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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 08 Feb '19

08 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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Geolocation is broken?
by Tommy Nevtelen 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Hi When I clear geolocation for a device openstreetmap shows not found and it places it to the default in the middle of the Atlantic. Now for some reason all our stuff is being placed there. This also means that most devices are in Unknown in the Devices-> Location menu. But if I take the API request and clean it up, remove *** and amp; stuff it gives the correct answer, see the second screenshot. The url requested for this is: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?format=json&accept-language=en&a… Running the latest pro version from trunk but had the issue before, just upgraded to see if it would go away. /T

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update seems to be failing
by O'Connor, Gerry 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi, We have the Professional Subscription running on Ubunto 16.4.1 64 bit version. I am trying to upgrade from v9662 to 9684. I can't find any errors in the logs. Any thought on what I could be missing would be appreciated. When I run the update procedure, I get the following: root@bobservium:/opt/observium# svn update Updating '.': At revision 9684. root@bobservium:/opt/observium# Here is the Version info from the GUI: Version Information Observium 19.1.9661 (6th January 2019) OS Linux 4.13.0-41-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 16.04) Apache 2.4.18 (Ubuntu) PHP 7.0.30-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.12 MySQL 5.7.22-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.5.5 Fping 3.13 (IPv4 and IPv6) As you can see the GUI version is still the old version. I killed the browser and checked again, same version number, Thanks Gerry O'Connor Arris Group 630-281-3057

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svn update issue
by John Dicks 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi all. I have an issue running svn update. My system details below. What happens is I get 'GET request returned unexpected delta base' or less commonly a checksum mismatch'. I then revert to my saved snapshot of the VM and start again. Each time it fails at a different part. We are 588 rev's behind so I attempted to svn update -r 9217 which I believe is only one version ahead of where we are. Hoping that with fewer committed changes it would make it through. Same error though. Does anyone have any thing for me to try. I have not seen anyone else online with this issue? Thanks a LOT! Vsphere 6.5 VM Debian GNU/Linux 8 \n \1 Observium 18.3.9073 (stable)<http://www.observium.org/> Observium Professional License Version 1.1 Running Svn cleanup Svn update The svn update will get to a random spot before hitting me with a 'GET request returned unexpected delta base' or less commonly a checksum mismatch' [cid:image001.jpg@01D4B496.7B724F10] [cid:image002.jpg@01D4B496.7B724F10] [cid:image003.jpg@01D4B496.7B724F10] [cid:image004.jpg@01D4B496.7B724F10] [cid:image005.jpg@01D4B496.7B724F10] John Dicks IT Engineer NewPort Tank Containers NAM / SAM 1340 Depot St. Cleveland, OH 44116 United States Direct: +1 440 356 8866 Ext: 1119 Mobile: +1 330 687 7847 John.Dicks(a)newporttank.com<mailto:John.Dicks@newporttank.com> www.newporttank.com<http://www.newporttank.com> This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and/or otherwise authorized personnel. The information contained herein and attached is confidential and the property of Newport. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that viewing this message and any attachments, as well as copying, forwarding, printing, and disseminating any information related to this email is prohibited, and that you should not take any action based on the content of this email and/or its attachments. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this email and any attachment. Please note that the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the company. While antivirus protection tools have been employed, you should check this email and attachments for the presence of viruses. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this email and attachments. Newport accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by or contained in this email and attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from this email.

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Power graph aggregation
by Brandwatch NOC 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi, Does anyone have experience of creating aggregated graphs for power? Basically I would like to combine power graphs to get a view of power across aisles in a similar way to how we can aggregate ports for traffic accounting. Thanks for any thoughts. Chris -- Chris Tomkins Brandwatch | Senior Network Engineer (Linux/Network) christ(a)brandwatch.com | (+44) 01273 448 949 @Brandwatch New York | San Francisco | Brighton | Singapore | Berlin | Stuttgart Discover how organizations are using Brandwatch to create their own success <https://www.brandwatch.com/customer-success/> Email disclaimer <http://www.brandwatch.com/email-disclaimer/> [image: bw-signature logo.png]

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Can you manually re-run conversion of old front page to new? No minigraphs left...
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hello Had totally missed that there was a new front page/dash board. So was sort of chocked when running the upgrade and I lost all my minigraphs. Is it normal that the minigraphs isn’t carried over? Can I EASILY read that line in coinfig.php and have a new dashboard created from it? Sorry if there’s a thread about this, read back a few month but couldn’t find anything exactly like this. Please point me to it if there are one or more threads. Cheers and thanks -- 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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IPv6 Traffic Statistics Alert for Interfaces
by Klimek, Denis 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi all, I tried to create an alert for IPv6 Traffic from a interface which is able to display such traffic. There is also a RRD graph for it, but I can not find any values in the database. Would it be possible to add those so that a Alert Rule can be created? Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: 040 / 521 04 - 1049 Mobil: 0151 / 652 219 06 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/>

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Cisco Umbrella VA Monitoring
by Benjamin Moore 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Any chance we can get the following to monitor Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliances via Observium? Here are the necessary mibs - https://docs.umbrella.com/deployment-umbrella/docs/appendix-c-enable-snmp-m… I can send an SNMPwalk of appliances if needed. Thanks!

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Observium Enterprise
by Joelly, Alexander 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Hello, Our company is split into two major regions (EU & NA) where we have a central datacenter in each region, all sites in the particular region is connected to it's regional datacenter and the two datacenters are red. connected together. As I understand with the enterprise version multiple pollers can be deployed within the topology to scale vertically where in our scenario we would place them in our datacenters as everything is reachable from there (DC and WAN equippement on remote sites). How would we monitor both regions? Our concern is that the latency between the datacenters (~120ms) could cause some issues and might slow in response if the gui,rrd and mysql servers are hosted in one region. Can the rrd and mysql servers deployed redundant - one node in EU and the second in NA and also each region a local gui instance? Or is it possible to run a separate instance in each region and have a common gui with visibility of all devices? We possibly might also monitor the LAN equipment of the sites in the future - that might add a couple of thousands devices per region (no real numbers known yet) We have a network team and service desk in each region, where we have about 1.500 datacenter and WAN devices in each region to monitor in the first step - we are calculating to have around 30 people from each region using the gui daily. Does someone have such a setup? We setup the CE for testing and we would go ahead using it globally, but not sure how the setup should/would like for that and we haven't found anything in that direction... Thanks, Alex

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Cisco DCM
by Kamil Wojtas 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Are there any plans for monitoring Cisco DCM 9900/9902 devices?

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Alert Checker not picking up newly added switches
by Sam Jones 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Observium, I had to do a manual rebuild of Alert Checkers to add new devices. These devices are newly added in the last 6 months. Is this expected behaviour and if so can I automate a rebuild of the Alert Checkers as I don't want to have to remember to click the rebuild button every month/week/day? Sam

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