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additional file systems not shown in Observium
by Thomas Stather 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hi I am using Observium (subscribtion edition 18.1.9011) and want to monitor the file-systems of my servers. This works fine, but i have a VM which has additional filesystems (one local and some via NFS), and they don't show up what shows up is: / /boot /var/lib/docker/overlay what doesn't show up (but exists) is: /var/lib/samba/profiles /mnt/nfs/dept1 /mnt/nfs/dept2 VM OS: Debian 8 Version of net-snmp: 5.7.2.1+dfsg-1+deb8u1+b1 I didn't do any changes to the snmpd.conf on the VM rather than SNMPv3 authentication settings. Does somebody have any hint for me how to fix this? Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV Tel: +49 6221-486 628 Fax: +49 6221-486 561 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (MPImF) Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg Germany

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Re: [Observium] Syslog Integration
by Mike Stupalov 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hi Brian, you configured syslog daemon complete at same way in Pro as in CE? You use rsyslog daemon? How to debug syslog receiver (for rsyslog): 1. In Global Setting Edit -> Syslog -> Enable Syslog DEBUG 2. Validate that rsyslog daemon have permissions to write into logs dir: $ ls -l /opt/observium | grep logs 2.a Simple is add write permissions for all: $ sudo chmod 777 /opt/observium/logs 3. restart rsyslog: $ sudo service rsyslog restart 4. Now see debug.*.syslog files in logs dir: $ ls /opt/observium/logs/*.syslog When syslog msg from host received, here will added file: debug.<host>.syslog Where <host> is received hostname by rsyslog daemon, in your case this <host> must be complete same as device hostname in observium server. Inside this log files you will see full syslog messages like this: [2018/03/21 17:51:32 +0300] syslog.php(5563): <host>||4||6||6||sshd[9497]:||2018-03-21 17:51:32|| Received disconnect from 221.194.47.239 port 36596:11: [preauth]||sshd Here also <host> entry as first part of message. If <host> not same as device hostname (I think this is your trouble), than read this docs: http://docs.observium.org/syslog/#match-syslog-hostnameip-with-device > Brian Hilmers <mailto:bhilmers@scripps.edu> > 20 July 2018 at 02:07 > > Hello, > > Our organization recently upgraded from the Community version to > Professional. While using the Community version on Ubuntu 16.04 we > found syslog integration worked well and setup was easy following the > documentation. After purchasing a subscription, we installed Observium > on a new Ubuntu 16.04 machine, but cannot get syslog integration to > work. I have configured the target machine to send syslog messages to > Observium and, using tcpdump, can confirm the Observium server is > receiving messages on the correct port from the target with FQDN. > However, the Observium web interface show "no syslog entries." What is > the best way to diagnose and fix this problem? > > Brian Hilmers > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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Syslog Integration
by Brian Hilmers 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Hello, Our organization recently upgraded from the Community version to Professional. While using the Community version on Ubuntu 16.04 we found syslog integration worked well and setup was easy following the documentation. After purchasing a subscription, we installed Observium on a new Ubuntu 16.04 machine, but cannot get syslog integration to work. I have configured the target machine to send syslog messages to Observium and, using tcpdump, can confirm the Observium server is receiving messages on the correct port from the target with FQDN. However, the Observium web interface show "no syslog entries." What is the best way to diagnose and fix this problem? Brian Hilmers

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What is the IPMI settings for?
by Simon Mousey Smith 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hi All This is going to sound like a complete daft question But whats the IPMI settings for under the properties of a server? I understand that IPMI is to restart server remotely, control, etc… But not sure what information it will get/help with in observium? Regards Simon - Hestor

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Port Utilization Alert Checker Assistance
by Jonathan HoSee 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hello Everyone, For the life of me I am unable to get devices to fall into the status column according to the documentation for port utilization alerts. I would appreciate you informing me what exactly I am doing wrong. Thank you once again. Jon

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nagios & munin plugins
by Thibault Richard 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hello, On the page http://docs.observium.org/config_options/ I see the config $config['nagios_plugins'] On my server, I see /usr/lib/observium_agent/scripts-available/munin Does it mean Nagios plugins & munin scripts could be used in Observium ? Best Regards Thibault

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Change Subscruber Password
by Nurbek Suleimanov 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

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Alert checker for high memory usage on Linux
by Paludan, Ulrik 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

I'm trying to setup a high memory usage alert on Ubuntu Linux hosts. I'm using type entity mempool_perc in alert test 'mempool_perc greater 90'. However mempool_perc reports all memory used, including cache/buffer memory used by Linux, but still available to be released for applications as necessary. So my alert checker generates false alerts as soon as memory usage including cache/buffer exceeds 90%, which it does quit often on most of my servers. How can I setup a memory alert checker for available physical memory below a certain threshold? Observium online guide states: 'On Unix/Linux systems we generate a special "Physical Memory" memory pool entity by calculating memory usage minus buffer and cache. Use this for alerting on Unix/Linux' But not really sure how to use that entity? Is the entity name 'Physical_Memory', does it return result in bytes, percentage ? Thanks in advance Med venlig hilsen | With kind regards | Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ulrik Paludan | IT Operations NOVASOL AS Virumgårdsvej 27 - DK 2830 Virum Phone +45 39 14 31 82 ulrik.paludan(a)novasol.com<mailto:ulrik.paludan@novasol.com> www.novasol.com | www.dansommer.dk<http://www.dansommer.dk/> | www.cuendet.com<http://www.cuendet.dk/> NOVASOL AS IS A WYNDHAM RENTALS COMPANY Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Flapping interfaces
by Andrew Lemin 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Hi, We are trying to create an Alert Checker to detect for flapping network interfaces. How can we do this with Observium? Is this possible? Thanks, Andy.

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Windows 10 Auto Discovery
by Connary, Scott 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Good day: I am working on getting our windows environment set for auto discovery. It is working for our switches once we enable LLDP and have the correct SNMP setting in place. With Windows 10 I am having no luck in having them auto discovered. I can manually add a windows workstation to Observium via the add feature. When looking at devices in Observium I can see that a switch sees the workstation NIC via LLDP. However it only sees it as a MAC and provides no further information on the system itself. Windows 10: 64Bit Symantec Endpoint Protection AV SNMP Enabled and properly configured. LLDP looks to be on in NIC features. LLTD does not stay on under Windows Services. Thank you, Scott

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Alert association including all devices with recent version
by Thibault Richard 15 Jul '18

15 Jul '18

Hello The "Entity Association Ruleset" has been recently modified On this screenshot you can see both type ("Memory usage" use the old syntax with "Device & Entity" . while "Device down" use the new syntax) My question is simple . as we are obliged to associate an "Alert check" to devices, how are we supposed to specify "All devices" ? It's indeed no longer possible to specify * I've achieved my goal by specifying "device.ignore notequals 1" but this is not intuitive at all. Is there an easier way to do it ? Best Regards Thibault

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Alerts for Cumulative Throughput
by Jonathan HoSee 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hello, is there a way to setup an alert checker to be set for a certain percentage of the cumulative throughput graphs much like you can with interface capacity? Please let me know what these particular settings are. Thanks, Jon

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Alerts table not refreshed after discovery
by Fabrice Charlier 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hi, We observed the following behavior with Observium Subscription Edition 18.7.8339. We have a alert checker define on used pourcentage on file systems. Previously, if we add a filesystem to a server, a new entry entry in the alert table associated with this alert checker was created. It seems to be not the case anymore. Note that the new filesystem is reported as found in the event log and that the monitoring part is working perfectly. Regards, Fabrice

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Graphs are showing 13MB throughput on a 6MB link
by Anthony Polselli 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

Just noticed that the bandwidth graphs are not reporting the correct throughput. I.e. a 6MB T-1 link is showing 13MB on the Out. This router is a Cisco 7204VXR. I just tried updating to the current version of Observium, patched the OS, and rebooted but no change. Thoughts? [NN with R Flattened_250 x 84] __________________________________________ Anthony Polselli Chief Technology Officer Natural Networks, Inc. 10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 San Diego, CA 92121 anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com<mailto:anthony@naturalnetworks.com> http://www.naturalnetworks.com<http://www.naturalnetworks.com/> (619) 222-3232, ext: 101 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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IoT snmp
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

hi i have an iot sensing temperature. iot respond snmp querys version 1, (confirmed by linux command), how to add to observium? Because i can't note: custom oid -- Saluda cordialmente

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Best practice for "Port Down"?
by Eric W. Bates 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

I quite like the idea that Observium notes "down" ports; however, in my case, most are false-positive in that they belong to users who power down after hours. Our normal port description for an unallocated port is "NXC" (No Xross Connect) to the "Ignore Ports by ifName/ifDescr" and that has helped. In a perfect world, I want to monitor all ports which interconnect between our switches, and all ports in the Data Center; but ignore everything else. Can I put a negated RegExp in "Ignore ports by ifAlias Regular Expression" instead? Thank you. -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112

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Re: [Observium] Syslog issue
by Mike Stupalov 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Hi, read this section: http://docs.observium.org/syslog/#match-syslog-hostnameip-with-device You have troubles with association between observium devices hostname and rsyslog received hosts. You must set preserve FQDN or just use associate by IP (as written in docs). > Satish Patel <mailto:satish.txt@gmail.com> > 11 July 2018 at 17:44 > I want to integrate syslog with my observium and i am following all > these steps http://docs.observium.org/syslog/ > > I am using rsyslog, I have point my Cisco gears to observium and i can > see in tcpdump logs are coming from cisco routers, now issue is i > can't see them in GUI interface, how do i troubleshoot now? > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org

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Problem with time range showing graph
by Fiberwide Sysadmins 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Hi all, i'm using Observium in our company, we start suffering a problem when we try to show a graph in a defined time frame, the result is like that the time frame selected and the graph are different time frame, for example I select From: 2018-07-10 09:03:5 To: 2018-07-10 10:11:56 but the graph show starting 11:00 ending 12:10 like the attached image, and if I try to select a time-frame ending in this moment, the graph is empty, i suppose because the real time-frame used will end in the future. What I've missed in my configuration ? 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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Syslog issue
by Satish Patel 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

I want to integrate syslog with my observium and i am following all these steps http://docs.observium.org/syslog/ I am using rsyslog, I have point my Cisco gears to observium and i can see in tcpdump logs are coming from cisco routers, now issue is i can't see them in GUI interface, how do i troubleshoot now?

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No Alert Notification
by David Ross 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

I'm attempting to setup an alert notification that would get engaged only if SNMP and ICMP were down, so I've setup a device-down alert that is based upon the below two conditions. device_status_type snmp 0 device_status_type ping 0 I also have "Require all conditions" selected within the Alert Checker Conditions. When SNMP condition is met, Observium does mark the device as down and does not send a notification, as desired. However, when both conditions are met, Observium marks the device as down but does not send a notification. What am I missing? Regards, *David W. Ross, Sr.* Sr. Network 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>

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how to exclude the CPU temperature readings when monitoring virtual machines?
by Thomas Stather 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Hi I am using Observium Professional 18.1.9011 (subscription). I am monitoring one virtual machine (Ubuntu, VMWare ESXi hosted) and noticed that the CPU temperatur is quite high with 100 degrees :) The question is now how to exclude this output for all virtual machines if possible? Thanks in advance! Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV Tel: +49 6221-486 628 Fax: +49 6221-486 561 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (MPImF) Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg Germany

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Is the snmp output from Aruba devices total rubbish or is something upfucked in my install.
by Rowlands Mark 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Observium 8.6.9263 (10th June 2018) OS Linux 4.4.0-116-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 10.1.25-MariaDB-1~xenial (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.5.5 (rrdcached 1.5.5: unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock) Fping 3.13 (IPv4 and IPv6) I have a bunch of Aruba devices, WAP205H, IAP155, 303H and a single 7005. OS little varied but usually 6.4x or 6.5x. I am aware that the Aruba is not specifically supported but would expect basic snmp bandwidth info to be correct ( ish ) IAP155 and 7005 seem to report bandwidth traffic ok but the 205and 303 report nonsense. ( see the attached graph ) . Are there other Aruba users out there with similar issues or is it just me?

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Best practice for alert threshold per devices
by Thibault Richard 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

%Hello, Im trying to define different alert threshold per devices. Ive tried by proceeding like this : 1° Ive defined a global alarm for all my devices having disk over 90% Im associating this alert checks to every devices except those in a specific group 2° The group with id 17, correspond to devices for which I accept a disk filled under 95% 3° Ive defined a second alert check specifically for this Is it the good way to achieve my goal ? Is my syntax correct ? Best Regards Thibault

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access graph, and alerts using API
by Gupta, Vijay(AWF) 08 Jul '18

08 Jul '18

Hi Team, Using API, I was trying to retrieve below information but could not figure out from the documentation provided. * graph (for processor, memory, etc) * device alerts for a specific time period (say past week/month) * we can pull the alerts, but not for a specific time range Appreciate if you could please help. Best, Vijay

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RHEL 7 and php 7.0 loading
by Dash Brousseau 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I have a new os install for subscription of Observium on redhat 7 I can’t get the main page to work Website loads but it’s all texts. Trying with php 7.0.But there seems to be conflict between php 5.3 or difference between httpd24. I dont know In the error logs it doesn’t show anything wrong so I’m assuming its php problem In the browser I get this display all in text “* @copyright (C) 2006-2013 Adam Armstrong, (C) 2013-2016 Observium Limited * */ include("../includes/sql-config.inc.php"); include_once($config['html_dir'] . "/includes/functions.inc.php"); // Preflight checks if (!is_dir($config['rrd_dir'])) { print_error("RRD Directory is missing ({$config['rrd_dir']}). Graphing may fail."); } if (!is_dir($config['log_dir'])) { print_error("Log Directory is missing ({$config['log_dir']}). Logging may fail."); } if (!is_dir($config['temp_dir'])) { print_error("Temp Directory is missing ({$config['temp_dir']}). Graphing may fail."); } if (!is_writable($config['temp_dir'])) { print_error("Temp Directory is not writable ({$config['tmp_dir']}). Graphing may fail."); } if (ini_get('register_globals')) { $notifications[] = array('text' => 'The PHP Option "register_globals" enabled in the php.ini. Please disable it!', 'severity' => 'alert'); } //if (!function_exists('hash_exists')) //{ // $alerts[] = array('text' => 'The PHP `hash` module is missing This will cause editing and other forms to fail. Please install it.', 'severity' => 'danger'); //} if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, OBS_MIN_PHP_VERSION, '<')) { $notifications[] = array('text' => ' Your PHP version is too old. Your currently installed PHP version ' . PHP_VERSION . ' is older than the required minimum of ' . OBS_MIN_PHP_VERSION . '. Please upgrade your version of PHP to prevent possible incompatibilities and security problems.', 'severity' => 'danger'); } if (isset($config['alerts']['suppress']) && $config['alerts']['suppress']) { $notifications[] = array('text' => ' All Alert Notifications Suppressed” etc etc. But I follow the install guide at Observium website I even create a ticket with redhat I was directly here https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2662201 When I use httpd24-httpd to start apache,he doesn’t even reference /etc/httpd/conf.d/ where obersvium is. So observirum page doesn’t even load however the main apache site shows working php7.0 I will kill that and go back to this systemctl enable httpd systemctl start httpd And now I’m back at the same situation. When Observium loads just text Anyone got Observium to work on rheal 7 with php 7.0 Dash This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the intended addressee (or authorized to receive for the intended addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by e-mail then delete the message immediately. Francais: http://www.fundserv.com/fr/company/disclaimer<http://www.fundserv.com/francais/legal/disclaimer_email_ib.shtml>

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