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Wrong ports counter / reset counter
by Onno van der Leun 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, I've some weird behaviour with observium. Since some time the ports counter on the frontpage is displaying wrong values. Eg. It's showing that there are 264 ports down, but when I click the link, there are only 23 ports down. Also when I add up the up, down, ignored and disabled ports, the total number (13326) is less than the number observium shows under 'total' (14991) Does anyone have an idea where to look? Or is there a way to reset the counters? Thanks! Onno.

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Ubuntu 13.10 and Apache 2.4 virtualhost permission fix
by Pirmin Sidler - Computerline 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, Maybe you want to include, in the installation tutorial, the solution tot he virtualhost permission problem under Ubuntu 13.10 : Solution ist to have a virtualhost like this ( "Require all granted" is the key option) : VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/ ServerName test.domain.tld CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /opt/observium/html/> Require all granted Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> I think it will be help a lot of users as this is the only issue I met with the Ubuntu 13.10 distro. Best regards! Freundliche Grüsse, Pirmin Sidler System & Netzwerk Ingenieur [cid:image001.jpg@01CF4821.C97F2F70] Computerline GmbH Schellenrain 5 CH-6210 Sursee Tel. +41 41 525 20 70 Niederlassungen Gibelstrasse 3, CH-6231 Schlierbach Badenerstrasse 808, CH-8048 Zürich Tel. +41 44 500 50 20 www.computerline.com<http://www.computerline.com/>

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asynchronous interface alerting
by Bastiaan Topper 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi all, Is there any way of alerting on TX/RX load of an interface (ATM and other xDSL interfaces)? We use mostly Cisco and so we can configure bandwidth and bandwidth receive, so we could define the asynchronous bandwidths. Observium gets the ifSpeed from the bandwidth value, so if we define an alert for TX/RX load, it will almost always report on wrong loads. Interface bandwidth is adopted from the ATM sync speeds, but this is the TX load, the RX load isn't reported on the interface normally. We could define this manually or Observium could maybe get this from the DSL statistics. [cid:image001.png@01CF473C.15E85030] [cid:image002.png@01CF473C.15E85030] So use the TX and RX values from the DSL statistics: [cid:image003.png@01CF473C.80BD6760] Is this already possible or could this otherwise be built? Met vriendelijke groet, Bastiaan Topper

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Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 44, Issue 76
by Sud, Raman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi Tom, Thank you for the response I actually did the following command and it still wont work. Is 'observium db password' the root password for mysql ? Do I need to create a user called observium on mysql? >mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost' >IDENTIFIED BY '<observium db password>'; Thanks again Raman -----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request(a)observium.org Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:26 AM To: observium(a)observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 44, Issue 76 Send observium mailing list submissions to observium(a)observium.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to observium-request(a)observium.org You can reach the person managing the list at observium-owner(a)observium.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of observium digest..." Today's Topics: 1. permissions issue (Sud, Raman) 2. Re: unix agent bind (Erik Klaassen) 3. Re: permissions issue (Tom Henderson) 4. "Overall Peering Traffic" graph broken (Shane O'Brien) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:07:29 +0000 From: "Sud, Raman" <Raman.Sud(a)ironmountain.com> To: "observium(a)observium.org" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] permissions issue Message-ID: <53AC088EA7E63C49B9B4A1D87C0E2B4001A920(a)NUMEXMBP05.na.imtn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Folks, I am new to observium and I did the install as per the website. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Debian_Ubuntu_Installation when I put observium username in the config.php file and the corresponding password $config['db_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['db_user'] = 'observium'; $config['db_pass'] = 'password11'; $config['db_name'] = 'observium'; and run php includes/update/update.php command.. it fails with the following message root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php MySQL Error: Access denied for user 'observium'@'localhost' (using password: YES) root@Status:/opt/observium# if I change it to root, it works root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php root@Status:/opt/observium# root@Status:/opt/observium# I can do discovery and polling via the cli though but I see nothing on the web portal However, when I log into the web portal, and try to add a device it tells me Permission error You have insufficient permissions to view this page. When I go to my settings: it tells me Device permission level no access! What am I missing here :) Any guidance would be greatly appreciated The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email, you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse or copying or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message.

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Best managed PDU for *NIX style systems for snmp support?
by Kaya Saman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, I've been using Observium for a few months now and really enjoy it! I currently have a fully managed/switched PDU which has been under RMA for what feels like forever and the best advice the manufacturer could give me was to return the unit back to my reseller?? I'm not quite sure what's going to happen with it yet so I just wanted to know what the best or most compatible PDU is for *NIX systems?? I'm running Observium on FreeBSD 10 64bit. Basically the current PDU I have keeps bombing out under SNMP queries as snmpwalking the device either comes up with "snmp timed out" or totally the wrong protocol?? It's supposed to support v1 and v3 but the MIB response I get is for v2c? I know that Observium supports APC and two others as per listed on the Support page on the site. Which one is the most NIX friendly? Having read the documentation for the APC models, they can be updated over FTP or SCP which is perfect unlike my current model which needs an M$ exe program and since my network is OpenSource only OS wise it's basically an issue..... It seems to be a bad SNMP stack in my opinion as I've never had any issues using SNMP previously with many different vendors for network and peripheral devices. Observium even goes as far as graphing my HP print servers Toner values which is soo cool :-) Can anyone give me any advice? -- I was actually looking at this model: http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP… as a replacement. Many thanks. Kaya

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unix agent bind
by Erik Klaassen 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

i just added a bind machine successful to observium. Most of the stats and rrd's are working except for the resolving tab ( and cache content and outgoing queries). Is this because of the lack of stats from my bind? How to investigate this? the bind machine is just preforming recursion no authoritative zones. Thanks, Erik

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permissions issue
by Sud, Raman 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi Folks, I am new to observium and I did the install as per the website. http://www.observium.org/wiki/Debian_Ubuntu_Installation when I put observium username in the config.php file and the corresponding password $config['db_host'] = 'localhost'; $config['db_user'] = 'observium'; $config['db_pass'] = 'password11'; $config['db_name'] = 'observium'; and run php includes/update/update.php command.. it fails with the following message root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php MySQL Error: Access denied for user 'observium'@'localhost' (using password: YES) root@Status:/opt/observium# if I change it to root, it works root@Status:/opt/observium# php includes/update/update.php root@Status:/opt/observium# root@Status:/opt/observium# I can do discovery and polling via the cli though but I see nothing on the web portal However, when I log into the web portal, and try to add a device it tells me Permission error You have insufficient permissions to view this page. When I go to my settings: it tells me Device permission level no access! What am I missing here :) Any guidance would be greatly appreciated The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email, you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse or copying or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message.

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"Overall Peering Traffic" graph broken
by Shane O'Brien 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

We are having an issue where the "Overall Peering Traffic Today" Graph on our front page is broken. When we try and use the option to "Disable broken graphs" it removes all the graphs from our front page. Is there any way to remove the "Overall Peering Traffic Today" graph without effecting the others? Thank you in advance for your assistance! -Shane

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Qlogic Sanbox 5602 Support
by Christian Gerbrandt 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Hi group, I was wondering about how to add support for a Qlogic Sanbox 5602 FC switch. >From all the info I gathered so far, it is using the Fibre Alliance MIB. I already added it to our Observium instalaltion, but I'm not able to get all information via SNMP. Only LAN ports are showing up, and some general infos are missing. Has anyone maybe started working on adding this device, or can tell me how to best add it? Many thanks, Christian

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Mail Alerts
by tech8.otelafrica 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

Hi Guys Struggling to get mails to send from our server.When having a look in var/log I dont see anything attempting to send out in the logs. Under config.php I have the following configured: $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "alerts(a)otelafrica.com"; $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['email_from'] = "Observium dev <observium.otel.co.za>"; $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = FALSE; I have included a snapshot as well,please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. Regards Anton

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