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Api question
by Marc 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Hi All, First off all observium rocks :) I'm using observium for the testing purpose the CE version and I want to test the api but i get no result back in de data login is succeeded. api.php?username=[me]&password=idonttell&module=inventory&device=71 And the result is {"login":{"success":{"code":"101","msg":"User authentification succeeded"}},"data":[]} And yes the device is pressent --SNIP-- rrdtool graph /tmp/t21fHtvFkNKxDMW5.png -g --alt-autoscale-max --rigid -E --start 1391802941 --end 139188934 --SNIP-- php version PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u7 restclient from philsturgeon codeigniter 2.1.4 -- *Met vriendelijke groet,* Marc de Rooy Technische medewerker Datacenter Engineer Flexwebhosting/FXW DISCLAIMER De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht ontvangt, vragen wij u het volgende: gebruik de inhoud niet; informeer de afzender door het bericht te retourneren; en vernietig de inhoud. The information contained in this message may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please do not use the contents, inform us immediately and delete its content.

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Scaling Observium with Rancid, Smokeping, and Syslog-ng
by Chip Pleasants 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Anyone have suggestions or real world experiences they could share scaling Observium with Rancid, Smokeping, and Syslog-ng. I have about 1000 router/switches in my network that equate to about 30k of interfaces. Half the interfaces will probably be down, although I'm not sure that makes a difference. Basically I'm wondering if I should break out my tools to individual VMs and use something like NFS for Observium to be able to see Rancid,Smokeping, and Syslog-ng data. Feel free to shoot me a private note. I appreciate any feedback. -Chip

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ad ldap config brings up a blank page
by Chip Pleasants 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

I'm hoping someone could provide a little assistance helping me debug this problem. I'm seeing a blank home page when I change the authentication type to ldap. As soon as I put it back to mysql the home page displays. I'm using a working ldap config currently be used on a Ubuntu 12.04. I'm attempting to migrate over to a corporate supported RHEL 6 box. I dont see anything any log file indicating an ldap issue or configuration. Here's my ldap config. SELinux is disabled. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks. -Chip // Authentication Model #Required LDAP Settings $config['auth_ldap_binddn'] = "CN=foo,OU=foo,OU=foo Users,OU=foo,DC=foo,DC=foo,DC=NET"; $config['auth_ldap_bindpw'] = "foo"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uid'] = "sAMAccountName"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['uidNumber'] = "objectSid"; $config['auth_ldap_attr']['cn'] = "name"; $config['auth_ldap_objectclass'] = "person"; $config['auth_mechanism'] = "ldap"; $config['auth_ldap_version'] = 3; $config['auth_ldap_server'] = "foo-adc05.foo.net"; $config['auth_ldap_port'] = 389; $config['auth_ldap_starttls'] = "false"; #User Account $config['auth_ldap_prefix'] = "cn="; $config['auth_ldap_suffix'] = ",OU=foo,OU=foor Users,OU=foo,DC=foo,DC=foo,DC=NET"; $config['auth_ldap_group'] = "CN=foo,OU=foo,OU=E-mail foo,OU=foo Groups,OU=foo,DC=foo,DC=foo,DC=NET"; $config['auth_ldap_groupbase'] = "OU=foo,OU=E-mail foo,OU=foo Groups,OU=foo,DC=foo,DC=foo,DC=NET"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmembertype'] = "fulldn"; $config['auth_ldap_groupmemberattr'] = "member"; unset($config['auth_ldap_groups']); $config['auth_ldap_groups']['foo']['level'] = 10;

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Re: [Observium] The new alerting system.
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

Look at the attached mails.. Got the mail again today. Thomas Please make sure these are the /same/ entities. None of the dates match, the duration on the alert doesn't match the GUI screenshot. adam.

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The new alerting system.
by Thomas Raabo - Zitcom A/S 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

I keep getting the same alerts on mail now. The alerts have never gone OK but have stayed in Error mode. I run the alerter.php via crontab. Med venlig hilsen | Best regards Thomas Raabo Netværksansvarlig CCIE #33466 Zitcom A/S Telefon: 70 40 00 00 E-mail: kontakt(a)zitcom.dk Direkte: 69 10 60 18 Direkte: tr(a)zitcom.dk

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@observium_svn
by Adam Armstrong 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Hi Guys, It seems that the mongtards at Twitter have made some more changes to their clusterfuck of an API, breaking the SVN -> Twitter gateway for the zillionth time. So, it's not working until further notice. Thanks, Obam^WTwitter. adam.

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Email alerts - Duration
by Ryan, Spencer J. 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Is the "Duration" field in email alerts working as intended? I offlined a BGP peer to force an alert and the first ALERT message says "Duration 6 days, 16h 59m 55s" If this is trying to tell me the last time it alerted it is incorrect, because this router was offline on Monday for maintenance. Additionally when it came back up (under 10 minutes) I would expect the duration to tell me how long the alert was active, instead I get this: 6 days, 17h 9m 44s. That's the 10 minutes (two polling cycles) the device was off. But where is the rest of that value coming from? Running SVN 4922 Thanks, ________________________________ Spencer Ryan | Systems Engineer Miller Canfield<http://www.millercanfield.com> 150 West Jefferson, Suite 2500 Detroit, Michigan 48226 (USA) T +1.313.496.7547 | F +1.313.496.7699 | Mobile +1.734.846.2053 ryan(a)millercanfield.com<mailto:ryan@millercanfield.com> ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ NOTICE TO PERSONS SUBJECT TO UNITED STATES TAXATION (MCPS) DISCLOSURE UNDER TREASURY CIRCULAR 230: The United States Federal tax advice, if any, contained in this document and its attachments may not be used or referred to in the promoting, marketing or recommending of any entity, investment plan or arrangement, nor is such advice intended or written to be used, and may not be used, by a taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding Federal tax penalties. _______________________________________________________________

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Paid initial install/setup
by Sam Munzani 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Hi Adam, Do you provide initial configuration of Observium as professional services? If so, what are your rates? I need Observium to do following. 1. Standard discovery and monitoring of about 20 devices. 18 Cisco ASA firewalls, a few routers and a few switches. 2. Get alerts to work via email. If something goes down/up, want an alert 3. Get syslog module working. Collect syslog from all devices. May be setup syslog filters(if possible via Observium or syslog-ng) and alert on some messages. 4. Integrate with Smokeping - Optional. Not a show stopper. 5. Integrate with rancid - Optional. Not a show stopper. Thanks, Sam

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have a look at this
by Zach Underwood 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

One of the largest ISP in Russia is using observium. http://www.gblnet.net/ the obervium page http://www.gblnet.ru/ there main webpage -- Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT,UACA) My website <http://zachunderwood.me> My photos <http://zunder1990.openphoto.me>

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Subversion
by Scott Brawner 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Since the subnet that our Observium server is blocked from the internet, I am unable to directly update using subversion. Anyone know a way to relay the subversion from svn à me with a windows client à the observium server? I SVN d/led the latest stable with Tortoise then FTPed it to the server but it seems to have broken some stuff. Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. o. 843-308-2364 m. 843-814-3912 Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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