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Send sms
by simonsmith5521＠gmail.com 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

Hi I've noticed the alerts folder having new files that include services for messaging and sms Is it possible for you to add in TextLocal SMS API ? http://api.txtlocal.com/docs/sendsms We use them here in the UK and they are really cheap! It would be cool if I can send alerts to customers via sms Regards Simon Sent from my iPhone

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Support for Nortel/Avaya
by AJ Schroeder 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Hello list, Let me get this out of the way; I am not a developer. Anyway, I have the pleasure of supporting a network that has older Nortel and Avaya devices on it. I've added them to observium and as expected they are showing up as generic devices. I browsed through the developer section on how to add new device support and I have followed those steps and have added some very basic support for Nortel switches (OS version and Serial Number) First question - would this extra support be of any interest to the Observium devs? I'd like to add more meaningful information such as CPU/Memory utilization, flash usage, etc. However, that step appears to be a bit more challenging. Second question - is this documented somewhere or do I need to "reverse engineer" this support from the existing scripts? Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, AJ Schroeder

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unix agent issues
by Robbie Wright 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Trying to get the unix agent setup on a machine with bind to test it out. The scripts for Observium and bind are working on the local machine, but Observium isn't showing the modules. The module is enabled for the device but when trying to telnet from Observium, we're just getting "Connection closed by foreign host." Xinetd is running and listening on the port but isn't responding correctly. There are some typos on the agent installation page on the site (/usr/lib vs /usr/bin) and in the xinetd conf file, but we seem to have those straightened out. Anyone have any tricks up your sleeves for getting the agent to be happy with life? ufw/iptables is off for testing on Ubuntu 14.04 and we're running the subscription edition. Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <https://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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PoE Power warning thresholds?
by Richard Müller 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Hy *, does anybody know how the PoE Thresholds for Warning and Error State are calculated? [cid:image001.jpg@01D0EB21.9C0FE580] I have got (Juniper EX) switches which can Provide up to 740W but the warning limit is set to 37W for some reason. Thanks Richard -- <http://www.teamix.de>[teamix]<http://www.teamix.de> Richard Müller Geschäftsführer teamix GmbH Südwestpark 43 90449 Nürnberg Tel.: +49 911 30999 0 Fax: +49 911 30999 99 mail: rm(a)teamix.de web: http://www.teamix.de blog: http://blog.teamix.de Amtsgericht Nürnberg, HRB 18320 | Geschäftsführer: Oliver Kügow, Richard Müller ***Save the Date: Besuchen Sie uns auf der it-sa Messe in Nürnberg vom 06.10.15 – 08.10.15 auf Stand 12-205***

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Disk stats graphs for Equallogic
by Gerwin Krist 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Howdy, Just added our equallogic boxes to observium and although it detects most of the stuff i'm really missing graphs for disk performance (read/writes and iops). If this is correct? Would it be possible to add such a feature? On https://www.zabbix.org/wiki/Monitoring_Dell_Equallogic_Systems is a template for Zabbix. Maybe it's of use. - Gerwin

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Observium Apache Subversion Module Metadata accessible via HTTP......!
by Chaman Rathee 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Dear Team, We found following vulnerability in our observium tool :- Vulnerability Detection Result :- We found that Everybody can access/read '.svn/entries'. using https://<observium-url/.svn/entries<https://%3cobservium-url/.svn/entries> Details: Apache Subversion Module Metadata Accessible OID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105099 But we checked at Observium Apache Server and found that we have not Load any module for Subversion. So, Please suggest how to solve this vulnerability and if I delete or move .svn folder Will it impact to my running observium? .... With Best Regards, Chaman Rathee Mob. No. :- 9560055816 [Fabrikam] Privileged or confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), please delete this message and kindly notify the sender by an emailed reply. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of Progression and its associate entities shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by them.

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adding a few 100 devices - group associations
by Ross [Eve IT] 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Hi all, I'm looking at adding a few 100 devices to Observium shortly. I don't see any issue adding them, as I can use a filename structured as requested. This is for a few clients of ours, I'd like to trial observium as a customer facing solution. Add a user to view their devices only. Is there a way to script giving a user access to so many devices ? Perhaps to group them. Has anyone done this and found issues with a large number of devices ? Regards, Ross.

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poller.php burns all available CPU in the last community edition
by Mark Martinec 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

After upgrading a somewhat outdated version Observium CE 0.13.10.4585 to CE 0.15.6.6430 (under PHP 5.5.28), the poller.php started burning excessive CPU: eight running pollers on an 8-CPU machine started burning 100% of available CPU time instead of a few percents as before. They somehow still managed to get their job done, but just barely so in five minutes, and often missing the time slot. While watching the behaviour for a day and learning PHP profiling along the way, I now have an explanation and a solution. Apology if this has been reported before, couldn't find any such report. The problem is in a function external_exec() in includes/common(.inc).php, which has been rewritten some time between these two versions, now switching to a common loop waiting with a stream_select() on two pipes (stdout and stderr) from a spawned snmp*walk process. The documentation on stream_select helps understanding the issue: http://php.net/manual/en/function.stream-select.php read The streams listed in the read array will be watched to see if characters become available for reading (more precisely, to see if a read will not block - in particular, a stream resource is also ready on end-of-file, in which case an fread() will return a zero length string). So what happens is that when a spawned snmp* command closes its stderr but not yet its stdout, the external_exec() goes in a spin: feof($pipes[1]) is false but stream is not yet ready for reading, however the feof($pipes[2]) is true and hence the stream_select() returns right away and reports $pipes[2] as ready. Then the fread($pipes[2]) is called, returns an empty string (because stderr is at eof), and the whole loop busily goes around, until the time the snmp command happens to terminate. Here is a fix: --- includes/common.inc.php.ori 2015-09-04 20:29:39.561244285 +0200 +++ includes/common.inc.php 2015-09-04 20:30:07.617242602 +0200 @@ -618,9 +618,13 @@ { $start = microtime(TRUE); - //while ($status['running'] !== FALSE) - while (feof($pipes[1]) === FALSE || feof($pipes[2]) === FALSE) + while (TRUE) { + $read = array(); + if (!feof($pipes[1])) { $read[] = $pipes[1]; } + if (!feof($pipes[2])) { $read[] = $pipes[2]; } + if (empty($read)) { break; } + stream_select( - $read = array($pipes[1], $pipes[2]), + $read, $write = NULL, $except = NULL, Regards Mark

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Cisco ASR Zone Based Firewall graphing
by Willie Van Waveren 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Hi Observium team, I recently installed Observium and got it running on a bunch of devices. I am now trying to get it to graph zone based firewall stats on Cisco ASR and also ISR. When I go into settings on the devices and click to enable the firewall graph it seems to enable, but then when I go and look again it is back to disabled. Am I missing anything? I would like to have the following in the firewall graph, how can I edit, or add a new one for all Cisco ZBF. 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.491.1.1.1.4.0 "The number of connections which were attempted to be setup but which were declined due to non-availability of required resources. This value is accumulated from the last reboot of the firewall." 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.491.1.1.1.5.0 "The number of connections which are in the process of being setup but which have not yet reached the established state in the connection table." 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.491.1.1.1.6.0 "The number of connections which are currently active." 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.491.1.1.1.11.0 "The averaged number of connections which the firewall establishing per second, averaged over the last 300 seconds." Regards, Willie

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SMS via COM port
by chott＠praha1.net 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Hello team, Is there some way how i can send critical Alert via COM port and connected GSM Gateway? Tomas

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