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Re: [Observium] Location of a switch
by Adam Armstrong 23 May '18

23 May '18

Hi, We expect a street address in the location field (or more specifically a location field that can be parsed by whatever geolocation service is used). You can put coordinates directly into sysLocation inside square brackets like : http://docs.observium.org/config_options/#reverse-geocoding To quickly repoll the basic device data when testing you can do ./poller.php -h <hostname/device_id> -m system adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Thomas Peters" <TPeters(a)mcts.org> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 2018-05-22 21:41:48 Subject: [Observium] Location of a switch >I have installed Observium CE on CentOS 7.4 and am trying to get a >handle on the question of location for devices. > > > >I have 7 locations, all within the same city. I put in a default >location in the configuration, by longitude and latitude. Sure enough, >there’s a green checkmark on the map right where my main building is. > > > >For Nagios purposes, we have location codes that consist of the >company, site (may be omitted) building, and room. So you might find >something like mcts-ad-sr (admin building, server room) or >mcts-brg-1flidf (Bridge Street Garage, 1st floor IDF.) So far, I am >using the same arbitrary codes for Observium, in the SNMP “location” on >the switch. > > > >I was hoping to use these sort of codes to precisely locate a switch >for the humans that use Observium, while hoping there was already a >table built into the tool to translate the codes to map coordinates. > > > >I don’t know enough about the SNMP “location” code to understand if I’m >using it correctly. We have always just treated it as a free-text >locator code, usable only by my IT department. > > > >Does Observium expect to see a street address in there? I tried that; >doesn’t seem to work. I don’t have an API key for the geocoding, and it >probably won’t work anyhow, since all these devices have non-routable >10.x.x.x addresses, which geocoding can’t make sense of. > > > >Any help appreciated- > >Thanks. > > > > > > > >Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator | tpeters(a)mcts.org >Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk(a)mcts.org > >Milwaukee County Transit System <http://www.ridemcts.com/> > > > >1942 N 17th Street | Milwaukee, WI 53205 > >Check us out on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/mcts> & Twitter ><https://twitter.com/RideMCTS> > > >

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Now What? / Most busy ports?
by Thomas Peters 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hello all. Just installed Observium CE on CentOS 7.4 and am tinkering with it. It graphs, it discovers devices via CDP/XDP, it's really cool. Now what do I do with it? I know, I know, I should have had a destination in mind before I took to the road. But the program looked so cool that I installed it just to see what it could do. One question I would really like to have it answer for me is this: I have some period slow-downs on my network. Can I get Observium to show me the busiest ports on a switch, so I can track down the culprit (if it's due to traffic?) I've been prowling the interwebs for my information. That was a helpful method of getting information to install it and make it work, and comb out some of the early bugs, but I'm finding it harder to locate hints on how to rally exploit this excellent resource to make my network better/faster/stronger/able to leap tall packets in a single bound. Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator | tpeters(a)mcts.org<mailto:tpeters@mcts.org> Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk(a)mcts.org<mailto:helpdesk@mcts.org> Milwaukee County Transit System <http://www.ridemcts.com/> 1942 N 17th Street | Milwaukee, WI 53205 Check us out on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mcts> & Twitter <https://twitter.com/RideMCTS>

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Location of a switch
by Thomas Peters 22 May '18

22 May '18

I have installed Observium CE on CentOS 7.4 and am trying to get a handle on the question of location for devices. I have 7 locations, all within the same city. I put in a default location in the configuration, by longitude and latitude. Sure enough, there's a green checkmark on the map right where my main building is. For Nagios purposes, we have location codes that consist of the company, site (may be omitted) building, and room. So you might find something like mcts-ad-sr (admin building, server room) or mcts-brg-1flidf (Bridge Street Garage, 1st floor IDF.) So far, I am using the same arbitrary codes for Observium, in the SNMP "location" on the switch. I was hoping to use these sort of codes to precisely locate a switch for the humans that use Observium, while hoping there was already a table built into the tool to translate the codes to map coordinates. I don't know enough about the SNMP "location" code to understand if I'm using it correctly. We have always just treated it as a free-text locator code, usable only by my IT department. Does Observium expect to see a street address in there? I tried that; doesn't seem to work. I don't have an API key for the geocoding, and it probably won't work anyhow, since all these devices have non-routable 10.x.x.x addresses, which geocoding can't make sense of. Any help appreciated- Thanks. Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator | tpeters(a)mcts.org<mailto:tpeters@mcts.org> Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk(a)mcts.org<mailto:helpdesk@mcts.org> Milwaukee County Transit System <http://www.ridemcts.com/> 1942 N 17th Street | Milwaukee, WI 53205 Check us out on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mcts> & Twitter <https://twitter.com/RideMCTS>

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Scaling Observium
by Christian Eriksson 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hi, Anyone tried this? Will anything like this ever be officially supported? http://blog.best-practice.se/2017/10/scaling-observium-horizontally.html I rather have a single point of management for all my customers, if possible /Christian

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Re: [Observium] HTTP 500 error (adama@memetic.org)
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hi Adam, I turned off UFW firewall on Ubuntu server and updated but still the same result :-( Met vriendelijke groet, Ricardo Franco Cantero TSP Bombeeck Group BV Today's Topics: 1. Re: HTTP 500 error (adama(a)memetic.org) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 19:46:00 +0100 From: <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "'Observium'" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] HTTP 500 error Message-ID: <005901d3ee0f$4da81ea0$e8f85be0$(a)memetic.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This is pretty much always caused by an intervening firewall or transparent proxy breaking the HTTP session used by SVN. Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Ricardo Franco Cantero Sent: 17 May 2018 09:33 To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] HTTP 500 error Hi, When updating through putty, with sudo svn update it results into a HTTP 500 error. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Ricardo Franco Cantero

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Avaya Phone 9630G
by todevnull＠free.fr 22 May '18

22 May '18

Dear observium team, Just a quick one please, is the Avaya phone model 9630G is supported please ? I've tried to add the phone, but only classic SNMP stats are graphed and there is an observium icon instead of Avaya logo on the device list. Thanks in advance. Tarik.

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Database service crashes after update
by Brian Weeks 21 May '18

21 May '18

After updating to the latest version 18.5.9221 (stable) I ran the discovery.php -u to update it said (update syslog, may be long operation ~30-45min) after about 5 min I get an error Critical error: (2013) Lost connection to MySQL server during query. Restarting the service nor rebooting the server helps and I had to do a rollback from a checkpoint to get Observium to function again. Can you help me with this error? -- Brian Weeks Network Engineer CCNA, MCSE, ACMT, A+, Network+, Security+ Brenham ISD 1301 Niebuhr St. Brenham, TX 7783 Office: (979) 277-3760 ext. 2249 Email: bweeks(a)brenhamk-12.net Website: http://www.brenhamisd.net

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SRX4200 FAN status missing
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 21 May '18

21 May '18

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Did the revision update and my workstations are down now
by Joe Brouillette 19 May '18

19 May '18

Hey all, I did the revision update and I'm now currently at 18.5.9221. Since I did the update my workstations are all showing as down. I can ping them from my Observium server and I can run an snmpwalk on them from the Observium server. I tried running both ./discovery.php -d -h <some_host> and ./poller.php -d -h <some_host> and both of them have this warning: WARNING: 0 devices polled/discovered. Did you specify a device that does not exist? I tried to re-add a device but Observium says it has already been added. Am I missing something simple here? Thanks, Joe Brouillette IT Specialist 509.664.7643 jobee(a)linktransit.com<mailto:jobee@linktransit.com> [cid:image001.jpg@01D3ECEE.460F8470]

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HTTP 500 error
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 17 May '18

17 May '18

Hi, When updating through putty, with sudo svn update it results into a HTTP 500 error. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Ricardo Franco Cantero

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Obserivum Pro (Rolling 18.5.9220)
by Serghei Golipad 16 May '18

16 May '18

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Schedule alerting times
by Reisner Martin 16 May '18

16 May '18

Hi! We are running Observium Professional 18.5.9221 (10th May 2018) and are on the way of using more and more great features of Observium. At the moment we are working on Alerting Rules and they are working great - but... Is there a way to schedule alerting in a way that we have e-mail alerting only turing working hours? Or inverted in a way that we have e-mail alerting between a time-slot for example 00:00 to 06:00 o'clock an 18:00 to 00:00 o'clock? Thank you in advanced! With kind regards Martin

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configuration (alert rules) export
by Edvinas K 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hello, Is't possible to export custom Observium configuration. For example alert rules ?

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AUTO : Absence du bureau du 14 au 25 mai / Out of office from 14 to 25 may. (retour 28/05/2018)
by Olivier.BERTRAND＠galian.fr 15 May '18

15 May '18

Je suis absent(e) du bureau jusqu'au 28/05/2018 Bonjour, Je serais absent du bureau du 14 Mai au 25 Mai compris. Thank you for your e-mail, I will be out of office from 14 May to 25 May and unable to respond at this time. En cas d'urgence, vous pouvez contacter Jean-Luc Ky à cette adresse : Jean-luc.ky(a)galian.fr Should the matter be important, please contact Jean-Luc Ky at Jean-luc.ky(a)galian.fr in my absence. Cordialement, Regards, Remarque : ceci est une réponse automatique à votre message "[Observium] configuration (alert rules) export" envoyé le 15/05/2018 14:17:50. C'est la seule notification que vous recevrez pendant l'absence de cette personne. Olivier BERTRAND Ingénieur Systèmes et Réseaux Olivier.BERTRAND(a)galian.fr Tél: 01 44 95 22 34 || 89 rue La Boétie 75008 Paris || www.galian.fr Description : pictoPensez à l'environnement, n'imprimez ce mail que si vous en avez besoin version 1.0.g1

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Customizing Alert email notification
by Edvinas K 14 May '18

14 May '18

Hello, Is't possible to customize Observium Alert email - that in email subject space i would get an entity description too ? Thanks

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Alert Checkers broken when caching is enabled
by Andrew Lemin 14 May '18

14 May '18

Hi, Not sure if this is special to our setup, but we have found that when we enable caching (with the cache driver set to Auto), the Alert Checkers page stops displaying. We have disabled caching again for now which has restored the Alert Checkers, so it's not a critical issue. But thought we'd share this finding. Thanks, Andy.

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Expanded Eaton UPS Support - xupsEnvironment
by Mailing Lists 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hi, Would it be possible to expand the Eaton UPS monitoring support to include the contact sensors contained within 'xupsEnvironment' so we can alert on the open/closed state of the sensors? The device does appear to provide this information through SNMP (sensor 'type', 'status' and 'name' it's just not captured by Observium as best as I can tell. I can provide SNMP outputs, or possibly access to the device, as required to assist with this request Many Thanks, Tim C

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Upgrading
by Joe Brouillette 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hey all, I can't seem to figure out how to upgrade my Observium to the new revision. I tried svn update but that didn't work. Per the Upgrading the Subscription Edition web page I tried svn update -r 18.5.9221 and when that failed tried svn update -r 9221 but that failed too. I was going to download the new installer but I didn't want to overwrite my current installation. So how do I upgrade my current Observium install? Thanks, Joe Brouillette IT Specialist 509.664.7643 jobee(a)linktransit.com<mailto:jobee@linktransit.com> [cid:image001.jpg@01D3E924.7DD8EFE0]

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blank window
by Raimundas Šlepikas 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hi, i tried on few different PC, blank windows apears randomly. Any ideas please ? -- UAB "Kauno internetos sistemos' R.

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New Iconset
by Klimek, Denis 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hi all, we've just updated this morning to the latest version 18.5.9221 (10th May 2018) and see that the iconset has changed. It looks very strange... ports are now using a Yellow ! Attention, Profil Menue (right top) a temperature icon, BGP Icon is now a paper clip?! Are you sure you want to keep them? They look so mismatched in Observium. Is there any way to get the old iconset back? They looked much much more better than the current one :/ 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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Re: [Observium] New Iconset
by Mike Stupalov 11 May '18

11 May '18

Hi, please refresh page one more time :P > Klimek, Denis <mailto:DKlimek@Stadtwerke-Norderstedt.de> > 11 May 2018 at 09:31 > > Hi all, > > we’ve just updated this morning to the latest version 18.5.9221 (10th > May 2018) and see that the iconset has changed. > > It looks very strange… ports are now using a Yellow ! Attention, > Profil Menue (right top) a temperature icon, BGP Icon is now a paper > clip?! > > Are you sure you want to keep them? They look so mismatched in > Observium. Is there any way to get the old iconset back? They looked > much much more better than the current one :/ > > 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/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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LDP Neighbors, Syslog rules severity and program matching
by Jason Neighbors 10 May '18

10 May '18

Hi, We've been running r9073 (2018-03) for a month now and it has turned out to be a great addition to our environment. I was wondering if there are any plans to add support for MPLS LDP neighbor info in the routing pages? That is something we wouldn't mind paying a bit for. Also, regarding syslog rules, my rules to alert on message matches work great but I couldn't find mention in the doc examples of matching on severity or program name. Is it possible? Thank you. --- Jason Neighbors

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SENAO (Engenius) support for dual band products
by Serge Caron 09 May '18

09 May '18

Greetings! Quote from Adam : "The archives died during a server move, and the mailing list software is voodoo, so they never came back". Apologies for asking something that is probably old news. The Community Edition ships with Senao (Engenius) MIBs dated 2013.11.25. This is fine for older devices such as the EAP9550 and we get proper data (such as number of wireless clients). However, it seems all modern dual band devices such as the (older) EAP600 and the (newer) ECB1750 always report 1 as the number of wireless clients (as well as other broken stats). Are there updated MIBs compatible to observium for these products? Regards, Serge Caron

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Corporate authentication process - questions
by Jan Horacek 08 May '18

08 May '18

Hello gents, I need your advice if anybody of you were integrating Observium to corporate authentication processes? In our company is authentication driven by SAML or oAuth which I don`t see as supported in Observium documentation and need to get help if possible how to integrate Observium to SAML or to oAUTH process. Question is also going to Adam and developers as we are using professional license. I`ll appreciate any hints or guides. Thanks Jan

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exporting info to grafana dashboard
by Edvinas K 08 May '18

08 May '18

Hello, We need to reuse Observium data and to draw a interface traffic graphs in Grafana dashboard. Since Observium doesnt support exportation to Influxdb - is there are any other ways to export to Grafana Board ? Thanks

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