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checkmk windows agent
by Dennis Kruyt 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Now there is coming more and more support for the unix agent in Observium, I was wondering will there also be coming support for windows agent? This is not much different then the unix agent, so very easy to implement. http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_windows.html Cheers...

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Re: [Observium] Upper case letters?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

You get what you pay for :D On 26/07/2012 15:07, Dan Draghici wrote: > > Ok I understand. Thanks for your reply > > P.S. No need for the supperiority attitude. > > Dan > > *From:*observium-bounces@observium.org > [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *On Behalf Of *Adam Armstrong > *Sent:* Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:54 PM > *To:* Observium Network Observation System > *Subject:* Re: [Observium] Upper case letters? > > On 26/07/2012 14:47, Dan Draghici wrote: > > Hello, > > I`ve installed observium and it works great so far but I have a > small issue. > > I see that it automatically makes the device names into lowercase > letters. For example if you type "CoreRouter" it will end up > showing as "corerouter". Is it possible to make the names with > uppercase? > > I have a rather large network and having the names of the devices > show up with uppercase would really help when browsing through > observium. > > > Having a decent naming scheme would help more. Hostnames are lower > case, deal with it. > > adam. > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Upper case letters?
by Adam Armstrong 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

On 26/07/2012 14:47, Dan Draghici wrote: > > Hello, > > I`ve installed observium and it works great so far but I have a small > issue. > > I see that it automatically makes the device names into lowercase > letters. For example if you type "CoreRouter" it will end up showing > as "corerouter". Is it possible to make the names with uppercase? > > I have a rather large network and having the names of the devices show > up with uppercase would really help when browsing through observium. > > Having a decent naming scheme would help more. Hostnames are lower case, deal with it. adam.

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Upper case letters?
by Dan Draghici 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hello, I`ve installed observium and it works great so far but I have a small issue. I see that it automatically makes the device names into lowercase letters. For example if you type "CoreRouter" it will end up showing as "corerouter". Is it possible to make the names with uppercase? I have a rather large network and having the names of the devices show up with uppercase would really help when browsing through observium. Thanks, Dan D.

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Another integration question...nfsen
by Morgan McLean 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

I don't think I'm being as retarded with this one. Sorry if I am. nfsen running for a single firewall cluster at the moment, cfw.sv.domain.com. I can view nfsen's interface and see all of the data etc, so I know my netflow is working properly and nfsen can run reports on it etc. I get cannot generate graph when going to the nfsen tab directly via url options, it does not show up in tabs list otherwise. Is there something major here I'm doing wrong? IE smokeping I pointed to png files instead of RRD files :). I've tried temporary universal read write etc for testing purposes, didn't help. I tried using the nfsen_suffix option at first, but ended up ditching that and spelling out the entire hostname under nfsen to eliminate a possible trouble spot. nfsen output on start: [root(a)netmon01.ops bin]# ./nfsen start Starting nfcapd:(cfw_sv_domain_com)[7154] Starting nfsend. Directory, rrd file: [root(a)netmon01.ops live]# pwd /opt/nfsendata/profiles-stat/live [root(a)netmon01.ops live]# ll total 2860 -rw-rw-r-- 1 netflow apache 2687848 Jul 22 18:35 cfw_sv_domain_com.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 14727 Jul 22 18:35 flows-day.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 18817 Jul 22 18:35 flows-month.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 16145 Jul 22 18:35 flows-week.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 17712 Jul 22 18:35 flows-year.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 20324 Jul 22 18:35 packets-day.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 19281 Jul 22 18:35 packets-month.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 19349 Jul 22 18:35 packets-week.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 18379 Jul 22 18:35 packets-year.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 netflow apache 258 Jul 22 18:35 profile.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 15728 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-day.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 19764 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-month.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 15163 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-week.png -rw-r--r-- 1 netflow apache 17352 Jul 22 18:35 traffic-year.png observium config: $config['nfsen_enable'] = 1; $config['nfsen_rrds'] = "/opt/nfsendata/profiles-stat/live/"; $config['nfsen_split_char'] = "_"; #$config['nfsen_suffix'] = ""; fqdn is under 19 char Thanks, Morgan

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Ignoring down / notconnected ports
by Benedikt Sveinsson 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Hi - I have not been able to find this, we started trying/using Observium for few weeks. We intend to use it mostly to compliment our current monitoring software. We are impressed with it, but the main intention is graphing and helping us troubleshooting. We are monitoring large 6500 switches and we have a number of ports that we intentionally keep in the cisco notconnected state. The front page of Observium is then riddled with the "Port Down" messages. Can this be suppressed / ignored ? I hope I'm not asking a question that has been answered many times, but google fails me here - and I'm still getting around understanding how Observium functions. Kveðja / With regards Benedikt Sveinsson Senior Network Engineer CCP Operations [Description: Description: Description: Description: signature] Netfang / Email benedikt(a)ccpgames.com<mailto:benedikt@ccpgames.com> GSM / Mobile. +354 691-6445 Grandagarði 8 * 101 Reykjavík * Iceland * http://www.ccpgames.com<http://www.ccpgames.com/>

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Smokeping integration
by Morgan McLean 21 Jul '12

21 Jul '12

Hi, I have a machine named techops01, I have a directory /opt/smokeping/ that is running smokeping. cache/ has the png files etc. I've tried pointing to both, readding the host, rediscovering, nothing. Additionally, smokeping does not allow "." in the host name. I saw somebody had a patch for observium to add conversion of '_' to '.' , did this ever make it into code? I haven't seen a flag ### smokeping testing $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/opt/smokeping/cache/"; also tried ### smokeping testing $config['smokeping']['dir'] = "/opt/smokeping/"; Its not a permissions issue, its 777 now for testing purposes. Thank you! Morgan

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What's the secret
by Sonny Kupka 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Hello, I have been messing with Observium off and on for the last month. I noticed one of my devices is showing up under Ports > Customer Only thing I can find different for this interface is the desc has CUST: at beginning of the description. I can't find any docs on this feature.. Any someone point me in the right direction.. How to get all customer ports showing up? Thanks. Sonny

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New billing interface
by Chris Stone 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Adam, Nice work on the new billing interface - like the new look. Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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generate-map.sh
by Morgan McLean 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

I tried searching around but found nothing on this. It would appear this script generates some larger network map, maybe more conclusive, I don't know. Its broken in a few ways, is this supposed to work or is this old stuff thats stuck around? I temporarily fixed a couple errors I was getting, but even so the map.dot file or whichever it dumps its initial payload into was turning up empty. Thanks, Morgan

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New install only shows website header.
by Lasse Leegaard 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

I just did my first install of observium after a very convicing demo by a friend. However the website only loads the header (or parts of it). When I add /debug to the address I get this output Notice: Undefined index: page_title in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 107 Notice: Undefined index: widescreen in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 125 Notice: Undefined index: bare in /opt/observium/html/index.php on line 217 Notice: Undefined index: widescreen in /opt/observium/html/includes/header.inc.php on line 18 Widescreen<http://observium.brandbil.dk/debug?widescreen=yes>| Notice: Undefined index: authenticated in /opt/observium/html/includes/header.inc.php on line 25 Not logged in! Fatal error: Class 'Net_IPv6' not found in /opt/observium/html/includes/header.inc.php on line 32 For installation I followed this guide and also created a virtual host to run the observium webserver from: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation I did everything and all the guide says - in that order - and did not do anything other than that. Obviously it seems like a problem with the Net_IPv6 package in PHP. Ubuntu is 10.04 and I meet all the requirements set forth in the requirements section of the install page. I am aware it might not be an observium error as such, but the googles is not really that helfull and my own skills are lacking a bit when it comes to webservers. -- -Lasse-

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blank graphs
by Miguel Alejandro González 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

So I followed the ubuntu svn installation tutorial and managed to get observium to run... (commenting the function gethostbyname) But anyway... So far I have been able to log in to the web app and... the app has recorded all the info from the device I want to monitor... but somehow all the graphs are blank with nan values The device in question right now is in idle mode, just receiving packets from network equipment and sometimes ICMP (ping) packets. So maybe I'm doing this wrong and it needs to be in active mode receiving all kinds of requests.... but even the memory and processes graphs are blank... What could it be? Cron? I'm missing some configuration? Do I need to follow more of your documents? I'm a little confused... sorry I'm a n00b using this app I following these tuts: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation (Completed the Installation section and the Debian > 6.0 and Ubuntu > 11.04 section) http://www.observium.org/wiki/NetSNMPd_Client_Configuration Regards!

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observiums .htaccess en apache server-status
by Dennis Kruyt 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

The observiums .htaccess in /opt/Observium/html is blocking the server-status. So by default I cant read the server-status of the Observium machine. I think thisd line should be added, so you can run Observium and have access to the server-status. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status Dennis,-

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Installing observium
by Miguel Alejandro González 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hello I'm having a little problem with the tutorial. I'm following this tut: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation because both of my machine have ubuntu installed So I have two servers, server A is IPv6 only (i have installed Observium here, ubuntu 12.04) server B is IPv6/IPv4 (i want to monitor this machine, ubuntu 10.04) both machines are in a ipv6 network with cisco equipment (routers/switches) I configured the snmp client in server B, following this tutorial: http://www.observium.org/wiki/NetSNMPd_Client_Configuration And currently I'm stuck on this step, from the installation tutorial Add a first device to monitor: ./addhost.php <hostname> <community> v2c I get a message like this "coud not resolve hostname" Having said that, I have full connectivity between the machines and I configured a hostname in /etc/hosts, so I run this command (ubuntuservers is the community name i configured in server B) ./addhost.php server6 ubuntuservers v2c And I get the error message. I only modified these variables in config.php $config['db_user'] = "observium"; $config['db_pass'] = "mypass"; (a random password) $config['nets'][] = "2001:23::24/96"; What am I doing wrong, can you help me? Regards!!

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Force Device Type Change?
by Robert Williams 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hi all, Is there a way to force a device to be treated as a different kind of device when it is polled? I've tried changing the "Type" under "Device Settings" but this does not have the desired effect. Reason for asking, we have several UPS systems which are successfully being polled by Observium (all are Reillo units, running NetMan Plus cards). We also have another system which is running a CS121 card (in a PW9000 DPA-250kVA unit). This system is polled by our Cacti server in exactly the same way as the Riello units and we get the same data from all of them. However, Observium will not see this UPS as a UPS, just a "Generic Device" and as such will not poll it for RFC1628 OIDs. Any ideas on a fix or 'tweak' to make it think it's a UPS and poll it? Thanks in advance! Robert Williams Backline / Operations Team Custodian DataCentre tel: +44 (0)1622 230382 email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt

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SLA graphs showing as broken icons
by Cushard Michael 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hi, I was wondering if SLA graphing was working, or if it is simply my installation that's borked. I'm on build 3323 and I have SLAs enabled in my config file, and I can see the SLA-XX.rrd files in my RRD directory, but the SLA tab in the GUI displays broken links. I've been testing Observium for the last few days and have over 10,000 ports in it with integration of rancid and smokeping. So far it's working fine, apart from my SLA issue. Regards, Michael

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Observium SVN for Synology NAS
by Jeroen Mooijekind 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

I noticed the SVN changelog noticed 'support for Synology NAS devices' Where can I find more information on this? After installing on my Syno I get a lot of apache errors like: [error] [client 192.168.2.12] File does not exist: /var/services/web/images, referer: http://192.168.2.10/observium/html/

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Observium monitoring ZFS on FreeBSD
by Laurens Vets 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Hello, Is anybody monitoring a FreeBSD machine which is using ZFS? It seems there's an issue with discovering storage... For instance, I have the following filesystem on a pool: [me@host ~]$ zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT storage 5.14T 208G 64.3K /storage ... storage/temp 2.59T 208G 2.59T /storage/temp ... [me@host ~]$ But observium detects this as 599GB / 807GB Any idea what might be going on?

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LDAP Authentication
by Moermond, Timothy 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

I am having difficulty getting my LDAP configuration working, I have set the authentication type to ldap, and then set the following. #LDAP Config Section. $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; # v2 or v3 $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "dc1.test.com"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = false; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "uid="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",dc=test,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = ""; $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "cn=users,dc=test,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['domain admins']['level'] = 10; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['pfy']['level'] = 7; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['domain users']['level'] = 1; I keep getting a an authentication failed, indicating a user/password mismatch. I am not sure how to make the configuration any more basic than this. The LDAP directory is Active Directory in Windows 2008 R2 Native mode. Thank you, Tim

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Brocade ifAlias
by Daniel Hooper 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Hi All, Recently installed Observium today and very impressed so far, I have been busily migrating a boot load of stuff out of the not so free anymore Opsview into Observium all day. For my Cisco kit it's working great, unfortunately I'm hitting a few road blocks with my shiny new Brocade DC-6910 switches. I made a change to a poller include file to detect ironware / foundry switches and added the BR6910 string, what I still can't figure out is the ifAlias on the Brocades, it just comes back as 'Ethernet Port 3 on Unit 1' every time regardless of what the physical interface description is configured to. Anyone got any ideas on how to get around this one? Thanks -Dan

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Upgrade to 3316
by Laurens Vets 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Hello, I have an observium installation which was installed by tar.gz. I updated today via svn and afterwards the interface doesn't when I click anywhere... The Overview page is always displayed... Any idea what might be wrong?

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Dell M1000 Blade Chassis
by Dennis Kruyt 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Hi, Here a small patch for a Dell M1000 Blade Chassis so that the Dell logo shows up for it's DRAC interface. Wget link http://kruyt.org/m1000-drac.patch Index: drac.inc.php =================================================================== --- drac.inc.php (revision 3314) +++ drac.inc.php (working copy) @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ if (!$os) { if (strstr($sysDescr, "Dell Out-of-band SNMP Agent for Remote Access Controller")) { $os = "drac"; } + if (strstr($sysDescr, "This system component provides a complete set of remote management functions for modular servers")) { $os = "drac"; } } -?> \ No newline at end of file +?>

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Apache SNMP script changes
by Tom Laermans 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi, As previously requested on the list, here's a heads up for potential breakage, revision 3315 removes support for apache stats through the snmpd extend script. Please switch to the agent script, you can find it in /opt/observium/scripts/agent-local/apache. Thanks, Tom

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IRC channel moved
by Tom Laermans 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi guys (& girls?), We moved our irc channel #observium from Freenode to OFTC. Please update your bookmarks/IRC clients/... and don't forget to part the old channel and join the new one ;-) Tom

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setup new devices, missing data
by Nenad 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi, I installed yesterday observium and add some first devices: HP Procurve 2900 Switches (public, v2c) Cisco ASA (private, v2c) Juniper MX80 (private, v2c) APC AP8853 PDU's (private, v1) Observium show me graphs for the Interfaces, but nothing more like: - Powerusage on PDU - BGP Peerings, CPU usage, Memory, Temperature usage on Juniper Router - Memory/CPU usage on Cisco ASA - Memory usage on HP Switch I added to the config.php: $config['enable_bgp'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['amperes'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['celsius'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['dBm'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['voltsDC'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['voltsAC'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['watts'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['truthvalue'] = 1; $config['allow_entity_sensor']['specialEnum'] = 1; I used addhost.php to add the devices, and set a cronjob for poller.php. Did I forget something? Cheers, Nenad

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Net App devices
by Sonny Kupka 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Hello, Does anyone have a trick for getting good information from a NetApp using observium? Disk stats .. failed drive.. etc.. Thanks. Sonny

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"Device rebooted" message every 5 minutes after customer server replaced
by Andrew Beals 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

I upgraded one of our client's servers a couple of days ago by pushing all of its data onto a new image on AWS. Since I re-enabled Observium monitoring on it (same IP address as the old one), I've been getting a "device rebooted" message every 5 minutes from Observium. Observium :: Network Observation and Monitoring Device Rebooted : hostname 1 day, 18h 17m 23s ago. How do I make it stop? -- Andrew Beals Cell: 913-787-7538 Desk: 913-948-8782 E-mail: ABeals(a)mersoft.com

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PowerDNS
by Aaron Mayfield 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

I think during one of the recent updates, my powerDNS graphs broke. Has anyone else experienced this? Here is the output of ./poller.php -h 8 -d (with host 8 being one of my DNS servers): **************************************************** Notice: Undefined index: poll_applications in /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php on line 189 including: includes/polling/applications.inc.php SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '8' SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '8'] Applications: SQL[SELECT `graph` FROM `device_graphs` WHERE `device_id` = '8'] uptime netstat_ip netstat_ip_frag netstat_tcp netstat_udp netstat_icmp netstat_icmp_info netstat_snmp netstat_snmp_pkt hr_processes hr_users ucd_cpu ucd_swap_io ucd_io ucd_contexts ucd_interrupts ucd_memory ucd_load ipsystemstats_ipv4 ipsystemstats_ipv4_frag ipsystemstats_ipv6 ipsystemstats_ipv6_frag Polled in 0.938 second **************************************************** Here is the mysql query result on this: mysql> SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '8'\G *************************** 1. row *************************** app_id: 3 device_id: 8 app_type: powerdns app_state: UNKNOWN app_status: 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> **************************************************** As you can see, Observium doesn't seem to be picking up on the fact that there is a registered application for the host. Does anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

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trouble ignoring switch ports - update broke functionality
by Henrik Lund Kramshøj 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

Hi All I have Observium running for some time and currently at [hlk@wiseguy01 observium]$ sudo svn up At revision 3310. After Observium SVN upgrade I cannot seem to ignore certain ports from Dell PowerConnect switches (might not be only those) from high port numbers I get "Device record unchanged. No update necessary." this happens currently on two switch stacks that are quite large, both 10 units single port 9/0/35 on one stack lots of ports from units 8, 9, 10 on the other stack Those cannot be ignored. I tested using ports 1/0/4 and 7/0/51 that I can ignore/unignore another port on this switch. also tried removing the switch completely and adding it again. Any pointers or ideas? Where to look for this - used to work fine. BTW I noticed to other ports were changed today - we moved a server, and changing those on a Dell 8024F gave the expected " 2 Device record updated." and were updated fine. Best regards Henrik -- Henrik Lund Kramshøj, Follower of the Great Way of Unix hlk(a)kramse.org hlk(a)solidonetworks.com +45 2026 6000 cand.scient CISSP http://solidonetworks.com/ Network Security is a business enabler

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Sensors not picking up, get rediscovered 4 times a day
by Morgan McLean 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

My logs look like this...any idea why its not picking up? I have about 50 juniper devices, an APC device and a couple others and it doesn't seem to monitor or graph any of the sensors. I have seen some information about sensor configuration under config.php, but it wasn't very helpful. Every time the discovery runs, or maybe its the poller, not sure, it finds all these sensors for every device, but it does nothing with them. Is there a switch I need to flip? Thanks! Morgan 21/Jun/12 12:39:04Sensor Added: temperature junos 6.1.0.0 TFEB MX8021/Jun/12 12:39:04Sensor Added: temperature junos 6.1.1.0 TFEB Intake21/Jun/12 12:39:04Sensor Added: temperature junos 9.1.0.0 Routing Engine21/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 6.1.0.0 descr TFEB MX8021/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 7.1.0.0 descr FPC @ 0/*/*21/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 7.2.0.0 descr FPC @ 1/*/*21/Jun/12 12:39:03Processor added: type junos index 9.1.0.0 descr Routing Engine

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up / down gives no warning
by Ian Armstrong 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Hi, Observium has been working very well over the past few months and now I want to begin tailoring it for our network specifically. We use an Ubuntu install as per the instructions and had no install problems. On the overview page we get an orange warning for a non-ignored link that goes into the (Cisco) down/down state BUT NOT when they are up/down. Is this a setting, bug or feature? If it can be changed does anyone know how - I would like a warning for any link that goes down/down and up/down. I have looked through the documentation, options and settings but find nothing. I also tried [alert][port][ifdown] as a long shot. Any help would be great. Thanks Ian

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custom scripts
by mhoffmann＠arcor.de 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

Hello, i have many Allied Telesis Switches. Most Values are covered by the RADLAN-Mib, but some Values like Temp or PowerConsumption are not available inside SNMP. Is there a Wrapper or a other possibility to get this values? I think about a script which read the values and offer it to observium.

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Apache authentication
by Ciro Iriarte 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Hi, can someone confirm me if observium supports external (apache2) authentication?, I'm looking for kerberos authentication against AD. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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How to monitor ASA connection table ?
by inlee 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Hi I just installed observium. ASA is polling all the information from ASA 55xx except connection count. How can i add polling ASA connection count?

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Speaking of Observium's pretty graphsŠ
by Andrew Beals 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

One of our clients uses a very large HP ProCurve 4108gl switch as the central hub of their network. When I'm looking at traffic graphs from it for large spaces of time, I invariably see it pegged to +/- 20Gbps because of some traffic spikes during the day (e.g. Windows clients talking to WSUS and downloading their patches). If I zoom in on one of the "empty" stretches of time, I see that there is actually some traffic flowing – it's just so small in comparison that it gets flatlined by the spikes. What I'd like to be able to do is to change the graph from a linear one in the Y (bps) axis to a logarithmic one, so I can see my traffic. For example, here's the past 24 hours: [cid:5CBC68CF-394E-403F-9F59-AB51C6450F66] (The rrdtool command that produces this graph is truly impressive and only crawls out of its blue box with the last set of CDEF statements before the giant list of AREA statements.) (All graphs generated for this e-mail use the same time span on the same hardware) I know, I know, "Use the Source, Luke!", but I've only watched the commits fly past, not actually dug into the code past the config file (and this doesn't appear to be a configuration option). rrdtool_graph() is called in three places, and fortunately only defined in one. Applying the obvious small patch: Index: html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php =================================================================== --- html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (revision 3268) +++ html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (working copy) @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ if ($rrd_options) { + $rrd_options .= " --logarithmic"; rrdtool_graph($graphfile, $rrd_options); if ($debug) { echo($rrd_cmd); } if (is_file($graphfile)) Nets me this: [cid:806F0C8F-84AE-4C4F-8D2D-04802B3A5EB7] Which could probably use a little more tweaking. I'd rather see SI "-bi-" units on the left rather than scientific notation. Also, it does tend to whack the CPU pretty hard figuring it all out, pegging both of the CPUs in the old ml350 I'm using for monitoring. Running "rrdgraph" at "nice +4" (or better) would likely be a win w/r/t data collection. This patch: Index: html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php =================================================================== --- html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (revision 3268) +++ html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php (working copy) @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ if ($rrd_options) { + $rrd_options .= " --logarithmic --units=si"; rrdtool_graph($graphfile, $rrd_options); if ($debug) { echo($rrd_cmd); } if (is_file($graphfile)) Nets this: [cid:4C488D23-BF57-49B9-BBBE-C2D43F0E17AF] I'm pretty happy with this, overall. For those who are curious, the ProCurve Switch 4108gl has a claimed capacity of: routing/switching capacity 36.6 Gbps Throughput up to 71.4 mpps Being able to tweak individual graphs to show logarithmically would probably be nice, just to save some CPU for graphs that don't really need it. -- Andrew Beals Cell: 913-787-7538 Desk: 913-948-8782 E-mail: ABeals(a)mersoft.com<mailto:ABeals@mersoft.com>

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Vyatta
by Adam Blackington 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Any ideas on getting Vyatta recognized? We keep seeing it as a generic device, and can't seem to get it working. :-/ Running v2c communities. *Adam Blackington* | Solutions Engineer *LionLink* *Networks *| www.lionlink.net | AS54098 O: (571) 451.2300 | D: (571) 482.1490 | E: ablackington(a)lionlink.net

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Having troubles with BGP
by Sonny Kupka 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Hello, I'm testing out Observium for use. I have run in to an issue where BGP for 3 Peers show up as down (They are shutdown in switch configuration) and 2 other peers on another switch is showing the same thing.. Peer is shutdown on the switch.. I can't find anywhere to check ignore to have the Observium ignore the peers which are down .. I tried searching all over for this information but thus far I haven't been successful. Thanks for you time! Sonny

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Pretty Graphs
by Adam Armstrong 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Hi All, It occurs to me that one of the reasons we've managed to keep the project alive for 6 years is that everyone loves graphs. It's one thing to store a bunch of numbers and draw a line, but it's a totally different thing to craft a pretty graph from those numbers. If any of you have graphs or pages that look particularly good, feel free to email us a screenshot, it'd be nice to break up the deafening torrent of inane cat pictures, right? We might even use them on the screenshots page :) adam.

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Editing user passwords
by Chris Stone 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Just had a user that could not, for whatever reason, log into our Observium installation. So, I was going to reset the password, but editing the user, found nothing there to do that. Seems that there is no way for anyone other than each user to edit passwords after the account is initially created? And if that user cannot log in, they cannot do it. I ended up deleting the login, recreating it, and then re-linking the devices, ports and bills the user has access to. Did I miss something? Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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95 percentil Traffic Bill
by edouard alias 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

Hello, I might misundertood something but are traffic bills working, On an interface with a 100 Mbps 95 %ile, If I check the month view I see Monday this morning a 90 M rate peak On the 24 h view I see my 300 M peak on Monday morning. Is it right ? is due to having an average value from a more far sight on the month graph ? cf screen shot (sorry for my poor English)

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Cannot login after upgrade
by Charles Nadeau 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Hello, On April 19th, I installed the last version of Observium from the Ubuntu instructions there http://www.observium.org/wiki/Ubuntu_SVN_Installation (I am using Ubuntu 10.10 server). Everything worked, I gathered a lot of interesting data about my devices, I was happy. Yesterday, I updated to the very latest version of Observium following the instructions there http://www.observium.org/wiki/Using_SVN#Upgrading_to_the_very_latest_version. After completing this upgrade, I can't log in Observium anymore and it doesn't poll the devices as specified in /etc/cron.d/observium. Today I installed the last stable release following http://www.observium.org/wiki/Using_SVN#Upgrading_to_a_specific_release_of_… that it would solve my 2 problems but they remain. What would be the simplest way to re-install everything without losing my data? Thanks! Charles -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/

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Cannot add "traffic bill".
by Niclas Tollgård 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi, Anyone else having problems to add a "Traffic Bill"? When I press "Add Bill" the URL changes to http://observium/bills/add/ but nothing happens. Any ideas? Regards, Nic Tollgard

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Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) Support
by John Macleod 28 May '12

28 May '12

I manage numerous CUBE devices in my environment. I would like to use Observium for monitoring. The CUBE deployment is essentially an IP-IP voice gateway with two (or more) dial peers. Currently, they just show as they should as standard Cisco routers. Per the following link http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6790/gatecont/ps5640/w… there are some applicable Cisco MIBS for monitoring the voice elements of these devices, they appear to use the same voice MIBs as other Cisco devices, such as the AS5xxx. I do not know if it is possible during discovery/polling to see if voice is enabled on the platform or not and show/hide the applicable polled data? I would have no issue opening up a CUBE device for testing if anyone is interested. Thanks, John

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Jira and Fisheye
by Adam Armstrong 25 May '12

25 May '12

Hi All, Just to remind everyone we have a Jira installation for reporting bugs. It's helpful when reporting things as it means I don't forget about them (which I have a habit of doing). It's a lot easier when I get some time to just look at Jira and clear out a couple than trying to remember what things people have reported via email. http://jira.observium.org We also have a Fisheye installation at http://fisheye.observium.org which gives a nice interface to our code. If you're reporting an error with a graph on a particular module, it's often helpful to send examples of the rrd files and an entry from the database (if you know how), as otherwise it can be a nightmare for us to test. adam.

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Cisco ASA IPsec Tunnels graphs missing
by Николаев Виталий 24 May '12

24 May '12

Greetings everyone! Since revision 3167 in device Cisco ASAipsec tunnels graphs (Routing - IPSEC Tunnels) are missing, showing only basic information about tunnels. Regards, Vitaly Nikolayev

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Sensors displaying NaN on the device page
by Erwin Botas 23 May '12

23 May '12

Can please somebody point me, one of the latest updates kill the current value in this view, if I go to the graphics the date is still there. Thanks in advance Erwin

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Public Graphing Display
by Adam Blackington 23 May '12

23 May '12

The FAQ's and Configuration state that I can display graphs without requiring a username or password. This is great... but... here's the question I've made the appropriate modifications to config.php, however, what URL do I use to get to the public graphs? I tried looking at the URL of generated images, however, that doesn't seem to be correct. So you can understand my goal: I run a colocation company and require my customers to be able to review their bandwidth statistics. I utilize WHMCS and would like them to be able to view their graphs within their portal, thus, I've added the IP address of my WHMCS server as an 'authenticated' IP in config.php I'm thinking, once I can understand how to display the graphs, that I can use the port id as a variable to develop a custom module to display the graphs. So my questions are: After permitting an IP address to be able to view graphs without username/password, what is the syntax of the URL for displaying these graphs? It would be awesome to be able to integrate a custom range selection, but I'd really just settle for static generation of past 24 hours, past month, and past year.

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New install problems
by Mike Hyde 23 May '12

23 May '12

I have done a new install on a Freebsd box using the instructions here: http://www.observium.org/wiki/FreeBSD_SVN_Installation I have everything installed, but when I go to the webpage I run into this: *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string() in * /usr/local/share/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php* on line *1144* * * I do show the xml.so extension installed in php. Any ideas what to check? No errors show up in the logs. * * * *

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missing data in graphs.
by Michael Ponto 22 May '12

22 May '12

As a newbie I am sure I am doing something wrong, but don't know what. I have Observium installed in new install of Ubuntu 10.04 and it is seeing the snmp for users from the edge router at each of 7 locations much of the data comes in such as tem and CPU load but no carts are created anyplace. The forms for the graphs do open but all are without any data lines. The graphs have a -nan listed for data. Michael Ponto Network Administrator PARKHILL SMITH & COOPER | 4222 85th Street | Lubbock, Texas 79423 | 806.473.2200 | team-psc.com<http://www.team-psc.com/>

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Ability to add bills broken in 0.12.5.3195?
by Chris Stone 17 May '12

17 May '12

Tried to add a new bill from a port detail page and nothing. Tried to add from the Bills listing page using the Add Bill link and nothing - just returns to the bills listing page. Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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