[hobbit] Representing disk data for graphing

Rich Smrcina rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
Wed Oct 11 20:13:00 CEST 2006


Oops, I spoke too soon.  It did not work with the icons as I thought. 
I'm back to no icons and four data points per graph (which looks good) 
and the mysterious third token on the first line data point.

Rich Smrcina wrote:
> Indeed.  I got a suggestion to add the &clear icon to the heading and 
> now it works.  Unfortunately I now get one very crowded graph, otherwise 
> good progress.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
>> Yes, the "&color" now counts as a token, so any grep/awk/sed (or
>> equivalent) is going to be off by one.  Is this information included in
>> the overall data blast from the Hobbit client?  If so, you might
>> consider tacking the colors at the END of each line and see if the
>> Hobbit parser starts working again.
>>
>> For reference, here is something from a Solaris system:
>>
>> Wed Oct 11 12:19:50 CDT 2006 - Filesystems OK
>> Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
>> swap                 18665136  107640 18557496     1%    /tmp
>> /dev/vx/dsk/rootvol  9210413 1561203 7557106    18%    /
>> /dev/vx/dsk/var      8263373 1775692 6405048    22%    /var
>> /dev/vx/dsk/opt2     34291077 2384649 31563518     8%    /opt2
>> /dev/vx/dsk/home     1021735  614185  346246    64%    /export/home
>>
>> Notice that the filesystem is token 1, the usage is token 2, and
>> available space is token 3, etc., etc.
>>
>> These are just ideas.  I've written 7 or 8 custom tests of my own with
>> my own RRD parsing at the end, so I quickly became acquainted with the
>> need for agreement between the "pitcher" and the "catcher".
>>
>> GLH 
> 

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