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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 11 Jul '18

11 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) 09 Jul '18

09 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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how to avoid false-positives (device down/up), on HPE switches and Aruba APs
by Thomas Stather 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi Observium: 18.1.9011 (stable, subscribtion) We are monitoring our networking infrastructure with Observium and for a long time, i am seeing some false-positives. The poller period is 5 minutes and i.e. on 10:00am Observium reports a switch beeing down, where at 10:05am it reports it as beeing up again. This happens to HPE network gear (switches) as well as to wireless APs (Aruba). I set |$config['ping']['debug'] = TRUE; ||$config['ping']['timeout'] = 500; ||| |in config.php and will now monitor if that helps. Is there anything else i can try to solve this issue?| 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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SQL Query
by Andrew Lemin 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi Adam, Hope you are well. Just a quick question about the Observium database schema. I need to write a simple query that will return a list of device names and the IP addresses which Observium uses for its polling (we don’t need or want any other addresses). I had a look and found tables ‘devices’ and ‘ipv4_addresses’. And I can see the device_id foreign key etc, so obtaining all the IPs for a device is trivial enough. But I am not sure how to best filter for just the IP which Observium uses for polling. I recently built a DNS zone for our network team using PowerDNS, and I just need to export all the devices and their management IPs from Observium, so I can inject the records into PowerDNS. So nothing fancy, but we have a couple hundred records.. Kind regards, Andy Lemin

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Re: [Observium] Observium Graph issue
by Balaji-NOC Engineer 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Dear Team, After adding 400 devices in our observium pro version we are getting drops in our graph. Kindly help us to resolve this issue. Thanks & Regards…. K.Balaji NOC-Engineer Corporate Address: No:38/11 | Status Quo | 4th floor | Sterling Road | Nungambakkam | PH. 9940570099 |Chennai-600034 | 044 61556666 | Mail: noc_team(a)ficustelecom.in | Web: http://www.ficustelecom.com Note:: For further any services related issue, Kindly reach us on 044 61556666 /9677055555 or noc_team(a)ficustelecom.in /noc(a)ficustelecom.com

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Re: [Observium] SQL Query
by Mike Stupalov 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi, devices polling not use tables with *_addresses, only hostnames. Hostnames resolve IP during polling by DNS query (or system hosts file). > Andrew Lemin <mailto:AndrewL@4d-dc.com> > 6 July 2018 at 12:36 > > Hi Adam, > > Hope you are well. > > Just a quick question about the Observium database schema. > > I need to write a simple query that will return a list of device names > and the IP addresses which Observium uses for its polling (we don’t > need or want any other addresses). > > I had a look and found tables ‘devices’ and ‘ipv4_addresses’. > > And I can see the device_id foreign key etc, so obtaining /all/ the > IPs for a device is trivial enough. But I am not sure how to best > filter for just the IP which Observium uses for polling. > > I recently built a DNS zone for our network team using PowerDNS, and I > just need to export all the devices and their management IPs from > Observium, so I can inject the records into PowerDNS. So nothing > fancy, but we have a couple hundred records.. > > Kind regards, Andy Lemin > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Using professional edition license for testing
by Erdem HAKI 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hello, I want to migrate Observium professional edition to a new server, my plan is to install everything and testing them on the new box before moving data(rrd, database etc.). I saw "The subscription license is valid for a single production installation and two testing or development installations." on the page so I want to make sure that how should I handle license operation. I only can see one user/pass for my subscription when I logged in. Can I use it on the new box to download another Observium professional edition and test my build before moving data while my production Observium is still operational? Best

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Possibility to disable/enable syslog view for user
by Klimek, Denis 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Hi, what would you think about adding another permission level to disable/enable the possibility to view the syslog entries of a device? We have the situation that some external users must have access to specific devices and graphs, but this also includes syslog entries... and we simply do not want to show them this log entries i.e. cli commands that have been executed. 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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average trend line to the aggregate storage graphs
by Richard Wigzell 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Hi, is it possible to add an average trend line to the aggregate storage graphs? Similar to what is on the standard usage Graph. We are looking for a way to do some simple and rough storage growth prediction for an number of volumes as an aggregate. If this is something we could do natively with Observium that would be great but if anyone has done something similar with the RRDs and can share that would also be good. [cid:image001.png@01D41347.5FD8B370] [cid:image002.png@01D41347.C1A5EEB0] Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CE9215.D39244B0]<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> Richard Wigzell Technical Lead, Storage Platforms IT Services | University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN T: 01865 616282 www.it.ox.ac.uk<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/>

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Cisco ADSL port only shows one speed
by Tim Bates 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hello experts.... I have 2 Cisco routers with ADSL ports. Observium is showing the low (outbound) speed on these ports, however I am more interested in the higher (inbound) speed. When we have line problems, the outbound speed generally doesn't change much (maybe by a few kbps), but the inbound can drop from ~7mbps to under 1mbps. This drastic inbound speed change is what I'd like to monitor, graph and get alerts on... Is there a way to get the other speed to show instead (or in addition)? I can see the Cisco ADSL MIB listed, and enabled, but this is obviously not enough. I can't see any other obvious settings, and Google was not my friend on this one. TB

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Graphs for Juniper SRX Showing incorrect speed spike
by TAN Lists 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hey All, I have a weird issue with some interface graphs for a SRX240H where it will show the speed spiking to 10+GB/s on a 1GB/s port and for the life of me, I can't figure out why. https://pasteboard.co/Hss2xMm.png Observium I think is polling the 32 bit OIDs, but the webUI says it is 64bit Polling with Cacti shows correct traffic on both 32 and 64 bit OIDs - https://pasteboard.co/Hss2agw.png I also see a similar issue with a SRX110H where the VDSL interface (which is hard capped to 12MB/s) is showing 50+MB/s which is not possible. https://pasteboard.co/Hss2kcf.png Not sure how else to debug this, I have a feeling that this might be an issue within Observium, but advice appreciated. Devices are: Juniper SRX240H JunOS 12.1X46-D72.2 (Internet Router) Juniper SRX110H2-VA JunOS 12.3X48-D55.4 (Internet Router) Version Information *Observium CE* 17.9.0 (25th September 2017) *OS* Linux 3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7) *Apache* 2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/5.6.36 *PHP* 5.6.36 *Python* 2.7.5 *MySQL* 5.5.56-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.5.56-MariaDB) *SNMP* NET-SNMP 5.7.2 *RRDtool* 1.6.0 Thoughts on fixing / troubleshooting appreciated Have tried deleting devices and re-adding, beyond that, not sure what else to do.

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Re: [Observium] Cisco ADSL port only shows one speed
by ron＠rjr-services.com 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

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9304 issues
by Joey Stanford 01 Jul '18

01 Jul '18

Hi, Overnight the update script brought us to 9304 and the schema up to 378. Immediately after, all of our devices when down and alerts went out. The problem was that the poller script SQL call was failing because it was looking for status = 1 and all of our boxes were in status = 0. poller couldn’t find the host even though the hostname matched hostname in devices. I did an “ update devices set status=1 where `disabled`=0; “ and poller started again but I’m sure something else it at play here. Joey

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Alert-check "down device" doesn't report devices down
by Thibault Richard 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

Hello I've something strange with a basic alert checker I've defined a basic alert-checker to check if my devices are down The test condition is device_status equals 0 I know it works because I already had some working case. I'm astonished because I have a case with devices shown as down : . but not reported by the alarm-checks The device is a Dell EqualLogic PS4210 Do you know what my mistake could be ? Best Regards Thibault

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Moving Data to new build
by Barry George 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

How/Can you move data (graphs, device information etc) from one Observium build to another new build? I have been evaluating a Turnkey Linux CE build of Observium adding some devices etc. We like it and have purchased a license for the PE edition. I've been having little success moving the Virtualbox hosted version to ESXi 6.x for production. So I was thinking of installing a new build ontop of Debian 9. Can I move our Vbox hosted data over or do I just suck it up and start again? Thanks, Barry

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group and alert
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

hi, how i can create an alert based on a group? (associate group-alert) is possible? or i do an alert and a group ? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Disabling arp-table discovery module
by Klimek, Denis 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Hi all, I would like to globally disable the arp-table discovery module. I already tried $config['poller_modules']['arp-table'] = FALSE; in config, but this is for the "poller modules" and not discovery modules. In the global discovery module web gui section there is no option for it. 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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