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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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Transit weirdness
by Scott Brawner 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

I have had our net guy fill in the ifdescr with the appropriate string (I think) on some of the devices in order to get things to start working, but I'm seeing some weirdness. For example the string is set to: Transit: [200Mbit] {ATT-BKEC.946484 - Vz-46.KFGS.300721} And on the front page, the Overall Transit Traffic graph is showing up: But when I click on the graph to drill down, I get this: Total Graph for ports of type : Transit None found. Any ideas? I'm on the CE version. 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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Smokeping Integration
by Robbie Wright 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

We've got smokeping up and running on the same server as observium and followed the instructions for integration. Graphs are displaying correctly in the smokeping web interface but observium is having "error drawing graph" issues. Ping tab has been added so it is reading the smokeping config correctly. RRD's are formatted based on the name of the host (using _ instead of . since smokeping doesn't support that), but still no joy. Any ideas? Robbie Wright Siuslaw Broadband <http://siuslawbroadband.com> 541-902-5101 **For support issues, please email support(a)siuslawbroadband.com.**

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Draw/Syslog Errors
by Peter Nixon (UK SBS) 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Hi guys, I have encountered a bit of a weird error today, Observium is showing draw errors and missing syslogs for a couple (7) of my network devices. My switch configs are mirrored so the issue is not there, and I'm a bit lost considering this was working previously? Any suggestions are welcome! Kind regards, Pete Nixon Infrastructure Engineer UK SBS Tel: 01793 867798 Email: Peter.Nixon(a)ssc.rcuk.ac.uk<mailto:Peter.Nixon@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk> UK SBS, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, SN2 1FF [cid:image001.png@01CF2256.F74EC460] ____________________________________________________________ UK Shared Business Services Ltd. Registered in England and Wales as a limited company. Company number 6330639. Registered Office: North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 1FF. UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) is the new name for RCUK Shared Services Centre Ltd. While we migrate all our materials to the new name and new identity please bear with us. This email and any attachments are intended for the named addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify UK SBS immediately and do not disclose, distribute, or retain this email or any part of it. While UK SBS has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise risk of this e-mail or any attachments containing viruses, the recipient should carry out its own virus checks before opening the attachments. The Company does not accept any liability for any losses or damages which the recipient may sustain due to presence of any viruses. Any opinions expressed in this email (including attachments) are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the company's opinions. We will not accept responsibility for any commitments made by our employees outside the scope of our business. The Company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks for the purposes of preventing and detecting crime. ____________________________________________________________ This message has been scanned by the iCritical Email Security Service. For more information please visit http://www.icritical.com ____________________________________________________________

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Observium reporting
by Scott Brawner 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

All - Hello. We are evaluating Observium for our enterprise network metrics and are pretty impressed with the community package. However, before we invest in the subscription version, I have a few questions. 1. Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the subscription version? Our CIO is interested in measuring 95% on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze capacity planning. 2. How mature is the alerting in the subscription version? Is it possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a percentage of link speed and interface up/down? 3. I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the community version. Is it supposed to work? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Scott Brawner IS Manager - Infrastructure Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

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NetApp Clustered OnTap
by John P Arends 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

I’ve been testing the community edition for a few months and have been pretty impressed. I’m hoping to get the subscription version soon. Even small amounts of money can sometimes be difficult to spend with university bureaucracy. We have a few NetApp filers. The first is a bit older and is detected correctly and Observium gives quite a bit of useful information about it. The second is running the newer Clustered OnTap OS, and Observium has no idea what it is, doesn’t recognize it as a NetApp device or assign the correct icon, and doesn’t pull any data from it. Anyone have any idea if this is more up to date in the subscription version? If the person who wrote the NetApp support is willing, I can try to help out and see if we can figure out what changed. -John John Arends Senior Systems Engineer School of Communication Northwestern University

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Observium and IE
by Scott Brawner 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Apologies if this has been asked before. Observium pages appear to get pretty mangled in IE. Is there a workaround or fix for this? 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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Questions about alert system
by OCEANET - Cédric BASSAGET 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hello, Is there a way to change the check interval for alerts ? It seems to be 5 min by default, I would like to check every minute. Regards, Cédric -- OCEANET --------------------------------------------------------------- [AGENCE DU MANS] 7, rue des Frênes ZAC de la Pointe 72190 SARGE LES LE MANS [t] +33 (0)2.43.50.26.50 [f] +33 (0)2.43.72.21.14 [AGENCE D'ANGERS] 5, rue Fleming Angers Technopole 49066 ANGERS [t] +33 (0)2.41.19.28.65 [f] +33 (0)2.52.19.22.00 http://www.oceanet.com http://www.oceanet-telecom.com

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