[hobbit] Custom graphs, passing data

[Klaus-Peter Boden]

"Haertig, David F (Dave)" <haertig at avaya.com> schrieb am 05.06.2007 
20:49:04:

> There appear to be two ways to get data into a custom graph.  (1) 
> Use the built-in NCV module to parse it out of a Hobbit message, or 
> (2) use the --extra-script and --extra-test options to hobbitd_rrd. 
> I have tried (1) but not (2) yet.
> 
> I want to use (1) for it's efficient operation, but the Hobbit 
> message format it requires for parsing looks ugly when displayed on 
> the webpage (at least I think it's ugly).  So I was looking for ways
> to "hide" the data from the webpage while still allowing the NCV 
> module to find it.  My first thought was to send the Hobbit message 
> with the graphing data hidden inside a <div style="display:
> invisible">...</div> block.  But this doesn't work because when 
> generating the webpage, Hobbit puts the incoming message inside a 
> <table>, and you can't hide <div>'s when they're inside a table cell.
> 
> Does anyone have other solutions to this, while still using method 
> (1) so the NCV module can efficientlhy parse things?
> 

I had a similar problem some time ago and I think I used <font 
color=black> around the ncv data...

Klaus
-kpb> 


>  Or am I stuck 
> with learning and moving to method (2)?
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