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CheckPoint Firewall Sessions
by Joelly, Alexander 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Good Morning, Running Enterprise version 19.5.9872 and also CE 18.9.9420 which was upgraded from the previous one a couple month ago. I could swear the previous CE version had a graph for the firewall sessions of CheckPoint firewall's - but unable to find them now in the Enterprise and CE version... Thanks, Alex

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Localhost memory showing as MINUS or NAN
by Simon Mousey Smith 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Hi All Ive only just noticed, but since I did a fresh install of observium on a new server and then migrated old data over, the memory for ‘localhost’ is showing as MINUS or NAN%? Anybody have an ideas? I don’t have anything special in the snmpd.conf as it shows below root@observium:~# cat /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf # Listen for connections on all interfaces (both IPv4 *and* IPv6) agentAddress udp:161,udp6:[::1]:161 # Full view access view all included .1 # system + hrSystem groups only view systemonly included .1.3.6.1.2.1.1 view systemonly included .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1 # Default access to full view rocommunity public 127.0.0.1 -V all # Default access to basic system info #rocommunity public default -V systemonly # System contact and location syslocation L24 XXX syscontact Simon Smith # Disk Monitoring disk / 10000 disk /var 5% includeAllDisks 10% # Unacceptable 1-, 5-, and 15-minute load averages load 12 10 5 # This line allows Observium to detect the host OS if the distro script is installed extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.1 distro /usr/local/bin/distro # This lines allows Observium to detect hardware, vendor and serial #extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.2 hardware /bin/cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name #extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.3 vendor /bin/cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/sys_vendor #extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.4 serial /bin/cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_serial # This line allows Observium to collect an accurate uptime extend uptime /bin/cat /proc/uptime # This line enables Observium's ifAlias description injection pass_persist .1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18 /usr/local/bin/ifAlias_persist root@observium:~# The code was copied over from the observium docs - https://docs.observium.org/device_linux/ <https://docs.observium.org/device_linux/> Regards Simon

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API question
by Serghei Golipad 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Hi All, I have enabled API access however when I comes to running a query, the response I get is it's "disabled". Any ideas? root@uk3soc-observium01:/opt/observium# cat config.php | grep api $config['api']['enabled'] = 1; uk1soc-hopoff01:~$ curl -u username:password http://10.200.252.10/api/v0/devices The API is disabled uk1soc-hopoff01:~$ 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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Monitor HDD Temps
by Jens Görke 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Hello, I would like to monitor the HDD temps of my servers (localhost and remote). How can I do that in Observium? Didn‘t find a solution so far. Thanks for helping. Best regards Jens Von meinem iPhone gesendet

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Ubiquiti EdgeOS - Port Descriptors
by mal＠platinumnetworks.com.au 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

Hi all - I have a number of EdgeOS devices in the field that I would like to add in to Observium but I am having an issue with the port descriptors as follows: I have set the interface description as follows - "description CUST:JOHNSONS(AAPT_NWBL2)[50M]{1736079}" using the CUST: and various brackets as outlined in the documentation. The OS does not like spaces in the description field so I was forced to remove them to get the config to stick. Problem is that when the interface is parsed the description comes up as just description CUSTJOHNSONSAAPT_NWBL250M1736079 which clearly is not going to be parsed correctly by Observium. Wondering if anyone has come across this previously and can pint me in the direction of a solution/workaround. Cheers Mal

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frontpage
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

Hi, in the webpage (19.5.9872) how we can do to show only devices down?, actually we can see devices down, port errors, port down. -- Saluda cordialmente

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alert checker loop
by Jacek.Dabrowski＠selgros.pl 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

Hello, I made an error in the alert checker, the result of which I can not get to the Observium via HTTP , how to edit the alert checker by the CLI ??? Regards Jacek Dąbrowski

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Alert for description port
by VIP TELECOM - Rafael 31 May '19

31 May '19

Hello, I need a help with alerts: I have mikrotik, extreme, datacom, huawei, cisco ..., all registered by ip in observium and with their doors properly described in the equipment. The port down, device down, displays the ip of the device and the number of the port, in the cases of mikrotik it presents the description of the port, but in other cases it only displays the port number. When we receive an alert on the telegram for example, or even on the dashboard, we can not know what that port is until it clicks on it, could it send the description along with the alert in a way that works for all manufacturers? In mikrotik the association that I make is: port.ifAlias in others the association is: port.ifDescr One more question would be: In addition to sending the ip of the device, it would have to send the hostname of the device, this would be very useful also in the dashboard --

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sending sms directly from observium
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 31 May '19

31 May '19

Hi, All methods to send notification by SMS needs internet. But if link to internet is down the messages never arrives on time. i was working on a solution "homemade", this implement a Arduino as web server and Gsm shield. Now observium can send SMS without externals. I have selected webhook as method but always it showme in debug Notifying [webhook] arduino: {"url":"http:\/\/A.B.C.D"} [FALSE] Arduino must send a response but i dont know what field send ... status, code ...? somebody have this data? -- Saluda cordialmente

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notifications
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 30 May '19

30 May '19

hi, How can I define different notification formats, email html or webhook? email_html.tpl, webhook.tpl ?? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Custom Icon $config['icon’][‘logo']
by Andrew Lemin 30 May '19

30 May '19

Good morning/afternoon/evening, Just a quick question. I have created a custom drop-down menu in the navbar, and would like to define a custom icon like; $config['icon’]['company-logo'] which provides a .png file in the images folder etc. Or more specifically instead of; $navbar['4D-DC'] = array('url' => '#', 'icon' => $config['icon']['company-logo'], 'title' => 'URLS'); Maybe this would work (sadly it doesn’t); $navbar['4D-DC'] = array('url' => '#', 'icon' => ‘images/company-logo.png’, 'title' => ''URLS''); I cannot find anywhere in the code where the $config['icon’] array is defined, and it is not in the database’s config table either? Thanks, Andy.

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Syslog priority filter
by Luca Sasdelli 30 May '19

30 May '19

Hello, does it exist any filtering rule for config.php to filter out unwanted priority syslogs? Thanks! Luca

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Needed Didactum MiBs in Observium
by Christian Moh 30 May '19

30 May '19

Hi, we used Didactum for Monitoring Temputure, Humitity and Smoke in our Racks and the Technik rooms. We use also Observium in our Institut and we want to monitor the Didactum also in Observium. From Didactum i have a MiB, but i cant include them. There are a lot of OIDs when i must include them, can you include them in the Observium MIBs list? I send the Didactum MIBs with this Mail. Thanks -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christian Moh

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rrdtool PREDICT error
by Adam Thompson 30 May '19

30 May '19

Hi, we’re using 19.5.9872 (7th May 2019), and are seeing an error in graph drawing: when we choose “Graph Trend” on any graph (that I’ve tried so far), I just get “Error Drawing Graph”. Showing the RRD command also shows the error: RRDTool Output: ERROR: invalid rpn expression in: 586400,-7,1800,inbits,PREDICT (full output shown below) Is this a known problem? Thanks, -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [[MERLIN LOGO]]<https://www.merlin.mb.ca/> 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB, R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) athompson(a)merlin.mb.ca<mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca> www.merlin.mb.ca<http://www.merlin.mb.ca/> <https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/> * * Devices <https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/devices/> * Ports <https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/ports/> * Health <https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/> * Routing <https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/> * * * [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca:443/images/os/arista.png] 10.0.2.3<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/device/device=357/> 49.803276, -97.148729<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/devices/location=IjQ5LjgwMzI3NiwgLTk3LjE0ODc…> [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?height=45&width=150&to=1559062740&…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> Traffic [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?height=45&width=150&to=1559062740&…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> Processors [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?height=45&width=150&to=1559062740&…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> Memory Usage Graph * Device (bits)<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062716/device=357/type=device_…> * Export Data <javascript:void(0)> * Add to Dashboard <javascript:void(0)> * Add to Just Map<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062716/device=357/type=device_…> 6 Hours [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?to=1559062740&device=357&type=devi…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> 24 Hours [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?to=1559062740&device=357&type=devi…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> 48 Hours [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?to=1559062740&device=357&type=devi…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> One Week [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?to=1559062740&device=357&type=devi…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> One Month [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?to=1559062740&device=357&type=devi…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> Three Months [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?to=1559062740&device=357&type=devi…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> One Year [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?to=1559062740&device=357&type=devi…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> Three Years [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?to=1559062740&device=357&type=devi…]<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062740/device=357/type=device_…> Options * Show Legend<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062716/device=357/type=device_…> * Graph Previous<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062716/device=357/type=device_…> * Graph Trend<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062716/device=357/type=device_…> * Graph Maximum<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062716/device=357/type=device_…> * RRD Command<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graphs/to=1559062716/device=357/type=device_…> * Link to Graph<https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?to=1559062716&device=357&type=devi…> [https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/graph.php?to=1559062716&device=357&type=devi…] Description Device total traffic in bits/sec. Performance & Output RRDTool Output: ERROR: invalid rpn expression in: 586400,-7,1800,inbits,PREDICT RRDtool Runtime: 0.032s | Total time: 0.035s RRDTool Command /usr/bin/rrdtool graph /tmp/iUIcLU9ZVLrCITXP.png -g -Y --alt-autoscale --rigid --start 1558976316 --end 1559062716 --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 DEF:inB0=/opt/observium/rrd/10.0.2.3/port-1.rrd:INOCTETS:AVERAGE DEF:outB0=/opt/observium/rrd/10.0.2.3/port-1.rrd:OUTOCTETS:AVERAGE CDEF:octets0=inB0,outB0,+ CDEF:inbits0=inB0,8,* CDEF:outbits0=outB0,8,* CDEF:outbits0_neg=outbits0,-1,* CDEF:bits0=inbits0,outbits0,+ VDEF:totinB0=inB0,TOTAL VDEF:totoutB0=outB0,TOTAL VDEF:tot0=octets0,TOTAL AREA:inbits0#7aa537:'Et1 Rx' GPRINT:inbits0:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits0:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits0:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits0:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totinB0:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#6a6aa9:' Tx' GPRINT:outbits0:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits0:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits0:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits0:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totoutB0:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' DEF:inB1=/opt/observium/rrd/10.0.2.3/port-2.rrd:INOCTETS:AVERAGE DEF:outB1=/opt/observium/rrd/10.0.2.3/port-2.rrd:OUTOCTETS:AVERAGE CDEF:octets1=inB1,outB1,+ CDEF:inbits1=inB1,8,* CDEF:outbits1=outB1,8,* CDEF:outbits1_neg=outbits1,-1,* CDEF:bits1=inbits1,outbits1,+ VDEF:totinB1=inB1,TOTAL VDEF:totoutB1=outB1,TOTAL VDEF:tot1=octets1,TOTAL AREA:inbits1#3e7a24:'Et2 Rx':STACK GPRINT:inbits1:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits1:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits1:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits1:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totinB1:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#35356e:' Tx' GPRINT:outbits1:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits1:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits1:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits1:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totoutB1:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' DEF:inB2=/opt/observium/rrd/10.0.2.3/port-999001.rrd:INOCTETS:AVERAGE DEF:outB2=/opt/observium/rrd/10.0.2.3/port-999001.rrd:OUTOCTETS:AVERAGE CDEF:octets2=inB2,outB2,+ CDEF:inbits2=inB2,8,* CDEF:outbits2=outB2,8,* CDEF:outbits2_neg=outbits2,-1,* CDEF:bits2=inbits2,outbits2,+ VDEF:totinB2=inB2,TOTAL VDEF:totoutB2=outB2,TOTAL VDEF:tot2=octets2,TOTAL AREA:inbits2#034f11:'Mgmt1 Rx':STACK GPRINT:inbits2:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits2:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits2:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits2:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totinB2:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#000033:' Tx' GPRINT:outbits2:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits2:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits2:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits2:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totoutB2:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' CDEF:inB=inB0,inB1,inB2,ADDNAN,ADDNAN CDEF:outB=outB0,outB1,outB2,ADDNAN,ADDNAN 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' CDEF:smooth_in=inbits,1800,TREND CDEF:predict_in=586400,-7,1800,inbits,PREDICT LINE2:predict_in#FF00FF::dashes=5 CDEF:smooth_out=doutbits,1800,TREND CDEF:predict_out=586400,-7,1800,doutbits,PREDICT LINE2:predict_out#FF00FF::dashes=5 AREA:outbits0_neg#6a6aa9: AREA:outbits1_neg#35356e::STACK AREA:outbits2_neg#000033::STACK HRULE:0#999999 RRDTool Files Used /opt/observium/rrd/10.0.2.3/port-1.rrd /opt/observium/rrd/10.0.2.3/port-2.rrd /opt/observium/rrd/10.0.2.3/port-999001.rrd * Observium 19.5.9872 (stable)<http://www.observium.org> * * 0.260s <https://observium.merlin.mb.ca/overview/>

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Monitorin BGP,OSPF... on VRF Huawei
by VIP TELECOM - Rafael 29 May '19

29 May '19

Hello, I have a huawei NE40, my observium can not monitor the routing protocols bgp, ospf ... when using vpn-instance (VRF), the interfaces associated with the vpn-instances it monitors, but the protocols can not help me ? I'm sorry for English because I'm Brazilian and I do not understand the language, I'm using google translator. --

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Nexus Cisco N3K-C3172PQ-XL
by Mirditor Kuçaj 29 May '19

29 May '19

Hello We have some Cisco N3K-C3172PQ-XL Version 7.0(3)I7(6) & Version 7.0(3)I4(8a) in our network. Observium doesnt collect modules (SFP) sensors like dBm tx/rx most importantly. Is there any workaround to do for that or its not supported yet? Observium 19.5.9872 (7th May 2019) & SNMP NET-SNMP 5.5 Regards Mirditor Kuçaj Backbone Network Director <mailto:miri@abissnet.al> miri(a)abissnet.al Abissnet Sh.a. +355 69 60 91 364 +355 (0)44 300 003 Ext 139 Rr. Ismail Qemali, Pallati Abissnet, Tiranë <http://www.abissnet.al/> www.abissnet.al <https://www.facebook.com/Abissnet> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AbissnetalISP> <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAIAABqLWRAB88ljU6t8b67oVm8PAlvPrh mPybE&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile%20>

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distributed observium
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 29 May '19

29 May '19

Hi, When we have many pollers, we can define a poller for specific devices? -- Saluda cordialmente

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syslog and distributed pollers
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 28 May '19

28 May '19

hi, everyone i'm testing observium with many pollers for my institution, its working very good, but....how i must configure the syslog? [image: image.png] The syslog must send data to a poller? or to mysql ? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Forcing location based on IP
by Pieter De Wit 27 May '19

27 May '19

Hi Guys, I would like to insert location data based on the IP address, but I want to write a script that will auto update this into the DB. We are adding 100s of devices over the next few months, some on them doesn't support SNMP Location (yeah, I know....) We have decided to just override the location in Observium for all systems, even if they support it or not. By the looks of it, the data goes into devices_locations ? Thanks ! Pieter De Wit

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Geolocation - API Endpoints missing in MySQL config table
by Chris Macneill 26 May '19

26 May '19

Oh no, not me again!! In my recent post I alluded to an issue I was having with Geolocation. After installing Observium CE v2018.9, I couldn't get Geolocation to work with the default setup, so I changed to Google as I already had an API Key setup for other purposes. However, Geolocation still failed to do anything. After looking in Jira, there seem to be a number of posts on this subject, all closed off with no resolution. For anyone out there that still has an issue with Google Geolocation, then I've found what the problem is. This may also solve the issue for other Geolocation APIs too. By the way, before I get started on the solution, I've opened a new bug in Jira (OBS-3022), so hopefully this will get fixed. So, digging into the PHP code, I finally worked out that the API Endpoint URLs are stored in MySQL "config" table. Except, they weren't, "direct_url" and "reverse_url" were missing from the "config" table. I would think that if you select Google as the API provider in the GUI, that the "config" table should be populated with the correct URLs. Nothing in any documentation states that config.php needs anything added manually to cause MySQL to be populated. There may actually be an easier way to achieve this by entering values in config.php, however I've only been digging around in the PHP code for less than 2 days and I haven't fully got my head around how Observium does things yet. So my solution involves getting your hands dirty with MySQL / SQL. To fix the problem manually for Google and potentially other API providers, do the following:- 1. SSH to your Observium host or login to the CLI if you're local. 2. I'm a bit naughty I tend to do everything in a "root" shell, so if you login as non-root you'll probably need to su or sudo to user observium or the owner of the MySQL database first. 3. Connect to MySQL using - mysql observium (don't include the " - ", that just to separate the description from the command) 4. Check the current contents of "config" table - select * from config; (for those of you unfamiliar with SQL the ";" is absolutely required) 5. For the Google Geolocation APIs to work there should be two entries as below:- | geocoding|direct_url | s:49:"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json"; | | geocoding|reverse_url | s:49:"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json"; | 6. If these are missing or different, then Google API will fail. At this point you either need to insert/update the Google API Endpoint URLs in the table or URLs that are appropriate to the API you want to use. 7. If missing, to enter for Google, do the following in MySQL. You can copy and paste, both lines are required:- insert into config (config_key,config_value) values ('geocoding|direct_url','s:49:"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json";'); insert into config (config_key,config_value) values ('geocoding|reverse_url','s:49:"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json";'); 8. If entries are there, but wrong urls, do:- update config set config_value = 's:49:"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json"' where config_key = 'geocoding|direct_url' or config_key = 'geocoding|reverse_url'; 9. To enter different URLs you will likely have to change the s:49 value at the beginning. The value 49 is the count of characters in the URL between the double quotes, do not include the double quotes in the count. 10. If the URLs for the Geolocation API you want to use are different for direct and reverse lookups, then you will need a slightly different update statement in step 8. 11. I'm not going to tell you how to delete the entries, as this is a bit dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. So you either know anyway or go read up about MySQL and practice on a dummy table first. In any case there should be no reason to delete anything, unless the table is really in a mess. 12. To close MySQL CLI, enter quit or exit or press CTRL-C. 13. Lastly, don't panic if things don't seem to work immediately, for some reason it seemed to take a while for poller.php to start using the new config and this wasn't just the 5 minute delay of the crontab timings. 14. I actually purged all records from the "devices_locations" table to force all locations to be regenerated, but this is not a good idea if you've added manual lat/long coordinates. If your SNMP sysLocation cannot be converted by the Geolocation API and you've purged the locations table, all your "flags" will end up at the default lat/long, assuming you've configured one. Regards Chris Macneill Web: www.cmit.nz

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System Uptime (sysUpTime) OID incorrect for some systems
by Chris Macneill 25 May '19

25 May '19

I'm observing a problem with some systems being reported as having rebooted at odd times, which are completely unrelated to reality. The GUI claims the system uptime is derived from the OID sysUpTime, however I can't find this OID in any MIB, maybe an internal label in Observium? In actuality Observium seems to be using the 1st OID below, but as can be seen from the 2nd OID the two seem totally unrelated. In the case of this particular system, the 2nd OID value is when it was rebooted, the 1st one seems to have no correlation to the reboot time. DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (376806) 1:02:48.06 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemUptime.0 = Timeticks: (13560578) 1 day, 13:40:05.78 Is there anyway to change the OID on a per device basis that is used to display and monitor System Uptime? Observium CE 18.9.9420 (5th September 2018) OS Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 [amd64] (Debian 9 (stretch)) Apache 2.4.25 (Debian) PHP 7.0.33-0+deb9u3 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.13 MySQL 10.1.37-MariaDB-0+deb9u1 (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.6.0 Fping 3.15 (IPv4 and IPv6) Regards Chris Macneill Web: www.cmit.nz

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Maillist Archive Link Broken
by Chris Macneill 24 May '19

24 May '19

The link to the maillist archive on the setup page is currently broken, thus no way to check if something has been asked before. Regards Chris Macneill Web: www.cmit.nz

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PDU current alert problem
by Laszlo Nemeth 22 May '19

22 May '19

Hi all, I am on the latest 9906 version. I have an alarm witch check the PDU's load. The aim is if the load is over 7 (amper) and the bank name is not "Bank total" i would like to get an alarm. I set up this: [cid:part1.62B9BA30.A1603765@emarsys.com] The checked device is an APC 7922: [cid:part2.6337A692.66074698@emarsys.com] And the alert is not alarm me but the load in BANK2 is over the 7 value: [cid:part3.64448580.5E894299@emarsys.com] What i did wrong? Just for a test i did an another alert where is a condiition is the sensor_desc is not contain the Bank part but all listed sensors has a Bank text: [cid:part4.81956E86.52888D2A@emarsys.com] Thanks Laszlo

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Deleting devices and rrd removal
by Joelly, Alexander 21 May '19

21 May '19

Hello, When deleting a device, should the rdd's from that device also be deleted immediately or is this done from housekeeping ? Removed devices yesterday and wondering that the rrd files are still there. Thanks, Alex

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Sorting group results
by Pieter De Wit 21 May '19

21 May '19

Hi, Would it be possible to sort the group display on device name like the main display please ? *Kind Regards,* *Pieter De Wit*

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GUI and Locations listing
by Joelly, Alexander 20 May '19

20 May '19

Hello, In the web gui - devices - locations the entries are sorted by country. The list is longer that can be displayed and some entries cannot be accessed from here - is it possible to make that scrollable? Thanks, Alex

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AUTO DISCOVERY
by HARESH KHANNA 19 May '19

19 May '19

Please guide for auto discovery process from web . Regards Haresh

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Auto Discovery
by HARESH KHANNA 17 May '19

17 May '19

Kindly guide through Auto Discovery via web UI Regards, Haresh Khanna

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Auto Discovery Process
by HARESH KHANNA 17 May '19

17 May '19

Dear Team, Can someone tell me the process to start auto discovery from web based UI Regards, Haresh Khanna

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IPV4 / IPV6 traffic
by Peter Derissen 17 May '19

17 May '19

Hi, Is there a way to show graphs with ipv4 and ipv6 traffic on a specific interface of a juniper router? Kind regards, Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland Network Engineer Safariweg 25-31 +31 (0)6 11587110 3605 MA Maarssen [EF-logo_rood_RGB -handtekening]<http://www.eurofiber.nl/> Volg ons op Twitter<https://twitter.com/Eurofiber> | Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurofiber> | Youtube<https://www.youtube.com/user/Eurofibergroup> ******** 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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Alert Email Wont Change
by Connary, Scott 16 May '19

16 May '19

Good day, When we started using email alerts we had a very simple config. We had the lines for setting default in config.php commented out. And the setting in the webUI for use default on alerts set. So all alerts would go to: alerts(a)mycompany.com. Recently I have been working on updating our environment so that different devices have different contact emails so we can start bugging the device owners more specifically. I have the setting for use default turned off on the webUI. After multiple attempts I am still not able to get emails to follow the syscontact. I even added a new email address to the default email setting in the webUI and it STILL refuses to send to that new email. Is there a place someone else (I did not set the server up) could of hard coded that email? Thank you, Scott Connary

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multipoller
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 16 May '19

16 May '19

hi everyone, i'm testing a configuration distributed, following this publish to do it ( http://blog.best-practice.se/2017/10/scaling-observium-horizontally.html), but i can't do: the pollers can't write into main server. (rrdcached into main server listening on port 42227), the pollers send the info to main server. but main server don't save them. Is correct this? somebody can helpme? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Can anyone see an error in my config.php file
by Dana Bostic 15 May '19

15 May '19

I have Active Directory authentication working for users in the Level = 10 group, but no one in the Level=5 can login. I am trying to create an admin group and a readonly group "basically". All user accounts are in the same OU. I am not sure how much of my configuration to post, so I will start here. $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "cn="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",ou=ServerAdmin,ou=Users,ou=BCPUS,dc=mw,dc=na,dc=cat,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = "cn=BCPUS-Observium_admins,ou=HighSecurity,ou=Groups,ou=BCPUS,dc=mw,dc=na,dc=cat,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "ou=HighSecurity,ou=Groups,ou=BCPUS,dc=mw,dc=na,dc=cat,dc=com"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "fulldn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['cn=BCPUS-Observium_admins,ou=HighSecurity,ou=Groups,ou=BCPUS,dc=mw,dc=na,dc=cat,dc=com']['level'] = 10; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['cn=BCPUS-Observium_access,ou=HighSecurity,ou=Groups,ou=BCPUS,dc=mw,dc=na,dc=cat,dc=com']['level'] = 5; [Telescope Separator] Dana Bostic Technology Specialist Caterpillar Inc. 954 NC 42 East, Clayton, NC 27527 email: bostic_dana_r(a)cat.com<mailto:bostic_dana_r@cat.com> | phone: 919-550-1260 Caterpillar: Confidential Green

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Ssl cert on Observium.org is expired
by Ryan Huff 14 May '19

14 May '19

Just thought I’d let y’all know since some of the maintainers watch this list. The SSL cert on the website expired 5-13-19. Sent from my iPhone

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lmsensors dropped
by Robert Williams 14 May '19

14 May '19

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GUI Question - Gear Symbols
by Gumilar Siegfried MSc. 13 May '19

13 May '19

Hello! I just wanted to know if anyone else is also bothered by these two gear symbols exactly on top of each other: [cid:image001.png@01D509AD.836627C0] It seems I always pick the wrong icon on principle. :) Regards, Siegfried

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Auto Discovery Issue
by HARESH KHANNA 13 May '19

13 May '19

Dear Team, What has to be done for auto discovery of devices. Regards, Haresh Khanna

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SMSBox - Add SMSC
by Jeff Waddell 11 May '19

11 May '19

Can the smsc variable be added to the SMSBox item? - its just another web variable My work around was adding to the username variable $config['smsbox']['user'] = 'ob_user&smsc=serverid' This tells the Kannel server which SMPP Bind to send the message out

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Stop Emails when our internet is down
by Altanshagai Nyamdeleg 09 May '19

09 May '19

Hello Members, Good Afternoon/Evening, We have got a professional license and enjoying Observium product so far. I have a question for you guys all, please! I want to stop monitoring email for temp if our internet is down as we monitor devices in other sites, We get a lot of emails when our internet is down. How do you guys do this? Thank you. Alt

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Auto Discovery
by HARESH KHANNA 09 May '19

09 May '19

How to enable auto discovery

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Unix-agent added to linux storage box but observium excludes it
by Cody Cook 09 May '19

09 May '19

[image: image.png] The unix-agent is excluded for this device but it runs and responds to unix-agent when using telnet. I have tried to manually discover and poll the unix-agent module with their respective php scripts but I still couldn't get any details to happen. Is there an override in the mysql database or an option I can force in config.php to force enable unix-agent at the device level? Thank you, Cody

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Houskeeping question
by Joelly, Alexander 07 May '19

07 May '19

Hello, Currently with multiple distributed and partinioned pollers I only have the poller-wrapper.php process in the 5min schedule on the pollers and the discovery and housekeeping on the rrd-cache server. Is that okay or do I need to run the discovery and housekeeping also on the pollers? I'm asking because I have a device deleted, last rrd file was updated on 25. April and housekeeping settings 'RRD File Max Age' & 'Remove Deleted Ports Age' to 7d - and I actually set 'Remove Deleted Ports Age' to 2d but still have the rrd directory of the deleted device. Thought I would set the pollers 'only' for polling and do the discovery and housekeeping on the rrd server (as it's probably more efficient?) or is it not working that way? Thanks, Alex

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Access Credentials
by HARESH KHANNA 07 May '19

07 May '19

Dear Team, Now i am able to get webpage of my observium server through web but i am not able to login what user & pass shld i use to login. Or i have to create user on server first. Regards, Haresh Khanna

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WEBPAGE ISSUE
by HARESH KHANNA 07 May '19

07 May '19

Hi there, I have installed community version on my centos7 version, when i try to access it through web http://xxx.xx.xx.xx i get testing apache web page. kindly help Regards, Haresh Khanna

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Adjust rrd step size per device
by Steffen Klemer 06 May '19

06 May '19

Hey list, how much work would it be to have an option to adjust the rrd step size per device? Background is that we have a HP/H3C chassis that even with latest firmware takes average 1000s to poll; with fdb already disabled. 98% of the time is spent in the ports module, polling ifEntry and ifxEntry. We'd really like to at least get an hourly graph of the traffic which is better then nothing. The idea is to put this dev into its own group and have a different cron job for it (excluding this group from the default one). We do have a case with HP that is open for 2 years so the 'tell the vendor that their SNMP engine is crap'-part was already done... lg Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: steffen.klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 201 2170 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GWDG - Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen Am Faßberg 11, 37077 Göttingen Service-Hotline: Tel: +49 551 201-1523 E-Mail: support(a)gwdg.de Kontakt: Tel: 0551 201-1510 Fax: 0551 201-2150 E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de WWW: https://www.gwdg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen, Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Zertifiziert nach ISO 9001 ------------------------------------------------------------------

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RRDCached issue - HELP!
by Hamilton, Kent 06 May '19

06 May '19

Starting this weekend rrdcached appears to have stopped working correctly. Has anyone seen an issue with this? We've been using it for a long time and it seems to have broken totally early Sat morning (somewhere around 1 to 2 AM) Running the poller with debug doesn't give me a status any more, and I have hundreds of rrdtool processes being spawned to the point it actually took over most of the disk IO on our NAS on Saturday. /opt/observium# poller.php -h localhost -m system -dd | grep RRD RRDtool 1.7.0 Copyright by Tobias Oetiker <tobi(a)oetiker.ch> RRDCacheD 1.7.0 o RRDtool 1.7.0 (rrdcached 1.7.0: unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock) RRD PIPE OPEN[TRUE] o RRDTool Usage (0s 0%) RRD PIPE CLOSE[TRUE] The host setup is: Ubuntu 18.04 Observium Professional 19.5.9870 PHP Weathermap 0.97b rrdcached 1.7.0-1build1 rrdtool-1.7.0-1build1 PHP 7.2 The rrdcached command line is /usr/bin/rrdcached -B -R -F -L -w 1800 -z 1800 -f 3600 -t 10 -b /opt/observium/rrd -j /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ -G www-data -U www-data -p /var/run/rrdcached.pid -s www-data -m 0660 -l unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock Really need to get this one solved if anyone can offer help. ________________________________ 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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Pollers and RRD files
by Joelly, Alexander 05 May '19

05 May '19

Hi, When using a dedicated rrd caching server - for what is the local /opt/observium/rrd caching folder used for? In our setup we created a dedicated rrd-caching server and several distributed and partitioned pollers and would expect the rrd's are only written/updated on the rrd-caching server and do not need much diskspace on the pollers but it seems the rrd's are also written on the pollers? Is that on purpose (fallback - rrd server unavailable) or what is the need of the rrd's on the pollers when using a rrd-caching server? Thanks, Alex

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Monitor power watts
by Simon Mousey Smith 03 May '19

03 May '19

Hi All, Im trying to find out if the is a way to monitor power watts of our servers? We currently monitor a few HP server, which ALREADY show the power watts, as they have the iLO integrated and the power management chip, so all good there But the is a few which don’t have iLO or the power chips So can i monitor the power watts from within linux or windows at all? Regards Simon - Hestor Ltd

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BGP Neighbor Descriptions
by Richard Savage 02 May '19

02 May '19

Hi We have observium v19.4.9840 (rolling) setup and working great with alerting for BGP sessions going down. For BGP sessions with public AS Numbers this works well as it shows up which AS number and who the AS number is assigned to as gone down: But when its a private AS number with a private IP, its then much harder to distinguish what the BGP neighbor is related to without logging into the router and looking at the neighbor and the neighbor descriptions set against the BGP neighbor: In most routers you can set a description against a BGP neighbor in the config. Is it possible to get this description attached to the BGP neighbor in observium thus then adding it to the alert when the BGP neighbor goes down? This is the config on a Cisco ASR9K for the above neighbor: router bgp 65000 neighbor 100.127.18.181 description USG1-GREE Could this description be pulled and added to the neighbor and thus alert? More than happy to provide some debug if required and any SNMP data that might be helpful. Many Thanks Richard

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Auto Discovery
by Adam R. Koczarski 02 May '19

02 May '19

Hello, I’m new to this group and to Observium. A friend turned me on to it a few weeks ago. I have Observium 19.3.9774 running on Ubuntu 18.04.2LTS. Everything is working great! I’ve added my switches and LLDP and SNMP data is flowing in and all of the cross-references have been established. My question pertains to adding new devices. I can successfully add new devices via the GUI or the CLI as described in the documentation. My friend was telling me he <thinks> devices can be detected and added to the device list automatically via some sort of discovery?? Is this a thing or is he pulling my leg? Thanks! _____________________________ Adam Koczarski P.E., S.E. IT Director Magnusson Klemencic Associates 1301 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3200 Seattle, WA 98101-2699 United States Direct: +1 206 215 8365 Main: +1 206 292 1200 LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/company/magnusson-klemencic-associates> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Magnusson-Klemencic-Associates/2945909072755…> | www.MKA.com<http://www.mka.com/> _____________________________

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