Help with graphing

[Vernon Everett]

Hi all

Any help appreciated here.

I was trying to create a custom graph of database tablespace
utilization.
I was getting some input from the clients, which my external script was
eventually reducing to this.
---snip---
DS:siebprod.XDB:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod.WHS_INDEX:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod.WHS_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod.USERS:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod.UNDOTBS1:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod.TOOLS:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod.SYSTEM:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod.SIEB_INDEX:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod.SIEB_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod.LOADER_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100
tablespace.rrd
0:71:78:1:26:66:69:81:84:0 
---snip---

No worries so far, except no .rrd file was created.
I checked the logs, and found 
---snip---
2005-05-06 11:36:30 RRD error creating
/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/aufin2/tablespace.rrd: can't parse argument
'DS:siebprod.XDB:GAUGE:600:0:100'
---snip---
It was getting stuck on the first row.

On a hunch, I changed the output from database.tablename to
database_tablename, so my output looked like this.
---snip---
DS:siebprod_XDB:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod_WHS_INDEX:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod_WHS_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod_USERS:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod_UNDOTBS1:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod_TOOLS:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod_SYSTEM:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod_SIEB_INDEX:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod_SIEB_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100
DS:siebprod_LOADER_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100
tablespace.rrd
0:71:78:1:26:66:69:81:84:0 
---snip---

Still nothing in the .rrd file, but the logs now showed this.

---snip---
2005-05-06 12:01:30 RRD error creating
/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/aufin2/tablespace.rrd: can't parse argument
'DS:siebprod_LOADER_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100'
---snip---

The last line!
I thought stuff-it, I can do without the last line, and took it out with
a grep -v
All of a sudden, I had my tablespace.rrd Woohoo!

I left it for an hour, and came back from lunch hoping to find a lovely
graph.
No dice. 

All I get is a link to a graph, and the link gives me 4 (empty) links to
the history graphs. No graphs appeared.

My hobbitgraph.cfg entry for this looks like this.

---snip---
[ora9-sga]
        FNPATTERN tablespace(.*).rrd
        TITLE TableSpace Utilization
        YAXIS % Full
        DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:pct:AVERAGE
        LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@
        -u 100
        -l 0
        GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
        GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
        GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
        GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n

---snip---

and the hobbitserver.cfg looks like this

---snip---
LARRDS="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,ora9-sga,vmio,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,htt
p=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apa
che,bind,sendmail,nmailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy
,hobbitd"

GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,nets
tat,mrtg::1,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail,nmailq,socks,bea,ii
shealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,ora9-sga,vmio"
---snip---

What am I missing?

Right now I will settle for any advice that will get the graphs to
display.
However I am curious about the "couldn't parse" logs.
Any ideas?

Cheers
    Vernon
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