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Network changes
by Kiru Pananthan 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Dear all Recently our team member disconnect our network switch with out labeling the Network cable port no, is there any possibilities to check in observium where the connection from UP switch to disconnected switch -- Kind Regards, Kirupananthan Yogalingam, Assistant Manager - ICT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australian International School Malaysia (AISM) No.22 Jalan Anggerik, The Mines Resort City, 43300 Seri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia. *T:* +60 3 8949 5000 *F*: +60 3 8949 5100 *E*: kirup(a)aism.edu.my *W*: http://www.aism.edu.my/ *Direct Line*: +60-3-8949 5030 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <https://www.facebook.com/aismalaysia> <http://www.youtube.com/user/AISMvideos> <http://www.aism.edu.my/virtualtour> -- *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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health/overview page is there a way to change what is presented?
by Steve Costaras 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

I am using observium community edition to monitor a couple systems. Noticed a couple items that seem to make some of the graphs not too useful. The health / Overview section for file systems is the first. It shows file systems with no problem, however it's graphing the file systems based on their percentage used NOT their used byte size. I don't know how others are using this, but here we grow file systems frequently which this produces graphs like the attached. Is there a way to either change what metric is graphed (bytes/ not percentage) or have a another overview graph of file systems with capacity used. This gets much more important with ZFS when you add new vdev's or expand them as like the graph will expand all filesystems on that pool which doesn't seem to be too useful and there can be hundreds. Another question on the same page is the operations/second graphs. This is displaying data twice or more when you are using device mapper you see both the sd* devices as well as the dm-* devices. This is very bad when you're talking about 100's of physical drives (seeing 200 or more depending on how you have it set up with partitions devices). Is there a way to filter out dm-* devices so only sd* ones are calculated/graphed? Steve

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Interface Traffic trend
by KENNETH D MILLER II 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Is there a config option or change I need to make to get the interface traffic trend option to work? I'm running the latest CE version. RRDtool 1.38 and 1.47 versions. I've only have this running a month, but thought there would be enough data to see a trend. Also, where would I load MIBs and configure OIDs for Brocade VDX gear? Thanks in advance, Ken

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Re-enable host where discovery has been disabled?
by David Lagace 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Hello all, I seem to be in a bit of a pickle. On one of my hosts I enabled the 'Disables polling and discovery' to not have it report while working on it but now I can't seem to find the host to reenable the polling and discovery. I can see reference to it in the 'Delete Devices' page with the caption [disabled] next to it but not anywhere else. Just wondering where or how I can re-enable this host. Thanks for your help, --Dave

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Differing values
by Cardinal-Richards, Emma 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Hi, On (seemingly all) our device port pages I get different values in the legends on the page of graphs vs their respective hover over pop-up graphs? In theory I thought they're showing the same timeframe/data? Regards, Emma

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LDAP Authentication
by Paolo Giustiniani 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Hello, I use ldap to authenticate my users. Unfortunately for the users admin if using ldap, after login there are no graphics and no administrative leave. What can I check? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rispetta l'ambiente: se non ti è necessario, non stampare questa mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note in ottemperanza al Decreto Legislativo 196/2003 sulla Tutela dei Dati Personali: Il presente messaggio e gli eventuali allegati sono rivolti unicamente all'attenzione del destinatario ed il relativo contenuto potrebbe avere carattere riservato e ne e' vietata la diffusione in qualunque modo eseguita. Nel caso in cui aveste ricevuto questa mail per errore, Vi invitiamo ad avvertire il mittente al più presto a mezzo posta elettronica ed a distruggere il messaggio erroneamente ricevuto.

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Re: [Observium] Re-enable host where discovery has been disabled?
by Chris Ely 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

Go to the device page and click the little cog or gear icon in the top right corner. You can re-enable polling and discovery there. -cely On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, David Lagace <dave(a)deelite.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > I seem to be in a bit of a pickle. On one of my hosts I enabled the > 'Disables polling and discovery' to not have it report while working on it > but now I can't seem to find the host to reenable the polling and > discovery. > > I can see reference to it in the 'Delete Devices' page with the caption > [disabled] next to it but not anywhere else. Just wondering where or how > I can re-enable this host. > > Thanks for your help, > > --Dave > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >

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Inquiry
by Lala, Rajiv 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Good Morning, I am interested in purchasing support that will used with the open source version of Observium for my company. How should I proceed in doing so? Thanks, Rajiv Lala Buyer Technology Procurement Corporate Finance Division Phone: 312-338-2759 Mobile: 312-208-8480 rajiv.lala(a)cmegroup.com<mailto:rajiv.lala@cmegroup.com> CME Group 20 South Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 www.cmegroup.com<http://www.cmegroup.com/>

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Custom "alias" for port
by Ibrahim Tachijian 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Is there no way to set a custom alias for a given port? I want to set the name to "Peering: XXXX" so that it matches the peering type. The reason is because my ex2500 juniper is not properly sending the "name" of the port via snmp thats configured in the switch. Additionally the EX2500 switch (juniper) is shown as Generic. -- Ibrahim Tachijian Net Sat AB

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Processor, Memory pool and Sensors deleted on Cisco device
by Matthias Cramer 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Hi After doing a "svn update" this evening all proceccors, memory pools and sensors disapeared on a cisco 892 router which I rediscovered manualy after the update, Log: 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 6 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 5 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 4 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 3 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 2 33m 12s Sensor Sensor deleted: temperature cisco-envmon 1 33m 12s Mempool Memory pool removed: mib cisco-enhanced-mempool-mib, index 1.2, descr C892FSP-K9 (I/O) 33m 12s Mempool Memory pool removed: mib cisco-enhanced-mempool-mib, index 1.1, descr C892FSP-K9 (Processor) 33m 12s Processor Processor removed: type cpm index 1 descr Processor 1 Any idea what caused this? Regards Matthias -- Matthias Cramer / mc322-ripe Senior Network & Security Engineer iway AG Phone +41 43 500 1111 Badenerstrasse 569 Fax +41 44 271 3535 CH-8048 Zurich http://www.iway.ch/ GnuPG 1024D/2D208250 = DBC6 65B6 7083 1029 781E 3959 B62F DF1C 2D20 8250

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Re: [Observium] Alert Checker for Netscaler
by Adam Armstrong 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

There are no undocumented metrics. You have to request them. :) You can't check a service inside a vserver, as the entities don't work that way. You can, however, check the status of a service independently. Adam. Martin Smith wrote:

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Alert Checker for Netscaler
by Martin Smith 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Hello everyone, How can I find available values to be used with the alerting system for metrics that are not documented in the wiki? http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes For example, a service inside a vserver's status changes to "down". Or when the bandwidth per vserver exceeds a specified value? Basically, I'm lost on how to find new metrics and attributes... :[ Thanks in advance for your time, 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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Re: [Observium] Uncaught bounce notification
by Adam Armstrong 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Protip guys: If you go on holiday and set a "vacation" autoresponder on an account subscribed to our mailing lists, you will be banned for life. FOR FUCKING LIFE. adam. On 2014-07-01 10:51, mailman-bounces(a)observium.org wrote: > The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce > format was not recognized, or no member addresses could be extracted > from it. This mailing list has been configured to send all > unrecognized bounce messages to the list administrator(s). > > For more information see: > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/observium/bounce > > > Return-Path: <vacation(a)skylink.cz> > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by postman.memetic.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3933B9B8 > for <observium-bounces(a)lists.memetic.org>; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:51:32 > +0100 (BST) > X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavis+SpamAssassin+ClamAV and more at > postman.memetic.org > Received: from postman.memetic.org ([127.0.0.1]) > by localhost (postman.memetic.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port > 10024) > with ESMTP id ooamX0QotsFU for <observium-bounces(a)lists.memetic.org>; > Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:51:30 +0100 (BST) > Received: from mailserver.skylink.cz (email.skylink.cz [81.91.221.7]) > by postman.memetic.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF193B9C4 > for <observium-bounces(a)observium.org>; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:51:22 +0100 > (BST) > Received: by mailserver.skylink.cz (Postfix, from userid 8) > id 96CEB4237; Tue, 1 Jul 2014 17:50:38 +0200 (CEST) > From: dvolny(a)ezilly.cz > To: observium-bounces(a)observium.org > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Subject: =?UTF-8?B?T24gdmFjYXRpb24gbWVzc2FnZQ==?= > X-Loop: jamcp virtual vacation > Message-Id: <20140701155038.96CEB4237(a)mailserver.skylink.cz> > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 17:50:38 +0200 (CEST) > > Dear sender, > > I am out of the office with limited access to my email. > For urgent operational IT issues please contact the EZilly Helpdesk at > helpdesk(a)ezilly.cz > > Kind regards, > David Volný

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syslog -> cleaning the database...
by Xavier Beaudouin 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi There, Looking after a reason why I got soooooo long time to see some firewall I saw that despite the // Syslog stuff $config['enable_syslog'] = 1; $config['syslog_age'] = "1 month"; On configuration, the old syslog informations are not deleted. I created a small php script to clean that (using crontab), do you like to have this contrib ? (It is somewhat easy, but if you don't have time to make that, then, I will be pleased to create a jira with this file). /Xavier

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Odd issue with Syslog collection
by Anthony Mattke 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

On a recent install of observium, I’ve noticed some oddities with Syslog collection… Some devices are being collected just fine, but others are not. In the example screenshot included below, my firewall ***10, and one switch ***04 are both being collected just fine. But the switches 75***** and *****50 are not. http://i.imgur.com/nxupFzJ.png One thing I noticed was that someone had turned on “service sequence-numbers” on the ****04 switch. (The ASA has no such feature that I know of.. ) When I disabled this service, the collection stopped working on that device! Example here…http://i.imgur.com/HViWcTk.png Thoughts? Thanks!! -Tony

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ios-xr etc syslog
by Rob VanHooren 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

to make it go away, could try getting rid of the "service log sequence numbers" (or whatever exact syntax it is) in the device's ios config if you don't need the sequence numbering for audit, that's easier than trying to hack in a new syslog-ng.conf template. luck, R.

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Syslog parsing: Issue from IOS XR devices
by Senses0 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

Hi, I have few devices running Cisco IOS XR. I am sending syslog messages from all devices to Observium. Everything is fine except for the log messages sent by routers running IOS XR. Instead of log Program name, messages sent by XR devices contain an incrementing sequence number, which is being parsed as log Program (Incrementing sequence number being parsed as syslog program = bad. real bad). The actual program name appears much later within the message. I have gone through the sylog configuration guide for XR routers. Couldnt find anything that would alter the message format of what is being sent. I also configured "logging facility syslog" in XR devices, but that didnt resolve the issue. To better explain my situation, I have attached a screenshot. Hopefully it would help. Oh and I am subscriber :) Thanks, Senn

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Windows individual performance counter
by Stefan 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

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Re: [Observium] location
by Rob VanHooren 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

… DNS LOC records were invented for this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOC_record just a thought. R. On Jun 26, 2014, at 7:00, observium-request(a)observium.org wrote: > The location parsing stuff does need looked at a bit more.

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GPS data on Syslocation
by Ciro Iriarte 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Hi! , out of curiosity, is there any prevision to locate devices with actual GPS data, stored in the Syslocation field for example?. Regards, Ciro -- Ciro Iriarte http://iriarte.it --

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Re: [Observium] Syslog from NX-OS device
by Steffen Klemer 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Am Tue, 24.06.2014 um 14:49 schrieb Ole Hansen <oha(a)netic.dk>: > 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||$PROGRAM\n"); template-escape(yes); }; For me it works with destination d_observium { program("/opt/observium/syslog.php" template ("$HOST||$FACILITY||$PRIORITY||$LEVEL||$TAG||$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC||$MSG||$PROGRAM\n") template-escape(yes)); }; > 10.10.10.10||local7||info||info||be||2014-06-24 16:43:08||Jun 24 > 14:43:07: %SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP: list flow denied udp > 192.168.10.10(137) -> 192.168.11.10(137), 5 packets ||147696 > 10.10.10.11||local7||notice||notice||bd||2014-06-24 16:43:16||2014 > Jun 24 16:43:16.724 CEST: %SYSMGR-5-CFGWRITE_STARTED: Configuration > copy started (PID 2143).|| I see an ip-addresses instead of a hostname in your first field here. iirc observium can only work with hostnames and especially needs the hostname in the first field to be identical to the one in the database (i.e. with or without FQDN), therefor I set use_dns(yes) and use_fqdn(no) instead of keep_hostname(yes) like it is written in the manual. It total it looks like this for me: options { chain_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); use_dns(yes); use_fqdn(no); owner("root"); group("adm"); perm(0640); stats_freq(0); bad_hostname("^gconfd$"); }; But you can also set a hostname in nx-os and redefine the logging very fine granular. /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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nxos syslog
by Rob VanHooren 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

is the nexus' L3 in the global (default) vrf? if *not* then it won't (easily?) work until cisco fixes the (being kind here) "oddball way" that mib exposure happens on the nxos platform. a workaround could be to map out things with snmp contexts that tie in a string per vrf ... but imo that doesn't scale effectively. join the party: go beat up TAC and your sales rep. for how stupid their implementation -- of something pretty fundamental -- is. luck, R. Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPhone

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NXOS vrfs == OID grief
by Rob VanHooren 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

it seems vrfs aren't discovered, since the OIDs are not found. this leads to all sorts of unhappiness, since with no ipaddr (mgmt vrf) winds up with no syslog, no routing, no nothing except L2 info. who can I send the walk to? (would rather not post it to the list or jira) thanks, R. [me@host ~] ./discovery.php -h theN7k -m cisco-vrf -d DEBUG! theN7k 135 nxos (cisco) VRFs : DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' -Osqn -m MPLS-L3VPN-STD-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'theN7k':'161' mplsL3VpnVrfRD .1.3.6.1.2.1.10.166.11.1.2.2.1.4 No Such Object available on this agent at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' -Osqn -m MPLS-VPN-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'theN7k':'161' mplsVpnVrfRouteDistinguisher .1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.2.1.3 No Such Object available on this agent at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' -Osqn -m MPLS-VPN-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'theN7k':'161' .1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.2.1.2 .1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.2.1.2 No Such Object available on this agent at this OID DEBUG: SNMP Auth options = -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' /usr/bin/snmpbulkwalk -v2c -c 'secretSNMPro' -Osqn -m MPLS-VPN-MIB -M /opt/observium/mibs 'udp':'theN7k':'161' .1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.1.1.2 .1.3.6.1.3.118.1.2.1.1.2 No Such Object available on this agent at this OID

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Timeout: No Response from xxxx
by George 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Hi, I have latest observium installed and running on a Ubuntu 12.04.4 server and am trying to add another same Ubuntu server to the observium server. I've set up snmpd on the target host. When I run the snmpstatus command from the observium server I get a Timeour: No Response. I've installed the mibs and everything else according to the docs. I can see in the syslog of the target host that the observium server hits it. I can run successfully snmpstatus on the target host and query itself. I can run snmpstatus successfully from another CentOS server. It works from everywhere except the observium server. There are no firewalls involved. Am I doing anything wrong? What info can I send you to help me debug it. Please help Thanks

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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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