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Unknown OS - Cisco ACS-Server
by Chris 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Hello, I've got some CISCO-ACS-servers here. These appliances are linux-based systems and running a IOS-like application - with no access to the underlying OS. Anyway the SNMP agent behaves like running on a linux-server. Observium shows these Systems as "Unknown". is it possible to make the system known? currenty observium shows all "normal" linux-like graphs. (CPU/users/storage/and so on) here some snmp-vars for system detection: SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Cisco Secure Access Control System 5.4 SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.47.1.1.1.1.13.1 DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (66748343) 7 days, 17:24:43.43 SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: user SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: acs-server SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: serverroom SNMPv2-MIB::sysServices.0 = INTEGER: 12 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORLastChange.0 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.1 = OID: SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB::snmpFrameworkMIBCompliance SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.2 = OID: SNMP-MPD-MIB::snmpMPDCompliance SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.3 = OID: SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmMIBCompliance SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.4 = OID: SNMPv2-MIB::snmpMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.5 = OID: TCP-MIB::tcpMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.6 = OID: IP-MIB::ip SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.7 = OID: UDP-MIB::udpMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.8 = OID: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmBasicGroup SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.1 = STRING: The SNMP Management Architecture MIB. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.2 = STRING: The MIB for Message Processing and Dispatching. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.3 = STRING: The management information definitions for the SNMP User-based Security Model. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.4 = STRING: The MIB module for SNMPv2 entities SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.5 = STRING: The MIB module for managing TCP implementations SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.6 = STRING: The MIB module for managing IP and ICMP implementations SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.7 = STRING: The MIB module for managing UDP implementations SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.8 = STRING: View-based Access Control Model for SNMP. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.1 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.2 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.3 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.4 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.5 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.6 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.7 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.8 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 Do you need more details? Greetings and mni tnx in advance, Chris

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Geo location shows wrong place
by Pekka.Panula＠sofor.fi 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Hi Observium does not show correct geo locations on frontpage for most of our devices, servers, etc. How can i fix this? Regards, Pekka Panula

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orange ports?
by Peter Childs 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

What are orange ports? :) 'grey' = admin down 'red' = admin up, operational down 'blue' = all good 'Orange' = ??? [cid:6FC1FA51-A367-4A67-8C97-AB35EABE0924]

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Polling missed?
by Luis Quintana 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Out of curiosity, where would I begin looking for any issues with missed polls or graphs not showing data for a certain period of time? I have looked under /var/log and do not see anything that stands out. I'm not sure if there are any other locations i can investigate this on. I am running ubuntu server 12.04.3 LTS. Attached are a couple of graphs you can see the gap of data not presented, or possibly missing? The weird part is, i have about 90% of my devices that show this gap, but the other 10% doesnt. Theres no specific network device/factor that would be have created this either. Any thoughts/suggestions/ideas?

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display ip address
by Jordan Paschalidis 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Hi Guys, ist it possible to display the IP-Address of the Devices under like "Device Information" or in the device Overview (http://x.x.x.x/devices/) ? -- Jordan Paschalidis

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Windows server issue with disk space
by DaZZa 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Hi. I found Observium after reading a post on Reddit (if you're out there, whoever made the post, you have my eternal thanks!), and I've got it setup and running pretty much OK, but I've run into an issue with one specific Windows host. Observium accesses and sets it up OK except for one disk volume - the drive is approximately 15 Tb in size, but Observium is only reporting it as being 8Tb, and I can't figure out why. Can anyone suggest what I may have configured incorrectly? I initially used SNMP V1 to discover/configure this host - could that be the issue, perhaps? Thanks for any input, and a huge thanks to the guys (and gals?) who write this stuff, so that those of us who can't code our way out of a wet paper bag can still satisify the demands of manglement! DaZZa

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"No devices found" shown on Devices pages
by Stuart Shelton 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

Many of the pages beneath the "Devices" menu incorrectly display "No devices found". For example, choosing "All Devices" lists two devices, but clicking any of the controls in the '<div class="well">' segment - even the "Detail" button which is active by default - no longer shows the two devices but again reverts to "No devices found". Further down the "Devices" menu, "Servers (2)" is shown, but choosing this also displays "No devices found". Other menus, such as "Ports", appear to display all of their data correctly. This occurs with both SVN-3763 and the latest SVN-4451. When I spoke to another Observium user, they had the same issue, but no solution. Has anyone else seen this problem, or can anyone suggest anything I might do to resolve the issue? Many thanks, Stuart

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Automated CSV/XCL/etc Traffic Billing Report?
by Luis Quintana 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

I was looking at the Traffic Billing piece and was curious to know if there is a way to setup an automated monthly report for each individual "customer" that is listed under that area? I dont seem to find anything at the moment. Would be cool to automate that and shoot out the raw data, in addition to the graphs for each individual "customer" on a monthly basis to whatever email address(s) specified. Would that ever be a feature or does anyone know how it could be accomplished?

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Traffic Bill
by Maximilian Jacobsen 06 Sep '13

06 Sep '13

Hi, thanks for the development of observium! I want to use Observium to calculate the traffic of my clients. Now I have the following problem: Under "used" always "0B" is displayed. The same goes for "Over Usage" where only "-" is displayed. In the bar where the traffic usage should be displayed in percent is nothing. In the observium main directory I have found the file poll- billing.php I run it, but unfortunately nothing has happened here. I would be very grateful for a little assistance. For your information: Observium 0.13.9.4451 -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Maximilian Jacobsen

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False service down alerts
by Wijdan Mohamed 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Hi, I get in the overview page false alarms that my ssh service is down since 43y 258d 19h 50m 43s, while its up and running. I get the same messages for http and smtp services in random hosts. Any idea how can I stop them? Thanks, Wijdan Mohamed Eltayeb Senior Infrastructure Engineer Infrastructure Department Tel: +249(0)183 740 840 Mob: +249(0)91 216 7725 Fax: +249-183-790864 Central Bank of Sudan Khartoum Branch Building-4th floor Osman Digna Street P.O.Box 12595- Khartoum - Sudan <http://www.ebs-sd.com/> www.ebs-sd.com P Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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is_file() usage for rrd file existance
by Peter Childs 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Gday folks. I'm fiddling around with remote RRD storage via rrdcached. Most of the rrdtool stuff is wrapped in includes/rrdtool.inc.php which is wonderful from this perspective. Not within this include is the usage of is_file() to determine the existence of an rrd file. In discovery the pattern is something like If( ! is_file( some.rrd ) ) { rrdtool_create ( … )} In graphing the pattern is something like If ( is_file( some.rrd ) { graph some stuff… } Would there be any support for moving this usage into a rrdtool_file_exists( ) thin wrapper for is_file ? This would make it much easier to extended includes/rrdtool.inc.php to support storage of RRD's on remote storage (and potentially distribute over multiple remote storage devices ..) Thoughts? I had a quick check for usage of scandir/readdir to determine all the rrd's in a 'device' directory, but this doesn't seem to be a common pattern. My other evil thought is to use rename_function/override_function to work around this, but it seems very very WRONG. Cheers, Peter

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Re: [Observium] Cisco LWAPP info
by Adam Armstrong 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

At the moment we don't really have much specifoc wireless support at all. Adding it involves writing code. Adam. Sturla Þórsson <stullith(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Switch HP Procurve 3800
by Daniel Fankhauser 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

OK, I ran an update from Observium 0.13.9.4449 to Observium v0.13.9.4450 Now 2 hours later, the problem is solved! The device is now recognized as: HP ProCurve KA.15.09.0009 Thank you very much. U made my day. Daniel -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mike Stupalov [mailto:landy2005@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. September 2013 17:33 An: Daniel Fankhauser Betreff: Re: [Observium] Switch HP Procurve 3800 On 04.09.2013 19:17, Daniel Fankhauser wrote: > Hi Mike > > Thanks. I did so (snmpwalk -v2c -Ovqn -c rocommunity ip-address sysObjectID) and the response is: > > Response: .1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.7.8.5.2 Check latest revision (r4450). > > Daniel > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Mike Stupalov [mailto:landy2005@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. September 2013 17:12 > An: Observium Network Observation System > Cc: Daniel Fankhauser > Betreff: Re: [Observium] Switch HP Procurve 3800 > > On 04.09.2013 19:03, Daniel Fankhauser wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I have a new HP Procurve 3800 switch stack which is recognized as >> "generic device" only. >> >> The device information show as: >> "HP Stack, revision KA.15.09.0009, ROM KA.15.06 >> (/ws/swbuildm/KA_rel_hartford_qaoff/code/build/tam(KA_rel_hartford_qaoff >> )) (Formerly ProCurve)" >> >> Does anyone have an idea how I could fix this? > > show: > snmpwalk -v2c -Ovqn -c <community> <device> sysObjectID > >> >> Thank you >> >> Daniel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > > -- Mike Stupalov

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Cisco LWAPP info
by Sturla Þórsson 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi all, I got a Cisco AIR-CT5508-K9 WLC controlling our LWAPP's and I was wondering if there's any way to get info on the LWAPP's in Observium? With kind regards, Sturla Thorsson

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Switch HP Procurve 3800
by Daniel Fankhauser 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi All I have a new HP Procurve 3800 switch stack which is recognized as "generic device" only. The device information show as: "HP Stack, revision KA.15.09.0009, ROM KA.15.06 (/ws/swbuildm/KA_rel_hartford_qaoff/code/build/tam(KA_rel_hartford_qaoff )) (Formerly ProCurve)" Does anyone have an idea how I could fix this? Thank you Daniel

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Raritan PDU MIB support
by Glen Whittle 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Would it be possible for MIBS for the Raritan metered PDU's to be added to Observium I have attached the MIBS from the device. Kind Regards, [cid:interactive_logo27dd.jpg]<http://www.interactivesa.co.za/> Glen Whittle | Solutions Architect ________________________________ Tel: +27 31 538 4132 Fax: +27 31 538 4970 Mobile: +27 81 394 2540 | www.interactivesa.co.za<http://www.interactivesa.co.za> [cid:spacer2abd.jpg] [cid:facebook6d63.png]<http://www.facebook.com/BlakeHoldings> [cid:twitter1792.png]<http://www.twitter.com/blake_tweets> [cid:youtube6cb.jpeg]<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcRXpUG6SvU&feature=youtu.be> [cid:map633f.png]<http://www.blake.co.za/contacts/> ________________________________ Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

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Dbm sensors and interface names
by Benjamin Abadie 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi, I'm watching the dBm sensors on a Brocade host, and I notice that on /health/metric=dbm/ and /device/device=X/tab=health/metric=dbm/ there is no sign of the port related to the values being displayed. See screenshots : http://i.imgur.com/UO0L74k.png http://i.imgur.com/39AnD2i.png Is this brocade specific ? If you need to try a patch, I'm available. Regards, Benjamin

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observium Syslog not recieving syslog msgs
by Glen Whittle 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi, I have been unable to get the syslog function to work and I can't find any info online that is helping I am just getting the follwoing msg on the webpage No syslog entries found! This device does not have any syslog entries. Check that the syslog daemon and Observium configuration options are set correctly, that this device is configured to send syslog to Observium and that there are no firewalls blocking the messages. See documentation<http://www.observium.org/wiki/Category:Documentation> and configuration options<http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Syslog_Settings> for more information. it may be something simple that I have missed (have followed the documentation on the website ) see far below for my syslog-ng.conf, syslog.php and config.php So far I have tested and my server is receiving syslog msg form my cisco devices I tested this by changing the destination d_observium to output to a file rather than "program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") template-escape(yes)); which worked beautifully any help would be appreciated. ---------------------config.php------------------- <?php ## Have a look in includes/defaults.inc.php for examples of settings you can set here. DO NOT EDIT defaults.inc.php! // Database config $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; $config['db_user'] = "root"; $config['db_pass'] = "7:5Rs-W1"; $config['db_name'] = "observium"; // Location $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; // Thie should *only* be set if you want to *force* a particular hostname/port // It will prevent the web interface being usable form any other hostname #$config['base_url'] = "http://observium.company.com"; // Default community list to use when adding/discovering $config['snmp']['community'] = array("public"); // Authentication Model $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please see documentation for config help // Enable alerter // $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['enable_sla'] = 0; # Enable Cisco SLA collection and display //frontpage map $config['frontpage']['map']['region'] = "ZA"; $config['frontpage']['map']['resolution'] = "provinces"; $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = 5; $config['frontpage']['map']['realworld'] = false; $config['enable_syslog'] = 0; $config['syslog_filter'] = array("last message repeated", "Connection from UDP: [", "ipSystemStatsTable node ipSystemStatsOutFragOKs not implemented", "diskio.c: don't know how to handle"); ## Ignore some crappy stuff from SNMP daemon // End config.php -----------------syslog.php----------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env php <?php /** * Observium * * This file is part of Observium. * * @package observium * @subpackage syslog * @author Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> * @copyright (C) 2006 - 2012 Adam Armstrong * */ include("includes/defaults.inc.php"); include("config.php"); include("includes/definitions.inc.php"); include("includes/syslog.php"); include("includes/dbFacile.php"); include("includes/common.php"); include("includes/functions.php"); $i = "1"; $s = fopen('php://stdin','r'); while ($line = fgets($s)) { //logfile($line); // host || facility || priority || level || tag || timestamp || msg || program list($entry['host'],$entry['facility'],$entry['priority'], $entry['level'], $entry['tag'], $entry['timestamp'], $entry['msg'], $entry['program']) = explode("||", trim($line)); process_syslog($entry, 1); unset($entry); unset($line); $i++; } ?> -------------------------syslog-ng.conf----------------------- @version: 3.3 @include "scl.conf" options { chain_hostnames(0); keep_hostname(1); use_dns(no); }; ######################## # Sources ######################## source s_net { udp(); }; ######################## # Destinations ######################## destination d_observium { program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") template-escape(yes));}; ######################## # Filters ######################## ######################## # Log paths ######################## log { source(s_net); destination(d_observium); }; @include "/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/" Kind Regards, [cid:interactive_logo2f3d.jpg]<http://www.interactivesa.co.za/> Glen Whittle | Solutions Architect ________________________________ Tel: +27 31 538 4132 Fax: +27 31 538 4970 Mobile: +27 81 394 2540 | www.interactivesa.co.za<http://www.interactivesa.co.za> [cid:spacer20b6.jpg] [cid:facebook63e1.png]<http://www.facebook.com/BlakeHoldings> [cid:twitter74cb.png]<http://www.twitter.com/blake_tweets> [cid:youtubef39.jpeg]<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcRXpUG6SvU&feature=youtu.be> [cid:map31e.png]<http://www.blake.co.za/contacts/> ________________________________ Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

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Chart for traffic percentage
by Rofiq Yuli 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi Can anyone show me how to display port Traffic % chart in observium, for hourly/daily/weekly chart ? (Traffic %, not Traffic bits). I've searched on the observium demo and can't find it. Regards Rofiq Yuli

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] r4418 - in observer/trunk: . attic html/pages includes/discovery
by Tom Laermans 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

On 09/02/2013 04:25 PM, observium-commits(a)observium.org wrote: > Author: adama > Date: 2013-09-02 16:25:32 +0200 (Mon, 02 Sep 2013) > New Revision: 4418 > > Modified: > observer/trunk/attic/scan-snmp.php > observer/trunk/html/pages/addhost.inc.php > observer/trunk/includes/discovery/functions.inc.php > Log: > addhost -> add_device, delhost -> delete_device, renamehost -> rename_device, addHost() -> add_device() > svn up -r 4416 includes/discovery/functions.inc.php to regain working Observium. Tom

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is discovery.php broken?
by Zach Underwood 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

When I run "/opt/observium/discovery.php -h all" I get no output. This morning the command was working. running version 4419 -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Re: [Observium] Sensors & syslog Questions
by w.mohamed＠ebs-sd.com 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

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Re: [Observium] Disabling 'Remember Me'
by Tom Laermans 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Pretty sure you are not running the latest version of observium, please svn up before reporting already fixed bugs. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Scott A. Davis" <scott.a.davis(a)gmail.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Disabling 'Remember Me' Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 23:50 That fixed it ... Thank you for your help!! --- scott a davis scott.a.davis [at] gmail [dot] com On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Niklas Larsson <niklas(a)tese.se> wrote: Hi, bug i php-mcrypt - edit /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini and change it to: ; Enable mcrypt extension module extension=mcrypt.so and restart httpd /niklas Scott A. Davis skrev 2013-08-30 22:48: Hi! After updating a week or two ago (after the security update), I installed php-mcrypt on my CentOS node. I also (for good measure, added the disable command (below) in the config.php. Restarted Apache, cleared cache, used multiple browsers, etc ... I still get the following notice/warning at the top of the screen when I log in. Observium now requires mcrypt to be installed for use by the "remember me" function. Please install the php5-mcrypt package on Ubuntu/Debian or the php-mcrypt package on RHEL/Centos. Alternatively, you can disable this feature by setting $config['login_remember_me'] = FALSE; in your config. Am I missing something? I just need to have it effectively disabled. Thanks in advance. --- scott a davis scott.a.davis [at] gmail [dot] com _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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pach some errors (was Re: Front Page)
by Rob J. Epping 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Hi On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > > php -l config.php That made me run the following shell one-liner. for x in `find -name ".svn" -prune -o -type f -name "*php*" -print`; do php -l $x; done | grep -v "^No syntax errors detected in " The result (including patch) is in <http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-474> -- GRTNX, RobJE

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Disabling 'Remember Me'
by Scott A. Davis 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Hi! After updating a week or two ago (after the security update), I installed php-mcrypt on my CentOS node. I also (for good measure, added the disable command (below) in the config.php. Restarted Apache, cleared cache, used multiple browsers, etc ... I still get the following notice/warning at the top of the screen when I log in. Observium now requires mcrypt to be installed for use by the "remember me" function. Please install the php5-mcrypt package on Ubuntu/Debian or the php-mcrypt package on RHEL/Centos. Alternatively, you can disable this feature by setting $config['login_remember_me'] = FALSE; in your config. * * Am I missing something? I just need to have it effectively disabled. Thanks in advance. --- - scott a davis - scott.a.davis [at] gmail [dot] com

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Front Page
by Ryan Milton 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

I am looking to spice up my frontpage and am currently adding the minigraphs. Is there a way in the config to name each graph as opposed to a custom name for the field? How about with the legends, to select what is shown in the legend, so that they aren't 3x's as large as the graph itself? Regards, Ryan Milton Network Manager o: 201-447-1505 x124 c: 862-249-5230

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rrd query...
by Peter Childs 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Am I reading this correctly... defaults.inc.php:$config['rrd_rra'] = " RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:2016 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:2976 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:1440 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:1440 "; So for a step of '300' (5 mins) we have 1 PDP @ 300seconds = 5 mins (x 2016) = 7 days of 5 minute intervals 6 PDPs @ 300seconds = 30mins (x 2976) = 62 days? 2 months? (of 30min averages) 24 PDPs @ 300seconds = 2 hour (x 1440) = 120 days (of 2 hour averages) 288 PDPs @ 300 seconds = 24 hours (x 1440) = 4 years? (of 1 day averages..) Cheers, Peter

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Tape Drive and library DELL ML6000 not recognised
by Mihai - Cristian Satmarean 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Hi, as I've seen there are a lot of DELL devices recognised properly, is there a chance that also Dell PoWerValut ML 6000 would be recognised? Thank you!

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User Creation Failed?
by Luis Quintana 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

I have been looking around to see what could be the problem for this. I installed a new copy of observium on ubuntu and have followed the instructions given. When I get to the area to create a user by leveraging ./adduser.php , i get a messages stating the User creation failed. Is there something I am overlooking when i do this or some data i can provide or look at that can pinpoint me in the right/general direction?

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update to the apps page
by Zach Underwood 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Can we get some info about BIND added to http://www.observium.org/wiki/Applications -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photes <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Kernel version looping events
by Robert Williams 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hi, Since the auto SVN / discover at 06:00 (BST) today, several of our servers are logging repeated events as follows: 2013-08-29 09:10:25 System kernel -> 2.6.32-71.18.1.el6-0.20.smp.gcc4.1.x86_64 It appears to be occurring on every 5 minute poll: [cid:image001.png@01CEA499.4E1120E0] This is only affecting machines which run pre-configured (static, non-updating) software such as OpenFiler which is the target in the example above. Also at the first poll after 06:00 today, most of the other linux boxes logged events similar to the above, but, they logged it just once and then stopped. I’ve got no idea why / how this would be logged continuously, especially as the result is identical each poll, so any pointers welcome :) Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] asa hostname chk
by Rob VanHooren 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

they're an ASA pair, the on-device hostname/sysName is always sync'd to be same same dns for the m0's can be (is) unique/different. wrapper logic on the addhost check to allow dup sysName if box (via e.g. sysDescr or sysObjectID) is ASA? dunno. R. Sent from my iPhone > > > > you have obviously same hostname on devices. > > what show these commands: > # sh run | i hostname > # sh run | i domain-name > > -- > Mike Stupalov > >

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@mike re: r4382, still grief // dup sysName
by Rob VanHooren 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

> ! vfw01a is the active ASA, addr .201; unique fqdn > ! vfw01b is the standby ASA addr .202; unique fqdn > > [root@nmis observium]# ./addhost.php csco-vfw01b theCommunity v2c > Trying v2c community ... > Already got device with SNMP-read sysName (CSCO-VFW01.adomain.com) > Could not reach csco-vfw01b with given SNMP community using v2c > Observium v0.13.8.4386 > >

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How can i add app mysql to my observium
by Robert Luczynski 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hello I have a CentOS 6.4 I want to add app tab to my observium. I was folllow in aplication mysql: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/MySQL Unix agent is enabled: root@g [/opt/observium]# telnet localhost 36602Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. mysql script work ok: root@g [/opt/observium]# /usr/lib/observium_agent/local/mysql <<<mysql>>> a0:5225549 a1:2200 a2:105805 a3:52579 a4:3774 a5:211779660 a6:1 a7:1 a8:-1 a9:-1 aa:8192 [...] ef:-1 eg:0 eh:1844224 ei:8388608 ej:3176 ek:890 puller info: ./poller.php all August 28, 2013, 9:49 - 1 devices polled in 0.739 secs MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[4/0s] Rows[30/0.01s] Column[0/0s] Update[22/0.01s] Insert[2/0.01s] Delete[0/0s] Thanks, Robert

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Average Packet Size on Cisco-Devices
by Chris 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hi There, I like seeing the Average Packet Size on Ports since 4361. But unfortunately I don't have data in graphs for all devices. It's working on: - 6500 VSS (Ten/Gig/Vlan/Po) (IOS 15.0) - ASA 55xx - Servers (Linux) - Riverbeds (Linux) - Cisco-WLAN-Controllers It's NOT working (empty graph) on: - 4500 (Ten/Gig/Po) - ASR1001 (Gig/Tu) (IOS 15.3S) - 7301 (Gig/Tu) (IOS 15.1M) - 28xx (Gig/Tu) (IOS 15.0M) - 18xx (Fa/Tu) (IOS 12.4T) Especially on our VPN-Rouers (73/28/ASR) this would be helpful. How can I debug some more things to get it working? Or how can I support you with information that you get it to work? Many thanks in advance, Chris

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Re: [Observium] slow polling of Cisco 4500 VSS switches
by Adam Armstrong 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hmm. We don't even do anything with the poe information, are we still collecting it? Does the 4500 have any poe blades? Pretty scary walking the poe table would take so long. Adam. Bastiaan Topper <B.Topper(a)korton.nl> wrote: >Hi Adam, > >Thanks for your help. I found the problem. Nothing to do with the 4500 switches. Was the PoE polling option, this is not working efficiently, so for now I disabled it. > >Polling times dropped to few seconds now. > >Regards, > >Bastiaan > > > >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >Van: Adam Armstrong [mailto:adama@memetic.org] >Verzonden: woensdag 28 augustus 2013 19:39 >Aan: Observium Network Observation System >Onderwerp: Re: [Observium] slow polling of Cisco 4500 VSS switches > >On 2013-08-28 17:28, Bastiaan Topper wrote: >> Hi Adam, >> >> The problem is that it is not only with VSS switches. The screenshot >> is off a switch without VSS (so a normal 4500 switch, but with many >> interfaces). I also have 6500 switches (and even a 6500 VSS), these >> don't have the problem, but have a lot less interfaces. >> The 4500 switches don't all run the same IOS version. The VSS switches >> have 2 version, the not VSS switch has an other supervisor and much >> older IOS. >> >> Thing I noticed is that the port polling collects all metrics for all >> interfaces for every interface it polls. For big switches, this is a >> lott of info each time it polls an interface. If I do a debug it show >> very long lists of collected metrics (output of all the snmpbulkwalk >> commands per interface), each time for all interfaces. Could it be >> that the problem is there somewhere, or am I interpreting the output >> wrong? > >It's not actually all that much information, and 250 ports isn't really a lot. > >The issue is almost certainly a bug with counter collection on the 4500. > >Cisco doesn't seem to bother giving many shits about bugs on "enterprise" kit, they only seem to fix issues on "service provider" >kit. > >This just further cements my view that the 4500 is a largely pointless device that people only buy when they've been tricked by Cisco's sales and marketing splurge. > >adam. > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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RRD Graphs not showing
by Adam Summerfield 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

We have Observium installed on Ubuntu and it has been running for months... Just recently the RRD graphs have stopped appearing on the web pages I have upgraded to the latest version and it still is not working. The RRD files exist with the right permissions and the dates stamps are up to date. Can someone help please? Regards, Adam

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slow polling of Cisco 4500 VSS switches
by Bastiaan Topper 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi all, We have a very long poll time on some of the devices. We have a few Cisco 4500 switches with a lott of interfaces. For example a Cisco 4506 with 4x 48 ports linecard, the poll time for the device is: [cid:image001.png@01CEA3DD.702B0310] As you can see the poll time changed around 28/29 July. I disabled the device around 31 July, as you can see. We also have Cisco 4500 VSS setups with several hundreds of interfaces, these devices I disabled for now, because the poller couldn't keep up with it. Today I found some time to troubleshoot, and found the above statistics. Beside that a did a poll with debug on. It "hangs" very long on every interface of every device it polls. After looking into that, it seems that it collects all interfaces per metric it polls. I think that is the problem with devices with a big amount of interfaces, because it collects all statistics again for every interface. How can I fix this? Is this by design/Is this a bug? Or is it something in my setup? Regards, Bastiaan Topper Korton Group BV

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Re: [Observium] How can i add app mysql to my observium
by Tom Laermans 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Please read this email again, it will become clear... Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Robert Luczynski" <robert(a)byd.com.pl> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] How can i add app mysql to my observium Date: Wed, Aug 28, 2013 17:29 i have xinetd config from scripts/observium_agent_xinetd documentation: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Unix_Agent How can i check xinetd config file is ok? telnet can connect to port 3662 my xinetd config: service observium_agent { type = UNLISTED port = 36602 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/bin/observium_agent # configure the IP address(es) of your Observium server here: only_from = 127.0.0.1 # Don't be too verbose. Don't log every check. This might be # commented out for debugging. If this option is commented out # the default options will be used for this service. log_on_success = disable = no } On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Tom Laermans wrote: > Close, but no cigar yet ;-) > > Telnet didn't produce output, your xinetd config file is wrong; poller is not receiving your data. > > Tom > > On 08/28/2013 04:44 PM, Robert Luczynski wrote: >> I was running poller and dicovery script manually, rrd still doesn't have a rrd files... >> Cronjob setings is fine. >> >> >> >> >> On Aug 28, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Michael Sweikata wrote: >> >>> You have to run a poller and discovery after it's added to get those files generated. If your cron job is set up correctly and it will auto-poll devices every five minutes, just wait until the next cycle is complete, or run them manually. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Robert Luczynski >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:23 AM >>> To: Observium Network Observation System >>> Subject: Re: [Observium] How can i add app mysql to my observium >>> >>> Ok, i was missed mysql settings in observium panel. >>> I have app tab now, but graph is empty: (Error drawing graph) >>> >>> my rrd direcroty still does'n have a rrd files for mysql >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> >>> On Aug 28, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Robert Luczynski wrote: >>> >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> I have a CentOS 6.4 >>>> >>>> >>>> I want to add app tab to my observium. I was folllow in aplication mysql: >>>> http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/MySQL >>>> >>>> Unix agent is enabled: >>>> >>>> root@g [/opt/observium]# telnet localhost 36602Trying ::1... >>>> Connected to localhost. >>>> Escape character is '^]'. >>>> Connection closed by foreign host. >>>> >>>> mysql script work ok: >>>> >>>> root@g [/opt/observium]# /usr/lib/observium_agent/local/mysql >>>> <<<mysql>>> >>>> a0:5225549 >>>> a1:2200 >>>> a2:105805 >>>> a3:52579 >>>> a4:3774 >>>> a5:211779660 >>>> a6:1 >>>> a7:1 >>>> a8:-1 >>>> a9:-1 >>>> aa:8192 >>>> [...] >>>> ef:-1 >>>> eg:0 >>>> eh:1844224 >>>> ei:8388608 >>>> ej:3176 >>>> ek:890 >>>> >>>> puller info: >>>> >>>> ./poller.php all August 28, 2013, 9:49 - 1 devices polled in 0.739 secs >>>> MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[4/0s] Rows[30/0.01s] Column[0/0s] Update[22/0.01s] Insert[2/0.01s] Delete[0/0s] >>>> >>>> Thanks, Robert >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> observium mailing list >>>> observium(a)observium.org >>>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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missing Events Log in overview tab
by Micah Young 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi Is anyone else having problems viewing the Events Log in the Overview tab? I have been writing custom code but the issue only comes up when I update past revision 4367. Let me know. Thanks! Mike Y. ARDEN A Global Company Celebrating over 48 years of making your life more comfortable! This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. This OUTBOUND E-mail and Document(s) has been scanned by an Antivirus Server.

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Temperature Ipoman
by ColoCenter bv 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi all, Since a couple of updates(not sure which) the temperature sensor on a Ipoman is not working/shown anymore. i had one working and was being polled fine, but now i noticed it is gone. Not sure with which update it disappeared. I have this in my logs: 2013-08-25 18:01:26 System Sensor Deleted: temperature ipoman 1 EMD Temperature Can this be fixed? Thanks -- Alexander Lantink ColoCenter bv http://www.colocenter.nl info(a)colocenter.nl 079-7113500sure w

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Newbie ?s - map config
by McNett, Loren 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hello all, We’ve recently decided to move from Cacti, and tried Zenoss, and we’re now trying Observium. We’re *really* liking it. Device import went really well, and have been able to tune it to exactly what we need. I’m having issues with the map. The mapping of alerts is a pretty important feature for us, but I can’t seem to get it dialed in. You may certainly assume I know nothing about this mapping feature beyond the “Map Overview Settings” porton of the Configuration Options page. We’re a small campus so the scale of the map is not working out when we use the “US-565”. When the dots render they stack up. Is there a more ‘zoomed in’ option? How does one appropriately choose the ‘location’ data? If I can hop on google maps and put in a string and have it put a pin in the right building, is that string acceptable to use for the location field? I.E. “north hall library” gives me the correct location in google maps, does that mean I can use it for the location string? Since google maps has our building footprints drawn out, I’d prefer to use that layout, is it possible to switch it to that instead of the metro area shtick? Our map looks like this: [cid:image002.png@01CEA3E3.1FE973E0] Using the following in config.php //MAP data $config['frontpage']['map']['region'] = "US-565"; // See https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/geo$ $config['frontpage']['map']['resolution'] = "metros"; // Some region types such as US States (US-NY) require this to be changed t$ $config['frontpage']['map']['dotsize'] = 5; // Set the dotsize you want $config['frontpage']['map']['realworld'] = false; // Enable/Disable the realworld view (blue/green), if disabled default m$ Thanks! -Loren McNett

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active/standby pairs (esp. FW)
by Rob VanHooren 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

some gear that's put up in pairs insists on having the same hostname/sysName, e.g. ASAs. even though their m0 are uniquely reachable, there's no currently obvious way to watch the standby, since even though its DNS is unique, addhost sees sysName and rejects it as being a duplicate. ideas? tks, R.

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Incomplete device name (bug?)
by Richard Hartensveld 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi all, If I add a device with a hostname of br0.abcdefg , it will show up nicely on the front page, however, when I add a device with a hostname of br0.abcdefgh (or longer), the device's name will be 'br0' on the front page under "device alerts" and "Recent Eventlog Entries". If you hoover over the device name, he popup screen wil display the correct device name. Could this be a bug, or am I doing something wrong ? Thanks. gr, Richard

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Re: [Observium] OS Recognition
by Adam Armstrong 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

I am in the process of migrating this to the os script... :) Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >> Hi I just wanted to ask if observium is suppose to detect the flavour of linux or is this the correct behaviour? > >I think you want this part of the manual: >http://www.observium.org/wiki/Linux_Distribution_Detection > >Cheers :-) >Sander > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Mis-aligned data in memcached app
by Adam Armstrong 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Seems like a good idea. Adam. Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >Hi, > >When debugging why my memcached graphs weren't working I discovered the following problem: > >SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '41' AND `app_type` = 'memcached'] >Including: applications/memcached.inc.phpmemcachedmemcached(127.0.0.1:11211) >SQL[SELECT app_id FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '41' AND `app_instance` = '127.0.0.1:11211'] >RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/v25.invalpool.nl/app-memcached-127.0.0.1_11211.rrd N:64:2.0.16-stable:0:0:5:1045:6202:8:0:0:14045:129043:6202:0:0:0:0:7184655:13093279] >stdout[ERROR: /opt/observium/rrd/v25.invalpool.nl/app-memcached-127.0.0.1_11211.rrd: conversion of '2.0.16-stable' to float not complete: tail '.16-stable'] >stderr[]] > >Obviously the data in the rrdtool update command were wrong. A version number shouldn't be in there... So I looked at what the memcached agent script was returning and how that was parsed by the poller memcached module. It turns out that there is a difference. The agent script returns a list of values in this order: > >accepting_conns, auth_cmds, auth_errors, bytes, bytes_read, bytes_written, cas_badval, cas_hits, cas_misses, cmd_flush, cmd_get, cmd_set, cmd_touch, conn_yields, connection_structures, curr_connections, curr_items, decr_hits, decr_misses, delete_hits, delete_misses, evicted_unfetched, evictions, expired_unfetched, get_hits, get_misses, hash_bytes, hash_is_expanding, hash_power_level, incr_hits, incr_misses, libevent, limit_maxbytes, listen_disabled_num, pid, pointer_size, reclaimed, reserved_fds, rusage_system, rusage_user, threads, time, total_connections, total_items, touch_hits, touch_misses, uptime, version > >The poller module parses them in this order: > >accepting_conns, auth_cmds, auth_errors, bytes, bytes_read, bytes_written, cas_badval, cas_hits, cas_misses, cmd_flush, cmd_get, cmd_set, conn_yields, connection_structures, curr_connections, curr_items, decr_hits, decr_misses, delete_hits, delete_misses, evictions, get_hits, get_misses, incr_hits, incr_misses, limit_maxbytes, listen_disabled_num, pid, pointer_size, rusage_system, rusage_user, threads, time, total_connections, total_items, uptime, version > >As you can see this breaks at cmd_touch: the agent sends a variable the poller doesn't expect, and as the data is sent value-only it has no way to determine that the imput is in different places than it expects... > >What I suggest to do is the following: >- update the agent so that key:value is sent instead of just value >- update the poller module so that it can parse key:value input >- make the poller module also accept the current value-only input as a fall-back > >If we agree that this is the way forward I'll send in a patch. > >Cheers, >Sander > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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OS Recognition
by David Peall 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi I just wanted to ask if observium is suppose to detect the flavour of linux or is this the correct behaviour? Linux ns1.coza.net.za 3.2.0-30-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 24 16:52:48 UTC 2012 x86_64 Hardware Generic x86 64-bit Operating System Linux 3.2.0-30-generic Regards -- David Peall

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Mis-aligned data in memcached app
by Sander Steffann 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

Hi, When debugging why my memcached graphs weren't working I discovered the following problem: SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '41' AND `app_type` = 'memcached'] Including: applications/memcached.inc.phpmemcachedmemcached(127.0.0.1:11211) SQL[SELECT app_id FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '41' AND `app_instance` = '127.0.0.1:11211'] RRD[cmd[update /opt/observium/rrd/v25.invalpool.nl/app-memcached-127.0.0.1_11211.rrd N:64:2.0.16-stable:0:0:5:1045:6202:8:0:0:14045:129043:6202:0:0:0:0:7184655:13093279] stdout[ERROR: /opt/observium/rrd/v25.invalpool.nl/app-memcached-127.0.0.1_11211.rrd: conversion of '2.0.16-stable' to float not complete: tail '.16-stable'] stderr[]] Obviously the data in the rrdtool update command were wrong. A version number shouldn't be in there... So I looked at what the memcached agent script was returning and how that was parsed by the poller memcached module. It turns out that there is a difference. The agent script returns a list of values in this order: accepting_conns, auth_cmds, auth_errors, bytes, bytes_read, bytes_written, cas_badval, cas_hits, cas_misses, cmd_flush, cmd_get, cmd_set, cmd_touch, conn_yields, connection_structures, curr_connections, curr_items, decr_hits, decr_misses, delete_hits, delete_misses, evicted_unfetched, evictions, expired_unfetched, get_hits, get_misses, hash_bytes, hash_is_expanding, hash_power_level, incr_hits, incr_misses, libevent, limit_maxbytes, listen_disabled_num, pid, pointer_size, reclaimed, reserved_fds, rusage_system, rusage_user, threads, time, total_connections, total_items, touch_hits, touch_misses, uptime, version The poller module parses them in this order: accepting_conns, auth_cmds, auth_errors, bytes, bytes_read, bytes_written, cas_badval, cas_hits, cas_misses, cmd_flush, cmd_get, cmd_set, conn_yields, connection_structures, curr_connections, curr_items, decr_hits, decr_misses, delete_hits, delete_misses, evictions, get_hits, get_misses, incr_hits, incr_misses, limit_maxbytes, listen_disabled_num, pid, pointer_size, rusage_system, rusage_user, threads, time, total_connections, total_items, uptime, version As you can see this breaks at cmd_touch: the agent sends a variable the poller doesn't expect, and as the data is sent value-only it has no way to determine that the imput is in different places than it expects... What I suggest to do is the following: - update the agent so that key:value is sent instead of just value - update the poller module so that it can parse key:value input - make the poller module also accept the current value-only input as a fall-back If we agree that this is the way forward I'll send in a patch. Cheers, Sander

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No graphic image after the svn update
by waqar 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

hi all i just updated my observium using svn. after the update the graph image is not displaying at all.. i quickly revert back to my orignal version that is 4280 but still not graph image . i have deleted one of my device and then add it back but still no graph image.. ps: to be clear i m talking about no graph image.

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Location debug : how ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

Hello, For some reason, on my observium at work, seems that location doesn't want to work. On device menun, still marked as "unkown". I tried to find is there is an issue with the location part, but on a setup at home, it is working. Location like Paris, FR / Belfort, FR still fail into unknown, so I wish to debug what happened, and how to fix it (maybe this an issue with my setup, but I cannot find where). Any hints about that? 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

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