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<a name="top"></a>
- [`structure`](#api-structure)
- [`versioning`](#api-versioning)
- [`token`](#api-tokens)
- [`end-points`](#api-end_points)
- [`input`](#api-input)
- [`output`](#api-output)
- [`endpoints`](#api-endpoints)
- [`devices`](#api-devices)
- [`del_device`](#api-route-2)
- [`get_device`](#api-route-3)
- [`get_graphs`](#api-route-5)
- [`get_graph_generic_by_hostname`](#api-route-6)
- [`get_port_graphs`](#api-route-7)
- [`get_port_stats_by_port_hostname`](#api-route-8)
- [`get_graph_by_port_hostname`](#api-route-9)
- [`list_devices`](#api-route-10)
- [`add_device`](#api-route-11)
- [`routing`](#api-routing)
- [`list_bgp`](#api-route-1)
- [`switching`](#api-switching)
- [`get_vlans`](#api-route-4)
- [`alerts`](#api-alerts)
- [`get_alert`](#api-route-12)
- [`ack_alert`](#api-route-13)
- [`list_alerts`](#api-route-14)
- [`rules`](#api-rules)
- [`get_alert_rule`](#api-route-15)
- [`delete_rule`](#api-route-16)
- [`list_alert_rules`](#api-route-17)
- [`add_rule`](#api-route-18)
- [`edit_rule`](#api-route-19)
Describes the API structure.
# <a name="api-structure">`Structure`</a> [`top`](#top)
## <a name="api-versioning">`Versioning`</a> [`top`](#top)
Versioning an API is a minefield which saw us looking at numerous options on how to do this. Paul wrote an excellent blog post which touches on this: http://blog.librenms.org/2014/09/restful-apis/
We have currently settled on using versioning within the API end point itself `/api/v0`. As the API itself is new and still in active development we also decided that v0 would be the best starting point to indicate it's in development.
## <a name="api-tokens">`Tokens`</a> [`top`](#top)
To access any of the token end points you will be required to authenticate using a token. Tokens can be created directly from within the LibreNMS web interface by going to `/api-access/`.
- Click on 'Create API access token'.
- Select the user you would like to generate the token for.
- Enter an optional description.
- Click Create API Token.
## <a name="api-end_points">`Endpoints`</a> [`top`](#top)
Whilst this documentation will describe and show examples of the end points, we've designed the API so you should be able to traverse through it without know any of the available API routes.
You can do this by first calling `/api/v0`:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0
Output
{
"list_bgp": "https://librenms.org/api/v0/bgp",
...
"edit_rule": "https://librenms.org/api/v0/rules"
}
```
## <a name="api-input">`Input`</a> [`top`](#top)
Input to the API is done in three different ways, sometimes a combination two or three of these.
- Passing parameters via the api route. For example when obtaining a devices details you will pass the hostname of the device in the route: `/api/v0/devices/:hostname`.
- Passing parameters via the query string. For example you can list all devices on your install but limit the output to devices that are currently down: `/api/v0/devices?type=down`
- Passing data in via JSON, this will mainly be used when adding or updating information via the API, for instance adding a new device:
```curl
curl -X POST -d '{"hostname":"localhost.localdomain","version":"v1","community":"public"}'-H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices
```
## <a name="api-output">`Output`</a> [`top`](#top)
Output from the API currently is via two output types.
- JSON Most API responses will output json. As show in the example for calling the API endpoint.
- PNG This is for when the request is for an image such as a graph for a switch port.
# <a name="api-endpoints">`Endpoints`</a> [`top`](#top)
## <a name="api-devices">`Devices`</a> [`top`](#top)
### <a name="api-route-2">Function: `del_device`</a> [`top`](#top)
Delete a given device.
Route: /api/v0/devices/:hostname
- hostname can be either the device hostname or id
Input:
-
Example:
```curl
curl -X DELETE -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices/localhost
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"message": "Removed device localhost",
"devices": [
{
"device_id": "1",
"hostname": "localhost",
...
"serial": null,
"icon": null
}
]
}
```
### <a name="api-route-3">Function: `get_device`</a> [`top`](#top)
Get details of a given device.
Route: /api/v0/devices/:hostname
- hostname can be either the device hostname or id
Input:
-
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices/localhost
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"devices": [
{
"device_id": "1",
"hostname": "localhost",
...
"serial": null,
"icon": null
}
]
}
```
### <a name="api-route-5">Function: `get_graphs`</a> [`top`](#top)
Get a list of available graphs for a device, this does not include ports.
Route: /api/v0/devices/:hostname/graphs
- hostname can be either the device hostname or id
Input:
-
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices/localhost/graphs
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": "",
"count": 3,
"graphs": [
{
"desc": "Poller Time",
"name": "device_poller_perf"
},
{
"desc": "Ping Response",
"name": "device_ping_perf"
},
{
"desc": "System Uptime",
"name": "uptime"
}
]
}
```
### <a name="api-route-6">Function: `get_graph_generic_by_hostname`</a> [`top`](#top)
Get a specific graph for a device, this does not include ports.
Route: /api/v0/devices/:hostname/:type
- hostname can be either the device hostname or id
- type is the type of graph you want, use [`get_graphs`](#api-route-5) to see the graphs available. Defaults to device_uptime.
Input:
- from: This is the date you would like the graph to start - See http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdgraph.en.html for more information.
- to: This is the date you would like the graph to end - See http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdgraph.en.html for more information.
- width: The graph width, defaults to 1075.
- height: The graph height, defaults to 300.
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices/localhost/device_poller_perf
```
Output:
Output is an image.
### <a name="api-route-7">Function: `get_port_graphs`</a> [`top`](#top)
Get a list of ports for a particular device.
Route: /api/v0/devices/:hostname/ports
- hostname can be either the device hostname or id
Input:
- columns: Comma separated list of columns you want returned.
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices/localhost/ports
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": "",
"count": 3,
"ports": [
{
"ifName": "lo"
},
{
"ifName": "eth0"
},
{
"ifName": "eth1"
}
]
}
```
### <a name="api-route-8">Function: `get_port_stats_by_port_hostname`</a> [`top`](#top)
Get information about a particular port for a device.
Route: /api/v0/devices/:hostname/ports/:ifname
- hostname can be either the device hostname or id
- ifname can be any of the interface names for the device which can be obtained using [`get_port_graphs`](#api-route-7). Please ensure that the ifname is urlencoded if it needs to be (i.e Gi0/1/0 would need to be urlencoded.
Input:
- columns: Comma separated list of columns you want returned.
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices/localhost/ports/eth0
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"port": {
"port_id": "2",
"device_id": "1",
...
"poll_prev": "1418412902",
"poll_period": "300"
}
}
```
### <a name="api-route-9">Function: `get_graph_by_port_hostname`</a> [`top`](#top)
Get a graph of a port for a particular device.
Route: /api/v0/devices/:hostname/ports/:ifname/:type
- hostname can be either the device hostname or id
- ifname can be any of the interface names for the device which can be obtained using [`get_port_graphs`](#api-route-7). Please ensure that the ifname is urlencoded if it needs to be (i.e Gi0/1/0 would need to be urlencoded.
- type is the port type you want the graph for, you can request a list of ports for a device with [`get_port_graphs`](#api-route-7).
Input:
- from: This is the date you would like the graph to start - See http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdgraph.en.html for more information.
- to: This is the date you would like the graph to end - See http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdgraph.en.html for more information.
- width: The graph width, defaults to 1075.
- height: The graph height, defaults to 300.
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices/localhost/ports/eth0/port_bits
```
Output:
Output is an image.
### <a name="api-route-10">Function: `list_devices`</a> [`top`](#top)
Return a list of devices.
Route: /api/v0/devices
Input:
- order: How to order the output, default is by hostname. Can be prepended by DESC or ASC to change the order.
- type: can be one of the following, all, ignored, up, down, disabled to filter by that device status.
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices?order=hostname%20DESC&type=down
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"devices": [
{
"device_id": "1",
"hostname": "localhost",
...
"serial": null,
"icon": null
}
]
}
```
### <a name="api-route-11">Function: `add_device`</a> [`top`](#top)
Add a new device.
Route: /api/v0/devices
Input (JSON):
- hostname: device hostname
- port: SNMP port (defaults to port defined in config).
- transport: SNMP protocol (defaults to transport defined in config).
- version: SNMP version to use, v1, v2c or v3. Defaults to v2c.
For SNMP v1 or v2c
- community: Required for SNMP v1 or v2c.
For SNMP v3
- authlevel: SNMP authlevel (NoAuthNoPriv, AuthNoPriv, AuthPriv).
- authname: SNMP Auth username
- authpass: SNMP Auth password
- authalgo: SNMP Auth algorithm (MD5, SHA)
- cryptopass: SNMP Crypto Password
- cryptoalgo: SNMP Crypto algorithm (AES, DES)
Example:
```curl
curl -X POST -d '{"hostname":"localhost.localdomain","version":"v1","community":"public"}' -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"message": "Device localhost.localdomain has been added successfully"
}
```
## <a name="api-routing">`Routing`</a> [`top`](#top)
### <a name="api-route-1">Function: `list_bgp`</a> [`top`](#top)
List the current BGP sessions.
Route: /api/v0/bgp
Input:
- hostname = either the devices hostname or id.
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/bgp
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": "",
"count": 0,
"bgp_sessions": [
]
}
```
## <a name="api-switching">`Switching`</a> [`top`](#top)
### <a name="api-route-4">Function: `get_vlans`</a> [`top`](#top)
Get a list of all VLANs for a given device.
Route: /api/v0/devices/:hostname/vlans
- hostname can be either the device hostname or id
Input:
-
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/devices/localhost/vlans
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"count": 0,
"vlans": [
{
"vlan_vlan": "1",
"vlan_domain": "1",
"vlan_name": "default",
"vlan_type": "ethernet",
"vlan_mtu": null
}
]
}
```
## <a name="api-alerts">`Alerts`</a> [`top`](#top)
### <a name="api-route-12">Function: `get_alert`</a> [`top`](#top)
Get details of an alert
Route: /api/v0/alerts/:id
- id is the alert id, you can obtain a list of alert ids from [`list_alerts`](#api-route-14).
Input:
-
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/alerts/1
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": "",
"count": 7,
"alerts": [
{
"id": "1",
"device_id": "1",
"rule_id": "1",
"state": "1",
"alerted": "1",
"open": "1",
"timestamp": "2014-12-11 14:40:02"
},
}
```
### <a name="api-route-13">Function: `ack_alert`</a> [`top`](#top)
Acknowledge an alert
Route: /api/v0/alerts/:id
- id is the alert id, you can obtain a list of alert ids from [`list_alerts`](#api-route-14).
Input:
-
Example:
```curl
curl -X PUT -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/alerts/1
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": "",
"message": "Alert has been ackgnowledged"
}
```
### <a name="api-route-14">Function: `list_alerts`</a> [`top`](#top)
List all alerts
Route: /api/v0/alerts
Input:
- state: Filter the alerts by state, 0 = ok, 1 = alert, 2 = ack
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/alerts
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": "",
"count": 1,
"alerts": [
{
"id": "1",
"device_id": "1",
"rule_id": "1",
"state": "1",
"alerted": "1",
"open": "1",
"timestamp": "2014-12-11 14:40:02"
}
}
```
## <a name="api-rules">`Rules`</a> [`top`](#top)
### <a name="api-route-15">Function: `get_alert_rule`</a> [`top`](#top)
Get the alert rule details.
Route: /api/v0/rules/:id
- id is the rule id.
Input:
-
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/rules/1
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": "",
"count": 1,
"rules": [
{
"id": "1",
"device_id": "1",
"rule": "%devices.os != \"Juniper\"",
"severity": "warning",
"extra": "{\"mute\":true,\"count\":\"15\",\"delay\":null}",
"disabled": "0"
}
]
}
```
### <a name="api-route-16">Function: `delete_rule`</a> [`top`](#top)
Delete an alert rule by id
Route: /api/v0/rules/:id
- id is the rule id.
Input:
-
Example:
```curl
curl -X DELETE -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/rules/1
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": "",
"message": "Alert rule has been removed"
}
```
### <a name="api-route-17">Function: `list_alert_rules`</a> [`top`](#top)
List the alert rules.
Route: /api/v0/rules
-
Input:
-
Example:
```curl
curl -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/rules
```
Output:
```text
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": "",
"count": 1,
"rules": [
{
"id": "1",
"device_id": "-1",
"rule": "%devices.os != \"Juniper\"",
"severity": "critical",
"extra": "{\"mute\":false,\"count\":\"15\",\"delay\":\"300\"}",
"disabled": "0"
},
}
```
### <a name="api-route-18">Function: `add_rule`</a> [`top`](#top)
Add a new alert rule.
Route: /api/v0/rules
-
Input (JSON):
- device_id: This is either the device id or -1 for a global rule
- rule: The rule which should be in the format %entity $condition $value (i.e %devices.status != 0 for devices marked as down).
- severity: The severity level the alert will be raised against, Ok, Warning, Critical.
- disabled: Whether the rule will be disabled or not, 0 = enabled, 1 = disabled
- count: This is how many polling runs before an alert will trigger and the frequency.
- delay: Delay is when to start alerting and how frequently. The value is stored in seconds but you can specify minutes, hours or days by doing 5 m, 5 h, 5 d for each one.
- mute: If mute is enabled then an alert will never be sent but will show up in the Web UI (true or false).
Example:
```curl
curl -X POST -d '{"device_id":"-1", "rule":"%devices.os != \"Cisco\"","severity": "critical","count":15,"delay":"5 m","mute":false}' -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/rules
```
Output:
```text
rules
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": ""
}
```
### <a name="api-route-19">Function: `edit_rule`</a> [`top`](#top)
Edit an existing alert rule
Route: /api/v0/rules
-
Input (JSON):
- rule_id: You must specify the rule_id to edit an existing rule, if this is absent then a new rule will be created.
- device_id: This is either the device id or -1 for a global rule
- rule: The rule which should be in the format %entity $condition $value (i.e %devices.status != 0 for devices marked as down).
- severity: The severity level the alert will be raised against, Ok, Warning, Critical.
- disabled: Whether the rule will be disabled or not, 0 = enabled, 1 = disabled
- count: This is how many polling runs before an alert will trigger and the frequency.
- delay: Delay is when to start alerting and how frequently. The value is stored in seconds but you can specify minutes, hours or days by doing 5 m, 5 h, 5 d for each one.
- mute: If mute is enabled then an alert will never be sent but will show up in the Web UI (true or false).
Example:
```curl
curl -X PUT -d '{"rule_id":1,"device_id":"-1", "rule":"%devices.os != \"Cisco\"","severity": "critical","count":15,"delay":"5 m","mute":false}' -H 'X-Auth-Token: YOURAPITOKENHERE' https://librenms.org/api/v0/rules
```
Output:
```text
rules
{
"status": "ok",
"err-msg": ""
}
```

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* Login to the LibreNMS web interface and edit the device you want to monitor. Under the modules section, ensure that unix-agent is enabled. * Login to the LibreNMS web interface and edit the device you want to monitor. Under the modules section, ensure that unix-agent is enabled.
* Then under Applications, enable the apps that you plan to monitor. * Then under Applications, enable the apps that you plan to monitor.
* Wait, in around 10 minutes you should start seeing data in your graphs under Apps for the device. * Wait, in around 10 minutes you should start seeing data in your graphs under Apps for the device.
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Currently, the email alerts needs to be set up in the config. If you want to enable it, paste this in your config and change it:
```php
// Mailer backend Settings
$config['email_backend'] = 'mail'; // Mail backend. Allowed: "mail" (PHP's built-in), "sendmail", "smtp".
$config['email_from'] = NULL; // Mail from. Default: "ProjectName" <projectid@`hostname`>
$config['email_user'] = $config['project_id'];
$config['email_sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; // The location of the sendmail program.
$config['email_smtp_host'] = 'localhost'; // Outgoing SMTP server name.
$config['email_smtp_port'] = 25; // The port to connect.
$config['email_smtp_timeout'] = 10; // SMTP connection timeout in seconds.
$config['email_smtp_secure'] = NULL; // Enable encryption. Use 'tls' or 'ssl'
$config['email_smtp_auth'] = FALSE; // Whether or not to use SMTP authentication.
$config['email_smtp_username'] = NULL; // SMTP username.
$config['email_smtp_password'] = NULL; // Password for SMTP authentication.
// Alerting Settings
$config['alerts']['email']['default'] = 'sendto@somewhere.com'; // Default alert recipient
$config['alerts']['email']['default_only'] = FALSE; // Only use default recipient
$config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Enable email alerts
$config['alerts']['bgp']['whitelist'] = NULL; // Populate as an array() with ASNs to alert on.
$config['alerts']['port']['ifdown'] = FALSE; // Generate alerts for ports that go down
```

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`$config['irc_maxretry]` | `5` | Optional; How many connection attempts should be made before giving up `$config['irc_maxretry]` | `5` | Optional; How many connection attempts should be made before giving up
`$config['irc_nick']` | `LibreNMS` | Optional; `$config['irc_nick']` | `LibreNMS` | Optional;
`$config['irc_pass']` | | Optional; This sends the IRC-PASS Sequence to IRC-Servers that require Password on Connect `$config['irc_pass']` | | Optional; This sends the IRC-PASS Sequence to IRC-Servers that require Password on Connect
`$config['irc_port]` | `6667` | Required; To enable SSL append a `+` before the Port. (Example: `+6697`) `$config['irc_port']` | `6667` | Required; To enable SSL append a `+` before the Port. (Example: `+6697`)
### <a name="commands">IRC-Commands</a> ### <a name="commands">IRC-Commands</a>

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- Create a key like described above - Create a key like described above
- Scan provided QR or click on 'Manual' and type down the Secret - Scan provided QR or click on 'Manual' and type down the Secret
- On next login, enter the passcode that the App provides - On next login, enter the passcode that the App provides

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"LibreNMS issue database" "LibreNMS issue database"
[4]: http://www.observium.org/wiki/License [4]: http://www.observium.org/wiki/License
"Observium License" "Observium License"

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- check_mk (scripts/observium_agent*): GPLv2 - check_mk (scripts/observium_agent*): GPLv2
- qTip (html/css/jquery.qtip.min.css and html/js/qtip/jquery.qtip.min.js): GPLv2 - qTip (html/css/jquery.qtip.min.css and html/js/qtip/jquery.qtip.min.js): GPLv2

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# Developing for LibreNMS
Developing for LibreNMS has never been easier. Developing for LibreNMS has never been easier.
Thanks to [Wes Kennedy](https://twitter.com/livearchivist), there is Thanks to [Wes Kennedy](https://twitter.com/livearchivist), there is
@@ -9,7 +7,7 @@ that has LibreNMS already running on it!
To get started, you can just copy the script from `/contrib/dev_init`, To get started, you can just copy the script from `/contrib/dev_init`,
or you can enter the following commands into your shell: or you can enter the following commands into your shell:
```bash ```
mkdir -p dev/librenms && cd $_ mkdir -p dev/librenms && cd $_
curl -O http://wkennedy.co/uploads/librenms/Vagrantfile curl -O http://wkennedy.co/uploads/librenms/Vagrantfile
curl -O http://wkennedy.co/uploads/librenms/bootstrap.sh curl -O http://wkennedy.co/uploads/librenms/bootstrap.sh

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- Device support:
- Ruckus wireless controllers (Paul)
- Investigate generic device support based on MIBs. It should be
possible to do basic graphs based just on the MIB. They would
obviously not be as customised as the specifically supported devices
but should still be useful to users.
- Functionality/performance improvements:
- Investigate solutions for poller performance improvement. (Tyler)
- Investigate solutions for multiple communities per device. (tooms)
- Eliminate interface churn for transient interfaces (e.g. ppp/tun) on
net-snmp.
- Integrate Nagios-based alerting. Allow user to choose their preferred
Nagios distribution/fork.
- Consider adding some non-monitoring administrative functions:
- enabling/disabling ports
- changing access port VLANs
- editing port labels
- Integrate as many usability improvements as time permits:
- Integrate nice menus like current Observium?
- Front page: more automation; GUI configuration?
- Improve / Change alerting system

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LibreNMS is a fork of Observium. The reason for the fork is nothing to do
with Observium's [recent move to community vs. paid versions][1]. It is
simply that we have different priorities and values to the Observium
developers. We decided to fork (reluctantly) because we like using
Observium, but we want to collaborate on a community-based project with
like-minded IT professionals. See [README.md][2] and the references there
for more information about the kind of community we're trying to promote.
LibreNMS was forked from [the last GPL-licensed version of Observium][3].
This has a few implications:
- ~~It doesn't look as nice as the current version of Observium.~~
- We've lost quite a bit of functionality that has been added to Observium
in the last year.
- You won't be able to take an existing Observium installation later than
r3250 and just change it to LibreNMS. This would probably break (although
if you were on a version between r3250 and the next database schema
change, it might be feasible). Upgrades from versions earlier than r3251
might work. Please try it on an unimportant system and tell us your
experiences!
How LibreNMS will be different from Observium:
- We will have an inclusive community, where it's OK to ask stupid
questions, and OK to ask for things that aren't on the roadmap. If you'd
like to see something added, add or comment on the relevant issue in our
[GitHub issue database][9].
- Development decisions will be community-driven. We want to make software
that fulfills its users' needs. See the [ROADMAP][4] for more thoughts
on our current plans.
- Development will probably proceed at a slower pace, at least initially.
- There are no plans for a paid version, and we don't anticipate this ever
changing.
- There are no current plans for paid support, but this may be added later
if there is sufficient demand.
- We use git for version control and GitHub for hosting to make it as easy
and painless as possible to create forked or private versions.
Reasons why you might want to use Observium instead of LibreNMS:
- You have a financial investment in Observium and aren't concerned about
community contributions.
- You need the extra functionality that has been added to Observium since
r3250.
- You don't like the [GNU General Public License, version 3][5] or the
[philosophy of Free Software][6] in general.
Reasons why you might want to use LibreNMS instead of Observium:
- You want to work with others on the project, knowing that [your
investment of time and effort will not be wasted][7].
- You want to add and experiment with features that are not a priority for
the Observium developers. See [CONTRIBUTING][8] for more details.
[1]: http://postman.memetic.org/pipermail/observium/2013-October/003915.html
"Observium edition split announcement"
[2]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/blob/master/README.md
"LibreNMS README"
[3]: http://fisheye.observium.org/rdiff/Observium?csid=3251&u&N
"Link to Observium license change"
[4]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/blob/master/doc/ROADMAP.md
"LibreNMS ROADMAP"
[5]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
"LibreNMS copy of GPL v3"
[6]: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
"Free Software Foundation - what is free software?"
[7]: http://libertysys.com.au/blog/observium-and-gpl
"Paul's blog on what the GPL offers users"
[8]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/blob/master/doc/CONTRIBUTING.md
"Contribution guidelines"
[9]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/issues
"LibreNMS issue database at GitHub"

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[9]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/issues [9]: https://github.com/librenms/librenms/issues
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Roadmap
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- Device support:
- Investigate generic device support based on MIBs. It should be
possible to do basic graphs based just on the MIB. They would
obviously not be as customised as the specifically supported devices
but should still be useful to users.
- Ruckus wireless controllers
- Functionality/performance improvements:
- Eliminate interface churn for transient interfaces (e.g. ppp/tun)
on net-snmp.
- Investigate solutions for poller performance improvement.
- Investigate solutions for multiple communities/ports per device.
- Integrate Nagios-based alerting. Allow user to choose their preferred
Nagios distribution/fork.
- Consider adding some non-monitoring administrative functions:
- enabling/disabling ports
- changing access port VLANs
- editing port labels
- Integrate as many usability improvements as time permits:
- Front page customisation
- GUI configuration of most options

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- **[[Home]]**
- **General**
- [[Observium Welcome]]
- [[Contributing]]
- [[Updating]]
- [[Roadmap]]
- [[Developing for LibreNMS]]
- [[Credits]]
- **Installation**
- [[Installation (Debian Ubuntu)]]
- [[Installation (RHEL CentOS)]]
- [[Installation Lighttpd (Debian Ubuntu)]]
- **Extensions**
- [[Billing Module]]
- [[Email Alerting]]
- [[IRC Bot]]
- [[IRC Bot Extensions]]
- [[Plugin System]]
- [[Interface Description Parsing]]
- [[Agent Setup]]
- [[Alerting]]
- [[Two Factor Auth]]
- **API**
- [[API Docs]]