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General Questions for a New User
by Carlos Alvarado Lobo 21 Apr '18

21 Apr '18

Dear Sirs: I’m a new user and I currently have a suscription license. I have some questions and I need your support to resolve them! 1- How many devices can manage the platform using a production license (Supcription Edition)? and How many the Community Edition? Is it limited by the amount of equipment or by the parameters to be monitored? I have a project to monitor 300 UPS APC and 5 parameter per device and I need to confirm if it is possible !! 2- Right now, I have Observium installed on a Dell R230 server, Intel Xeon E3-1220V3 / 3.1 GHz, 8 GB DDR3L SDRAM, 2 TB hard drive capacity; I need to document or validate that Observium can be installed without problems on this server! 3- Regarding the license, How can I differentiate between a test installation and the production environment? We need to made testing with notification before put on production! 4- How can I get the Observium documentation in pdf? Regards, Carlos Alvarado

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Enhancement request
by Andrew Lemin 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Hi, Just two small enhancement requests ;) 1) We love the Search feature to search for IPs and MACs, a true time saver. And adding the ability to sort by the columns would be fantastic. After doing a search for all loopbacks for example, it would be great if we could sort the resulting list by the "Device", "Interface", "Address" or "Description" columns. The list currently seems to sort by "Address", but alphabetically not numerically etc. Use case example, I am programming some explicit-paths for some traffic engineering tunnels, and so I need to find the loopbacks of every router along the path to which I want to fix the TE tunnel. I can search for all loopbacks no problem, but we have lots or them as routers also have multiple loopbacks.. However I am just interesting in "Lo0" on every single router. So after doing the search for all loopbacks, if we could then just click on the "Interface" column heading, that would put all the Lo0's first.. voilà :) 2) We also love the simplicity and power provided by utilizing the [] {} () brackets on descriptions to store the values into the different database fields. But the CDR [] is limited. This is probably one of the most powerful features, as it allows you to not have to configure monitoring, but instead to only configure the network and monitoring then automatically does its thing and follows the network :) We would like to do more with the [CDR] field, but are hamstrung by the fact that the CDR is not converted into bits in the database. The star feature would be to create an alert checker that fires when utilisation breaches the configured CDR. We know this has been requested and requires some code reworking.. We just wanted to add our names to the list of users after this feature. Thanks again for your time and creating such a great project. Because it is so good we still have on our roadmap a desire to put in some time and effort to contribute to the project, and figure out all the OIDs and their mappings etc and attempt to write a page for showing LDP neighbours and various other MPLS things. Given time I am determined to get around to this ;) Best regards, Andy Lemin.

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Re: [Observium] Autodiscover - LLDP discovery
by Adam Armstrong 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

The original design of Observium was to enforce valid hostnames. We no longer enforce this for adding devices (because some networks are run by insane people who like looking at huge lists of nearly identical IPs), but a lot of the autodiscovery code still uses sysName and forward dns lookups to verify if a device should really be autodiscovered. Changing this behaviour would involve time, so one would have to be persuasive with one's justification. :> adam. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Christian Eriksson" <christian.eriksson(a)advania.se> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Sent: 2018-04-16 11:10:03 Subject: [Observium] Autodiscover - LLDP discovery >Hello > > > >Is it possible for Observium to add devices based on the management >address that is returned by LLDP if SysName does not resolve? Don’t get >me wrong, we use DNS, but sometimes a customer network is not known to >us > > > >Regards > >Christian >

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Sensors info
by Arnoldo Vidal Bravo 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

We have a Access Point connected to HP 2530PoE switch and show power of a port is over limit, but value was setup on switch. Observium not show current value only show value configured. -- Saluda cordialmente

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Need some help with scheduled maintenance
by Richard Kuhns 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

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APC ATS - Output/Input voltage
by Jacek.Dabrowski＠selgros.pl 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Hello, I have a problem with Rack-mount Transfer Switches from APC Observium shows zero voltage but OidView returns the correct values, what is wrong ? [cid:image002.jpg@01D3D570.2D830110] [cid:image004.jpg@01D3D570.2D830110] [cid:image009.jpg@01D3D570.2D830110] [cid:image010.jpg@01D3D570.2D830110] Best regards, Jacek Dąbrowski

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observium pro licensce question
by Edvinas K 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

Hello, For some mistake we've two Observium Pro licences. When im logging into "client area" how to know which licence is mapped to which instance ?

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Add sysname to alerts email
by Maurizio Mazzocco 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

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Autodiscover - LLDP discovery
by Christian Eriksson 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Hello Is it possible for Observium to add devices based on the management address that is returned by LLDP if SysName does not resolve? Don't get me wrong, we use DNS, but sometimes a customer network is not known to us Regards Christian

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Feature request: MAC address lookup
by Attila Nagy 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Hi Adam! I was looking at the ARP/NDP table on the Ports page of some of our machines and currently it displays the vendor of the given device in a tooltip. But it would make much more sense to display - if the MAC address is known - the machine that has the given MAC address instead. Opinion? Has this any chance to get implemented? Regards, Tylla

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