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maybe dumb question about observium itself
by Rachid Zarouali 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hy all, i'm using observium to monitor my network devices, i've seen there are applications that could be as well monitored. are these applications to be maintained or to be dropped ? i'm evaluating zabbix as well, so just wondering if i should keep both ? feedback appreciated, Regards

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Re: [Observium] maybe dumb question about observium itself
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

To make sure this is the case, agent scripts should have the absolute minimum of code. Where possible, just command output or cat'd files, updating php, perl and python scripts after deployment may prove difficult... :) Adam. Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >I'll reiterate what I said on IRC: > >Adam feels the current "application" infrastructure is not how it should be. > >However, yes, applications are not going away, just the way they are >monitored may change. Data collection scripts which we have now will >then be converted to whatever new format we'll be using. In the future. >Not now. No time, bugs and alerting first ;-) > >Tom > >On 23/04/2013 11:20, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> The applications stuff is messy. >> >> At some point we need to properly define how it should all work and >> make some real infrastructure for it, but that requires time and >> resource we don't have at the moment. >> >> So it's subject to change at any moment :) >> >> adam. >> >> On 2013-04-23 11:12, Rachid Zarouali wrote: >>> Hy all, >>> >>> i'm using observium to monitor my network devices, i've seen there are >>> applications that could be as well monitored. >>> >>> are these applications to be maintained or to be dropped ? >>> >>> i'm evaluating zabbix as well, so just wondering if i should keep both ? >>> >>> feedback appreciated, >>> >>> Regards >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] maybe dumb question about observium itself
by Andreas Bergman 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi, We're using a combination of Icinga (nagios) and Observium to monitor our network, some things Icinga do really well, and some things Observium do very well. Br Andreas -----Original Message----- From: "Rachid Zarouali" <rzarouali(a)gmail.com> Sent 4/23/2013 12:12:41 PM To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> Subject: [Observium] maybe dumb question about observium itself Hy all, i'm using observium to monitor my network devices, i've seen there are applications that could be as well monitored. are these applications to be maintained or to be dropped ? i'm evaluating zabbix as well, so just wondering if i should keep both ? feedback appreciated, Regards _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium(a)observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Damn right Tom Laermans <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> wrote: >On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 11:49 +0400, Nikolay Shopik wrote: >> Maybe just don't use it at all? It such junk anyway. What's wrong with >> good old k9mail >> >> On 4/23/13 10:46 AM, Tom Laermans wrote: >> > >> > Can someone please fix the threading breakage in the android client? :P > >Unfortunately I can't tell Adam what to use - he'll just take my mailing >list access away :P > >Tom > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Sonny Kupka 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hello, Seems there was a change in code which effects - Devices > Locations. I had set each device with a specific sysLocation - and checked override sysLocation in the device settings. This was working as expected, until I ran updates - Now instead of having my defined locations - It now shows countries - Canada, England, Unknown and all my stuff is showing up under unknown. Is there a place to read about configuration changes - I may need to re-adjust - or is this a bug - as override sysLocation is now overwritten by something else? Thanks. Sonny

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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

You would not be stupid enough to try to complain about something not working on an old release, would you? Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >I'm talking about reverting to the old behaviour, not getting >geolocation working. > >On 04/23/2013 02:31 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> There is still work to be done on it. >> >> The geolocation service we are using is a little temperamental, so needs well formatted locations. >> >> Adam. >> >> Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >> >>> On 04/23/2013 02:17 PM, Sonny Kupka wrote: >>>> Tom, >>>> >>>> Worked perfectly. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> Sonny >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Tom Laermans" <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> >>>> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:18:05 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations >>>> >>>> Hi Sonny, >>>> >>>> You can override the geolocation and return to the old behaviour by adding >>>> >>>> $config['location_menu_geocoded'] = FALSE; >>>> >>>> to your configuration file. I like it better too ;-) >>>> >>>> Tom >>> Does that feature require a particular svn revision? I'm on 3934 and it >>> doesn't work for me. >>> >>> Or does it require something like rediscovery? >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Feel free to consider all bug reports and other complaints ignore from nice on, then. Adam. Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >Where "old release" == "I only do 'svn up' in cron.weekly"? Evidently >so. :-) > >/me updates and tries again > >On 04/23/2013 02:42 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >> You would not be stupid enough to try to complain about something not working on an old release, would you? >> >> Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >> >>> I'm talking about reverting to the old behaviour, not getting >>> geolocation working. >>> >>> On 04/23/2013 02:31 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: >>>> There is still work to be done on it. >>>> >>>> The geolocation service we are using is a little temperamental, so needs well formatted locations. >>>> >>>> Adam. >>>> >>>> Paul Gear <observium(a)gear.dyndns.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 04/23/2013 02:17 PM, Sonny Kupka wrote: >>>>>> Tom, >>>>>> >>>>>> Worked perfectly. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> Sonny >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Tom Laermans" <tom.laermans(a)powersource.cx> >>>>>> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium(a)observium.org> >>>>>> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:18:05 PM >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Observium] Changes made to Devices > Locations >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Sonny, >>>>>> >>>>>> You can override the geolocation and return to the old behaviour by adding >>>>>> >>>>>> $config['location_menu_geocoded'] = FALSE; >>>>>> >>>>>> to your configuration file. I like it better too ;-) >>>>>> >>>>>> Tom >>>>> Does that feature require a particular svn revision? I'm on 3934 and it >>>>> doesn't work for me. >>>>> >>>>> Or does it require something like rediscovery? >>>>> >>>>> Paul >>>>> ... > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Issue with 95th Percentile for Billing
by Poh Yong Hwang 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi All, New here. :) I have an issue with the billing of traffic. I want to bill according to 95th percentile but for some reason it is always 0Mbps. It can plot my traffic for incoming and outgoing but it always show 0 for my 95th percentile. Any advise on this? Thanks Poh

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Re: [Observium] Issue with 95th Percentile for Billing
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

You are not running the billing poller. Poh Yong Hwang <yongsan(a)gmail.com> wrote: >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Re: [Observium] Strange timezone behaviour in graphs
by Adam Armstrong 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Still irritating, though. Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: >Cool. Easy enough to work around. > >Thanks, >Matt > > >On 23/04/2013, at 2:28 PM, Adam Armstrong wrote: > >> Yes. This is down to some funkiness with timezones between client and server. >> >> It has been known for a while. The last attempted fix was reverted because it broke things even more! >> >> Adam. >> >> Matt Hucker <matt(a)nrsolutions.com.au> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm not sure what to make of this. When I try to enter custom time ranges in any of the traffic graphs, I get different results depending on which browser I'm using. >>> >>> Results are as follows. I'm in Brisbane (GMT +10). >>> >>> Mac OS X 10.6 >>> >>> Firefox: Observium always converts the time I enter (in local time) to GMT. Therefore my graphs are out by 10 hours. >>> Safari: Won't accept any time info I enter. Always give me the last 24 hours. >>> Chrom: Everything seems to work ok. >>> >>> Windows 7 >>> >>> Internet Explorer: Always gives me the last 24 hours. Same as Safari on OS X >>> Chrome: Everything seems ok. >>> >>> >>> Clicking any of the preset time periods, e.g 6 / 24 / 48 hours, always works ok regardless of which browser/os I'm using. >>> >>> Is this expected behaviour? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Matt. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> observium mailing list >>> observium(a)observium.org >>> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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