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Workaround for vlan Permission
by Tibi, Saleh 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Hi guys, i am wondering if there is a way to give Permission to a specific user to see all vlan I mean the following path: https://domainnam.com/vlan/, without giving a global Read I tried throw Group Permissions but the issue is, that I cant collect all vlan in a group, because vlan is not an Eintitiy in Obserivum. Is there any workaround ? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Saleh Tibi --------------------------------------------- Ing: Saleh Tibi (Herr) IT-Spezialist für Maschinensäle und Überwachung Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologie (ZIM)|Raum 25.41.02.27 Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Universitaetsstrasse 1, 40225 Duesseldorf Email: <mailto:saleh.tibi@hhu.de> saleh.tibi(a)hhu.de Phone: +49-(0)211-81-14051 Vor Ort: Montag, Dienstag und Freitag

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User permissions (same thing with alerts)
by Brad Bendy 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Am I missing something when adding users? Do you have to add each device to a user? Is there anyway to just allow all devices? The issue we are having is each time we add devices we have to login and modify the users everytime we add devices, which you can imagine is a nightmare. Thanks

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host_id in pollers table
by Brad Bendy 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Hi, We have a image we have been deploying at remote sites for the poller. This was a clone and added a new site and running into issues. Looking at the poller table I see the hostid in not different across some of the hosts, assuming his because we cloned the image. What is this hostid referenced from? We made new SSH keys on each host but there must be something else this from and not really sure how to change it. Thanks

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Acknowledgments to alerts
by Lars Joergensen 26 Jul '21

26 Jul '21

Hi all We're really pleased with Observium, and are actually looking to using it as the main network monitoring tool. What we miss is a way to add a comment when you acknowledge an alert. Something along the lines of "stuff is acting up again. John is looking at it. Trouble ticket XX1234." Is this something that is being considered? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Change default sensor thresholds?
by Lars Joergensen 25 Jul '21

25 Jul '21

Hi It seems many of our Aruba SFP's have TX power set about the threshold defined for them somewhere in Observium. Rather than changing all of them manually, I would like to do a global change for these. Is that possible? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 132, Issue 11
by Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

Hallo, Thanks for your answer. I am very new to Observium and would like to know how to get to the command line of the Observium host. Regards, Joyce -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> Im Auftrag von observium-request(a)observium.org Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Juli 2021 13:00 An: observium(a)observium.org Betreff: observium Digest, Vol 132, Issue 11 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Problem Adding New Device (Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm)) 2. Re: Problem Adding New Device (Ahmed Rahal) 3. Re: Problem Adding New Device (Adam Armstrong) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:39:35 +0000 From: "Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm)" <J.Njoroge(a)ulm.de> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Problem Adding New Device Message-ID: <59e016f19ffa485da62f2760e8d554c8(a)sus-ex-01-wp.stadtulm.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hallo, I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. I use the same parameters for the other devices but with the few that couldn't be added, I am getting the following message. [cid:image001.png@01D778CD.53F2F860] I have tried to change SNMP authentication using different protocol versions but I still get an error message. [cid:image002.png@01D778CE.B3F939D0] [cid:image003.png@01D778CE.D3F95D50] Obsevium version is Observium CE 20.9.10731. I will appreciate your help. 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Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 21113 bytes Desc: image003.png URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20210714/672568e…> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:05:55 -0400 From: Ahmed Rahal <arahal(a)fibrenoire.ca> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Problem Adding New Device Message-ID: <CAHaNNBULsv0gxYZrN3PPXpLowEdYuWEPUbvcH3aurs_-t0jEMw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Joyce, Try debugging on the command line from the Observium host: snmpwalk -v2c -c <your_snmpv2_community> 172.30.2.21 This should pull a lot of text. If this command does not succeed, make sure you can reach your target on port 161/udp (check your firewalls). If snmpwalk returns content, try adding the node through the command line: /opt/observium/add_device.php 172.30.2.21 <your_snmpv2_community> That will likely tell you what's wrong. HTH, Ahmed. Le mer. 14 juill. 2021, à 10 h 39, Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) via observium <observium(a)observium.org> a écrit : > Hallo, > > > > I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. > I use the same parameters for the other devices but with the few that > couldn't be added, I am getting the following message. > > > > > > I have tried to change SNMP authentication using different protocol > versions but I still get an error message. > > > > > > > > Obsevium version is Observium CE 20.9.10731. > > > > I will appreciate your help. > > > > Regards, > > Joyce > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > -- Ahmed Rahal Administrateur de Systèmes / Systems Administrator *Fibrenoire* - www.fibrenoire.ca A: 550 , avenue Beaumont, bureau 320, Montréal (Québec) H3N 1V1 arahal(a)fibrenoire.ca Twitter: @fibrenoire -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 21113 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20210714/4a81156…> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:08:35 +0100 From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Problem Adding New Device Message-ID: <6B77A19F-AB64-4F85-9821-E366D51E2AB5(a)getmailspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Better to just fetch sysObjectID.0 or sysDescr.0 instead of a walk to start with. snmpget -v2c -c <community> 172.30.2.21 sysDescr.0 Using v3 auth on commandline is messy, I'd recommend making it work with v2c if you don't understand the complexities. adam. On Jul 14 2021, at 5:05 pm, Ahmed Rahal via observium <observium(a)observium.org> wrote: > Hi Joyce, > > Try debugging on the command line from the Observium host: > snmpwalk -v2c -c <your_snmpv2_community> 172.30.2.21 > > This should pull a lot of text. > If this command does not succeed, make sure you can reach your target on port 161/udp (check your firewalls). > > > If snmpwalk returns content, try adding the node through the command line: > /opt/observium/add_device.php 172.30.2.21 <your_snmpv2_community> > > > That will likely tell you what's wrong. > > HTH, > > Ahmed. > Le mer. 14 juill. 2021, à 10 h 39, Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) via observium <observium(a)observium.org (mailto:observium@observium.org)> a écrit : > > Hallo, > > > > > > I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. 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Unable to poll a once working Device
by Oberreiter Andreas 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Hi there, I have multiple environmental Devices which are working fine for years now. A view weeks ago one of was shown as unable to poll. A SNMPwalk for the Device works fine. I've tried to add the device via it's IP no luck there. I've rebooted the Server and the Device multiple times. I flushed the DNS cache. Attached are the debug Output of a poller run of a working Device poll_tempboxnl.txt and of the non-working Device poll_tempboxnz.txt as well as the discovery and snmpwalk output. xxx_tempboxnl.txt working. xxx_tempboxnz.txt not working. Any suggestions are welcome. Best regards Andras

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Problem Adding New Device
by Njoroge, Joyce (Stadt Ulm) 14 Jul '21

14 Jul '21

Hallo, I am having a problem adding a few of my devices to the Observium Server. I use the same parameters for the other devices but with the few that couldn't be added, I am getting the following message. [cid:image001.png@01D778CD.53F2F860] I have tried to change SNMP authentication using different protocol versions but I still get an error message. [cid:image002.png@01D778CE.B3F939D0] [cid:image003.png@01D778CE.D3F95D50] Obsevium version is Observium CE 20.9.10731. I will appreciate your help. Regards, Joyce

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Re: [Observium] Invalid targets and datasource
by Mati 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Dear All, I have been struggling getting PHP Weathermap working properly on Observium and would really appreciate your help.. I've noticed that the percentage values on the links is not working and the traffic load is continuously at 0.00%. We are currently using the following software versions.. *Observium* 21.5.11304 (6th May 2021) *OS* Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 [amd64] (Debian 8) *Apache* 2.4.10 (Debian) *PHP* 5.6.38-0+deb8u1 (OPcache: ENABLED) (Memory: 128MB) *Python* 2.7.9 *MySQL* 5.5.60-0+deb8u1 (extension: mysqli 5.5.60) *SNMP* NET-SNMP 5.7.2.1 *RRDtool* 1.4.8 The results from map-poller.php are as follows: WARNING: configs//example.conf: OVERLIBGRAPH is used, but HTMLSTYLE is static. This is probably wrong. [WMWARN41] PHP Notice: Undefined index: uptime in /var/opt/observium/html/weathermap/lib/datasources/WeatherMapDataSource_observium.php on line 53 PHP Notice: Undefined index: uptime in /var/opt/observium/html/weathermap/lib/datasources/WeatherMapDataSource_observium.php on line 53 WARNING: configs//Core_062021.conf: ProcessTargets: LINK hex.asr9k-pe1, target: /opt/observium/rrd/hex.asr9k-pe1/port-415.rrd:INOCTETS:OUTOCTETS on config line 69 of configs//Core_062021.conf was not recognised as a valid TARGET [WMWARN08] Kind Regards MP

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Unable to create Alert Checker
by David Milton 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Hello, I'm having a strange problem creating alert checkers. I first noticed this today and updated to the latest edition: 21.7.11450. I'm working on a test server and was attempting to re-create all of the alert checkers currently on my production systems and then add a few more; I would like to monitor power supply input state as well as air intake temperatures and produce alerts when a power supply is "down" and when intake air temperatures go above something like 45C. This has been prompted by some problems lately where power redundancy was lost and where we had an air conditioner failure. An earlier warning than having the hardware go into thermal shutdown is very much needed. So on my test server I can go through the basic process of creating the alert checker; alert checks -> Create new checker. In this case I click BGP Peer, fill in the name, message, use 1 for the delay and the conditions: bgpPeerAdminStatus notequals stop bgpPeerState notequals established Unfortunately, when I click "Add Checker" nothing happens. I've verified this is not likely the browser or is something pretty universal to all of my browsers because I can duplicate this in current versions Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome. Both Opera and Chrome are fresh installations done today but I did try disabling all extensions in Firefox and Safari to see if those were a problem. I searched through the documentation but couldn't find anything about browser compatibility or known conflicts. This used to work but it's been quite some time since I've wanted to add new checks. Is there something else I'm missing? Thanks, Dave.

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Thermal Alarm Bug
by Joey Stanford 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Hi Adam (et al), When Obs pulls in a sensor_value of NULL it gets interpreted as a zero and thus triggers alerts. Can we prevent that somehow? Joey > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Observium" <observium(a)rmham.org> > Subject: ALERT: [radio-westcreek.devilshead.rmham] [sensor] [System] Thermal Alarm - Temperature out of threshold > Date: July 9, 2021 at 14:43:53 MDT > To: netops(a)rmham.org > > ALERT Modify <http://observium.rmham.org/device/device=182/tab=alert/alert_entry=23319/> > Alert Thermal Alarm - Temperature out of threshold > Entity System <http://observium.rmham.org/device/device=182/tab=health/metric=temperature/…> > Conditions sensor_value less -25 ("") > Metrics sensor_value = > Duration 5h 43s (2021-07-09 09:43:10) > Device > Device radio-westcreek.devilshead.rmham <http://observium.rmham.org/device/device=182/> > Hardware RB911-5HacD > Operating System Mikrotik RouterOS 6.47.10 (Level 3) > Location DevilsHead, [39.260394,-105.101844] > Uptime 7m 28s > sensor_graph > > <http://observium.rmham.org/graph.php?type=sensor_graph&id=3629> > > E-mail sent to: netops(a)rmham.org <mailto:netops@rmham.org> > E-mail sent at: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 14:43:53 -0600 > > -- > Observium Professional 21.7.11470 <https://www.observium.org/>

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APCu Caching not working?
by Milton Ngan 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

I have noticed that when I enable webUI caching, that the page loads don’t speed up. It regularly takes 3 seconds to render a page, although the tool tip at the bottom shows APCu caching is enabled. However, if I force the cache driver to “files”, then I see a huge speed up (page loads drop to about 100-200ms). Is there some extra config to get APCu working correctly? I didn’t see anything in the docs, but I could have missed it.

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(no subject)
by DerBeWie 08 Jul '21

08 Jul '21

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Notification Transports
by Nelson Lopes 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Wed like to add Pager Duty as a notification transport but I dont see it as an option in contact. Currently running Professional edition of Observium. Do we need an Enterprise edition. If not, what am I missing? Thanks in advance,

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Distributed polling
by Milton Ngan 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

I was looking at the distributed polling feature as we have a geographically distributed network and polling slow devices from half way across the globe takes a long time. It turns out that putting a poller closer to the device doesn’t actually help. The SNMP polling times go down a bit, but the SQL times go up a lot because there are hundreds of SQL queries that get run for every polled device. This can easily add another 1-2 minutes to your polls depending on how many metrics are being polled. So, it seems to me that the distributed feature only works if the poller is still reasonably close to the database, otherwise the latency per query eats up any gains you might have from reducing the SNMP latency. Are there plans to try to reduce the number of queries a poller makes to make geographically distributed polling less latency sensitive? Cheers Milton

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Alert on Entity Group
by Philipp Rehs 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Hello, we want to create alert checkers for entities (mostly storage entities) which are only assigned to some entities in special groups. Building the groups is possible but it is not possible to add a association rule based on entitiy group membership. it is just possible to do it on device group membership or entity attributes. There is no entitiy / storage group option. Any idea how to solve this? Kind regards Philipp Rehs -- --------------------------- Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologie Kompetenzzentrum für wissenschaftliches Rechnen und Speichern Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1 Raum 25.41.00.51 40225 Düsseldorf / Germany Tel: +49-211-81-15557

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RANCID integration with Huawei CloudEngine
by Hernan Moguilevsky 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

Hi, This is not an Observium question really. But perhaps someone had the same issue. Did anyone managed to integrate RANCID with Huawei CloudEngine? I have no problem with Huawei S line. If someone solved it, please share. Thanks. Regards. -- /Hernan Moguilevsky/ Badajoz 45, piso 17 Las Condes | Santiago | CHILE *T* 56 22840 9984 (Ext 140) | *ASNs* 61522 / 61524 /61525 /61526 /61527 /64112

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OSPF neighbor - Huawei
by henrique＠infovaletelecom.com.br 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Good afternoon, Someone managed to monitor ospf neighbors using huawei 6730 device ?

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alert checkers windows after migration to new server is blank
by Edvinas Kairys 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

Hello, After migration to new service, using mysql dump and then restore, on the new server i see alert checkers windows blank, even the page source displays the alerts. Any clues ? using Observium Subscriber edition. [image: image.png]

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monitoring 3CX
by Luis Olavarrieta 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Is anyone monitoring a 3CX server in linux? I am able to monitor the OS, but not the app as running Asterisk in other boxes. If you are able to do it, please advice on how to! Thanks!

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Empty alerts via telegram bot
by Aleksandr Vedernikov 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hey! After updating to release 21.6.11399 (14th June 2021), notifications via the telegram bot stopped working. Empty messages arrive. When testing sending via the command ./test_alert.php -c 1 notification come. -- Best regards, Vedernikov Alexander Chief Engineer, ORI UTsTiEO Ural State Law University ============================ <http://www.usla.ru/> www.usla.ru

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Missing information in alert emails
by Haris Hajlovac | HTL 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

Hello, Since we've upgraded Observium to the latest version (21.6.11399 (stable)) the alert emails we receive are missing information for most of the devices. Prior to the upgrade email alerts looked like this: After the upgrade alert e-mails look like this: We can revert the virtual machine to the state prior to upgarde but we'd prefer to have it running the latest version of Observium. Does anybody ha san idea on what could be the problem here? Thanks. Kind regardss, Haris

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rule creation training
by Luis Olavarrieta 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

Hi team, is there someone how could give me training creating rules? This (after a negotiation) will be a paid service. Regards, Luis

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Observium dropping off intermittently
by Mills, Stuart 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Hi, Every now and again I have an issue with Observium as it will read devices offline and show down (DNS) however when I restart Observium devices come back. I have run DCDIAG, and DNS is working ok, can anyone shed any light on this issue? -- Kind Regards *Stuart J Mills* *Systems Administrator* *Dresden International School* Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Germany *Phone:* +49(0)351 44007 32 smills(a)dresden-is.de www.dresden-is.de *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch -- *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch* *

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Nested or pass through server configuration
by paulkitteringham＠axisstudiosgroup.com 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Hi, We have two Observium servers at different locations, can we enable one as a master or pass through, so we can see the second location via the main/primary location server ? Many thanks -- *Paul Kitteringham* Senior System Administrator +44(0)7900221989 axisstudiosgroup.com Glasgow. London. Bristol.

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Extract Network Date for Network MAP
by Mills, Stuart 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hi, Does Observium offer a way to extract Network data to create a MAP? -- Kind Regards *Stuart J Mills* *Systems Administrator* *Dresden International School* Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Germany *Phone:* +49(0)351 44007 18 <+49%20351%204400718> smills(a)dresden-is.de www.dresden-is.de *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch -- *DIS Dresden International School gGmbH* Sitz der Gesellschaft | Company Register: Annenstr. 9, 01067 Dresden Registergericht | Court of registration: Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 35540 Geschäftsführung | Executive Board: Steven Calland-Scoble, Andrea Harnisch* *

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RANCID integration question
by Adam Thompson 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

I'd like to integrate our RANCID install with our Observium install, but the "generate-rancid.php" script includes over 100 devices that we have SNMP access to but not SSH, and excludes some other virtual devices that I do want to include. The script appears to simply key off whether the device is classed as "hardware" or not, which isn't adequate for us. Are there any enhancements to that script on the wings? If not, can I just manually edit the generated list and never re-run the script automatically (despite the warning in it)? Thanks, -Adam

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monitoring traffic in a redundant internet access
by Luis Olavarrieta 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Hey team, question, is there a way to monitor in a mikrotik with two internet access if both are active? The main link will give us remote snmp access to the equipment but we need to know if there is a way we can verify that the 2nd link that is connected to a DSL modem is up and running. Please advice,

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URL /graph.php
by Jérôme Marteaux 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Hi, I would like to use /graph.php to get graph (port graphs). I will use authenticated query with header /Authorization: Basic <digest>/ But this request doesn't work as authenticated query is not allowed for /graph.php url. I believe /graph.php is not an API query scheme, but it should? be possible to include /graph.php as one. Does another query, header, parameters exists to fetch a graph without a session (API request) ? What do you think of this patch in order to allow authenticated query to /graph.php: Original file is the one of revision 11382: --- html/includes/authenticate.inc.php.orig 2021-06-08 15:35:43.633475678 +0200 +++ html/includes/authenticate.inc.php.new 2021-05-28 23:53:35.354798084 +0200 @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ } } - if ($auth_success && !OBS_API && !OBS_AJAX) + if ($auth_success && !OBS_API && !OBS_AJAX && !OBS_GRAPH) { // If just logged in go to request uri, unless we're debugging or in API, // in which case we want to see authentication module output first. -- Jérôme Marteaux

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Option to Ignore Device Down due to DNS failure
by Pisano, Anthony D. 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Hello, We have had a couple incidents where for one reason or another Observium has been unable to resolve DNS. This generates hundreds of emails saying the entire network is down, and again when it comes back up. Is there a way to tell Observium not to alert when a device is failed due to DNS lookup? Anthony Pisano | Network Design Engineer | IMSS anthony.pisano(a)caltech.edu<mailto:anthony.pisano@caltech.edu> | (626) 395-4255<tel:(626)%20395-4255> | Caltech | caltech.edu<http://caltech.edu/>

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Update
by paulkitteringham＠axisstudiosgroup.com 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Morning Gentlemen, Just wondering if you have any update on the performance/memeory issue we saw with the new update on friday ? Many thanks Paul -- *Paul Kitteringham* Senior System Administrator +44(0)7900221989 axisstudiosgroup.com Glasgow. London. Bristol.

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OIDs list used by a device
by ToDevNull 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Dear all, I'm dealing with my telco provider about snmp agent configuration on all Cisco devices. They want to push some restrictions with a "customer view" which will restrict the access to some OIDs. I wonder if there is a way to list all OIDs used by a device in order to ask them to allow such entire list ? Thanks in advance for your help. Rds, Tarik.

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fwConnNumber from Stonesoft/Forcepoint Firewall
by Steffen Klemer 27 May '21

27 May '21

Hey devs, would it be possible to get a graph for fwConnNumber from STONESOFT-FIREWALL-MIB.mib (i.e. 1.3.6.1.4.1.1369.5.2.1.4) similiar to the Connection Number for Cisco ASA? Also the fwIfStatsTable might be nice and the Accepted, Rejected, Dropped packets :). I added it as custom oid for now; but perhaps some more people would be interested? Do you accept patches? Steffen -- Steffen Klemer Arbeitsgruppe "Netze" Tel.: +49 551 201 2170, E-Mail: steffen.klemer(a)gwdg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, URL: https://www.gwdg.de Support: Tel.: +49 551 201-1523, URL: https://www.gwdg.de/support Sekretariat: Tel.: +49 551 201-1510, Fax: -2150, E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen, Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Leave sensor data in Fahrenheit
by Timothy Stoddard 26 May '21

26 May '21

All, Is there any possible way to leave sensor data in Fahrenheit? I have temperature sensors that are getting converted into Celsius when we would like them in Fahrenheit. Thanks, -- Tim

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Equipement Type automaticaly updated
by Paul Scheben 26 May '21

26 May '21

Hi, Since last rolling update (21.5.11346), all equipment manually set are automatically change after a poll. Regards, Paul

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Fortigate firewalls in Active/Passive with VDOMs
by Scooby Doo 25 May '21

25 May '21

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FortiGate IPsec Status/Stats
by Storer, Darren 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hello, I don't normally use FortiGate FWs for IPsec but now I need to monitor the status/stats (up/down/throughput) of a tunnel - has anyone managed this with Observium? Thanks in advance for any hints Darren

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Performance tuning
by Lars Joergensen 19 May '21

19 May '21

Hi We have one Observium server looking at * 476 devices (mainly switches, some firewalls, some WAN routers) * 3666 ports * 8692 sensors The server has 6 cores (~70% idle, ~3% iowait) and 8 GB memory. We have configured 15 poller threads with max 6 allowed wrapper processes. The server is struggling to keep the polling cycle below 300 seconds (averaging 376 secs). Is this workload realistic for one server, and if so where do you suggest we tune? Or do we need to use a distributed setup? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Nightly Backup
by Terry Stone 10 May '21

10 May '21

For what its worth I have written a small php script to provide a 7 day rolling backup of my observium server to an external server and to send a confirmation email when backup is complete: #!/usr/bin/env php <?php // Script to backup Observium data created by Terry Stone on 3rd. May 2021 include "config.php"; // Collect database credentials $sql_username = $config['db_user']; $sql_userpass = $config['db_pass']; // FTP server credentials $ftp_server = '[ftp server name]'; $ftp_username = '[ftp server username]'; $ftp_userpass = '[ftp server password]'; // Email credentials $mail_to = $config['email']['default']; $mail_header = 'From: '.$config['email']['from'] . "\r\n" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); $mail_subject = "Observium Server Backup"; $mail_message = "Observium server backups sent to ".$ftp_server." on ".date("l jS F Y").":\n\n"; // Files to backup $file[0]= "observium-rrd.tar.gz"; $file[1]= "observium-dump.sql"; $file[2]= "config.php"; // Prefix filename to be sent to FTP server with day of the week $counter=0; while ($counter < count($file)) { $backupfile[$counter]=date("N").$file[$counter]; $counter++; } // Assemble observium backup fils exec('tar zcvf backup/'.$file[0].' rrd'); exec('/usr/bin/mysqldump -u observium --user='.$sql_username.' --password='.$sql_userpass.' --databases observium --add-drop-table --extended-insert > backup/'.$file[1]); exec('cp config.php backup/'.$file[2]); // Connect and login to FTP server $ftp_conn = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Could not connect to $ftp_server"); $login = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $ftp_username, $ftp_userpass); // Change to passive mode ftp_pasv($ftp_conn,true); // Upload files to FTP server $counter=0; while ($counter < count($file)) { if (ftp_put($ftp_conn, $backupfile[$counter], "backup/".$file[$counter],FTP_BINARY)) { exec('cp backup/'.$file[$counter].' backup/'.$backupfile[$counter]); $status = date("H:i:s")." Successfully backed up ".$file[$counter]." to ".$backupfile[$counter]."\n"; } else { $status = date("H:i:s")." Error backing up ".$file[$counter]." to ".$backupfile[$counter]."\n"; } $mail_message = $mail_message.$status; $counter++; } // Close FTP connection ftp_close($ftp_conn); // Add final line to message body $mail_message=$mail_message."\nPlease do not reply to this message, mail account is send only.\n"; // Send Completion message mail($mail_to,$mail_subject,$mail_message,$mail_header); ?> It is set to run nightly with this Cron Job: # Run nightly backup and send files to offshore FTP server 0 02 * * * root cd /opt/observium && php observiumbackup.php The backups are also held on the Observium Server in /opt/observium/backups. You need to make sure the backup files have the correct permissions. Hope this will help someone. An observium server that has run for years holds a very large amount of valuable historical data and servers can fail so its good to have that data in a safe place! Terry Stone.

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API, get syslog alarms list by device id
by Vasiliy Moroz 10 May '21

10 May '21

Dear Observium community, I usе Observium and the more I use it more I love it :) I use the Observium syslog interface for pushing to Observium syslog alerts. For now, I am developing customer personal web service where they could see their telecom services on the map with nodes states like ok, critical. There are on the map presented only part of the telco network their services go through. By API I get nodes' location and state so can show it on the map with nodes connections from my customer database. Except for alarms Observium gets by syslog integration. Is there any way to get syslog alerts by API and device id? I could analyze syslog alerts and set proper node status by syslog alerts if they are accessible. As I know it is impossible.

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LLDP collection from Arista switches
by Lars Joergensen 07 May '21

07 May '21

Hi guys We're looking at the Port -> Map view of our Aristas to determine what's connected to them. But this map seems to lack information compared to what we can see directly on the switch. Any information I can provide that would help in troubleshooting this? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Observium device discovery
by Christopher N Callison 05 May '21

05 May '21

I have a Cisco 9130axi AP that is running in embedded controller mode. I am not able to monitor traffic or user statistics on the WLANs like I did with my WLC2504. I do not see any wireless related MIBS attached to the device. Is there a way to force discovery for certain features or MIBS? Or do I have to add my own custom OID? Chris

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Google Secure LDAP - Working with a hack
by Pieter De Wit 05 May '21

05 May '21

Hi Guys, I have Google Secure LDAP working with Observium, but it requires a hack and hopefully the devs can implement this into the code base (after fixing my even more of my hacky hacks :) ) In config.php: $config['auth_ldap_server']="ldap://127.0.0.1:1636”; // We using the stunnel method $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 1636; // Not needed - at least, not that I could find $config['auth_ldap_starttls']=false; // Implemented with stunnel $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=Secure_LDAP,ou=Users,dc=example,dc=com”; // Fix this for your domain unset ($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['cn=observium']['level'] = 10; // Google does something funky with “groups" In html/includes/authentication/ldap.inc.php: After line 932: else { $filter="(&(".$dn.")".ldap_filter_create ($attribute, $value).")"; $ret=ldap_search ($ds,”dc=example,dc=com",$filter); // TODO : We need to figure out if ($ret !==FALSE) { $compare=TRUE; } } In a nutshell, ldap_compare doesn’t work for Google Secure LDAP - pretty much like https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3611 <https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3611> but then, if the ldap_read fails, we fallback to just doing a search for the “group” and where memberUid is the username provided. It might be worthwhile to look into setting a LDAP type variable and reacting to that. Hopefully this makes sense :) Cheers, Pieter

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Google Secure LDAP
by Pieter De Wit 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi Everyone, Has anyone got Observium to authenticate against Google Secure LDAP *and* return a usable user level ? My authentication passes, but I always end up with a user level of 0. I am using the stunnel method to try and simplify things. Thanks, Pieter

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How do you enable debugging ?
by Pieter De Wit 04 May '21

04 May '21

I’m failing hard at finding this one….specifically, I need to debug LDAP membership for authentication :) Thanks :)

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Observium Backups
by Terry Stone 04 May '21

04 May '21

When backing up rrd with tar zcvf observium-rrd.tar.gz rrd I get the following message: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Is this OK or should I use the --absolute-names option? Also I am getting some messages saying file changed as we read it. This is understandable but do i need to do anything while running the backup to stop this from happening? Thanks in advance.

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CBQOS Class Names only show "/"
by Evan Alexandre 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hello, I am a new user testing out Observium as a means of monitoring Cisco Class-Based Quality of Service (CBQoS). I have successfully added devices running Cisco IOS-XR 6.6.3 to the system for monitoring. However, the CBQoS tab of my device's ports is currently not showing any name for the different classes of policy maps applied to the ports. Instead, where the name should be, there is only "/ (output)". See attachment for screenshot of this issue. I believe this issue matches the following Jira ticket: https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3130?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.s… Is there a known resolution or workaround this issue? System Details: Observium Version: Observium CE 20.9 OS: CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) Thanks, Evan

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More probes please (part 2 :) )
by Pieter De Wit 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hey Guys, Can we please add check_procs to the probe list ? Thanks :)

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Paging on bigger pages
by Pieter De Wit 02 May '21

02 May '21

Hi All, I noted that you can enable paging on the devices pages, but is there a way to enable it on other pages that I have missed ? We have massive load balancer pages that are now causing browsers to crash (had to give the server 32gig of ram to render said pages :) ) Or even a search page would do - anything to make the page smaller :D Thanks !

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Adding "more" probes ?
by Pieter De Wit 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi, How can I use a probe that is not listed in “Probes” - like check_dns ? Thanks, Pieter

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