp the old config.php to new server Only thing I have done differently is use the setup script instead of manually installing observium On the new server the rrd folder shows drwxrwsr-x 60 observium www-data 4.0K Apr 24 16:29 rrd But the old server shows it as drwxr-xr-x 60 www-data www-data 12K Apr 24 15:57 rrd One of the folders inside rrd show this drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 4096 Apr 24 15:58 localhost And an rrd file shows this -rw-r--r-- 1 root www-data 115K Apr 24 15:58 perf-poller.rrd Did I overwrite the folder permissions by accident? Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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problems Graphs
by Victor Marinho 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

Good morning, the observium graphics are getting this way what can it be? [image: image.png] -- Victor Marinho *Soft House Net* Fone: 34 3241-6536 // 3241-3400 Celular: 34 98813-9966

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