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have a look at this
by Zach Underwood 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

One of the largest ISP in Russia is using observium. http://www.gblnet.net/ the obervium page http://www.gblnet.ru/ there main webpage -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT,UACA) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photos <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Subversion
by Scott Brawner 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Since the subnet that our Observium server is blocked from the internet, I am unable to directly update using subversion. Anyone know a way to relay the subversion from svn à me with a windows client à the observium server? I SVN d/led the latest stable with Tortoise then FTPed it to the server but it seems to have broken some stuff. 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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Transit weirdness
by Scott Brawner 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

I have had our net guy fill in the ifdescr with the appropriate string (I think) on some of the devices in order to get things to start working, but I'm seeing some weirdness. For example the string is set to: Transit: [200Mbit] {ATT-BKEC.946484 - Vz-46.KFGS.300721} And on the front page, the Overall Transit Traffic graph is showing up: But when I click on the graph to drill down, I get this: Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Any ideas? I'm on the CE version. 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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Smokeping Integration
by Robbie Wright 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

We've got smokeping up and running on the same server as observium and followed the instructions for integration. Graphs are displaying correctly in the smokeping web interface but observium is having "error drawing graph" issues. Ping tab has been added so it is reading the smokeping config correctly. RRD's are formatted based on the name of the host (using _ instead of . since smokeping doesn't support that), but still no joy. Any ideas? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 **For support issues, please email support(a)siuslawbroadband.com.**

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Draw/Syslog Errors
by Peter Nixon (UK SBS) 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Hi guys, I have encountered a bit of a weird error today, Observium is showing draw errors and missing syslogs for a couple (7) of my network devices. My switch configs are mirrored so the issue is not there, and I'm a bit lost considering this was working previously? Any suggestions are welcome! Kind regards, Pete Nixon Infrastructure Engineer UK SBS Tel: 01793 867798 Email: Peter.Nixon(a)ssc.rcuk.ac.uk<mailto:Peter.Nixon@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk> UK SBS, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, SN2 1FF [cid:image001.png@01CF2256.F74EC460] ____________________________________________________________ UK Shared Business Services Ltd. Registered in England and Wales as a limited company. Company number 6330639. Registered Office: North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 1FF. UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) is the new name for RCUK Shared Services Centre Ltd. While we migrate all our materials to the new name and new identity please bear with us. This email and any attachments are intended for the named addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify UK SBS immediately and do not disclose, distribute, or retain this email or any part of it. While UK SBS has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise risk of this e-mail or any attachments containing viruses, the recipient should carry out its own virus checks before opening the attachments. The Company does not accept any liability for any losses or damages which the recipient may sustain due to presence of any viruses. Any opinions expressed in this email (including attachments) are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the company's opinions. We will not accept responsibility for any commitments made by our employees outside the scope of our business. The Company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks for the purposes of preventing and detecting crime. ____________________________________________________________ This message has been scanned by the iCritical Email Security Service. For more information please visit http://www.icritical.com ____________________________________________________________

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Observium reporting
by Scott Brawner 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

All - Hello. We are evaluating Observium for our enterprise network metrics and are pretty impressed with the community package. However, before we invest in the subscription version, I have a few questions. 1. Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the subscription version? Our CIO is interested in measuring 95% on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze capacity planning. 2. How mature is the alerting in the subscription version? Is it possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a percentage of link speed and interface up/down? 3. I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the community version. Is it supposed to work? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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NetApp Clustered OnTap
by John P Arends 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

I’ve been testing the community edition for a few months and have been pretty impressed. I’m hoping to get the subscription version soon. Even small amounts of money can sometimes be difficult to spend with university bureaucracy. We have a few NetApp filers. The first is a bit older and is detected correctly and Observium gives quite a bit of useful information about it. The second is running the newer Clustered OnTap OS, and Observium has no idea what it is, doesn’t recognize it as a NetApp device or assign the correct icon, and doesn’t pull any data from it. Anyone have any idea if this is more up to date in the subscription version? If the person who wrote the NetApp support is willing, I can try to help out and see if we can figure out what changed. -John John Arends Senior Systems Engineer School of Communication Northwestern University

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Observium and IE
by Scott Brawner 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Apologies if this has been asked before. Observium pages appear to get pretty mangled in IE. Is there a workaround or fix for this? 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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Questions about alert system
by OCEANET - Cédric BASSAGET 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hello, Is there a way to change the check interval for alerts ? It seems to be 5 min by default, I would like to check every minute. Regards, Cédric -- OCEANET --------------------------------------------------------------- [AGENCE DU MANS] 7, rue des Frênes ZAC de la Pointe 72190 SARGE LES LE MANS [t] +33 (0)2.43.50.26.50 [f] +33 (0)2.43.72.21.14 [AGENCE D'ANGERS] 5, rue Fleming Angers Technopole 49066 ANGERS [t] +33 (0)2.41.19.28.65 [f] +33 (0)2.52.19.22.00 http://www.oceanet.com http://www.oceanet-telecom.com

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January Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi All, The condensed January changelog is up at : http://www.observium.org/Changelog#January_2014 Thanks, adam.

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Multiple Email Recipients
by JD 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

If this has been covered I am sorry, I have finally got my email working but now I need to have it emailing to multiple addresses, what is the proper syntax for this? -- JD

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Observium Subscription
by tech8.otelafrica 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi, We have subscribed to the subscription version of Observium. I sent my username and password hash to Adam as requested.( adama(a)observium.org) Does it take time for the next step forward to be taken?Just want to know if I did everything correctly. Regards Anton

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Observium HA
by Adriaan Smuts 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

Good day, We are on the subscription version of Observium and loving the product so far! I need to make Observium Highly Available as this is becoming one of our main monitoring systems. Is there any documentation on how to implement this? Regards Adriaan Smuts Systems Administrator [file:///C:\Users\adriaan.CORP\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures\WebAfrica_Files\signature_logo.jpg] ________________________________ Direct Line +27 21 464 9565 Reception 086 000 9500 Website www.webafrica.co.za<http://www.webafrica.co.za/> [cid:image001.png@01CF1DC0.705B1F20] [cid:image002.png@01CF1DC0.705B1F20]

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95% rule and scaling
by Scott Brawner 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Is Observium capable of measuring/calculating the 95% rule on interfaces? Also is it possible to change scaling on ports, for example even though one of my customer ports is set on the device at 100Mbps, the link itself is only capable of 20Mbps. Is it possible to change the scale on that particular port to reflect the manageable bandwidth? 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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WMI Poller
by Johnathon Voegeli 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Is there easy setup instructions to get the WMI Poller to work on the subscription version? I am wondering if maybe I have settings wrong on one end or the other. ~Johnathon

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Alert when BGP peer down?
by Ryan, Spencer J. 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

We're trying to get an alert check set up to alert us when a BGP peer is down, but it seems like no matter how we configure it the alert never triggers. Any help? Thanks! Spencer _______________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [Observium] rancid etc.
by Rob VanHooren 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Dan, consider lighting up a websvn instance in parallel to obs, pointed at your rancid depot. it’s got a nice layout, and you get a bit more in the granularity toolbag (e.g. permissions). our auditors love it. you lose a bit of the SPoG effect, but really it’s an ideal drill-down. aside: top 3 wish list (e.g., after obs alerting gets finished): - eigrp feature-parity with ospf/bgp - f5, palo & checkpoint device support (rancid is weak here also, so obs is in good company /grin/ ) - auto-thresholding sexiness (a math-inclined list member offered to contribute some framework for this a while back?) alerting wishlist items: - bark at me when the route count of established routing peer sessions (esp. bgp) changes from $baseline - bark at me for threshold deviations, esp. unnaturally lower-bound ones (e.g., ckt that normally pumps nMbps flatlines to zero) (tells me my edge peers probably did something stupid that they will blame me for anyway. knowing about it first helps. LOL). ps: - scale of syslog ingestion (or possibly the regurgitation thereof) might warrant some love. 7MM/day entries in volume makes for dreadfully long page loads. - anyone have the mysql agent script poking at an instance of mariadb? are your results in obs fully populated? (processList, innoDBinsertBuffer, innoDBsemaphore,innoDBxactns?) - am working on some integration ideas with gestio & rwhois, so that subnet links in obs, esp. for rfc1918 space can become useful info (has anyone gone down this road already?) cheers, R. On Jan 29, 2014, at 21:34, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > From: Daniel Rolfe <daniel.rolfe.au(a)gmail.com> >> Is there any way to give config access to global read accounts ?

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Temperature in Fahrenheit
by Johnathon Voegeli 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

I am trying to get the devices to show Temperature in Fahrenheit instead if Celsius. I changed the config to show: $config['allow_entity_sensor']['celsius'] = 0; But this seems to have no effect. Any ideas? ~John

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ifAlias script
by Robert Brooks 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Hi, the script on http://www.observium.org/wiki/IfAlias_descriptions_on_Debian/Ubuntu wasn't working for me when doing an snmp walk. Individual values were being reported, but the -n option didn't work. Attached is an amended version which is working for me in both cases. Regards, Rob

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Syntax description of Alerting Device/Enity match
by Matthias Cramer 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Dear All Is there a description of all operators possible in the Device Entity match ? So far I have found/used: lt, gt, match Is there a possibility to "or" things together in stead of default "and" so that eg this is possible: (os match linux) and (os match windows) Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Language support for Observium
by Christian Balzereit 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Is there a language support planned? Could do the german translation.

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Dell/Force 10 support
by Bruce Winters 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Hello, I am new to the group. Are there any plans to support Force 10 switches? Bruce Winters

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BGP Alarms on Front Page
by Chip Pleasants 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Is there anyway to disable single router from displaying any BGP related alarms? I went into the devices properties/modules and disabled the bgp-peers modules for the specific device, but it didn't seem to change the front page alarms. Thanks, Chip

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growl/prowl
by Rob VanHooren 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

somebody on the list did a bit of work last year to get alerts out via growl (iDevice: “prowl”) using the obs API. remind who that was? did it ever go anywhere? I recall having got it sort-of-working before it went on the back burner; want to resurrect the effort if possible. thx. R. apologies for needing the reminder(s). sadly, my operating platform is hobbled by a 60’s-era single-core analog CPU and a rather stingy amount of (non-ECC) memory.

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Rancid config access
by Daniel Rolfe 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Is there any way to give config access to global read accounts ? I'm on the CE version at work but... Regards, Daniel

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New kind of device
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Hi all ! I know that I ask about a lot of functionalities ... but you like me for that :-) So I'll to be as clear as possible (and as "English" as possible ...). Is it possible to add a new kind of device that is only polled with ping ? The primary goal is to know when distant server (hosted by partners) aren't reachable without asking to have access to their snmp daemon and community ... I imagine that it can be a huge work because it needs to bypass a lot of code but you could have think about it ... ? To be simple for everyone, this kind of device can be a new sort of server but without any snmp information (no device panel / no ports panel, etc...) and just be polled by the ping. And when a hosts is down the alerter send a mail / trap and the index.php put an information box to warn on "device down" like any others hosts. Sincerely, Adrien Bertrand - Information Security Administrator BPCE Assurances, 88 av de France 75013 Paris

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port/alert limit
by Ilias Kourtoudis 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

hi, We are very pleased by the use of the subscription version so far. At the moment we are monitoring 3.600 ports and have around 5000 alerts but the goal is to reach around 40.000 ports. Will this be a problem? I already see cpu load whenever i add a host with over 500 ports that is not evenly distributed if increase the cores of my machine. Please advise and keep up the great work. Regards, ilias kurtuðis GreenQloud HOps Mobile / Farsími: (+30) 6945251977 s <//paula(a)greenqloud.com>kype : ilias.kurtudis www.greenqloud.com The World's First Truly Green(tm) Cloud IaaS Tölvuský (GreenQloud) ehf Borgartún 25 105 Reykjavik Iceland WWA

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Re: [Observium] Alerts setup in Web Gui
by Jonathan Green 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Hello there: We recently installed Observium, and cannot locate 'Alerts' w/in the web gui. Do we have to install something additional, or are we missing something? Thank you. -Jonathan

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Sensor alert templates by device type
by Robbie Wright 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Noticed some new sensor alerts that popped up by default a few revs back now. Super sweet, firstly, so nice work guys. Secondly, the defaults naturally aren't quite right, ie 0. Is it possible to set a default sensor type by device/platform/OS rather than individually? For example, system voltage on one of our routers has a default of 2 to 2.7v, while it is actually running at 23.5 and thus throwing alerts. Can we set all networking devices or iOS switches or iOS version 12.?? to have the same defaults? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 **For support issues, please email support(a)siuslawbroadband.com.**

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[BUG] I got a blank page
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Hi all ! Since a little modification on the config.php (adding a filter in [bad_if]) I got a blank page on my enterprise http://observium and the "./discovery.php -h none" doesn't output any information ... (usually it outputs the version - in green) I got the same problem last week when I updated the svn folder with CRON that force me to revert to an older version of my server ... Of course I reboot all the services (apache2, mysql ...) and I have upgraded the memory limit in the php.ini (like mentioned in the Observium FAQ) ... Any clues ? Somebody got the same problem ? Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81

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Graph Issue
by Tim Smith 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

Hi all, I am having problems with generating graphs for my Observium install. What I have managed to find out is that that the system executes the following command: rrdtool graph /tmp/C9DwA903iBza9yzw.png --alt-autoscale-max --rigid -E --start 1390482368 --end 1390568768 --width 1159 --height 300 -c BACK#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEA#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEB#EEEEEE00 -c FONT#000000 -c CANVAS#FFFFFF00 -c GRID#a5a5a5 -c MGRID#FF9999 -c FRAME#5e5e5e -c ARROW#5e5e5e -R normal --font LEGEND:8:'DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal COMMENT:'Bits/s Cur Avg Max' COMMENT:'Total' COMMENT:'\n' CDEF:inB= CDEF:outB= CDEF:octets=inB,outB,+ CDEF:doutB=outB,-1,* CDEF:inbits=inB,8,* CDEF:outbits=outB,8,* CDEF:bits=inbits,outbits,+ CDEF:doutbits=doutB,8,* VDEF:95thin=inbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:95thout=outbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:d95thout=doutbits,5,PERCENT VDEF:totin=inB,TOTAL VDEF:avein=inbits,AVERAGE VDEF:totout=outB,TOTAL VDEF:aveout=outbits,AVERAGE VDEF:tot=octets,TOTAL COMMENT:' \n' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:'Total In ': GPRINT:inbits:LAST:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:AVERAGE:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MAX:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:totin:%5.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\n' HRULE:999999999999990#FFFFFF:' Out': GPRINT:outbits:LAST:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:AVERAGE:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MAX:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:totout:%5.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\n' HRULE:999999999999990#FFFFFF:' Agg': GPRINT:bits:LAST:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:AVERAGE:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MAX:%5.2lf%s GPRINT:tot:%5.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\n' HRULE:0#999999 The error returned is: RRDTool Output: ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:inB=' I would imagine this is a config issue but I am not sure where to look. Any help would be gratefully received! Cheers, Tim

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Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Ok thanks for your answers guys :-) I'll update manually all the sysContact for now or make some redirection in my mails. And yes Maarten, your "ticket" in Jira is what I want ;-) Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message 1 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:52:34 +0000 From: "Moerman, Maarten" <mmoerman(a)ebay.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert Message-ID: <CF07F646.36AF6%mmoerman(a)ebay.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" I?ve already added a Jira/feature request for that some time ago: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-635 Would it work what?s described there? Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message 2 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:44:22 +0100 From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert Message-ID: <52E24406.4030109(a)powersource.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Hi Adrien, This is currently not possible, it is planned however but I don't know what time frame. Tom

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Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hi Observiumers ! Is it possible to specify the email contact for each "alert checker" without setting it on the sysContact of all the devices ? It's to send emails for different recipients that are related to the alerts and not the devices :-) PS: I'm running the latest version of Observium (susbscription edition) Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg]

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Re: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert
by Moerman, Maarten 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

I’ve already added a Jira/feature request for that some time ago: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-635 Would it work what’s described there? Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com From: "BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances]" <adrien.bertrand(a)assurances.bpce.fr<mailto:adrien.bertrand@assurances.bpce.fr>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Friday, January 24, 2014 at 9:24 AM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Attach the 'Email Contact' to the alert Hi Observiumers ! Is it possible to specify the email contact for each “alert checker” without setting it on the sysContact of all the devices ? It’s to send emails for different recipients that are related to the alerts and not the devices :-) PS: I’m running the latest version of Observium (susbscription edition) Sincerely, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg]

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Custom Fields
by Christopher Murrell 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hello, We are very very interested in Observium to use as our Monitoring system, but we would like to have some custom fields on the device information. We would be willing to donate a nice amount to you guys as well if we can have this done as a custom feature for us. If you guys could do this please send me an email. Also do you have an ETA when the full alert system will be working? *Christopher* Murrell Hypernia Corporation *Email:* christopher(a)staff.hypernia.com *Desk: *(+44) (0) 1722 568687 <04401722658687> *Cell Phone:* (+44) (0) 7761636028 <0447761636028> [image: http://hypernia.com/images/signature/skype.png]chrisjmuk [image: http://hypernia.com/images/signature/home.jpg]www.hypernia.com [image: http://hypernia.com/images/signature/hypernia-superpod.jpg] *Confidentiality Note:* The information contained in this transmission is legally privileged and confidential, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Thank you!

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Graphics
by Maxence Maireaux 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hello, I can not seem to generate graphics on Observium. The graphics are present but there is no curve above, you have a solution? I try on the local server and a remote server. I put some image illustrated my point. Thank you for your help. Regards, Maxence -- ------------- Cordialement, Maxence Maireaux

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Alerts
by JD 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

I am Looking for some Guidance on setting up alerts I am not getting alerts to my email which is a google apps account Current config // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Default Email Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "jd(a)remote.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "jd(a)remote.com<mailto:jd@remote.com >"; $config['email_from'] = "Observium <alerts(a)local.com<mailto:alerts@local.com >>"; $config['email_backend'] = "smtp"; $config['email_backend'] = "sendmail"; $config['email_smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['email_smtp_port'] = 25; $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['port']['ifdown'] = TRUE; // Port Bandwith $config['alerts']['port_util_alert'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['port_util_perc'] = 85; -- JD

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Alerting Question
by Chip Pleasants 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

I'm getting emails and not sure if its my alarm settings or something else is Here's the email contents. Maybe someone good verify my setting for this alarm are correct? ALERT Modify Alert Processor Usage Greater Than 80% Entity Processor 1 Conditions processor_usage gt 80% (9) Metrics processor_usage = 9 Duration 18h 36m 21s Device Device cisco.switch.net Hardware catalyst3560G48PS Operating System Cisco IOS 12.2(55)SE5 IPBASEK9 Location DC Uptime 113 days, 11h 2m 20s

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Error in install
by Maxence Maireaux 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

Hello, I can not ainstaller Observium, I receive the following error: php includes/update/update.php PHP Fatal error: Class 'Console_Color2' not found in /home/observium/includes/common.php on line 386 Grieve for my very bad english, I'm french. -- ------------- Cordialement, Maxence Maireaux

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Remove Geofoo from Observium using Strings
by henrik hansen 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Hello guys, at the moment we are not a subscribed customer, so maybe this mail is obsolet. We would love to have a feature to remove GeoLocation thing unter Devices-> Locations. In our environment the snmp location is filled with some kind of customer ID. Like: U100432. It would be great if observium could only group our switches by the customer id in the snmp location field. Thanks for your great work. Henrik

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FOSDEM meetup?
by Tom Laermans 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Hi guys, FOSDEM, Europe's largest (I think?) open source meetup is coming up in a few weeks (1-2 feb). I'll be there on saturday, so in case there's anyone also going there who wants to meet up/catch up/buy me a sandwich ;> /have a chat/... by all means let's do that then. I'm not Adam, so please leave the tar and feathers at home - We'll make sure to get him here next year, with a big "FUCK GPL" t-shirt, and put him on stage vs RMS though. ;-) Tom

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Traffic Bills Oddity
by Matt Martin 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

We're using the traffic bills module and are a "paid" customer. However, sometime in October, customers that we bill for usage over a wireless link (using UBNT kit), only show 0.00. Traffic can still be seen on the port on the traffic bills screen, but collection of the data seems stuck. There are multiple customers per UBNT node and they are all seeing the same issue. Traffic bills on switches and routers appear fine however. Any idea where to start on trying to fix, or diagnose this. Matt

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Port Properties Alert Question and Odd Behavior
by Chip Pleasants 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Is there a way to see all Ports that have been disabled for altering? I enabled email alerts in config.php for port percentage, but seeing some odd behavior with the percentage portion with the physical interfaces inside a etherchannel interface. Below are a couple emails I received. The bandwidth mentioned in the email is more than the physical interface. Is there another option I need to turn on or off to account for this behavior? Any suggestions are appreciated. This physical interface didn't go over 444M. The port channel have 8 physical link in it. Port saturation threshold alarm: cisco.switch.com on GigabitEthernet3/1 Rates:1.63Gbps/11.6kbps(163/0) >85% of 1Gbps Another email This physical interface hit a 1G. The port channel has 2 physical links in it. Port saturation threshold alarm: cisco.switch.com on GigabitEthernet2/25 Rates:147Mbps/6.62Gbps(15/662) >85% of 1Gbps added to config.php $config['alerts']['port_util_alert'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['port_util_perc'] = 85; Thanks, Chip

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Mail alert and \n that should not be here.
by Xavier Beaudouin 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Hi there, Using alert on Observium Community (will try to ask for a fund for my work to help the project), I realize there is some strange thing in the mails sent by observium.. Seems there is a \n\n on the headers that brake the mail format. Looking at the code, I didn't saw where it was, and I wish to share if some people here has same issues. Header extract (old alerting stuff) : ---//--- Subject: Temperature Alarm: amazon CPU Temperature X-Priority: 3 Message-Id: <20140120070238.662C8180184CC(a)observium.censored> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:02:38 +0100 (CET) To: undisclosed-recipients: ; X-Zimbra-DL: sadm@censored Reply-To: "sadm@censored" <sadm@censored> Message-ID: <213ce88117d32aaeeb4296589d88c8f4@observium> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:02:38 +0100 Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Temperature Alarm: amazon CPU Temperature is over threshold: 61C (> 60C) ---//--- Header extract (new alerting system) : ---//--- From: "Observium " <sysadmin@censored> Subject: RECOVER: [esx4] [storage] [] Disk space is more than 80 percent used. Please do something X-Priority: 3 Message-Id: <20140120071634.DA1F0180184CC(a)observium.consored> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:16:34 +0100 (CET) To: undisclosed-recipients: ; X-Zimbra-DL: sadm@censored Reply-To: "sadm@censored" <sadm@censored> Content-type: text/html Message-ID: <cf3e1676772a4b83c02777f1dedfb49b@observium> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:16:34 +0100 ---//--- Seems there is an extra \n on the "Reply-To" header... I have tryed to find if sendmail based / smtp (even local smtp) was an issue, didn't find why. The issue is the same on other observium (home) without zimbra as mta/mua. Regards, Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01 Why Top posting is bad : http://ck.wikia.com/wiki/TopPosting

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Google MAPS Integration
by Nicholas Porter 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Unfortunately not being a Developer I'm finding it hard to get my hands on documentation to implement the use of google maps in the overview page. If this is possible for a net admin to achieve without in-depth dev knowledge please point me in the correct direction. Ideally would like to mimic the overview page that has been used on the demo page on the observium site. Thank you in advance ############################################################################################# The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Furthermore, the information contained in this message, and any attachments thereto, is for information purposes only and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of the company. #############################################################################################

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Device Alerts that won't go away
by ryan 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Hello all, I have attached an image of the alerts in question, the names and locations have been removed. It only happens on these two servers out of 20+ different servers. What causes this behavior ? I cannot seem to find any differences between servers. I am using the community edition on centos 6.5 , if that helps at all. Thanks, R. Prihoda

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RRD Graph Issues
by William Brown 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi, I recently just added the Collectd plugin and I noticed that with my first device that the top graphs for my device are blank, however the ones that are represented in the collectd section are fine. Anyone seen this and know how to fix it? Thanks Will

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Submission of code
by John Millington 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi Everyone, I've recently added some minor functionality to assist with the monitoring of our networks. A summary of this would be: * ShoreTel OS Logo * ShoreTel OS definition * Added SonicWall firewall CPU OID and related graphing * Added Sonicwall firewall active sessions discovery and graph definition for this To achieve this, there are a couple of extra .inc.php files and some addition snippets added to existing files. I understand that you prefer code submissions through wget from a website and I can arrange this, but firstly would like to know if you are interested in adding my code (following a review of course) to the product. Would make my pulls from SVN much easier!! Thanks, John.

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Updating Observium
by BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi, What is the « best practice » for keeping up to date the subscribed edition ? Stopping the cron jobs, updating with the svn, launching the discovery.php and start the cron jobs ? Or lauching the svn directly (without stopping the poller) is ok ? Regards, Adrien BERTRAND Administrateur Sécurité du Système d'Information Information security administrator BPCE Assurances 88 av. de France, 75013 Paris Tel : (+33)1.42.79.47.81 [Description : Q_BPCE_Assurances.jpg]

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Display IP address of the device ( DNS resolved ) in front of the device name ?
by Supun Rathnayake 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi all, We have a small suggestion, is it possible to add a new feature to display the IP address of the device ( DNS resolved IP of the device ) may be in front of the device name / or at the top of the device page etc. ( at any prominent place ) This is really helpful in identification and further trouble shooting etc., as most of the network engineers are dealing with the IP addresses rather than the hostname in day to day operations. Thanks in advance. -- With Best Regards, Supun Rathnayake Lanka communication Services (Pvt) Ltd. 65C, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07. Sri Lanka. Tel: +94-11-2437545 http://www.lankacom.net http://blog.lankacom.net

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