[hobbit] help with NCV

[Everett, Vernon]

Hi

NCV is going to get rather grumpy with that output.
It's going to try and parse every line with a : or an = in it, and try and put it into the database somehow.

To get around it, you need to make sure there are no other lines containing a : or = anywhere in the output, which does make displaying time a little difficult.
With a crafty sed command, you can change 12:45:02 to something that looks like a 24-hour clock output, so it ends up like 12h45.02

ThIs will leave the "Users Active" line as the only one with a : and all will be well.

NCV can react strangely with spaces and _ in the field names too, so I would suggest changing the active users : x to
Active Users - X
Then at the bottom of your output, have the following 3 lines
echo '<FONT COLOR="Black">' >> $OUTFILE
echo "Users=$NumOfUsers" >> $OUTFILE
echo '</FONT>' >> $OUTFILE

Now we have a single word for a fieldname, and it is the only line with a : or a =
Because you set the font to black, it will be invisible too, so it will not disrupt you output formatting.

To make it work, in hobbitserver.cfg, you need to make a 3 changes, but don't panic, they are easy.

Let's assume your test is called mytest.
In the line starting TEST2RRD= you need to add an entry "mytest=ncv"
(Remember all entries are , seperated)

Then if you want the graph to appear in the trends column you need to add mytest to the line GRAPHS=

The last change is a new line, further down, normally just before the BB extentions definitions.
Add the line
NCV_mytest="Users:GAUGE"

You have to restart hobbit after these changes.
Give it some time, and after a while you should see the rrd files will start getting populated.

Now you have to define your graphs in hobbitgraph.cfg, but we can discuss that another day. :-)

Cheers
    Vernon




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From: Gatis A. [mailto:gatis.anee at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 4 November 2008 9:10 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] help with NCV

Hi,

Could you help me with configuring NCV please.
I want to graph "USERS ACTIVE".

If there is a plain

"USERS ACTIVE: x"

Then graph is made fine, but if there is something more I get:

2008-11-04 14:04:30 RRD error updating /home/hob/hob/data/rrd/host1/rbackup.rrd from 127.0.0.1<http://127.0.0.1>: tmplt contains more DS definitions than RRD

How can I tell NCV to ignore everything beyond "USERS ACTIVE" line?

This is my output:


USERS ACTIVE: 6

UNIX_PID     LOGON_TIME           MACHINE    USERNAME        MODULE                              PROGRAM                             SID        SERIAL
------------ -------------------- ---------- --------------- ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ------ ----------


25579        04-nov-2008 11:04:06 host1      MON1            oracle at host1 (TNS V1-V3)            oracle at host1  (TNS V1-V3)           19          52205
2501         04-nov-2008 11:04:06 host1      MON1            oracle at host1 (TNS V1-V3)            oracle at host1  (TNS V1-V3)           19          52205


13730        04-nov-2008 12:01:09 host2      BB              SQL*Plus                            oracle at host2  (P001)                26          58955
4353         04-nov-2008 12:01:09 host2      BB              SQL*Plus                            oracle at host2  (P001)                26          58955

19054        04-nov-2008 12:01:09 host2      BB              SQL*Plus                            sqlplus at host2 (TNS V1-V3)           630         26167

18987        04-nov-2008 12:01:09 host2      BB              SQL*Plus                            oracle at host2  (P001)                665         55557



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