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Billing
by Mike Grant 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

I have the subscription version and have the billing working. What I am trying to do is work out if I can only bill certain traffic. i.e. I only want to charge for international traffic at a $ per MB rate but charge nothing for local traffic. I'm using a Mikrotik Cloudcore router, the international data goes out one gateway and the domestic out another. So I really only want to bill the data for a port that goes in and out one particular gateway. Anyone doing anything like this? Thanks, Mike.

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Defunct processes
by kai＠angry-monk.com 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Hey, Ever since I installed observium I've been getting lost of defunct "sh" processes showing up in my process list. I'm running Ubuntu Linux. 14.04 LTS Linux ***** 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm running the latest version of the Open source edition (installed 2 days ago) and I see this in my process list all the time since the install. www-data 27725 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28164 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:42 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28589 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:47 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28989 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:52 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 28991 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:52 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 29398 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:57 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 29810 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:02 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 29820 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:02 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 30656 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:12 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 31062 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:17 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 31074 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:17 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 31903 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:27 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32698 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32700 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32722 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> www-data 32732 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:00 [sh] <defunct> Any Suggestions? Kai

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Re: [Observium] Billing
by Anthony Polselli 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Netflow Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -----Original Message----- From: Mike Grant [mikeg(a)itcl.co.nz] Received: Tuesday, 12 Aug 2014, 2:04PM To: observium(a)observium.org [observium(a)observium.org] Subject: [Observium] Billing I have the subscription version and have the billing working. What I am trying to do is work out if I can only bill certain traffic. i.e. I only want to charge for international traffic at a $ per MB rate but charge nothing for local traffic. I’m using a Mikrotik Cloudcore router, the international data goes out one gateway and the domestic out another. So I really only want to bill the data for a port that goes in and out one particular gateway. Anyone doing anything like this? Thanks, Mike.

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Sensor_value alerts do not process
by Alain Gyger 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

I'm using SVN version 5742 and all of my alerts work except those that are supposed to check a sensor_value metric. I'm able to check and get emails for alerts on processor_usage, toner_current, and mempool_perc, to name a few, so I know the system is working. When I run the alerter.php script against one of the hosts indicated under the processor_usage alert and I get "1 Status: OK" messages. But when I run alerter.php against a host indicated under the sensor_value alert for Battery Capacity or for APC UPS Temperature I get "-1 Unknown status". The graphs for these sensors are fine, the MySQL table sensors-state lists the correct values as well. My configuration for temperature looks like this: Entity Type: Temperature Delay: 1 Status: 0/0/0/0/2 Check Conditions: Require any condition Tests: sensor_value gt 40 Device Match: type match power Entity Match: sensor_descr match Temp* The alert checker seems fine, but it looks like the tests are failing when they are run. Has anyone else had the same issues with sensor_value alerts? Or is this feature not quite ready to be used?

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Re: [Observium] buying the paid version
by Anthony Polselli 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Thanks, but already did that step on Friday Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -----Original Message----- From: Travis Kreikemeier [travis(a)travko.com] Received: Monday, 11 Aug 2014, 8:07PM To: Observium Network Observation System [observium(a)observium.org] Subject: Re: [Observium] buying the paid version Anthony, Hope this helps. http://www.observium.org/subscribed/ TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Polselli Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 9:57 PM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: [Observium] buying the paid version Hi all, On Friday, I purchased the paid version and really anxious to get it up and running but my login isn’t working yet. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction of who to contact about this… Thanks, [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB5B0.8D5456E0] __________________________________________ 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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buying the paid version
by Anthony Polselli 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Hi all, On Friday, I purchased the paid version and really anxious to get it up and running but my login isn't working yet. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction of who to contact about this... Thanks, [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB59E.416545D0] __________________________________________ 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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Map Settings
by chott＠praha1.net 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Hello, How i can set HOME location in Map? Or can i set some zoom? Like default Street address? Tomas

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No port names in traffic accounting
by Travis Kreikemeier 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

When adding a Calix E7 port to a customer in traffic accounting. All of the interfaces in the drop down are blank, so hard to figure out which one to select. A work around I have been doing is going to the switch port and clicking "Create Bill". Would like to add the ports in the traffic accounting area. [cid:image003.jpg@01CFB49E.C9494B50] Some of the ports on the device: [cid:image004.jpg@01CFB49E.C9494B50] TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Clean up duplicate ports in DB?
by Hogan Whittall 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Long story short, there was a period of time where hosts were added and removed from Observium a number of times (Essentially all hosts added, deleted, added, etc). In general, there were no ill effects other than losing the previous graph data and ports not being deleted from the DB when hosts were removed. So now I have this. mysql> select count(*) from ports; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 20701 | +----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) 907+5+1+582 = 1495 So there are a number of stale/orphaned port entries in the DB. What would be the best way to fix this? Thanks! -Hogan

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IPMI setup
by Matthew Green 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Hi, >From the reading I've done it seems that Observium supports IPMI and I've got a Supermicro motherboard I'd like to get stats from. However, I can't see any way to configure the device, if I try to add devices it only lets me poll over SNMP, which the Supermicro board doesn't seem to allow. Other than stating that you need IPMItools installed, the Observium documentation doesn't provide any details about how IPMI devices should be configured. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers, Matt

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Weird database issue?
by Nick Pais 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Hi guys, It's been a while since I posted on here, but I made a fresh Observium installation (for the moment, yes, it's CE, can't convince the CEO to shell out that cash for Pro yet...) however I'm having a weird issue with the table ports-state: root@comet:/opt/observium# ./poller.php -h 1 -d | grep -C2 MEMORY\ DB SQL[INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('1')] Certain MEMORY DB error for table 'ports-state'. SQL[UPDATE `ports-state` set `poll_time` ='1407517231',`poll_period` ='1407517231',`ifInOctets` ='2974209',`ifOutOctets` ='2974209',`ifInErrors` ='0',`ifOutErrors` ='0',`ifInUcastPkts` ='10310',`ifOutUcastPkts` ='10310',`ifInOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOutOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOctets_rate` ='0',`ifUcastPkts_rate` ='0',`ifErrors_rate` ='0' WHERE `port_id` = '1'] -- SQL[INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('2')] Certain MEMORY DB error for table 'ports-state'. SQL[UPDATE `ports-state` set `poll_time` ='1407517231',`poll_period` ='1407517231',`ifInOctets` ='997162274',`ifOutOctets` ='12070347',`ifInErrors` ='0',`ifOutErrors` ='0',`ifInUcastPkts` ='929556',`ifOutUcastPkts` ='92562',`ifInOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOutOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOctets_rate` ='0',`ifUcastPkts_rate` ='0',`ifErrors_rate` ='0' WHERE `port_id` = '2'] -- SQL[INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('3')] Certain MEMORY DB error for table 'ports-state'. SQL[UPDATE `ports-state` set `poll_time` ='1407517231',`poll_period` ='1407517231',`ifInOctets` ='17012646',`ifOutOctets` ='369532358',`ifInErrors` ='0',`ifOutErrors` ='0',`ifInUcastPkts` ='74830',`ifOutUcastPkts` ='550361',`ifInOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOutOctets_perc` ='0',`ifOctets_rate` ='0',`ifUcastPkts_rate` ='0',`ifErrors_rate` ='0' WHERE `port_id` = '3'] root@comet:/opt/observium# This in turn doesn't enable the "current" port speeds on the web and when I look in the database itself, the table is empty. Has anyone come accross this before? Is there a way to fix this? Details: OS: Debian 7.6 PHP: 5.4.4-14+deb7u12 MySQL: 5.6.15 Observium: v0.14.4.5229 Thanks in advance guys!

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Patch for Jira ticket 333 throws error
by Laurens Vets 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Hello, I've installed Netdisco 2 with the Observium plugin. This plugin allows Netdisco to show graphs and open interface pages in Observium from within Netdisco. This is also related to Jira ticket 333. When I open a URL, http://observium.server//device/hostname=name.domainname/tab=port/ifdescr=R…) in Netdisco, I get the following error: "Invalid device/port combination. The port/device combination was invalid. Please retype and try again.". However, the correct page is shown in Observium... Any idea what generates this error message?

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Bind graph problems
by Brad Pearpoint 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Hi all, I have a problem with my bind graphs in Observium 0.14.8.5736 with RRDtool 1.4.7. I have the Unix-agent configured with the bind plugin on two dev DNS servers. These DNS servers are under really low load, just a couple of requests a minute at most. If I run dns# ./bind | grep -i req-in,Q I receive: req-in,QUERY:1562 Which is correct. Then on my Observium box if I run: obs# rrdtool info /opt/observium/rrd/dns2 /app-bind-1-req-in.rrd | grep query ds[query].index = 0 ds[query].type = "DERIVE" ds[query].minimal_heartbeat = 600 ds[query].min = 0.0000000000e+00 ds[query].max = 7.5000000000e+06 ds[query].last_ds = "1562" <<<<<<<<< Looks good ds[query].value = 0.0000000000e+00 ds[query].unknown_sec = 0 But my graphs in the web interface of totally wrong. My incoming requests graph is showing 100-250 million. Any tips of where to start looking to solve this? Thanks, Brad

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No description names on Calix
by Travis Kreikemeier 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

In Observium we are not getting any port descriptions on Calix E7 active ports, nor are we getting ONT names on GPON. Something we need to change or needs to be added to Observium? Thanks! [cid:image001.png@01CFB227.ED080C30] TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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Ubuntu vs CentOS
by Anthony Polselli 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi all, We are looking at purchasing the software and want to know which platform is better? We are a CentOS shop, but if we need paid support or want some custom development done, would Ubuntu be better? Thanks, [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB213.F86539E0] __________________________________________ 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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billing module / e-mail
by Anthony Polselli 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Is it possible to get an automated monthly e-mail listing all of the clients that went over on usage? [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB19F.8FF099A0] __________________________________________ 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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Re: [Observium] Freeradius monitoring
by Tomasz Karczewski 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Anyone? 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 From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Karczewski Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:12 AM To: 'Observium Network Observation System' Subject: [Observium] Freeradius monitoring Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to monitor freeradius application in observium. It's hard to find anything. Could you help me with that? Tnx Thomas

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API access key
by Greg Lipschitz 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Evening All, I've noticed in the settings, the option for "API access key" but it doesn't yet seem that it's implemented. We're currently looking at doing some development to pull the graphs for services from Observium and inject them in to our Client Portal so that clients get nice pretty graphs. Has anyone done something similar? Some guidance or pointers would be great :) Cheers! Greg Greg Lipschitz Director Summit IT Management<http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au> | Summit Internet<http://www.summitinternet.com.au> | Summit Creative<http://www.summitcreative.com.au> - ‘reach your peak’ Divisions of The Summit Group (Australia) Pty Ltd Phone (Australia): 1300 049 749 Phone (US & Canada): (321) 216 3844 E-mail: Greg(a)thesummitgroup.com.au<mailto:Greg@thesummitgroup.com.au> Internet: http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au/<http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au> Address: Level 1, 39 Railway Road, Blackburn VIC 3130 Postal: P.O. Box 3225, Doncaster East VIC 3109 Follow us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/thesummitgroup/> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/company/1942329> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/summitgroupau/> -- ExchangeDefender Message Security: Click below to verify authenticity https://admin.exchangedefender.com/verify.php?id=s77BXM8O023601&from=greg@t…

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windows wmi monitoring
by Simon Smith 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi All, hoping someone can help, altho I'm sure this has been answered in the past? i just can’t find the webpage or emails from it at all i want to monitor a few windows machines i have setup the SNMP correctly and all is well but the processor is being detected as Unknown Processor Type due to windows being a tool! i read somewhere that i could use the WMI to fix this issue plus get more outta the windows machine dos anyone have a guide or instructions how to setup the WMI correctly to identify things for observium? Regards Simon

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How to add SNMP support in observium for ambient Temperature
by observium＠willfahrt.net 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi all, I hope someone can help, I'm sure this has been answered before? - Sorry in advance! I want to monitor a few Linux machines with ambient temperature sensing devices. The NetSNMPd Client Configuration is working and I get a successful response as you can see: ~# snmpget -v 2c temphost -c public .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.10 HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystem.9 = Gauge32: 23000 How can I modify the host configuration to add the ambient Temperature information in the Observium? Best regards, Jens

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ifLastChange usage query
by Peter Childs 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Looking at an operational issue where we had a small interface flap between polls, so link state between polls hasn't changed, but iFLastChange has. Looking at the 'data' view through the UI for the port ifLastChanged doesn't appeared to have changed, and looking through the poller code it appears perhaps it is only updated on a change of operational/admin status on a port? Would there be any use in poller updating it in the db if it was different to the existing value in the port cache ? It would be interesting to be able to alert on 'ifLastChange' < 'some value' .. Or just have the update in the EventLog so when having a look-see at a device it is apparent that a link flap has occurred. A visual indicator in ports basic/detailed view for 'last change' < 'some global config value' like a little exclamation mark or something potentially could be useful to operators to 'spot' issues. Imagine being able to view ports, sort on 'LastChange' during an incident to 'spot' potential causes of issues? Would any of this make sense to anyone? Cheers, Peter

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FW: Cannot Add Device in WUI
by Md. Anamul Haque Rana 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Dear Concern, I can add device in command mode in observium but can not add device in WUI. The error I found is give bellow: Could not ping DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom. 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (1) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (2) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied 2014-08-05 17:55:32 | PING ERROR: DBBL-SM-DC-PeriFW-Bdcom (3) | FPING OUT: (null): can't create socket (must run as root?) : Permission denied Please help me BR\\ Md. Anamul Haque Rana Officer, ITOD Dutch Bangla Bank Limited IP Phone: +88 09666322017, Ex-221

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Allied Telesis Support
by Patrick Gawthorne 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Hi All, Currently playing with Observium which is brilliant, except when an Allied Telesis switch (running Alliedware Plus) is discovered only basic info is retrieved (Uptime, OS, location, etc), which then causes the issue of halting auto discovery.. The specific model is an AT-9000/28SP. Anyone aware if this switch is supported or not? Cheers, Pat This email, together with any attachments, is intended for the named recipient(s) only and may contain privileged and confidential information. If received in error, please inform the sender as quickly as possible and delete this email and any copies from your computer network. If not an intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute or rely on it, and any form of disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this email is prohibited. Unless stated otherwise, this email represents only the views of the sender and not the views of Pacific Lutheran College.

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question about cisco switch discovery/polling
by Steve Dubinskiy 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

we've got a Cisco WS-C4510R+E switch after discovering and polling it,, it now shows 3 entries for each port 1 is the expected/desired one "64-bit" port and 2 unknown/undesired "Controlled" and "Uncontrolled" 32-bit ports. question why are we seeing them ? how to we get rid of them ? this is making management of this device painfully slow .. takes more then 30 seconds (closer to one minute) for the page to load thanks -Steve -- *This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, copy, use or disclose this communication. Please also notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete all copies of it from your system. *

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Re: [Observium] IPMI setup
by Christian Gerbrandt 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

You still need SNMP to poll the device. Once added you can configure IPMI to gather stats from IPMI. On Aug 05, 2014, at 02:35 PM, Matthew Green <mephi(a)mephi.co.uk> wrote: Hi, From the reading I've done it seems that Observium supports IPMI and I've got a Supermicro motherboard I'd like to get stats from. However, I can't see any way to configure the device, if I try to add devices it only lets me poll over SNMP, which the Supermicro board doesn't seem to allow. Other than stating that you need IPMItools installed, the Observium documentation doesn't provide any details about how IPMI devices should be configured. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Discoverying and polling VRF, OSPF and BGP Processes on Nexus 7K : where to start coding
by Mathieu MILLET 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, I would like to give a try to code some PHP Patchs, so that Observium can discover VRF, OSPF, BGP and so on Nexus 7K platform (our reference will be Nexus 7700 with NX-OS 6.2). We are implementing "VRF-Lite" style (no MPLS), so according to Cisco documentation, it is mandatory to map in NX-OS configuration, a SNMP Context (v3) to each instance of VRF, OSPF, BGP, whatever .... My try will be to first discover the context mapping with this Cisco MIB : CISCO-CONTEXT-MAPPING-MIB.my and then to iterate on these mappings using an additional function like "get snmp walk/bulk with context" on these contexts. Do you have any advice how I could do that ? Which files should I implement / pacth ? Which files could I use as examples and inspiration ? Also, I plan to make patch against the last open release (SVN revision 5229). Is that a problem ? Thank you in advance for your help, Sincerely yours, Mathieu. -- Mathieu MILLET mailto:obs@htam.net

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Cisco Active PPP Sessions
by tromp wezelman 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, With the following OID is it possible to show the active PPP sessions: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.150.1.1.1.0 Is it possible to add/make a graph with the active PPP sessions when using cisco equipment like ASR1002 Example: root@observium:/opt/observium# snmpwalk -v2c -On -c noc devicename .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.150.1.1.1 .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.150.1.1.1.0 = Gauge32: 7545 Perhaps just as the following topic: http://forums.cacti.net/about37860.html Thanks, Tromp

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1 minute bandwidth graphs
by Anthony Polselli 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

If I change crontab to pull every 1 minute, can I drill-down tighter on a graph? [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB00A.54AA6B50] __________________________________________ 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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adjusting bandwidth graphs to what the client is paying for
by Anthony Polselli 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi, Just checking out the software for the first time and really liking it. We are using PRTG now and of the things we like about it is per interface we are monitoring, we can set the max x-axis value. It helps our tech's to know what speed Internet connection a client is paying for. We will hand off a 100Mbps interface to the client, but if they are only paying for 20Mbps, we will shape the traffic down to 20Mbps on the router. When you look at the percent graph in Observium, it's based on a 100Mbps max possible speed instead of 20Mbps. Thanks!

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Cannot Add Device
by Josh Hopper 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

I'm having an issue adding a new switch to Observium. It is a Dell PowerConnect. administrator@network-monitoring:/opt/observium$ ./discovery.php -h core-sw-tx-01.purafilter2000.com monitor v2c Observium v0.14.8.5732 Discovery Current Revision : 5732 New Revision : 5734 WARNING: 0 devices discovered. Did you specify a device that does not exist? MySQL: Cell[0/0s] Row[20/0s] Rows[2/0s] Column[0/0s] Update[0/0s] Insert[0/0s] Delete[0/0s] However, the switch is live.... User Name:admin Password:******** core-sw-tx-01> en Password: Password:******** core-sw-tx-01# core-sw-tx-01# sh run port jumbo-frame vlan database vlan 200 exit voice vlan oui-table add 000181 Nortel__________________ voice vlan oui-table add 0001e3 Siemens_AG_phone________ voice vlan oui-table add 00036b Cisco_phone_____________ voice vlan oui-table add 00096e Avaya___________________ voice vlan oui-table add 000fe2 H3C_Aolynk______________ voice vlan oui-table add 001049 Shoretel________________ voice vlan oui-table add 0060b9 Philips_and_NEC_AG_phone voice vlan oui-table add 00907a Polycom/Veritel_phone___ voice vlan oui-table add 00e0bb 3Com_phone______________ port-channel load-balance src-dst-ip iscsi target port 860 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 3260 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 9876 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 20002 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 20003 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi target port 25555 address 0.0.0.0 iscsi enable hostname core-sw-tx-01 line telnet password ddcf8cf8c5849d6b72e1142f3694881bc39d1560 encrypted exit enable password level 15 encrypted ddcf8cf8c5849d6b72e1142f3694881bc39d1560 username admin password encrypted ddcf8cf8c5849d6b72e1142f3694881bc39d1560 snmp-server community monitor rw 192.168.40.114 view Default sntp server 192.168.40.24 poll ! And I setup the DNS as well.... Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\jhopper>ping core-sw-tx-01 Pinging core-sw-tx-01.purafilter2000.com [192.168.60.2] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=54 Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=54 Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=54 Reply from 192.168.60.2: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=54 Ping statistics for 192.168.60.2: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 53ms, Average = 52ms C:\Users\jhopper>nslookup core-sw-tx-01 Server: gpsvr03.homeimpressions.local Address: 192.168.1.20 Name: core-sw-tx-01.purafilter2000.com Address: 192.168.60.2 C:\Users\jhopper> Anyone know why? :/ -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator [cid:image001.jpg@01CFB00C.28668FE0] 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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delete old lmsensors
by Simon Smith 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Hi All, i know this is probably a stupid question, but how do i delete sensors from within the panel and not on the server itself im monitoring? for some reason the observium has detected lmsensors fanspeed sensors about 4 times over? and im not sure if its the server at fault or observium at fault, so i was just going to delete the old fanspeed sensors ? i have attached some screenshots if people don’t understand what im talking about Regards Simon

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Using PHP Weathermap with Observium
by Markus Klock 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Hello! We are migrating from Cacti to Observium and it was a great experience, the only thing we lacked were the weathermap plugin for getting that nice network overview. I then found that Neil Lathwood wrote a modified version of the PHP Weathermap that works with Observium data, you can find it on his github: https://github.com/laf/weathermap I wrote a quick and dirty script that adds the weathermaps to the Observium menu without modifying Observium-code so that it will not break when updating Observium. It works really well so I wrote a little guide for how you get the weathermap to work with Observium and posted it here: http://blog.best-practice.se/2014/07/using-php-weathermap-with-observium.ht… In case there are more people interested in using the weathermap with Observium :) /Markus

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Simple API calls fail
by Mark Price 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

Hello list, After an upgrade recently, our Simple API calls have been failing. I just updated to latest svn 0.14.8.5732 and here is what I am seeing: sample api call: wget -O - " http://myserver/api.php?username=myuser&password=mypass&module=bandwidth&po… " which returns: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error When adding debug=1 option, I get a lot of output which I have pasted here: http://pastie.org/private/zulxpk1n4viyyymxw89wjg The relevant bit seems to be: Fatal error: Call to undefined function humanize_device() in /opt/observium/includes/common.inc.php on line 964 Any tips for how to debug this? Best, Mark

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PPPoE ports not displaying in Observium Discovery
by Greg Lipschitz 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Hi All, We are seeing an interesting issue when looking at a Mikrotik Routerboard (RB951 MikroTik RouterOS 6.13) When performing an snmpwalk of the device, we see the pppoe client interfaces (counters, gauges, timers etc) as expected. When we perform a Observium discovery of the device, it seems to be counting the 13 interfaces, but shows “XX” for the 2 PPPoE client interfaces. Output of the CPE and Discover & Poller below. List of Interfaces === Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave # NAME TYPE MTU L2MTU MAX-L2MTU 0 R ;;; Cust: Gale Insurance [25Mbit] (25/10 NBN NTD000006105558) {GALE-C... ether1 ether 1500 1598 4074 1 R ;;; Cust: Gale Insurance [20Mbit] (Telstra Internet Direct ADSL) {GAL... ether2 ether 1500 1598 4074 2 X ;;; LAN - Trunk Interface ether3 ether 1500 1598 4074 3 RS ;;; LAN - DATA subnet, untagged ether4 ether 1500 1598 4074 4 XS ;;; LAN - VoIP subnet, untagged ether5 ether 1500 1598 4074 5 X wlan1 wlan 1500 2290 6 R bridge1-data bridge 1500 1598 7 R bridge2-voip bridge 1500 1598 8 R lo0 bridge 1500 65535 9 R ;;; PPPoE for FTTx Service pppoe-FTTx pppoe-out 1480 10 R ;;; PPPoE for xDSL Service pppoe-xDSL pppoe-out 1500 11 XS ;;; DATA subnet, tagged Discovery Output === Observium v0.14.7.5731 Discovery Current Revision : 5731 New Revision : 5731 103.253.92.23.rdns.zone 3 routeros Ports : ..........XX. Port Stacks: Processors : hrDevice: .. Memory : HOST-RESOURCES-MIB . IPv4 Addresses : .. IPv6 Addresses : Sensors: MIKROTIK-MIB ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB Storage : HOST-RESOURCES-MIB: . Inventory: Physical Inventory : .. hrDevice : . MIKROTIK-MIB . 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 9.473 seconds Poller Output === Observium v0.14.7.5731 Poller Starting polling run: 103.253.92.23.rdns.zone 3 routeros Module [ unix-agent ] disabled globally. Module [ ipmi ] excluded for device. Module [ junose-atm-vp ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ipsec-flow-monitor ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-remote-access-monitor ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-cef ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-sla ] excluded for device. Module [ arista-software-ip-forwarding ] excluded for device. Module [ cipsec-tunnels ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ace-loadbalancer ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-ace-serverfarms ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-cbqos ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-eigrp ] excluded for device. Module [ netscaler-vsvr ] excluded for device. Module [ aruba-controller ] excluded for device. Module [ cisco-vpdn ] disabled globally. Module [ wmi ] disabled globally. Uptime: 21 days, 22h 56m 46s Module time: 0.8838s Hardware: RB951G-2HnD Version: 6.13 Features: Level 4 Serial: Asset: Module time: 0.2185s Module time: 0.0011s Processor Processor 6% Checking alerts Processor Average 6% Checking alerts Module time: 1.5665s Mempool main memory: 22.59% Checking alerts Module time: 0.706s Storage disk: system: 12.98% Checking alerts Module time: 0.4528s Netstats: Module time: 0.3009s HR Stats: Module time: 0.0517s Module time: 0.2457s Polling IP-MIB ipSystemStats Module time: 0.096s Caching Oids: ifEntry ifXEntry dot3StatsDuplexStatus Port ether1(1) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(25.2kbps/107kbps)bytes(166kB/711kB)pkts(22.3pps/25.2pps) Checking alerts Port ether2(2) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(1.69kbps/73bps)bytes(11.1kB/494B)pkts(0.61pps/74.0mpps) Checking alerts Port ether3(3) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port ether4(4) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(11.7kbps/8.06kbps)bytes(77.5kB/53.0kB)pkts(12.4pps/4.06pps) Checking alerts Port ether5(5) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port wlan1(6) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port bridge1-data(9) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(9.5kbps/7.57kbps)bytes(62.6kB/49.8kB)pkts(12.4pps/3.57pps) Checking alerts Port bridge2-voip(10) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/39bps)bytes(0B/263B)pkts(0pps/37.0mpps) Checking alerts Port vlan10-data(11) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port vlan20-voice(12) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/0bps)bytes(0B/0B)pkts(0pps/0pps) Checking alerts Port lo0(17) replacing with 64-bit...VLAN == bps(0bps/34bps)bytes(0B/232B)pkts(0pps/37.0mpps) Checking alerts Module time: 14.5479s BGP Peers: Module time: 0.0452s Module time: 0.0011s Module time: 0.0007s Wireless: Module time: 0.0017s OSPF: Processes: Areas: Ports: Neighbours: Module time: 0.093s Mac Accounting: Caching DB...0 entries. Module time: 0.0019s Entity Physical: Module time: 0.0008s Module time: 0.0005s FDB Tables Module time: 0.1898s Module time: 0.0006s ping ping_snmp uptime processor mempool storage fdb_count poller_perf Polled in 20.0717 seconds UPDATED! Greg Lipschitz Director Summit IT Management<http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au> | Summit Internet<http://www.summitinternet.com.au> | Summit Creative<http://www.summitcreative.com.au> - ‘reach your peak’ Divisions of The Summit Group (Australia) Pty Ltd Phone (Australia): 1300 049 749 Phone (US & Canada): (321) 216 3844 E-mail: Greg(a)thesummitgroup.com.au<mailto:Greg@thesummitgroup.com.au> Internet: http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au/<http://www.thesummitgroup.com.au> Address: Level 1, 39 Railway Road, Blackburn VIC 3130 Postal: P.O. 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Temperature notifications
by Anton Voloshin 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

Hi all. I've enabled e-mail notifications in the configuration file (commercial version). How do I disable, for example, temperature notifications? They are very annoying while not important in my case. Best regards, Anton Voloshin IT Systems Engineer Group-IB +7 495 984 3364 +7 925 060 6896 voloshin(a)group-ib.com www.group-ib.com

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observium portal slow
by Kiru Pananthan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Dear all our observium portal very slow in responding which is loading the page and refresh also. any suggestion thank you kiru -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 48, Issue 135
by Kiru Pananthan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi Josh below are the details Disk /dev/sda: 107.4 GB, 107374182400 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13054 cylinders, total 209715200 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000342b Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 201332735 100665344 83 Linux /dev/sda2 201334782 209713151 4189185 5 Extended /dev/sda5 201334784 209713151 4189184 82 Linux swap / Solaris -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 48, Issue 134
by Kiru Pananthan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi Josh you need the resource and other information of our observium server or the server we monitor using observium -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 48, Issue 134
by Kiru Pananthan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi Josh -- *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business reasons.

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 48, Issue 133
by Kiru Pananthan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi Josh How many devices do you have? 89 device What are your VM/PCs resources? Hyper VM and Vmware Vm What OS? windows server 2008 / debian linux What SWAP? sorry no idea on this On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:10 PM, <observium-request(a)observium.org> wrote: > 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. observium portal slow (Kiru Pananthan) > 2. Re: observium portal slow (Josh Hopper) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:04:49 +0800 > From: Kiru Pananthan <kirup(a)aism.edu.my> > To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> > Subject: [Observium] observium portal slow > Message-ID: > <CAEax4xXKRktFwpq9SpsopS8CH_o0t1b2TFV9+OvO= > j06YGUS0g(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear all > > our observium portal very slow in responding which is loading the page and > refresh also. any suggestion > > thank you > kiru > > -- > *Confidentiality Disclaimer:* This e-mail and any attachments are > confidential and intended solely for the intended addressee and may also be > privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not > the intended addressee, or have received this e-mail in error, please > notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and do not copy, > disclose, distribute or otherwise act in reliance upon any part of this > e-mail or its attachments. Australian International School Malaysia and all > affiliates under Taylor's Education Group does not accept responsibility > for any loss arising from unauthorised access to, or interference with, any > internet communications by any third party in reliance to this email, or > from the transmission of any viruses. Please note that any views or > opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not > necessarily represent those of Australian International School Malaysia > and > all affiliates under Taylor's Education Group. Replies to this e-mail may > be monitored by Australian International School Malaysia and all > affiliates under Taylor's Education Group for operational or business > reasons. >

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Host down alert
by Anton Voloshin 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi there. Is it possible yet (in commercial version) to set up a "host down" alert? If yes, how to implement it? Couldn't find out from current documentation. [image: Group-IB] Global Cyber Security Company <http://www.facebook.com/GroupIB> <http://twitter.com/groupib> <http://www.linkedin.com/groups/GroupIB-Cybercrime-Cyberterrorism-4390171> <http://www.youtube.com/user/GroupIB>Best regards, Anton Voloshin IT Systems Engineer Group-IB +7 495 984 3364 +7 925 060 6896 voloshin(a)group-ib.com www.group-ib.com Print this mail only if absolutely necessary. Save Paper. Save Trees. This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you believe you are not an intended recipient, please inform the sender, delete the e-mail and do not copy, print or use it or disclose it to others. You can inform the sender by replying to this e-mail or by telephone (+7 495 984 3364). If this email has any files attached to it, they should be virus-checked before they are opened.

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observium.mynetwork.com/syslog dates and times messed up
by Rob Townley 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

On the /syslog page, i found out my NetGear switches existed in the year 1. For instance, the dates start with `-0001-11-30 00:00:00`. -0001-11-30 00:00:00 storageswitch <http://observium.corp.eceo.us/device/device=2/tab=logs/section=syslog/> Informational (6) *10.0.100.17%AAA-I-DISCONNECT* : http connection for user admin, source 10.0.100.50 destination 10.0.100.17 TERMINATED -0001-11-30 00:00:00 storageswitch <http://observium.corp.eceo.us/device/device=2/tab=logs/section=syslog/> Informational (6) *10.0.100.17%SYSLOG-I-NEWRADIUSSE* : configure new syslog radius server 10.0.100.10 -0001-11-30 00:00:00 storageswitch <http://observium.corp.eceo.us/device/device=2/tab=logs/section=syslog/> Informational (6) *10.0.100.17%SYSLOG-I-NEWRADIUSSE* : configure new syslog radius server 10.0.100.10

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Geocode
by Josh Hopper 27 Jul '14

27 Jul '14

I wanted to test out Geocoding with Google instead of the regular locations. $config['geocoding']['default']['lat'] = "35.922614"; // Default latitude $config['geocoding']['default']['lon'] = "-81.542729"; // Default longitude $config['location_menu_geocoded'] = TRUE; // Build location menu with geocoded data. $config['geocoding']['enable'] = TRUE; // Enable Geocoding If I have SNMP Locations set on my devices does it prevent this from working? Or, is there a particular way to tell if its operating correctly? -- Sincerely, Joshua Hopper, A+ CE Network Administrator 420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601 Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565 Protect Plus Air Holdings, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus, LLC and Affiliates, Imagine One Resources, LLC and Affiliates, Protect Plus Surfaces, LLC and Affiliates Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. It contains information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from use and disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, or dissemination of this transmission, or taking of any action in reliance on its contents, or other use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender listed above immediately and permanently delete this message from your inbox. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Checks failed (Suppressed: ENTITY)
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 26 Jul '14

26 Jul '14

What does this message mean? [cid:image002.png@01CFA8BD.12BAC8B0] Some ports just stay check failed. [cid:image003.png@01CFA8BD.12BAC8B0] What did I do wrong? :) Thomas

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Remote syslog to Observium
by Eduardo Schoedler 26 Jul '14

26 Jul '14

I have forgot one device with remote syslog with debug enabled. My syslog table is with 12G, so I had to truncated :). Any chances to implement regexp filter (like bad_if_regexp) to syslog too? Thanks all! -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Adding a Group to user profile
by Andres Pugawko 26 Jul '14

26 Jul '14

Hello Guys! It is posible to add a Port Group to a "Normal User" profile ?? Regards Andres Pugawko Network Engineer

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Better poller for Observium
by Alex Povolotsky 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

Hello While Observium has a nice interface, it's database lacks foreign keys a lot, and poller.php is AWFUL. It's slow and unreadable. I've started a new, about 40-50 times lighter observium poller https://github.com/tarkhil/observium-poller It supports only SNMP for now, and is work-in-progress. Only os, processor and memory modules are working, and ports is about 50% finished. If anyone is interested, please join. I'm sure to complete SNMP support for Cisco, but quite unsure if I'll be interested in implementing much else. Alex

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Interesting experiment with poll over SSH
by Peter Childs 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

We have a host about 320ms from our observium node (yes.. The other side of the planet). Doing a full poll circa 650-700ms (including mac and bgp tables... Its a IOS-XR ASR9K ..). Adjusting the Cr/max-reps did increase speeds, and caused several nasty snmpd explosions on the chassis. As a exercise in interest I spun up a VM much closer to the host, unpacked /opt/observium/mibs etc and configured snmp on that remote host. Then did this root@obs1:/opt/observium# diff -c includes/snmp.inc.php.orig includes/snmp.inc.php *** includes/snmp.inc.php.orig 2014-07-23 17:43:53.720274321 +0930 --- includes/snmp.inc.php 2014-07-23 17:56:23.092286235 +0930 *************** *** 333,338 **** --- 333,345 ---- // Add the OID(s) to the strong $cmd .= " ".$oids; + if( $device['hostname'] == 'faraway.router.com' ){ + $cmd = "ssh -i ~x/x.pem x@remote-poller-node -C " . escapeshellarg($cmd) ; + } This was interesting, but the ssh establishment phase for each snmp execution was a lot of overhead.. So I also did this root@obs1:/opt/observium# cat ~/.ssh/config Host remote-poller-node # HostName machine1.example.org ControlPath ~/.ssh/controlmasters/%r@%h:%p ControlMaster auto ControlPersist 10m This means that a ssh 'master instance' was setup at the start of the poll, and hangs around in the background between executions of various snmpcmd's during the poll. Full poll went from 650-700ms -> ~170ms Thought this might be of interest to some people. Cheers, Peter

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Alert checks with load average ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Dear Observium gurus, Do you know if it is possible to make alert uppon load average (1minutes) like for example if load average if > 5.0 (this is a random value, but here is an idea). Kind regards, Xavier -- Xavier Beaudouin - Senior Network and System Administrator Infrastructure and network director Horizon Software - http://www.hsoftware.com/ 13 rue La Fayette - 75009 PARIS - France Phone: +33 (0)1 4260 9490 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 56 97 01

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About Vmware / Observium
by Paolo De Michele 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

hi guys, I have a problem with a machine via vmware (esxi 5.1) because I can't be able to modify the locality to setup the correct point into the world map in the world map the point result completely wrong I have other machines via gnu/linux and it works perfectly in the snmp options I cannot setup the locality somebody has had an issue like that? thanks in advance, regards

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