Re: [hobbit] "ports" RRD graph not showing up

["Gary B." <gmbfly98 (at) gmail.com>]

> oh, you are using it under a wild-card (or multi-host) HOST= section thus
> you want to limit the test to apply to that HOST alone. makes sense then.
> I think the missing () is somewhat important too. If I recall correctly, I
> didn't have much sucess until I inserted () myself.

Hmm.  The actual tests seem to be working correctly, but the RRD graph
just isn't showing up...

> On 8/31/06, Gary B. <gmbfly98 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>  > I don't use HOST= in my working PORT tracking. I agree with Greg on doing
> it
> > via the RegExp itself.
>
> The problem with that is, it will perform the PORT test on all of the
> machines under the HOST= section the test is under.  I don't want
> this, as only one of the machines actually has the ports running.  I
> haven't had a problem using HOST= in this manner before, and it's
> described in the "rules to select hosts" section in the manpage for
> hobbit-clients.cfg
>
> > minor thing: not so sure TRACK= can take all numeric or not.
> > I believe your RegExp needs (). Mine goes like below. I have PORT column
> > show and alerts generated, plus RRD graph for counting of TIME_WAIT
> > connections to
> >  PORT LOCAL=%([.:]3306)$ STATE=TIME_WAIT MIN=0 MAX=10000 COL=yellow
> > TRACK=db_TimeWait TEXT=db_TimeWait
>
> I was wondering that myself.  I'll try changing to TRACK= to be
> character-based and see if that helps.
>
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