[hobbit] Additional NCV graphing questions

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:38:15AM -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote:
> Does the NCV module allow any additional data on the page than the data 
> points?  Aside from the status message, I have additional information that 
> appears on the page (after the status message and a cr).  When I add data 
> to be graphed via NCV, no graph appears, even though the data is surrounded 
> by cr's.

I'm not quite sure what your message looks like.  If memory serves me
right (big "if", I suppose), the NCV module looks for lines of the form

   NAME: value
   NAME=value

and ignores all other lines.

> Is something like this allowed:
> 
> NCV_sputil="sputil:GAUGE"
> NCV_sputil="queuefile:GAUGE,datafile:GAUGE"
> 
> I have hosts that produce different data values that are all considered 
> spool utilization. Can a graph definition be created to graph one data 
>  point for one host and two datapoints for another host (based on which host 
> creates those datapoints)?

No.


Regards,
Henrik