[hobbit] Netstat rrd error updating

[Epp, Matthew Contractor PEO EIS AKO]

> > Searched the archives and found other mentions of this error but no
> > solution. I have a Solaris 8 server with the Hobbit client 
> reporting to the
> > Hobbit server, and everything works except the netstat 
> trend graph. I made
> > sure Hobbit generates the netstat.rrd file itself, and 
> verified that it has
> > the correct fields:
> > 
> > $ rrdtool dump netstat.rrd |grep "<name>"
> > 
> >                 <name> udpInDatagrams </name>
> >                 <name> udpOutDatagrams </name>
> >                 <name> udpInErrors </name>
> >                 <name> tcpActiveOpens </name>
> >                 <name> tcpPassiveOpens </name>
> >                 <name> tcpAttemptFails </name>
> >                 <name> tcpEstabResets </name>
> >                 <name> tcpCurrEstab </name>
> >                 <name> tcpOutDataBytes </name>
> >                 <name> tcpInInorderBytes </name>
> >                 <name> tcpInUnorderBytes </name>
> >                 <name> tcpRetransBytes </name>
> >                 <name> tcpOutDataPackets </name>
> >                 <name> tcpInInorderPackets </name>
> >                 <name> tcpInUnorderPackets </name>
> >                 <name> tcpRetransPackets </name>
> > 
> > But viewing a debug output of rrd-data.log shows that 
> something is making it
> > think there should only be 11 fields:
> 
> > 2006-10-13 19:18:22 RRD update param 03:
> > 
> 'udpInDatagrams:udpOutDatagrams:udpInErrors:tcpActiveOpens:tcp
> PassiveOpens:t
> > 
> cpAttemptFails:tcpEstabResets:tcpCurrEstab:tcpOutDataBytes:tcp
> InInorderBytes
> > :tcpInUnorderBytes'
> 
> 11 items here, yes.
> 
> > 2006-10-13 19:18:22 RRD update param 04:
> > 
> '1160767102:1580411:5594723:0:113952:19256340:17330:36082:7:65
> 3169856:440119
> > 035:9398449:159635980:26380336:13186666:30559:612744'
> 
> And 16 values there. Most odd.


I had a chance to revisit this problem I was having with the netstat rrd
data. I noticed that our Solaris 8 servers are not reporting any of the
following fields "tcpOutDataPackets tcpInInorderPackets tcpInUnorderPackets
tcpRetransPackets". They just don't exist on a "netstat -s" output. Do those
come from some GNU version of netstat?

I only really needed the established TCP connections data anyway, so I ended
up writing a small perl script to report whatever fields I needed and
disabled the built-in netstat tool on the client.