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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 14 Feb '19

14 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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Dealing with Alert Storms
by Joey Stanford 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Hi All, I’m looking for advice on how to deal with alert storms. For example, we lost a UPS last night at a critical hub which cause Observium not to be able to reach most of our networks (and of course, all the alternative OSPF routes were powered via that UPS). Consequently we had several hundred alerts sent out via email and telegram. Is there any interesting way to deal with this that anyone can recommend? Thanks, Joey

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Printing reports
by Ryan Huff 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

Using latest CE.. Just making sure I haven’t missed something in the docs and config guides.. I do not see a way to print any type of reports/PDFs.. but I do see a ../html/pdf.php which looks like it would do that. Did I miss a page in the docs? -Ryan

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Map Location
by Ryan Huff 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

It seems that no matter what addressing schema I've tried to set with config['location_map']['nice_name'] ['real_address'], it continues to populate the front page map with the proper location names, but all located in Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel. The USA addressing formats I've tried are: street address, city, state, country and street address, city, state (Ex: 180 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) Is there an additional override I am missing, or a way to verify the location value I'm typing is understandable to the correct geopositioning on the map? Thanks, Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional

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Alert Priority
by Mike Hyslop 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

Hi All Is there a way to add priorities to alerts at the moment all I have to choose from is critical Cheers Mike.

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Graph scale question
by Ryan Huff 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

Using the latest CE.. All the graphs’ time scale seems to be off by a few hours. For example, a device’s port graph shows traffic for today at 2100 hours, and it’s only 1723 currently. I have verified the PHP instance Observium is using reports the correct TZ (America/New_York) and also the monitored device is in the correct TZ. Is there a UTC offset I need to adjust somewhere? Thanks, -Ryan

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APC PDU's, some change have made outlet status to show twice.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hello Some fairly recent update and made my PDU’s a bit messy in obervium. I know have two statuses per outlet. See pictures of two different APC models. Cheers [cid:BE5E0B1D-C29C-4C36-B635-931B3D24A996@metronome.local] [cid:11A976F8-A9AD-4931-A332-6F143F3B7EA3@metronome.local] -- Henrik Cednert / + 46 704 71 89 54 / CTO / Filmlance Disclaimer, the hideous bs disclaimer at the bottom is forced, sorry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

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Minigraphs, names and labels. Some issues.
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hello I mentioned this in a thread about something else but think it drowned and got lost. lifting it out to a separate thread since I find these issues very frustrating. Not sure if I’m alone or not. 1. Can’t I rename graphs like we could in config.php? 2. Is there any way to move the label so that it doesn’t hide parts of the graph? 3. They mini graphs are a lot slower to refresh now, can this be tweaked? 4. I get the feeling that “show legend” on the larger graphs is semi-broken and is more or less always off here. Or is there some global setting that can have been changed when upgrading? Cheers and thanks [cid:782CC26C-348D-4DBE-95F4-097AC52CBFBA@metronome.local] -- Henrik Cednert / + 46 704 71 89 54 / CTO / Filmlance Disclaimer, the hideous bs disclaimer at the bottom is forced, sorry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

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Cisco RV340/345
by Benjamin Moore 06 Feb '19

06 Feb '19

It appears that the interfaces and everything else isn't working in Observium. Does anyone have any experience with this device? I'm happy to post an snmpwalk if it might help it get better support.

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CDR Overage Alerts
by Andrew Lemin 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Hi List, I know there has been a long-time request to enable the ability to generate an Alert when traffic (peak or 95%) goes over the CDR (as configured within [CDR] on the interface), and we would like to know if this has been realised yet? We just need a way of dynamically detecting and reporting when traffic goes over the configured CDR, using the port description’s [CDR] value. We cannot create Observium billing reports for every single customer facing port as we have thousands, and we are trying to keep manual processes to a minimum as this could easily be a generic alert of the form; ifInUcastPkts_rate > CDR OR ifOutUcastPkts_rate > CDR I believe historically there was some outstanding work to convert the discovered [CDR] field data into a normalised bps value in the database (as CDR can be given in units of Bits/Megabits/Gigabits etc). Thanks, Andy.

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subscription to community
by Michael Medwid 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Can you switch from the subscription version of observium to the community version by following the Upgrade to latest Major release procedure? Community Edition¶ Upgrade to latest Major release¶ Disable observium cronjobs optional Run the following commands (as root): cd /opt mv observium observium_old wget -Oobservium-community-latest.tar.gz http://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/ Update DB schema: /opt/observium/discovery.php -u If it has been a very long time since you've updated (12 months or more), you may want to force an immediate rediscovery of all devices to make sure things are up to date : /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all Re-enable observium cronjobs optional You may now delete your observium_old directory if everything has updated correctly: rm -rf observium_old

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Re: [Observium] Starline Busway Monitoring
by David Ross 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Hello again, Adam! The attached file contains two -Obentu format snmpwalks for the Skyline Busway CPM. Please let me know if this walk isn't the correct format. Regards, *David W. Ross, Sr.* Sr. Lab Ops Engineer 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor San Francisco, California 94105 415.589.4930 - O 415.926.3483 - C david.ross(a)salesforce.com <http://smart.salesforce.com/sig/david.ross//us_mb/default/link.html> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 3:06 AM Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > Hi, > > These walks are not quite in the correct format, they need to be made > with -ObentU > > It does look like there are a bunch of sensors and stuff in there, but I > can't tell what they are easily in that format. :) > > adam. > > > On 2019-01-02 21:11, David Ross wrote: > > Hello, Adam! > > > > About a month ago, I sent you snmpwalks for the Starline Critical > > Power Meter (CPM), hoping that Observium support for Starline could be > > added. Has any progress been made with developing code base? Any > > update would be appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > > > David W. Ross, Sr. > > Sr. Lab Ops Engineer > > > > 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor > > > > San Francisco, California 94105 > > > > 415.589.4930 - O > > > > 415.926.3483 - C > > david.ross(a)salesforce.com > > > > [1] > > > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:17 AM David Ross <david.ross(a)salesforce.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Hello, Adam! > >> > >> Within the attached text file are the two Starline snmpwalks. Pleas > >> let me know if there is additional information needed. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> David W. Ross, Sr. > >> Sr. Lab Ops Engineer > >> > >> 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor > >> > >> San Francisco, California 94105 > >> > >> 415.589.4930 - O > >> > >> 415.926.3483 - C > >> david.ross(a)salesforce.com > >> > >> [1] > >> > >> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 4:51 PM Adam Armstrong via observium > >> <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> > >> See the walk commands in the previous mail :> > >> > >> adam. > >> > >> On 2018-12-02 20:19:49, Darrell Budic via observium > >> <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> > >> I’m monitoring mine with some custom OIDs, works for what I need. > >> Would be nice to have them fully supported, I can provide sample > >> data if it helps someone set that up. > >> > >> -Darrell > >> > >> On Nov 30, 2018, at 4:22 PM, Adam Armstrong via observium > >> <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> It's not actually possible to just add mibs to a directory. You need > >> to write definition arrays and/or code to support that mib. > >> > >> Adam. > >> > >> Sent from BlueMail [2] > >> On 30 Nov 2018, at 19:43, David Ross via observium > >> <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hello! > >> > >> I sent this question yesterday but got no response. Please reply as > >> soon as possible. > >> > >> I've added monitoring to our Starline Busway CPMs (Critical Power > >> Meters) and have added latest MIB to the Observium SNMP MIBs > >> directory. However, I get very little to no monitoring data. Is > >> the Starline MIB not supported by Observium? Please advise; thanks! > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> David W. Ross, Sr. > >> Sr. Lab Ops Engineer > >> > >> 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor > >> > >> San Francisco, California 94105 > >> > >> 415.589.4930 - O > >> > >> 415.926.3483 - C > >> david.ross(a)salesforce.com > >> > >> [1] > >> > >> ------------------------- > >> > >> observium mailing list > >> observium(a)observium.org > >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> observium mailing list > >> observium(a)observium.org > >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > > > Links: > > ------ > > [1] http://smart.salesforce.com/sig/david.ross//us_mb/default/link.html > > [2] http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=14063 >

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Manage Output Value of custom OID
by walter＠onda.ch 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Hello I'm happy to using Observium and its Custom OID. Eveything is working fine. My question is the presentation of the values to the web. Is it possible to manipulate just for the presentation the collecte values? For example wie collect the SNR (Signal to noise) from the CMTS, this value has 3 digits like 325 in the RRD. Now for the human I would like to change it to 32.5 in the grafic. Is it possible? If not, would it be a nice features? Regards Walter

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Port label parsing - Mikrotik possible bug?
by Lyndon Labuschagne 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Hi I have picked up that the port cable parsing does not seem to work on Mikrotik routers, a port description of Core: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509 becomes CoreCore: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509 An SNMP walk gives be the below iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.1 = STRING: "Core: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509" iso.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.1.1 = STRING: "Core: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509" iso.3.6.1.2.1.55.1.5.1.2.1 = STRING: "Core: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509” If I run a poller on the device, the “Descr” under the sensors display shows the correct "Core: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509” but later on under the ifIndex listing the Label there is CoreCore: sfp-sfpplus1- Trunk to 6509 Regards

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When trying to upgrade observium I'm prompted for a root pw
by Michael Medwid 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

[juser@observium logs]$ sudo svn update [sudo] password for juser: Updating '.': Authentication realm: <http://svn.observium.org:80> Observium Professional Repository Password for 'root': Looking through our password vault I don't see a "root" user for observium upgrades. I do see another user ID labeled "Observium SVC" and the original system owner noted "used for upgrades". But as the only instruction for the upgrade is "svn update", it's not clear to me where this other username would come into play. Looking through the observium update doc I don't see any reference to being prompted for a root password nor an alternate svn user. Insight appreciated. Thanks, Michael

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Database errors insert
by Michael Medwid 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Mariadb Errors such as the one below are filling up db.log to the tune of 10GB per day. There's plenty of disk space. Any suggestions on how to correct this? [2019/01/26 15:14:11 -0800] poller.php(156776): Failed dbQuery (#1114 - The table 'ports_cbqos' is full), Query: INSERT INTO `ports_cbqos` (`device_id`,`port_id`,`policy_index `,`object_index`,`direction`,`PrePolicyPkt`, `PrePolicyByte`,`PostPolicyByte`,`DropPkt`,`DropByte`,`NoBufDropPkt`) VALUES ('132','11977','301990276','301990277','output','0','0','0','0','0','')

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