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group and alert
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

hi, how i can create an alert based on a group? (associate group-alert) is possible? or i do an alert and a group ? -- Saluda cordialmente

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Disabling arp-table discovery module
by Klimek, Denis 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Hi all, I would like to globally disable the arp-table discovery module. I already tried $config['poller_modules']['arp-table'] = FALSE; in config, but this is for the "poller modules" and not discovery modules. In the global discovery module web gui section there is no option for it. Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: 040 / 521 04 - 1049 Mobil: 0151 / 652 219 06 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/>

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SNMP + Ping Alerting
by David Ross 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Hello! I would like to setup an alert-checker that would send a notification only if a device is not reachable via both SNMP and ICMP. Is there documentation that explains specifically how to do this? Thanks! *David W. Ross, Sr.* Sr. Network Engineer 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor San Francisco, California 94105 415.589.4930 - O 415.926.3483 - C david.ross(a)salesforce.com <http://smart.salesforce.com/sig/david.ross//us_mb/default/link.html>

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Minor issue with data obtained vs displayed.
by Ron Marosko 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Howdy Adam et al., Just a minor issue that I've noticed. I'm doing WMI polling of my Windoze boxen, and it's generally working well. The information is getting fetched properly, and being displayed properly. However, I've got a few instances where I see the wmi component of the poller is fetching information properly (case in point my personal workstation): ##### Module Start: wmi ##### WMI Poller: Windows version updated: 10 Pro Insider Preview (10.0.17692) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5680 @ 3.33GHz o Module time 5.3163s But when I view the device overview page, I get the normal non-WMI indication of "Unknown Processor Type". Pointers on where to look? SQL db? Thanks, Ron -- Ron Marosko, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCIE No. 4526 (R/S), NN5DX Senior Network Engineer RJR Services, Inc. 1108 West Dickinson Blvd, Suite A Fort Stockton, TX 79735 USA o: +1 432 336 5600 x115 c: +1 432 290 6344 e: <mailto:ron@rjr-services.com> ron(a)rjr-services.com pgp pubkey: <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x778B3B0258AB8B5C> 0x58AB8B5C "To know me is to fly with me." -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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Alerting on Bandwidth
by Joey Stanford 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Hi Gang, I’m hoping someone can point me to the best answer for this… I can’t use network weathermap on my Observium server. I do need to monitoring available bandwidth on ports. Many ports on many of the 100 routers have different available bandwidths (e.g. our shot from one mountain to another might have a 100M ifspeed but due to the 30 mile link the actual throughput is 15M). I have some ideas: 1) use alerts to specify the router and port which is cumbersome (using ifInOctets_rate and ifOutOctets_rate) 2) query SQL directly and write a program to parse and display 3) Something I haven’t tested, just use the generic rule I have written and modify the ifspeed on the appropriate ports to what the actual bandwidth is. Any suggestions? Thanks, Joey

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Re: [Observium] mikrotik bgp monitor
by Mike Stupalov 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Hi, you should address this question to Mikrotik.. My answer is - when here will be BGP4-MIB in list: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:SNMP#Management_information_base_.28M… > Farshid Abediny <mailto:farshidabediny@gmail.com> > 24 June 2018 at 08:02 > Hello, > i want know when does observium want support mikrotik bgp session > monitoring ? > we have lot mikrotik routers and we need to monitor bgp session with > observium > thank you. > _______________________________________________ > 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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mikrotik bgp monitor
by Farshid Abediny 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Hello, i want know when does observium want support mikrotik bgp session monitoring ? we have lot mikrotik routers and we need to monitor bgp session with observium thank you.

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function not found
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Hi, I'm searching a MAC address on FDB Tables, but i can't view more results (like pages) -- Saluda cordialmente

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APC PDU values
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Not sure when this started (2 weeks ago?), but my APC PDUs (model AP8641) are alerting sensors on several banks. I checked the output values on the PDU and they are correctly reported BOTH on the PDU and in Observium. The issue lies at what Observium thinks the thresholds should be set to. On the PDU the thresholds are correct (16 warn and 20 max). But Observium is reporting the thresholds as 1.6 and 2 [cid:image001.png@01D40879.39B4EB10] Doing a discovery debug on the device I see this... [cid:image003.jpg@01D40879.D14D5C00] I feel that the SCALE value is being wrongly applied to several of the values, namely: rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.1 rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.2 rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.3 rPDU2BankStatusCurrent.4 rPDU2PhaseStatusCurrent.1 rPDU2PhaseStatusCurrent.2 Regards, derek

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Unable to create Device type alert checkers
by Neal, Christopher 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hello, We are suddenly unable to create new alert checkers for the device type in our observium instance. When the checker is created and we rebuild no machines are associated to the alert checker. We have a previous device up/down alert checker in place that still works but we are unable to add new devices to it. Other checkers such as storage can be created and seem to work fine. Any help would be appreciated. Best, Chris

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Cisco ASA IPSEC tunnels
by Christian Eriksson 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hi, Is it possible to have alerting for IPSEC tunnels? Could not find any entities for it Regards Christian

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Poller
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hi. How i can do poller manualy to a device from web? or an entire location

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Python Version Upgrade
by Mike Hyslop 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Hi All. Are there any negative effects of upgrading python 2.7 to 3.5 from an observium viewpoint, I can see it's in use with the poller-wrapper.py Thanks in advance Mike.

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WSL FTW
by Rob VanHooren 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

well how about that. obs runs within the ubuntu of WSL. wouldn’t recommend anything full-blown on it, but perhaps good for demos and the like. me@win10pc:~$ uname -a Linux win10pc 4.4.0-17134-Microsoft #112-Microsoft Thu Jun 07 22:57:00 PST 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (ref. url https://s15.postimg.cc/kzduf9lij/Screen_Shot_2018-06-19_at_20.40.11.png )

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/opt/observium/mibs/DO NOT MODIFY THE CONTENTS OF THIS DIRECTORY breaks my AIDE config
by Hamilton, Kent 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Any chance we could get this changed to "DO_NOT_MODIFY_THE_CONTENTS_OF_THIS_DIRECTORY" instead? It breaks our Ubuntu AIDE config and I haven't found a workaround for it not being an AIDE expert. I've tried sed'ing it out in the Debian auto-configlet (/etc/aide/aide.conf.d/31_aide_observium) but that ends up breaking more things. -- [exegy-wrb-121x52] S. Kent Hamilton Senior Systems Administrator 349 Marshall Ave,. Suite 100 St. Louis, MO 63119 US Phone: +1 314-218-3558 Mobile: +1 636-634-1549 Email: KHamilton(a)Exegy.COM ________________________________ 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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Troubleshoot/Debug Geolocation?
by Mailing Lists 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Hi Guys, Is there a way to troubleshoot/debug the geolocation system? I thought we were using Google, and it reports that's what is configured, but it seems like in reality the lookups are using Yahoo? Perhaps the Google query is failing due to an issue with the API key, but how could I check this? I couldn't see anything obvious in the normal poller or discovery debugs for geolocation? Screenshot from a device that makes me thing something isn't working Thanks, Tim C

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Re: [Observium] LDP Neighbors, Syslog rules severity and program matching
by Mike Stupalov 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi, currently not possible select syslog alert rules by program and/or severity, but we are working on this ability. > Jason Neighbors <mailto:jneighbors@servpac.com> > 10 May 2018 at 08:38 > Hi, > > We've been running r9073 (2018-03) for a month now and it has turned > out to be a great addition to our environment. > > I was wondering if there are any plans to add support for MPLS LDP > neighbor info in the routing pages? That is something we wouldn't > mind paying a bit for. > > Also, regarding syslog rules, my rules to alert on message matches > work great but I couldn't find mention in the doc examples of matching > on severity or program name. Is it possible? > > Thank you. > > --- > Jason Neighbors > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Observium Upgrade process stuck
by Andrey Gorodetzky 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hello Guys, I'm trying to upgrade (for a second time now) the Observium Community Edition server 14.2 to latest and the progress get stuck on the following for nearly 8 hours now. Followed those instructions: http://docs.observium.org/updating/#upgrade-to-latest-major-release Is there something that can be done here? Should we try to upgrade one version in a time (even if its possible)? Thanks ahead. [image: image.png] *Best Regards,* *Andrey Gorodetzky | TechOps Engineer* *Tel: +972 54 446 5202* *Mail: andrey(a)cloudshare.com <andrey(a)cloudshare.com>* [image: Capture] <http://www.cloudshare.com>

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Group Editor Interface
by Robert Williams 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi all, It may have been there for some time (as this is not frequently modified) but I've found that the group membership editor (Devices->Groups) doesn't seem to recognise historic rulesets which we have for some of our groups. Image below: In this example, the group matches servers with specific combinations of Distro and Version. Interestingly, the group actually continues to work just fine! The only issue is that I cannot make any changes to it with the graphical editor. I've had to update it in the DB (specifically changing one of the version numbers) for Debian, and it continues to show the desired results once the group is rebuilt. >From what I can see, the 'device.distro' and 'device.distro_ver' which we are using, are no longer valid items under 'device' in the GUI. Also, I don't "think" that any of the options there are an appropriate equivalent for this (Operating System is different I believe; and there is no numeric 'version' at all). This I presume is why the editor doesn't know how to handle these existing rules. Is this a quick fix, or the entrance to a rabbit hole? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centres https://www.CustodianDC.com

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Linux server RRDs-port info after server reboot gets messy
by Edvinas K 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hello, We started to use Observium for Linux server. So far everything was good, but after reboot of Linux server some ports swaped the data and show incorrect values. Is there any prevention to this ? on the server we're using net-snmp-utils

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LACP Member Monitoring/Speed Mismatch Alert Suggestion
by Klimek, Denis 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hi all, i would like ask all of you if someone knows a good solution how to trigger a speed mismatch against the configured link speed. I give you an example: Bundle-Ether1 has a port description of "Core: device [40Gbit] {abc} (notes)". So the bundle should have 40Gbit and I want now to create an alert to trigger a speed mismatch if a member goes down, then Bundle-Ether1 will report its updated speed i.e. 30Gbit and this should be compared and trigger somehow. Mit freundlichem Gruß Stadtwerke Norderstedt Denis Klimek Professional Network Engineer IP-Systemtechnik Tel: 040 / 521 04 - 1049 Mobil: 0151 / 652 219 06 dklimek(a)stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<mailto:dklimek@stadtwerke-norderstedt.de> www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de<http://www.stadtwerke-norderstedt.de/>

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cannot update custom location
by Rowlands Mark 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

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Re: [Observium] Cisco Live US
by ron＠rjr-services.com 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

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Cisco Live US
by Markus Klock 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

Hi guys! Are any of you Observians(?) present at Cisco Live US, Orlando this week? Anyone interested in doing a meetup, maybe talk about how you use Observium, discuss feature whishlist? Or something like that? /Markus

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new version 18.5.9221
by Jacek.Dabrowski＠selgros.pl 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

Hello, I updated the observation to version 18.5.9221 (10th May 2018), all works only do not show graphics, what is wrong? [cid:image001.jpg@01D3FF65.417C47C0] Regards, Jacek Dąbrowski

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No pages after loging in
by Roland Hill 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

Hi list, Simple problem statement, as per the subject, I get no pages once I log into Observium. More Background. I'm running CE 17.9 edition and have done sucessfully since it's release. I have however update my OS to Ubuntu 18.04 and PHP-7.2. In searching I saw http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-2537 and assume my CE issue is a PHP7.2 related one. Is there anyway I can confirm this is a PHP7.2 issue? This is just on my home network (because I can), so nothing urgent and if the fix is "wait until the next release" then I'm good with that. -- Regards, Roland PGP Key 0xDA39319B = BCF0 1214 BAE9 5A3D 46FC 21A6 360D 9398 DA39 319B

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Create a shortcut to a live graph?
by Joe Brouillette 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Hey all, is there a way to create a shortcut to a live graph in Observium? I've used the "Link to Graph" button but that just creates a static picture of what's going on. I'd like to create a web page with graphs for my manager but those graphs need to display live data. Thanks, Joe Brouillette IT Specialist Link Transit 509.664.7643 jobee(a)linktransit.com<mailto:jobee@linktransit.com>

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unsubscribe
by Pavelas Sokolovas 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

unsubscribe Pavelas Sokolovas Custodian Data Centres https://www.CustodianDC.com

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Cisco ASR9k Optical Levels
by Richard Savage 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Hi Its seems as though Cisco in their wisdom have changed how the power levels are reported for optical SFP’s and they now by default report in mW and not dBm on the ASR9k platform. When observium SNMP’s them its pulling the mW values now and thus its throwing the sensor values off and creating alerts. Can observium be made to change these back to dBm readings using a simple calculation and pull the thresholds as well as before? Calculation: P(dBm) = 10 ⋅ log10( P(mW) / 1mW) This is whats seen on the CLI for the exact same port: Thresholds: Alarm High Warning High Warning Low Alarm Low Temperature: +95.000 C +90.000 C -20.000 C -25.000 C Voltage: 3.800 Volt 3.700 Volt 2.900 Volt 2.800 Volt Bias: 90.000 mAmps 80.000 mAmps 3.000 mAmps 2.000 mAmps Transmit Power: 1.59000 mW (2.01397 dBm) 1.26000 mW (1.00371 dBm) 0.20000 mW (-6.98970 dBm) 0.16000 mW (-7.95880 dBm) Receive Power: 1.26000 mW (1.00371 dBm) 1.00000 mW (0.00000 dBm) 0.01260 mW (-18.99629 dBm) 0.01000 mW (-20.00000 dBm) Temperature: 30.434 Voltage: 3.264 Volt Tx Bias: 33.722 mAmps Tx Power: 0.53550 mW (-2.71241 dBm) Rx Power: 0.22890 mW (-6.40354 dBm) Many Thanks Richard

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Info API
by Giuseppe 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi, on Observium Free, is it possible to export or import .json files or settings into .json files via the API? -- *Giuseppe Tripi**Technical Manager & Voip Engineer WishNetworks s.r.l Piazza Stazione 60, 90044 Carini - PA - Italy Fisso: +39 0918668741 Fax: +39 0919865393* *giuseppe.tripi(a)wishnet.it <mailto:giuseppe.tripi@wishnet.it> _www.wishnet.it_ <http:www.wishnet.it> *

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Alerting association changes
by Adam Armstrong 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi Guys, I've just committed some changes to extend the new rule parsing to alerting. At the moment we're just testing it, so it doesn't do an automatic migration (and there's no editing interface yet!) If you're using alerting (and are running the current version, not stable or CE), you can go to /migrate_alerts/ on your Observium installation to see if the rules will work properly when we make the change for real. Nothing will be changed at this point, we just generate the new rules and make sure their outcome matches what's in the database. If you get any errors, send me a screenshot of the page with the queries visible so we can fix it! Oh, and make sure you do an alerting rebuild first! Thanks, adam.

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Re: [Observium] Monitoring Windows Services
by Adam Armstrong 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hi, It doesn't. We don't do any monitoring of "services" on windows at all. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Rodriguez, Edson" <Edson.Rodriguez(a)sno.wednet.edu> To: "Observium" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 2018-05-31 18:36:54 Subject: Re: [Observium] Monitoring Windows Services >Thanks for the info. Hopefully this works for actual windows services >like DHCP, server service, and others. > > > >Edson > > > >From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> On Behalf Of Simon >Mousey Smith >Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 3:21 AM >To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> >Subject: Re: [Observium] Monitoring Windows Services > > > >Hi, > > > >This PDF works to get extra WMI info out of a windows server like CPU, >Name, HDD name > > > >http://jira.observium.org/secure/attachment/11319/WMIPoller-011013-1429-4.p… > >But standard SNMP seems to do the trick as its get other info like >network, cpu, memory, logged in, etc… > > > >Regards > > > >Simon > > > >>On 29 May 2018, at 19:27, Rodriguez, Edson >><Edson.Rodriguez(a)sno.wednet.edu> wrote: >> >> >> >>Any information about monitoring applications or windows services >>through SNMP, WMI or any other means through observium? >> >> >> >>We’re using the latest, subscription version of observium. >> >> >> >>Thanks! >> >> >> >>Edson >> >> >> >>Edson Rodriguez | SNOHOMISH SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 201 >>Technology Infrastructure, Network Supervisor >> >>Office: 360.563.7273 Helpdesk: 360.563.7275 >> >>www.sno.wednet.edu | Edson.Rodriguez(a)sno.wednet.edu >> >><image001.png> >> >><image002.png> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>observium mailing list >>observium(a)observium.org >>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > >

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Re: [Observium] Observium notification spam
by Mike Stupalov 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hi, Notification emails not have any duplicated headers. Any duplicates could be added by your intermediate MTAs. > Ricardo Franco Cantero <mailto:r.francocantero@tsp-bombeeck.nl> > 31 May 2018 at 16:10 > Hi, > > Our notifications (mail) aren't coming through anymore. > Our mailprovider is using Spam Experts and they're saying: > X-SpamExperts-Evidence: Bad header count. > ------------ > Emails should never contain duplicate headers such as "*Subject*" or > "*To*". In case such duplicate headers are found, the message will be > rejected until the underlying bug is fixed in the email sending software. > ----------- > What is the best thing we / you can do about this? > > Kind regards, > > Ricardo > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Monitoring Windows Services
by Rodriguez, Edson 31 May '18

31 May '18

Any information about monitoring applications or windows services through SNMP, WMI or any other means through observium? We're using the latest, subscription version of observium. Thanks! Edson Edson Rodriguez | SNOHOMISH SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 201 Technology Infrastructure, Network Supervisor Office: 360.563.7273 Helpdesk: 360.563.7275 www.sno.wednet.edu<http://www.sno.wednet.edu/> | Edson.Rodriguez(a)sno.wednet.edu<mailto:Edson.Rodriguez@sno.wednet.edu> [cid:image001.png@01D35D35.E766F310] [cid:image002.png@01D0A751.EBBA0250]

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FS.COM FMT chassis full support
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 31 May '18

31 May '18

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Observium notification spam
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hi, Our notifications (mail) aren't coming through anymore. Our mailprovider is using Spam Experts and they're saying: X-SpamExperts-Evidence: Bad header count. ------------ Emails should never contain duplicate headers such as "Subject" or "To". In case such duplicate headers are found, the message will be rejected until the underlying bug is fixed in the email sending software. ----------- What is the best thing we / you can do about this? Kind regards, Ricardo

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Oracle E-SBC support
by Johnathon Voegeli 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hey guys, Does anyone here monitor an Oracle (AcmePacket) Session Border controller? I see it’s slightly supported, but does not support the ap-SIP function with SNMP. I am trying to get a custom OID to monitor a sip endpoint at least basic monitoring, but was curious if any one had any luck with anything more? I can manually add each OID for SIP Agent status, but it’s a manual process each time we add a customer/endpoint to each cluster and of course only provides a 1, 2, 3. I have it setup to alert on anything other than 3. Thanks in Advance! ~JV

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ASR1k subinterface
by Mirditor Kuçaj 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hello Does anybody has the issue about incorrect traffic pooling on subinterfaces over portchannel. The device is Cisco ASR1001-X. Earlier with subinterfaces on TE interface it was ok. [root@obs-55 observium]# php poller.php -h 262 --//-- +---------+--------------------+------------------+--------+----------+----- -----+---------+----------+--------+---------+----+ | ifIndex | Label | Type | Speed | BPS In | BPS Out | Data In | Data Out | PPS In | PPS Out | HC | +---------+--------------------+------------------+--------+----------+----- -----+---------+----------+--------+---------+----+ | 15 | Po1 | Virtual/Internal | 20Gbps | 10.7Gbps | 10.5Gbps | 284GB | 279GB | 1.6M | 1.58M | Y | | 16 | Po1.6 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 3.28kbps | 378bps | 91.3kB | 10.5kB | 2.98 | 43.8m | Y | | 17 | Po1.21 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 592kbps | 406bps | 16.1MB | 11.3kB | 650 | 0.8 | Y | | 18 | Po1.23 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 20.8Mbps | 2.19kbps | 565MB | 60.8kB | 15.1k | 4.26 | Y | | 19 | Po1.24 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 4.77Mbps | 5.23kbps | 129MB | 145kB | 4.26k | 10.1 | Y | | 20 | Po1.25 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 3.19Mbps | 2.66kbps | 86.7MB | 74kB | 2.45k | 5.2 | Y | | 21 | Po1.27 | L2 VLAN (802.1Q) | 20Gbps | 28Mbps | 4.24kbps | 761MB | 117kB | 8.72k | 8.14 | Y | Thx

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file that controls alarm output
by Mark Carter 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hi, what file controls alarm output? I have alarms going into a "Slack" channel and want to format them so they take up less lines. Currently an Alarm takes up 7 lines. Thank you Arthur

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Cisco 3750 Temperature
by Storer, Darren 29 May '18

29 May '18

Here's an odd one... Temperature is reported correctly by many models of Cisco catalyst devices but on one of the Observium nodes there are two 3750 switches with different behaviour. The 3750 with IOS 15 is okay and reports temperature but an older 3750 under IOS 12 doesn't return temperature, even though I feel sure that it did a few years ago. Observium version: 18.5.9244 (24th May 2018) Has anyone else observed this behaviour? Update: Just checked an old 2960, still on IOS 12 and found that it doesn't display temperature but a 2960 with IOS 15 is okay. Any advice gratefully received. Thanks Darren

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(no subject)
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hi, What would be the best way to create an alert on reboot? For example after a power outage? Would that be an alert checker with up_time less than 20 minutes? Or a syslog alert with /rebooted/ ? Kind regards, Ricardo Franco Cantero

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Observium CE 17.9.8859 LDAP authentication issue
by Jean-Francois Allain 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hello everybody, I did an upgrade of Observium recently from version 14.4.5229 to version 17.9.8859 and I have authentication issue with LDAP now. I was wondering if Observium CE 17.9.8859 was compatible with the following version of PHP LDAP module : php7.0-ldap Thanks in advance, -- *Jean-François Allain*

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Exclude device from geolocation
by Christian Eriksson 28 May '18

28 May '18

Hi, Is it possible to exclude a device from being targeted by the geolocation settings? In my case, I am polling a Cisco ASA security context and both physical devices in the HA cluster are on two different locations /Christian

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BGP polling inside VRF
by Jan Horacek 25 May '18

25 May '18

Hi guys, I`m not sure if this question was already answered or not, but I was asked to do research how Observium could monitor BGP peers inside the VRFs to alert us if any peer flaps or is down. I can set up alert notification based on the syslog, but this module is sending emails only and doesn`t show notification on the main dashboard. Do you have any idea if would be possible support snmp-context for every BGP peers in observium? Using SNMPv3 on all routers or how to display alerts on the dashboard based on syslog policy? Thanks Jan

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[Question] Problem Alert Mails
by San Rollheiser 24 May '18

24 May '18

Hi guys, sorry for bother you, but have a question about the email configuration. After the update a few versions back work fine the alerts by email. But now not work, only work my integration with Slack, but i need the email alerts. My configuration is this: config.php // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['email']['default'] = "alarmas(a)tinitix.com"; $config['email']['from'] = "Alarmas <alarmas@tinitix>"; $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; /include/defaults.inc.php // Mailer backend Settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Enable/Disable email globally $config['email']['from'] = TRUE; // Mail from. Default: "Observium" <observium@`hostname`> $config['email']['default'] = TRUE; // Default alert recipient $config['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; // Only use default recipient (all alerts send to default recipient) $config['email']['graphs'] = TRUE; // Allow graphs in mail body $config['email']['backend'] = 'smtp'; // Mail backend. Allowed: "mail" (PHP's built-in), "sendmail", "smtp". // sendmail backend specific options $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; // The location of the sendmail program. // smtp backend specific options $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'my_ip_smtp_server'; // Outgoing SMTP server name. $config['email']['smtp_port'] = '465'; // The port to connect. $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = '60'; // SMTP connection timeout in seconds. $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = 'ssl'; // Enable encryption. Use 'tls' or 'ssl' $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = TRUE; // Whether or not to use SMTP authentication. $config['email']['smtp_username'] = 'soporte(a)tinitix.com'; // SMTP username. Thx. BR Santiago

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Pulling VTI interface descriptions from a Centos 7 based router
by Ben Maschke 24 May '18

24 May '18

Hi guys, is there a way to pull interface descriptions from a Centos 7 based router? It's based on vti interfaces and the alias parameter: ip link set vti10 up mtu 1400 alias "test name" Observium only pulls the interface IP - and has ignored the description so far Thank you very much in advance -- *Ben Maschke* Senior System Engineer *Shazam* 26-28 Hammersmith Grove, London, W6 7HA Please consider the environment before printing this document Shazam Entertainment Limited is incorporated in England and Wales under company number 3998831 and its registered office is at 26-28 Hammersmith Grove, London W6 7HA.

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Re: [Observium] Location of a switch
by Adam Armstrong 23 May '18

23 May '18

Hi, We expect a street address in the location field (or more specifically a location field that can be parsed by whatever geolocation service is used). You can put coordinates directly into sysLocation inside square brackets like : http://docs.observium.org/config_options/#reverse-geocoding To quickly repoll the basic device data when testing you can do ./poller.php -h <hostname/device_id> -m system adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Thomas Peters" <TPeters(a)mcts.org> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 2018-05-22 21:41:48 Subject: [Observium] Location of a switch >I have installed Observium CE on CentOS 7.4 and am trying to get a >handle on the question of location for devices. > > > >I have 7 locations, all within the same city. I put in a default >location in the configuration, by longitude and latitude. Sure enough, >there’s a green checkmark on the map right where my main building is. > > > >For Nagios purposes, we have location codes that consist of the >company, site (may be omitted) building, and room. So you might find >something like mcts-ad-sr (admin building, server room) or >mcts-brg-1flidf (Bridge Street Garage, 1st floor IDF.) So far, I am >using the same arbitrary codes for Observium, in the SNMP “location” on >the switch. > > > >I was hoping to use these sort of codes to precisely locate a switch >for the humans that use Observium, while hoping there was already a >table built into the tool to translate the codes to map coordinates. > > > >I don’t know enough about the SNMP “location” code to understand if I’m >using it correctly. We have always just treated it as a free-text >locator code, usable only by my IT department. > > > >Does Observium expect to see a street address in there? I tried that; >doesn’t seem to work. I don’t have an API key for the geocoding, and it >probably won’t work anyhow, since all these devices have non-routable >10.x.x.x addresses, which geocoding can’t make sense of. > > > >Any help appreciated- > >Thanks. > > > > > > > >Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator | tpeters(a)mcts.org >Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk(a)mcts.org > >Milwaukee County Transit System <http://www.ridemcts.com/> > > > >1942 N 17th Street | Milwaukee, WI 53205 > >Check us out on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/mcts> & Twitter ><https://twitter.com/RideMCTS> > > >

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Now What? / Most busy ports?
by Thomas Peters 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hello all. Just installed Observium CE on CentOS 7.4 and am tinkering with it. It graphs, it discovers devices via CDP/XDP, it's really cool. Now what do I do with it? I know, I know, I should have had a destination in mind before I took to the road. But the program looked so cool that I installed it just to see what it could do. One question I would really like to have it answer for me is this: I have some period slow-downs on my network. Can I get Observium to show me the busiest ports on a switch, so I can track down the culprit (if it's due to traffic?) I've been prowling the interwebs for my information. That was a helpful method of getting information to install it and make it work, and comb out some of the early bugs, but I'm finding it harder to locate hints on how to rally exploit this excellent resource to make my network better/faster/stronger/able to leap tall packets in a single bound. Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator | tpeters(a)mcts.org<mailto:tpeters@mcts.org> Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk(a)mcts.org<mailto:helpdesk@mcts.org> Milwaukee County Transit System <http://www.ridemcts.com/> 1942 N 17th Street | Milwaukee, WI 53205 Check us out on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mcts> & Twitter <https://twitter.com/RideMCTS>

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Location of a switch
by Thomas Peters 22 May '18

22 May '18

I have installed Observium CE on CentOS 7.4 and am trying to get a handle on the question of location for devices. I have 7 locations, all within the same city. I put in a default location in the configuration, by longitude and latitude. Sure enough, there's a green checkmark on the map right where my main building is. For Nagios purposes, we have location codes that consist of the company, site (may be omitted) building, and room. So you might find something like mcts-ad-sr (admin building, server room) or mcts-brg-1flidf (Bridge Street Garage, 1st floor IDF.) So far, I am using the same arbitrary codes for Observium, in the SNMP "location" on the switch. I was hoping to use these sort of codes to precisely locate a switch for the humans that use Observium, while hoping there was already a table built into the tool to translate the codes to map coordinates. I don't know enough about the SNMP "location" code to understand if I'm using it correctly. We have always just treated it as a free-text locator code, usable only by my IT department. Does Observium expect to see a street address in there? I tried that; doesn't seem to work. I don't have an API key for the geocoding, and it probably won't work anyhow, since all these devices have non-routable 10.x.x.x addresses, which geocoding can't make sense of. Any help appreciated- Thanks. Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator | tpeters(a)mcts.org<mailto:tpeters@mcts.org> Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk(a)mcts.org<mailto:helpdesk@mcts.org> Milwaukee County Transit System <http://www.ridemcts.com/> 1942 N 17th Street | Milwaukee, WI 53205 Check us out on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/mcts> & Twitter <https://twitter.com/RideMCTS>

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Scaling Observium
by Christian Eriksson 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hi, Anyone tried this? Will anything like this ever be officially supported? http://blog.best-practice.se/2017/10/scaling-observium-horizontally.html I rather have a single point of management for all my customers, if possible /Christian

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