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VMs Tab missing
by Matt Zillmann 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello everyone, I am having a bizarre issue with one of my hosts. I have a cluster of hosts for a VMware ESXI 6 environment and have discovered and polled them successfully. However, there is one host that is not displaying the VMs tab. Has anyone had a similar issue before? I have the latest version of the subscription edition of Observium running on CentOS7. Thanks, Matt.

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Alerts for QNAP storage
by Matt Zillmann 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello all, I am working on setting up alerting for a QNAP storage device. I have the latest version of the subscription version of Observium. What I would like is to be able to have Observium send me an email when a hard drive fails. The drives show up under the status portion of the device page. Any idea of how to set this up (if possible)? Thanks, Matt.

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Re: [Observium] Bogus Sensor Alerts?
by Christian Gerbrandt 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Did some tweaking. When I click on the link, this is the URL which opens: /health/metric=sensors/event=alert%2Cwarning/ Showing nothing. Same for ignored: /health/metric=sensors/event=ignore/ But when I change the URL a bit like this: /health/metric=sensors/state=Down I can see the 12 alerts (which are from a Device I ignore anyway). Changed the polling as well now so they are no longer reported. But it looks like there is a problem with the URL being created on the main overview page. On Feb 01, 2016, at 02:41 PM, Christian Gerbrandt <derchris(a)me.com> wrote: Hi, Today I checked some stuff in Observium. I can see the overview on the main page for Devices, Ports and Sensors. With the Sensors it is showing me 12 alert in the Down column. Clicking on the link doesn't show anything. Checking all Sensors, I can see some in red, but only 4 in total. Anyone knows what this is, or how I can get this fixed. Thanks, Christian

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observium and Sophos Puremessage MIBS
by Watson Kamanga 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

HI Any one monitoring Sophos Puremessage using observium . I will to like to display all the other telemetry from the box , at the moment all i have is ping response . Regards Watson

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Bogus Sensor Alerts?
by Christian Gerbrandt 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi, Today I checked some stuff in Observium. I can see the overview on the main page for Devices, Ports and Sensors. With the Sensors it is showing me 12 alert in the Down column. Clicking on the link doesn't show anything. Checking all Sensors, I can see some in red, but only 4 in total. Anyone knows what this is, or how I can get this fixed. Thanks, Christian

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SNMP Error
by Andrew Colin 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi Guys Since the latest update on the pro edition on 2 debian servers we get the following when Observium tryies to walk to them They are running Debian 7.9 3.10.0-8-pve imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 12028 due to rate-limiting now Observium is unable to query them any ideas why?

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switch missing interface data
by Simon Smith 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi All not sure if this is a bug or maybe something wrong with our switch? we added a TP-Link 8 port gigabit switch to monitor as we wanted to see what data we could get for some reason, observium has listed all interfaces as Ethernet Interface ? also it appears the vlans are also being found as lans, as well ? no port 1 port 2 etc just Ethernet Interface and Vlan ? what ive also found is on the interfaces page the plans are showing these blue arrows with the ethernet interface name ? never seen it before? any ideas? attached is screenshots, poller log and discovery log if people what help :) Simon

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Disable email notification every 5 minutes
by Laszlo Nemeth 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello I installed the latest CE (0.16.1.7533) and set up some alerts with email notification. It is working great, but now i get lot of mails in every 5 minutes from the same alerts. Can i set up that get email only when the alarm caused or resolved? So just 2 mails (or get mails in X minutes (e.g. In every 1 hors) not in every 5 minutes? Thanks! Laszlo

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SNMP Trap based Notifications
by Gagandeep Mann 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Is there any way to configure OSPF Link Down Alert/Notification. Can we generate Notifications based on SNMP traps or any alternate based on Syslog. Best regards Gagandeep Mann ________________________________ This E-Mail may contain Confidential and/or legally privileged Information and is meant for the intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this e-mail in error and are not the intended recipient/s, Kindly notify the sender and then delete this e-mail immediately from your system. You are also hereby notified that any use, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail, its contents or its attachment/s other than by its intended recipient/s is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Internet Communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be delayed, intercepted, corrupted, lost, or contain viruses. Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited does not accept any liability for any errors, omissions, viruses or computer problems experienced by any recipient as a result of this e-mail.

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Billing problem
by Eduardo Schoedler 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi, Quick graphs isn't showing the graph: [image: Imagem inline 1] [image: Imagem inline 2] This billing have 2 interfaces, which I disabled it in a few minutes ago: [image: Imagem inline 3][image: Imagem inline 4] But I have data for the last 24 hours, so why the Billing View graph is errored? Thank you. Regards, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Friendly names for devices/hosts and interfaces/ports
by Juan Asensio Sánchez 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi, is there any option to add friendly names to hosts and interfaces? For example, our hostnames are normalized (lx0001), so I would like to show them in Observium as pro-jboss-1, px-mysql-3, dev-apache-6, etc. and see them in all places, next to the hostname, Is this possible? The same for host interfaces, por example, eth0 or eno16780032 to be shown as "service", "management", "backend", "backup", "storage", etc. We have a paid subscription, is there any kind of development included?

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Re: [Observium] Hostname change
by Christian Gerbrandt 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Thanks, that did the trick ;) On Jan 28, 2016, at 03:13 PM, Simon Smith <simonsmith5521(a)gmail.com> wrote: i believe u looking for this root@observium:~# /opt/observium/rename_device.php Observium 0.16.1.7538 Rename Device USAGE: rename_device.php <old hostname> <new hostname> OPTIONS: -p Skip icmp echo checks, device renamed only by SNMP checks DEBUGGING OPTIONS: -d Enable debugging output. -dd More verbose debugging output. Simon On 28 Jan 2016, at 3:04 pm, Christian Gerbrandt <derchris(a)me.com> wrote: Hi, when I setup Observium for the first time, I used a local only DNS setup. In the meantime, we created a corporate wide DNS setup for our Lab. Old devices are still available, but obviously show up with their old hostname. Is there an easy way to change the hostname of a device? Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ 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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Images in alerts
by Anders Johansson 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi, I've seen that alerts include an image, base encoded in the actual html file, but the image is never displayed. Now I'm using that Redmond build software to read mails, perhaps that's why it's not working? Anyone else with outlook who can see the graph included in the alerts? //Anders

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db.log errors
by Anders Johansson 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi, I've on a fresh install of observium, from the latest SVN (not the stable) I'm seeing errors in the SQL log, mostly duplicate entry of various kinds: [2016/01/29 06:07:11 +0100] poller.php(17259): Failed dbQuery (#1062 - Duplicate entry '17-2-984be1747168-4934' for key 'dev_vlan_mac_port'), Query: INSERT INTO `vlans_fdb` (`device_id`,`vlan_id`,`port_id`,`mac_address`,`fdb_status`) VALUES ('17','2','4934','XXXXXXXXXX','learned') But also: [2016/01/28 16:01:05 +0100] (5756): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column '' in 'field list'), Query: SELECT `` FROM `slas` WHERE `device_id` = '24'; [2016/01/28 16:01:05 +0100] (5756): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column '' in 'field list'), Query: SELECT `` FROM `pseudowires` WHERE `device_id` = '24'; [2016/01/28 16:01:05 +0100] (5756): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'device_id' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT `alert_test_id` FROM `alert_tests` WHERE `device_id` = '24'; [2016/01/28 16:01:05 +0100] (5756): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'device_id' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT `maint_id` FROM `alerts_maint` WHERE `device_id` = '24'; [2016/01/28 16:01:05 +0100] (5756): Failed dbQuery (#1054 - Unknown column 'device_id' in 'where clause'), Query: SELECT `group_id` FROM `groups` WHERE `device_id` = '24'; I guess the 2:th errors are just possible to ignore if logic has changed, but the first ones are a bit worrying, perhaps there is a mismatch in the MySQL? (I'm on RHEL 6.7) //Anders

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Observium: Pre-auth and security questions
by Nate Mellendorf 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Tom, Thank you for your input. This has been a bit of a learning experience for me. After researching and playing around with Apache, I was able to enable basic authentication using htpasswd. When I attempt to access Observium, I'm prompted for credentials as expected. Once I login with the creds I've configured, I land at the Observium form based authentication page. I'm trying to pass the username and password provided to htpasswd, and send them to Observium on the backend. As you noted earlier, It seems like I should be able to do this with the remote user variable. However, I can't seem to get it to work. I've listed my current virtual host config below. I enabled a2enmod headers and restarted Apache with no luck. I'm curious if you know if there's something I'm missing. I'll keep digging and working away at this, but I thought I'd provide an update to the mailing list. Other users may find it helpful if we sort it out. Many thanks, <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/ CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log <Directory "/opt/observium/html/"> AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Content" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd Require valid-user Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{ENV:REMOTE_USER} (.+) RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-User %{ENV:REMOTE_USER}e </Directory> </VirtualHost> - NM -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 6:11 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 66, Issue 96 Send observium mailing list submissions to <mailto:observium@observium.org> observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <mailto:observium-request@observium.org> observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at <mailto:observium-owner@observium.org> 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: Observium: Pre-auth and security questions (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:10:43 +0100 From: Tom Laermans < <mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx> tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> To: Observium Network Observation System < <mailto:observium@observium.org> observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium: Pre-auth and security questions Message-ID: < <mailto:569ADC03.1000002@powersource.cx> 569ADC03.1000002(a)powersource.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Hi Nate, We support trusting Apache with the auth (ie mod_auth_kerb, mod_auth_ldap, htpasswd, etc) by using its supplied REMOTE_USER variable - this works with at least the LDAP and MySQL backends; if your SSO setup could fill in these fields, you should be good. This bypasses our login forms of course. I use SSO with Kerberos (AD) tickets, handled by mod_auth_kerb. We also have an http-auth backend, but I don't think that will do what you want it to. There's also a CAS backend, fairly new, I have no idea how to use it but I don't think it could work with your netscaler setup. Tom On 16/01/2016 23:52, Nate Mellendorf wrote: > > Good evening everyone, > > I?ve been trying to configure Observium with a forms based SSO solution. > > My reasoning for this, is that I?d like to minimize the attack surface > for Observium when published to the Internet. > > As Observium supports groups, I thought it would be extremely > beneficial for clients to view their throughput at anytime from anywhere. > > I was curious if anyone in the community is using pre-authentication, > or if you?re publishing Observium directly to the Internet. > > I?m not as familiar with Apache and PHP, so hardening the service > through pre-auth seemed like a good first step. > > Unfortunately, I can?t quite get pre-auth to work. Observium uses > forms based authentication, which is hard to capture on the platform > I?m using. > > Here?s a link, if you?re curious on how I?m trying to capture it: > > <http://fritsesblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/link-to-netscaler-form-sso-kb> http://fritsesblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/link-to-netscaler-form-sso-kb. > html > > If I could get Observium to use basic authentication, I think I could > get it to work. Do we know if this is possible? A better question, is > pre-auth even necessary here? > > Aside from HTTPS, iptables, firewalling, and locking down SSH/root, > what other steps do you take to secure your Observium server? Do you > think that allowing Internet access is unwise at this time? > > Thank you for any input on insight into this. This is a concern of > mine that I?m trying to address. > > Your suggestions and opinions are very much appreciated. > > Regards, > > - NM > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > <mailto:observium@observium.org> observium(a)observium.org > <http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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does anyone else use http-auth ? . [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) FCoA ITS peter.hine(a)familycourt.gov.au ********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail (including any attachments) is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. It is noted that legal privilege is not waived because you have read this e-mail. **********************************************************************

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unset locations and missing location on drop down [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

ver: CE 0.16.1.7533 The two attached pictures show that i have 11 devices with unset location, which is strange as i've not added any equipment. when clicking on the location UNSET, i get the second picture, which is "No devices found". the other thing to note is when selecting the location drop down, it only shows up to Townsville. I have one more, Wollongong. So it appears to be showing $count locations not $count+1 (+1 for the UNSET entry) Wollongong is not listed out of alpha order. Selecting Wollongong from the Locations menu correctly shows equipment in the results, but still doesn't list Wollongong in the Locations drop down. (Embedded image moved to file: pic60288.gif) (Embedded image moved to file: pic64895.gif) thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) FCoA ITS peter.hine(a)familycourt.gov.au ********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail (including any attachments) is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. It is noted that legal privilege is not waived because you have read this e-mail. **********************************************************************

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Sensors changing precision/scale
by Michael 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Has anybody encountered devices that change their scale/precision whenever they feel like it? We have some that now behave this way after a recent software upgrade. We think it's a vendor bug (in this instance, Bluecoat), but might be prudent to catch the changing precision value during the poll. Currently it looks like the precision is detected once and stored in the db. Then subsequent polling is only adjusted based on the original precision value. I've attached a graph and some walks showing the behaviour...

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device urls by hostname not id. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Peter.Hine＠familycourt.gov.au 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Vers: CE 0.16.1.7533 I've found that editing html/includes/entities/device.inc.php, line 478 return generate_url(array('page' => 'device', 'device' => $device ['device_id']), $vars); -> return generate_url(array('page' => 'device', 'device' => $device ['hostname']), $vars); produces urls that are hostname based. The questions are: was this the right place ? was there a variable somewhere i had to turn on to make this happen ? thanks Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) FCoA ITS peter.hine(a)familycourt.gov.au ********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail (including any attachments) is for the exclusive use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. It is noted that legal privilege is not waived because you have read this e-mail. **********************************************************************

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CE 0.16.1.7533 graph errors
by Roland Hill 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Hi, Firstly, a big thanks to the Dev team for releasing the latest CE version; very much appreciated. Since the upgrade my "Custom traffic graphs" just have the "Error drawing graph" message. Secondly, I also note the SNMP Statistic graphs on all devices have the same message. As I just use Observium on my home network "because I can" none of this is critical for me but I'd thought I'd pass on my observations. Thanks again for the release (my DD-WRT devices now report correctly ;-)). -- Regards, Roland PGP Key 0xDA39319B = BCF0 1214 BAE9 5A3D 46FC 21A6 360D 9398 DA39 319B

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Hostname change
by Christian Gerbrandt 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Hi, when I setup Observium for the first time, I used a local only DNS setup. In the meantime, we created a corporate wide DNS setup for our Lab. Old devices are still available, but obviously show up with their old hostname. Is there an easy way to change the hostname of a device? Regards, Christian

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device down alerts
by Serghei Golipad 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Guys, I've disabled ICMP checks yet I'm still getting device down alert "ping failed". Is there something special I need to do to fix this? Cheers PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. Kelway (UK) Ltd is a Company registered in England and Wales. This email is sent for and on behalf of Kelway Holdings Limited. Kelway Holdings Limited is the UK holding company for Kelway (UK) Limited trading as Kelway. The registered office for Kelway 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 Kelway or the sender of its existence. For more information about Kelway please visit www.kelway.co.uk

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When will be new CE version ?
by Gediminas Karčmarinas 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Hello, When will be new CE version ?

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Custom OID - SNMP error
by Fredrik Winäs 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hi All I'm using 0.16.1.7527 (stable) I have added a custom OID in the GUI but i dont get any data logged. (hope the screenshots gets included here) [cid:image001.png@01D15916.D69E82C0] Device: Paloalto Firewall (PA-5060) OID: .1.3.6.1.4.1.25461.2.1.2.5.1.3 (did try with/without the leading dot) OID type: GAUGE (tested with COUNTER too ) In the properties under device I can see that it has problems with the OID [cid:image002.png@01D15916.D69E82C0] Under SNMP errors This OID works perfectly in HP IMC and Solarwinds SNMP tools. 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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Issue with alert system
by Aurélien PERRODY 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hello Since version Observium Professional 0.15.11.7200 I can't receive email alert. It worked until this version. My actual version: Observium 0.16.1.7533 (26th January 2016). Here my simple alert checker (device down) [cid:image001.png@01D158F6.F24CBED0] I can send and receive an email test with this command (so I exclude an issue with my mail server) root@xxxxxx:/opt/observium# php test_alert.php -a xxxxxxx here the configuration of the contact: [cid:image004.png@01D158F7.61721D50] And finally the screenshot of global settings: [cid:image003.png@01D158F7.ABC11820] Can you please tell me what's wrong with the conf? Something is missing? Many thanks for support Best Aurélien

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Update issue
by Jens.Altrock＠STADT-NW.DE 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hey folks, Am new to Observium, so sorry if my question may be dumb :-/ Updated tot he actual Community Edition as described on http://www.observium.org/docs/updating/ Worked finer, but when calling discovery to update database nothing happens except: #/opt/observium/discovery.php -u Observium CE 0.15.6.6430 Discovery Current Revision : 6430 New Revision : 7533 Website also says: Observium CE 0.15.6.6430 Not sure if this is my fault or if i got something wrong? Regards, Jens Wichtiger Hinweis f?r Mitteilungen an die Stadtverwaltung Neustadt: F?r die rechtsverbindliche elektronische Kommunikation mit der Stadtverwaltung Neustadt an der Weinstra?e steht Ihnen ausschlie?lich folgende E-Mail-Adresse zur Verf?gung: stv-neustadt-weinstrasse(a)poststelle.rlp.de Bitte beachten Sie unsere Hinweise unter http://www.neustadt.eu/impressum#email

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Monitor OSX system. Problem with reported size for NFS share and monitor processes
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hi there. Monitoring a osx "server" with observium. To get it to see the NF shares I added this to snmpd.conf: skipNFSInHostResources 0 storageUseNFS 2 This worked and I now see the shares. The large NAS is reported with wrong sizes though. Expected is this: df -ah |grep midskog filmddn:/ddnnas0/midskog 958Ti 193Ti 765Ti 21% 7479476 692520524 1% /Volumes/midskog Reported in observium is: Size: 208GB Used: 915GB Free: -707GB I actually think this could be an net-snmp bug in OSX but I'm not sure. When I snmpwalk locally I see this for that particular mount: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.61 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.61 = STRING: /Volumes/midskog HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageAllocationUnits.61 = INTEGER: 512 Bytes HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageSize.61 = INTEGER: 436207616 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.61 = INTEGER: 1920024576 Any one that had similar issues and found a solution? Next issue is that i try to monitor a process called 'nsd'. I have added it so snmpd.conf and when i walk the device locally I see it: filmserver01:snmp filmserver01$ snmpwalk -c public -v2c localhost UCD-SNMP-MIB::prTable UCD-SNMP-MIB::prIndex.1 = INTEGER: 1 UCD-SNMP-MIB::prNames.1 = STRING: nsd UCD-SNMP-MIB::prMin.1 = INTEGER: 0 UCD-SNMP-MIB::prMax.1 = INTEGER: 1 UCD-SNMP-MIB::prCount.1 = INTEGER: 1 UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrorFlag.1 = INTEGER: noError(0) UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrMessage.1 = STRING: UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrFix.1 = INTEGER: noError(0) UCD-SNMP-MIB::prErrFixCmd.1 = STRING: But observium doesn't pick it up. Is this something that isn't supported or am I missing something? Cheers and thanks. -- Henrik Cednert cto | td | compositor Filmlance International Direct + 46 (0)704 71 89 54

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Display of VRF's defined on a particular device in addition to globally?
by Steve Costaras 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Is there a way to display what VRF's are defined on a particular switch like you can vlans/ports/etc, in addition to globally? I'm running 0.16.17407. We have several thousand VRF's, being able to see what VRF's are actually defined on a device would really be nice opposed to having to log in each time when tracking things down. Since observium is obviously pulling this data to come up with the global view, it has to have it recorded. I think this would just be a display/parsing item? Is this something that may be included in a future version? Thanks. Steve

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how to disable mib via config.php?
by Gediminas Karčmarinas 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

in default.inc.php is: $config['mibs']['EtherLike-MIB']['enable'] = 1; I try in config.php $config['mibs']['EtherLike-MIB']['disable'] = 1; or $config['mibs']['EtherLike-MIB']['enable'] = 0; But it don't disable this mib. How to disable mib ? Thanks

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Email issue
by Matt Zillmann 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Hello everyone, I am stuck on setting up email for alerting on Observium. I am running Centos7 and the latest Stable version of Observium (subscription version). What is needed to configure this? Or what is recommended? Thank you, Matt

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Problem on some graphs - Percent Utilisation
by Alexandre Corso 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Hi everybody. I had a problem on some graph on my observium, for exemple graph Percent Utilisation of ports. I looked into the errors: RRDTool Output: ERROR: Unused Arguments "" in command : HRULE:100#555:: I modified my file : /opt/observium/html/includes/graphs/port/percent.inc.php - - line 25 $defs .= ' HRULE:100#555::'; + + line 25 $defs .= ' HRULE:100#555:'; - - line 26 $defs .= ' HRULE:-100#555::'; + + line 26 $defs .= ' HRULE:-100#555:’; I removed one ‘’:’’ at the end and it’s working. Is it a mistake ? Regards, -- Alexandre Corso acorso(a)franceix.net

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Adding a new graph
by David Pinkerton 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Observium newbie... This maybe a question that has been answered a million time but I've not been able to find an answer. I have an Avaya 4524 switch that is not in a climate controlled environment. I wish to graph the temperature within Observium. I know the OID is 1.3.6.1.4.1.45.1.6.3.7.1.1.5 and the calibration is .5 degreee. ( ie. 70 = 35 degrees) I can view this in the switches GUI and by snmpwalk. I have confirmed Observium is using the correct MIB for the device. Can someone point me to a newbie guide. (My php skills are minimal)

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Alerts ifType eq ethernetCsmacd
by Joey Stanford 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Howdy, I wanted to thank everyone for the great support on this mailing list. I have another puzzler…the last one I hope. At the bottom of https://www.observium.org/docs/alerting_examples/ there are two alerts that rely on ifType eq ethernetCsmacd For some odd reason when I rebuild they don’t want to apply to any of my devices. As soon as I change that to “*” they bring in all the devices. I went out and pulled the data on the Mikrotik router ports and they are responding with this same ifType. I checked it vis snmpwalk and also on a test router using http://ip/device/device=1/tab=port/port=1/view=data/ I’ve tried spelling out equals, wrapping ethernetCsmacd in quotes (view=data says it’s a 14 character string), and a few other things but I haven’t found the right incantation. These two entries currently match the examples and the demo server. I’ve ensured that I have non-disabled ports and non-ignored ports that should be recognized. &debug=1 reveals SELECT `alert_status` FROM `alert_table` WHERE 1 AND `alert_test_id` = '7' AND (( `device_id` NOT IN (55) AND (`device_id` != ‘' AND `device_id` IS NOT NULL))) ORDER BY `device_id`, `alert_test_id`, `entity_type`, `entity_id` DESC (not there wasn’t a LIMIT 0,100 at the end of that select like on other alerts…aside from that this select is the same as the other alerts) Anyway that select returned 0 hits despite me having well over 100 active ports with that ifType. Any suggestions on how to debug this further? Thanks, Joey

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Is there something like "bad_ifalias" ?
by Hábner Teixeira Costa 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Hi everyone, the company where I work is an ISP and they have big routers like MX-960 and ASR-9010.This devices supports thousands of interfaces and we use it to connect to our customers.I would like to know whether is possible to ignore our customers interfaces based on ifAlias like we do with ifDesc (bad_if)?Thank you! Hábner

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Observium: Pre-auth and security questions
by Nate Mellendorf 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Tom, I overlooked that setting and made the suggested change. However, Observium still seems to prompt for credentials after I sign in with basic auth. I changed the login mechanism to http-auth as well: $config['auth_mechanism'] = "http-auth"; I'll keep working on this, and report back if I can get it working. Thank you. Nate Mellendorf | NETWORK ANALYST | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 www.NetgainHosting.com The information contained in this email message is for the designated recipient only and may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any information contained within is strictly prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 5:24 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 66, Issue 168 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. BGP LocalAs fails on ASR9K (Andr? Mamitzsch) 2. Problem on some graphs - Percent Utilisation (Alexandre Corso) 3. Re: Problem on some graphs - Percent Utilisation (Adam Armstrong) 4. Re: Observium: Pre-auth and security questions (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:05:26 +0100 From: Andr? Mamitzsch <andre(a)mamitzsch.de> To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] BGP LocalAs fails on ASR9K Message-ID: <56A5F366.9050403(a)mamitzsch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, we discovered an issue with CISCO ASR9K and 4byte ASN's - the ASR return "0" when querying the BGP4-MIB parameter "bgpLocalAs". This stops observium from discovering the BGP sessions. I have done some research and found that Juniper devices seem to have a similar problem which was fixed in the polling / discovery script already. The same should be done for Cisco. The CISCO-BGP4-MIB included in Observium is somewhat outdated - CISCO introduced a parameter "cbgplocalAs" in a later version which delivers the correct result. Could you please look into this ? Thanks Andre

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frontpage is great and all but can I have a second page?
by James Murty 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

I’m looking a using Observium to generate a number of metric specific dashboards for routers and switches I have around the country. The $config['frontpage']['minigraphs']['ids’] = “<id>,<metric>,<title>”; configuration looks like it’ll give me what I want but ideally I just have those minigraphs on a page by themselves. Is there a way to define a seconds page? i.e. $config[‘minigraphpage']['minigraphs']['ids’] = “<id>,<metric>,<title>”; and have that show on a second screen? - james

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BGP LocalAs fails on ASR9K
by André Mamitzsch 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Hi, we discovered an issue with CISCO ASR9K and 4byte ASN's - the ASR return "0" when querying the BGP4-MIB parameter "bgpLocalAs". This stops observium from discovering the BGP sessions. I have done some research and found that Juniper devices seem to have a similar problem which was fixed in the polling / discovery script already. The same should be done for Cisco. The CISCO-BGP4-MIB included in Observium is somewhat outdated - CISCO introduced a parameter "cbgplocalAs" in a later version which delivers the correct result. Could you please look into this ? Thanks Andre

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VMware
by Stefaans Mostert (GBL) 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

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device to device links
by Joey Stanford 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

Hi, I ran across a graphing script on github that caught my eye. It reportedly graphs device to device links in Observium (sort of like cacti + Network Weathermap). It uses a table called obserium.links which I don’t have. Google hasn’t been able to give me any leads other than, of course, the developer. I’m wondering if anyone happens to know if it’s possible to associate device ports in this manner… e.g. Device 25, port 287 links to Device 37, port 460. Today I use cacti and weathermap for this. Thanks, Joey

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MySQL Agent Innodb
by evo 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

Hi, i am a private user of the Observium CE, and I wanted to ask If the MySQL agent will already be fixed in the ne CE release, otherwise I would happily provide a patch for the agent I made just a moment ago when I updated my MariaDB Server to 10 and the innodb query stopped working[0], since it's removed with version 10 and version 5.6.1 of MySQL[1]. If you'd want me to do that, I also would rewrite the whole agent to use mysqli instead of mysql, since it's considered deprecated for some time now[2]. with kind regards Valentin [0]https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/xtradbinnodb-server-system-variables/#h… [1]https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=63383 [2]http://php.net/manual/de/migration55.deprecated.php

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Arbor Network's MIBs
by Ryan, Spencer 23 Jan '16

23 Jan '16

Great to see Arbor MIB's getting updated in the SVN checkouts :) I don't monitor any of our own products, but I'm going to talk to the Peakflow guys and see if I can get access to some of the lab gear. We have at least one setup (not sure if it's TMS or SP) that gets about ~8Gb/s of anonymous traffic from a few ISPs. Should give me some useful data in Observium. Keep up the good work guys! *Spencer Ryan* | Senior Systems Administrator | sryan(a)arbor.net *Arbor Networks* +1.734.794.5033 (d) | +1.734.846.2053 (m) www.arbornetworks.com

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Manually setting global temperature thresholds
by Joey Stanford 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi, I have a bit of a puzzler and I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I’m monitoring a number of Mikrotik devices. I’m unable to set the temperature thresholds on the device. They all seem to report different thresholds despite the fact that they are all spec’d at -30c to 70c. Instead of going into each device’s settings in Observium and making a custom threshold, is there any way for me to do it in the config file? or some other way using “os eq routeros”? Thanks, Joey

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4 Byte BGP ASN's
by Serghei Golipad 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

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ASR9k fan failures not detected?
by Robert Williams 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi, I've just noticed that fan failures on the ASR 9k are not detected by Observium. In fact, it seems have nothing at all under the 'status' tab? The 6500s have over 20 entries in there for "Fan - Fail" or "PSU - Fail" or "I'm not facing magnetic north - Fail" etc. but the ASR9000 have no status tab whatsoever. Reason for noticing this; is that we have a chassis which currently has a 'Major-Alarm' failure indicator LED on the RSP, due to a failed fan tray. Observium shows the device has being 'OK' and is not seeing either the Major alarm or the fan tray failure: canb-server[151]: %PLATFORM-CANB_SERVER-3-ALARM_INDICATION : Raise alarm from CBC in slot 0/FT0/SP, alarm code CBC_ALRM_FT_LED_RED_FAILED LED Information --------------------------------------------- R/S/I Modules LED Status 0/RSP0/* host Critical-Alarm Off host Major-Alarm On host Minor-Alarm Off host ACO Off host Fail Off FAN0 FAN1 FAN2 FAN3 FAN4 FAN5 FAN6 FAN7 FAN8 FAN9 FAN10 FAN11 FAN12 FAN13 0/FT0/* (Speed) 9900 9900 9870 9780 9870 9780 9780 10080 10080 9870 9990 9900 9810 9990 (fans are now OK again) Is this a case of Cisco not exporting any of this useful (and rather critical) information properly? Would be good to graph fan speeds if they are exported. Or are other people getting these OK and it's just us with the issue? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Memory graph not showing as intended.
by Max Krabbenhöft 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hello, I just set up Observium on CentOS 7 and everything works great! Except for one thing. The Memory and Virtual memory graph on the dashboard for windows/linux servers won't draw. Switches work fine though. When doing a debug I get this error message: SQL[INSERT INTO `mempools-state` (`mempool_id`) VALUES ('5')] RUNTIME[0.00012898s] ERROR[Error in query: (1364) Field 'mempool_polled' doesn't have a default value] I've been looking all over and can't find a resolution for this. This is how it should look [http://i.imgur.com/NMkyhMB.png] This is how it looks: [http://i.imgur.com/VEFSP1K.png] Thank you for your help Best regards Max

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STRICT mode on SQL.
by Dirk-Willem van Gulik 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

FWIIW - may be that the STRICT mode is not the only delta. Spotted below error[1] during the initial discovery/poll cycle; and [2] in the update-error log (we are trying to figure out why the port graphs stopped updating). All on a -latest community version as of a few hours ago. Against "MYSQL Server version: 5.6.27 Source distribution” and PHP 5.6.17 (cli). Dw 1: SQL[SELECT *, I.`port_id` AS `port_id` FROM `ports` AS I LEFT JOIN `ports-state` AS S ON I.`port_id` = S.`port_id` WHERE `device_id` = '1'] RUNTIME[0.00157404s] ….. SQL[INSERT INTO `ports` (`device_id`,`ifIndex`) VALUES ('1','29')] RUNTIME[0.00024199s] ERROR[Error in query: (1062) Duplicate entry '1-29' for key 'device_ifIndex'] SQL[SELECT * FROM `ports` WHERE `port_id` = ''] RUNTIME[0.00043392s] Adding: po1(29)() SQL[INSERT INTO `ports` (`device_id`,`ifIndex`) VALUES ('1','30')] RUNTIME[0.00025010s] ERROR[Error in query: (1062) Duplicate entry '1-30' for key 'device_ifIndex’] …. 2: [observium@observium /usr/local/www/observium/logs]$ more update-errors.log [2016/01/22 12:09:22 +0000] discovery.php(23667): ====== Schema update 137 -> 138 ============== [2016/01/22 12:09:22 +0000] discovery.php(23667): Query: ALTER TABLE `sensors` ADD `entPhysicalIndex_measured` varchar(16) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL AFTER `sensor_custom_limit`; [2016/01/22 12:09:22 +0000] discovery.php(23667): Error: (1060) Duplicate column name 'entPhysicalIndex_measured' [2016/01/22 12:09:22 +0000] discovery.php(23667): Query: ALTER TABLE `sensors` ADD `measured_class` VARCHAR( 32 ) NULL DEFAULT NULL AFTER `entPhysicalIndex_measured`; [2016/01/22 12:09:22 +0000] discovery.php(23667): Error: (1060) Duplicate column name 'measured_class' [2016/01/22 12:09:22 +0000] discovery.php(23667): Query: ALTER TABLE `sensors` ADD `measured_entity` VARCHAR( 32 ) NULL DEFAULT NULL AFTER `measured_class`; [2016/01/22 12:09:22 +0000] discovery.php(23667): Error: (1060) Duplicate column name ‘measured_entity'

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ModbusTCP via SNMP Gateway. Possible to monitor in Observium?
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi I have a schneider tsxetg100 ethernet gateway that has a PowerLogic PM3250 attached to it. I can successfully monitor this in APC StruxureWare Data Center expert but trying to get away from that solution. Observium does find and see the tsxetg100 as a generic device but I don't see the PowerLogic attached to it. Is it possible to monitor a Modbus TCP device like this through the SNMP gateway? The tsxetg100: http://www.schneider-electric.com/download/ww/en/details/25779671-TSXETG100… The Powerlogic: http://www.schneider-electric.com/en/product-range/61274-powerlogic-pm3000-… Cheers and thanks -- Henrik Cednert cto | td | compositor Filmlance International Direct + 46 (0)704 71 89 54

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Making older pre rfc 1759 printers happy
by Dirk-Willem van Gulik 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Minor diff to make things work with an older type of printer. Dw --- toner.inc.php.orig 2016-01-21 19:49:49.528405666 +0100 +++ toner.inc.php 2016-01-21 20:06:36.382527604 +0100 @@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ $index = $split_oid[count($split_oid)-1]; if (is_numeric($role)) { - $type_oid = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.5.1.$index"; - $descr_oid = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.6.1.$index"; - $capacity_oid = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.8.1.$index"; - $toner_oid = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9.1.$index"; + $class_oid = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.4.1.$index"; // prtMarkerSuppliesClass (supplyThatIsConsumed(3), receptacleThatIsFilled(4)) + $type_oid = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.5.1.$index"; // prtMarkerSuppliesType + $descr_oid = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.6.1.$index"; // prtMarkerSuppliesDescription + $capacity_oid = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.8.1.$index"; // prtMarkerSuppliesMaxCapacity + $toner_oid = ".1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9.1.$index"; // prtMarkerSuppliesLevel $classtype = snmp_get($device, $class_oid, "-Oqv"); $resourcetype = snmp_get($device, $type_oid, "-Oqv"); @@ -52,8 +53,10 @@ { switch ($resourcetype) { - case 3: - case 21: + case 3: // Toner + case 5: // Ink or particulate + case 6: // InkCardridge + case 21: // Toner Cardridge /* .1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.8 prtMarkerSuppliesMaxCapacity * The value (-1) means other and specifically indicates that the sub-unit places * no restrictions on this parameter. The value (-2) means unknown. @@ -133,8 +136,11 @@ set_dev_attrib($device, "transferroller_cap_oid", $capacity_oid); } break; - case 4: - if (stristr($descr, 'waste') !== FALSE) + case 4: // Waste Toner + case 8: // Waste Ink or toner + case 24: // Waste liquid or Ink + if (stristr($descr, 'waste') !== FALSE || stristr($descr, 'absorber') == FALSE || $classtype == 3) { echo(" WasteTonerBox"); set_dev_attrib($device, "wastebox_oid", $toner_oid);

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Proxmox
by Cody Cook 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi everyone, Two things about Proxmox and my usage with Observium: Upgraded all of my Proxmox boxes except one to 4.0 from 3.4. I use zfs for all the file systems. Since switching to Proxmox 4.0, appears that snmp no longer includes the zfs volumes automatically in the SNMP reply. :( Does anyone have some suggestions on automatically showing their zfs vols in SNMP? I read a manpage for snmpd.conf but only recognized the ignoreDisk screen to manually add. Some other site said begemotSnmpdModulePath."hostres" = /usr/lib/snmp_hostres.so would be useful if I was on FreeBSD, but I am using Debian :P Another question I had is that I was reading that there is the ability to query Proxmox for VMs. Neither my 3.4 or my 4.0 box show VMs. My enable_libvirt is 1 and I use lxc+ssh and openvz+ssh in the libvirt protocols option in the config (lxc for 4.0, openvz for 3.4). I don't see anything VM. I do have tab for VMs for my vmware esxi server though. The public key from Observium is in the authorized_keys file for each of my root users on each proxmox box. What am I missing here? net-snmp version: 5.7.2.1+dfsg-1 Cody

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Location
by Tibor Marchyn 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi all, I don't know if it's bug, but I have set locaton on alsmost all my devices, but let's say 1 day ago it wasn't. so few of them was as Unknown location and in devices menu I saw structure like "Unknown -> unset ; Prague -> address, ... " I have fixed location and started poller and discovery. Poller got new location for each device where it was unset. But in menu I still saw structure like Devices - Locations | |- <empty string> | |-Address1 (8 count) | |-<Prague> |-Address1 (55 count) And Address1 is same for both sections because devices in both sections have same sysLocation parameter. Also doesn't matter which menu I click, I always got list of all devices with this sysLocation parameter (63 count). Also I have in config these lines to replace location with exact address and it works fine. $config['location_map']['Prague'] = "my street, Prague, Czech Republic"; $config['location_map']['Nashville'] = "us street, Franklin, TN 12345"; Do you know how to force Observium to move fixed location devices under "Prague" town and show proper count of devices? Thanks

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