- observium - lists.observium.org

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

21 Dec '14

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) [cid:image005.jpg@01D01A3D.CD665F70] Here is what I see when I've review the alert: (image) [cid:image006.jpg@01D01A3D.CD665F70] Here's the alert log that's generated: (image) (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.) [cid:image008.jpg@01D01A3D.CD665F70] Finally, here is what's found when I review the logs of an offline device: (image) [cid:image009.jpg@01D01A3D.CD665F70] 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/> [cid:image007.png@01D017BA.8560E4A0] ________________________________ 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.

5 6

Alerting for applications (with unix-agent)
by Vladislav Solovei 20 Dec '14

20 Dec '14

Hi, all :-) Tell me, please... It is possible to add alert checkers for applications? PowerDNS queries, on example, etc..?

2 1

Script to discovery and poll new devices
by Darian Jimenez 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Hello, I have a quick simple script to go through a text file and add_device, discovery it and poll it. However the only portion that works fine is the add_device. the discovery nor poller.php is actually doing what it should. however If I run the command separately outside of the script it discovers the device as well as polls it. the host name is right because I'm using echo within the script to show the name for each loop. If i use ./disocvery.php -h new that works fine and I guess it's a work around, however ./poller.php -h new does not work. below is the script I'm running. while read host do echo $host /opt/observium/add_device.php $host /opt/observium/discovery.php -h $host /opt/observium/poller.php -h $host done < Servers/dailyserverlist.txt

4 8

Sliding window in graph views
by Brendan Hide 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Good day, all When viewing graphs, I often find that we want to keep a specific graph open for a long period - days or weeks even, and preferably to view the most recent information. A minor issue is that when clicking on the pre-provided thumbnails for the "6 Hours", "24 Hours", et al. graphs, it opens a specific time window. If the page is refreshed after a while, it shows old data rather than current data. A sliding window works already - just that probably very few people know about the "feature". Two minor changes are required to have the thumbnail links refer to the sliding window: Exclude the to= parameter - it appears this defaults to now() Set the from= parameter to an offset The following is an example of a 6-hour sliding window: https://<observium_host>/graphs/device=<devid>/type=device_processor/from=-14400 -- __________ Brendan Hide http://swiftspirit.co.za/ http://www.webafrica.co.za/?AFF1E97

3 3

Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 91
by Nate Mellendorf 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

Adam and Joe, Thank you for your feedback on this. It would be nice to have a few default alerts built directly into the platform. That said, I understand that the time needed to implement something like that could be hard to reserve. As for the configuration I submitted, does the behavior of the alert seem to be correct? I was curious of up / down alerting was implemented (as the walkthrough suggests), but has yet to be verified as fully functional. I have an alert that checks for half-duplex interfaces, and it works like a charm. Observium will send off e-mails every 5 minutes about it, but I get nothing about a device status being up or down. We have What's Up Gold taking care of these alerts for now, but that's really all that it's doing. I know there are alternatives to this, but It would be so great to keep everything within Observium. :) 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: Thursday, December 18, 2014 1:01 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 91 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: Observium mailing list (Joseph L. Brunner) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:00:19 +0000 From: "Joseph L. Brunner" <joe(a)affirmedsystems.com> To: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org>, Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list Message-ID: <2E86D2A5DF7FFA40A41B8C7FCA38F8742049FA(a)affmdex2k10.affmdcorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Not putting the product down ? it?s the best $100 thing in the world. But, I?m saying with logicmonitor ? all things just start coming at you and that?s pretty good. Now, I?m sure they have a major team writing those alerts and you have the $100 a year thing ? I?m saying opening it up on kickstarter ? we would donate ? the Observium interface is better. Just cant seem to get alerts to fire 100% of the time in a relatively quick fashion ? From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 01:23 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list I don't even know how we would do that :) What we have now is the most automated I could think of making it. We would have preferred to have some means of default hard-coded alerts, but I've not come up with a good way to do that yet. :) adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Joseph L. Brunner" <joe(a)affirmedsystems.com<mailto:joe@affirmedsystems.com>> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Sent: 12/17/2014 11:27:40 PM Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list Yeah, the alerts suck. We use Observium to wow the business folks ? but use other things to poll and generate an email? They should bite the bullet, do another kickstarter and raise like $200K so the alerts will be AUTO GENERATED and UNIVERSAL for all things it can find ? like logicmonitor. Just to get off logicmonitor I would donate -Joe From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of Nate Mellendorf Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:10 PM To: observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: [Observium] FW: Observium mailing list 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) [cid:image001.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80] Here is what I see when I?ve review the alert: (image) [cid:image002.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80] Here?s the alert log that?s generated: (image) (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.) [cid:image003.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80] Finally, here is what?s found when I review the logs of an offline device: (image) [cid:image004.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80] 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/> [cid:image005.png@01D01A66.5E9E3F80] ________________________________ 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.

2 1

alert association bug
by Zhenhui Liang 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

It seems on the alert settings, on the association part, if you configure more than 1 associations, only the very last one can be modified or deleted. Other associations above the last line, if you click either modify or delete, there’s no effect.

1 0

Alerts and Descriptions
by Josh Hopper 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

How do I set an alert so that if a switch port without a description is not alerted on? I have descriptions on all ports that I want to monitor. I can't shut the others because some should always be up. Logic: If AdminInterface and PortStatus is Down AND PortDescription = "" then Alert Me This is what I have now. I can filter things that have some form of a description but I'm not sure how to use a description that is blank. See image below. [cid:image001.png@01D019FC.1994F5B0] -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image002.jpg@01D019FC.1994F5B0] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Marc Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:52 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Alert logs to big Hi, Thanks guys the housekeeping thingy did the trick :) On 09/12/14 17:14, Tom Laermans wrote: Check this post on the mailing list as it hasn't really made it into the docs yet: http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/2014-July/007264.html On 09/12/2014 16:44, Mathieu POUSSIN wrote: Hello, This is possible and native. Check the housekeeper script and configuration options. Best regards, Mathieu De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Marc Envoyé : mardi 9 décembre 2014 06:51 À : observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> >> Observium Network Observation System Objet : [Observium] Alert logs to big Hi all, I don't know if its asks already but is it possible to automaticly delete old alert logs from de db just like the logrotation on a linux system. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Marc de Rooy Technische medewerker Datacenter Engineer Flexwebhosting/FXW DISCLAIMER De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, vragen wij u het volgende: gebruik de inhoud niet; informeer de afzender door het bericht te retourneren; en vernietig de inhoud. The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please do not use the contents, inform us immediately and delete its content. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Met vriendelijke groet, Marc de Rooy Technische medewerker Datacenter Engineer Flexwebhosting/FXW DISCLAIMER De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, vragen wij u het volgende: gebruik de inhoud niet; informeer de afzender door het bericht te retourneren; en vernietig de inhoud. The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please do not use the contents, inform us immediately and delete its content.

3 3

Alert logs to big
by Marc 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Hi all, I don't know if its asks already but is it possible to automaticly delete old alert logs from de db just like the logrotation on a linux system. -- *Met vriendelijke groet,* Marc de Rooy Technische medewerker Datacenter Engineer Flexwebhosting/FXW DISCLAIMER De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, vragen wij u het volgende: gebruik de inhoud niet; informeer de afzender door het bericht te retourneren; en vernietig de inhoud. The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please do not use the contents, inform us immediately and delete its content.

4 4

junos logical sub interface state
by Zhenhui Liang 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Hi, I shutdown all unused ports to make the alerter life easier. But after I done so, all good except ae ports sub interfaces still shows on observium as failed even though the main ae physical ports already administratively down. For instace, ae11: show interfaces ae11 Physical interface: ae11, Administratively down, Physical link is Down But observium still complain ae11.0 failed check: show interfaces ae11.0 Logical interface ae11.0 (Index 153) (SNMP ifIndex 982) How do we ignore logical interfaces when setting up alerter? My current condition is: ifAdminStatus equals up ifOperStatus equals down Thank you. —Zhenhui

2 2

Observium SNMP polling crashes various Adtran devices
by John Brown 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Hi, We recently installed Observium in an effort to replace our aging Cacti and Nagios systems. We are running the latest code checked out of SVN (We paid the money to Adam for the Professional Version) Today we added 180+ Adtran based devices to the system. All 180+ devices began rebooting. They would become stable for a few hours and then start rebooting again. Important to note that most of these items have been in our network for 3+ years, are running recent code, and have been rock solid stable for their entire service life. Cacti and Nagios poll them every minute and have been doing so for the past 3 years. Insert Observium and the devices start failing. My initial feeling is that there is something in the way Observium does its SNMP. Curious if anyone else has experienced this or something like this. Its caused us to halt putting more devices on Observium. Devices are TA 5000 / TA 352 GPON ONT's, TA 9xx iad's When I add a single device via add_device <name> and then do a discover.php -h new as soon as the code hits ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB the adtran device reboots noc@observium:/home/observium# ./discovery.php -h new Observium 0.14.12.6107 Discovery ont-03.sip.pon-1-6-1.fttx.XXX.YYYYY.net 38 adtran-aos (adtran-aos) Module [ os ] time: 0.0005s Ports : .... Module [ ports ] time: 0.1889s Port Stacks: Module [ ports-stack ] time: 0.0774s Processors : ADTRAN-AOSCPU + hrDevice: Module [ processors ] time: 0.2734s Memory : ADTRAN-AOSCPU + Module [ mempools ] time: 0.2019s IPv4 Addresses : .. Module [ ipv4-addresses ] time: 0.1366s IPv6 Addresses : Module [ ipv6-addresses ] time: 0.5068s Sensors: ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB

4 3

Re: [Observium] junos logical sub interface state
by Zhenhui Liang 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Ok, I added ifDescr !match *.* In the condition, seems working. Although I don¹t feel that clean about it. I would like to only care about physical interface, not logical. But I tried all snmp mibs in the mib list, none of them I found tell you it¹s a logical interface. So I rely on the pattern *dot* in junos to indicate a logical port. On 12/16/14, 1:18 PM, "Zhenhui Liang" <ZhenhuiLiang(a)eharmony.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I shutdown all unused ports to make the alerter life easier. But after I >done so, all good except ae ports sub interfaces still shows on observium >as failed even though the main ae physical ports already administratively >down. > >For instace, ae11: >show interfaces ae11 >Physical interface: ae11, Administratively down, Physical link is Down > >But observium still complain ae11.0 failed check: >show interfaces ae11.0 > Logical interface ae11.0 (Index 153) (SNMP ifIndex 982) > > >How do we ignore logical interfaces when setting up alerter? >My current condition is: > >ifAdminStatus equals up >ifOperStatus equals down > > >Thank you. > > ‹Zhenhui >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

2 5

Example alert checkers, and background information
by Moerman, Maarten 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

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

4 4

Re: [Observium] Sort ports based on total data usage
by Adam Armstrong 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Hmm. That's a lot of I/O time. Seems it's unfeasible to do at the same frequency as the poller. Perhaps it's something we can do daily, but I'm not sure if it's really useful enough to do. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Pedersen, Sean" <spedersen(a)io.com> To: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> Sent: 12/15/2014 7:39:34 AM Subject: Re: [Observium] Sort ports based on total data usage >real1m45.617s >user0m1.800s >sys0m3.724s > >20320 > >About 200 devices, and it’s a VM. > >From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> >Reply-To: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org>, Observium Network >Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> >Date: Saturday, December 13, 2014 at 11:41 PM >To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> >Subject: Re: [Observium] Sort ports based on total data usage > >So. > >I ran a test to see how quickly we could extract the "traffic in the >last 24 hours" statistic from rrdtool for all ports on my development >install : > >root@omega:/mnt/ramdisk/observium_dev# time for file in `ls >*/port-*.rrd | grep -v adsl | grep -v dot3 | xargs`; do rrdtool graphv >/dev/null DEF:outoctets=$file:OUTOCTETS:AVERAGE >DEF:inoctets=$file:INOCTETS:AVERAGE CDEF:octets=inoctets,outoctets,+ >VDEF:totin=inoctets,TOTAL VDEF:totout=outoctets,TOTAL >PRINT:totin:"%4.2lf" PRINT:totout:"%4.2lf"; done > >real 0m10.953s >user 0m3.526s >sys 0m7.670s > > >root@omega:/mnt/ramdisk/observium_dev# ls */port-*.rrd | grep -v adsl | >grep -v dot3 | wc -l >3327 > > >I'm running from a ramdisk though, so it would be nice if some other >people with large non-ramdisk installs could see how long this takes :) > >adam. > > >------ Original Message ------ >From: "Michael Loftis" <mloftis(a)wgops.com> >To: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network >Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >Sent: 12/13/2014 11:20:19 PM >Subject: Re: [Observium] Sort ports based on total data usage > >>I'll second what Adam is saying - whats in the DB is not anywhere >>remotely useful like you think. Maybe sort of on a single device but >>even then dubious at best. Your option is really to have to total >>every RRD file over the timeframe wished in order to get a result, >>which isn't going to be very fast. My biggest Observium installation >>is (IMO) very small and is still ~30G of RRD data. You'd end up >>scanning a good portion of that 30G to come up with a sort >>order/totalling. One of the big switches is ~4G by itself, loading >>it's ports page is.....ugly pulling in all the mini graphs, but at >>least the basic view is up fast. Loading all the mini graphs after >>that...I'm not sure how long that takes, I've never waited around for >>it to finish, at least a couple minutes I'd imagine. It'd be around >>that timeframe to produce a sorted list and spit out the main view. >>Granted that switch is probably pretty close to a worst case in terms >>of port count. >> >> >>On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> >>wrote: >>>That number is in the database to calculate rates. It's functionally >>>useless unless you know when the counter was last reset. >>> >>>It isn't exposed in the UI precisely because it's such a functionally >>>useless number. >>> >>>What /might/ be vaguely useful would be calculating an average >>>traffic rate for the port by tracking the "last reset" time for the >>>counter. But even then, this is only really useful if the port has >>>*always* been active for the uptime of the switch. It would take >>>literally weeks for a port flatlining 1GB to overtake a port which >>>had been pushing 100mbit for a few months. >>> >>>There are other possibilities, such as storing a series of values at >>>various timepoints so we can "sort of" give a value like "xbps over >>>the past 24 hours", but these get terribly inefficient and slow, >>>especially considering that we're using MEMORY tables to hold this >>>data, and pretty irritating things happen when those tables fill up. >>> >>>I don't think exposing a value which is only comparable with other >>>ports on the same device active for the same amount of time which >>>haven't had their counters reset is particularly useful (and seems >>>particularly confusing). >>> >>>adam. >>> >>> >>>------ Original Message ------ >>>From: "Justin Miller" <observium(a)dynstatic.net> >>>To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>Sent: 12/12/2014 1:21:55 PM >>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Sort ports based on total data usage >>> >>>>In the db observium.ports-state, there is ifInOctlets, >>>>ifInOctlets_delta, and ifInOctets_rate. It’s also there for >>>>ifOutOctlets, ifOutOctlets_delta, and ifOutOctets_rate. So the >>>>values I want are already in the database. >>>> >>>>Furthermore, when the html/pages/devie/port.inc.php invokes >>>>includes/print-interface.inc.php to print each interface, $port >>>>contains those values. >>>> >>>>Hacking it into the view >>>> >>>> '>>>style="',$port['bps_in_style'], '"> >>>style="',$port['bps_in_style'], '">' , >>>>formatStorage($port['ifInOctets']) , ' ', >>>> '>>>style="',$port['bps_out_style'],'"> >>>style="',$port['bps_out_style'],'">' , >>>>formatStorage($port['ifOutOctets']) , ' ', >>>> >>>>Produces somewhat correct results which are good enough for what I >>>>need. I just need to sort it now. Maybe make a new page. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Dec 12, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Tom Laermans >>>>><tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>Nope. >>>>> >>>>>On 12/12/2014 06:11 PM, Justin Miller wrote: >>>>>>Because it’s a round robin database and it has to sum the octlets >>>>>>for that given time, right? >>>>>> >>>>>>Doesn’t the poller read how many packets have been send or >>>>>>received on every port anyways? ifOutOclets / ifInOclets ? Isn’t >>>>>>that a running total? Then to get the rate you take the difference >>>>>>between the current poll and the last poll and divide it by the >>>>>>time between polls? >>>>>> >>>>>>There has to be an OID for this which would be easy to store at >>>>>>poll time, right? >>>>>> >>>>>>Justin >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>On Dec 12, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Tom Laermans >>>>>>><tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>It will take about 15 minutes to generate that page, then. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>On 12/12/2014 04:14 PM, Justin Miller wrote: >>>>>>>>This information is already in the RRD file is it not? Can’t you >>>>>>>>export the numerical value for the TOTAL from the graph for each >>>>>>>>port and then sort based on that? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>It does not have to be 100% accurate, I’m not billing for it. I >>>>>>>>just need to see what the top 10 busiest ports are on a switch. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>><Mail Attachment.png> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>On Dec 12, 2014, at 2:24 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> >>>>>>>>>wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>Total in what time frame? Day, week, month, year, decade? >>>>>>>>>Whence would this information come? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>No, doing this isn't really realistically possible to do in a >>>>>>>>>non-slow way (or useful) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>adam. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>------ Original Message ------ >>>>>>>>>From: "Justin Miller" <observium(a)dynstatic.net> >>>>>>>>>To: "Observium Network Observation System" >>>>>>>>><observium(a)observium.org> >>>>>>>>>Sent: 12/11/2014 12:17:56 PM >>>>>>>>>Subject: Re: [Observium] Sort ports based on total data usage >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>That appears to be instantaneous amount when the poller >>>>>>>>>>collected it. I need how many bytes total. Not how many bits >>>>>>>>>>per second. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>I need to see that this port downloaded 3.4 TB of data, not >>>>>>>>>>that it’s doing 7 megabits per second. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>Justin >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>On Dec 11, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Spencer Gaw <spencerg(a)frii.net> >>>>>>>>>>>wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>Click on the Traffic column on the ports page. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>Regards, >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>SG >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>On 12/11/2014 11:08 AM, Justin Miller wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>We need to view the top X ports on switches which have used >>>>>>>>>>>>the most traffic (in & out) for a given time. I haven't been >>>>>>>>>>>>able to find this view. Is there a way to see this or will >>>>>>>>>>>>we have to create a special page to view this? >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>Justin >>>>>>>>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>>>>>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 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>_______________________________________________ observium >>>>>>>>mailing list >>>>>>>>observium@observium.orghttp://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@observium.orghttp://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 >>> >> >> >>-- >> >>"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its >>possessors >>into trouble of all kinds." >>-- Samuel Butler > > >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.

3 2

TEXT/BLOB fields in MySQL
by Eduardo Schoedler 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Hi, Any chance to change text/blob fields to another type in MySQL? # ./tuning-primer.sh TEMP TABLES Current max_heap_table_size = 512 M Current tmp_table_size = 512 M Of 17956 temp tables, 29% were created on disk Perhaps you should increase your tmp_table_size and/or max_heap_table_size to reduce the number of disk-based temporary tables *Note! BLOB and TEXT columns are not allow in memory tables.If you are using these columns raising these values might not impact yourratio of on disk temp tables.* Thanks. -- Eduardo Schoedler

3 4

Re: [Observium] Billing per VM host
by Ron Marosko, Jr. 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

I think it does. ;-) Meaning, yes, it graphs the 1000v just like it were any other switch. Thus, make sure you have all your "description" entries defined in the interfaces before you discover the device. And the vEth port does not change when the VM gets vmotioned from one host to another, so stats are consistent. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Markus Klock <markus(a)best-practice.se> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

1 0

Re: [Observium] Billing per VM host
by Ron Marosko, Jr. 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

I'm running the Cisco freemium version of the Nexus 1000v virtual switch on my ESXi 4.1 boxen, mainly because I needed LACP uplink capability, which was not available in the vSwitch. Then I discovered that you can get SNMP stats on a per-vEthernet port (meaning per host!) from the 1000v. Sweet! The poller takes a bit longer to run on the 1000v, just like it does on all other Nexus products, but well worth having the information. And yes, you can set up traffic accounting based on the polled information. ...Ron Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Xavier Beaudouin <xavier.beaudouin(a)hsoftware.com> wrote: >Hi, > >> Are there any plans to include billing per VM host in Observium?. I currently >> have Vmware ESXi hosts and I would like to be able to bill traffic per VM >> machine. > >> All VM hosts are under VDS switch but observium doesn’t recognise separate >> ports. > >I really think the best way to do that is add a snmpd daemon on these hosts... > >Or use somewhat virtual switch from cisco... (didn't tested this solution btw) > >Xavier > > >-- >Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator >Infrastructure and network director >Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ >13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France >Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01 > > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > >

2 1

Billing per VM host
by Zalewski, Dominik 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Hi, Are there any plans to include billing per VM host in Observium?. I currently have Vmware ESXi hosts and I would like to be able to bill traffic per VM machine. All VM hosts are under VDS switch but observium doesn’t recognise separate ports. Thanks Dominik

2 1

Progressive search and wrong answers
by Kilian Krause 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Hi, since the progressive search seems to start right away and for some reason our setup is too slow/too large to get instant SQL replies the answers seem to be dropping in as the SQL server finishes and them the client will render them as soon as it receives them. This unfortunately gives answers for shorter strings later even if the search field already does seem to be filled with a longer query string. Is there anyone who has implemented some JS/AJAX fix for this and ensure the answers processed by the client are only those matching the current search string (i.e. add a "static" version/revision/serial field into the SQL select and check for that in the results)? Cheers, Kilian -- Kilian Krause Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart (RUS) Abt. NKS - Netze und Kommunikationssysteme Tel.: +49 (711) 685-64512 Fax.: +49 (711) 685-54512 (PC) Fax.: +49 (711) 68 23 57 Allmandring 30a 70550 Stuttgart DEUTSCHLAND

5 6

Vlan Interface Usage Alert
by Chip Pleasants 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Hi All, We created a Alert Checker for interface usage greater than 80%. We are seeing interface usage alerts for Vlan SVI interfaces. These don't mean as much to us as physical interfaces do. Looks like the default bandwidth on a Vlan SVI interface is 1G on our platform. Is there any way we can configure Observium not alert on vlan interfaces? Our Device Match is "os equals ios" and our Entity Match is "*" for the interface usage alerts. I see ifType is an attribute option. Could I do something like "not ifType vlan"? Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, -Chip

4 5

IPMI Only devices
by Robert Hatch 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Dear adam, Any chance/current way of adding devices to Observium that do not have SNMP only IPMI interfaces? This would be hugely useful! BW rob

6 9

Override Network Location
by Robert Hatch 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Dear all, I have noticed that when I override the network location with a site name Observium does not appear to apply the same location details that are defined in the config.php. This means that for a site such as HEX we have two locations in the drop down menu one as unknown->HEX for the overridden device and another with the proper location that is being pulled out of the config.php. Is this desired behaviour or a bug? BW rob

4 4

Re: [Observium] RES: Help top talkers
by tonto＠decoygaming.com.au 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

+1 for ntopng. Alternatively if you're after an enterprise solution I'd recommend scrutinizer. Expensive but very good. Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Tristan Rhodes" <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] RES: Help top talkers Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 3:35 AM I agree with the recommendation for NFSEN; it is a great tool. Another great open source tool is NTOPNG, which has many additional useful features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdGLazUvSJI Cheers! Tristan Rhodes Network Engineer Weber State University 801.626.8549 On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Eliezer Sousa <eliezer(a)ricas.com.br> wrote:Thank !!! -----Mensagem original----- De: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] Em nome de Matthias Cramer Enviada em: segunda-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2014 13:42 Para: Observium Network Observation System Assunto: Re: [Observium] Help top talkers Thats probably better done with some flow analyzer tool (netflow, sflow) eg.. nfsen: http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/ On 15/12/14 16:34, Eliezer Sousa wrote: > good afternoon! need to find out who the top Talkers on my network with observium, someone already did that? > > Thank you for your help. > > > > Eliezer de Sousa > > > > ass eliezer > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250 _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

1 0

Re: [Observium] Help top talkers
by tonto＠decoygaming.com.au 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

What you're looking for is a netflow analyser. There are plenty of free tools you can use and I believe one is crudely integrated with observium. You're better off with a separate product though. Netflow is notoriously IO intensive and having it built into observium would be like dividing by zero. Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Eliezer Sousa" <eliezer(a)ricas.com.br> To: <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] Help top talkers Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 1:34 AM good afternoon! need to find out who the top Talkers on my network with observium, someone already did that?Thank you for your help. Eliezer de Sousa

1 0

Help top talkers
by Eliezer Sousa 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

good afternoon! need to find out who the top Talkers on my network with observium, someone already did that? Thank you for your help. Eliezer de Sousa ass eliezer

3 3

Sort ports based on total data usage
by Justin Miller 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

We need to view the top X ports on switches which have used the most traffic (in & out) for a given time. I haven't been able to find this view. Is there a way to see this or will we have to create a special page to view this? Justin

7 18

Port down and observium doesnt show same vlan traffic
by Joni Lee 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

Hello, I am assign my cisco switch into observium. The cisco itself connect to internet thru port 48 on vlan 2. And observium server connect to cisco port 47 on vlan 3. There are several server connect to cisco vlan 2. Here is my issue, once I unplug my internet connection(port 48). Other server traffic on vlan 2 doesn't show up on observium. Anyone know whats the problem here ? Is it cisco settings or other ? Thank you -- Sincerely, Joni Lee

2 1

Alert checks
by Darian Jimenez 13 Dec '14

13 Dec '14

Hello, By default how many times does observium check for an alert threshold and how often? Say I have an alert to send email if a machine hits 95% cpu, does it get triggered automatically if a machine hits that threshold once ? Or does it check multiple times before getting triggered? Is it configurable? Also how often does it check for a triggered alert? Every 10 mins etc?? Is this also configurable ? Thanks, Darian Sent from my iPhone

1 0

gaps in graphs
by ecaroh 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Hello, i got sporadic dropouts over all my graphs. If this happen most of my graphs have dropouts. The poller runs not longer than a minute. `Total time for all devices: 41.07s 35.17s' Memory usage 200 of 1000 MB RAM. All devices are in the same physical gigabit network. Ping is less than 50 ms to each device. Monitored are only 16 devices. Observium itself runs as a openvz container (turnkeylinux). I searched the web but does not find anything that matches my setup. Does anybody have a hint for me? Thanks, ecaroh

13 41

billing not working
by Simon Smith 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Hi All, I’m having a problem trying to create bills for ports for one of our customers… we currently monitor the ADSL routers of our clients, and wanted to see if we can get a pretty bill/graph for the PPP ports of all the routers however adding ports to the bills just seem to make the bill disappear and not work? so far I add the bill successfully, and set a quota of say 1TB but when I go into the edit tab of the bill, the quota field is empty!? also i can’t seen to add more than 5 ports? any ideas Simon

2 1

SVN What am I doing wrong
by Mike Hyslop 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

H all When I run svn update on my observium box it usually just says At revision 6089 (This increments to the latest revision number), however it sometimes downloads updated files, but not all the time, I am updating from the stable branch Have I got some settings out of place somewhere with svn? Kind Regards Mike Hyslop | Infrastructure Manager

3 2

Upgrade to Observium 0.14.12.6089 Cisco WLC 2504 not anymore recognized as WLC
by Basile Bluntschli 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

Hi Mike after the upgrade to Observium 0.14.12.6089 the Cisco WLC 2504 is no longer recognized as WLC. It is a generic device, it even removed the basic temp sensor after a discovery... "Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature wlc 0 Unit Temperature 0" I can handover you debug information if you want to. Just let me know how i can provide them :) Kind regards Basile

3 3

Summary Graphs stopped working Yesterday
by Matthias Cramer 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

Hi Since I updated to the latest SVN Version yesterday all summary graphs (Ports->Customers/Transit/Peering etc.) stopped working. Anyone else has this issue ? 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 Zürich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

2 1

Spikes in 1 and 2 year graphs
by GT4NE1 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Almost all of my 1 and 2 year graphs look like this. http://i.imgur.com/SnDlXz3.png I've tried several times to fix them with removespikes.pl and .php but never had any luck. Has anyone ever gotten the removespikes scripts to work in these cases? I run the command on a single device at a time and receive no output, but it doesn't fix the issue. I've also tried several of the other flags with no luck. Any pointers? Thanks! -GT

1 0

Device location not updated in database (already fixed?)
by Erwin Heringa 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Hi Observium developers, I just found out that when i changed the snmp location of a device it is not changed in the database. We are currently using R5919 (yeah… i know. ;-)) Poller output with debugging shows the new location correctly. CMD[/usr/bin/snmpget -v3 **************** SNMPv2-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'arn2-kafw1.mgmt.sidn.nl':'161' sysUpTime.0 sysLocation.0 sysContact.0 sysName.0] EXITCODE[0]) RUNTIME[0.0304s], STDOUT[ sysUpTime.0 = 5:18:28:36.57 sysLocation.0 = Arnhem ==> OK, this is the new location <cut> On every poll we see the location change in the syslog, but the location is not updated in the database. SQL[INSERT INTO `eventlog` (`device_id`,`reference`,`type`,`timestamp`,`message`) VALUES ('78','NULL','system',NOW(),'Location -> Arnhem')] Module [ system ] time: 0.1684s 2014-12-09 11:43:03 System Location -> Arnhem 2014-12-09 11:38:10 System Location -> Arnhem 2014-12-09 11:33:09 System Location -> Arnhem 2014-12-09 11:28:13 System Location -> Arnhem 2014-12-09 11:23:12 System Location -> Arnhem 2014-12-09 11:18:08 System Location -> Arnhem A manual change of the location in the device record resolved this issue. It seems that there is a statement missing to update the device record. Met vriendelijke groet, kind regards, Erwin Heringa SIDN | Meander 501 | 6825 MD | Postbus 5022 | 6802 EA | ARNHEM T +31 (0)26 352 55 59 | F +31 (0)26 352 55 05 erwin.heringa(a)sidn.nl | www.sidn.nl

2 2

Re: [Observium] sourcing@qbs.co.uk - Re: After the license expires... - Email found in subject
by Sourcing 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Hi Mike I used this link yesterday. I have done it again now. Hopefully it will work. Kind regards Maria From: Daniel Winter On Behalf Of Administrator Sent: 09 December 2014 11:13 To: Sourcing Subject: FW: sourcing(a)qbs.co.uk - Re: [Observium] After the license expires... - Email found in subject From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Simon Smith Sent: 09 December 2014 11:11 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: sourcing(a)qbs.co.uk<mailto:sourcing@qbs.co.uk> - Re: [Observium] After the license expires... - Email found in subject http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium look at the bottom of the page about how to unsubscribe… On 9 Dec 2014, at 9:37 am, Sourcing <sourcing(a)qbs.co.uk<mailto:sourcing@qbs.co.uk>> wrote: Hi Mike I did not intentionally add myself to an emailing list. I tried to get a quotation from Observium a couple of weeks ago for a customer. Somehow instead I must have ended up on this email listing. Please advise how I may ‘unsubscribe’ to get my email removed from this. Kind regards Maria From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: 09 December 2014 09:09 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] After the license expires... Do you mean you're on an e-mail list and you're getting copies of the e-mails? That's how e-mail lists work. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com<http://www.ics-il.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png]<https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/ICSIL> ________________________________ From: "Sourcing" <sourcing(a)qbs.co.uk<mailto:sourcing@qbs.co.uk>> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Cc: "Support" <support(a)qbs.co.uk<mailto:support@qbs.co.uk>>, "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 3:07:16 AM Subject: Re: [Observium] After the license expires... Hi Adam/Kleber Please can you sort this out? I keep getting copied in to every mail you send out. I have already emailed you regarding this matter. Kind regards Maria Parrado Sourcing Specialist DD: +44 (0) 20 8733 7139 Main: +44 (0) 20 8733 7101 Fax: +44 (0) 20 8902 7600 Email: sourcing(a)qbs.co.uk<mailto:sourcing@qbs.co.uk> QBS Software Ltd 7 Wharfside, Rosemont Road, Wembley, Middlesex, HA0 4QB www.qbssoftware.com<http://www.qbssoftware.com/> From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: 09 December 2014 06:08 To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] After the license expires... Did you subscribe? Adam. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com<http://www.aqua-mail.com/> On 8 December 2014 19:34:32 Kleber C S Coelho <kcscoelho(a)ig.com.br<mailto:kcscoelho@ig.com.br>> wrote: It seems fair . And how do I get a license? I found instructions on this in observium page . tks KC Em 08/12/2014 17:19, Tom Laermans escreveu: Indeed, the code is not timebombed - it will keep working if you stop paying. But you'll stop receiving updates, bug fixes and security updates. Tom On 08/12/2014 19:05, Moore, Cameron wrote: Technically, the license doesn’t expire, but your subscription does. You have a perpetual license to use Observium, so it won’t stop working if your subscription expires. Your subscription simply grants you access to the SVN repository to get updates. -- Cameron Moore From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Kleber C S Coelho Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 10:29 AM To: Observium System Network Observation Subject: [Observium] After the license expires... Adam, good afternoon! I have a question: what happens after the license expires. For example, buy a license, which is valid for one year. What happens after that first year? We only stayed without updates or the system stops working? Do you have a license without time limit? Is there any way to achieve this? Thank you. Kleber C S Coelho _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium -- Kleber C S Coelho _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

1 0

After the license expires...
by Kleber C S Coelho 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Adam, good afternoon! I have a question: what happens after the license expires. For example, buy a license, which is valid for one year. What happens after that first year? We only stayed without updates or the system stops working? Do you have a license without time limit? Is there any way to achieve this? Thank you. Kleber C S Coelho

7 8

extending observium to handle custom MIBs
by Richard Broberg 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

I have added a tree of MIBs (in the ‘experimental’ section of the tree) for my own application services to respond to snmp requests. This is for determining the health of a running service. I can view the objects using snmpwalk, and I can add the host running the agent to observium. I can see all the information retrieved from the ‘well-known’ MIBs (uptime, load, etc.) in observium for my extended agent, but I can’t see any of my own MIBs. Where do I look for how to let observium know about my MIBs so that it can show the data in a tabular or graphical format? I see the includes/polling/unix-agent/* as some examples, but it’s not clear to me where the mapping between my OIDs goes to the variables inside of running observium, so I can invoke rrdtool_create properly. It’s also not clear to me how I layout the various graphs on the page, once I have them created. If there is some documentation for that somewhere, or a particularly good example in the code to look at which would make it clear, that would be great. Thanks

2 2

Wireless Support (Aruba, Ruckus, Trapeze, Cisco, etc)
by adama＠observium.org 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

Hi All, Could those of you who are interested in wireless support email me off-list? I've totally lost track of who has offered to financially sponsor development and/or provide access to test hardware. Please include the following information : Contact/Company/Subscriber information What type of support you'd be willing to provide What type of hardware you use What you use the hardware for (WISP, Enterprise, etc) Additionally if you already use some other platform with your wireless kit, perhaps some screenshots and description of how you use the platform would be useful, as would any suggestions on how a wifi infrastructure management interface might be structured. We're not wireless infrastructure experts, but you guys might be! :) Depending upon the level of interest when everyone is accounted for, we might consider building specific wireless support into Observium. Please reply to this mail but change the "to" field to adama(a)observium.org. If you use a different subject, your mail might be lost forever :) Thanks, adam.

2 1

Full access live demo?
by Aurélien PERRODY 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

Hello guys I'm currently looking for a monitoring tool and try a lot of them (freeware, opensource, etc...) Observium sounds good for me, definitely. I checked the live demo and can't access to the threshold/alert options, which are the most interesting part for me. I know if you give access as a admin to your demo, your Observium demo will be destroy within 1 minute. So before paying for a pro version, is there a possibility to test a live demo as a admin user or install a "time limited full version" on my VM ? Regards, Aurélien

3 2

Control-Plane class-maps
by Robert Williams 07 Dec '14

07 Dec '14

Hi, Is there are way to get the CBQoS stats for the control-plane on the 6500 (or indeed any Cisco with control-plane policies really)? I know they are presented via SNMP as we have the stats in Cacti, showing against “CPP” which is the same name as Observium has for the Control Plane interface (after I un-filtered it in config.php). For what it’s worth, here is the table from the Cacti query: [cid:image002.jpg@01D0121F.7F26CDC0] In this example, you can see 4 of the CoPP classes, alongside one of the interface classes. We use Cacti to get the control-plane classes only (hence grey) and all the interface classes are done by Observium because it handles the dynamic changes which occur MUCH better than Cacti does. Observium sees the same interface index (19) and name (CPP): [cid:image004.png@01D0121F.497847D0] But for some reason it doesn’t attach the CBQoS statistics for the control-plane…? All other QoS stats are present, so in general it is working OK, just the CPP ones which are missing (or I can’t find them). Any ideas? Cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

1 0

Re-enable previously disabled app
by Arnaud Launay 06 Dec '14

06 Dec '14

Hello, Title mostly says it all. I've disabled certain apps (from the unix agent) from a device, and now I'd like to re-enable them, but I don't see where I could do that... Any pointer ? Thanks, Arnaud.

1 0

Unix Agent
by Mike Hammett 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

I have read the Unix Agent troubleshooting section. The Observium-wide FAQ didn't provide any guidance either. I set this up within the past week. Running Community Edition, Debian Wheezy. I got one box (CentOS) setup with the Unix Agent and at least one polling worked as it's now populated with different packages, MySQL information (that's one of the scripts it setup). It hasn't worked since the first polling or two. It isn't pulling in any new scripts on the monitored box and the information it does have appears to be stale. I can telnet from the Observium box to the monitored box via FQDN on port 36602 and get a bunch of stuff back. However, the observium.log and my router shows requests going to the FQDN at ports 1 and 6556 that are refused. I don't show anything in netstat listening on those ports on the monitored box. What's my next step? TIA ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

3 5

SonicWall NS2400 CPU
by Paul Harrington 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

Hi there, Does anyone have a Sonicwall NS2400 reporting CPU usage to Observium. The default settings didn't seem to pick it up. I tried adding the OID (1.3.6.1.4.1.8741.1.3.1.3.0) to the SNMP configuration in the Sonicwall, but still no sign of them in Observium. Where am I going wrong? Thanks, Paul NoSigPLS!

2 1

Adding a SNOM 320 VoIP Telefon failed
by ecaroh 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

Hello, i tried to add a SNOM 320 VoIP Telephone. I saw that Observium has an include for snom devices. As a first test a bare snmp request from cli with v1 succeded, with v2 i got no response. But Observium does not discover the device with v1. DNS / host name service is working. I have read in the web that SNOM SNMP support is awful. They have their own mib, a request for "system" does not give an answer from cli. Does anybody have SNOM Devices monitored in Observium and if so, what could be the error that the device could not discovered and added? thx, ecaroh

1 0

Collectd integration to Observium
by Joy, Jees 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

Hello All!! Greetings. I was wondering, where to get collectd plugin for Observium. The below documentation doesnot say where to download the collectd plungin for observium. If somebody could help me with the download and documentation of collectd plugin for observium, it would be great help. http://observium.org/wiki/Collectd_Integration Thank you. Best Regards, Jees Joy Internal IT **************************************************************** "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. " ****************************************************************

2 2

add device type
by Justin Miller 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Under Device Settings - Device properties - there is device type. I’d like to add router and switch there. Checked the mailing list archive. Nothing conclusive on how to do this. Does not look like something in a config file. Checked there as well. Is this used someplace other then he device menu subtree for grouping? Justin

3 2

Observium and Google downtime
by Milton Ngan 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

We use the Google Map API, and it appeared that Google was unreachable here for several minutes. In that time, our Observium box ground to a halt due to all the PHP processes hanging on what I can only guess were map API calls. Once Google came back the machine became responsive again after all the processes finally cleared out.

4 6

Re: [Observium] Proffesional services to create new monitoring of SNMP
by Barry Murphy 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Hey guys, My offer still stands, happy to pay someone that's willing to make a MIB work with Observium, any takers? :) I have all the instructions and some test data, I don't see it taking more than 2-3 hours from someone that knows what they doing. Cheers -- Kind regards, Barry Murphy / Chief Operating Officer +64 27 490 9712 / barry(a)vibecommunications.co.nz<mailto:barry@vibecommunications.co.nz> [3sparks llc]<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.facebook.com/VibeCom> [Vibe Communications] <https://twitter.com/vibecomnz> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/1941512> Office: +64 9 222 0000 / Fax: 0800 842 326 Unit A7, 1 Beresford Square, Auckland, New Zealand Web: www.vibecommunications.co.nz<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> / Peering: AS45177<http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=45177> This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002. From: Barry Murphy <barry(a)vibecommunications.co.nz<mailto:barry@vibecommunications.co.nz>> Reply-To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Thursday, 27 November 2014 6:37 am To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Proffesional services to create new monitoring of SNMP Hey guys, Wonder if anyone on the list is willing to build some SNMP enhancements for Observium, I believe the work would only take 2-3 hours from someone that knows SNMP MIBS and observium. Reply to me offlist if you are interested; the MIB will be provided open source to the community following its development. Many thanks Kind regards, Barry Murphy / Chief Operating Officer +64 27 490 9712 / barry(a)vibecommunications.co.nz<mailto:barry@vibecommunications.co.nz> [3sparks llc]<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.facebook.com/VibeCom> [Vibe Communications] <https://twitter.com/vibecomnz> [Vibe Communications] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/1941512> Office: +64 9 222 0000 / Fax: 0800 842 326 Unit A7, 1 Beresford Square, Auckland, New Zealand Web: www.vibecommunications.co.nz<http://www.vibecommunications.co.nz/> / Peering: AS45177<http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=45177> This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002.

6 8

Re: [Observium] Patch: rancid integration
by Steffen Klemer 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Is there a reason, the patch didn't make it into the release? Am Di, 17.06.2014 um 17:24 schrieb Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org>: > Hah! That looks like a Russian search/replace bug! :D > > adam. > > On 2014-06-17 11:07, Steffen Klemer wrote: > > Hey, > > > > for me (recent ubuntu) the rancid integration wasn't working quite > > well. The following patch corrects this: > > > > --- showconfig.inc.php.old 2014-06-17 18:05:06.341845752 > > +0200 +++ showconfig.inc.php 2014-06-17 18:03:08.336048633 > > +0200 @@ -72,12 +72,12 @@ > > > > if ($config['rancid_ignorecomments']) > > { > > - $lines = explode('\n',$text); > > + $lines = explode(PHP_EOL,$text); > > for ($i = 0;$i < count($lines);$i++) > > { > > - if ($lines[$i][0] == '#') { unset($lines[$i]); } > > + if ($lines[$i][0] == '!') { unset($lines[$i]); } > > } > > - $text = join('\n',$lines); > > + $text = join(PHP_EOL,$lines); > > } > > > > $text = '<pre class="prettyprint linenums">' . PHP_EOL . $text; > > > > > > Steffen > > > > -- > > Steffen Klemer E-Mail: Steffen.Klemer(a)gwdg.de > > Tel: +49 551 39 172361 > > __________________________________________________________________ > > GWDG > > Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen > > URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de > > Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 > > Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour > > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen > > Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > lg /Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: Steffen.Klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 39 172361 __________________________________________________________________ GWDG Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598

5 5

Missing graphs?
by Gabriel Zamorski 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Hello, Today I discovered that some statistics are missing. There are empty graphs since one week in all App tabs - apache, mysql, postgres, etc. There are also no graphs in tab Temperature. I think, I didn't change anything since then. I can do telnet <server> <port> to receive all that informations.. Do you have any idea what’s going on? (Observium Pro) Regards,

1 0