[hobbit] Folders RRD info

Tue Sep 1 15:04:24 CEST 2009

This is an example of the output that I am working from to build my script:
-------------------Output Pasted Below------------------------------
Searching for directories that have exceeded 3000 megabytes
    Size (mb)  Files  Directory
      2265.08   7567  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\aeads
       164.12   6264  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\atimberlake
        26.75   2236  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\bdunlap
      1092.05   3783  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\ccampbell
       989.58   3143  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\ccampbell.old
       982.81   3124  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\ccampbell.oldest
        89.50   2660  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\ccannady
         0.00      0  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\cdavis
!     3459.78  10628  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\dbailey
         0.52      6  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\dbarker
      1193.83    840  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\ddavis
       230.26   2887  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\dlowry
      2312.57   3822  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\dpalacio
         4.91    230  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\epaschalis
         0.00      0  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\ginnmon
      1479.80   3302  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\hballinger
         9.92    642  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\jcollier
        37.52   1155  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\jhaddad
         0.00      0  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\jscott
      1269.20   3697  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\jtrew
         0.00      0  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\kbowser
         0.00      0  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\kbradley
       552.58    987  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\kdarr
       107.06   3177  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\kmast
       112.47   1636  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\kmerritt
         3.30    164  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\leads
!     3580.77  11199  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\lfrick
       537.32   1762  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\lfrick.old
!     9255.93  16732  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\lfrick.oldest
      1207.79   6822  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\lhayes
       417.43   3142  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\lheiser
        83.59   1328  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\lzipsir
      2101.66   3466  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\mzatcoff
       256.97   2249  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\ncrawford
!     3163.03   5488  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\pshaw
        46.40    628  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\seads
         0.00      0  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\shawes
       905.58   4948  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\swoodard
         2.48    189  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\test1
         0.03     33  SUB-TOTAL: E:\USERS\_ICONS
     37942.57  119936  TOTAL
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If one of the directories is over the limit that has been defined, the line is  indicated with a "!" at the first character position. I will prepend the output with "&green %date% %time%" or "&red %date% %time%" depending on whether or not any "!" are found in the file to indicate the status of the test. I will then replace the "!" with "&red" before storing the file into %BBHOME%\logs\folders. I am considering having the "SUB-TOTAL: " stripped from each line and having the header and footer/total lines stripped as well before sending. This just covers how I will send the test to Xymon.

It sounds like you have some sample scripts that could help me in taking it to the next level and by getting this reporting as data into RRD for graphing. I am very interested in seeing these scripts so that I can work on getting this working 100%.

Thanks so much.

-----Original Message-----
From: W.J.M. Nelis [mailto:nelis at nlr.nl] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:32 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Folders RRD info

> I am writing a new ext called "folders" that will provide a check to 
> see that folders do not exceed a certain size. For example, it will 
> check the folders that contain each user's personal network drive, 
> list them all with their sizes, and indicate any that are over the 
> limit. I have this much worked out and think that I have the red, 
> green, yellow parts of the script working properly.
>
>  
>
> However, it would be even better if I could store the sizes of these 
> folders within Hobbit/Xymon as data in RRD and have  them graphed.
>
>  
>
> How do I send the data to Hobbit in a format that it will understand 
> as being RRD data and that will be tied to the "folders" test for this 
> host?
>
>
This sounds like a variable number of measurements (one per folder) with 
a fixed number of parameters per measurement (one (size) or two 
(size,max)). In that case you should use  the '--extra-test' option (see 
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man8/hobbitd_rrd.8.html). You 
probably also need a script to build the header of each graph. If you 
like, I can send you sample scripts.

Within the body of the status message, you'll include the measured 
values in NCV format, which might be embedded in HTML comment. Note that 
you might need to change other lines in the status message in order to 
avoid them to be interpreted as NCV. One way of doing so is to replace 
each ":" by ":" and each "=" by "=". The script named in 
"--extra-test" writes those values to RRDs. O, include a line in the 
status message, before the measurements, stating the number of 
measurements, that is include a line with "" with a 
suitable value for N.

Kind regards,
  Wim Nelis.

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