Regarding alerts and status / email - I've had a hard time working with that (please don't judge! It's not that straight forward yet but it's a great product and I'm a happy subscriber).

What I did was created a script that dips into the database and looks at the device status. So I do this basically (again don't judge I'm not a developer yet and still learning I can already see other ways to do this - but it's working so...):

$sql = 'SELECT device_id,hostname,status FROM devices WHERE status = 0'; $count = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices WHERE status = 1'; $count2 = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices';

$stmt = $dbCon->prepare($sql); $stmt->execute(); $down = $stmt->rowCount();

$stmt2 = $dbCon->prepare($count); $stmt2->execute(); $hosts = $stmt2->fetch();

$stmt3 = $dbCon->prepare($count2); $stmt3->execute(); $t_hosts = $stmt3->fetch();

if ($down < 1) {

........bunch of other logic here...email me if you want it

}

Then some php logic to display via build pretty bootstrap interface to display the count of up and down hosts...if there are any down hosts where status = 1 email goes out. I'm not sure what logic in Observium sets status to 1 (have not looked for it yet)

This has been as accurate as SolarWinds for a customer I work with -- for just knowing if the device is pingable / pollable or not.

Hope this helps, Kenny

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Tom Laermans tom.laermans@powersource.cxwrote:

On 01/22/2014 04:40 PM, Josh Hopper wrote:

1.   Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the subscription
   

version? Our CIO is interested in measuring 95% on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze capacity planning.

Adam might have a different answer. There are the metrics that you see. No direct reports.

Observium shows many things if your looking at the right info. It captures traffic statistics for port-channels, ports, VLANs, routing, UDP traffic, TCP/IP traffic, errors, etc.

You can do something with billing, by creating a bill for those ports. That will provide you with historical 95p listings. It's not really reporting, though I'm told billing can do PDF exports somehow. :-)

1.   How mature is the alerting in the subscription version?  Is it
   

possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a percentage of link speed and interface up/down?

Ports measure more than just link state.

Click on one of your interfaces. Notice it tracks traffic, unicast, non-unicast, packet size, utilization, and errors.

We have a number of entities and metrics we alert on. Sometimes it's easy to expand this, in case you need anything specific, sometimes this will take some more effort. You can find a list of metrics we currently can alert on at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes

1.   I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the
   

community version. Is it supposed to work?

That’s because it’s the legacy system. Last month the alerting system went through like 2-3 updates or something alone.

The community version doesn’t have the nice alerts. Get the subscription.

It may work, or it may not - we don't provide support on that anymore, and have recommended for a few years to keep this disabled due to possible alert mail avalanche... :-)

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Makes sense. I like having pre-configured / pre-filled in templates: that will make it much more user friendly. Having checkboxes and a list (or group) of hosts to apply to would be awesome..drop down box for templates might be cool too. Also, I'm curious - how is device status in the DB set (to 0 or 1)? That seems pretty accurate just for telling me some device is up or down from NMS point of view. Seems like an easy / logical quick win for your alerting framework?

I have about 180 devices and soon around 300 devices in Observium but are still kinda in a 'test' environment. We'd like to replace SolarWinds and their crazy pay for everything nickle dime sales methods with this product. If you'd like I can help test w/ you. If so hit me up off list. I can also volunteer time to help document stuff. Not sure how to integrate to help out there tho. Kenny

Kenny

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Tom Laermans tom.laermans@powersource.cxwrote:

Kenny,

Indeed the alerting is still very much in test phase. We don't support alerting on pingable or not yet anyway :[ When most of the functionality is fleshed out the web interface could certainly use some more work. I'm thinking no manual textbox entry of the entities and matching criteria, possibility to prefill input with often-used templates ("Check all BGP sessions", "Check for storage >90%", etc) so ease entry of alerting.

Once it's set up it works for me though, so at least that's a good thing .. ;)

Tom

On 01/22/2014 05:35 PM, Kenny Sallee wrote:

Regarding alerts and status / email - I've had a hard time working with that (please don't judge! It's not that straight forward yet but it's a great product and I'm a happy subscriber).

What I did was created a script that dips into the database and looks at the device status. So I do this basically (again don't judge I'm not a developer yet and still learning I can already see other ways to do this - but it's working so...):

$sql = 'SELECT device_id,hostname,status FROM devices WHERE status = 0'; $count = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices WHERE status = 1'; $count2 = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices';

$stmt = $dbCon->prepare($sql); $stmt->execute(); $down = $stmt->rowCount();

$stmt2 = $dbCon->prepare($count); $stmt2->execute(); $hosts = $stmt2->fetch();

$stmt3 = $dbCon->prepare($count2); $stmt3->execute(); $t_hosts = $stmt3->fetch();

if ($down < 1) {

........bunch of other logic here...email me if you want it

}

Then some php logic to display via build pretty bootstrap interface to display the count of up and down hosts...if there are any down hosts where status = 1 email goes out. I'm not sure what logic in Observium sets status to 1 (have not looked for it yet)

This has been as accurate as SolarWinds for a customer I work with -- for just knowing if the device is pingable / pollable or not.

Hope this helps, Kenny

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cx

...

wrote:

...

On 01/22/2014 04:40 PM, Josh Hopper wrote:

1.   Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the subscription
   

version? Our CIO is interested in measuring 95% on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze capacity planning.

Adam might have a different answer. There are the metrics that you see. No direct reports.

Observium shows many things if your looking at the right info. It captures traffic statistics for port-channels, ports, VLANs, routing, UDP traffic, TCP/IP traffic, errors, etc.

You can do something with billing, by creating a bill for those ports. That will provide you with historical 95p listings. It's not really reporting, though I'm told billing can do PDF exports somehow. :-)

1.   How mature is the alerting in the subscription version?  Is it
   

possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a percentage of link speed and interface up/down?

Ports measure more than just link state.

Click on one of your interfaces. Notice it tracks traffic, unicast, non-unicast, packet size, utilization, and errors.

We have a number of entities and metrics we alert on. Sometimes it's easy to expand this, in case you need anything specific, sometimes this will take some more effort. You can find a list of metrics we currently can alert on at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes

1.   I have been unable to get any email functionality working in
   

the community version. Is it supposed to work?

That’s because it’s the legacy system. Last month the alerting system went through like 2-3 updates or something alone.

The community version doesn’t have the nice alerts. Get the subscription.

It may work, or it may not - we don't provide support on that anymore, and have recommended for a few years to keep this disabled due to possible alert mail avalanche... :-)

Regards, Tom

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On 22/01/2014 20:15, Scott Brawner wrote:

Thanks all for the responses. It does seem like a very small investment and I will definitely keep it in mind when choosing a platform.

One (not) last question:

Does the LDAP/AD authentication work at all? Just wondering before I gave it a whirl.

I've used LDAP auth since 3 years, and am still actively using it on one install, doing AD auth on another since half a year or so.

However, for some people it doesn't seem to work, but I haven't gotten any useful debug out of that yet to see what's going wrong...

Tom

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*From:*observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *On Behalf Of *Tom Laermans *Sent:* Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:49 AM *To:* Observium Network Observation System *Subject:* Re: [Observium] Observium reporting

Kenny,

Indeed the alerting is still very much in test phase. We don't support alerting on pingable or not yet anyway :[ When most of the functionality is fleshed out the web interface could certainly use some more work. I'm thinking no manual textbox entry of the entities and matching criteria, possibility to prefill input with often-used templates ("Check all BGP sessions", "Check for storage >90%", etc) so ease entry of alerting.

Once it's set up it works for me though, so at least that's a good thing .. ;)

Tom

On 01/22/2014 05:35 PM, Kenny Sallee wrote:

Regarding alerts and status / email -  I've had a hard time
working with that (please don't judge!  It's not that straight
forward yet but it's a great product and I'm a happy subscriber).


What I did was created a script that dips into the database and
looks at the device status.  So I do this basically (again don't
judge I'm not a developer yet and still learning I can already see
other ways to do this - but it's working so...):

$sql = 'SELECT device_id,hostname,status FROM devices WHERE status
= 0';

$count = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices WHERE status = 1';

$count2 = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices';

$stmt = $dbCon->prepare($sql);

$stmt->execute();

$down = $stmt->rowCount();

$stmt2 = $dbCon->prepare($count);

$stmt2->execute();

$hosts = $stmt2->fetch();

$stmt3 = $dbCon->prepare($count2);

        $stmt3->execute();

        $t_hosts = $stmt3->fetch();

if ($down < 1) {

........bunch of other logic here...email me if you want it

}

Then some php logic to display via build pretty bootstrap
interface to display the count of up and down hosts...if there are
any down hosts where status = 1 email goes out.  I'm not sure what
logic in Observium sets status to 1 (have not looked for it yet)

This has been as accurate as SolarWinds for a customer I work with
-- for just knowing if the device is pingable / pollable or not.

Hope this helps,

Kenny

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Tom Laermans
<tom.laermans@powersource.cx <mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx>>
wrote:

On 01/22/2014 04:40 PM, Josh Hopper wrote:

    1.Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the
    subscription version?  Our CIO is interested in measuring 95%
    on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze
    capacity planning.

    Adam might have a different answer. There are the metrics that
    you see. No direct reports.

    Observium shows many things if your looking at the right info.
    It captures traffic statistics for port-channels, ports,
    VLANs, routing, UDP traffic, TCP/IP traffic, errors, etc.

You can do something with billing, by creating a bill for those
ports. That will provide you with historical 95p listings. It's
not really reporting, though I'm told billing can do PDF exports
somehow. :-)



1.How mature is the alerting in the subscription version?  Is it
possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a
percentage of link speed and interface up/down?

Ports measure more than just link state.

Click on one of your interfaces. Notice it tracks traffic,
unicast, non-unicast, packet size, utilization, and errors.

We have a number of entities and metrics we alert on. Sometimes
it's easy to expand this, in case you need anything specific,
sometimes this will take some more effort.  You can find a list of
metrics we currently can alert on at
http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes



1.I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the
community version.  Is it supposed to work?

That's because it's the legacy system. Last month the alerting
system went through like 2-3 updates or something alone.

The community version doesn't have the nice alerts. Get the
subscription.

It may work, or it may not - we don't provide support on that
anymore, and have recommended for a few years to keep this
disabled due to possible alert mail avalanche... :-)

Regards,
Tom


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Snot workin. L

Does anyone know where the authentication mechanism code for ldap is?

Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410

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On 22/01/2014 20:15, Scott Brawner wrote:

Thanks all for the responses. It does seem like a very small investment and I will definitely keep it in mind when choosing a platform.

One (not) last question:

Does the LDAP/AD authentication work at all? Just wondering before I gave it a whirl.

I've used LDAP auth since 3 years, and am still actively using it on one install, doing AD auth on another since half a year or so.

However, for some people it doesn't seem to work, but I haven't gotten any useful debug out of that yet to see what's going wrong...

Tom

Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410

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Kenny,

Indeed the alerting is still very much in test phase. We don't support alerting on pingable or not yet anyway :[ When most of the functionality is fleshed out the web interface could certainly use some more work. I'm thinking no manual textbox entry of the entities and matching criteria, possibility to prefill input with often-used templates ("Check all BGP sessions", "Check for storage >90%", etc) so ease entry of alerting.

Once it's set up it works for me though, so at least that's a good thing .. ;)

Tom

On 01/22/2014 05:35 PM, Kenny Sallee wrote:

Regarding alerts and status / email - I've had a hard time working with that (please don't judge! It's not that straight forward yet but it's a great product and I'm a happy subscriber).

What I did was created a script that dips into the database and looks at the device status. So I do this basically (again don't judge I'm not a developer yet and still learning I can already see other ways to do this - but it's working so...):

$sql = 'SELECT device_id,hostname,status FROM devices WHERE status = 0';

$count = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices WHERE status = 1';

$count2 = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices';

$stmt = $dbCon->prepare($sql);

$stmt->execute();

$down = $stmt->rowCount();

$stmt2 = $dbCon->prepare($count);

$stmt2->execute();

$hosts = $stmt2->fetch();

$stmt3 = $dbCon->prepare($count2);

$stmt3->execute();

$t_hosts = $stmt3->fetch();

if ($down < 1) {

........bunch of other logic here...email me if you want it

}

Then some php logic to display via build pretty bootstrap interface to display the count of up and down hosts...if there are any down hosts where status = 1 email goes out. I'm not sure what logic in Observium sets status to 1 (have not looked for it yet)

This has been as accurate as SolarWinds for a customer I work with -- for just knowing if the device is pingable / pollable or not.

Hope this helps,

Kenny

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Tom Laermans tom.laermans@powersource.cx wrote:

On 01/22/2014 04:40 PM, Josh Hopper wrote:

1. Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the subscription version? Our CIO is interested in measuring 95% on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze capacity planning.

Adam might have a different answer. There are the metrics that you see. No direct reports.

Observium shows many things if your looking at the right info. It captures traffic statistics for port-channels, ports, VLANs, routing, UDP traffic, TCP/IP traffic, errors, etc.

You can do something with billing, by creating a bill for those ports. That will provide you with historical 95p listings. It's not really reporting, though I'm told billing can do PDF exports somehow. :-)

1. How mature is the alerting in the subscription version? Is it possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a percentage of link speed and interface up/down?

Ports measure more than just link state.

Click on one of your interfaces. Notice it tracks traffic, unicast, non-unicast, packet size, utilization, and errors.

We have a number of entities and metrics we alert on. Sometimes it's easy to expand this, in case you need anything specific, sometimes this will take some more effort. You can find a list of metrics we currently can alert on at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes

1. I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the community version. Is it supposed to work?

That's because it's the legacy system. Last month the alerting system went through like 2-3 updates or something alone.

The community version doesn't have the nice alerts. Get the subscription.

It may work, or it may not - we don't provide support on that anymore, and have recommended for a few years to keep this disabled due to possible alert mail avalanche... :-)

Regards, Tom

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Hi Scott,

This is currently not possible - it's also not possible to do in ldap_search without a for loop around your suffixes; don't they have a common element higher up the tree? Or is there a specific reason you don't want to tack on the deeper searches? (high load on DC etc)

Tom

On 23/01/2014 20:57, Scott Brawner wrote:

Is it possible to put an array into

$config['auth_ldap_suffix']

In order to have more than one OU search suffix, because I want to have admin users as well as execs be able to access and their user accounts are in way different OUs.

Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410

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Snot workin. L

Does anyone know where the authentication mechanism code for ldap is?

Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410

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On 22/01/2014 20:15, Scott Brawner wrote:

Thanks all for the responses.  It does seem like a very small
investment and I will definitely keep it in mind when choosing a
platform.

One (not) last question:

Does the LDAP/AD authentication work at all?  Just wondering
before I gave it a whirl.

I've used LDAP auth since 3 years, and am still actively using it on one install, doing AD auth on another since half a year or so.

However, for some people it doesn't seem to work, but I haven't gotten any useful debug out of that yet to see what's going wrong...

Tom

Thanks, Scott Brawner Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410

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Kenny,

Indeed the alerting is still very much in test phase. We don't support alerting on pingable or not yet anyway :[ When most of the functionality is fleshed out the web interface could certainly use some more work. I'm thinking no manual textbox entry of the entities and matching criteria, possibility to prefill input with often-used templates ("Check all BGP sessions", "Check for storage >90%", etc) so ease entry of alerting.

Once it's set up it works for me though, so at least that's a good thing .. ;)

Tom

On 01/22/2014 05:35 PM, Kenny Sallee wrote:

Regarding alerts and status / email -  I've had a hard time
working with that (please don't judge!  It's not that straight
forward yet but it's a great product and I'm a happy subscriber).


What I did was created a script that dips into the database and
looks at the device status.  So I do this basically (again don't
judge I'm not a developer yet and still learning I can already see
other ways to do this - but it's working so...):

$sql = 'SELECT device_id,hostname,status FROM devices WHERE status
= 0';

$count = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices WHERE status = 1';

$count2 = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices';

$stmt = $dbCon->prepare($sql);

$stmt->execute();

$down = $stmt->rowCount();

$stmt2 = $dbCon->prepare($count);

$stmt2->execute();

$hosts = $stmt2->fetch();

$stmt3 = $dbCon->prepare($count2);

        $stmt3->execute();

        $t_hosts = $stmt3->fetch();

if ($down < 1) {

........bunch of other logic here...email me if you want it

}

Then some php logic to display via build pretty bootstrap
interface to display the count of up and down hosts...if there are
any down hosts where status = 1 email goes out.  I'm not sure what
logic in Observium sets status to 1 (have not looked for it yet)

This has been as accurate as SolarWinds for a customer I work with
-- for just knowing if the device is pingable / pollable or not.

Hope this helps,

Kenny

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Tom Laermans
<tom.laermans@powersource.cx <mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx>>
wrote:

On 01/22/2014 04:40 PM, Josh Hopper wrote:

    1.Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the
    subscription version?  Our CIO is interested in measuring 95%
    on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze
    capacity planning.

    Adam might have a different answer. There are the metrics that
    you see. No direct reports.

    Observium shows many things if your looking at the right info.
    It captures traffic statistics for port-channels, ports,
    VLANs, routing, UDP traffic, TCP/IP traffic, errors, etc.

You can do something with billing, by creating a bill for those
ports. That will provide you with historical 95p listings. It's
not really reporting, though I'm told billing can do PDF exports
somehow. :-)



1.How mature is the alerting in the subscription version?  Is it
possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a
percentage of link speed and interface up/down?

Ports measure more than just link state.

Click on one of your interfaces. Notice it tracks traffic,
unicast, non-unicast, packet size, utilization, and errors.

We have a number of entities and metrics we alert on. Sometimes
it's easy to expand this, in case you need anything specific,
sometimes this will take some more effort.  You can find a list of
metrics we currently can alert on at
http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes



1.I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the
community version.  Is it supposed to work?

That's because it's the legacy system. Last month the alerting
system went through like 2-3 updates or something alone.

The community version doesn't have the nice alerts. Get the
subscription.

It may work, or it may not - we don't provide support on that
anymore, and have recommended for a few years to keep this
disabled due to possible alert mail avalanche... :-)

Regards,
Tom


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I think it should just find everything in there if you set it to that. If it doesn't work, let us know :-)

On 24/01/2014 13:47, Scott Brawner wrote:

I could just set it to the root, but I didn't know how far down it would go. I will try that. Thanks Tom!

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Hi Scott,

This is currently not possible - it's also not possible to do in ldap_search without a for loop around your suffixes; don't they have a common element higher up the tree? Or is there a specific reason you don't want to tack on the deeper searches? (high load on DC etc)

Tom

On 23/01/2014 20:57, Scott Brawner wrote:

Is it possible to put an array into

$config['auth_ldap_suffix']

In order to have more than one OU search suffix, because I want to
have admin users as well as execs be able to access and their user
accounts are in way different OUs.

Thanks,
Scott Brawner
Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410

*From:*observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *On
Behalf Of *Scott Brawner
*Sent:* Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:27 AM
*To:* Observium Network Observation System
*Subject:* Re: [Observium] Observium reporting

Snot workin. L

Does anyone know where the authentication mechanism code for ldap is?

Thanks,
Scott Brawner
Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410

*From:*observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *On
Behalf Of *Tom Laermans
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:55 PM
*To:* Observium Network Observation System
*Subject:* Re: [Observium] Observium reporting

On 22/01/2014 20:15, Scott Brawner wrote:

    Thanks all for the responses.  It does seem like a very small
    investment and I will definitely keep it in mind when choosing
    a platform.

    One (not) last question:

    Does the LDAP/AD authentication work at all?  Just wondering
    before I gave it a whirl.

I've used LDAP auth since 3 years, and am still actively using it
on one install, doing AD auth on another since half a year or so.

However, for some people it doesn't seem to work, but I haven't
gotten any useful debug out of that yet to see what's going wrong...

Tom

Thanks,
Scott Brawner
Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CBD278.0CADB410

*From:*observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] *On
Behalf Of *Tom Laermans
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:49 AM
*To:* Observium Network Observation System
*Subject:* Re: [Observium] Observium reporting

Kenny,

Indeed the alerting is still very much in test phase. We don't
support alerting on pingable or not yet anyway :[ When most of the
functionality is fleshed out the web interface could certainly use
some more work. I'm thinking no manual textbox entry of the
entities and matching criteria, possibility to prefill input with
often-used templates ("Check all BGP sessions", "Check for storage
>90%", etc) so ease entry of alerting.

Once it's set up it works for me though, so at least that's a good
thing .. ;)

Tom

On 01/22/2014 05:35 PM, Kenny Sallee wrote:

    Regarding alerts and status / email -  I've had a hard time
    working with that (please don't judge!  It's not that straight
    forward yet but it's a great product and I'm a happy subscriber).


    What I did was created a script that dips into the database
    and looks at the device status.  So I do this basically (again
    don't judge I'm not a developer yet and still learning I can
    already see other ways to do this - but it's working so...):

    $sql = 'SELECT device_id,hostname,status FROM devices WHERE
    status = 0';

    $count = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices WHERE status = 1';

    $count2 = 'SELECT COUNT(*) from devices';

    $stmt = $dbCon->prepare($sql);

    $stmt->execute();

    $down = $stmt->rowCount();

    $stmt2 = $dbCon->prepare($count);

    $stmt2->execute();

    $hosts = $stmt2->fetch();

    $stmt3 = $dbCon->prepare($count2);

            $stmt3->execute();

            $t_hosts = $stmt3->fetch();

    if ($down < 1) {

    ........bunch of other logic here...email me if you want it

    }

    Then some php logic to display via build pretty bootstrap
    interface to display the count of up and down hosts...if there
    are any down hosts where status = 1 email goes out.  I'm not
    sure what logic in Observium sets status to 1 (have not looked
    for it yet)

    This has been as accurate as SolarWinds for a customer I work
    with -- for just knowing if the device is pingable / pollable
    or not.

    Hope this helps,

    Kenny

    On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Tom Laermans
    <tom.laermans@powersource.cx
    <mailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx>> wrote:

    On 01/22/2014 04:40 PM, Josh Hopper wrote:

        1.Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the
        subscription version?  Our CIO is interested in measuring
        95% on all of our regional office site links in order to
        analyze capacity planning.

        Adam might have a different answer. There are the metrics
        that you see. No direct reports.

        Observium shows many things if your looking at the right
        info. It captures traffic statistics for port-channels,
        ports, VLANs, routing, UDP traffic, TCP/IP traffic,
        errors, etc.

    You can do something with billing, by creating a bill for
    those ports. That will provide you with historical 95p
    listings. It's not really reporting, though I'm told billing
    can do PDF exports somehow. :-)




    1.How mature is the alerting in the subscription version?  Is
    it possible to configure alerting based on anything other than
    a percentage of link speed and interface up/down?

    Ports measure more than just link state.

    Click on one of your interfaces. Notice it tracks traffic,
    unicast, non-unicast, packet size, utilization, and errors.

    We have a number of entities and metrics we alert on.
    Sometimes it's easy to expand this, in case you need anything
    specific, sometimes this will take some more effort.  You can
    find a list of metrics we currently can alert on at
    http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes




    1.I have been unable to get any email functionality working in
    the community version.  Is it supposed to work?

    That's because it's the legacy system. Last month the alerting
    system went through like 2-3 updates or something alone.

    The community version doesn't have the nice alerts. Get the
    subscription.

    It may work, or it may not - we don't provide support on that
    anymore, and have recommended for a few years to keep this
    disabled due to possible alert mail avalanche... :-)

    Regards,
    Tom


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All,

I thought that I had read one response to my original email where someone had been dipping into the db for reporting info, but I can't find it now. I'd love to get some more information on that.

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From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Tom Laermans Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:07 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium reporting

On 01/22/2014 04:40 PM, Josh Hopper wrote:

1. Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the subscription version? Our CIO is interested in measuring 95% on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze capacity planning.

Adam might have a different answer. There are the metrics that you see. No direct reports.

Observium shows many things if your looking at the right info. It captures traffic statistics for port-channels, ports, VLANs, routing, UDP traffic, TCP/IP traffic, errors, etc.

You can do something with billing, by creating a bill for those ports. That will provide you with historical 95p listings. It's not really reporting, though I'm told billing can do PDF exports somehow. :-)

1. How mature is the alerting in the subscription version? Is it possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a percentage of link speed and interface up/down?

Ports measure more than just link state.

Click on one of your interfaces. Notice it tracks traffic, unicast, non-unicast, packet size, utilization, and errors.

We have a number of entities and metrics we alert on. Sometimes it's easy to expand this, in case you need anything specific, sometimes this will take some more effort. You can find a list of metrics we currently can alert on at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes

1. I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the community version. Is it supposed to work?

That's because it's the legacy system. Last month the alerting system went through like 2-3 updates or something alone.

The community version doesn't have the nice alerts. Get the subscription.

It may work, or it may not - we don't provide support on that anymore, and have recommended for a few years to keep this disabled due to possible alert mail avalanche... :-)

Regards, Tom

Sweet, thanks Adam. Billing is only enabled/working in the subscription version, correct?

Thanks, Scott Brawner

-----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 3:34 PM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium reporting

If you're not using the data for billing, you /may/ be able to make do with measuring 95th from RRD.

Or you can increase the resolution of the RRD files so that they store a month or two of 5-minute data and then extract the 95th values from the RRD (rrdtool export)

Alternatively, if you set up bills for the important ports then you can extract the data from bills and bill_history tables.

adam.

On 2014-02-05 14:24, Scott Brawner wrote:

All,

I thought that I had read one response to my original email where someone had been dipping into the db for reporting info, but I can't find it now… I'd love to get some more information on that.

Thanks, Scott Brawner

FROM: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] ON BEHALF OF Tom Laermans SENT: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:07 AM TO: Observium Network Observation System SUBJECT: Re: [Observium] Observium reporting

On 01/22/2014 04:40 PM, Josh Hopper wrote:

1. Are there any reporting/analysis functions in the subscription

version? Our CIO is interested in measuring 95% on all of our regional office site links in order to analyze capacity planning.

Adam might have a different answer. There are the metrics that you see. No direct reports.

Observium shows many things if your looking at the right info. It captures traffic statistics for port-channels, ports, VLANs, routing, UDP traffic, TCP/IP traffic, errors, etc.

You can do something with billing, by creating a bill for those ports. That will provide you with historical 95p listings. It's not really reporting, though I'm told billing can do PDF exports somehow. :-)

1. How mature is the alerting in the subscription version? Is it

possible to configure alerting based on anything other than a percentage of link speed and interface up/down?

Ports measure more than just link state.

Click on one of your interfaces. Notice it tracks traffic, unicast, non-unicast, packet size, utilization, and errors.

We have a number of entities and metrics we alert on. Sometimes it's easy to expand this, in case you need anything specific, sometimes this will take some more effort. You can find a list of metrics we currently can alert on at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes [1]

1. I have been unable to get any email functionality working in the

community version. Is it supposed to work?

That's because it's the legacy system. Last month the alerting system went through like 2-3 updates or something alone.

The community version doesn't have the nice alerts. Get the subscription.

It may work, or it may not - we don't provide support on that anymore, and have recommended for a few years to keep this disabled due to possible alert mail avalanche... :-)

Regards, Tom

Links:

[1] http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting_Metrics_and_Attributes

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...and that's why I just subscribed. ;)

Thanks, Scott Brawner

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On 2014-02-05 15:04, Scott Brawner wrote:

Sweet, thanks Adam. Billing is only enabled/working in the subscription version, correct?

Yeah. The code is no longer present in the CE release.

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