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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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Question about user accounts / passwd reset
by Erik Bais 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi, Is there any news on the topic of users being able to reset their own password (pref via new passwd being send to them after they click on a received link ?) Regards, Erik Bais

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new device
by Sebastien Guilbaud 15 May '12

15 May '12

Hi, I was trying to add support for NRG Printers (Ricoh-clones), following the method found in the Developing/NewOS page and i'm blocked on the fourth step ('Add an OS text name and possibly other settings in includes/static-config.php'), but this file is almost empty, and the only other place with detection logic seems to be includes/definitions.inc.php but the header is quite deterrent :-) ######################################################### # NO CHANGES TO THIS FILE, IT IS NOT USER-EDITABLE # ######################################################### # YES, THAT MEANS YOU # ######################################################### I've walked past the disclaimer and tried to add the new os type inside, and everything works now, is it the right method ? best regards -- seb

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Developing
by Adam Armstrong 15 May '12

15 May '12

I think it's worth pointing out that if you're planning to do any development, you should come to our IRC channel, #observium on freenode. It's usually a lot quicker to get questions answered, and you might save yourself a lot of time by not copying the wrong bit of code. adam.

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Observium with an MFSYS25
by Ian Armstrong 14 May '12

14 May '12

Has anyone got Observium to recognise the switch module on an Intel MFSYS25 compute chassis by any chance? Observium finds the controller very easily, but doesn't find any of the switch ports. Thanks Ian

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] Added support for Aruba Wireless APs and Controllers
by Rob J. Epping 12 May '12

12 May '12

Hi Ethan, This should go to observium(a)observium.org. observium-dev(a)observium.org is used for SVN updates GRTNX, RobJE On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ethan Sommer <sommere(a)gac.edu> wrote: > I have added support for aruba networks controllers and access points. > > I created an "improvement" in the bug tracker and attached a patch. > http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-50 > > One thing which is a bit unusual is that the aruba access points don't have > an SNMP agent themselves. Instead you can get information about each access > point from the controller it is connected to. I added support for the access > points in a similar manner to getting information about ports of a switch. > > I attempted to keep the code consistent with the organization and style of > the rest of observium, but I'm sure there are changes that should be made. > I'm not particularly attached to any specific choices I made, other than > that I'd love to see the code included in observium so that we can continue > to collect statistics about our wireless network using the mainline code. > > If you would like access to a controller to test against, I can poke a hole > in our firewall for one or two of the core observium developers to access > the controllers via snmp. > > I'd also be happy to make any changes myself and resubmit if there are > things blocking adding the code. > > Thanks, > Ethan > > -- > Ethan Sommer > Associate Director of Core Services > Gustavus Technology Services > 507-933-7042 > > > _______________________________________________ > observium-dev mailing list > observium-dev(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium-dev > -- GRTNX, RobJE

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BGP prefix graphs error
by Dario Calamai 12 May '12

12 May '12

Hi all, with new v0.12.5.3161 there is an Error Drawing Graph in BGP prefix graphs. I deleted cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd and re-run discovery and poller. the poller output return thi error: Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.7 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.9 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.13 ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.16 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.17 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.18 discovery seem to be ok. POLLER DEBUG: Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.13 /usr/bin/rrdtool create /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/bgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.rrd DS:bgpPeerOutUpdates:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerInUpdates:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerOutTotal:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerInTotal:COUNTER:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:bgpPeerEstablished:GAUGE:600:0:U ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive OK u:0.00 s:0.03 r:14.73 update /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/bgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.rrd N:1805:268:247831::2343362 SQL[UPDATE `bgpPeers` set `bgpPeerState` ='established',`bgpPeerAdminStatus` ='start',`bgpPeerFsmEstablishedTime` ='2343362',`bgpPeerInUpdates` ='268',`bgpLocalAddr` ='193.xxx.xxx.xxx',`bgpPeerOutUpdates` ='1805' WHERE `device_id` = '1' AND `bgpPeerIdentifier` = '193.xxx.xxx.13'] SQL[SELECT * FROM bgpPeers_cbgp WHERE `device_id` = '1' AND bgpPeerIdentifier = '193.xxx.xxx.13'] ipv4 unicast /usr/bin/snmpget -M /var/www/html/observium/mibs -m CISCO-BGP4-MIB -Ovq -v2c -cxxxxxxxx 1:161 cbgpPeerAcceptedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerDeniedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerPrefixAdminLimit.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerPrefixThreshold.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerPrefixClearThreshold.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerAdvertisedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerSuppressedPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast cbgpPeerWithdrawnPrefixes.193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast 103 21 10000 75 70 3262 0 1887 SQL[UPDATE `bgpPeers_cbgp` set `AcceptedPrefixes` ='103',`DeniedPrefixes` ='21',`PrefixAdminLimit` ='',`PrefixThreshold` ='75',`PrefixClearThreshold` ='70',`AdvertisedPrefixes` ='3262',`SuppressedPrefixes` ='0',`WithdrawnPrefixes` ='1887' WHERE `device_id` = '1' AND bgpPeerIdentifier = '193.xxx.xxx.13' AND afi = 'ipv4' AND safi = 'unicast'] /usr/bin/rrdtool create /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd DS:AcceptedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:DeniedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:AdvertisedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:SuppressedPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 \ DS:WithdrawnPrefixes:GAUGE:600:U:100000000000 ERROR: you must define at least one Round Robin Archive ERROR: opening '/var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/bgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.rrd': No such file or directory update /var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd N:103:21:3262:0:1887 Checking BGP peer 193.xxx.xxx.16 ERROR: opening '/var/www/html/observium/rrd/1/cbgp-193.xxx.xxx.13.ipv4.unicast.rrd': No such file or directory dario -- http://www.playnet.it phone +39 055 3226622 - fax +39 055 3226444 Brain Technology s.p.a. - AS 13284 http://www.linkedin.com/in/dariocalamai

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Discovery duplicating all cisco switches.
by Erwin Botas 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hi, I'm having trouble with the recent updates and all the cisco switches keeps duplicating by CDP Neighbor Discovery. Any clue? Regards, Erwin

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Observium and Quagga
by Philippe Le Brouster 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hi, I'm currently using observium in some small ISPs and I plan to checks BGP peers from quagga with observium. Does someone has already put together observium and quagga ? Regards, -- Philippe Le Brouster

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0.12.5.3160 update - getting alerts that everything is rebooted
by Chris Stone 11 May '12

11 May '12

FYI - just updated to 0.12.5.3160 and as things get polled, I seem to be getting alerts on everything that they have rebooted - which they have not.... Chris -- Chris Stone AxisInternet, Inc. www.axint.net

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Re: [Observium] Issues installing Observium on Ubuntu 10.04.4
by Bruce-Young Majola 10 May '12

10 May '12

Hi, I am baffled about exactly the same thing; why is it using something not configured. I do not know about config.php.inc, below are the credentials configured on the config.php file including what I have configured on the database itself. ### Database config $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; $config['db_user'] = "observium"; $config['db_pass'] = "xxxxxx"; $config['db_name'] = "observium"; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'xxxxxx'; I can also connect to the database using the configured credentials; brucem@ubuntu:/opt/observium$ mysql -u observium -pxxxxxx Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 35 Server version: 5.1.62-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> I have changed the password for security reasons From: Yucong Sun (???) <sunyucong(a)gmail.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Issues installing Observium on Ubuntu 10.04.4 server Message-ID: <CAJygYd1kANps+y3BPpBwUDxO6Pt21403St2zpS2NhoR8g4S2XA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 are you sure you configured the DB params in config.php.inc ? it seems you are trying to access using root and empty password. Regards, Bruce-Young Majola

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No graphs displayed
by Ian Armstrong 10 May '12

10 May '12

Sorry if this is a newbie question I have installed Observium on a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 installation. Everything has gone absolutely perfectly. I used apt-get and installed all of the required packages as per the Ubutu installation page. It is running OK and has discovered the devices on my network. However, there is no information on any graphs. Not a single one. All the ports are correctly detected and it reading IP addresses and arp caches and most other information including CDP. No information on any graph and some are simply saying draw error. Syslog is reporting the cron jobs setup as per the instructions (below) are running without error. 33 */6 * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root /opt/observium/poller.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 Help appreciated. Ian

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Issues installing Observium on Ubuntu 10.04.4 server
by Bruce-Young Majola 10 May '12

10 May '12

Hi, I am trying to install the latest version Observium on a new Ubuntu 10.04.4 server and I for some reason cannot get past the inserting default schema stage, see the errors I am getting below. brucem@ubuntu:/opt/observium$ sudo php includes/sql-schema/update.php PHP Notice: Undefined index: alerts in /opt/observium/includes/functions.php on line 21 -- Updating database schema 000 -> 001 ...PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 ..................... ..................... 019 -> 020 ...PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 PHP Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /opt/observium/includes/sql-schema/update.php on line 102 Everything up to this stage went without a glitch including configuring the correct DB credentials in the config.php file and also on the MySQL database itself, so I am not sure where I am going wrong. I will appreciate any help. Thank. Regards, Bruce-Young Majola

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SNMPv3 Support
by Adam Armstrong 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi All, We just committed SNMPv3 support in r3156. If any of you have been waiting for it, you can try it now. It's been tested for a month or so now and seems to work well. adam.

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rrdcached working?
by Jeffrey Ollie 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi, I discovered Observium a few days ago and I really like what I see so far. However, I'm running into some issues trying to scale up to the size of my network. The first issue that I thought I'd bring up is rrdcached support... is it actually working? I've got an rrdcached instance running but as far as I can tell Observium isn't making any real use of it. I switched to a TCP/IP socket for rrdcached and I can see a TCP/IP socket being opened but no data or commands are ever sent across the socket... Can anyone clue me in as to what I may be doing wrong? I'm running rev 3149 on a Fedora 16 system. -- Jeff Ollie

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negative values on netstat graphs
by Nikolay Shopik 09 May '12

09 May '12

Here is exampele of negative values drawing on graph while values are positive is this intended? http://demo.observium.org/graphs/type=device_netstat_snmp/id=33/to=13363435… Also on my installation graphs doesn't show negative lines, until you press "hide legend", but preview [day,week,month selection] are correctly drawn.

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SNMP Location can't have forward-slash
by Robert Williams 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi, Just noticed a small issue, when an SNMP 'location' contains a forward slash (/) then the link doesn't work in the location's menu, for example: With a location set to "THN/TFM-10/C5" on the device, the link is auto-generated as "http://<server>/devices/location=THN%2FTFM-10%2FC5/" which then results in the error: Not Found The requested URL /devices/location=THN/TFM-10/C5/ was not found on this server. Currently running: Observium 0.12.4.2956 Apache 2.2.20 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.7 MySQL 5.1.62-0ubuntu0.11.10.1-log This isn't critical at all, but since I just noticed it I thought I'd mention it :) Cheers! 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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Possibility too acknowledge items in Overview
by Mattias Gyllenvarg 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi All We see alot of jabber on the Overview page that is not really necessary and makes it hard too differ important information from trivial information. We would like too be able too Acknowledge items in the Overview so that it is not spammed with ports that are down for known reasons. Perhaps you could comment on the Ack and/or mark with a category (maintenance, power outage etc etc). Additionally I think that keywords in descriptions could generate different results in the overview (like ports are aggregated but for states). So that ports that are marked for installation and waiting for link should be hidden when down and shown green when up so that the provisioning team notices this and can take action. I see somewhere you can define a regexp that will look at the interface description and when true would inverse the up/down relationship. Also, bug, when the uptime counter loops on IOS devices they are marked as reloaded. -- *Med Vänliga Hälsningar - Best Regards* *Mattias Gyllenvarg* *Nätutveckling* Bredband2 - bara hårda paket Tel: +46 406219712

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