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SNMP Query AIX Host
by FalkE 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Hello everybody, I'm exploring Observium for a few days now and I really like it! I've added some Linux hosts using SNMP and it works like a charm. However, in conjuntion with IBM AIX, I got some problems: Using SNMP, I only get very basic information about OS level and network interfaces. There is no data about cpu, memory and storage usage. I'm using SNMPv1 for now. Could this be the problem? Is some data only available for v2c and v3? If so, can someone give me a sample configuration for SNMPv2c or SNMPv3 on AIX? Kind regards, Manuel

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Unix Agent and Raspberry Pi
by gt＠gt1.net 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hello, I set up Observium to monitor a RPi device with Unix Agent and RPi script. I see the hardware sensors from RPi on the Observium interface, however all of them show zero values. When running /usr/bin/observium-agent on the RPi, all sensor data is displayed in the dump, but when I try telnet RPi 36602 from the server, the sensor data in the dump shows 0s. What could be the issue? Gennadiy.

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How to shush alarms for sensors that lie...
by Robert Williams 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Hi, The recent changes to the homepage layout have placed more attention on the summary statistics (alerted ports, alerted sensors etc.) which previously were not as visible. A positive side-effect of this has been the setting of more 'appropriate' manual thresholds for many of the less important sensors, to tidy them up. It has revealed one issue though, which I'm not sure how to work around. Take the following example: As you can see, the (unrealistic) dBm being reported by the Cisco chassis is stuck in a 'warning' state, despite having alarms disabled, the threshold on manual and thresholds set well clear of the 8.1dBm which it is reporting. (This port actually has a copper-converter in it, hence, the dBm is just rubbish spat out by an adapter which doesn't understand copper) So despite my best efforts to silence this warning, it still persists as a 'down' sensor, on the summary page showing up in red. (Not ignored, but actually down). We have quite a few of these adapters as well as a large number of voltage sensors (again, courtesy Cisco entity SNMP crapness) which are being reported as zero volts. These are also set to 'ignore' but continue to show as 'down' on the new summary homepage, some examples below: So - Does anyone know how I can totally and completely ignore/hide the broken sensors like these? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] Layout & Style Changes
by Kent Johannessen 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Hi Adam, I am all for a flat design, which is the modern thing today (apparently:)). Some thoughts from me. Background: Does not make the site look good. Sorry. Have a color as previously, or maybe something like the grid background from before (probably a year ago). Icons: Removal of icons, maybe mostly in the device page makes it hard to quickly identify what you are looking for. (reading is boring). Right panel: I see some use for this. But should also be able to disable. Device page: On some resolutions it seems to create three rows, which make the right side too cramped. Had some more thoughts earlier today, but too late now to remember all :D Are there any plans to move completely to bootstrap 3? Best regards NOTICE: Please immediately e-mail back to sender if you are not the intended recipient. Thereafter delete the e-mail along with any attachments without making copies. The sender reserves all rights of privilege, confidentiality and copyright.

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join ports together
by Simon Smith 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi All, this is a bit of a daft question, I actually deleted one of our bridges on our mikrotik switches, and had to recreate them, DOH! the observium, then discovered the new bridge, but deleted the old bridge (marked as deleted)? now i have no graphs with old data in them for the new bridge :( can i join the new bridge and old bridge ports together in observium so i can see the old graphs in the new bridge? regards Simon

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Layout & Style Changes
by Adam Armstrong 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi All, Those of you running trunk and updating regularly might have noticed some layout/style changes in the past day or two. We've been running the old "shiny" style for about 3 years and thought it was about time we updated it, and have opted for a more "flat" design. Simplifying the stylistic elements has made it a bit easier for us to do certain things, since the old style was a little clumsy on things like horizontal boxes (check out the docs side bar for proof!). We've also added a wide layout for screens of ~1920 pixels wide which we plan to move some data too. This can already been seen on the /device/ /devices/ and /ports/ page, where some data, graphs and search forms are moved to the left hand pane. If anyone has any suggestions on what should/could go in that pane on various pages, now is the time to suggest it. Similarly any suggestions on the new styling should also be made now, before we move on to something else! :) Thanks, adam.

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Observium and PHP7
by Markus Klock 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Good news everyone! PHP7 is out and promise great performance to all PHP-applications. I tried it out this weekend on my Observium-installation and it did not disappoint! I have a rather large Observium and some of you that runs very large installations may have noticed that the web UI can get a little slow when rendering all the stuff from a large database. In my case the overview-page loads in about 5s and some of the more heavy pages like /devices/ takes about 7s to load. Well after upgrading to PHP7 my page loadtimes are now down to <1.5s for almost any page and atleast <2s for the heavy ones, I got a 2-3x performance boost! If you want to try it out I made a quick guide on how to run Observium on PHP7 here: http://blog.best-practice.se/2015/12/vastly-improve-observium-performance.h… Note that I don't know if everything in Observium is fully compatible with PHP7, I tried as many features as I could think of with no problems, however I have not tried the billing-module. Even if most of you don't have need for a speedup in the web UI, its great to see PHP improve performance like this. This means Observium will be able to scale even further in the future :) /Markus

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grid not centre aligned
by Simon Smith 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi All, another bug again, the screen is not centre aligned? its happening in chrome and firefox? also the new layout and style in my view is horrible, I preferred the old version! why u have to update :( regards Simon

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Cisco 887VA - No OSPF Graphs
by Federico Olivieri 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi all, I have just enabled OSPF between a Cisco 887VA running c880data-universalk9-mz.154-3.M4 and a Cisco 3750 c3750-ipservicesk9-mz.122-55.SE9. I can see the OSPF process on Observium for Cisco 3750 but nothing for Cisco 887 I tried to get some debug on router and that what I got (not sure if can be useful or not) Dec 16 11:15:09.002: SNMP: Response, reqid 1755104544, errstat 0, erridx 0 ospfGeneralGroup.1.0 = 192.168.0.1 ospfGeneralGroup.2.0 = 1 ospfGeneralGroup.3.0 = 2 ospfGeneralGroup.4.0 = 2 ospfGeneralGroup.5.0 = 1 ospfGeneralGroup.6.0 = 1 ospfGeneralGroup.7.0 = 9505 ospfGeneralGroup.8.0 = 2 ospfGeneralGroup.9.0 = 4 ospfGeneralGroup.10.0 = 3 Dec 16 11:15:09.042: SNMP: Packet sent via UDP to 192.168.0.3 process_mgmt_req_int: UDP packet being de-queued Anyone has experienced something similar? Any suggestion? Thank you Regards, Federico

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Duplicate entry in applications table
by Simon Smith 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi All, not sure if ive found a bug or something is wrong on my server that is being monitored in my db.log I’m getting [2015/12/17 17:05:10 +0000] poller.php(6976): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-apache-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','apache','') [2015/12/17 17:05:10 +0000] poller.php(6976): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-freeradius-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','freeradius','') [2015/12/17 17:05:10 +0000] poller.php(6976): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-mysql-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','mysql','') [2015/12/17 17:09:23 +0000] poller.php(12106): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-apache-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','apache','') [2015/12/17 17:09:23 +0000] poller.php(12106): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-freeradius-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','freeradius','') [2015/12/17 17:09:24 +0000] poller.php(12106): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-mysql-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','mysql','') [2015/12/17 17:15:15 +0000] poller.php(17083): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-apache-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','apache','') [2015/12/17 17:15:15 +0000] poller.php(17083): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-freeradius-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','freeradius','') [2015/12/17 17:15:15 +0000] poller.php(17083): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '64-mysql-' for key 'dev_type_inst'), Query: INSERT INTO `applications` (`device_id`,`app_type`,`app_instance`) VALUES ('64','mysql','') currently the machine runs apache, freeradius, mysql, openvpn I’m using the unix agents ? and they are installed correctly in /usr/lib/observium_agent/local i can even execute them correctly and get data out from out observium server whats also weird is I’m getting data for openvpn, just not the other? i have deleted the table entrys, but they just re-appear, and then the logs appear again is the a bug possible? regards Simon

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