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Re: [Observium] VRF's on a Cisco 6500 series
by Adam Armstrong 02 May '13

02 May '13

Tell Cisco. :D Kristoffer Björk <kristoffer.bjork(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] VRF's on a Cisco 6500 series
by Adam Armstrong 02 May '13

02 May '13

6500? Why, that's a switch! No need for qa'd vrf snmp support there! Muwhahaha. Darius Seroka <dariusjs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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VRF's on a Cisco 6500 series
by Darius Seroka 02 May '13

02 May '13

Hi List, Has anyone got a Cisco 6500 series on observium with VRF's? I've recently been adding some cisco gear to observium and the vrf's don't get picked up. It did pick up VRF's from the pair of ASR1002 -- Regards, Darius

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Re: [Observium] up null up, anyone similar?
by Adam Armstrong 02 May '13

02 May '13

This is usually caused by poor network connectivity or high load on the monitored host. Adam. List User <list(a)redspeedservers.com> wrote: >Anyone else have anything similar to this: > >Date Device Entity Message >04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth1 ifOperStatus: -> up >04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth1 ifAdminStatus: -> up >04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth0 ifOperStatus: -> up >04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo lo ifOperStatus: -> up >04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth1 ifOperStatus: up -> NULL >04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth1 ifAdminStatus: up -> NULL >04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth0 ifOperStatus: up -> NULL >04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo lo ifOperStatus: up -> NULL > >over and over in the event log? Weird part is, we have another server in >here (this is the Linux, and one Windows for now) and it only happens to >the Linux one. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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up null up, anyone similar?
by List User 01 May '13

01 May '13

Anyone else have anything similar to this: Date Device Entity Message 04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth1 ifOperStatus: -> up 04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth1 ifAdminStatus: -> up 04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo eth0 ifOperStatus: -> up 04/30/13 10:55 PM bravo lo ifOperStatus: -> up 04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth1 ifOperStatus: up -> NULL 04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth1 ifAdminStatus: up -> NULL 04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo eth0 ifOperStatus: up -> NULL 04/30/13 10:50 PM bravo lo ifOperStatus: up -> NULL over and over in the event log? Weird part is, we have another server in here (this is the Linux, and one Windows for now) and it only happens to the Linux one.

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Re: [Observium] Can't add first host
by Adam Armstrong 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Don't add hosts via the web interface. Adam. Dan McGurk <prenger745(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Quick question on Brocade VLAN interfaces
by Aaron Mayfield 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

I'm running Brocade CER routers in my network at the moment. VLAN interfaces on Brocade are implemented as ve interfaces. Brocade for some reason decided not to implement interface counters for ve interfaces on the CES/CERs, so of course I don't get any utilization graphs for these interfaces. Is anyone out there running MLX or XMR? Out of morbid curiosity, do the VLAN interface octet/packet counters work on them? Thanks

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Can't add first host
by Dan McGurk 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

I have tried twice now to set this up, unsuccessfully. I have followed the walk-through for Debian/ubuntu as best I can but still can't get anything to work. I shouldn't say anything. I DO get the webpage and can log in with the user I set-up in the walk-through via command. When I go to the "Add Device" page I get a webpage error at the bottom. I have copied and pasted it here: Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0E) Timestamp: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:14:18 UTC Message: Expected identifier, string or number Line: 40 Char: 9 Code: 0 URI: http://xx.xx.233.26/addhost/ Message: Invalid character Line: 455 Char: 1 Code: 0 URI: http://xx.xx.233.26/addhost/ Also, when I go to the main page, underneath Devices and Ports..there is a red graphical rectangle with "Permission Denied x" Any ideas or thoughts would be much appreciated! Dan

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Linux agent port change
by Adam Armstrong 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Hi All, I've just changed the default port for the agent from the check_mk port to a port matching our enterprise id, 36602. There's an example script in scripts/observium_agent_xinetd for xinetd. You can now just use the agent script from scripts/observium_agent. Put it into /usr/bin/observium_agent, as matching the xinetd file. Create a /usr/lib/observium_agent directory and a /usr/lib/observium_agent/local directory. Put the agent scripts you want to run in the local directly. To test it, use "telnet localhost 36602". We're still working on a method of keeping the agent up to date on clients :) For the time being the poller will check both the /new/ port and the original check_mk port, but this will be removed in the future. adam.

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User interface access error
by ColoCenter bv 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi all, I give my customers access to observium so they can view the traffic from my switch to their network through their port. This used to work great, but now users can't view their port anymore. I get some access denied errors. Giving access to a device still works, to a single interface not. I don't know since what version this bug exists, my customers don't check their traffic every day. Another issue is that in the "all devices" and "all ports" sections they can see all devices that are being monitored by observium, even if they don't have access to it. A small security issue here. Can these issues be fixed? First one has my priority, second one would be nice. Kind regards, -- Alexander Lantink ColoCenter bv http://www.colocenter.nl info(a)colocenter.nl

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Re: [Observium] User interface access error
by Adam Armstrong 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hmm. Just recently someone tested this and these issues weren't there. I am thinking of stripping out the complex permissions system altogether. Adam. ColoCenter bv <info(a)colocenter.nl> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] attach specific mibs to a device
by Adam Armstrong 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

MIBs are not what you think they are :) Short answer is no. Adam. Rachid Zarouali <rzarouali(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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attach specific mibs to a device
by Rachid Zarouali 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hy all, i have several Aruba IAP-93, i was wondering if i can "attach" a specific mib (which is not the same mib for Aruba Controller) to these devices ? thanks for your help, Regards,

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Re: [Observium] Trend prediction
by Adam Armstrong 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

This is all done in rrdtool, so purely graphical initially. It is possible to extract this kind of data from rrdtool in numerical form, but it's quite slow, certainly too slow to do in the poller. Also, I would say in this instance you would set a warning at 75%. Much easier :) Adam. Petr Gregor <gregy(a)gregy.cz> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Cisco IOS VLAN update
by observium＠velder.li 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Hi, the description of vlan's in cisco ios isn't updated. If a desc is changed, i need to change it in the observium db manually. Is there a possibility to automate that? Regards patrick

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Is there a way to change the looks of the graphs - to look like "MRTG" charts?
by Sonny Kupka 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Hello, For whatever reasons - I have people asking if it is possible to change the looks of the graphs - to look like "MRTG" charts. Has anyone changed their graphs|looks.. If so care to share your settings? Thanks, Sonny

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Re: [Observium] Kickstarter project.
by Adam Armstrong 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

I just ordered a £5k of 28 year old scotch, that count? Err, I mean, ramen. Adam. Mattias Gyllenvarg <Mattias.Gyllenvarg(a)Bredband2.se> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Integration with Nagions/Smokeping - How does it work?
by Sam Munzani 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hi, I am new to Observium. Downloaded it last week and got a few devices working on it. Did Rancid plug-in and now all configs show up on Observium. I also added following to config.php and have Nagios3 and Smokeping running independently on the same box. However I don't know how its supposed to show up. Rancid was obvious because of the extra tab that shows up. How does it work with nagios and smoke ping? The documentation on these integration is very light. $config['rrdtool'] = "/usr/bin/rrdtool"; $config['fping'] = "/usr/bin/fping"; #$config['fping6'] = "/usr/bin/fping6"; $config['snmpwalk'] = "/usr/bin/snmpwalk"; $config['snmpget'] = "/usr/bin/snmpget"; $config['snmpbulkwalk'] = "/usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk"; $config['whois'] = "/usr/bin/whois"; $config['ping'] = "/bin/ping"; $config['mtr'] = "/usr/bin/mtr"; $config['nmap'] = "/usr/bin/nmap"; $config['nagios_plugins'] = "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins"; $config['ipmitool'] = "/usr/bin/ipmitool"; $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/var/lib/smokeping/"; #$config['virsh'] = "/usr/bin/virsh"; Also, does it have an ability to add a few URL monitors? I didn't see a reference in the documentation anywhere. Thanks, Sam

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RRD Command button broken
by Mattias Gyllenvarg 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hi Adam "RRD command" button is broken, it sends you back too the overview page. PS. Favorite BOFH so far "Shut your whore mouth!" -- *Med Vänliga Hälsningar - Best Regards* *Mattias Gyllenvarg* *Nätutveckling* Bredband2 Tel: +46 406219712

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maybe dumb question about observium itself
by Rachid Zarouali 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hy all, i'm using observium to monitor my network devices, i've seen there are applications that could be as well monitored. are these applications to be maintained or to be dropped ? i'm evaluating zabbix as well, so just wondering if i should keep both ? feedback appreciated, Regards

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Re: [Observium] maybe dumb question about observium itself
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

To make sure this is the case, agent scripts should have the absolute minimum of code. Where possible, just command output or cat'd files, updating php, perl and python scripts after deployment may prove difficult... :) Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >I'll reiterate what I said on IRC: > >Adam feels the current "application" infrastructure is not how it should be. > >However, yes, applications are not going away, just the way they are >monitored may change. Data collection scripts which we have now will >then be converted to whatever new format we'll be using. In the future. >Not now. No time, bugs and alerting first ;-) > >Tom > >On 23/04/2013 11:20, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> The applications stuff is messy. >> >> At some point we need to properly define how it should all work and >> make some real infrastructure for it, but that requires time and >> resource we don't have at the moment. >> >> So it's subject to change at any moment :) >> >> adam. >> >> On 2013-04-23 11:12, Rachid Zarouali wrote: >>> Hy all, >>> >>> i'm using observium to monitor my network devices, i've seen there are >>> applications that could be as well monitored. >>> >>> are these applications to be maintained or to be dropped ? >>> >>> i'm evaluating zabbix as well, so just wondering if i should keep both ? >>> >>> feedback appreciated, >>> >>> Regards >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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Re: [Observium] maybe dumb question about observium itself
by Andreas Bergman 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi, We're using a combination of Icinga (nagios) and Observium to monitor our network, some things Icinga do really well, and some things Observium do very well. Br Andreas -----Original Message----- From: "Rachid Zarouali" <rzarouali(a)gmail.com> Sent 4/23/2013 12:12:41 PM To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] maybe dumb question about observium itself Hy all, i'm using observium to monitor my network devices, i've seen there are applications that could be as well monitored. are these applications to be maintained or to be dropped ? i'm evaluating zabbix as well, so just wondering if i should keep both ? feedback appreciated, Regards _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Damn right Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 11:49 +0400, Nikolay Shopik wrote: >> Maybe just don't use it at all? It such junk anyway. What's wrong with >> good old k9mail >> >> On 4/23/13 10:46 AM, Tom Laermans wrote: >> > >> > Can someone please fix the threading breakage in the android client? :P > >Unfortunately I can't tell Adam what to use - he'll just take my mailing >list access away :P > >Tom > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Sonny Kupka 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hello, Seems there was a change in code which effects - Devices > Locations. I had set each device with a specific sysLocation - and checked override sysLocation in the device settings. This was working as expected, until I ran updates - Now instead of having my defined locations - It now shows countries - Canada, England, Unknown and all my stuff is showing up under unknown. Is there a place to read about configuration changes - I may need to re-adjust - or is this a bug - as override sysLocation is now overwritten by something else? Thanks. Sonny

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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

You would not be stupid enough to try to complain about something not working on an old release, would you? Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >I'm talking about reverting to the old behaviour, not getting >geolocation working. > >On 04/23/2013 02:31 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> There is still work to be done on it. >> >> The geolocation service we are using is a little temperamental, so needs well formatted locations. >> >> Adam. >> >> Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >> >>> On 04/23/2013 02:17 PM, Sonny Kupka wrote: >>>> Tom, >>>> >>>> Worked perfectly. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> Sonny >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Tom Laermans" <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> >>>> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:18:05 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations >>>> >>>> Hi Sonny, >>>> >>>> You can override the geolocation and return to the old behaviour by adding >>>> >>>> $config['location_menu_geocoded'] = FALSE; >>>> >>>> to your configuration file. I like it better too ;-) >>>> >>>> Tom >>> Does that feature require a particular svn revision? I'm on 3934 and it >>> doesn't work for me. >>> >>> Or does it require something like rediscovery? >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Feel free to consider all bug reports and other complaints ignore from nice on, then. Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >Where "old release" == "I only do 'svn up' in cron.weekly"? Evidently >so. :-) > >/me updates and tries again > >On 04/23/2013 02:42 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> You would not be stupid enough to try to complain about something not working on an old release, would you? >> >> Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >> >>> I'm talking about reverting to the old behaviour, not getting >>> geolocation working. >>> >>> On 04/23/2013 02:31 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >>>> There is still work to be done on it. >>>> >>>> The geolocation service we are using is a little temperamental, so needs well formatted locations. >>>> >>>> Adam. >>>> >>>> Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 04/23/2013 02:17 PM, Sonny Kupka wrote: >>>>>> Tom, >>>>>> >>>>>> Worked perfectly. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> Sonny >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Tom Laermans" <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> >>>>>> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>>>> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:18:05 PM >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Sonny, >>>>>> >>>>>> You can override the geolocation and return to the old behaviour by adding >>>>>> >>>>>> $config['location_menu_geocoded'] = FALSE; >>>>>> >>>>>> to your configuration file. I like it better too ;-) >>>>>> >>>>>> Tom >>>>> Does that feature require a particular svn revision? I'm on 3934 and it >>>>> doesn't work for me. >>>>> >>>>> Or does it require something like rediscovery? >>>>> >>>>> Paul >>>>> ... > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Issue with 95th Percentile for Billing
by Poh Yong Hwang 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi All, New here. :) I have an issue with the billing of traffic. I want to bill according to 95th percentile but for some reason it is always 0Mbps. It can plot my traffic for incoming and outgoing but it always show 0 for my 95th percentile. Any advise on this? Thanks Poh

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Re: [Observium] Issue with 95th Percentile for Billing
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

You are not running the billing poller. Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan(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] Strange timezone behaviour in graphs
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Still irritating, though. Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: >Cool. Easy enough to work around. > >Thanks, >Matt > > >On 23/04/2013, at 2:28 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: > >> Yes. This is down to some funkiness with timezones between client and server. >> >> It has been known for a while. The last attempted fix was reverted because it broke things even more! >> >> Adam. >> >> Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm not sure what to make of this. When I try to enter custom time ranges in any of the traffic graphs, I get different results depending on which browser I'm using. >>> >>> Results are as follows. I'm in Brisbane (GMT +10). >>> >>> Mac OS X 10.6 >>> >>> Firefox: Observium always converts the time I enter (in local time) to GMT. Therefore my graphs are out by 10 hours. >>> Safari: Won't accept any time info I enter. Always give me the last 24 hours. >>> Chrom: Everything seems to work ok. >>> >>> Windows 7 >>> >>> Internet Explorer: Always gives me the last 24 hours. Same as Safari on OS X >>> Chrome: Everything seems ok. >>> >>> >>> Clicking any of the preset time periods, e.g 6 / 24 / 48 hours, always works ok regardless of which browser/os I'm using. >>> >>> Is this expected behaviour? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Matt. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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Re: [Observium] Strange timezone behaviour in graphs
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Yes. This is down to some funkiness with timezones between client and server. It has been known for a while. The last attempted fix was reverted because it broke things even more! Adam. Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: >Hi, > >I'm not sure what to make of this. When I try to enter custom time ranges in any of the traffic graphs, I get different results depending on which browser I'm using. > >Results are as follows. I'm in Brisbane (GMT +10). > >Mac OS X 10.6 > >Firefox: Observium always converts the time I enter (in local time) to GMT. Therefore my graphs are out by 10 hours. >Safari: Won't accept any time info I enter. Always give me the last 24 hours. >Chrom: Everything seems to work ok. > >Windows 7 > >Internet Explorer: Always gives me the last 24 hours. Same as Safari on OS X >Chrome: Everything seems ok. > > >Clicking any of the preset time periods, e.g 6 / 24 / 48 hours, always works ok regardless of which browser/os I'm using. > >Is this expected behaviour? > >Cheers, >Matt. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

There is still work to be done on it. The geolocation service we are using is a little temperamental, so needs well formatted locations. Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >On 04/23/2013 02:17 PM, Sonny Kupka wrote: >> Tom, >> >> Worked perfectly. >> >> Thanks. >> Sonny >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tom Laermans" <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> >> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:18:05 PM >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations >> >> Hi Sonny, >> >> You can override the geolocation and return to the old behaviour by adding >> >> $config['location_menu_geocoded'] = FALSE; >> >> to your configuration file. I like it better too ;-) >> >> Tom > >Does that feature require a particular svn revision? I'm on 3934 and it >doesn't work for me. > >Or does it require something like rediscovery? > >Paul > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] FW: observium Digest, Vol 33, Issue 45
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

You are not our target market, then. Sam Munzani <smunzani(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>On 2013-04-22 15:32, Sam Munzani wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I deployed Observium over the weekend to try out. Reading through >>> documents, I figured out how to exclude specific interface types. >>> However trying to figure out how to exclude a specific interface? E.g. >>> The list might be Fa0/30, Fa0/37, Gig0/9, Gig0/42. No contiguous >>> interface. >> >>This is contra to the design ethos of Observium, thus there is no simple >>way to do this. >> >>Thanks, >>adam. > >While its a great concept, its not scalable. I have Qty 40 of the Cisco 48 >port switches and not all ports I care about. These are desktop ports and >I care to graph uplink ports only. Even if it does it efficiently, it is >junk data that I would never use. > >What would have been awesome is let Observium discover everything and let >administrators decide what they want to graph. > >Its sad that even though I like the tool, it doesn't fit me because of >this limitation(or so called feature). > >My 2 cents. > >Sam > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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FW: observium Digest, Vol 33, Issue 45
by Sam Munzani 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

> > > >On 2013-04-22 15:32, Sam Munzani wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I deployed Observium over the weekend to try out. Reading through >> documents, I figured out how to exclude specific interface types. >> However trying to figure out how to exclude a specific interface? E.g. >> The list might be Fa0/30, Fa0/37, Gig0/9, Gig0/42. No contiguous >> interface. > >This is contra to the design ethos of Observium, thus there is no simple >way to do this. > >Thanks, >adam. While its a great concept, its not scalable. I have Qty 40 of the Cisco 48 port switches and not all ports I care about. These are desktop ports and I care to graph uplink ports only. Even if it does it efficiently, it is junk data that I would never use. What would have been awesome is let Observium discover everything and let administrators decide what they want to graph. Its sad that even though I like the tool, it doesn't fit me because of this limitation(or so called feature). My 2 cents. Sam

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Strange timezone behaviour in graphs
by Matt Hucker 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi, I'm not sure what to make of this. When I try to enter custom time ranges in any of the traffic graphs, I get different results depending on which browser I'm using. Results are as follows. I'm in Brisbane (GMT +10). Mac OS X 10.6 Firefox: Observium always converts the time I enter (in local time) to GMT. Therefore my graphs are out by 10 hours. Safari: Won't accept any time info I enter. Always give me the last 24 hours. Chrom: Everything seems to work ok. Windows 7 Internet Explorer: Always gives me the last 24 hours. Same as Safari on OS X Chrome: Everything seems ok. Clicking any of the preset time periods, e.g 6 / 24 / 48 hours, always works ok regardless of which browser/os I'm using. Is this expected behaviour? Cheers, Matt.

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New memory graphs
by David Brodbeck 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Loving the new, more detailed Linux memory graphs. Much more useful now that I can see how much is actual memory use, and how much is cache that will be expunged as needed. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

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How to exclude some network interfaces?
by Sam Munzani 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hi, I deployed Observium over the weekend to try out. Reading through documents, I figured out how to exclude specific interface types. However trying to figure out how to exclude a specific interface? E.g. The list might be Fa0/30, Fa0/37, Gig0/9, Gig0/42. No contiguous interface. Thanks in advance, Sam

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Observium VMs wrong OS version
by observium＠velder.li 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hi there In the virtual machine overview (ESXi Host..), the os version is not correct. I added the VM to observium, when squeeze 6.0.6 was installed. Now it is 6.0.7 (since a few weeks) but observium still says 6.0.6. Is that a bug? Regards, Patrick

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IPMI weirdness
by Robert Williams 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hi All, For a while now it appears that all our devices which also have IPMI cards are seeing every single sensor added and deleted (in that order) on every poll. A relevant snippet from the debug of one device gives: (319ms) Discover sensor: temperature, Array, , 1, ipmi, System Temp, 1 , 1, -7.000, -5.000, 80.000, 85.000, 31.000 , ipmi, , , , SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM `sensors` WHERE `poller_type`= 'ipmi' AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature' AND `device_id` = '190' AND sensor_type = 'ipmi' AND `sensor_index` = '1'] SQL[INSERT INTO `sensors` (`poller_type`,`sensor_class`,`device_id`,`sensor_oid`,`sensor_index`,`sensor_type`,`sensor_descr`,`sensor_divisor`,`sensor_multiplier`,`sensor_limit`,`sensor_limit_warn`,`sensor_limit_low`,`sensor_limit_low_warn`,`entPhysicalIndex`,`entPhysicalIndex_measured`,`measured_class`,`measured_entity`) VALUES ('ipmi','temperature','190','','1','ipmi','System Temp','1','1','85.000','80.000','-7.000','-5.000','','','','')] ( 223532 inserted ) + SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Added: temperature ipmi 1 System Temp')] Discover sensor: temperature, Array, , 2, ipmi, Peripheral Temp, 1 , 1, -7.000, -5.000, 80.000, 85.000, 37.000 , ipmi, , , , SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM `sensors` WHERE `poller_type`= 'ipmi' AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature' AND `device_id` = '190' AND sensor_type = 'ipmi' AND `sensor_index` = '2'] SQL[INSERT INTO `sensors` (`poller_type`,`sensor_class`,`device_id`,`sensor_oid`,`sensor_index`,`sensor_type`,`sensor_descr`,`sensor_divisor`,`sensor_multiplier`,`sensor_limit`,`sensor_limit_warn`,`sensor_limit_low`,`sensor_limit_low_warn`,`entPhysicalIndex`,`entPhysicalIndex_measured`,`measured_class`,`measured_entity`) VALUES ('ipmi','temperature','190','','2','ipmi','Peripheral Temp','1','1','85.000','80.000','-7.000','-5.000','','','','')] ( 223533 inserted ) + SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Added: temperature ipmi 2 Peripheral Temp')] Discover sensor: fanspeed, Array, , 4, ipmi, FAN, 1 , 1, 450.000, 600.000, 18975.000, 19050.000, 3150.000 , ipmi, , , , <Repeats for all sensors> …(Section cropped)… <Then the removals follow immediately afterwards> SQL[SELECT * FROM sensors AS S, devices AS D WHERE S.sensor_class='voltage' AND S.device_id = D.device_id AND D.device_id = '190' AND S.poller_type = 'ipmi'] - SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223535'] SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 5 Vcore')] - SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223536'] SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 6 3.3VCC')] - SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223537'] SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 7 12V')] - SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223538'] From what I can tell, it’s doing this for all devices with IPMI, regardless of make / model etc. - and it is only doing it to the IPMI sensors, nothing else is affected. Feedback / suggestions welcome! Cheers :) Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] Reset disk storage values on host
by Adam Armstrong 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Output from discovery for that host with -m storage -d Andrew Lynch <lurch89(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] Reset disk storage values on host
by Adam Armstrong 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Run discovery. Andrew Lynch <lurch89(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Reset disk storage values on host
by Andrew Lynch 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

I recently changed the disk configuration on one of my monitored hosts. It seems like the discovery engine is pulling the stats incorrectly and applying them to the wrong disks. Is there an easy way (save for removing and re-adding the entire host) to flush the stats of the storage only? I don't care if it has to completely start from scratch. Thanks! -Andy -- Andrew Lynch (KD0IOE) lurch89(a)gmail.com http://andrewrlynch.com "Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been." —Theodore von Kármán WC

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Subifs no longer showing up for Cisco ASR9K/IOS-XR device after upgrade
by Stephen Fulton 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hi all, I've been using Observium since January, and I've mostly been happy with it. I upgraded to 0.13.4.3934 yesterday, and since then, none of the sub-interfaces on a ASR9K/IOS-XR 4.3.0 router are being collected. Originally I thought it was due to an upgrade error on my part, so I deleted the host and re-added it, but the sub-interfaces are not being seen and data not being collected. Let me know what information is needed, and I'll present it. -- Stephen

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Re: [Observium] IPMI weirdness
by Robert Williams 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Dear Tom, Pretty please? If you get it working again, at the end there will be cake... :) -----Original Message----- From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 20 April 2013 21:44 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] IPMI weirdness You need to be extra nice to Tom, as the IPMI stuff is written by him :) adam. On 2013-04-20 21:25, List User wrote: > I posted this earlier (as did a couple of other people) but it was > never fixed. > > On 4/20/2013 6:33 AM, Robert Williams wrote: > > Hi All, > > For a while now it appears that all our devices which also have IPMI > cards are seeing every single sensor added and deleted (in that order) > on every poll. > > A relevant snippet from the debug of one device gives: > > (319ms) Discover sensor: temperature, Array, , 1, ipmi, System Temp, 1 > , 1, -7.000, -5.000, 80.000, 85.000, 31.000 , ipmi, , , , > > SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM `sensors` WHERE `poller_type`= 'ipmi' > AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature' AND `device_id` = '190' AND > sensor_type = 'ipmi' AND `sensor_index` = '1'] > > SQL[INSERT INTO `sensors` > (`poller_type`,`sensor_class`,`device_id`,`sensor_oid`,`sensor_index`, > `sensor_type`,`sensor_descr`,`sensor_divisor`,`sensor_multiplier`,`sen > sor_limit`,`sensor_limit_warn`,`sensor_limit_low`,`sensor_limit_low_wa > rn`,`entPhysicalIndex`,`entPhysicalIndex_measured`,`measured_class`,`m > easured_entity`) VALUES > ('ipmi','temperature','190','','1','ipmi','System > Temp','1','1','85.000','80.000','-7.000','-5.000','','','','')] ( > 223532 inserted ) > > + > > SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` > (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES > ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Added: temperature ipmi 1 System > Temp')] Discover sensor: temperature, Array, , 2, ipmi, Peripheral > Temp, 1 , 1, -7.000, -5.000, 80.000, 85.000, 37.000 , ipmi, , , , > > SQL[SELECT COUNT(sensor_id) FROM `sensors` WHERE `poller_type`= 'ipmi' > AND `sensor_class` = 'temperature' AND `device_id` = '190' AND > sensor_type = 'ipmi' AND `sensor_index` = '2'] > > SQL[INSERT INTO `sensors` > (`poller_type`,`sensor_class`,`device_id`,`sensor_oid`,`sensor_index`, > `sensor_type`,`sensor_descr`,`sensor_divisor`,`sensor_multiplier`,`sen > sor_limit`,`sensor_limit_warn`,`sensor_limit_low`,`sensor_limit_low_wa > rn`,`entPhysicalIndex`,`entPhysicalIndex_measured`,`measured_class`,`m > easured_entity`) VALUES > ('ipmi','temperature','190','','2','ipmi','Peripheral > Temp','1','1','85.000','80.000','-7.000','-5.000','','','','')] ( > 223533 inserted ) > > + > > SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` > (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES > ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Added: temperature ipmi 2 > Peripheral Temp')] Discover sensor: fanspeed, Array, , 4, ipmi, FAN, 1 > , 1, 450.000, 600.000, 18975.000, 19050.000, 3150.000 , ipmi, , , , > > <Repeats for all sensors> > > …(Section cropped)… > > <Then the removals follow immediately afterwards> > > SQL[SELECT * FROM sensors AS S, devices AS D WHERE > S.sensor_class='voltage' AND S.device_id = D.device_id AND D.device_id > = '190' AND S.poller_type = 'ipmi'] - > > SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223535'] > > SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` > (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES > ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 5 Vcore')] > - > > SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223536'] > > SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` > (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES > ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 6 3.3VCC')] > - > > SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223537'] > > SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` > (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES > ('190','NULL','sensor',NOW(),'Sensor Deleted: voltage ipmi 7 12V')] - > > SQL[DELETE FROM `sensors` WHERE `sensor_id` = '223538'] > > From what I can tell, it's doing this for all devices with IPMI, > regardless of make / model etc. - and it is only doing it to the IPMI > sensors, nothing else is affected. > > Feedback / suggestions welcome! > > Cheers :) > > Robert Williams > Custodian Data Centre > Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com > http://www.CustodianDC.com [2] > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium [1] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > [2] http://www.CustodianDC.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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Re: [Observium] observium post from ronbobius@gmail.com requires approval
by Adam Armstrong 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

> What I have done with some 'very important' devices is do just that. > Change the cron entry for specific entries to 1 minute. > > Would this break anything Adam? These are smaller Cisco devices with > few interfaces. > It won't do anything, because the RRD won't store more than one data point every 300 seconds. If you changed the RRD databases, they'd stop storing the normal datapoints, because they would be at the wrong resolution. Like I said, it can't currently be done. You could change the entire installation to be 1-minute, change the RRD template and delete all of the existing RRDs, but you wouldn't want to, because that would be a lot of load on your network and on the observium host. Also, your changes would likely be overwritten by a future update, then you'd be stuffed :) adam.

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Observium Enterprise/Pro licensing
by Adam Armstrong 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

Hi All, At some point in the future it's likely that I'm going to split Observium into free and enterprise/pro variants. Observium has historically been developed as a fairly ad hoc project, with work being done as time permits between work projects. We've often had gaps of 6 months where there has been little work done due to other commitments. As the user-base expands this is going to become less and less viable a way of maintaining the project, and we need to be able to devote more time to keeping on top of bug reports and feature development. To be able to devote more time to the project we need to establish a revenue stream to be able to support it. We'd like comments from you guys about how we should go about splitting, what should be in each version, and what we should charge. We're considering: A hosts/ports-based licensing scheme, where you get a certain number free, and any more than that requires a license. A feature-based licensing scheme, where higher-value features such as load balancers, netapp, mac accounting, vpn tracking, etc require a license. Licensing for customer-access, where allowing customers access to the web interface requires a license. What pricing models do you think would work? Options for the ent/pro version include using the honour system, maintaining a separate password-protected SVN repository or distributing an ioncube-protected version. I would prefer to go the honour system route, but I'm not sure how well that would work. Thanks, adam.

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fisheye
by Crozier, Doug 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Is anyone else having problems getting to http://fisheye.observium.org/changelog/Observium?

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Re: [Observium] polling interval
by Adam Armstrong 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

This is not possible with observium. Adam. J Z <jzthegeek(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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polling interval
by J Z 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Long-time user and lurker. Many thanks to Adam and those who volunteer their time on this awesome project. I was wondering if there was a way to modify the polling interval (aside from modifying the crontab entry). I know that there was a lot of work that had to be done to decrease the polling interval from 5 to 1 minutes in Cacti, so I imagine it's not as simple as simply changing the crontab entry for Observium to monitor a switch's traffic utilization every 60 seconds. Has anyone successfully done this? Is there something simple I'm missing to get this to work? Many thanks!

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Re: [Observium] APC UPS and remaining Runtime
by Adam Armstrong 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hi, We currently have no sensor type to capture this. It is on the list, but as with everything else, no time and no resources. Adam. Chris Blake <chrisrblake93(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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APC UPS and remaining Runtime
by Chris Blake 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hello, Not sure if I am doing this right (using the mailing list) so please don't kill me if I am. I currently have a APC UPS SMT2200RM2U, and I just recently added it to my Observium panel vi SNMP v2c. I see it logs everything from the current load to battery temp, but I am kind of surprised it does not log Battery Run Time Remaining. I checked in the latest APC powernet.mib file, and there is a function to call this. So, I updated the /opt/observium/mib/apc/powernet.mib to the latest version, but observium still does not log or show the remaining run time, which leads me to believe it is not coded into the script. Just wondering if this is a plan for the future, or am I doing everything wrong? Thanks, Chris B

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