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Dealing with "slow" hosts
by Remco Bressers 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Dear list, A few of our routers in the network are terribly slow in handling the complete ifEntry from IF-MIB to Observium. This results in gaps in graphs and there’s no way to speed things up because of relatively broken/slow implementations in (in this case) Brocade XMR hardware. In the past we monitored ifInOctets/ifOutOctets and a few OID’s more. The full ifEntry is too heavy. Is there a way to deal with this, like a possibility to prevent polling the whole thing and skip certain unneeded OID’s. Are there any plans to enhance the poller for this possibility of is there any (filthy) hack known to do this? Any ideas on this would be great. We would definitely want to throw Cacti to /dev/null but due to this problem it’s not yet possible. Not necessary to say this again but we are very, very happy with Observium. Thanks Adam, Mike, Tom and others.. Regards, Remco Bressers Signet BV

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Re: [Observium] delete ports?
by John Poznicek 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

Ok not sure what I am doing wrong here - there has to be a way to remove these unwanted nics. So you can see info here http://imgur.com/a/XNhO4 I have this in my config.php // bad interfaces $config['bad_if'][] = "NC-8100w"; I have gone into the database directly and marked the interfaces deleted. But they just get readded, delete gets removed - see the event log in the above screenshots. So I have turned off discovery for the device, and gone into the database and deleted the records of the intefaces. Which works for a bit - but then they show up again. This is a brother HL-3170cdw printer.. I don't know how I would delete the interface on the device directly. How do I remove these wireless interfaces from what observium shows. This printer will never use the wireless interfaces it has. So how do I remove them from observium showing them? You would think if I disable discovery of ports, and then delete them from the database they would never get put back.. But clearly they do - is there some step I am missing? If you need any other info just please ask. TIA

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Session Expired
by Johnathon Voegeli 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

I have updated to the most recent version via SVN and it constantly logs me out of the web interface... all the graphs will die and it will say session expired after about 10 or 15 seconds of being logged in. Any ideas? ~JV CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, and any documents, files, or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain information that is confidential, proprietary, and/or legally privileged. If the reader of this e-mail message is neither the intended recipient nor an employee or an agent responsible for delivering this e-mail message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, reproduction, distribution or the taking of action in reliance on the contents of the information of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by replying to the e-mail message and delete it from your computer, without reading it or saving it in any manner.

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adding non snmp hosts?
by John Poznicek 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

So I have observium up and running, even smokeping integration which brings up my question. I have a few vpses, seedbox, webhost, etc. that I would like to add to my growing lists of devices in observium. But seems you can not add a device that doesn't have snmp? I don't want to monitor anything than the info than say my smokeping graphs in the same web interface. Be nice to show their location on the man graph as green/yellow/red etc.. My vps I might even add the unix agent grab some info from them.. But I don't really want or need snmp queries across the public net to them So how do you add these types of devices - they added smokeping integration to leverage the details it gives. So how can I just see these smokeping devices in the observium web interface without having to add the device via snmp? There doesn't seem to be a way to add a device without being able to talk to it via snmp?

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Unable to add new device
by Marco Zberg 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hi Unfortunately I am unable to add new devices on one of my Observium instances. I tried with several host and I get the same results. All hosts can be pinged and are reachable. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? BR, Marco [cid:image001.png@01CF4A69.BD1FC0B0] [root@host host]# ping arc-swi-102 PING arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=0.461 ms 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=1.89 ms 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=0.473 ms 64 bytes from arc-swi-102 (10.96.145.102): icmp_seq=4 ttl=254 time=0.470 ms ^C --- arc-swi-102 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3036ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.461/0.823/1.891/0.617 ms besuchen sie unsere neue website unter www.arcade.ch<http://www.arcade.ch> ____________________________ [cid:image004.png@01CF4A6A.40E1EA90] marco zberg teamleader whitelabel & ott marco.zberg(a)arcade.ch arcade solutions ag winkelriedstrasse 37 6003 luzern tel +41 41 417 31 73 www.arcade.ch cloud + connectivity + ict ____________________________

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DB grow to fast
by Thomas Grunert 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hi all, my database is grow very fast. Is there a cyclic clean up which deletes unnessesary entries from the db to prevent garbage? How long are entries kept in the db? Can anybody tell me the syntax to reduce the rate-time for trap and log entrys in the database? many thanks Thomas

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Re: [Observium] SVI - Vlan IF graphs
by Marco Spicuglia 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hi Adam, mmh, thanks. -------------- snmpwalk -v 2c -c COMMUNITY HOST 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.648 iso.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.648 = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID -------------- where 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.648 id is suppose to poll CISCO-VIRTUAL-INTERFACE-MIB, which is included in the Observium database and supposedly supported by the Nexus 6001. Is this a Cisco bug or should I activate something somehow somewhere? Cheers, Marco Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, Marco Spicuglia Network engineer - Programmer ReasonNet B.V. Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 1042AZ Amsterdam W. www.reasonnet.com E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com T. F. ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code.________________________________________ From: Adam Armstrong [adama(a)memetic.org] Sent: 26 March 2014 02:29 To: Marco Spicuglia Subject: Re: [Observium] SVI - Vlan IF graphs Are you actually snmpgetting the counters to check? I suspect, as usual, a Cisco SNMP bug. There really is no scope for us to fail to put interface data into the rrd. Adam. On 25 Mar 2014 18:57, Marco Spicuglia <Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com> wrote: > > Hello there, > > I would like to monitor SVI bandwidth on those devices that support such counters. > I activated the etherlike mib option in the config and started polling a Nexus 6k, which supports snmp counters on vlan interfaces. > I see the snmp counters increasing on the switch, but I see only blank graphs on vlan interfaces, which are properly detected, including their status. > > The device is properly polled for anything else and it seems that all needed mibs are already included in your distribution. > I am running the latest stable release. > > Any idea? Am I missing anything? > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards, > > Marco > > Met vriendelijke groet/ Kind regards, > > Marco Spicuglia > > Network engineer - Programmer > > ReasonNet B.V. > Gyroscoopweg 134 - 140 > 1042AZ Amsterdam > W. www.reasonnet.com > E. Marco.Spicuglia(a)reasonnet.com > T. > F. > > ReasonNet zoekt datacenter support engineers. Ga voor deze en andere interessante vacatures binnen ReasonNet naar http://www.reasonnet.com/nieuws > > ReasonNet, shall not be liable for damages resulting from the use of electronic means of communication, including -but not limited to- damages resulting from failure or delay in delivery of electronic communications, interception or manipulation of electronic communications by third parties or by computer programs used for electronic communications and transmission of viruses and other malicious code. > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium(a)observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Google Maps
by Kleber C. S. Coelho 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Prezados, boa noite! Gostaria de saber se ja é possível ativar o mapa do Google, igual ao da demostração, na página do observium, utilizando a versão comunitária. Gostaria também de deixar uma mensagem de protesto contra a política de versões comunitárias e pagas. Eu até entendo os motivos, mas não concordo de forma alguma. Se alguém puder responder minha dúvida sobre o google maps agradeço! Obrigado. Dear, good night! I wonder if you can already activate the Google map, same as the demo, in observium page, using the community version. I would also like to leave a message of protest against the policy community and paid versions. I can understand the reasons, but I do not agree at all. If anyone can answer my questions about the google maps thanks! Thank you.

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Error Global Settings Page
by Gökmen Çakmak 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hi everyone, Why is this happening? Best Regards, Gökmen

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Issues with bind graphs - Where to start looking?
by Ricardo M Meleschi 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

root@austx-sys-tools-01:~# uname -m i686 (hangs head in shame) Yes.. Yes I did... Well, now I know how to fix it.. =) Thanks Adam! Ricardo From: Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> Did you, perchance, foolishly install a 32-bit version of Ubuntu? :D root@alpha:~# php -r 'echo PHP_INT_MAX;' 9223372036854775807 adam. On 2014-03-27 14:01, Ricardo M Meleschi wrote: > (just an update on my troubleshooting here) > > It looks like the version of PHP that comes installed with the version > of Ubuntu that Observium recommends is limited to 32-bit signed > integers: > > root@xxx:/opt/observium/includes/polling/applications# php -r 'echo > PHP_INT_MAX;' > 2147483647 > > That explains the issue that I have been having with bind counters > above this value being saved at a value of 2147483647.

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