Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script
Rather than modifying the poller script, simply commenting out the "mibs :" line at the bottom of /etc/snmp/snmp.conf on your Observium server box is sufficient to get the polling to work correctly. Ubuntu put that line in citing "licensing issues" with the MIBs.
On 4/04/2012 18:35, Andrew Beals wrote:
Rather than modifying the poller script, simply commenting out the "mibs :" line at the bottom of /etc/snmp/snmp.conf on your Observium server box is sufficient to get the polling to work correctly. Ubuntu put that line in citing "licensing issues" with the MIBs.
Sounds like someone failed to follow the installation instructions... although looking at it, this is only documented under the "Debian" header, even though Ubuntu has taken over this nonsense in later versions :-)
Tom
Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@...> writes:
On 4/04/2012 18:35, Andrew Beals wrote:
Rather than modifying the poller script, simply commenting out the
"mibs :" line
at the bottom of /etc/snmp/snmp.conf on your Observium server box is
sufficient
to get the polling to work correctly. Ubuntu put that line in citing
"licensing
issues" with the MIBs.
Sounds like someone failed to follow the installation instructions... although looking at it, this is only documented under the "Debian" header, even though Ubuntu has taken over this nonsense in later versions
Tom
"Real hackers don't RTFM."
It's good enough software that it runs out of the box.
The only place Debian is mentioned on this page http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/Apache is with regards to adding in the ExtendedStatus line in the apache config. The very strange part being that the mysql monitoring works without fixing up snmp.conf but the apache polling does not. (There's also the minor issue of the python version of the apache status parser working better than the perl one (and with fewer system configuration requirements, too), but that's an entirely different issue.)
After years of being peeved whenever I needed to do something to my nagios install at my old job and constant cussing at GWOS at the current gig, Observium is truly a breath of fresh air.
On 5/04/2012 1:00, Andrew Beals wrote:
Sounds like someone failed to follow the installation instructions... although looking at it, this is only documented under the "Debian" header, even though Ubuntu has taken over this nonsense in later versions
"Real hackers don't RTFM."
It's good enough software that it runs out of the box.
The only place Debian is mentioned on this page http://www.observium.org/wiki/Application/Apache is with regards to adding in the ExtendedStatus line in the apache config.
Actually, no. It is mentioned in the installation documentation. Which is where it tells you to remove that line from snmp.conf.
The very strange part being that the mysql monitoring works without fixing up snmp.conf but the apache polling does not. (There's also the minor issue of the python version of the apache status parser working better than the perl one (and with fewer system configuration requirements, too), but that's an entirely different issue.)
Net-SNMP is weird. God only knows whatever strange combination of star sign and disk space usage combine to make it work, or not.
After years of being peeved whenever I needed to do something to my nagios install at my old job and constant cussing at GWOS at the current gig, Observium is truly a breath of fresh air.
\o/ :-)
Tom
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:00:39 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Beals andrew.beals@gmail.com wrote:
After years of being peeved whenever I needed to do something to my
nagios
install at my old job and constant cussing at GWOS at the current gig, Observium is truly a breath of fresh air.
Wait 'til you want it to monitor something it doesn't yet monitor.
Also: don't put too much effort into anything in "apps". I suspect it will be rewritten at some point soon...
adam.
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