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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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[Observium] /usr/local/www/observium/html/includes/graphs/sensor/capacity.inc.php
by Dirk-Willem van Gulik 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Hmm - in -latest.tar.gz there seems to be a reference to /usr/local/www/observium/html/includes/graphs/sensor/capacity.inc.php from /usr/local/www/observium-latest/html/includes/graphs/graph.inc.php with Graph type: sensor, subtype: graph which is somehow caused by: includes/graphs/sensor/auth.inc.php not checking (unlike graph.inc.php) if such an include exists. So I wonder if that auth.inc should become: { if ($subtype == 'graph') { // Fix generic subtype $subtype = $sensor['sensor_class']; $possible_inc = $config['html_dir'] . "/includes/graphs/$type/$subtype.inc.php"; if (is_file($possible_inc)) { $graph_include = $possible_inc; }; } Dw.

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Spikes in billing
by Eduardo Schoedler 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Hi, Is there a way to remove spikes from the billing? [image: Imagem inline 1] Thank you. Regards, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Lost discover of the 'ports'.
by Dirk-Willem van Gulik 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

We recently installed a new/parallel Observium (the old one had not been upgraded for years). The baseline is from http://www.observium.org/observium-community-latest.tar.gz as of today; with a new/fresh config.php. All fine & modern — except for the Ports on the various firewalls and switches not showing up automatically (Neither in ports or in settings; Port Properties). The ‘ports’ poller module is enable; as are POE and ports/port-stack in discovery. Any hint as where to fix/debug/dig as to understand why this is ? Thanks, Dw. Observium CE 0.15.6.6430 Discovery Current Revision : 6430 New Revision : 7522 XXXXXXXX Module [ os ] time: 0.1062s Ports : em0(1)[] em1(2)[] ste0(3)[] ste1(4)[] ste2(5)[] ste3(6)[] em2(7)[] em3(8)[] em4(9)[] pflog0(10)[] pfsync0(11)[] lo0(12)[] enc0(13)[] em0_vlan1(14)[] em0_vlan2(15)[] em0_vlan3(16)[] em0_vlan4(17)[] pppoe2(18)[] ….. Observium CE 0.15.6.6430 Discovery Current Revision : 6430 New Revision : 7522 XXXXXXX Module [ os ] time: 0.0709s Ports : Slot0/1(1)[] Slot0/2(2)[] Slot0/3(3)[] Slot0/4(4)[] Slot0/5(5)[] Slot0/6(6)[] Slot0/7(7)[] Slot0/8(8)[] Slot0/9(9)[] Slot0/10(10)[] Slot0/11(11)[] Slot0/12(12)[] Slot0/13(13)[] Slot0/14(14)[] Slot0/15(15)[] Slot0/16(16)[] Slot0/17(17)[] Slot0/18(18)[] Slot0/19(19)[] Slot0/20(20)[] Slot0/21(21)[] Slot0/22(22)[] Slot0/23(23)[] Slot0/24(24)[] Slot0/25(25)[] Slot0/26(26)[] Slot0/27(27)[] Slot0/28(28)[] po1(29)[] po2(30)[] po3(31)[] po4(32)[] po5(33)[] po6(34)[] po7(35)[] po8(36)[] po9(37)[] po10(38)[] po11(39)[] po12(40)[] po13(41)[] po14(42)[] vlanMgmt(43)[] Module [ ports ] time: 0.4609s Port Stacks: ...................................................................................... Module [ ports-stack ] time: 0.1803s Processors : AGENT-GENERAL-MIB hrDevice:

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Narrower OID detection
by Dirk-Willem van Gulik 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

I’ve got a couple of devices with SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux ypenburg 2.6.36.2-wndap660_620-WNDAP660_V3.0.5.0 #1 Fri Oct 23 19:40:53 IST 2015 ppc SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.4526.100.7.13 So I’d like to expand the $os = "netgear"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Netgear"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "network"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "netgear"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.4526"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.12622"; $config['os'][$os]['over'][0]['graph'] = "device_bits"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "UCD-SNMP-MIB”; with a much *narrower* section; specific for the wifi access point devices (all in 1.3.6.1.4.1.4526.100.4,7,8,15.*) - as to make auto discovery work better & get the incon/type right. What is the best way to go about it (currently we use a small stub in include/discover/wifi that ‘forces’ the setting) — or is the config[] somehow able to go from narrow to broad already ? Dw. *: http://www.circitor.fr/Mibs/Html/Netgear-MIB.php

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Support for EMC VNX-series
by Eddy Mouws 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Hi, I ‘m not certain if this is the right way to ask; but I see support for EMC devices is available. When will it become available in the CE-edition ? Regards, Eddy [cid:imaged81d12.JPG@e4bcd153.4ea42732] Eddy Mouws Email: eddy(a)businessconnect.nl<mailto:eddy@businessconnect.nl> WWW: www.businessconnect.nl<http://www.businessconnect.nl/> Hofdreef 42b 4881 DR Zundert Nederland Tel: 076-5987777 Fax: 076-5987070 Disclaimer: Deze e-mail en eventuele bestanden die bij dit bericht zijn verzonden, zijn vertrouwelijke en uitsluitend bestemd voor gebruik door de geadresseerde(n). Indien dit bericht niet voor u is bestemd, is openbaarmaking, vermenigvuldiging, verspreiding en/of het ondernemen van acties op basis van inhoud van de per abuis verkregen informatie verboden. Tevens verzoeken wij u vriendelijk om de afzender hiervan onmiddellijk per email op de hoogte te brengen en het bericht vervolgens van uw systeem te verwijderen.

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DirectoryIndex index.php
by Dirk-Willem van Gulik 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

While at it - a small nit w.r.t to the otherwise cut-and-paste perfect: http://www.observium.org/docs/install_* pages — a config for apache DirectoryIndex index.php should be added; either global or, better, within the <Directory … blocks. As it is no longer part of most php default installs. Furthermore - if you want to be very safe on modern unixes - adding a: SetHandler application/x-httpd-php is not a bad idea; and otherwise harmless; as some now avoid this by default for security reasons. Dw.

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Weatherman and Observium
by Serghei Golipad 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Guys, Any one else has this problem? /opt/observium/html/weathermap# ./map-poller.php PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/includes/db.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /opt/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php on line 435 Map fails to appear under weathermap in the main menu. Thanks 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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Cisco IPSEC tunnel problem
by Bastiaan Topper 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Hi all, Attached you find the debug output of the cipsec-tunnels module. We miss some tunnels in the statistics, while they are successful up and running, Observium isn't reporting them. What I see is that the Cisco SNMP is successfully returning the information and, for example in this case, one of the tunnels is showed in the GUI. [cid:image001.png@01D15447.C82C9070] Are we doing something wrong? Or is this a bug? Regards, Bastiaan

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only show alerted ports that are not toggled alerts=no in settings?
by Steffie Morris 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

Hi, how can i show a list of ports in observium that only show the alerted ports that are not toggled alerts=no in the device port settings page? in ports dropdown menu item the total number of alerted ports is correct, but if i open the page i see all the alerted ports. including the ports that have been toggeld not to generate an alert in the settings. Can i create a view filter somewhere to only show the relevant ports?

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RRDTool Output: ERROR only on overview graph.
by Arno Mooreeleme 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

We just added a host to observium for which the overview graph does not work. It is an cisco firewall (ASA) running in context mode, the context itself has just 2 interfaces. Both these interfaces are graphed just fine when we look at the ports. However the combined graph on the overview page just shows an 'error drawing graph'. The problem seems to be that the RRD graph is generated without any path's to the existing RRD files. As you can see in the output below there is just an empty space for where the RRD path should be. Any idea where to start troubleshooting this? Note that this is the only host, all other work just fine. Performance & Output RRDTool Output: ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:inB=' Total time: 0.013 | RRDtool time: 0.011s RRDTool Command rrdtool graph /tmp/ddZYHLrHrQRbsOtM.png -g -Y --alt-autoscale --rigid --start 1452850542 --end 1452936942 --width 1152 --height 300 -c BACK#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEA#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEB#EEEEEE00 -c FONT#000000 -c CANVAS#FFFFFF00 -c GRID#a5a5a5 -c MGRID#FF9999 -c FRAME#5e5e5e -c ARROW#5e5e5e -R normal --font LEGEND:8:'DroidSansMono,DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DroidSansMono,DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal -E CDEF:inB= CDEF:outB= CDEF:octets=inB,outB,+ CDEF:doutB=outB,-1,* CDEF:inbits=inB,8,* CDEF:outbits=outB,8,* CDEF:bits=inbits,outbits,+ CDEF:doutbits=doutB,8,* VDEF:95thin=inbits,95,PERCENT VDEF:95thout=outbits,95,PERCENT CDEF:pout_tmp=doutbits,-1,* VDEF:dpout_tmp=pout_tmp,95,PERCENT CDEF:dpout_tmp2=doutbits,doutbits,-,dpout_tmp,-1,*,+ VDEF:d95thout=dpout_tmp2,FIRST VDEF:totin=inB,TOTAL VDEF:avein=inbits,AVERAGE VDEF:totout=outB,TOTAL VDEF:aveout=outbits,AVERAGE VDEF:tot=octets,TOTAL COMMENT:' \l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:'Total Rx' GPRINT:inbits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:inbits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totin:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:' Tx' GPRINT:outbits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:outbits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:totout:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:999999999999999#FFFFFF:' Agg' GPRINT:bits:LAST:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:AVERAGE:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MIN:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:bits:MAX:%6.2lf%s GPRINT:tot:%6.2lf%sB COMMENT:'\l' HRULE:0#999999

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Website Alerting
by Matt Zillmann 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

Hello everyone, I am investigating whether monitoring/alerting a website's status is possible with Observium. Has anyone done this before? It would be a basic alert (UP/DOWN) Thank you.

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Network mounts
by Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager) 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

Hi all, If I change ignore_mount_network=>0, should it show up cifsd based shares? I have a host reporting some back, but nothing in observium. I can't pick up windows mount points, and wondered if I could map read only via cifsd in order just to report the space free and alert. Professional version if it makes any difference. Thanks Andy.

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webhooks documentation on creating contacts
by Daughenbaugh, Glenn 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

Would like to get more information on how to use the webhooks option under creating new contacts. Examples would be great. Thanks. Glenn [cid:37e35183-11a3-40c7-b8d5-92ecc22896d6] _______________________________________________________________ GLENN DAUGHENBAUGH | SENIOR APPLICATION ENGINEER | MSS :SRE/DOC-TECHNICAL LIASON | AMPT: AUDIENCE DATA & ANALYTIC PLATFORMS O. 404-827-2180 | C. 770-540-1087 | GLENN.DAUGHENBAUGH(a)TURNER.COM TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC. | ONE CNN CENTER. ATLANTA, GA 30303

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Re: [Observium] Network mounts
by Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager) 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

Never mind, forgot to run the discovery php code. Can see the mounts ok now. Cheers Andy From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager) Sent: 19 January 2016 21:41 To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] Network mounts Hi all, If I change ignore_mount_network=>0, should it show up cifsd based shares? I have a host reporting some back, but nothing in observium. I can't pick up windows mount points, and wondered if I could map read only via cifsd in order just to report the space free and alert. Professional version if it makes any difference. Thanks Andy.

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Postfix configuration for alerts
by Matt Zillmann 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

Hello everyone, I am trying to set up email alerting for Observium. I have hit a roadblock. I am not sure what I need to configure on postfix in order to send only outbound email alerts to our internal exchange server IT email recipients. Does anyone have documentation or an idea on how to do this? Thank you in advance!

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observium svn changes
by Simon Smith 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

Hi All. laptop broke and my rss client crashed and lost all my rss feeds :( I remember adam had to remove the mailing list for the svn changes for one reason or another does anybody have the link at all? I’m using Reeder for OS X now :) Simon

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Re: [Observium] Website Alerting
by Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

I*m interested in the same. From what the boys said at IRC this is not possible with Observium. Sadly. =( But if someone finds a way, please let me know. =) Also interested in FTP-tests for test of actual upload/download to see if Ftp is up. =) Cheers -- Henrik Cednert cto | td | compositor Filmlance International Direct + 46 (0)704 71 89 54 From: observium <observium-bounces(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of Matt Zillmann <mzillmann(a)testoil.com<mailto:mzillmann@testoil.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Tuesday 19 January 2016 at 14:53 To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Website Alerting Hello everyone, I am investigating whether monitoring/alerting a website’s status is possible with Observium. Has anyone done this before? It would be a basic alert (UP/DOWN) Thank you.

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Map / Neighbours on cisco 6500 ports menu.
by Svensson Fredrik A 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

Hi there! On our cisco catalyst 6509 I cant see Map and Neighbours under the Ports information, any Idea why? I really like this feature, my hope is that I can be able to have a total network-map with all my switches one day, is there any plan to develope this further? Regards Fredrik

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Enable autodiscovery via VMware
by Tibor Marchyn 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

Hi all, Not sure if it was asked before, but in current version of Observium 0.16.1.7504 in global settings is option called "Enable autodiscovery via Vmware". How does it works? As I very like observium, documentation looks as totally out of date and not usable. Thanks Tibor

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Please suggest best configuration for rrdcached daemon in Observium..................!
by Chaman Rathee 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

We are monitoring 200 devices. Please suggest best rrdcached configuration and also find my rrdcached file configuration below:---------> root@observe:~# cat /etc/default/rrdcached # /etc/default/rrdcached # 0: start rrdcached on boot, 1: do not start rrdcached on boot # default: 0 DISABLE=0 # options to be passed to rrdcached # (do not specify -p <pidfile> - this is handled by the init script) # default: see /etc/init.d/rrdcached OPTS="-w 1800 -z 1800 -f 3600 -s www-data -l unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock -j /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ -F -b /mnt/ramdisk/ -B" # number of seconds to wait for rrdcached to shut down # (writing the data to disk may take some time; # tune this according to your setup) # default: 30 MAXWAIT=30 # 0: do not enable core-files, 1: enable core-files ... if rrdcached crashes # default: 0 ENABLE_COREFILES=0 root@observe:~# root@observe:~# [Fabrikam] Privileged or confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), please delete this message and kindly notify the sender by an emailed reply. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of Progression and its associate entities shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by them.

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Email alerts
by Matt Zillmann 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

Hello everyone, I am trying to figure out the best way to have email alerts sent from Observium to our exchange server ( IT email accounts on exchange server). What method is best? Does anyone have a recommendation and documentation on how to configure? I am new to setting up email on a Linux host. Thank you, Matt

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FW: Custom OID alerting
by Franks Andy (IT Technical Architecture Manager) 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

Hi all, Like the custom oid addition, it's nice to be able to add support for some each oids if necessary. One thing I've never been able to find out how to do was get mount point support in windows for space percentages used - I can now do this, but wondered whether I could do a custom oid alert? We tend to not have the time to proactively check graphs, so an alert would be ideal. Thanks Andy

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reporting and billing
by Anthony Parker 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

Hi I am running a couple of installs of the community edition and I like it very much. I would like to expand into suggesting Observium to our customers as a reporting and billing tool and I am wondering Is it possible to get a demonstration copy of the subscription edition of observium to show clients the reporting they can expect? Is it possible to convert an installation to/from the subscription edition or does one simply create a new installation? Thanks Anthony Anthony Parker M9 (IT) Ltd. Red Lion Buildings, 12 Cock Lane, London, EC1A 9BU United Kingdom (UK) Tel: +442036678200 DISCLAIMER: This email contains proprietary information, some or all of which may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this email, please notify the author by replying to this email. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email. Registered in England. Company registration number: 04343900. VAT No. 202 2531 70

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Re: [Observium] NaN on Graphs
by Edward Weir 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

No, I have 30GB free on my / (root). ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 13:09:50 -0500 From: "Edward Weir" <edward.weir(a)gmail.com> To: <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] NaN on Graphs Message-ID: <046e01d15152$42167070$c6435150$(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, I've been trying to get my graphs to work but I'm still getting NaN on 'some' of my them. I have a Cisco c891fw router and interfaces g2 and g3 graph fine but the other interfaces g0, g3, g4, g5 do not graph and I get a NaN but keep in mind that I do see their traffic transfer rates. I do not get a 'draw error', just a blank graph. I'm running the following: Ubuntu 15.10 Observium CD 0.15.6.6430 NET-SNMP version: 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.4.3 I have updated to the latest RRDtool version 1.5.5 but then I get the draw errors. Is there anything you can provide to help. Thanks, ejw

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NaN on Graphs
by Edward Weir 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

Hi, I've been trying to get my graphs to work but I'm still getting NaN on 'some' of my them. I have a Cisco c891fw router and interfaces g2 and g3 graph fine but the other interfaces g0, g3, g4, g5 do not graph and I get a NaN but keep in mind that I do see their traffic transfer rates. I do not get a 'draw error', just a blank graph. I'm running the following: Ubuntu 15.10 Observium CD 0.15.6.6430 NET-SNMP version: 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.4.3 I have updated to the latest RRDtool version 1.5.5 but then I get the draw errors. Is there anything you can provide to help. Thanks, ejw

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