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graph color
by Zhenhui Liang 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Guys, This might be a general RRD question. So in almost all graphing, we have those shaded color area and solid color line. Although I have a general idea on what they mean, I still want some official explanations regarding their meanings. Thanks. I attached a cpu usage graph here as an example. We have grey shaded area, and solid red line. I guess the red line is some kind of moving average? While grey shows spikes? Or how else could I inteprete this? Thanks a lot. Zhenhui[cid:2CB03DFE-FFA0-4DA8-9438-EB2732F92119]

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rename graph
by Support 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi, is possible to rename single graph? like 'Internet Traffic' instead of generic eth0 regards, Giuseppe _____________________________________________________________________ NUCKLEO Information Technology Solutions Support & Delivery Team http://www.nuckleo.com _____________________________________________________________________

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Trail the alerting functionality
by Vini 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi All, I am evaluating Observium for a job and I was wondering if any of you know of a way to enable the alerting functionality as a trail? I could not find anything on the website about it but if I cannot trial it first and compare to the other options I have I won't be able to make a case to pay for the subscription. Any info would be much appreciated. Thanks Vin

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Graph blank problem
by chott＠praha1.net 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hello guys Last two week i have problem with Graph blank places for few times Observium is connected by localy switch gigabit line same problem in localy SNMP for server Where is problem? Disk? RAM ? SQL? Tomas [email-header-praha1] Tomas Chott technický ředitel chott(a)praha1.net<mailto:chott@praha1.net> Phone: +420 245 004 005 Mobile: +420 604 930 119 Certifikace: Cisco CXFS, CCDA, SMBEN, SMBAM, CCNA Ubiquiti UCWA, UEWA, UCRSS, UCT Authorised Trainer Cisco, Ubiquiti, TP-Link, Synology Metropolitní síť Praha 1 z.s.p.o. Jindrisska 18 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic www.praha1.net<http://www.praha1.net/> [Popis: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/praha1net> [Popis: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tomas-chott/49/97a/1aa>

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Re: [Observium] Generating Email Alerts till state change
by Moerman, Maarten 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

You’ll get an alert every 24hours. -- Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman(a)ebay.com From: <Joy>, Jees <Jees.Joy(a)KVHasia.com<mailto:Jees.Joy@KVHasia.com>> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Date: Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 12:34 PM To: "observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>" <observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>> Subject: [Observium] Generating Email Alerts till state change Hey All, Thank you for this interesting product. We started to use Observium for basic and monitoring of our Linux and Windows infrastructure. I have a quick question regarding Alerts , I have configured Alert Checker as follows: Check Condition: device_status is 0 device_status_type is ping Device Match: hostname match * Entity Match * I get only one Alert per failure, then once recovered I get one recovery alert. I would like to keep getting alerts till the state is recovered or we manually suppress is it using ignore. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Jees Joy *************************************************************************** "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. " ***************************************************************************

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Documentation
by Søren Irbo 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi! Stumbled upon this feature, are there other nice features, which are not documented? http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-299 Can't find it here: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Custom_traffic_graphs /Søren

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Generating Email Alerts till state change
by Joy, Jees 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hey All, Thank you for this interesting product. We started to use Observium for basic and monitoring of our Linux and Windows infrastructure. I have a quick question regarding Alerts , I have configured Alert Checker as follows: Check Condition: device_status is 0 device_status_type is ping Device Match: hostname match * Entity Match * I get only one Alert per failure, then once recovered I get one recovery alert. I would like to keep getting alerts till the state is recovered or we manually suppress is it using ignore. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Jees Joy **************************************************************** "PLEASE NOTE: This email, and any attachments hereto, are intended only for use by the specified addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential and/or proprietary information of KVH Co., Ltd. and/or its affiliates (including personal information). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender by email, and please permanently delete the original, any print out and any copies of the foregoing. " ****************************************************************

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Re: [Observium] Problem with the Mail Alerting
by SCHEIN David 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Hello, Thanks for your answer, where I can find a tutorial to configure the checker, because the wiki is not clear for me. And in the earlier version the mail alert was automatical, why this feature was abandoned. Best regards David De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Tom Laermans Envoyé : vendredi 12 septembre 2014 15:03 À : Observium Network Observation System Objet : Re: [Observium] ***SPAM*** Re: Problem with the Mail Alerting David, You need to create alert checkers to receive e-mail alerts. Tom On 09/12/2014 02:08 PM, SCHEIN David wrote: Hello, First thanks for your rapid answer, the alerts look like activated, like you can see below (I don't know if picture can be display on this maillinglist [cid:image001.png@01CFD1BE.AA3C1750] [cid:image002.png@01CFD1BE.AA3C1750] When in run the alerter.php on a device with an interface down : :/data/observium# php ./alerter.php -h sto-rtr-edge-agarik.seres.lan -d Observium v0.14.9.5798 Alerter DEBUG! Starting alerter run: PHP Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.css): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2474 PHP Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.js): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2482 <div><style> Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.css): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2474 </style> <script> Warning: readfile(/data/observium/includes/debug/ref.js): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/observium/includes/debug/ref.inc.php on line 2482 </script><div class="ref"><span data-input><i>> </i><span data-expTxt>$vars</span><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `alert_tests` WHERE 1</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(35)</span></span></span></div></div></div>Cached 0 alert rules. <div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `alert_assoc`</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(27)</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `hostname` LIKE 'sto-rtr-edge-agarik.seres.lan' ORDER BY `device_id` ASC</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(131)</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = '35'</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(48)</span></span></span></div></div></div>Processing alerts for sto-rtr-edge-agarik.seres.lan <div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT *,`alert_table`.`alert_table_id` AS `alert_table_id` FROM `alert_table` LEFT JOIN `alert_table-state` ON `alert_table`.`alert_table_id` = `alert_table-state`.`alert_table_id` WHERE `device_id` = '35'</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(212)</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><div class="ref"><span data-input><span data-backtrace>/data/observium/includes/common.inc.php:193</span></span><span data-output><span data-string data-tip="0">SELECT * FROM `alert_table` LEFT JOIN `alert_table-state` ON `alert_table`.`alert_table_id` = `alert_table-state`.`alert_table_id` WHERE `device_id` = '35'</span></span><div><span data-row><span data-cell><span data-title>string(155)</span></span></span></div></div></div> Best regards David De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Tom Laermans Envoyé : vendredi 12 septembre 2014 12:21 À : Observium Network Observation System Objet : Re: [Observium] Problem with the Mail Alerting On 09/12/2014 11:25 AM, SCHEIN David wrote: I tried different config, but nothing is working and with this config when I do a test, I receive the e-mail in my gmail box, but nothing about port down or bgp session down... If test mail works, your config works. If you don't get alert mails, either there is a problem with the actual alerter or with your checkers. Please show your checkers, and check whether the "alerted" column in the test list has a value or says Never. Tom _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Different Alert thresholds for different temperature sensors of the same cisco device
by Supun Rathnayake 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Hi , We are using the Observium subscribed edition 0.14.9.5814 and trying to set different alerts for *different temperature sensor types* *of the same cisco device*, but could not find a proper method to do that. Please find the annexed screen-shots of the alert config. that we tried, and it matches all the temperature sensors (there are about 6 types). We are looking for the way to differentiate these sensors to set different threshold levels. Kindly let us know if there is a way to do this. -- 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

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Excluding docker mounts
by overige＠vanderpoel.com.au 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Hi, I'm running docker containers on one of my workstations and the syslog on that machine is now getting heaps of 'permission denied errors' like this: *Sep 22 16:25:05 raven snmpd[3295]: /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/5e126344b6b34ec70d5982e5cdf121bdf9698342a9223f6ef2d1e7d01cf3fff7: Permission denied* If I execute a non-root *df -h'* I'm also getting *permission* *denied*. I've tried to exclude the mentioned path using *$config['ignore_mount_string'][]* but that didn't do anything. I assume the other way would be to exclude it somehow using snmpd config, but got no idea how to. Cheers, Pieter

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syslog-ng implementation and Cisco ASR9K
by Markus Klock 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hey guys! I´m setting up syslog-ng implementation and it works great for all my Cisco IOS-devices, however most of the devices in my network is Cisco ASR9K-routers running IOS-XR and it seems syslog from them wont go in to Observium. I did a quick look in the syslog-messages from the ASR9Ks and it seems IOS-XR actually don't use its hostname as hostname but instead use its active routeprocessors name (wtf cisco?!) making the syslog messages look something like this: RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Nov 28 23:56:53.826 : config[65710]: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I : Configured from console by console Now there is a command that let you add a "hostname prefix" to the syslog messages, which means that I can type my own custom string as hostname for syslog, sadly it still just adds it before the RPS-id making the messages like this: router1 RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:router:Nov 28 23:56:53.826 : config[65710]: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I : Configured from console by console This of course makes it impossible for Observium to match the syslogged hostname to a hostname in the database. I took a look in the observium syslog-code and if I understand it correctly, if it fails to match the hostname it does a fallback and tries if maybe the IP-address is used as hostname and try to match it against a host in the database? In that case maybe I could change the syslog-ng template that forwards the data to Observium to instead use source IP instead of hostname? destination d_observium { program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") template-escape(yes)); I tried change $HOST to $HOST_FROM and $SOURCEIP but no luck so far. Am I even on the right track here? Could something like this work to make my idiotic ASR9Ks show up in the Observium syslog? Thanks in advance for any advice /Markus

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Alerting on temperature against device with multiple temperature sensors
by Jason Lixfeld 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

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6800 weirdness
by Robert Williams 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Hi, We've taken our first batch of 6807-XL chassis and have a couple of minor issues with the component identification and detection in Observium (r5815). I'm not sure if it's best to add a bug report or raise it on here, so I'll start here and move to JIRA if requested. In summary the hardware is reported as: "Hardware: ciscoProducts.1765" - if the same standard as the other 6xxx series is to be followed, this should be translated to "cat6807" I believe? Slightly more importantly, there are permanent 'false' alarm states for the 3.3v outputs on the PSUs which are present: There are 4 bays, numbers 1 and 2 have PSUs, 3 and 4 are empty. It correctly shows the sensor only for objects for 1 and 2, but shows them as 'false' not 'true' for being happy. The graphed integer is 2 (not 1). Console output say's it's OK, so probably (yet) another lying/inverse Cisco SNMP OID... power-converter 1: power-converter 1 : 3.3V Output: OK power-converter 2: power-converter 2 : 3.3V Output: OK Lastly, the Crossbars statistics are, well, a bit weird. Image below as it's easier to explain: I also have just noticed that all the other 6500 series chassis are showing a weird sensor (VTT this time) under the crossbar stats as well. So maybe this is a recent more general issue and is not directly related to the 6807 chassis? (This is a 6509 below) If this should all go to JIRA instead then can someone just let me know if I should split it into individual reports or not? Happy to do it, just want to follow the rules correctly :) Cheers as always! Robert Williams Custodian Data Centre Email: Robert(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com

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Netflow Integration
by Dimitar, GlobeIX 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Hi guys, Let me thank you for paying attention to my previous email about "User/Client Account Login Interface" in the first place. I have another one. Does Observium offer any functionality and/or integration with Nfsen, Flowviewer or any other Netflow client/collector? Best Regards Dimitar GlobeIX E-Mail: da(a)globeix.net Tel: 1-212-671-0112; Mobile: +1-646-400-1119 Instant Messengers: ICQ: 28348789; MSN: dimitar(a)avramov.com; Skype: (Aeromit) Dimitar Avramov

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Physical Memory vs Virtual Memory
by Darian Jimenez 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Why is it that virtual memory is twice the physical memory for a server? Seems like the physical shows the right amount.

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Re: [Observium] FW: FTOS 9.4 not working properly with Observium whereas 8.3.12.0 for Force10 switches
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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Higher values of ping statistics in Observium
by Arya, Renuka [BSD] - MED 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Hi Team, I was looking into the ping statistics in All Devices ----- > Graphs --- > Ping. I understand this is the ping statistics between my Observium server and the network device. I am seeing really high values for the ping statistics. Almost ~ 600 ms for some Arista 7050-64R and for others spikes as high as ~7 secs. In actual, the RTT between the Observium server and these devices should by around 0.4-0.5 ms. Please see the attachment. Thanks ! Regards Renuka ________________________________ This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] The ports on the switches doesn't seems to display correct network throughput
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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Re: [Observium] Odd real time graph behavior
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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Re: [Observium] No port names in traffic accounting
by Adam Armstrong 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

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weird mssql polling issue
by Simon Smith 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Hi All does anyone have an idea why one of our machines is take 182s to do a poll? for some reason its doing a poll for mssql, yet when i look in the config modules its disabled? I’ve attached screenshots showing my issue is the a way i can debug whats going on and why its doing this? i did a manual ./discovery.php -h 43 and that doesn’t seem to show anything about mssql anything else maybe I’m missing? regards Simon

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Alerts and e-mails
by Heironimus, Brian 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Hello I have installed the software about 4 months ago. I have not been able to get the alerts to work at all. I do not have any of the alert pages in the drop down menu. In fact the only alert page that exists is http://192.168.1.31/add_alert_check. http://192.168.1.31/alerts, http://192.168.1.31/alert_checks and http://192.168.1.31/alert_Log just take me back to the homepage. I also do not see any of the alert HTML files under /opt/observium/html/pages except for Add_alert_check. I also have not been able to set it up to e-mail. I just update to 0.14.4.5229 this morning. I was on the May or June release. Thanks for the help, Brian Heironimus

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Re: [Observium] confirm cecaf010d71bb02e45468eb5660a71210fd4f6ad
by Dimitar, GlobeIX 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Hi guys, I just subscribed, I'm reviewing the Demo and wanted to ask: - Does Observium has user/client account login interface, as I was not able to find one? - Does the sub-section "Peering" in "Ports" visualize data collected on a Layer 2 peering switch for example? Best Regards Dimitar On Sep 17, 2014, at 1:46 PM, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list > observium > > We have received a request from 192.168.122.1 for subscription of your > email address, "da(a)globeix.net", to the observium(a)observium.org > mailing list. To confirm that you want to be added to this mailing > list, simply reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header > intact. Or visit this web page: > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/confirm/observium/cecaf010d71bb0… > > > Or include the following line -- and only the following line -- in a > message to observium-request(a)observium.org: > > confirm cecaf010d71bb02e45468eb5660a71210fd4f6ad > > Note that simply sending a `reply' to this message should work from > most mail readers, since that usually leaves the Subject: line in the > right form (additional "Re:" text in the Subject: is okay). > > If you do not wish to be subscribed to this list, please simply > disregard this message. If you think you are being maliciously > subscribed to the list, or have any other questions, send them to > observium-owner(a)observium.org. Dimitar GlobeIX E-Mail: da(a)globeix.net Tel: 1-212-671-0112; Mobile: +1-646-400-1119 Instant Messengers: ICQ: 28348789; MSN: dimitar(a)avramov.com; Skype: (Aeromit) Dimitar Avramov

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Backwards switches
by Ryan McCully 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Hi Everyone My switches are showing inbound traffic as outbound and outbound as inbound on Observium. I suspect it may be something to do with the SNMP in the switches that can't be changed therefore is it possible to swap the two on observium? My router which is also monitored by observium shows inbound and outbound correctly. Thanks Ryan

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Re: [Observium] Problem with the Mail Alerting
by Matt Ladewig 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

New feature would be needed- Individual alert checker email address. That way one alert checker could be setup to match on .us.domain devices and send to the US NOC email address. A second checker then would be created to send .jp.domain devices to the JP NOC email address. Feature requests 876 and 988 would take care of it. Matt -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 9:30 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Problem with the Mail Alerting On 2014-09-16 17:15, Chip Pleasants wrote: > Is there a way to set an contact/email per device name scheme? So > lets say I want wanted .us.domain.com [2] names to go to the US NOC > and the jp.domain.com [3] names to go to the Japan NOC? Sounds like > you can set a different email per device, but that real hard to manage > if you have a lot devices. I wouldn't even know where to start doing something like that... :D adam. _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Alerts for down state
by Bruce Reeves 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

I have been trying a few combinations of the wiki examples for alerts and most work, but a simple down state keeps eluding me in defining an alert. Does anyone have an example they'd could share of it working? Sent while mobile, please excuse typos.

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PHP Vulnerabilities on Ubuntu LTS
by Adam Armstrong 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hi Guys, Update if you need to : http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/28294/security/flaws-php5-ubuntu.html i.e., if you're using ubuntu! adam.

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Changing Alert checking frequency
by Darian Jimenez 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

I've setup a couple of alerts however I don't see a way to have the alerts email sent out say every 5 minutes or w/e if the alert is triggered. Is there a way to cahnge this? I have a server which triggered an alert and last time alerted is more than 30 minutes ago.

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Monitoring services
by Darian Jimenez 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Is there any way that observium can monitor windows services ? Sent from my iPhone

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postif mailq alerter
by Franjo Posavec 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hi, what is best way to set alert for postfix mailq? with linux-agent, or via snmp? P.S. Using paid version Best regards, -- Franjo Posavec system administrator entitas d.o.o. T: +385 (0)40 600 002 S: franjo.posavec

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Interface description parser issues
by Chard, Alex (REA-SYD) 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

Hi All, Wondering if anyone can help with this... I have Observium setup on about 30 switches and routers. The only feature I haven't been able to get working is the tagging interfaces based on description as Transit, peering etc. As an example, this is one of our Internet transit interfaces: interface GigabitEthernet0/1 description Transit: {14379} (Pipe Networks AS24130) [100Mbit] Observium tells me: Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Any ideas why this might not work? Many thanks, Alex Chard This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or distribute this e-mail without the author's permission. We have taken precautions to minimise the risk of transmitting software viruses, but we advise you to carry out your own virus checks on any attachment to this e-mail. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage caused by software viruses.

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Re: [Observium] f5 bandwidth
by Zhenhui Liang 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

>From switch port side which connect to our f5, I can clearly see traffic is at 500M bps. Just from f5 side, it seems not polling correct at all. Thanks. On 9/12/14, 1:11 PM, "Zhenhui Liang" <ZhenhuiLiang(a)eharmony.com> wrote: >Hi, > >We have several f5 load balancers added. But from observium ui, I saw >they report traffic way lower than what f5¹s own guy replies. The >difference is quite huge. >From observium, each interface shows bandwidth usage like less than 1M >bps. >From f5, it shows several hundreds of mega bps. >Although from f5¹s dashboard, it¹s hard to understand, it doesn¹t say >which interface etc, it simply say out, in client side, server side etc. > >Also from observium, it reports each interface as 10Mbps. > >Do we know if F5 is broken? > >Thanks. > > ‹Zhenhui >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Need assistance adding an application...
by Christopher K. Brown 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

Anyone familiar with adding an application? I think I have everything the documentation said to do in place, and I followed the example of a patch (asterix) that added an application, but I cannot get the web GUI to display the new app in the Apps tabs and dropdowns. I have an application that spits out data in the right place...I can telnet to the polling port and the output includes my new data with the proper <<< >>> header. So I'm thinking I may have to add a row to the applications table in the observium database? Is that a necessary step? The php looks like it needs an 'app_id' from somewhere. Thanks for any assistance.

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f5 bandwidth (Zhenhui Liang)
by Austin Spencer 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

I can confirm the behavior. It appears to do the same thing for us. Anyone? -Austin

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Re: [Observium] Enterasys Chassis Switches polling\discovery problems
by Austin Spencer 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hello, how would I disable that module in the config file for only those Switches? It also doesn't seem to be grabbing the port names. All 600+ ports just say "Extreme Networks, Inc. 1000BASE-T RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet Frontpanel Port"

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f5 bandwidth
by Zhenhui Liang 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi, We have several f5 load balancers added. But from observium ui, I saw they report traffic way lower than what f5’s own guy replies. The difference is quite huge. >From observium, each interface shows bandwidth usage like less than 1M bps. >From f5, it shows several hundreds of mega bps. Although from f5’s dashboard, it’s hard to understand, it doesn’t say which interface etc, it simply say out, in client side, server side etc. Also from observium, it reports each interface as 10Mbps. Do we know if F5 is broken? Thanks. —Zhenhui

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Re: [Observium] Real time graphs resets much before
by Tom Laermans 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

In the pro verson the refresh is actually disabled for realtime graph pages :) Tom Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Forced unsubscription
by Adam Armstrong 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi Guys, If you get force unsubscribed to the list directly after this, it's because your mail server is rejecting emails with "naughty" words in them, so you're flooding other users with bounced messages. Please subscribe from an account which doesn't have draconian nanny email policies. (Because we all know it's impossible to change those policies, we don't even suggest you true, just use another account!) Thanks, adam.

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Re: [Observium] Enterasys Chassis Switches polling\discovery problems (Adam Armstrong)
by Austin Spencer 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hello Adam, it appears to hang on the following for any of the Chassis Series switches. "Discoverying protocols: LLDP-MIB DEBUG : SMNP Auth options = -v2c -c '<CN>' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c '<CN>' -OQUs -m /LLDP-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs/rfc:/opt/observium/mibs/net-snmp 'udp':'<HOSTNAME>':'161' lldpRemoteSystemData

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Problem with the Mail Alerting
by SCHEIN David 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hello, Since lot of days I tried to configure the email alert in observium but it's impossible to receive some alert emails.... :( you can see there, a part of my config.php // Mailer backend Settings $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Enable/Disable email globally $config['email']['from'] = '"OBSERVIUM Network Monitor" <observium(a)s****.fr>'; // Mail from. Default: "Observium" <observium@`hostname`> $config['email']['default'] = "d*****(a)gmail.com"; // Default alert recipient $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; // Only use default recipient (all alerts send to default recipient) $config['email']['backend'] = 'sendmail'; // Mail backend. Allowed: "mail" (PHP's built-in), "sendmail", "smtp". // sendmail backend specific options $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; // The location of the sendmail program. // smtp backend 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. // Alerting Settings $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['bgp']['whitelist'] = NULL; // Populate as an array() with ASNs to alert on. $config['alerts']['port']['ifdown'] = TRUE; // Generate alerts for ports that go down $config['alerts']['port']['ifdown_types'] = array('core', 'transit', 'peering'); // Port bandwidth threshold percentage %age utilisation above this will cause an alert $config['alerts']['port_util_alert'] = FALSE; // Disabled as default //$config['alerts']['port_util_alert'] = TRUE; // Disabled as default $config['alerts']['port_util_perc'] = 85; // %age above which to alert $config['uptime_warning'] = "60"; // Time in seconds to display a "Device Rebooted" Alert. 0 to disable warnings. I tried different config, but nothing is working and with this config when I do a test, I receive the e-mail in my gmail box, but nothing about port down or bgp session down... php ./test_mail.php -d -h sto-rtr-edge-*****.lan CMD[/bin/hostname -f] RUNTIME[0.0302s] OUTPUT[ pu1-webnoc.s****.lan ] Observium v0.14.9.5798 Test E-mail Configuration My Hostname: pu1-webnoc.s****.lan E-mails ENABLED globally E-mails use SENDMAIL backend sendmail path: [/usr/sbin/sendmail] E-mails send only to default email E-mails use these default recipient(s): d*****(a)gmail.com E-mails send from: observium(a)s****.fr SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `hostname` LIKE 'sto-rtr-edge-a****.s****.lan'] Try send test notification for sto-rtr-edge-a****.s****.lan to these email(s): d*****(a)gmail.com SQL[SELECT attrib_value FROM devices_attribs WHERE `device_id` = '35' AND `attrib_type` = 'disable_notify'] SQL[SELECT DISTINCT `contact_method` FROM `alert_contacts` WHERE `contact_disabled` = 0 AND `contact_id` IN (SELECT `alert_contact_id` FROM `alert_contacts_assoc` WHERE `alert_checker_id` = '');] Notification for sto-rtr-edge-a****.s****.lan SENT. And I didn't see anything in /var/log/mail.log, I see only my test. Thanks for your time David

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Enterasys Chassis Switches polling\discovery problems
by Austin Spencer 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hello all, I've been trying to find out some more information. I'm in the testing run of trying to migrate from Cacti to Observium. Enterasys standalone switches seem to poll data okay (other then memory and CPU) but the Chassis series like the S8 or N7's seem to be giving me a problem. The polling and discovery of these devices appear to hang. Looking at the polling\discovery history from the WebUI just shows 999.99s. Are there any tweaks I can do to get these devices to pull correctly? -Austin

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Class names under CBQoS?
by Chip Pleasants 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi all, I don't see class names under the CBQoS section of the interface. I'm running 0.14.9.5798, which I believe is the latest for the commercial version. Is this in the works or should I be able to see them in this version? Thanks, Chip

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Re: [Observium] professional edition and supported distributions?
by Pablo Escobar Lopez 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

thanks for your reply. We will go for debian then. best, Pablo. 2014-09-12 10:58 GMT+02:00 Spencer Gaw <spencerg(a)frii.net>: > Debian and Ubuntu are the only supported distributions. CE or Pro > doesn't make a difference. > > Regards, > > SG > > On 9/12/2014 2:28 AM, Pablo Escobar Lopez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have been testing observium and now we are considering the > > possibility to upgrade to the professional version. > > > > Is CentOS supported under the professional license or should we stay > > using ubuntu or debian? > > > > thanks for your help. > > Pablo. > > > > > > -- > > Pablo Escobar López > > HPC systems engineer > > Biozentrum, University of Basel > > Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB > > Email: pablo.escobarlopez(a)unibas.ch <mailto:pablo.escobarlopez@unibas.ch > > > > Phone: +41 61 267 15 82 > > http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > observium mailing list > > observium(a)observium.org > > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > -- Pablo Escobar López HPC systems engineer Biozentrum, University of Basel Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB Email: pablo.escobarlopez(a)unibas.ch Phone: +41 61 267 15 82 http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch

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professional edition and supported distributions?
by Pablo Escobar Lopez 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi, We have been testing observium and now we are considering the possibility to upgrade to the professional version. Is CentOS supported under the professional license or should we stay using ubuntu or debian? thanks for your help. Pablo. -- Pablo Escobar López HPC systems engineer Biozentrum, University of Basel Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB Email: pablo.escobarlopez(a)unibas.ch Phone: +41 61 267 15 82 http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch

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keepalived
by Stefan 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

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June Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi Guys, June Changelog! http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#June_2014 Mike was away last month, and it shows. No Rusglish! :D Thanks, adam.

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Manually edit the port name / description
by Anthony Polselli 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

We have a Zyxel DSLAM ADSL switch and Observium is polling fine, but it doesn't pull the customer name field. Is there a way (if I can figure out the OID) to add that to the polling or manual set a description for each ADSL port? [cid:image001.jpg@01CFCDA3.30938010] __________________________________________ Anthony Polselli, Chief Technology Officer Natural Networks, Inc. 10225 Barnes Canyon Rd. Suite A105 San Diego, CA 92121 anthony(a)naturalnetworks.com<mailto:anthony@naturalnetworks.com> http://www.naturalnetworks.com<http://www.naturalnetworks.com/> (619) 222-3232 office (858) 202-0301 fax

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Real time graphs resets much before
by Arya, Renuka [BSD] - MED 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi Team, I was doing some "real time graphs" for interfaces on one of our switch devices. I ran the tests for 15 seconds of Polling interval. The page says the "graph shows last 3600 (60 mins)" but it seems they get resets in 4-5 mins and restarts itself. Has anyone see anything similar before? Version of Observium : CE 14.4.5229 Thanks! Regards Renuka ________________________________ This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 45
by Dudu 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

Hi All. Thank you for the reply. I do agree that this information is not published via snmp. Maybe it will be the first system to use telnet or ssh and do some text parsing. Its also a lot more reliable. That can be a great thing. Thanks again David. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message -------- From: observium-request(a)observium.org Date:11/09/2014 19:32 (GMT+02:00) To: observium(a)observium.org Cc: Subject: observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 45 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: Maybe I got it Wrong. (Spencer Gaw) 2. Re: Maybe I got it Wrong. (Tristan Rhodes) 3. Re: Maybe I got it Wrong. (Tristan Rhodes) 4. Manually edit the port name / description (Anthony Polselli) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:18:54 -0600 From: Spencer Gaw <spencerg(a)frii.net> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Maybe I got it Wrong. Message-ID: <5411AF4E.7080506(a)frii.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed You might want to read up on SNMP and how it operates. Observium does not run commands on any device - it merely reports the data it gathers via SNMP. Regards, SG On 9/11/2014 4:31 AM, Dudu wrote: > Hi All, > I'm new here and I'm not sure about the port view. I can see the > neighbours and computers on the vlan on right side , the command looks > like show ip arp > > Maybe it's better to map the computer to the port itself? sh mac > address-table > > So out of the box we will know which server is connected to which > port. That could help to find VM's as well. > > Many Thanks > David. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:06:18 -0600 From: Tristan Rhodes <tristanrhodes(a)weber.edu> To: Observium Network Observation System <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] Maybe I got it Wrong. Message-ID: <CALeA1nfH+R-g7JdeQ4UD9nbtv6cN87-1UVDhcxSAveJ4WHC3ZQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" David, I think you had the same confusion as me, regarding how to find MAC addresses of nodes (computers). 1) Start by clicking on the name of a device. (You can search for it on the top right) 2) Click on the "Ports" tab. 3) If this is a router, there will be a tab called "ARP/NDP Table", this is IPv4 and IPv6 mapping of MAC address to IP address. If this device was only a layer-2 switch, then this tab would not be displayed. 4) There is a tab called "FDB Table", this is the mapping of MAC address to switchport. (I have always called this the CAM table). Due to the functionality of broadcasts, this will show every device in the same VLAN (the MAC address is seen on switch uplinks) However, I wish there was a node lookup tool that showed which switchport a computer was plugged into. We should be able to identify the interface closest to the computer by removing all interfaces that are CDP/LLDP neighbors with another known network device. Does this make sense? Cheers, Tristan *Tristan Rhodes* Network Engineer Weber State University 801.626.8549 On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Spencer Gaw <spencerg(a)frii.net> wrote: > You might want to read up on SNMP and how it operates. Observium does not > run commands on any device - it merely reports the data it gathers via SNMP. > > Regards, > > SG > > > On 9/11/2014 4:31 AM, Dudu wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I'm new here and I'm not sure about the port view. I can see the >> neighbours and computers on the vlan on right side , the command looks like >> show ip arp >> >> Maybe it's better to map the computer to the port itself? sh mac >> address-table >> >> So out of the box we will know which server is connected to which port. >> That could help to find VM's as well. >> >> Many Thanks >> David. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Maybe I got it Wrong.
by Dudu 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

Hi All, I'm new here and I'm not sure about the port view. I can see the neighbours and computers on the vlan on right side , the command looks like show ip arp Maybe it's better to map the computer to the port itself? sh mac address-table So out of the box we will know which server is connected to which port. That could help to find VM's as well. Many Thanks David.

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