[OBS-2143] Custom MIBs - Observium

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Type: New Feature
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: Major
Fix Version/s: None
Affects Version/s: None
Component/s: Discovery, Poller, Web Interface
Labels:
- Monitoring
- device
- discovery
- interface
- poller
- suggestion
- web
Environment:

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*Observium CE 0.16.10.8128 (6th October 2016)*
OS: _Linux 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7.3.1611)_
Apache: _2.4.6 (CentOS) PHP/5.4.16_
PHP:_ 5.4.16_
Python: _2.7.5_
MySQL: _5.5.52-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.5.52-MariaDB)_
SNMP: _NET-SNMP 5.7.2_
RRDtool: _1.4.8_

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*Observium CE 0.16.10.8128 (6th October 2016)* OS: _Linux 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 [amd64] (CentOS 7.3.1611)_ Apache: _2.4.6 (CentOS) PHP/5.4.16_ PHP:_ 5.4.16_ Python: _2.7.5_ MySQL: _5.5.52-MariaDB (extension: mysqli 5.5.52-MariaDB)_ SNMP: _NET-SNMP 5.7.2_ RRDtool: _1.4.8_

Description

Hello!
On Observium you can disable MIBs but you cannot load custom/proprietary MIBs so that an equipment can be discovered and polled correctly.

As a suggestion, it should be an easy way to upload MIBs (via web interface or tool?) and then configure a device (observium) to use those MIBs to gather/collect information on that device. I believe this should benefit a lot users when having some difiiculties to identify correctly some devices.

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[OBS-2143] Custom MIBs

Satish Patel added a comment - 2019/04/01 04:14 PM

i have same question related MIBs, it would be good to some kind of direction about how to add MIBs and what code may/may-not need to change... not expecting grade-1 school document but at least something would be good.

Should we open ticket to get support if new device or mibs? i have 400 PDUs in datacenter and i love to have them in observium but i can't i am running some custom script to poll data and feeding in influx ( ungly )

Satish Patel added a comment - 2019/04/01 04:14 PM i have same question related MIBs, it would be good to some kind of direction about how to add MIBs and what code may/may-not need to change... not expecting grade-1 school document but at least something would be good. Should we open ticket to get support if new device or mibs? i have 400 PDUs in datacenter and i love to have them in observium but i can't i am running some custom script to poll data and feeding in influx ( ungly )

Pedro Alvarenga added a comment - 2017/01/04 11:33 PM

Hi Adam!
Indeed that is true. But as an example, Observium supports some UPS'es, so why doesn't discovery or polling gather the correct information for those devices (Observium-2110)? Documentation is not very clear (at least for me) on how Observium works with MIBS so that someone can write code and share it. Just a thought...

Pedro Alvarenga added a comment - 2017/01/04 11:33 PM Hi Adam! Indeed that is true. But as an example, Observium supports some UPS'es, so why doesn't discovery or polling gather the correct information for those devices (Observium-2110)? Documentation is not very clear (at least for me) on how Observium works with MIBS so that someone can write code and share it. Just a thought...

Adam Armstrong added a comment - 2017/01/04 10:25 PM

Support of MIBs requires code to be written. You can't just upload a MIB any more than you can just throw a map of a new country at your wife and expect her to know where the nearest macdonalds is and the best route to it.

Adam Armstrong added a comment - 2017/01/04 10:25 PM Support of MIBs requires code to be written. You can't just upload a MIB any more than you can just throw a map of a new country at your wife and expect her to know where the nearest macdonalds is and the best route to it.

People

Assignee:: Mike Stupalov

Reporter:: Pedro Alvarenga

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Watchers:: 3 Start watching this issue

Dates

Created:: 2017/01/04 10:05 PM

Updated:: 2019/04/01 04:14 PM

Resolved:: 2017/01/04 10:25 PM