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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I'm still not getting any RRD data being populated after
the following changes:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>(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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>(2) Changed my NCV_recent line in hobbitserver.cfg to
"*:GAUGE" rather than individually listing each dataset.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>(3) Restarted hobbit.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>(4) Changed my status messages to not have any spaces in
them</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>They were like this e.g.,
"five<space>:<space>27</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Now they are like this e.g., "five:27"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Still no RRD database file being generated. I'm
looking in the ....../data/rrd directory for some file named like
*recent*.rrd</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>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:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2><A href="mailto:hobbit@stars-dev"><FONT
color=#ff0000>hobbit@stars-dev</FONT></A><FONT color=#ff0000>-> ps -ef | grep
status<BR>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</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#ff0000><FONT color=#000000></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I looked through the ...../logs/rrd-status.log and
rrd-data.log files and there is no mention of 'recent' in there.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Any
ideas on where I should look next to debug this? </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=176200104-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks in advance
for any help or guidance.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Haertig, David F (Dave)
[mailto:haertig@avaya.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:46
AM<BR><B>To:</B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [hobbit] Custom graphs: RRD
database won't populate<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=664502617-29052007>I'm trying to do my
first custom graph, using data collected from a custom
script.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=664502617-29052007>The script collects
data fine, and successfully updates hobbit at it's regular five minute
increments. The data as sent looks like this:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+0><SPAN class=664502617-29052007><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000
size=2>five : 17<BR>ten : 24<BR>fifteen : 30<BR>twenty : 42<BR>thirty :
62<BR>fortyfive : 81<BR>sixty : 108<BR>ninety : 166<BR>onetwenty :
218<BR>oneeighty : 349</FONT></DIV><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2>The column name is '<FONT color=#ff0000>recent</FONT>'. Here's BBHOSTS:</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>group-only recent|pending|stuck Maestro<BR>0.0.0.0 maestro_alarm_cases # prefer noconn recent pending stuck NAME:"Alarm Cases"<BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2>and hobbitserver.cfg:</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,<more stuff>,ports,clock,lines,recent=ncv"</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>NCV_recent="five:GAUGE,ten:GAUGE,fifteen:GAUGE,twenty:GAUGE,thirty:GAUGE,fortyfive:GAUGE,sixty:GAUGE,ninety:GAUGE,onetwenty:GAUGE,oneeighty:GAUGE"<BR></PRE></FONT><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2>I stopped/started hobbit server. I've been watching the 'recent' column update regularly every five minutes, for at least 45 minutes now.</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2>But there doesn't appear to be any RRD data file for this 'recent' test:</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>find /development/hobbit/data/rrd -name "*recent*" -print</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2>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)</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</PRE></FONT></SPAN></FONT>
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