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observium alert not working
by Abul Bashar Azad 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Hi Observium Team, BDCOM is one of the big ISP and IP Telephony Service provider in Bangladesh I am deploy it in my IP Telephony network. I am follow your documentation step by step. I am add host and view all the graph its working fine. But I can not see any alert message. I am configure it but its not working. Could you please help me how can i get specific alert like my ram memory 75% use, Processor 60% use. I need customised alert to monitor my netwrok device properly . I am wating for your valuable feedback. -- With regards --- Md. Abul Bashar Azad Assistant Manager, IPTSP *BDCOM Online Limited* IP Phone : 09666333666 Cell: +8801818301627

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Re: [Observium] Observium Storage Requirements
by Tom Laermans 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Next to the rrd requirements, you may want to put some pruning in place for the eventlog and syslog tables. Size of storage per device depends on what is monitored on it. But as said in other answers the data files itself do not expand. Sent from my mobile, please excuse brevity and spelling errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Michael Sweikata" <sweikatam1(a)nku.edu> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Observium Storage Requirements Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2013 16:51 Hey everyone; I mentioned in a previous e-mail that we’re rolling out a deployment of Observium, and we absolutely love the product. I know that it’s designed as a historical data gathering tool, but I am concerned about the storage requirements for the system. I have approximately 600 routers and switches on my campus, and eventually would like to get my servers involved (pushing the device count beyond two-thousand), and I’m concerned at the storage requirements for this. I couldn’t find this information anywhere online, so I figured I would check with you guys. Does Observium have any kind of roll-over archiving for device history beyond a certain point, or will it continually just grow the data in the files?

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Re: [Observium] Observium Storage Requirements
by Adam Armstrong 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Observium uses red, which is fixed size round robin database. You can find information about how it works online. Perhaps we should document this too. Data usage for a single host shouldn't grow over time, except event log entries and the like. For an installation of that size you might want to use ssd or solid state ram drives. Spindles just won't survive the I/o load. Adam. Michael Sweikata <sweikatam1(a)nku.edu> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Observium Storage Requirements
by Michael Sweikata 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Hey everyone; I mentioned in a previous e-mail that we're rolling out a deployment of Observium, and we absolutely love the product. I know that it's designed as a historical data gathering tool, but I am concerned about the storage requirements for the system. I have approximately 600 routers and switches on my campus, and eventually would like to get my servers involved (pushing the device count beyond two-thousand), and I'm concerned at the storage requirements for this. I couldn't find this information anywhere online, so I figured I would check with you guys. Does Observium have any kind of roll-over archiving for device history beyond a certain point, or will it continually just grow the data in the files?

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Re: [Observium] only interface counters wrapped
by Adam Armstrong 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Interface counters update much quicker. Probably 500 times quicker than even packets in net stats. But it is perhaps related to old missed data problem. :( Adam Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: >Hey, > >So I just wondering is this normal when some of your counters wrapped >(huge peak) while others are perfectly normal? > >I have device running for 1 years, 103 days, and only interface graph >are wrapped while netstat are just perfectly fine. > >snmpwalk seems report that HC counters supported, device running 12.3 IOS. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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only interface counters wrapped
by Nikolay Shopik 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Hey, So I just wondering is this normal when some of your counters wrapped (huge peak) while others are perfectly normal? I have device running for 1 years, 103 days, and only interface graph are wrapped while netstat are just perfectly fine. snmpwalk seems report that HC counters supported, device running 12.3 IOS.

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False "device rebooted" message
by Stefano Lobrano 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Hello List, I'm testing observium to monitor network devices in our datacenter, I've added a range of different devices and it seems all good, but today it has given me a false notice about a couple of nexus 5000 that are reported as "rebooted" while the switches are correctly reporting uptime of more than 600 days... All the other hosts are reported without errors, apparently. I've looked in the mailing list archive and I found similar issues, with server, but I understand that was something resolved. Where does observium takes the info about reboot? Observium is installed in a VM: Observium 0.13.3.3824 Apache 2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.6 MySQL 5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 RRDtool 1.4.7 Thanks, Stefano

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IPMI issues
by List User 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Hey guys, Its me, again. This time I'm wondering what's up with the IPMI feature? I gave my IPMI a hostname in /etc/hosts and set the proper username and password, and it's not showing any data like CPU temperatures.I have a feeling its not even polling anything from the IPMI. I have the Module called ipmi enabled on global and the device itself. The FAQ didn't seem to provide any info related to IPMI usage. Thanks.

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Re: [Observium] Observium png files
by Adam Armstrong 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

PNG files are created in /tmp Dean Kamali <dean.kamali(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Observium png files
by Winston Shaw 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Hello, I can see that png files are being created in the /tmp directory. However the rrdtool graph command is trying to access non-existent png files. The result is no graphs being displayed. Is this related to the strgen function ? Is my system somehow converting the random names of the png files to another name.png ? non-programmer.

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Re: [Observium] Observium png files
by Adam Armstrong 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Nope. The file is deleted after it is accessed, so you never knew it was there. There is a bug which doesn't delete them sometimes, which is why you see them. You probably need to reinstall and follow the install guide properly on a supported platform. Adam. Winston Shaw <wvswinnie(a)excite.com> wrote: >Hello, > >I can see that png files are being created in the /tmp directory. However the >rrdtool graph command is trying to access non-existent png files. The result is >no graphs being displayed. Is this related to the strgen function ? Is my system >somehow converting the random names of the png files to another name.png ? > >non-programmer. > > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Traffic billing
by orznew orznew 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

I'm following the instructions listed in this website, http://www.observium.org/wiki/Billing#Configure_a_Bill. Is there anything that I"m actually missing? Thank you. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Andreas Bergman <andreas(a)sea-ab.se> wrote: > We're successfully polling both switches and servers and getting the data > we need. > > Switches: Dell Powerconnects > Servers: Dellserver running Ubuntu 12.04 and snmpd. > > /Andreas > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Niclas Tollgård" <niclas.tollgard(a)apicasystem.com> > Sent 3/27/2013 12:46:15 PM > To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Traffic billing > > I have the same problem....but not on all nodes. > > Where I poll switches or routers is works ok. When I poll servers (Debian Linux or VMWare) it doesn't work and my graphs looks the same as the attached picture. > > / Nic > > -----Original Message----- > From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans > Sent: den 27 mars 2013 11:40 > To: observium(a)observium.org > Subject: Re: [Observium] Traffic billing > > Are you running the billing poller? > > On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 17:22 +0800, orznew orznew wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > > > I've configured the traffic billing for my observium and configured > > the bill to bill a port. But the statistics shows 0mbps used. I've > > configured it to monitor the 95th percentile. can I please get some > > help in this? I need to monitor how much I will have to pay my > > upstream for every month. > > > > > > Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing listobservium@observium.orghttp://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] IPMI issues
by Adam Armstrong 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Tom will know, but he'll be asleep now. He does the ipmi code. List User <list(a)redspeedservers.com> wrote: >Hey guys, > >Its me, again. This time I'm wondering what's up with the IPMI feature? >I gave my IPMI a hostname in /etc/hosts and set the proper username and >password, and it's not showing any data like CPU temperatures.I have a >feeling its not even polling anything from the IPMI. I have the Module >called ipmi enabled on global and the device itself. The FAQ didn't seem >to provide any info related to IPMI usage. > >Thanks. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Issues with port alerts.
by Adam Armstrong 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Hehe. They wanted it as a 6 month stop-gap before their final solution was in place. I suppose they got the final solution in first! They were going to pay 2k. I though that was a little expensive, but it was what they offered :-) Adam. List User <list(a)redspeedservers.com> wrote: >I don't know. I mean you could live without if you have the Ports page >on auto-refresh, but after about 10 ports, it won't fit on the page. I >mean the amount depends on the person doing it and how much he thinks >his/her time is worth. Then there is also the fact, if Peer1 dropped it, >it must of been an extreme toll on their budget... > >. >. > >On 3/27/2013 5:24 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> >> How much is it worth? :) >> >> adam. >> >> >> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:50:47 -0400, List User <list(a)redspeedservers.com> >> wrote: >>> How much would it cost to sponsor its addition? >>> >>> On 3/27/2013 5:38 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >>>> Peer1 were going to sponsor its addition, but changed their mind. >>>> >>>> :) >>>> >>>> List User <list(a)redspeedservers.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is there anyway to get his added or anyone who can do it? >>>>> It would be a very headache saving feature for us. >>>>> >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> >>>>> On 3/27/2013 2:48 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >>>>>> There is, but not per-port. >>>>>> >>>>>> adam. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:45:17 +0100, Tom Laermans >>>>>> <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >>>>>>> Are you sure there's no code in place for a % threshold in the >> poller >>>>>>> code? I thought there was... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tom >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 27/03/2013 7:42, Adam Armstrong wrote: >>>>>>>> These UI elements don't function. They were only there as >>>>>>>> placeholders. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I've removed them for now :) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> adam. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:09:39 -0400, List User >>>>>> <list(a)redspeedservers.com> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Hi there, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I am a new user to Observium and seem to be having an issue with >> the >>>>>>>>> options for "Ports" on a device. I currently have 2 devices hooked >>>>>>>>> up, >>>>>>>>> working fine. The problem is when I edit the device and go to edit >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> Threshold and PPS settings, they never save. I tried both the Save >>>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>>> Save changes button. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I used this guide to install Observium >>>>>>>>> (http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation). The only >> I >>>>>>>>> changed was instead of doing addhost in the command line, I did it >>>>>>>>> on >>>>>>>>> the website instead. Other then that, I didn't touch anything >> else. >>>>>> The >>>>>>>>> server is dedicated to Observium and is running Ubuntu 12.10 >>>>>>>>> (32bit). >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I noticed the FAQ had an entry which seemed related >>>>>>>>> >> (http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ#When_submitting_large_forms_such_as_port_…) >>>>>>>>> but I didn't find that error in my PHP error logs. Can anyone >> point >>>>>>>>> me >>>>>>>>> in the right direction? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thank you. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> PS. Sorry if this was brought up before, I also checked via >> Google, >>>>>> but >>>>>>>>> it didn't show any relevant results. >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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] Issues with port alerts.
by Adam Armstrong 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Peer1 were going to sponsor its addition, but changed their mind. :) List User <list(a)redspeedservers.com> wrote: >Is there anyway to get his added or anyone who can do it? >It would be a very headache saving feature for us. > >Thank you. > >On 3/27/2013 2:48 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> There is, but not per-port. >> >> adam. >> >> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:45:17 +0100, Tom Laermans >> <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >>> Are you sure there's no code in place for a % threshold in the poller >>> code? I thought there was... >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> On 27/03/2013 7:42, Adam Armstrong wrote: >>>> These UI elements don't function. They were only there as placeholders. >>>> >>>> I've removed them for now :) >>>> >>>> adam. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:09:39 -0400, List User >> <list(a)redspeedservers.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi there, >>>>> >>>>> I am a new user to Observium and seem to be having an issue with the >>>>> options for "Ports" on a device. I currently have 2 devices hooked up, >>>>> working fine. The problem is when I edit the device and go to edit the >>>>> Threshold and PPS settings, they never save. I tried both the Save and >>>>> Save changes button. >>>>> >>>>> I used this guide to install Observium >>>>> (http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation). The only I >>>>> changed was instead of doing addhost in the command line, I did it on >>>>> the website instead. Other then that, I didn't touch anything else. >> The >>>>> server is dedicated to Observium and is running Ubuntu 12.10 (32bit). >>>>> >>>>> I noticed the FAQ had an entry which seemed related >>>>> >> (http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ#When_submitting_large_forms_such_as_port_…) >>>>> but I didn't find that error in my PHP error logs. Can anyone point me >>>>> in the right direction? >>>>> >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> >>>>> PS. Sorry if this was brought up before, I also checked via Google, >> but >>>>> it didn't show any relevant results. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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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Re: [Observium] New install of Observium; fails to add device
by Michael Sweikata 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Sorry for the formatting issue, I had my mailing list set to bulk distributions, which I've changed, so I'm not replying to the latest messages. Okay, I'm not sure what the hell, but once I loaded up the net-snmp-utils it worked fine. So I'm assuming that some of the packages didn't load correctly. I'll re-install all of them just to see what happens. Thanks for the quick response Adam and Dean!

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Issues with port alerts.
by List User 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi there, I am a new user to Observium and seem to be having an issue with the options for "Ports" on a device. I currently have 2 devices hooked up, working fine. The problem is when I edit the device and go to edit the Threshold and PPS settings, they never save. I tried both the Save and Save changes button. I used this guide to install Observium (http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation). The only I changed was instead of doing addhost in the command line, I did it on the website instead. Other then that, I didn't touch anything else. The server is dedicated to Observium and is running Ubuntu 12.10 (32bit). I noticed the FAQ had an entry which seemed related (http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ#When_submitting_large_forms_such_as_port_…) but I didn't find that error in my PHP error logs. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you. PS. Sorry if this was brought up before, I also checked via Google, but it didn't show any relevant results.

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New install of Observium; fails to add device
by Michael Sweikata 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hey Everyone; I'm trying out a brand new install of Observium, I really like the product and would love to set it up in my production environment. I have followed the installation guide for Red Hat 6 x64 on a virtual machine, however, when I attempt to add a router (Cisco 6509 using Advanced IP Services 12.2(33)), it fails to add: ./addhost.php routerDNSName observium Trying community observium ... No reply on community observium using v2c Could not reach routerDNSName with given SNMP community using v2c Trying v3 parameters observium/noAuthNoPriv ... No reply on credentials observium/noAuthNoPriv using v3 Could not reach routerDNSName with given SNMP community using v3 Trying community observium ... No reply on community observium using v1 Could not reach routerDNSName with given SNMP community using v1 Trying community observium ... No reply on community observium using v2c Could not reach routerDNSName with given SNMP community using v2c Trying v3 parameters observium/noAuthNoPriv ... No reply on credentials observium/noAuthNoPriv using v3 Could not reach routerDNSName with given SNMP community using v3 Trying community observium ... No reply on community observium using v1 Could not reach routerDNSName with given SNMP community using v1 On the 6509, I have input the commands listed on the wiki: routerName#sh run | i snmp snmp-server community observium RO SNMPv4 snmp-server ifindex persist snmp-server location routerLocation snmp-server contact Michael Sweikata snmp ifmib ifindex persist routerName#sh ip access-list SNMPv4 Standard IP access list SNMPv4 10 permit 10.2.48.130 log The DNS name does resolve correctly, and there are no firewalls or access-restrictions on those two devices talking. I've not worked with SNMP much before, but I can say that this device did run SNMP correctly, as Ciscoworks is able to detect issues, and it is listening on UDP/161. Any help for troubleshooting this would be appreciated.

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Re: [Observium] Traffic billing
by Andreas Bergman 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

We're successfully polling both switches and servers and getting the data we need. Switches: Dell Powerconnects Servers: Dellserver running Ubuntu 12.04 and snmpd. /Andreas -----Original Message----- From: "Niclas Tollgård" <niclas.tollgard(a)apicasystem.com> Sent 3/27/2013 12:46:15 PM To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Traffic billing I have the same problem....but not on all nodes. Where I poll switches or routers is works ok. When I poll servers (Debian Linux or VMWare) it doesn't work and my graphs looks the same as the attached picture. / Nic -----Original Message----- From: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: den 27 mars 2013 11:40 To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] Traffic billing Are you running the billing poller? On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 17:22 +0800, orznew orznew wrote: > Hi there, > > > I've configured the traffic billing for my observium and configured > the bill to bill a port. But the statistics shows 0mbps used. I've > configured it to monitor the 95th percentile. can I please get some > help in this? I need to monitor how much I will have to pay my > upstream for every month. > > > Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > 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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Traffic billing
by orznew orznew 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi there, I've configured the traffic billing for my observium and configured the bill to bill a port. But the statistics shows 0mbps used. I've configured it to monitor the 95th percentile. can I please get some help in this? I need to monitor how much I will have to pay my upstream for every month. Thank you.

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Fwd: [Observium-dev] r3775 - observer/trunk/includes/discovery/os
by Paul Gear 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi Tom, A few Comware-based HP switches have been detected as ProCurve recently as well. I think it's due to bone-headed changes by HP in the sysDescr string they're returning (because, contrary to your commit message, everything HP Networking must be ProCurve-branded :-). If i grab some snmpwalk results, do you need any particular flags, or is just the content of the string enough? Regards, Paul

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Re: [Observium] Observium and MariaDB support
by Adam Armstrong 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Mariadb is a drop-in replacement for mysql. No special support is required. Adam. Bart Teunis <bteunis(a)a2b-internet.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Observium and MariaDB support
by Bart Teunis 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hello, It seems that more and more Linux Distros are stepping out on MySQL and replace MySQL with MariaDB. The reason for this is that they dont have a good feeling about the plans that Oracle has with MySQL .. So my question is, is there a roadmap for observium regarding a migration towards MariaDB? Regards, Bart Teunis Bart Teunis | A2B Internet BV | +31 299 707 115 ( Office ) | +31 6 57 88 48 47 ( Dutch cell ) | <mailto:bteunis@a2b-internet.com> bteunis(a)a2b-internet.com |

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Custom graph at observium
by andres fariña 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi all, Currently I have many custom applications graphs with Cacti and I really want to use Observium for this. Is there any procedure with a little example to graph from scratch? I will really appreciate. Regards, Andres

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graphs kind of showing
by Dean Kamali 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Wondering if some one could help, the graphs are getting created, but its kind of showing in the UI, please find the attached image for example. Environment (ubuntu 12.4) PHP 5.3.10-1 rrdtool 1.4.7-1 My cron is setup correctly, and its running without any issues. Any ideas what could be wrong? Thanks

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Juniper SSG CPU
by Adam Summerfield 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

We constantly see the CPU being removed and added.... 2013-03-26 00:47:51 srdcz2-fw-01 System Processor added: type juniperive index 1 descr CPU Utilization 2013-03-26 00:47:51 srdcz2-fw-01 System Processor added: type screenos index 1 descr Processor 2013-03-26 00:47:49 srdcz1-fw-01 System Processor added: type juniperive index 1 descr CPU Utilization 2013-03-26 00:47:49 srdcz1-fw-01 System Processor added: type screenos index 1 descr Processor 2013-03-26 06:47:56 srdcz2-fw-01 System Processor removed: type juniperive index 1 descr CPU Utilization 2013-03-26 06:47:56 srdcz2-fw-01 System Processor removed: type screenos index 1 descr Processor 2013-03-26 06:47:54 srdcz1-fw-01 System Processor removed: type juniperive index 1 descr CPU Utilization 2013-03-26 06:47:54 srdcz1-fw-01 System Processor removed: type screenos index 1 descr Processor I have tried modifying SNMP timeouts and retries and have had no success... [timeout] => 10 [retries] => 5 Regards, Adam

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browsable archives and (sub)domains in hostnames
by Andreas Rüdel 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi, Observium 1) I wonder: is there a searchable version of the mailing list archives somewhere? 2) I need some hint where I can change the behaviour of observium to cut avay domains after the first dot - we used subdomains to segment our hardware so now all devices are called the same on the overview screen. (alarms / events) Example: switch1.site1.country1 switch1.site2.country1 switch1.site1.country2 and so on.. (I know it's boring but we ran out of elven names at one point...) ;) on the overview page they would all be called "switch1" when I go to "devices" everything is just fine can this be changed somewhere? could not find in config.php and don't dare editing the other files thanks! Andreas

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[patch] Add Support for Gnodal devices
by james.adams＠stfc.ac.uk 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hi Adam et al, The attached tarball contains initial support for Gnodal switches, enjoy! Cheers, James -- Scanned by iCritical.

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Observium Virtual Machines wrong OS Version
by observium＠velder.li 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '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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DELL metered PDU - supported? in planning?
by Mihai - Cristian Satmarean 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hi, I always like to write to this list because I get answers. Thank you! I would like to ask if Dell Metered PDU's are supported or planned to be supported: PDU Identification Attribute Value Model DELL Part Number 09FG8 Serial Number CN-009FG8-75166-31F-0005-A02 Firmware Version 01.02.0011 Web/SNMP Card Identification Attribute Value Firmware Version DELL DPI 01.04.0041 Serial Number 111210312380017 MAC Address B8-AC-6F-FC-F9-C9 NMC Up-Time 44 days 19 hours 11 mins 16.49 secs. Best!

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Observium Network Discovery
by Rizwan azher 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hi All, - How actually network discovery works for observium ? I mean do I have to just enable SNMP with same community and same Snmp version on all my devices so that observium can discover my whole networkor I jus have to add of single device name in config.apt and whole network will be autoatically discovered?..... and does observium also show me the whole map for my network ( connectivity b/w my devices)? and most important do i need to make any device as Seed device for my network ? from which it will automatically penetrate to whole network...Further more after discovering of my device can i filter those graphs so that I can only plot useful or main graphs - Can I also make groups to those graphs I mean is it possible that I can make a separate tab for my roters and the \n separate tab for switches etc. Thanks Rizwan

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VMware ESXi hosts missing information
by Matt Hucker 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hi all, I'm using Observium r3791 to monitor a few VMware ESXi 5.1 hosts along with a mix of servers and network gear. All seems to be running well, except for the ESX hosts. When Observium polls the ESX hosts it seems to be missing a lot of information due to missing MIBs: My /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf has the mibdirs line as per the installation instructions. mibdirs /opt/observium/mibs It seems if I copy all of the mibs from the /opt/observium/mibs directory to /usr/share/mibs, then the poller seems to run OK. No more missing module errors. Is this expected behaviour? Partial debug poller output below: Observium Poller v0.13.3.3784 DEBUG! Starting polling run: SQL[SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'esx01%' ORDER BY `device_id` ASC] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = '11'] SQL[SELECT * FROM devices_attribs WHERE `device_id` = '11'] esx01.prod.nrhosted.com 11 vmware DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c esx01 /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c esx01 -Oqv -m SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs udp:esx01.prod.nrhosted.com:161 sysObjectID.0 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.6876.4.1 RRD[update /opt/observium/rrd/esx01.prod.nrhosted.com/status.rrd N:1] OK u:0.01 s:0.00 r:0.07 RRD[update /opt/observium/rrd/esx01.prod.nrhosted.com/ping.rrd N:1.08] OK u:0.02 s:0.00 r:0.07 RRD[update /opt/observium/rrd/esx01.prod.nrhosted.com/ping_snmp.rrd N:46.31] DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c esx01 /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c esx01 -OQUs -m +VMWARE-ROOT-MIB:VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB -M +/opt/observium/mibs/vmware udp:esx01.prod.nrhosted.com:161 VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB::vmwProdName.0 VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB::vmwProdVersion.0 VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB::vmwProdBuild.0 MIB search path: /root/.snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/site:/usr/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/iana:/usr/share/mibs/ietf:/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp:/opt/observium/mibs/vmware The first call to snmpget has the correct MIB path (/opt/observium/mibs), but the 2nd call to snmpget seems to only include the /opt/observium/mibs/vmware (leaving out /opt/observium/mibs) Consequently I get a lot of errors such as these: Cannot find module (SNMPv2-TC): At line 10 in /usr/share/mibs/netsnmp/UCD-DLMOD-MIB Cannot find module (SNMPv2-SMI): At line 34 in /usr/share/mibs/netsnmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB Cannot find module (SNMPv2-TC): At line 37 in /usr/share/mibs/netsnmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB Did not find 'enterprises' in module #-1 (/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB) Did not find 'DisplayString' in module #-1 (/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB) Did not find 'TruthValue' in module #-1 (/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp/UCD-SNMP-MIB) -- Cheers, Matt.

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Observium r3779
by Laurens Vets 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello, Quick question about the new interface. All 'toolbars' now seem to have an arrow. When I hover over them, should that normally open a list?

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zfs file system size wrong listed
by Mihai - Cristian Satmarean 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hi all, I have a zfs filesystem on OpenIndiana that is 25 TB and occupancy is around 90%. Observium correctly recognizes most of the OpenIndiana features, but the size of this filesystem is reported around 1.5 Tb. Is there something I can do to fix it? Thank you!

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new device if possible
by Mihai - Cristian Satmarean 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hi, we have this clima for servers *Stulz GmbH Klimatechnik WIB 8000* Operating System Generic Device Contact local admin Location aircondition what should we do to have it in the Observium. Observium seems cooler and cooler for us. Thanks !

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Re: [Observium] Fwd: [Observium-dev] r3775 - observer/trunk/includes/discovery/os
by Adam Armstrong 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

All future HP kit is comware. I.e. descended from h3c kit they bought. Of course it all gets the pro curve brand even if they share nothing in common. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Huawei Neighbours
by Ciro Iriarte 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

Hi!, is there any project to improve Huawei network gear support?, currently there is some useful info that's missing, for example the neighbours view that we have with Cisco/CDP Huawei supports LLDP but that info is no available currently (rev3745). Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Re: [Observium] Plz need suppor ...
by Adam Armstrong 17 Mar '13

17 Mar '13

Stop spamming. You have disqualified yourself from any assistance fronts de team by spamming this list, the bugtracker/code-reviewer and my blog. Most of these are things you could work out by your self. Being impatient and acting like an entitled douche has not helped you. Adam. Rizwan Tw1 <riz.tw1(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Plz need suppor ...
by Rizwan Tw1 17 Mar '13

17 Mar '13

Hi all, Can any one please confirm about the mentioned below detials are supported over observium . - Interface monitoring ( All ypes of pors as STM's, FE , GE , XGE , etc - device statisics (CPU, Memory , etc ) - IPSLA MIB support - QOS/COS support - RRD suuport - Format of files relaed to data of graphs - VPN/neighbour prefix details - Status of Routing protocols -How much of Hardware requirement will be needed for monitoring of about 50 Routers along with 150 L3/L2 switches considering polling time for about 5 min. As an average routers have about 20 ports nd L3 switches with about 40 ports eachs, nd layer switches have 25 ports. - How actually network discovery works for observium ? I mean do I have to just enable SNMP with same community and same Snmp version on all my devices so that observium can discover my whole network and does observium also show me the whole map for my network ( connectivity b/w my devices) and most important do i need to make any device as Seed device for my network ? from which it will automatically penetrate to whole network...Further more after discovering of my device can i filter those graphs so that I can only plot useful or main graphs - Can I also make groups to those graphs I mean is it possible that I can make a separate tab for my roters and the \n separate tab for switches etc. Thanks Muhammad Rizwan Azher

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Help | Observium support
by Rizwan Tw1 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Hi all, Can any one please confirm about the mentioned below detials are supported over observium . - Interface monitoring ( All ypes of pors as STM's, FE , GE , XGE , etc - device statisics (CPU, Memory , etc ) - IPSLA MIB support - QOS/COS support - RRD suuport - Format of files relaed to data of graphs - VPN/neighbour prefix details - Status of Routing protocols How much of Hardware requirement will be needed for monitoring of about 50 Routers along with 150 L3/L2 switches considering polling time for about 5 min. As an average routers have about 20 ports nd L3 switches with about 40 ports eachs, nd layer switches have 25 ports. Thanks Muhammad Rizwan Azher

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Application Stats
by Ciro Iriarte 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Hi!, what's the state of application data collection?. I had stats for mysql and apache on my original install, but after it's reincarnation the application collection doesn't seem to work any more, was that moved to the unix agent? We would like to include application counters to observium and most of them are custom developments. Today we have cacti installs everywhere, but having all that info in one place would be great. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Re: [Observium] browsable archives and (sub)domains in hostnames
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

I would fire you guys so hard.... :-) Adam. Sander Steffann <sander(a)steffann.nl> wrote: >Hi, > >> Including domain.tld is a little overkill, no? > >Oh, for displaying in Observium: certainly! > >> Maybe a config option to strip the words to the right of x number of dots so folks can decide if they want to add domain.tld or just device.pop.whatever.whatever? >> >> For me, I have device.rack.site.city.domain.tld so my requirements would be different than just device.site.domain.tld. > >That's a very hierarchical name :-) >Sander > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

I had 100 centos boxes to maintain last year and wrote it. I have never used sles, so it would be unmaintainable. Adam. Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy(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] can anyone tell me what is this?
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Read the redhat installation instructions properly, this is trivially obvious. You did not follow them properly. You thought you knew better. This has resulted in you looking foolish. Adam. ilkay.karadam(a)servisturk.com.tr wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Interesting way to talk to someone who's code you run without reading first... ilkay.karadam(a)servisturk.com.tr wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Better for you, perhaps. Our policy is not to spoon feed information we have already provided in the install documentation. If you are not capable of following it, you should not be using observium. We only have limited time to work on the project and do not believe supporting lazy users is an efficient use of that time. Adam. ilkay.karadam(a)servisturk.com.tr wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by ilkay.karadam＠servisturk.com.tr 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by ilkay.karadam＠servisturk.com.tr 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

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Poller performance
by Ciro Iriarte 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Hi!, I've been running Observium on SLES11 for almost a year. This was on a 8 vCPU + 2GB RAM VMware guest with a 30GB RRD footprint. After adding about 320 new hosts (all of them, network gear) the RRD database went to 130GB and the little machine got peaks of 3k IOPS. The I/O wait was rather hi and the machine would suddently stop responding (Hypervisor stats showed 0% CPU usage). So, I've migrated the installation to a physical machine running Solaris 11 (I know, it's not supported) and without any tunning (mysql/zfs are candidates) I'm seeing polling of 41 devices in about an hour. Is this usual/expected? -- ./poller.php 0/24 February 13, 2013, 18:27 - 27 devices polled in 4048. secs ./poller.php 7/24 February 13, 2013, 18:27 - 27 devices polled in 4075. secs ./poller.php 0/24 February 13, 2013, 18:28 - 27 devices polled in 3803. secs ./poller.php 22/24 February 13, 2013, 18:28 - 27 devices polled in 4404. secs ./poller.php 3/24 February 13, 2013, 18:28 - 28 devices polled in 4417. secs -- IOPS climbed to 5k, comments? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Re: [Observium] can anyone tell me what is this?
by ilkay.karadam＠servisturk.com.tr 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

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