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New Interface Desc Parsing
by Cleiton Spindola 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hi Adam Its possible to add a new interface description parsing? Because we have many CDNs (Akamai, GGC, LimeLittle and etc) in my network and i would like to measure the traffic only them. CDN: CDN Name ( ASCDN ) [10gb] -- T+_+ Cleiton Spindola MAC OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 "O futuro tem varios nomes: para os fracos, ele é inatingível; para os temerosos, ele é desconhecido; para os corajosos, ele é a chance..."

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Health Disk I/O Graphs Filter
by Ximena Cardinali 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hello There, I just upgraded Observium to the latest CE Edition, and I was wondering if someone can help me or give me an example of how to set up a Filter for the Disk I/O Graphs. We have a Storage Cluster in which we would like to filter, for example the dm-* devices. Cheers, x.

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Alerting through gnokii
by Gabriel Zamorski 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hello, Is there any chance to send through a gnokii an alert triggered by the alert checkers? There is something about gnokii commented out in alerts.php, but I’m not sure if it should work? (Observium Professional) Regards,

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Translates
by Kleber C S Coelho 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Dear, good afternoon! I wonder if there is a project underway to translate the Observium. I'm interested in helping with the Pt-BR language. If the interest of the project, please contact. Att. Kleber Coelho

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License
by Kleber C S Coelho 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Dear, good afternoon! We are studying the Observium acquire a license. However we are running into some bureaucratic issues of our institution. I can talk privately about this? Thank you. Kleber

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Some contributions to get observium working better in our env.
by Anton Lundin 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Hi there! I'm a quite new user of observium and i think its a really nice tool to keep a collected view of my network. I've done a couple of hacks on observium to get it working better in our enviorment that i would like to contribute upstream. I haven't seen any doc on how you would like contributions done so I'm just attaching them here as git-format-patch on top of latest community edition of observium, md5sum of tarball: 887e9ec061a751c0cb96fc5b774aa392 observium-community-latest.tar.gz If you have any other preferred way of getting contributions, just tell me. //Anton -- Anton Lundin anton(a)dohi.se +46702-161604 http://www.dohi.se/

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Email alerts on subscription version (again)
by Gavin Henry 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi all, I've read all the archives and am sure below is right, but on a recent BGP flap from one of our peers we didn't see the email (but got an SNMP Trap from our NMS anyway). Is this all correct or do we have to config *all* alerts and there are no defaults? ./test_mail.php -h xxx.uk.suretec.net Observium v0.14.11.5936 Test E-mail Configuration My Hostname: xxx.suretec.net E-mails ENABLED globally E-mails use PHP-builtin MAIL backend E-mails send from: "Observium" <observium(a)xxx.suretec.net> Try send test notification for xxx.uk.suretec.net to these email(s): noc(a)suretec.net Notification for xxx.suretec.net SENT. root@xxx:/opt/observium# cat config.php <?php ## Have a look in includes/defaults.inc.php for examples of settings you can set here. DO NOT EDIT defaults.inc.php! // Database config $config['db_host'] = "localhost"; $config['db_user'] = "xxx"; $config['db_pass'] = "xxx"; $config['db_name'] = "xxx"; // Location $config['install_dir'] = "/opt/observium"; // Thie should *only* be set if you want to *force* a particular hostname/port // It will prevent the web interface being usable form any other hostname #$config['base_url'] = "http://observium.company.com"; // Default community list to use when adding/discovering $config['snmp']['community'] = array("xxx"); // Authentication Model - move to LDAP once confirmed. $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; // default, other options: ldap, http-auth, please see documentation for config help // Enable alerter // $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; //$config['enable_syslog'] = "1"; ## Enable email backend settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Needed on subscription product //$config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; $config['enable_billing'] = 1; // End config.php -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry.

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Subscription $ my mistake - twice order
by Wojciech Dyląg [DOMENY.PL sp. z o.o.] 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hello Guys! Today, 10 minutes ago, I’ve purchased a subscription for Observium (PayPal transaction 5UL24208P67929042). It was unfortunately my mistake because my friend has purchased the same subscription a few days ago… and he didn’t tell me :( Today we have a two subscriptions but we need just a one… can I ask you to cancel today order and refund our PayPal account for this purchase? Thank you for your understending. Wojciech Dyląg (CTO) e-mail: wojciech.dylag(a)domeny.pl <mailto:wojciech.dylag@domeny.pl> tel.: +48 12 296 36 63 <tel:+48122963663> <http://www.domeny.pl/> ul. Marcika 27 30-443 Kraków <http://domeny.pl/domeny-internetowe.html> NIP: 6792772660 | KRS: 0000175791 Kapitał zakł. wpł.: 50.000 PLN

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APC UPS Current is zero
by chott＠praha1.net 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hello, We have monitored APC Smart-UPS 1500 RM with module AP9605 But Capacity/Output load is 11% and Current Output is 0A Tomas

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Proffesional services to create new monitoring of SNMP
by Barry Murphy 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

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.

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Cisco WLC access points
by krause＠rus.uni-stuttgart.de 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi, since Aruba access points are found just fine, is there anyone having Cisco APs on WLC/WiSM2 in Observium already? If not, has anyone checked already how much "patching" would be required to feed those APs into the db model? Best, Kilian

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Refreash of login page
by Fältman, Mikael 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi. There is an html instruction making the login page to be refreshed every 300 sec. If you try to login to Observium using wrong credentials (user may have forgot it) and then leave the web browser there will be an Failed login event every refresh cycle. This leads to unnecessary alerts in SIEM systems for those who are doing security monitoring. Are there a need to have the login page refreshed ? Regards Mikael

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Unable to login
by Aaron Smith 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi everyone, We're testing Observium and I've come across an issue with logging in this morning. I have LDAP/Active Directory configured for auth and has been working perfectly up until now. At first I thought it was my account, but nope all good there. Then I thought it was the LDAP configuration so I changed the config back to the default mysql auth but still not able to log in. I tried rebooting the box but didn't work either also checked the file system and it's not full. I also tried deleting the cache and cookies and using different browsers but still no dice. Not sure if it's related but I updated to the new CE yesterday but it was working fine after the update yesterday afternoon. Any help will be much appreciated! Thanks.

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Graphs netstats error
by Simon Smith 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi All, after the latest SVN update 6009 my Netstats page on my Mikrotik equipment show the wrong graph? attached screenshot showing what i mean i think the is still a bug? how do i revert back one version as this was fine till just before Regards Simon

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Webpage stays blank after update to 0.14.11.6008
by Branzko, Matthias 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hello all, today morning I did an update from an older version of observium (sorry, don't know the exact version - but IIRC only 1 sql update file was executed afterwards) to the latest svn version. But if I try to open the Observium in the browser, the page shows nothing (only white background is shown). First I thought it's an issue with LDAP-Authentication. So I switched to mysql, created a new user with permission 10 and tried again. But still no luck. The user database looks like: mysql> select * from users; +---------+-------------------+------------------------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+-------+-------+-------------------+--------------+ | user_id | username | password | realname | email | descr | level | can_modify_passwd | user_options | +---------+-------------------+------------------------------------+-----------------+--------------------------+-------+-------+-------------------+--------------+ | 4 | admin | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | root@localhost | | 10 | 1 | NULL | If I try to open the webpage with debug=1 the following output is shown: > $vars /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `entity_permissions` WHERE `user_id` = '4' string(56) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT `value` FROM `users_prefs` WHERE `user_id` = '4' AND `pref` = 'atom_key' string(79) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT `value` FROM `users_prefs` WHERE `user_id` = '4' AND `pref` = 'atom_key' string(79) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `device_graphs` ORDER BY `graph` string(46) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `devices` ORDER BY `hostname` string(43) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT `device_id`, `ports`.`port_id`, `ifAdminStatus`, `ifOperStatus`, `deleted`, `ignore`, `ifOutErrors_delta`, `ifInErrors_delta` FROM `ports` LEFT JOIN `ports-state` ON `ports`.`port_id` = `ports-state`.`port_id` string(244) /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php:196SELECT * FROM `sensors` LEFT JOIN `sensors-state` ON `sensors`.`sensor_id` = `sensors-state`.`sensor_id` So the login or mapping to user_id seems to work. Any ideas / what to do next? Thanks in advance Matthias

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Power Meter MIB
by chott＠praha1.net 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hello, i have I have Power Meter HWg-PWR - http://www.hw-group.com/products/HWg-PWR/hwg-pwr25_M-bus_gateway_en.html Is there some future implementation? Tomas

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CE 0.14.11.6000
by Dan Ratzlaff 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Thanks for the new version! My RADLAN and BCM PowerConnect switches show up nicely now. I recently picked up a few Cisco Small Business switches, but Observium wasn't detecting them correctly. After some digging, I found I only needed to add their sysObjectID's to the definition file: diff --git includes/definitions/os.inc.php includes/definitions/os.inc.php index c54d476..135f3ae 100644 --- includes/definitions/os.inc.php +++ includes/definitions/os.inc.php @@ -714,6 +714,8 @@ $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.81."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.82."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.83."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.85."; +$config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.87."; // SF200-48 +$config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.88."; // SG200-50 $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.89."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.9.6.1.11.82."; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.3955."; Thanks! -- Dan

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Mako
by Tom Henderson 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Has anyone used any of the Mako appliances (http://www.makonetworks.com/) with observium? They have their own management/monitoring platform but wondering if I'll be able to also add them to our observium server. We're looking at the 6500 model. Cheers Tom Henderson IT Manager | Pack & Company | 027 461 4403 | 09 929 2750 | tom(a)pack.co.nz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not disclose, copy, or distribute any information contained in or attached to it, or take any action/inaction based on it. Please contact us immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and not of Pack & Company (NZ) Limited (the "Company"), however any intellectual property contained in or attached to this email is the property of the Company. Thank you.

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idrac
by Robert Hatch 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear all, Has anyone had any success in using observium with idracs? The auto discover doesn't appear to find any useful sensors other than the physical nic of the idrac itself. Has anyone else worked on support for idracs? All the best rob

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Interface Parsing
by Robert Hatch 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear all, Just wondering if there was an appetite out there for expanding the interface labelling feature of observium. The existing description parsing (http://www.observium.org/wiki/Interface_Description_Parsing) is pretty useful but also a bit limiting at times, as it seems more useful when labelling layer 3 services and less so for layer 2. Just a few general comments: * For us the pseudowires tab does not seem to auto populate (we use a variety of juniper, brocade and extreme switches and routers), just wondering if I have missed something here... * This aside there are more frequent occasions where we are providing VPLS services for a client and it would be nice if it were possible to label an interface as both a customer and a P2P link for example and then have these separately broken down in observium itself * There are also occasions where it would extremely useful to label backhaul circuits such as dark fibre and waves. Currently the only option for this is to label things as core but that page becomes so big it is not that useful unless you know what you are after (and then you would just go straight to the interface). Something like BACKHAUL: , PROVIDER:, END (A/B etc.) would be immensely useful and time saving. * The other issue we have that I don't have a simple answer for is the unhelpful aggregation of customer switch ports (quite often both ends of a P2P) and their layer 3 router ports. Could we start by having a separate aggregate graph for each circuit reference for each specific client. Maybe if END A and B are specified then the graph could demonstrate that these are actually different ends of the same link? What do people think? BW rob

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New Community Edition
by Adam Armstrong 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Hi All, We've released a new Observium Community Edition, version 0.14.11, based on SVN revision 6000. There've been over 770 new commits since the previous release. http://www.observium.org/observium-community-0.14.11.tar.gz http://www.observium.org/wiki/Upgrading#Upgrade_to_latest_Major_release http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog (will be updated later!) adam.

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Observium Location Naming
by Gary Tang 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Is there some kind of convention as to how to set the sysLocation snmpd parameters? I am currently having some trouble finding the right naming for OVH BHS. So far none of the following work. OVH, Montregie, Quebec OVH, Beauharnois, Quebec OVH, Beauharnois, Montregie OVH, Beauharnois-Salaberry, Montregie -- Gary Tang Sent with Airmail

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Paid support
by Gavin Henry 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Hi all, I can see some of the support options on the main website, but not way to purchase or get in touch? -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. http://www.surevoip.co.uk

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Multiple SNMP Queries
by Lane Eckley 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hi Guys, On a limited number of CentOS & Ubuntu machines we are monitoring with Observium we are seeing dozens of SNMP queries from Observium in a very short window (10-20 seconds). Snip of the logs from /var/logs/messages Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:55776->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Nov 21 14:43:52 hostname snmpd[22648]: Connection from UDP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:37575->[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] We are trying to understand why Observium would be sending so many queries back to back as well as why we are seeing this on some machines, but not others. Thanks! -Lane

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hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5
by deeepdish 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hello. Great product. Looking forward to evaluating the subscription version after I get a minimum base operational using the CE edition. I have an issue around viewing HDD TEMP graphs driven by data extracted from the UNIX agent and hddtemp script. I can confirm output when auditing output of: telnet (hostname) 36602 or ./poller.php -h (hostname) -d I can also confirm temp. sensor driven graphs do come up for other hosts when using SNMP lmsensors, however not for unix-agent / hddtemp data sources. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

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Updated changelog!
by Adam Armstrong 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

The abridged changelog is now up to date with October and November to date! http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog

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21 Nov '14

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Re: [Observium] hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5
by deeepdish 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

My apologies…. Not using hddtemp script. Using the temperature script (that uses hddtemp).. sn = serial number. Using ZFS on Linux by-vdev definition to map /dev/hd? -> /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn - serial number) My temperature script below as on monitored host. #!/bin/bash echo "<<<temperature>>>" echo “(sn 1):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 1) -n` echo “(sn 2):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 2) -n` echo “(sn 3):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 3) -n` echo “(sn 4):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 4) -n` echo “(sn 5):" `hddtemp /dev/disk/by-vdev/(sn 5) -n` ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:27:27 -0600 From: "Ron Marosko" <ron(a)rjr-services.com <mailto:ron@rjr-services.com>> To: "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: Re: [Observium] hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5 Message-ID: <001b01d005a8$0aa08140$1fe183c0$(a)rjr-services.com <mailto:001b01d005a8$0aa08140$1fe183c0$@rjr-services.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just having a look at the hddtemp agent script. # hddtemp sensor readings # needs hddtemp daemon listening on (at least) localhost # requires netcat to be installed and in the path Have you satisfied those requirements? From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org <mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>] On Behalf Of deeepdish Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 9:36 AM To: observium(a)observium.org <mailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: [Observium] hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5 Hello. Great product. Looking forward to evaluating the subscription version after I get a minimum base operational using the CE edition. I have an issue around viewing HDD TEMP graphs driven by data extracted from the UNIX agent and hddtemp script. I can confirm output when auditing output of: telnet (hostname) 36602 or ./poller.php -h (hostname) -d I can also confirm temp. sensor driven graphs do come up for other hosts when using SNMP lmsensors, however not for unix-agent / hddtemp data sources. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

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hddtemp on CE 0.14.4.5
by deeepdish 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Hello. Great product. Looking forward to evaluating the subscription version after I get a minimum base operational using the CE edition. I have an issue around viewing HDD TEMP graphs driven by data extracted from the UNIX agent and hddtemp script. I can confirm output when auditing output of: telnet (hostname) 36602 or ./poller.php -h (hostname) -d I can also confirm temp. sensor driven graphs do come up for other hosts when using SNMP lmsensors, however not for unix-agent / hddtemp data sources. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

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r6001 backward compatibility
by Tom Laermans 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Dear all, Revision 6001 cleans up a bunch of old code paths that should not have been used in recent days. If you are upgrading from a revision before r5000, it's probably best to upgrade to r6000 (svn up -r6000) first, run a full discovery and poll cycle, then upgrade to latest trunk. We've removed RRD renaming code for files which should since long have been renamed, and variables that should not exist anymore in your config. Variables to double check: $config['email_*'] should be renamed to $config['email'][*] instead. Tom

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Groups
by Milton Ngan 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

What is the intention of the groups feature? It seems like a really powerful way to group stuff together and have interesting views of things. But right now it just generates a list of entities that you can click through or hover over. I took a look at the code that generates all the various graph layouts (iftypes, health, ports). It seems that every page has its own code for handling the graph layout. It seem like this would be a great place to leverage a bunch of the existing code so you can create group specific views of sensors, ports etc... But it doesn't look like the code is structured that way (i.e reusable components/widgets). The standard views are good, but I want to be able to see them on a per datacenter/region basis rather than globally. The global view is visually interesting/pretty it is less useful.

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Re: [Observium] Avoid Ignored Ports
by Pedersen, Sean 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Where are you disabling / ignoring the ports? Screenshot(s) would be helpful here. You can set each port to poll or alert (Yes/No) under the settings of the device the port is on. I¹m not sure if the Alert toggle is tied to the new alerts or a remnant of the old alerting system. On 11/19/14, 10:14 AM, "Josh Hopper" <joshhopper(a)protectplus.com> wrote: >Some ports in Observium I set to ignore because I don't need to watch >them right now but I will eventually. >Even though they are ignored, I'm still alerted by them. How do I filter >out ignored ports? > >-- >Sincerely, >Joshua Hopper, A+ CE >Network Administrator > > 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 >Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium Founded in 2007, IO is a worldwide leader in software defined data center technology, services and solutions that enable businesses and governments to intelligently control their information. The communication contained in this e-mail is confidential and is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, attorney work product or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender of the error, and delete this communication including any attached files from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.

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New Community edition?
by John P Arends 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Is a new version of the community edition coming out soon? Based on the schedule of the past two releases it looks like it may be soon.

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Re: [Observium] Old map on frontpage?
by Jonathan Green 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hello All: Just upgraded to v14. Curious if there is a way to use the old map on the frontpage, the map from v13? Thank you. -Jonathan

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RAID Alert Check
by Lane Eckley 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hi Guys, I am looking to setup an alert check for LSI & Adaptec RAID arrays, however looking over the docs and I uncertain on how to properly configure it. Here is what I think I know: -Use the Observium agent to query the RAID controller and drive status -Create an alert check under “sensor” What I don’t know -The rest of the variables for the alert check Thanks guys! -Lane

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Re: [Observium] Amperage Calc
by Pedersen, Sean 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Alerts can¹t be added up. They¹re attributed to whatever entity/device/metric combination you create, triggering on the individual values that match your rules. You could create rules to match both of your individual PDUs, or all PDUs, but you can¹t ask it to add/subtract the values of multiple rules or metrics to trigger an alert. Curious - what kind of scenario are you looking at that would warrant this kind of alarm? On 11/19/14, 10:37 AM, "Josh Hopper" <joshhopper(a)protectplus.com> wrote: >Is there a way to add PDU Amerage together so you get an alert based on >the Amperage Usage of 2 PDUs together? > >For Example: >PDU A - 10 Amps >PDU B - 1 Amps > >If PDU A + PDU B = 12 Amps then Send Alert > >Something like that. > >-- >Sincerely, >Joshua Hopper, A+ CE >Network Administrator > > 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 >Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium Founded in 2007, IO is a worldwide leader in software defined data center technology, services and solutions that enable businesses and governments to intelligently control their information. The communication contained in this e-mail is confidential and is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, attorney work product or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately notify the sender of the error, and delete this communication including any attached files from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Amperage Calc
by Josh Hopper 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Is there a way to add PDU Amerage together so you get an alert based on the Amperage Usage of 2 PDUs together? For Example: PDU A - 10 Amps PDU B - 1 Amps If PDU A + PDU B = 12 Amps then Send Alert Something like that. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565

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Avoid Ignored Ports
by Josh Hopper 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Some ports in Observium I set to ignore because I don't need to watch them right now but I will eventually. Even though they are ignored, I'm still alerted by them. How do I filter out ignored ports? -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565

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HSRP event tracking
by Pedrosi, Derek G. 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Is there a way to add a checker for Cisco HSRP events? >From CISCO-HSRP-MIB... HsrpState ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The current state of the HSRP protocol for a given HSRP group entry." SYNTAX INTEGER { initial(1), learn(2), listen(3), speak(4), standby(5), active(6) } This does not work... [cid:image003.jpg@01D0033A.077E5250] Regards, derek Subscriber v14.11.5987

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Re: [Observium] Performance
by Desir Antoine 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi all, Xavier : About IO issues, did you make changes from rrdcached or Obervium/kernel tuning ? Муслим : The SQL Server has 8 Go RAM and CPU is really not used (95%Idle), and quite difficult to answer to memory question, the physical memory is used at 95% by buffers Cheers, -- Antoine Deisr ________________________________ Ce message et les pieces jointes sont confidentiels et reserves a l'usage exclusif de ses destinataires. Il peut egalement etre protege par le secret professionnel. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en avertir immediatement l'expediteur et de le detruire. L'integrite du message ne pouvant etre assuree sur Internet, la responsabilite de Worldline ne pourra etre recherchee quant au contenu de ce message. Bien que les meilleurs efforts soient faits pour maintenir cette transmission exempte de tout virus, l'expediteur ne donne aucune garantie a cet egard et sa responsabilite ne saurait etre recherchee pour tout dommage resultant d'un virus transmis. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Worldline liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted.

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Problems
by Darian Jimenez 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hello, I have a couple of problems with observium which really hinder me trusting it's alerting feature etc. 1 - Some servers show as down, when in fact they aren't down and snmp is started (i've also tried to restart) 2 - Some server show as up and while I have an alert for storage to send warning only when its below 5% full it will send an alert saying C drive space is at 0% but in fact the servers have more than 10% left. Can these issue's be related to iop's or the polling time? I'd like to figure this out because the SNMP servers are windows servers and everytime one of them is down, I can't afford to troubleshoot by removing snmp and reinstalling it because windows requires a reboot, which I just can't do on domain controllers, file servers etc. Is it possible to put the login portal to observium on a seperate webpage completely so that customers can log into it from our site for example/

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Re: [Observium] ifAlias Script replacement
by tromp wezelman 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi Sascha, This script worked well for us, but not anymore. No output is generated if i test it on the command line. How can i debug this? Thanks, Tromp

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Assistance with Port Alert Checker
by Chip Pleasants 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi all, I'm looking for a little help figuring our why my port alert checker didn't seem to work.I set up port alert checker to trigger when greater than 80%. The actual usage was at 100% for a couple hours. This is a gigabit interface set to 100m with a bandwidth statement. The screen shot reflects the 100m speed correctly. I've attached a couple screen shots with my port and alert check. Any ideas why it didn't fire off? Thanks, Chip

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Exim module problem
by Manuele Di Nunzio 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi al All, I've added at Unix agent the exim module (I've already apache). But Observium can't locate this module. If I type from local server 'telnet myip 36602' there are the exim information. What could be the problem? Thank You in advance for your help

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Performance
by Desir Antoine 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi, A solution for a large network like yours could be using a distributed architecture. Here is a feedback from our usage : Current architecture in our organisation graphs 2000 devices and 70k ports and target is 6000 devices. We have built a farm of Observium pollers ( 6 physical servers ) and 1 more for mysql server (+Apache for GUI). Our 6 poller servers are 70% CPU idle and disks are ok for now. We progressively are adding new devices. We did a small patch in mysql scheme, to add a "poller_id" into devices table. At each new device added, script "add_device.php" choose the poller the least used (based on numbers of devices per poller server). Each poller asks to SQL Server devices with its poller_id. The GUI server can read via NFS all rrd files stored in pollers. Hardware used for each poller is HP DL360 Gen7 / 4 GB RAM / 6 disks SAS 10k Raid 1+0 / 2*E5620 2.40Ghz (4 cores each). Here is a diagram : http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img538/3225/iMXiYb.png By the way, may it be a good idea to add this distributed feature for monitoring of large platforms (adding the poller_id field into devices table) ? Cheers, Antoine Desir ________________________________ Ce message et les pi?ces jointes sont confidentiels et r?serv?s ? l'usage exclusif de ses destinataires. Il peut ?galement ?tre prot?g? par le secret professionnel. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci d'en avertir imm?diatement l'exp?diteur et de le d?truire. L'int?grit? du message ne pouvant ?tre assur?e sur Internet, la responsabilit? de Worldline ne pourra ?tre recherch?e quant au contenu de ce message. Bien que les meilleurs efforts soient faits pour maintenir cette transmission exempte de tout virus, l'exp?diteur ne donne aucune garantie ? cet ?gard et sa responsabilit? ne saurait ?tre recherch?e pour tout dommage r?sultant d'un virus transmis. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, the Worldline liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted.

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E-mail Notifications & Backend Settings
by Jacob Chavez 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hello, does anyone know which parameters need to be added within config.php to enable e-mail notifications. Also, where do I configure the backend settings? Is that in config.php as well? Below is what I got from the documentation and I was able to send a test e-mail from Observium, but not receive a message if a device was down when I tested that portion. Any help is appreciated. Thank you! Jacob Email backend settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; Enable/Disable send email globally $config['email']['from'] = NULL; Mail from. Default: "Observium" <observium@`hostname -f`> $config['email']['default'] = NULL; Default alert recipient $config['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; Only use default recipient (all alerts send to default recipient) $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; Mail backend. Allowed: "mail" (PHP's built-in), "sendmail", "smtp". $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; // The location of the sendmail program. Sendmail specific options $config['email']['smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; // Outgoing SMTP server name. $config['email']['smtp_port'] = 25; // The port to connect. $config['email']['smtp_timeout'] = 10; // SMTP connection timeout in seconds. $config['email']['smtp_secure'] = NULL; // Enable encryption. Use 'tls' or 'ssl' $config['email']['smtp_auth'] = FALSE; // Whether or not to use SMTP authentication. $config['email']['smtp_username'] = NULL; // SMTP username. $config['email']['smtp_password'] = NULL; // Password for SMTP authentication. SMTP specific options For test email settings use test_mail.php script from main observium dirrectory.

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Power Statistics
by Josh Hopper 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

How do I make an alert for power where it alerts me if my amperage (current) is over 80%. For me that would be about 11 AMPs on my UPS. -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFFFFF.5CF8B420] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Junos 4-byte ASN support
by bt 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hello, I tried digging through the mailing archives but jet lag from my recent trip is stymieing my efforts in finding relevant threads. I'm running 0.14.11.5945 and notice that 4-byte ASN is still not supported. We use 4-byte ASN for the greater range as we eventually plan to run eBGP down to our servers. On Junos devices -- anything from MX, QFX to SRX -- I notice that ASNs show as a negative integer (example "-94967243"). On our Cisco's, they show up as our favorite 23456. The main question is: Are the negative integers a limitation of the Junos MIB? On those individual devices I do not have a "tab=routing/proto=bgp/", the BGP sessions do not show up at all under the general "routing -> BGP All Sessions" tab, and consequently we're missing a large chunk of our network and we don't have any BGP alerts (though I have all the above with Cisco Nexus gear). Are there any workarounds or plans to support 4-byte ASN in Observium, specifically with Junos equipment? Thank you! bt

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Linux Load Average Alert Check
by Lane Eckley 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hi Guys, Has there been any changes to the alerting system that will allow us to create a check for a Linux system’s load average? Looking through the list archives it appears it wasn’t yet supported back in August, but I am unsure if that may have changed since then. Thanks! -Lane

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Auto-discovery Woes
by Garland McAlexander 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

I'm having some major issues with Auto-discovery (read, I can't seem to get it working at all). Here is what I have in my config: $config['autodiscovery']['xdp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via discovery protocols (CDP, LLDP, FDP, AMAP and other) $config['autodiscovery']['ospf'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via OSPF $config['autodiscovery']['bgp'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts via iBGP $config['autodiscovery']['libvirt'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover hosts found via libvirt $config['autodiscovery']['ip_nets'] = array("10.0.0.0/8"); // Networks to permit autodiscovery $config['discover_services'] = TRUE; // Autodiscover services via SNMP on devices of type "server" I'm using resolution via hosts file, and I have about 150 machines there. However, autodiscovery seems to do nothing.

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