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Scheduled maintenance - use interface circuits
by Christopher Pole 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

Is it possible to use port_descr_circuit directly for scheduled maintenance? At the moment I have to create a port group consisting of of the two circuit interfaces using port_descr_circuit to schedule circuit maintenance. This feels a bit clunky due to the extra step and results in dozens of port groups containing two interfaces.

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Failed opening required 'Mail/mimePart.php'
by Simon Mousey Smith 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Hi All Erm help please!? Notifications have been working fine for days then suddenly stopped, and I hate to say it I can’t pin point when i stopped getting them :( I have found those when running alert_test.php the following errors PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'Mail/mimePart.php' (include_path='/opt/observium/libs:.:/usr/share/php') in /opt/observium/libs/pear/Mail/mime.php on line 63 Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'Mail/mimePart.php' (include_path='/opt/observium/libs:.:/usr/share/php') in /opt/observium/libs/pear/Mail/mime.php on line 63 Any ideas? I have not changed anything and not even updated the os recently either? Regards Simon

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Email Alerts Broken? Failed opening required 'Mail/mimePart.php'
by Mailing Lists 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Hi All, We just discovered out email alerts have not been sending, and when checking the test_alert.php we see the following error: PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'Mail/mimePart.php' (include_path='/opt/observium/libs:.:/usr/share/php') in /opt/observium/libs/pear/Mail/mime.php on line 63 Changing line 63 in that file to 'pear/Mail/mimePart.php' fixes the issue and the test alerts works again. Has something changed in a recent Observium release that would have broken this include? Anyone else seeing this? Just upgraded to 17.6.8631 and the issue persists. Many Thanks, Tim C

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Re: [Observium] rrd blank graphs
by Patricio Hernan Besteiro 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

just fixed the issue, thanks a lot for your help! Kind regards, Patricio Hernan Besteiro From: observium-request(a)observium.org To: observium(a)observium.org Date: 06/06/2017 08:00 Subject: observium Digest, Vol 83, Issue 6 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 http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Richard Wigzell) 2. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Markus Klock) 3. When next CE version? (Silvio del Val Hinojal) 4. Re: When next CE version? (Adam Armstrong) 5. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Richard Wigzell) 6. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Mike Stupalov) 7. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Richard Wigzell) 8. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Adam Armstrong) 9. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Richard Wigzell) 10. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Adam Armstrong) 11. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Richard Wigzell) 12. rrd blank graphs (Patricio Hernan Besteiro) 13. Re: rrd blank graphs (Adam Armstrong) 14. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Mike Stupalov) 15. Re: Unable to Add Device from Web UI (Adam Armstrong) 16. Re: Unable to pulled data for Processor, Memory and storage. (Idzma Zakaria) 17. Re: Unable to pulled data for Processor, Memory and storage. (Mike Stupalov) 18. Re: Unable to pulled data for Processor, Memory and storage. (Idzma Zakaria) 19. Re: Unable to pulled data for Processor, Memory and storage. (Adam Armstrong) 20. Re: BGP all session : page load >20seconds with 22k sessions (Johann Mallet) 21. Re: BGP all session : page load >20seconds with 22k sessions (Johann Mallet) 22. Re: BGP all session : page load >20seconds with 22k sessions (Mike Stupalov) 23. Re: Unable to pulled data for Processor, Memory and storage. (Mike Stupalov) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 11:41:50 +0000 From: Richard Wigzell <richard.wigzell(a)it.ox.ac.uk> To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Unable to Add Device from Web UI Message-ID: <570E8F2DF73D4B4A91278BC443AD5D361DF86DCE(a)MBX05.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello, I have updated to 17.6.8616 and have the same results. Here is a screenshot as requested. [cid:image001.png@01D2DDF9.1998B880] Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CE9215.D39244B0]<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> Richard Wigzell Networks, Security and Server Specialist IT Services | University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN T: 01865 616282 www.it.ox.ac.uk<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Mike Stupalov Sent: 03 June 2017 14:01 To: Observium <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Unable to Add Device from Web UI Hi, please update to latest rolling (trunk) and check again. Please show add device page screenshot (right after try to add), if you still not able add device from wui. Richard Wigzell wrote: > > Hello, hope someone can help. > > > > We are running 17.5.8587 rolling and we are unable to add a device > using the WebUI, we get ?Could not reach ServerName with given SNMP > parameters using v2c.? > > > > However adding a device from the command line with add_device.php and > the same parameters works fine. Any suggestions welcome. > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > cid:image001.jpg@01CE9215.D39244B0 <https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> > > > > *Richard Wigzell* > Networks, Security and Server Specialist IT Services | University of > Oxford > > 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN > > > *T:* 01865 616282 > www.it.ox.ac.uk<http://www.it.ox.ac.uk> <https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Unable to Add Device from Web UI
by Richard Wigzell 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Hello, hope someone can help. We are running 17.5.8587 rolling and we are unable to add a device using the WebUI, we get "Could not reach ServerName with given SNMP parameters using v2c." However adding a device from the command line with add_device.php and the same parameters works fine. Any suggestions welcome. Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CE9215.D39244B0]<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> Richard Wigzell Networks, Security and Server Specialist IT Services | University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN T: 01865 616282 www.it.ox.ac.uk<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/>

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rrd blank graphs
by Patricio Hernan Besteiro 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Good day for all, I installed observium in red hat 6 and all seems good but graphs are showing no data, rrdtool is working, and and polling script is grabbing data from clients. - rrd directory permissions are 755 , owned by apache - tried to recompile rrdtool - crontab entries are working - recreated db Can you guys help me to troubleshoot? thanks in advance Kind regards, Patricio Hernan Besteiro

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When next CE version?
by Silvio del Val Hinojal 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Hello, When do you think the next Observium CE version will be released ? I know it will be "whenever you think it is ready"...just to know, I would like to test it because we are using current CE version and we would like to see last changes and think about buying it :-) 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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Basic Alerting Question
by TLee 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

I apologize for the 'basicness' of this question - i am very new to the community, but can you please confirm that alerting can only be configured in the suscription/ professional edition? Thanks! TL Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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reoccurring maintenance window
by Richard Wigzell 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hello, Is it possible to schedule a reoccurring maintenance window? Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CE9215.D39244B0]<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> Richard Wigzell Networks, Security and Server Specialist IT Services | University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN T: 01865 616282 www.it.ox.ac.uk<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/>

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Alert E-Mail Output
by Shon Elliott 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hello, Is it possible to adjust the alert e-mail output with which information it contains as well as who it's from? Is it also possible to use a text only shorter format for sending to recipients via services like SMS? Apologies if this has been asked for before. The ML archives aren't working/available and I didn't see this in the Documentation or FAQ anywhere. Kind Regards, Shon Elliott, KK6TOO

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Automatically deleting devices
by Lyndon Labuschagne 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Hi Is there a way of automatically deleting devices after a preset number of days of that device being down Regards Lyndon

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Comment field in alert detail?
by Johann Mallet 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Hello, Do you have plan to integrate an comment field/system in alerting? By example : For indicate why we have muted the alert :-) For the moment, we have Google Sheet, but it's not really pratical... P.S : We can see history for specific alert? In alert detail, we don't find this. Many thank ! Johann

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VyOS IPv6 BGP
by Kris Kirkland 31 May '17

31 May '17

Howdy, I know that the snmp mib for VyOS doesn't support IPv6 BGP peering, but can someone point me in the right direction to getting the that information into observium? -- ---- Kris Kirkland ~ K5KRK 2B1ASK1 - http://goo.gl/5bU4F0

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add_device.php ignoring port numbers - fix
by Brandwatch NOC 31 May '17

31 May '17

Hi All, I recently added a list of devices that were behind the same IP address but each had different ports forwarded for snmp . I couldn't get the ports to be accepted as a variable using the add_device.php, one of my colleagues fixed the script so that it worked . Here's the diff if in case it helps anyone. diff add_device.php add_device.php.orig 1c1 < #!/usr/bin/php -q --- > #!/usr/bin/env php 73d72 < $snmp_port = $add[3]; 75c74 < //$snmp_port = 161; --- > $snmp_port = 161; Version Information *Observium* 17.5.8580 (28th May 2017) *OS* Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 [amd64] (Debian 8.7) *Apache* 2.4.10 (Debian) *PHP* 5.6.29-0+deb8u1 (OPcache: ENABLED) *Python* 2.7.9 *MySQL* 5.5.54-0+deb8u1 (extension: mysqli 5.5.54) *SNMP* NET-SNMP 5.7.2.1 *RRDtool* 1.6.0 Regards, *Kevin Gee* Brandwatch | Network Engineer

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Storage sizes flapping between actual size and 0B after upgrading to latest Pro from CE
by Michael Rohl 31 May '17

31 May '17

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Cisco Memory Polling (CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB change?)
by Mailing Lists 30 May '17

30 May '17

Hi, Noticed that what seems to be all of our Cisco kit is no longer showing memory information in Observium (Running 8562 rolling)? If I look at one example Cisco device properties, the MIBS section looks like this, which suggests CISCO-MEMORY-POOL is suppressed and CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB is enabled. [image: Inline images 1] The SNMP errors sections also looks like htis, suggesting the CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB is timing out: [image: Inline images 2] Device overview page [image: Inline images 3] However for this device, when manually doing an SNMPBULKWALK for ciscoEnhancedMemPoolMIB (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.221) the device doesn't respond to this object, however ciscoMemoryPoolMIB (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.48) returns results. Snippet of poller debug from this device: including: includes/polling/mempools.inc.php ##### Module Start: mempools ##### SQL[SELECT * FROM `mempools` WHERE `device_id` = '17'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00047684s] o Module time 0.0008s ##### device [17] completed poller modules at 2017-05-30 09:36:56 ##### On a different Cisco platform ciscoEnhancedMemPoolMIB (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.221) does return results from a manual walk, but Observium still doesn't show any memory objects in the device overview [image: Inline images 4] Second device MIB properties [image: Inline images 5] Snippet of poller debug from this second device: including: includes/polling/mempools.inc.php ##### Module Start: mempools ##### SQL[SELECT * FROM `mempools` WHERE `device_id` = '13'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00047684s] o Module time 0.0008s ##### device [13] completed poller modules at 2017-05-30 09:36:56 ##### Happy to provide full poller debugs directly so as to not share with the full list. Not sure if the issue is to do with the change in 8390? [FIX] Correctly suppress cisco-memory-pool-mib on devices where CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB is populated It's almost like the logic is backwards and the devices with enhanced Mempool support have the enhanced MIB disabled and devices without enhanced support have the enhanced MIB enabled? Any thoughts? Not sure if anyone else is seeing this? Thanks

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Alerts checks on Custom OID
by Canto José 30 May '17

30 May '17

Hello, I implemented some custom OID (gauge), is it possible to define also Alertchecks on a custom OID? Thanks in advanced Best regards José

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Alert checker and observium agent
by Vittorio Manfredini 30 May '17

30 May '17

I setup correctly the linux agent on our mail server to use postfix qshape. The graph are generated correctly, but I would like to generate an alert when the queue parameter, received by the agent, it's greater than 100. How can I do that ? Thanks in advance. Vittorio Manfredini Reparto IT <mailto:g.gigli@admiralclub.it> v.manfredini(a)admiralclub.it ALLSTAR SRL Via J.Kravogl, 2 I-39100 Bolzano Tel: +39 0471 098973 Fax: +39 0471 098900 La presente comunicazione (ed eventuali allegati) puo' contenere informazioni di carattere estremamente riservato e confidenziale ed e' riservata esclusivamente ai destinatari. Qualsiasi suo utilizzo, comunicazione o diffusione non autorizzata e' proibita. Se ha ricevuto questa comunicazione per errore, la preghiamo di darne immediata comunicazione al mittente e di cancellare tutte le informazioni erroneamente acquisite. Qualsivoglia utilizzo non autorizzato del contenuto di questo messaggio espone il responsabile alle relative conseguenze civili e penali. (Rif. D.Lgs. 196/2003). Grazie This message and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information and are intended only for use by the addressees. Any use, re-transmission or dissemination not authorized of it is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please inform the sender immediately and delete all the material. Any unauthorized use of the content of this message is strictly forbidden and the person responsible may incur penalties. (Rif. D.Lgs. 196/2003). Thank you.

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[ASK] add simple queue to observium
by Andry Nata wijaya 29 May '17

29 May '17

Dear all, can anyone add graph simple queue Mikrotik in observium? My observium version : 0.16.11.8249 Best regards, Andry

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device_status metric
by Ricardo Franco Cantero 29 May '17

29 May '17

Hi, I have a checker set up like this: device_status = 0 This gives an alert when the device is down. Unfortunately it gives lots of false positives, so perhaps I do not understand good enough how this checker checks if the connection is down or not ? What exactly does it check to see if the device is down? Kind regards, Ricardo Franco

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Sudden Burst's in Traffic
by Afzaal Shabbir 27 May '17

27 May '17

Dear ALL, I am at version 0.16.11.8249 professional, this was working fine until recently, it is showing IPv4 traffic in GB's for some devices occasionally. Whilst other days it behaves normally. Please note this is Mikrotik router which we are monitoring. Please find attached graph. Any clue apart from updating to latest version which i will do latter after testing, is highly appreciated. Thanks, Afzaal

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Device off line
by Fred Sharpsteen 26 May '17

26 May '17

Is there a way to make a sound or play a tune when there is a device is offline in Observium.

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500 error when rebuilding alert checkers
by Jay Christopher 24 May '17

24 May '17

Hey everyone, I'm in the middle of standing up a new observium box and running into an issue where I create an alert checker for port errors. After creating the new checker, I click on rebuild and then get an HTTP 500 error. Attached is a screenshot of the configuration of the alert checker. I'm running 17.5.8561 (rolling) but did occur in a previous release and was hoping that upgrading would fix it but did not. -- Jay

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Poller count
by Jay Hanke 24 May '17

24 May '17

I'm frequently running out of memory on a 4 GB VM running CentOS7. The vm only runs Observium. I'm seeing a bunch of php /opt/observium/poller.php processes getting created and the box gradually runs out of memory and mariadb dies. I'm running version 8485. Any ideas? Thanks! Jay

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function rrdtool_lastupdate
by yan flou 24 May '17

24 May '17

hi all, i have a question, can you please tell me what function rrdtool_lastupdate in (rrdtool.inc.php) makes, because i ty to integrate a new backend "opentsdb" for observium for the moment i retrive the data and the metric by rrdtool_update and i send him in to opentsdb but i need also the tags because the index aren't clear for example this is what i have for mempools put net.mempool 1495461482 404979712.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=used-host-resources-mib-6 put net.mempool 1495461482 7845933056.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=free-host-resources-mib-6 put net.mempool 1495461482 2097152.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=used-host-resources-mib-10 put net.mempool 1495461482 1071636480.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=free-host-resources-mib-10 put net.mempool 1495461542 8063819776.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=used-host-resources-mib-3 put net.mempool 1495461542 1260826624.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=free-host-resources-mib-3 but me i wante to have this put net.mempool 1495468562 8075042816.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=used-Virtual-memory put net.mempool 1495468562 1249603584.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=free-Virtual-memory put net.mempool 1495468562 410640384.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=used-Memory-buffers put net.mempool 1495468562 7840272384.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=free-Memory-buffers put net.mempool 1495468562 2097152.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=used-Swap-space put net.mempool 1495468562 1071636480.000000 hostname=localhost ifIndex=free-Swap-space can you help me please. ________________________________ yan flou

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Re: [Observium] Exclusion in "poller.php -h all"
by davide.magni＠sorint.it 23 May '17

23 May '17

Thank you for your help. Is there a way to have a more frequent polling or is not possible at all? *Davide Magni* Il 05/22/2017 10:59 PM, Tom Laermans ha scritto: > Hi Davide, > > Sorry to have mailed you in private, just saw it, meant to go to the > list... > > Yes, you won't have more accurate graphs when you run a poller every > minute, RRD will only store a single sample every 5 minutes. I thought > we had some docs on that, but I can't seem to find them right now :o > > Tom > > On 22/05/2017 14:19, davide.magni(a)sorint.it wrote: >> >> Yes I think that when the CPU is too high on the appliances they go >> in the state of "down", but if it's a problem to use 10 minutes >> interval, i'm going to use 5. >> >> I'm using 1 minute interval for some other appliances because i need >> more accurate graphs, is that a problem too? >> >> Thank you >> >> *Davide Magni* >> >> Il 05/22/2017 12:36 PM, Tom Laermans ha scritto: >>> >>> Hi Davide, >>> >>> This is currently not possible. >>> >>> Why do you need this specific cron job? Are the appliances too slow >>> to finish within 5 minutes? >>> >>> Things like our RRD storage are geared towards 5 min polling, >>> running the job every 10 minutes will give you other issues instead... >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> >>> On 05/22/2017 11:31 AM, Davide Magni wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I have a question about the "poller.php -h all" added in crontab, >>>> to run every 5 minutes. >>>> >>>> I need to install a cronjob for son specific appliances, to run >>>> every 10 minutes: >>>> >>>>> */10 * * * * /app/observium/poller.php -h 48 >>>>> */10 * * * * /app/observium/poller.php -h 49 >>>>> */10 * * * * /app/observium/poller.php -h 50 >>>> Is it possible to exclude this specific appliances from the "-h >>>> all" option? >>>> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *Davide Magni* >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> observium mailing list >>>> observium(a)observium.org >>>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> >> >

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Exclusion in "poller.php -h all"
by Davide Magni 22 May '17

22 May '17

Hi, I have a question about the "poller.php -h all" added in crontab, to run every 5 minutes. I need to install a cronjob for son specific appliances, to run every 10 minutes: > */10 * * * * /app/observium/poller.php -h 48 > */10 * * * * /app/observium/poller.php -h 49 > */10 * * * * /app/observium/poller.php -h 50 Is it possible to exclude this specific appliances from the "-h all" option? Thank you. -- *Davide Magni*

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RealTime traffic view problem
by Richard Wigzell 19 May '17

19 May '17

Hello, we are running 17.5.8545 rolling and the Real time traffic graph is not working with the following error: "Can't get data about port (port id)" regardless of port id. This was previously working for all ports and now is not. [cid:image001.png@01D2D0A1.09D5BC00] We are also seeing the following errors in db.log when loading the page with the graph. [2017/05/19 12:54:44 +0100] index.php(3222): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'pagpGroupIfIndex' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `ports` WHERE `pagpGroupIfIndex` = '10114' and `device_id` = '12' [2017/05/19 12:56:44 +0100] index.php(3222): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'pagpGroupIfIndex' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `ports` WHERE `pagpGroupIfIndex` = '10114' and `device_id` = '12' [2017/05/19 12:57:44 +0100] index.php(16550): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'pagpGroupIfIndex' in 'field list'), Query: SELECT `pagpGroupIfIndex` FROM `ports` WHERE `device_id` = '25' GROUP BY `pagpGroupIfIndex` [2017/05/19 12:57:58 +0100] index.php(3222): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'pagpGroupIfIndex' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `ports` WHERE `pagpGroupIfIndex` = '10114' and `device_id` = '12' [2017/05/19 13:00:42 +0100] index.php(9137): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'pagpGroupIfIndex' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `ports` WHERE `pagpGroupIfIndex` = '10114' and `device_id` = '12' [2017/05/19 13:02:56 +0100] index.php(16122): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'pagpGroupIfIndex' in 'field list'), Query: SELECT `pagpGroupIfIndex` FROM `ports` WHERE `device_id` = '25' GROUP BY `pagpGroupIfIndex` Some help with fault finding this would be appreciated. Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CE9215.D39244B0]<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/> Richard Wigzell Networks, Security and Server Specialist IT Services | University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN T: 01865 616282 www.it.ox.ac.uk<https://www.it.ox.ac.uk/>

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[RFE] - Ability to sort BGP sessions per type / uptime / updates
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 18 May '17

18 May '17

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Temperature sensors
by Justin Miller 15 May '17

15 May '17

I’ve got a lot of equipment outside and as the weather flips from cool to hot to cool to hot I get a lot of alerts. I’ve got swings from 30 to 55 c. Is there a way to widen the auto generated limits across all system temperature oids? I tried adjusting the alert test conditions using arithmetic but I do not think it’s implemented. I tried this: sensor_value greater (@sensor_limit*1.25) sensor_value less (@sensor_limit_low*0.75) Justin

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Changing IP scheme
by Jason Vanlandingham 14 May '17

14 May '17

I'm about to change the IP addresses of the Observium server and all network devices. Do I need to do anything other than change the hosts file? (Not running DNS)

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95th percentile line wrong
by Tony Lill 13 May '17

13 May '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm using CE 0.16.10.8128, and I've noticed the the 95th percentile line is way too high on my graphs. As in, higher than the max value. In perusing the code, I noticed that it was based on in and out BITS, whereas everything else is based on OCTETS. Changing the definition to use inoctets and outoctets fixes this. - -- Tony Lill, OCT, ajlill(a)AJLC.Waterloo.ON.CA President, A. J. Lill Consultants (519) 650 0660 539 Grand Valley Dr., Cambridge, Ont. N3H 2S2 (519) 241 2461 - --------------- http://www.ajlc.waterloo.on.ca/ ---------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlkXUUoACgkQGS8yZq1uvxDHRwCbBQ41zE1medgwEpVV8tc+Vq9Y ka0An3eGRjD9t3scAmBm4I7vdZZJmiJH =eKWF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Stuck alerts for sensors and statuses
by Robert Williams 12 May '17

12 May '17

Hi, Following a series of device upgrades and reloads over the last couple of days; we now have some 'invisible' stuck alerts: I cannot seem to find them anywhere, clicking them produces a blank list and even if you click the "Total" column. In this example I clicked the number "605" under Statuses but I get a page which only shows 595 items - so 10 missing, which equals the number of phantom alerts exactly. We had this once before and it was to do with devices, which are set to 'Ignore' for their alerts. We have 42 devices like this (a mixture of Lab and workstations) which unfortunately, would be a very large amount of manual checking. So I'm hoping there is a better way and I'm just missing it? :) So - any idea how I can find/reset/clear these items? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0
by Oberreiter Andreas 04 May '17

04 May '17

Snmpget -v 1 -c public portail.nadlinger.at .1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0 Should answer SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag von Mike Stupalov Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Mai 2017 10:00 An: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> Betreff: Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0 Hi, can you privide temporary snmp access to this device? I will do this faster :) Oberreiter Andreas wrote: > I've added print_message lines to see if my code is called. > > When I try another device e.g. a zyxel device I can see my code is executed. > > But when I try the device in question the discovery code isn't executed. > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag von > Mike Stupalov > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2017 17:21 > An: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> > Betreff: Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0 > > This device also not have sysDescr.0 too? > > You also should add os detecting file (from > $config['os'][$os]['discovery_os']): > includes/discovery/os/messpc.inc.php > > with content like this: > > <?php > > if (!$os) > { > // SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" > $data = snmp_get($device, '.1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0', '-Osqnv'); > if (strlen($data)) > { > $os = 'messpc'; > } > } > > // EOF > > And better os name: messpc-env > > Oberreiter Andreas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The Device is from http://www.messpc.de >> >> I've tried to add the following lines to >> includes/definitions/os.inc.php // MessPC $os = "messpc"; >> $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "MessPC Etherbox"; >> $config['os'][$os]['vendor'] = "MessPC"; >> $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "environment"; >> $config['os'][$os]['discovery_os'] = "messpc"; >> $config['os'][$os]['snmpable'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0"; >> $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "ETHERBOX-MIB"; >> >> I've put the ETHERBIX-MIB file in mibs/messpc/ETHERBOX-MIB >> >> and restarted the Webserver. Then I tried to add the device again no change. >> >> I can do a snmpwalk -v 1 -c public IP .1.3.6.1.4.1.14848 >> >> The result of >> snmpget -v 1 -c public 172.30.7.2 .1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0 is >> SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" >> >> What did I wrong? >> I'm on the latest commercial Version 17.4.8476 >> >> Kind Regards >> Andreas >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag >> von Mike Stupalov >> Gesendet: Freitag, 28. April 2017 15:02 >> An: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> >> Betreff: Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0 >> >> Hi, >> >> seems as another china/indian device? ;) >> >> For valid device adding required one of this OIDs to be exist on device: >> sysObjectID.0 or sysUpTime.0 >> >> If both OIDs not exist for device, use 'snmpable' os param. >> See example for os 'hikvision-cam': >> >> $os = "hikvision-cam"; >> $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Hikvision Network Camera"; >> $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "video"; >> $config['os'][$os]['vendor'] = "Hikvision"; >> $config['os'][$os]['discovery_os'] = "hikvision"; >> $config['os'][$os]['snmpable'][] = >> ".1.3.6.1.4.1.39165.1.1.0"; // This device complete not have >> sysObjectID.0 or sysUpTime.0 >> $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "HIK-DEVICE-MIB"; >> >> >> Oberreiter Andreas wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I have a device which doesn't provide the SysObjectId.0. >>> It start right away with the Enterprise entry's: >>> SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" >>> >>> Is there a way to add such an device? The values I'm interested in are in the enterprise part of the mib and could be easily retreated by a custom OID. >>> >>> But without an SysObjectId it seems impossible to add a device. >>> >>> Any Suggestions? >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Andras >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > -- > Mike Stupalov > Observium Limited, http://observium.org > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0
by Oberreiter Andreas 04 May '17

04 May '17

I've added print_message lines to see if my code is called. When I try another device e.g. a zyxel device I can see my code is executed. But when I try the device in question the discovery code isn't executed. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag von Mike Stupalov Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2017 17:21 An: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> Betreff: Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0 This device also not have sysDescr.0 too? You also should add os detecting file (from $config['os'][$os]['discovery_os']): includes/discovery/os/messpc.inc.php with content like this: <?php if (!$os) { // SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" $data = snmp_get($device, '.1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0', '-Osqnv'); if (strlen($data)) { $os = 'messpc'; } } // EOF And better os name: messpc-env Oberreiter Andreas wrote: > Hi, > > The Device is from http://www.messpc.de > > I've tried to add the following lines to > includes/definitions/os.inc.php // MessPC $os = "messpc"; > $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "MessPC Etherbox"; > $config['os'][$os]['vendor'] = "MessPC"; > $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "environment"; > $config['os'][$os]['discovery_os'] = "messpc"; > $config['os'][$os]['snmpable'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0"; > $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "ETHERBOX-MIB"; > > I've put the ETHERBIX-MIB file in mibs/messpc/ETHERBOX-MIB > > and restarted the Webserver. Then I tried to add the device again no change. > > I can do a snmpwalk -v 1 -c public IP .1.3.6.1.4.1.14848 > > The result of > snmpget -v 1 -c public 172.30.7.2 .1.3.6.1.4.1.14848.2.1.1.1.0 is > SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" > > What did I wrong? > I'm on the latest commercial Version 17.4.8476 > > Kind Regards > Andreas > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Im Auftrag von > Mike Stupalov > Gesendet: Freitag, 28. April 2017 15:02 > An: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> > Betreff: Re: [Observium] SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0 > > Hi, > > seems as another china/indian device? ;) > > For valid device adding required one of this OIDs to be exist on device: > sysObjectID.0 or sysUpTime.0 > > If both OIDs not exist for device, use 'snmpable' os param. > See example for os 'hikvision-cam': > > $os = "hikvision-cam"; > $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Hikvision Network Camera"; > $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "video"; > $config['os'][$os]['vendor'] = "Hikvision"; > $config['os'][$os]['discovery_os'] = "hikvision"; > $config['os'][$os]['snmpable'][] = > ".1.3.6.1.4.1.39165.1.1.0"; // This device complete not have > sysObjectID.0 or sysUpTime.0 > $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "HIK-DEVICE-MIB"; > > > Oberreiter Andreas wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have a device which doesn't provide the SysObjectId.0. >> It start right away with the Enterprise entry's: >> SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" >> >> Is there a way to add such an device? The values I'm interested in are in the enterprise part of the mib and could be easily retreated by a custom OID. >> >> But without an SysObjectId it seems impossible to add a device. >> >> Any Suggestions? >> >> Kind regards >> Andras >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > -- Mike Stupalov Observium Limited, http://observium.org _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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SNMP Device without sysObjectId.0
by Oberreiter Andreas 03 May '17

03 May '17

Hi All, I have a device which doesn't provide the SysObjectId.0. It start right away with the Enterprise entry's: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.14848.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Version 1.62" Is there a way to add such an device? The values I'm interested in are in the enterprise part of the mib and could be easily retreated by a custom OID. But without an SysObjectId it seems impossible to add a device. Any Suggestions? Kind regards Andras

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