Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 91
Adam and Joe,
Thank you for your feedback on this. It would be nice to have a few default alerts built directly into the platform. That said, I understand that the time needed to implement something like that could be hard to reserve.
As for the configuration I submitted, does the behavior of the alert seem to be correct? I was curious of up / down alerting was implemented (as the walkthrough suggests), but has yet to be verified as fully functional.
I have an alert that checks for half-duplex interfaces, and it works like a charm. Observium will send off e-mails every 5 minutes about it, but I get nothing about a device status being up or down.
We have What's Up Gold taking care of these alerts for now, but that's really all that it's doing. I know there are alternatives to this, but It would be so great to keep everything within Observium. :)
Regards,
Nate Mellendorf | NETWORK ANALYST | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 www.NetgainHosting.com
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-----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request@observium.org Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 1:01 AM To: observium@observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 91
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1. Re: Observium mailing list (Joseph L. Brunner)
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:00:19 +0000 From: "Joseph L. Brunner" joe@affirmedsystems.com To: Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org, Observium Network Observation System observium@observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list Message-ID: 2E86D2A5DF7FFA40A41B8C7FCA38F8742049FA@affmdex2k10.affmdcorp.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Not putting the product down ? it?s the best $100 thing in the world.
But, I?m saying with logicmonitor ? all things just start coming at you and that?s pretty good. Now, I?m sure they have a major team writing those alerts and you have the $100 a year thing ? I?m saying opening it up on kickstarter ? we would donate ? the Observium interface is better.
Just cant seem to get alerts to fire 100% of the time in a relatively quick fashion ?
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 01:23 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list
I don't even know how we would do that :)
What we have now is the most automated I could think of making it. We would have preferred to have some means of default hard-coded alerts, but I've not come up with a good way to do that yet. :)
adam.
------ Original Message ------ From: "Joseph L. Brunner" <joe@affirmedsystems.commailto:joe@affirmedsystems.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: 12/17/2014 11:27:40 PM Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list
Yeah, the alerts suck.
We use Observium to wow the business folks ? but use other things to poll and generate an email?
They should bite the bullet, do another kickstarter and raise like $200K so the alerts will be AUTO GENERATED and UNIVERSAL for all things it can find ? like logicmonitor.
Just to get off logicmonitor I would donate
-Joe
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.orgmailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Nate Mellendorf Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:10 PM To: observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org Subject: [Observium] FW: Observium mailing list
Good evening all,
After much trial and error, I?ve been unsuccessful in implementing a simple up/down device alert within Observium. As I searched around the web for a solution, It seemed as though this hasn?t been much of an issue for most users.
Here?s some additional documentation I followed to try and fix it myself: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612 (Nice work on this one) https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg05915.html http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker
I?m starting think that my configuration file (config.php) could have something to do with it. I?ve included it, along with multiple snip-its to try and assist you in seeing my work. If anyone has any suggestions on this, they would be greatly appreciated. I?ve been working on this on and off for the past few days now, and I?ve had no success in generating an offline alert. The alert log shows the test as failed, but delayed. It never actually send out an e-mail. My apologies in advance, if this turns out to be user error.
Thanks in advance for any time put into this. If there is anything else I can provide to further assist in troubleshooting, please let me know. I?d be more than happy to provide it.
Omitted config.php:
? // Enable alerter $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE;
// Disable page refresh $config['page_refresh'] = "300"; ## Refresh the page every xx seconds
// Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['email']['default'] = "nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.commailto:nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com"; $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "observium@netgainhosting.commailto:observium@netgainhosting.com"; $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Disables OLD alerting system $config['alerts']['interval'] = 310; ?
Sensitive information has been omitted.
The alert I?ve configured: (image)
[cid:image001.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80]
Here is what I see when I?ve review the alert: (image)
[cid:image002.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80]
Here?s the alert log that?s generated: (image) (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.)
[cid:image003.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80]
Finally, here is what?s found when I review the logs of an offline device: (image)
[cid:image004.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80]
Thanks again everyone,
Nate Mellendorf | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 www.NetgainHosting.comhttp://www.netgainhosting.com/
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A lot of these things are less about time and way more about working out how to do things.
I'm not at all happy with the alerting system as it ended up, and not having default alerts is a major part of that. It's just not clear how we can overcome that limitation without compromising other things.
adam.
------ Original Message ------ From: "Nate Mellendorf" Nate.Mellendorf@netgainhosting.com To: "observium@observium.org" observium@observium.org Sent: 12/18/2014 7:21:02 AM Subject: Re: [Observium] observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 91
Adam and Joe,
Thank you for your feedback on this. It would be nice to have a few default alerts built directly into the platform. That said, I understand that the time needed to implement something like that could be hard to reserve.
As for the configuration I submitted, does the behavior of the alert seem to be correct? I was curious of up / down alerting was implemented (as the walkthrough suggests), but has yet to be verified as fully functional.
I have an alert that checks for half-duplex interfaces, and it works like a charm. Observium will send off e-mails every 5 minutes about it, but I get nothing about a device status being up or down.
We have What's Up Gold taking care of these alerts for now, but that's really all that it's doing. I know there are alternatives to this, but It would be so great to keep everything within Observium. :)
Regards,
Nate Mellendorf | NETWORK ANALYST | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 www.NetgainHosting.com
The information contained in this email message is for the designated recipient only and may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any information contained within is strictly prohibited.
-----Original Message----- From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of observium-request@observium.org Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 1:01 AM To: observium@observium.org Subject: observium Digest, Vol 53, Issue 91
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Today's Topics:
- Re: Observium mailing list (Joseph L. Brunner)
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:00:19 +0000 From: "Joseph L. Brunner" joe@affirmedsystems.com To: Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org, Observium Network Observation System observium@observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list Message-ID: 2E86D2A5DF7FFA40A41B8C7FCA38F8742049FA@affmdex2k10.affmdcorp.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Not putting the product down ? it?s the best $100 thing in the world.
But, I?m saying with logicmonitor ? all things just start coming at you and that?s pretty good. Now, I?m sure they have a major team writing those alerts and you have the $100 a year thing ? I?m saying opening it up on kickstarter ? we would donate ? the Observium interface is better.
Just cant seem to get alerts to fire 100% of the time in a relatively quick fashion ?
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Adam Armstrong Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 01:23 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list
I don't even know how we would do that :)
What we have now is the most automated I could think of making it. We would have preferred to have some means of default hard-coded alerts, but I've not come up with a good way to do that yet. :)
adam.
------ Original Message ------ From: "Joseph L. Brunner" <joe@affirmedsystems.commailto:joe@affirmedsystems.com> To: "Observium Network Observation System" <observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org> Sent: 12/17/2014 11:27:40 PM Subject: Re: [Observium] Observium mailing list
Yeah, the alerts suck.
We use Observium to wow the business folks ? but use other things to poll and generate an email?
They should bite the bullet, do another kickstarter and raise like $200K so the alerts will be AUTO GENERATED and UNIVERSAL for all things it can find ? like logicmonitor.
Just to get off logicmonitor I would donate
-Joe
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.orgmailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Nate Mellendorf Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:10 PM To: observium@observium.orgmailto:observium@observium.org Subject: [Observium] FW: Observium mailing list
Good evening all,
After much trial and error, I?ve been unsuccessful in implementing a simple up/down device alert within Observium. As I searched around the web for a solution, It seemed as though this hasn?t been much of an issue for most users.
Here?s some additional documentation I followed to try and fix it myself: http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612 (Nice work on this one) https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg05915.html http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker
I?m starting think that my configuration file (config.php) could have something to do with it. I?ve included it, along with multiple snip-its to try and assist you in seeing my work. If anyone has any suggestions on this, they would be greatly appreciated. I?ve been working on this on and off for the past few days now, and I?ve had no success in generating an offline alert. The alert log shows the test as failed, but delayed. It never actually send out an e-mail. My apologies in advance, if this turns out to be user error.
Thanks in advance for any time put into this. If there is anything else I can provide to further assist in troubleshooting, please let me know. I?d be more than happy to provide it.
Omitted config.php:
? // Enable alerter $config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE;
// Disable page refresh $config['page_refresh'] = "300"; ## Refresh the page every xx seconds
// Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config['email']['default'] = "nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.commailto:nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com"; $config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "observium@netgainhosting.commailto:observium@netgainhosting.com"; $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Disables OLD alerting system $config['alerts']['interval'] = 310; ?
Sensitive information has been omitted.
The alert I?ve configured: (image)
[cid:image001.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80]
Here is what I see when I?ve review the alert: (image)
[cid:image002.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80]
Here?s the alert log that?s generated: (image) (As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.)
[cid:image003.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80]
Finally, here is what?s found when I review the logs of an offline device: (image)
[cid:image004.jpg@01D01A66.5E9E3F80]
Thanks again everyone,
Nate Mellendorf | Network Analyst | Netgain 720 West Saint Germain Street | St. Cloud | MN | 56301 Phone: 320.251.4700 x183 | 877.797.4700 x183 www.NetgainHosting.comhttp://www.netgainhosting.com/
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