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Slow poller speeds after migration
by Lyndon Labuschagne 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Hi All I have moved from a VM server to a physical server. as the VM was taking a bit of a pounding, graph dropouts etc The physical server is a dual quad core Xeon, 2.66Ghz with 128GB of RAM and a 32GB ramdisk, and rrdcache I also have 2.5TB or SAS storage in a raid6 config Will all of this my average poller-wrapper time is around 60 to 70 seconds per device if I manually run an snmpwalk a single device takes around 6 seconds I have also disabled the ramdisk, rrdcached etc and I am not seeing much of a difference either way I have around 900 devices and the VM server was way faster, any idea where to start looking for a bottleneck? Regards Lyndon

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The list archive enquiry meme
by Daniel Horth 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

https://alterslash.org/day/20160728#article-9452929 What about using the mail archive service linked at bottom of summary? Then again I wonder how long that will survive for.

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Re: [Observium] Syslog Rules
by Moerman, Maarten 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Hi, I’ve not seen that message yet. What does the rule look like? Maarten -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com<mailto:mmoerman@ebay.com> From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of Serghei Golipad <s.golipad(a)uk.cdw.com<mailto:s.golipad@uk.cdw.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 3:25 PM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Syslog Rules Hi Guys, Having issue with creating a syslog alert rule, getting the following error Failed to create new rule. Incorrect rule passed. Anyone else had this before? Thanks PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. CDW Limited is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of CDW Finance Holdings Limited. CDW Finance Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for CDW Limited trading as CDW. The registered office for CDW Finance Holdings Limited (Company Number 05872067) and its UK group undertakings is 10 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RB. VAT Registration 902 1949 39. Confidentiality: This e-mail contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail and then delete the original. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on any information contained in this e-mail. You must not inform any other person other than CDW or the sender of its existence. For more information about CDW please visit www.uk.cdw.com

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Syslog Rules
by Serghei Golipad 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Hi Guys, Having issue with creating a syslog alert rule, getting the following error Failed to create new rule. Incorrect rule passed. Anyone else had this before? Thanks PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. CDW Limited is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of CDW Finance Holdings Limited. CDW Finance Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for CDW Limited trading as CDW. The registered office for CDW Finance Holdings Limited (Company Number 05872067) and its UK group undertakings is 10 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RB. VAT Registration 902 1949 39. Confidentiality: This e-mail contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail and then delete the original. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on any information contained in this e-mail. You must not inform any other person other than CDW or the sender of its existence. For more information about CDW please visit www.uk.cdw.com

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Unix agent megaraid help
by Eduardo Schoedler 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Hi, I'm runnnig observium_agent on remote device and I'm receiving info about megaraid. # /usr/bin/observium_agent | grep -A8 "<<<megaraid" <<<megaraid_pdisks>>> adapter 0 Adapter #0 Enclosure Device ID: N/A Slot Number: 4 Enclosure position: 0 Device Id: 4 Raw Size: 136.732 GB [0x11177328 Sectors] -- <<<megaraid_ldisks>>> Adapter 0 -- Virtual Drive Information: Virtual Drive: 0 (Target Id: 0) Size : 136.125 GB State : Optimal Strip Size : 64 KB Number Of Drives : 2 <<<megaraid_bbu>>> BBU status for Adapter: 0 BatteryType: BBU Voltage: 3993 mV Current: 44 mA Temperature: 23 C But when I ran the discovery in the server, it shows: # ./poller.php -h remotehost -m unix-agent ___ _ _ / _ \ | |__ ___ ___ _ __ __ __(_) _ _ _ __ ___ | | | || '_ \ / __| / _ \| '__|\ \ / /| || | | || '_ ` _ \ | |_| || |_) |\__ \| __/| | \ V / | || |_| || | | | | | \___/ |_.__/ |___/ \___||_| \_/ |_| \__,_||_| |_| |_| Observium Professional 0.16.7.8013 http://www.observium.org ##### Starting polling run at 2016-07-28 02:19:55 ##### ##### remotehost [54] ##### o OS linux o OS Group unix o Last poll duration 1.13 seconds o Last Polled 2016-07-28 02:16:43 o SNMP Version v2c o Device status Device is reachable by PING (46.3ms) and SNMP (56.72ms) o Modules Enabled unix-agent, system, os ##### Module Start: unix-agent ##### Observium UNIX Agent: execution time: 535ms RPM Packages: ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... No include: No include: Observium No include: df No include: mounts No include: ps No include: mem No include: cpu No include: uptime No include: netif No include: lnx_if:sep(58) No include: tcp_conn_stats No include: multipath No include: md diskstats No include: kernel No include: netctr No include: megaraid_pdisks <=== No include: megaraid_ldisks <=== No include: megaraid_bbu <=== o Module time 0.5837s It was supposed to be working? Thanks. Regards, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Real time graphs on single page
by Nate Mellendorf 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

Observium team, We were curious if it's possible to display multiple real time graphs at once on a single page? It would be great if we could find the ones we want, enable the feature, and display them all full screen in our NOC. Do you know if this is possible, or if it's something on the road map? As the real time graph displays the device and interface name already, it seems like it would work well to just stack them. For now, we're having to load multiple pages in separate windows. Thanks in advance for your time and input on this. Keep up the great work! - Nate

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Alert check for device uptime
by Ben Maschke 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

Hi guys, I want to check whether an AP has rebooted or not (uptime less than 5 minutes). Can I use the following check condition? (Entity Type Device | Boolean ANY | Device * | Entity *) It's not working ... device_uptime less 300 Cheers

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Adding a new application - missing details
by Brad Bendy 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

I sent this Saturday but never got a copy, so im sending again, hope it's not a dupe! Hi, We are running unbound as two instances on our servers, one is a auth with a custom backend and one that is just caching. I have made a copy of all the files and updated names accordingly so they are unbound_auth* and unbound_cache*. Ive looked at the instructions on http://www.observium.org/docs/developing/add_app/ and have made all those changes as well. Under the main apps page how do I get a 2nd link to show up for the unbound app metrics im collecting? Ideally id have one that is Unbound-Auth and one that is Unbound-Cache. When I go under the properties for a server and then applications it shows nothing know as the "unbound" namespace is missing and is either unbound_auth or the unbound_cache (or unbound-auth and unbound-cache in those places). Ive looked around in various files and grep'd everywhere that I can think but can't find where this is at. Also I don't see anything in the database, so not sure what im missing. Thanks!

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Re: [Observium] Traffic accounting Spike Removal
by Cameron Murray 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

Guys, Just following this one up to see if anyone can provide some assistance? Regards, Cameron Murray Senior Communications Manager How am I doing? Please click here<http://www.techpath.com.au/contact-us/feedback/> to rate my work. [cid:image001.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] P 1300 033 300 F 07 3809 3999 E cameron(a)techpath.com.au<mailto:cameron@techpath.com.au> www.techpath.com.au<http://www.techpath.com.au> Unit 2/55 Tradelink Rd, Hillcrest QLD 4118 [cid:image002.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] [cid:image003.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] [cid:image004.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] Note: This message may contain privileged and confidential information that is the property of the intended recipient. The information herein is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, then you are requested to return e-mail to TechPath Pty Ltd and destroy any copies made. Copying or disseminating any of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of TechPath Pty Ltd. From: Cameron Murray Sent: Friday, 22 July 2016 11:04 AM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Traffic accounting Spike Removal Morning All, We've been trying to remove the spike from a Traffic accounting graph with no success. We have sun through the pl and php scripts however the spike remains: [cid:image006.png@01D1E675.D7581090] None of the interfaces this accounts for show the spike. Regards, Cameron Murray Senior Communications Manager How am I doing? Please click here<http://www.techpath.com.au/contact-us/feedback/> to rate my work. [cid:image001.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] P 1300 033 300 F 07 3809 3999 E cameron(a)techpath.com.au<mailto:cameron@techpath.com.au> www.techpath.com.au<http://www.techpath.com.au> Unit 2/55 Tradelink Rd, Hillcrest QLD 4118 [cid:image002.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] [cid:image003.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] [cid:image004.png@01D1E675.D75B44E0] Note: This message may contain privileged and confidential information that is the property of the intended recipient. The information herein is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, then you are requested to return e-mail to TechPath Pty Ltd and destroy any copies made. Copying or disseminating any of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of TechPath Pty Ltd.

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nvidia-smi
by Dano, Leo 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

Hello all, Trying to get info using nvidia-smi The small info on the docs site says to place the nvidia-smi script in the local dir, but what script are they talking about? http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#nvidia-smi NVidia SMI#<http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#nvidia-smi> Description#<http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#description_9> This script allows you to monitor the temperature of NVidia graphics/processing cards installed in your system. Example Graphs#<http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#example-graphs_7> Placeholder - to be updated soon. Requirements#<http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#requirements_6> The nvidia-smi package is required for this agent script. Make sure it works with your current nvidia driver by running nvidia-smi from the command line. Instructions#<http://www.observium.org/docs/apps/#instructions_9> Place the nvidia-smi script into the agent's local directory /usr/lib/observium_agent/local Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Event and alert dates show as 0s in summary tables
by Daniel Horth 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

Since updating my lab to pro version I am seeing 0s as time for events and alerts in rollup summary tables. https://www.dropbox.com/s/1zrlxmmocz393e0/Screenshot%202016-07-22%2012.55.1… When I hover over the 0s text it shows me the actual time https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmsjmgz6vzixdph/Screenshot%202016-07-22%2013.04.4… NB the alert from 14 hours ago was triggered when I was running CE version yesterday. All of the 0s alerts and events relate to activity since I switched to subscription version. Checking the eventlog and alertlog pages I see everything reported with correct timestamps. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5tauudx7kvdzfha/Screenshot%202016-07-22%2012.59.0… https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbflbyxhnkvspa4/Screenshot%202016-07-22%2013.00.1… Thanks for looking :) ---- Version Information Observium 0.16.7.7997 (20th July 2016) OS Linux 3.10.0-327.22.2.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7.2.1511) Apache 2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips PHP/5.4.16 mod_wsgi/3.4 Python/2.7.5 PHP 5.4.16 Python 2.7.5 MySQL 5.5.47-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.5.47-MariaDB) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.2 RRDtool 1.4.8

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Adding a application - missing details?
by Brad Bendy 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

Hi, We are running unbound as two instances on our servers, one is a auth with a custom backend and one that is just caching. I have made a copy of all the files and updated names accordingly so they are unbound_auth* and unbound_cache*. Ive looked at the instructions on http://www.observium.org/docs/developing/add_app/ and have made all those changes as well. Under the main apps page how do I get a 2nd link to show up for the unbound app metrics im collecting? Ideally id have one that is Unbound-Auth and one that is Unbound-Cache. When I go under the properties for a server and then applications it shows nothing know as the "unbound" namespace is missing and is either unbound_auth or the unbound_cache (or unbound-auth and unbound-cache in those places). Ive looked around in various files and grep'd everywhere that I can think but can't find where this is at. Also I don't see anything in the database, so not sure what im missing. Thanks!

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rrdtool 1.6.0 & graphs
by Eduardo Schoedler 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

Hi, Since I updated rrdtool to 1.6.0, there are some backslashes in the end of the line. [image: Imagem inline 1] # rrdtool RRDtool 1.6.0 Copyright by Tobias Oetiker <tobi(a)oetiker.ch> Compiled Jul 16 2016 01:53:16 # uname -a FreeBSD srv 10.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed May 4 06:03:51 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Thanks. -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Device's port properties button
by Eduardo Schoedler 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hi, Is there any chances to restore the old behaviour of the "Enabled & Down" button in Port properties? This button was used to toogle do "No" in port's Alerts. Gif attached. Thanks, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Getting different results for same interface in original port and the billing port sections
by Arya, Renuka [MED] 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hi there, I am seeing different throughput results for the same port at two different section of the Observium GUI: The Port summary shows that the the throughput we were getting between 08 Jul to 18 Jul was almost ~ 8 Gbps (in each direction. However, the bill says it was ~ 6 Gbps between that period. Not sure, which one is reporting it correctly. I would expect both of them to match exactly. Thanks! Regards Renuka ******************************************************************************** This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this e-mail message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and destroy all copies of the transmittal. Thank you University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences ********************************************************************************

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Re: [Observium] Frequent drop outs from WebUI
by Roland Schwingel 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hi... No idea where my problem (see below) could come from? Thanks for your help, Roland "observium" <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> wrote on 20.07.2016 10:20:10: > From: Roland Schwingel <roland.schwingel(a)onevision.com> > To: observium(a)observium.org > Date: 20.07.2016 10:22 > Subject: [Observium] Frequent drop outs from WebUI > Sent by: "observium" <observium-bounces(a)observium.org> > > Hi... > > I am running Observium for quite a while now. But there is one thing > that bugs me. I first thought this is a bug and would be fixed at some > time but I am updating Observium frequently from svn yet with no change. > > I am frequently dropped out of Observium with an authentication error. > I log in (with LDAP authbackend) just fine. But sometimes after 30 > minutes, sometimes even after a few seconds I am dropped out of > Observium. When I click the "Remember me" (Cookie) button this lasts > a little longer. Sometimes I am immediately kicked directly after > logging in. This is also logged in Observiums "Authentication log" > as "Authentication Failure" in the very same second as the "Logged in" > event occured. > > Is anything known about this? Or is it just a nifty PHP config variable > about session handling I forgot to set? > > Thanks for your help, > > Roland > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Traffic accounting Spike Removal
by Cameron Murray 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Morning All, We've been trying to remove the spike from a Traffic accounting graph with no success. We have sun through the pl and php scripts however the spike remains: [cid:image001.png@01D1E408.BAC99760] None of the interfaces this accounts for show the spike. Regards, Cameron Murray Senior Communications Manager How am I doing? Please click here<http://www.techpath.com.au/contact-us/feedback/> to rate my work. [cid:image002.png@01D1E408.BAC99760] P 1300 033 300 F 07 3809 3999 E cameron(a)techpath.com.au<mailto:cameron@techpath.com.au> www.techpath.com.au<http://www.techpath.com.au> Unit 2/55 Tradelink Rd, Hillcrest QLD 4118 [cid:image003.png@01D1E408.BAC99760] [cid:image004.png@01D1E408.BAC99760] [cid:image005.png@01D1E408.BAC99760] Note: This message may contain privileged and confidential information that is the property of the intended recipient. The information herein is intended only for use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, then you are requested to return e-mail to TechPath Pty Ltd and destroy any copies made. Copying or disseminating any of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of TechPath Pty Ltd.

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Alert checker sending email notifications every polling round
by Daniel Horth 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hi all I have an odd alerting issue where I am receiving email alerts about a failed check each time a polling interval passes. Checking the alert_table for the device_id in question I see that it has_alerted = 1 and everything else appears to be in order. Wondering why I am getting repeated alerts, pretty sure with my other alerts I have configured I only get one when the alert triggers and another if the ‘send recovery information” option is checked. Any advice on how to troubleshoot this would be appreciated. I have tried disassociating my email address from the alert and also rebuilt alerts. Thanks

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Google map not showing devices after fresh install of Subscription Version
by Dano, Leo 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Finally got everything to work, well at least I thought. Ldap, alerts, etc are all good now. Except I just get a blue map with no host locations. I made sure to put my location in each host properties. Any thoughts? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Call to undefined function check_valid_sensors() on IPMI & Unix-agent polling
by Oliver Baker 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hi there, When polling with either IPMI or unix-agent modules enabled, the polling run stops with this error: Sensors: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function check_valid_sensors() in /opt/observium/includes/polling/unix-agent.inc.php on line 174 I've updated to the latest non-stable release, and no change. I've also historically had this issue and cleared my /opt/observium directory and re-installed but no change. Any ideas? Happy to provide more info if needed. Many thanks Olly

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Adding users for alerts?
by Dano, Leo 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hello all, Is there any way to add multiple users to receive the alerts? Right now, in the config.php it sends all alerts to myself. Is there a way to add users via the webpage? I am using ldap auth. Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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NetApp c-DOT updates
by Jesper Frank Nemholt 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hi! I just updated to 7961 and saw that NetApp c-Dot is now reporting volumes like it has done for long on OnTAP 7. Great :-) However, the total and used capacity are all 0, so something with the Index is wrong or simply not done yet. Anyone knows if this is a known issue and being worked on, or ? /Jesper

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Re: [Observium] Steps to add custom oid
by Moerman, Maarten 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi Steve, What do you mean, not getting any data? You said the graphs show up fine? Care to share a screenshot? Also copying the mibs doesn’t work, as this is custom OIDs, the whole meaning behind it, is that you don’t need the MIBs for that. Maarten Moerman From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of "Kramling, Steven" <Steve.Kramling(a)Sensus.com<mailto:Steve.Kramling@Sensus.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 5:18 PM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Steps to add custom oid Hi, I could use some guidance here. I have recently upgraded to the subscription version of Observium so that I could add some custom oids to graph. I am running on CentOS 7. I followed the guide here: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=649 No problem adding the oids and applying them to the devices. Graphs show up fine but I cannot get any data. I have also copied the MIBs to the /opt/observium/mibs directory. The MIBs have a *.txt extension on them. I have tried removing this but still no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Steve

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Steps to add custom oid
by Kramling, Steven 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi, I could use some guidance here. I have recently upgraded to the subscription version of Observium so that I could add some custom oids to graph. I am running on CentOS 7. I followed the guide here: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=649 No problem adding the oids and applying them to the devices. Graphs show up fine but I cannot get any data. I have also copied the MIBs to the /opt/observium/mibs directory. The MIBs have a *.txt extension on them. I have tried removing this but still no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Steve

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JpGraph
by Michaël MORELIERE 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi, I try to install jpgraph. I follow the instruction : No Jpgraph installed *Jpgraph has been removed from the Observium repositories and must now be installed separately* * Please download from http://jpgraph.net/download/ and unpack to html/includes/jpgraph. * Remove the theme definition from the bottom of html/includes/jpgraph/src/jpg-config.inc.php when I refresh the page a get a jpgraph error 25121. Anyone can help me on this ? -- Michaël MORELIERE

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A few Q's for the roadmap...IS-IS support, data sources, etc.
by Aaron Finney 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

I know this has been asked/answered, but the whole archives thing...what's the history behind [the lack of] support for IS-IS data in Observium, are there any plans to add it at any point, and would it be of value to anyone else? Even basics like warning on adjacency changes, tracking neighbors over time, etc. would be great...I would personally find it of value for an additional sanity check during maintenances or outages - an ISIS health overview tab for a device with the ISO address/area, participating interfaces, and stats. Generalizing the data pool: any current thoughts around creating an abstraction layer between Observium and its data source? Mysql as the sole backend presents some challenges for us in trying to scale Observium to production. OBQL? :) Sort-of on the tails of that last question, has there been any discussion about adapting Observium to take advantage of network devices which emit metrics using thrift/protobuf? E.g. using some other data pipeline/collection system as a data source...or even doing the collection itself and doing the necessary quantization/processing to produce a useable view. Last one in that train of thought, any thoughts around incorporating additional data collectors other than simple snmp polling (e.g. facebook's udppinger or fbtracert)? Aaron -- *Aaron Finney*Network Engineer | OpenX 888 East Walnut Street, 2nd Floor | Pasadena, CA 91101 o: +1 (626) 466-1141 x6035 | aaron.finney(a)openx.com *Advertising Age Best Places to Work <http://openx.com/press-releases/openx-named-as-one-of-advertising-ages-top-…>* *Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™ <http://openx.com/press-releases/openx-ranked-3rd-fastest-growing-software-c…>* www.openx.com <http://www.openx.com/>| Twitter <http://twitter.com/openx>| Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/OpenX>| LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/company/openx/products>| YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/openxvideos>

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Observium Mailinglist archive gone?
by Roland Schwingel 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi... I just wanted to browse the mailinglist archive but it is not working. Just shows a 404 page. From Observium.org I have opened http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium This still worked. But clicking on "observium archives" directs me to http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/ which is not found. Roland

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Alert for port-channel summary?
by Laszlo Nemeth 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hello, We have Cisco Nexus switches with VPC configuration. On the switches are configured a portchannel (in VPC with 2x10G ethernet) to the same 3. device. The problem is: I would like to create an alert if the traffic to the 3. device more than 8G I have to get an alert. Now because the 2 nexus just show only the own port-channel traffic, if one portchannel traffic on switch#1 is 6G and on the switch#2 is 5G the 8G alert doesn’t work. But because of the redundancy in this case I have to get an alert because the aggregated traffic is 11G (and if one of the 10G goes down this traffic is overloaded). The alert is: Test: ifOutOctets_perc gt 80 Device Match / Entity Match Hostname match *switch* ifAlias match *to 3. device* So it cover the switch#1 and switch#2 and the port-channel interfaces with description “2x10G to 3. device” but this alert check the port-channels like a line not an aggregated traffic. Is there any option to add two device’s interfaces and create an alert for this summary? Or can I create an alert for a port group aggregated traffic? This would be great in this case too. Thanks BR Laszlo

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Frequent drop outs from WebUI
by Roland Schwingel 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi... I am running Observium for quite a while now. But there is one thing that bugs me. I first thought this is a bug and would be fixed at some time but I am updating Observium frequently from svn yet with no change. I am frequently dropped out of Observium with an authentication error. I log in (with LDAP authbackend) just fine. But sometimes after 30 minutes, sometimes even after a few seconds I am dropped out of Observium. When I click the "Remember me" (Cookie) button this lasts a little longer. Sometimes I am immediately kicked directly after logging in. This is also logged in Observiums "Authentication log" as "Authentication Failure" in the very same second as the "Logged in" event occured. Is anything known about this? Or is it just a nifty PHP config variable about session handling I forgot to set? Thanks for your help, Roland

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JunOS autodiscovery where SNMP is in a routing-instance
by Jason Lixfeld 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi, I’ve been reading up on how to interact with a JunOS device where the SNMP agent is contained in a VRF (Routing Instance). In order to poll it properly, I’m required to use '<Routing_Instance_Name>@commmunity' instead of just ‘community’. I think I’ve covered this off in the config.php by adding the equivalent to the proper array: $config['snmp']['community'] = array(“comm",”MANAGEMENT@comm”); While reading up on the autodiscovery process itself in the documentation, it says: "Devices must return valid, resolvable sysName” When I poll it manually, sysName returns <Routing_Instance_Name>@hostname: SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: MANAGEMENT(a)lab01.juniper Does that mean MANAGEMENT(a)lab01.juniper needs to resolve, or will Observium truncate MANAGEMENT@ when trying to resolve the rest of what is in sysName? Thanks!

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Turn off the map?
by Sean Drury 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hi All, I've looked through http://www.observium.org/docs/config_options/ a few times now and can see options for maps - I don't need to use the map feature so how do I turn it off? That is, remove it from the front page? Regards, Sean. This email has been scanned by the ES1000.

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Re: [Observium] New Community Edition Date
by ron＠rjr-services.com 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

New community editions are released not less than 60 days after the last person to ask about a community release. Your inquiry has reset the 60 day counter. ;-) (just kidding!!!!!) Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Andrew White <andywhite(a)gmail.com> Date: 7/19/16 2:41 PM (GMT-06:00) To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] New Community Edition Date -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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New Community Edition Date
by Andrew White 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hi, Is there a date for the next community edition ? All I can see is that there should be one every 6 months, and last was 26th Jan. Thanks ! Loving Observium ! Andy

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Google map does not show
by Nixon, Anthony S. 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Worked during installed. Now map does not show with "Oops! Something went wrong. The page didn't load Google Maps correctly. See the JavaScript console for technical details." Is this an api issue? How to fix or update to get working? Using Observium CE 0.16.1.7533 ----------------------------------------- This message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the addressee and contains information that is PROPRIETARY and CONFIDENTIAL. It may be used only by the addressee and may not be divulged without the express consent of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately. Thank you.

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Port description
by MTiVi＠google 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hello, all! If I use port description like "Peering: something [40Mbit]" how can I use speed in Observium? Does interface speed (from IfAlias) saved to DB? I expect that I can see traffic graph and select scale to this speed. http://observium.org/docs/port_descr_parsing/

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Making an alert for mapped interfaces
by Heston Kan 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hey All, I want to create an alert if any interface between two managed/discovered devices in Observium. This includes switchers and routers, servers...etc. I'd also like these to be based on Observium's device Mapping that is available per device. In the checker conditions I'd put hostname matches * but under the checker device and entity association. There's no entity for mapped devices whether it be via CDP/LLDP or detected from observium itself. Perhaps I'm missing the obvious. Thanks! Heston

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Subscription Version not showing "Storage" correctly?
by Dano, Leo 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello all, I have two instances of Observium running with two different hostnames. One is Community and one is the Subscription version. My Community version on is showing storage correctly. My Subscription version is not. All the partitions are showing as 100% free and green when I know / can't be 0bytes as well as all other partitions. Is this a bug? Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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How does SYSLOG Alerting work?
by Сережка Хомяков 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello! Thanks for higly awaited feature with SYSLOG alerting! Just playing with it, I was unable to make it working (of course, with knowledge of PCRE). The example of my test Alert was based on *SYS-5-CONFIG_I:Configured* message from IOS router. Can you advice on how the regexp should look like and how does SYSLOG Alerter work - on a poll or triggered on a log receipt? -- Best, Sergey

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alert 'time of recovery' reports recovery of previous recovery...
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello This was touched upon in another discussion but as a sidetrack no solution was found. Pretty much all my alerts 'time or recovery' reports the time of this entities PREVIOUS recovery. So the time reported are always pretty bonkers. I can see that with the help of timestamp on the emails , slack notifications and the timestamp of previous recovery. And for the very first recovery of a device/sensor the duration is list as "unknown". Any idea of what's going on and what I can kick on to make it work properly? =) Cheers and thanks -- Henrik Cednert cto | compositor Filmlance International | www.filmlance.se mobile [ + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 ] skype [ cednert ]

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Alert on device status = degraded
by Daniel Horth 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Howdy all I have a steelhead that is showing “Degraded” status in Observium due to a power supply issue. In Observium I can see the status “degraded” at this location: https://observium/device/device=12/tab=health/metric=status/id=123/ I can also see that the status changed 8 days ago. DB sample:  <database name="observium">  <table name="status"> <column name="status_id">123</column> <column name="status_deleted">0</column> <column name="device_id">12</column> <column name="poller_type">snmp</column> <column name="status_oid">.1.3.6.1.4.1.17163.1.1.2.7.0</column> <column name="status_mib">NULL</column> <column name="status_object">NULL</column> <column name="status_index">systemHealth.0</column> <column name="status_type">steelhead-system-state</column> <column name="status_descr">System Health</column> <column name="entPhysicalIndex">NULL</column> <column name="entPhysicalClass">chassis</column> <column name="entPhysicalIndex_measured">NULL</column> <column name="measured_class">NULL</column> <column name="measured_entity">NULL</column> <column name="status_ignore">0</column> <column name="status_disable">0</column> </table>  <table name="status-state"> <column name="status_id">123</column> <column name="status_value">30000</column> <column name="status_polled">1468819524</column> <column name="status_last_change">1468104632</column> <column name="status_event">alert</column> <column name="status_name">degraded</column> </table> </database> I am trying to set up an alert in Observium such that when a device status / System Health changes I am notified. Is there a way to access values from status-state table in setting up alerts? Thanks

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pps metic
by Matthias Cramer 16 Jul '16

16 Jul '16

Hi There Is there a metric for normal packets per second and not only unicast packets (ifInUcastPkts_rate) and also a metric for non unicast packets per second. According to the doc at http://www.observium.org/docs/entities/#metrics_1 this is not existent... I would like to make an alert on high pps and if possible on high non unicast pps. Any hint is appreciated. Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zurich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Tripp-lite UPS Alerts
by Johnston, Tom 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

I’m trying to set up alerting for our tripplite when it goes on battery. I cannot get it to work properly for some reason. Entity Type: Status Check Conditions: upsOutputSource.0 ne normal Device Match: os eq poweralert Entity Match: * Observium Version: 0.16.7.7983 (professional) -A debug from observium yields a value of: upsOutputSource.0 = normal (the normal changes to state of “Battery” when on battery) -Even if I change my check conditions to eq normal to test the alert it does not trigger an alert. -I also tried check conditions of * and that did not help. Also we lost power and the event log showed the following: -Also tried just upsOutputSource (without the .0) Source of Output Power<http://epsobservium.isd273.org/device/device=337/tab=health/metric=status/i…> Status Alert: hs-6509-ups.isd273.org Source of Output Power entered ALERT state: battery (previous: normal) Any help would be appreciated -Tom

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Setting up LDAP Auth
by Dano, Leo 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Hello all, Anyone care to share your config settings? I am having a hard time setting this up. Please remove your domain info in the reply. /opt/observium/config.php Thanks, ----------------------- Leo Dano

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Toner History Graphs
by Richard Franks 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

I have a bit of an odd one. I have two printers in my observium install. One has been in for ages (an HP laser jet), the other I added a couple of weeks ago (A sharp MFD photocopier thingy). By the looks of things, the HP has been collecting data correctly for ages, and graphing it nicely. I can see the pretty line that shows that the toner has reduced over time. Oddly, it stopped collecting on the 7th July, and hasn’t graphed anything since then. The Sharp, which has been in less time (since Thursday 7th), has never graphed its toner properly. They are both showing the correct level of toner (well, the Sharp is showing two of them at -3, but I’ve checked the snmp output, and it’s returning -3, so that’s nothing to do with observium). Even more weirdly, the toner level on the weekly graph is showing the correct number. The rest show -nan% The Sharp: The HP: I don’t know much about how the graphing side of things works, so I don’t have much knowledge with which to do any debugging, but happy to send more debug info if required! Thanks, Richard

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Exim Volume Count
by Tiago Reis 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Hi, There is anyone here that already create on the exim service for Observium something that reads the volume of sends an not the mail queue? Kind Regards, Tiago Reis

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Incorrect free physical memory for Unix hosts
by Oliver Baker 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Hi, Loving Observium in general but the only issue I'm having is that for all our Unix-like hosts the free memory is reported too literally to be useful. The cached memory pool is included in the "used memory" count, causing almost all our hosts to appear as having less than 5% free physical memory. Is there a way to get free memory not including the cached memory pool? Currently the alert checker I'm using is flagging all our hosts as "out of memory" Many thanks in advance Oliver B

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Hello world
by Daniel Horth 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

Hi all I have some questions to ask however wanted to search archives first. Checking the archives page: http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/ seems to be cactus at the moment. Is this a known issue. Are there archives available anywhere else? Thanks Dan -- Daniel Horth AU +61 458 248 588 USA + 1 505 552 2074 Denmark + 45 50 22 89 55

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Request for HWg-PWR MIB Support
by Gumilar Siegfried 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

Hello, could you please add support for the HWg-PWR Devices? http://www.hw-group.com/products/HWg-PWR/hwg-pwr25_M-bus_gateway_en.html You are already supporting another device from this manufacturer: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-512 :) Enclosed I am sending you the MIB File, snmpwalk output and the OID Table directly exported from the device GUI. Thanks in advance! Siegfried

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Request for Nutanix MIB support
by Fredrik Winäs 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

Hi It would be awesome if there could be support for Nutanix on Observium. And their Hypervisor Acropolis (KVM based) https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Web_Console_Guide-A… When I add my Nutanix CVM's (the controller VM that handles everything)it shows as a generic Linux machine. What can I do to help? Med Vänlig Hälsning Fredrik Winäs tel +46 31 762 02 43 fredrik.winas(a)cgit.se<mailto:fredrik.winas@cgit.se> www.cgit.se<http://www.cgit.se/> CGit AB Taljegårdsgatan 11C SE-431 53 Mölndal

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Adding devices by IP address instead of hostname
by Darcy Marshall 09 Jul '16

09 Jul '16

Is there a way of adding devices to Observium by IP address (without having a FQDN with DNS for it)? If not, could I do it by editing the values in the database? — Spydar007

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