<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au" target="_blank">jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Asif</div><div><br></div><div>It might be an either/or, situation otherwise you get the situation you've described, where both status_rrd and data_rrd channels try to update the RRD file.<br>
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<br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">You might find that adjusting the TEST2RRD variable to include only "columname" and not "columnname=ncv" might do the trick. The man page for xymond_rrd talks about the "ncv" part only being used for status messages. But this is a long-shot.</span></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Looks like if I do not have columnname=ncv it does not generate a rrd file.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div>You can include the NCV in your status message, perhaps hidden inside a comment like this:<div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<div>$XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date`</div><div><br></div><div> ${MSG}</div></div><div><!--</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> foo: 1</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
bar: 2</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">"</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">But you'd also need to reformat your MSG to not contain anything that looks like NCV. It might be sufficient to remove all the colons and equals signs, for example.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I did some clean up so nothing in MSG has NCV like data and I added the NCV data in the <-- ... --> . It did create the rrd file with the correct NCV keys, but values </div>
<div>are zeros. It is dropping the values for some reason? So I am almost there if I can figure out why the values are not showing up. </div><div><br></div><div>The other option would be using --extra-test and --extra-script and parse the values from the status channel to generate rrd?</div>
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</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">If you want to send the data separately, perhaps use a trends message, like so:</span><br>
</div><div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I want the graph show up in the test page, so sending it to just trends won't work, right?</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">$XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.trends<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">[columnname.rrd]</div>
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DS:foo:GAUGE:600:0:U 1</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">DS:bar:GAUGE:600:0:U 2</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">"</div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cheers</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jeremy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 13 November 2013 09:20, Asif Iqbal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vadud3@gmail.com" target="_blank">vadud3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div>
<br></div><div>I sent some text to status channel and some NCVs to the data channel for same test/columnname.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So on the same script I have the followings</div><div><br></div>
<div>...</div><div><div>$XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date`</div><div><br></div><div> ${MSG}</div><div> "</div></div><div>$XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.$COLUMN<br></div><div><br>
</div><div> foo: 1</div><div> bar: 2</div><div>"</div><div><br></div><div>Then I placed the columnname=ncv in TEST2RRD and restarted xymon<br></div><div><br></div><div>rrdtool dump $COLUMN.rrd shows all the text from status msgs in it, yikes!</div>
<div><br></div><div>How do I tell xymon to look at only the data channel for the rrds and</div><div>leave the status channel alone for this test/columnname?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><span><font color="#888888"><div>
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