[hobbit] Custom graphs: RRD database won't populate

[Dominique Frise]

Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
> I'm still not getting any RRD data being populated after the following 
> changes:
>  
> (1) Added "recent" to the GRAPHS line in hobbitserver.cfg.  I thought 
> this line was only for putting things in the trends column, but I added 
> 'recent' to it anyway.
>  
> (2) Changed my NCV_recent line in hobbitserver.cfg to "*:GAUGE" rather 
> than individually listing each dataset.
>  
> (3) Restarted hobbit.
>  
> (4) Changed my status messages to not have any spaces in them
> They were like this e.g., "five<space>:<space>27
> Now they are like this e.g., "five:27"
>  
> Still no RRD database file being generated.  I'm looking in the 
> ....../data/rrd directory for some file named like *recent*.rrd
>  
> The messages I'm sending from my custom script are status messages, and 
> they show up on the regular webpage displays, updated every five 
> minutes.  It looks like the rrd process is running too:
>  
> hobbit at stars-dev <mailto:hobbit at stars-dev>-> ps -ef | grep status
> hobbit 593 587 0 21:52 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_channel --channel=status 
> --log=/development/hobbit/logs/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd 
> --rrddir=/development/hobbit/data/rrd
>  
> I looked through the ...../logs/rrd-status.log and rrd-data.log files 
> and there is no mention of 'recent' in there.
>  
> Any ideas on where I should look next to debug this?  Thanks in advance 
> for any help or guidance.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:haertig at avaya.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:46 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* [hobbit] Custom graphs: RRD database won't populate
> 
> I'm trying to do my first custom graph, using data collected from a 
> custom script.
>  
> The script collects data fine, and successfully updates hobbit at it's 
> regular five minute increments.  The data as sent looks like this:
>  
> five : 17
> ten : 24
> fifteen : 30
> twenty : 42
> thirty : 62
> fortyfive : 81
> sixty : 108
> ninety : 166
> onetwenty : 218
> oneeighty : 349
> 
> The column name is 'recent'.  Here's BBHOSTS:
> 
> group-only recent|pending|stuck Maestro
> 0.0.0.0 maestro_alarm_cases # prefer noconn recent pending stuck NAME:"Alarm Cases"
> 
> and hobbitserver.cfg:
> 
> TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,<more stuff>,ports,clock,lines,recent=ncv"
> 
> NCV_recent="five:GAUGE,ten:GAUGE,fifteen:GAUGE,twenty:GAUGE,thirty:GAUGE,fortyfive:GAUGE,sixty:GAUGE,ninety:GAUGE,onetwenty:GAUGE,oneeighty:GAUGE"
> 
> I stopped/started hobbit server.  I've been watching the 'recent' column update regularly every five minutes, for at least 45 minutes now.
> 
> But there doesn't appear to be any RRD data file for this 'recent' test:
> 
> find /development/hobbit/data/rrd -name "*recent*" -print
> 
> The above 'find' command finds nothing related to 'recent' (although there are plenty of OTHER test's RRD files in that directory - default tests - just not my custom test)
> 
> I must have missed something simple.  I've gone over the hobbit webserver's HTML help on "Custom Graphs" several times, but can't find the cause of my error.
> 
>  
>  

Double-check your settings using the documentation from your Hobbit 
installation at http|https://$BBSERVERWWWNAME/$BBSERVERWWWURL/help/howtograph.html

or use Henrik's:


http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/howtograph.html



Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne