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New Version alert on Subscription Version?
by Dano, Leo 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

How do we update the subscription version? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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test
by Adam Armstrong 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

test

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Polling time.
by Gabriel Zamorski 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Hello, I’m using Observium on a virtual machine, with rrdtool 1.6.0 and rrdcached. For now, it takes up to 80 seconds to poll 87 devices. I'm just curious - is it good or bad time? poller-wrapper.py(10710): /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py: polled 87 devices in 77.74 seconds with 12 workers Regards,

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Re: [Observium] Alert checker and Toner
by Moerman, Maarten 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Checker conditions: toner_current lt 5 Device association: whatever you please Entity association: * But I could be wrong, there was something different between CE & Pro as well, supply_level or toner_level or something like that. Tom might know better, he uses printers! Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com From: observium on behalf of "chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net>" Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 9:15 AM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" Subject: [Observium] Alert checker and Toner Hello, Please can you help me wit create Alert Checker for Toner usage? (Printer Supplies) What is in „Tests“ and in „Entity“ Thank you Tom

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Alert checker and Toner
by chott＠praha1.net 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Hello, Please can you help me wit create Alert Checker for Toner usage? (Printer Supplies) What is in "Tests" and in "Entity" Thank you Tom

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test
by Adam Armstrong 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

test

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test
by Adam Armstrong 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

test

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MAPS
by Erwin Botas 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

Adam: We are getting errors on the ssl certificates of the map portion on main screen and looking for the information of the CartoDB, they publish a different host naming that correspond to the SSL Certificates indicated in this documentation. in the map.inc.php file needs some changes in case of the SSL, please help. https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/wiki/BaseMaps-available All basemaps follow the same URL structure (be careful as the URL might change in the future) http://{s}.api.cartocdn.com/<http://api.cartocdn.com/>{basemap_id}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png And if you need them over SSL use: https://cartocdn_{s}.global.ssl.fastly.net/{basemap_id}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png Erwin Botas Gerente tecnolog?as de informaci?n [http://www.criticalcolocation.com/firma/logo.jpg] Tel.: +506 2010-5050 * Cel.: +506 8982-4885 * Fax.: +506 2223-7055 San Jos?, CR * www.criticalcolocation.com [http://www.criticalcolocation.com/firma/line.jpg] NOTA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: "La informaci?n contenida en este mensaje y sus adjuntos es estrictamente confidencial y se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Si usted no es el destinatario indicado, cualquier divulgaci?n, copia, distribuci?n o uso del contenido de este documento es prohibido y ser? sancionado de acuerdo con la ley. Si recibi? este mensaje por error, debe notificarlo de inmediato al remitente y destruirlo".

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Test
by Dano, Leo 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Not seeing my posts Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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FW: New Version alert on Subscription Version?
by Dano, Leo 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

From: Dano, Leo Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 8:56 AM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: New Version alert on Subscription Version? How do we update the subscription version? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Openstreetmap / Cartocdn wrong certificate
by Matthias Cramer 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hi All I just came back from vacation and updated Observium. The map is now done with OSM/Carto, which is nice, boot it took me a while to find out why no map was loading. As it looks like all the cdn nodes have no SAN for *.basemaps.cartocdn.com The tiles get loaded in my browser from a.basemaps.cartocdn.com b.basemaps.cartocdn.com c.basemaps.cartocdn.com After adding an exception for these, all works well.. Does anyone have the same issue? Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 <sip:0435001111> Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 <sip:0442713535> CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250 -- This mail was scanned by BitDefender For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/frams/

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Observium LDAP Edit Users very buggy
by Dano, Leo 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

Hello, I think I may have found the specific device access only via the Edit Users area. The only issue is that it is hit n miss. I sometimes can see my ldap users that have logged in and sometimes not. Once I do see the users, I edit one and give that person access to a group, but if I click any link, it puts me back at the login page. Which takes a few tries to log back in. Then sometimes when I click the edit users, no users show up. Is this part of the bugginess of Observium and LDAP integration? I am using the latest version per Subscription. Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Rebooted and now mysql wont start?
by Dano, Leo 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Ughh, need help. Got this message on the webpage DB Error 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) Got this in the mysql error log, not sure why there is an issue with the mysql user 160818 12:41:08 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended 160818 12:46:32 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 160818 12:46:32 [Warning] Using unique option prefix key_buffer instead of key_buffer_size is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead. 160818 12:46:32 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't change to run as user 'mysql' ; Please check that the user exists! 160818 12:46:32 [ERROR] Aborting 160818 12:46:32 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete 160818 12:46:32 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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ldap login levels and narrow what they see?
by Dano, Leo 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

We currently have ours using ldap and have a specific ldap group as admins "level 10" We also have a level 5 login which is not admins. Is there a way to narrow down what the non admins see as far as hosts? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Observium relate two hosts
by Tsvetan Blagoev 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

Hello, I am using observium to monitor ESX servers and their DRACs ( I am using DELL hardware) How could I possibly link the host obejcts ? Can I have a link in the host’s page to it’s DRAC ? Regards, Tsener

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Rancid integration - config tabs won't show up
by Pirmin Sidler - Computerline 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Hi @ll First, I want to give you guys from Observium a big thumb up because having a such easy webapp, so easily maintainable, so powerful and all without marketing layers and super complicated licensing makes you kind of unique on the market. Now to the issue, I'm trying to integrate my rancid files into the latest stable version of Observium (did it last week following official observium tutorial). Now I have multiple entries in the config.php (because of multiple router.db files/directories in rancid) : $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/ juniper1/configs/"; $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/ juniper2/configs/"; $config['rancid_configs'][] = "/var/lib/rancid/ juniper3/configs/"; $config['rancid_ignorecomments'] = 0; All the /var/lib/rancid/ directory is chowned by rancid:rancid. www-data is in rancid group. I restarted apache2. I cleared the cache from browser. I checked the config in the observium web-interface and it's correctly read by the server (I see the lines above). I checked the hostnames, and the ones I am backing up with rancid are matching the ones registered in the observium. But there are some observium devices I am not backing up yet. (I guess it's not an issue right?). Can anybody help me out with this? Thanks a lot Kind regards, Freundliche Grüsse, Pirmin Sidler System & Network Engineer [cid:image001.jpg@01D1F865.CC141AB0]

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Interface percent usage (ifInOctets_perc) going above 100
by Oliver Baker 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Hi there, I've configured an alert that checks if ifInOctets_perc exceeds 80% utilisation and I'm finding that the alert is being triggered for normal amounts of traffic. What steps can I take to resolve this? Here's an example alert email: ALERT *Alert* *Entity* en1 *Conditions* ifInOctets_perc ge 80 (275) ifOutOctets_perc ge 80 (80) *Metrics* ifInOctets_perc = 275 ifOutOctets_perc = 80 *Duration* 4m 36s (2016-08-17 08:31:09) Device *Device* server1.example.com *Hardware* Generic x86 [64bit] *Operating System* Mac OS X 15.6.0 *Location* *Uptime* 12 days, 10h 45m 35s port_percent

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Citrix NetScaler VIp stats gone
by Daniel Rolfe 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Hi, We recently upgraded our CE version from 0.15.6.6430 => 0.16.1.7533 Now all of our Citrix LB's aren't showing per VIP stats We really use the individual vip stats alot Now we get the error attached which effects NetScaler v9 and v10 devices Any ideas how to fix this one ? [image: Inline image 1] Regards, Daniel

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UNIX agent for PostgreSQL creating a new RRD file every poll since Aug 12
by Musall Maik 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Hi, I noticed that postgresql application data disappeard on all servers recently. It ran fine for years, but since Aug 12, a new rrd file gets created on every poll, and the postgresql application tab is absent for all servers. I'm updating my installation daily on 9am, so this started happening after the Aug 12 update. Here's the oldest few files (out of over 1200 so far) for one of the servers: -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:40 app-postgresql-12.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:35 app-postgresql-11.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:30 app-postgresql-10.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:25 app-postgresql-9.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:20 app-postgresql-8.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:15 app-postgresql-7.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:10 app-postgresql-6.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Aug 12 09:05 app-postgresql-5.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Apr 14 09:00 app-postgresql-_index_.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 observium observium 2086688 Apr 16 2015 app-postgresql-.rrd Apparently some change went wrong? Maik

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Authentication
by Zoellers, Billy 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

Is there any way to utilize local authentication and LDAP authentication simultaneously? We would like to utilize LDAP for our technicans, but also be able to create local users for client access. Would it be possible to create multiple login pages or something similar? Thanks, Billy [cid:DeanDortonbox.png] Billy Zoellers Infrastructure Engineer 106 W. Vine St., Ste 600 Lexington, KY 40507 ph (859) 425-7640 fax (859) 425-3640 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The preceding email message, and any files or attachments transmitted with it, may contain confidential and privileged information, and may constitute protected work product, confidential client information, trade secrets, and/or other non-public information. Furthermore, this message and any attachments may be protected by accountant/client privilege, attorney/client privilege, and/or other applicable privileges. Any unauthorized review, use, dissemination, distribution, disclosure, or reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This message is intended to be conveyed and transmitted only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately by email or by telephone at 859-255-2341. Also, please delete this email message including all attachments and destroy all copies.

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How add MIBs MPLS LDP
by Nurbek Suleimanov 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

Hello support, Please can you help me? I have monitoring MPLS sessions and MPLS Interface in my Observium server. How i can add MIBs to Observium? I have MPLS-LDP-MIB file in my server in directory /opt/observium/mibs Thanks King regard Nurbek Suleimanov skype: nfastik

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Thoughts on "locations" front-page module
by Daniel Horth 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

In our setup the ‘map’ frontage module is pretty and impresses exec level types, however the space is mostly wasted as far as an engineer is concerned, requiring multiple clicks to drill in to areas of interest. I’d like to have the location table as seen at http://observium/locations <http://observium/locations> on my home page instead. Is this an option that can be implemented simply enough? Does anyone else think that this is a good idea? Thanks for looking!

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Migrating from Debian 3.2 to Ubuntu OS
by Idzma Zakaria 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

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delete my email in system
by Oguzhan Yonar 12 Aug '16

12 Aug '16

I dont wanna see any email from observium about somebody's problem. Could you delete my email in system? İyi çalışmalar dilerim. Saygılarımla. Oğuzhan YONAR Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisi-(Network&Security) Esentepe Mah.Tuna Cad.Yeşil Sok 3/1 Akdeniz Plaza Kat: 2 Daire : 5 16140 Nilüfer Bursa Tel : 0224 246 0 100 Faks : 0224 246 00 10 Gsm : 0533 155 64 52 E-mail : <mailto:oguzhan.yonar@2mbt.com.tr> oguzhan.yonar(a)2mbt.com.tr Web : <http://www.2mbt.com.tr/> www.2mbt.com.tr

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Please help create an alert :) Nexus FEX PS problem
by Laszlo Nemeth 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

Hello At the night the Observium showed an alert (fortunately) that I never set up in the Alert checks . I see this alert in Global/Alerts and the left up box there is an “1 alert” in the Statuses row. If I click the “1 alert” it shows me that a Cisco Nexus FEX modul’s powersupply EVENT is alert and Status is offDenied. So it is a dead PS. What I can to do if I would like to get alert if this happen again? I have lot of Alert Checks but I am not able to do an alert for this PS check because I don’t know what is the correct Entity match of it. I tried the “sensor_class equals powersupply” and Test is “sensor_value greater 2” (looks the normal PS value is 2, now this failed PS value is 4). But it doesn’t work (no matched entities). Thanks Laszlo

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alerting problem
by Laszlo Nemeth 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

Hello, At the morning I was on the 7933 but 2 hours ago I updated to 8039. I used a CPU alert for my routers. In the older version it is worked, I got the alerts via mail and PagerDuty as I set up. Now after the upgrade I would like to test the alerting because on 7933 i “pached” the pagerduty.inc.php for more info in the PD message (the default file just send like “something wrong somewhere” :) So. After the upgrade with the original (nor pached) PD file I would like a test to see how looks out a PD message now. I set a lower value for the CPU alerting (from 50% to 15%) to generate alerting (now the cpu load is 18-25%) After a few minutes I see in the Alers / Processor that my deviced appear and show that the status is FAILED. It is ok. In the Alert Logging I get the “Checks failed” so it is great. But. I never get “Alert notification sent” messages. (I get “Alert notification sent” for other events, so the alerting is working for other services). I see in the Alerts that the router’s status is Failed, Checked 18s Changed 20m 36s, Alerted: never. What I have to do for send the alerts? Or for the debug? Thanks BR Laszlo

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Re: [Observium] Alerting on Application attributes
by Neil French 09 Aug '16

09 Aug '16

Hi, Thanks for the confirmation, it’s great that alerting on an OID will be coming soon and in my case that will work, I’ll keep the App for viewing graphs and use a custom OID to monitor alerts by. Ultimately alerting on data collected by apps would be beneficial but not essential, as it will give neater integration options but I can see the complexities in that, maybe allowing apps to store pertinent stats for alerting in a column holding an array with a sub-array for each app? Anyway, I look forward to seeing the OID alerting soon. Thanks, Neil. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 09:50:00 -0500 From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org <mailto:adama@memetic.org>> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Alerting on Application attributes Message-ID: <fd070f1f-899c-4772-896b-540b771c7c16(a)typeapp.com <mailto:fd070f1f-899c-4772-896b-540b771c7c16@typeapp.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, Alerting on custom oid is planned for the not too distant future (along with some other additions to custom oid). Alerting on apps is much more complex, I'm not entirely sure how to approach it at the moment. I suspect it may not look exactly like the current alerting, but it is probably some time away. Thanks, Adam. Sent from BlueMail On 4 Aug 2016, 09:34, at 09:34, Neil French <neil(a)numbergroup.com <mailto:neil@numbergroup.com>> wrote: > Hi, > > Apologies if this has been covered previously, I can’t seem to browse > any mailing list archives as the link is dead. > > I have previously used custom OIDs to monitor a VoIP Application > (FreeSWITCH) but found I couldn’t alert on custom OIDs, and that the > graphing wasn’t as customisable as I wanted, so I have built a custom > application for freeswitch. > > I now want to be able to raise alerts on a few things, such as when the > number of new sessions per second is over a predefined value or when > the uptime resets (application pop and restart). > > I can’t seem to find a way of creating an alert check for anything > that’s not one of the basic properties of a device though. > > Could someone please tell me if this is possible? For example can I > create my own attributes in the device then query them with an alert > check? I have tried adding something like: > > $device[‘device_state’].[’my parameter’] = value > > But that doesn’t seem to be stored outside of the php script. > > It’s quite important that we are able to alert on custom parameters and > I can either provide these as OIDs or through the unix agent, whichever > gets the job done. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Neil. > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium <http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium>

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OpenWRT && wifi
by Ciro Iriarte 09 Aug '16

09 Aug '16

Hi!, anybody knows if it's possible to take wifi performance data from OpenWRT?. Regards, CI.-

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DeltaUPS graphs broken after r8016
by Kent Johannessen 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Well not really... but it will not use renamed RRDs before after a new discovery of sensors. Meanwhile polling will create new RRDs with old names, so it seems you have lost all data. Several hours of data can be missed because of this. Maybe some improvements can be done for that. NOTICE: Please immediately e-mail back to sender if you are not the intended recipient. Thereafter delete the e-mail along with any attachments without making copies. The sender reserves all rights of privilege, confidentiality and copyright.

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Holes in graphs
by Zoellers, Billy 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hello all, We're seeing holes on our graphs (example attached). This appears to be affecting all graphs in our installation on all devices. I know our connection is good (affecting LAN and WAN devices), but looking for any other ideas for correcting this? We have also tried increasing the number of poller processes. Only around 1000 ports on this install, 8 GB of RAM and 4 vCPU. Thanks, Billy [cid:image001.png@01D1EEFD.85030800] [cid:DeanDortonbox.png] Billy Zoellers Infrastructure Engineer 106 W. Vine St., Ste 600 Lexington, KY 40507 ph (859) 425-7640 fax (859) 425-3640 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The preceding email message, and any files or attachments transmitted with it, may contain confidential and privileged information, and may constitute protected work product, confidential client information, trade secrets, and/or other non-public information. Furthermore, this message and any attachments may be protected by accountant/client privilege, attorney/client privilege, and/or other applicable privileges. Any unauthorized review, use, dissemination, distribution, disclosure, or reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. This message is intended to be conveyed and transmitted only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately by email or by telephone at 859-255-2341. Also, please delete this email message including all attachments and destroy all copies.

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VictorOps and Observium
by Andy Lemin 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hi guys, Can I please add a +11 to this one please ;) http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-1800 VictorOps is great, and alerting through Slack is just not good enough for critical incidents. Thanks, Andy.

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Graphs no longer draw after restore
by Vlad Kratsberg 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hi, I recently restored observium to a different machine. I restored the following: config.php mysql db rrd Everything looks good except for the fact that graphs stopped drawing and display data in a real time. When i click on port to see real time data, i get "can't get data about port xxx". See attached images. Any ideas ? Thanks

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No memory pools detected for OSX hosts
by Oliver Baker 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hi there, I'm running Observium 0.16.7.8003 (stable) for monitoring OSX hosts which is working great, except no memory pools are being detected for any hosts apart from "Swap space". Memory for OSX hosts did work previously, but after I mailed in re: "Incorrect free physical memory for Unix hosts" and Adam A. made a change, the memory pools have disappeared. What's the best course of action? Many thanks Olly

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Apps tab used to show a single graph per item.
by Ricardo Meleschi 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

Hello Observium overlords, In the past the Apps tab in observium would only show a single graph per item/array, but with the later versions it shows four graphs per item of varying timelines. Is it possible to configure Observium to only show a single timeline graph per array? When a large number of servers are running the application, it’s difficult to compare graphs when they are displayed in the current manner. Thanks, Ricardo

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subscription problems
by ffuentes 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

Team, We are trying to renew our subscription and every single CC fails to process and pay pal errors out. Any other ways to pay for our yearly subscription? Regards, -- Fernando Fuentes Supervisor & Senior Systems Administrator Email: ffuentes(a)aasteel.com American Alloy Steel, Inc. Houston, Texas Website: http://www.aasteel.com Phone: 713-744-4222 Fax: 713-300-5688

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svn update not working
by Gumilar Siegfried 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Hello! I just wanted to update my observium installation with svn up, but I get the message: At revision 8033. This is the version I have really installed, according to the Web GUI: [cid:image001.png@01D1EF01.11590EF0] Regards, Siegfried

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Device not yet discovered
by Laurence Mayer 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Hi, Almost once a day I receive the following on one of the switches. Device not yet discovered This device has not yet been successfully discovered. System information and statistics will not be populated and graphs will not draw. This device should be automatically discovered within 10 minutes. It does not go away until I have manually run the /opt/observium/discovery.php Any ideas why? Thanks Laurence

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Eaton 5130 'Inverter Off' Flipped
by Robert Williams 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Hi, We've got several Eaton 5130 RT 3000 (with extended battery packs) being deployed to some remote locations. One of my guys has been setting them up overnight but has noticed that Observium reports one of the metrics incorrectly for all of the new units. Ironically the inverter status is, well, inverted. The platform is detected as: Hardware 5130 RT 3000 Operating system MGE UPS 6006AC (Firmware: JI) A debug of the status module, shows: SQL[UPDATE `status-state` set `status_value` ='2',`status_name` ='No',`status_event` ='ok',`status_last_change` ='1470278633',`status_polled` ='1470295701' WHERE `status_id` = '1289'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00013590s] Checking (snmp) Inverter Off CMD[/usr/bin/snmpget -v1 -c *** -Pu -OUqnv -m SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'ups-41.thn.oob.local':'161' .1.3.6.1.4.1.705.1.7.9.0] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0414s] STDOUT[ 1 ] SNMP STATUS[TRUE] RRD CMD[update /opt/observium/rrd/ups-41.thn.oob.local/status-mge-status-state-upsmgOutputInverterOff.1.0.rrd N:1 --daemon unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock] RRD RUNTIME[0.0011s] RRD STDOUT[OK u:0.00 s:0.00 r:0.65] RRD_STATUS[TRUE] - /opt/observium/includes/polling/status.inc.php:45 /opt/observium/includes/alerts.inc.php:61 ================================================ array( [status_value] => int(1) [status_name] => string(3) "Yes" [status_name_uptime] => int(17068) [status_event] => string(5) "alert" )) Reading the standards for that OID, that does seem to be the wrong way around. After a simulated power failure, you can see it goes to '2' when the power is failed and the inverter is (actually) off. As a side note, I noticed that Observium is polling the OIDs for a Merlin Gerin unit (.1.3.6.1.4.1.705.x) for when the unit is actually Eaton. Should it maybe be looking here instead? iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "EATON" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.1.2.0 = STRING: "5130 RT 3000" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.1.3.0 = STRING: "INV: 6006AC" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.1.4.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.1.0 = INTEGER: 350 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.2.0 = INTEGER: 78 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.3.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.4.0 = INTEGER: 23 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.5.0 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.2.6.0 = "" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.1.0 = INTEGER: 490 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.2.0 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.3.0 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.4.1.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.4.1.2.1 = INTEGER: 226 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.4.1.3.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.4.1.4.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.4.1.5.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.3.5.0 = INTEGER: 3 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.1.0 = INTEGER: 67 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.2.0 = INTEGER: 490 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.3.0 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.4.1.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.4.1.2.1 = INTEGER: 226 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.4.1.3.1 = INTEGER: 8 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.4.1.4.1 = INTEGER: 1809 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.4.1.5.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.5.0 = INTEGER: 3 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.6.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.7.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.4.8.0 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.5.1.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.5.2.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.6.1.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.6.2.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.6.3.0 = INTEGER: 40 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.6.7.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.7.1.0 = Gauge32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.7.18.0 = Gauge32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.8.1.0 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.8.2.0 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.1.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.2.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.3.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.4.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.5.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.6.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.9.7.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.1.0 = INTEGER: 230 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.2.0 = INTEGER: 230 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.3.0 = INTEGER: 2700 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.4.0 = INTEGER: 500 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.5.0 = STRING: "08/04/2016 08:34:38" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.6.0 = INTEGER: 160 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.7.0 = INTEGER: 294 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.10.8.0 = "" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.11.1.0 = INTEGER: 5 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.11.2.0 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.11.3.0 = "" iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.1.0 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.1.2 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.2.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.2.2 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.3.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.3.2 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.4.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.4.2 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.5.1 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.5.2 = INTEGER: -1 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.6.1 = INTEGER: 3 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.6.2 = INTEGER: 6 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.7.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.7.2 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.8.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.8.2 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.9.1 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.9.2 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.10.1 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.12.2.1.10.2 = Counter32: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.13.1.0 = INTEGER: 32 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.13.2.0 = INTEGER: 0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.534.1.13.3.0 = INTEGER: 0 I could be very wrong, maybe there is a valid reason to us the Merlin Gerin instead (I know they merged, but I thought I'd mention it in light of the odd issue). Any ideas anyone? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Search custom keywords / description
by Daniel Horth 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Howdy all. Wondering if there is a way to allow users to search for a custom string / keyword as configured in Observium. I am adding a variety of linux boxes to our monitoring setup and would like to be able to have users search on an application name or service name and have all servers matching that keyword show as options. Thanks

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power levels for Juniper MX
by Richard Savage 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hi Looks like there might be a slight issue with the reporting of power levels for SFP's in Juniper MX's. Seeing the following: on the Juniper MX: Laser rx power high alarm threshold : 2.0000 mW / 3.01 dBm Laser rx power low alarm threshold : 0.0000 mW / - Inf dBm Laser rx power high warning threshold : 0.7900 mW / -1.02 dBm Laser rx power low warning threshold : 0.0315 mW / -15.02 dBm But looks like observium is treating '-Inf' as '0' and this throwing an alert. (see attached) [cid:image001.png@01D1EC12.14D27B80] Might need to change how observium interprets Infinite values? Thanks Rich This e-mail is sent on behalf of Timico Partner Services Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, registered number 03128506, registered office Beacon Hill Park, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 2TN and regulated by Ofcom. The information in this e-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the use of that individual or entity to which it is addressed. Unauthorised use, dissemination, distribution, publication or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this in error, please notify us by email to privacy(a)timico.co.uk<mailto:privacy@timico.co.uk> and delete any copies. For information about how we process data and monitor communications please see our privacy statement<http://www.timico.co.uk/downloads/terms/Privacy_Statement.pdf>.

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Help in New QoS support
by obm＠obm.cl 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hi, years ago I collaborated with huawei's integration and its MIBs files. It was before change to a commercial edition Now I've been working on Huawei's CBQoS support, but I have a few questions about. Already I've written for Huawei NE40 family a discovery and polling modules, using the mysql table called ports_cbqos. I found that every vendor has different implementations, even one vendor has different implementations for each their models. My questions: 1.- Could I create a new table or just modify the ports_cbqos table. 2.- Right now I have finished this URL and it's working fine: http://10.184.8.136/device/device=1/tab=port/port=8/view=hqos/ (a new VIEW called hqos and I know you can't reach it but I can create a public address) I do not know how to integrate it into the navigation panels or port links (How to chose between cisco's qos or huawei's qos when somebody follow the cbqos link) I think we need to create a new QoS module with multi-vendor support. (modify the database schema) Thanks, Oscar

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Alerting on Application attributes
by Neil French 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hi, Apologies if this has been covered previously, I can’t seem to browse any mailing list archives as the link is dead. I have previously used custom OIDs to monitor a VoIP Application (FreeSWITCH) but found I couldn’t alert on custom OIDs, and that the graphing wasn’t as customisable as I wanted, so I have built a custom application for freeswitch. I now want to be able to raise alerts on a few things, such as when the number of new sessions per second is over a predefined value or when the uptime resets (application pop and restart). I can’t seem to find a way of creating an alert check for anything that’s not one of the basic properties of a device though. Could someone please tell me if this is possible? For example can I create my own attributes in the device then query them with an alert check? I have tried adding something like: $device[‘device_state’].[’my parameter’] = value But that doesn’t seem to be stored outside of the php script. It’s quite important that we are able to alert on custom parameters and I can either provide these as OIDs or through the unix agent, whichever gets the job done. Thanks, Neil.

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SNMP Changes and rediscovery
by Derek 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

I've recently switched several devices off of SNMP v2c to v3, and I've updated my config.php with all the v3 parameters, and I'm wondering if there's a way for force a re-discovery using the new info without having to go into each individual device and enter in all the new SNMP information? I didn't see any flags in for discovery.php that would force it.

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db.log
by Charlie Bell 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Hi, I've had a small Observium (c. 5500 ports) running for a couple of years (SVN version). Have configured housekeeping, which is fab and has kept things from getting out of hand. However, noticed /opt/observium/logs/db.log is a 5.6GB file... Can I clean this up? Should I be running a cron cleanup task on this? Thanks Charlie Bell ________________________________ [Maddocks Web Site]<http://www.maddocks.com.au> Maddocks is an Employer of Choice for Equality | WGEA 2004-2015 Recommended | Asia Pacific Legal 500<http://www.legal500.com/firms/32094/32422> | Chambers Asia<http://www.chambersandpartners.com/asia/Firms/144628-96471> | Best Lawyers<http://www.bestlawyers.com/Search/Default.aspx?country=AU&firm_name=Maddocks> Canberra - Tel: (61 2) 6120 4800 Fax: (61 2) 6230 1479 Melbourne - Tel: (61 3) 9258 3555 Fax: (61 3) 9258 3666 Sydney - Tel: (61 2) 9291 6100 Fax: (61 2) 9221 0872 Follow us on Twitter<http://twitter.com/#!/MaddocksLawyers> LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/company/16131> Please consider the environment before printing this email. ________________________________ The information in this electronic mail is privileged and confidential, intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, copying or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error please delete it immediately from your system and inform us by email on info(a)maddocks.com.au<mailto:info@maddocks.com.au> ________________________________

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False Alert (snmp)
by Laurence Mayer 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Hello, Today for no known reason we received the below alert in the "Recent Events" (and via email), everything on the switch appears to have been ok and could not find any issue that should have caused this alert. 6h 36m 15scisco10g1 cisco10g1 Device status changed to Up 6h 36m 16scisco10g1 cisco10g1 Device status changed to Down (snmp) Is there a timeout that may have caused this that i can increase to avoid false/positives? Thanks Laurence

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Ports Shown As Down
by Laurence Mayer 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

Hi, After a power outage, the front page (and Status Warnings and Notifications) is showing a Cisco device's Ports as Down, of all ports that have NO devices (workstations) connected. The alert I have defined (taken from the example) Port is enabled, but operationally down ifAdminStatus equals up ifOperStatus notequals up * ifType equals ethernetCsmacd I have run the poller.php multiple times with no success. Is there a default amount of time until these warnings will be cleared, is there a process that can be run to clear these alerts? Thanks Laurence

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Email Alerts Not Working
by Laurence Mayer 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

Hi, I have recently installed Observium and updated to the stable version. I have successfully configured a number of alerts, however despite the alerts being generated (I see them via the web gui) I do not receive them to email. Using test_alert.php -a 1 (see below) I am able to receive email, however the test email looks a little empty from what I would expect. I receive the following error, see below for the debug. *ERROR[Error in query: (Incorrect table name '') 1103]* Any guidance will be appreciated. Thanks Laurence ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALERT Modify <http://observiumsrv.istraresearch.com/device/tab=alert/> *Alert* *Entity* *Metrics* *Duration* Unknown Device *Device* <http://observiumsrv.istraresearch.com/device/> *Hardware* *Operating System* *Location* *Uptime* Never polled E-mail sent to: laurence@ <laurence(a)istraresearch.com>mydomain.com E-mail sent at: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:33:53 +0300 ./test_alert.php -a 1 Observium 0.16.7.8003 Test Alert Notification ##### Software versions ##### o OS Linux 3.5.0-23-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 12.04) o Apache 2.2.22 o PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.23 o Python 2.7.3 o MySQL 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 (extension: mysqli 5.5.46) o SNMP NET-SNMP 5.4.3 o RRDtool 1.4.7 ##### MySQL mode ##### o MySQL ##### Charset info ##### o PHP UTF-8 o MySQL utf8 ##### Timezones info ##### o Date Sunday, 31-Jul-16 16:33:53 IDT o PHP +03:00 o MySQL +03:00 o Notifying [email] : {"email":"laurence(a)mydomain.com"} root@observiumsrv:/opt/observium# ./test_alert.php -a 1 -d DEBUG! SQL[SELECT `attrib_value` FROM `observium_attribs` WHERE `attrib_type` = 'dbSchema';] SQL RUNTIME[0.00009990s] SQL[SELECT @@SESSION.sql_mode;] SQL RUNTIME[0.00012803s] SQL[SELECT `attrib_value` FROM `observium_attribs` WHERE `attrib_type` = 'current_rev';] SQL RUNTIME[0.00007296s] SQL[SELECT * FROM `config`] SQL RUNTIME[0.00008488s] CMD[/bin/hostname -f] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0017s] STDOUT[ observiumsrv.mydomain.com ] Observium 0.16.7.8003 Test Alert Notification CMD[/opt/observium/scripts/distro] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.038s] STDOUT[ Linux|3.5.0-23-generic|amd64|Ubuntu|12.04 ] CMD[/usr/bin/env python --version 2>&1] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0025s] STDOUT[ Python 2.7.3 ] SQL[SELECT version();] SQL RUNTIME[0.00017810s] CMD[/usr/bin/snmpget --version 2>&1] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.002s] STDOUT[ NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 ] CMD[/usr/bin/rrdtool --version |head -n1] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0036s] STDOUT[ RRDtool 1.4.7 Copyright 1997-2012 by Tobias Oetiker <tobi(a)oetiker.ch> ] CMD[date "+%:z"] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0016s] STDOUT[ +03:00 ] SQL[SELECT TIMEDIFF(NOW(), UTC_TIMESTAMP);] SQL RUNTIME[0.00012493s] CMD[/usr/bin/env apache2 -v | awk '/Server version:/ {print $3}'] CMD EXITCODE[0] CMD RUNTIME[0.0132s] STDOUT[ Apache/2.2.22 ] SQL[SELECT @@SESSION.sql_mode;] SQL RUNTIME[0.00013804s] SQL[SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set_connection'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00036120s] ##### Software versions ##### o OS Linux 3.5.0-23-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 12.04) o Apache 2.2.22 o PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.23 o Python 2.7.3 o MySQL 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 (extension: mysqli 5.5.46) o SNMP NET-SNMP 5.4.3 o RRDtool 1.4.7 ##### MySQL mode ##### o MySQL ##### Charset info ##### o PHP UTF-8 o MySQL utf8 ##### Timezones info ##### o Date Sunday, 31-Jul-16 16:34:23 IDT o PHP +03:00 o MySQL +03:00 SQL[SELECT * FROM `alert_tests` WHERE 1] SQL RUNTIME[0.00008202s] Cached 12 alert rules. SQL[SELECT * FROM `alert_assoc`] SQL RUNTIME[0.00006294s] SQL[SELECT * FROM `alert_table` WHERE `alert_table_id` = '1'] SQL RUNTIME[0.00006318s] SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = ''] SQL RUNTIME[0.00007415s] SQL[SELECT * FROM `` WHERE ``.`` = ''] SQL RUNTIME[0.00006485s] *ERROR[Error in query: (Incorrect table name '') 1103]* SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = ''] SQL RUNTIME[0.00009012s] SQL[SELECT * FROM `alert_contacts` WHERE `contact_disabled` = 0 AND `contact_id` IN (SELECT `contact_id` FROM `alert_contacts_assoc` WHERE `aca_type` = 'alert' AND `alert_checker_id` = '');] SQL RUNTIME[0.00006199s] o Notifying [email] : {"email":"laurence(a)mydomain.com"} SQL[UPDATE `alert_log` set `notified` ='1' WHERE `event_id` = ''] SQL RUNTIME[0.00025702s]

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Observium poller/discovery module descriptions
by Andrew.Jones＠kiewit.com 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

I have searched your webpage and FAQ and can't seem to find answer to my question: Do you guys have a list handy describing what each of the poller and discovery modules do exactly? $config['poller_modules']['system'] = 1; $config['discovery_modules']['os'] = 1; I am working on a new deployment of Observium and am trying to optimize it and configure some custom requirements and it would be helpful having some additional information regarding each module. Thank you!

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unix agent / squid app
by Daniel Horth 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

Howdy again. I am looking to add some graphs for squid performance metrics - wondering if there has been any work done on this to get me started or do I need to roll my own? Thanks

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Unable to see login in users in Observium
by Nilesh Mohankar 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Hello Team, I am beginner to install and configure Observium . I have installed Observium and added AP access point device but I am unable to see the login user on that device. Please help me to sort out this issue. Thanks & Regards, Nilesh G Mohankar Contact:9930086232 *"Always wear a smile, because your smile is a reason for many others to smile"*

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