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ASR9k RAM Changes
by Robert Williams 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hi, Have there just been some changes to the ASR9k RAM detection? Suddenly after the overnight svn up we are seeing this for all 9k chassis: [cid:image001.png@01D28C23.56E5F220] These 3 new items are in alarm. The “reserved” and “image” are filtered from all other devices by existing config.php – but obviously no brackets on these ones. $config['ignore_mempool_string'][] = '(reserved)'; $config['ignore_mempool_string'][] = '(image)'; However, the ‘processor’ one is actually wrong as it seems to be using the CPU0 usage but a strange maximum of 3.81GB instead of 7.81GB. I can’t filter this out because it will drop all ‘processor’ types. I remember something historic relating to this where the maximums were showing as around 4GB even though there is 8GB installed and someone (Adam?) found and sorted it. This may or may not be related though. Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Alert regeneration via cli?
by Michael 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Is there a way to regenerate the alerts from the cli? We have some checks that alert based on port state, dependent on conditions within a port description. But that matching is only performed during the alert regeneration, not during polling. So if the port description gets updated, the alert still triggers based on the old condition match... I'm thinking of running a regen via cron on a regular basis to try and minimise the false positives. Unless somebody has a better way to achieve a similar outcome? Thanks, Michael

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Poller wrapper history graphs not updating
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi! I have moved an instance from a physical server to a VM by moving over the database & RRD files + Observium $HOME. All works except one minor thing : The poller wrapper history (/pollerlog/ page) graphs do not update anymore. Also the RRD files do not update their timestamp since I moved the files to the new VM. The poller discovery/timing part of the same page does work properly, so it's only the top two graphs missing (or rather the graphs are there, but no new data is being added). Any idea why ? /Jesper

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Memory graph missing
by Simon Mousey Smith 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi All, I’ve got up this morning to find our nightly SVN UP has messed up the memory graphs for all our switches/servers/etc…? What appears to be be happening is its looking for the file 'mempool-HOST-RESOURCES-MIB-65536.rrd' which doesn’t exist BUT 'mempool-host-resources-mib-65536.rrd’ does exist Case-senstive I believe Anybody else had this issue? Regards Simon

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Re: [Observium] ASR9k RAM Changes
by Moerman, Maarten 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

There’s currently work being done on redoing memory pools to ‘definitions’ – probably related. Maarten From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> on behalf of Robert Williams <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com> Reply-To: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 10:20 AM To: "Observium Network Observation System (observium(a)observium.org)" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] ASR9k RAM Changes Hi, Have there just been some changes to the ASR9k RAM detection? Suddenly after the overnight svn up we are seeing this for all 9k chassis: [cid:image001.png@01D28C2D.94872EF0] These 3 new items are in alarm. The “reserved” and “image” are filtered from all other devices by existing config.php – but obviously no brackets on these ones. $config['ignore_mempool_string'][] = '(reserved)'; $config['ignore_mempool_string'][] = '(image)'; However, the ‘processor’ one is actually wrong as it seems to be using the CPU0 usage but a strange maximum of 3.81GB instead of 7.81GB. I can’t filter this out because it will drop all ‘processor’ types. I remember something historic relating to this where the maximums were showing as around 4GB even though there is 8GB installed and someone (Adam?) found and sorted it. This may or may not be related though. Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Specify snmp timeout for single device.
by Gabriel Zamorski 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hey, I would like to ask if it is possible to specify snmp timeout for a single device in Observium? I tried to do that in Device > Properties > SNMP > Timeout, but each time I try to change this empty field to 100 or 200… I get info: “Device SNMP configuration update is not required” Regards, Gabriel

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Observium tunning
by chott＠praha1.net 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

Hello team what is best solution for tunning performance like different Hardrive for MySQL/RRD and System? What about performance SSD Raid or RAM Disk? We are using VMware, with iSCSI SAS and SSD , for System SAS drive for RRD/MySQL two drive from SSD Raid any idea? like HW Raid without iSCSI? Now we have more than 500 devices, 4000 ports and 3000 sensors Tom [email-header-praha1] Tomas Chott technický ředitel chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net> Phone: +420 245 004 005 Mobile: +420 733 123 135 Metropolitní síť Praha 1 z.s.p.o. Jindrisska 18 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic www.praha1.net<http://www.praha1.net> [Popis: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/praha1net> <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tomas-chott/49/97a/1aa>

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using hardware sensors
by Thoralf Freitag 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

Dear Observium community, is there any description of using hardware sensors? I've following issue. I'm operating a HP server with an Ilom under Ubuntu Linux. I configured in the device properties for ipmi: IPMI Hostname (IP address of the Ilom), IPMI Username (as configured at Ilom) IPMI Password, IPMI Userlevel (User) IPMI Interface (IPMI v2.0 RMCP+LAN Interface). Observium rekognized the sensors for temperature und fan speed. I did the same at an other HP server (same type) which is running ESXi 6.5 (HP customized Image). The Sensors are shown in the vSphre-Client and ESXi empeded host client UI. But for this host, Observium does not rekognize the sensors. How can this be explained ? Thanks. Lg. TF

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Group with 500+ devices
by Karolis Birgėla 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

Hi, I have a problem with device classification to specific groups. We currently have 750 devices added in our network. Some users can only have access to specific devices, which led us to creating a group associated with them. The problem is, that more than 500 devices belong to the group, and when we attach this group to a user, it lags like hell. The main window of Observium loads slowly, and the search works very slow. I dont think that the server is incapable of proccesing this quickly It's a server with 80gb of ram, 24core cpu. By the way, admin accounts work perfectly . Is this a bug? Or something needs to be done in order? Let me know, thank you.

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Poller coding scheme
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

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Copy from Old to New server
by chott＠praha1.net 19 Feb '17

19 Feb '17

Hello everybody how we can copy all Observium data from OLD to NEW server? i means RRD probably [email-header-praha1] Tomas Chott technický ředitel chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net> Phone: +420 245 004 005 Mobile: +420 733 123 135 Metropolitní síť Praha 1 z.s.p.o. Jindrisska 18 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic www.praha1.net<http://www.praha1.net> [Popis: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/praha1net> <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tomas-chott/49/97a/1aa>

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SummitD support like Siklu
by chott＠praha1.net 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

Hello Mike there is support for Siklu device in r8371 what about support similar device Summit Development http://www.summitd.cz/cz/download/mib-file Tom [email-header-praha1] Tomas Chott technický ředitel chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net> Phone: +420 245 004 005 Mobile: +420 733 123 135 Metropolitní síť Praha 1 z.s.p.o. Jindrisska 18 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic www.praha1.net<http://www.praha1.net> [Popis: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/praha1net> <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tomas-chott/49/97a/1aa>

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Mail list Archives throw 404
by Ramiro Rojo 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Greetings, Trying to acces to the Observium Archives (http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/) is not working. Are you looking for a solution for it, or is the page on the documentation outdated?

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Ruckus Virtual SmartZone (vSZ) controller
by Philippe Laurent 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

It seems that either the Ruckus MIB changed, or my expectation of function is different than reality. We run the Ruckus Virtual SmartZone (vSZ) to control our AP's. At the moment, Observium provides just the local attributes (CPU, NIC, RAM, Disk) of the virtual machine, but it was my impression that I was supposed to get a much larger subset of data regarding AP's, configured WLANS, clients and traffic, etc. It appears in the MIB properties that the data should be available, but perhaps there's been a change of MIB from the Ruckus side (in which case I would also like to pay for getting that updated). Attached is a screenshot of the Device MIBs and SNMP errors as reported by Observium. If you require something else, please let me know. I am using the most recent software version for both vSZ and the APs (R600). Observium is updated from SVN daily(ish). If this requires more heavy lifting or outside of the scope, then please contact me offline for pricing and timeline, and I'll sponsor the additions. Philippe [image: Inline image 1]

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Generate an BGP group with only like clue the interface description?
by Johann Mallet 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hello, We would like create alert on BGP sessions only on private peering. The only clue for detected these BGP sessions is the description on interface. But Observium seems don't can link session<->network ports. I don't find easy solution to match these sessions. Anybody have an idea? Observium seems to be able link one IP to network port. Is it possible for you add functionality to link BGP sessions (with their IP) to network port too? We could do a really great monitoring and see BGP sessions linked to the network port (on new tab?) :-) Johann

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CSS Bug on 8360?
by Johann Mallet 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hello, I have update to SVN 8360. And now we don't have all field in search bar on device/port page : Do you have same issue? Thanks, Johann

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Alert cache bug maybe
by Simon Mousey Smith 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hi All, Im not sure if other people are having this issue or not, but since the caching has gone into Observium my alerts tab hasnt been working correctly? I’ve been getting the alerts perfectly fine! But the tabs are wrong? Attached shows the home page which shows I have an alerts FAIL, however when i go into the alerts page I have none? Also I haven’t been notified of a FAIL alert either? Caching bug maybe? Regards Simon

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Custom OID and New Sensors
by Ing. Andrés Gallo 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hi there Just installed the Observium 17.2.8353 to monitor our network Great job! I need to handle a couple of issues: 1. Once I did Custom OID to monitor, How Can I set threshold or alarm limit to get an alert? For example, graphing fuel level, raise an alert on low value. 2. Some devices are recognized by the system-i.e. EATON SC Controller-, but sensors -voltage, current, power, etc.- are not. I can write a sensor.inc.php -same way as others into includes/discovery/sensors dir- but even with the debug option in command line, cant´t get it working. Any clue? Couldnt find the list archive ( mybe solved there, but....) link is broken Regards Andres.-

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Upgrades
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

What is the procedure for moving observium to a new box? I know I’ve seen snippets of this in email before, but I am unable to track down a procedure. Also, are there any issues that would occur moving from Debian (currently wheezy) to Ubunut 16? Thanks, derek

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how to set an alert based on a custom OID?
by Thomas Stather 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hello all For our UPS i have implemented some custom OIDs, here is an example: Description: Battery Voltage OID: .1.3.6.1.4.1.818.1.1.10.2.5.0 Name: upsBatteryVoltage.0 Type: Gauge Unit: V How to i now create an alert check that i.e. fires if the Value is below 300? 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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Installation on FreeBSD 11
by Andrew Meyer 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

So I have it observium almost fully setup on FreeBSD 11 however I can't get Apache 2.4 to work. I'm getting a error that php is too old. Has anyone else run into this? php56 apache24 <VirtualHost *> LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache24/mod_rewrite.so DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/observium/html CustomLog /usr/local/www/observium/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /usr/local/www/observium/logs/error_log <Directory "/usr/local/www/observium/html"> DirectoryIndex index.php AllowOverride All Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Require all granted </Directory> LogLevel debug </VirtualHost>

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Import Alerts XML File
by Richard Müller 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

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Map marker icon size
by Ed Iwanski 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

We are adding quite a few locations to our install and after adding the first batch our front page map ends up with quite a bit of overlap while we have many more to add. It got me thinking if we could just make the individual markers smaller it would work better for us. Looking into the settings it seems there was an option for: $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = 10; Changing this seems to have no effect and a quick glance it does not seem to be used anymore Doing a little more digging in the code it looks like the html/includes/map/leaflet.inc.php has options defined to add the svg icons with static sizes with the following: var icons = { ok: L.icon({ iconUrl: 'images/svg/ok.svg', popupAnchor: [0, 16], iconSize: [24, 24] // size of the icon }), alert: L.icon({ iconUrl: 'images/svg/high_priority.svg', popupAnchor: [0, 12], iconSize: [32, 32] // size of the icon }), }; It seems just changing the values in iconSize: [X,Y] accomplishes what we would like to do to make the marker size a bit smaller and the maps to be more clear with many more sites added. Maybe 2 new example variables to allow a little further map customization? $config['frontpage']['map']['markeroksize'] = <value>; $config['frontpage']['map']['markeralertsize'] = <value>; Thanks, Ed

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Custom port description parser
by Dan Letkeman 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has some info on how to do custom port description parsing? I already have my ports labeled and I would like to add custom port lists to the ports menu. Thanks, Dan.

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Observium Groups - Unable to select group type
by Serghei Golipad 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

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