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Traffic
by Nuno Dias 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hi, I'm testing the observium and already added a couple of devices, (several switch one router and some linux boxes) All this devices have at least 1Gb network cards or ports in the case of switchs, some have 10Gb ports. But in my graphs I have at most 100/120 Mb peaks, but I'm sure that I have more traffic in some ports, because I have other monitoring system (cacti) showing that. I remember that in cacti I had to configure the counters to be 64-bits and convert bytes in bits. So, do I need to configure in observium this kind of things? if yes where? or this is some kind of bug? Thanks Nuno -- Nuno Dias <ndias(a)lip.pt> LIP

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Limit Views and devices groups
by Ciro Iriarte 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hi!, how do you guys scale in heterogeneous administrative environments?. For example: - Within an administrative domain would be nice to group the devices involved in a particular high level service. - Currently I have a mix of devices and would like to see them all, but some administrator for example would like to see only their hardware. Would it be possible to limit access to a set of devices?. >From what I know, the only way right now would be to have many observium instances for different people, but that would be an issue if some people would like to see all the hardware.... Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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LDAP authentication with AD
by Bao Nguyen 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Does anyone know the correct parameters for binding with Active Directory for Observium? Is there a way to make it use SSL? I've used the configuration below but get a blank page after attempting to login. I have not tried dig through the logs to find out what's the issues are but if someone know of the correct parameters I would love to try it first. #$config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; # default, other options: ldap, http-auth #$config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; # v2 or v3 #$config['auth_ldap_server'] = "beernuts.ad.ucsd.edu"; #$config['auth_ldap_port'] = 636; #$config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=SDSC,dc=UCSD,dc=EDU"; thanks, -bn 0216331C

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widescreen ports graphs
by Nikolay Shopik 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hey Adam, Just quick note, that widescreen mode on ports graph doesn't working property. These 4 graphs should fill all available width, but instead using proportion from normal mode. And I wonder if there way we could able to select multiply different port types, like transit+peering. I mean come up with different control where you could select not only one state?

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Re: [Observium] C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more
by Tom Laermans 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Robert, Do you know what revision you were running when it still worked? Probably something broke or disappeared or so when you updated a few weeks ago and didnt get fixed until now... Tom ----- Reply message ----- From: "Robert Williams" <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com> To: "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012 10:55 Hi all, I'm still not getting very far with this one :( Out of desperation I deleted and re-added one 6509 chassis and now it doesn't even show the stats for the fabric, it's just missing the whole "Catalyst 6k Crossbar" section? I'm running the latest (2854) revision. Any ideas please? Robert Williams Backline / Operations Team Custodian DataCentre tel: +44 (0)1622 230382 email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt -----Original Message----- From: Robert Williams Sent: 01 February 2012 16:53 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more Hi Guys, For some (unknown) reason all of our catalyst chassis (650x-E) have recently stopped recording data for their Crossbar usage on all their cards. Data is visible up to a couple of weeks ago, but then stops and nothing more has been recorded since. The permission on the rrd are fine, and the file itself hasn't been modified since the day the data stopped being recorded. Interestingly, the usage 'bar' next to the (blank) graph shows usage on it correctly. So, as a test, I moved the rrd files for one chassis out of its folder then did a full redetect of the one host in question. Since then it doesn't appear to have made any effort to re-create the RRD file :( So, any ideas on why this one element would stop working suddenly? Or alternatively, is there a way to 'force' Observium to re-create it's rrd files for specific sensors on demand? Any input most welcome :) Cheers, _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more
by Robert Williams 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Hi Guys, For some (unknown) reason all of our catalyst chassis (650x-E) have recently stopped recording data for their Crossbar usage on all their cards. Data is visible up to a couple of weeks ago, but then stops and nothing more has been recorded since. The permission on the rrd are fine, and the file itself hasn't been modified since the day the data stopped being recorded. Interestingly, the usage 'bar' next to the (blank) graph shows usage on it correctly. So, as a test, I moved the rrd files for one chassis out of its folder then did a full redetect of the one host in question. Since then it doesn't appear to have made any effort to re-create the RRD file :( So, any ideas on why this one element would stop working suddenly? Or alternatively, is there a way to 'force' Observium to re-create it's rrd files for specific sensors on demand? Any input most welcome :) Cheers, Robert Williams Backline / Operations Team Custodian DataCentre tel: +44 (0)1622 230382 email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt

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no mail after down of a BGP peer
by Dario Calamai 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hello! the mail notification doesn't work after a down of a BGP peer. it works when peering is going UP or FLAP! I tried to understand where the problem was but I didn't succeed.. :( thanks! Dario -- http://www.playnet.it phone +39 055 3226622 - fax +39 055 3226444 Brain Technology s.p.a. - AS 13284 http://www.linkedin.com/in/dariocalamai

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Notifications for Ports in error-state
by Timo Ament 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hello, is there a way o configure observium to send out a notification, whenever a port is erroring and shown as such under the Ports-tab? Regards Timo

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Quickguide: Installation on SLES11
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

I don't see a way to create a user on the Wiki so I'm posting it here, hope people with wiki access can add it: ## # Initial Repos ## SLES11 + SLE11-SDK + Updates ## # Pre-requisites ## # Additional repositories zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/utilities/SLE_11_SP1 network:utilities # Prepackaged installation zypper in apache2-mod_php5 php5-mysql php5-gd php5-snmp php5-pear net-snmp graphviz-gd graphviz subversion mysql rrdtool fping ImageMagick whois mtr nmap ipmitool # Additional modules using PEAR pear install Net_IPv6 pear install Net_IPv4 # For monitoring VMs using libvirt zypper in libvirt # Checkout of Observium from SVN cd /opt svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium ## # Data Base ## # DB+user Creation mysql> create database observium; mysql> grant all privileges on observium.* to 'observium'@'localhost' -> identified by '<pass>'; # Schema creation cd observium mysql -u observium -p observium < database-schema.sql <pass> # Update config.php to include DB connection info cp config.php{.default,} vi config.php # Schema updates for F in database-update*;do scripts/update-sql.php $F;done # RRD and graphs directory creation mkdir graphs rrd chown wwwrun: graphs/ rrd/ ## # PATHS ## # fping vi config.php -- $config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping"; -- ## # Apache ## # Enable Mod Rewrite a2enmod rewrite # apache vhost configuration vi /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/observium.conf -- <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/ ServerName observium.<domain> CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log <Directory "/opt/observium/html/"> AllowOverride All Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> -- # Log destination directory mkdir /opt/observium/logs/ chown wwwrun: /opt/observium/logs/ # Startup rcapache2 start chkconfig apache2 on ## # Users (for production, better configure LDAP) ## # Admins, level 10 /opt/observium/adduser.php user1 pass 10 ## # Devices ## # Adding new devices cd /opt/observium/ && ./addhost.php <hostname> <community> v2c # Discovery inicial + colecta de datos ./discovery.php -h all ./poller.php -h all # Enable data collection using cron vi /etc/cron.d/observium -- 33 */6 * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 0 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 2 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 3 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 4 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 5 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 6 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 7 >> /dev/null 2>&1 ## # Performance Tunning ## # Install XCache, build package from src.rpm (install required dependencies for compilation if needed) mkdir ~/tmp cd ~/tmp wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php:/extensions/SLE_11/sr… rpmbuild --rebuild php5-xcache-1.3.2-2.1.src.rpm # Install result from above command # Restart apache rcapache2 restart That's all, this should work on openSUSE also, just make sure to use repositories for the correct version of distribution. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Feature Request/Suggestion: Trending
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, it would be really helpful for Capacity Planning to include Trending support, as far as I know, RRDTool already has support for it. Maybe adding trending on all graphs is not the best option, because for one graph there are many data sources, and while one can choose what one thinks would be the most obvious candidate another user might need to do the trending using other datasource... Maybe adding a separate TAB where one can choose what to graph with trending would be the most "universal" solution, or maybe a mix of both, graph the obvious by default and enable and "advanced" tab for trending on demand... Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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