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Re: [Observium] Port Labeling
by Mike Stupalov 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Hi, port_label is cleaned field (from unusefull information), generated based on multiple possible Oids (ie ifDescr, ifName). But anyway in db such fields ifDescr and ifName stored as is without changes and can used for alerts, etc. port_label is short as possible for display in most pages. I not see reasons for keep such data ( - Printer) for display in port names. This exactly should be stored in ifAlias (wich is port description). But.. if your device not support correct ifAlias, I can try to parse ifAlias for that os. Attach debug discovery: ./discovery.php -d -m os,ports -h <device> > Christian <mailto:cyberdoc@cmreynolds.org> > 5 April 2018 at 18:37 > Hello, > > I was introduced to Observium in early March, and coming from a Nagios > / Cacti type of monitoring, I am completely impressed with the power > of Observium. I have CE 17.9.0 and am in the process of deploying it > at my location. > > I have a couple of smart switches that support SNMP, but are not > capable of a Port label. Thus, Observium shows the switch as Port 1, > Port 2, Port 3 instead of my desired “Port 1 - Bandwidth Control” > “Port 2 - Linux Server” “Port 3 - Printer” … that sort of thing. > > I found that I could use NaviCat to edit the MySQL database to > properly label the ports, but then the next polling cycle restores the > generic port label 5 minutes later. > > > Is there any way for me to modify the polling to leave the label > alone? I don’t want to look into “locking” the [port_label] field of > the database tables. > > If I may also ask, is there any way to tell Observium that a down port > is the normal (green) condition? I have some switches with ports that > are not active, and if something is plugged into them, an alert would > be handy. > > Thank you again for this amazing software. > > Christian > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Rx/Tx Port Errors
by Erdem HAKI 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Hello, I see several Rx/Tx port errors on my Observium. For example it says Tx: 25 on the home page, but when I click on the interface, the "Errors" graph shows me that Tx 118.69m, and I can not see anything wrong with the Tx when I check the interface errors from the router CLI. How can I verify these alarms are false positive or not? Alarms are not router specific, I got alarms from both Nokia and Juniper boxes. Best

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Rancid for different devices
by Travis Garrison 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Wanted to check with everyone to make sure its not builtin or I'm missing something simple before I create my own script. Any way to automatically create the config to backup Cisco, Mikrotik and other devices through rancid? We have rancid setup for Cisco currently and want to start backing up our Mikrotik and Ubiquiti routers. Thanks Travis

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Port Labeling
by Christian 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Hello, I was introduced to Observium in early March, and coming from a Nagios / Cacti type of monitoring, I am completely impressed with the power of Observium. I have CE 17.9.0 and am in the process of deploying it at my location. I have a couple of smart switches that support SNMP, but are not capable of a Port label. Thus, Observium shows the switch as Port 1, Port 2, Port 3 instead of my desired “Port 1 - Bandwidth Control” “Port 2 - Linux Server” “Port 3 - Printer” … that sort of thing. I found that I could use NaviCat to edit the MySQL database to properly label the ports, but then the next polling cycle restores the generic port label 5 minutes later. Is there any way for me to modify the polling to leave the label alone? I don’t want to look into “locking” the [port_label] field of the database tables. If I may also ask, is there any way to tell Observium that a down port is the normal (green) condition? I have some switches with ports that are not active, and if something is plugged into them, an alert would be handy. Thank you again for this amazing software. Christian

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Function gone missing
by Mike Hyslop 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Hi guys. I have noticed that our weathermap has stopped updating, when I run it in debug mode it moans about function check_extension_exists() being missing. I have had a quick look through the source and can't see that function anywhere. Not sure if its been depreciated or renamed (or if it was surplus to requirements and simply removed) Cheers. [Accesspoint Logo] [Roundel Logo] Mike Hyslop Senior Infrastructure Engineer [email icon] mike.hyslop(a)theaccesspoint.co.uk [phone icon] DDI: 020 8102 1121 Office: 020 3189 2645 [website icon] www.theaccesspoint.co.uk<http://www.theaccesspoint.co.uk> [address icon] Accesspoint | Unit 7 | Ashton Gate | Ashton Road | Harold Hill | RM3 8UF [group logos] [website icon] Please think of the environment before you print this email This document should only be read by those persons to whom it is addressed. Accordingly, Accesspoint Group Holdings Ltd and its subsidiary companies disclaim all responsibility and accept no liability (including in negligence) for the consequences of any such persons other than the addressee acting, or refraining from acting, on such information prior to the receipt by those persons of subsequent written confirmation. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone (0203 189 2645). Please also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. Accesspoint Group Holdings Ltd, Accesspoint Technologies Ltd and Accesspoint Legal Services Ltd are companies registered in England and Wales. www.theaccesspoint.co.uk<http://www.theaccesspoint.co.uk/> The risk of fraud relating to emails and bank account details has increased. We will NOT email you to tell you that our bank account details have changed; any such email is a scam. Please check our bank account details with us in person if you are in any doubt. We will not accept responsibility if you transfer money into an incorrect account.

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"External Web URL" not set or incorrect,
by Eric W. Bates 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

I'm getting the message: Setting 'web_url' for "External Web URL" not set or incorrect, please update on Global Settings Edit page. I'm currently connecting to the URL: https://observium.whoi.edu/ And the setting is: http://observium.whoi.edu/ However, the settings page will not accept the 's' character. Every time I add it, it simply disappears again. The defaults in includes/defaults.inc.php has: #$config['base_url'] = "http://localhost/"; // Not recomend change this, only if autodetect wrong. Used in WUI #$config['web_url'] = "http://localhost:80/"; // This same as base_url but used only in cli for example in alerts Should I change to: $config['web_url'] = "https://localhost:443/" -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112

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BitRRD: Blockchain-based data storage for Observium
by Adam Armstrong 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

Hi Guys, We're proud to announce that we're switching to BitRRD, the new blockchain-based metric storage format. http://www.observium.org/blockchain/ The migration should be seemless, provided your server has 6-8 GPUs installed when you perform the update. Thanks, adam.

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taildrops counted as errors since junos 15.X on EX series
by Arne Van Theemsche 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

Hi, we started to upgrade our juniper EX switches to 15.X release and notice a change of behaviour in error reporting at interface level in observium the problem lays that taildrops (which are activated by default and cannot just be, and isn't even a good practice to disable them) are now reported as errors in observium Output errors: Carrier transitions: 29, Errors: 0, Drops: 177209, Collisions: 0, Aged packets: 0, FIFO errors: 0, HS link CRC errors: 0, MTU errors: 0, Resource errors: 0 show interfaces queue xe-0/0/4 .... Tail-dropped packets : 177209 ...... prior to 15.X we only received reports/mails if the Errors Value was > 0. Honestly, we only care about errors, because taildrops will always happen from time to time I don't know if this is a change in behaviour of juniper snmp counters or that this is a flag in observium we can toggle? thx Arne

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Question on Traffic Comparison widget
by Aaron Mayfield 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

I’ve been messing around with the Default Dashboard since I noticed it recently. What should the Traffic Comparison widget show? For me, I’m getting the red Draw Error: [cid:image001.png@01D3BD1D.F03E1CA0] Is this something that should be working as of now? Thanks Aaron Mayfield

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Create Load Averages Alert Checker
by H Box 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Hi All, I create successfully a alert for device downtime and diskspace use, but cannot find the right info to create a alert for load averages into http://www.observium.org/docs/entities Can someone help me with this? Thanks allot for your feedback.

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Re: [Observium] Can't write new info to Observium
by Karolis Birgėla 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

On 2017.02.22 14:00, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Can't write new info to Observium I've attached a picture of how it looks like in the device search. You can see that some devices don't have their models written. It's actually important, as we have many devices in Observium.

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Clearing Alerts
by mal＠platinumnetworks.com.au 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Hi all - I have created my very first alert checker and can see that it creates and alert according to the checker criteria. My checker looks for speed on a port and alerts if ge 100M. >From what I can see, once that alert has been created I do not have the ability to 'clear' the alert so even if the port speed drops below 100M the alert remains in failed state and if the checker criteria are met again a new alert is not created. My use case is that I need to monitor the bandwidth utilisation on this specific port on an ongoing basis and be alerted each time the speed exceeds say 100M. Appreciate any pointers to show me where I am going wrong. Cheers Mal

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Switch ignored ports
by Luca Sasdelli 26 Mar '18

26 Mar '18

Hi all, on a switch only I see all phy ports as ignored: +---------+-----------+----------+---------+-----------+-----------+---------+ | ifIndex | ifDescr | ifName | ifAlias | ifType | Oper St | Ignored | | | | | | | atus | | +---------+-----------+----------+---------+-----------+-----------+---------+ | 1 | Host Data | host.1.1 | ... | propVirtu | up | no | | | Port | | | al | | | | 2 | Enterpris | lo.1.1 | ... | softwareL | up | no | | | e Network | | | oopback | | | | | s, Inc. S | | | | | | | | ... | | | | | | | 12001 | Enterasys | ge.1.1 | ... | ethernetC | up | yes | | | Networks | | | smacd | | | | | , Inc. 10 | | | | | | | | ... | | | | | | | 12002 | Enterasys | ge.1.2 | ... | ethernetC | up | yes | | | Networks | | | smacd | | | | | , Inc. 10 | | | | | | On the same network there are other Enterasys/Extreme Networks switches and they're regularly discovered. I've deleted and re-created the switch entry, but it doesn't change. What checks should I do? Cheers Luca

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Traffic Accounting
by Serghei Golipad 26 Mar '18

26 Mar '18

Guys, Is there anyway of setting traffic accounting graphs to MRTG style too? Thank you. PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. CDW Limited is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of CDW Finance Holdings Limited. CDW Finance Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for CDW Limited trading as CDW. The registered office for CDW Finance Holdings Limited (Company Number 05872067) and its UK group undertakings is 10 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RB. VAT Registration 902 1949 39. Confidentiality: This e-mail contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail and then delete the original. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on any information contained in this e-mail. You must not inform any other person other than CDW or the sender of its existence. For more information about CDW please visit www.uk.cdw.com

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export to Influx question (any news ?)
by Edvinas K 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Hello, Is't possible officially or there're some ways to export data to influx Db and then use it on grafana ? Thanks

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Switch ports disappearing
by Luca Sasdelli 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Hi all, I've a TP-Link T2600-28TS whose ports are continuously detected and then deleted after 2-10 minutes: this happens about every 6 hours, while other switches in the same environment does have normal behaviour. Of course the switch does operate normally all the time. 2018-03-24 18:45:38Interface was marked as DELETED2018-03-24 18:38:55Interface DELETED mark removed2018-03-24 12:45:39Interface was marked as DELETED2018-03-24 12:38:44Interface DELETED mark removed2018-03-24 06:41:37Interface was marked as DELETED2018-03-24 06:39:44Interface DELETED mark removed2018-03-24 00:45:43Interface was marked as DELETED2018-03-24 00:38:49Interface DELETED mark removed2018-03-23 18:50:39Interface was marked as DELETED2018-03-23 18:39:30Interface DELETED mark removed Any ideas? Thanks Luca

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Re: [Observium] Switch ports disappearing
by Mike Stupalov 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Try to enable separate_walk feature for device: https://screenshots.firefox.com/rpjjOJdKtCQtvSmg/demo.observium.ru > Luca Sasdelli <mailto:luca@sasdelli.it> > 25 March 2018 at 00:08 > Hi Markus, > it is within 60sec all the time (avg 55,1", max 104,6"). > As per comparison, a switch stack with 96 ports on same network is polled with 12,4" average and 54,6" max. > Cheers > Luca > ------ Messaggio originale ------ > Da: "Markus Klock" <markus(a)best-practice.se <mailto:markus@best-practice.se>> > A: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> > Inviato: 24/03/2018 21.17.15 > Oggetto: Re: [Observium] Switch ports disappearing > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > Markus Klock <mailto:markus@best-practice.se> > 24 March 2018 at 23:17 > How does the device performance look? Is polling completed in less than 300s? > /Markus > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Monitor VPN
by Hermes J. Martinez 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

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FW: Defining Groups
by mal＠platinumnetworks.com.au 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Thanks Adam – Have updated to rolling (9128) and can see the groups is now different but I am still not seeing any members in my group ☹. I am thinking that the ruleset itself is not working because I created another group that does work using “device.hostname match *qld*”. Is the ruleset definition ‘port.port_descr_descr match *L3*’ correct if I want all ports with a parsed description including L3? My port description is something like… CUST: ABC Cust (Channel Wireless L3)…….. I was expecting the ruleset to match on *L3* and return results including L3. Thanks From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of Ron Marosko Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:05 PM To: 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Defining Groups Fixed. Thank you! From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:17 PM To: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Defining Groups It dose help if I remove all of the debugging! Try now :) adam. Adam Armstrong Managing Director & Lead Architect Observium Limited http://www.observium.org http://docs.observium.org http://jira.observium.org On 2018-03-24 01:07:25, Ron Marosko <ron(a)rjr-services.com <mailto:ron@rjr-services.com> > wrote: Howdy Adam, I was seeing this on build 9125, just svn upped to 9126, and still seeing the same thing on a discover run: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function r() in /opt/observium/includes/groups.inc.php:1036 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/groups.inc.php(1009): update_group_table(Array) #1 /opt/observium/discovery.php(191): update_group_tables() #2 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/groups.inc.php on line 1036 root@observium:/opt/observium# …Ron From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of McDonald Richards Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 6:52 PM To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Defining Groups Perfect :) On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > wrote: Ok, I've removed the r() call. Thankfully because it failed, it won't have progressed the schema counter, so you can re-run it now! Thanks, adam. Adam Armstrong Managing Director & Lead Architect Observium Limited http://www.observium.org http://docs.observium.org http://jira.observium.org On 2018-03-23 23:46:05, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > wrote: shit :) Adam Armstrong Managing Director & Lead Architect Observium Limited http://www.observium.org http://docs.observium.org http://jira.observium.org On 2018-03-23 23:45:14, McDonald Richards <mcdonald.richards(a)gmail.com <mailto:mcdonald.richards@gmail.com> > wrote: Updating to 9125 threw these errors on a Centos based install: -- Updating database/file schema 367 -> 368 # (php) Migrating groups to new format PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function r() in /opt/observium/includes/groups.inc.php:738 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/update/368.php(14): parse_qb_ruleset('port', Array) #1 /opt/observium/includes/functions.inc.php(304): include('/opt/observium/...') #2 /opt/observium/includes/update/update.php(143): include_wrapper('/opt/observium/...') #3 /opt/observium/discovery.php(119): include('/opt/observium/...') #4 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/groups.inc.php on line 738 Observium 18.3.9125 (23rd March 2018) OS Linux 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7) Apache 2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/7.0.25 SVN/1.7.14 PHP 7.0.25 (OPcache: ENABLED) 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 Any tips? On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org <mailto:adama@memetic.org> > wrote: Hi, The groups matching system has recently been rewritten. Please update to the latest SVN :) (This might be difficult if you chose to use the stable branch, since these changes aren't in stable yet) Adam. Sent from BlueMail <http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=12512> On 23 Mar 2018, at 23:16, mal(a)platinumnetworks.com.au <mailto:mal@platinumnetworks.com.au> wrote: Hey all – probably a dumb newbie questions so apologies… I am trying to define groups based on the contents of the port description. I am using this as a training ground before I move on to alert checkers! I have edited the port description to include L3 and I can see that Observium is retrieving the port descriptions correctly however I do not seem to be able to define a group correctly. I have created a group as below: i.e. Based on containing “L3” in the port description add to the group. I can confirm that there are 15+ devices containing “L3” – example… If I do a search on ports containing L3 I retrieve the full list of devices. I originally thought I had made the query too tight but I’ve tried a number of broad combinations and never seem to have any members found. I am using 18.3.9073 (3rd March 2018). What am I missing? 😊 Cheers Mal _____ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Alert Checks
by Eduardo Silvestre 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Hello Guys, I'm trying to figure out some way to check "out of sync" state of APC ATS 7724. I've tried this way but didn't work: Any idea to implement this? Best Regards,

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Defining Groups
by mal＠platinumnetworks.com.au 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Hey all – probably a dumb newbie questions so apologies… I am trying to define groups based on the contents of the port description. I am using this as a training ground before I move on to alert checkers! I have edited the port description to include L3 and I can see that Observium is retrieving the port descriptions correctly however I do not seem to be able to define a group correctly. I have created a group as below: i.e. Based on containing “L3” in the port description add to the group. I can confirm that there are 15+ devices containing “L3” – example… If I do a search on ports containing L3 I retrieve the full list of devices. I originally thought I had made the query too tight but I’ve tried a number of broad combinations and never seem to have any members found. I am using 18.3.9073 (3rd March 2018). What am I missing? 😊 Cheers Mal

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Snmp location question
by Pico Leto 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

What kind of hierarchical format can be used for snmp location on devices that are polled with Observium? Is it possible to include cage information as well as location?

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Syslog part messages
by Simon Mousey Smith 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hi All Has anybody else seen this recently in an SVN update? For some reason the syslog is only show part of a syslog message from our switches and inserting into observium? Also where has this [Program][Tags] appeared from? Regards Simon

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export availability rrds
by Gerd Müller 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hi list, we use observium for monitoring a lot of devices. Now I need to report the availability per device through a report. Is there any option to export those values? What would be the best way to do this? Thanks Gerd Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards Gerd Müller • Proact Deutschland GmbH Service Manager Telefon: +49 911 30999 293 • Fax: +49 911 30999 99 Südwestpark 43 • 90449 Nürnberg • Germany Gerd.Mueller(a)proact.de • www.proact.de Amtsgericht Nürnberg • HRB 18320 Geschäftsführer: Oliver Kügow • Richard Müller • Jakob Høholdt – Delivering Business Agility –

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Observium – Netapp
by Krenek Milan DiS. 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hello, Can you please integrate to Observium – Netapp. Actually we have basic graphs with volumes, but we miss there fail disk and others environment items. IOPS operations will be of course fine to have in graphs. ☺ In attachment is last mibs file from netapp for version 9.2 [cid:image001.png@01D39B73.17F25C60] Thanks S přátelským pozdravem / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Milan Křenek IT - Infrastructure Team / CZ [Zambelli] Unsere AGB finden Sie auf www.zambelli.cz<https://www.zambelli.cz/index.php?id=321>

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