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Device group membership in alerts?
by Ryan, Spencer J. 05 May '20

05 May '20

I've got a usecase to have the group names that a device is a member of passed down to the alerts, specifically Pagerduty. On the PD side, I can route incidents based on arbitrary details, and if I had group membership I could say "If device.groups contains "Network" route to XXX", instead of having to build a unique alert check for every group. The mocked up SQL query is SELECT group_name FROM groups WHERE group_id IN (SELECT group_id FROM group_table WHERE entity_type = 'device' AND entity_id = ?); Any chance that information can be made available? I'm happy to write the code if needed. ________________________________ Spencer J. Ryan | Manager, Technology and Infrastructure Miller Canfield T +1.313.496.7979 ________________________________

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Observium Configuration & DataBase BAckup & Restore
by shaun＠sbnetworks.co.za 04 May '20

04 May '20

Hi all I hope and trust everyone is keeping well and safe during this time. Can anyone please assist me, I am trying to make a backup of my Observium installation to move it to a "bigger" system / machine, I installed the application to see how it worked and to test features, needless to say that I love it, and have subsequently set it up to monitor my entire WISP network. However, I unfortunately did not pay much attention to the system's specifications, as it was not initially intended to be a permanent deployment, not knowing what to expect or that it would turn out to be such a wonderful tool. Please could you advise on a step by step procedure to enable me to make a full backup of the installation / database / configs in order to migrate it to a more future proof system, bearing in mind that my Linux experience is very limited. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated Stay safe Regards, Shaun

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SNMP Max Repetitons enabled - some modules takes longer time to poll
by Kent Johannessen 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

Hello, We recently enabled max-rep to improve our Observium installation. And it did reduce polling time for most modules. But we see some module had significant increases. Specifically the poller modules for cisco eigrp, cef and cbqos and the bgp poller also seems to have increased somewhat. Has anyone seen this behavior ? Where should be begin to look? NOTICE: Please immediately e-mail back to sender if you are not the intended recipient. Thereafter delete the e-mail along with any attachments without making copies. The sender reserves all rights of privilege, confidentiality and copyright.

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Re: [Observium] asterisk?
by Tony Guadagno 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Brian, thanks for replying, to be honest, I was not sure my email went through…..since no one at observium bothered to comment! But as far as the agent file, I am not sure how I can use that? thanks Tony From: Brian ::<mailto:bc@iptel.co> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 5:25 PM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] asterisk? There is an asterisk agent file. Have a look at that. Will give you channels / calls and registration numbers I think. On Wednesday, April 15, 2020, Tony Guadagno via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: > Hi, I sent this request weeks ago and got no answer on it….can someone at observium comment on when/if this could be implemented? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+MIB+Definitions > > > > > > tony > > > > From: Tony Guadagno via observium > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:12 PM > To: Chris Macneill via observium > Cc: Tony Guadagno > Subject: [Observium] asterisk? > > > > Hi, i have configured my freepbx server (asterisk 16) for snmp and observium is showing it as a Linux server. I have asterisk configured for snmp, can observium be configured to show asterisk data? This is a link to the mib > > > > > > Tony Guadagno > > Guadagno Consulting > > O +1 585 577 1003 > > C +1 585 703 6700 > > E tonyg(a)guadagnoconsulting.com<mailto:tonyg@guadagnoconsulting.com> > > > >

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Re: [Observium] asterisk?
by Tony Guadagno 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Niklas, I was unaware of the asterisk agent, I will give that a try, thanks for pointing it out! Tony From: Niklas Larsson via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 8:40 AM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Niklas Larsson<mailto:niklas@tese.se> Subject: Re: [Observium] asterisk? Hi, I'm using the asterisk agent thing, and also the one who wrote it. It's working and showing calls, channels and registrations for SIP (for PJSIP I have not pushed my changes to observium) and IAX. Usage - just install the observium UNIX agent ( https://docs.observium.org/unix_agent/ ) and add/symlink asterisk to /usr/lib/observium_agent/scripts-enabled /niklas On 2020-04-29 14:26, Tony Guadagno via observium wrote: Adam, can you comment on this thread? I think there is an appetite out there for asterisk metrics in observium, would you entertain this? Tony From: Tony Guadagno via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 7:46 AM To: Brian ::<mailto:bc@iptel.co>; Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] asterisk? Brian, thanks for replying, to be honest, I was not sure my email went through…..since no one at observium bothered to comment! But as far as the agent file, I am not sure how I can use that? thanks Tony From: Brian ::<mailto:bc@iptel.co> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 5:25 PM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] asterisk? There is an asterisk agent file. Have a look at that. Will give you channels / calls and registration numbers I think. On Wednesday, April 15, 2020, Tony Guadagno via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: > Hi, I sent this request weeks ago and got no answer on it….can someone at observium comment on when/if this could be implemented? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+MIB+Definitions > > > > > > tony > > > > From: Tony Guadagno via observium > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:12 PM > To: Chris Macneill via observium > Cc: Tony Guadagno > Subject: [Observium] asterisk? > > > > Hi, i have configured my freepbx server (asterisk 16) for snmp and observium is showing it as a Linux server. I have asterisk configured for snmp, can observium be configured to show asterisk data? This is a link to the mib > > > > > > Tony Guadagno > > Guadagno Consulting > > O +1 585 577 1003 > > C +1 585 703 6700 > > E tonyg(a)guadagnoconsulting.com<mailto:tonyg@guadagnoconsulting.com> > > > > _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Observium API
by Klimek, Denis 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Hi Serghei, you can fetch all information from the SQL database 😊 Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Carrier Manager & Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: +49 (0) 40 / 521 04 – 1049 > Working from home Mobil: +49 (0) 151 / 652 219 06 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/> Von: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> im Auftrag von Serghei Golipad via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Antworten an: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Datum: Dienstag, 28. April 2020 um 17:44 An: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Serghei Golipad <s.golipad(a)uk.cdw.com> Betreff: [Observium] Observium API Hi, Is there any way of getting list of port ID’s other than looping through a million times and match on device_id? 😊 Thank you. PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. CDW Limited is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of CDW Finance Holdings Limited. CDW Finance Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for CDW Limited trading as CDW. The registered office for CDW Finance Holdings Limited (Company Number 05872067) and its UK group undertakings is 10 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RB. VAT Registration 902 1949 39. Confidentiality: This e-mail contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail and then delete the original. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on any information contained in this e-mail. You must not inform any other person other than CDW or the sender of its existence. For more information about CDW please visit www.uk.cdw.com

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mail archive link broken
by Tony Guadagno 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Hi, I noticed a while ago that the first link on this page http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium to the mail archives is broken….it has been broken for a long time…are there no archives? Can this be fixed? thanks Tony

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Need help to change email address on subscription account
by Graf Vincent 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Hello, I need some help to change some information on our subscription account. I cannot find anything on site web page nor the possibilities to change that via observium.org/subs Any suggestion ? Kind regards Vincent

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Observium API
by Serghei Golipad 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hi, Is there any way of getting list of port ID’s other than looping through a million times and match on device_id? 😊 Thank you. PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. CDW Limited is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of CDW Finance Holdings Limited. CDW Finance Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for CDW Limited trading as CDW. The registered office for CDW Finance Holdings Limited (Company Number 05872067) and its UK group undertakings is 10 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RB. VAT Registration 902 1949 39. Confidentiality: This e-mail contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail and then delete the original. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on any information contained in this e-mail. You must not inform any other person other than CDW or the sender of its existence. For more information about CDW please visit www.uk.cdw.com

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Attention to OBS-3006 (vPC onNX-OS)
by xomka686 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

Hello, I've done a quick patch to get vPC metrics from NX-OS devices, can you kindly take a look at it? The Jira issue is https://jira.observium.org/projects/OBS/issues/OBS-3006 For now, that adds just graphs to Status section. I can put some effort to create a full-blown vPC tab on the Device page to get even more stats for it, what do you think on that? --- Sergei Fomin

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Probe alerting
by Christian Eriksson 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

Hi, Anyone doing alerting on probes? I can match the probes in my association but not alert based on: Require Any status_event eq warning status_event eq alert [cid:image013.jpg@01D61A17.21E64F40] [cid:image014.jpg@01D61A17.21E64F40] Vänliga hälsningar / Best regards, [Advania_Trappa_CMYK] Christian Eriksson Service Area Manager [cid:image005.png@01D61A17.1483F2D0]<mailto:christian.eriksson@advania.se>[Advania-Bikupa Facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/advania.se/>[Advania-Bikupa LinkedIn]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/advania-ab/>[Advania-Bikupa Twitter]<https://twitter.com/advania_se> +4641090488<tel:+4641090488> | +46761400400<tel:+46761400400> www.advania.se<http://www.advania.se/> | Stockholm<https://www.google.se/maps/place/Advania+Sverige+AB/@59.3062176,18.0278762,…>

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PPPoE Interfaces Deleted
by shaun＠sbnetworks.co.za 23 Apr '20

23 Apr '20

Hi guys, Please if anyone could offer some advice or guidance I would really appreciate it. I recently deployed Observium in my network for monitoring purposes, everything is working great, better than ever expected, except for the following: Each time a PPPoE client interfaces reconnects, the previous data is deleted, interface is deleted and the graphs and usage data start fresh from the time of the new connection. Is there any way of setting up the Observium installation to retain previous session data and usage and just have it "carry on" recording data each time the PPPoE session reconnects? Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanking you in advance Shaun

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sysContact-->Observium Contact
by Ryan, Spencer J. 22 Apr '20

22 Apr '20

Is it possible to use a device's sysContact (Either from SNMP or an override) to tie that to a specific observium contact, or is that for the email transport only? My use case is that I want different devices to go to different pagerduty integrations, and the only way I can see to do that right now is to build different alert checks for each set, with the correct PD "Contact" associated with that checker. Thanks in advance! ________________________________ Spencer J. Ryan | Manager, Technology and Infrastructure Miller Canfield T +1.313.496.7979 ________________________________

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 117, Issue 15
by Mosharaf Hossain 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Hi I am trying to send alert mail for any device down/port down status only when it down and in an interval. But getting a problem that Observium send the alert report with all down port for an active device which overwhelmed my inbox. Is there any guideline to activating this feature without such behaviour? -- Regards, *Mosharaf Hossain* On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 5:00 PM <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > 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. Re: Event Log Updates Very Often Remove Interface (Mike Stupalov) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:02:30 +0300 > From: Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> > To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org>, Aulia Rahman via observium > <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] Event Log Updates Very Often Remove Interface > Message-ID: <1cd8cf42-3bd7-4811-a3cb-e9a5a59a77d9(a)observium.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > this is due to network delays to VM and/or disk read latency on this VM. > > Increase SNMP timeout to this host to 2-3 sec (in device edit page). > > Aulia Rahman via observium wrote on 18.04.2020 08:08: > > Hello, > > > > Some VM have event logs with interface status add, remove, delete. > > It occurred very often. What happened with this ? And how to solved this. > > Btw, there's no changes in the VM. > > > > image.png > > > > image.png > > > > Demikian yang dapat kami sampaikan, terimakasih. > > > > Regards, > > Aulia Rahman > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > -- > Mike Stupalov > Observium Limited, http://observium.org > >

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Event Log Updates Very Often Remove Interface
by Aulia Rahman 18 Apr '20

18 Apr '20

Hello, Some VM have event logs with interface status add, remove, delete. It occurred very often. What happened with this ? And how to solved this. Btw, there's no changes in the VM. [image: image.png] [image: image.png] Demikian yang dapat kami sampaikan, terimakasih. Regards, Aulia Rahman

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Unable to upgrade subscription
by Chris Murrell 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

Hello, I have the community version and am trying to upgrade to the subscription which i have just paid for. I am getting the following error. svn update Skipped '.' Summary of conflicts: Skipped paths: 1 or svn switch https://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/branches/stable svn: E155007: '/opt/observium' is not a working copy Can anyone please help me and let me know why the upgrade doesnt work and how to resolve it? Kind Regards, Chris Murrell Senior Systems Administrator ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Netcetera™ Passionate about hosting, committed to service The Dataport DDI: +44.330.010.1823 <0330%20010%201823> Ballasalla Support: +44.3330.439780 <0333%20043%209780> Isle of Man Sales: +44.3330.439780 IM9 2AP Fax: +44.870.4324.638 <0870%20432%204638> British Isles Web: http://www.netcetera.co.uk ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Partner - ISO9001:2015 - ISO14001:2015 - ISO27001:2013 How are we doing? Please click here to tell Netcetera - we're listening <https://netcetera.mobi/rateit/?id=3>

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Datepicker timezone
by Farshid Abediny 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

Hello, i have set correct timezone for PHP, mysql, system but when i want enter date and time in date picker for a graph the time is wrong, where can i fix it? thank you.

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Not able to connect to SVN / update
by John 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

I just renewed my observium license, which was out of date for a while. Trying to run svn update now but can't make a connection to the server from my Observium machine. I can connect fine from a machine on a different network, which is weird. IP of Observium machine: 216.27.95.80 Username: tempeh-170154 Tried both svn and a plain CURL, with and without --username and --password. Any thoughts?

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Want say Thanks
by Edvinas Kairys 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Hello, Just wanted to say thanks for the last stable update. I'really happy for getting my memory, cpu, bgp, etc graphs back:)

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How to diagnose failing ldap
by Michael Spaulding 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

So I had the server working with mysql login, but I'm struggling with getting the ldap authentication to work. I copied the example out of the instructions, but every time I enter the username/password, the website just resets. I tried going to http://fqdn/debug, but it just tells me that the cache is disabled in the config, which it is. Unfortunately I can't find any debug logs, or entries in any logs that would help to isolate the issue. This is my Authentication Model section <scrubbed>: // Authentication Model // $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please see documentation for config help $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "<Distinguished Name>"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "<Password>"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['dn'] = "distinguishedname"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "person"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "<domain controller.domain>"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = false; $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "uid="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",<Distinguished Name Suffix>"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = array("<Distinguished Name of Observium Users Group>"); $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "<Distinguished Name of Group Base>"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "fulldn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['Distinguished Name of Observium Admins Group']['level'] = 10; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['Distinguished Name of Observium Users Group']['level'] = 1; Any suggestions are much appreciated! Michael Spaulding | Systems Administrator Information Technology | Division of Student Affairs 1259 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-1259 ph: 979.458.9223 | mspaulding(a)tamu.edu | doit.tamu.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

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Default port for web-access
by James Ngo 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Hello everyone, I am totally new to Observium and has found the app is very useful. I installed Observium using the automated method, first on a VirtualBox to test out the features. So far everything has worked for me (yay.) I am planning to install the app on the actual production server, running Ubuntu 18.04 server, latest updates and all However, on the production server, we have already Freeradius which use mysql and phpMyAdmin to maintain the database. These are using the default port 80 I tried to find where I can change the default port at the installation but I could not find anything. If I change the default port in the /etc/apache2/ports.conf (and subsequent in the virtualhost), would that change my Freeradius server default port as well? My second question, is there a command line that I can use to reset the admin username/password? If we forget the admin password, how could we get back to the program? So if anyone here has run both engine on the same server, please shred a light on this for me? Thank you all you guys, and sorry if this question is a nob! James -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

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mikrotik chr
by Pieter Meyer 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Hi Guys I have picked up that some things has changed on the Mikrotik MIB, I have seen the below in the event log, This causes that you cannot filter for CHR routers under devices Hardware changed: 'CHR' -> '' Serial changed: 'xxxxxxxxxx' -> '' Regards Pieter Meyer

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Graphs Problem
by Remzi BAŞOĞLU 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Hi, I installed Observium and added a few machines. I can see details (RAM, disk etc) but the graphs doesnt show anything. What should I do ? [image: image.png] Thanks.

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asterisk?
by Tony Guadagno 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Hi, I sent this request weeks ago and got no answer on it….can someone at observium comment on when/if this could be implemented? Thanks https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+MIB+Definitions tony From: Tony Guadagno via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:12 PM To: Chris Macneill via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: [Observium] asterisk? Hi, i have configured my freepbx server (asterisk 16) for snmp and observium is showing it as a Linux server. I have asterisk configured for snmp, can observium be configured to show asterisk data? This is a link to the mib Tony Guadagno Guadagno Consulting O +1 585 577 1003 C +1 585 703 6700 E tonyg(a)guadagnoconsulting.com

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Question regarding switch Ports
by Svensson Fredrik A 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Hello! We have this nice status-graph in observium: [cid:image001.png@01D61338.1A381E30] Is it possible to get an output of a procentage of used user-ports? In my example I have 17/27 = 63% utilization of ports. I dont want to count in ports that are shutdown, often trunk or sfp-ports. Vlan interfaces /port-channels and so on is also counted as UP, but I dont really care about that. Regards Fredrik

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Problems with Customer graphs since upgrading
by Shawn L 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

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Re: [Observium] Question regarding switch Ports
by Klimek, Denis 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Hi Fredrik, you can try creating a custom port group of relevant ports and ask for a feature request in Observium Jira to add „Percentage View“ in „Aggregate Graphs“ view for custom port groups. Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Carrier Manager & Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: +49 (0) 40 / 521 04 – 1049 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/> Von: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> im Auftrag von Svensson Fredrik A via observium <observium(a)observium.org> Antworten an: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Datum: Mittwoch, 15. April 2020 um 15:19 An: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Cc: Svensson Fredrik A <fredrik.a.svensson(a)rjl.se> Betreff: [Observium] Question regarding switch Ports Hello! We have this nice status-graph in observium: [cid:image001.png@01D6133A.DAFA3570] Is it possible to get an output of a procentage of used user-ports? In my example I have 17/27 = 63% utilization of ports. I dont want to count in ports that are shutdown, often trunk or sfp-ports. Vlan interfaces /port-channels and so on is also counted as UP, but I dont really care about that. Regards Fredrik

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Observium on CentOS 8
by Michael Spaulding 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Has anyone had any luck installing Observium on Centos/RHEL 8 yet? And is there any plan to support it in the future? I'm trying to do so and not getting any errors, but I've also been unable to get the graphing to work. The only packages I've been unable to install are php-sodium and MySQL-python, but I got the impression they weren't absolutely necessary from the basic software requirements. The RRD commands appear to run correctly: RRDTool Output: 1233x369 RRDtool Runtime: 0.073s | Total time: 0.074s Michael Spaulding | Systems Administrator Information Technology | Division of Student Affairs 1259 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-1259 ph: 979.458.9223 | mspaulding(a)tamu.edu | doit.tamu.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

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Problems with Customer graphs since upgrading
by Shawn L 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

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Mikrotik SNMP issue
by Pieter Meyer 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

Hi Guys I have picked up that some things has changed on the Mikrotik Mib, I have seen the below in the eventlog, This causes that you cannot filter for CHR routers under devices Hardware changed: 'CHR' -> '' Serial changed: 'xxxxxxxxxx' -> '' 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 map <https://goo.gl/maps/WHe3soT1fHm> | website <http://www.convergedgroup.net/> | company blog <http://www.convergedgroup.net/blog/> | linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/company/converged-telecoms> CAUTION: This email and any attachments may contain information that is confidential and subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately and erase this email and any attachments. Thank you. DISCLAIMER: To the maximum extent permitted by law, Converged Group is not liable (including in respect of negligence) for viruses or other defects or for changes made to this email or to any attachments. Before opening or using attachments, check them for viruses and other defects. The information contained in this document is confidential to the addressee and is not the view nor the official policy of Converged Group unless otherwise stated.

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Using Observium after moving VM
by Leo Dano 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

Hello all, Been scratching my head on this one. All I did is move the Observium VM from one network to another (closed). I cannot seem to figure out why I cannot add new hosts. No firewalls in the way. SNMP verified running on the host. Hosts are pinging each other. Is there a command to verify what is wrong between Observium and a host and why it's not adding? I am using public as the SNMP community name. One thing that does seem odd is this message when trying to add a host. No reply on given community *** using v2c, it showing the 3 asterisks versus it saying public. Any suggestions would be awesome! Leo

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Apache dies with Segmentation Fault
by Beulen, Klaus 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

Hi, we are currently using Observium CE 19.8.10000 as a test installation to monitor part of our switch/router infrastructure (currently about 290 devices, mostly Cisco). From time to time we have problems accessing the UI, the web browser just answers "Page does not work - observium did not send an answer - ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE". When I check the error.log in /var/logs/apache, I find lots of lines like ... [Wed Apr 08 14:44:44.362412 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1367] AH00051: child pid 27005 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2 [Wed Apr 08 14:44:44.362479 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1367] AH00051: child pid 1696 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2 [Wed Apr 08 14:44:53.366005 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1367] AH00051: child pid 7903 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2 ... Is this a known bug/error in this version, or did I eventually configure something wrong? All packages are up to date ("apt update; apt upgrade"). Regards, Klaus.

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How to exclude temperature sensors from virtual machines?
by Thomas Stather 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi We are using Observium Professional: 20.2.10301 (rolling) Some of our VMs (ESXi) have temperature sensors shown in Observium (either green 100deg. or red 0deg.). This doesn't make any sense and i am searching for a way to disable this. The strange thing is that this happens only for some of our VMs (regardless of the distribution). Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV, VCP6.5-DCV Tel: +49 6221 486 628 Fax: +49 6221 486 561 Bevor Sie diese Mail ausdrucken, prüfen Sie bitte ob dies wirklich nötig ist. Umweltschutz geht uns alle an!

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FortiGate Firewall Sessions counter lost
by Wouter de Man 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Professional version, upgrade from 20.2.10261 to 20.4.10354. Since this upgrade, the counter 'Firewall Sessions', which reflected the sessions just fine on the FortiGate, are deleted.

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An Event Log annoyance
by Richard Kuhns 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hello, I'm currently running Observium 20.4.10353(rolling) in my test (home office) environment. I had to restart everything 2 days ago when I brought in a new desk and rearranged. I'm monitoring 4 devices: a server (running observium), a Cisco ASA 5505 firewall, a Cisco wireless access point, and an APC UPS with Web/SNMP Management card. Everything is working fine since the restart, except that every 5 minutes I get a new entry in the Event log telling me about how my ASA rebooted; I'm attaching a screenshot. That's the only device that's showing up in the event log. How can I convince observium that it doesn't need to keep telling me about it? Thanks, - Richard -- Richard Kuhns <rjk(a)wintek.com> Systems Administrator Wintek Powered by Tipmont Main: 765-742-8428 Direct: 765-269-8541

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svn.log not updated?
by Svensson Fredrik A 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi all, https://www.observium.org/svn.log Is this not updated anymore? I have found it very good to see if there are any news for my equipment. Regards Fredrik

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Issues with IP SLA
by Cartas, Mauro S. 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hello experts, Need some help to understand how observium handles IPSLA probes links. We have a fully working weathermap with IP sla information (jitter, echo, etc) all nice with nodes and links. Links are configured this way: LINK A-B INFOURL /graphs/type=sla_jitter/id=10495/ OVERLIBGRAPH /graph.php?height=100&width=512&id=10495&type=sla_jitter&legend=no INBWFORMAT {link:this:bandwidth_in:%0} OUTBWFORMAT {link:this:bandwidth_out:%d} BWLABELPOS 50 50 TARGET gauge:../../rrd/router_A/sla_jitter-cisco-rttmon-mib-1100020-LMR_IO.rrd:rtt:rtt NODES Chicago Washington BANDWIDTH 34 Now the problem that we have is that when observium server loses connectivity with router_A (i.e. network outage, check below) It will generate a new ID for the link to the graphic hence we have to go to the editor and update INFOURL and OVERLIBGRAPH ID values. As shown below the ID is 12961 for SLA 1100020 whereas above the ID configured was 10495. [cid:image002.jpg@01D6075C.16B03280] [cid:image006.jpg@01D6075C.16B03280] This becomes very annoying as we cannot maintain a fully working IPSLA map and we're not sure why it's constantly generating new ids. [cid:image007.jpg@01D6075C.16B03280] Hope there is a way to force this ID not to change and remain static no matter what happens as the device ID never changes. Thanks in advance! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauro S. Cartas Global WAN Team Contact: E-mail: acc-ngwan(a)accenture.com<mailto:acc-ngwan@accenture.com> Phone 1: +91 80 496 61103 (GMT 00:00 to 10:00 on weekdays and any time on Weekends) Phone 2: +420 225 071 060 (GMT 07:00 to 24:00 on weekdays only) ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. Your privacy is important to us. Accenture uses your personal data only in compliance with data protection laws. For further information on how Accenture processes your personal data, please see our privacy statement at https://www.accenture.com/us-en/privacy-policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com

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by Kaustubh Parthasarthy, CLSA 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

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Traffic Comparison widget wrong after moving interfaces between routers
by Darrell Budic 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

Folk, I recently added some new routers and then moved interfaces from the old to the new. The transit and peering graphs picked up the new interfaces just fine, but the Traffic Comparison widget on the front page hasn’t. Any ideas on getting it to update? Observium pro 20.3.10324 (stable). I’ve tried deleting and re-adding the widget, and it’s had a discovery run since the change. Thanks, -Darrell

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Alerting switch stack status
by Eric W. Bates 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

I want to alert whenever one switch in a stack drops out. And I need help composing a checker. Specifically, I have stacks of cisco 2960-X switches linked via flex stack modules such that they appear as a single switch for purposes of ping'ing or snmp. On occasion, one switch in the stack will fail, but the rest of the stack stays on-line and continues to respond to pings, etc. I believe I want to watch the Status entity: Stack is redundant CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB::cswRingRedundant.0 https://mibs.observium.org/mib/CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB/#cswRingRedundant Each stacking module has two cables and one runs cables such that all the switches are in a big loop. cswRingRedundant is a boolean that indicates that such a loop is intact. So it will be False if a switch dies or simply if a cable is unplugged (also a desirable alert). If the switch is a standalone with no stacking modules installed, you get: "No Such Object available on this agent at this OID" I've created a Status entry: <?xml version="1.0"?> <templates> <template type="alert" description="Autogenerated observium template" version="0.91" created="Wed, 01 Apr 2020 11:51:32 -0400" observium="20.2.10302" id="fbe29724e648671f6e2095e9425d7515"> <entity_type>status</entity_type> <name>2960_stack_loop_redundancy</name> <message>Stack loop redundancy has failed (might be a missing stack switch)</message> <severity>crit</severity> <suppress_recovery>0</suppress_recovery> <delay>0</delay> <conditions_and>1</conditions_and> <conditions>status_name == Stack is redundant</conditions> <conditions>status_event == warn</conditions> <conditions_complex>status_name == Stack is redundant AND status_event == warn</conditions_complex> </template> </templates> It doesn't appear to be working (I have one switch with a cable unplugged it should alert on). Do I just have to wait 5 minutes? Or does it read the status from the database? Is that the correct "status_name?" I copied it from the Health --> Status page "Description" column. Should it be quoted? The export XML doesn't include the associations, but I included: device.hardware regexp /.*WS-C2960X-.*/ I don't really know what the value of "device.hardware" might be, but I'm assuming it's the same as the field labeled "Vendor/Hardware" shown on the front page for a given switch? Thanks for your time. -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112 -- Clark 159a, MS 46 508/289-3112

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Port group and aggregated graphs
by Daniel Johansson 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Hi I added a port group to be able to have an aggregated graph but the graph does not seems to aggregate the ports usage in one graph. See the attached pictures as reference. Site1 have 137Mbit in and 160Mbit out and a spike at over 200Mbit Site2 have 38Mbit in and 80 out and a spike at over 140Mbit The aggregated graph does not show much more than a bit over 100Mbit both in and out in total and with the spike it should show around 340Mbit What has caused this irregularity to happen and should it be like this? ---- Regards Daniel

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Aggregate Graphs of Application Data??
by Altheide, Richard 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Does Observium have a capability to present aggregate graphs of data collected from applications like it has for port data? For example, I would like an aggregate graph of my OpenVPN connections from multiple servers. Richard Altheide Network Engineer, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Query Regarding professional licence renewal
by Mohammed Kokani 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Dear Experts, Need some clarification on licence renewal. We had auto-renewal for professional licence, but save card for payment was expired and we updated new card details for renewal, unfortunately our finance team purchased new licence it seems, can we cancel the new purchase and renew the old licence. Your response is highly appreciated. *Thanks & Regards* *Mohammed Suhail | System Engineer* *Tel : +1-888-853-7733* PGP Fingerprint : 026B 6CEB CC08 152D 9372 0F51 DDFB 6758 6924 FBCC [image: cid:image016.png@01D321AA.4A00A6F0]

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sort by bps or pps
by Farshid Abediny 29 Mar '20

29 Mar '20

Hello, I want to know can we have a dashboard and sort port switches by pps or bps ? THank you.

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Re: [Observium] Dynamic Network Map
by Chris Wopat 28 Mar '20

28 Mar '20

This does exist, go to <your_url>/map.php Its use varies greatly on the number of devices you have. It uses `dot` from `graphviz` which you must have installed and configured in config.php ($config['dot']) Also each port shows LLDP neighbors if you go to /neighbors/, and there should be a sub-tab of an interface called 'Map' to show you 1 level of connections. Also, please share your php7 changes for weathermap to that project, we did similar a few years ago but Im not sure if they actually got committed. > > From: Richard Wigzell [mailto:richard.wigzell@it.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 10:21 AM > To: Methe, Mike <mmethe(a)brattlebororetreat.org>; 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: RE: Dynamic Network Map > > Yes, we already make extensive use of the php-weathermap plugin with some code modifications to better support php7. > > What we are looking for is something that will dynamically draw a network relationship map using XDP data, with the ability to limit the scope to a defined set of devices. > > Weathermap is good for showing network utilization of infrastructure networks (well understood, defined use and good documentation) but not so useful for our ad-hoc or campus stuff (so yeah we don't know what this switch in this cupboard is for but if it goes off this breaks etc). >

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Dynamic Network Map
by Richard Wigzell 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Hello, This is a feature we would find very useful, a dynamic network map that can be confined to a defined group of switches (e.g. from LibreNMS https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Network-Map/ ). Is this something Observium can already do? Or something that could be added? We are currently using Observium Enterprise (20.2.10291) and have zero interest in also running LibreNMS (or anything else) but this is feature we would really appreciate. The use case we are trying to address is the new on boarding of campus networks previously run by local IT that now fall under our remit (often with little or very poor or just wrong documentation). Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CE9215.D39244B0]<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> Richard Wigzell Technical Lead, Storage Platforms IT Services | University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN T: 01865 616282 www.it.ox.ac.uk<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/>

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Microsoft Direct Access and SNMP
by Daniel Johansson 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Hi I'm wondering if anyone on the list uses MS DA server and can get any good statistics from it to show in observium. Either directly supporten in observium or via custom OID. Right now I'm looking to graph information about how many users are connected at the same time. ---- Regards Daniel

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Re: [Observium] asterisk?
by Tony Guadagno 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Observium….is this something you would consider adding? Tony From: Tony Guadagno via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 8:01 AM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] asterisk? Well, the response is overwhelming!!!!! I think it would be a great addition to add asterisk snmp support! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!! Tony From: Josh Benner via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 7:54 AM To: Observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Josh Benner<mailto:joshb@aweber.com> Subject: Re: [Observium] asterisk? We use asterisk, and at my last job we ran hundreds of asterisk servers. -- Josh Benner Team Lead - Platform Support Engineering Send smarter emails based on open and click tags. AWeber Automations is here.<https://www.aweber.com/email-automation.htm?utm_source=awemail&utm_medium=e…> …And We’re Hiring!<https://www.aweber.com/careers.htm?utm_source=awemail&utm_medium=email&utm_…> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:21 PM adama--- via observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> wrote: Hi, I’m not sure if we actually have any collection for that. How reliable/stable is it? I seem to recall we have an asterisk agent app that uses the CLI tools to collect data? You can use the custom oid stuff, but it’s a pain/impossible if there are indexed tables. How widespread is asterisk use amongst the userbase these days? Adam. From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Tony Guadagno via observium Sent: 19 March 2020 20:13 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: Tony Guadagno <tonyg(a)guadagno.org<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] asterisk? Sorry, hit send too soon https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+MIB+Definitions tony From: Tony Guadagno via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:12 PM To: Chris Macneill via observium<mailto:observium@observium.org> Cc: Tony Guadagno<mailto:tonyg@guadagno.org> Subject: [Observium] asterisk? Hi, i have configured my freepbx server (asterisk 16) for snmp and observium is showing it as a Linux server. I have asterisk configured for snmp, can observium be configured to show asterisk data? This is a link to the mib Tony Guadagno Guadagno Consulting O +1 585 577 1003 C +1 585 703 6700 E tonyg(a)guadagnoconsulting.com<mailto:tonyg@guadagnoconsulting.com> _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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- Possibility of https certificate validity alert?
by David Schrok 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hello everyone, Was wondering if it possible for Observium to create an alert for https certificate validity check? Anyone managed to do this or is it not possible? In an ideal case I want an alert 90 days before the certificate expires. With kind regards David S.

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Run script after discovery (hook)
by Klimek, Denis 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hi all, due some vendor bug’s, mistakes, fails I would to run an external script after Observium finished the process of discovering. Is there any available method to execute a external script after discovery.php finished the check of a device? Stay health. Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Carrier Manager & Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: +49 (0) 40 / 521 04 – 1049 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/>

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