[hobbit] RRD data not being created.

[Rob Munsch]

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Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
> Is this when you are running the script by hand?  $2 is the second
> parameter.  So to run the script by hand, you have to:
> 
> $ ./script node test some.test.file.name
> 
> And then you *should* see "test.rrd" written out.

it looks like i have .rrd files now, but the data points are all NaN.
Still no graph, not even a blank one.
I'll see what kind of raw output i get (i must have broken parsing while
messing with this...).

> The way I tested this was to capture the output of a client side script
> (just cut from the browser and paste in a text file), 

Oh cute.  Okay, i'll try that now. Thanks!

then run it by
> hand using the above method.  The RRD commands are written to the
> terminal, and any griping is in the log.
> 
> Glad you are making progress.
> 
> GLH 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Munsch [mailto:rmunsch at solutionsforprogress.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:48 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] RRD data not being created.
> 
> Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
>> Rob, if you implemented the script example I posted, you should be 
>> able to look in the script log to see if it is doing anything.  Just 
>> remember not to refer to NCV anywhere in the configuration.
> 
>> The log will tell you if the script is being called at all -- you can 
>> enable any debug you want -- just make sure you write it to the log, 
>> since you will never see STDOUT.  You can even cat the incoming file 
>> out to the log.
> 
>> This is what I had to do to get it working -- sort of organically.
> 
> I have .rrd files! huzzah.  Now i just need to get the actual graph to
> appear, instead of a text link.
> 
> Also, something Odd is happening such that variables are not being
> expanded.  Frex,
> 
> TESTNAME="$2"
>    echo $TESTNAME.rrd
> 
> is coming out as just
> 
> .rrd
> 
> o_O
> still, it's progress :D
> 
>> GLH
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rob Munsch [mailto:rmunsch at solutionsforprogress.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:47 PM
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Subject: [hobbit] RRD data not being created.
> 
>> I'm pretty sure this is the trouble.  Ladies and gentlemen, i am 
>> stumped.  Following all the instructions in the docs, manpages, faqs 
>> and alien communications, as well as the very helpful samples provided
> 
>> by list members... no new file ever gets created in
> ~/data/rrd/<hostname>.
>> I have status, so i know client info is reaching server.
>> I have copied almost verbatim the sample server-side script needed to 
>> parse this info and spit it back out to RRD.
>> And i have eschewed NCV and gone in favor of hobbitd_channel --options
> 
>> to make this all work right, or so I thought.
> 
>> If you make a custom script and the rrd file never happens, where 
>> would you look first?  The serverside script itself?  hobbitlaunch. or
> 
>> -graph.cfg options?  Somewhere else?  Mars?  I'd be willing to check 
>> Mars at this point.
> 
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