Documentation can be found here. Modules can be found here. I’m assuming you have been following my other guides and this is a Debain Wheezy box that you’d like to monitor. I’m doing this to monitor Unbound. apt-get install subversion …
Support for Allied Telesyn switches is not included out of the box with rancid. We’ve got to add 2 files and then enable the “at” type. I’ve found a few examples around for atlogin and atrancid but of the two I …
It’s possible to get a little more information on a device by using this trick. This is mostly for debugging purposes. It tells you information on rancid and smokeping. On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Tom Laermans wrote: …
So I had the need to monitor latency with Radius. I added the necessary text into the Probe section and restarted Smokeping to see an error. [….] Starting latency logger daemon: smokepingrequire Smokeping::probes::Radius failed: Can’t locate Authen/Radius.pm in @INC …
Updates: 11/12/2014 – Latest revision of Observium Pro’s code for show rancid config has been rewritten without php-svn extension. If you have php-svn installed, it’s best to uninstall it – apt-get remove php5-svn ; service apache2 restart Update: 12/1/2014 – Updated …
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Debian 7 uses Rsyslog. This is well documented. Add the syslog line to Observium’s config.php. pico /opt/observium/config.php // Enable Syslog $config[‘enable_syslog’] = 1; By default Rsyslog does not accept remote syslog information. pico /etc/rsyslog.conf Uncomment $ModLoad imudp $UDPServerRun 514 We …
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Updated 11/12/2014 – Added smokeping cgi link at bottom of post. Update 12/1/2014 – Adjusted smokeping cgi link at bottom due to Mike Hammett’s feedback. Updated from restart to reload in cron job. Update 3/7/2014 – Added FastCGI info, Apache …
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The default config file email setup needs some additions pico /opt/observium/config.php Existing config: // Set up a default alerter (email to a single address) $config[‘alerts’][‘alerter’][‘default’][‘descr’] = “Default Email Alert”; $config[‘alerts’][‘alerter’][‘default’][‘type’] = “email”; $config[‘alerts’][‘alerter’][‘default’][‘contact’] = “you@yourdomain.org”; $config[‘alerts’][‘alerter’][‘default’][‘enable’] = TRUE; Add: …
We are going to be installing the Professional edition of Observium, not the Community edition. I’m starting with a fresh install of Debian Wheezy using the Netinstall iso. I only install SSH and the standard system utilities. Much of this comes directly …
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I finally moved the blog off EC2 and RDS. It was crashing, usually with the CPU at 100%. I couldn’t get into it to see what was going on when it would happen. Oh well. New home. Some of …