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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 02 Jul '18

02 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 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '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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SNMP + Ping Alerting
by David Ross 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Hello! I would like to setup an alert-checker that would send a notification only if a device is not reachable via both SNMP and ICMP. Is there documentation that explains specifically how to do this? Thanks! *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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Minor issue with data obtained vs displayed.
by Ron Marosko 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Howdy Adam et al., Just a minor issue that I've noticed. I'm doing WMI polling of my Windoze boxen, and it's generally working well. The information is getting fetched properly, and being displayed properly. However, I've got a few instances where I see the wmi component of the poller is fetching information properly (case in point my personal workstation): ##### Module Start: wmi ##### WMI Poller: Windows version updated: 10 Pro Insider Preview (10.0.17692) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5680 @ 3.33GHz o Module time 5.3163s But when I view the device overview page, I get the normal non-WMI indication of "Unknown Processor Type". Pointers on where to look? SQL db? Thanks, Ron -- Ron Marosko, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCIE No. 4526 (R/S), NN5DX Senior Network Engineer RJR Services, Inc. 1108 West Dickinson Blvd, Suite A Fort Stockton, TX 79735 USA o: +1 432 336 5600 x115 c: +1 432 290 6344 e: <mailto:ron@rjr-services.com> ron(a)rjr-services.com pgp pubkey: <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x778B3B0258AB8B5C> 0x58AB8B5C "To know me is to fly with me." -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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Alerting on Bandwidth
by Joey Stanford 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Hi Gang, I’m hoping someone can point me to the best answer for this… I can’t use network weathermap on my Observium server. I do need to monitoring available bandwidth on ports. Many ports on many of the 100 routers have different available bandwidths (e.g. our shot from one mountain to another might have a 100M ifspeed but due to the 30 mile link the actual throughput is 15M). I have some ideas: 1) use alerts to specify the router and port which is cumbersome (using ifInOctets_rate and ifOutOctets_rate) 2) query SQL directly and write a program to parse and display 3) Something I haven’t tested, just use the generic rule I have written and modify the ifspeed on the appropriate ports to what the actual bandwidth is. Any suggestions? Thanks, Joey

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Re: [Observium] mikrotik bgp monitor
by Mike Stupalov 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Hi, you should address this question to Mikrotik.. My answer is - when here will be BGP4-MIB in list: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:SNMP#Management_information_base_.28M… > Farshid Abediny <mailto:farshidabediny@gmail.com> > 24 June 2018 at 08:02 > Hello, > i want know when does observium want support mikrotik bgp session > monitoring ? > we have lot mikrotik routers and we need to monitor bgp session with > observium > thank you. > _______________________________________________ > 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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mikrotik bgp monitor
by Farshid Abediny 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Hello, i want know when does observium want support mikrotik bgp session monitoring ? we have lot mikrotik routers and we need to monitor bgp session with observium thank you.

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function not found
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Hi, I'm searching a MAC address on FDB Tables, but i can't view more results (like pages) -- Saluda cordialmente

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APC PDU values
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Not sure when this started (2 weeks ago?), but my APC PDUs (model AP8641) are alerting sensors on several banks. I checked the output values on the PDU and they are correctly reported BOTH on the PDU and in Observium. The issue lies at what Observium thinks the thresholds should be set to. On the PDU the thresholds are correct (16 warn and 20 max). But Observium is reporting the thresholds as 1.6 and 2 [cid:image001.png@01D40879.39B4EB10] Doing a discovery debug on the device I see this... [cid:image003.jpg@01D40879.D14D5C00] I feel that the SCALE value is being wrongly applied to several of the values, namely: rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.1 rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.2 rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.3 rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.4 rPDU2PhaseStatusCurrent.1 rPDU2PhaseStatusCurrent.2 Regards, derek

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Unable to create Device type alert checkers
by Neal, Christopher 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hello, We are suddenly unable to create new alert checkers for the device type in our observium instance. When the checker is created and we rebuild no machines are associated to the alert checker. We have a previous device up/down alert checker in place that still works but we are unable to add new devices to it. Other checkers such as storage can be created and seem to work fine. Any help would be appreciated. Best, Chris

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Cisco ASA IPSEC tunnels
by Christian Eriksson 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hi, Is it possible to have alerting for IPSEC tunnels? Could not find any entities for it Regards Christian

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Poller
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hi. How i can do poller manualy to a device from web? or an entire location

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