You should monitor your Dell server using snmp on the idrac itself like its a different device.

The most important thing is the global status

It will display in alert in the statuses front page. 

The global status is the color of the led when it's amber you have an issue. 
Now you will be able to see that in observium as well.

Good luck. 
David  




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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:03:18 +0000
From: prost pierrick <pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr>
To: "observium@observium.org" <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Doc about IPMI (for Dell Server)
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Hi,

Nobody use IMPI ?

regards

De : prost pierrick
Envoyé : vendredi 24 juin 2016 15:04
À : observium@observium.org
Objet : Doc about IPMI (for Dell Server)
Importance : Haute

Hi everyone,

There is documentation about IPMI on observium ? what the advantage ? benefit ?
I have several DELL server with IDRAC and IPMI and only monitored my server with SNMP.




Have a good day.



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From: prost pierrick <pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr>
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Delay the alert trigger in case of loss only
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Hello,

I have make some tries but I’m still spammed with fake alerting.

Delay value is in minute ? How can I debug poller to check if I really lost ping ? (I’m on a 10 gbit backbone network.. I’m really surprise).


Regards

pierrick


De : prost pierrick
Envoyé : jeudi 23 juin 2016 12:36
À : Observium Network Observation System
Objet : RE: [Observium] Delay the alert trigger in case of loss only one ping

Delay ..yes i see it !

Thanks have a good day.


De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Adam Armstrong
Envoyé : jeudi 23 juin 2016 12:21
À : Observium Network Observation System
Cc : observium@observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>
Objet : Re: [Observium] Delay the alert trigger in case of loss only one ping


it isn't just one ping, it tries multiple before it marks a device as down.

You can set the delay field, which will cause the alert to wait for x number of down periods before it triggers.

Adam.

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On 23 Jun 2016, at 10:39, prost pierrick <pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr<mailto:pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr>> wrote:
Hi everyone ,
Observium lost 1 ping sometime  (I don’t know why  ) after each ping lost, alerts are triggered.


Actually I have only two Alerts Checks :


Device Down     device_status equals  0                *            *
Device UP           device_status equals  1                *            *




























































It’s possible to add a delay before triggering ?  Like waiting 5 ping lost before triggering ?




Regards.




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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:15:10 +0100
From: Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org>
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Cc: observium@observium.org
Subject: Re: [Observium] Doc about IPMI (for Dell Server)
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Did you miss the conversation people had about ipmi last week? OK

Adam.

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On 27 Jun 2016, 10:03, at 10:03, prost pierrick <pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr> wrote:
>Hi,
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>Nobody use IMPI ?
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>regards
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>De : prost pierrick
>Envoyé : vendredi 24 juin 2016 15:04
>À : observium@observium.org
>Objet : Doc about IPMI (for Dell Server)
>Importance : Haute
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>There is documentation about IPMI on observium ? what the advantage ?
>benefit ?
>I have several DELL server with IDRAC and IPMI and only monitored my
>server with SNMP.
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>Have a good day.
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:16:32 +0100
From: Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org>
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Delay the alert trigger in case of loss only
        one     ping
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Delay is in poller intervals.

If you're getting notifications that your devices are down, you have some pretty serious network problems, as it takes quite a lot to actually mark something as down.

Adam.

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On 27 Jun 2016, 10:07, at 10:07, prost pierrick <pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr> wrote:
>Hello,
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>I have make some tries but I’m still spammed with fake alerting.
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>Delay value is in minute ? How can I debug poller to check if I really
>lost ping ? (I’m on a 10 gbit backbone network.. I’m really surprise).
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>Regards
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>pierrick
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>De : prost pierrick
>Envoyé : jeudi 23 juin 2016 12:36
>À : Observium Network Observation System
>Objet : RE: [Observium] Delay the alert trigger in case of loss only
>one ping
>
>Delay ..yes i see it !
>
>Thanks have a good day.
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>De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de
>Adam Armstrong
>Envoyé : jeudi 23 juin 2016 12:21
>À : Observium Network Observation System
>Cc : observium@observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>
>Objet : Re: [Observium] Delay the alert trigger in case of loss only
>one ping
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>
>it isn't just one ping, it tries multiple before it marks a device as
>down.
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>You can set the delay field, which will cause the alert to wait for x
>number of down periods before it triggers.
>
>Adam.
>
>Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r>
>On 23 Jun 2016, at 10:39, prost pierrick
><pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr<mailto:pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr>> wrote:
>Hi everyone ,
>Observium lost 1 ping sometime  (I don’t know why  ) after each ping
>lost, alerts are triggered.
>
>
>Actually I have only two Alerts Checks :
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>Device Down     device_status equals  0                *            *
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:33:12 +0000
From: prost pierrick <pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr>
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Doc about IPMI (for Dell Server)
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Ho …it’s Monday  ..sorry ☺

Regards.

Pierrick

De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Adam Armstrong
Envoyé : lundi 27 juin 2016 11:15
À : Observium Network Observation System
Cc : observium@observium.org
Objet : Re: [Observium] Doc about IPMI (for Dell Server)


Did you miss the conversation people had about ipmi last week? OK

Adam.

Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r>
On 27 Jun 2016, at 10:03, prost pierrick <pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr<mailto:pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr>> wrote:
Hi,


Nobody use IMPI ?


regards


De : prost pierrick
Envoyé : vendredi 24 juin 2016 15:04
À : observium@observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>
Objet : Doc about IPMI (for Dell Server)
Importance : Haute


Hi everyone,


There is documentation about IPMI on observium ? what the advantage ? benefit ?
I have several DELL server with IDRAC and IPMI and only monitored my server with SNMP.








Have a good day.







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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:39:34 +0000
From: "Moerman, Maarten" <mmoerman@ebay.com>
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Delay the alert trigger in case of loss only
        one ping
Message-ID: <3DA5C4D1-F878-4D4A-AADB-27E10BC44F86@ebay.com>
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Hi, my 2 cents:

I have a delay of 1 on my device_down alert, just to prevent false positives. SNMP just sometimes has a hickup. Although usually I don’t have these, but in order to prevent panic/heart attacks, I did introduce that 1 time delay on my device down alerts.

Haven you applied alert checkers on port-errors all around your network as well? CRC/port errors, and things like these you might want to fix first before you actually get in to device down alerting. Just a simple "ifInErrors_rate gt 0 &  ifOutErrors_rate gt 0 on ifType equals ethernetCsmacd” alert-check will give you all these ports. you’d be surprised how much stuff is wrong in an average network. Also certainly check the port to which your observium machine is connected to, and make sure to monitor your observium machine as well, make sure your machine is well specced out.

In addition to this, I’ve configured IP SLA on all our core routers to see/verify that latency on our links is within the SLA parameters of our suppliers.

Do this before you check on devices down.

Maarten
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Maarten Moerman | Mgr, Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds | +31-655122247 | mmoerman@ebay.com<mailto:mmoerman@ebay.com>





From: observium <observium-bounces@observium.org<mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org>> on behalf of Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org<mailto:adama@memetic.org>>
Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>>
Date: Monday, June 27, 2016 at 11:16 AM
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>>
Subject: Re: [Observium] Delay the alert trigger in case of loss only one ping


Delay is in poller intervals.

If you're getting notifications that your devices are down, you have some pretty serious network problems, as it takes quite a lot to actually mark something as down.

Adam.


Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r>


On 27 Jun 2016, at 10:07, prost pierrick <pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr<mailto:pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr>> wrote:
Hello,


I have make some tries but I’m still spammed with fake alerting.


Delay value is in minute ? How can I debug poller to check if I really lost ping ? (I’m on a 10 gbit backbone network.. I’m really surprise).




Regards


pierrick




De : prost pierrick
Envoyé : jeudi 23 juin 2016 12:36
À : Observium Network Observation System
Objet : RE: [Observium] Delay the alert trigger in case of loss only one ping


Delay ..yes i see it !


Thanks have a good day.




De : observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] De la part de Adam Armstrong
Envoyé : jeudi 23 juin 2016 12:21
À : Observium Network Observation System
Cc : observium@observium.org<mailto:observium@observium.org>
Objet : Re: [Observium] Delay the alert trigger in case of loss only one ping



it isn't just one ping, it tries multiple before it marks a device as down.

You can set the delay field, which will cause the alert to wait for x number of down periods before it triggers.

Adam.

Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r>
On 23 Jun 2016, at 10:39, prost pierrick <pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr<mailto:pierrick.prost@cnrs.fr>> wrote:
Hi everyone ,
Observium lost 1 ping sometime  (I don’t know why  ) after each ping lost, alerts are triggered.


Actually I have only two Alerts Checks :


Device Down     device_status equals  0                *            *
Device UP           device_status equals  1                *            *




























































It’s possible to add a delay before triggering ?  Like waiting 5 ping lost before triggering ?




Regards.




Pierrick Prost
























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