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Overrride bandwidth on a port?
by Spencer Ryan 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Is there a way to override the bandwidth on a port that I can't change what is reported via SNMP? For example I have a 50Mb MPLS on a 100Mb Ethernet port. I want the % used and % alerting metrics to be based on 50 and not 100. *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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Minigraphs without autoscaling
by Jose A Rodriguez 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hi there! Is there any way to draw the minigraphs (or graphs) for Bits without autoscaling (using max value from the port capabilities)? With autoscaling it's impossible to compare ports... Best regards, Jose

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can't get temperature chart
by Simon Smith 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hi All, not sure if this is a bug with my browser or a bug with Observium I go into one our mikrotik switches, click Health, then into Temperature if i then click the System 0 the page just keeps refreshing and going back the the same page ? it doesn’t appear to be taking me to the Temperature graphs ? i’ve also noticed that the Temperature page isn’t showing any graphs unlike the Storage or Processor pages ? Ive attached some screenshots showing what i mean ? Regards Simon

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Disk IO graphs not generating any more
by Kaya Saman 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

Hi, I'm just wondering if the Disk I/O module has been removed? I do remember reading a while ago of something like this but not currently sure... My version of Observium is CE 0.14.11.6000 Nothing has changed in my setup apart from the usual updates. Regards, Kaya

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NTPD monitoring script
by AJ Schroeder 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

Hello list, I have rewritten the NTPD application monitoring script as a shell script rather than installing PHP on my servers. I have been running this for a few weeks now and haven't noticed any issues with it. I'd like to see how the script works on a larger variety of systems before I would call it finished. Would anyone else on this list like to give it a try? Thanks, AJ Schroeder

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Cisco switches not Polling to observium
by Simarpal Rooprai 24 Apr '15

24 Apr '15

Hey guys So as the headline reads im trying to get the graphs working to observium. I have 2 3560 cisco switches running which can ping to observium host, also the host can ping back. i have a community set up xxxx which i tried on my workstation and it works sending to observium. But trying on the switches seems to be a bit more difficult. When running php poller script i cant seem to find any errors when greping so i think to problem is with the cisco conf. When i take a look in the obserivum host under pollerlog it would seem that my workstations was last pollled but not any of the switches, Last Discovered seems to work just fine. So what do you guys think? Im not to sure where the problem is i might be in the linux host, but im not an expert at linux nor php. Do any of you guys think you might be able to help me out ? Also i have tried to remove the device and adding it again but still no luck. In observium i get this message even though i have waited 24 hours: error drawing graph Device not yet polled This device has not yet been successfully polled. System information and statistics will not be populated and graphs will not draw. Please wait 5-10 minutes for graphs to draw correctly. Down here is the short config from my switch : SW02#show run | in snmp snmp-server community XXXX RO snmp-server host 10.2.1.118 version 2c XXXX Best regards Simarpal

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New hosts ports are not discovered?
by Shaun Courtney 21 Apr '15

21 Apr '15

Hi I’m having an issue with 0.15.4.6392. When polling devices I get ./discovery.php -d -h hostname.domain.com <http://hostname.domain.com/> ….. SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`entity_id`,`entity_type`,`timestamp`,`severity`,`message`) VALUES ('143','143','device',NOW(),'6','Inventory: 3 added.')] RUNTIME[0.00013995s] ERROR[Error in query: (1364) Field 'reference' doesn't have a default value] and also: SQL[INSERT INTO `entPhysical` (`entPhysicalIndex`,`entPhysicalDescr`,`entPhysicalClass`,`entPhysicalName`,`entPhysicalHardwareRev`,`entPhysicalFirmwareRev`,`entPhysicalSoftwareRev`,`entPhysicalAlias`,`entPhysicalAssetID`,`entPhysicalIsFRU`,`entPhysicalModelName`,`entPhysicalVendorType`,`entPhysicalSerialNum`,`entPhysicalContainedIn`,`entPhysicalParentRelPos`,`entPhysicalMfgName`,`ifIndex`,`device_id`) VALUES ('1','MikroTik RouterBoard','chassis','','','','','','','false','','','57820471C18C','0','0','MikroTik','','143')] RUNTIME[0.00013900s] ERROR[Error in query: (1366) Incorrect integer value: '' for column 'ifIndex' at row 1] 192.sql has: ALTER TABLE `ports` ADD `port_label_short` VARCHAR( 16 ) NOT NULL AFTER `port_label` ; Changing this to “DEFAULT NULL” seems to fix the problem and ports are discovered and graphed… (I’ve run ./discovery.php -u Observium 0.15.4.6392 Discovery ) Can anyone assist? Regards, Shaun

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RedHatEnterpriseServer 6.4 icon not recognized
by Juan Asensio Sánchez 21 Apr '15

21 Apr '15

Hi The icon for RedHat is not recognized, but yes in CentOS (screenshots attahed). This is the output of the distro command in RH: Linux|2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64|amd64|RedHatEnterpriseServer|6.4 And this in CentOS: Linux|2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64|amd64|CentOS|6.6 Regards. -- Juan Asensio Sánchez Administrador de sistemas, Indra +34 639 18 94 13<callto:+34639189413> | jasensios(a)indra.es<mailto:jasensios@indra.es> | http://www.indracompany.com [cid:part4.08000101.07090003@indra.es] ________________________________ Este correo electrónico y, en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, contiene información de carácter confidencial exclusivamente dirigida a su destinatario o destinatarios. Si no es vd. el destinatario indicado, queda notificado que la lectura, utilización, divulgación y/o copia sin autorización está prohibida en virtud de la legislación vigente. En el caso de haber recibido este correo electrónico por error, se ruega notificar inmediatamente esta circunstancia mediante reenvío a la dirección electrónica del remitente. Evite imprimir este mensaje si no es estrictamente necesario. This email and any file attached to it (when applicable) contain(s) confidential information that is exclusively addressed to its recipient(s). If you are not the indicated recipient, you are informed that reading, using, disseminating and/or copying it without authorisation is forbidden in accordance with the legislation in effect. If you have received this email by mistake, please immediately notify the sender of the situation by resending it to their email address. Avoid printing this message if it is not absolutely necessary.

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WS-SVC-WISM2-K9
by Chip Pleasants 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

Hi all, After building a new Observium server our Cisco WISM2's (WS-SVC-WISM2-K9) aren't recognized as Cisco Wireless Controllers any longer. They come up as Generic Devices on the new server. On the old they are recognized as Cisco Wireless Controllers. Is there something I need to change on my side? Thanks, Chip

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Application alerts, e.g. Exchange/MSSQL
by Colin Stubbs 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

Hi Observium Developers, What's the situation with moving towards being able to alert on WMI apps, e.g. Exchange/MSSQL data? e.g. alert if submission queue size >= X It looks as if there's been some work on moving towards this based on the 'app_state' column in the 'applications-state' table... but only for MSSQL, as the current exchange.inc.php doesn't even serialize and insert an app_data in there. Is there a development plan for alerts on WMI apps ? Happy to contribute towards it, but I'd like to avoid wasting time working with what's currently there if a completely different direction is going to be taken. Thanks -Colin

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After an update this morning, can't add server anymore (Unsupported SNMP Version)
by Joel Golliet 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

Hi, we have a pro version of observium. I did an update this morning with svp. And now, when i try to had a server, i have the error : ######## epoc-07:/opt/observium# ./add_device.php xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx public v2c Observium 0.15.4.6388 Add Device(s) Try to add xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Trying v2c community public ... ERROR: : Unsupported SNMP Version. No reply on community public using v2c. Could not reach xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with given SNMP parameters using v2c. Devices skipped: 1. USAGE: add_device.php <hostname> [community] [v1|v2c] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] add_device.php <hostname> [any|nanp|anp|ap] [v3] [user] [password] [enckey] [md5|sha] [aes|des] [port] [udp|udp6|tcp|tcp6] add_device.php <filename> [...] ######## If i try a simple "snmpwalk" with the same server/settings from my observium server, it works : # snmpwalk -v2c -c public xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Linux xxxxxx 3.xxxx #4 SMP Tue Jul 23 14:15:08 CEST 2013 x86_64" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 = OID: iso.3.6.1.4.1.8072.3.2.10 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 = Timeticks: (682253742) 78 days, 23:08:57.42 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.4.0 = STRING: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0 = STRING: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.6.0 = STRING: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.8.0 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.1 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.10.3.1.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.2 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.11.3.1.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.3 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.15.2.1.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.4 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.1 ... When i do the "add_device.php", looking at snmp packets with tcpdump on target server (here 10.0.1.6), i can see a request/response with observium server (here 10.0.0.16) : # tcpdump -n -s 2000 -p host 10.0.0.16 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 2000 bytes 10:15:30.911770 IP 10.0.0.16 > 10.0.1.6: ICMP echo request, id 15935, seq 0, length 76 10:15:30.911782 IP 10.0.1.6 > 10.0.0.16: ICMP echo reply, id 15935, seq 0, length 76 10:15:30.918085 IP 10.0.0.16.17331 > 10.0.1.6.161: F=r U= E= C= GetRequest(14) 10:15:30.918221 IP 10.0.1.6.161 > 10.0.0.16.17331: F= U= E= 0x800x000x070xE50x800x300xF10x420x3B0x170xED0x110x450x000x000x000x00 C= Report(31) .1.3.6.1.6.3.15.1.1.4.0=9 Am i the only one with this problem ? Does anybody have any idea why it doesn't work anymore ? I tried this through web interface and i have the same error. B.R. -- Signature email • *Joël GOLLIET |* *Ingénieur Infrastructure et Système* • Tel : +33 4 86 11 37 08 | joel.golliet(a)2lm.fr <mailto:joel.golliet@2lm.fr> • 2L Multimedia - Park Nord, Les Pléiades, 74370 - Metz-Tessy - FRANCE Pensez à l'environnement, n'imprimez cet e-mail qu'en cas de réelle nécessité

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NetApp filer graphs for Disk IO and Network IO are all NaN
by Peter Loron 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

We're running Observium Pro 0.15.4.6386, and I have added our NetApp 2230 filers. The filers are running v8.2.2 Cluster. I'm getting some data, but the graphs in Observium for Network I/O and Disk I/O are all NaN. Any ideas? I'm willing to poke into the issue (bad interpretation of returned values? Need updated OID?), but not sure where to start. Thanks. -Pete

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Maximum length for interface descriptions?
by Andrew Plas 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Greetings, I've been on the Observium mailing list for a while, and this is my first inquiry. I have been using Observium for about a year now and continue to be impressed with the product and appreciate the active community on this list. I am attempting to use the default interface description parser outlined in: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Interface_Description_Parsing. However, I notice that if the interface descriptions are too long, either the "Notes" field or the "Circuit" field does not display. In searching through the mailing list archives, I hadn't found a specific answer to this. For example, if I have an interface description like so: description Cust: CustomerA's Full Name MPLS [20Mbps] (Carrier Name) {00/ABCD/000000//ABCD} I receive this output under Ports>Customers page: [image: Inline image 1] And if I adjust the interface description to exclude the "Notes" field, the "Circuit" field displays properly. description Cust: CustomerA's Full Name MPLS [20Mbps] {00/ABCD/000000//ABCD} [image: Inline image 2] Doing an snmpwalk, I do see the the full description in both cases. snmpwalk -c SNMPSTRING -v 2c ng-511-sw-edge1 .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.2.1.1.28 <omitted> iso.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.2.1.1.28.10610 = STRING: "Cust: CustomerA's Full Name MPLS [20Mbps] (Carrier Name) {00/ABCD/000000//ABCD}" Is there a maximum length that the parser will allow? Is this just a matter of column width on the "Ports" pages? I notice on other ports, when a customer has a really long name it does roll over to another line. Any reason the "Circuit" or "Notes" fields can't? For better or worse, I'd like as much useful information on the dashboard as possible and unfortunately some of these carrier's circuit ID's are very long... My equipment is a Cisco 3750E and I am currently running Observium Professional at version 0.15.4.6378 Thank you for any and all input!

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Re: [Observium] Alerting on BGP Ucast prefixes
by Pedersen, Sean 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

The only BGP-related metrics at the moment are bgpPeerState, bgpPeerAdminStatus, and bgpFsmEstablishedTime. The prefix data might be graphed, but the same data might not necessarily be available via the alerting system. I’d like to see that kind of alerting as well! Though I don’t think it’d replace something more robust like BGPMon. Plus, it could get quite chatty unless you could set limits on route changes. From: Michael Vieth Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 7:48 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: [Observium] Alerting on BGP Ucast prefixes I am ecstatic that unicast prefix is graphed on Observium. Is there a way to alert on a change in the number of routes being advertised? For example, say I am receiving 500 routes from a peer, and that drops to 430, is that an alert-able event? (Sorry if this is a repeated question, I am having difficulty finding detailed information on alerts outside of the wiki that just has general alerts documented.) Cheers, Michael Vieth Founded in 2007, IO provides the data center as a service to businesses and governments around the world. The communication contained in this e-mail is confidential and is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, attorney work product or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender of the error, and delete this communication including any attached files from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.

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/usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full
by Chip Pleasants 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

I was wondering if anyone has seen this message constantly repeating in the mysqld.log and maybe have an idea how to fix it? 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full 150414 15:42:05 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: The table 'ports_cbqos' is full -Chip

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Alerting on BGP Ucast prefixes
by Michael Vieth 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

I am ecstatic that unicast prefix is graphed on Observium. Is there a way to alert on a change in the number of routes being advertised? For example, say I am receiving 500 routes from a peer, and that drops to 430, is that an alert-able event? (Sorry if this is a repeated question, I am having difficulty finding detailed information on alerts outside of the wiki that just has general alerts documented.) Cheers, Michael Vieth

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How to submit to the development team ?
by Nicolas COULIN 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

Hi, I add HP UPS in observium, and I would like to know how to submit this code? /opt/observium/includes/definitions/os.inc.php $os = "hpups"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "HP UPS OS"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "power"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "hp"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.232.165"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "CPQPOWER-MIB"; $config['os'][$os]['mib_blacklist'][] = "BGP4-MIB"; $config['os'][$os]['mib_blacklist'][] = "HOST-RESOURCES-MIB"; /opt/observium/includes/discovery/os/hpups.inc.php <?php /** * Observium * * This file is part of Observium. * * @package observium * @subpackage poller * @copyright (C) 2006-2014 Adam Armstrong * */ $manufacturer = trim(snmp_get($device, ".1.3.6.1.4.1.232.165.3.1.1.0", "-OQv", "", ""),'" '); $hardware = trim(snmp_get($device, ".1.3.6.1.4.1.232.165.3.1.2.0", "-OQv", "", ""),'" '); $version = trim(snmp_get($device, ".1.3.6.1.4.1.232.165.3.1.3.0", "-OQv", "", ""),'" '); $serial = trim(snmp_get($device, ".1.3.6.1.4.1.232.165.1.2.7.0", "-OQv", "", ""),'" '); // EOF Add mib, and /opt/observium/includes/discovery/sensors/cpqpower-mib.inc.php Thanks, [Logo Kleegroup]

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WIFI AP with sane SNMP
by Nikolay Shopik 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

Hey guys, Can you recommend WiFi AP vendor with somewhat sane SNMP stack?

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Re: [Observium] WIFI AP with sane SNMP
by Adam Armstrong 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

I've been working with Ruckus's zoneflex devices, the SNMP is quite well laid out and they don't seem to die. They've already partial support in observium, with more coming when I get time :) If you find something else with similarly well structured MIBs (radios, wlans, ssids, etc all nicely enumerated) support can probably be extended to that too. Assuming of course we don't embargo russian SNMP traffic before then :D Adam. On 14 Apr 2015 12:10, Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > Can you recommend WiFi AP vendor with somewhat sane SNMP stack? > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Observium stack after update
by lom＠digitelitalia.com 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

> Remove rrdcached and see if that helps first. > > Adam. I removed it, but the problem is still there. I also made database optimizatione, but no effect.

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Re: [Observium] excluding servers from alert checks
by Adam Armstrong 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

I suspect these people are accounts people who get confused when their engineering staff ask them to subscribe to observium... :D Adam. On 14 Apr 2015 11:31, Steve Kersley <steve.kersley(a)keble.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Why am I getting this email.... > > Because someone posted that email to a mailing list you subscribed to? > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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excluding servers from alert checks
by Patrick Marquetecken 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

Hi, I'm trying to exclude some servers from a check, but it does not work. Check Conditions processor_usage greater 80 Device match: * notequals db-02 notequals man-01 Entity match * But when I run regenerate the two machines have always the alerts enabled. removing the * from Device match don't help either. A second question, is it possible to suppress alert checking during a certain period , I'll do off site backup each day that triggers this alert. The alert check: Traffic exceeds 85% with a delay of 2 If I put the delay higher I will not receive 'real' alerts.

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check traffic limit
by Simon Smith 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Hi All, quick daft random question, what value would I use to monitor the overall traffic of a switch? I currently have alerts that check certain ports if over say 50% usage or over say 20MB ( ifInOctets_rate > 2500000 ) (more than 20mb) but how do i do an overall value of a switch? regards Simon

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Feature request: Firewall flow statistics for Juniper SRX
by Richard Müller 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Hy all, it is my first post to this mailing list, and of course it is a feature request. ☺ 1.) REQUEST: I would like to have the flow-usage of Juniper SRX-Firewalls in observium. 2.) INFO: SRX-Firewalls deliver Session Statistics via SNMP (1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.3.39.1.12.1.1.1.6) in a quite good way: ######> show security flow session summary Unicast-sessions: 87 Multicast-sessions: 0 Failed-sessions: 0 Sessions-in-use: 89 Valid sessions: 87 Pending sessions: 0 Invalidated sessions: 2 Sessions in other states: 0 Maximum-sessions: 524288 http://kb.juniper.net/library/CUSTOMERSERVICE/GLOBAL_JTAC/BK26199/SRX%20SNM… (Page 4 – Its available for every kind of SRX Firewall – Branch/High End) 3.) HISTORY: Erwin Heringa requested the same Mon May 26 09:17:10 BST 2014 on the mailing list. ;-) 4.) FINANCIAL: I have no problem “sponsoring the feature request,” if it does not take longer than one Day of work time. Any feedback will be fine… Richard -- <http://www.teamix.de>[teamix]<http://www.teamix.de> Richard Müller Geschäftsführer teamix GmbH Südwestpark 43 90449 Nürnberg Tel.: +49 911 30999 0 Fax: +49 911 30999 99 mail: rm(a)teamix.de web: http://www.teamix.de blog: http://blog.teamix.de Amtsgericht Nürnberg, HRB 18320 | Geschäftsführer: Oliver Kügow, Richard Müller ** Data Management Day | 29.04.2015 bei teamix ** Jetzt anmelden unter www.teamix.de/CommVault

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PFSense
by Jason Vanlandingham 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

I'm considering replacing my Cisco 2821 with a PC-based router in the near future. (I'm currently thinking PFSense or Freesco, but I haven't really started research in depth yet.) I'm sure someone (probably several someones) out there is using Observium to monitor one of these devices, and I'm looking for a bit of feedback on how the process goes and what kind of info you receive. Thank you in advance!

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Observium stack after update
by lom＠digitelitalia.com 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Hi, we have an Observium paid edition and we are experienced a very bad degradation on performances after the last update. It seems (checking with htop) that the rrdttool "eat" all the CPU and stuck on it. We are using RRDCached with this options:" OPTS="-w 1800 -z 1800 -f 3600 -s www-data -l unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock -j /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ -F -b /opt/observium/rrd/ -B". Could you help me on identify the problem and make some troubleshooting? Regards digitel Ing. Lorenzo Mainardi Via della Fortezza 6 - 50129 Firenze <http://www.digitelitalia.com/> www.digitelitalia.com - 800 901 669 Tel +39 055 4624933 Fax +39 055 4624 947 lom(a)digitelitalia.com <mailto:lom@digitelitalia.com>

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Monitoring services
by Patrick Marquetecken 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

All, Could someone give me some advice on how to monitor services, i'm used to work with Nagios so i'm now a bit in the blind. For what I could read in the documentation the muning plugin is the way to go but will I have alerts / only graphs its not so clear for me. Also the munin installation I could not find any documentation for it. Thanks

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Polling fails on Cisco 892FSP-K9
by Matthias Cramer 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

Hi All Since 26.3 I nolonger can poll the ports of the internal switch of all my Cisco 892FSP-K9 routers. When running the poller.php script I see: Module [ entity-physical ] time: 0.0006s Module [ applications ] time: 0.0001s FDB Tables ERROR: Device does not support per-VLAN community. Module [ fdb-table ] time: 1.0148s Poller in debug mode outputs an error on updating the rrd: Port GigabitEthernet4(7) replacing with 64-bit... dot3Duplex, VLAN == 2 ifInOctets (839624 B) 3098.2435424354 Bps 271 secs ifOutOctets (27170196 B) 100259.02583026 Bps 271 secs ifInErrors (0 B) 0 Bps 271 secs ifOutErrors (0 B) 0 Bps 271 secs ifInUcastPkts (5217 B) 19.250922509225 Bps 271 secs ifOutUcastPkts (19418 B) 71.653136531365 Bps 271 secs bps(24.7kbps/802kbps)bytes(819kB/25.9MB)pkts(19.2pps/71.6pps) SQL[[[0;33mSELECT * FROM `device_graphs` WHERE `device_id` = '155'[[0m][[0m RUNTIME[[[0;32m0.00004601s[[0m][[0m RRD /opt/observium/rrd/rt.globalsystem.cust.as8758.net/port-7.rrd already exists - no need to create. RRD[cmd[[[0;32mupdate /opt/observium/rrd/rt.globalsystem.cust.as8758.net/port-7.rrd N:3542003737302:41661739760485:0:0:2592603452:3263616715:1.8446744073711E+19:1.8446744073715E+19:0:0:0:18446744073681691247:18446744 stdout[[[0;32mERROR: /opt/observium/rrd/rt.globalsystem.cust.as8758.net/port-7.rrd: not a simple signed integer: '1.8446744073711E+19'[[0m] [[0m This seams to be the reason why the rrd's are empty since then... Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zurich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Map is not displaying
by Tomasz Karczewski 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Suddenly map stopped displaying. I have blank screen as shown in the picture. Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.pl http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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Cisco Switch Ports(vlan interface) not updating
by Nitesh Mistry 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi All, I have an issue were whenever I add a new vlan(port) and new vlan(port) interface observium is not picking up the descriptions and not listing properly in the web interface. However you can see the IP's associated with the interface and some graphs for it. Any help would be appreciated. I am running subscription and on the latest svn build. Nitesh

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Problem Class Net_IPv6 Observium on FreeBSD
by Maciel Rodrigues 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi, I'm with a problem with the perl class Net_IPv6. Anything Observium files in php that I execute return me: *Fatal error: Class 'Net_IPv6' not found in /usr/local/www/observium/includes/definitions.inc.php on line 287* Can you help me ? *Maciel Rodrigues* *Contato: *37. 9993-1412 *e-mail: *macielrsf(a)gmail.com

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Automatic alert regeneration
by Andre Geißler 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi all We're alerting on port errors on ports matching some conditions. If someone will add a port matching those conditions (eg. SFP), the port will not be added automatically to the alert check. Is there a way to automatically regenerate? Cheers Andre

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 57, Issue 17
by Johnston, Tom 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Thanks Adam, We’ll look at that. On 4/6/15, 10:31 AM, "observium-request(a)observium.org" <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: >Send observium mailing list submissions to > observium(a)observium.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > observium-request(a)observium.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > observium-owner(a)observium.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Alert Check not Working (Adam Armstronf) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:31:51 +0100 >From: Adam Armstronf <adama(a)memetic.org> >To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> >Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert Check not Working >Message-ID: > <14c8f5bf270.2765.0fa97865a0e1ab36152b6b2299eedb49(a)memetic.org> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > >Your mysql server needs more heap space for memory tables. > >A quick Google will help you :) > >Adam. > >Sent with AquaMail for Android >http://www.aqua-mail.com > > >On 6 April 2015 16:29:01 "Johnston, Tom" <Tom.Johnston(a)edinaschools.org> wrote: > >> I have an alert checker set up to alert for CPU gt 80%. I also have an >> Alert checker for ifOperStatus. >> >> It seems many of the devices have never been checked despite regenerating >> multiple times. When I hover of the ?I? for information its an empty square. >> >> Issue happens on the same exact device models and on others we get a result >> of Checks Ok and some array data under the ?I? >> Devices running identical IOS images, one works, another doesn?t. >> >> What information can I gather to help see what the issue may be? >> Version: Observium 0.15.3.6350 (rolling) >> Server 4vCPU / 8GB RAM >> 166 Devices (mostly Cisco Switches)(Polling/Alerting on Mostly Uplinks >> only, not access interfaces) >> >> Thannks. >> >> >> [cid:C0786D29-E8DF-4DDA-B40E-EB0014E2D9C1] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------- >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20150406/ead22db…> >-------------- next part -------------- >A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >Name: C0786D29-E8DF-4DDA-B40E-EB0014E2D9C1.png >Type: image/png >Size: 114486 bytes >Desc: not available >URL: <http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/attachments/20150406/ead22db…> > >------------------------------ > >Subject: Digest Footer > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > >------------------------------ > >End of observium Digest, Vol 57, Issue 17 >*****************************************

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Alert Check not Working
by Johnston, Tom 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

I have an alert checker set up to alert for CPU gt 80%. I also have an Alert checker for ifOperStatus. It seems many of the devices have never been checked despite regenerating multiple times. When I hover of the “I” for information its an empty square. Issue happens on the same exact device models and on others we get a result of Checks Ok and some array data under the “I” Devices running identical IOS images, one works, another doesn’t. What information can I gather to help see what the issue may be? Version: Observium 0.15.3.6350 (rolling) Server 4vCPU / 8GB RAM 166 Devices (mostly Cisco Switches)(Polling/Alerting on Mostly Uplinks only, not access interfaces) Thannks. [cid:C0786D29-E8DF-4DDA-B40E-EB0014E2D9C1]

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observium managment should be more professional
by John Brown 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

http://afmug.com/pipermail/af/2015-March/018914.html As a provider of internet connectivity (ergo a telco and a ISP) we use licensed microwave and unlicensed microwave technologies to feed our revenue generating customers. We also use fiber, and copper based technologies. microwave != wifi We are not alone in using a mix of technologies to deliver bits to customers. T-Mobile, ATT, Sprint, AllTel, Cellular One, Verizon, etc all use microwave (wireless) technologies to deliver bits. I, like others, have offered to write code, have asked for pointers on how to get started writing code, all appears to have fallen upon deaf ears. I've offered to PAY others to write code to support our kit, with features we need. No takers. As a PAID user, I'm quite shocked and disappointed in Adam's childish behaviour. Users of Observium should be concerned that their continued investment could be a loosing path as more people move AWAY from the product and go support other packages. On two lists that I saw the above URL, not less than 3 dozen people said they where removing observium and not renewing their annual subscriptions. I suspect that will become a trend. Cheers

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Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted during the pooling for one host
by dorje2007＠seznam.cz 05 Apr '15

05 Apr '15

Hi one host cannot finish the pooling procedure, even though i run it separateley: ./poller.php -h router_host_name -d ..... ..... including: includes/polling/cipsec-tunnels.inc.php after that a lot of messages of this kind: ..... cipSecTunStatus.3157 = active cipSecTunStatus.3158 = active cipSecTunStatus.3159 = active cipSecTunStatus.3160 = active ..... Then the pooling terminates with: SNMP_STATUS[TRUE] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 256 bytes) in /opt/observium/includes/snmp.inc.php on line 654 Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 256 bytes) in /opt/observium/includes/snmp.inc.php on line 654 I increased the memory limit to 256 MB in the php.ini, however still does not work. It happens only with one host out of about 200 hosts. I have about 7000 ports in Observium. Platform is: CentOS release 6.6 php-5.3.3-40.el6_6.x86_64 httpd-2.2.15-39.el6.centos.x86_64 Observium CE 0.14.11.6000 Do you have any ideas ? many thanks Pet

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Alerting Contacts
by Johnston, Tom 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Hello, Does anyone know if it is possible at current status to have alerting sent to multiple users. Say I want only Cisco IOS devices to get alerts at an email and Windows devices to get alerts at a different email. Is that level of granularity built in at present or on the way at all? Right now my sys admin and I don’t need each others alerts… Thanks in advance.

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Re: [Observium] Alerting Contacts
by ron＠rjr-services.com 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

I'm sure Adam or others will correct me if necessary, but I seem to recall the documentation saying you can do that by specifying <email address> as part of the SNMP contact value on the device, and whatever you put in config.php will cover those devices that don't have an email address specified in the device snmp contact value. I could be wrong, it's been several weeks since I last read that part of the documentation. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID "Johnston, Tom" <Tom.Johnston(a)edinaschools.org> wrote: -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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Renewed subscription, what next?
by Gavin Henry 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Hi, We've just renewed our subscription but not sure what to do next. Our svn up still works. Not sure how it's tied to the subscription. Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry.

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MiB Ceragon on Observium
by Maciel Rodrigues 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Guys, Do you know if there is same possibility of implementation of Ceragon MiB ?

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Constant 'reboot' messages for all devices with no uptime counter
by Robert Williams 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Hi, All of our devices which have no uptime counter (such as IP PDUs and temperature sensors for example) are constantly showing as having ‘rebooted’ every single time they are polled. The issue seems to have started on 27/03/15 at our 6AM SVN up – so whatever revision was released at that time. Since we have a very large number of these devices, the net result of this is a pretty useless eventlog ☺ Like this: [cid:image001.png@01D06CA4.83A8D2A0] …and so on… For each devices they have (always) shown this for Uptime: [cid:image002.png@01D06CA4.83A8D2A0] Since the devices do not have any uptime counters on them. Can I filter/disable/stop these events for these devices somehow? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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dns_get_record or why PHP sucks
by Sir l33tname 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hey, I guess I have found a bug. In ./includes/common.inc.php on the function gethostbynamel6. The problem is this one: *query the A record:* var_dump(dns_get_record($host, DNS_A)); array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["host"]=> string(14) "host.name.tdl" ["class"]=> string(2) "IN" ["ttl"]=> int(0) ["type"]=> string(1) "A" ["ip"]=> string(12) "192.168.17.2" } } *query the AAAA record:* var_dump(dns_get_record($host, DNS_AAAA)); PHP Warning:dns_get_record():DNS Queryfailed infile.php on line 4 bool(false) *query both together* var_dump(dns_get_record($host, DNS_A + DNS_AAAA)); PHP Warning:dns_get_record():DNS Queryfailed infile.php on line 4 bool(false) As you can see if the DNS server doesn't have a AAAA record it fails, this cause for me the error that I couldn't add a new device to the observium. I build a prototype code which could be a solution for this problem but since I'm not a good php programmer I'm sure there is a smarter way for this. $A_record = dns_get_record($host, DNS_A); $AAAA_record = dns_get_record($host, DNS_AAAA); if($A_record != false && $AAAA_record != false) { $record = array_merge($A_record, $AAAA_record); } else if($A_record == false) { $record = $AAAA_record; } else if($AAAA_record == false) { $record = $A_record; } else { #show some error } Since I did all the research it should be fairly easy to fix this, so I hope someone will do it. If you need anything more to fix it please ask. A few things I noticed in the debugging process and totally unrelated to the problem: - the name gethostbyname6 is a bit confusing since it does both I would rename it to gethostbyname - same goes for $try_a I personally would pick a more descriptive name - "Could not resolve $host" in ./includes/functions.inc.php and ./includes/functions.inc_d.php, since It took me some time to figure out what this means I would add something like "Could not resolve $host with your DNS or your Hosts file" But all in all it's a nice code base for a php project, well done! For the case I'm wrong please tell me why. l33tname

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Dell PDU not being identified
by Stephen Bateman 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Has anyone had problems adding the Dell K5YYY PDU's for some reason I am getting no data from them other than serial and names. I have tried SNMP v1 & v2 without any results, so ideas would be appreciated.

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Disk size via unix agent.
by Dudu 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hi All. I have a very large disk which i canot get correct size with snmpd even 5.7.3 Is there any way to populate the graph and database via the Unix Agent? Im able to view the information correctly via the agent df part. Many thanks David Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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No ports added on D-Link DGS-1216T
by Thomas Novin 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Hello Very new to Observium, installed it yesteday. Ran into problems on the first device I added, no ports are found on this switch. I am also using Cacti which I plan to replace and there all ports are discovered and graphing works fine. Here is an output from snmpwalk: http://paste.ubuntu.com/10708460/ Here is an output from poller in debug: http://paste.ubuntu.com/10708471/ And last output from discovery.. root@mistik:/opt/observium# ./discovery.php -h 3 Observium CE 0.14.11.6000 *Discovery* Current Revision : 6000 New Revision : 6350 dlink.xyz.lan 3 dlink Module [ os ] time: 0.0703s Ports : Module [ ports ] time: 24.0653s Port Stacks: Module [ ports-stack ] time: 6.0483s Processors : AGENT-GENERAL-MIB hrDevice: Module [ processors ] time: 12.0521s Memory : AGENT-GENERAL-MIB HOST-RESOURCES-MIB Module [ mempools ] time: 12.0383s IPv4 Addresses : Module [ ipv4-addresses ] time: 36.1278s IPv6 Addresses : Module [ ipv6-addresses ] time: 30.0945s Sensors: ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB Module [ sensors ] time: 42.1179s Storage : Module [ storage ] time: 6.0196s Inventory: Physical Inventory : hrDevice : Module [ inventory ] time: 24.1358s Discovery protocols: LLDP-MIB CISCO-CDP-MIB Module [ discovery-protocols ] time: 12.0836s OSPF Neighbours: Module [ ospf-autodiscovery ] time: 6.0253s ARP/NDP Tables : Module [ arp-table ] time: 18.0719s Module [ junose-atm-vp ] time: 0.0003s BGP Sessions: No BGP on host Module [ bgp-peers ] time: 0.015s VLANs: Q-BRIDGE-MIB Module [ vlans ] time: 6.0383s Module [ mac-accounting ] time: 0.0003s Module [ cisco-pw ] time: 0.0004s Module [ cisco-vrf ] time: 0.0005s Module [ cisco-sla ] time: 0.0004s Module [ vmware-vminfo ] time: 0.0003s Cisco Class-based QoS: QoS not configured. Module [ cisco-cbqos ] time: 6.0876s Module [ libvirt-vminfo ] time: 0.0005s Module [ toner ] time: 0.0005s UCD Disk IO : Module [ ucd-diskio ] time: 6.0147s Wifi: Module [ wifi ] time: 0.0005s Module [ graphs ] time: 0.0004s Discovered in 247.1 seconds MySQL: Cell[22/0s] Row[0/0s] Rows[49/0.01s] Column[0/0s] Update[1/0.01s] Insert[2/0.01s] Delete[0/0s] Anyone knows what to do to graph the ports on this switch? Rgds//Thomas

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match port_id with rrd graphs
by Zhenhui Liang 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Hi, I would like to do some rrdtool fetch against the raw rrd files observium generated to get some reports. But I couldn’t figure out how to match the portid or device_id from observium tables to get the correct path to match to the rrd files. Rrd files location seemed to be at ~observium/rrd/devicenames. But the rrd file name like port-123.rrd, 123 seems not to be the port_id in the ports table. Rather it’s device specific. Thank you very much for your help. —Zhenhui

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Discovery on Nexus 3K removes all interfaces
by Markus Viitamäki 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

I am running 0.15.3.6350 and have noticed that some time ago all interfaces on my nexus 3k's gets marked deleted every time discovery runs. However the interfaces are not deleted.. :/ I have done debugging on the a discovery and the only problems I can find are these (I am not sure these are related at all): http://pastie.org/private/lmqwcfqdp2ujo2nx65pwew // Markus (suom1)

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update errors database structure
by Patrick Marquetecken 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Hi, It seems that I have some problems with my database structure Perhaps related to my alerts & evenlog problems. [2015/01/18 15:05:14 +0100] update.php(2459): ====== Schema update 137 -> 138 ============== [2015/01/18 15:05:14 +0100] update.php(2459): Query: ALTER TABLE `sensors` ADD `entPhysicalIndex_measured` varchar(16) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL AFTER `sensor_custom_limit`; [2015/01/18 15:05:14 +0100] update.php(2459): Error: Duplicate column name 'entPhysicalIndex_measured' [2015/01/18 15:05:14 +0100] update.php(2459): Query: ALTER TABLE `sensors` ADD `measured_class` VARCHAR( 32 ) NULL DEFAULT NULL AFTER `entPhysicalIndex_measured`; [2015/01/18 15:05:14 +0100] update.php(2459): Error: Duplicate column name 'measured_class' [2015/01/18 15:05:14 +0100] update.php(2459): Query: ALTER TABLE `sensors` ADD `measured_entity` VARCHAR( 32 ) NULL DEFAULT NULL AFTER `measured_class`; [2015/01/18 15:05:14 +0100] update.php(2459): Error: Duplicate column name 'measured_entity' [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): ====== Schema update 183 -> 184 ============== [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Query: ALTER TABLE `eventlog` CHANGE `reference` `entity_id` INT( 64 ) NULL DEFAULT NULL; [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Error: (1366) Incorrect integer value: 'NULL' for column 'entity_id' at row 1 [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Query: ALTER TABLE `eventlog` ADD `severity` TINYINT NOT NULL DEFAULT '6' AFTER `entity_id`; [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Error: (1054) Unknown column 'entity_id' in 'eventlog' [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Query: UPDATE `eventlog` SET `severity` = 4 WHERE `message` REGEXP '(above|under) threshold'; [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Error: (1054) Unknown column 'severity' in 'field list' [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Query: UPDATE `eventlog` SET `severity` = 5 WHERE `message` REGEXP ' [.(.]by (user|cron|console)'; [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Error: (1054) Unknown column 'severity' in 'field list' [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Query: UPDATE `eventlog` SET `severity` = 3 WHERE `message` LIKE 'Device status changed to%'; [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Error: (1054) Unknown column 'severity' in 'field list' [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Query: UPDATE `eventlog` SET `severity` = 4 WHERE `message` LIKE '%probably the device was replaced%'; [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Error: (1054) Unknown column 'severity' in 'field list' [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Query: UPDATE `eventlog` SET `severity` = 4 WHERE `message` LIKE 'OS changed%'; [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Error: (1054) Unknown column 'severity' in 'field list' [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Query: UPDATE `eventlog` SET `severity` = 4 WHERE `message` LIKE 'Device rebooted%'; [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Error: (1054) Unknown column 'severity' in 'field list' [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Query: UPDATE `eventlog` SET `severity` = 4 WHERE `entity_type` IN ('bgp_peer', 'sensor') AND `message` REGEXP ' (Up|Down|Alarm): '; [2015/03/23 14:23:56 +0100] discovery.php(31115): Error: (1054) Unknown column 'severity' in 'field list'

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snmp crash on nexus 7k when polling certain OID
by Steve Costaras 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

I'm running observium CE 0.14.11.6000. We just ran into an interesting problem on a Nexus 7K running 6.2(12) code. When observium polls the device, the snmp process crashes and reloads (this happens with every 5 minute poll). Managed to track it down to a specific OID that's causing it: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.91.1.1.1.1.4.22809 It takes less than a second to reload the snmp process on the 7K; we're engaging cisco to see about a fix, but in the interim besides disabling the device, is there a specific way to block/not poll this particular OID? Older nexus code appears to not have this problem as. Steve

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New user - I apologize in advance if I am asking stupid questions
by Rich Elwell 28 Mar '15

28 Mar '15

Greetings, I've recently installed observium and find that it is a great tool. Kudos for developing something so useful and easy to use. I do have a couple of questions. I desire to set the device_id for some of the devices to a specific value. This is not supported in the interface. It looks like I *should* be able to modify the code to allow me to do this, but before I do I wanted to check and see if there is already a way for me to accomplish this without having to modify the code. I also desire to be able to add devices programatically via an API call from an external system. I looked over the existing simple API (not extensively) but it didn't seem like that was possible. So basically I want to be able to do something like: http://myserver/api.php?mydetails&including&device_id and have it add the device while specifying the device_id. Is that possible? If not, I'm probably going to build it. Thanks, Rich -- Rich Elwell, MS, CISSP, GCIA, CCNA, CCNA Security /dev/null security ⋅ network *nix administration

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