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Preferred MTA?
by Joe Brouillette 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Hey all, I've been trying to get Observium to send alerts to my Exchange server. Wireshark on Exchange shows nothing so I just gave up, looked online and found a post from Adam saying to not use SMTP; he recommended using an MTA instead. Does Observium have a preferred MTA? Any to watch out for? Thanks, Joe Brouillette IT Specialist Link Transit 509.664.7643 jobee(a)linktransit.com<mailto:jobee@linktransit.com> [cid:image001.jpg@01D32E19.765EA2D0]<http://www.letsthinklink.org/> "Help reimagine the future of our transit system."

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Transfer account
by Kacper Czerwonka 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Hello. My company wants to renew our subscriptions. Subscriptions are created on account named by my name, surname don't mention about job email. I'm going to change job in next two months and we need to straight it right. Is there possibility to: - change account name, etc. - or transfer subscriptions to new account - or just create new account and by new subscriptions What options do we have? Kacper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *mgr inż. Kacper Czerwonka* Inspektor Wydział Informatyki 75-007 Koszalin; Rynek Staromiejski 6-7 Tel.: (+48) 94 348 39 50; Fax (+48) 94 348 88 98 @: kacper.czerwonka(a)um.koszalin.pl <mailto:kacper.czerwonka@um.koszalin.p> www.koszalin.pl

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Commit 8852 breaks graphs
by Jesse Defer 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

After updating to 8852 my multi-customoid graphs are broken. Line graphs render but have no devices/data points and stacked graphs return the error image. Rolling back to 8851 shows expected behavior. Jesse

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Adding new device support and collaboration
by 管华 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Hi,Observium Team: I'm a test engineer for Fiberhome, and we currently plan to write files for Fiberhome's network devices in community version software. I was wondering if I could send the files to your team, after you optimized it and added it to later releases to facilitate software upgrades and other user usage. I hope our developers can join you later to develop this software and make it better. About us http://www.fiberhome.com.cn Please reply when you receive it.I'd like to have a talk with you.Thanks… nwos_gh(a)fiberhome.com

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Pandacom DWDM devices
by Andre Geißler 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Hi all Recently we purchased some DWDM devices from Pandacom (SPEED-OTS-5000). Might be interesting for more than us to have them in observium. Is there a way for a non-programmer like me to add those devices? What I can provide are the MIB files. If access to a device is needed for testing I'd like to use my contact at Pandacom Cheers, Andre

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Export Observium Installation
by Chad 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

Hey folks, Is there a simple way to export the entire config for the Observium community edition? I'm running the latest 16x version on a dedicated server but would rather switch over to a simplified KVM virtual server. Can someone explain the proper path to accomplish this? Thanks.

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Virtual machines showing lots of duplicates
by Philippe Hurtubise 19 Sep '17

19 Sep '17

Hi, I have 6 ESXi hosts. On one host and only for 1 VM on that host, the VM is showing lots of times in the Virtual machines section. All the others VM on the same host are showing only 1 time. Thanks Philippe Hurtubise Administrateur réseau / Network administrator [Autolog logo Signature] T: 450.434.8389 ext. 354 F: 450.434.8395 1240 Michèle-Bohec, Blainville, QC, Canada J7C 5S4 www.autolog.com<http://www.autolog.com/>

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RRDTool Customisation
by William Hutchins 19 Sep '17

19 Sep '17

Hi All, What could be a silly question - Is there a straightforward switch or option to alter the RRDtool formatting from the default “opposing” format for Upload/Download, to an overlaid format in network traffic graphing? Current opposing format https://ibb.co/kbGcB5 Required Overlaid format https://ibb.co/nGJw4Q I’ve noted the config example in doco, however switching off the opposing view/feature wasn’t immediately clear. Thought I’d ask to see if the devs had a hidden php configuration switch for this, and if not, how others might’ve overcome this? Many thanks, Will

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Issue with Search Function in BGP Sessions
by Gumilar Siegfried 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Hello! I ran into a little issue today. If I am on page two of the BGP session list and search for a remote AS the search always comes up with an empty list. I guess this is caused by the "pageno=2" in the URL: http://x.x.x.x/routing/protocol=bgp/graph=NULL/view=details/pagination=1/pa…... If I remove the pageno=2 section in the URL I get the right result. Regards, Siegfried

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SMS alerts configuration in observium?
by Vikas Kumar 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Dear all, I am trying to configure sms alerts in observium for this my institute has a sms gateway via which i can send messgaes to ant number the API is in this format " http://smsgateway.iitb.ac.in/smsapi/index.php?To=91********&Message=test2 <http://dcmonitor.iitb.ac.in/smsapi/index.php?To=919930547677&Message=test2>" . Now i want to post the notification to this API. So i edited the file /opt/observium/includes/defaults.inc.php as follows: $config['smsbox']['scheme'] = 'http'; // URL scheme, http or https. $config['smsbox']['host'] = 'smsgateway.iitb.ac.in'; // Name of host on which SMSBox is running. $config['smsbox']['port'] = '80'; // Port number on which SMSBox host receives requests. $config['smsbox']['user'] = ''; // SMSBox username. $config['smsbox']['password'] = ''; // SMSBox password. $config['smsbox']['from'] = ''; // Phone number of sender, usually overridden by SMSC. Then i edited the file /opt/observium/includes/alerting/smsbox.inc.php as follows: <?php // Kannel SMSBox documentation: http://kannel.org/download/1.5.0/userguide-1.5.0/userguide.html#AEN4623 $message = $message_tags['ALERT_STATE'] . " " . $message_tags['DEVICE_HOSTNAME'] .": " . $message_tags['ENTITY_NAME'] . "\n" . $message_tags['ALERT_MESSAGE']; $context_data = array ( 'method' => 'GET', 'header' => "Connection: close\r\n" ); $url = sprintf('%s://%s/smsapi/index.php?To=%s&Meassage=%s', $config['smsbox']['scheme'], $config['smsbox']['host'], urlencode($endpoint['phone']),urlencode($message)); $response = get_http_request($url, $context_data); if (strpos($response, "Accepted") || strpos($response, "Queued")) { $notify_status['success'] = TRUE; } else { $notify_status['success'] = FALSE; } unset($message); // EOF But still i am not able to get SMS alerts on my mobile phone. Please note that the SMS gateway has given IP based access to my machine on which observium is runnning so i do not need username and password fileds while posting message to the API. Please help me resolve this issue . Thanks -- <http://moodi.org/> *Vikas Kumar | ** Hospitality & PR Coordinator* *Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay* *+91-9694532954 | mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com <mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com>* [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/vikas.cse.iitb> ‌

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CentOS 7.4?
by William Bauer 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Anyone upgrade their installation from CentOS7.3 to 7.4? I needed that upgrade on other systems due to some patches that wouldn't be released to 7.3. I've had no issues with 7.4, so I'm wondering if anyone has run into Observium related problems with 7.4? It only came out officially in the last few days, so it may be too early to ask.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14
by Patricio Hernan Besteiro 16 Sep '17

16 Sep '17

Hi Community, Is it possible to create an alert checker from data gathered by unix-agent? (observium CE) Kind regards, Patricio Hernan Besteiro Unix Systems Administrator IBM Client Innovation Center - Buenos Aires - Argentina E-mail: besteiro(a)ar.ibm.com From: observium-request(a)observium.org To: observium(a)observium.org Date: 15/09/2017 08:00 Subject: observium Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14 Sent by: "observium" <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__postman.memetic.org_cgi… or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Edit existing alert (Todd Hank) 2. Re: Edit existing alert (Adam Armstrong) 3. Re: Edit existing alert (Todd Hank) 4. Re: Edit existing alert (Adam Armstrong) 5. Re: Edit existing alert (Todd Hank) 6. Re: Edit existing alert (Adam Armstrong) 7. Re: Devices (Philippe Hurtubise) 8. Re: Geolocation detection improvement (Pico Leto) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:57:57 +0000 From: Todd Hank <Todd.Hank(a)i-car.com> To: 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Edit existing alert Message-ID: <8B4AAF1CA3AA1B478B77F99F2952ECCD25618483(a)HERMES01.i-car.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I am certainly a newbie yet and I am playing around with alerts. I created a couple alerts that I would like to edit. I do not see a way to edit them. Any Advice? Thanks, Todd Hank Senior Network Administrator (920) 749-0444 Ext. 128 Todd.Hank(a)i-car.com STAY CONNECTED: [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ]< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_icare… > [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ] < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.twitter.com_i-5Fca… > [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ] < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.instagram.com_icar… > [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ] < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_compa… > [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ] I-CAR.com< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.i-2Dcar.com&d=DwIGa… > | RTS< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rts.i-2Dcar.com_&d=DwIG… > | Collision Reporter Magazine< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.i-2Dcar.com_collis… > [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ]< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.i-2Dcar.com&d=DwIG… > ________________________________ This message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential information. Please do not disseminate this message without the permission of the sender. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail, and delete the original message, and all copies, from your system, without reading it. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and may be a violation of applicable laws.

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Geolocation detection improvement
by Mamitzsch,André 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Hello We are constantly running into issues with the geolocation service and the automated detection of the coordinates – people tend to set additional information in the sysLocation which finally cause the geo api’s to fail. I would like to suggest a small format / code change here to make the geo location detection more usable and reliable. SysLocation should be set up in the form: <Business Name / Rack Location> Street No., ZIP Code City, Country The <Business Name / Rack Location> is still stored in observium but ignored when querying the api. --- geolocation.inc.php.org 2017-07-18 22:09:56.994896291 +0200 +++ geolocation.inc.php 2017-07-18 22:09:40.082938507 +0200 @@ -20,9 +20,14 @@ function get_geolocation($address, $geo_db = array(), $dns_only = FALSE) { global $config; + /* $address parsing, allow business names or additional information */ + /* address line should be: <ACME INC> Test Street 42, 823456 Somewhere */ + $address_orig = $address; + $address = preg_replace("/^<?.*>/","",$address); + $ok = FALSE; - $location = array('location' => $address); // Init location array + $location = array('location' => $address_orig); // Init location array $location['location_geoapi'] = strtolower(trim($config['geocoding']['api'])); if (!isset($config['geo_api'][$location['location_geoapi']])) { -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Best regards, André Mamitzsch

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Devices
by Philippe Hurtubise 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Hi, I have 6 VMWare ESXi hosts monitored and when I go in the Devices section under Virtual machines, a lot of them are showing multiple times in the list. Thanks Philippe Hurtubise Administrateur réseau / Network administrator [Autolog logo Signature] T: 450.434.8389 ext. 354 F: 450.434.8395 1240 Michèle-Bohec, Blainville, QC, Canada J7C 5S4 www.autolog.com<http://www.autolog.com/>

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Edit existing alert
by Todd Hank 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

I am certainly a newbie yet and I am playing around with alerts. I created a couple alerts that I would like to edit. I do not see a way to edit them. Any Advice? Thanks, Todd Hank Senior Network Administrator (920) 749-0444 Ext. 128 Todd.Hank(a)i-car.com STAY CONNECTED: [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/01_Facebook.gif]<https://www.facebook.com/icareducation> [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/02_Twitter.gif] <https://www.twitter.com/i_car_education> [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/03_Instagram.gif] <https://www.instagram.com/icar_education> [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/04_LinkedIn.gif] <https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/40619> [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/05_YouTube.gif] I-CAR.com<http://www.i-car.com> | RTS<http://rts.i-car.com/> | Collision Reporter Magazine<https://www.i-car.com/collisionreporter> [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/i-car_logo.gif]<https://www.i-car.com> ________________________________ This message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential information. Please do not disseminate this message without the permission of the sender. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail, and delete the original message, and all copies, from your system, without reading it. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and may be a violation of applicable laws.

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New error after update to latest SVN (stable branch)
by Shon Elliott 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Hi Observium List, We updated Observium to the latest svn stable branch today. I made sure we had ran the update, so it shows that everything is up to date, including the database. We found that we ran into a snag when adding new users to the system via the web interface. I was able to add the user via the adduser.php script, but it's missing some data. When I went to go edit it, it logged the same error. Here are the excerpts of the errors below, one for adding the user, and one for editing the user added via adduser.php. [Tue Sep 12 14:23:32.609888 2017] [:error] [pid 42518] [client 1.2.3.4:51614] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function hash_equals() in /usr/local/www/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 313, referer: http://xxx/adduser/ [Tue Sep 12 14:26:36.631482 2017] [:error] [pid 42518] [client 1.2.3.4:10867] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function hash_equals() in /usr/local/www/observium/html/pages/edituser.inc.php on line 125, referer: http://xxx/edituser/user_id=13/ Any ideas? Kind Regards, Shon Elliott, KK6TOO Level 3 IP/Routing/Security Network Engineer [unwired-new-logo] (559) 476-9463 - Cell (559) 261-4444 x 129 - Office (559) 943-1025 - Direct selliott(a)getunwired.com<mailto:selliott@getunwired.com> www.getunwired.com<http://www.getunwired.com/>

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One more for the customOID topic
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

So I also upgraded to the latest and got the autodiscovery on custom OIDs. Didn't have the best effect on my system as it mapped hundreds of individual Isilon nodes to a long range of custom OIDs I had created. So lessons learned / feature requests : - Previously one could pick (one by one or multi select) the devices to be covered in a specific custom OID. THis option seems to have gone now. I'd like that option back, or alternatively be able to somehow filter or group devices. I also use the combined line or stack graphs for certain things and sometime need to show just a group of devices and not all. Right now with the new version I can only show either a single device or all devices as I cannot create custom OID groups and then narrow down what devices to show there. - On systems like Isilon where you may want to both have cluster wide data (so polling the cluster alias) but also monitor each node in the cluster, the lack of the above mentioned filtering/grouping is a problem as currently the custom OID will only work for me if I delete all individual nodes and only monitor the cluster alias. On the other hand, now Servertech Sentry4 devices are better supported, so the net outcome of the upgrade was still positive for me. /Jesper

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Feature idea: custom graphs
by Jesse Defer 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Prior to the recent changes to Custom OIDs (r8738~r8741) we had been abusing the feature to create custom graphs containing multiple hosts. For example we had a graph of emails delivered that combined all of our email servers in one. Now with OID discovery added and manual association removed that graph goes from 20 hosts to 600 and is no longer very useful. I think moving some of the previous functionality of Custom OIDs into it's own Custom Graph feature would be very useful and welcome feedback on the idea. Thanks, Jesse DeFer Arizona State University

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Ports down, but not shown?
by Robert Williams 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Hi all, I've got 12 ports showing as 'Down', both on the main page here... ...and on the menu: However, when you click the link, you don't get any results: (the link goes to: https://observius.cdc.local/ports/state=down/ignore=0/ ) So... How can I find out what/where/how these 12 ports are, so I can 'resolve' them please? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centres https://www.CustodianDC.com

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Delete device from custom mod list
by Simon Mousey Smith 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Hi All Is the is a way to delete a device from a Custom OIDs? I use a custom oid to display hotspot users logged in via mikrotiks at 2 sites, however I’ve just seen the OID page has had an update and is showing ALL(12) of our mikrotik devices? I only want to show 2 of our devices!? Regards Simon

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tp-link uptime
by Simon Mousey Smith 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Hi All Im not sure if its Observium or TP-Link I should be asking really but ill ask in both places? Observium told me, one of our switches rebooted (which seemed odd as nobody can gain physical access to it) I checked observium and that shows an uptime of 16h 20m 30s When I snmpwalk the switch I can see DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (5883922) 16:20:39.22 But the TP-Link web panel shows RunTime: 332 day - 2 hour - 2 min - 39 sec ??? Any suggestions would be helpful :) Regards Simon

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Traffic comparison - "No auth" error message
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

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R8834 breaks rrdtool
by Ron Marosko 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Howdy Guys, Looks like something broke between r8833 and r8834: root@observium:/opt/observium# ./poller.php -h 1198 ___ _ _ / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| Observium Professional 17.9.8834 http://www.observium.org ##### Starting polling run at 2017-09-09 18:08:42 ##### ##### cityhall-3750e.domain[1198] ##### o OS ios o OS Group cisco o Last poll duration 6.91 seconds o Last Polled 2017-09-09 18:08:04 o SNMP Version v2c o Device status Device is reachable by PING (0.89ms) and SNMP (12.38ms) PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function str_replace_first() in /opt/observium/includes/rrdtool.inc.php:485 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/rrdtool.inc.php(620): rrdtool_generate_filename('status.rrd', Array) #1 /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php(561): rrdtool_update_ng(Array, 'status', Array) #2 /opt/observium/poller.php(172): poll_device(Array, Array) #3 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/rrdtool.inc.php on line 485 Dropping back to r8833, the poll process runs fine. .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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FW: Problem with graphs (-nan)
by Peter Derissen 09 Sep '17

09 Sep '17

Hello, Currently Eurofiber is testing Observium in our live network. So far it runs smooth. We only have 1 problem. The graphs are empty (-nan). My guess its a config.php error but im not sure. I have added a screenshot and the config.php file. Regards, Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Eurofiber only sends and receives e-mails on the basis that Eurofiber is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. Eurofiber Nederland B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam with number 34134377, VAT number NL 8088.51.524 B01.

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Graph CheckPoint per VSX Concurrent connections
by MAILLET Julien 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

Hello, My checkpoint firewall have a running graph for global concurrent connections CHECKPOINT-MIB::fwNumConn.0 = 169 CHECKPOINT-MIB::fwPeakNumConn.0 = 1409 Any chance to add possibility to graph per vsx concurrent connections ? CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersVSId.1.0 = Counter32: 0 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersVSId.2.0 = Counter32: 1 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersVSId.3.0 = Counter32: 2 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersVSId.4.0 = Counter32: 4 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersVSId.5.0 = Counter32: 5 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersConnNum.1.0 = Counter32: 20 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersConnNum.2.0 = Counter32: 6424 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersConnNum.3.0 = Counter32: 0 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersConnNum.4.0 = Counter32: 0 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersConnNum.5.0 = Counter32: 1499 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersConnPeakNum.1.0 = Counter32: 4526 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersConnPeakNum.2.0 = Counter32: 3264 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersConnPeakNum.3.0 = Counter32: 0 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersConnPeakNum.4.0 = Counter32: 0 CHECKPOINT-MIB::vsxCountersConnPeakNum.5.0 = Counter32: 4401 Julien

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