[hobbit] Writing my own Scripts with RRD

Bhupendra Patel mukhi65 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 14 20:25:10 CET 2006


Please take me of this list.

--- James Wade <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com> wrote:

> Hello,
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> So, I took the old laard iostat script, and
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> made a few changes, but overall the output is
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> the same.
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> I changed the name to iostat2. I then started
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> send data to Hobbit. However, I can't see and
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> rrd files being generated.
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> I added iostat2 to the hobbitserver.cfg file, but
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> no rrd. I then did the following iostat2=iostat,
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> and it started inputting rrd files.
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> However, I was trying to stay away from iostat
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> and write me own test. I'm trying to figure out
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> how to send data to Hobbit and graph it.
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> If I do the suggested:  iostat2=ncv, I get no rrd
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> data.
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> So, how do you get data going into Hobbit for rrd?
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> Can someone point me in the right direction?
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> I've read some of the rrd tutorials, not all. I'm
> trying
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> to do my own iostat, and mpstat commands to
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> track disk i/o wait and busy times, and mpstat
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> multiple cpu graphs. I don't need alerts, just
> trends
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> really.
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> Thanks.James
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