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Session lifetime
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Hi, I still keep getting logged out even though Global Settings --> Authentication --> Session Lifetime --> 1 Week, Until browser restarts, it doesn't matter. After 30 minutes I get logged out. Kinda frustrating since we can't use Observium at fullest now. Any advice would be welcome with this. We already rebooted the system several times but no help. Kind regards Ricardo Franco Cantero

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Contact alert webhook json payload
by Ryan Huff 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

What I am looking to do, is when an alert notifies my webhook contact, be able to have it also grab the message_graphs blob (if one exists for the notification), so that my custom coded contact also has the graph that caused the alert, along with the alert details; thinking of jitter and RTT SLAs as the use case... So far I have worked out that the alert makes the post call to the notification queue, and the notification queue posts to the contact webhook. In the JSON payload posted to the contact, I don’t see a way to accurately identify which row I would need to select in the notification queue, to grab the message_graphs blob. There is a alert_table_id, but the message_graphs are in the notifications_queue, and since there isn’t a FK relationship between the two tables, not sure if I could accurately identify the right row in notifications_queue. Anyone ever try something like this and/or have advice? Am I overthinking this and rather than grab the blob, is a way to just remake the graph on the fly using the alert details that are posted to the contact webhook? Thanks for any of your thoughts... -Ryan

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Weathermap not drawing png files
by Tomasz Karczewski 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

I added weathermap to observium from https://github.com/akender/weathermap-for-observium Configured as described but after map creation i doesn’t creat .png files. /usr/bin/php /opt/observium/html/weathermap/map-poller.php -d shows PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function check_extension_exists() in /opt/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php:141 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/html/weathermap/map-poller.php(55): include() #1 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php on line 141 My php version is PHP 7.0.33 Did you have similiar problems? Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci <mailto:tkarczewski@man.olsztyn.pl> tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl <http://www.man.olsztyn.pl> http://www.man.olsztyn.pl <http://www.uwm.edu.pl> http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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NTP MIB Question
by Ryan Huff 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

I see OBS has a Cisco NTP MIB.. when I add Cisco devices (like a router for example), that is also running NTP services (ntp server... etc), I don’t see where OBS is showing the information for the device. When I look at the MIBs under device properties, it doesn’t appear to be there, though the MIB is in the /opt/Observium/mib/cisco folder.... Anyone know if there is anything special you have to do to get these MIBs working? Thanks, Ryan Sent from my iPhone

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SNMP hardware detection bugged
by Peter Watts 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

We have a few hundred Cisco 880 series routers (approximately four different variants). Since ~4 days ago, they're all getting reported as the same hardware now - C887VA-K9 Here's an example - actually is a CISCO887VA-K9 - from poller.php 19.2.9721: ##### Module Start: os ##### o OS Poller Group o Vendor Cisco o Hardware C887VA-K9 o Version 15.3(3)M9 o Features UNIVERSALK9 o Serial FGL1811239Z o Asset <empty> >From snmpget: (entPhysicalDescr) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.2.1 = STRING: "887VA chassis, Hw Serial#: FGL1811239Z, Hw Revision: 1.0" (entPhysicalContainedIn) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.4.1 = INTEGER: 0 (entPhysicalName) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.7.1 = STRING: "887VA" (entPhysicalSoftwareRev) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.10.1 = STRING: "15.3(3)M9, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)" (entPhysicalSerialNum) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.11.1 = STRING: " FGL1811239Z" (entPhysicalModelName) iso.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.13.1 = STRING: "CISCO887VA-K9" In the device logs: 2019-02-18 08:46:04 aus0264-r1 Hardware changed: 'CISCO887VA-K9' -> 'C887VA-K9' EB Games | ZiNG Pop Culture | Peter Watts | Infrastructure Supervisor | Australia & New Zealand | Peter.Watts(a)ebgames.com<mailto:Peter.Watts@ebgames.com> | +61 7 3860 7757 | 0438 636 110

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unsubscribe
by Michael Medwid 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

unsubscribe On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 4:00 AM <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. OBS Integration with NFSen (Ryan Huff) > 2. Re: OBS Integration with NFSen (xomka686) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 22:04:41 +0000 > From: Ryan Huff <ryanhuff(a)outlook.com> > To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] OBS Integration with NFSen > Message-ID: > < > BN6PR08MB27246F6A4F24A7417CD360A8C5780(a)BN6PR08MB2724.namprd08.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I -think-, I have NFSen integration with OBS working correctly, but I'm > not clear on where I can see the flow graphs in OBS. I assume under the > Graphs tab on the device page? > > Thanks, > > Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP > Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional >

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PHP Weathermap security issue.
by Hamilton, Kent 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

Has anyone solved the security issue with PHP Weathermap such that it honors observium permissions? Currently if you are using weathermap anyone can reach your maps without a password if they know the standard URL for the weathermaps. This is an issue for us as we allow external access to our observium server, but have to block the weathermaps using .htaccess files. ________________________________ 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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Alerts Not Sending to Contacts
by Alex 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

Good Morning Adam, I recently raised a ticket in jira OBS-2905. I have an instance of Observium running 19.1.9661 and have enabled alerting for a memory check at 70% for one of our hosts. This alert message works as expected on the web interface, the issue is that it is not sending the alert to the contacts (both slack and email). When tested with the test_alert.php script the emails send correctly this leads me to believe that the configuration of the email is not the issue. Do you have any other suggestions as to what I can test to make the alerts send to my contacts correctly when they are naturally generated? Kind Regards, Alex

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Aggregate graphs
by Christian Eriksson 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Hi, Is it possible to aggregate grahps from a selected graph, eg. firewall sessions within a device group? I have made one for all our Cisco security contexts and want to see total sessions at once See attachment Best regards Christian

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Renamed interface - how to keep unified history?
by Adam Thompson 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

I made a change on one of our routers that caused a new ifIndex & name to be assigned to a customer circuit (interface). Observium is correctly reporting the data on the old virtual i/f (which still technically exists) and – naturally – separately on the new virtual i/f. Is there any way to (retroactively???) tell Observium that these are really the same interface, and to display only one graph for the two ifIndexes? Or, if I correct the situation so the old ifIndex & name is being showing traffic again, is there any way to move, or inject, the collected data on the ‘new’ port into the ‘old’ port’s RRDs? (i.e. avoid a multi-day gap in a multi-year dataset) We are reasonably up-to-date, running 19.2.9712 – not sure what other info will be helpful here. Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [merlin-email-logo] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

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Alert Checker Question
by Ryan Huff 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

I have an alert checker called, "device down" and it tests for "device_status = 0". Occasionally, this alert will fire, but the underlying OS still has network connectivity to these device (ICMP). What this tells me, is that the underlying SNMP daemon on the server may be malfunctioning, because if OBS can't make and SNMP poll to a device, it makes sense to me that it would think the device_status = 0 for that device. So given that this doesn't seem to be an OBS issue, is it something others have encountered and found away around? I'm Ubuntu 18.04 here... just wondering if I need to throttle the poller or if there are other known way the community has addressed this? Thanks, Ryan

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L2/L3VPN issues with Juniper MIBs
by Luis Balbinot 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Hi. This has been bothering me for some time but I've only got the time to look at it now. When we list Ports for any given Juniper device we get a nice green label right below the speed/MTU/lag column with the name of the VRF when it's an L3VPN. Why not the same for L2VPNs? That would be nice, specially if the RT is encoded in the name (makes tracking issues easier). Second, on the righthand side of the Ports table there's an unnamed column right next to the MAC Address with some information regarding the interfaces, LAG membership, etc. There's a xconnect icon that is supposed to show the remote interface and device for L2VPNs, but that's completely messed up (see image attached). Are you aware of that? Can that be fixed? The device is correct, but the interface isn't. The same goes for L3VPN. The interfaces shown on that right column are not endpoints of the same VPN and even the devices are wrong. I'd love to help on that. Just checking ahead to see if there's anything stopping you from fixing it at MIB level or something. Thanks! Luis

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Session lifetime
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Hi, We just upgraded our Observium and (perhaps it's already mentioned but the archive doesn't work) since the upgrade we keep being logged out every 30 minutes or so. We have it running on a large screen but every 30 minutes (it looks like 30 minutes, haven't timed it) it need to enter my credentials again to log in. I know I can check the box Remember my Credentials but that's not what I'm asking. I want it to keep the session alive longer like it did. Kind regards, Ricardo Franco Cantero

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IPv6 privacy addresses vs IP Session binding
by Darrell Budic 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Pretty obvious when I figured out what was happening, IPv6 privacy addresses aren’t really compatible with IP Session binding. As I discovered and was driven nuts by for a day or two after my ISP added v6 :) If you’re using v6 and seeing rapid session expiry, try disabling IP Session binding. Consider this a RFE for IP Session binding on IPv4 addresses only. Maybe a second request for a loose form of IPv6 session binding to within the same network range (either /64 or user configurable?) to allow some restrictions on it? Not sure how feasible that would be, but it sounds like it could give us some reasonable v6 protections. Thanks for reading, -Darrell

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Custom Widgets
by Mirditor Kuçaj 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Hello I am searching for a way to customize the widgets. With the old dashboard it was easy with the frontpage filters. With the new one I cant EDIT the SYSLOG Widget for displaying only desired severity and any Filter (Only in widget, not in global config) And the device status boxes doesnt display more than 10 boxes even if I has a lot of dashboard space. Displays a unclickable XX more Is there any documentation where can I edit them. I am running Observium 19.1.9661 Regards Mirditor Kuçaj Backbone Network Director <mailto:miri@abissnet.al> miri(a)abissnet.al Abissnet Sh.a. +355 69 60 91 364 +355 (0)44 300 003 Ext 139 Rr. Ismail Qemali, Pallati Abissnet, Tiranë <http://www.abissnet.al/> www.abissnet.al <https://www.facebook.com/Abissnet> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AbissnetalISP> <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAIAABqLWRAB88ljU6t8b67oVm8PAlvPrh mPybE&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile%20>

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Question on alerts migration
by xomka686 16 Feb '19

16 Feb '19

Hi Adam, Recently you've mentioned "/migrate_alerts/" link to be used to migrate old alert format to the new one. Is it's usage documented anywhere? Or it's just 1-click operation? I was looking for such functionality and have a few customers with old alerting seaking for easy migration to new style. --- Best regards, Sergei

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Questions regarding parsing
by Ryan Huff 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Are there currently any built-in ways (that I clearly would have missed in the documentation) to create/add custom parsing/metrics? For example; I am a telephony engineer and my routers do the normal route-y things, but they also do specialized things with specialized configurations that are not present on all or most routers (e.g Dial Peers). Is there a way to define/capture configuration sections to parse (clearly, outside the bounds of SNMP, I get it..) and then either populate as a tile on the device page or some type of menu item added to the navigation bar; thinking perhaps the regex engine that is used to create the Syslog alerts or something.. I hate one-offing and "plugin'ing" code, cause then that's something I have to support; so I'm committed to using OB the way its offered, just trying to see if there was a creative way to get this done.. Thanks, Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional

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Edit Alert Association Ruleset
by Steve 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Hi, is it possible to edit "Alert Association Ruleset" on an alert checker ? How? Many Thanks Steve

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reverse geocoding not working
by Joey Stanford 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Hi, We have our SNMP location strings set in all but a few cases to “NAME [xx.xxxxxx,-yy.yyyyyyy]” and as you can see from the screenshot that works for over a hundred hosts. For some reason though, not all of them are being interpreted properly. Any idea how to troubleshoot (or fix) this? We’re not overriding anything in config.php.

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Add Lxd edfa/emtx devices patch
by Reto Zingg 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hi, In a network we monitor there are Langxunda (Lxd) Externally Modulated Optic Transmitters and Erbium Dotted Fibre Amplifiers. E.g: http://www.langxunda.com/en/goods/1167.html The current OS detection for the NSCRTV-ROOT mib does not work on them. So I added rules for them in os.inc.php. The limits which are set for the sensors in nscrtv-root.inc.php do not work for us. So I added some checks to not set a limit. Additionally I added some more sensors. We do not own the copyright of the Lxd logo, I don't know what your policy is, wrt the use of logos. I got it from the web page and cropped it to look nicer. It would be nice if the attached patch and logo could be added. If there are changes needed, please let me know (style, naming convention, etc). Thanks and best regards Reto

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is there any solution to linux not having persistent port ifIndexes ?
by Edvinas K 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

Hello, Since we'all know that Linux is not having persistent port if Indexes, is there any quick-fix workaround to make the ifindexes stay after server reboot ? Observium wise or Linux wise ? Thanks

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Assign specific dashboard to user
by Fiberwide Sysadmins 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

Hi All, i'm trying to setup a configuration to give access to traffics data to our customers, but I've encounter some problems on the dashboard. Now You can define more dashboards but I can find a way to define a dashboard for our NOC and a dashboard for the customers... The default is applied to all users, but i set this with backbone graphs, so in the case of customer with only USER privilege log in all the graph are showed as "Permission error", that's because are related to device or ports not assigned to that specific customer. So my idea was to create a dashboard only with "Status summary" and "Event Log", those to widget show only the info related to the customer. Other minor question, can You tell Me a way to change the name of the dashboard? Distinti saluti --- Davide Lima Daum - System & Network Engineer Fibering S.p.a. - www.fiberwide.com T: +39.02.00632100 F: +39.02.00632199 e: sysadmin(a)fiberwide.com

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Changelog
by Benjamin Moore 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Is there somewhere I can see the changelog for the rolling version of Observium?

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Having issues with the email alerting..
by Ryan Huff 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Having issues getting the alert to mail. I am not using SMTP, I have sendmail installed locally to the OS. If I use the PHP mail(); function in a test script and execute it in the broswer, it sends mail just fine. Here is the email params in my 'config.php' file: $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $config['alerts']['interval'] = 40000; $config['email']['default'] = "me(a)company.com"; $config['email']['from'] = "Observium <observium(a)company.com>"; $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; Any thoughts mates? Thanks, Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional

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mcrypt deprecated
by Lane Russell 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

It appears that the install instructions for Ubuntu 18.04 still require that mcrypt be enabled. However, mcrypt was deprecated in PHP 7.1 and fully removed in PHP 7.2, which is used in Ubuntu 18.04. In addition to updating the install documentation, what is the timeline for replacing mcrypt in Observium? What are the correct steps for installing Observium on Ubuntu 18.04? Regards, Lane Russell Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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