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Rivered Steelhead support
by Colin Stubbs 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hi All Riverbed MIB's are in both Observium stable and trunk... but there's no explicit Riverbed definition in os.inc.php. Was this removed at some point for a reason? Or is someone already working on Riverbed specific discovery and polling code? Thanks -Colin

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Possible to create alerts for MySQL metrics contained in the MySQL agent?
by Hogan Whittall 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

We're trying to find a way to generate alerts on various MySQL metrics, it looks like all of the metrics are already in the monitor agent/graphs. What is involved in getting those metrics into the alerter/alert checker? This is for Pro. Thanks! -Hogan

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Nexus 5596 polling slowness
by Daniel Bliss 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hello, Just curious if anyone else is seeing long polling times for Nexus 5596UP switches. Everything else in our deployment is responding in a timely manner and there are no bottlenecks on the Observium server at this point. ./poller.php: access2-2a.sj2 - 1 devices polled in 243.6 secs Polling times in the high 200 second range are not uncommon while most all of our other high port density devices are well under 30 seconds. If anyone has found a NXOS software version that works better than others please let me know. We have tried on various software version 5,6 and 7 releases. I can only imagine this is a Cisco issue but thought I'd ask here in case anyone solved it. Regards, Dan Bliss

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Cisco ASA failover
by Carlos Martinez 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

I noticed that a pair of firewalls I had failed over about a month ago but the only thing showing in the logs of the device was that the mac addresses all changed. Is there a way to get better alerting on failover? I know the stateful failover are almost sub second but logs are generated. Not sure if you can monitor that with SNMP but figured I would throw that out there. Carlos

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Basic Cisco Meraki hardware support
by Colin Stubbs 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Hi Adam/All I may have missed how to make a more formal submission for hardware support, so if there is one let me know. However, I suspect the mailing list is probably a good arena for any criticism/pointers on what to do better/what not to do when attempting to add new device support. -- I’ve recently been involved in the installation of equipment and support for a mobile medical facility. We’ve used Meraki switches and access points for a number of reasons, not least of which is the instant monitoring/alerts capability, web based management, web based troubleshooting capabilities and easy provisioning of equipment when it needs to be replaced. As much as the Meraki web management portal is useful, it’s not necessarily always available in this facility and we needed a local management system/interface to monitor the equipment, alert local users to any failures/problems, and provide a quick and easy “view” for all of the ICT equipment within the mobile facility. So, I used Observium, but needed to add support for the Meraki components. Meraki provide an SNMP interface to their cloud management platform. It’s basically useless if talking directly to equipment as there’s currently no extra information you can extract from the devices themselves. The Meraki Cloud Controller MIB can be obtained here, https://n85.meraki.com/resources/MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB.mib Their cloud controller itself looks like the below. I don't really want to add this to Observium myself but have included the OID for detection and possible to for additional inventory collection at a later date. Strip it out if necessary. <pre class="prettyprint"><code>SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Cisco Meraki Cloud Controller SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::cloudController DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = INTEGER: -1685384396 SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: support(a)meraki.com SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: dashboard.meraki.com SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: 500 Terry Francois St., San Francisco, CA 94158, USA</code></pre> AP's basically look like this, SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Meraki MR18 Cloud Managed AP SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::mr18 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.1 = OID: SNMPv2-MIB::snmpMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.2 = OID: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmBasicGroup SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.3 = OID: IF-MIB::ifMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.4 = OID: IEEE802dot11-MIB::ieee802dot11 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.1 = STRING: The MIB module for SNMPv2 entities SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.2 = STRING: View-based Access Control Model for SNMP. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.3 = STRING: The MIB module to describe generic objects for network interface sub-layers SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.4 = STRING: The MIB module for managing 802.11 implementations SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.1 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.2 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.3 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.4 = Timeticks: (3) 0:00:00.03</code></pre> MIB support from the sysORID list appears to be correct, I couldn't discover anything else on the MR18 and MR34 AP's. Switches basically look like this, SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Meraki MS220-24P Cloud Managed PoE Switch SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB::merakiProducts.307 SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: truck01-s1 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.1 = OID: SNMPv2-MIB::snmpMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.2 = OID: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmBasicGroup SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.3 = OID: IF-MIB::ifMIB SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.1 = STRING: The MIB module for SNMPv2 entities SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.2 = STRING: View-based Access Control Model for SNMP. SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.3 = STRING: The MIB module to describe generic objects for network interface sub-layers SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.1 = Timeticks: (1) 0:00:00.01 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.2 = Timeticks: (2) 0:00:00.02 SNMPv2-MIB::sysORUpTime.3 = Timeticks: (22) 0:00:00.22</code></pre> MIB support from the sysORID list is not quite correct, MS220-24P also supports the BRIDGE-MIB. I don't have access to any of the security appliances at this time but the OID should be under .1.3.6.1.4.1.29671.2. anyway, so I believe Observium will auto-detect and add those too. Attached is a 32x32 icon I created from the logo available on the partner website, which can be placed in html/images/os/meraki.png OS definition for includes/definitions/os.inc.php $os = "meraki"; $config['os'][$os]['text'] = "Cisco Meraki"; $config['os'][$os]['type'] = "network"; $config['os'][$os]['icon'] = "meraki"; $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.29671.1"; // Cloud controller $config['os'][$os]['sysObjectID'][] = ".1.3.6.1.4.1.29671.2."; // Hardware $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "IEEE802dot11-MIB"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "BRIDGE-MIB"; $config['os'][$os]['mibs'][] = "MERAKI-CLOUD-CONTROLLER-MIB";</code></pre> Basic poller support to grab the hardware model/platform type includes/polling/os/meraki.inc.php <?php if (preg_match('/^Meraki ([A-Z\-_0-9]+) (.*)/', $poll_device['sysDescr'], $regexp_result)) { $hardware = $regexp_result[1]; $platform = $regexp_result[2]; } // EOF -Colin

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Print Interface Details - show other devices in the same subnet - need to exclude the private IP addresses ?
by Supun Rathnayake 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Hi All, I have a small suggestion regarding the info displayed together with each interface under 'Port' => 'Detail' . There we noticed the observium displays all other devices on the same subnet from other devices at the last column of each interface irrespective of whether they are real IPs ( internet routable ) or Private IP addresses ( defined in RFC 1918 ). Although this feature is really good, we feel that if there is an option to exclude certain IP subnets from this selection, specially the private IP addresses it would make sense because we found there are lot of unrelated interfaces are getting listed ( about 50 items ) under this merely because of the fact that they are having the same IP addresses/subnets but which are completely different and isolated device interfaces in other VPNs which is common in IP VPN setups. We found the location where this logic is programmed, and we can easily changed the SQL query to accommodate this as follows ( *`ipv4_address` NOT LIKE '192.168.% etc. ) *shown below But it would be elegant if these excluding subnets could be defined as a config parameter and filter them here. This is just a suggestion, there may be better ideas out there with you guys What do you all think ? /opt/observium/html/includes/print-interface.inc.php : if ($port_details) { // *Show which other devices are on the same subnet as this interface* foreach (dbFetchRows("SELECT `ipv4_network_id` FROM `ipv4_addresses` WHERE `port_id` = ? AND `ipv4_address` NOT LIKE '127.%' *AND `ipv4_address` NOT LIKE '192.168.%*'", array($port['port_id'])) as $net) { $sql = "SELECT N.*, P.`port_id`, P.`device_id` FROM `ipv4_addresses` AS A, `ipv4_networks` AS N, `ports` AS P WHERE A.`port_id` = P.`port_id` AND P.`device_id` != ? AND A.`ipv4_network_id` = ? AND N.`ipv4_network_id` = A.`ipv4_network_id` AND P.`ifAdminStatus` = 'up'"; $params = array($device['device_id'], $net['ipv4_network_id']); foreach (dbFetchRows($sql, $params) AS $new) { if ($cache['devices']['id'][$new['device_id']]['disabled'] && !$config['web_show_disabled']) { continue; } $int_links[$new['port_id']] = $new['port_id']; $int_links_v4[$new['port_id']][] = $new['ipv4_network']; } } -- With Best Regards, Supun Rathnayake Lanka communication Services (Pvt) Ltd. 65C, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07. Sri Lanka. Tel: +94-11-2437545 http://www.lankacom.net http://blog.lankacom.net

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monitor /dev/sg1 temperatre sensor
by Simon Smith 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Hi All, i don’t know if this is possible or not or even if i need to create a custom script to do this for me? but i want to monitor the temperature of HDD's thats plugged into a RAID controller? currently the hddtemp doesn’t detect the HDD :( but i did get some progress with using the /dev/sg1 device instead of /dev/sda root@proxmox2:/etc# hddtemp /dev/sg1 /dev/sg1: ST3500413AS: drive supported, but it doesn't have a temperature sensor. and from what i can tell i can pull out information using the smartctl command root@proxmox2:/etc# smartctl -d sat -a /dev/sg1 | grep -i temperature 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 053 045 Old_age Always - 33 (Min/Max 22/43) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 033 047 000 Old_age Always - 33 (0 15 0 0) is the something I’m missing with the hddtemp? or does it require a custom script? regards Simon

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Bulk add bills
by Travis Kreikemeier 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

I just bulk added about 500 client devices (CPE's) to Observium. Trying to figure out a bulk way to add them to traffic accounting / billing. I want to make a bill for each device (customer), based on the device name is fine and then associate a port to the bill. All of the devices are exactly the same and the name of the port is the same on each. Below would be amazing if this existed. Or does it? I would be able to concatenate in Excel right into this. Like I did to bulk add the devices. ./create_bill.php <description> <billing_type> <billing_type> <billing_amount> <billing_day> (customer_reference) (billing_reference) (notes) ./add_bill_port.php <description> <device_hostname> <port_name> (Repeat as necessary) Adding <filename> to the above php scripts, the same way add_device.php has, would be great. Thanks! TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Rancid configs in git?
by Kilian Krause 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi, we're collecting our configs in a git rather than SVN. Has anyone managed to extend the rancid part to also show the versions from a git archive? Best, 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

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help with an alarm
by Brett Jones 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi there. Resending out message as I am hoping someone can assist me with this. How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm? I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. I have set an alert as device_ping gt 250 type_match * * This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work! Any help would be most appreciated. Kind regards Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> E:support@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: voipunlimited]<http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> [cid:image017.jpg@01CFF423.EE08F1B0] [http://www.brandonu.ca/careerplanning/files/2010/08/linkedin-logo.png]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: http://www.wfamedia.co.uk/demo-images/logo_twitter_withbird_1000_allblue.png] <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited> [cid:image020.png@01CFF423..EE08F1B0] Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 From: Brett Jones Sent: 29 October 2014 11:18 To: 'observium(a)observium.org' Subject: help with an alarm Hi there, Just got your product up and working with a few back end modifies ect we have a good monitoring system hear. We paid the extra to have the alert functionality as we are an ISP. I have a question though for you. How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm? I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. I have set an alert as device_ping gt 250 type_match * * This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work! Any help would be most appreciated. Kind regards Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> E:support@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: voipunlimited]<http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> [cid:image002.jpg@01CFF36A.05032990] [http://www.brandonu.ca/careerplanning/files/2010/08/linkedin-logo.png]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: http://www.wfamedia.co.uk/demo-images/logo_twitter_withbird_1000_allblue.png] <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited> [cid:image005.png@01CFF36A..05032990] Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system.

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Re: [Observium] help with an alarm
by tromp wezelman 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

See http://dynstatic.net/2014/10/22/observium-professional-edition-adding-smoke… > From: observium-request(a)observium.org > Subject: observium Digest, Vol 52, Issue 3 > To: observium(a)observium.org > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 13:45:45 +0000 > > 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: help with an alarm (Ron Marosko) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 07:45:39 -0600 > From: "Ron Marosko" <ron(a)rjr-services.com> > To: "'Observium Network Observation System'" <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > Message-ID: <007d01cff6a3$4a4a7710$dedf6530$(a)rjr-services.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > And I just answered my own question (in case anyone else is trying to figure this out too): > > > > Tom Laermans committed 5357 > > 6 months ago > > Minor: add generate-smokeping.php to dump a Smokeping target configuration to stdout; redirect for example to /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets to automatically add new hosts > > > > If you?re running current CE (5229), you don?t have it. Ooops. > > > > ?Ron > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Ron Marosko > Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 7:42 AM > To: 'Observium Network Observation System' > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > Howdy Lane, > > > > I?m lost. Where in the fack is this ??Observium SmokePing configuration script to build your SmokePing config?? My search-fu is apparently weak. > > > > Thanks, > > Ron > > > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Lane Eckley > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:21 PM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > SmokePing graphs are viewable within Observium under applicable hosts. > > > > You need to install SmokePing onto the same machine as Observium and then use the Observium SmokePing configuration script to build your SmokePing config. Once you have it setup, start SmokePing and the graphs will begin to appear in Observium. > > > > You need to edit/generate the SmokePing config & restart SmokePing every time you add/remove hosts, its not automated from Observium. > > > > -Lane > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Darian Jimenez > Sent: October 30, 2014 11:16 PM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > Milton, > > > > I am monitoring the customer routers with observium so checking latency and drops from the observium box would be fine. > > > > When installing smoke ping are the graphs viewable from within observium or it's another portal? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 30, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Milton Ngan <milton(a)valvesoftware.com> wrote: > > There is a fairly powerful description language for the types of loss/latency you want to detect with Smokeping. If you modify the script shipped with Observium to build the Smokeping targets you can probably hook the smokeping alerts up pretty easily. > > > > However, this is only going to measure loss/latency from Observium to the router. It is not going to measure latency/loss from your router to the customer. Smokeping can do that, but Observium isn't set up to generate those kinds of configs, and it would require a smokeping agent sitting in a network close to the router the customer is attached to. > > > > What Observium could do is alert on the rate of errors on an interface, but not latency or loss across the interface, unless you are actually monitoring the customer's equipment with Observium. > > > > > > > _____ > > > From: observium [observium-bounces(a)observium.org] on behalf of Darian Jimenez [darian929(a)gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 6:50 PM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > Bruce, > > > > I just looked at smoke ping and it looks nice. There's integration of it with observium? If so where can I find the integration steps? > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:38 PM, Bruce Reeves <breeves(a)nexacomm.com> wrote: > > I though smokeping integration handled this? > > > > Bruce > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Darian Jimenez > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:38 PM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > Same here. Would love some other process run pings and check for this. At this time the only time devices are pinged are at polling right ? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Lane Eckley <lane(a)staff.hypernia.com> wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > > We would love to see this implemented as well, but on a somewhat limited basis. > > > > Maybe a 2nd poller can be run ever X minutes which pings selected devices 5 times and measures for packetloss? > > > > -Lane > > > > From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong > Sent: October 30, 2014 9:20 PM > To: Observium Network Observation System > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > We already do ping/latency. Doing packetloss is a different thing, because we have to send a lot of packets at a device and measure how many are returned. I'm not sure if it's something we can do in the poller without affecting other things. > > > > adam. > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > > From: "Darian Jimenez" <darian929(a)gmail.com> > > To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> > > Sent: 10/30/2014 6:55:28 AM > > Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm > > > > Tom/Adam, > > > > Is this something that you guys will be implementing in the future ? I think a lot of people would love to monitor and alert based on packet drops or latency and just basic ping test. > > > > If not is it something hard to impelled end on ones own? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 30, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: > > We don't measure packet loss, so you can't send an alarm on it. > > On 10/30/2014 10:28 AM, Brett Jones wrote: > > Hi there. > > > > Resending out message as I am hoping someone can assist me with this. > > > > How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm? > > I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. > > > > I have set an alert as device_ping gt 250 > > > > type_match * > > * > > > > This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. > > > > But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work! > > > > > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > > > Brett Jones > > 2nd/3rd line support engineer > > > > Tel: 01202 612000 > > Fax: 01202 612111 > > W:www.voip-unlimited.net <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> > > E: <mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> brett.jones(a)voip-unlimited.net > > E: <mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> support(a)voip-unlimited.net > > <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> <mime-attachment.jpg> > > > > <mime-attachment.jpg> > > > > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos> <mime-attachment.png> <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited> <mime-attachment.png> <mime-attachment.png> > > > > Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE > > Registered in England No: 05225497 > > > > From: Brett Jones > Sent: 29 October 2014 11:18 > To: 'observium(a)observium.org' > Subject: help with an alarm > > > > Hi there, > > Just got your product up and working with a few back end modifies ect we have a good monitoring system hear. We paid the extra to have the alert functionality as we are an ISP. > > > > I have a question though for you. > > > > How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm? > > I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. > > > > I have set an alert as device_ping gt 250 > > > > type_match * > > * > > > > This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. > > > > But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work! > > > > > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > Brett Jones > > 2nd/3rd line support engineer > > > > Tel: 01202 612000 > > Fax: 01202 612111 > > W:www.voip-unlimited.net <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> > > E: <mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> brett.jones(a)voip-unlimited.net > > E: <mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> support(a)voip-unlimited.net > > <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> <mime-attachment.jpg> > > > > > > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos> <mime-attachment.png> <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited> <mime-attachment.png> <mime-attachment.png> > > > > Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE > > Registered in England No: 05225497 > > > > > The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. 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UPS on battery notification
by Tim Schroepfer 31 Oct '14

31 Oct '14

I know this question was asked here http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-174 i was wondering with the current system if this was possible? Tim

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Graph Previous
by Justin Miller 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

When looking at the 6 hour graph, if I graph previous, shouldn’t it show what happened during that time frame 24 hours ago? It looks like it’s just showing what happened the 6 hours before the 6 hours I’m looking at. Which is I guess technically true for what “Graph Previous” means. Is there a way to graph previous time frame yesterday? My use case is zooming in on a time frame and then looking at usage and then trying to see what happened yesterday to see if there was a significant difference. If I zoom in and see the 20 minutes before hand, well it’s just not useful. It works fine for 24 hr, and week and month. 48 hr could be a little weird as well. The last 6 hours with graph previous - I don’t know how useful it is to see the previous 6 hours here. The actual previous time period yesterday - not to same scale This is what is actually being graphed in graph previous.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 127
by Brett Jones 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Is this something that may be implemented in the future? Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net E:support@voip-unlimited.net Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: 30 October 2014 10:11 To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 127 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: help with an alarm (Tom Laermans) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:10:49 +0100 From: Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] help with an alarm Message-ID: <54520EA9.6040906(a)powersource.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" We don't measure packet loss, so you can't send an alarm on it. On 10/30/2014 10:28 AM, Brett Jones wrote: > > Hi there. > > Resending out message as I am hoping someone can assist me with this. > > How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over > 30% then it will alarm? > > I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. > > I have set an alert as |device_ping gt 250| > > > > > type_match * > > > > * > > This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. > > But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but > as this is not in the list it dosnt work! > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > Kind regards > > Brett Jones > > 2nd/3rd line support engineer > > Tel: 01202 612000 > > Fax: 01202 612111 > > W:_www.voip-unlimited.net_ > > E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net > <mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> > > E:support@voip-unlimited.net <mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> > > Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: > Description: Description: voipunlimited > <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/>** > > ** > > ** > > ** > > http://www.brandonu.ca/careerplanning/files/2010/08/linkedin-logo.png > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos>Description: > Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: > Description: > http://www.wfamedia.co.uk/demo-images/logo_twitter_withbird_1000_allbl > ue.png > <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited>** > > Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, > Dorset BH2 6NE > > Registered in England No: 05225497 > > *From:*Brett Jones > *Sent:* 29 October 2014 11:18 > *To:* 'observium(a)observium.org' > *Subject:* help with an alarm > > Hi there, > > Just got your product up and working with a few back end modifies ect > we have a good monitoring system hear. We paid the extra to have the > alert functionality as we are an ISP. > > I have a question though for you. > > How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over > 30% then it will alarm? > > I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. > > I have set an alert as |device_ping gt 250| > > > > > type_match * > > > > * > > This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. > > But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but > as this is not in the list it dosnt work! > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > Kind regards > > Brett Jones > > 2nd/3rd line support engineer > > Tel: 01202 612000 > > Fax: 01202 612111 > > W:_www.voip-unlimited.net_ > > E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net > <mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> > > E:support@voip-unlimited.net <mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> > > Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: > Description: Description: voipunlimited > <http://www.voip-unlimited.net/>** > > ** > > ** > > ** > > http://www.brandonu.ca/careerplanning/files/2010/08/linkedin-logo.png > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos>Description: > Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: > Description: > http://www.wfamedia.co.uk/demo-images/logo_twitter_withbird_1000_allbl > ue.png > <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited>** > > Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, > Dorset BH2 6NE > > Registered in England No: 05225497 > > The information contained in this email and any attachments is > confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual > property protection. 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Observium and Weathermaps
by Tomasz Karczewski 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Is there an easy way to have weathermaps in observium? Tomasz Karczewski Administrator Sieci tkarczewski(a)man.olsztyn.pl http://www.man.olsztyn.pl http://www.uwm.edu.pl tel. (89) 523 45 55 fax. (89) 523 43 47 Ośrodek Eksploatacji i Zarządzania Miejską Siecią Komputerową OLMAN w Olsztynie Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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Distro Script not working
by Gary Tang 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

I have added the distro script as per http://www.observium.org/wiki/Linux_Distribution_Detection Running the distro script produces the right output, but observium does not seem to be detecting the distro correctly (still showing as Linux ***-generic) Snmpd has been restarted, and the OS being detected is Ubuntu 14.04. Any idea what could be going wrong? Thanks!

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Re: [Observium] Wireless signal graphs
by Ron Marosko, Jr. 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

I quasi-hacked my community edition release to provide basic support for canopy, but it didn't give any RF details, just basic network utilization. I see where there is a patch to provide better support in the subscription version, which I am hoping will show up in the next community release. If the data looks good for canopy on that, we'll be converting to the subscription version very shortly thereafter... I just have to show positive results to the person who writes the checks, so to speak, and get their go ahead first. ...Ron Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Jeremy Lukan <jeremy(a)GLMobile.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Wireless signal graphs
by Travis Kreikemeier 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Any plans to add wireless signal metric graphs to Observium? Such as signal strength and SNR. Example device being Cambium Canopy CPE's. Is there a place to put feature bounties and payments for completion bounties? Thanks TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Graph problems after update
by Jerome SCHEVINGT 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hi after a update from 0.13.11.48.05 to 0.14.9.5778, we have lost all graphics. Now we have "Draw error" anyone know this problems ? Thanks jerome

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ADSL Sync Speed change alert
by Tom Halapacz 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hi I am trying to set the Alert checker to notify me on any sync speed changes on the adsl port. Currently I can see all the changes on the Event log as below: 1d 19h 58m adsl Interface changed: [ifSpeed] 5152000 -> 5184000 4d 12h 48m adsl Interface changed: [ifSpeed] 5120000 -> 5152000 6d 4h 23m adsl Interface changed: [ifSpeed] 5344000 -> 5120000 How to set the check conditions to alert on any change in Sync speed such as "ifSpeed ne old_speed" Checker Type:Port Check Conditions: ifSpeed ?? Associations Device match: hostname equals *hostname* Entity match: ifType equals adsl Any help is much appreciated. Regards ---- Tomasz Halapacz

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rancid integration view previous configs
by Justin Miller 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

I got it working, but when viewing the config under the device, it has a “Latest” button but nothing else. Is it possible to view previous config? If not is this functionality planned? Justin

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help with an alarm
by Brett Jones 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hi there, Just got your product up and working with a few back end modifies ect we have a good monitoring system hear. We paid the extra to have the alert functionality as we are an ISP. I have a question though for you. How on earth do you make a packet loss alarm? IE if a CPE hits over 30% then it will alarm? I cant find an attribute from the guide to do this. I have set an alert as device_ping gt 250 type_match * * This works when a cpe hits over 250mms thus showing latency. But how do I do a packet loss? I have tried packet_loss gt 30 but as this is not in the list it dosnt work! Any help would be most appreciated. Kind regards Brett Jones 2nd/3rd line support engineer Tel: 01202 612000 Fax: 01202 612111 W:www.voip-unlimited.net E:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:brett.jones@voip-unlimited.net> E:support@voip-unlimited.net<mailto:support@voip-unlimited.net> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: voipunlimited]<http://www.voip-unlimited.net/> [cid:image002.jpg@01CFF36A.05032990] [http://www.brandonu.ca/careerplanning/files/2010/08/linkedin-logo.png]<http://www.linkedin.com/company/2290787?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: http://www.wfamedia.co.uk/demo-images/logo_twitter_withbird_1000_allblue.png] <https://twitter.com/VoIPUnlimited> [cid:image005.png@01CFF36A..05032990] Registered Office: Co Carter & Coley, 3 Durrant Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH2 6NE Registered in England No: 05225497 The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system.

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Support for Nimble storage devices
by Robin Cook 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hello, I appreciate a fair bit of work is involved to add support for new devices but I wanted to test the waters and see if it would be possible to add support for nimble SANs. I have access to the MIBs if required. Many thanks, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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F5 device O/S identification failures
by Colin Stubbs 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Hi All I've got a support case open with F5 regarding an issue whereby their net-snmp implementation stops reporting F5 specific sysObjectID values. This may be a recent 11.5+ version issue, as I've not run across it before, and it only seems to occur after making SNMP related configuration changes. e.g. on virtual editions, SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB::bigipVirtualEdition Starts to become at some point, SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: NET-SNMP-TC::linux Observium goes back to treating the system as a Linux box. The F5 specific OID's are still pollable, so the best fix seems to be a quick poll against F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB::sysGeneralChassisSerialNum.0 to determine if it's an F5 system. Patch is simply, --- observium-trunk/includes/discovery/os/linux.inc.php 2014-10-21 16:36:00.000000000 +1000 +++ equate_observium-trunk/includes/discovery/os/linux.inc.php 2014-10-29 19:32:46.000000000 +1000 @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ if (strpos(trim(snmp_get($device, "dot11manufacturerProductName.5", "-Osqnv", "IEEE802dot11-MIB", mib_dirs())), "UAP") !== FALSE) { $os = "unifi"; } elseif (strpos(trim(snmp_get($device, "dot11manufacturerProductName.2", "-Osqnv", "IEEE802dot11-MIB", mib_dirs())), "UAP") !== FALSE) { $os = "unifi"; } } + elseif (snmp_get($device, "1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.3.3.3.0", "-OQv", "F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB") != '') { $os = "f5"; } } if ($os == "linux") { I hope that helps. -Colin

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Observium not updating
by Jurè Wennekes 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

My observiun is stuck in 5902, svn is working and giving me 5918 but te site is stil giving 5902, what am I missing here? :/opt/observium$ sudo svn update At revision 5918. :/opt/observium$ sudo ./discovery.php -h none Observium v0.14.10.5902 Discovery Current Revision : 5902 New Revision : 5918 watch@watch:/opt/observium$ Met vriendelijke groet, Jurè Wennekes Loko IT-specialisten Mast 13 Postbus 146 3890 AC Zeewolde T. 036-521 93 20 W. http://www.loko.nl [cid:image715f40.JPG@5cd3bdf8.418ffbca] Meer informatie op www.ikstapoverop.nl.

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- green point on the map
by Paolo De Michele 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

hi everybody, I've added a "normal user" by observium installation I customized it adding a new device (just for test) when I'm doing the login I see the world map and the device why can I not see the green point? (usually indicates machine up&running) how can I solve that? let me know, thanks in advance have a good weekend cheers

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Unix agent bind issue
by Tim Schroepfer 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

I got the unix-agent running on one of my main dns server and when i test it telnet to port 36602 it displays results but my observium server isn't displaying any information for that server. Any ideas? Tim S Field Tech/Ast. System Admin E-vergent.com

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Reduce your storage IO with rrdcached
by Markus Klock 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

There was some discussion on IRC the other day about rrdcached and how it can be used with Observium to reduce your storage IO a lot when polling a huge amount of interfaces. However, not a lot of documentation exists yet on how to get rrdcached to work with observium. I did some trial and error and found a working method and wrote a quick and dirty guide. You can find it here: http://blog.best-practice.se/2014/10/using-rrdcached-with-observium.html Feedback is highly appreciated! /Markus

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Re: [Observium] Several broken graphs
by Adam Armstrong 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

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Several broken graphs
by Robert Williams 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

Hi, A number of our hosts have suddenly got broken graphs for items like: * Ping Response * SNMP Response * Poller Duration * Running Processes * Users Logged In * Context Switches * System Interrupts When in debug mode, the graph is showing these errors (depending which graph): command returned 1 (ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:ping_min=' ) command returned 1 (ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:val_min=' ) command returned 1 (ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:value_min=' ) command returned 1 (ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:users_min=' ) command returned 1 (ERROR: String ends after the = sign on 'CDEF:procs_min=' ) An example of a full string for a broken graph is: graph /tmp/0H1FmUUbABhyOl7U.png --alt-autoscale --rigid --start 1414240174 --end 1414326574 --width 1159 --height 300 -c BACK#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEA#EEEEEE00 -c SHADEB#EEEEEE00 -c FONT#000000 -c CANVAS#FFFFFF00 -c GRID#a5a5a5 -c MGRID#FF9999 -c FRAME#5e5e5e -c ARROW#5e5e5e -R normal --font LEGEND:8:'DejaVuSansMono' --font AXIS:7:'DejaVuSansMono' --font-render-mode normal -E COMMENT:' ' COMMENT:' Now' COMMENT:' Avg' COMMENT:' Min' COMMENT:' Max' COMMENT:' Total' COMMENT:'\l' DEF:procs=/opt/observium/rrd/hostname.was.here/hr_processes.rrd:procs:AVERAGE CDEF:procs_min= CDEF:procs_max= AREA:procs#E881B1:"Processes " LINE1.5:procs#744058 GPRINT:procs:LAST:%6.1lf%S GPRINT:procs:AVERAGE:%6.1lf%S GPRINT:procs_min:MIN:%6.1lf%S GPRINT:procs_max:MAX:%6.1lf%S COMMENT:'\l' Anyone else seeing this or has our install spontaneously broken itself? We are at 5910 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 - cheers! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Ports not found on older PowerConnect switches
by Dan Ratzlaff 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

Hello. I'm having trouble getting Observium (CE 0.14.4.5229) to recognize ports on my Dell PowerConnect 3048 and 3024 switches. It appears these switches only support SNMP v1. Observium connects and grabs SNMP contact, location, etc. but doesn't see ports. Here's output from add and discovery for my 3024 switch: ----- # ./add_device.php switch-ne Observium v0.14.4.5229 Add Device(s) Try to add switch-ne: Trying v2c community public ... No reply on community public using v2c. Could not reach switch-ne with given SNMP community using v2c. Trying v1 community public ... Now discovering switch-ne (id = 29) switch-ne 29 powerconnect Ports : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Discovered in 0.498 seconds switch-ne 29 powerconnect IPv4 Addresses : Discovered in 0.092 seconds switch-ne 29 powerconnect IPv6 Addresses : Discovered in 0.189 seconds Added device switch-ne (29). Devices added: 1. ----- # ./discovery.php -h 29 Observium v0.14.4.5229 Discovery switch-ne 29 powerconnect OLD: powerconnect, NEW: powerconnect --- Ports : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Port Stacks: Processors : Dell-Vendor-MIB hrDevice: Memory : Dell-Vendor-MIB HOST-RESOURCES-MIB IPv4 Addresses : IPv6 Addresses : Sensors: FASTPATH-BOXSERVICES-PRIVATE-MIB + Dell-Vendor-MIB Storage : Inventory: Physical Inventory : hrDevice : Discovery protocols: LLDP-MIB CISCO-CDP-MIB OSPF Neighbours: ARP/NDP Tables : BGP Sessions: No BGP on host VLANs: Q-BRIDGE-MIB UCD Disk IO : Discovered in 2.012 seconds Current Revision : 5229 New Revision : 5909 MySQL: Cell[2/0s] Row[19/0.01s] Rows[33/0.02s] Column[0/0s] Update[1/0s] Insert[5/0.02s] Delete[0/0s] ----- I can do a snmpwalk on these switches from the same machine that Observium is running on and can see all the interface information. Is there something I need to tweak in Observium to get these switches discovered correctly? Thanks! -- Dan

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allow graphs to be viewed by anyone / config.php vs web configuration
by Massimo Sala 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

Hi ! Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 Following the docs, in config.php I set : $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql"; $config['allow_unauth_graphs'] = 1; $config['allow_unauth_graphs_cidr'] = array( "10.1.0.0/16" ); I create a user "guest" ... but it cannot see any graph. I login to Observium as admin, I edit the user "guest" properties : Device Access None Configured Grant access to new device Interface Access None Configured Grant access to new interface I see different configuration : config.php vs web configuration. Is there any mismatch ? How can I grant a full "read-only" access to a "guest" user ? Best regards, Sala

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observium customizations on PHP code
by Massimo Sala 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u14 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB-1~wheezy-log SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 I have modified one source file : /opt/observium/includes/alerts.inc.php I restarted web server and php-fastcgi ( no opcode cache ), but Observium doesn't see the update. Is there an internal function caching ? Am I missing something ? Best regards, Sala

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How can I unsubscribe?
by Franck Burgaudeau 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

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Re: [Observium] polling issues with 5897
by Rutger Bevaart 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

A strange issue indeed… Based on Mike’s input I ran on the old-style poller for a day, then all is fine. I’m now running on poller-wrapper for another day, with concurrency set to 2, and that seems to be fine as well. I had it at 8, then all goes to h*ll. Will try ‘4’ today ;-) Regards, Rutger > > Netscreen firewall > > [https://observium.exegy.net/graph.php?type=device_processor&device=3&to=141…] > > Arista Switch > [https://observium.exegy.net/graph.php?type=device_processor&device=108&to=1…] > > Cisco Router > [https://observium.exegy.net/graph.php?type=device_uptime&device=70&to=14140…] > > > I can send you a debug poller.php run privately if you'd like. >

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Multiple tun0 interfaces showing up in graphs
by Gary Tang 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

For some reason, I am getting multiple tun0 interfaces in graphs, even though I only have one via openVPN. Where should I start looking to debug this? Graph: http://postimg.org/image/b876gqbq5/ Thanks for looking, Gary

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Re: [Observium] Alerts in "Other" state
by Adam Armstrong 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

I have no idea. How long is a piece of string? Guys, I'm not here to tickle you until you actually give some information. Give as much information as you have about a problem or you won't get it fixed. Life is too short to chase you all for screen shots and more than 3 word descriptions of your problems. adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Ben Steele" <ben(a)bensteele.org> To: "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org>; "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 10/23/2014 4:02:08 PM Subject: Re: [Observium] Alerts in "Other" state >What might cause that? > >The alerts that haven't been checked aren't new and as previously >mentioned even something simple like is device up/down has these >non-checked alerts so it's not like the alert isn't applicable to the >device. > >I've checked a device that has a non-checked alert and its graphs and >polling look fine. > >Cheers > >On 24/10/2014 3:33 am, "Adam Armstrong" <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >>It means the alert has never been checked. >> >>adam. >> >>------ Original Message ------ >>From: "Ben Steele" <ben(a)bensteele.org> >>To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>Sent: 10/22/2014 8:15:36 PM >>Subject: [Observium] Alerts in "Other" state >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I have quite a few alerts stuck in the "Other" state, any idea on >>>what causes this? >>> >>>I had this problem a while ago and then it seemed to disappear after >>>creating a few more alerts and several svn updates so i'm not really >>>sure what cleared it but after adding more devices it's back again. >>>I've tried regenerating the alerts a few times but that makes no >>>difference, is there some debug that can be turned on to work out >>>what is going on here? >>> >>>It's across multiple alert checkers and even something as simple as >>>"device status eq 0" for a device down check has multiple alerts >>>stuck in "other" state. Hovering over the alert shows an empty >>>status: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Cheers >> >>_______________________________________________ >>observium mailing list >>observium(a)observium.org >>http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >>

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Re: [Observium] error on svn update
by Adam Armstrong 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

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Re: [Observium] polling issues with 5897
by Rutger Bevaart 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi all, I can confirm that the issue is gone in 5903! Thanks Mike & Joe for the excellent input (and fix)! Let me know if any additional input, debugging or testing. Regards, Rutger On 22 Oct 2014, at 00:35, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:35:27 +0400 > From: Mike Stupalov <mike(a)observium.org> > To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: Re: [Observium] polling issues with 5897 > Message-ID: > <CAL9uo4jwRDeDhxw6eMAxWk03zxmw-gQv3gGESyiJ5hwTkf3Row(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I make small change in r5901 (revert global var removed in 5884). > Please check with this revision. > > (But if this will fix your problem, I'll be shocked) :)

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Alerts in "Other" state
by Ben Steele 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi, I have quite a few alerts stuck in the "Other" state, any idea on what causes this? I had this problem a while ago and then it seemed to disappear after creating a few more alerts and several svn updates so i'm not really sure what cleared it but after adding more devices it's back again. I've tried regenerating the alerts a few times but that makes no difference, is there some debug that can be turned on to work out what is going on here? It's across multiple alert checkers and even something as simple as "device status eq 0" for a device down check has multiple alerts stuck in "other" state. Hovering over the alert shows an empty status: [image: Inline image 2] [image: Inline image 1] Cheers

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Server drive space
by Darian Jimenez 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hello, I want to monitor windows servers for C drive space. While I had a policy that was using the storage_perc gt 90 and it was working fine, I want to monitor instead just for servers with 5 GB of space or less, on any drive for now, then narrow it to certain drives. I put storage_free lt 5 (thinking this would look for 5GB or less, maybe its 5% or less not sure) but it's throwing some alerts that are not true. I get some servers with the art and when I check it shows as if the C drive had 0 B left, but in reality they have 11 GB and more free. Any idea how I can accomplish what I want? Thanks, Darian

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php5-mcrypt
by Robbie Wright 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Running Ubuntu 14.04 and getting this error message: The extension 'mcrypt' is missing. This extension required for use by the "remember me" feature. Please install the php5-mcrypt package on Ubuntu/Debian or the php-mcrypt package on RHEL/Centos. Alternatively, you can disable this feature by setting $config['login_remember_me'] = FALSE; in your config. We've uninstalled and reinstalled it twice now and still getting this error. Any else bumped into this issue before? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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cisco 1841 / memory / draw error
by Massimo Sala 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Observium CE 0.14.4.5229 PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u14 MySQL 5.5.40-MariaDB-1~wheezy-log SNMP NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3 RRDtool 1.4.7 Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-SPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(6)T11, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) How can I troubleshoot the memory graphs generation ? All the other graphs are fine. Best regards, Sala

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Re: [Observium] alert repeat?
by Zhenhui Liang 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

I found an option to do ignore until ok on the interface settings. But it is really unrealistic to do this manually for hundreds of ports. Any easier way to achieve this? I do want to monitor ports status, but I don¹t want to get a flood of alerts every 24 hours. Thanks a lot. On 10/22/14, 6:40 PM, "Zhenhui Liang" <ZhenhuiLiang(a)eharmony.com> wrote: >Hi, > >We have some switches with thousands of ports. I know, we don¹t have >administrative down for unused ports. So I set up port down alerts for >all ports, so that the initial alert of the down ports, I just ignore so >I know those are ports already down. So the theory is that for any >following alerts, I will look into them. > >But I found out observium will send out the massive port down alerts >exactly in 24 hours frequency. How do I disable the persistent alerting? >I want observium only alert me once for an event period. > >Thanks a lot. > > >‹Zhenhui >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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95th percentile and billing module - possible discrepancies
by colin.barker＠bluesky.co.uk 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi I thought I would post here first, just in case what I am seeing isn't a bug, and just me just mis-understanding the calculations. Just a quick setup - we currently are billed on a 95th percentile from an ISP, which we have two physical ethernet connections plugged into two different HP ProCurve switches. I have created a Bill under Traffic Accounting, and set the billing type as 95th @ 50 Mbps, and added both the ports for our connections so I am able to see both under "Bill Ports". This has been running for about 6 - 7 months now, calculating away. While going back through our reports, I noticed that in September we had an overage marked in Observium as 11.4Mbps (Actual usage 61.4Mbps). However the bill we got from the ISP gave us an overage of 30.38Mbps (Actual usage 80.38Mbps). So I went to look deeper and got the break downs I needed. Our ISP gave us the following for the highest 95th: Link1: 50.375Mbps Link2: 30.005Mbps Total: 80.38Mbps I then looked on Observium for the graphs for the two ports, and they reported the following for the highest 95th: Link1: 49.64Mbps Link2: 30.44Mbps Total: 80.08Mbps I can accept that two different systems there may be a very small discrepancy with the larger numbers - which is fine, however -- the problem arrives when the billing calculations comes in, and shows the values as above (11.4Mbps over, 61.4Mbps usage). I have uploaded the two port graphs and a screen grab from the billing page to show in more detail the above numbers here: http://imgur.com/a/iErfo I just want to check I have not missed something that is staring me in the face in regards to the calculations, and if I am, please let me know! Thanks in advance. Regards Colin Barker

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error on svn update
by Damien Burke 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

This issue just popped up. I verified that the username/pw for my paid subscription is valid. I can reach the svn.observium.org url from the server (tested with curl). I do still however get this error: root@observium:/opt/observium# svn update svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/observium/trunk': Could not read status line: Connection reset by peer (http://svn.observium.org) wat?

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alert repeat?
by Zhenhui Liang 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi, We have some switches with thousands of ports. I know, we don’t have administrative down for unused ports. So I set up port down alerts for all ports, so that the initial alert of the down ports, I just ignore so I know those are ports already down. So the theory is that for any following alerts, I will look into them. But I found out observium will send out the massive port down alerts exactly in 24 hours frequency. How do I disable the persistent alerting? I want observium only alert me once for an event period. Thanks a lot. —Zhenhui

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 51, Issue 84
by Rutger Bevaart 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

On 22 Oct 2014, at 09:38, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: ? > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Rutger Bevaart <rutger(a)xconnect24.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I can confirm that the issue is gone in 5903! >> >> Thanks Mike & Joe for the excellent input (and fix)! >> >> Let me know if any additional input, debugging or testing. >> >> Regards, >> Rutger I have been too quick to judge, the issue is still there, although it seems to be less. Ideas?

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Overriding location codes
by Robbie Wright 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

We've got custom locations defined in config.php so all of our devices use a 3 or 4 digit location code for snmp, Observium reads the location code, checks config.php and sets the full address. We have some devices that do not have location in snmp so we set it manually by overriding it in the device settings. However, overriding sysLocation and providing a custom location does not compare that location to what is setup in the config.php. So can a custom location setting check config.php for the value? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101

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polling issues with 5897
by Rutger Bevaart 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Hi, Updated to the latest svn version yesterday, after which I immediately had issues with the poller. Updated from a release about two weeks older. Now I get up/down for different devices, sometimes complete BGP neighbours down on others. Device down alerts on snmp, etc. I increased the number of poller processes in the crontab and increased snap timeout values etc. However, I still have graphs with large parts missing because of this. Checked poller times, kept an eye on the processes running and logs. Some devices take 120s to poll completely, but all polling is done in about 2 minutes. Still I get these errors, other than the upgrade no changes have been made to firewalls, policies, etc. Any clues? Do I need to upgrade php? Regards, Rutger

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