Documentation

Information

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Observium version numbering explained
• Why Observium is only available through SVN, and how to use it

Installation

• Installation
• Unix Agent

Observium Configuration

• Billing
• Configuration Options
• Syslog-ng Syslog Server
• NetSNMPd Snmptt Trap Server
• Collectd Integration
• Smokeping Integration

Monitored Device Configuration

• Interface Description Parsing
• Linux Distribution Detection
• ifAlias descriptions on Debian/Ubuntu
• NetSNMPd Client Configuration
• Cisco IOS SNMP Configuration
• Temperature monitoring on various platforms (Supermicro, lm-sensors, etc)

Monitored Application Configuration

• Apache
• nginx
• MySQL

MIB Polling/Discovery

• Sensors
  • CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB
  • CISCO-ENVMON-MIB
  • F10-CHASSIS-MIB
  • F10-C-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB
  • F10-S-SERIES-CHASSIS-MIB
  • ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB

• CISCO-CEF-MIB

• HOST-RESOURCES-MIB

• UCD-MIB
• UCD-DISKIO-MIB

• TCP-MIB
• IP-MIB
• UDP-MIB
• SNMPv2-MIB

Other

• Performance tuning
• Custom Oids
• Port disable vs. ignore
• Moving Observium to a new system with different architecture (i386 vs amd64, etc)
• IRC Bot (irc.php)
• Removing RRDTool Spikes