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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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Qlogic Sanbox 5602 Support
by Christian Gerbrandt 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Hi group, I was wondering about how to add support for a Qlogic Sanbox 5602 FC switch. >From all the info I gathered so far, it is using the Fibre Alliance MIB. I already added it to our Observium instalaltion, but I'm not able to get all information via SNMP. Only LAN ports are showing up, and some general infos are missing. Has anyone maybe started working on adding this device, or can tell me how to best add it? Many thanks, Christian

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Mail Alerts
by tech8.otelafrica 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

Hi Guys Struggling to get mails to send from our server.When having a look in var/log I dont see anything attempting to send out in the logs. Under config.php I have the following configured: $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "alerts(a)otelafrica.com"; $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['email_from'] = "Observium dev <observium.otel.co.za>"; $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; I have included a snapshot as well,please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. Regards Anton

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Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface
by Marco Spicuglia 22 Mar '14

22 Mar '14

Hi Adam, I thought I had replied already, but I didn't see my message coming through, so I give it another try. I did import the devices table into the new system, run the discovery and copied the rrds. Everything worked perfectly.. However, I should have imported the ports table as well, because all ports id have changed and our integrated systems relying on those id's were in panic. We were running Debian Wheezy 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 with PHP Version 5.4.4-14+deb7u8, Apache/2.2.22 and MySql 5.5.31 Thanks a lot for your help, our monitoring system is running again :) 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: 18 March 2014 20:18 To: Marco Spicuglia Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface Make sure you run discovery to upgrade the database, as the author stuff has changed and needs the new table format. Adam. On 18 Mar 2014 09:05, Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, thanks for your response. > No filesystem is full on the whole harddrive. > > > 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: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] On Behalf Of Chris K. [kulish.com(a)gmail.com] > Sent: 18 March 2014 15:18 > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > Check if filesystem is full. > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@reasonnet.com>> wrote: > Hello there, > > I wonder if anybody can help me. > > After upgrading from community to subscription version, I was happily browsing the new features, but after some time (about half hour) all users here got logged out and nobody could login any more. > No error messages, we just get the login page again. > > My hard disk is not full. > I successfully created a new admin user but also cannot login. > I cleaned the cache, the history and the cookies of the browser. > If I check the table authlog in the database, it reports both old and new admin as regularly logged in. > > Is there anything I am missing? Any step I forgot during upgrade? Any cache/session I should clear server side? > > Your help is welcome. > > 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<http://www.reasonnet.com> > E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@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: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Luis Quintana [sla07(a)earthlink.net<mailto:sla07@earthlink.net>] > Sent: 12 February 2014 16:04 > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > I greatly appreciate the help on it too!! Thanks guys! > > On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:02 AM, "Kulish, Chris" <chris.kulish(a)pioneer.com<mailto:chris.kulish@pioneer.com>> wrote: > > > Simple is my middle name! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:27 PM > > To: Observium Network Observation System > > Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > > > > On 2014-02-11 11:50, Kulish, Chris wrote: > >> If the filesystem full? > > > > Want simple solutions, ask a simple person. > > > > adam. > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains > > information that may be Privileged, confidential or copyrighted under > > applicable law. 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GeoLocation
by Johnathon Voegeli 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Quick question... We are a small WISP and I am trying to add all the WAPs to the map... if I do something like this: $config['location_map']['VIE Office'] = "35.476475, -80.992856"; It looks perfect on the map, however under the location menu of course it shows these coordinates as well... Is there anyway to get the SysLocation to show in the location field, but the map display correctly? Or is this a pipe dream. ~JV

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Session issues - automatically logged out frequently/instantly
by Chris Wopat 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hi list folks, I've had an issue with Observium since I *think* 4152 (http://fisheye.observium.org/changelog/Observium?cs=4152) where some authentication stuff was changed. Symptoms are once you log in, your next click may have your session already expired. As an example, I can log in, type something in the search bar, it may immediately report that the session is expired. If I simply leave the browser open on a page, it typically will just auto expire at some random period of time, all of which is under an hour. It appears to be very random so difficult to troubleshoot. This happens weather you choose to save your session or not. I've enabled PHP session debugging to write to files, contents of those seem fine. I've also cleared out `users_ckeys` table, no changes. I've also enabled php error logging in my apache config, but observium is overwritting this with ini_set all over the place which makes that somewhat futile. I've tested this on multiple systems, with built in auth and LDAP auth. Common denominator in this case is that my systems are FreeBSD, not Linux. Basically I'm checking if anyone else has encountered this at all, or if any other FreeBSD users are NOT having any issues. Info about my main observium install: FreeBSD 9.1 PHP+Modules 5.4.20 I've tested with PHP's APC on and off php Memory limit = 256 I've mentioned this with devs many times over the last 6 months, they effectively consider FreeBSD unsupported so don't really care. It all certainly worked perfectly prior to that auth update, nothing has changed on my systems since then except standard package updates. Thoughts? --Chris

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KVM Virtual Machine Monitoring
by Lane Eckley 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hi Guys, Our purchase of the subscription version of Observium is pending, but meanwhile I am looking to see if anyone has been using the KVM virtual machine monitoring built into Observium. I am curious if Observium is pulling the CPU, RAM, etc. for the KVM virtual machines running on each of the hypervisors or if its only monitoring whether the virtual machine is powered on or not. I read over the documentation, but unfortunately was unable to get it working at all thus far and am assuming its due to the free version not supporting. Thanks in advance! -Lane

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Problems with MIBS included with observium...
by Ricardo M Meleschi 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hello, Does anyone else see a large number of MIBs that cause errors when attempting to do snmp walks/gets? When I had the free version of Observium, I simply removed the offending MIBs from /opt/observium/mibs but since I have moved to the SVN version, this may become more of an annoyance since I will be updating frequently, and may actually need the MIBs as I find other uses for Observium. I'm getting many errors similar to this: Cannot find module (ZYXEL-MIB): At line 10 in /opt/observium/mibs/220AQV1C0-private However, in this case (and probably many others) ZYXEL-MIB exists just fine in /opt/observium/mibs/zyxel/ZYXEL-MIB. My snmp.conf is as follows: /opt/observium/mibs# cat /etc/snmp/snmp.conf # # As the snmp packages come without MIB files due to license reasons, loading # of MIBs is disabled by default. If you added the MIBs you can reenable # loaging them by commenting out the following line. #mibDirs +/sw/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp:/opt/observium/mibs mibDirs +/opt/observium/mibs mibs all showMibErrors no I am sure I'm just missing something simple but it's escaping me at the moment. Thanks, Ricardo Meleschi

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Broken jpgraph Images
by John Macleod 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

I have never used the "billing" side of Observium even though I have been using several (subscription) instances of Observium for a while now. Today I wanted to play with the Billing features and followed the jpgraph install prompt, however the graphs appear as broken images. With the debug=1 flag I see the following: > $varsSELECT * FROM `devices_perms` WHERE `user_id` = '1' string(51) SELECT * FROM `ports_perms` WHERE `user_id` = '1' string(49) SELECT * FROM `bill_perms` WHERE `user_id` = '1' string(48) SELECT * from `bills` WHERE `bill_id`= '2' LIMIT 1 string(50) SELECT count(`delta`) FROM `bill_data` WHERE `bill_id` = '2' AND `timestamp` >= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1393653600' ) AND `timestamp` <= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1396328399' ) string(158) SELECT *, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(timestamp) AS formatted_date FROM bill_data WHERE bill_id = '2' AND `timestamp` >= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1393653600' ) AND `timestamp` <= FROM_UNIXTIME( '1396328399' ) ORDER BY timestamp ASC string(209) JpGraph Error: 25082 Illegal sizes specified for width or height when creating an image, (width=0, height=0) Thanks! John

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Cannot Login via Web Interface
by Luis Quintana 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Not sure what direction to go with this. My instance of observium has been working great ever since I deployed it. A peer of mine decided to add hosts to the host file, and in doing so, somehow messed with something that does not allow us to log back in via web/gui. I can ssh to the device and have looked at every possible log in /var/log, but do not see anything that stands out. I also try to investigate the log while I attempt logging in via gui, and nothing is seen. I took a look at the install documentation to see if anything stands out there, that may lead me in the right direction but do not find anything, other than probably reinstalling which I am trying to avoid (i'll have to look at how to preserve current files, etc once reinstalling if i go down that road). Is there anything else that I can possibly look at to get a better direction and try to isolate this? I can't imagine him modifying the /etc/hosts file would affect logging into observium via the front end gui. Thanks for any help you guys can provide!

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Web Session Expired
by Chip Pleasants 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hoping someone could point me in the right direction. When I click on the Temperature Under Health on the main heading I get a red "No Auth" on all the mini graphs. I also I see "Session Expired, Please Login Again!" when I roll over the device name on that same page. This happen every time I perform this action no matter if I have just logged in. This only happen for Temperature under the main heading. I don't see the behavior on any other graph. Even when I go into any device click Health and then Temperature I can see the graph and do not get the "No Auth". I am using ldap against AD for my authentication. I've looked at the apache logs and don't see any glaring issues. PHP and Apache should have defaults. I sess the sessions in /var/lib/php/session/ being created. Any suggestions on troubleshooting this odd behavior? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Thanks, Chip

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Some problems with device polling.
by Sergey T 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi! There is a problem with some devices. polling fulfills, but no changes to the mysql. sql query configured correctly (if i run in devug mode ./poller.php -d -h xx and its screen output manually add to the database - all works correctly) remove the device and add it again does not help with such a device, the above problems have -- Sergey Tkachenko CTO Soniko-Svyaz +38-050-3266737

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Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface
by Tom Laermans 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi Marco, If you no longer trust your database, copy over the rrd folder, then run add_device.php for all your hosts. You could do this with a for loop if you extract the hostnames from your old devices table. That said, I doubt there will be much wrong with your devices table, your plan should work just as well. However, I'm quite intrigued as to what causes/d your issue. Tom Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: >Hi Adam, > > thanks for your reply. I get no extra info by adding /debug=1/ to the url. >You had also suggested to launch a new discovery for upgrading the database, but that's actually what probably broke the system, as the database is the only thing I had insanely not made a backup of, before upgrading. >Now a roll back does not work, probably because the database is corrupted. > >As somebody stated earlier, it looks very much like a php session issue. >However, what I do know is that I re-made a fresh installation by using the stable version this time, and it worked. > >Now the question is: >how can I move the devices database without importing the corruption to the new database? >If I just import the devices tables and the rrd folder and I launch a discovery, would that work? > >thanks 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.________________________________________ >From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] >Sent: 19 March 2014 05:45 >To: Observium Network Observation System >Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface > >Hi, > >There were some changes made recently, but no one who upgraded reported >any issues at the time. > >It's particularly odd if it happens to a /new/ installation (assuming it >also had a new database). > >Do you get anything useful if you put /debug=1/ in the URL? > >adam. > > >On 2014-03-18 09:49, Marco Spicuglia wrote: >> I restarted Apache and rebooted the server, still the same. >> I tried making a fresh Observium installation with a new database, new >> admins and by trying with the trunk and the stable version. Same >> result. >> No partition is full. The tmp partition has a 2% usage only. The only >> observium files I get in there are observium-agent-apache and >> observium-agent-mysql. >> I cannot find any related error message anywhere. What's weird is that >> it was working fine, then it suddenly stopped. >> No idea what happened, but this is a production monitoring system for >> us and I have to fix it asap! >> Rolling back to the old backup did not work either, still cannot login. >> >> Looking forward to hear from anybody who may have any other suggestion. >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> 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: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom >> Laermans [tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx] >> Sent: 18 March 2014 15:56 >> To: Observium Network Observation System >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface >> >> Marco specified that's not the case, however, those are all the >> symptoms of failing PHP session creation indeed. >> >> Check if /tmp also isn't full? >> >> I had the same issue on my test box a few days ago; there an apache >> restart fixed it. No idea what caused it. >> >> On 18/03/2014 15:18, Chris K. wrote: >> Check if filesystem is full. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Marco Spicuglia >> <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@reasonnet.com>> >> wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> I wonder if anybody can help me. >> >> After upgrading from community to subscription version, I was happily >> browsing the new features, but after some time (about half hour) all >> users here got logged out and nobody could login any more. >> No error messages, we just get the login page again. >> >> My hard disk is not full. >> I successfully created a new admin user but also cannot login. >> I cleaned the cache, the history and the cookies of the browser. >> If I check the table authlog in the database, it reports both old and >> new admin as regularly logged in. >> >> Is there anything I am missing? Any step I forgot during upgrade? Any >> cache/session I should clear server side? >> >> Your help is welcome. >> >> 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<http://www.reasonnet.com> >> E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com<mailto:Marco.Spicuglia@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: observium >> [observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] >> On Behalf Of Luis Quintana >> [sla07(a)earthlink.net<mailto:sla07@earthlink.net>] >> Sent: 12 February 2014 16:04 >> To: Observium Network Observation System >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface >> >> I greatly appreciate the help on it too!! Thanks guys! >> >> On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:02 AM, "Kulish, Chris" >> <chris.kulish(a)pioneer.com<mailto:chris.kulish@pioneer.com>> wrote: >> >> Simple is my middle name! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: observium >> [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] >> On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong >> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:27 PM >> To: Observium Network Observation System >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Cannot Login via Web Interface >> >> On 2014-02-11 11:50, Kulish, Chris wrote: >> If the filesystem full? >> >> Want simple solutions, ask a simple person. >> >> adam. >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >> This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains >> information that may be Privileged, confidential or copyrighted under >> applicable law. 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install observium through cpanel
by tech8.otelafrica 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi Guys I was asked to find out if anyone knows if we can install observium through cpanel? Regards Anton

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Alerts
by Josh Hopper 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Is there a guide on how to best setup alerts for all devices? I found: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker I want to set thresholds for DISK, RAM, CPU, UP/DOWN, and RX/TX Limits for all devices. Is there a particular Device Association or Entity Association I'm supposed to use? I figured I would set some general and then get specific with alerts by hostname for specific instances I want to monitor. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CF4208.DDB37150] 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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svn update not fully working (v0.14.2.5106)
by Marco Zberg 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Hi guys Currently I wonder why I can't update to the latest version from SVN? We have 2 observium instances, if I do a "svn update" one installation does not update to the latest version. It will always update the revision (5106) but not to the latest v0.14.3.5106, instead it will have v0.14.2.5106. *** [root@vsrvobs01 observium]# svn update At revision 5106. [root@vsrvobs01 observium]# /opt/observium/discovery.php -h none Observium v0.14.2.5106 Discovery Current Revision : 5106 MySQL: Cell[2/0s] Row[16/0s] Rows[3/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[0/0s] Delete[0/0s] *** Thanks for any help or tipps. BR Marco 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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Alert Emails
by Nicholas Schmidt 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

Ive followed the documentation but cannot get email alerting working. I see nothing in my mail log from Observium and other mailings on the system work without issue (RANCID, using the mail command from shell) so I believe it related to something I am doing wrong in Observium or PHP. It also looks as though whats in config.php.default doesn't match whats documented in the wiki. Ill gladly update it once I figure out which is correct. I am running Observium build 0.14.3.5112 on Debian 5.5.35-0 My config.php based on config.php.defaults , which differs slightly from http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Alert_Settings $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Network Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "noc(a)mediamath.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; -Nick

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WSMan integration - several questions
by Sascha Schaal 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

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overview page on a device
by Jeremy Spiesser Azuria 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hello, for some time, the home page of devices is no longer displayed. I have no error in the apache logs and php. So how do I enable debug? thank you ------------------------- Jeremy SPIESSER dir +33(0)144543000 fax +33(0)959862250 gsm +33(0)622128175 ------------------------- SARL AZURIA 34 Bd des Italiens F-75009 PARIS http://www.azuria.com ------------------------------------------ The information in this email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure, and are intended for the named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use the information in this email or any files transmitted with it. ------------------------------------------------

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Possible to ignore interfaces without description with the bad_if_ filter?
by Fredrik Korsbäck 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hello list. As the topic suggests. My enviroment somewhat relies on ports in the network having a interface description, graphing, billing, provisioning, rancid, and a few other stuffs gets activated whenever a description get set. I would like Observium to behave in such manner aswell - ive put up a feature request on this in Jira but now that ive read up abit more i realise that this could possible be achieved through the built-in filters. Has anyone built a smart regexp or something with the already available filters? We run a juniper-setup with alot of pretty beefy routers so there is about 600 interfaces on each machine, where i would like to graph at tops 100 of them, the 100 with a description :) And thanks for a great monitoring tool! Br, -- Fredrik Korsbäck

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Re: [Observium] Adding Bind9 stats into Observium for trending/graphing?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Tom and everyone, Thanks for the information. I got the powers that be to open up the observium port and I’ve been getting some great data ever since. I appreciate the assistance. Ricardo On some random date Tom wrote: Nope. Tom On 22/02/2014 00:19, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: > I can't use the observium agent on my dns server actually. While snmp is an approved app, the observium agent is not. Is there no way for me to give Observium a list of OIDs to poll and graph, ala a cacti xml file? > > Thanks, > Ricardo > > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Cameron Daniel wrote: > >> On 2014-02-22 7:24 am, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: >>> I've recently (as in the last 3 or 4 days) began configuring >>> Observium for the purpose of getting some good trending data out of my >>> bind servers. I noticed in the demo, there is an APP drop down, and >>> BIND is listed as one of the supported applications. I am having a >>> difficult time figuring out how to get Observium to monitor my bind >>> servers however. >> The application monitoring comes from the unix agent - http://www.observium.org/wiki/UNIX_Agent >> >> It's not too difficult to set up, the files you need are in /opt/observium/scripts. Once you've got the agent working, you may need to enable it under the Poller Modules for the specific host.

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ITWatchDog Support ?
by Ryan Prihoda 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hey all, I have a WatchDog 15-P environmental monitor I'd like to see the temperature in observium. Do you all have any plans to support this device ? I did not see it listed on the supported devices page. Thanks, R. Prihoda

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GeoLocation
by Johnathon Voegeli 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Quick question... We are a small WISP and I am trying to add all the WAPs to the map... if I do something like this: $config['location_map']['VIE Office'] = "35.476475, -80.992856"; It looks perfect on the map, however under the location menu of course it shows these coordinates as well... Is there anyway to get the SysLocation to show in the location field, but the map display correctly? Or is this a pipe dream. ~JV

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Getting billing data out of Observium via SQL
by Scott Brawner 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

I'm looking to get the billing data out of observium for monthly executive reviews. For some reason the CIO wants it in Excel (boo.) What I'm interested in mostly are the Avg in, Avg out, 95th in and 95th out for each billed circuit on a monthly basis. If anyone has done this, please let me know how or if you have queries, I'd love to see them. Thanks! Best regards, Scott Brawner

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Fortinet Support
by Ninja Data 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

I wanted to start by saying Observium is so awesome! I wish I would of found it sooner! So I'm trying to add my Fortinet firewalls to Observium. I see that I can add specific MIBs for Fortigates, but I didn't see the latest D series on the list. I'm not exactly sure how to add the Fortigates. I'm unable to create a DNS entry for the firewall, and I know it's dependent on DNS. I'm very new and not exactly sure how to go about this addon. Can anybody shed some light and point me in the right direction. Also, I read that if a custom MIB wasn't written for the device that one can donate. How do I go about doing that? I would love to see the latest Fortinets(and older of course) in Observium. Cheers,

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New user - network topo map question
by LC Jones 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

New observium user with question on topology map. Under device>ports>map .... I have one device with 5 ports pointing to their respective far end ports. Three arrows are gray (gig-eth), one arrow is blue (gig-eth) and one arrow is red (tengig-eth). What is the difference between a gray arrow, blue arrow and red arrow? lcjones

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device_ucd_load Graphs
by Daniel Knights 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Hi, Hoping someone can help. Since upgrading to the latest version using the SVN the device_ucd_load graphs have stopped generating and are no longer displayed within Observium. We use an external website and link to these graphs so our clients can view the server load and it'd be handy to get them working again. Were they disabled/removed in the latest version? Is there any way to get them back? Thanks

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FreeBSD Instalation
by Michel Braga Guimaraes 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

How, everyone. I'd like to know if someone there has Observium installed in a FreeBSD server. I have one Observium installed in a FreeBSD server, and other installed in a Ubuntu Server. The Ubuntu one works perfectly, but in my FreeBSD, there is no that Health tab, that shows me Processors information, Mempool information, Power information. That velocimeter icon,([image: Inline image 1]), doesn't shows up for me, I don't know if it can be some mib missing, but I don~t think so, cause I already installed net-snmp, I configured snmp.conf with snmpconf -i and etc... I don't know what else to do. Do someone there has a recipe, to make Observium works properly on FreeBSD? Best Regards, -- *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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Locations dropdown on front page
by Scott Brawner 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Was wondering if there were any plans to implement sorting on the Locations dropdown, it's a little messy. 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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Alerts for users
by Joarli Leandro [INITNET] 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Hi, I setting a new user for access only 2 server on my Observium. The access is ok, but in the top, the box alerts show 7 on total...not only 2 for the 2 servers of client. I have only 7 alerts in all the system. See the picture below. Thanks -- Joarli Leandro Tel: (11) 4478-6171 jleandro(a)initnet.com.br

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Graphing used RAM from free command
by David Reagan 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

When looking at RAM usage, the number I've always cared the most about is the number from the "used" column and "-/+ buffers/cache" row when I run the "free" command. Like: # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 16389700 15802892 586808 0 622824 3345472 -/+ buffers/cache: 11834596 4555104 Swap: 4089852 51536 4038316 I don't see any graph that looks like it contains that information. I see the memory pool graph, but it show much higher usage that I actually have because of how Linux manages RAM. So, any thoughts on how I could get Observium to graph what I want? Thanks! David Reagan Web Systems Administrator Information Technology Lane Community College Office Phone: 541-463-3376 Email: reagand(a)lanecc.edu

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How do i match more then one hostname in one alert check
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

[cid:image001.png@01CF3ED3.83EDE020] This does not work I only want up and down on core ports. Med venlig hilsen | Best regards Thomas Raabo Netværksansvarlig CCIE #33466 Zitcom A/S Telefon: 70 40 00 00 E-mail: kontakt(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:kontakt@zitcom.dk> Direkte: 69 10 60 18 Direkte: tr(a)zitcom.dk<mailto:tr@zitcom.dk> [cid:image005.jpg@01CEDC86.E897E480]<http://www.zitcom.dk/>

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Missing graph
by Paolo De Michele 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Ei guys, I followed the wiki instrunctions but actually I didn't see graphic data I'm using CentOS 6.4 x32 but I didn't understand this problem rrdtool are installed and the directory /opt/observium/ is chowned by apache:apache How can I fix it? Thanks in advance Regards

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Smokeping tab gone on holiday
by Robert Williams 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi – our Smokeping tab has vanished mysteriously. Not sure exactly when but definitely within the last week. The setting is still there: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/"; Plus the script which auto-generates the Targets file with the correct formatting is still there also and running ok (extract below): echo "*** Targets ***\n\nprobe = FPing\n\nmenu = Top\ntitle = Network Latency Grapher\nremark = Welcome to SmokePing\n\n"; $query = mysql_query("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `ignore`=0 AND `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname"); while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { $hostid = str_replace(".","_",$data['hostname']); $hostname = $data['hostname']; echo "+ $hostid\n\nhost = $hostname\n\n"; } Making hosts that look like: + sw-msl-pab-52_mastv_local host = sw-msl-pab-52.mastv.local So the targets file itself looks good and the Smokeping site is running fine if you browse it directly. The RRDs are all in /var/lib/smokeping/ and we are SVN up’ing daily. Host names are unchanged and it has been working fine for over a year so I’m lost as to why it would disappear now. It’s gone for all hosts as far as I can tell? I have no idea how to debug it as it’s not a poller / discovery thing, so any pointers as to what might be broken please? Cheers :) Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Observium time
by Joshua Elson 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Is it possible to change observium to pacific daylight time (PDT)? When we bring up our graphs it seems it's in GMT or some other format 9 hours off which is a pain to pinpoint exact times things are happening. Thanks in advance, Josh ________________________________ This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic mail or its contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety.

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Billing Module and Bill Date
by Chris Bissell 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

I had a question on how the Bill Date is implemented. Currently we have it set to 1 as our normal billing cycle is the 1st through last day of the month. However the process of getting the API data from Observium and getting that data into our Billing system is a manual process. The API data I'm getting is from the 'type=list' format which doesn't appear to accept start and end dates. I'd like to use this API call simply because it has the billing value of 95th already calculated per bill. My question is if our billing system makes that API call on April 3rd, what data does it get? Does it get the last full month from March 1st through 31st, or is it getting the data from April 1st through April 3rd? -- Chris Bissell - CTO FRII - 970.212.0723 cbissell(a)frii.net

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Prevent creation of RRD files on ignored/disabled ports
by Remco Bressers 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

I'm running Observium on a fairly large network with a few Cisco 7200's running 1000+ subinterfaces and 1000+ virtual-access interfaces. These interfaces are ignored with the "bad_if_regexp" configuration variable in config.php but RRD files are still generated and the "device total traffic" graph takes ages to generate which is not optimal. The RRD files are using lot's of diskspace and we're really only interested in uplinks instead of customer interfaces. Is there a way to prevent interfaces in the bad_if or bad_if_regexp to be polled altogether without writing RRD files? Kind regards, Remco Bressers Signet B.V.

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Cisco ACE 4710 ServerFarms
by Christopher Noyes 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

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traffic 0bps / 0pps
by Gregory Storme 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Hi, I'm running Observium 0.14.3.5094 on Debian 7, followed the installation guide. The problem is that the traffic, displayed under the ports overview, is 0bps / 0pps. When hovering over that port, or clicking on it, the graphs do display the traffic correctly. Some devices their ports do display the traffic number as well, but the majority doesn't. I can't figure out why the traffic on some ports is displayed correct, while it's not on all the others. I don't think it's not a problem on the devices being polled, because I'm running 2 observium versions for testing purposes (0.13.10.4585 & 0.14.3.5094), and on v13 the traffic for device X is displayed correctly, while on v14 the traffic for that device is 0bps/0pps on all ports (graphs work fine). And the other way around for device Y. These are Cisco and Juniper devices being polled. All the graphs work fine. I have attached these screenshots to clarify what I mean: The port graphs:

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Enable Eventlog RSS
by Onno van der Leun 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Hi, I noticed a new feature in the changelog of februari: Add RSS/ATOM output for eventlogs So I just updated to 0.14.3.5094 but can't find the RSS feed option anywhere? Could someone please tell me how to get the RSS output of events? Regards, Onno.

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Host down and up every 5 min.
by Joarli Leandro [INITNET] 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Good morning, I have a problem I can not solve. I have two installations of observium, CE and SUBSCRIPTION, on 2 different servers. My hosts are all down , 5 minutes after up. In both servers. When I go to check, no host had fallen, and neither appears in the logs instability. I installed another server, running only the SNMP and a dedicated link, and even then it falls and rises in 5 minutes. What can it be? All three devices are dedicated to Observium, 1 physical machine, and another virtual. The client host only with SNMP are physical. All in 3 diferents Datacenter. See an example below. 2014-03-10 13:25:02 Machine1 System Device status changed to Up 2014-03-10 13:25:02 Machine2 System Device status changed to Up 2014-03-10 13:20:04 Machine1 System Device status changed to Down (ping) 2014-03-10 13:20:04 Machine2 System Device status changed to Down (ping) -- Joarli Leandro Tel: (11) 4478-6171 jleandro(a)initnet.com.br

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Re: [Observium] Smokeping tab gone on holiday
by Tim Calvin 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

Having same issues. No ping tab. Everything configured the same as when it was working. Not sure what SVN it disappeared. Running Latest. From: Robert Williams <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com>> Reply-To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 4:47 AM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Smokeping tab gone on holiday Hi - our Smokeping tab has vanished mysteriously. Not sure exactly when but definitely within the last week. The setting is still there: $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/"; Plus the script which auto-generates the Targets file with the correct formatting is still there also and running ok (extract below): echo "*** Targets ***\n\nprobe = FPing\n\nmenu = Top\ntitle = Network Latency Grapher\nremark = Welcome to SmokePing\n\n"; $query = mysql_query("SELECT hostname FROM `devices` WHERE `ignore`=0 AND `disabled`=0 ORDER BY hostname"); while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { $hostid = str_replace(".","_",$data['hostname']); $hostname = $data['hostname']; echo "+ $hostid\n\nhost = $hostname\n\n"; } Making hosts that look like: + sw-msl-pab-52_mastv_local host = sw-msl-pab-52.mastv.local So the targets file itself looks good and the Smokeping site is running fine if you browse it directly. The RRDs are all in /var/lib/smokeping/ and we are SVN up'ing daily. Host names are unchanged and it has been working fine for over a year so I'm lost as to why it would disappear now. It's gone for all hosts as far as I can tell? I have no idea how to debug it as it's not a poller / discovery thing, so any pointers as to what might be broken please? Cheers :) Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:Robert@CustodianDC.com> http://www.CustodianDC.com

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