NCV RRD weirdness

[Jeff Stuart]

OK, so I've finally delved into the murky waters (ok so I had to make
that sound scary and all fearsome and what not LOL) of writing my own
Hobbit server extension script.  And as part of the script, it collects
data.  I want to graph that data on hobbit.  So I set up the NCV
stuff... problem is that it doesn't create the RRD file correctly. 
Here's the relevant entries from hobbitserver.cfg:

TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperat
ure,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,qstat=ncv"

# This defines which RRD files to include on the "trends" column webpage,
# and the order in which they appear.
GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,netstat,mrtg::1,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail,
mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,qstat"

#
# Ok these columns are from qstat and are used to graph (I HOPE!) the
columns via rrd.
#
NCV_qstat="avgping:GAUGE,curplayers:GAUGE"

And that status message that gets sent is this:

qstat status for host 123.123.123.123
curplayers : 0
avgping : 0

IE my ext script does this:

$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date`

${MSG}
curplayers : $cur_players
avgping : $avg_ping"

Where $MSG can be changed depending on circumstances.

However, when I dump the RRD file, I get this info:

<!-- Round Robin Database Dump -->
<rrd>
        <version> 0001 </version>
        <step> 300 </step> <!-- Seconds -->
        <lastupdate> 1133107889 </lastupdate> <!-- 2005-11-27 10:11:29
CST -->

        <ds>
                <name> qstatstatusforhost6 </name>
                <type> DERIVE </type>
                <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat>
                <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min>
                <max> NaN </max>

                <!-- PDP Status -->
                <last_ds> 0 </last_ds>
                <value> 0.0000000000e+00 </value>
                <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec>
        </ds>

Any thoughts as to what I'm doing wrong?  This is on hobbit 4.1.2p1.

(1038:38)$ rpm -q -a | grep hobbit
hobbit-client-4.1.2p1-1.fc3.re
hobbit-4.1.2p1-1.fc3.re

-- 
Jeff Stuart
Network Admin 
MyInternetServices.com
1-800-300-HOST



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