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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 54, Issue 37
by Nate Mellendorf 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

@ Colin Stubbs Agreed. We didn't run a full PoC either with Observium. We deployed it and watched to see if anyone found it useful or not. It wasn't long before it was running neck and neck with our production platform, which was quite unexpected for us. We (eventually) have/had no problem paying the $200 USD out of our team budget, as production software far exceeded the extremely low cost of Observium. As you noted earlier, If the demo site included all the features of the paid subscription; I think that would be enough to show free users what they're missing. (If it's configured as a full PoC as well, it should make selling the service to their team / management that much easier.) Side Note: Adam and the team work hard on this project, so the current payment plan is quite understandable and is to be expected. Even if you add on the support element for Observium, it's still far cheaper than most paid subscriptions.(Solarwinds, What's Up Gold) (It's something like $17 USD a month for full device monitoring and statistics on all configured devices. That's crazy awesome!) 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: Sunday, January 11, 2015 1:54 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 54, Issue 37 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: cheap much? re: trial (Jacob Gardiner) 2. Re: cheap much? re: trial (Colin Stubbs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 10:38:34 +1100 From: Jacob Gardiner <jacob(a)jacobgardiner.com> To: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org>, Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] cheap much? re: trial Message-ID: <etPan.54b1b7fb.2ae8944a.376@JG-MBP> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" There?s more out there than just RedHat.? You?re just being a bit ignorant in that regards.? --? Jacob Gardiner @jacobgardiner On 11 January 2015 at 9:27:23 am, Adam Armstrong (adama(a)memetic.org) wrote: Well, we already proved this stupid "mek ur munies from support herpderp" belief common amongst open source zealots is abject nonsense. We make more money from support as a commercial operation than we ever did as pure open source, because businesses value a commercial product more than a free one, and are more likely to buy support for it. In 7 years of being open source we made maybe $1000 in voluntary donations, more than half from one person (and I'm pretty sure he drunk-donated every time). This is demonstrable fact, and is the primary reason were now commercial. RedHat are the exception that proves the rule. The fact that no one can think of anyone else (no, Oracle don't count) who makes money should be enough to demonstrate that open source doesn't pay, but for some reason people are still convinced it does. I don't know. It's like the software equivalent of trickle-down economics. No amount of evidence can sway ideologues. Adam. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On 10 January 2015 13:46:02 Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: Sorry, that's the GPL-centric view that does not cover world reality at all. Also, they already see the whole thing. That's the part (90%+!) they're supporting by sending money. The bonus they get should not be the reason to support the project to begin with. We offer trial licenses at 150 GBP. As a bonus you can test it for an entire year. Lastly, I'm a bit confused why you think something needs to be GPL to be able to modify the source firstly, and the contribute the changes back second... Tom On 10/01/2015 13:15, Jacob Gardiner wrote: Because they don?t give a shit about how you license it. As long as it works and you?ll fix it if it breaks. If you GPL the full version and provide ongoing SLA & upgrades for the software, it wont make much of a difference. Holding back features between versions actually widens the gap between getting trial users converted to fully paid users, Mainly because the guys that try your software out want to see the whole thing, and not just a subset of features when they trial it.? Besides, how do you think organisations that have development budgets contribute to products if they?re not GPL? More often than not, the requirement for ?open source? software within a company is because they want their developers to be able to add and submit features back to the product. ? ? On 10 January 2015 at 3:50:27 pm, Adam Armstrong (adama(a)memetic.org) wrote: I'm not really terribly cool with commercial organisations benefiting from the costlessness of open source software. Why should someone who'll pay Cisco $50k for a router get my work for free? ? _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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cheap much? re: trial
by Rob VanHooren 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

really? it’s what, a hundred quid? for a whole year. your bossfolk will collectively burn that up in under one minute of pedantic jawing at their next useless meeting. and they can’t let you take a year’s flyer to gain added features for software that you already like? do they make staff pay per cup for coffee/tea in the office kitchen too? charge rental fees for using up their whiteboard markers? sixpence per sheet in the company loo? ~boggle~ R. > On Jan 9, 2015, at 07:00, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > I would very much like to test this functionality in the commercial edition of Observium before purchasing a subscription - is this possible please?

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Sbscription
by Chip Pleasants 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

I currently have a subscription and wondering the best way to renew. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Chip

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Draw error
by Darian Jimenez 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Hello, Any idea why I would be getting "draw errors" on a bunch of my devices?

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RANCID integration and * history *
by Leroux, Steve 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Hi Observium Team, We have an Observium Subscription - well worth it. Observium: 0.15.1.6158 Rancid WebSVN: 2.3.3 I noticed this week that viewing the network config (from RANCID) not only has the current but history. We auto-update our observium weekly. I'm not sure when this was done but thanks. I'm sure many of us (subscribers) will be very pleased with this additional feature. That is so awesome. Big Thanks for that. That's it. Sample: [cid:image001.jpg@01D02B25.CEC7A880] Steve Leroux Technical Operations Manager -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This email and any attachments may contain confidential information intended only for the addressee(s). Inappropriate distribution, use or copying of confidential information is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete it immediately. Avertissement: Cet e-mail et les pièces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles destinées uniquement au destinataire (s). Répartition inappropriée, l'utilisation ou la copie d'informations confidentielles est strictement interdite. Si vous avez reçu ce courriel par erreur, s'il vous plaît informer l'expéditeur et le supprimer immédiatement.

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Juniper Class of Service MIB (mib-jnx-cos)
by Dave Lindon 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Hey All, Wondering if anyone has looked into implementing mib-jnx-cos into Observium? I know that Juniper doesn't create the friendliest MIBs but thought it was worth checking if it's been attempted. Cheers, Dave

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Trial License - Observium Commercial Edition
by Carl Francis 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Hi, I'm a very happy Observium Community Edition user, keep up the good work! I have a Linux appliance that utilises Observium, Nagios, NagioSQL, Cacti, Splunk, etc. that runs as our Company NOC. I would like to simplify this and perhaps remove Nagios as I only use this for basic ICMP "Are you there" checks currently. I would very much like to test this functionality in the commercial edition of Observium before purchasing a subscription - is this possible please? Kind regards, Carl Francis [cid:image001.gif@01D01B8A.17EED7F0] e: carl.francis(a)flexnet-ts.com<mailto:carl.francis@flexnet-ts.com> // m: +44 (0) 7967 398 853<callto:00447967398853> // w: http://www.flexnet-ts.com<http://www.flexnet-ts.com/> // @FlexNetTS<https://twitter.com/flexnetts> Click here to watch a Cisco Meraki Webinar, and receive a free wireless access point!<http://www.meraki.com/company/webinars?ref=1dxTIjY>

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installing observium
by girum kebede 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

i got the error when instaling the observium and setting the Setup the MySQL and when running this command :- php includes/sql-schema/update.php this is the error i get " Could not open input file: includes/sql-schema/update.php"

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EU Subscriptions and new subscription management system
by Adam Armstrong 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Hi Guys, To get around the additional complexity complying with the EU regulations would require we've switched to a slightly more expensive, but more helpful payment provider which is now acting as a VAT agent on our behalf, usefully sidestepping all of the EU VAT issues. They also have a much friendlier and much easier to use API, so I finally got around to properly automating the subscription system. For the future to renew subscriptions, you'll need to create an account on the subscription management system and order via the button. At the moment it autogenerates usernames and passwords, but in future I'll make those customisable. You can find it at http://www.observium.org/subs/ Thanks, adam.

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geolocation problems after update
by Guilherme de Freitas Figueiredo 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

hi all! after upgrading my svn version of observium noticed that the points are gone the map going to a strange location and coordinates "manual" in the geolocation option of configuration of devices. to not upgrade one by one and clear beyond coordinate option did a direct change in sql that functioned normally, it follows: UPDATE `observium`.`devices_locations` SET `location_lat` = NULL , `location_lon` = NULL , `location_geoapi` = 'google' , `location_manual` = '0'; after 5 minutes the points again appear on the map in the right way []s! -- Guilherme de Freitas Figueiredo

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export billing to pdf
by Simon Smith 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Hi All, is the any plans of exporting the Billing to PDFs or a module somebodies written? currently if i go File -> Print, it just prints horrible! missing text, no color, just horrible! I have to copy the graphs to a Word Doc and then save to PDF Regards Simon

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Fwd: Help me please
by Phạm Mạnh Hùng 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Dear observium developer/suppoter! I've new install Observium in Ubuntu 12.04 server. It had monitoring some device run snmp services. But now I want Observium monitor some software like: apache/mysql. I have done following instruction http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/Apache but it not success. Can you instruction me more detail. Thank you very much. -- Thanks & Best regards Phạm Mạnh Hùng Công ty Cổ phần tập đoàn đầu tư công nghệ Intech ADD: No1 Đình Thôn Mỹ Đình Từ Liêm Hà Nội Website: http://www.sieuthisua.com; http://www.Intech.com.vn <http://www.intech.com.vn/> Email: Phammanhhung(a)gmail.com <phammanhhung(a)gmail.com>; Real_time_pro(a)yahoo.com <real_time_pro(a)yahoo.com> Phone: 0904216677

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Re: [Observium] Custom SNMP OID
by lom＠digitelitalia.com 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

I have the same issue. We are running a bunch of DSLAM (Zhone and Keymile) and we want to monitor the numebr of calls, the temperature and so on (no more than 10 SNMP OID checks). How can I ask to add this kind of support? Can I write my own check files for this hardware and (if it's working fine) pull up on the main release? Where to start writing a custom check? Regards

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add specific OID to a host to monitor.graph
by John Brown 02 Jan '15

02 Jan '15

Hi, I'm working towards building some additional OS and device definitions for Observium. At first, I would like to know if there is a way to add a specific OID to a device to be monitored. Other words, I have a device and the standard mibs are being monitored / graph'd. I'd like to add a specific OID to also be monitored / graphed. thanks

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Re: [Observium] Many false positives
by John Brown 02 Jan '15

02 Jan '15

I'm following back up to the list, in hopes that others will find this and it will help them. Part of figuring this out was to track server (the host observium is running on) utilization in terms of Disk IO, CPU, Network IO, swaps, etc. In general we had to upgrade our server to handle a higher compute load / cpu load. We had been running Cacti on the same hardware platform with about 3x the devices, polling every 1 minute and no issues. When running Cacti we also used the C based poller environment (spine). Observium requires more CPU. We also increased our SNMP time out value in the config file. This helped mitigate the issue, but at the end of the day, more CPU fixed the issue. Now the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) has reduced and alerts / data from Observium is considered reflective of the devices status. Once we stabilize and goto production, I'll post our hardware / os configuration along with other relevant data for others to reference. cheers and thanks to those that provided on-list and off-list usable feedback. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 6:06 AM, John Brown <john(a)citylinkfiber.com> wrote: > what command line options do you send to fping ? > how do you call fping from within the code? > and what are you parsing on from fping's output to determine up or down ? > > thanks > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> > wrote: >> >> In my previous testing (which was on a mikrotik, but I didn't find out >> if it was the end device or an intermediate device), the issue occured >> because the device stopped replying to pings for 10 seconds every few >> minutes. >> >> This will produce frequent false alerts with even 1 second timeouts and >> multiple retries not ignoring. >> >> Personally, I think we're quite justified in marking a device down if it >> doesn't reply to ping after 5 seconds :) >> >> adam. >> >> ------ Original Message ------ >> From: "John Brown" <john(a)citylinkfiber.com> >> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >> Sent: 12/22/2014 5:12:18 PM >> Subject: Re: [Observium] Many false positives >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> I did crank the timeout and retires up to 1000ms and 5 retries, prior to >> my original post. >> That didn't seem to help much. >> >> I now have the debug value set and will watch the debug log for any hints. >> >> Thanks >> >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Tom Laermans < >> tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >> >>> There is no time frame to report; it didn't return a ping (in time) at >>> the exact moment the message is logged. >>> >>> These are the default ping config settings: >>> #$config['ping']['retries'] = 3; // How many times to retry ping (1 - >>> 10) >>> #$config['ping']['timeout'] = 500; // Timeout in milliseconds (50 - >>> 2000) >>> >>> So, 3 missed-or->500ms pings, it would seem. >>> >>> There are currently no device-specific ping settings, this is on my >>> to-do somewhere. >>> >>> You can try to enable this: >>> $config['ping']['debug'] = TRUE; // If TRUE store ping errors >>> into logs/debug.log file >>> >>> and check the debug log. >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> On 22/12/2014 23:55, John Brown wrote: >>> >>> Yes, I see the "Device Status changed to Down (PING)" in the log. >>> >>> The conflict I have with this that it doesn't provide any more detailed >>> information. >>> How many pings failed, time frame, etc >>> >>> I am running TCPDUMP on a monitor/span port that the ONOS is connected >>> to and I see ICMP packets going out to devices and I see their reply >>> packets come back. >>> >>> Over a 15 minute period of time a host will be reported as DOWN, yet the >>> ICMP packet flow shows echo_request / echo_reply pairs without undo delay. >>> >>> Other machines on the same LAN subnet as the ONOS host also show no >>> dropped ICMP packets. >>> >>> Hence why I'm asking about additional debugging tools within ONOS.. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >>

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Fw: Re[2]: Fw: Re[2]: Example alert checkers, and background information
by Adam Armstrong 02 Jan '15

02 Jan '15

stupid mail client! :O ------ Forwarded Message ------ From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Tristan Rhodes" <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> Sent: 1/1/2015 11:33:35 PM Subject: Re[2]: [Observium] Fw: Re[2]: Example alert checkers, and background information Apparently I have to add the accounts, too :) adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Tristan Rhodes" <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> To: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 1/1/2015 10:25:02 PM Subject: Re: [Observium] Fw: Re[2]: Example alert checkers, and background information >Was anyone else able to successfully request a wiki account? I am >still getting the permission error when I go the page that Adam >provided. > >Thanks, > >Tristan > >Tristan Rhodes >Network Engineer >Weber State University >801.626.8549 > > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Tristan Rhodes ><tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> wrote: >>I tried that link, but I get this error: >> >>Permissions errors >>You do not have permission to create this user account, for the >>following reason: >> >>The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: >>Administrators. >> >> >>Tristan Rhodes >>Network Engineer >>Weber State University >>801.626.8549 >> >> >>On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> >>wrote: >>> >>> >>>------ Forwarded Message ------ >>>From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> >>>To: "Tristan Rhodes" <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> >>>Sent: 12/16/2014 11:39:46 AM >>>Subject: Re[2]: [Observium] Example alert checkers, and background >>>information >>> >>>We disabled public wiki write access a few years ago when we started >>>to get bot attacks. >>> >>>You create an account here : >>> >>>http://www.observium.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup >>> >>>and then I have to manually enable it. >>> >>>adam. >>> >>>------ Original Message ------ >>>From: "Tristan Rhodes" <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> >>>To: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network >>>Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>Sent: 12/16/2014 10:52:44 AM >>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Example alert checkers, and background >>>information >>> >>>>Adam, >>>> >>>>I am sure that several people want to give back to Observium by >>>>improving the documentation. What is the process for this? I don't >>>>see a way to get a wiki account? >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>> >>>>Tristan >>>> >>>>Tristan Rhodes >>>>Network Engineer >>>>Weber State University >>>>801.626.8549 >>>> >>>> >>>>On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> >>>>wrote: >>>>>Why don't you get a wiki account and put it there? :> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>------ Original Message ------ >>>>>From: "Moerman, Maarten" <mmoerman(a)ebay.com> >>>>>To: "Observium Network Observation System" >>>>><observium(a)observium.org> >>>>>Sent: 12/12/2014 7:39:01 AM >>>>>Subject: [Observium] Example alert checkers, and background >>>>>information >>>>> >>>>>>Hey Guys, >>>>>> >>>>>>I had some spare time, and decided to write up some more >>>>>>documentation on >>>>>>alert-checkers for observium, and provide a whole bunch of example >>>>>>alerts >>>>>>which could be adapted for your use: >>>>>> >>>>>>Document: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>I have provided examples for: >>>>>> - Device down >>>>>> - Processor usage is above 80% >>>>>> - Memory usage is above 70% >>>>>> - State sensor is in ALERT state! >>>>>> - Fanspeed is above or under treshold >>>>>> - Traffic exceeds 85% >>>>>> - BGP Session down >>>>>> - Storage exceeds 85% of disk capacity >>>>>> - Port has encountered errors or discards >>>>>> - Port is enabled, but operationally down >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Let me know if this is helpful and what you'd like to see >>>>>>added/improved. >>>>>> >>>>>>Thanks, >>>>>>Maarten >>>>>>-- >>>>>>Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | >>>>>>+31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>observium mailing list >>>>>>observium(a)observium.org >>>>>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>>>> >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>observium mailing list >>>>>observium(a)observium.org >>>>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>observium mailing list >>>observium(a)observium.org >>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>> >

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Fw: Re[2]: Example alert checkers, and background information
by Adam Armstrong 02 Jan '15

02 Jan '15

------ Forwarded Message ------ From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Tristan Rhodes" <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> Sent: 12/16/2014 11:39:46 AM Subject: Re[2]: [Observium] Example alert checkers, and background information We disabled public wiki write access a few years ago when we started to get bot attacks. You create an account here : http://www.observium.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup and then I have to manually enable it. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Tristan Rhodes" <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> To: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 12/16/2014 10:52:44 AM Subject: Re: [Observium] Example alert checkers, and background information >Adam, > >I am sure that several people want to give back to Observium by >improving the documentation. What is the process for this? I don't >see a way to get a wiki account? > >Thanks, > >Tristan > >Tristan Rhodes >Network Engineer >Weber State University >801.626.8549 > > >On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> >wrote: >>Why don't you get a wiki account and put it there? :> >> >> >>------ Original Message ------ >>From: "Moerman, Maarten" <mmoerman(a)ebay.com> >>To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>Sent: 12/12/2014 7:39:01 AM >>Subject: [Observium] Example alert checkers, and background >>information >> >>>Hey Guys, >>> >>>I had some spare time, and decided to write up some more >>>documentation on >>>alert-checkers for observium, and provide a whole bunch of example >>>alerts >>>which could be adapted for your use: >>> >>>Document: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612 >>> >>> >>>I have provided examples for: >>> - Device down >>> - Processor usage is above 80% >>> - Memory usage is above 70% >>> - State sensor is in ALERT state! >>> - Fanspeed is above or under treshold >>> - Traffic exceeds 85% >>> - BGP Session down >>> - Storage exceeds 85% of disk capacity >>> - Port has encountered errors or discards >>> - Port is enabled, but operationally down >>> >>> >>>Let me know if this is helpful and what you'd like to see >>>added/improved. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Maarten >>>-- >>>Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | >>>+31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>observium mailing list >>>observium(a)observium.org >>>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> >>_______________________________________________ >>observium mailing list >>observium(a)observium.org >>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Fw: RE: Custom SNMP OID
by Adam Armstrong 02 Jan '15

02 Jan '15

What's with the annoying mail clients which keep sending mails directly to mailing list members *AND* the list causing replies not to go the mailing list? BLEH. adam. ------ Forwarded Message ------ From: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> To: "Anthony Polselli" <Anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com> Sent: 12/31/2014 7:38:27 PM Subject: RE: [Observium] Custom SNMP OID Ok, so the solution here is to write a "graph" poller module, add the relevant MIB to the list of supported MIBs for that OS type and write graph definition arrays for the relevant graphs. It's a little more complex if the OS is detected as Linux, since we don't have the ability to selectively add MIBs at the moment, we'd have to add that. The basic design ethos of Observium is that everything should be automatically discovered except where automation is realistically impossible. It's a long standing and quite strict policy which is responsible for basically every difference between Observium and Cacti. If someone can write a Cacti-esque template to graph something they want, why would that not just be added as a poller module? Because it's harder? But one means only 15 people use it, the other means all 10,000 observium users get it. I've long hated the cacti method of doing things, forcing the users to either write support for themselves or find some ancient badly written templates on a forum. This just means that half a dozen people write exactly the same support, and only half of the people who need it get access to it. It's way better to spend twice as much time writing some code which can be included in the release and automatically delivered to everyone. We've a few other internal design policies that people might not be aware of, but they're not so relevant here :) adam. On 2014-12-30 18:55, Anthony Polselli wrote: >I think there is some confusion here; I’m not trying to hide anything, >just didn’t feel it needed a paragraph to explain since we are both >technical. But, as you requested, here is more detail… > >We have an Acme Packet Session Boarder Controller 3820 running >SCX6.4.0 and would like to add the OID’s to monitor number of >concurrent sessions (1.3.6.1.4.1.9148.3.2.1.1.5.0) and percent of >licensed sessions in-use (1.3.6.1.4.1.9148.3.2.1.1.10.0). Observium >is already monitoring the health (processor, memory, etc) and ports >(M00, eth0, eth1, etc). But the function of an SBC is call handling >and we would like to graph things relative to its function; starting >with the two above OID’s. > >What is your design ethos? > >FROM: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] ON BEHALF OF >Adam Armstrong >SENT: Saturday, December 27, 2014 9:35 PM >TO: Observium Network Observation System >SUBJECT: Re: [Observium] Custom SNMP OID > >We don't have the ability to add arbitrary OIDs, by design. If we did, >we'd be just as annoying as Cacti. > >If you explained what you actually wanted to do, perhaps there might >be some scope for adding support for those OIDs. > >This goes for everyone asking a question of this type (of which there >have been quite a few, recently). Don't hide the information and ask >for instructions on how to perform what you believe the solution is to >the problem you refuse to explain. No one is going to do that. Explain >exactly what the issue is or what problem you are trying to solve, and >someone may already have a solution or be willing to create a proper >solution. > >Observium is the wrong place to expect to do these kinds of labour >intensive manual bodges, it's absolutely contra to our design ethos. > >adam. > >------ Original Message ------ > >From: "Anthony Polselli" <Anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com> > >To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> > >Sent: 12/24/2014 12:31:05 PM > >Subject: [Observium] Custom SNMP OID > >Hi all, > >I have a device (Linux based Session Boarder Controller) that Observium >is monitoring fine, but I would like to add 2 specific OID’s to this >device for Observium to poll and graph. Any “how-to” help here would be >great. > >Thanks, > >__________________________________________ > >Anthony Polselli, Chief Technology Officer > >Natural Networks, Inc. > >10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 > >San Diego, CA 92121 > >anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com > >http://www.naturalnetworks.com [1] > >(619) 222-3232 office > >(858) 202-0301 fax > > >Links: >------ >[1] http://www.naturalnetworks.com/

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how to disable port error alarms
by John Brown 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

Hi, On certain wireless links we get "port errors". I'd like to disable these alerts on a device/port basis. Didn't see anything obvious on how to disable those. thanks

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php security
by Rob VanHooren 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

http://m.slashdot.org/story/211725 fyi Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPad

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Alert by sms
by Welisson Tomé 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

> Hi, > > I've been searching on mailing list about this subject and not successfull, so, i would like know if Observium can send alert using sms like nagios, Is it possible? > > Tks > > -- > Welisson Tomé > br.linkedin.com/in/welissontome/

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Custom SNMP OID
by Anthony Polselli 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

Hi all, I have a device (Linux based Session Boarder Controller) that Observium is monitoring fine, but I would like to add 2 specific OID's to this device for Observium to poll and graph. Any "how-to" help here would be great. Thanks, [cid:image001.jpg@01D01F64.B8F44030] __________________________________________ Anthony Polselli, Chief Technology Officer Natural Networks, Inc. 10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 San Diego, CA 92121 anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com<mailto:anthony@naturalnetworks.com> http://www.naturalnetworks.com<http://www.naturalnetworks.com/> (619) 222-3232 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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Subscriptions in the EU
by Adam Armstrong 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hi Guys, If you're in the EU and you've had (or have in the future) your PayPal payment profile canceled, it's because of the EU VAT issues I posted about last week. After the 31st of December we will no longer be able to sell to customers in the EU (except the UK) and any payments from within the EU after that date will be refused. It's not clear when or if the EU will rectify these regulations, and the workarounds I've investigated so far won't work for us. If you're due for renewal in Jan/Feb/Mar or so and want to retain your sub, I recommend you do it before the 31st. Thanks, adam.

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Alerts Not Sending or False Positives Received
by Jacob Chavez 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hello, I've configured config.php for device down alerts. However, they're not being sent when a devices is down or they're sent out when a device is not down. Could someone confirm if my parameters are correct and/or any other files that needs to be configured to enable this critical functionality? [image: Inline image 1] Thank you!! -- *Jacob Chavez - IT Support Technician Traffic Management, Inc. * *Toll Free: *800-763-3999 *Direct: *562-264-2275 *Mobile: *562-537-6205 *Fax: *562-424-0266 www.trafficmanagement.com California - Great Lakes - San Jose California License # 785804, Class C31 - Traffic Control Services - Sales and Rentals - Permits and Consulting - Engineering - Training

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Re: [Observium] Need to create sensors and better support for Ubiquiti radio devices
by Ron Marosko, Jr. 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Until UBNT give us a better SNMP stack on the AF24s, I think we're hosed. Just walking an AF24 vs a NSM, we get crap off the AF24. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID John Brown <john(a)citylinkfiber.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Alert by sms
by Welisson Tomé 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hi Justin, Tks for replay, but i would need of some feature sending sms directly without use sms email gateway like it, so, do you know if will be add in new release of Observium? I think the tool very good but without this alert i can't change to Observium, what i would like so much. -- Welisson Tomé br.linkedin.com/in/welissontome/

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Observium - net-snmp process unresponsive
by Laurent Dumont 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hi gents, I have a CentOS 6.6 install with net-snmp running. I'm using SNMPv3 Auth and Encryption with Observium polling devices every five minutes. On one of my Centos server, the net-snmp process will die after 24-36 hours of running. It seems to be hitting my system maximum file open limit which is set to 1024. > > [root@mail net-snmp-5.7]# ulimit -n > > 1024 > > [root@mail ~]# lsof -p 26907 | wc -l > > 1071 > > [root@mail net-snmp-5.7]# lsof -p 26907 > > snmpd 26907 root 166r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 167r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 168r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 169r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 170r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 171r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 172r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 173r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 174r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 175r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 176r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 177r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 178r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > > snmpd 26907 root 179r REG 0,3 0 4026532160 > > /proc/26907/net/sctp/snmp > #tail /var/log/snmpd.log > > cannot open /proc/net/dev ... > > /proc/partitions: Too many open files > > /proc/stat: Too many open files > > /proc/partitions: Too many open files > > /proc/stat: Too many open files > > could not create socket > > /proc/partitions: Too many open files > > /proc/stat: Too many open files > > cannot open /proc/net/dev ... > > /proc/partitions: Too many open files > > /proc/stat: Too many open files > > /proc/partitions: Too many open files > > /proc/stat: Too many open files That number will keep increasing till it trips the 1024 limit. It seems that CentOS is frozen to net-snmp 5.5 and I'm don't really want to use anything that I can't easily manage with "yum". The weird thing is that I have another server with the same config/CentOS version/Net-Snmp version and I have no issues with the snmp process on that server. Anything else I could try to troubleshoot the issue? Thanks!

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Pwr consumption on JunOS
by Gavin Henry 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Hi all, What is everyone doing to pick up power usage for Juniper routers and switches other than via their PDU stats? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry.

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Merry Christmas
by Simon Schmitz 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

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Syslog-ng no log after upgrade
by chott＠praha1.net 27 Dec '14

27 Dec '14

Hello, today i check some Syslog and after upgrade i dont have any Remote Syslog messages. Is there some change in CE build 6000 ? Tomas

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Need to create sensors and better support for Ubiquiti radio devices
by John Brown 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

I'm looking for help to improve the support of Ubiquiti microwave radio support in Observium. Mainly focused on the AirFiber 24 and AirFiber 5 products, along with the Rocket series. Would need the ability to alarm on RF Signal level changes (out side of acceptable range, etc). Same with receive Ether CRC on the radio's ether interface. Anyone interested in helping. There would some $$ avail.

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Enable / Disable RANCID on a per device basis
by Nate Mellendorf 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

Hello everyone, I've implemented the RANCID integration feature, which has been working quite well over the past week. I'm very excited to have config diffs on the same page as the health of each device. It's little features like this that are allowing us to leverage Observium over other monitoring platforms. That said, I was curious about a related Observium feature request. Would it be possible to configure a RANCID on/off switch on the device settings page? Please allow me to clarify this further. When I run generate-rancid.php, It's going to generate a router.db for all of the devices listed within observium. While this is amazing and extremely useful, not all devices within Observium need to be added to this list. My idea is to add a switch that determines whether the device will be added to the router.db. That way, when our CRON job runs each night to update router.db, it only does so for the devices we know RANCID can log into. Again, this is just an idea I wanted to share. If you feel there is something I could do to get around this, please let me know. As of right now, I generate the new router.db myself and manually remove each device I know shouldn't be listed. Thanks in advance, 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<http://www.netgainhosting.com/> [cid:image002.png@01D02109.328DCB00] ________________________________ 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.

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Many false positives
by John Brown 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Hi I'm trying to troubleshoot the many false positives we are receiving from OB. The system will report a host as down, yet our legacy Nagios and out-of-band Pingdom do not show the host as down. It doesn't appear that OB records in the log what specifically is making OB think the host is down. I've increased the SNMP time out value to 3 seconds (which seems very long) and that has helped with some hosts, mostly Mikrotiks. But I doubt that our Juniper MX480's (which are lightly loaded) should need such long time frame to respond. How can I get OB to report what is the actual trigger for its "Host Down" alerts ?? Are there tweaks for performance monitoring / testing ?? Thank you in advance..

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Trango Radios, wish list, support in Observium, $$
by John Brown 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Hi, We are using lots of Trango microwave radios and would like to see better support for them in Observium. I'm willing to put a few $$ towards that integration and support....

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set device for customer
by Simon Smith 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Hi All, I have a feeling is more of a daft / random question, but ill ask it anyways Is it possible to set a list of devices for a customer in the customer view under the Ports menu? I can’t change the description of every single interface like described in here http://www.observium.org/wiki/Interface_Description_Parsing I would rather have a customer view of all there devices I understand i could create a user for the customer and assign those devices to that user, but thats not a view for myself as Admin the other issue i have is the Devices are assigned all over the place and not in one location either ? Regards Simon

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recovering upload/download figures from dumped DB file
by Tshering DHENDUP 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Dear Admin, Unfortunately, I forgot to take the backup of the rrd directory but I did take the backup of the dumped mysql. Is there a way/queries to get the upload/download figures from the database? Or is there a way like MRTG to get the graphs displayed by importing the dumped DB file to the new Observium system? Regards -- Tshering DHENDUP(MR) Systems DrukNet (Internet, Data & Enterprise Services) Bhutan Telecom www.bt.bt

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Windows MIBS
by Darian Jimenez 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

are all windows MIBs loaded in observium? Can i add more if they are not there? I would like to see services on windows machine, is this possible at all?

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growl? Re: sms
by Rob VanHooren 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

a while back (mailinglist archive search), there was someone who used the observium API to get alerts into a growl listener, which would dump it e.g. into prowl on ios or android device. maybe growl can get it into sms too. Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPad > On Dec 23, 2014, at 4:53 PM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > > SMS gateway

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Unable to update polling/alerts toggles
by Travis Kreikemeier 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Large 3750 switch stack, unable to update polling/alerts toggles in Observium. Seems to only update the first 333 ports. Been an issue for a while. Observium 0.14.12.6098 (stable) If you toggle just one of those high ports by itself, you get this message "Device record unchanged. No update necessary." If you toggle it with some lower ports, the lower ports will update by not the very high ports. Thanks TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Re: [Observium] Alert by sms
by Welisson Tomé 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hi Xavier, >Hi, > >Doing a SMS gateway with perl or gnokii is really easy. Even Gnokii can have a look in a SQL database to get the data to send to sms. I don't know the project gnokii, i will to research more about it, but i don't have idea how to do it be integrated with Observium and the alert be sending at exactly moment that there is a problem with some device. >The main problem is "IP SMS" gateway there is on the network. I understand observium team, and really using plain SMTP with >small messages can be better to be done than adding an extra code. So, i understand about this main problem, but, not is necessary there is an "IP SMS" on the network, because with a modem 3G/4G, we can send sms using the tool gsmssender [¹], together with nagios[²], [¹]http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man8/gsmsendsms.8.html [²]https://securfox.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/how-to-configure-nagios-to-send… Regards -- Welisson Tomé br.linkedin.com/in/welissontome/

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Rancid revisions within Observium
by Chip Pleasants 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hi all, I'm in need of some help troubleshooting why I can't see Rancid revisions with Observium any longer. It was working for almost four months and suddenly stopped. I haven't been able to tell if any of packages changed without my knowledge. I've gone through the document below and everything seems to work. The apache logs don't show anything of concern. I've running RHEL 6.5. I attached a php debug file. Anyone have suggestions? Thanks, Chip http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.checking.php [root@server logs]# pecl list Installed packages, channel pecl.php.net: ========================================= Package Version State pecl_http 2.0.7 stable propro 1.0.0 stable radius 1.2.7 stable raphf 1.0.4 stable svn 1.0.2 stable [root@server logs]# [root@server logs]# pear config-show Configuration (channel pear.php.net): ===================================== Auto-discover new Channels auto_discover <not set> Default Channel default_channel pear.php.net HTTP Proxy Server Address http_proxy http://proxycorp.server.net:8080/ PEAR server [DEPRECATED] master_server pear.php.net Default Channel Mirror preferred_mirror pear.php.net Remote Configuration File remote_config <not set> PEAR executables directory bin_dir /usr/bin PEAR documentation directory doc_dir /usr/share/pear/doc PHP extension directory ext_dir /usr/lib64/php/modules PEAR directory php_dir /usr/share/pear PEAR Installer cache directory cache_dir /var/cache/php-pear PEAR configuration file cfg_dir /etc/pear directory PEAR data directory data_dir /usr/share/pear/data PEAR Installer download download_dir /tmp/pear/download directory PHP CLI/CGI binary php_bin /usr/bin/php php.ini location php_ini <not set> --program-prefix passed to php_prefix <not set> PHP's ./configure --program-suffix passed to php_suffix <not set> PHP's ./configure PEAR Installer temp directory temp_dir /var/tmp PEAR test directory test_dir /usr/share/pear/test PEAR www files directory www_dir /var/www/html Cache TimeToLive cache_ttl 3600 Preferred Package State preferred_state stable Unix file mask umask 22 Debug Log Level verbose 1 PEAR password (for password <not set> maintainers) Signature Handling Program sig_bin /usr/bin/gpg Signature Key Directory sig_keydir /etc/pearkeys Signature Key Id sig_keyid <not set> Package Signature Type sig_type gpg PEAR username (for username <not set> maintainers) User Configuration File Filename /root/.pearrc System Configuration File Filename /etc/pear.conf

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Observium logs
by Darian Jimenez 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Im trying to troubleshoot some devices but when I look at the logs the last log i get is from the 18th of decembers. Any idea why I don't get any recent logs?

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EU VAT changes
by Adam Armstrong 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hi All, This is mostly only relevant to people within the EU. In January new EU-wide rules come into effect regarding the collection of VAT on cross-border digital transactions. Anyone who sells a digital product in the EU will now be required to collect 2 "non contradictory" forms of identification from every customer in order to verify their country of residence. They will then be required to charge that customer VAT at their country of residence's local rate and then pay that VAT to their country of residence's tax collection agency. This effectively means that you need to know and track the VAT rates in all 28 EU states, as well as ascertain the location of any customer before they can be given a price. You're not required to retain all of this information for 10 years, and ANY tax collection agency in the EU is now entitled to access to your company's financial records. This applies to everyone, and has no threshold. Within your own countries, you only collect VAT once you hit a certain threshold, which in the UK is £80k. Under the new rules everyone is required to collect VAT in every other EU country, even if they're not required to collect it in their home country. This also means that even if you're not required to collect VAT in your own country, you still have to register for VAT in your home country and produce VAT returns. You also have to produce VAT returns for EVERY COUNTRY WITHIN WHICH YOU HAVE A CUSTOMER. In the UK we have a government system which allows us to send a single unified VAT return for all EU countries to our tax collection agency, and they will forward the relevant data on, but I'm not sure if that exists in all countries. If you're in the EU and understand how truly insane this is, please sign this petition : https://www.change.org/p/pierre-moscovici-a-unilateral-suspension-of-the-in… If you're in the UK, there is also this : https://www.change.org/p/vince-cable-mp-uphold-the-vat-exemption-threshold-… The fallout from this is that I may have to suspend sales of Observium subscriptions in the EU starting on January 1st, since I simply don't have the ability to handle the administrative overhead involved. Thanks, adam.

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Renewing subscription
by Carlos Martinez 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

I went to update this morning and it prompted me for my SVN credentials and would not take them, I assume my subscription expired, how do I renew and maintain the same user/pass?

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Latency Alert
by Hamilton, Kent 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Anyone have an alert check for latency to a device? Is it possible? I don't really see anything that fits. ________________________________ This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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aggregate alert emails?
by Zhenhui Liang 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Hi, Is it possible to aggregate alert emails? When a switch does fail, it might generate thousands of alerts. For our case maybe even thousands of txt messages to a pager. Is it possible to configure observium to detect such kind of massive alerts and aggregate them to only send a few alerts out? Thanks. —Zhenhui

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Bad location - lat\long?
by Mike Hammett 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

I put the lat/long that GMaps reports for a given location into the SNMP location. When I search for that lat\long in GMaps, it goes to the correct location. When I look at the Observium map, it's about 2 miles off, straight south. I have included screen shots of the different positions and coordinates. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

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Map questions
by John Brown 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Hi I have a couple of questions about the google map on Observium: 1. Is there away to have the map center on a point and zoom into that point to a certain level of zoom, as the default. The reason I ask is we have most of our infra-structure in a single city, and a few "interconnection / peering pop's" in other states. For normal use we would prefer that the default location and zoom level be on our core service city. 2. Is there away to have a KML/KMZ file added into the map being displayed by Observium. For example, it would be handing to show our fiber ring along with the tear drop icons that Observium displays. As extra credit it would be nice to render a polygon either Green, Yellow or Red depending on status.... Thanks

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Re: [Observium] FW: Observium mailing list
by Nate Mellendorf 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

I believe this can be marked as resolved. All of our devices were listed as offline this morning, which was caused by the following: http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQs#All_my_hosts_seem_down_to_Observium_.2F_… I followed the guide, and removed .index from the noted directory. As soon as I did that, everything started polling again. At around the same time, I also found this: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Poller-wrapper.py Our poller was set to use 3 threads, so I bumped it up to 12. After review, I found that my alert checker was now listing devices as checking in and passing the offline test. I faked an outage on a test device, which triggered the e-mail alert. Thanks again for the assistance on this. I'll have to dig into the snmp bug a little bit, but all is now working as it should. Regards, 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<http://www.netgainhosting.com/> [cid:image002.png@01D01D29.BE602120] ________________________________ 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. From: Nate Mellendorf Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 7:46 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: RE: observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 102 Tom, Thank you very much for looking at my configuration. I failed to note earlier, that I receive the same results when I change the delay of this alert back down to 0. For the sake of my own sanity though, I went back and changed it just now. I triggered a false device outage, which failed to trigger the alert. Something odd I am seeing, is that Observium is now listing 8 devices as having passed the alert check, with 464 devices still listed as never checked. As you can see from my screen shots earlier, that the alert checked never listed any devices as having been successfully checked. They were all greyed out. As you've confirmed that the alert checker is configured correctly, I'm somewhat stumped. I'll keep digging, as this is a feature I'd really like to get working. Side Note: Our CPU and RAM are not hitting 100% utilization on our host, so now I'm suspicious of we're just pushing the Observium platform a little too hard. There are occasions when loading Observium takes longer than expected. When I create a new alert and regenerate them, the page seems to timeout. (I've included the graphs of our disk I/O, as It's been suggested before as something to keep an eye on.) Any other thoughts or insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for your time on both the project and on this thread. [cid:image004.jpg@01D01D29.BE4F3130] Regards, 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: Saturday, December 20, 2014 7:06 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 102 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@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<mailto:observium-request@observium.org> You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-owner@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: FW: Observium mailing list (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 02:06:09 +0100 From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx<mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx>> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] FW: Observium mailing list Message-ID: <54961D01.3070002(a)powersource.cx<mailto:54961D01.3070002@powersource.cx>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Hi Nate, You set the "delay" to 1 which means Observium will wait 1 extra poll to see if the alert condition restores itself (which it seems to do judging by your alert log - hence no alert). Tom On 18/12/2014 04:09, Nate Mellendorf wrote: > > Good evening all, > > After much trial and error, I?ve been unsuccessful in implementing a > simple up/down device alert within Observium. > > As I searched around the web for a solution, It seemed as though this > hasn?t been much of an issue for most users. > > Here?s some additional documentation I followed to try and fix it myself: > > http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612(Nice work on this one) > > https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg05915.html > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker > > I?m starting think that my configuration file (config.php) could have > something to do with it. I?ve included it, along with multiple > snip-its to try and assist you in seeing my work. > > If anyone has any suggestions on this, they would be greatly > appreciated. I?ve been working on this on and off for the past few > days now, and I?ve had no success in generating an offline alert.The > alert log shows the test as failed, but delayed. It never actually > send out an e-mail. My apologies in advance, if this turns out to be > user error. > > Thanks in advance for any time put into this. If there is anything > else I can provide to further assist in troubleshooting, please let me > know. > > I?d be more than happy to provide it. > > *Omitted config.php:* > > *?* > > // Enable alerter > > $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter']= TRUE; > > // Disable page refresh > > $config['page_refresh']= "300";## Refresh the page every xx seconds > > // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) > > $config['email']['default']= "nate.mellendorf(a)netgainhosting.com > <mailto:nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com>"; > > $config['alerts']['email']['from']= "observium(a)netgainhosting.com > <mailto:observium@netgainhosting.com>"; > > $config['email']['default_only']= TRUE; > > $config['email']['enable']= TRUE;// Disables OLD alerting system > > $config['alerts']['interval']= 310; > > *?* > > /Sensitive information has been omitted./ > > *The alert I?ve configured:*(image)** > > *Here is what I see when I?ve review the alert:*(image)** > > *Here?s the alert log that?s generated:*(image) > > (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.) > > *Finally, here is what?s found when I review the logs of an offline > device:*(image)** > > Thanks again everyone, > > *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* <http://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. 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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 102
by Nate Mellendorf 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Tom, Thank you very much for looking at my configuration. I failed to note earlier, that I receive the same results when I change the delay of this alert back down to 0. For the sake of my own sanity though, I went back and changed it just now. I triggered a false device outage, which failed to trigger the alert. Something odd I am seeing, is that Observium is now listing 8 devices as having passed the alert check, with 464 devices still listed as never checked. As you can see from my screen shots earlier, that the alert checked never listed any devices as having been successfully checked. They were all greyed out. As you've confirmed that the alert checker is configured correctly, I'm somewhat stumped. I'll keep digging, as this is a feature I'd really like to get working. Side Note: Our CPU and RAM are not hitting 100% utilization on our host, so now I'm suspicious of we're just pushing the Observium platform a little too hard. There are occasions when loading Observium takes longer than expected. When I create a new alert and regenerate them, the page seems to timeout. (I've included the graphs of our disk I/O, as It's been suggested before as something to keep an eye on.) Any other thoughts or insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for your time on both the project and on this thread. [cid:image002.jpg@01D01C8D.86635E50] Regards, 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: Saturday, December 20, 2014 7:06 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 102 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@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<mailto:observium-request@observium.org> You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org<mailto:observium-owner@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: FW: Observium mailing list (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 02:06:09 +0100 From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx<mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx>> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] FW: Observium mailing list Message-ID: <54961D01.3070002(a)powersource.cx<mailto:54961D01.3070002@powersource.cx>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Hi Nate, You set the "delay" to 1 which means Observium will wait 1 extra poll to see if the alert condition restores itself (which it seems to do judging by your alert log - hence no alert). Tom On 18/12/2014 04:09, Nate Mellendorf wrote: > > Good evening all, > > After much trial and error, I?ve been unsuccessful in implementing a > simple up/down device alert within Observium. > > As I searched around the web for a solution, It seemed as though this > hasn?t been much of an issue for most users. > > Here?s some additional documentation I followed to try and fix it myself: > > http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612(Nice work on this one) > > https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg05915.html > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ > > http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker > > I?m starting think that my configuration file (config.php) could have > something to do with it. I?ve included it, along with multiple > snip-its to try and assist you in seeing my work. > > If anyone has any suggestions on this, they would be greatly > appreciated. I?ve been working on this on and off for the past few > days now, and I?ve had no success in generating an offline alert.The > alert log shows the test as failed, but delayed. It never actually > send out an e-mail. My apologies in advance, if this turns out to be > user error. > > Thanks in advance for any time put into this. If there is anything > else I can provide to further assist in troubleshooting, please let me > know. > > I?d be more than happy to provide it. > > *Omitted config.php:* > > *?* > > // Enable alerter > > $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter']= TRUE; > > // Disable page refresh > > $config['page_refresh']= "300";## Refresh the page every xx seconds > > // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) > > $config['email']['default']= "nate.mellendorf(a)netgainhosting.com > <mailto:nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com>"; > > $config['alerts']['email']['from']= "observium(a)netgainhosting.com > <mailto:observium@netgainhosting.com>"; > > $config['email']['default_only']= TRUE; > > $config['email']['enable']= TRUE;// Disables OLD alerting system > > $config['alerts']['interval']= 310; > > *?* > > /Sensitive information has been omitted./ > > *The alert I?ve configured:*(image)** > > *Here is what I see when I?ve review the alert:*(image)** > > *Here?s the alert log that?s generated:*(image) > > (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.) > > *Finally, here is what?s found when I review the logs of an offline > device:*(image)** > > Thanks again everyone, > > *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* <http://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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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