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Custom OID
by Canto José 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

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

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Minor graph problems
by William Bauer 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Ever since I moved our installation from CentOS6 with PHP 5.6 to CentOS7 (7.3) with PHP 7.0, I've noticed that the MRTG, "Graph Maximum" and "Graph Trend" menu items don't do anything. All of them used to work great. Is this enough information to signal to anyone what particular PHP package or PHP configuration entry might have been missed? I'm hoping the combination of these three is a smoking gun that signals "X is missing". Thanks.

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Simple service checks?
by Mark Boyce 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Hi All Very new to observium, so please forgive me if this is a silly question :-) In order to migrate away from nagios we also want to be able to track non-snmp values. For example; - Response time of web sites (is response correct, if so report response time) - SSL Certificate (is cert ok, if so report number of days left) … and similar Very easily scriptable checks, I just can’t work out what to do with them. Ideally I’d like to create a device that doesn’t respond to SNMP checks but gets data from a local script. Is this achievable or am I completely misusing Observium? Simply trying to get everything monitoring from one place :-) Mark

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Export Graph as CSV or Excel file
by Sophanith Chhom 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Dear All, May I know if Observium already had a feature to export as CSV/Excel file from the graph? Thanks,

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 80, Issue 9
by Don Maker 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

"643m means 0.643 Adam." Thank you for the response, Adam. That makes sense, but numbers like 291.59m do not. Should I just assume that anything with an m is less than zero? On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:00 AM, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: question regarding traffic accounting (Adam Armstrong) > 2. Re: question regarding traffic accounting (Michael) > 3. Re: question regarding traffic accounting (Adam Armstrong) > 4. Re: question regarding traffic accounting (Ross [Eve IT]) > 5. Re: question regarding traffic accounting (Adam Armstrong) > 6. Re: question regarding traffic accounting (Adam Armstrong) > 7. Re: Windows Processor Numbers are Odd (Max Krabbenhöft) > 8. SVN Update doesn't seem to update observium (Lorenzo Zafra) > 9. Re: Windows Processor Numbers are Odd (Adam Armstrong) > 10. Re: SVN Update doesn't seem to update observium (Adam Armstrong) > 11. Re: question regarding traffic accounting (Ross [Eve IT]) > 12. Re: question regarding traffic accounting (Ross [Eve IT]) > 13. Help with monitor Tomcat Traffic without Apache (Michael) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 12:06:39 +0000 > From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > To: Observium Public Support <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] question regarding traffic accounting > Message-ID: <9574d4e3-a350-4a31-9469-9d255671a64e(a)typeapp.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > It has to be large to keep the c*nt per square mile density the same as in > normal countries... > > ... > > :D > > ⁣Sent from BlueMail > > On 8 Mar 2017, 10:36, at 10:36, "Ross [Eve IT]" <ross(a)eve-it.net> wrote: > >Thanks for the response, > >It is virtual, we did actually vmotion a few hosts to this server > >including > >the Observium machine. > > > >But I've checked the hypervisor, and its clock is good. > >Also uses NTP, same as the other Hypervisors. > > > >Although good point, I've actually been thinking about that exact same > >thing for logging purposes. UTC across the board as we also span a few > >timezones, Australia is large! > > > > > >On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Michael <obslist(a)smarsz.com> wrote: > > > >> It's very odd as there's no timezone of UTC+21. > >> > >> Your Observium instance isn't virtual is it? We've encountered > >problems > >> with guests set to obtain their time from the local clock and (on > >ESXi > >> hypervisors) have a massive time jump when vmotioned to a new host as > >they > >> grab their time from that clock. Any inconsistencies between the > >> hypervisors will throw your guests clock big time. All of a sudden, > >your > >> guest has jumped +10 hours (and ntpd will often wet its pants and > >refuse to > >> correct such a huge offset)... > >> > >> We had a similar problem to above when one hypervisor was set to our > >local > >> time (+10/11, same as you) when it was supposed to be set to UTC. In > >our > >> case, we run all of our clocks deliberately in UTC to preserve > >logging > >> integrity etc (you never get duplicated log times during the daylight > >> savings shift). > >> > >> Might not be your issue, but it may help somebody else (and worth > >keeping > >> in mind)! > >> > >> Michael > >> > >> > >> > >> > On 8 Mar 2017, at 8:55 pm, Ross [Eve IT] <ross(a)eve-it.net> wrote: > >> > > >> > Looks correct > >> > > >> > mysql> SELECT TIMEDIFF(NOW(), UTC_TIMESTAMP); > >> > +--------------------------------+ > >> > | TIMEDIFF(NOW(), UTC_TIMESTAMP) | > >> > +--------------------------------+ > >> > | 11:00:00 | > >> > +--------------------------------+ > >> > 1 row in set (0.00 sec) > >> > > >> > mysql> > >> > > >> > mysql> SELECT @@global.time_zone, @@session.time_zone; > >> > +--------------------+---------------------+ > >> > | @@global.time_zone | @@session.time_zone | > >> > +--------------------+---------------------+ > >> > | SYSTEM | SYSTEM | > >> > +--------------------+---------------------+ > >> > 1 row in set (0.00 sec) > >> > > >> > mysql> > >> > > >> > # date > >> > Wednesday 8 March 20:55:17 AEDT 2017 > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:32 PM, Simon Schmitz <schmitz(a)eseven.de> > >wrote: > >> > MySQL Time ? > >> > > >> > Am 08.03.2017 um 15:31 schrieb Ross [Eve IT] <ross(a)eve-it.net>: > >> > > >> >> Tried all that, still no go. > >> >> > >> >> I've set PHP to the right timezone. > >> >> NTP is set and running on all our servers. > >> >> > >> >> Any other ideas ? > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Sophanith Chhom < > >> sophanith.chhom(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Try to use single quote? eg: > >> >> > >> >> date.timezone = 'Australia/Melbourne' > >> >> > >> >> Then restart httpd service > >> >> > >> >> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Ross [Eve IT] <ross(a)eve-it.net> > >wrote: > >> >> Hi Sam, > >> >> thanks for responding. > >> >> however I already have that set correctly. > >> >> > >> >> [Date] > >> >> ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions > >> >> ; http://php.net/date.timezone > >> >> date.timezone = Australia/Melbourne > >> >> > >> >> any other ideas ? > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Sam Hernandez-gill < > >> Sam.Hernandez-gill(a)qvc.com> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> I think that’s usually the php.ini timezone setting when the > >filtered > >> time doesn’t match, check out what you have set there, and match your > >> system’s timezone and restart apache > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf > >Of > >> Ross [Eve IT] > >> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 1:19 AM > >> >> To: observium(a)observium.org > >> >> Subject: [Observium] question regarding traffic accounting > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Hello all, > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> I'm using traffic accounting for multiple interfaces and have > >noticed a > >> strange occurrence. > >> >> > >> >> The graphs seem to be be producing the wrong time in the graphs. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> See attached; > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> If you notice the top right corner, 2017/03/08 03:15:04 > >> >> > >> >> It's Tues 7th here 5:15pm. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> The server clock is synced NTP. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Is there something I've missed here ? > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Observium 17.3.8420 (rolling) > >> >> > >> >> Debian Wheezy. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Ross. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> ---------------------------- > >> >> This message (including any attachments) contains confidential > >> information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is > >> protected by law. 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SVN Update doesn't seem to update observium
by Lorenzo Zafra 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Hello All, I submitted a patch and it was commited in r8368, but when I run svn update to r8428 I dont get any of the changes. Anyone know whats wrong? We are running the subscription edition, if that matters. I checked to see if I would get the patch when creating a new copy of observium through [svn co ... ] and yes it worked fine. -- [image: Edmonton_sig_RGB_S.jpg] Lorenzo Zafra COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING STUDENT ENGINEERING & MAINTENANCE CITY OPERATIONS | EDMONTON TRANSIT 7 <(780)%20442-5021>80-944-0419 OFFICE 7 <(780)%20668-1302>80-885-3696 MOBILE l <matthew.dyck(a)edmonton.ca>orenzo.zafra(a)edmonton.ca City of Edmonton D.L. MacDonald Transit Yards ROW Building 13304 - 50A Street Edmonton AB T5A 4P6 All information contained in this email post is proprietary to the City of Edmonton, confidential and intended only for the addressed recipient. If you have received this post in error, please disregard the contents, inform the sender of the misdirection, and remove it from your system. The copying, dissemination or distribution of this email, if misdirected, is strictly prohibited.

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question regarding traffic accounting
by Ross [Eve IT] 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hello all, I'm using traffic accounting for multiple interfaces and have noticed a strange occurrence. The graphs seem to be be producing the wrong time in the graphs. See attached; [image: Inline image 1] If you notice the top right corner, 2017/03/08 03:15:04 It's Tues 7th here 5:15pm. The server clock is synced NTP. Is there something I've missed here ? Observium 17.3.8420 (rolling) Debian Wheezy. Ross.

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Logs for LDAP
by David Haché 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hi, I have been using observium for a while and I am pleased with it. Now when I try to integrate LDAP, I can't find the logs to troubleshoot. I activated LDAP and it connect correctly, the query looks good but no go. Log from my LDAP server [06/Mar/2017:16:41:55.102124385 -0500] conn=255138 op=1 SRCH base="cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=domain,dc=com" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixaccount)(uid=dave))" attrs=ALL Does anyone have suggestion how to activate the loggin for ldap on the PHP / NGINX / Observium side? Thanks. Dave

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Windows Processor Numbers Seem Odd.
by Don Maker 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

"643m means 0.643 Adam." Thank you for the response, Adam. That makes sense, but numbers like 291.59m do not. Should I just assume that anything with an m is less than zero?

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Help with monitor Tomcat Traffic without Apache
by Michael 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

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Windows Processor Numbers are Odd
by Don Maker 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

I got observium working almost exactly how I want it, but I have an issue with Windows cpu numbers. The graph looks fine (I think), but the numbers are weird. The max numbers look like a percentage, but the now and Avg show odd things like 640.5m I have no idea what that means. Also, the processor is never identified properly. I would happily change to wmi for Windows devices, but I'm not sure how that is done, or if it is stable. Does anyone have any suggestions or experiences with wmi and observium? Thanks!

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Discovery creating & deleting inventory entries
by Lorenzo Zafra 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Hi All, When I run discovery.php on our Nokia 7210 Service Access Switch (Alcatel-Lucent TiMOS) it creates and deletes inventory entries and the valid entries are found at the bottom of the page. See screenshot below. Are these deleted automatically after some time? I found that there is an inventory.inc.php file for the housekeeping script, but it is not included in the options when running housekeeping.php. Does this mean that inventory.inc.php is deprecated? To delete them, I just edited the script myself and ran it. Thanks! -- [image: Edmonton_sig_RGB_S.jpg] Lorenzo Zafra COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING STUDENT ENGINEERING & MAINTENANCE CITY OPERATIONS | EDMONTON TRANSIT 7 <(780)%20442-5021>80-944-0419 OFFICE 7 <(780)%20668-1302>80-885-3696 MOBILE l <matthew.dyck(a)edmonton.ca>orenzo.zafra(a)edmonton.ca City of Edmonton D.L. MacDonald Transit Yards ROW Building 13304 - 50A Street Edmonton AB T5A 4P6 All information contained in this email post is proprietary to the City of Edmonton, confidential and intended only for the addressed recipient. If you have received this post in error, please disregard the contents, inform the sender of the misdirection, and remove it from your system. The copying, dissemination or distribution of this email, if misdirected, is strictly prohibited.

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Event LOG ignore
by Alexandre J. Correa (Onda) 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Hello, Thre´s a way to ignore/filter some event log like this (flooding, in this case): 8h 30m 57s GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 -> 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 14h 30m 37s GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 -> 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 4d 14h 30m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 -> 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 4d 20h 30m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 -> 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 5d 20h 30m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 -> 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 7d 8h 31m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 -> 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 7d 20h 31m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 -> 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 8d 2h 30m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 -> 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 8d 8h 30m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 -> 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 8d 14h 31m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 -> 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 8d 20h 30m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 -> 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 9d 8h 30m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 -> 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 10d 8h 31m GE0/0/5 MAC changed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 00:0c:29:51:1e:76 -> 00:0c:29:9f:26:47 .... .... some servers share same loopback address (dns anycast). regars, -- Fwd: a *Alexandre Jeronimo Correa* / CEO _alexandre(a)onda.net.br <mailto:alexandre@onda.net.br>_ / Office +55 34 3351 - 3077 *ONDA INTERNET* +55 34 3351-3077 Av. Benedito Valadares, 217 – Centro – Sacramento – MG - BR _http://www.onda.net.br <http://www.onda.net.br/>_

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artificially high (100%) CPU usage reported from routing engine on Juniper MX-104 w/ 550 interfaces & solution
by Darrell Budic 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Observium has been recording artificially high CPU for RE0 on my MX-104, and I finally spent the time to understand what was going on and look for a solution. Here’s what I found in case it helps someone else. I say artificially because monitoring the system from the CLI reported 30-40% CPU usage with significant spikes during SNMP polling, but Observium constantly recorded 100% CPU usage. First up, I got the juniper to stop reporting on it’s internal interfaces and a bunch of others that show up by default. This removed a bunch of interfaces that existed but never had data and observing was polling. This cut the poll time down a fair bit, so I mention it if you haven’t used it on a juniper before. If you want this, it’s: snmp { filter-interfaces { all-internal-interfaces; interfaces { <other interface you don’t want stats for here>; } } } I also went through and turned off all the modules it wasn’t using or weren’t producing any data in polling or discovery. Helped a little more, but exposed something odd. When I would run polling on just the processors module, it would report CPU usage that matched what I saw in the CLI. When it ran as part of the whole host polling, it reported 100%. Figured out it was polling the processors after it had polled sensors and the 550 interfaces on this router, and that has run up the CPU utilization while it was polling, so the RE was reporting that instant CPU usage while it was still high. Not sure it was the best way, but moved the processor module to the head of the polling queue, and now I’m getting a CPU status that is more representative of the general load on the RE, and not the 100% usage the SNMP polling was causing. This router has always had this many interfaces, so as far as I can tell, a change in polling order caused this behavior and not a growth in interfaces. Here’s my patch to includes/polling/functions.inc.php if it’s helpful to anyone: Index: functions.inc.php =================================================================== --- functions.inc.php (revision 8345) +++ functions.inc.php (working copy) @@ -639,6 +639,11 @@ //print_warning("Module [ $module ] excluded for device."); continue; } + if ($module == 'processors') + { + array_unshift($poll_modules, $module); // Add 'processors' before all + continue; + } if ($module == 'unix-agent') { array_unshift($poll_modules, $module); // Add 'unix-agent' before all

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migrating observium to a new server
by Shawn Faulkingham 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Is anyone aware of any documentation to migrate an observing installation to a new server? I am moving from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7 for security and PHP reasons. If anyone has any pointers, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Shawn Faulkingham

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Observium-OpsGenie integration
by Celal Emre Çiçek 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

Hello, My name is Celal Emre ÇİÇEK and I'm an integration engineer at OpsGenie. I'd like to know if there are any changes in the latest updates of Observium that could affect Observium - OpsGenie integration. Today, one of our customers came up with a problem. He says Observium alerts aren't being forwarded to OpsGenie. He also says that he didn't change any configuration in Observium and in OpsGenie. We've confirmed that he didn't change any configuration in our side. We also asked him to check his Observium configuration and compare it with our docs. He's checked and nothing is wrong. So, we wonder if there are any changes that affect OpsGenie integration in Observium in the latest updates, maybe some changes in the backend. Could you please check and return to us? Best regards, Celal Emre ÇİÇEK

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Integration with IBM blade chassis
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

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[observium] facing problem in email alerting.
by Santanu Mandal 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

Hello Guys, I am facing a problem regarding Observium Alerting. Few days ego I have enabled alerts and configured to send to couple of specific email ids. Configured those email Ids in .php file as well as in GUI. Due to some reason I have removed those email Ids to stop sending alerts. Now Observium starts collecting email ids from ‘snmp contact’ configuration of device and sending alerts to this email id. Please let me know what to configure so that Observium would not be able to send emails to the email id which is configured in snmp contact of network device ? Thanking you, Santanu Mandal +91 7028357135

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Update to Cisco memory usage details.
by Don Maker 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

So, I installed the CE edition on an Ubuntu vm (rather than use the Turnkey appliance), and I now see Cisco memory usage, but all of my graphs, for all devices, show no values. Every graph just shows -nan Not sure what is going on there. Thanks

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Frequency bug
by Simon Mousey Smith 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Hi All Has anybody else got this issue I have with the frequency sections of devices? if any device frequency is above 1Ghz it isn’t showing the value correctly in the graphs or in the table correctly, they are just showing 1Ghz not like it should Screenshots showing issue on a mikrotik device and a raspberry pi Regards Simon

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RFE - Support for IBM triphased PDUs
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

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Fortigate Firewalls port names not showing
by Richard Savage 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Hi Fortigate have release a new software train 5.4 and it seems as if observium is having trouble getting the interface names and now we just see blank names separated by a comma: Can this be fixed please? If you need any debug then please let me know. Regards Richard

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Unable to parse header `DSName' rrdtool
by Sam Hernandez-gill 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

I have a few different rrdtool graphs that are outputting "RRDTool Output: ERROR: rrdc_fetch: Unable to parse header `DSName'" So far I've only noticed it on specific Citrix Netscaler graphs, the Netscaler SSL ones nsSslHandshakes, nsSslSessions, etc and TCP Connections and TCP Packets for the netscalers are all in the same state with Unable to parse header `DSName'. [cid:image001.png@01D29412.6D368F20] Sadly I didn't notice when, I did recently upgrade to revision 8417, however these aren't graphs I frequently look at. Anybody else with netscalers in their environment at the same revision? Thanks, Sam ---------------------------- This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail (even if the e-mail address above is yours), (i) you may not use, copy or retransmit it, (ii) please delete this message and (iii) please notify the sender immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ----------------------------

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Migration CentOS 6 to 7 - Graphs Failing
by Storer, Darren 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Our Observium professional server file system was recently damaged beyond recovery. Fortunately the database and the Observium directory had been backed up the night before. The older server OS was CentOS 6 and the new OS is CentOS 7 (both 64 bit). The Observium directory was restored and the database imported; now the Observium web page is working well, with visibility of all devices, historic stats/states/graphs etc. The cron jobs are running and polling etc. - the state of devices updates dynamically via the map too. However, there are no updates to the any of the graphs. I'm not sure if there is a database problem, RRD problem or file permissions problem. Placing /debug after various pages does not reveal any problems. Can anyone recommend other places to look for debug/logging information? Thanks in advance Darren

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[observium] facing problem in email alerting.
by Santanu Mandal 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Hello Guys, I am facing a problem regarding Observium Alerting. Few days ego I have enabled alerts and configured to send to couple of specific email ids. Configured those email Ids in .php file as well as in GUI. Due to some reason I have removed those email Ids to stop sending alerts. Now Observium starts collecting email ids from 'snmp contact' configuration of device and sending alerts to this email id. Please let me know what to configure so that Observium would not be able to send emails to the email id which is configured in snmp contact of network device ? Thanks,

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Traffic Accounting
by Fred Pedrisa 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Hi, guys. I plan to renew my subscription with you, but before doing it, I wanted to make sure, if now we can select "which stream" can be accounted, being : rx, tx or rx+tx, I'm asking this, because we have different ways of billing customer ports and this is a must for us. If this is not present, any chance you could add a switch for this ? It would be great if so. Sincerely, Fred

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 80, Issue 3
by Don Maker 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Sorry, but I don't see any attached graphs. I do believe that Cisco memory graphs are working for other people, just not for me. When I go to graphs, system, all I see is processors and device uptime. Not sure where to start troubleshooting and/or correcting this. I should also note that I am using the Turnkey Linux appliance. On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 7:00 AM, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Syslog parsing for NXOS (Markus Bornhauser) > 2. Should I be seeing memory usage graphs on Cisco devices? > (Don Maker) > 3. Re: Should I be seeing memory usage graphs on Cisco devices? > (Lyndon Labuschagne) > 4. Re: Should I be seeing memory usage graphs on Cisco devices? > (Storer, Darren) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 14:20:14 +0100 > From: Markus Bornhauser <kusi.bornhauser(a)gmail.com> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Subject: [Observium] Syslog parsing for NXOS > Message-ID: > <CADRv88-VsDrnd+8XJKWBxGSctpbV_g3Nz1Tf04M+ > kAAgFX3pNw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi list, > > Sorry if this had been asked before, but I'm unable to browse the > mailing list archives. > > I have set up syslog parsing with Rsyslogd, like documented [1]. The > syslog.php script does receive the logs and saves them in the > database. Parsing logs from both Cisco Catalyst (IOS) and Cisco Nexus > switches, I discovered that the NXOS logs are parsed incorrectly (see > screenshot [2]). > > Does Observium support NXOS logs, or do I have to change something to > make it as perfect as with IOS logs? > > [1] https://observium.org/docs/syslog/#rsyslogd > [2] https://snag.gy/2eDsgH.jpg > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:14:17 -0500 > From: Don Maker <don.p.maker(a)gmail.com> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Subject: [Observium] Should I be seeing memory usage graphs on Cisco > devices? > Message-ID: > <CACF+TreB1n9aB8KC5noXBakgWB_qWMGEjGtAL73mXiwHE08guA@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I have various Cisco devices ( catalyst switches, ios routers, ios-xe, > etc), but none of them are showing any memory usage details in observium. I > was surprised by this as observium did a remarkable job of recognizing and > displaying information for things that most snmp tools do not, Qnap for > example. It does recognize my Cisco devices and reports back on just about > everything, but memory. Other tools I tried, such as Manageengine, PRTG, > etc reported the memory with no issue. So, I'm skeptical that there is > anything wrong with my snmp setup. > > > > I would really love to get memory usage for my Cisco devices. If anyone has > any suggestions, I'm all ears. > > > > Thanks >

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Should I be seeing memory usage graphs on Cisco devices?
by Don Maker 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

I have various Cisco devices ( catalyst switches, ios routers, ios-xe, etc), but none of them are showing any memory usage details in observium. I was surprised by this as observium did a remarkable job of recognizing and displaying information for things that most snmp tools do not, Qnap for example. It does recognize my Cisco devices and reports back on just about everything, but memory. Other tools I tried, such as Manageengine, PRTG, etc reported the memory with no issue. So, I'm skeptical that there is anything wrong with my snmp setup. I would really love to get memory usage for my Cisco devices. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears. Thanks

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Syslog parsing for NXOS
by Markus Bornhauser 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Hi list, Sorry if this had been asked before, but I'm unable to browse the mailing list archives. I have set up syslog parsing with Rsyslogd, like documented [1]. The syslog.php script does receive the logs and saves them in the database. Parsing logs from both Cisco Catalyst (IOS) and Cisco Nexus switches, I discovered that the NXOS logs are parsed incorrectly (see screenshot [2]). Does Observium support NXOS logs, or do I have to change something to make it as perfect as with IOS logs? [1] https://observium.org/docs/syslog/#rsyslogd [2] https://snag.gy/2eDsgH.jpg

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Help.
by Raimundas Šlepikas 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

helo, after update in some devices, we`a mising some Hardware info, in that case, it`s hart to find groupe devives by hw, there some samples before, and after. can u help me in this case Please ;) old fw dedlink sw :) sysObjectID => .1.3.6.1.4.1.171.10.75.15.2 sysDescr => DES-1210-28/ME 6.07.B042 sysContact => version => 6.07.B042 hardware => DES-1210-28/ME features => null location => Kovo-11osios-g-36-Kaunas os => dlink status => 1 with new fw, after update sysObjectID => .1.3.6.1.4.1.171.10.75.15.2 sysDescr => DES-1210-28/ME/B2 sysContact => version => 6.10.B017 hardware => features => null R. -- Best regards, Raimundas mailto:raimis@kis.lt

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Search in device Description feature request
by Richard Wigzell 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Hello, we have a small feature request; would it be possible to search for values in the device Description? ('purpose' column in device table). Preferably from the live search box thing in the top right of the UI? This would be a most useful feature for us. 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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SNMP support for blades' internal components (CPU, memory DIMMs, etc.)
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

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Observium weathermap issue
by Sophanith Chhom 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Hi All, I think weathermap is not part of Observium, but if anyone has the same issue with me please share Since I tried to created a few maps via web using weathermap editor like example1.conf, example2.conf, example3.conf and point it to like /maps/example1.html, /maps/example2.html, /maps/example3.html Then I tried to open each map, but all maps will link to the same content instead (like in the same example3). This is so strange if anyone used to have this issue like me, please share how you can fix it Thanks a lot

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Observium API / CE 0.16.1.7533
by Uwe Freier 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Hello, sorry for a maybe stupid question but I searched the Observium docs and FAQs and tried to search the mailing lists archive but latest was not available because the link to 'observium Archivs' on mailman's web interface leads to a 404. Is there an API to Observium and if is there a doc anywhere? Maybe I'm blind but I cannot find any related information if I inserted 'API' in the search field of the Obeservium docs. Google finds some pages that talk of " $config['api']['enabled'] = 1;" and/or query strings for an api.php - I do not even have an api.php in my observium installation. Some Observium values should be made available through a CRM and an API might be a smooth solution. Any tipps appreciated! Thanks, Uwe

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Aggregate graph show not accurate total max of traffic
by Sophanith Chhom 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Hi All, I have one question related to aggregate maximum of graph I have sum up two ports together but it is actually not accurate Eg: one port: 10.54 Gb and another port: 10.95 Gb So total of max should be 10.54+10.95 = 21.49 but the real on graph is showing 21.34 instead Can anyone help to explain me about this? Please check on picture bellow [image: Inline image 1] Appreciate for your explanation Thanks

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No Memory Usage Details on Any of My Cisco Equipment
by Don Maker 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

I don't see any graphs, or any other information, for any memory usage statistics on any of my Cisco devices: 3560G, CSR1000v, 2821, etc.. Thank you.

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Wrong graph display with specific date and time filtering
by Sophanith Chhom 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Hi All, I want to display graph in specific time and date but it looks like different as output Eg: I filter from: 2017-02-28 06:00:00 to 2017-02-28 08:00:00 and as a result display taken from 13:00 to 15:00 instead Please see my picture bellow: Do you have any idea about this? [image: Inline image 1] Thanks

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Re: [Observium] SNMP support for blades' internal components (CPU,
by Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Dear Michael, SNMP is perfectly responsive on those hosts : root@prod-monit-002:/opt/observium# snmpwalk -v 2c -c asp par01-esx2-bl2 sysDescr SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-3568722 VMware, Inc. x86_64 I have attached a full snmwalk output from one of the host as an example. Best regards. Le 27/02/2017 16:19, « observium au nom de Michael » <observium-bounces(a)observium.org au nom de obslist(a)smarsz.com> a écrit : Looks to me like there's no data at all coming back from either of those esxi hosts. "WARNING: 0 devices discovered" Could you try the following query to see what comes back snmpwalk -v3 <your-snmpv3-details-here> par01-esx02-bl2 sysDescr I think you need to validate that your server is actually answering SNMP queries for you. VMware have long been reluctant to do much with SNMP (prefering to push people towards vCenter/vCOPS). As a result, their support for revealing lots of physical host information leaves a bit to be desired. Cheers, Michael > On 27 Feb 2017, at 9:35 pm, Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR <ybzahr(a)prodware.fr> wrote: > > > Dear Observium, > > This is a request for information / enhancement, I hope you will find it relevant / useful. Actually running latest stable version 17.2.8364. > > We run quite a lot of blade chassis (DELL M1000e, IBM bladecenterH, IBM pureflex) and monitor the blades in the enclosures, more specifically the ESXi hosts servers. > > I recently noticed that we were not able to recover SNMP information about physical components’ status (CPU, memory DIMMs, etc.). We are more interested in memory DIMM status. > > I have run a discovery against a couple of hosts in debug mode and can see that recovered SNMP information is pretty basic (see attached). > > Do you think it would be possible / interesting to recover such information ? > > Thank you for your feedback. > > Best regards. > > > Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR - Consultant Expert > Prodware France > T : +33 979 999 000 - F : +33 988 814 001 - ybzahr(a)prodware.fr > <image23bec5.PNG>Web : prodware.fr > > <image9b26f1.JPG> <image5c3e4c.JPG> <image0119e3.JPG> <imagee569c0.JPG> <image93eaa0.JPG> <image039eb0.JPG> > > > > <par01-esx02-bl2.txt><par01-esx03-bl2.txt> BENGELLOUN - ZAHR Youssef - Consultant Expert Prodware France T : +33 979 999 000 F : +33 988 814 001 - ybzahr(a)prodware.fr Web : prodware.fr _______________________________________________ > 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

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No graph policy description on Cisco CBQoS graph
by Sophanith Chhom 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

Dear All, I wonder why Cisco CBQoS graph on Observium Pro have no graph description(policy name) show up? Since I observe there is policy description name showing up on Observium Community Edition. It should display something like: CUST-Name / class-default (input) CUST-Name / class-default (output) Can you guide if we can enable it on the script somewhere? Thanks so much.

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Disable IF-MIB cisco nexus
by Svensson Fredrik A 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Hi there! Due to a bug I want to disable the IF-MIB, on my nexus devices, is that possible? There is no specific IF-mib in the Device-MIB, is it included in some of the other MIBs? ADSL-LINE-MIB enabled  Disable BGP4-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-AAA-SESSION-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-BGP4-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-CDP-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-CEF-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-EIGRP-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-ENTITY-PFE-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-ENTITY-QFP-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-ENVMON-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-FLASH-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-IETF-IP-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-IETF-PW-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-IP-STAT-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-IPSEC-FLOW-MONITOR-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-POWER-ETHERNET-EXT-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-PROCESS-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-REMOTE-ACCESS-MONITOR-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-RTTMON-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-TRUSTSEC-INTERFACE-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-VPDN-MGMT-MIB enabled  Disable CISCO-VTP-MIB enabled  Disable ENTITY-MIB enabled  Disable ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB enabled  Disable EtherLike-MIB enabled  Disable HOST-RESOURCES-MIB enabled  Disable IP-MIB enabled  Disable LLDP-MIB enabled  Disable MPLS-L3VPN-STD-MIB enabled  Disable MPLS-VPN-MIB enabled  Disable OSPF-MIB enabled  Disable POWER-ETHERNET-MIB enabled  Disable Q-BRIDGE-MIB enabled  Disable SMON-MIB enabled  Disable SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB enabled  Disable SNMPv2-MIB enabled  Disable UCD-SNMP-MIB enabled  Disable

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Can't login to Subscription Management
by Karolis Birgėla 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Hello, as our staff is changing over time, we lost the credentials to the client area. Is there a possible way to get the info back? We only know the email.. Thank you. UAB "Kauno Interneto Sistemos", Lithuania

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Observium 1min poller interval?
by Sophanith Chhom 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Dear All, Is it possible to schedule 1min for poller interval? By default it is 5min interval. Thanks

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Graph direct link changes when group membership changes
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hi! I'm using the direct link to graphs for a dashboard. Not sure this was the intended usage, but I found an issue that I think could be avoided related to this. It looks like graphs in this view are getting encoded IDs that somehow relate to the devices in the group, so the URL looks like this below. The issue is that when having lots of devices in a view, the id field gets really long and eventually will cause the graph creation to fail....however another and bigger issue is that it seems the id actually change when new devices are added (which happens during auto-discovery). Is there any way to fix the id to a numeric number like used with other graphs ? http://observium/graph.php?to=1487801959&id=WyIzMjE5MSIsIjMyNTE1IiwiMzMxNjM… /Jesper

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Re: [Observium] Can't write new info to Observium
by Karolis Birgėla 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

On 2017.02.22 14:00, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Can't write new info to Observium Also, another problem we have noticed, I wonder if it's related to the caching update. When using device search (Devices->All Devices), then selecting hardware type (for example DES-1210-26/ME), we can find 8 devices from our network, that's ok. But we have updated the firmware version of this specific device, and when trying to do the same search in Observium, It can't find the device with updated firmware. And this happened with every device we upgraded. Quick search bar finds the device without any problems. Could this be related to the caching update? Thank you

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all VMs Removed - why ?
by Thoralf Freitag 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hi, is there any idea, why observium has removed all VMs from the ESXi Server, like this: 1d 2h 3m Vm Virtual Machine deleted: vmware 564da96d-e3b0-b511-66cc-2a184a576652 1d 2h 3m Vm Virtual Machine deleted: vmware 564d8984-0864-6b78-7d91-36f2c13e53d6 1d 2h 3m Vm Virtual Machine deleted: vmware 564d4905-87d7-6fdf-bc72-753c916ef3c1 1d 2h 3m Vm Virtual Machine deleted: vmware 564d2060-e2e4-9949-97a6-28cb5f02e801 1d 2h 3m Vm Virtual Machine deleted: vmware 564d3421-27c8-04ea-7ef8-139af5ebcb5c 1d 2h 3m Vm Virtual Machine deleted: vmware 564d18eb-bad5-0691-7acf-3cb24787c0c1 1d 2h 3m Vm Virtual Machine deleted: vmware 564d523c-b392-e037-12e6-4c93b9dc82b1 1d 2h 3m Vm Virtual Machine deleted: vmware 564dc378-b321-2b72-176f-09c8fc5a1116 1d 2h 3m Vm Virtual Machine deleted: vmware 564db385-e361-5d0a-3167-d9a416357692 ... The tab for virtual machines no longer appears ... . There was no change at the ESXi. VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB and VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB are enabled. I restarted the snmp agant at the ESXi host, run poller.php again , but it changes nothing. Thanks for any suggestions. lg. TF

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Can't write new info to Observium
by Karolis Birgėla 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hello all, never happened to me before, but Obsevium acts strangely lately for me. When trying to add a new device via web, it sucessfully adds it, but it's page appears to be missing. It says something like 'You entered a device which does not exist' or something similar. What is more, when I want to manually change device's description on the web, it says 'Device record updated'. But the info that I've written has not appeared. What could have caused this? I don't remember doing any changes to my Observium server, except doing an update. Version 17.2.8364 (stable) Everything else works as it should. Thank you

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ASR9k RAM Changes
by Robert Williams 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hi, Have there just been some changes to the ASR9k RAM detection? Suddenly after the overnight svn up we are seeing this for all 9k chassis: [cid:image001.png@01D28C23.56E5F220] These 3 new items are in alarm. The “reserved” and “image” are filtered from all other devices by existing config.php – but obviously no brackets on these ones. $config['ignore_mempool_string'][] = '(reserved)'; $config['ignore_mempool_string'][] = '(image)'; However, the ‘processor’ one is actually wrong as it seems to be using the CPU0 usage but a strange maximum of 3.81GB instead of 7.81GB. I can’t filter this out because it will drop all ‘processor’ types. I remember something historic relating to this where the maximums were showing as around 4GB even though there is 8GB installed and someone (Adam?) found and sorted it. This may or may not be related though. Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Alert regeneration via cli?
by Michael 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Is there a way to regenerate the alerts from the cli? We have some checks that alert based on port state, dependent on conditions within a port description. But that matching is only performed during the alert regeneration, not during polling. So if the port description gets updated, the alert still triggers based on the old condition match... I'm thinking of running a regen via cron on a regular basis to try and minimise the false positives. Unless somebody has a better way to achieve a similar outcome? Thanks, Michael

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Poller wrapper history graphs not updating
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi! I have moved an instance from a physical server to a VM by moving over the database & RRD files + Observium $HOME. All works except one minor thing : The poller wrapper history (/pollerlog/ page) graphs do not update anymore. Also the RRD files do not update their timestamp since I moved the files to the new VM. The poller discovery/timing part of the same page does work properly, so it's only the top two graphs missing (or rather the graphs are there, but no new data is being added). Any idea why ? /Jesper

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Memory graph missing
by Simon Mousey Smith 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi All, I’ve got up this morning to find our nightly SVN UP has messed up the memory graphs for all our switches/servers/etc…? What appears to be be happening is its looking for the file 'mempool-HOST-RESOURCES-MIB-65536.rrd' which doesn’t exist BUT 'mempool-host-resources-mib-65536.rrd’ does exist Case-senstive I believe Anybody else had this issue? Regards Simon

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