You need to be root (or use sudo) to restart apache!

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On 14 September 2015 09:23:29 Reuben Sankey <reuben.sankey@gmail.com> wrote:

OK thanks,

I went into the config.php file and it was default so I changed the username and password field and now that's fixed.



Next issue: 
is this OK?

Command
     reuben@ubuntu-Observium-1:/opt/observium$ apache2ctl restart
Error
AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
httpd not running, trying to start
(13)Permission denied: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(13)Permission denied: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs
Action 'restart' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
reuben@ubuntu-Observium-1:/opt/observium$


Other than that the commands all worked fine

Logging via web page goes here (below - default Apache page), so I assume the error above affects this.

Thanks again,

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Regards

Reuben

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org> wrote:
They should usually all be different.

The username and password for MySQL when running Observium scripts is taken from config.php, the lines near the top of that file. These should match what you configured for the Observium user a couple of steps earlier.

adam.

On 09/09/2015 11:30:20, Reuben Sankey <reuben.sankey@gmail.com> wrote:

OK thanks,

There are 3 passwords I have (local OS login, mySQL root, mySQL observium) - should they all be the same?

It seems to try to use my local OS user account (via sudo) to access run the update.php (i.e. it doesn't ask me for a username or password for mySQL). 

What should I change / how should I change it?

Thanks again,

R

Regards

Reuben

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@observium.org> wrote:

Hi Reuben,

It seems that your config.php doesn't have the same mysql user/password as what you configured earlier.

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On 9 September 2015 06:48:58 Reuben Sankey <reuben.sankey@gmail.com> wrote:

Or from /opt/observium;

reuben@ubuntu-Observium-1:/opt/observium$ sudo php includes/update/update.php
[sudo] password for reuben:
MySQL Error: Access denied for user 'USERNAME'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

R

Regards

Reuben

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Reuben Sankey <reuben.sankey@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks,

Changed to putty / ssh.

Next issue:


Setup the MySQL database and insert the default schema:

php includes/update/update.php

error message (tried using sudo, tried a machine and service restart):

Could not open input file: includes/update/update.php


Observium dir contents:

reuben@ubuntu-Observium-1:~$ cd /opt/
reuben@ubuntu-Observium-1:/opt$ cd observium/
reuben@ubuntu-Observium-1:/opt/observium$ ls
add_device.php      delete_device.php  LICENSE            snmp.conf.example
adduser.php         discovery.php      mibs               snmpd.conf.example
check-errors.php    housekeeping.php   poller.php         snmptrap.php
check-services.php  html               poller-wrapper.py  syslog.php
config.php          includes           README             tests
config.php.default  INSTALL            rename_device.php  update
config_to_json.php  irc.php            scripts
reuben@ubuntu-Observium-1:/opt/observium$



Thanks again,

R


Regards

Reuben

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama@observium.org> wrote:

You should ssh to the system after its installed rather than the vsphere cliebt. Life is way too short to do this stuff by hand ;)

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On 8 September 2015 22:57:33 Reuben Sankey <reuben.sankey@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks,

missing the semicolon as you mentioned was the issue and redoing it helped

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P.S. I cannot copy or paste text into the VMWare vSphere client sorry - so reverted to screenshotting

Thanks

R.

Regards

Reuben

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama@observium.org> wrote:

Indeed. You need to be very careful typing commands from documentation, it's so easy to make mistakes!

In this case you seem to have duplicated the second part of the statement, likely because you missed the semicolon and typed it again with the semicolon, leading to a duplicate!

Just do that part again, and it'll be fine!

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On 8 September 2015 22:03:10 Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx> wrote:

Hi Reuben,

You assume correctly.
However, the statement you entered in your mysql client is not the one from our documentation (so the syntax error is logical) - please try again.

Tom

PS: you could just paste the text instead of a screenshot of text...

On 08/09/2015 22:57, Reuben Sankey wrote:
Hi,

Im setting up Observium on ubuntu server 14.04.1 LTS.
Using the guide:

All going well until I get to the SQL database bit and have issues:
mysql -u root -p
<mysql root password>
mysql> CREATE DATABASE observium DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON observium.* TO 'observium'@'localhost'
-> IDENTIFIED BY '<observium db password>';

I assume the <observium db password> is to be replaced with a password?
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Thanks and regards,

Reuben


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