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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’ve got an unusual issue at the moment with Graphs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’ve written a script to collect Average Disk Queue
Length from Windows servers and am looking to add a graph.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’ve configured the data as NCV in Xymonserver.cfg and
I’ve created the graph definitions. Unfortunately because I have
different number of disks on each server it’s not working unless the
server has exactly the number of disks that I have set up in the graph
definition.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>At the moment the only 2 ways I can think of to get around
this is to either have a different column name for each server (which would be
very messy) or to change my script so that it will output lines for 10 disks
even if it only has 1, so for example I would have this,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Disk0 : 1<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Disk1 : <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Disk2 : <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Disk3 : <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DA style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Disk4 : <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Disk5 : <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Disk6 : <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Disk7 :<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Disk8 :<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Disk9 :<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Not as messy as the different columns but still a bit
untidy. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Does anyone know a way to define a graph so that it will
still work even if it doesn’t find data in the rrd file for one or more
of the DEF statements in the graph definition?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Regards,</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Neil
Simmonds</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=gray face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:gray;font-weight:bold'>Senior
Operations Analyst (Operations Support Group<span class=grame>)</span></span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color=gray face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:gray;font-weight:bold'><br>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:#CC9900;
font-weight:bold'>Express Gifts Limited</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Express House</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Lancashire</U1:PLACE></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'><U1:PLACE style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x; BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom"><U1:PLACETYPE><ST1:PLACE></ST1:PLACE></U1:PLACETYPE></U1:PLACE>BB5
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T: 01254 303092 | <U1:PLACE style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x; BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom"><U1:PLACENAME>E:
<a href="mailto:neil.simmonds@Express-Gifts.co.uk">neil.simmonds@Express-Gifts.co.uk</a>
</U1:PLACENAME></U1:PLACE></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Name & Registered Office:
EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company
No. 00718151.</span></p>
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