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Syslog from NX-OS device
by Ole Hansen 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Hi, I'm trying to get syslog (using syslog-ng) from some NX-OS devices into Observium, but so far no luck. I'm using the following syslog-ng configuration template t_observium { template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n"); template-escape(yes); }; destination d_observium { program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template (t_observium)); }; Works fine for IOS-devices The output that would be sent to syslog.php i can see by adding: destination d_foo { file("/tmp/foo.log" template(t_observium)); }; and the following output is in my file: 10.10.10.10||local7||info||info||be||2014-06-24 16:43:08||Jun 24 14:43:07: %SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP: list flow denied udp 192.168.10.10(137) -> 192.168.11.10(137), 5 packets ||147696 10.10.10.11||local7||notice||notice||bd||2014-06-24 16:43:16||2014 Jun 24 16:43:16.724 CEST: %SYSMGR-5-CFGWRITE_STARTED: Configuration copy started (PID 2143).|| any ideas? I've tried uncommenting the debug part of syslog.php, but i don't get any output in /tmp/syslog.out or /tmp/syslog.err Oh, and by the way. Syslog from Fabric-OS devices works fine as well. Netic A/S Ole Hansen Mail: oha(a)netic.dk Mobil: +45 23253747 Fastnet: +45 96356187

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How to use kemp mibs
by Stefan 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

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HP-Switch: device traffic graphs of new modules
by Wiethoff, Helge 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Hi all, I have a problem with the "Device Traffic"-Graph in Observium (r5581) since I inserted two modules 22Ports (J9536A) into the backplane of a HP 5406zl. It is not plotted anymore as you can see in the attached device-traffic.png. The Error-Message from RRDTool is: RRDTool Output: ERROR: mmaping file '/srv/observium/rrd/x-fra01.tfhbo.de/port-97.rrd': Invalid argument. The file port-97.rrd is empty, but observium added the Ports yesterday. Eventlog: 23-06-2014 18:37:13 Inventory Inventory added: class port, name Port F22, index 217 .... and so on. Maybe it is just a side-effect: All of the other new Ports, are not plotted, too. Any suggestions? (Except buying a "real" switch... ;-)) Bye, Helge ________________________________ Helge Wiethoff Medienzentrum Telefon: +49 (234) 968 8717 Fax: +49 (234) 968 3453 E-Mail: Wiethoff(a)tfh-bochum.de Technische Fachhochschule Georg Agricola für Rohstoff, Energie und Umwelt zu Bochum Staatlich anerkannte Fachhochschule der DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH Herner Straße 45 44787 Bochum http://www.tfh-bochum.de ________________________________ Träger: DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH Sitz der Gesellschaft: Bochum Registergericht: Amtsgericht Bochum Handelsregister: B 4052 Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kretschmann (Vorsitzender) Manfred Freitag

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ZFS on Ubuntu
by David Peall 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Hi Has anyone got ZFS SNMP data working on Ubuntu, I can’t seem to find any details? Regards — David Peall

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Re: [Observium] Juniper Inventory
by Rutger Bevaart 22 Jun '14

22 Jun '14

What you can do to get the optical levels for 1G interfaces (or 10G interfaces on older FPCs in the M/T) is extend the Juniper MIB and run the commands in Junos using a script. I tried doing this some time ago, just never got it finished. Regards, Rutger

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Juniper Inventory
by Raphael Maunier 22 Jun '14

22 Jun '14

Hello, I wonder if it’s complicated / possible to add in the inventory list the optics count / type / serial … Some time, it’s easier to just ask the noc to look at this webpage and check if it’s a MM/ SM optic and/or the correct lambda for wdm optics. May be a dedicated page / second expand ? ( running latest updated version ) Raphael

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Dragonwave Support
by Keefe John 22 Jun '14

22 Jun '14

Hello, Would it be possible to add support for Dragonwave radios? This would be very similar to the support that was just added for Exalt ExtendAir radios. Thanks! Keefe

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Disable Device Alerting
by Travis Kreikemeier 21 Jun '14

21 Jun '14

I have the new alerting in Observium setup for many events, including device down. However, over some of our wireless links I am getting false positives, so I turned up the ping retries to 3 times. Still happening, so I set the device down delay to 2. That has helped, however I am still getting the old school device alerting system emails. How can I disable those? I have port utilization disabled ($config['alerts']['port_util_alert']), etc. But I can't find anything in any docs or searches for disabling device down alerting in the old alerting system. Any help is appreciated, thanks! TRAVIS KREIKEMEIER

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LDAP authentication and user id mapping (user sees no devices)
by Branzko, Matthias 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Hello all, in the moment I try to switch from mysql to LDAP authentication (AD). The LDAP connection seems to work. I can logon to observium using my LDAP credentials. But the user mapping to permissions does not work. In observium the user sees no devices. The mapping is set as follows: $config['auth_ldap_groups']['Observium_Admin']['level'] = 10; $config['auth_ldap_groups']['Observium_User']['level'] = 1; In Wireshark I could see that the right group (Observium_Admin) was matched. Debug shows something like: SELECT * FROM `entity_permissions` WHERE `user_id` = '-1' SELECT `value` FROM `users_prefs` WHERE `user_id` = '-1' AND `pref` = 'atom_key' What to try next? Thanks, Matthias

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May Changelog
by Adam Armstrong 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

It seems that we totally forgot this month, but the May Changelog is up now at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#May_2014

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Alerting System Status
by Lane Eckley 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Hi Guys, Checking in as to the official status of the alerting system, has it been fully launched at this stage? Thanks! -Lane

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SysobjectID for AIX
by Teixeira, Mike 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Hello, I compiled net-snmp for AIX on my two AIX 5.3 servers. Since doing so the sysobjectid now returns net-snmp.aix rather than one that designates for AIX. I can set the sysobjectid in the snmp.conf. I have been looking for what to set that to so observium knows that it is an AIX server rather than a generic server. Does anyone have the oid that reflects AIX for sysobjectid? Thanks, Mike

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don't show extra sites on port view
by Simon Smith 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Hi All, is it possible to disable the showing of other sites within a port view? look at attachment to understand what i mean We use observium to monitor external ADSL lines and sadly these lines all have the same internal ip address and the observium is showing all the other sites on the same pan port Regards Simon

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No VRFs being discovered on Cisco 3750 Stacks
by Matthew A Harper 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Hi Guys, Recently I've started monitoring some of our edge routers using Observium and have found that VRFs don't appear to get found during discovery. I found an old post from last year where Adam advised that VRF tracking in Observium is currently considered "broken and unstable". (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.observium.general/3159). Here is a snip from a discovery of one of our edge devices running a handful of VRFs: dot1d id ifIndex Port Name Priority State Cost 504 5003 Port-channel3 128 forwarding 3 Cisco Pseudowires : VRFs : SLAs : UCD Disk IO : Discovered in 6.686 seconds I'm guessing this may be a lower priority to devs at the moment but it is something we'd be requiring before we can fully move away from our other unnamed/expensive monitoring solution as we need to enable alerting for BGP instances bound to specific VRFs. If this is still an ongoing issue is this perhaps something we could offer the devs financial incentive in the form of donations to bump the priority a bit? Alternatively if this has since been patched am I doing something wrong? I have the following enabled in my global config (and confirmed on the devices under modules): $config['enable_vrfs'] = 1; cisco-vrf enabled enabled Kind regards, Matt Harper Network Analyst | ICT Operations Information Technology Branch | Department of Transport and Main Roads Floor 4 | Transport House | 230 Brunswick Street | Fortitude Valley Qld 4006 PO Box 673 | Fortitude Valley Qld 4006 P: (07) 30661125 | F: (07) 30662044 E: matthew.a.harper(a)tmr.qld.gov.au<mailto:matthew.a.harper@tmr.qld.gov.au> W: www.tmr.qld.gov.au<http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/> *********************************************************************** WARNING: This email (including any attachments) may contain legally privileged, confidential or private information and may be protected by copyright. You may only use it if you are the person(s) it was intended to be sent to and if you use it in an authorised way. No one is allowed to use, review, alter, transmit, disclose, distribute, print or copy this email without appropriate authority. If this email was not intended for you and was sent to you by mistake, please telephone or email me immediately, destroy any hardcopies of this email and delete it and any copies of it from your computer system. Any right which the sender may have under copyright law, and any legal privilege and confidentiality attached to this email is not waived or destroyed by that mistake. It is your responsibility to ensure that this email does not contain and is not affected by computer viruses, defects or interference by third parties or replication problems (including incompatibility with your computer system). Opinions contained in this email do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Department of Transport and Main Roads, or endorsed organisations utilising the same infrastructure. ***********************************************************************

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Billing graphic problems
by Eduardo Schoedler 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Hi, Today we need to change an interface from a billing and the graphics were outdated. Graphic from interface is ok, as you can see in attachment. Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Aruba Instant AP -- No client or AP information
by David Hicks 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Group..... I've added an Aruba Instant AP 115 to Observium. It is graphing the traffic information properly, but the "Number of Clients" and "Number of APs" graphs are completely blank. Thank you for any help you can provide.

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Traffic Accounting - Can't add new Ports (0.14.6.5571)
by Torsten-Sven Urbas 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

Good morning, we're unable to add any new ports to bills setup in traffic accounting. We can choose a device under "Add New Port" but the interface dropdown below won't populate at all - it will stay empty. We tested this on chrome and firefox and on various operating systems. Anything known in that regard? Thanks, Torsten -- Torsten-Sven Urbas Head of Network Operation ==== Bitte beachten Sie unsere neuen Rufnummern ==== ProfitBricks GmbH • Greifswalder Str. 207 • D - 10405 Berlin Tel: +49 (30) 57700 8234 • Mobile: +49 (170) 77 38 251 • Fax: +49 (30) 57700 8296 www.profitbricks.de • torsten-sven.urbas(a)profitbricks.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin. Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 125506 B. Geschäftsführer: Andreas Gauger, Achim Weiss. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Adding an application
by David Peall 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

Hi I’m almost done with my application plugin. The RRD’s are there and updating and I’m looking at html/pages/device/apps/app.inc.php and I’m having an issue. I have a dynamic number of graphs, with the same/similar sets of data. I need to call the same script repeatedly in html/includes/graphs/… but perhaps with parameters? Any help is appreciated. Regards — David Peal

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Patch: rancid integration
by Steffen Klemer 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

Hey, for me (recent ubuntu) the rancid integration wasn't working quite well. The following patch corrects this: --- showconfig.inc.php.old 2014-06-17 18:05:06.341845752 +0200 +++ showconfig.inc.php 2014-06-17 18:03:08.336048633 +0200 @@ -72,12 +72,12 @@ if ($config['rancid_ignorecomments']) { - $lines = explode('\n',$text); + $lines = explode(PHP_EOL,$text); for ($i = 0;$i < count($lines);$i++) { - if ($lines[$i][0] == '#') { unset($lines[$i]); } + if ($lines[$i][0] == '!') { unset($lines[$i]); } } - $text = join('\n',$lines); + $text = join(PHP_EOL,$lines); } $text = '<pre class="prettyprint linenums">' . PHP_EOL . $text; Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: Steffen.Klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 39 172361 __________________________________________________________________ GWDG Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598

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Alerting/Entity type changes
by Adam Armstrong 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

Hi All, We're bringing some changes soon to how entity types are used, especially in relation to groups and alerts. We're turning each sensor type into its own entity type, so you can now create "Humidity" sensors : http://alpha.memetic.org/~adama/snaps/14-06-16-f2h10.53.png People using alerting, is this as useful as I think it is? Thanks, adam.

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ppp0 and tun0 shown as down
by Pieter De Wit 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

Hi List, We currently monitor some dd-wrt devices. Observium is showing tun0 and ppp0 as down. I am guessing this is due to the interface speed set to 0. Is there a way to bypass this check ? It does look a bit weird to have a down interface with traffic on it. We are currently running the community ed. Changing to pro soon. Thanks, Pieter

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Re: [Observium] Overview of VLANs
by Steffen Klemer 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

No comment on this? Am Fr, 13.06.2014 um 08:23 schrieb "Klemer, Steffen" <steffen.klemer(a)gwdg.de>: > Hey everybody, > > in nedi there is a nice feature where I can see all devices (and > ports) with a specific vlan on a map. Is there any similar feature in > observium which I just missed to find? > > Would it be possible to extend the search on the ports-page to also > specify VLANs? Would you accept external patches for stuff like this? > > I also wrote a small extension for querying the number of active > connections on a FWSM (and possibly ASA). Is there interest to get > this upstream? /Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: Steffen.Klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 39 172361 __________________________________________________________________ GWDG Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598

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Re: [Observium] Observium] Alerting/Entity type changes
by Adam Armstrong 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

Yeah, you are confused. Humidity is an example. Rather than alerts being created for 'sensors' they can now be created for 'temperature' or other sensor types directly. Also, humidity is important in a data centre environment, and is monitored by a lot of environmental monitoring systems along with temperature. Adam. Simon Smith wrote: Hi Admin, what would you use the Humidity sensor for? i throught the whole idea of Observium was to monitor Networks and Servers ??? or have i completely got the wrong end of the stick ? Regards Simon On 16 Jun 2014, at 22:48, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > We're bringing some changes soon to how entity types are used, especially in relation to groups and alerts. > > We're turning each sensor type into its own entity type, so you can now create "Humidity" sensors : > > http://alpha.memetic.org/~adama/snaps/14-06-16-f2h10.53.png > > People using alerting, is this as useful as I think it is? > > Thanks, > adam. > _______________________________________________ > 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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apc power switch
by Simon Smith 16 Jun '14

16 Jun '14

Hi all, We currently use an old APC power switch to remotely switch servers on and off and the observium can detect its an APC :-) however i don’t get any graphs for it ? no power usage? no temperature ? nothing ? is the any form of graphs i could get outta it for use with the observium ? the web card is an old AP9606 and the unit is an AP9212 Regards Simon

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DRBD with Unix Agent, doesn't show data on Graphics
by Ximena Cardinali 16 Jun '14

16 Jun '14

Hello, I have implemented the DRBD with the Unix Agent on one of the nodes of our Storage Cluster but sadly I cannot see any Info on the Graphics in Observium. Agent is running ok on the Server. I've also manually run the drbd script on the Server, and I actually get some info. Is there anything that I'm missing to configure on the monitored node? Do I need any particular additional configuration? Here is the output of the script on the server: ;---------- drbd1: SecConUpT, drbd2: SecConUpT, drbd3: SecConUpT, drbd4: SecConUpT, drbd5: SecConUpT, drbd6: SecConUpT, drbd7: SecConUpT, drbd8: SecConUpT, drbd9: SecConUpT, drbd10: SecConUpT, drbd11: SecConUpT, drbd12: SecConUpT, drbd13: SecConUpT, drbd14: SecConUpT, drbd15: SecConUpT, drbd16: SecConUpT, drbd17: SecConUpT, drbd18: SecConUpT, drbd19: SecUncUpT, drbd21: SecConUpT, drbd22: SecConUpT|ns=0|nr=105240328|dw=105240328|dr=0|al=0|bm=685|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=358431024|dw=358431024|dr=0|al=0|bm=12804|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1400615948|dw=1400615948|dr=0|al=0|bm=31995|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=324175284|dw=324175284|dr=0|al=0|bm=12796|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=209573664|dw=209573664|dr=0|al=0|bm=31996|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1428176220|dw=1428176220|dr=0|al=0|bm=15999|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=629091580|dw=629091580|dr=0|al=0|bm=16002|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=41382196|dw=41382196|dr=0|al=0|bm=31999|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1576124856|dw=1576124856|dr=0|al=0|bm=51194|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=75854484|dw=75854484|dr=0|al=0|bm=31997|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1663257472|dw=1663257472|dr=0|al=0|bm=16001|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=486811636|dw=486811636|dr=0|al=0|bm=31997|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1700698668|dw=1700698668|dr=0|al=0|bm=31981|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=314575488|dw=314575488|dr=0|al=0|bm=19200|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=1729119028|dw=1729119028|dr=0|al=0|bm=31993|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=21851228|dw=21851228|dr=0|al=0|bm=44796|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=305119416|dw=305119416|dr=0|al=0|bm=12800|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=308338344|dw=308338344|dr=0|al=0|bm=12800|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=120016416|dw=120016416|dr=0|al=0|bm=6405|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=75605064|dw=75605064|dr=0|al=0|bm=3200|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0|ns=0|nr=981644564|dw=981644564|dr=0|al=0|bm=31856|lo=0|pe=0|ua=0|ap=0|oos=0| ;---------- And here is a Screenshot of one of the Graphics with no Info: BTW, I run the poller manually a few times. I will appreciate some insight on this one. Cheers, X.

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Ubiquiti Support
by Keefe John 15 Jun '14

15 Jun '14

Hello, Would it be possible to support the new Ubiquiti MIB? That is really the only thing holding me back from buying the paid version. Thanks! Keefe John Ethoplex

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Re: [Observium] TZ
by Adam Armstrong 15 Jun '14

15 Jun '14

Wait until the time catches up with where it was before you changes time zone. Enjoy your giant spikes. Adam. Frank Lahr wrote:

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TZ
by Frank Lahr 15 Jun '14

15 Jun '14

Hey, I noticed an Observium server had the wrong timezone. I set it to the correct tz, but now all my graphs for all my devices are not updating anymore (blank from the time I switched the tz). Polling and Discovery are fine. How to fix the issue? Thanks -- Frank

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Smokeping, Rancid and Observium
by Teixeira, Mike 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

Yeah you are hijacking a thread, but whatever. I'll change the subject line and start a new thread :) I have rancid and websvn running on the same box. That box is separate from observium. I did this because I wanted rancid to run on a vm. Having it on a VM gives me somewhat of redundancy. Depending on the number of threads and number of devices you give rancid, it could interfere with observium. The server that runs observium comes into play as well. The more devices and more ports you have, the more threads you need. Observium is much more important to me than rancid; however, rancid is really important. That is another reason why I separated them. Then I have an NFS mount between rancid and observium so it can see rancid. I don't have a history of configurations in observium. I am not sure how that works. That's where websvn excels. With websvn the network guys can see what changed between revisions. So with websvn, I didn't spend much time on setting up history of configuration changes in observium. I haven't setup smokeping. The network guys always tell me they don't care about icmp testing to determine latency. Mainly because some routers/switches, that participate in QoS, will make icmp lowest priority and put the router traffic, voice traffic, and sometimes video traffic (depending on the device) higher priority. The part that I love though is when I am working with them to troubleshoot a network problem, they want a trace route. I always say to them well I thought you didn't care about icmp and trace route uses icmp. :) Inside observium in the graph section of the device in the subsection of poller, it shows icmp response. I think that is enough for me and the network guys. Mike From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Peter Casserly Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 8:03 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Rancid can't get CVS working For those using a WebSVN or similar application: Are you running that on a separate server or all on the same server? I have Observium and rancid running fine but want to add SmokPing and WebSVN. I don't want to create a mess running too many services running on one server. Looking for feedback on best practices/success vs. failure stories. Apologies in advance if this reply is off topic or hijacking the thread.

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Unbound graphics
by Eduardo Schoedler 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

Hi people, Can you provide support for total current users for Unbound? # unbound-control stats | grep 'total.requestlist.current.user' total.requestlist.current.user=14242 Thanks! -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Rancid can't get CVS working
by Benoit Lambert 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

I have a working installation of rancid and I can see the current configuration of my devices. Question: How do I view the old configurations (previous versions). I noticed when I view the config it says "Latest"....I'm assuming I can set it up to view old configs. Just don't know how.

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Overview of VLANs
by Steffen Klemer 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

Hey everybody, in nedi there is a nice feature where I can see all devices (and ports) with a specific vlan on a map. Is there any similar feature in observium which I just missed to find? Would it be possible to extend the search on the ports-page to also specify VLANs? Would you accept external patches for stuff like this? I also wrote a small extension for querying the number of active connections on a FWSM (and possibly ASA). Is there interest to get this upstream? lg /Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: Steffen.Klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 39 172361 __________________________________________________________________ GWDG Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598

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Latency alert check
by Eduardo Schoedler 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Hi people, How can I use alert checks to monitor host latency? Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Eduardo Schoedler

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Pagination of Ports > Customers
by Senses0 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Hi, Currently I have about 100 devices and 8000+ ports (dot1q sub interfaces, pseudowires, etc). I don't have any performance issues. But... Currently I have 300+ interfaces classified as "customer". It takes about 9 seconds for the page to load because everything get loaded all at once. My actual customer interfaces would easily exceed 1000. Is there a way I can paginate Ports > Customers? Much like how it's presented in Ports > All Ports? Or is this something that is currently not possible? Thanks

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Rancid SVN diffs not showing
by Benoit Lambert 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

I set Rancid up with SVN instead, but when I make a change and re-run "rancid-run" there is still only the "Latest" tab in observium. I know that observium only goes into the directory and retrieves the configurations and displays it, but how do I display the older version? Rancid configs need to have identical names to the host devices in observium.... If I point observium to search for configs in "$config['rancid_configs'][] = '/usr/local/rancid/var/networking/configs';" how does it know which is old and new? Or is there something I'm missing?

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spanning-tree information
by Stefan Milo 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Hi Is it possible to see spanning-tree information in observium? Just the usual stuff like root bridge, forwarding, discarding etc. I have a mix of cisco and hp switches, but i can't seem to find the stp tab anywhere... BR Stefan Milo

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Custom Groups of Ports
by Martin Smith 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

I love when I have an problem and someone already resolved it, but it was left out of documentation. Could someone please put the following into the default.inc? //$config['int_groups'] = array("EsxData","EsxMgmt","EsxiSCSI","EQL","Mgmt","LAGs","PI","DRAC"); \\Add<file:///\\Add> custom port groups to top menu as defined in Interface_Description_Parsing Found here: http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-299 Thank you, Martin Smith | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320-257-6607 | 877.797.4700 x170

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Rancid SVN diffs not showing
by Benoit Lambert 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

I set Rancid up with SVN instead, but when I make a change and re-run "rancid-run" there is still only the "Latest" tab in observium. I know that observium only goes into the directory and retrieves the configurations and displays it, but how do I display the older version? Rancid configs need to have identical names to the host devices in observium.... If I point observium to search for configs in "$config['rancid_configs'][] = '/usr/local/rancid/var/networking/configs';" how does it know which is old and new? Or is there something I'm missing? Thanks in advance for any help! Much appreciated!

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Clear eventlog
by Nick Beacham 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Is there a simple way to clear the eventlog? Thank you, Nicholas Beacham Desk: 515-369-7121 Cell: 515-865-3700

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Mikrotik number of client on WiFi interface
by Franjo Posavec 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

It will be great if there will be support for number of clients on mikrotik wifi access point do you have in plans to support this? best regards, -- Franjo Posavec system administrator entitas d.o.o. T: +385 (0)40 600 002 S: franjo.posavec

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apc powernet-mib
by Simon Smith 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

Hi, i have been able to get ahold of a new version of the PowerNet-MIB thats used for the APC power units if anyones interested :) also could someone update the svn with the new mib file aswell ? ftp://ftp.apc.com/apc/public/software/pnetmib/mib/411/powernet411.mib Regards Simon

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Observium Gone Crazy, bro?
by Ryan Milton 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hi All, I have an unusual issue in that after the last two updates (not that it was as a result), that Observium slams me with some 3000 "up/down" messages of all the devices in my network. The emails all come in a flood over a couple of minutes. Is there any reason that this should occur within Observium? Thanks, Ry

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monitor mdadm
by Simon Smith 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

Hi All, does observium monitor MDADM as yet? im about to setup a few machines with software raid via linux’s MDADM Regards Simon

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Re: [Observium] observium does not work with recent versions of MySQL
by Steffen Klemer 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Am Fri, 06.06.2014 um 19:17 schrieb Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx>: > This has indeed come up a few years ago already and is effectively a > non-mysql-default strict setting. > Are you sure this is not an OpenSuSE config default? It might also be an OpenSUSE default. I read somewhere that this would be a 'feature' of recent versions of mysql. I could only get rid of it with an explicit sql-mode="" in my.cnf whereas I couldn't find another config file anywhere on the system. But wouldn't it make more sense to just add a default value of "0" to all columns? I mean in the long run. /Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: Steffen.Klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 39 172361 __________________________________________________________________ GWDG Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598

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observium does not work with recent versions of MySQL
by Steffen Klemer 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hey everybody, I don't know whether this already came up, but with recent versions of mysql (like in the latest openSUSE) many features (VLANs, Ports, Routing, Events) of observium are no longer accessible. This is because of a new default "sql_mode = strict_trans_tables" which don't longer allow constructs like INSERT INTO `ports-state` (`port_id`) VALUES ('4713') in tables without default values for the other columns. The solution was a sql-mode="" in my.cnf. I suppose this will sooner or later also hit Debian/ Ubuntu. Perhaps you might fix this in one of the following versions? Otherwise observium over fulfilled all my needs and wishes. Thank you for this wonderful piece of software! cheers /Steffen -- Steffen Klemer E-Mail: Steffen.Klemer(a)gwdg.de Tel: +49 551 39 172361 __________________________________________________________________ GWDG Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg(a)gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598

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mikrotik ip add/remove not working
by Simon Smith 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi people, we have a mikrotik unit that we monitor and we have a PPPOE interface on it, that we monitor the PPPOE interface sadly drops every so often and the IP on it changes … ( I know dynamic ip for pppoe is bad, we are in process of sorting out a static ip ) but for some reason the observium, doesn’t notice the interface ip was removed then readded or even changed !? it notices that the interface is offline and alerts me… but not the IP change or re-add can someone look into this, or tell me where i could begin looking to find the problem regards Simon

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observium.log file rotate
by Simon Smith 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi All, i have created a request for a feature http://jira.observium.org/browse/OBSERVIUM-872 observium.log file rotate yes i can set it up manually to do it via webmin but would be easier if observium did itself… regards Simon

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System snmpEngineID changed
by Simon Smith 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi All, hoping someones got some light on this error i’m seeing every so often... I monitor one of our Mailcleaners (http://www.mailcleaner.org) and every time I restart the mailcleaner service or the mailcleaner itself i get the following message in Observium System snmpEngineID changed: 80001F8880BF0033479D178E5300000000 -> 80001F8880DC0B531E1F92915300000000 (probably the device was replaced). The device will be rediscovered. if i look in my snmpd.conf all i see is the following com2sec local 127.0.0.1 mailcleaner com2sec local X.X.X.X mailcleaner com2sec local 127.0.0.1 mailcleaner group MyROGroup v1 local group MyROGroup v2c local group MyROGroup usm local view all included .1 80 access MyROGroup "" any noauth exact all none none exec getmsgs /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_today_stats.pl -m exec getspams /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_today_stats.pl -s exec getbytes /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_today_stats.pl -b exec getvirus /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_today_stats.pl -v exec getstatus /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_status.pl -s exec getspools /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_status.pl -p exec getload /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_status.pl -l exec getdisks /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_status.pl -d exec getmem /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_status.pl -m exec getstats /usr/mailcleaner/bin/get_today_stats.pl -B perl push (@INC, "/usr/mailcleaner/lib"); require SNMPAgent; SNMPAgent->init(); syslocation XXXXX syscontact XXXXX disk / 100000 disk /var 100000 #This line allows Observium to detect the host OS if the distro script is installed ( ADDED MANUALLY ) extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.7890.1 distro /usr/bin/distro Anyone have any ideas how I can clear this error or get rid of it ? Regards Simon

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Observium Subscription on RHEL
by Cardinal-Richards, Emma 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi, If we were thinking of moving to the subscription service with some service options for feature development etc but our VM infrastructure is RHEL would we be unable to get the development service as the OS is unsupported or is it just the installation process that's unsupported? Regards, Emma

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Observium Subscription
by Jeremy Alberts 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hello, I wanted to upgrade to Observium Profesional. I dont want to use PayPal, but want to use a credit card. The problem is that thats not possible from The Netherlands. What to do? Kind Regards, Jeremy

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