[hobbit] custom rrd data graph

[Dan Vande More]

Thanks for the update. It seems a good portion of the traffic on this list
deals strictly with the NCV stuff. While the documentation is good, there
are a lot of variables and certainly a lot of restrictions (underscores,
etc) that can play a vital role in whether an NCV is working or not.
Overcoming the complexity is sure a good feeling, but it's awfully
frustrating when you can't get it working.
Unfortunately, no amount of documentation is going to be able to overcome
human errors and human emotions. Even I've spent days trying to figure out
why things didn't work only to realize I was spelling ncv as nvc.

My advice for future people doing this sort of stuff is to first copy a
working example, before attempting your own tanget. You can then control for
your variables and experiment from there. Is the wiki for hobbit official
yet? Maybe we can use that for bootstrapping our fellow hobbitiers?

-Dan



On 11/8/06, Shifter <the.shifter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As a final message I was able to resolve my broken graph.  The graph
> definition in my hobbitgraph.cfg file was listing an incorrect .rrd file.
> Adhereing to Mr. Goyard's earlier suggestion I changed the def line to
> reflect the actual rrd file name ( pcpuIdle.rrd) and *poof* graph appeared
> in trends.  Thank you again.
>
> Sage
>
> On 11/8/06, Shifter <the.shifter at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > Ahhhh, that makes sense.  Changing my client script to:
> >
> > $BB $BBDISP "data $MACHINE.pcpuIdle
> > `cat /tmp/pcpu.txt`
> > "
> >
> > caused the rrd's to be created and populated with data.
> >
> > The change suggested by Charles Jones was helpful as it caused a link to
> > appear on my trends page where there was no representation of my data at
> > all, but not the actual graph.  The link doesn't produce any graphs either,
> > but I'm getting closer.  I remember reading about that elsewhere in the
> > forums so I'll go research that a bit.  Thank you all very much for the
> > assistance.
> >
> > Sage
> >
> > On 11/8/06, Charles Goyard < cgoyard at cvf.fr> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Shifter wrote :
> > > >
> > > > $BB $BBDISP "data $MACHINE.pcpu
> > > > `cat /tmp/pcpu.txt`
> > >
> > > what I'm telling is that the name after "$MACHINE" must match the name
> > > used in TESTS2RRD and NCV_foobar. I think you're mixing the name of a
> > > status (or data) report (here "pcpu") and the name of a particular
> > > line
> > > (or data source, or DS) in the body of that status/data message.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Charles Goyard - cgoyard at cvf.fr - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> >
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