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Problem with time range showing graph
by Fiberwide Sysadmins 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Hi all, i'm using Observium in our company, we start suffering a problem when we try to show a graph in a defined time frame, the result is like that the time frame selected and the graph are different time frame, for example I select From: 2018-07-10 09:03:5 To: 2018-07-10 10:11:56 but the graph show starting 11:00 ending 12:10 like the attached image, and if I try to select a time-frame ending in this moment, the graph is empty, i suppose because the real time-frame used will end in the future. What I've missed in my configuration ? Distinti saluti --- Davide Lima Daum - System & Network Engineer Fibering S.p.a. - www.fiberwide.com T: +39.02.00632100 F: +39.02.00632199 e: sysadmin(a)fiberwide.com

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Syslog issue
by Satish Patel 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

I want to integrate syslog with my observium and i am following all these steps http://docs.observium.org/syslog/ I am using rsyslog, I have point my Cisco gears to observium and i can see in tcpdump logs are coming from cisco routers, now issue is i can't see them in GUI interface, how do i troubleshoot now?

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No Alert Notification
by David Ross 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

I'm attempting to setup an alert notification that would get engaged only if SNMP and ICMP were down, so I've setup a device-down alert that is based upon the below two conditions. device_status_type snmp 0 device_status_type ping 0 I also have "Require all conditions" selected within the Alert Checker Conditions. When SNMP condition is met, Observium does mark the device as down and does not send a notification, as desired. However, when both conditions are met, Observium marks the device as down but does not send a notification. What am I missing? Regards, *David W. Ross, Sr.* Sr. Network Engineer 50 Fremont St, 42nd Floor San Francisco, California 94105 415.589.4930 - O 415.926.3483 - C david.ross(a)salesforce.com <http://smart.salesforce.com/sig/david.ross//us_mb/default/link.html>

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how to exclude the CPU temperature readings when monitoring virtual machines?
by Thomas Stather 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Hi I am using Observium Professional 18.1.9011 (subscription). I am monitoring one virtual machine (Ubuntu, VMWare ESXi hosted) and noticed that the CPU temperatur is quite high with 100 degrees :) The question is now how to exclude this output for all virtual machines if possible? Thanks in advance! Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV Tel: +49 6221-486 628 Fax: +49 6221-486 561 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (MPImF) Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg Germany

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Is the snmp output from Aruba devices total rubbish or is something upfucked in my install.
by Rowlands Mark 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Observium 8.6.9263 (10th June 2018) OS Linux 4.4.0-116-generic [amd64] (Ubuntu 16.04) Apache 2.4.18 (Ubuntu) PHP 7.0.30-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (OPcache: ENABLED) Python 2.7.12 MySQL 10.1.25-MariaDB-1~xenial (extension: mysqli 5.0.12-dev) SNMP NET-SNMP 5.7.3 RRDtool 1.5.5 (rrdcached 1.5.5: unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock) Fping 3.13 (IPv4 and IPv6) I have a bunch of Aruba devices, WAP205H, IAP155, 303H and a single 7005. OS little varied but usually 6.4x or 6.5x. I am aware that the Aruba is not specifically supported but would expect basic snmp bandwidth info to be correct ( ish ) IAP155 and 7005 seem to report bandwidth traffic ok but the 205and 303 report nonsense. ( see the attached graph ) . Are there other Aruba users out there with similar issues or is it just me?

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Best practice for alert threshold per devices
by Thibault Richard 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

%Hello, Im trying to define different alert threshold per devices. Ive tried by proceeding like this : 1° Ive defined a global alarm for all my devices having disk over 90% Im associating this alert checks to every devices except those in a specific group 2° The group with id 17, correspond to devices for which I accept a disk filled under 95% 3° Ive defined a second alert check specifically for this Is it the good way to achieve my goal ? Is my syntax correct ? Best Regards Thibault

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access graph, and alerts using API
by Gupta, Vijay(AWF) 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hi Team, Using API, I was trying to retrieve below information but could not figure out from the documentation provided. * graph (for processor, memory, etc) * device alerts for a specific time period (say past week/month) * we can pull the alerts, but not for a specific time range Appreciate if you could please help. Best, Vijay

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RHEL 7 and php 7.0 loading
by Dash Brousseau 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I have a new os install for subscription of Observium on redhat 7 I can’t get the main page to work Website loads but it’s all texts. Trying with php 7.0.But there seems to be conflict between php 5.3 or difference between httpd24. I dont know In the error logs it doesn’t show anything wrong so I’m assuming its php problem In the browser I get this display all in text “* @copyright (C) 2006-2013 Adam Armstrong, (C) 2013-2016 Observium Limited * */ include("../includes/sql-config.inc.php"); include_once($config['html_dir'] . "/includes/functions.inc.php"); // Preflight checks if (!is_dir($config['rrd_dir'])) { print_error("RRD Directory is missing ({$config['rrd_dir']}). Graphing may fail."); } if (!is_dir($config['log_dir'])) { print_error("Log Directory is missing ({$config['log_dir']}). Logging may fail."); } if (!is_dir($config['temp_dir'])) { print_error("Temp Directory is missing ({$config['temp_dir']}). Graphing may fail."); } if (!is_writable($config['temp_dir'])) { print_error("Temp Directory is not writable ({$config['tmp_dir']}). Graphing may fail."); } if (ini_get('register_globals')) { $notifications[] = array('text' => 'The PHP Option "register_globals" enabled in the php.ini. Please disable it!', 'severity' => 'alert'); } //if (!function_exists('hash_exists')) //{ // $alerts[] = array('text' => 'The PHP `hash` module is missing This will cause editing and other forms to fail. Please install it.', 'severity' => 'danger'); //} if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, OBS_MIN_PHP_VERSION, '<')) { $notifications[] = array('text' => ' Your PHP version is too old. Your currently installed PHP version ' . PHP_VERSION . ' is older than the required minimum of ' . OBS_MIN_PHP_VERSION . '. Please upgrade your version of PHP to prevent possible incompatibilities and security problems.', 'severity' => 'danger'); } if (isset($config['alerts']['suppress']) && $config['alerts']['suppress']) { $notifications[] = array('text' => ' All Alert Notifications Suppressed” etc etc. But I follow the install guide at Observium website I even create a ticket with redhat I was directly here https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2662201 When I use httpd24-httpd to start apache,he doesn’t even reference /etc/httpd/conf.d/ where obersvium is. So observirum page doesn’t even load however the main apache site shows working php7.0 I will kill that and go back to this systemctl enable httpd systemctl start httpd And now I’m back at the same situation. When Observium loads just text Anyone got Observium to work on rheal 7 with php 7.0 Dash This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the intended addressee (or authorized to receive for the intended addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by e-mail then delete the message immediately. Francais: http://www.fundserv.com/fr/company/disclaimer<http://www.fundserv.com/francais/legal/disclaimer_email_ib.shtml>

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how to avoid false-positives (device down/up), on HPE switches and Aruba APs
by Thomas Stather 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi Observium: 18.1.9011 (stable, subscribtion) We are monitoring our networking infrastructure with Observium and for a long time, i am seeing some false-positives. The poller period is 5 minutes and i.e. on 10:00am Observium reports a switch beeing down, where at 10:05am it reports it as beeing up again. This happens to HPE network gear (switches) as well as to wireless APs (Aruba). I set |$config['ping']['debug'] = TRUE; ||$config['ping']['timeout'] = 500; ||| |in config.php and will now monitor if that helps. Is there anything else i can try to solve this issue?| Best, Thomas -- Thomas Stather IT Services VCP4, VCP6-DCV Tel: +49 6221-486 628 Fax: +49 6221-486 561 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (MPImF) Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg Germany

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SQL Query
by Andrew Lemin 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi Adam, Hope you are well. Just a quick question about the Observium database schema. I need to write a simple query that will return a list of device names and the IP addresses which Observium uses for its polling (we don’t need or want any other addresses). I had a look and found tables ‘devices’ and ‘ipv4_addresses’. And I can see the device_id foreign key etc, so obtaining all the IPs for a device is trivial enough. But I am not sure how to best filter for just the IP which Observium uses for polling. I recently built a DNS zone for our network team using PowerDNS, and I just need to export all the devices and their management IPs from Observium, so I can inject the records into PowerDNS. So nothing fancy, but we have a couple hundred records.. Kind regards, Andy Lemin

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