Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 5

1 Sep 2014

      ok great,
I will get a few basic alerters programmed and await an update at some
stage with further examples. I will update tommorrow if the alerts have
been successful.
I like the send recovery toggle - sometimes the little hamster would go ape
for up to 20 emails with a missed SNMP down. Glad to send the end of that.
Matt
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Re: observium Digest, Vol 50, Issue 3 (Tom Laermans)

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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:32:27 +0200
From: Tom Laermans tom.laermans@powersource.cx
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Hi Matt,
Yes, the legacy alerters have been removed as they did not work very
well. The new alerting system is a lot better.
I was planning to create example alerts to replicate the old ones, but I
haven't gotten around to that unfortunately.
For example, device rebooted:

Entity type: device
Alert conditions: device_uptime < 300
Entity match: *
Device match: *

Turn off "Send recovery" so you don't get a recovery mail after 5

minutes.
Tom
On 09/01/2014 10:25 AM, matthew waterman wrote:
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hmmm,
I think I am beginning to see the error in my ways perhaps,
I do not have any Alert-checkers.....
I have never had to add them or go near them as the version I was
originally running just simply emailed me with Device down, device up,
device rebooted, or if I wanted it to - port down etc
So the new version will not do this by default? Do I need to created
alert checkers for all my devices?
matt
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Hi,

Please share your alert checker configuration (screenshot) so we
can see
if those are alright, first.

Tom

On 01/09/2014 09:46, matthew waterman wrote:
> Thanks for your replies,
>
> I have un commented the  line "$config['poller-wrapper']['alerter']
>    = TRUE;" , and also confirmed that I have the correct cron job
> configured. I then gave the VM a reboot as It is one of the devices
> that I observe. Unfortunalty i did not receive an email alert, so I
> reboot another device for a full 5 minutes so I should have
received 1
> x email alert for device down and 1 x reboot alert. I did not
receive
> either. Is there a way I can monitor/watch the email being sent or
> processed to confirm that it is indeed happening?
>
> Matt
>
>
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>        1. Email setup in Config.php (matthew waterman)
>        2. Re: Email setup in Config.php (Tristan Rhodes)
>        3. Re: Email setup in Config.php (Nathan Phelan)
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>     From: matthew waterman <mwaterman1982@gmail.com
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>     Subject: [Observium] Email setup in Config.php
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>     Hi,
>
>     I have been using Observium for about 1 year successfully and
>     recently,
>     approximately 3mth ago, I subscribed to the paid version,
upgraded
>     via SVN
>     and copied my config.php. I do not have working email alerts at
>     the moment
>     and would like to know what needs to be changed to get this
>     working again.
>     Below is a print of my config.php file. Please advise me as to
>     what needs
>     to be changed to get email working again.
>
>     Config.php:
>
>     <?php
>
>     ## Have a look in includes/defaults.inc.php for examples of
>     settings you
>     can set here. DO NOT EDIT defaults.inc.php!
>
>     // Database config
>     $config['db_host'] = "localhost";
>     $config['db_user'] = "myuesrname";
>     $config['db_pass'] = "mypassword";
>     $config['db_name'] = "observium";
>
>     // Location
>     $config['install_dir']  = "/opt/observium";
>
>     // Thie should *only* be set if you want to *force* a

particular
...
>     hostname/port
>     // It will prevent the web interface being usable form any

other
...
>     hostname
>     #$config['base_url']        = "http://observium.company.com";
>
>     // Default community list to use when adding/discovering
>     $config['snmp']['community'] = array("public");
>
>     // Authentication Model
>     $config['auth_mechanism'] = "mysql";    // default, other
options:
>     ldap,
>     http-auth, please see documentation for config help
>
>     // Enable alerter
>     // $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter']       = TRUE;
>
>     // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address)
>
>     // SNMP Settings
>     $config['snmp']['timeout'] = 1000;          # timeout in ms
>     $config['snmp']['retries'] = 6;            # how many times to
>     retry the
>     query
>
>     //Ping Settings
>     $config['ping']['timeout'] = 2000;          # timeout in ms
>     $config['ping']['retries'] = 10;            # how many times to
>     retry the
>     query
>
>     //Alert Settings
>     $config['alerts']['email']['default']      =
"myemail@domain.co.nz <mailto:myemail@domain.co.nz>
>     <mailto:myemail@domain.co.nz <mailto:myemail@domain.co.nz>>";
>     $config['alerts']['email']['from']         = "observium.dev <
> myeamil@domain.co.nz <mailto:myeamil@domain.co.nz>
<mailto:myeamil@domain.co.nz <mailto:myeamil@domain.co.nz>>>";
>     $config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = TRUE;
>     $config['alerts']['email']['enable']       = FALSE;
>     $config['uptime_warning']                  = "14400"; ## Time

to
...
>     display
>     reboot warning
>     //Poller and Discovery Modules
>
>     //Syslog settings
>     $config['enable_syslog']   = 1;
>     $config['syslog_filter'] = array("last message repeated",
>     "Connection from
>     UDP: [",
>                                     "ipSystemStatsTable node
>     ipSystemStatsOutFragOKs not implemented",
>                                     "diskio.c: don't know how to
>     handle");  ##
>     Ignore some crappy stuff from SNMP daemon
>
>     //Geocoding Configuration
>
>
>     // End config.php
>
>
>
>     *Observium*0.14.8.5763 *Apache*2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
*PHP*5.3.10-1ubuntu3.13
>     *MySQL*5.5.38-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 *SNMP*NET-SNMP version: 5.4.3
>     *RRDtool*1.4.7
>     