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Get Interface UP and DOWN mails for ignored ports since about r2922
by Matthias Cramer 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hi Adam and All since about r2922 I get DOWN and UP alert mail for Ports ignored by $config['bad_if_regexp'][] = "/^tnl[0-9]/"; Looks like this is not checked when sending mail, only on the web front end. Would be very very nice if that can be fixed. Regards Matthias P.S. What about my Patches (Fortiigate & Communifate Pro) will the be included soon or do you need anything from me? -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zurich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Not all filesystems added to Observium
by Ciro Iriarte 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Hi, I have this working without issues for RHEL5 and SLES11, but on a openSUSE host the filesystems built on top of LVM are not shown... The walk gives them all: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.10 = STRING: Swap space HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.31 = STRING: / HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.32 = STRING: /usr/local/pgsql HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.34 = STRING: /dev/shm HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.35 = STRING: /run HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.39 = STRING: /sys/fs/cgroup HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.50 = STRING: /var/lock HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.51 = STRING: /var/run HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.56 = STRING: /media HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.57 = STRING: /boot But observium only shows info for /boot, /dev/shm, /media /run,/sys/fs/cgroup, /var/lock and /var/run. On SLES I don't see "in memory/not real" filesystems like /proc or /sys. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Observium 2901 Break
by Zafar Pravaiz 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

hi After upgrading the observium it show all device down. When i run the discovery it shows as follow. Observium v0.12.3.2901 Discovery MySQL: Cell[1/0s] Row[1/0s] Rows[1/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[0/0s] Delete[0/0s]?? Any fix? -- *Zafar Pravaiz *IT Senior Systems Engineer Information Technology Department AUS /> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: Tel +971 6 515 2164 Fax +971 6515 2112 American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666, Sharjah United Arab Emirates http://www.aus.edu <http://www.aus.edu/> zpravaiz(a)aus.edu <mailto:youremail@aus.edu>

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] FortiGate Support
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

This is what i was actually replying to, HERP DERP. Also, please use the observium list, observium-dev is mostly just svn. adam. On 2012-02-07 08:15, Matthias Cramer wrote: > Hi > > I'm new on this list, hope this is the right place. > I've improved the Fortigate Support a bit. Moved everything to the newest MIB and added memory and cpu support. > > Attached is a patch based on the current SVN tree. > > Regards > > Matthias > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium-dev mailing list > observium-dev(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium-dev

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Re: [Observium] bug report: Billing Traffic
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Lol. that is awesome. There is clearly some odd bug in there. Are you able to give me access to the server to try to work out what it is? adam. On 2012-03-16 14:15, Timbo a la Bazzi wrote: > > Here is the printscreen! > > *Van:*observium-bounces@observium.org > [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *Namens *Adam Armstrong > *Verzonden:* vrijdag 16 maart 2012 13:58 > *Aan:* Observium Network Observation System > *Onderwerp:* Re: [Observium] bug report: Billing Traffic > > can you show us a screenshot from "accurate graphs" for that same bill? > > thanks, > adam. > > On 2012-03-16 11:49, Timbo a la Bazzi wrote: > > Hi There, > > How can I make a bug report? The forum is closed for registration, the > bugtracker also, so I hope this is the correct way and I can help in > the future maybe, because the software is awesome! > > I have the following situation: > > The polling is done correctly and it shows the same results as cacti > for my switch. Buw when I add billing and make a bill for a port with > Quota the first time I add for example 20GB it shows like 20B. If i > then edit it it shows correctly as 20GB (so not 2.0E-8), so there is a > work around. > > When I add a bill for multiple ports the sum is totally wrong. > > For example. I made a bill of 5 ports and 5 bills of each port, so I > can check. > > If a manually sum the 5 bills/ports I get around 80GB. But when I look > at the SUMMED bill it says 1.47PB > > I have added the billing feature this way: > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Billing > > What am I doing wrong and if it is a bug how can I correct it? > > So there are 2 problems: > > initial quota is set wrong, but can be corrected. -> Bug with a work > around > > quota calculated to high values -> bug or misconfiguration, but I > can't find anything about it: > > So you can see the sum of the 5 ports are 9.36Gbps and it are 5x > 100MBit ports ;-) > > The switch that I am monitoring is a HP2524 > > Thanks in advance! > > Tim Schoondergang > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] bug report: Billing Traffic
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

can you show us a screenshot from "accurate graphs" for that same bill? thanks, adam. On 2012-03-16 11:49, Timbo a la Bazzi wrote: > > Hi There, > > How can I make a bug report? The forum is closed for registration, the > bugtracker also, so I hope this is the correct way and I can help in > the future maybe, because the software is awesome! > > I have the following situation: > > The polling is done correctly and it shows the same results as cacti > for my switch. Buw when I add billing and make a bill for a port with > Quota the first time I add for example 20GB it shows like 20B. If i > then edit it it shows correctly as 20GB (so not 2.0E-8), so there is a > work around. > > When I add a bill for multiple ports the sum is totally wrong. > > For example. I made a bill of 5 ports and 5 bills of each port, so I > can check. > > If a manually sum the 5 bills/ports I get around 80GB. But when I look > at the SUMMED bill it says 1.47PB > > I have added the billing feature this way: > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Billing > > What am I doing wrong and if it is a bug how can I correct it? > > So there are 2 problems: > > initial quota is set wrong, but can be corrected. -> Bug with a work > around > > quota calculated to high values -> bug or misconfiguration, but I > can't find anything about it: > > So you can see the sum of the 5 ports are 9.36Gbps and it are 5x > 100MBit ports ;-) > > The switch that I am monitoring is a HP2524 > > Thanks in advance! > > Tim Schoondergang > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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bug report: Billing Traffic
by Timbo a la Bazzi 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi There, How can I make a bug report? The forum is closed for registration, the bugtracker also, so I hope this is the correct way and I can help in the future maybe, because the software is awesome! I have the following situation: The polling is done correctly and it shows the same results as cacti for my switch. Buw when I add billing and make a bill for a port with Quota the first time I add for example 20GB it shows like 20B. If i then edit it it shows correctly as 20GB (so not 2.0E-8), so there is a work around. When I add a bill for multiple ports the sum is totally wrong. For example. I made a bill of 5 ports and 5 bills of each port, so I can check. If a manually sum the 5 bills/ports I get around 80GB. But when I look at the SUMMED bill it says 1.47PB I have added the billing feature this way: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Billing What am I doing wrong and if it is a bug how can I correct it? So there are 2 problems: initial quota is set wrong, but can be corrected. -> Bug with a work around quota calculated to high values -> bug or misconfiguration, but I can't find anything about it: So you can see the sum of the 5 ports are 9.36Gbps and it are 5x 100MBit ports ;-) The switch that I am monitoring is a HP2524 Thanks in advance! Tim Schoondergang

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] OS Detection for Cisco SMB Linux Products
by Adam Armstrong 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi Matthias, Please update the patch to use the correct discovery/polling mechanism for the CPU load. We stopped building specific rrds a long time ago, it should be detected the same way as memory pools. Shouldn't be too hard to do :) Thanks, adam. On 2012-02-10 06:36, Matthias Cramer wrote: > Hi > > Added Linux Variant detection for Cisco SMB Products (tested with an AP541N) > > Regards > > Matthias > > Index: includes/static-config.php > =================================================================== > --- includes/static-config.php (revision 2860) > +++ includes/static-config.php (working copy) > @@ -66,7 +66,14 @@ > $config['os'][$os]['over'][2]['graph'] = "device_mempool"; > $config['os'][$os]['over'][2]['text'] = "Memory Usage"; > > +$os = "ciscosmblinux"; > +$config['os'][$os]['type'] = "wireless"; > +$config['os'][$os]['group'] = "unix"; > +$config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cisco SMB Linux"; > +$config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "cisco"; > > Index: includes/discovery/os/linux.inc.php > =================================================================== > --- includes/discovery/os/linux.inc.php (revision 2860) > +++ includes/discovery/os/linux.inc.php (working copy) > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ > if (strpos($entPhysicalMfgName, "QNAP") !== FALSE) { $os = "qnap";} > elseif(strstr($sysObjectId, ".1.3.6.1.4.1.5528.100.20.10.2014")) { $os = "netbotz"; } > elseif(strstr($sysDescr, "endian")) { $os = "endian"; } > - > + elseif(preg_match("/Cisco Small Business/", $sysDescr)) { $os = "ciscosmblinux"; } > } > > } > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium-dev mailing list > observium-dev(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium-dev

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Basic Communigate Pro support
by Matthias Cramer 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hi All I wrote a application plug-in to add basic support for the Communigate Pro Mail server suite. Communigates own snmp server needs to be run at port 10161 Hope is is of some interest and will be added to the repository. Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Re: [Observium] [Observium-dev] FortiGate Support
by Rob J. Epping 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Hi Matthias, On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Matthias Cramer <matthias.cramer(a)iway.ch> wrote: > Hi > > I'm new on this list, hope this is the right place. > I've improved the Fortigate Support a bit. Moved everything to the newest MIB and added memory and cpu support. > > Attached is a patch based on the current SVN tree. THNX 4 the patch! Your patch fixes version discovery and active sessions polling (at least these were not working for me) and adds a lot of other nice stuff. I hope this gets imported into SVN. > Regards > > Matthias -- GRTNX, RobJE

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Graphic on Processor usage
by Ciro Iriarte 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hi, hope someone can clarify this to me. On the processor usage graph I see max usage reaching ~30% but on the info printed at the end of the graph it says ~67%. Am I missing something ?. Ref: http://imageshack.us/f/593/cpub.png/ Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Last update, upgrading schema fails
by Ciro Iriarte 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi, reporting a schema failure with rev2880: ------------------- wwwrun@cplanning:/opt/observium> php includes/sql-schema/update.php -d SQL[SELECT version FROM `dbSchema`] SQL[SELECT revision FROM `dbSchema`] -- Transitioning from old revision-based schema to database version system -- Updating database schema 006 -> 007 ...ALTER TABLE `dbSchema` DROP `revision`; You can't delete all columns with ALTER TABLE; use DROP TABLE instead done (1 errors). SQL[INSERT INTO `dbSchema` (`version`) VALUES ('007')] PHP Warning: QDB - Insert failed. in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 77 PHP Notice: Undefined index: insert_sec in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 86 PHP Notice: Undefined index: insert in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 87 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: id in /opt/observium/includes/dbFacile.php on line 89 -- Done ------------------- Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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blank screen browser
by norujames 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Hello all my server worked well for few days. but now, when i go to the website, i have a blank screen, with following message on error_log: [Sun Mar 11 17:44:24 2012] [error] an unknown filter was not added: INCLUDES [Sun Mar 11 17:44:24 2012] [error] an unknown filter was not added: INCLUDES someone can help me to resolve the problem ? Thanks norujames

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Supported devices
by norujames 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Hello Someone can tell me if Observium support Redback ericsson devices ? btw, how to create or add new devices to supported ? Thanks norujames

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discovery.php repeatedly trying to upgrade database
by David Brodbeck 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

I did an svn up recently, and am now at r2879. I ran discovery.php to update the database afterwards, and it went fine; however, now my discovery.php processes hang trying to install old database updates: $ ./discovery.php -h new Observium v0.12.2.2879 Discovery -- Updating database schema 000 -> 001 ... done (0 errors). 001 -> 002 ... The result is the discovery.php processes stack up and eventually exceed the database connection limit. Any ideas on why it persists on trying to update my already up-to-date database? -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

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Oracle perf data anyone?
by Ciro Iriarte 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi!, anyone put together a script to collect performance data for Oracle DB ?. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Cisco ACE rservers graph does not display
by Zafar Pravaiz 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi For my Cisco ACE i can not see Rserver graphs. Is there any clue why? Please see the attachment. Thanks

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rev 2884 broke polling
by Nikolay Shopik 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hey guys, After latest update which is rev 2884 all devices reported as down by observium.

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AS400
by Ciro Iriarte 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hi, if anyone has interest and time to add AS400 on iseries support I can provide sample data using SNMPSIM. I found the following documentation: >From IBM: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg244504.pdf http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/books/sc415412.… Which MIBs are used: http://lists.skills-1st.co.uk/mharc/html/nv-l/2001-01/msg00237.html MIB definitions (the 5 mentioned above are included here): http://www.mibdepot.com/cgi-bin/vendor_index.cgi?r=ibm Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Traffic
by Nuno Dias 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hi, I'm testing the observium and already added a couple of devices, (several switch one router and some linux boxes) All this devices have at least 1Gb network cards or ports in the case of switchs, some have 10Gb ports. But in my graphs I have at most 100/120 Mb peaks, but I'm sure that I have more traffic in some ports, because I have other monitoring system (cacti) showing that. I remember that in cacti I had to configure the counters to be 64-bits and convert bytes in bits. So, do I need to configure in observium this kind of things? if yes where? or this is some kind of bug? Thanks Nuno -- Nuno Dias <ndias(a)lip.pt> LIP

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Limit Views and devices groups
by Ciro Iriarte 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hi!, how do you guys scale in heterogeneous administrative environments?. For example: - Within an administrative domain would be nice to group the devices involved in a particular high level service. - Currently I have a mix of devices and would like to see them all, but some administrator for example would like to see only their hardware. Would it be possible to limit access to a set of devices?. >From what I know, the only way right now would be to have many observium instances for different people, but that would be an issue if some people would like to see all the hardware.... Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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LDAP authentication with AD
by Bao Nguyen 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Does anyone know the correct parameters for binding with Active Directory for Observium? Is there a way to make it use SSL? I've used the configuration below but get a blank page after attempting to login. I have not tried dig through the logs to find out what's the issues are but if someone know of the correct parameters I would love to try it first. #$config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; # default, other options: ldap, http-auth #$config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; # v2 or v3 #$config['auth_ldap_server'] = "beernuts.ad.ucsd.edu"; #$config['auth_ldap_port'] = 636; #$config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=SDSC,dc=UCSD,dc=EDU"; thanks, -bn 0216331C

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widescreen ports graphs
by Nikolay Shopik 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hey Adam, Just quick note, that widescreen mode on ports graph doesn't working property. These 4 graphs should fill all available width, but instead using proportion from normal mode. And I wonder if there way we could able to select multiply different port types, like transit+peering. I mean come up with different control where you could select not only one state?

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Re: [Observium] C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more
by Tom Laermans 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Robert, Do you know what revision you were running when it still worked? Probably something broke or disappeared or so when you updated a few weeks ago and didnt get fixed until now... Tom ----- Reply message ----- From: "Robert Williams" <Robert(a)CustodianDC.com> To: "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012 10:55 Hi all, I'm still not getting very far with this one :( Out of desperation I deleted and re-added one 6509 chassis and now it doesn't even show the stats for the fabric, it's just missing the whole "Catalyst 6k Crossbar" section? I'm running the latest (2854) revision. Any ideas please? Robert Williams Backline / Operations Team Custodian DataCentre tel: +44 (0)1622 230382 email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt -----Original Message----- From: Robert Williams Sent: 01 February 2012 16:53 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more Hi Guys, For some (unknown) reason all of our catalyst chassis (650x-E) have recently stopped recording data for their Crossbar usage on all their cards. Data is visible up to a couple of weeks ago, but then stops and nothing more has been recorded since. The permission on the rrd are fine, and the file itself hasn't been modified since the day the data stopped being recorded. Interestingly, the usage 'bar' next to the (blank) graph shows usage on it correctly. So, as a test, I moved the rrd files for one chassis out of its folder then did a full redetect of the one host in question. Since then it doesn't appear to have made any effort to re-create the RRD file :( So, any ideas on why this one element would stop working suddenly? Or alternatively, is there a way to 'force' Observium to re-create it's rrd files for specific sensors on demand? Any input most welcome :) Cheers, _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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C6K Fabric stats not being recorded any more
by Robert Williams 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Hi Guys, For some (unknown) reason all of our catalyst chassis (650x-E) have recently stopped recording data for their Crossbar usage on all their cards. Data is visible up to a couple of weeks ago, but then stops and nothing more has been recorded since. The permission on the rrd are fine, and the file itself hasn't been modified since the day the data stopped being recorded. Interestingly, the usage 'bar' next to the (blank) graph shows usage on it correctly. So, as a test, I moved the rrd files for one chassis out of its folder then did a full redetect of the one host in question. Since then it doesn't appear to have made any effort to re-create the RRD file :( So, any ideas on why this one element would stop working suddenly? Or alternatively, is there a way to 'force' Observium to re-create it's rrd files for specific sensors on demand? Any input most welcome :) 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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no mail after down of a BGP peer
by Dario Calamai 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hello! the mail notification doesn't work after a down of a BGP peer. it works when peering is going UP or FLAP! I tried to understand where the problem was but I didn't succeed.. :( thanks! 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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Notifications for Ports in error-state
by Timo Ament 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hello, is there a way o configure observium to send out a notification, whenever a port is erroring and shown as such under the Ports-tab? Regards Timo

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Quickguide: Installation on SLES11
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

I don't see a way to create a user on the Wiki so I'm posting it here, hope people with wiki access can add it: ## # Initial Repos ## SLES11 + SLE11-SDK + Updates ## # Pre-requisites ## # Additional repositories zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/utilities/SLE_11_SP1 network:utilities # Prepackaged installation zypper in apache2-mod_php5 php5-mysql php5-gd php5-snmp php5-pear net-snmp graphviz-gd graphviz subversion mysql rrdtool fping ImageMagick whois mtr nmap ipmitool # Additional modules using PEAR pear install Net_IPv6 pear install Net_IPv4 # For monitoring VMs using libvirt zypper in libvirt # Checkout of Observium from SVN cd /opt svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium ## # Data Base ## # DB+user Creation mysql> create database observium; mysql> grant all privileges on observium.* to 'observium'@'localhost' -> identified by '<pass>'; # Schema creation cd observium mysql -u observium -p observium < database-schema.sql <pass> # Update config.php to include DB connection info cp config.php{.default,} vi config.php # Schema updates for F in database-update*;do scripts/update-sql.php $F;done # RRD and graphs directory creation mkdir graphs rrd chown wwwrun: graphs/ rrd/ ## # PATHS ## # fping vi config.php -- $config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping"; -- ## # Apache ## # Enable Mod Rewrite a2enmod rewrite # apache vhost configuration vi /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/observium.conf -- <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/ ServerName observium.<domain> CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log <Directory "/opt/observium/html/"> AllowOverride All Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> -- # Log destination directory mkdir /opt/observium/logs/ chown wwwrun: /opt/observium/logs/ # Startup rcapache2 start chkconfig apache2 on ## # Users (for production, better configure LDAP) ## # Admins, level 10 /opt/observium/adduser.php user1 pass 10 ## # Devices ## # Adding new devices cd /opt/observium/ && ./addhost.php <hostname> <community> v2c # Discovery inicial + colecta de datos ./discovery.php -h all ./poller.php -h all # Enable data collection using cron vi /etc/cron.d/observium -- 33 */6 * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 0 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 2 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 3 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 4 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 5 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 6 >> /dev/null 2>&1 */5 * * * * root cd /opt/observium/ && ./poller.php -i 8 -n 7 >> /dev/null 2>&1 ## # Performance Tunning ## # Install XCache, build package from src.rpm (install required dependencies for compilation if needed) mkdir ~/tmp cd ~/tmp wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php:/extensions/SLE_11/sr… rpmbuild --rebuild php5-xcache-1.3.2-2.1.src.rpm # Install result from above command # Restart apache rcapache2 restart That's all, this should work on openSUSE also, just make sure to use repositories for the correct version of distribution. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Feature Request/Suggestion: Trending
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, it would be really helpful for Capacity Planning to include Trending support, as far as I know, RRDTool already has support for it. Maybe adding trending on all graphs is not the best option, because for one graph there are many data sources, and while one can choose what one thinks would be the most obvious candidate another user might need to do the trending using other datasource... Maybe adding a separate TAB where one can choose what to graph with trending would be the most "universal" solution, or maybe a mix of both, graph the obvious by default and enable and "advanced" tab for trending on demand... Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Collectd alongside Observium
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, I'll try asking again splitting topics... Does collectd add new data/features not available with SNMP polling?, should I implement collectd alongside a new Observium installation?. Also, which version plays nice with Observium today?, 4.10 or 5.0? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Load Graph, 'm'illions?
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Sorry if this has been asked before, couldn't find the answer in a quick search. Graphing Linux load average on a busy machine I see integer numbers, which is expected "20" for example, but graphing an almost idle machine (load 0.22), it's graphed as 220 m. Is there something I need to adjust?, is a RRD limitation? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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"Could not ping <host>" from Web UI
by Ciro Iriarte 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, I managed to install Observium rev2831 on SLES11SP1, and it's working great!! Trying to add hosts by CLI I was getting the "cannot ping" message, fixed it adding "$config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping";" to config.php. Now, I keep getting the same trying to use the Web UI to add a hosts, apparently it's not using the config['fping'] variable. Is that possible? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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rev 2846 -> all int macaddrs=00:00:00:00:00:00
by Dario Calamai 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

thi is the diff with -6 rev: Index: includes/polling/ports.inc.php =================================================================== --- includes/polling/ports.inc.php (revisione 2840) +++ includes/polling/ports.inc.php (copia locale) @@ -182,14 +177,7 @@ if (strpos($this_port['ifPhysAddress'], ":")) { list($a_a, $a_b, $a_c, $a_d, $a_e, $a_f) = explode(":", $this_port['ifPhysAddress']); - $ah_a = zeropad($a_a); - $ah_b = zeropad($a_b); - $ah_c = zeropad($a_c); - $ah_d = zeropad($a_d); - $ah_e = zeropad($a_e); - $ah_f = zeropad($a_f); - #$this_port['ifPhysAddress'] = $ah_a.":".$ah_b.":".$ah_c.":".$ah_d.":".$ah_e.":".$ah_f; - $this_port['ifPhysAddress'] = $ah_a.$ah_b.$ah_c.$ah_d.$ah_e.$ah_f; + $this_port['ifPhysAddress'] = zeropad($ah_a).zeropad($ah_b).zeropad($ah_c).zeropad($ah_d).zeropad($ah_e).zeropad($ah_f); } "zeropad($ah_N)" in last +line should be without "h": $ah_N are absent variables! ;) ++++ $this_port['ifPhysAddress'] = zeropad($a_a).zeropad($a_b).zeropad($a_c).zeropad($a_d).zeropad($a_e).zeropad($a_f); 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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Looking for FabricOS and Eaton Rack Monitor support
by Ciro Iriarte 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Any pointers/help to add support for: - Brocade SAN Switches (FabricOS): Added as unknown device, some traffic data saved. Snmpwalk output: http://pastebin.com/WAq90sFA - Eaton Powerware Rack Monitor: Recognized as UPS (!), no environment data saved. Snmpwalk output: http://pastebin.com/xdT0La6T MIB: http://pastebin.com/gH2W9dvK I kinda suck at php, but would be nice to add support for this devices.. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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VLAN Tabs missing?
by Bruce-Young Majola 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi, I just upgraded to the latest version and I noticed that the VLAN Tab is now gone. Although I can still see what VLAN; VLAN number to be precise; an interface belongs to under the device Ports tab, I cannot see any VLAN name like I used to before. Is this by design or has something gone awry with the later code releases? Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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syslog on netscreen
by Nicola Percacciante 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi, i enabled the syslogd for hp procurve switch works correctly example _2012-01-20 18:27:44_ FFI port A1-High collision or drop rate. See help. _2012-01-20 18:27:44_ FFI port A2-High collision or drop rate. See help. for juniper netscreen i get only that msg _2011-12-15 23:40:56_ NETSCREEN DEVICE_ID=018508200900 _2011-12-15 22:28:56_ NETSCREEN DEVICE_ID=018508200900 In the LOG on linux box i see the follow syslogd raw Jan 23 12:10:39 192.168.198.71 SSG140: NetScreen device_id=0185082009000680 [Root]system-critical-00026: IPSEC tunnel with ID 4000000c fails to authenticate the packet. (2012-01-23 12:10:48) Any idea ? Nicola

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Initial doubts
by Ciro Iriarte 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

Hi, I posted some questions in the forum, but the maillist seems to be a lot more active, so I'll summarize them here: 1- Trending Support: Is that on the roadmap?, from what I've read RRD already supports trending.. 2- Collectd: I see there's support for collectd, should I implement it alongside observium?, would that duplicate data?. Which version works nice with observium?, 4.10 or 5.0? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Changing password for an other user
by Fältman, Mikael 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

How do I change password for a user that has forgotten his password ? I know how to change my own password but not for an other user. Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Patch to monitor by-outlet APC MasterSwitch bars
by Jordan Kirby 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hi, We have recently installed some APC power bars that can be monitored by outlet (AP8653). I have written a patch for Observium (attached) that creates sensor for each of the ports on a AP8653. The patch also includes getting the input voltage for the newer "rPDU2" type power bars. I found the snmp queries to be slow against these new apcs when returning the current information, hence the increased timeout. Any suggestions/improvements are more than welcome! Regards Jordan

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No authorisation to app apache
by Fältman, Mikael 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hi My "normal users" can access the page App >> Apache (they are granted access to the device) but the graphs is not displaying. Only the text "No authorization" and a pink graph showing no values. Is this a bugg or do I have to grant access other than to the device for the users ? The Administrator classed users have no problem. Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script
by Adam Armstrong 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Aha. Sounds like new behaviour in Ubuntu copied from debian upstream. Its very annoying, as you discovered. Ill need ti mention it in the install guide, as currently its only a footnote for debian! Adam. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: Actually: Ubuntu 11.10 Upgraded the distro not long a go. //Mikael Från: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] För Adam Armstrong Skickat: den 30 november 2011 22:15 Till: Observium Network Observation System Ämne: Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script Debian? Or another braindead distro which breaks snmp by removing mibs? Adam -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: Ah. That was a good switch ! OUTPUT from debug (not working): SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '24'] Applications: /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c nmspublic -O qv -M /opt/observium/mibs/ udp:liss-bro-fep1:161 nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101 nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> nsExtendOutputFull) So I added “NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::” to the file “includes/polling/applications/apache.inc.php” and it solved the problem. Now it all works as expected. New OUTPUT from debug (working): SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '24'] Applications: /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c nmspublic -O qv -M /opt/observium/mibs/ udp:liss-bro-fep1:161 NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101 Is it a bug or did I miss something. Some ENV param maybe ? Thank you ! Mikael Från: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] För Adam Armstrong Skickat: den 30 november 2011 19:34 Till: Observium Network Observation System Ämne: Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script Run the Poller for that host in debug. ./poller.php -h <host> -d Adam -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: ”Observium 0.11.10.2693” I have set up Observium as instructed to monitor an apache server. Everything seems work fine except that there is no data in the graphs . Doing a manual snmp poll from Observium server returns data and the /tmp/apache-snmp file is creataed on the remote server so I know that the script has been executed. (Snmpwalk -O qv -v2c -c xx webhost NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull -M /opt/observium/mibs) Adding the App to the Device in Observium worked. mysql> select * from applications; +--------+-----------+----------+ | app_id | device_id | app_type | +--------+-----------+----------+ | 1 | 24 | apache | +--------+-----------+----------+ 1 rows in set (0.00 sec) The graphs are created under Apps->Apache But there is no data ! When running the poller.php scrip everythings seems fine. The script outputs: Applications: apache The RRDs is created and the timestamp on the file is updated every 5 min. app-apache-1.rrd A rrdtool dump shows only NAN BUT ! The file /tmp/apache-snmp is not created on the remote server when the poller.php script runs !? (I have removed it after testing) It seems that the poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script on the remote server ! Am I missing something ? Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com | www.logica.com Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script
by Fältman, Mikael 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

”Observium 0.11.10.2693” I have set up Observium as instructed to monitor an apache server. Everything seems work fine except that there is no data in the graphs . Doing a manual snmp poll from Observium server returns data and the /tmp/apache-snmp file is creataed on the remote server so I know that the script has been executed. (Snmpwalk -O qv -v2c -c xx webhost NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull -M /opt/observium/mibs) Adding the App to the Device in Observium worked. mysql> select * from applications; +--------+-----------+----------+ | app_id | device_id | app_type | +--------+-----------+----------+ | 1 | 24 | apache | +--------+-----------+----------+ 1 rows in set (0.00 sec) The graphs are created under Apps->Apache But there is no data ! When running the poller.php scrip everythings seems fine. The script outputs: Applications: apache The RRDs is created and the timestamp on the file is updated every 5 min. app-apache-1.rrd A rrdtool dump shows only NAN BUT ! The file /tmp/apache-snmp is not created on the remote server when the poller.php script runs !? (I have removed it after testing) It seems that the poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script on the remote server ! Am I missing something ? Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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draw NA values using different color
by Nikolay Shopik 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hey, I'm just find this graph http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?displaymode=n;start=2011-11-30%2012:2… And though it will be nice (if possible) to draw empty(NA) values using different color, like on graph I show.

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sorting type on ports tab changed?
by Nikolay Shopik 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hi, Does sorting order recently changed on ports tab? When I sort by name of port right now it sort like this GigabitEthernet0/1 GigabitEthernet0/10 GigabitEthernet0/11 etc but before it was 0/1, 0/2, 0/3, etc.

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VLANs Tab empty after an upgrade
by Bruce-Young Majola 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

HI, I have updated to version 0.11.11.2734 and noticed that the VLANs Tab is now empty and does not even show the "Powered by xxxxxx" at the bottom of the page. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Abnormal spike in billing graphs - r2719
by Berant Lemmenes 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hello, I've just recently setup Observium and noticed a strange spike in reported usage for one billing item, that wasn't reported in the actual interfaces stats. I've attached three screen shots, one of the accurate billing page for the billing entry in question, the 2nd for the interface page under the device, and the 3rd for the same interface as seen from a cricket install. As you can see the physical interface graphs in Observium or cricket don't show this extended period of ~ 8Gb/s that show up in the mysql based graphs. Looking at bill_data for the bill_id in question there were 45 entries where in_delta was exactly 309525032051591 while out_delta continues to change. Here is an example row: 31, 2011-11-10 17:35:06, 299, 309525032052787, 309525032051591, 1196 This has only manifested in this one billing. Let me know if there is anything else I can look at or provide that would assist. Thank you in advance. Thanks, Berant

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Database Question
by Letz Stefan / ACS 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Hello List, we use observium to monitor about 200 network devices including syslog, ipsec, and smokeping. What we see is an excessive growing off database every time we make an svn update. Could everyone else see this phenomen? Mit freundlichen Gr??en / Best regards Stefan Letz Team Manager Customer Services ACS Solutions GmbH Maximilianallee 4 04129 Leipzig Phone: +49 341 355913 45 Mobile: +49 151 11446409 Fax: +49 341 355913 11 www.acs-europe.de<http://www.acs-europe.de> [cid:gold_partner_2011.jpg@10d693991e784a969efcef6bb72627ac] Amtsgericht Leipzig: HRB21111 USt-IdNr: DE814217083 Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Thomas Lindner

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Billing question
by Berant Lemmenes 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

I have a quick question to confirm what data is used to determine an overage... I believe I'm understanding the code/database correctly in that it calculates the 95th percentile for both in and out (rate_95th_in/rate_95th_out) and then whichever one is larger is stored as rate_95th and that is what is used for the value that the overage is based on. I just ask because we see ~4-5 times more entries that are over their limit with Observium than with our previous system (which granted was horribly cobbled together, and last maintained in the early 00's), and I just wanted to make sure it wasn't taking the sum of in and out for the calculation. Thanks! Berant

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Re: [Observium] Potential bugs - r2726
by Adam Armstrong 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

This is currently by design. We could do with something to make it prettier though. Berant Lemmenes <berant(a)lemmenes.com> wrote: >Yeah looks like both my non billing issues were PHP RAM limited, thanks for >the pointer. > >The only other non billing related thing is the global settings link just >pulls up a text listing of the various array's that the settings are stored >in. > >Thanks, >Berant > >On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > >> >> Ports page is probably down to memory limits on PHP. check logs. >> >> The billing page is being reworked at the moment, and some things might >> not work :) >> >> adam. >> >> >> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:19:15 -0500, Berant Lemmenes <berant(a)lemmenes.com> >> wrote: >> > Some of these could be known issues but I didn't see anything in the >> > bugtracker and wanted to see if they were somehow unique to my >> > installation. >> > >> > There are a couple pages that completely error out, the browser get's a >> > failure trying to load. For me that is the main Inventory page under the >> > overview tab, and the all ports page. I have currently 30 devices with >> ~16k >> > ports in my system. >> > >> > For a page like the all ports page I would expect that to take some time >> to >> > render as it's pulling together a lot of info for 16k interfaces, >> however >> > after maybe 1-2 seconds it fails. >> > >> > Filtering under the traffic bills page doesn't seem to work, when >> > I first started entering Bills I know I was able to filter by over/under >> > quota, however now that I have 67 in it doesn't seem to work. Also I'm >> not >> > sure what the 'All Customers' drop down is supposed to filter on as I've >> > filled out all the customer/bill related fields when adding a new bill >> and >> > it never populates. >> > >> > In general I don't see any place to look for clues as to what is failing >> on >> > the page failures, as the apache error.log doesn't have anything and the >> > observium.log file is only poller items. Can I enable more verbose >> logging >> > into the observium.log file somehow? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Berant >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Cisco ASA Remote Access Sessions getting Error Drawing Graph
by Jeff Collyer 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Using Observium to monitor several pairs of Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls. On the graphs/firewall page /observium/device/device=27/tab=graphs/group=firewall/ the very last graph is labeled Remote Access Sessions. I'm getting the ubiquitous "Error Drawing Graph" on that row of graphs. whats my next debugging step? The apache logs don't show any errors, so I'm guessing its somewhere in the Observium or RRDtool layers. Observium 0.11.11.2726 Apache 2.2.14 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.10 MySQL 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 Thanks ---- Jeff

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