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emails alerts stopped working
by Pieter Meyer 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Hi, Seems Email alerts stopped working, we are currently using Observium 21.2.10990 email.inc.php ./test_alert.php -c 3 Observium 21.2.10990 Test Alert Notification o Notifying [email] Default alert email: {"email":"cvtvoice(a)convergedgroup.net"}PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /opt/observium/includes/alerting/email.inc.php on line 131 Regards Pieter Meyer Converged Group | Licensed ISP 0258/IECNS/JAN/09 75 Witkoppen Rd, North Riding, Gauteng, 2162 Office: +27 10 591 4600 | Mobile: +27 83 233 6614

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wrong values in billing module
by Volker Lieder 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Hi, we are using the Pro/Subscription and use the billing module. A customer of us notices us, that the billing information is wrong. I checked information from billing module for december for the customer (95/5 374Mbit). Also i check 95/5 of the port directly i get a value of 204Mbit, 95/5 How is this difference possible? Any other persons here with same problems? Best regards, Volker

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Device & bad_if_regexp
by Arrigo 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Hi All. Is there a way to associate a device in /bad_if_regexp /parameter in /config.php /file? I mean: I want to exclude "GigabitEthernet0/3/4.*" subinterfaces on a specific device, but the same interface is also on other devices. My actual config.php setup is: $config['bad_if_regexp'][] = "/GigabitEthernet0\/3\/4\.[123]+/"; $config['bad_if_regexp'][] = "/GigabitEthernet0\/3\/4\.[456789][0-9]{0,2}$/"; Thanks, Arrigo.

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Ubuntu update problem.
by Peltokangas Mikko 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

Hello, I updated my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04 and my Observium wont update devices events anymore. Services are up, but where I should search problem? I have latest updates from Observium (20.21.10924) -- Terveisin, Mikko Peltokangas, järjestelmäasiantuntija Alavuden kaupunki gsm:+358-44-516 3120 (myös Whatsapp) email:mikko.peltokangas@alavus.fi

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Arista switches per-VLAN traffic stats?
by Adam Thompson 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

I observe (pun not intended) that on our Arista switches, unlike the Cisco NX9ks we run, Observium isn’t able to collect per-VLAN traffic stats. This is kind of a problem for us… Arista’s willing to help diagnose, but wants to know what MIB trees are being polled to gather this info. Can anyone tell me what MIBs / OID trees Observium is looking for? Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/>

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PHP error after update
by luca＠sasdelli.it 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php on line 540 .and blank web page with HTTP ERROR 500 Any hint? Thanks Luca

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mysql poller times increased 2x after Maria DB upgrade from 5.x to 10.3
by Edvinas Kairys 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

hello, Mysql poller times increased 2x after Maria DB upgrade from 5.x to 10.3 [image: image.png] I dont know if this is supposed to be or not ? dunno if i 'feel' any slowness, but i want to ask for your info. Thanks for any input

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local db vs remote
by Edvinas Kairys 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Hello, I see that Observium supports remote database, recently when i was thinking how to autobackup database, i came accross to the idea that i could use remote db functionality to send db data to some centralized location. Has anybode tried to use remote db for Observium ? Thanks

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Probes
by Jacek.Dabrowski＠selgros.pl 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Hello, Is it possible to use login data when creating probes? Applies to websites that require logging in. [cid:image001.png@01D6E5B0.7C220F20] Regards Jacek Dąbrowski

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Please remove me thank you
by Davide Viganó 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

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upgrading Observium | python part
by Edvinas Kairys 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

Hello, I want to renew Observium system and upgrade old dependencies, like current Python 2.7.5. Do i understand correctly that i can download Python3.6 and start to use it instead that old 2.7.5 Python ?

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Question on Observium GUI
by Martin 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

Hello Observium experts, Is there a way to 'acknowledge' an issue which produces a status box (old style) to make this status box to disappear from my dashboard? For example, I have a number of BGP sessions on hot-standby devices which are 'normally down' until the primary device dies. I do not need/want to see the down state of these BGP sessions. Obviously other BGP issues from these or other devices should still be reported. Best regards, Martin

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creating alert when port status change
by Luis Olavarrieta 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

Adam / team: How do you create a rule when a port changes it status? I need to send an email when a port (different than the WAN) changes it status from up to down.

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Updating observium system via yum update
by Edvinas Kairys 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

Hello, it's been a while I was upgrading the Observium dependencies. Currently we're suing OLD Centos version: CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core) [image: image.png] What do you think, is it safe to update system via yum update? It would upgrade Centos 7.3 to 7.x and should upgrade Python, Maria DB (from 5.5.56 to 5.5.68) ant other Observium dependencies. After this base update, i would try to manually update MariaDB to 10.x and Python, if yum update will be insufficient. My concern is to not corrupt the system. Could you give some recommendations or i'm too careful and everything should be fine with yum update. ? Thank you:)

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Call to undefined function is_valid_serial()
by Simon Smith 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

Hi All, Im having an issue where the poller.php is erroring out and crashing when talking to my linux servers CMD[/usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c *** -Pud -OQUv -m UCD-SNMP-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'voip.rbs':'161' .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.4.3.1.1.6.115.101.1 14.105.97.108] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0331s] STDOUT[ "To Be Filled By O.E.M." ] SNMP STATUS[TRUE] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function is_valid_serial() in /opt/observium/includes/polling/os/unix.inc.php:384 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/polling/os.inc.php(239): include() #1 /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php(336): include('/opt/observium/...') #2 /opt/observium/poller.php(187): poll_device(Array, Array) #3 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/polling/os/unix.inc.php on line 384 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function is_valid_serial() in /opt/observium/includes/polling/os/unix.inc.php:384 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/polling/os.inc.php(239): include() #1 /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php(336): include('/opt/observium/...') #2 /opt/observium/poller.php(187): poll_device(Array, Array) #3 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/polling/os/unix.inc.php on line 384 SVN latest revision 10905 Any ideas? Kindest regards Simon

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Re: [Observium] Smokeping graphs post migration
by Joey Stanford 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

>> It seems this bit of code isn’t being triggered at all, which suggests none of your filenames have a tilde in them? > > correct As a side note, smokeping-generate vs my actual targets appears to differ. # jstanford @ observium in ~ [14:44:02] $ diff smokeping-obs-script.txt smokeping-actual-targert.txt 174,179d173 < ++ radio-cedarwood_fremont_rmham < host = radio-cedarwood.fremont.rmham < < ++ radio-cedarwood_pueblo_rmham < host = radio-cedarwood.pueblo.rmham < 582,584d575 < ++ router_n5zgt_qth < host = router.n5zgt.qth < 737,739d727 < < ++ wifi_ac0kq_rmham < host = wifi.ac0kq.rmham

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Smokeping graphs post migration
by Joey Stanford 19 Dec '20

19 Dec '20

Howdy, I need some help pointing me in the right direction for troubleshooting. I migrated Observium from Ubuntu to Debian and life is good except for smokeping. I have no graphs but… * smokeping is installed * smokeping and observium’s config.php are using the same configuration as the old server * going to [host]cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi shows me all the graphs and they are up to date * going to the tech support page shows me that observium finds the graphs e.g. - Found file ending in ".rrd": router_thorodin_rmham.rrd - Determined to be a local file, for target router_thorodin_rmham - After replacing configured split_char _ by . target is router.thorodin.rmham so at this point I know smokeping is working, the graphs have the right perms to displayed (currently smokeping:observium), and observium can see the rrd file. Unfortunately going to the page I get the dreaded “Error drawing graph”. At the bottom of the smokeping section in tech support I see two items. One is an error for no outgoing latency graph. Any ideas on what else I could look at? RRD for incoming latency found. RRD for outgoing latency not found.

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Juniper polling performance tip
by Markus Klock 19 Dec '20

19 Dec '20

Hey guys! Just wanted to share a little tip on how to increase Observium polling performance on juniper boxes. This might be old news for some but I just found it. You can create a filter on junos-device that filters out certain interfaces from SNMP view. https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/task/configuration… I can recommend using: set snmp filter-interfaces all-internal-interfaces set snmp filter-interfaces interfaces "^sxe-.*" This will filter out all useless internal interfaces from polling and discovery by Observium. Especially when you have large juniper switch stacks the total number of internal interfaces are a lot which slows down polling. Filtering them out actually makes a big difference. If you got a lot of juniper gear, try it out and please share the speedup in pollingtime! /Markus

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no graphs after restore
by Mark Rowlands 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

Had a little whoopsie and have had to restore from backup. Installed observium, Pro edition. made sure that the observium version matched on our backup copy, copied the db, rrd files . it works, but I have no graphs. Just "error drawing graph" Ideas where I should look?

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Random few questions
by Simon Smith 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Hi All, I've got a few random questions that probably have simply answers too Ive checked our poller performance logs and its showing ’total time for all devices as 463.46s’ Is this a worry? Should it be under the 300s as the poller is set to run every 5 min? The highest device we have according to the poller performance is a mikrotik hex s router and that takes 30 seconds to poll, again is this normal? Also the poller performance for that device is showing its taking about 15seconds just to poll the ports module but again it only has 5 ports? Kindest Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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backing up Observium server
by Edvinas Kairys 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Hello, I know that if i want to have a fully backup i need 3 things. 1) Mysql dump 2) copy of config.php 3)and copy of .rrd folder. My question is: Do it's enough to have first two things: MYSQL dump and copy of config.php ? Because old traffic data (.rrd) is not so critical as loosing all the rules/alerts of Observium (and weathermap which is on other directory)

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PHP Weathermap
by Adam Armstrong 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

Hi Guys, For those of you using PHP Weathermap, how many of you are using template/include features? How complex after the weathermaps you're making? Thanks, Adam.

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please add support for the NetApp E2800 Series (mib enclosed)
by Tony Guadagno 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Thanks Tony

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Twilio integration
by Philippe Laurent 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Observium Developers - We use Twilio for MFG alerting when text/call escalation is required beyond email and PA voice alerts. I see that Observium does not have native Twilio integration. Beyond leveraging the Observium API for Twilio integration, would you be willing to natively extend Observium to include Twilio so that we can extend our use of that tool within the native toolset? I would be happy to donate my Enterprise hours towards the development and future inclusion in Observium for all to use. Philippe

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Alert Checker for an "App" (mysql)?
by Marc Jakobs 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Hello, I want to create an alert that informs me, when the network traffic on a mysql-database ("Application_mysql_network_traffic") on below a certain treshold. What I really want to see is if the mysqld process is running or not and I try to achieve this by looking at this stat which will be zero when mysqld has been terminated. I did not find any information on how to create alerts for apps in the official documentation. Does anyone has a hint for me how to to that? Many thanks and best regards, Marc

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Historical Data Graph
by Tasnim Tamanna 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Everyday at a certain time, all historical graph data gets deleted. This is happening for all devices except one. Can anyone tell what could be wrong?

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interface description parsing
by Tasnim Tamanna 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Hi All, For interface description parsing, I have copied the whole *port-descr-parser.inc.php *file to *custom-port-descr-parser.inc.php *file, and added below lines in the new file: cust: *cust_name* [*speed*] (*a_note*) {*circuit_id*} Finally, added below lines in *config.php* file: $config['int_transit'] = 1; // Enable Transit Types $config['int_peering'] = 1; // Enable Peering Types $config['int_core'] = 1; // Enable Core Port Types $config['int_customers'] = 1; // Enable Customer Port Parsing $config['port_descr_parser'] = "includes/custom-port-descr-parser.inc.php"; But it's not working. Need help :-(

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Aggregating two Graphs in observium | 22-Nov-2020
by Tasnim Tamanna 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Hi, Can anyone please help me with aggregating two graphs in observium? I have not found any documentation on this. Regards Tasnim Tamanna Dhaka, Bangladesh 8801316814417

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AUTO: Marios Palechoros is out of the office (returning 14/12/2020)
by Marios.P＠crowe.com.cy 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

I am out of the office until 14/12/2020. I will have access to my emails, however for urgent matters please contact: George Paroutis: georgep(a)siviriventures.com / 22473186 Note: This is an automated response to your message "[Observium] Same Subnet devices" sent on 7/12/2020 6:30:34 μμ. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Upgrade Fail
by Nash, Bob 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Upgraded our subscription version of Observium to the latest release that was displayed on the webpage and after upgrading, NO devices are being monitored/discovered. This was working perfectly fine prior to the upgrade. Need assistance as soon as possible. Sincerely, Bob

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Observium not working after upgrade
by Nash, Bob 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Just upgraded to current subscription version and Observium is no longer working. Need help!

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cisco ip local pool usage monitoring
by Matteo Sgalaberni 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Hello, I want to monitor the ip local pool usage of a cisco device in Observium. I found the respective mibs already present on Observium source code tree: ./mibs/cisco/CISCO-IP-LOCAL-POOL-MIB ./mibs/cisco/CISCO-IP-ADDRESS-POOL-MIB Is there a way to add these graphs in order to monitor ip local pool usage of the device monitored? Thanks Matteo

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Bug in alert email for BGP AFI/SAFI?
by Johann Mallet 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

Hello, I have tried the BGP AFI/SAFI alert and seems to have a bug in email/alert/entity when alert/recovery was sent. The alert name in subject and alert/entity in tab seems to be missing. Also, the device line seems in double (in all of my alerts). https://i.imgur.com/91xVpLI.png https://i.imgur.com/CZJANWz.png Johann

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TLS 1.3 and Opsgenie
by Adam Armstrong 28 Nov '20

28 Nov '20

Hi Guys, A number of services are moving their APIs to require TLS 1.3 because of a vulnerability in TLS 1.2, which means you need to be running pretty recent versions of PHP and OpenSSL to access them. PHP needs to be 7.4. Opsgenie is already requiring TLS 1.3, so if you're using them for your alerting, please make sure you're running a recent enough version of PHP for the API calls to function. You can test this on your system with the test_alert.php CLI script in the Observium root directory. In general, Observium is a fairly demanding PHP application so it's good practice to try to keep PHP as up to date as possible. We've seen some very nice performance improvements over the past few years, and 8.0 is going to bring even more. For this reason we don't recommend running Observium on distributions like RHEL/CentOS which hold old versions for as long as possible. Thanks, Adam.

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Dashboard based on Port Description ?
by Pieter De Wit 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Hey Guys, Is there a way to create a dashboard that will include all graphs of ports that match a certain description ? Dynamically that is :) Cheers, Pieter

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CE No RRD Updates Since Upgrade to 20.9
by Scott Driemeier-Showers 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

I run two instances of Observium. Professional is installed at the office and CE is installed in my home lab. I followed the steps to upgrade CE (I know, everyone says that) in my lab from 19.8 to 20.9 on November 8 and none of the graphs have updated since. I have rebooted, checked permissions, verified all expected services are running, etc. Reviewing the event log in the Web UI and the logs on the server all show activity. The timestamps of the individual RRD files are updating every time poller runs - just nothing happening in the UI. Can someone help me think of anything else to check? CentOS 7.9 MariaDB 10.3.27-1 PHP 7.2.34 (OPcache Enabled) Thanks, Scott

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OSPF Neighbour ID isn't always the IP address
by Pieter De Wit 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

Hey Guys, I noted this morning when I added a device that Observium tries to auto discover the OSPF Neighbours - this is awesome, but won’t work in our env. (Firewalls and IDs) ##### Module Start: neighbours ##### o LLDP-MIB o CISCO-CDP-MIB o OSPF-MIB o Trying to discover host 10.x.x.255 (10.x.x.255) through OSPF (ospf) o Trying to discover host 10.y.y.255 (10.y.y.255) through OSPF (ospf) o Trying to discover host 10.y.y.0 (10.y.y.0) through OSPF (ospf) We force our ID’s to be higher or lower depending on what we need. I tried to see if the real IP address is in the SNMP dump, but my SNMP magic is failing :( Cheers, Pieter

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Limit Radius user to specific devices/ports
by Joelly, Alexander 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

I’m authenticating against RSA , set the groupmemberattr Filter-ID and some auth_radius_groups with different privilege levels. What i could not figure out is how i can limit one Filter-ID to just a specific device or port. In the GUI it’s possible to configure some Roles, once added they cannot be removed anymore via the GUI? Thanks, Alex

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STP in Observium
by Torstein Eide 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Hi Observium On Jira multiple people ask for status on adding Old/RSTP/MSTP Spanning tree protocol. So it sounds like it is a much sought after feature. https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3509 https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-1853 In OBS-3509 I have added proposals on how the database and a layout for the frontend. Based on that Observium has excellent handling of port status and layer 3 features. What is stopping us from implementing it? -- Torstein Eide Torsteine(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Observium] Graph Data Missing after Upgrade RAM
by Aulia Rahman 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

Dear Adam, Sorry to resend because I didn't get the answer, thanks before. > It’s likely that you need more CPU, rather than more RAM. Ending up in these out of memory scenarios are usually because the CPU was too slow and too many processes piled up. The processor full if there's a poll is running after that it will normal again. I've follow the tutorial to using persistent ramdisk https://docs.observium.org/persistent_ramdisk/ If ramdisk, RAM and swap are full, does the RRD still written ? Because in that condition, the graph not written and there's an error when access the gui: *"DB Error 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)*" after restart the DB service it will normal again. please advice. >If you can’t see historic data, it means the RRD containing the historical data has been somehow overwritten. Observium won’t do this by itself, so somehow you managed to delete or move the original RRDs. >You can restore the RRDs from backup, and it should write to these. I can manual restore from backup of the backup ramdisk, thanks. Because when I try to manual extract the ramdisk data from LZOP first backup file it end with error. > Though, if the RRDs have somehow disappeared, I’d check to make sure you don’t have some form of filesystem/storage corruption, because the two might be linked. After investigate, when the shutdown process, the ramdisk didn't write the latest data before the server turn off. Because I didn't see any log about Ramdisk write data to hardisk. How to achieve it ? because in the document didn't explain detail about it. When startup process it succesfull load the data from ramdsk via rc.local script but the data loaded is corrupt, I can confrm this because when I try to manual extract from LZOP compression end with error, only some graph can be restored. Please advice. > BTW, please don’t send images to the mailing list. Sorry I've resend the mail but forgot to cancel the first one. Demikian yang dapat kami sampaikan, terimakasih. Regards, Aulia Rahman On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 3:36 PM Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org> wrote: > It’s likely that you need more CPU, rather than more RAM. Ending up in > these out of memory scenarios are usually because the CPU was too slow and > too many processes piled up. > > > > If you can’t see historic data, it means the RRD containing the historical > data has been somehow overwritten. Observium won’t do this by itself, so > somehow you managed to delete or move the original RRDs. > > > > You can restore the RRDs from backup, and it should write to these. > > > > Though, if the RRDs have somehow disappeared, I’d check to make sure you > don’t have some form of filesystem/storage corruption, because the two > might be linked. > > > > BTW, please don’t send images to the mailing list. > > > > Thanks, > > Adam. > > > > > > Demikian yang dapat kami sampaikan, terimakasih. > > > > Regards, > > Aulia Rahman > > > > >

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New OS support
by Craig Smith 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

Hello, I'm looking for someone that can add support for a couple of Telco Systems (www.telco.com) models (T-Marc 3308 & T-Marc 3348S) to Observium. I can provide MIBs and access remotely to the devices for development. My company is willing to pay a resonable price for a set of agreed features being supported, and for the work to be contributed to Observium.

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Ignore device through cli
by Svensson Fredrik A 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Hello! I´d like another system to set status on a device to ignore in observium, is there a cli-command for that? Regards Fredrik

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No pages after CE upgrade
by Arrigo Savio 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Hi all. I update Community Edition to Version 20.9. I followed steps reported in page https://docs.observium.org/updating/ <https://docs.observium.org/updating/> cd /opt mv observium observium_old}} wget -Oobservium-community-latest.tar.gz https://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz <https://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz> tar zxvf observium-community-latest.tar.gz}} mv /opt/observium_old/rrd observium/ mv /opt/observium_old/logs observium/}} mv /opt/observium_old/config.php observium/ I update DB schema and PHP scripts (discovery and poller) work correcty. I can see homepage, but if I try to enter devices section https://observium2.qcom.it/device, <https://observium2.qcom.it/device,> I receive a blank page with "File not found" message. Any ideas? Thanks. Arrigo

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WG: question and a problem in Check alert
by Tibi, Saleh 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

Hi guys, our instance: observium 20.10.10799(rolling) i have two issues (a question and a problem ) in the subject Alert Checkers. The question: Is it Possible to configure my alert Checkers that test two different sensors (different entities ) I have two sensor - flowrate Sensor - Valve Sensor For example like this: Require all conditions: (flowrate Sensor)sensor_value eq 0 (Valve Sensor)sensor_value eq 0 What I saw in the documentation that we can check only one entity at a time. The Problem: Steps: 1- Creating new alert Checker 2- filtering devices or sensors in Entity Association Ruleset (for example: Sensor Group in WaterSensor) 3- save changes (all sensor will be listed ) 4- rebuild 5- all sensor appearing in status unknown 6- wait a 3 or 4 minutes all sensors will disappear any advices or hint ? thx in advanced an have a nice Day Saleh Tibi Mit freundlichen Grüßen Saleh Tibi ---------------------------------------------- Ing: Saleh Tibi (Herr) IT-Spezialist für Maschinensäle und Überwachung Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologie (ZIM)|Raum 25.41.02.27 Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Universitaetsstrasse 1 40225 Duesseldorf Email: Tibi.saleh(a)uni-duesseldorf.de<mailto:Tibi.saleh@uni-duesseldorf.de> Phone: +49-(0)211-81-14051

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Syslog view sort order by date
by Stempien, Dave 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Hello, Is it possible to sort the syslog messages in both the syslog view and in the dashboard widget by date? The event log shows newest entries on top but syslog shows oldest (which is 30 days – the number of days in our case that we retain syslog data). Thanks, -- David Stempien, University of Rochester University IT - Core Technology Services Tel: 585.276.6957 Email: david.stempien(a)rochester.edu<mailto:david.stempien@rochester.edu>

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Polling partitioning / distributed polling
by Brad Bendy 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Hi, I've set this up per what I can find in the docs. Master server has RRDcached running, MySQL and web server. I have another server acting as poller server. I go to that server and add hosts, the host add find. All the graphs are failing and on the local server i t shows nothing in the RRD dir (which is right I would think), on the remote hosts it shows RRD files but when I do a debug I see "file already exists" and it does on the remote server. Looking at the rrd.journal file I see updates being issued and see no errors. On the polling server I have added: $config['rrdcached'] = "x.x.x.x:42217"; $config['rrd']['no_local'] = TRUE; And updated cron to: */5 * * * * observium /opt/observium/observium-wrapper -i 1 -n 0 discovery --host new >> /dev/null 2>&1 # Run multithreaded poller wrapper every 5 minutes */5 * * * * observium /opt/observium/observium-wrapper -i 1 -n 0 poller >> /dev/null 2>&1 As I have one poller server and this is the first one. I see no other errors in other logs but all graphs show "error drawing graph". Is there something else in my config I am missing to make this work? Thanks

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support for PacketLight - in-progress case OBS-3176
by Henrik Aarfeldt 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Hi, There is an in-progress case with support for PacketLight DWDM boxes. It seems to be from December 2019 and with Mike Stupalov as assignee. https://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-3176?jql=text%20~%20%22packetlight%22 Any news regarding when this will be working ? We have some new PacletLight boxes we would like to monitor, and there dosen't seem to be any sensors available. TIA. -- Henrik Aarfeldt Region Hovedstaden Center for IT, Medico & Telefoni (CIMT) Borgervænget 7, 3. sal 2100 København Ø ________________________________ Region Hovedstaden anvender de personoplysninger, du giver os i forbindelse med din henvendelse. Du kan læse mere om formålet med anvendelsen samt dine rettigheder på vores hjemmeside: www.regionh.dk/persondatapolitik

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Graph Data Missing after Upgrade RAM
by Aulia Rahman 11 Nov '20

11 Nov '20

Dear All, I'm using Observium 20.1.10233 (stable) Enterprise version. Observium sometime error on database when access from web Image1.jpeg At that time the graph stop add new data. there's a notification in console like picture below, so I need to restart the database service. image2.png Access server and try to see HTOP image3.png Then check the log image4.png After restart database service, the graph starts to add new data again. Then, I upgraded the server RAM from 12 GB to 24 GB on 9 November 2020 at night. This server uses ramdisk configuration on SSD. After the server booted up the graph didn't add new data until today 11 November 2020 at 00:00 the graph started to add new data again. But, all previous data graphs on all devices before 11 November 2020 are missing. Here's the screenshot for the missing data for example on one device after upgrade. image5.png Here's the HTOP from the observium server after upgrade image6.png I've restore to date 8 and 7 November but the all graph show "Draw Graph Error" image7.jpeg & image8.jpeg When check the rrd folder from the server restore, It just only show a few device folder. I assume that folder still hold on ramdisk, but if I see log for ramdisk it sync every 2-5 minutes to hardisk. Please tell me step-by-step how to troubleshoot & recover it. All image you can see on this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u8sx3_a_qJN9Kpr_gmgEND3MsV4Vd0Vj?us… Demikian yang dapat kami sampaikan, terimakasih. Regards, Aulia Rahman

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Trial version for a period of 30 days, “3data”company.
by Alexander Agoshkov 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, Being the representatives of one of the largest data centers in Russia – “3data”company, we are considering the use of Observium system to monitor our network. At the moment, the testing of the monitoring of our network with the help of the Community version has given us completely positive results. We would like to transfer to the paid Professional version, but before it we need to have some additional testing on the Professional version. Therefore, we would like to ask you for a trial version for a period of 30 days. We also would like to express our gratitude for your creating and developing of the monitoring system and we are looking forward to our further cooperation. Yours faithfully, Agoshkov Alexander | IT support engineer | 3data Premium Data Centers +7 (495) 800-18-00 | + 7 (963) 762-48-04 | aag(a)3data.ru<mailto:aag@3data.ru> | 3data.ru<http://3data.ru/>

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Rancid git with remote pollers
by Brad Bendy 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Hi, I know this is slightly off topic but was wondering if anyone has ran into this. We have rancid on our remote pollers working and grabbing configs. Now on a single Observium instance you just enable it in the config and the integration works spot on as the SVN/GIT is local. Has anyone got this to work where they store the configs locally on the remote poller and then push a copy to the master observium box so they show up in the GUI? Or are you using a central GIT server on the master and just the proper settings in the rancid.conf file? Thanks

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