Hehe, well, I’m confident they were being ignored up until last week because we suddenly have so many, that for them all to appear at once suggests a global change to me. The ignore port feature is pretty handy, there are a number of interface types which we ignore errors for, but still collect data from them. Anything half-duplex (Carel pCOs, modbus interfaces, generators, door controls, environmental stuff etc.) and a lot of windows servers (don’t choke, please) - particularly on customers boxes with MS Hyper-V and the 2 million made-up sub-interfaces it creates for fun.

 

So, please can it stay ‘appreciated’ - it’s very much liked here :)

 

Cheers!

 

Robert Williams
Custodian Data Centre
Email: Robert@CustodianDC.com
http://www.CustodianDC.com

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong
Sent: 14 April 2016 12:35
To: observium@observium.org
Subject: Re: [Observium] (Not)Ignored Ports

 

Well, since the thing you're looking at is deprecated, there's no preferred method :P

 

But having those ports set as ignored should cause them not to appear there. I've no idea why they are. Are you sure they weren't always?

 

adam.

On 14/04/2016 10:37:35, Robert Williams <robert@custodiandc.com> wrote:

Ahhh, ok, no problem. If it’s being depreciated then what’s the preferred exclusion method for rubbish half-duplex ports that throw errors all day? Is there an alternative way of filtering their noise out?

 

Cheers!

 

Robert Williams
Custodian Data Centre
Email: Robert@CustodianDC.com
http://www.CustodianDC.com

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong
Sent: 14 April 2016 10:25
To: observium@observium.org
Subject: Re: [Observium] (Not)Ignored Ports

 

This is probably related to some changes I made the other day to try to make some things more consistent when displaying status counts. This box is currently semi-deprecated, but I'll have a look later!

 

adam.

On 14/04/2016 09:53:57, Robert Williams <robert@custodiandc.com> wrote:

Hi All,

 

Is anyone else seeing this? Or any pointers towards a flag that needs to be set to stop them showing up? It makes reading the summary notifications quite difficult when it’s flooded with irrelevant errored ports :)

 

Cheers!

 

Robert Williams
Custodian Data Centre
Email: Robert@CustodianDC.com
http://www.CustodianDC.com

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Robert Williams
Sent: 10 April 2016 12:02
To: Observium Network Observation System (observium@observium.org) <observium@observium.org>
Subject: [Observium] (Not)Ignored Ports

 

Hi,

 

It looks like ignored ports are suddenly being included in the ‘Device Status Notifications’ for Errors.

 

We have quite a few devices which have ‘expected’ errors (half-duplex IP-PDUs etc.) so are now being spammed with error’ed ports:

 

 

They _do_ disappear if I select the device itself to be ignored, but they used to be silenced just by setting the ‘Alerts’ column to ‘No’.

 

 

Is this an error - or is there now an intentional new variable which I need to set in config.php to ignore them?

 

Cheers guys!

 

 

Robert Williams

Custodian Data Centre