port ignore partly fails on large number of ports
Hi,
I recently discovered the following :
When trying to set "Ignore" status on switches with large number of ports (eg. force10 e1200 or c300 chassis), the setting doesn't get saved for some of the ports.
More specific, at the end of the list.
This is what I did : Toggle all -> removed the toggle from the mgmt interface -> then save
What happens: Most ports get "ignored" status, part of them don't
After getting the status, they again have a 'not-ignored-status' (checkbox not checked). If I check them again & press save -> same issue.
Seems like the checkboxes only get processed to a certain number of items ?
Does this sound familiar ?
Thanks in advance,
Maarten De Wispelaere
Department of Information Technology Internet Based Communication Networks and Services (IBCN) Ghent University - IBBT Gaston Crommenlaan 8 Bus 201, B-9050 Gent, Belgium E-mail: maarten.dewispelaere@intec.UGent.be Tel. +32 (0)9 33 14979 Fax +32 (0)9 33 14899
Why do you want to ignore the ports? We generally discourage it :>
The code in question was contributed by someone else, and I can't even read it.
Witness in action reason #12312 why open source software sucks: abandoned, broken contributions.
adam.
On 18/09/2012 09:00, Maarten De Wispelaere wrote:
Hi,
I recently discovered the following :
When trying to set "Ignore" status on switches with large number of ports (eg. force10 e1200 or c300 chassis), the setting doesn't get saved for some of the ports.
More specific, at the end of the list.
This is what I did : Toggle all -> removed the toggle from the mgmt interface -> then save
What happens: Most ports get "ignored" status, part of them don't
After getting the status, they again have a 'not-ignored-status' (checkbox not checked). If I check them again & press save -> same issue.
Seems like the checkboxes only get processed to a certain number of items ?
Does this sound familiar ?
Thanks in advance,
Maarten De Wispelaere
Department of Information Technology Internet Based Communication Networks and Services (IBCN) Ghent University - IBBT Gaston Crommenlaan 8 Bus 201, B-9050 Gent, Belgium E-mail: maarten.dewispelaere@intec.UGent.be Tel. +32 (0)9 33 14979 Fax +32 (0)9 33 14899
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Hi Adam,
well, to answer your question why I want to ignore those ports:
we are running multiple Emulab setups (www.emulab.net) and that force10 switch is one of the experiment-switches. I don't want the "down ports" etc to appear in my dashboard. Only the management interface should be monitored up to that level. The other ports only interest me on traffic level, not if they are up/down/overloaded/whatever.
We're talking 13x48 ports… ;) on that one switch alone that I seriously don't want to see those on the dashboard.
Anyway, reason #21521 why Open-Source doesn't suck - sorry Adam, couldn't resist… - are user contributions:
Apparently, the error had nothing to do with the code itself - it was caused by a default limitation set in php (Ubuntu 12.04/Apache2/Php5):
Wed Sep 19 14:21:13 2012] [error] [client <removed>] PHP Warning: Unknown: Input variables exceeded 1000. To increase the limit change max_input_vars in php.ini. in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://observium.test/device/device=38/tab=edit/section=ports/
This is the default setting in this version of php, I changed it to 10000 - runs OK now.
Best regards,
Maarten De Wispelaere
Department of Information Technology Internet Based Communication Networks and Services (IBCN) Ghent University - IBBT Gaston Crommenlaan 8 Bus 201, B-9050 Gent, Belgium E-mail: maarten.dewispelaere@intec.UGent.be Tel. +32 (0)9 33 14979 Fax +32 (0)9 33 14899
On 19 Sep 2012, at 00:10, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
Why do you want to ignore the ports? We generally discourage it :>
The code in question was contributed by someone else, and I can't even read it.
Witness in action reason #12312 why open source software sucks: abandoned, broken contributions.
adam.
On 18/09/2012 09:00, Maarten De Wispelaere wrote:
Hi,
I recently discovered the following :
When trying to set "Ignore" status on switches with large number of ports (eg. force10 e1200 or c300 chassis), the setting doesn't get saved for some of the ports.
More specific, at the end of the list.
This is what I did : Toggle all -> removed the toggle from the mgmt interface -> then save
What happens: Most ports get "ignored" status, part of them don't
After getting the status, they again have a 'not-ignored-status' (checkbox not checked). If I check them again & press save -> same issue.
Seems like the checkboxes only get processed to a certain number of items ?
Does this sound familiar ?
Thanks in advance,
Maarten De Wispelaere
Department of Information Technology Internet Based Communication Networks and Services (IBCN) Ghent University - IBBT Gaston Crommenlaan 8 Bus 201, B-9050 Gent, Belgium E-mail: maarten.dewispelaere@intec.UGent.be Tel. +32 (0)9 33 14979 Fax +32 (0)9 33 14899
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Hmm, we've had this issue before, including the solution, on IRC - I'll add it to the FAQ :-)
(I must however agree: abandoned contributions are useless)
Tom
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 14:50 +0200, Maarten De Wispelaere wrote:
Wed Sep 19 14:21:13 2012] [error] [client <removed>] PHP Warning: Unknown: Input variables exceeded 1000. To increase the limit change max_input_vars in php.ini. in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://observium.test/device/device=38/tab=edit/section=ports/
This is the default setting in this version of php, I changed it to 10000 - runs OK now.
Useless is a bit strong. Remember, the feedback you get in any public project like this is almost always from people who had an issue. Folks like me who use and love your software without issue you never hear from. :)
So hey, thanks from me! And try to to be too jaded about user contributions. Over here at Untangle we'd love it if some users actually tried to contribute. :)
m.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Tom Laermans tom.laermans@powersource.cxwrote:
Hmm, we've had this issue before, including the solution, on IRC - I'll add it to the FAQ :-)
(I must however agree: abandoned contributions are useless)
Tom
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 14:50 +0200, Maarten De Wispelaere wrote:
Wed Sep 19 14:21:13 2012] [error] [client <removed>] PHP Warning: Unknown: Input variables exceeded 1000. To increase the limit change max_input_vars in php.ini. in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://observium.test/device/device=38/tab=edit/section=ports/
This is the default setting in this version of php, I changed it to 10000 - runs OK now.
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Indeed, where i'm not using the billing, and did have this same issue (sorry for not replying with the answer to the problem). We are very pleased with using Observium in our infrastructure. The visibility that we have now, without the worries of maintaining something like cacti templates, has hugely increased.
For us, it's best graphing tool that we have for our network equipment. -- Maarten Moerman | Manager Network Engineering | eBay Classifieds Group E-mail: mmoerman@ebay.com | Wibautstraat 224 | 1097 DN Amsterdam Mobile: +31 6 55 1 222 47 | Skype: maartenmoerman
From: Marc Runkel <mrunkel@untangle.commailto:mrunkel@untangle.com> Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org> Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 6:38 AM To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org> Subject: Re: [Observium] port ignore partly fails on large number of ports
Useless is a bit strong. Remember, the feedback you get in any public project like this is almost always from people who had an issue. Folks like me who use and love your software without issue you never hear from. :)
So hey, thanks from me! And try to to be too jaded about user contributions. Over here at Untangle we'd love it if some users actually tried to contribute. :)
m.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Tom Laermans <tom.laermans@powersource.cxmailto:tom.laermans@powersource.cx> wrote: Hmm, we've had this issue before, including the solution, on IRC - I'll add it to the FAQ :-)
(I must however agree: abandoned contributions are useless)
Tom
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 14:50 +0200, Maarten De Wispelaere wrote:
Wed Sep 19 14:21:13 2012] [error] [client <removed>] PHP Warning: Unknown: Input variables exceeded 1000. To increase the limit change max_input_vars in php.ini. in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://observium.test/device/device=38/tab=edit/section=ports/
This is the default setting in this version of php, I changed it to 10000 - runs OK now.
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