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Getting all current alerts
by Meir Akrish 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

Hi I would like to integrate Observium with my Zabbix Is there is a way, via MySQL or via API or similar to get all current open alerts in Observium ? BR Meir -- *Meir Akrish* NOC Manager // *Kenshoo* *Office* +972 3 7466500 *478 // *Mobile* +972 50 6688399 [image: Kenshoo logo] <http://kenshoo.com/> *Infinite Optimization(tm)* powered by Infinite *Innovation* -- This e-mail, as well as any attached document, may contain material which is confidential and privileged and may include trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights that are proprietary to Kenshoo Ltd, its subsidiaries or affiliates ("Kenshoo"). This e-mail and its attachments may be read, copied and used only by the addressee for the purpose(s) for which it was disclosed herein. If you have received it in error, please destroy the message and any attachment, and contact us immediately. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, reliance, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message without Kenshoo's express permission is strictly prohibited.

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Cisco temperature sensors threshold
by Meir Akrish 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

since there is no way that I know of creating alert checkers on temperature sensors can it be adjusted system wide ? or the only way is per device ? BR Meir -- This e-mail, as well as any attached document, may contain material which is confidential and privileged and may include trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights that are proprietary to Kenshoo Ltd, its subsidiaries or affiliates ("Kenshoo"). This e-mail and its attachments may be read, copied and used only by the addressee for the purpose(s) for which it was disclosed herein. If you have received it in error, please destroy the message and any attachment, and contact us immediately. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, reliance, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message without Kenshoo's express permission is strictly prohibited.

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Alerts Reccomendation
by Josh Hopper 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

Please consider adding a feature that lets you disable alerts by location. That way when I want to disable 50 devices for down time I can in one motion rather than 50 or more. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CF50CC.7166D9B0] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Observium integration with Nagios XI
by Burgess, Andrew 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Good morning I would like to have some information on integrating the Observium system with our existing Nagios XI 2012R2.9 monitoring tool. I have seen that these two products work together but would like some further information on how to configure this. Thanks Kind Regards Andrew Burgess Junior Infrastructure Engineer | Bourne Leisure IT | One Park Lane | Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4YL Phone: 01442 286286| Email: Andrew.Burgess(a)Bourne-Leisure.co.uk<mailto:Andrew.Burgess@Bourne-Leisure.co.uk> [cid:image001.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] [cid:image002.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] [cid:image003.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] [cid:image004.png@01CF4FFB.585B0760] Something nice to say about us?: IT-Teamstar(a)bourne-leisure.co.uk<mailto:IT-Teamstar@bourne-leisure.co.uk> This email is strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). It may contain personal and confidential information and as such may be protected by the Data Protection Act 1998. If this email has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error. Any views or opinions expressed within this email are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of Bourne Leisure Limited. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computer practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. BOURNE LEISURE LTD - REGISTERED IN ENGLAND NO. 4011660. REGISTERED OFFICE: 1 PARK LANE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HERTFORDSHIRE HP2 4YL This email message has been scanned and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.co.uk

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Re: [Observium] Search Bug
by Andrej Kurlovic 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Thank you Mike. It is working now. Regards, Andrej Kurlovic _____________________________________________________________________ The opinions either expressed or implied in this message are those of the sender and not necessarily those of Frontline Consultancy and Business Services Ltd. This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp

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Search Bug
by Andrej Kurlovic 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Good Day Observium, I noticed one bug with Observium. Let's say I have a switch with user ports. Users are come and go, so I would like to disable alerts on them for Port Down State on the main page (see screenshot) [cid:image001.png@01CF4FDE.15C3A0F0] To do that I will go to device setting page->Ports https://observium.frontline/device/device=34/tab=edit/section=ports/ and Toggle alerts to No (see screenshot) [cid:image003.png@01CF4FDE.34DDF850] As soon as I save this, port is no longer appear in the main page as intended, but what is does as well - I can't search for the port in the search bar anymore (see screenshot examples below) Before toggle alerts off (Alerts=Yes): [cid:image002.png@01CF4FDF.27FC9640] After I toggle alerts off (Alerts=No) [cid:image004.png@01CF4FDF.27FC9640] This happens instantaneously as soon as I toggle alerts to No, and when I toggle back to Yes I can search port again. Can you please advise if this is expected behaviour? Because what I want is to disable alerts for user ports, to ensure that on the main page only alerts for important ports appear, however I still want to be able to search ports (with Alerts set to NO) using search box. Thank you in advance, Regards, Andrej Kurlovic Network and Security Manager Frontline Consultancy _____________________________________________________________________ The opinions either expressed or implied in this message are those of the sender and not necessarily those of Frontline Consultancy and Business Services Ltd. This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp

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Feature Request: filter by snmp system contact
by Martin Smith 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hello developers, I would like to request the ability to filter by the SysContact field. Devices and ports already have the ability to be filtered by states, speeds, media, port types and locations; I think it would be beneficial to add snmp contact as well. Mostly, I'd like to see it added to the filter header on both the devices and ports pages. [cid:image002.jpg@01CF4F2A.DE764F70] For companies who use the same system contact on all their devices this may have limited value. However, hosting providers could use the feature to filter by device ownership or local network engineer. As we often manage/monitor many devices owned by other companies. Thanks for your consideration of this request, Martin Smith | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320-257-6607 | 877.797.4700 x170

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Re: [Observium] Discovery crashing UPS management card
by Steve Kersley 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

> > > > For the record, Eaton have confirmed that they have reproduced the fault > on the 9xx range of UPSes including on the latest revision of management > card so it is being raised as a bug and is not just an issue with my particular > hardware. > That's good, I guess (hope) they'll release a fixed version... > > We can't really get around the table reading. What you could do in the > meanwhile is add UPS-MIB to the $config['os']['powerware']['mibs'] > array, and remove XUPS-MIB from there. Note that it'll affect all your > powerware UPSes... but I guess that should stop it from crashing. > Barring any bugs in their UPS-MIB table walk code *G*. > > Ideal situation would be to not crash on a simple table walk of course ;-) > > Tom Just upgraded to this week's latest community release, and it is presumably now not walking the tree, as it is no longer triggering this crash, and is now picking up the other voltages correctly. Great job on fixing a bug that wasn't yours to fix before I'd even told you about it :-) Hopefully Eaton will be equally efficient! Am very impressed with what I've seen so far in Observium in a week's dabbling. Am certainly contemplating taking out a subscription to stay current once I've done some more testing and added the rest of our equipment in, and ideally found some way to make it talk to the equipment that doesn't do SNMP... Steve.

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strange discovery behaviour
by Bastiaan Topper 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hi, We have a few Cisco routers monitored by Observium which lose their attributes over time. When I do a manual discovery the memory/processor/ip address and BGP peers are correctly added. But over time (between minutes and hours, as you can see below) the information is removed. [cid:image001.png@01CF4D9A.03605160] Then information about BGP or processor/memory disappear. After a manual discovery of the device they are added back, but again after a while they disappear. [cid:image005.png@01CF4D9A.566ADCE0] Is this some kind of bug? Do you need any debug information from me, please let me know!? Thanks. Met vriendelijke groet, Bastiaan Topper

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Re: [Observium] Discovery crashing UPS management card
by Steve Kersley 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

> It's not a separate module, we don't have toggles for MIBs at this point. We > could add this of course. > > I don't think powerware has UPS-MIB in its mibs list right now, do they > (also) support it? > Enabling both will give you duplicate readings, I have uncommitted > unfinished code to do away with the dupes. > This particular UPS certainly responds to requests on the upsMIB OIDs (my old homebrew monitoring reads voltages from those). For the record, Eaton have confirmed that they have reproduced the fault on the 9xx range of UPSes including on the latest revision of management card so it is being raised as a bug and is not just an issue with my particular hardware. Steve.

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Device page not building correct
by A. Lantink 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hi all, Since a couple of builds i have a problem with the device page. I didn't mention it yet, since I couldn't exactly reproduce since which update the error occurred, and hoped it would go away after some other updates. But it's still here. The page is somehow not completely generated. See below the example of device=1, but all devices have the same problem. The HTML source can be viewed here: http://www.colocenter.nl/observium_device_source.txt It just stops. Running the latest SVN version(5176). The main page, and for example the ports page work fine. It's just the device page. http://www.colostats.nl/devices/ works fine, but http://www.colostats.nl/device/device=ID/ wont. Any idea's what his might be causing? Kind regards, Alexander

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API calls return blank page
by Spencer Gaw 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hey guys, After upgrading my test Observium server to revision 5188, all API calls return a blank page. Going through the Apache error logs, I found: /[Tue Apr 01 16:37:13 2014] [error] [client //REDACTED//] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_vars() in /opt/observium/html/api.php on line 26/ Comparing this section of api.php to my production Observium server running revision 5167, there are some differences: *r5188 api.php* /$vars = get_vars('GET');// //$vars['module'] = (!empty($vars['module']) ? $vars['module'] : "demo"); /*r5167 api.php */foreach ($_GET as $key=>$get_var) {// // if (!empty($get_var)) {// // $vars[$key] = filter_var($get_var, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);// // }// //}/* *Any ideas where to start on this one? Admittedly, PHP is Greek to me but hopefully this means something to you folks over in Dev Land. If there's any additional info you'd like, please feel free to ask. Regards, SG

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imbedded alert graphs missing in alert emails using outlook / gmail
by Martin Smith 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hello, I'm aware that the imbedded image problem has been discussed on here previously. I believe the final answer was "outlook sucks". Both outlook and Gmail web are unable to display the images, but my android email application works. I asked one of our support guys to take a peak and help shed some light on the matter. According to him, it might boil down to using a cid tag instead of a data tag to imbed the image. I have no idea what that means, but hopefully it will help an intelligent developer. Thanks for any and all help into this matter. I'd love to see graphs in my alerts! I've included his email below for additional details: ------ The specific image in question that is not loading is embedded as a base64 encoded image, with a data tag instead of cid tag for the source URL in the message source. Outlook uses Word for composing and displaying emails, and apparently Word does not support the method by which the png file was embedded, as it does not use a cid tag. The PNG format itself is not the issue, because I was able to acquire the original image, paste it into a new email in Outlook, and send it to myself, and it shows up just fine. Looking at the source in that scenario, the PNG source is using a cid tag. I'm uncertain how the message in question is being generated, and whether the method by which it's embedding the image can be altered, but ultimately it seems like the current method is unsupported by Outlook/Word, and I have not yet found any good fixes or workarounds, other than to change the embedding method, or to run a command in Outlook that will open the email in a web browser, which will then display the image in question. Supporting evidence: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/be82ffd0-66ec-4f9f-847… http://forums.textcontrol.com/showthread.php?325334-Image-SaveAsData-when-s… http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16349655/outlook-does-not-display-valid-… ------ Regards, Martin Smith | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320-257-6607 | 877.797.4700 x170

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Help with a simple email setting
by Jake Hansen 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Sorry if this has been posted before but I have been trying to find it for a few hours now. I'm trying to find where the system sets the emailto field when hosts go down. Right now, when a host goes down, somehow its still emailing the old email address sometimes. I have grep -R the entire /opt/observium folder but nothing comes up. I have also tried to set the following setting to no avail $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "netops(a)blah.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Default Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "netops(a)blah.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; But sometimes some of the emails(not all) will still go out to our old email address help(a)blah.com I cant for the life of me figure out how to fix it and have been scouring the observium docs to no avail. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks! -- Jake Hansen Sr. Network Administrator ZTelco / Zray Technologies, Inc. 858-431-4411 Direct 858-565-2155 Office

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Re: [Observium] CEF thingey
by Damien Burke 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

No it isn't. It's a gif. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 6:31 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Device page not building correct That is an accurate, real-time representation of the CEF table on your router. On 2014-03-31 15:50, Damien Burke wrote: > Uh, > > From [ Routing > All BGP Sessions > CEF ] the following is seen: > http://i.imgur.com/1xzcEeV.png [1] > > What is this? > > DAMIEN BURKE > SupremeBytes, LLC > P.O. Box 13746 | Columbus, Ohio 43213 > Office (614) 636-4923 | Phone (614) 636-4875 | Fax (614) 636-4877 > http://www.supremebytes.com [2] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://i.imgur.com/1xzcEeV.png > [2] http://www.supremebytes.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Services
by Sebring, Jeremy A. 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

??Hello all, We are fairly new to observium and are having problems with getting server services to be happy. All of our servers are showing as all of their services are down and have been down for 44+ years. All of the services are up and running. We are at a loss on how to fix this. Thanks for your help! -Jeremy

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Memory Graph Error Device HP
by Michel Braga Guimaraes 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hi. I'd like to know why the memory graph is getting error when it is going to build the graph. I'll attach here the discovery and pooler debug here. Please could some one help me? [image: Inline image 1] -- *Michel Braga Guimarães* ITIL v3 Foundation Certified Professional Cisco Certified Network Associate - CSCO12533973 (62) 8217-9857 // (62) 3954-2544 email: michelbragaguimaraes(a)gmail.com skype: michelbragaguimaraes ___________________________________

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TrippLite ATS
by Johnathon Voegeli 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Our TrippLite gear have been having issues staying online so we updated the firmware at the request of the TrippLite support or lack there of... haha and observium seems to think the new firmware does not have any sensors.... See below: any ideas? New fw version is 12.06.0062 DEBUG! Observium v0.14.3.5175 Discovery SQL[SELECT version FROM `dbSchema` ORDER BY version DESC LIMIT 1] SQL[SELECT revision FROM `dbSchema`] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE status = 1 AND disabled = 0 AND `device_id` = '38' ORDER BY device_id DESC] SQL[SELECT * FROM devices_attribs WHERE `device_id` = '38'] Rackats****net 38 poweralert Ports : DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '******' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'rackats-****.net':'161' ifDescr ifDescr.1 = eth0 ifDescr.2 = LOOPBACK DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '*****' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'rackats-****.net':'161' ifAlias ifAlias = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '****' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'rackats-****.net':'161' ifName ifName = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c '*****' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '****' -OQUs -m IF-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'rackats-****.net':'161' ifType ifType.1 = softwareLoopback ifType.2 = ethernetCsmacd SQL[SELECT * FROM `ports` WHERE `device_id` = '38'] .. SQL[UPDATE `devices` set `last_discovered` =NOW(),`type` ='power',`last_discovered_timetaken` ='1.614' WHERE `device_id` = '38'] SQL[INSERT INTO `devices_perftimes` (`device_id`,`operation`,`start`,`duration`) VALUES ('38','discover','1396316780.5065','1.6142420768738')] Discovered in 1.614 seconds <h5>Checkers matching this device</h5> <span class="label label-info">sensor test</span> SQL[SELECT * FROM `sensors` WHERE device_id = '38' AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature'] <span class="label label-info">Spink Temperature Alarm</span> SQL[SELECT * FROM `sensors` WHERE device_id = '38' AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature'] <h5>Matching entities</h5> Checking for stale entries: SQL[INSERT INTO `perf_times` (`type`,`doing`,`start`,`duration`,`devices`) VALUES ('discover','38','1396316780.4995','1.635','1')] ./discovery.php 38 March 31, 2014, 21:46 - 1 devices discovered in 1.635 secs SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM ports] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM devices] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `sensors`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `services`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `applications`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `bgpPeers`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `ospf_ports`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `eigrp_ports`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `ipsec_tunnels`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `munin_plugins`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `pseudowires`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `vrfs`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `vminfo`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `users`] SQL[SELECT count(*) FROM `bills`] SQL[SELECT SUM(`last_polled_timetaken`) FROM devices] SQL[SELECT sysObjectID, COUNT( * ) as count FROM `devices` WHERE `os` = 'generic' GROUP BY `sysObjectID`] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) AS count,os from devices group by `os`] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count`, `type` FROM `devices` GROUP BY `type`] SQL[SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count`, `app_type` FROM `applications` GROUP BY `app_type`] Current Revision : 5175 MySQL: Cell[2/0s] Row[21/0.01s] Rows[4/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[1/0s] Insert[2/0s] Delete[0/0s] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, and any documents, files, or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain information that is confidential, proprietary, and/or legally privileged. If the reader of this e-mail message is neither the intended recipient nor an employee or an agent responsible for delivering this e-mail message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, reproduction, distribution or the taking of action in reliance on the contents of the information of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by replying to the e-mail message and delete it from your computer, without reading it or saving it in any manner.

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CSF thingey
by Damien Burke 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Forgot to change the subject. I hit reply to all to populate the TO field. Damien Burke Chief Executive Officer SupremeBytes, LLC P.O. Box 13746 | Columbus, Ohio 43213 Office (614) 636-4923 | Phone (614) 636-4875 | Fax (614) 636-4877 http://www.supremebytes.com<http://www.supremebytes.com/> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 6:46 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Device page not building correct On 31/03/2014 23:50, Damien Burke wrote: Uh, >From [ Routing > All BGP Sessions > CEF ] the following is seen: http://i.imgur.com/1xzcEeV.png What is this? Cisco Express Flashing. Also, how is this related to the device page problems? Tom

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Monitoring Keepalived
by David Peall 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi I wanted to ask, has anyone done any monitoring of keepalived? We use it for linux based load balancers. Regards — David Peall

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Dealing with "slow" hosts
by Remco Bressers 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Dear list, A few of our routers in the network are terribly slow in handling the complete ifEntry from IF-MIB to Observium. This results in gaps in graphs and there’s no way to speed things up because of relatively broken/slow implementations in (in this case) Brocade XMR hardware. In the past we monitored ifInOctets/ifOutOctets and a few OID’s more. The full ifEntry is too heavy. Is there a way to deal with this, like a possibility to prevent polling the whole thing and skip certain unneeded OID’s. Are there any plans to enhance the poller for this possibility of is there any (filthy) hack known to do this? Any ideas on this would be great. We would definitely want to throw Cacti to /dev/null but due to this problem it’s not yet possible. Not necessary to say this again but we are very, very happy with Observium. Thanks Adam, Mike, Tom and others.. Regards, Remco Bressers Signet BV

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Re: [Observium] delete ports?
by John Poznicek 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

Ok not sure what I am doing wrong here - there has to be a way to remove these unwanted nics. So you can see info here http://imgur.com/a/XNhO4 I have this in my config.php // bad interfaces $config['bad_if'][] = "NC-8100w"; I have gone into the database directly and marked the interfaces deleted. But they just get readded, delete gets removed - see the event log in the above screenshots. So I have turned off discovery for the device, and gone into the database and deleted the records of the intefaces. Which works for a bit - but then they show up again. This is a brother HL-3170cdw printer.. I don't know how I would delete the interface on the device directly. How do I remove these wireless interfaces from what observium shows. This printer will never use the wireless interfaces it has. So how do I remove them from observium showing them? You would think if I disable discovery of ports, and then delete them from the database they would never get put back.. But clearly they do - is there some step I am missing? If you need any other info just please ask. TIA

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Session Expired
by Johnathon Voegeli 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

I have updated to the most recent version via SVN and it constantly logs me out of the web interface... all the graphs will die and it will say session expired after about 10 or 15 seconds of being logged in. Any ideas? ~JV CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, and any documents, files, or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain information that is confidential, proprietary, and/or legally privileged. If the reader of this e-mail message is neither the intended recipient nor an employee or an agent responsible for delivering this e-mail message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, reproduction, distribution or the taking of action in reliance on the contents of the information of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by replying to the e-mail message and delete it from your computer, without reading it or saving it in any manner.

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adding non snmp hosts?
by John Poznicek 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

So I have observium up and running, even smokeping integration which brings up my question. I have a few vpses, seedbox, webhost, etc. that I would like to add to my growing lists of devices in observium. But seems you can not add a device that doesn't have snmp? I don't want to monitor anything than the info than say my smokeping graphs in the same web interface. Be nice to show their location on the man graph as green/yellow/red etc.. My vps I might even add the unix agent grab some info from them.. But I don't really want or need snmp queries across the public net to them So how do you add these types of devices - they added smokeping integration to leverage the details it gives. So how can I just see these smokeping devices in the observium web interface without having to add the device via snmp? There doesn't seem to be a way to add a device without being able to talk to it via snmp?

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Unable to add new device
by Marco Zberg 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hi Unfortunately I am unable to add new devices on one of my Observium instances. I tried with several host and I get the same results. All hosts can be pinged and are reachable. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? BR, Marco [cid:image001.png@01CF4A69.BD1FC0B0] [root@host host]# ping arc-swi-102 PING arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=0.461 ms 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=1.89 ms 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=0.473 ms 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=4 ttl=254 time=0.470 ms ^C --- arc-swi-102 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3036ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.461/0.823/1.891/0.617 ms besuchen sie unsere neue website unter www.arcade.ch<http://www.arcade.ch> ____________________________ [cid:image004.png@01CF4A6A.40E1EA90] marco zberg teamleader whitelabel & ott marco.zberg(a)arcade.ch arcade solutions ag winkelriedstrasse 37 6003 luzern tel +41 41 417 31 73 www.arcade.ch cloud + connectivity + ict ____________________________

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DB grow to fast
by Thomas Grunert 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hi all, my database is grow very fast. Is there a cyclic clean up which deletes unnessesary entries from the db to prevent garbage? How long are entries kept in the db? Can anybody tell me the syntax to reduce the rate-time for trap and log entrys in the database? many thanks Thomas

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Re: [Observium] SVI - Vlan IF graphs
by Marco Spicuglia 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hi Adam, mmh, thanks. -------------- snmpwalk -v 2c -c COMMUNITY HOST 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.648 iso.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.648 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID -------------- where 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.648 id is suppose to poll CISCO-VIRTUAL-INTERFACE-MIB, which is included in the Observium database and supposedly supported by the Nexus 6001. Is this a Cisco bug or should I activate something somehow somewhere? Cheers, Marco Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, Marco Spicuglia Network engineer - Programmer ReasonNet B.V. Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 1042AZ Amsterdam W. www.reasonnet.com E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com T. F. ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code.________________________________________ From: Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] Sent: 26 March 2014 02:29 To: Marco Spicuglia Subject: Re: [Observium] SVI - Vlan IF graphs Are you actually snmpgetting the counters to check? I suspect, as usual, a Cisco SNMP bug. There really is no scope for us to fail to put interface data into the rrd. Adam. On 25 Mar 2014 18:57, Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: > > Hello there, > > I would like to monitor SVI bandwidth on those devices that support such counters. > I activated the etherlike mib option in the config and started polling a Nexus 6k, which supports snmp counters on vlan interfaces. > I see the snmp counters increasing on the switch, but I see only blank graphs on vlan interfaces, which are properly detected, including their status. > > The device is properly polled for anything else and it seems that all needed mibs are already included in your distribution. > I am running the latest stable release. > > Any idea? Am I missing anything? > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards, > > Marco > > Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, > > Marco Spicuglia > > Network engineer - Programmer > > ReasonNet B.V. > Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 > 1042AZ Amsterdam > W. www.reasonnet.com > E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com > T. > F. > > ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws > > ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code. > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Google Maps
by Kleber C. S. Coelho 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Prezados, boa noite! Gostaria de saber se ja é possível ativar o mapa do Google, igual ao da demostração, na página do observium, utilizando a versão comunitária. Gostaria também de deixar uma mensagem de protesto contra a política de versões comunitárias e pagas. Eu até entendo os motivos, mas não concordo de forma alguma. Se alguém puder responder minha dúvida sobre o google maps agradeço! Obrigado. Dear, good night! I wonder if you can already activate the Google map, same as the demo, in observium page, using the community version. I would also like to leave a message of protest against the policy community and paid versions. I can understand the reasons, but I do not agree at all. If anyone can answer my questions about the google maps thanks! Thank you.

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Error Global Settings Page
by Gökmen Çakmak 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hi everyone, Why is this happening? Best Regards, Gökmen

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Issues with bind graphs - Where to start looking?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

root@austx-sys-tools-01:~# uname -m i686 (hangs head in shame) Yes.. Yes I did... Well, now I know how to fix it.. =) Thanks Adam! Ricardo From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> Did you, perchance, foolishly install a 32-bit version of Ubuntu? :D root@alpha:~# php -r 'echo PHP_INT_MAX;' 9223372036854775807 adam. On 2014-03-27 14:01, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: > (just an update on my troubleshooting here) > > It looks like the version of PHP that comes installed with the version > of Ubuntu that Observium recommends is limited to 32-bit signed > integers: > > root@xxx:/opt/observium/includes/polling/applications# php -r 'echo > PHP_INT_MAX;' > 2147483647 > > That explains the issue that I have been having with bind counters > above this value being saved at a value of 2147483647.

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Issues with bind graphs - Where to start looking?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hello everyone, I've identified an issue with storing of values that are grabbed by the unix-agent. Specifically, a problem with the bind sub-agent. Apparently, when req-in,QUERY exceeds a value of 2,147,483,648, the value that actually gets stored in the app-bind-122-req-in.rrd is: # rrdtool info app-bind-122-req-in.rrd | grep query ds[query].index = 0 ds[query].type = "DERIVE" ds[query].minimal_heartbeat = 600 ds[query].min = 0.0000000000e+00 ds[query].max = 7.5000000000e+06 >> ds[query].last_ds = "2147483647" << ds[query].value = 0.0000000000e+00 ds[query].unknown_sec = 0 This is despite the current value actually being: # ./bind | grep -i req-in,Q req-in,QUERY:2368417221 I initially thought there was an issue with a 32 bit vs 64 bit counter in the RRD itself, but it looks like ds[query].max is well above a 32bit variable's max value. I am at a loss as to where the problem may be and am hoping that someone on the mailing list can point me in the right direction. I can't believe I'm the first one to run into this issue actually... Here's what happens to my graph when this issue arises: This happens to other dns graphs as well, but it happens to this one the quickest, since it hits that 'limit' faster than the other counters do. Additionally, I'm running 0.14.3.5117 if that helps. If I restart named, the graph begins graphing properly again, but I don't want to consider that a 'fix', especially since I'd be resetting all of my bind servers every week. Doable, but not ideal. Thanks for any assistance, Ricardo

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Monthly Thumbnails not Updating
by Cameron Jones 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

It appears that my monthly graph thumbnails are not updating, but when I go into view the RRD from a monthly perspective the data is there. Check out the attached screen-shots to better explain the issue. I'm currently running the non subscription version. https://www.dropbox.com/s/mifk9lm9yp40ebh/Screen%20Shot%202014-03-27%20at%2 010.22.47%20AM.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/02teszwfy8rhfml/Screen%20Shot%202014-03-27%20at%2 010.23.38%20AM.png Thanks in advance!

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CPU's on mikrotik
by David Peall 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Servers appear quite nicely with a compound graph but my Mikrotik routers have one per CPU is this just something that could be done easily? Also I think the SNMP for the CPU name is below I’ve got 2 examples: SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.47.1.1.1.1.7.65536 = STRING: “tilegx” SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.47.1.1.1.1.7.65536 = STRING: "MIPS 24Kc V7.4" vs Thanks — David Peall Domain Name Services

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Re: [Observium] Cisco Small Business series
by support nuckleo 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hi Mike, I have seen your email now, thank you for your suggestion. Good manners are always appreciated. Kind regards. F. _____________________________________________________________________ NUCKLEO Information Technology Solutions Support & Delivery Team http://www.nuckleo.com (website) Twitter:@Nuckleo _____________________________________________________________________ Di Mercoledì, 08-01-2014 alle 21:42 Mike Stupalov ha scritto: Hi, I think Francesco uses CE edition. In latest Subscription Edition support for Cisco SB already added. Upgrade your observium instance or wait next CE edition. :) [1]http://www.observium.org/wiki/Edition_Split Mike. On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Nikolay Shopik wrote: Workaround to what? Cisco SB support was added by Mike, we tested it as I was asked to add such support, no issues here. On 03.01.2014 19:51, support nuckleo wrote: > Hello everybody I would like to share a small workaround in order > to monitoring the cisco Small business series sg 200/300 in the right > way > > I have add some mibs in the /opt/observium/includes/defaults.inc.php > $config['mibs']['CISCOSB-MIB'] = > 1;$config['mibs']['CISCOSB-CPU-COUNTERS-MIB'] > = 1; > $config['mibs']['CISCOSB-JUMBOFRAMES-MIB'] > = 1; > $config['mibs']['CISCOSB-vlan-MIB'] = 1; > $config['mibs']['CISCOSB-vlanVoice-MIB'] > = 1; > $config['mibs']['CISCOSB-SMON-MIB'] = 1; > > Detect your sysdescr sysDescr in this way: > > snmpwalk -c public -v2c device sysDescr > > and after I made some changes mapping the sysDescr on the right os > so in > /opt/observium/includes/discovery/os/cisco.inc.php add > > else if (strstr($sysDescr, "50-Port Gigabit Smart Switch")) { $os = > "ciscosb"; } > else if (strstr($sysDescr, "SG200-50P 50-Port Gigabit PoE Smart > Switch")) { $os = "ciscosb"; } > > Then if you have just discoverd, delete your cisco small business > devices and rediscovery the devices again. > Thats all! > > Francesco Pansini > _____________________________________________________________________ > NUCKLEO Information Technology Solutions > Support & Delivery Team > http://www.nuckleo.com (website) > Twitter:@Nuckleo > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 [2]http://observium.org/ Links: ------ [1] goog_2143683876 [2] http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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delete ports?
by John Poznicek 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

I have looked and looked and can not find how to delete ports. There are many ports that are added when pointing to my windows machine for example, old interfaces, etc. tunnels that are not listed ipconfig /all, etc. How do you delete them? Do you have to edit the $config['bad_if'] to include the names of the interfaces you dont want? TIA

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Rancid not working
by Marc 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hi all, We have the paid version Observium v0.14.3.5133 in the free version our rancid config was working after update to the paid version we get no configs anymore. The tree of the rancid is the following /usr/local/rancid/var/AS/configs <-- for the accesswitches all cisco The config.php about rancid is the following: $config['rancid_configs']['AS'] = '/usr/local/rancid/var/AS/configs'; $config['rancid_suffix'] = 'NOT NEEDED '; // Domain suffix for non-FQDN device names $config['rancid_ignorecomments'] = 0; // Ignore lines starting with # We don't get any config in observium to view did we something wrong ? -- *Met vriendelijke groet,* Marc de Rooy Technische medewerker Datacenter Engineer Flexwebhosting/FXW DISCLAIMER De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, vragen wij u het volgende: gebruik de inhoud niet; informeer de afzender door het bericht te retourneren; en vernietig de inhoud. The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please do not use the contents, inform us immediately and delete its content.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 44, Issue 99
by Josh Reynolds 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Many MikroTiks have dual core CPUs, but some of the Cloud Core Routers have 24, 32, and 72 Tilera Cores at around 1.2GHz. -- Josh Reynolds : Chief Information Officer : SPITwSPOTS : josh(a)spitwspots.com On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 07:04 +0000, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > 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: CPU's on mikrotik (David Peall) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:07:32 +0200 > From: David Peall <david(a)dnservices.co.za> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] CPU's on mikrotik > Message-ID: <36889D72-0373-427A-9EE0-631EE7908593(a)dnservices.co.za> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Yes It has 36 CPU?s we have a number of these CCR1036?s > http://routerboard.com/CCR1036-12G-4S > > The CPU?s are graphed and the inventory is below: > > > > > > > > On 27 Mar 2014, at 2:43 AM, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > > We have some toggle in one of the source files that decides whether it should do the condensed display or the per-cpu. I think it's only condensed for "servers" (ie unix & windows OS group) and separate for the rest. > > Does your mikrotik really have that many CPUs? > > > > The OIDs you are quoting are from ENTITY-MIB, do you have an inventory tab on this device? Does it show the CPUs? Can Observium successfully link those CPUs to graphs of a processor? > > > > Tom > > > > On 25/03/2014 19:54, David Peall wrote: > >> Servers appear quite nicely with a compound graph but my Mikrotik routers have one per CPU is this just something that could be done easily? > >> > >> Also I think the SNMP for the CPU name is below I?ve got 2 examples: > >> SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.47.1.1.1.1.7.65536 = STRING: ?tilegx? > >> SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.47.1.1.1.1.7.65536 = STRING: "MIPS 24Kc V7.4" > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> <Mail Attachment.png> > >> > >> vs > >> > >> <Mail Attachment.png> > >> > >> Thanks > >> ? > >> David Peall > >> Domain Name Services > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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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port_descr fields
by Martin Smith 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

All, Hopefully a quick question about port descriptions. It seems that pot_descr_type and port_descr_descr are gathered from the port description separated by a ":" colon. How are the other fields (port_descr_circuit, port_descr_speed and port_descr_notes) populated? [cid:image002.png@01CF4850.C237BCD0] Thanks! Martin Smith | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320-257-6607 | 877.797.4700 x170

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Re: [Observium] Difference between discovery and discovery with debug [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED
by Adam Armstrong 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Nope. -d just sets $debug so that things output optional stuff. Very odd indeed. Peter.Hine(a)familycourt.gov.au wrote: Just to advice i am seeing a difference between "./discovery.php -h xxxx" and "./discovery.php -h xxxx -d". I had a PDU which was a bit broken. It's other three PDU mates were corrrectly discovered as apc. The broken one came back as "generic". after restarting the management interface (on PDU), i ran discovery manually (i didn't want to wait 5 hours for the next scheduled discovery). This didn't change the device. In looking to see if there was a "force" option, i found the debug option instead. When i ran the discovery with debug, the device changed from generic to apc and it discovered all the other bits to do with a PDU. NOTE !!!!!!!!! - this IS on ubuntu 13.04 So for stamps, i did the same on the openSUSE machine i reported earlier with missing temperature graphs, and sure enough - the temperature sensors were found and added. So is "debug" an alias for "force" or there something else going on ? Anyway. Not looking for a fix, just an info about this behaviour. thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) FCoA ITS peter.hine(a)familycourt.gov.au PH : +61 2 6243 8668 FAX : +61 2 6243 5611 ********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail (including any attachments) is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. It is noted that legal privilege is not waived because you have read this e-mail. ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Difference between discovery and discovery with debug [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Just to advice i am seeing a difference between "./discovery.php -h xxxx" and "./discovery.php -h xxxx -d". I had a PDU which was a bit broken. It's other three PDU mates were corrrectly discovered as apc. The broken one came back as "generic". after restarting the management interface (on PDU), i ran discovery manually (i didn't want to wait 5 hours for the next scheduled discovery). This didn't change the device. In looking to see if there was a "force" option, i found the debug option instead. When i ran the discovery with debug, the device changed from generic to apc and it discovered all the other bits to do with a PDU. NOTE !!!!!!!!! - this IS on ubuntu 13.04 So for stamps, i did the same on the openSUSE machine i reported earlier with missing temperature graphs, and sure enough - the temperature sensors were found and added. So is "debug" an alias for "force" or there something else going on ? Anyway. Not looking for a fix, just an info about this behaviour. thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) FCoA ITS peter.hine(a)familycourt.gov.au PH : +61 2 6243 8668 FAX : +61 2 6243 5611 ********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail (including any attachments) is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. It is noted that legal privilege is not waived because you have read this e-mail. **********************************************************************

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SVI - Vlan IF graphs
by Marco Spicuglia 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hello there, I would like to monitor SVI bandwidth on those devices that support such counters. I activated the etherlike mib option in the config and started polling a Nexus 6k, which supports snmp counters on vlan interfaces. I see the snmp counters increasing on the switch, but I see only blank graphs on vlan interfaces, which are properly detected, including their status. The device is properly polled for anything else and it seems that all needed mibs are already included in your distribution. I am running the latest stable release. Any idea? Am I missing anything? Thanks for your help. Regards, Marco Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, Marco Spicuglia Network engineer - Programmer ReasonNet B.V. Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 1042AZ Amsterdam W. www.reasonnet.com E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com T. F. ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code.

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Cisco ASA Reporting -nan on interface graphs.
by Steve Nelson 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi I have a Cisco 5525-X being polled from Observium, everything is fine except all the traffic graphs for the interfaces are reporting -nan as a value and showing no data. The environmental graphs such as temp, CPU etc are all OK. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Steve Steve Nelson 10Yr CCIE#10055, OSCP#3725 Senior Network Engineer steve.nelson(a)calibre-secured.net Telephone : 0845 5576355 Direct Line : 0191 6542060 Mobile : 07702247286

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Wrong ports counter / reset counter
by Onno van der Leun 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, I've some weird behaviour with observium. Since some time the ports counter on the frontpage is displaying wrong values. Eg. It's showing that there are 264 ports down, but when I click the link, there are only 23 ports down. Also when I add up the up, down, ignored and disabled ports, the total number (13326) is less than the number observium shows under 'total' (14991) Does anyone have an idea where to look? Or is there a way to reset the counters? Thanks! Onno.

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Ubuntu 13.10 and Apache 2.4 virtualhost permission fix
by Pirmin Sidler - Computerline 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, Maybe you want to include, in the installation tutorial, the solution tot he virtualhost permission problem under Ubuntu 13.10 : Solution ist to have a virtualhost like this ( "Require all granted" is the key option) : VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/ ServerName test.domain.tld CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /opt/observium/html/> Require all granted Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> I think it will be help a lot of users as this is the only issue I met with the Ubuntu 13.10 distro. Best regards! Freundliche Grüsse, Pirmin Sidler System & Netzwerk Ingenieur [cid:image001.jpg@01CF4821.C97F2F70] Computerline GmbH Schellenrain 5 CH-6210 Sursee Tel. +41 41 525 20 70 Niederlassungen Gibelstrasse 3, CH-6231 Schlierbach Badenerstrasse 808, CH-8048 Zürich Tel. +41 44 500 50 20 www.computerline.com<http://www.computerline.com/>

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asynchronous interface alerting
by Bastiaan Topper 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi all, Is there any way of alerting on TX/RX load of an interface (ATM and other xDSL interfaces)? We use mostly Cisco and so we can configure bandwidth and bandwidth receive, so we could define the asynchronous bandwidths. Observium gets the ifSpeed from the bandwidth value, so if we define an alert for TX/RX load, it will almost always report on wrong loads. Interface bandwidth is adopted from the ATM sync speeds, but this is the TX load, the RX load isn't reported on the interface normally. We could define this manually or Observium could maybe get this from the DSL statistics. [cid:image001.png@01CF473C.15E85030] [cid:image002.png@01CF473C.15E85030] So use the TX and RX values from the DSL statistics: [cid:image003.png@01CF473C.80BD6760] Is this already possible or could this otherwise be built? Met vriendelijke groet, Bastiaan Topper

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 44, Issue 76
by Sud, Raman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi Tom, Thank you for the response I actually did the following command and it still wont work. Is 'observium db password' the root password for mysql ? Do I need to create a user called observium on mysql? >mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost' >IDENTIFIED BY '<observium db password>'; Thanks again Raman -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:26 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 44, Issue 76 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. permissions issue (Sud, Raman) 2. Re: unix agent bind (Erik Klaassen) 3. Re: permissions issue (Tom Henderson) 4. "Overall Peering Traffic" graph broken (Shane O'Brien) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:07:29 +0000 From: "Sud, Raman" <Raman.Sud(a)ironmountain.com> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] permissions issue Message-ID: <53AC088EA7E63C49B9B4A1D87C0E2B4001A920(a)NUMEXMBP05.na.imtn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Folks, I am new to observium and I did the install as per the website. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Debian_Ubuntu_Installation when I put observium username in the config.php file and the corresponding password $config['db_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['db_user'] = 'observium'; $config['db_pass'] = 'password11'; $config['db_name'] = 'observium'; and run php includes/update/update.php command.. it fails with the following message root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php MySQL Error: Access denied for user 'observium'@'localhost' (using password: YES) root@Status:/opt/observium# if I change it to root, it works root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php root@Status:/opt/observium# root@Status:/opt/observium# I can do discovery and polling via the cli though but I see nothing on the web portal However, when I log into the web portal, and try to add a device it tells me Permission error You have insufficient permissions to view this page. When I go to my settings: it tells me Device permission level no access! What am I missing here :) Any guidance would be greatly appreciated The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email, you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse or copying or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message.

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Best managed PDU for *NIX style systems for snmp support?
by Kaya Saman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, I've been using Observium for a few months now and really enjoy it! I currently have a fully managed/switched PDU which has been under RMA for what feels like forever and the best advice the manufacturer could give me was to return the unit back to my reseller?? I'm not quite sure what's going to happen with it yet so I just wanted to know what the best or most compatible PDU is for *NIX systems?? I'm running Observium on FreeBSD 10 64bit. Basically the current PDU I have keeps bombing out under SNMP queries as snmpwalking the device either comes up with "snmp timed out" or totally the wrong protocol?? It's supposed to support v1 and v3 but the MIB response I get is for v2c? I know that Observium supports APC and two others as per listed on the Support page on the site. Which one is the most NIX friendly? Having read the documentation for the APC models, they can be updated over FTP or SCP which is perfect unlike my current model which needs an M$ exe program and since my network is OpenSource only OS wise it's basically an issue..... It seems to be a bad SNMP stack in my opinion as I've never had any issues using SNMP previously with many different vendors for network and peripheral devices. Observium even goes as far as graphing my HP print servers Toner values which is soo cool :-) Can anyone give me any advice? -- I was actually looking at this model: http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP… as a replacement. Many thanks. Kaya

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unix agent bind
by Erik Klaassen 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

i just added a bind machine successful to observium. Most of the stats and rrd's are working except for the resolving tab ( and cache content and outgoing queries). Is this because of the lack of stats from my bind? How to investigate this? the bind machine is just preforming recursion no authoritative zones. Thanks, Erik

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permissions issue
by Sud, Raman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi Folks, I am new to observium and I did the install as per the website. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Debian_Ubuntu_Installation when I put observium username in the config.php file and the corresponding password $config['db_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['db_user'] = 'observium'; $config['db_pass'] = 'password11'; $config['db_name'] = 'observium'; and run php includes/update/update.php command.. it fails with the following message root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php MySQL Error: Access denied for user 'observium'@'localhost' (using password: YES) root@Status:/opt/observium# if I change it to root, it works root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php root@Status:/opt/observium# root@Status:/opt/observium# I can do discovery and polling via the cli though but I see nothing on the web portal However, when I log into the web portal, and try to add a device it tells me Permission error You have insufficient permissions to view this page. When I go to my settings: it tells me Device permission level no access! What am I missing here :) Any guidance would be greatly appreciated The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email, you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse or copying or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message.

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"Overall Peering Traffic" graph broken
by Shane O'Brien 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

We are having an issue where the "Overall Peering Traffic Today" Graph on our front page is broken. When we try and use the option to "Disable broken graphs" it removes all the graphs from our front page. Is there any way to remove the "Overall Peering Traffic Today" graph without effecting the others? Thank you in advance for your assistance! -Shane

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