I believe this can be marked as resolved.
All of our devices were listed as offline this morning, which was caused by the following:
I followed the guide, and removed .index from the noted directory.
As soon as I did that, everything started polling again. At around the same time, I also found this:
http://www.observium.org/wiki/Poller-wrapper.py
Our poller was set to use 3 threads, so I bumped it up to 12.
After review, I found that my alert checker was now listing devices as checking in and passing the offline test.
I faked an outage on a test device, which triggered the e-mail alert.
Thanks again for the assistance on this.
I’ll have to dig into the snmp bug a little bit, but all is now working as it should.
Regards,
Nate Mellendorf | Network Analyst | Netgain
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Tom,
Thank you very much for looking at my configuration. I failed to note earlier, that I receive the same results when I change the delay of this alert back down to 0.
For the sake of my own sanity though, I went back and changed it just now. I triggered a false device outage, which failed to trigger the alert.
Something odd I am seeing, is that Observium is now listing 8 devices as having passed the alert check, with 464 devices still listed as never checked.
As you can see from my screen shots earlier, that the alert checked never listed any devices as having been successfully checked. They were all greyed out.
As you’ve confirmed that the alert checker is configured correctly, I’m somewhat stumped.
I’ll keep digging, as this is a feature I’d really like to get working.
Side Note:
Our CPU and RAM are not hitting 100% utilization on our host, so now I'm suspicious of we're just pushing the Observium platform a little too hard.
There are occasions when loading Observium takes longer than expected. When I create a new alert and regenerate them, the page seems to timeout.
(I’ve included the graphs of our disk I/O, as It’s been suggested before as something to keep an eye on.)
Any other thoughts or insight on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for your time on both the project and on this thread.
Regards,
Nate Mellendorf | NETWORK ANALYST | Netgain
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Hi Nate,
You set the "delay" to 1 which means Observium will wait 1 extra poll to see if the alert condition restores itself (which it seems to do judging by your alert log - hence no alert).
Tom
On 18/12/2014 04:09, Nate Mellendorf wrote:
>
> Good evening all,
>
> After much trial and error, I?ve been unsuccessful in implementing a
> simple up/down device alert within Observium.
>
> As I searched around the web for a solution, It seemed as though this
> hasn?t been much of an issue for most users.
>
> Here?s some additional documentation I followed to try and fix it myself:
>
> http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612(Nice work on this one)
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg05915.html
>
> http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ
>
> http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker
>
> I?m starting think that my configuration file (config.php) could have
> something to do with it. I?ve included it, along with multiple
> snip-its to try and assist you in seeing my work.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions on this, they would be greatly
> appreciated. I?ve been working on this on and off for the past few
> days now, and I?ve had no success in generating an offline alert.The
> alert log shows the test as failed, but delayed. It never actually
> send out an e-mail. My apologies in advance, if this turns out to be
> user error.
>
> Thanks in advance for any time put into this. If there is anything
> else I can provide to further assist in troubleshooting, please let me
> know.
>
> I?d be more than happy to provide it.
>
> *Omitted config.php:*
>
> *?*
>
> // Enable alerter
>
> $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter']= TRUE;
>
> // Disable page refresh
>
> $config['page_refresh']= "300";## Refresh the page every xx seconds
>
> // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address)
>
> $config['email']['default']= "nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com
> <mailto:nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com>";
>
> $config['alerts']['email']['from']= "observium@netgainhosting.com
> <mailto:observium@netgainhosting.com>";
>
> $config['email']['default_only']= TRUE;
>
> $config['email']['enable']= TRUE;// Disables OLD alerting system
>
> $config['alerts']['interval']= 310;
>
> *?*
>
> /Sensitive information has been omitted./
>
> *The alert I?ve configured:*(image)**
>
> *Here is what I see when I?ve review the alert:*(image)**
>
> *Here?s the alert log that?s generated:*(image)
>
> (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.)
>
> *Finally, here is what?s found when I review the logs of an offline
> device:*(image)**
>
> Thanks again everyone,
>
> *Nate Mellendorf **|****Network Analyst **|****Netgain**
> *720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301
> Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 *|* 877.797.4700 x183
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