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Enhancement Request: Latest Reported Operating System
by techuser6＠gmail.com 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

It would be nice if there was another column next to "Operating System" for Network devices that had the latest reported IOS from Cisco/Dell. That way one could easily see which devices need to be upgraded to the latest IOS to ensure that security and bug fixes are addressed.

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Device Ignore
by Marco Spicuglia 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi there, running last stable version. If I disable/ignore a decommissioned device, then it still shows up as "down" in the frontpage device alerts module, while the alarm should disappear instead. Kind 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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Upgrades blow up my frontpage graphs
by Scott Brawner 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

It seems like every time there's a major upgrade with a sql script, my front page graphs go completely apeshit. Should look like this (in the first case) Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. o. 843-308-2364 m. 843-814-3912 Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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Trapeze/Juniper wireless controller
by Adam Armstrong 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi All, Does anyone have a Trapeze/Juniper wireless controller they'd be willing to give us SNMP read access to so we can add support for it? (similarly for other wireless controllers, but initially we're looking for Trapeze/Juniper :) Thanks, adam.

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Turning off some alerts
by Luca Salvatore 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi Been running observium for a while but with alerting turned off. I turned it on recently and got spammed with so many alerts I had to turn it off again. I can't really find how I can tune the alert setting anywhere. Can this be done via the web or do I need to go to the config files? I'm on version 0.13.9.4493, basically i only want alerts for specific things, not every single event. If i go to the alerts section there is no option to configure any thing, there is no 'add alert' button as described in this link http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker Is the alerting functions only available in the current version? thanks

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Deleted status
by Teixeira, Mike 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hello, When we have ports in deleted status, is there an automagic process to purge those ports? Thanks, Mike

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ifInOctets_perc / ifOutOctets_perc
by Ryan, Spencer J. 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi All, Anyone know if these percentages are based on physical speed of the port or of they use the speed set via the "bandwidth" statement? ________________________________ Spencer Ryan | Systems Engineer Miller Canfield<http://www.millercanfield.com> 150 West Jefferson, Suite 2500 Detroit, Michigan 48226 (USA) T +1.313.496.7547 | F +1.313.496.7699 | Mobile +1.734.846.2053 ryan(a)millercanfield.com<mailto:ryan@millercanfield.com> ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ NOTICE TO PERSONS SUBJECT TO UNITED STATES TAXATION (MCPS) DISCLOSURE UNDER TREASURY CIRCULAR 230: The United States Federal tax advice, if any, contained in this document and its attachments may not be used or referred to in the promoting, marketing or recommending of any entity, investment plan or arrangement, nor is such advice intended or written to be used, and may not be used, by a taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding Federal tax penalties. _______________________________________________________________

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LDAPS Authentication
by Ellery Weber 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

Hey guys, I'm trying to get LDAP (through AD) authentication setup on the subscription version of Observium, and am running into some difficulties. My first question - does Observium only do a simple bind, or can it connect using SASL? We do not currently allow simple binds in our domain. Thanks for any assistance you can provide, [SELCO Community Credit Union] Ellery Weber, CCENT Network Administrator SELCO Community Credit Union Eugene - Downtown Corporate Headquarters Phone/Fax: 541-686-5349 | Cell: 541-357-9505 | eweber(a)selco.org<mailto:eweber@selco.org> selco.org<https://www.selco.org/> | facebook<http://www.facebook.com/SELCOCCU> | twitter<http://twitter.com/selcoccu> This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of a specific individual or entity or specific individuals or entities and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may constitute as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may represent a tortious interference with a confidential business relationship(s). If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and (i) permanently destroy this message if a facsimile; (ii) permanently delete this message immediately if this is an electronic communication; permanently destroy any electronic or printed copies of this electronic communication.

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rancid multiple config/diff versions within observium
by Chip Pleasants 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

I have rancid working today within Observium, although I do not see multiple version ro config/diffs of the configurations like saw some time ago. I did migrate servers therefore its possible a configuration or permissions issue on the new server. On my previous server a couple months ago I was able to look at past diffs within observium. Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks, Chip

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Enhancement Request: Export Inventory to CSV
by techuser6＠gmail.com 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

It would be really nice if there was a way to export the Inventory to a CSV. This would greatly help with renewing maintenance and SmartNet Contracts for Cisco Devices.

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Multiple Pollers Guidance
by Chip Pleasants 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

When there are multiple pollers via NFS how do they pick the devices to poll? Basically how to they not step all over each other polling the same nodes? I'm seeing snmp and ping alerts like 15 or so every hour come in that didn't come in when it was a single server solution. It does seem to be the same 20 or so devices. These particular devices do typically take around 60 sec to poll. Looking at devices that generated alerts their cpu, snmp response time, and ping time was all over the place. Meaning cpu doubled (10% to 20%), ping times went up to 200ms from 10ms, and snmp response time average when from 50ms to 556ms. I'm wondering if I was polling these devices multiple times within 5 minutes? Would this be related to NFS IO issues? I reverted back to a single solution for now. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. -Chip Config Sniplet $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['snmp']['timeout'] = 6; $config['snmp']['retries'] = 3; $config['snmp']['max-rep'] = 10; $config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping -t2000";

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Calculating availability
by Tom Henderson 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Good morning list. Does anyone know if Observium is able to show the total uptime (or downtime) between two points in time? Is this be something the billing module can handle? Cheers Tom Henderson IT Manager | Pack & Company | 027 461 4403 | 09 929 2750 | tom(a)pack.co.nz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not disclose, copy, or distribute any information contained in or attached to it, or take any action/inaction based on it. Please contact us immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and not of Pack & Company (NZ) Limited (the "Company"), however any intellectual property contained in or attached to this email is the property of the Company. Thank you.

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Ubiquiti AirOS MIB
by Robbie Wright 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

UBNT has finally released their officially supported MIB's in their most recent release. I know a few folks are lurking on this list that would love to see those MIB's officially supported and a few of us more than happy to pay for said support in Observium. Todd/Adam/Mike, an interest in taking this on as a sponsored improvement? I can send you the MIB privately if you'd like a sneak peek. Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 **For support issues, please email support(a)siuslawbroadband.com.**

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Remote SysLogging
by Marco Spicuglia 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hello there, it seems that I have some issues with remote syslogging. Some network devices work well, some others don't. The problem seems to be related to the Observium host, I think, as running syslog-ng -Fevd on my observium server, shows that log entries are coming in also from the devices that do not have any log entry in the GUI. It seems that syslog-ng gets the log entries, but they do not get properly passed to Observium, for some reason, at least for some devices. Therefore, those entries do not show up in the mysql database and thus neither in the GUI. I had this problem also on two other Observium hosts I have tried, but only since an upgrade I performed around October 2013. Before it was working fine for all those devices. Anything I can check/do for fixing this? Thanks in advance for your help. Best 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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Recalculate history usage data
by Jimmy Samuel García Hynds 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hello, >From time to time I have this huge spikes in the traffic bills that are abnormal, in those cases I just change those values to 0 in the database, I replace them in the bill_data table, and the charts return to normal, I do not mind losing 10 or 20 minutes of readings. This is my question, Is there a way to recalculate the historical data? That data is updated even if I delete the date in the bill_data table, and I do not want to screw up my installation. Best Regards. ________________________________ AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este e-mail contiene informacion que es confidencial y solo puede ser utilizada por las personas o entidades a la cuales esta dirigida. Si usted no es el destinatario autorizado, cualquier modificacion, retension, difusion o copia total o parcial esta prohibida. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.

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Re: [Observium] How do I get linux boxes to show up in the inventory?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hello Adam, Thank you for your quick response back. Which table is used to populate the inventory section of observium? I’ll poke it a bit and see what I can do with it.. Thanks again, Ricardo > Adam Armstrong Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:03:12 -0700 > > Hi, > > The inventory page is for cisco/juniper/extreme linecard and other components. It populates from a different table. > adam. > > On 2014-04-07 12:26, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: > Hello again! > > I noticed there’s an inventory option for Observium. I’m wondering > if there’s a way to get the linux boxes that are being monitored by > observium into the inventory list? it’d be a nice way to keep track > of things, even if I need to make manual modifications to the > database. I’ve already added the serial #’s for the systems, and I > was hoping that would be enough for the inventory page on observium to > populate, but it wasn’t. > > Thanks, > Ricardo > _______________________________________________ > 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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How do I get linux boxes to show up in the inventory?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hello again! I noticed there’s an inventory option for Observium. I’m wondering if there’s a way to get the linux boxes that are being monitored by observium into the inventory list? it’d be a nice way to keep track of things, even if I need to make manual modifications to the database. I’ve already added the serial #’s for the systems, and I was hoping that would be enough for the inventory page on observium to populate, but it wasn’t. Thanks, Ricardo

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Port Properties do not work
by Marco Zberg 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hi Currently I feel stuck with an quite ordinary process, disabling of polling and alerts. Normally (on another Observium instance) we deactivate all ports with ifOperStatus=down and ifAdminStatus=down via select/update statement directy in mysql. On our affected Observium instance we have plenty of ports we do not like to poll and keep them deactivated. We have Cisco Catalyst 4507 in use, which are equipped with 400 customer ports (downstream). It is unpractical to activate them all and would overload our Observium with too may SNMP requests. We manually keep the upstream ports (10G Ethernet, Port-Channel etc.) and some specific customer ports activated. When I toggle the ports manually (yes or no) or via "Toggle All" button, it says: "Device record unchanged. No update necessary". Effectively nothing has changed and the ports are still active which should be deactivated. This problem affects the "Polling" and "Alerts" function. Maybe there is a workaround possible via manual update in the mysql DB? Currently we use Rev. 5163. BR, Marco Zberg [cid:image003.png@01CF4A6C.51881570] [cid:image002.png@01CF4A6D.47CF91B0] besuchen sie unsere neue website unter www.arcade.ch<http://www.arcade.ch> ____________________________ [cid:image005.png@01CF4A70.69C95AF0] 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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March changelog and new Community Edition release
by Adam Armstrong 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hi All, The new March changelog is available at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#March_2014 Since it's been 6 months since the last release, we've released a new Community Edition .tar.gz at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Download_Community_Edition Thanks, adam.

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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 03 Apr '14

03 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 01 Apr '14

01 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 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '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 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '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 30 Mar '14

30 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 29 Mar '14

29 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 27 Mar '14

27 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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