[hobbit] Creating a fake, or combination, client

[s_aiello at comcast.net]

On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 November 2007 14:11:12 Ward, Martin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am a newbie to Hobbit and have inherited a working system. I have a
> > good idea of how it all hangs together but now I want to produce certain
> > graphs and cannot figure out how.
> >
> > I have a cluster of mail servers that run Postfix; each of these clients
> > is monitored within Hobbit. In the Trends link for each client I have
> > graphs showing the various mail queues (incoming, deferred etc) and this
> > data is stored in RRD files on the Hobbit server.
> >
> > Is there a way within Hobbit of creating a false or meta- client that
> > can have a graph with data from all of these RRD files? Particularly I
> > would like a graph that has all the incoming mail queue sizes on it with
> > one line per server. I already have this information in lots of
> > different RRD files but would like to have them all in one graph. I can
> > create a graph outside of Hobbit to do this, but within the monitoring
> > system it restricts the RRD files it will display data from to those in
> > the data directory of the selected client (in the Trends link).
>

If you want to create a graph from multiple rrds, I would suggest using the 
3rd party tool called drraw (http://web.taranis.org/drraw/).