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Gettign SVN timeout error
by Josh Bierman 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Hi All, I am getting an error when I go to update. Server sent unexpected return value (408 Request Timeout) in response to OPTIONS request for 'http://svn.observium.org/svn/observium/trunk' I am looking for suggestions on troubleshooting this. I have tried: Making an outgoing rule on the firewall from my Observium server to http://svn.observium.org. Opening outgoing (and therefore, returning) Ports: 80, 443, 21, 22, 8080, 3690 None of that has made a difference. I can ping the svn server from my Observium machine, I can browse to the web page, my login credentials are correct..... ideas? Joshua Bierman

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regexp based on sysName
by Skyler Blumer 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Is there a way to set regex config based on policy or groups? I'd like to do something like .. if (hostname != "example_host"){ $config['bad_ifalias_regexp'][] = "/^$/"; }

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Tables in the Observium DB
by Eric Kollmann 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

First, I just took over our install of this, wasn't involved in the initial setup of observium and I understand the piece I'm asking about is not part of observium, just uses the data it collects and I want to verify if structure has changed since it was released or if there is something incorrectly setup with our system. I'm looking to build out graphviz maps with the data observium has gathered, specifically using: https://github.com/kedare/observium_map_generator Going through their code, it queries the db for the links table and fails. Looking at the database I have a neighbours table, but not links. Google search I see links table discussed back in 2014, but nothing much recently. So, did the links table go away in newer versions, or is the fact that the table is missing an issue with our setup? If it is supposed to be there and missing, I'll work on figuring that out next, if it did just go away I just want to verify that. Thanks

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Cisco device hardware name not showing after IOS upgrade
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

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Re: [Observium] New install, Alert Checker not triggered
by J Green 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

Hello there: Just built a new system w/ CE version 17.9 on Centos 7.2 . When I create/run the following Alert Check, it shows as 'OK' for my devices: processor_usage greater 90 * * When I go to a device and view graphs, it shows a device w/ 100% CPU utilization No errors in logs/db.log. Is my syntax incorrect? Thank you.

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Juniper SRX system uptime value
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

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Monitoring interface flaps and PSU count
by Edvinas K 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Hello, is it possible to create an checker rule to monitor interface FLAPS and Power PSU count ?

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MIB additions
by Tripp Lite 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Hello, I have some newer Tripp Lite products that I have in my network that utilize two additional MIB's in the software. How can I get these added to the platform? The MIB's are TRIPPLITE.MIB and TRIPPLITE-PRODUCTS.MIB Regards, Eric C.

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Alert on package update
by Simon Mousey Smith 08 Oct '17

08 Oct '17

Hi all Not sure if this is possible or maybe a feature request but here we go Is it possible for observium to email on a package update? A few machines auto update for Plesk and would be nice to be notified when they get updated I can see in observium in the Eventlog of the devices Package updated: plesk-php70-fpm (x86_64) from 7.0.23-centos6.17090111 to 7.0.24 Regards Simon

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Bogus alerts since last CE update
by Musall, Maik 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hi, on Sept 28th I updated one installation to the new CE release (17.9.0). Since then, Observium keeps sending me interface down/up alerts for every single port on every single switch and router, once every day between 11:20 am and 11:35 am (a bunch every 5 minutes). The alerts look like this: They serve to notify me if anyone connects or disconnects something in my absence. That worked well for a year or so, until I did this update. Now I get 114 emails every day at the same time. What could be the cause, and how can I solve that? Maik

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Poller wrapper history stopped working
by Silvio del Val Hinojal 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hello, We have upgraded Observium from CE to Pro version following upgrade document, we are now running 17.9.8859 (stable) version and, since then, global "Poller Wrapper history" stopped working. Now it shows "- nan" in all fields. This is what it shows now: [cid:image002.png@01D33E9A.3B2E1D80] Any hint? Regards, Silvio [cid:image001.png@01D03B1C.E8E96F80]<http://www.pandasecurity.com/spain/> Silvio del Val Systems Engineer - Panda Security +34 944 343 728 silvio.delval(a)pandasecurity.com<mailto:silvio.delval@pandasecurity.com> pandasecurity.com<http://www.pandasecurity.com/> This e-mail contains confidential information owned by Panda Security. Any such copy, or use, or distribution or disclosure of its contents is strictly forbidden. Please notify us immediately at our phone number (+34 94 425 11 00) if you receive this e-mail and are not its consignee, and then delete this message from your system without copying it, distributing it, or disclosing its contents P Before printing this message, please make sure it is really necessary

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Multiple mailing options
by Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager) 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hi all, We have a scenario where we'd like, for certain alerts, to not only send via the default mail settings but also to forward to an external sms portal. This particular portal is fairly simple and works via sending an email to a certain domain with a phone number prefix. We'd need to use different mail settings for this purpose though and I was wondering if someone could think of the best way to do this. I can't really find many examples for the external script or web hook transport methods, and ideally we'd be able to do most of the configuration and filtering directly within observium rather than doing the messaging logic elsewhere. Thanks Andy

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Alarm on VLAN?
by Ryan, Spencer 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hey Guys, Is there any way to write an alert check to alarm if a VLAN is seen on a port (either access or trunk?). We have a few "untrusted" networks that we want to know if they get stuck on a trunk somewhere they shouldn't be. Thanks! Spencer Ryan | Senior Systems Administrator | sryan(a)arbor.net<mailto:sryan@arbor.net> Arbor Networks +1.734.794.5033 (d) | +1.734.846.2053 (m) www.arbornetworks.com<http://www.arbornetworks.com/>

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syslog not working after observium rsyslog server configuration
by Vikas Kumar 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

I have observium CE addition and i recently tried for syslog integration on it as given here http://docs.observium.org/syslog/ I am able to see syslog messages in observium UI but unfortunately my syslog messages of observium machine itself are not getting logged to /var/log/syslog . please some one help me here. These are my configuration files as attached with this post /etc/rsyslog.conf ################# $ModLoad imudp $UDPServerRun 514 module(load="imuxsock") # provides support for local system logging module(load="imklog") # provides kernel logging support #module(load="immark") # provides --MARK-- message capability # provides UDP syslog reception #module(load="imudp") #input(type="imudp" port="514") # provides TCP syslog reception #module(load="imtcp") #input(type="imtcp" port="514") # Enable non-kernel facility klog messages $KLogPermitNonKernelFacility on ########################### #### GLOBAL DIRECTIVES #### ########################### # # Use traditional timestamp format. # To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line. # $ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat # Filter duplicated messages $RepeatedMsgReduction on # # Set the default permissions for all log files. # $FileOwner syslog $FileGroup adm $FileCreateMode 0640 $DirCreateMode 0755 $Umask 0022 $PrivDropToUser syslog $PrivDropToGroup syslog # # Where to place spool and state files # $WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog # # Include all config files in /etc/rsyslog.d/ # $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf $DebugFile /var/log/rsyslogdebug.txt $DebugLevel 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another observium config file is located at /etc/rsyslog.d/30-observium.conf at it contains: #--------------------------------------------------------- #send remote logs to observium template(name="observium" type="string" string="%fromhost-ip%||%syslogfacility%||%syslogpriority%||%syslogseverity%||%syslogtag%||%$year%-%$month%-%$day% %timereported:8:25%||%msg%||%programname%\n") $ModLoad omprog Module (load="imudp") # rsyslog Input Modules input(type="imudp" port="514" ruleset="observium") # rsyslog RuleSets ruleset(name="observium") { action(type="omprog" binary="/opt/observium/syslog.php" template="observium") } *.* stop #--------------------------------------------------------- i have added a new line Module (load="imudp") apart from the original given here at http://docs.observium.org/syslog/ But now when i do tail -f /var/log/syslog i get this : Oct 5 15:45:01 testnet-PC CRON[3000]: (root) CMD ( /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1) Oct 5 15:45:01 testnet-PC CRON[3001]: (root) CMD ( /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 4 >> /dev/null 2>&1) Oct 5 15:47:19 testnet-PC rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.16.0" x-pid="2898" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] exiting on signal 15. and nothing more events are shown here. Please someone help how do i get my usual syslog messages back on observium machine. Thanks Regards, Vikas kumar IIT Bombay India -- <http://moodi.org/> *Vikas Kumar | ** Hospitality & PR Coordinator* *Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay* *+91-9694532954 | mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com <mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com>* [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/vikas.cse.iitb> <https://mailtrack.io/> Sent with Mailtrack <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mailtrack-for-gmail-inbox/ndnaehg…>

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Scaling Observium with distributed pollers
by Markus Klock 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hi guys, I wrote a blogpost on how you can scale Observium to handle ridiculously large deployments, you will find it here: http://blog.best-practice.se/2017/10/scaling-observium-horizontally.html And comments or feedback is most welcome! /Markus

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VPN site-to-site monitoring by name
by Satish Patel 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

I have posted on JIRA http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBS-2438 But just wonder if anyone has any solution for this issue, we have many site-to-site tunnel and in observium its just showing count but it would be good if it shows list of tunnel by name so easy to identify down tunnel and alert.

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Graphs not rendering correctly
by Mal Evans 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Hi all, Seem to be having a problem with the graphs on my new install (CE). See the example below: As you can see there are regular gaps in the display. I am wondering if this might have something to do with a polling cycle etc? not sure where to start investigating so any suggestions are welcome. As far as I can tell every graph shows similar behaviour. Cheers Mal

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p2p radio detection
by Joey Stanford 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Howdy, We noticed not that long ago that Ubiquity devices gained p2p radio detection. Is there any consideration for Ubutiks (Ubiquity RF + Microtik routerboard)? We have a number of these and the device_state array contains the p2p radio info just like the Ubiquity radios do. Discovery put the ubutiks into the network category like a normal mikrotik. We’ve been changing them over by hand to wireless for categorization. Thanks, Joey

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Monitor Exchange 2016
by Juan Carlos Rodriguez 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hello. I am new to observium and I would like to know how can I monitor an exchange 2016 server via WMI?, I can pull regular SNMP data from the server. thanks for your help Juan

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Juniper SRX4200 and transceivers sensors
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 01 Oct '17

01 Oct '17

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Sonus Session Border Controller support
by Ármann Guðjónsson 30 Sep '17

30 Sep '17

Hi Adam Are there any plans to add support for Sonus Session Border Controller ? Best regards Armann

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Feature request: OpenBSD CARP and pf
by Tommy Nevtelen 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Hi there! I would like to request CARP-MIB and PF-MIB support in Observium. Most importantly show if the CARP interfaces are master or backup. So we can get alerted. Maybe show it in the same way as Cisco ASA Active/Passive or some other better suited as you can have an arbitrary amount of CARP interfaces. And then the ability to graph the statistics from PF-MIB. The MIBs for reference: https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/share/snmp Not sure if this is a lot of work or not though, hope some of it is easy enough :) -- Tommy Nevtelen

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Alerts Frequency
by Kris Kirkland 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Is there an option to keep observium from "obsessing" over an alert? I would like to only alert once on failure and once on recovery, not every time it checks. -- Kris Kirkland ~ K5KRK 2B1ASK1 - http://goo.gl/5bU4F0

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Not getting alert in storage alert checker
by vaibhavkholase41＠gmail.com 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Dear Team , We are stucked with observium in one alert checker issue. We have created alert checker rule as per given in your demo site still we are not able to get any storage alert even if we set this at minimum level. Below is the screenshot for alert checker configuration can you please help us it would be very great for us. One more thing is we are exploring community edition, once this is successfully tested then we will use this in our company . Waiting for your response. Thanks In Advance. Thanks & Regards , Vaibhav Kholase Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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Re: [Observium] Not able to check storage status
by Tom Laermans 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Hi, Please reply to the mailing list instead of directly to me. Also, can you make the image a bit smaller still? I can still read it if I really try... Either way, have you selected the correct entity type? * is not matching any entity so I'd assume not. Tom On 27/09/2017 18:31, vaibhavkholase41(a)gmail.com wrote: > > Dear Team , > > PFB Screenshot for same & I am using community edition of observium. > > Also in config.php I have use as it is option which are defined on > your wiki. > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > *From: *Tom Laermans <mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx> > *Sent: *Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:59 PM > *To: *observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > *Subject: *Re: [Observium] Not able to check storage status > > How about you show us what you tried (including screenshots) ? > > Tom > > On 27/09/2017 18:00, vaibhavkholase41(a)gmail.com > <mailto:vaibhavkholase41@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Team , > > Could you please help in how can I get the alert checker for > storage as I tried it with multiple ways but no luck. > > So requesting you to please suggest is there any nee to update my > config.php which is created by following observium docs. > > Thanks You Team In Advance.. > > Reagards , > > Vaibhav Kholase > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> > for Windows 10 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Not able to check storage status
by vaibhavkholase41＠gmail.com 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Hi Team , Could you please help in how can I get the alert checker for storage as I tried it with multiple ways but no luck. So requesting you to please suggest is there any nee to update my config.php which is created by following observium docs. Thanks You Team In Advance.. Reagards , Vaibhav Kholase Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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Preferred MTA?
by Joe Brouillette 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Hey all, I've been trying to get Observium to send alerts to my Exchange server. Wireshark on Exchange shows nothing so I just gave up, looked online and found a post from Adam saying to not use SMTP; he recommended using an MTA instead. Does Observium have a preferred MTA? Any to watch out for? Thanks, Joe Brouillette IT Specialist Link Transit 509.664.7643 jobee(a)linktransit.com<mailto:jobee@linktransit.com> [cid:image001.jpg@01D32E19.765EA2D0]<http://www.letsthinklink.org/> "Help reimagine the future of our transit system."

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Transfer account
by Kacper Czerwonka 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Hello. My company wants to renew our subscriptions. Subscriptions are created on account named by my name, surname don't mention about job email. I'm going to change job in next two months and we need to straight it right. Is there possibility to: - change account name, etc. - or transfer subscriptions to new account - or just create new account and by new subscriptions What options do we have? Kacper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *mgr inż. Kacper Czerwonka* Inspektor Wydział Informatyki 75-007 Koszalin; Rynek Staromiejski 6-7 Tel.: (+48) 94 348 39 50; Fax (+48) 94 348 88 98 @: kacper.czerwonka(a)um.koszalin.pl <mailto:kacper.czerwonka@um.koszalin.p> www.koszalin.pl

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Commit 8852 breaks graphs
by Jesse Defer 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

After updating to 8852 my multi-customoid graphs are broken. Line graphs render but have no devices/data points and stacked graphs return the error image. Rolling back to 8851 shows expected behavior. Jesse

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Adding new device support and collaboration
by 管华 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Hi,Observium Team: I'm a test engineer for Fiberhome, and we currently plan to write files for Fiberhome's network devices in community version software. I was wondering if I could send the files to your team, after you optimized it and added it to later releases to facilitate software upgrades and other user usage. I hope our developers can join you later to develop this software and make it better. About us http://www.fiberhome.com.cn Please reply when you receive it.I'd like to have a talk with you.Thanks… nwos_gh(a)fiberhome.com

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Pandacom DWDM devices
by Andre Geißler 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Hi all Recently we purchased some DWDM devices from Pandacom (SPEED-OTS-5000). Might be interesting for more than us to have them in observium. Is there a way for a non-programmer like me to add those devices? What I can provide are the MIB files. If access to a device is needed for testing I'd like to use my contact at Pandacom Cheers, Andre

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Export Observium Installation
by Chad 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Hey folks, Is there a simple way to export the entire config for the Observium community edition? I'm running the latest 16x version on a dedicated server but would rather switch over to a simplified KVM virtual server. Can someone explain the proper path to accomplish this? Thanks.

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Virtual machines showing lots of duplicates
by Philippe Hurtubise 19 Sep '17

19 Sep '17

Hi, I have 6 ESXi hosts. On one host and only for 1 VM on that host, the VM is showing lots of times in the Virtual machines section. All the others VM on the same host are showing only 1 time. Thanks Philippe Hurtubise Administrateur réseau / Network administrator [Autolog logo Signature] T: 450.434.8389 ext. 354 F: 450.434.8395 1240 Michèle-Bohec, Blainville, QC, Canada J7C 5S4 www.autolog.com<http://www.autolog.com/>

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RRDTool Customisation
by William Hutchins 19 Sep '17

19 Sep '17

Hi All, What could be a silly question - Is there a straightforward switch or option to alter the RRDtool formatting from the default “opposing” format for Upload/Download, to an overlaid format in network traffic graphing? Current opposing format https://ibb.co/kbGcB5 Required Overlaid format https://ibb.co/nGJw4Q I’ve noted the config example in doco, however switching off the opposing view/feature wasn’t immediately clear. Thought I’d ask to see if the devs had a hidden php configuration switch for this, and if not, how others might’ve overcome this? Many thanks, Will

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Issue with Search Function in BGP Sessions
by Gumilar Siegfried 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Hello! I ran into a little issue today. If I am on page two of the BGP session list and search for a remote AS the search always comes up with an empty list. I guess this is caused by the "pageno=2" in the URL: http://x.x.x.x/routing/protocol=bgp/graph=NULL/view=details/pagination=1/pa…... If I remove the pageno=2 section in the URL I get the right result. Regards, Siegfried

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SMS alerts configuration in observium?
by Vikas Kumar 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Dear all, I am trying to configure sms alerts in observium for this my institute has a sms gateway via which i can send messgaes to ant number the API is in this format " http://smsgateway.iitb.ac.in/smsapi/index.php?To=91********&Message=test2 <http://dcmonitor.iitb.ac.in/smsapi/index.php?To=919930547677&Message=test2>" . Now i want to post the notification to this API. So i edited the file /opt/observium/includes/defaults.inc.php as follows: $config['smsbox']['scheme'] = 'http'; // URL scheme, http or https. $config['smsbox']['host'] = 'smsgateway.iitb.ac.in'; // Name of host on which SMSBox is running. $config['smsbox']['port'] = '80'; // Port number on which SMSBox host receives requests. $config['smsbox']['user'] = ''; // SMSBox username. $config['smsbox']['password'] = ''; // SMSBox password. $config['smsbox']['from'] = ''; // Phone number of sender, usually overridden by SMSC. Then i edited the file /opt/observium/includes/alerting/smsbox.inc.php as follows: <?php // Kannel SMSBox documentation: http://kannel.org/download/1.5.0/userguide-1.5.0/userguide.html#AEN4623 $message = $message_tags['ALERT_STATE'] . " " . $message_tags['DEVICE_HOSTNAME'] .": " . $message_tags['ENTITY_NAME'] . "\n" . $message_tags['ALERT_MESSAGE']; $context_data = array ( 'method' => 'GET', 'header' => "Connection: close\r\n" ); $url = sprintf('%s://%s/smsapi/index.php?To=%s&Meassage=%s', $config['smsbox']['scheme'], $config['smsbox']['host'], urlencode($endpoint['phone']),urlencode($message)); $response = get_http_request($url, $context_data); if (strpos($response, "Accepted") || strpos($response, "Queued")) { $notify_status['success'] = TRUE; } else { $notify_status['success'] = FALSE; } unset($message); // EOF But still i am not able to get SMS alerts on my mobile phone. Please note that the SMS gateway has given IP based access to my machine on which observium is runnning so i do not need username and password fileds while posting message to the API. Please help me resolve this issue . Thanks -- <http://moodi.org/> *Vikas Kumar | ** Hospitality & PR Coordinator* *Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay* *+91-9694532954 | mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com <mailvikasnow(a)gmail.com>* [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/vikas.cse.iitb> ‌

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CentOS 7.4?
by William Bauer 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Anyone upgrade their installation from CentOS7.3 to 7.4? I needed that upgrade on other systems due to some patches that wouldn't be released to 7.3. I've had no issues with 7.4, so I'm wondering if anyone has run into Observium related problems with 7.4? It only came out officially in the last few days, so it may be too early to ask.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14
by Patricio Hernan Besteiro 16 Sep '17

16 Sep '17

Hi Community, Is it possible to create an alert checker from data gathered by unix-agent? (observium CE) Kind regards, Patricio Hernan Besteiro Unix Systems Administrator IBM Client Innovation Center - Buenos Aires - Argentina E-mail: besteiro(a)ar.ibm.com From: observium-request(a)observium.org To: observium(a)observium.org Date: 15/09/2017 08:00 Subject: observium Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14 Sent by: "observium" <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__postman.memetic.org_cgi… 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. Edit existing alert (Todd Hank) 2. Re: Edit existing alert (Adam Armstrong) 3. Re: Edit existing alert (Todd Hank) 4. Re: Edit existing alert (Adam Armstrong) 5. Re: Edit existing alert (Todd Hank) 6. Re: Edit existing alert (Adam Armstrong) 7. Re: Devices (Philippe Hurtubise) 8. Re: Geolocation detection improvement (Pico Leto) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:57:57 +0000 From: Todd Hank <Todd.Hank(a)i-car.com> To: 'Observium' <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Edit existing alert Message-ID: <8B4AAF1CA3AA1B478B77F99F2952ECCD25618483(a)HERMES01.i-car.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I am certainly a newbie yet and I am playing around with alerts. I created a couple alerts that I would like to edit. I do not see a way to edit them. Any Advice? Thanks, Todd Hank Senior Network Administrator (920) 749-0444 Ext. 128 Todd.Hank(a)i-car.com STAY CONNECTED: [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ]< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_icare… > [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ] < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.twitter.com_i-5Fca… > [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ] < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.instagram.com_icar… > [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ] < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_compa… > [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ] I-CAR.com< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.i-2Dcar.com&d=DwIGa… > | RTS< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rts.i-2Dcar.com_&d=DwIG… > | Collision Reporter Magazine< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.i-2Dcar.com_collis… > [ https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nebula.i-2Dcar.com_i-2D… ]< https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.i-2Dcar.com&d=DwIG… > ________________________________ This message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential information. Please do not disseminate this message without the permission of the sender. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail, and delete the original message, and all copies, from your system, without reading it. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and may be a violation of applicable laws.

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Geolocation detection improvement
by Mamitzsch,André 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Hello We are constantly running into issues with the geolocation service and the automated detection of the coordinates – people tend to set additional information in the sysLocation which finally cause the geo api’s to fail. I would like to suggest a small format / code change here to make the geo location detection more usable and reliable. SysLocation should be set up in the form: <Business Name / Rack Location> Street No., ZIP Code City, Country The <Business Name / Rack Location> is still stored in observium but ignored when querying the api. --- geolocation.inc.php.org 2017-07-18 22:09:56.994896291 +0200 +++ geolocation.inc.php 2017-07-18 22:09:40.082938507 +0200 @@ -20,9 +20,14 @@ function get_geolocation($address, $geo_db = array(), $dns_only = FALSE) { global $config; + /* $address parsing, allow business names or additional information */ + /* address line should be: <ACME INC> Test Street 42, 823456 Somewhere */ + $address_orig = $address; + $address = preg_replace("/^<?.*>/","",$address); + $ok = FALSE; - $location = array('location' => $address); // Init location array + $location = array('location' => $address_orig); // Init location array $location['location_geoapi'] = strtolower(trim($config['geocoding']['api'])); if (!isset($config['geo_api'][$location['location_geoapi']])) { -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Best regards, André Mamitzsch

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Devices
by Philippe Hurtubise 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Hi, I have 6 VMWare ESXi hosts monitored and when I go in the Devices section under Virtual machines, a lot of them are showing multiple times in the list. Thanks Philippe Hurtubise Administrateur réseau / Network administrator [Autolog logo Signature] T: 450.434.8389 ext. 354 F: 450.434.8395 1240 Michèle-Bohec, Blainville, QC, Canada J7C 5S4 www.autolog.com<http://www.autolog.com/>

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Edit existing alert
by Todd Hank 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

I am certainly a newbie yet and I am playing around with alerts. I created a couple alerts that I would like to edit. I do not see a way to edit them. Any Advice? Thanks, Todd Hank Senior Network Administrator (920) 749-0444 Ext. 128 Todd.Hank(a)i-car.com STAY CONNECTED: [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/01_Facebook.gif]<https://www.facebook.com/icareducation> [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/02_Twitter.gif] <https://www.twitter.com/i_car_education> [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/03_Instagram.gif] <https://www.instagram.com/icar_education> [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/04_LinkedIn.gif] <https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/40619> [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/05_YouTube.gif] I-CAR.com<http://www.i-car.com> | RTS<http://rts.i-car.com/> | Collision Reporter Magazine<https://www.i-car.com/collisionreporter> [http://nebula.i-car.com/i-car/i-car_logo.gif]<https://www.i-car.com> ________________________________ This message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential information. Please do not disseminate this message without the permission of the sender. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail, and delete the original message, and all copies, from your system, without reading it. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited, and may be a violation of applicable laws.

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New error after update to latest SVN (stable branch)
by Shon Elliott 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Hi Observium List, We updated Observium to the latest svn stable branch today. I made sure we had ran the update, so it shows that everything is up to date, including the database. We found that we ran into a snag when adding new users to the system via the web interface. I was able to add the user via the adduser.php script, but it's missing some data. When I went to go edit it, it logged the same error. Here are the excerpts of the errors below, one for adding the user, and one for editing the user added via adduser.php. [Tue Sep 12 14:23:32.609888 2017] [:error] [pid 42518] [client 1.2.3.4:51614] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function hash_equals() in /usr/local/www/observium/html/includes/functions.inc.php on line 313, referer: http://xxx/adduser/ [Tue Sep 12 14:26:36.631482 2017] [:error] [pid 42518] [client 1.2.3.4:10867] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function hash_equals() in /usr/local/www/observium/html/pages/edituser.inc.php on line 125, referer: http://xxx/edituser/user_id=13/ Any ideas? Kind Regards, Shon Elliott, KK6TOO Level 3 IP/Routing/Security Network Engineer [unwired-new-logo] (559) 476-9463 - Cell (559) 261-4444 x 129 - Office (559) 943-1025 - Direct selliott(a)getunwired.com<mailto:selliott@getunwired.com> www.getunwired.com<http://www.getunwired.com/>

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One more for the customOID topic
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

So I also upgraded to the latest and got the autodiscovery on custom OIDs. Didn't have the best effect on my system as it mapped hundreds of individual Isilon nodes to a long range of custom OIDs I had created. So lessons learned / feature requests : - Previously one could pick (one by one or multi select) the devices to be covered in a specific custom OID. THis option seems to have gone now. I'd like that option back, or alternatively be able to somehow filter or group devices. I also use the combined line or stack graphs for certain things and sometime need to show just a group of devices and not all. Right now with the new version I can only show either a single device or all devices as I cannot create custom OID groups and then narrow down what devices to show there. - On systems like Isilon where you may want to both have cluster wide data (so polling the cluster alias) but also monitor each node in the cluster, the lack of the above mentioned filtering/grouping is a problem as currently the custom OID will only work for me if I delete all individual nodes and only monitor the cluster alias. On the other hand, now Servertech Sentry4 devices are better supported, so the net outcome of the upgrade was still positive for me. /Jesper

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Feature idea: custom graphs
by Jesse Defer 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Prior to the recent changes to Custom OIDs (r8738~r8741) we had been abusing the feature to create custom graphs containing multiple hosts. For example we had a graph of emails delivered that combined all of our email servers in one. Now with OID discovery added and manual association removed that graph goes from 20 hosts to 600 and is no longer very useful. I think moving some of the previous functionality of Custom OIDs into it's own Custom Graph feature would be very useful and welcome feedback on the idea. Thanks, Jesse DeFer Arizona State University

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Ports down, but not shown?
by Robert Williams 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Hi all, I've got 12 ports showing as 'Down', both on the main page here... ...and on the menu: However, when you click the link, you don't get any results: (the link goes to: https://observius.cdc.local/ports/state=down/ignore=0/ ) So... How can I find out what/where/how these 12 ports are, so I can 'resolve' them please? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centres https://www.CustodianDC.com

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Delete device from custom mod list
by Simon Mousey Smith 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Hi All Is the is a way to delete a device from a Custom OIDs? I use a custom oid to display hotspot users logged in via mikrotiks at 2 sites, however I’ve just seen the OID page has had an update and is showing ALL(12) of our mikrotik devices? I only want to show 2 of our devices!? Regards Simon

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tp-link uptime
by Simon Mousey Smith 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Hi All Im not sure if its Observium or TP-Link I should be asking really but ill ask in both places? Observium told me, one of our switches rebooted (which seemed odd as nobody can gain physical access to it) I checked observium and that shows an uptime of 16h 20m 30s When I snmpwalk the switch I can see DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (5883922) 16:20:39.22 But the TP-Link web panel shows RunTime: 332 day - 2 hour - 2 min - 39 sec ??? Any suggestions would be helpful :) Regards Simon

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Traffic comparison - "No auth" error message
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

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R8834 breaks rrdtool
by Ron Marosko 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Howdy Guys, Looks like something broke between r8833 and r8834: root@observium:/opt/observium# ./poller.php -h 1198 ___ _ _ / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| Observium Professional 17.9.8834 http://www.observium.org ##### Starting polling run at 2017-09-09 18:08:42 ##### ##### cityhall-3750e.domain[1198] ##### o OS ios o OS Group cisco o Last poll duration 6.91 seconds o Last Polled 2017-09-09 18:08:04 o SNMP Version v2c o Device status Device is reachable by PING (0.89ms) and SNMP (12.38ms) PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function str_replace_first() in /opt/observium/includes/rrdtool.inc.php:485 Stack trace: #0 /opt/observium/includes/rrdtool.inc.php(620): rrdtool_generate_filename('status.rrd', Array) #1 /opt/observium/includes/polling/functions.inc.php(561): rrdtool_update_ng(Array, 'status', Array) #2 /opt/observium/poller.php(172): poll_device(Array, Array) #3 {main} thrown in /opt/observium/includes/rrdtool.inc.php on line 485 Dropping back to r8833, the poll process runs fine. .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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FW: Problem with graphs (-nan)
by Peter Derissen 09 Sep '17

09 Sep '17

Hello, Currently Eurofiber is testing Observium in our live network. So far it runs smooth. We only have 1 problem. The graphs are empty (-nan). My guess its a config.php error but im not sure. I have added a screenshot and the config.php file. Regards, Met vriendelijke groet, Peter Derissen Eurofiber Nederland ******** 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.

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