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Nested alert device matching?
by Ron Marosko 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

Howdy Guys, I'm trying to figure out how I can build a "nested" for lack of better description device matching script. For example, "type equals network AND hostname match *domain1.com*". Or, "type equals network AND hostname notmatch *domain2.com*". I can't just use a "hostname match *domain1.com*" because I also have devices in other groups with the same hostname match, but don't want to alert-check on those other groups. I'm sure there's a way to do this, I'm just not figuring it out, and apparently my search-fu is weak. 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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how to create custom sensor threshold for some devices?
by Thomas Stather 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

Hi I am running Observium Professional an im havving an issue with some sensors in our environment I have a sensor that is always generating an alert: Index: hh3cEntityExtTemperature.112 Class: temperature min: 0 degrees max: 0 degrees current: 40 degrees I have many of them on one device i.e.: hh3cEntityExtTemperature.112 hh3cEntityExtTemperature.122 hh3cEntityExtTemperature.262 hh3cEntityExtTemperature.267 Additionally, all switches of this kind are producing the alerts since they all have the indexes and the incorrect threshold. How can i set a custom threshold that is valid for all of these switches and Indexes (the indexes are equal on all of the switches)? 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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Account Activation
by Nick Pratley 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

Hey, Can someone please re-send activation email to me ☺ Groups were broken at the time we registered, so rejected the email and it hasn’t come through again ☹ Username is batman. Cheers Nick P

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Ports sensors missing for Brocade VDX 6940/6740
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

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Brocade VDX switchs - difference in OS versions display
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

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Alert checker for APC ups
by Daniel Johansson 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Hi I'm tring to figure out how to create an alert checker for when the UPS loses external Power. See the attached Picture. The OK or OnLine are the ones I want to look at and create an alert from. Anyone have any ideas? Did a debug during polling of the ups and got this but I can't figure out how to use it in the alert checker. Output Status powernet-upsbasicoutput-state upsBasicOutputStatus.0 snmp onLine ok 2017-07-06 10:02:39 Regards Daniel

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All devices a new field "Note"
by Krenek Milan DiS. 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

Hi, Can I have wish to improve monitoring system :) Is possible implement for all devices a new field "Note" for write notes like in VmWare? BR Milan

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List of installed application / running process
by Krenek Milan DiS. 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

Hi, Can I have wish to improve monitoring system :) Is possible implement for devices Custom OID with list like examples bellow or implement list of install application snmptable -v1 -c Public servername .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.6.3 or list of running processes snmptable -v1 -c Public servername .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2 and possibilty create alert when running process is not in the list ;-) S přátelským pozdravem / Mit freundlichen Grüßen BR Milan

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Show server network shares
by Krenek Milan DiS. 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

Hi, Can I have wish to improve monitoring system :) Is possible implemet to device information "network shares" from Windows system? BR Milan

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Alert Checkers and Mail Settings
by Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Hello Experts, Quick one, I have Port Down Alerts on my Alerts section. I have not disabled the polling and alerts for those ports on the respective devices. But inspite of it, I still see those alerts in my alerts section. Does it clear or something just because we have disabled the polling for those ports which are down. ??? Also, I have put my mail ID as contact and enabled the mail alerts. For example, I have 50 alerts in my alerts section: [cid:image001.png@01D2F3D8.B1EB9EA0] So I get an alert flood in my mail box for those 50 alerts all once. I have my refresh interval of 5 mins, so after 5 mins I get the flood of 50 mail alerts again ? Why there is a recurring of the mail alerts ? PS: I have disabled the: RECOVERY in the alert checks still getting flood of alerts and it keeps repeating Regards Kaustubh From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 3:54 PM To: Observium Cc: observium Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers No. Disabling polling disables, well, polling. How do you expect Observium to know a port has gone down if it isn't being polled? Oo Adam. Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=9856> On 30 Jun 2017, at 11:06 am, "Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA" <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: Hello Experts, I See there 2 settings for ports on the device: [cid:image002.png@01D2F1B6.82235060] My question is, if we disable Polling and only keep Alerts, will the alerts fire for Port down ?? Regards Kaustubh From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Stef Renders Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 2:50 PM To: Observium; observium Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers Small remark, Your OSPF alert should be defined as a syslog alert, which I’m not sure if its available in CE yet. It says it’s being checked, but actually it’s not since the condition or test will not do anything. Kind regards From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA Sent: vrijdag 30 juni 2017 11:09 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>>; Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>>; observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> Cc: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers Thank you Simon, It worked after rebuild: [cid:image003.png@01D2F1B6.82235060] I did not find in the documentation to rebuild after every time, we add some alert checkers. Anyways Thanks guys ☺ very helpful you are. I will also try to pitch in if I can help or assist someone solve some issues. Cheers Regards Kaustubh From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Simon Mousey Smith Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 2:28 PM To: Observium Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers Hi, Have you clicked the ‘Rebuild' at the top of the Alert Checks Page next to the ‘Add Syslog Rule'? Every time you change something in the alerts check page you have to rebuild!? Regards Simon On 30 Jun 2017, at 09:54, Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: Adam, I am seeing some assistance here. Let me give you a scenario here. I want Observium to alert me when my Port is “DOWN” If I put a condition as ifOperStatus equals up ifAdminStatus equals up What is use of the alerting ? I do not want alerts if my port is UP. I hope you get it. Please explain. Also FYI, even if I change the entity type to “Port” from Device, then also no luck. If you want me to pay more attention, let me get an example to you: You have BGP example on your “Excellent Website” : <image001.png> Look at my alert Check: <image002.png> Now tell me why no number count here. I am trying to understand the tool here, as I am using this for the first time, hence asking you to please assist. Regards Kaustubh From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 2:17 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers That isn't a port alert. It's a device alert. It's very, very important that the entity type is set correctly. Also you have switched "equals" to "notequals", which means the checker no longer makes sense. Please pay more attention to the specific details of the examples. adam. On 30/06/2017 09:44:13, Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: Example in the documentation: Port status should be down for the alert, I have mentioned notequals up in my below snippet, but still no count is reproducing Regards kaustubh From: Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 2:09 PM To: 'Observium' Cc: 'Observium Public Support'; 'observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>' Subject: RE: [Observium] Alert Checkers Hi Team, TO add on the below, I have referred to the documentation section, The settings I have: The settings seems correct, they why it does not reflect anything in the count section ? Regards Kaustubh From: Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 2:04 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Observium Public Support; observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] Alert Checkers HI Team, Could you give me a working example of the alert checker ? Regards Kaustubh From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 1:13 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers This suggests that the alert table hasn't been regenerated since you created these alert checkers. Note that the OSPF one won't ever work, because it's just a bunch of nonsense text which doesn't match the checker format. Also the temperature alert, sensor event alert and port operational status alerts won't work because they don't really make any sense. You need to read the documentation and examples about creating alert checkers again. Thanks, adam. On 30/06/2017 08:12:59, Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: Thank you for the Response Adam, Was also wondering, I have added some alert checks for Network related testing. If you see, the one highlighted are for Network related alerts, but I seem to have some issue here. If you look at the above for the CPU, Memory, Storage, etc the tool is able to detect and show the numbers in “Green” and “Red” But there is nothing indicating for BGP, high temperature and other highlighted alert checkers. Am I doing something different here or my alert conditions have issues ? Regards Kaustubh From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 10:27 AM To: Observium Cc: Kunal Shah, CLSA; observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Process Level Alerts in Observium Hi, This isn't possible, and would actually be pretty complicated to do. Not least because Observium doesn't yet collect per-process data! Thanks, Adam. Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=9856> On 30 Jun 2017, at 4:57 am, "Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA" <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: Hi Team, First, I would like to subscribe to the Observium mailing list. Second, i am using the Community Edition of Observium. Following are the details: I have setup some alert checks to capture the high CPU alerts. I was also successful to capture some alert. PFA the results. I would like to know, if we can also show, which are the top 10 processes, which are running and as a result the utilization is going high. If I can get the output of the top 10 or top 5 processes on the same mail which is attached, this would assist the support teams to troubleshoot. Could you please assist on this as to how can I setup ? Thank you and Regards Kaustubh The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. ________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. ________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact.

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New request created with ID: ##398## from observium-request
by SABIN SUBRAMANNIAN 02 Jul '17

02 Jul '17

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 84, Issue 1
by 张来 01 Jul '17

01 Jul '17

hello！I am ob user. I think I lost my observium svn username and password. Can you help me to set my usernane and password as username：yuri password：Ad2003@0407 Thank you！发自我的 iPhone > 在 2017年7月1日，19:00，observium-request@observium.org 写道： > > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > 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. Re: Alert Checkers (Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA) > 2. Re: Alert Checkers (Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA) > 3. Re: Alert Checkers (Adam Armstrong) > 4. Re: Alert Checkers (Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA) > 5. Re: python-wrapper loop? (John Klasa) > 6. Re: Alert Checkers (Thomas Nicholson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:07:11 +0000 > From: "Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA" <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com> > To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> > Cc: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers > Message-ID: > <FB5687B07A6D2240865CB25880DDF15654BAED99(a)zklnwp367.int.clsa.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello Experts, > > Quick one, > > I have Port Down Alerts on my Alerts section. > > I have not disabled the polling and alerts for those ports on the respective devices. > > But inspite of it, I still see those alerts in my alerts section. Does it clear or something just because we have disabled the polling for those ports which are down. ??? > > Also, I have put my mail ID as contact and enabled the mail alerts. > > For example, I have 50 alerts in my alerts section: > > [cid:image001.png@01D2F1BF.1E7B2480] > > So I get an alert flood in my mail box for those 50 alerts all once. I have my refresh interval of 5 mins, so after 5 mins I get the flood of 50 mail alerts again ? > > Why there is a recurring of the mail alerts ?? > > PS: I have disabled the: RECOVERY in the alert checks still getting flood of alerts and it keeps repeating > > Regards > Kaustubh > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 3:54 PM > To: Observium > Cc: observium > Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers > > No. Disabling polling disables, well, polling. > How do you expect Observium to know a port has gone down if it isn't being polled? Oo > Adam. > Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=9856> > On 30 Jun 2017, at 11:06 am, "Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA" <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: > Hello Experts, > > > I See there 2 settings for ports on the device: > > > [cid:image002.png@01D2F1B6.82235060] > > > My question is, if we disable Polling and only keep Alerts, will the alerts fire for Port down ?? > > > Regards > Kaustubh > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Stef Renders > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 2:50 PM > To: Observium; observium > Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers > > > Small remark, > > > Your OSPF alert should be defined as a syslog alert, which I’m not sure if its available in CE yet. It says it’s being checked, but actually it’s not since the condition or test will not do anything. > > > Kind regards > > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA > Sent: vrijdag 30 juni 2017 11:09 > To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>>; Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>>; observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> > Cc: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers > > > Thank you Simon, > > > It worked after rebuild: > > > [cid:image003.png@01D2F1B6.82235060] > > > I did not find in the documentation to rebuild after every time, we add some alert checkers. > > > Anyways Thanks guys ☺ very helpful you are. I will also try to pitch in if I can help or assist someone solve some issues. Cheers > > > Regards > Kaustubh > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Simon Mousey Smith > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 2:28 PM > To: Observium > Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers > > > Hi, > > > Have you clicked the ‘Rebuild' at the top of the Alert Checks Page next to the ‘Add Syslog Rule'? > > > Every time you change something in the alerts check page you have to rebuild!? > > > Regards > > > Simon > > > On 30 Jun 2017, at 09:54, Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: > > > Adam, > > I am seeing some assistance here. > > Let me give you a scenario here. I want Observium to alert me when my Port is “DOWN” > > If I put a condition as > > ifOperStatus equals up > ifAdminStatus equals up > > What is use of the alerting ? I do not want alerts if my port is UP. I hope you get it. Please explain. > > Also FYI, even if I change the entity type to “Port” from Device, then also no luck. > > If you want me to pay more attention, let me get an example to you: > > You have BGP example on your “Excellent Website” : > > <image001.png> > > Look at my alert Check: > > <image002.png> > > Now tell me why no number count here. > > I am trying to understand the tool here, as I am using this for the first time, hence asking you to please assist. > > Regards > Kaustubh > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 2:17 PM > To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers > > That isn't a port alert. It's a device alert. > > It's very, very important that the entity type is set correctly. Also you have switched "equals" to "notequals", which means the checker no longer makes sense. > > Please pay more attention to the specific details of the examples. > > adam. > On 30/06/2017 09:44:13, Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: > Example in the documentation: > > Port status should be down for the alert, I have mentioned notequals up in my below snippet, but still no count is reproducing > > Regards > kaustubh > From: Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 2:09 PM > To: 'Observium' > Cc: 'Observium Public Support'; 'observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>' > Subject: RE: [Observium] Alert Checkers > > Hi Team, > > TO add on the below, > > I have referred to the documentation section, > > > The settings I have: > > > > The settings seems correct, they why it does not reflect anything in the count section ? > > Regards > Kaustubh > From: Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 2:04 PM > To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: Observium Public Support; observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > Subject: RE: [Observium] Alert Checkers > > HI Team, > > Could you give me a working example of the alert checker ? > > Regards > Kaustubh > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 1:13 PM > To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers > > This suggests that the alert table hasn't been regenerated since you created these alert checkers. > > Note that the OSPF one won't ever work, because it's just a bunch of nonsense text which doesn't match the checker format. > > Also the temperature alert, sensor event alert and port operational status alerts won't work because they don't really make any sense. > > You need to read the documentation and examples about creating alert checkers again. > > Thanks, > adam. > On 30/06/2017 08:12:59, Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: > Thank you for the Response Adam, > > Was also wondering, I have added some alert checks for Network related testing. > > > If you see, the one highlighted are for Network related alerts, but I seem to have some issue here. If you look at the above for the CPU, Memory, Storage, etc the tool is able to detect and show the numbers in “Green” and “Red” But there is nothing indicating for BGP, high temperature and other highlighted alert checkers. > > Am I doing something different here or my alert conditions have issues ? > > Regards > Kaustubh > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 10:27 AM > To: Observium > Cc: Kunal Shah, CLSA; observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Process Level Alerts in Observium > > Hi, > This isn't possible, and would actually be pretty complicated to do. > Not least because Observium doesn't yet collect per-process data! > Thanks, > Adam. > Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=9856> > On 30 Jun 2017, at 4:57 am, "Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA" <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: > Hi Team, > > First, I would like to subscribe to the Observium mailing list. > > Second, i am using the Community Edition of Observium. Following are the details: > > > I have setup some alert checks to capture the high CPU alerts. I was also successful to capture some alert. PFA the results. > > I would like to know, if we can also show, which are the top 10 processes, which are running and as a result the utilization is going high. > > If I can get the output of the top 10 or top 5 processes on the same mail which is attached, this would assist the support teams to troubleshoot. > > Could you please assist on this as to how can I setup ? > > Thank you and Regards > Kaustubh > > The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. > These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. > CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. > > ________________________________ > > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. > These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. > CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. > The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. > These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. > CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. > The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. > These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. > CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. > These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. > CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. > > The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. > These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. > CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. > > ________________________________ > > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. > These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. > CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. >

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Re: [Observium] Alert Checkers
by Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Thank you for the Response Adam, Was also wondering, I have added some alert checks for Network related testing. [cid:image001.png@01D2F19D.1634BC40] If you see, the one highlighted are for Network related alerts, but I seem to have some issue here. If you look at the above for the CPU, Memory, Storage, etc the tool is able to detect and show the numbers in “Green” and “Red” But there is nothing indicating for BGP, high temperature and other highlighted alert checkers. Am I doing something different here or my alert conditions have issues ? Regards Kaustubh From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 10:27 AM To: Observium Cc: Kunal Shah, CLSA; observium(a)observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] Process Level Alerts in Observium Hi, This isn't possible, and would actually be pretty complicated to do. Not least because Observium doesn't yet collect per-process data! Thanks, Adam. Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=9856> On 30 Jun 2017, at 4:57 am, "Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA" <kaustubh.parthasarthy(a)clsa.com<mailto:kaustubh.parthasarthy@clsa.com>> wrote: Hi Team, First, I would like to subscribe to the Observium mailing list. Second, i am using the Community Edition of Observium. Following are the details: [cid:image001.png@01D2F0C3.971FFA70] I have setup some alert checks to capture the high CPU alerts. I was also successful to capture some alert. PFA the results. I would like to know, if we can also show, which are the top 10 processes, which are running and as a result the utilization is going high. If I can get the output of the top 10 or top 5 processes on the same mail which is attached, this would assist the support teams to troubleshoot. Could you please assist on this as to how can I setup ? Thank you and Regards Kaustubh The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact. ________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact.

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python-wrapper loop?
by John Klasa 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Hi I've upgraded to this version: ./discovery.php -V Observium 17.5.8580 It seemed to be a great update but then MySQL died and I found this in the logs: [2017/06/29 15:05:20 +0200] poller-wrapper.py(29309): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: URGENT: poller-wrapper not started because already running 34 processes, load average (5min) 37.17 And it kept increasing upton load over 70 where I killed all python, CROND and for some reason A LOT of ps processes. An example of processes below. 26133 ? D 0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 23434 26331 ? R 0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 2981 26354 ? R 0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 10439 26355 ? R 0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 11755 26356 ? R 0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 5772 26357 ? R 0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 2624 26360 ? R 0:00 ps -ww -o ppid,uid,args -p 19699 846 purify 20 0 342884 70760 1636 S 1.0 1.9 0:33.02 python 4424 purify 20 0 354536 11156 1632 S 1.0 0.3 1:27.40 python 4739 purify 20 0 356676 11832 1632 S 1.0 0.3 1:36.27 python 9718 purify 20 0 349728 10108 1636 S 1.0 0.3 1:03.00 python 20551 purify 20 0 361020 12280 1632 S 1.0 0.3 2:01.39 python 31260 purify 20 0 348144 76392 1636 S 1.0 2.0 0:56.62 python 402 purify 20 0 345244 33752 1636 S 0.7 0.9 0:43.67 python 1315 purify 20 0 343148 59904 1632 S 0.7 1.6 0:35.71 python 3219 purify 20 0 341844 47340 1632 S 0.7 1.3 0:28.92 python 3298 purify 20 0 353204 11376 1632 S 0.7 0.3 1:19.76 python Anyone know whats going on? I see this when I try to run the debug output Your PHP version is too old (5.4.16), | | functionality may be broken. Please update your PHP! | | Currently recommended version(s): 7.0.x or 5.6.x I guess I should upgrade PHP first. Regards -John

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Process Level Alerts in Observium
by Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Hi Team, First, I would like to subscribe to the Observium mailing list. Second, i am using the Community Edition of Observium. Following are the details: [cid:image001.png@01D2F0C3.971FFA70] I have setup some alert checks to capture the high CPU alerts. I was also successful to capture some alert. PFA the results. I would like to know, if we can also show, which are the top 10 processes, which are running and as a result the utilization is going high. If I can get the output of the top 10 or top 5 processes on the same mail which is attached, this would assist the support teams to troubleshoot. Could you please assist on this as to how can I setup ? Thank you and Regards Kaustubh The content of this communication is intended for the recipient and is subject to CLSA Legal and Regulatory Notices. These can be viewed at https://www.clsa.com/disclaimer.html or sent to you upon request. CLSA is ISO14001 certified and committed to reducing environmental impact.

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getting multiple random down events Device status changed to Down (ping)
by Ron Culler 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Started getting multiple events "Device status changed to Down (ping) " over the last few weeks with no major increase in number of devices. Issue started on Cento 6.9 install with PHP 5.4, MySQL 5.1 (260 devices) HW - dual - quad core xeon CPUs, 24 GB Ram, RRD, MySQL, OS - with Observium install all on separate SSD drives Observium SVN install 17.6.8672 (rolling) Upgraded PHP and MySQL to PHP70 with opcode caching enabled, MySQL 5.7.18 - no change Spun up a fresh install Centos 7.3, PHP70 with opcode caching enabled, MySQL 5.7.18 (install per docs) HW - dual - quad core xeon CPUs, 24 GB Ram, RRD, MySQL, OS - with Observium install all on separate SSD drives Observium SVN install 17.6.8672 (rolling) $config['snmp']['max-rep'] = TRUE; Currently only 139 devices added To eliminate DNS related issues I have added the devices to /etc/hosts and forced resolution to use it first. Cron has /opt/observium/observium-wrapper poller -w 5 running every 5 min. The devices are not down and if I manually poll the device with a "Device status changed to Down (ping) " notice it responds normally and comes right back up. Was wondering if anyone has seen any behavior like this with this build or before. Also is there a way to skip ping during the poller run and just do snmp, and if so is it something that I can enable globally? Thanks in advance Ron Culler

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wget - Read Error in Headers (Connection Reset by Peer)
by Muhammed Murat Tutar 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

I want to install Observium (observium.org) on my virtual Ubuntu Server but when I try to download files, I get a read error. wget http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz --2017-06-28 10:53:16-- http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz Resolving www.observium.org (www.observium.org)... 37.187.79.83 Connecting to www.observium.org (www.observium.org)|37.187.79.83|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers. Retrying. I couldn't find any solution. I use static IPv4 address and DNS servers. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS works on VCENTER Virtual Machine Version: 11 and Network Adapter is VM Network. Any solutions? Thanks.

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Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0
by Oberreiter Andreas 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

I've noticed a typing error Snmpget -v 1 -c public portal.nadlinger.at .1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag von Oberreiter Andreas Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Mai 2017 10:53 An: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> Betreff: Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0 Snmpget -v 1 -c public portail.nadlinger.at .1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0 Should answer SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag von Mike Stupalov Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Mai 2017 10:00 An: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> Betreff: Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0 Hi, can you privide temporary snmp access to this device? I will do this faster :) Oberreiter Andreas wrote: > I've added print_message lines to see if my code is called. > > When I try another device e.g. a zyxel device I can see my code is executed. > > But when I try the device in question the discovery code isn't executed. > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag von > Mike Stupalov > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2017 17:21 > An: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> > Betreff: Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0 > > This device also not have sysDescr.0 too? > > You also should add os detecting file (from > $config['os'][$os]['discovery_os']): > includes/discovery/os/messpc.inc.php > > with content like this: > > <?php > > if (!$os) > { > // SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" > $data = snmp_get($device, '.1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0', '-Osqnv'); > if (strlen($data)) > { > $os = 'messpc'; > } > } > > // EOF > > And better os name: messpc-env > > Oberreiter Andreas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The Device is from http://www.messpc.de >> >> I've tried to add the following lines to >> includes/definitions/os.inc.php // MessPC $os = "messpc"; >> $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "MessPC Etherbox"; >> $config['os'][$os]['vendor'] = "MessPC"; >> $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "environment"; >> $config['os'][$os]['discovery_os'] = "messpc"; >> $config['os'][$os]['snmpable'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0"; >> $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "ETHERBOX-MIB"; >> >> I've put the ETHERBIX-MIB file in mibs/messpc/ETHERBOX-MIB >> >> and restarted the Webserver. Then I tried to add the device again no change. >> >> I can do a snmpwalk -v 1 -c public IP .1.3.6.1.4.1.14848 >> >> The result of >> snmpget -v 1 -c public 172.30.7.2 .1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0 is >> SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" >> >> What did I wrong? >> I'm on the latest commercial Version 17.4.8476 >> >> Kind Regards >> Andreas >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag >> von Mike Stupalov >> Gesendet: Freitag, 28. April 2017 15:02 >> An: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> >> Betreff: Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0 >> >> Hi, >> >> seems as another china/indian device? ;) >> >> For valid device adding required one of this OIDs to be exist on device: >> sysObjectID.0 or sysUpTime.0 >> >> If both OIDs not exist for device, use 'snmpable' os param. >> See example for os 'hikvision-cam': >> >> $os = "hikvision-cam"; >> $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Hikvision Network Camera"; >> $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "video"; >> $config['os'][$os]['vendor'] = "Hikvision"; >> $config['os'][$os]['discovery_os'] = "hikvision"; >> $config['os'][$os]['snmpable'][] = >> ".1.3.6.1.4.1.39165.1.1.0"; // This device complete not have >> sysObjectID.0 or sysUpTime.0 >> $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "HIK-DEVICE-MIB"; >> >> >> Oberreiter Andreas wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I have a device which doesn't provide the SysObjectId.0. >>> It start right away with the Enterprise entry's: >>> SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" >>> >>> Is there a way to add such an device? The values I'm interested in are in the enterprise part of the mib and could be easily retreated by a custom OID. >>> >>> But without an SysObjectId it seems impossible to add a device. >>> >>> Any Suggestions? >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Andras >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > -- > Mike Stupalov > Observium Limited, http://observium.org > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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rrdtoolx
by austin wonderly 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Hello, What would be the correct way to extract rrd data for a certain period of time (last 7 days for example). I'm trying to extract data for the following graph http://imgur.com/a/Gw9y2, although when I open up the data in excel, I'm not able to get anything of use. I used this command to produce an RRD export first: /opt/observium/scripts/rrdtoolx.py addrra netstats-udp.rrd /tmp/testrrd after which I used: rrdtool dump /tmp/testrrd > /tmp/rrd.xml to get the file into an xml format, and finally I imported the xml into excel. I'm trying to put together a list of time stamps and their appropriate data points, so for example: time1 : 22 errors time2: 10 errors time3: 30 errors .... Would it even be possible to extract this kind of data from the RRD files? Thanks for your help, Austin

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MSSQL database for Professional edition
by Jan Horacek 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Good evening gentlemen, I have an question about possibility run Observium PE on MSSQL database instead of MySQL/Maria DB. we are going to implement observium PE to live production and our developers are wondering if any official MSSQL plugin exists or not. Thanks for reply best Regards Jan

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WAN link monitoring
by Luke Johnson 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Hi, I have looked for previous questions regarding this, but haven't been able to find one, so I apologise if it has been asked/answered before. We have several paths to a remote router that we monitored via it's loopback IP address. Observium does a great job at alerting us when that router is offline, but, I'm unable to find a way to be alerted when we have a single WAN link failure. During a WAN link failure we can still access the remote router via a redundant path, however, we are often not aware that the primary is offline since Observium can still reach the remote router. Apart from checking if utilisation on the link drops below a certain level, is there any other way that I can perform a check and alert on the above scenario? Thanks, Luke

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Question on geolocation dropdown menu
by Ed Iwanski 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

We have a largish installation and have locations / devices in every state in the US and every province/territory in Canada. We have been adding all of these to Observium and allowing them to be geolocated based on SNMP location strings (works perfectly, thank you) but found that we are running into an issue where the scrollbar is too tall for many average browser screens. There does not seem to be a way to scroll here so there are some locations that will just not be accessible or seen on this dropdown menu. Is there a way to tune or change this? Also any possibility that the states/provinces/territories can be alphabetically listed on the dropdown menu instead of in seemingly order they were added or random? Screenshot attached, there are more locations at the bottom but that was all I could fit on the screen for the capture. Thanks for any input.

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snmpv3 context support
by Tomasz.Kwiecien＠nordea.com 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Hi, Are you planning to add snmpv3 context support to observium? I can see that in file includes/snmp.inc.php: switch ($device['snmp_version']) { case 'v3': $cmd = ' -v3 -l ' . escapeshellarg($device['snmp_authlevel']); /* NOTE. * For proper work of 'vlan-' context on cisco, it is necessary to add 'match prefix' in snmp-server config --mike * example: snmp-server group MONITOR v3 auth match prefix access SNMP-MONITOR */ $cmd .= ($vlan) ? ' -n "vlan-' . $vlan . '"' : ' -n ""'; // Some devices, like HP, always require option '-n' Observium adds context vlan-$vlan for cisco switches if $vlan variable is defined. Would be great to have option to add device with context during new device definition (like option to choose transport protocol, port timout etc). Best regards, Tomasz Kwiecień

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Change name of monitored device
by Jason Ross 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Hi, I can't seem to locate anything in the doco that helps, happy to refer to that if it exists. Failing that, I have a device name that I'd like to change the name of to reflect a configuration change. Is it possibly to modify the name of the firewall in this case without dropping all of the captured stats etc? Jason

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Observium Pro Purchase Question
by TLee 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Good afternoon - We have been playing with the community version of OB in a dev environment and we want to purchase OB Pro edition. Does anyone know of a vendor/ retailer that i can purchase through?! The purchase is no problem, but i can't just send a screenshot to my procurement department from my account that says 'Observium Pro - Enter card info - Pay Now'?! Thanks! Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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