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Problems with downgrade from commercial edition to community edition
by observium-mailing-list＠centropolis.net 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hi, my company was using Observium (Subsciption Edition, SE) for quite a long time so I wanted to stick with Observium for my private lab. Since I have just some private Mikrotik routers and APs in the lab, the commercial edition might be way too mighty for my ~ 10 devices. So I tried to get the old installation downgraded to the CE edition. There was a hint on Observium's website a long time ago but I was not able to find it anymore. So I tried the idea from the current webpage (starting from Community Edition): Since I had an old Mariadb installation, I had to upgrade to Mariadb10.6.17 as well during installation. After I updated the databases with |/opt/observium/discovery.php -u | and made a full discovery with |/opt/observium/discovery.php -h all | |But I ran in trouble with the installation: | |So, my downgrade does not work this way. And yes, I got a backup of the previous installation ;-) | | | | | |I think, this derives from the information, that the CE Version does not support groups (?), but this is just a guess. | | | | | |So basically, I have two questions:| |1. Is there a recipe to downgrade from commercial to community edition? | |2. Would'nt it make sense to have an subscription edition limited to private / home lab (aka advanced private users) users with a limitation in the max. amount of devices? I think, the SE is a little bit too expensive to private installations. And yes, therefore is a CE, but therefore I would need to downgrade which did not work out for me.| | | |Cheers,| |John | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || ||

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support for Planet
by Dąbrowski Jacek 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hi, Thank you for the hint, it helped 😊 Still open my second question * Is there any chance to add support for media converter from planet ? https://www.planet.com.tw/en/product/mc-1610mr-mc-1610mr48 Regards Jacek Dąbrowski From: Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org<mailto:mike@observium.org>> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2024 4:06 PM To: Observium <observium(a)lists.observium.org<mailto:observium@lists.observium.org>>; Dąbrowski Jacek via observium <observium(a)lists.observium.org<mailto:observium@lists.observium.org>> Cc: Dąbrowski Jacek <Jacek.Dabrowski(a)selgros.pl<mailto:Jacek.Dabrowski@selgros.pl>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Locations and support for Planet Nie otrzymujesz często wiadomości e-mail z adresu mike(a)observium.org<mailto:mike@observium.org>. Dowiedz się, dlaczego jest to ważne<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> Hi, this is nohow related with this update and mostly earlier updates. You have config option for Nested locations menu, and default split char is `,` (comma). Global Settings -> Locations -> Web UI [cid:image003.png@01DA85B4.FB3409B0]

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Observium update
by Eaton, Danny 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

All, I’ve inherited the company Observium instance, and it’s been a good 6 months since an update. How difficult is that process to upgrade the Observium software? [https://www.westlake.com/sites/default/files/WestlakeEmailFooter.jpg] The information transmitted, including any attachments, is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited, and all liability arising therefrom is disclaimed. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

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VM Tab on Observium
by farhaan.haroon＠hellogroup.co.za 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Hi Guys Can you advise on how to get the VM Tab to appear on my console? I am using Observium Pro. Installed on a debian box. i have added my host onto observium and that works fine. I would like to be able to see each vm on that host Via Observium.

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Locations and support for Planet
by Dąbrowski Jacek 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

Hello, I have two threads * After the last update (24.3.13402 15th March 2024) the locations have split, it is first there are streets, then cities ??? [cid:image011.png@01DA81E2.C0A98CA0] * Is there any chance to add support for media converter from planet ? https://www.planet.com.tw/en/product/mc-1610mr-mc-1610mr48 Regards Jacek Dąbrowski

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Rebuild Device Group
by mamitchell＠kern.org 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

I noticed that in the code change r13391 the rebuild button has been removed. Is there a manual way to rebuild still or do I just have to wait?

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span port on hp switch alerts as down....why?
by Tony Guadagno 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Hi, I have created a simple checker to notify on some specific ports. The way I built it is that I include the word "alert" on the description. The checker parses that and alerts if that port goes down. This is working fine for the most part...except on one port. On my switch, C8 is a fiber 10gig port and it is up as shown here: Status and Counters - Port Counters for port C8 Name : random span port MAC Address : eaaaa3-cd9bb8 Link Status : Up Port Enabled : Yes [cid:image002.jpg@01DA7C37.EF9B2A60] However, the checker lists it as down: [cid:image009.jpg@01DA7C37.EF9B2A60] The test conditions are pretty simple: [cid:image010.jpg@01DA7C37.EF9B2A60] The only difference between the ports that work and C8 are; it is 10gig fiber and it is a span port...do either of these issues explain why this port is listed as down (only by the checker)??? Thanks in advance! Tony Guadagno O +1 585 577 1003 C +1 585 703 6700 E tonyg(a)guadagnoconsulting.com<mailto:tonyg@guadagnoconsulting.com> [cid:image001.jpg@01D84DD6.FC9912E0]

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Capture gaps when retrieving interface traffic data …
by Stefan Schmidt 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Hello! We query with snmp Observium the port data from a Mikrotik router (CCR2004-16G-2S+) with RouterOS 7.14.1 (Level 6) via SNMP from 4 WAN interfaces with polling and alerts. However, we always have gaps in the data. Every now and then 5-10 minutes of data are missing, so that vertical lines without data appear in the rrd - of course this only becomes clear in the 6h overview. We are surprised because we have the impression that it only started on this device (and others) almost a year ago. We therefore renewed the hardware, reinstalled the system (debian12) and only queried this router alone (also deleted the query from the old Observium to avoid parallel double queries). We look at https://.../pollerlog/ and see our patient there: Device Last Polled 10.X.X.1 100% 108.67s (...) and others of the location with 1-19%... Why 100%... where are the key data relevant here? We would be happy if someone could help us adjust the Observium "Poller Wrapper" parameters if necessary. Is there potential for adaptation there? Greetings Frankfurt/Main Stefan

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Alert checker conditions
by David Milton 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Hello, I'm attempting to create an alert checker for our router and switch power supplies. I seem to be part way there but am seeing some unexpected behaviour that I cannot explain. I started with the test condition: sensor_event notequals ok and the associations are "or:" Sensor Description match PEM* Sensor Description match Power Supply 0 @* Sensor Description match Power Supply 1 @* Here's a specific device inventory showing PEM 0 status is currently down: It seems the last two associations don't mach anything and for some reason the PEM* association only matches the power supplies that are ok, not the one I want the alert for which is currently down. I've tried to match against "Power Supply" and that matches power supplies in my servers but they don't seem to have a status, more like a current sensor instead. I'm attempting to deal strictly with the power supplies in our Juniper routers and switches and from what I can tell they all have a status/sensor_event state. I think the two "Power Supply 0 @*" associations should also match additional power supplies as shown in the list below taken from the hardware inventory and filtering for a description of Power Supply: Clearly I'm missing something en the alert checker associations but I'll be darned if I can figure out what that is. I've tried to match on MIB as well but nothing seems to match those power supplies. What am I missing here? Thanks, Dave.

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port down on UI
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

How I can keep a port down (monitored) warning until recover mail is sent? by default it's showed 1 day, i want show while alert is active (1, 2, 3...n days) -- Saluda cordialmente

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Dell RAID Controllers etc. appearing as failed
by Chris James 16 Mar '24

16 Mar '24

Morning, Anyone know why "Drive Controller PERC H730 Mini (Embedded)<http://192.168.0.250/device/device=4/tab=health/metric=status/id=826/>", "Drive ID<http://192.168.0.250/device/device=4/tab=health/metric=status/id=827/>", "Drive List of Physical Disks on Controller PERC H730 Mini (Embedded)<http://192.168.0.250/device/device=4/tab=health/metric=status/id=825/>", and "Controller Status<http://192.168.0.250/device/device=4/tab=health/metric=status/id=824/>" show as "fail"? This is on various Dell servers (R620, R730). It would be good to either have this working or just ignore them altogether. Any ideas welcome. Chris Chris James Vessel Production Systems Manager

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How Can I Update SNMP Community of devices without losing history Data
by Farah Ameri Mahabadian (famerima) 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Hello Observium Team, I want to update the total Devices SNMP configuration, but I don’t want to lose the history of data what should I do ? Thanks in advance !! Farah

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Assistance Updating Observium
by Shedd, Ryan 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

Hi There, I have been attempting to reach someone from the Observium team to assist my company and I in updating our Software. We followed the instructions on the website located here: https://docs.observium.org/updating/ We did not have success. Our Observium server is hosted on a Linux Ubuntu server. Is there someone at Observium that could take a few minutes and assist us please? I look forward to hearing from you. Ryan Shedd Network Engineer Slocum-Dickson Medical Group P.L.L.C. 1729 Burrstone Road New Hartford, New York 13413 (315) 798-1777 (315) 798-1712 - Fax rshedd(a)sdmg.com<mailto:rshedd@sdmg.com> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

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Re: observium Digest, Vol 164, Issue 3
by Rob VanHooren 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

nobody said Happy Birthday Adam?? geez you guys ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation for Juniper Virtual-Chassis
by Laszlo Mazsari 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

Hello Observium Team, In our Datacenters we would like to make use of "jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation" for Juniper switches using Virtual-chassis techhnology. Normally virtual-chassis are in different locations for redundancy reasons. The "snmp location" is not really good to capture the location of the device (as the two switches are in different places but location will show what is configured with "snmp location" command). We updated our switch config with "jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation" information, but we still dont see the data in Observium. > show snmp mib walk jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation.0 = B-U-099 R01.01 jnxVirtualChassisMemberLocation.1 = B-U-098 R01.02 Is this feature on the roadmap to be added? Not sure how much additional work this feature to be added, but going for the Enterprise model may potentially help with this feature request? Thank you for the feedback. Best regards, Laszlo Mazsari Network Engineer laszlo.mazsari(a)green.ch<mailto:laszlo.mazsari@green.ch> Z: +41 56 460 23 23 D: +41 56 460 23 37 [cid:image001.png@01DA6E0F.64E03130]<https://www.facebook.com/green.ch.datacenter> [cid:image002.png@01DA6E0F.64E03130]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-ch-datacenter/> [cid:image003.png@01DA6E0F.64E03130]<https://www.youtube.com/@green.ch.datacenter> [green.ch]<http://www.green.ch/de/blog/detail/green-wo-neue-welten-wahr-werden> Green Datacenter AG * green.ch AG * Industriestrasse 33 * 5242 Lupfig * www.green.ch<https://www.green.ch/>

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... subscription has been disabled from email nikto.barrada@gmail.com
by Klaatu Barrada Nikto 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

observium(a)lists.observium.org Good day, I am reacting to your decision to prohibit the sending of information. Based on your decision, I checked my email settings and found no problems. I received the last email from your email address observium(a)lists.observium.org on February 15, 2024 at 1:06 p.m. I have not received any email since then. Can you please explain to me why the problems occur when I don't see anything (this does not rule out that there may be problems)? If I understood correctly, my email box refuses to accept your emails. Short summary: - the email address is on the list of Trusted senders - the storage size set aside for emails is 15 GB (0.21 GB occupied) - the number of senders is limited to the designated list, others are in SPAM - Your email address observium(a)lists.observium.org is not there... Sincerely, Barrada Nikto PS: Automatic translation

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Casa c100G SNR curve on upstream interface
by sebastien.gay＠mycable.ch 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

The casa is recognized as "CASA-DCTS". I don't have the upstream noise curves. Should I add mib

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ping probe not running
by Tony Guadagno 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hi, i have created a bunch of ping probes in the past and never had an issue, however, on this particular install...I created a single ping probe and it has not run after days. How do I troubleshoot this issue? Thanks [cid:image003.jpg@01DA6955.14B8C140] [cid:image004.jpg@01DA6955.14B8C140] Tony

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Mass SNMP Edit
by Nirmolak Singh Bajaj 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hi, I have migrated my devices from SNMp v1/2c to SNMP v3. As we have quote a number of devices, is there a script or anyway to mass edit the SNMP settings to v3 for these specific devices? We have put in config.php for v3 autodiscovery, but it isn't working. Warmest Regards, Nirmolak Singh

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Adding more Nagions plugins
by Brad Bendy 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

I went ahead and added another plugin to the /usr/lib/nagios/plugins directory where all the other working plugins are. When I go to add a probe it doesn't show up in the drop down box. Is there something that has to be ran to look for new plugins? Permissions/use/group are the same as the other plugins that work. Thanks

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dark ui image legend legibility
by Wolf Noble 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

Howdy, all! is there some voodoo necessary to coerce observium to generate graphs with textual legends that aren't black when dark mode is active? it's kinda hard to view black text on dark blue backgrounds :) I don't see an obvious knob for this, but it's entirely possible I'm just missing the "legend text color" or "make graph text legible in dark mode" or "learn to read" button somewhere :) [= The contents of this message have been written, read, processed, erased, sorted, sniffed, compressed, rewritten, misspelled, overcompensated, lost, found, and most importantly delivered entirely with recycled electrons =]

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Syslog repetitive alerts
by joston.gatt＠hudson.com.mt 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

Is it possible to suppress repetitive syslog alerts? if yes how can I do this? The issue is I have a particular site which has an issue with one of the internet connections, it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting every 2 minutes. A syslog event is logged each time and I am getting an email alert for each log.

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Upgrading O/S of Observium Server - Debian 10 to 11 (or 12)
by Andy Hartwell 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

Advice please ! 😊 I have a server which has been running Observium well for some time. Although upgrading the Observium build is easy enough following the instructions at Updating - Observium<https://docs.observium.org/updating/#upgrading-the-subscription-edition-to-…> this obviously does not update the O/S itself. I had a try at upgrading following online instructions yesterday but after he upgrade was complete the Observium web interface would not display – I just got a page of text which I assumed to be PHP script being displayed rather than “running”. Does anyone have any idiot proof (ie aimed at Linux novice) guidance to upgrade the OS without breaking Observium ? Luckily I had taken a snapshot of the VM so could roll back without any drama. Thanks, Andy Hartwell

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sysLocation gets rewritten
by Martin 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Hello, I am experiencing something I don't understand. During polling of a host the syslocation -which is returned correctly by snmp- gets changed into another location (which is an old location before moving from "Address B" to "Address A"). $ /usr/bin/snmpget -v3 -l 'authPriv' -n '' -x 'AES' -X 'passwd' -a 'SHA' -A 'passwd' -u 'username' -Pud -Ih -OQUs --hexOutputLength=0 -m SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'HostName':'161' sysUpTime.0 sysLocation.0 sysUpTime.0 = 0:8:31:49.72 sysLocation.0 = "Address A" This is the correct address returned. A few lines lower in my debugging output I see: sysLocation rewritten from 'Address A' to 'Address B' by DB override. Even if I change the address in mysql to the correct address the polling process keeps changing it to the old address. MariaDB [observium]> select hostname, location from devices where device_id=9811; +-------------------------+--------------+ | hostname | location | +-------------------------+--------------+ | HostName | Address B | +-------------------------+--------------+ My questions: - Why is this happening? - How can I prevent this from happening? - Where does the old address come from? I hope someone can shed some light on this strange issue... Thanks, Martin

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Microsoft Teams Notification Template
by Lars Joergensen 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

Hey Seems the template for notification on MS Teams is broken (see below). I'm trying to make my own, but would like to know which of the templates in includes/templates it is based on, so I know where to start. [cid:image001.png@01DA58E7.CA53A520] Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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