[hobbit] how to handle several extra-scripts for hobbitd_rrd

[Martin Flemming]

Hi, Wim !

On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, W.J.M. Nelis wrote:

> Hello Martin,
>
>>  I've got the problem, to use several extra-scripts for hobbitd_rrd
>>
>>  e.g. extragraph.sh,devmon-rrd.pl or the new one flexlmpl ...
>> 
>>
>>  The manual says only to use one file for extra-script
>>
>>  --extra-script=FILENAME
>>       Defines the script that is run to get the RRD data for tests that are
>>  not built into hobbitd_rrd. You must also specify which tests are handled
>>  by the external script in the --extra-tests option. This option can only
>>  be given once, so the script must handle all of the external test-data.
>>  See the CUSTOM RRD DATA section below. Note that this is NOT needed if
>>  your custom graphs are generated by the NCV (Name Colon Value) module
>>  described below, it is only required for data where you have a custom
>>  script to parse the status message and extract the data that is put into
>>  the graph.
>>
>>  But how could i handle this ?
>> 
> I use one (perl) script in which each test defined in the --extra-tests 
> option appears in an if-elsif chain. Some of them use NCV formatted like 
> "<FileName>/<DataSetName> : <Value>", and they use the same piece of code in 
> the script. A stripped version of this script is published together with 
> flexlm.pl on xymonton.
>


Grmmph, didn't see it,
may be tomatoes on my eyes :-)

Thanks a lot, i will test it !

cheers

        Martin