[hobbit] Adding custom LARRD graphs

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:07:42AM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> >A "status" message results in a column on the display, and also has a
> >color (red, green, yellow) that might trigger an alert.
> >
> >A "data" message is never displayed and cannot generate an alert,
> >it is just a way of collecting data.
> >
> But data can be collected from a status message as well right? At least 
> I hope so, because I want to update a status, AND graph the result.

Certainly, no problem at all. Hobbit gets most of its RRD graph-data
from status messages (the "cpu", "disk", "memory" and network test
messages, for instance). That's why you'll see two hobbitd_larrd
processes running: One gets the "status" messages, and the other gets
the "data" messages.

So no, you don't need to do anything special. Whether you send your
original data as a status- or a data-message is up to you, as far as
collecting the data in an RRD and graphing them, there is no
difference.


Regards,
Henrik