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Observium Entreprise Edition and multiple pollers?
by Johann Mallet 06 Nov '20

06 Nov '20

Hello, Do you have any guide about Entreprise Edition? How do multiple pollers working on different servers work? Do we need to use RRDCached and/or NFS shares? Or poller instances store on local servers and Observium interface make proxy for RRD data? Best Regards, Johann

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Widget Configuration
by Ahmed Rahal 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Hi ! I saw that the widgets on dashboards can have specific configurations (database table 'dash_widgets', field 'widget_config') but I seem to find no documentation about this. Also the UI somehow does not allow me to change any of the parameters. Am I missing something here ? Ahmed.

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alerts examples / service monitoring
by Luis Olavarrieta 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

Hey guys, i am trying to set a group alarm where all my routers are on it. But I am not able to have it set correctly, and in the alerts configurations webpage is not clear enough. Can you please help me on how to set an alarm for any item on a group when a router is down? Also, is there some other page to learn about alarm creations? Also, now that I am sending this email, I need to check services (apache / sql / etc) I saw there was a couple of scripts to be set into the snmp.conf file, how can I create other to monitor different services? Thanks in advace!!!

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MSSQL monitoring
by Rando Sui 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Hello, Has anybody developed some additional metrics for MSSQL WMI monitoring? Is there instructions how to advance or add new metrics for MSSQL? Greetings, Rando Sui.

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Re: [Observium] Windows Service, Alerts
by Christos Aivazoglou 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

Hello guys, Sorry to bother again, Can anyone help * Is there any alert rule to monitor windows service if is running or not ? (WINDOWS) * Is there any way to monitor and also create alert based on power machine state? (ESXI) Thank you very much Best regards, Christos Aivazoglou VIPA Group <http://www.vipa.ch/> www.vipa.ch This e-mail, and any files and attachments transmitted with it, is confidential. It is intended for the sole use of the named recipients(s) only. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify us by replying to this message and then permanently delete it. Any views and opinions expressed are those of the individual author/sender and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by VIPA Lausanne S.A. or any associated or related company. This e-mail transmission is not binding for the purposes of forming a contract and does not form a contractual obligation of any type From: Christos Aivazoglou <christos.aivazoglou(a)vipa.ch> Sent: Δευτέρα, 26 Οκτωβρίου 2020 12:43 μμ To: 'observium(a)observium.org' <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: 'adama(a)observium.org' <adama(a)observium.org> Subject: Windows Service, Alerts Hello All, * Is there any alert rule to monitor windows service if is running or not ? (WINDOWS) * Is there any way to monitor and also create alert based on power machine state? (ESXI) Thank you very much. Best regards, Christos Aivazoglou VIPA Group <http://www.vipa.ch/> www.vipa.ch This e-mail, and any files and attachments transmitted with it, is confidential. It is intended for the sole use of the named recipients(s) only. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify us by replying to this message and then permanently delete it. Any views and opinions expressed are those of the individual author/sender and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by VIPA Lausanne S.A. or any associated or related company. This e-mail transmission is not binding for the purposes of forming a contract and does not form a contractual obligation of any type

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Event log noise
by John Borrow 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

Hi all, Our event log is clogging up with multiple current and voltage threshold entries, for example see below; Current gi24 PoE Current above threshold: 0.158 A (> 0.1155 A) Current gi3 PoE Current above threshold: 0.115 A (> 0.102 A) Voltage gi24 PoE Voltage above threshold: 119 V (> 63.25 V) Voltage gi9 PoE Voltage above threshold: 113 V (> 60.95 V) Apologies if this is a dumb question, as I'm knew to the software, but does anyone know a good way of removing these entries besides adjusting the threshold of every network device. Monitoring voltages and currents isn't a high priority for us, so happy to turn these off globally. Many thanks for your help. Regards, John Borrow Systems Administrator T: 02 8438 9432 M: 0419 269267 BENEDICT HEAD OFFICE 11a Narabang Way, Belrose NSW 2085 PO Box 431, Frenchs Forest NSW 1640 T (02) 9986 3500 www.benedict.com.au

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Additional portpercent element/widget on frontpage?
by Gumilar Siegfried MSc. 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

Hello! I would love to be able to add a second Traffic Comparison (portpercent) with different port groups to our dashboard. Is that somehow possible? Right now I can add a second "Traffic Composition" Widget in the dashboard edit mode, but it still uses the same port groups as the other one. This is how our current configuration looks like: $config['frontpage']['order'] = array('status_summary', 'map', 'overall_traffic', 'portpercent', 'device_status', 'altert_table', 'syslog', 'eventlog'); $config['frontpage']['portpercent']['Peering'] = array('group' => 5); $config['frontpage']['portpercent']['Transit'] = array('group' => 6); $config['frontpage']['portpercent']['options'] = array('graph_format' => 'single'); In my opinion, it would be best if you could simply use portpercent2, for example, to configure the next widget. Regards, Siegfried

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Deleted wrong device...
by Basile Bluntschli 28 Oct '20

28 Oct '20

Hi All anyone any good ideas to restore a device which was deleted...? The RRDs are still in place. However this device is not currently in production anymore. But it is needed for the statistics older then 10 Months... Any ideas? Kind regards Basile

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graphing total PoE
by Eric W. Bates 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

We use a lot of cisco 2960 PoE switches in stacks and we want to know the total demand of the stack. Currently Observium gives us a separate "PoE Group n" for each switch in the stack so those are handy subtotals. But is there a way to create a custom graph with the sum of all the PoE Groups? -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112

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top VLANs
by Farshid Abediny 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hello, we have around 800x VLANs for 6-7x Switches, is there anyway sort VLANs by pps or bps and show top 10 somewhere? thank you.

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Discovery ignore hosts
by Lars Joergensen 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hi I have this pattern in ignore hosts: [cid:image001.png@01D6A93A.177F62F0] But this one keeps getting discovered every day: [cid:image002.png@01D6A93A.177F62F0] Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Device Graphs are not drawing
by Dulanjaya Oshaka 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hello I am an absolute beginner to Observium and Linux. I installed Observium in my environment as Syslog and SNMP server. I added some Cisco Catalyst 9500 series, 9200 and Nexus N3k Series switches. After I added those devices, In some devices are not drawing Graphs (like System, Traffic statistics etc). What is the issue for this and How I fix this? I have another question. I need to add more Hard disk space to my ubuntu VM that I installed in Observium. But there is some issue to expand my root disk. I installed Observium also in my Root partition. Because of this I have planned to create an another partition using LVM and move Observium to that partition. Is this possible? If so, How I do that and How can I see the mount point in Observium? Thanks and Regards Dulanjaya Oshaka

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Windows Service, Alerts
by Christos Aivazoglou 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hello All, * Is there any alert rule to monitor windows service if is running or not ? (WINDOWS) * Is there any way to monitor and also create alert based on power machine state? (ESXI) Thank you very much. Best regards, Christos Aivazoglou VIPA Group <http://www.vipa.ch/> www.vipa.ch This e-mail, and any files and attachments transmitted with it, is confidential. It is intended for the sole use of the named recipients(s) only. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify us by replying to this message and then permanently delete it. Any views and opinions expressed are those of the individual author/sender and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by VIPA Lausanne S.A. or any associated or related company. This e-mail transmission is not binding for the purposes of forming a contract and does not form a contractual obligation of any type

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Cisco Wifi APs registered twice
by Lars Joergensen 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Hi We had a power mishap which resulted in the Cisco wifi controller rebooting. After that all the AP's got registered twice in observium. Deleting the controller and re-adding it didn't clear up the issue. I manually deleted all entries from the wifi_aps table and got the thing working correct. It's not a big issue, but it should be an easy change to only add unique APs, based on name or MAC, to the database. Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Graphs keep reset randomly and losing previous history
by Gordon Cheng (gocheng) 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

Hi Adam and Observium team: We recently started having an issue with our Observium (20.9.10749) that the graphs for different devices would restart and all its previous history would be gone: [Graphical user interface Description automatically generated] And we usually see the following ‘messages’ under /var/log around that time: Oct 18 05:07:13 sjc-observium-1 rrdcached[1495]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd) failed with status -1. (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1603020715 when last update time is 1603021928 (minimum one second step)) Oct 19 05:12:05 sjc-observium-1 rrdcached[14841]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd) failed with status -1. (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1603106221 when last update time is 1603108322 (minimum one second step)) Oct 20 05:32:47 sjc-observium-1 rrdcached[14471]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd) failed with status -1. (/opt/observium/rrd/atl-wan04/status.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1603194156 when last update time is 1603194737 (minimum one second step)) We have tried restarting the rrdcached process, and deleting the rrdcached files which are not updated for some time (with the command “find * -type f -mtime +5 -delete” under the rrd directory). But they don’t help much. Do you have any suggestions how we can further investigate and troubleshoot this? Thanks. - Gordon

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Error drawing graph (can not parse an empty rpn expression)
by McGregor, Kevin 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

I just upgraded from 19.8 to 20.9 CE. In both I've been having the same problem: Everything works as expected, except two devices (of 19) produce a big pink box instead of a chart for the "Ports" widget on the Overview page for the devices. The chart is titled "Error Drawing Graph". Other similar devices (same OS version, etc.) all show a normal-looking chart in the same place. The devices are "SunOS <hostname> 5.11 11.4.25.75.3 sun4v". Most other devices of the same version work, just not two of them. When I click on the chart, I get the Ports page and a bigger version of the same chart. Selecting "RRD Command" produces this below the pink box: Description Device total traffic in bits/sec. Performance & Output RRDTool Output: ERROR: can not parse an empty rpn expression RRDtool Runtime: 0.011s | Total time: 0.012s RRDTool Command /usr/bin/rrdtool graph /tmp/DZSTkOrAZmZQeckq.png -g -Y --alt-autoscale --rigid --start 1603133061 --end 1603219461 --width 1152 --height 300 -c BACK#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEA#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEB#EEEEEE00 -c FONT#000000 -c CANVAS#FFFFFF00 -c GRID#a5a5a5 -c MGRID#FF9999 -c FRAME#5e5e5e -c ARROW#5e5e5e -R normal --font LEGEND:8:'DroidSansMono,DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DroidSansMono,DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal -E CDEF:inB= CDEF:outB= CDEF:octets=inB,outB,+ CDEF:doutB=outB,-1,* CDEF:inbits=inB,8,* CDEF:outbits=outB,8,* CDEF:bits=inbits,outbits,+ CDEF:doutbits=doutB,8,* VDEF:95thin=inbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:95thout=outbits,95,PERCENT CDEF:pout_tmp=doutbits,-1,* VDEF:dpout_tmp=pout_tmp,95,PERCENT CDEF:dpout_tmp2=doutbits,doutbits,-,dpout_tmp,-1,*,+ VDEF:d95thout=dpout_tmp2,FIRST VDEF:totin=inB,TOTAL VDEF:avein=inbits,AVERAGE VDEF:totout=outB,TOTAL VDEF:aveout=outbits,AVERAGE VDEF:tot=octets,TOTAL COMMENT:' \l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:'Total Rx' GPRINT:inbits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totin:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:' Tx' GPRINT:outbits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totout:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:' Agg' GPRINT:bits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:tot:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:0#999999 RRDTool Files Used /opt/observium/rrd/<hostname>/port-2.rrd /opt/observium/rrd/<hostname>/port-1.rrd Would someone please give me a place to start looking for the problem? Thanks!

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How to add minigraph in dashboard
by Brij Mohan 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

Hi Team How will I add a minigraph in the dashboard. current my OBS version is Observium 20.8.10645(stable) Thanks,

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Re: [Observium] WMI custom queries and MSSQL developments
by Adam Armstrong 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Hi, You cant just add extra data to an RRD, they have a fixed format. Youd also need to add code to graph and display the data. Its a fair bit more complicated than this, especially for WMI. Adam. From: Rando Sui <rando(a)blueit.ee> Sent: 21 October 2020 06:30 To: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org> Subject: RE: [Observium] WMI custom queries and MSSQL developments Hi, OK, hopefully in future versions. How you develop mssql.inc.php . I added one line to see also transactions, uploaded file and rebooted observium, but nothing appears. Am I missing something? $wql = "SELECT * FROM ".$wmi_class_prefix."GeneralStatistics"; $wmi['mssql'][$instance['Name']]['stats'] = wmi_parse(wmi_query($wql, $override), TRUE); if ($wmi['mssql'][$instance['Name']]['stats']) { $app_found['mssql'] = TRUE; echo("Stats; "); rrdtool_update_ng($device, 'mssql-stats', array( 'userconnections' => $wmi['mssql'][$instance['Name']]['stats']['UserConnections'], 'transactions' => $wmi['mssql'][$instance['Name']]['stats']['Transactions'], ), $instance['Name']); $app_data['stats']['UsrConn'] = $wmi['mssql'][$instance['Name']]['stats']['UserConnections']; $app_data['stats']['Transactions'] = $wmi['mssql'][$instance['Name']]['stats']['Transactions']; } Gr, Rando. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong via observium Sent: teisipäev, 20. oktoober 2020 23:52 To: 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > Cc: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)observium.org <mailto:adama@observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] WMI custom queries and MSSQL developments Hi, We dont really have the ability to do this. :) Adam. From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org> > On Behalf Of Rando Sui via observium Sent: 20 October 2020 19:15 To: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Rando Sui <rando(a)blueit.ee <mailto:rando@blueit.ee> > Subject: [Observium] WMI custom queries and MSSQL developments Hello, We are using paid version of observium. How you can make custom WMI queries for hosts? How you can develop metrics for MSSQL? There is some available Id like to add but they are not shown once I upload .php file and reboot observium. Greetings, Rando.

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Font sharpness (bold only)
by Klimek, Denis 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Hi there, after updating to the latest SVN revision 10770 we noticed that every bold written font is not very clear to read. It looks blurred. Is there any way to disable this blurred effect? Mit freundlichem Gruß wilhelm.tel GmbH Denis Klimek Carrier Manager & Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: +49 (0) 40 / 521 04 - 1049 -> Work From Home Mobil: +49 (0) 151 / 652 219 06 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de www.wilhelm-tel.de ______________________________________________ [cid:image001.png@01D6A6DC.DD840100] Postanschrift: wilhelm.tel GmbH Heidbergstraße 101-111 22846 Norderstedt Geschäftsführer: Jens Seedorff, Theo Weirich Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Christoph Mendel Handelsregister: HRB 4216 NO, Amtsgericht Kiel Umsatzsteuer ID: DE 81 299 7663 [ig]<https://www.instagram.com/azubiteam/>[fb]<https://www.facebook.com/wilhelmtel.norderstedt/>

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Polling not periodical
by Ing. Andrés Gallo 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Hello We are using latest Observium 20.9.10749 (stable), paid edition Noted that in some graphs, kind of spikes. Debugging shows that the polling interval is not every 300 seconds: /37554|1603201212|267|1785377894|1068531295|386467237639270|41301474049631|87Mbps|22.7Mbps|v2c// //37554|1603201534|322|2182521058|2288947079|386489109618914|41306989432711|67.9Mbps|17.1Mbps|v2c// //37554|1603201811|277|2993214954|3745224137|386511395149290|41312740677065|80.4Mbps|20.7Mbps|v2c// //37554|1603202130|319|2034988746|794409408|386536206726858|41318379796928|77.7Mbps|17.6Mbps|v2c// //37554|1603202410|280|215877678|2105208367|386560157419566|41323985563183|85.5Mbps|20Mbps|v2c// //37554|1603202737|327|2876073363|3906420769|386584292451731|41330081742881|73.8Mbps|18.6Mbps|v2c// //37554|1603203010|273|816113491|1430194856|386608002295635|41336195451560|86.8Mbps|22.3Mbps|v2c/ So, the graphs is with spikes, because not similar period taken. Obviously, each 5 minutes, CPU raises to 75% ( Xeon 16 Cores, 8 Gb RAM, ) /[2020/10/20 11:21:04 -0300] observium-wrapper(611935): /opt/observium/observium-wrapper: processed 160 devices in 62.68 seconds with 32 threads, load average (5min) 8.45/ What can I do to fix it? Regards -- Saludos Saludos, * Ing. Andrés E. Gallo* Tel (02255)-46-1641 Móvil (02255)-15-57-0220 Paseo 114 y Av. 3 (B7165) Villa Gesell-Bs.As. agallo(a)cotel.com.ar <mailto:agallo@fecosur.com.ar> http://www.gesell.com.ar <http://www.nuestro.com.ar>

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WMI custom queries and MSSQL developments
by Rando Sui 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Hello, We are using paid version of observium. How you can make custom WMI queries for hosts? How you can develop metrics for MSSQL? There is some available I'd like to add but they are not shown once I upload .php file and reboot observium. Greetings, Rando.

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Question about use and support
by Matthew Cotter 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Greetings, I am new to this and Observium. We have a paid version and I have some questions about support and upgrading. Question 1, how do I get support? Support question, when I try to add a device, I get an error saying it can't ping the device. I have logged into the terminal of observium and can ping the device Support question, I recently received an email about a new version, I tried to run the update, but it fails saying it can't find the root folder or something like that. I can provide more details, but this is the basic questions I have and if you can point me in the proper direction how to get these answered I would appreciate that. Thank you, Matt Matthew Cotter Network Support Engineer Boston Inc. dba Furniture & ApplianceMart | Ashley HomeStore 2404 W, Beltline Hwy Madison, WI 53713 (p) 608-277-7700 (e) Matt.Cotter(a)BostonFAM.com BostonFAM.com<http://www.BostonFAM.Com> | AshleyHomestores.com<https://www.ashleyfurniturehomestore.com> | furnitureappliancemart.com<https://www.furnitureappliancemart.com/> [FAM Stores] "Improving the quality of people's lives by making amazing rooms together!" Central Wisconsin Area - Marshfield | Rhinelander | Stevens Point | Wausau Fox Valley Area - Appleton | Green Bay | Oshkosh Madison Area - Madison East | Madison West | Janesville Milwaukee Area - Greenfield | Kenosha | Pewaukee | Richfield All locations owned & operated by Boston Inc. This e-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of Boston Inc. or one or more of its employees. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient, please be advised that any retention, dissemination, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original e-mail from your mailbox.

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API after update
by Olivier CALVANO 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Hi i have upgraded Observium to the latest version Observium 20.9.10749 (stable) But now my internal portal can't access to the api and i have in error_log: [Tue Oct 13 10:01:28.074195 2020] [php7:error] [pid 25948] [client 192.168.1.125:35270] script '/opt/observium/html/api.php' not found or unable to stat [Tue Oct 13 11:12:15.654668 2020] [php7:error] [pid 4782] [client 192.168.1.101:52048] script '/opt/observium/html/elrekt.php' not found or unable to stat anyone know this problems ? regards Olivier

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Syslog rule: No logging alert entries found
by Lars Joergensen 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

Hi We would like to generate an alert on an Aruba switch logging stuff like "ST1-CMDR: port 1/20-Excessive CRC/alignment errors. See help." So I created a syslog rule that triggered on that expression, but I get "No logging alert entries found!". Then I changed the pattern to just /CRC/ and it still doesn't find anything. [cid:image003.png@01D6A3AE.21854F30] If I go to the syslog menu and search for CRC, I get tons. What am I doing wrong? [cid:image002.png@01D6A3AD.E13AB8C0] Best regards Lars Joergensen IT Manager - Network Team - Global IT Chr. Hansen A/S - Boege Alle 10-12 - 2970 Hoersholm - Denmark Phone: +45 52 18 05 22 dklarj(a)chr-hansen.com<mailto:dklarj@chr-hansen.com> - www.chr-hansen.com<http://www.chr-hansen.com/> [cid:image001.gif@01D6A3AD.9B856A50] ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Weather Station Support
by Jay Hanke 18 Oct '20

18 Oct '20

Is there a weather station that is supported by Observium? Jay

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Observium with Radius
by Peter Derissen 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hello all, I have setup Observium with radius auth. Today I noticed that everyone is getting full admin rights in Observium. I changed my own radius settings and tested. Observium is running on 10.230.11.81 and radius on 10.230.11.111 This is the radius response: (587) Sent Access-Accept Id 94 from 10.230.11.111:1812 to 10.230.11.81:43443 length 0 (587) Juniper-Local-User-Name = "remote" (587) Filter-Id = "pfy" <-- (587) GENIE-USER-PRIVILEGE = PRIV-ADMINISTRATOR (587) Infinera-User-Category = "administrator" (587) Service-Type = Administrative-User (587) NS-Admin-Privilege = All-VSYS-Root-Admin (587) Class = 0x6e65 Config.php: $config['auth_radius_groups']['admin']['level'] = 10; // Full administrative access $config['auth_radius_groups']['cto']['level'] = 7; // Global read access with secured info (ie rancid configs) $config['auth_radius_groups']['pfy']['level'] = 5; // Global read access [cid:image005.png@01D6A21D.84BFC540] Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [cid:image006.png@01D6A21D.84BFC540]<https://www.eurofiber.nl/> Volg ons op Twitter<https://twitter.com/Eurofiber> | Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurofiber> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/eurofiberNL/> | Youtube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DavgEm7-ktAD8_Co_qnMA> Wilt u op de hoogte blijven van technische ontwikkelingen aan ons netwerk, nieuwe ICT ontwikkelingen en klantervaringen? Meld u dan aan voor onze maandelijkse nieuwsbrief<https://marketing.eurofiber.com/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/15570/p/p…>. [cid:image007.jpg@01D6A21D.84BFC540]<https://www.eurofiber.nl/> ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Eurofiber only sends and receives e-mails on the basis that Eurofiber is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. Eurofiber Nederland B.V. is registered in the Chamber of Commerce of Amsterdam with number 34134377, VAT number NL 8088.51.524 B01. Eurofiber N.V. has its registered office at Belgicastraat 5 bus 7, 1930 Zaventem and is registered under national number 0435.204.851.

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How to create Alert Checker for a specific port?
by Brian Bianchi 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hi folks, I have an application running on port 7990. I would like to create a custom Alert Checker to check if this port is functional. I have read the documentation here: https://docs.observium.org/alert_checker/ https://docs.observium.org/alerting_examples/ The "port is operational but functionally down" option looks like the one for me. But how the heck do I select a specific port of 7990 to be monitored? Thanks! [cid:image001.png@01D6A15A.75CD84A0] Brian Bianchi Senior Release Engineer o: +1 (781) 213-6483 e: bbianchi(a)vestmark.com Learn more about Vestmark! View our introduction video here<https://vimeo.com/374253696>. Check us out on Social Media: [cid:image002.png@01D6A15A.75CD84A0] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/vestmark/> [cid:image003.png@01D6A15A.75CD84A0] <https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Vestmark-EI_IE263618.11,19.htm> [cid:image004.png@01D6A15A.75CD84A0] <twitter.com/Vestmark> This e-mail and any attachments hereto, are intended for use by the addressee(s) only and may contain information that is confidential information of Vestmark, Inc. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, or if you have otherwise received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by telephone or by e-mail, and please permanently delete the original, any print outs and any copies of the foregoing. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited.

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Probes running from pollers
by Ahmed Rahal 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hi, After successfully trying out probes, I was wondering if the nagios plugins (that's what probes are) are run from the designated poller or from the default poller only. Ahmed. -- Ahmed Rahal Administrateur de Systèmes / Systems Administrator *Fibrenoire* - www.fibrenoire.ca A: 550 , avenue Beaumont, bureau 320, Montréal (Québec) H3N 1V1 arahal(a)fibrenoire.ca Twitter: @fibrenoire

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how will create Custom OID alarm for power supply
by Brij Mohan 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Hi Anyone can help to create a custom oid alarm in OBS. [image: image.png]

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Why sometime graph are missing on the dashboard ?
by Aulia Rahman 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Dear All, I've sometimes found that some server graph RAM / CPU / Traffic is missing on the dashboard. So, I can't view the graph at that time. But when I check on the next time, that graph shows again. What caused it and how to solve it ? My detail specs: Device Monitor: 400++ VM (various OS Linux & Windows) CPU: 8 Core RAM: 12 GB ( Use Ramdisk ) Storage: 500 GB on SSD Observium 20.1.10233 (20th January 2020) OS Linux 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7) Apache 2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips PHP/7.0.19 PHP 7.0.19 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.5 MySQL 5.5.52-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.5.52-MariaDB) Demikian yang dapat kami sampaikan, terimakasih. Regards, Aulia Rahman

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Alerting on running processes?
by Johann Mallet 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Hello, Is it possible to create an alert on the number of running processes? (=hr_processes graph) I have tried to search in Device/Counter/Sensor/Status alert type without success. Many thanks! Johann

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 123, Issue 8
by Sachin Guda 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Hello Team, Any update on 3. Syslog problem with Arista and Nexus device (Sachin Guda) __________________________________________________ Sachin Guda Managed Services • Itiviti Network Engineer -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2020 1:00 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 123, Issue 8 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Alerting on running processes? (Johann Mallet) 2. Re: Alerting on running processes? (Adam Armstrong) 3. Syslog problem with Arista and Nexus device (Sachin Guda) 4. Re: how will create Custom OID alarm for power supply (Brij Mohan) 5. Re: how will create Custom OID alarm for power supply (Adam Armstrong) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 13:50:14 +0200 From: Johann Mallet <johann.mallet(a)zayo.com> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Alerting on running processes? Message-ID: <CAK5-Kt2biva=smV11B-kNPM5aF_jnk_5LBcGtH+YL960etpBSA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello, Is it possible to create an alert on the number of running processes? (=hr_processes graph) I have tried to search in Device/Counter/Sensor/Status alert type without success. Many thanks! Johann

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Syslog problem with Arista and Nexus device
by Sachin Guda 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Hello Team, I am running latest Observium version, Syslog is configured on switch to send logs to observium server. They send logs to observium (verified with capture on server interface) but observium doesn’t show it in syslog tab it says- No syslog entries found! This device does not have any syslog entries. Check that the syslog daemon and Observium configuration options are set correctly, that this device is configured to send syslog to Observium and that there are no firewalls blocking the messages. See Syslog Integration <https://docs.observium.org/syslog/> guide and configuration options <https://docs.observium.org/config_options/#syslog-settings> for more information. At the same time syslog can be seen from other devices like cisco CAT switch, ASA firewall and Cisco ASR. __________________________________________________ [image: http://itiviti.com/email_signature_logo_2017_120.png] <http://www.itiviti.com/> *Sachin Guda* Managed Services, Itiviti Network Engineer Direct: +46 8 506 477 52 Mobile: +46 73 901 02 53 Sachin.Guda(a)itiviti.com <%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20mailto:Sachin.Guda@itiviti.com> Kungsgatan 36 , P.O. Box 7742 10395 Stockholm , Sweden Fax: +46 8 506 477 01 *Visit: itiviti.com » <http://www.itiviti.com>Read the latest news from Itiviti » <http://www.itiviti.com/news/>* -- ______________________________ <https://www.linkedin.com/company/10438325/> The information contained in or attached to this email is strictly confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately by telephone and return the message to us. Email communications by definition contain personal information. The Itiviti group of companies is subject to European data protection regulations. Itiviti’s Privacy Notice is available at www.itiviti.com <http://www.itiviti.com/>. Itiviti expects the recipient of this email to be compliant with Itiviti’s Privacy Notice and applicable regulations. Please advise us immediately at dataprotectionteam(a)Itiviti.com if you are not compliant with these.

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Trouble with Active Directory group config on Observium CE v20.9.10731
by Brian Bianchi 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Hello, I am trying to configure Active Directory authentication on my Observium CE v20.9.10731 server using this page as a guide -> https://docs.observium.org/authentication/#active-directory I am passed the point where my username and password are authenticated. It is the group config I am confused about. I have an Active Directory group "eng-admins" that I want to give administrative privileges to, of which my login (bbianchi) is a member. And I have an Active Directory group "eng-team" that I want to give generic non-admin privileges. My domain is hq.viviport.com. It is not clear to me how to configure these lines to achieve this: $config['auth_ldap_recursive'] = TRUE; $config['auth_ldap_recursive_maxdepth'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "CN="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",DC=hq,DC=viviport,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("CN=Observium Users,OU=Groups,DC=hq,DC=viviport,DC=com"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "OU=Groups,DC=hq,DC=viviport,DC=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "fulldn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['CN=Observium Admins,OU=Groups,DC=hq,DC=viviport,DC=com']['level'] = 10; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['CN=Observium Users,OU=Groups,DC=hq,DC=viviport,DC=com']['level'] = 1; I have enabled debug logging. Here is what I am getting below. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. --B [cid:image008.png@01D69BBE.684DA9A0] [cid:image001.png@01D69BBE.92743870] Brian Bianchi Senior Release Engineer o: +1 (781) 213-6483 e: bbianchi(a)vestmark.com Learn more about Vestmark! View our introduction video here<https://vimeo.com/374253696>. Check us out on Social Media: [cid:image002.png@01D69BBE.92743870] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/vestmark/> [cid:image003.png@01D69BBE.92743870] <https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Vestmark-EI_IE263618.11,19.htm> [cid:image004.png@01D69BBE.92743870] <twitter.com/Vestmark> This e-mail and any attachments hereto, are intended for use by the addressee(s) only and may contain information that is confidential information of Vestmark, Inc. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, or if you have otherwise received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by telephone or by e-mail, and please permanently delete the original, any print outs and any copies of the foregoing. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited.

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Observium in HTTPS
by Olivier CALVANO 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Hi We use Observium Version 20.9.10749. currently it is http, observium accepts to be in https? Regards Olivier

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Observium Install Script
by Marios.P＠crowe.com.cy 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Hi all, I want to install Observium on a new Ubuntu 18.04 server but the install script is not available. Do we have any indication when is it going to be available again? Thank you, Marios

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Debug Logging
by Stuart Dyer 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Hi Everyone, Simple question but how to I enable debug logging on the Observium web interface ? trying to setup ldap when I log in Observium after configuring ldap the interface does nothing so I would like to see the logging of what the error is Regards, Stuart Dyer IT Administrator Phone: +61 2 8020 2063 | E-mail: stuart.dyer(a)innovit.com<mailto:stuart.dyer@innovit.com> [innovit-logo (002) trans 2018] Bringing quality to Master Data 161 Castlereagh Street, Level 28 Sydney NSW 2000 Australia<https://goo.gl/maps/DGW9Ce65rhP2> Tel: +612 8020 2000 Fax: +612 8020 2099 Web: www.innovit.com<http://www.innovit.com/> Australasia | North America | Europe Follow us on LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovit-australia-pty-ltd?trk=public_profi…> This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information, which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail or using any of the following contact details.

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Aggregated graphs howto?
by José Manuel Giner 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

Hello we've just installed Observium Premium. it's possible to create aggregated graphs? We want to put in the same graph different network ports. and can make the graph public? or can we automate to download the graph image? Thanks! -- José Manuel Giner https://ginernet.com

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distributed observium
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

¿how i can setup a poller as default? [image: image.png] -- Saluda cordialmente

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SQL Injection?
by Hamilton, Kent 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

I noted these on this weeks CERT vulnerability report have they been addressed? I don't see anything about them on the mailing list, site or bug tracker, I could have overlooked them I guess. observium -- observium An issue was discovered in Observium Professional, Enterprise & Community 20.8.10631. It is vulnerable to SQL Injection due to the fact that it is possible to inject malicious SQL statements in malformed parameter types. This can occur via username[0] to the default URI, because of includes/authenticate.inc.php. 2020-09-25 7.5<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMzcsInVy…> CVE-2020-25147<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMzgsInVy…> MISC<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMzksInVy…> observium -- observium An issue was discovered in Observium Professional, Enterprise & Community 20.8.10631. It is vulnerable to SQL Injection due to the fact that it is possible to inject malicious SQL statements in malformed parameter types. Sending the improper variable type Array allows a bypass of core SQL Injection sanitization. Users are able to inject malicious statements in multiple functions. This vulnerability leads to full authentication bypass: any unauthorized user with access to the application is able to exploit this vulnerability. This can occur via the Cookie header to the default URI, within includes/authenticate.inc.php. 2020-09-25 7.5<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxNDAsInVy…> CVE-2020-25132<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxNDEsInVy…> MISC<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxNDIsInVy…> ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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observium distributed
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

We are configuring and testing observium distributed.... it works fine !, but when i add a new device on web interface i must check skip ICMP echo checks. if not i get a message Could not ping X.X.X.X in observium main config.php is installed fping 3-10 $config['fping'] = "usr/local/sbin/fping"; in poller too is installed fping 3-10 $config['fping'] = "usr/local/sbin/fping"; -- Saluda cordialmente

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Aggregated graphs howto?
by José Manuel Giner 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

Hello we've just installed Observium Premium. it's possible to create aggregated graphs? We want to put in the same graph different network ports. and can make the graph public? or can we automate to download the graph image? Thanks! -- José Manuel Giner https://ginernet.com

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SNMP timeout adjustment
by Lars Joergensen 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

Hi I get "WARNING! Ports snmpwalk did not complete. Try to increase SNMP timeout on the device properties page." on one of my devices. Then I went to the device page and entered "300" as SNMP timeout, hit save and got told "Device SNMP configuration update is not required". What's next? Best regards Lars Joergensen IT Manager - Network Team - Global IT Chr. Hansen A/S - Boege Alle 10-12 - 2970 Hoersholm - Denmark Phone: +45 52 18 05 22 dklarj(a)chr-hansen.com<mailto:dklarj@chr-hansen.com> - www.chr-hansen.com<http://www.chr-hansen.com/> [cid:image001.gif@01D690BF.ECC49DB0] ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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RRD max value
by Marian Rychtecky 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

Hi all, I would like to ask you for help in order to resolve an issue with RRD. I do have port-channel with max speed of 400Gbit/s (correctly detected by Observium), however when traffic will reach 100G it will not be shown. I believe there is max limit on that RRD, as some other port-channels works good. Of course I don't want to loose history if possible. Other monitoring systems using same MIBs are working as expected. Not working one: Working one (different host): Thank you Marian -- Marian Rychtecký mr(a)nix.cz Phone +420 724 397 441 NIX.CZ z.s.p.o. Americká 23, Praha 2 130 52 Czech Republic http://www.nix.cz

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Sensor blues
by Lars Joergensen 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

Hi I'm having trouble with sensors on SFPs in Aruba switches. Looking at the switch, I get this: Transceiver in 3/49 Interface Index : 155 Type : SFP+LR Model : J9151A Connector Type : LC Wavelength : 1310nm Transfer Distance : 10.0km (9um), Diagnostic Support : DOM Serial Number : AX07SL0130407 Status Temperature : 26.289C Voltage : 3.3408V Tx Bias : 41.728mA Tx Power : 0.6339mW, -1.980dBm Rx Power : 0.4225mW, -3.742dBm But looking in Observium, I get this: [cid:image002.png@01D697E4.402E6B90] There's no data for RX power (which is the most interesting) and the data for TX power is wrong. I think this is an OEM SFP (the serial number looks weird), but if the switch can see the data, shouldn't Observium be able to pull it too? Temperature, voltage and current graphs are correct. ... and just now, when I clicked around, the correct values are now showing for TX and RX power in the graphs. What's going on? Lars ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this e-mail by mistake please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments, without opening the attachments, from your system. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any part of this e-mail by anyone else is prohibited. This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. Chr. Hansen does not represent and/or warrant that the information sent and/or received by or with this e-mail is correct and does not accept any liability for damages related thereto. https://www.chr-hansen.com/en/legal-notice

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Re: [Observium] MariaDB upgrade
by Scott Driemeier-Showers 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

We upgraded from MariaDB 5.5.65 to 10.3.23-1 on CentOS 7.8 at the end of July following the steps given here: https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/how-to-upgrade-mariadb-5-5-to-mariadb-10-0-on-…

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MariaDB upgrade
by Edvinas Kairys 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Hello, Could someone provide a guide on Centos to upgrade MariaDB from 5.5 to 10.x ? Thanks

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Observium deleting switch entries instead of alerting
by Pisano, Anthony D. 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Hello, I ran into a weird situation today that I’m unsure of how to proceed with. Due to a power failure we lost power to 3 of 4 switches in a Cisco 9300 Stack. At 10:57am yesterday in the event log of this switch I can see the OperStatus of the Stack Ports go down. I have an alert configured against the status of “Switch Stack Failure” does not equal OK. However this alert did not go off at the time of the outage, it has for other switch stacks though. Then at 5am this morning the logs of the device indicate it went through and essentially removed switches 2-4 of this stack. We are currently running 20.7.10549. I know we need to update, but our linux team has not gotten around to it. Is there anyway to look into this? Anthony Pisano | Network Design Engineer | IMSS anthony.pisano(a)caltech.edu<mailto:anthony.pisano@caltech.edu> | (626) 395-4255<tel:(626)%20395-4255> | Caltech | caltech.edu<http://caltech.edu/>

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HTML Base tag appears wrong when using IPv6
by Pieter De Wit 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Hi, Yes, this is “wrong” but I have an internal server which happens to have IPv6 and no DNS. If I access my Observium installation using the address, the generated HTML is as follow: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <base href="http://[[2406:xxxx:xxxx:3300::202]]/"/> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8”/> The base setting has double brackets which breaks loading. (Yes, I can override this in the config :) ) Cheers, Pieter

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Invoice for our recent purchase for Observium subscription
by Renuka Arya 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Hi Team, Can you please provide us the invoice for our purchase on aug 1, 2020 ? We didn't seem to have received it. please see the attachment below. Thanks! Regards Renuka Arya

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