What is Observium used for?

Observium helps to streamline capacity and disaster recovery planning by providing long term network metric collection and intuitive visual representations of collected performance data.

Is Observium good?

Observium is great for medium to large network sizes. If you have a mix of public and private servers, this is a great tool. If you want to be able to visualize your routes, hops between, and bandwidth consumption, this is the right hammer for the job.

How do I download Observium?

Install Observium on Ubuntu 20.04

  1. Install Required Packages. Update the system packages.
  2. Configure MySQL Database. Log in to the MySQL shell.
  3. Install and Configure Observium. Create a directory /opt/observium for Observium.
  4. Configure Apache.
  5. Configure Admin Account.
  6. Access Observium Web Interface.

How do I open Observium?

So, please don’t use following instructions on these releases.

  1. Step 1: Adding RPM Forge and EPEL Repositories.
  2. Step 2: Install Needed Software Packages.
  3. Step 3: Downloading Observium.
  4. Step 4: Creating Observium MySQL Database.
  5. Step 5: Configure Observium.
  6. Step 6: Configure Apache for Observium.

How does Observium discover new devices in the network?

Introduction. Observium was designed to auto-discover as much as possible. The auto-discovery process begins by using SNMP to gather information about a device. This information allows Observium to discover all the internal sensors and interfaces of this device.

How do I add a device to Observium?

Adding devices from the CLI is performed via the add_device. php script in your Observium installation’s root directory. And Observium will try the community strings and/or SNMPv3 authentication information you’ve configured and add the device if they are correct.

How do I install Observium agent?

Observium-Agent

  1. Installation. To run the script from GitHub create file in your current directory named agent.conf.sh with executable permissions.
  2. Agent Conf Options. $SYSCONTACT This option should be set to an email address in the format Person Name .
  3. FAQ. I’m prompted “Attention!

Is Observium free?

Observium Pricing Overview Observium pricing starts at $300.00 per user, per year. There is a free version.

Does Observium use SNMP?

In order to add a device to Observium it must be running a correctly configured SNMP agent and be both pingable and SNMP accessible from the Observium server.

What does OpenNMS stand for?

enterprise grade network monitoring and network management platform
OpenNMS is a free and open-source enterprise grade network monitoring and network management platform. It is developed and supported by a community of users and developers and by the OpenNMS Group, offering commercial services, training and support.

What is the use of OpenNMS?

OpenNMS is an open source solution that helps you visualize and monitor everything on your local and remote networks. It offers comprehensive fault, performance, and traffic monitoring, and alarm generation in one place.