[hobbit] NCV Graphing

[Buchan Milne]

On Friday 20 March 2009 05:46:31 Adam Goryachev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to follow the Help -> Custom Graphs instructions as follows:
> I've written a script to collect data, asked hobbitclient to run it
> regularly.
> Checked that the data is arriving on the xymon server
> backup.notme.org.au|temp|green||1237445672|1237515673|1237517473|0|0|xxx.xx
>x.xxx.xxx|-1|||Y green Fri Mar 20 13:21:13 EST 2009 Temp GOOD (38 degrees)
> sda : 38
> sdb : 36
>
> hobbitserver.cfg:TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,h
>ttp=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apach
>e,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,b
>bproxy,hobbitd,files,procs=processes,ports,clock,lines,ops,stats,cifs,JVM,JM
>S,HitCache,Session,JDBCConn,ExecQueue,JTA,TblSpace,RollBack,MemReq,InvObj,sn
>apmirr,snaplist,snapshot,if_load=devmon,mysql=ncv,dnsnum=ncv,astnet=ncv,ups=
>ncv,temp=ncv"
>
> Added this line to indicate that the numbers are absolute values, not
> always increasing values (default of DERIVE)...
> hobbitserver.cfg:NCV_temp="*:GAUGE"
>
> Re-started the hobbit rrd processes, and eventually also re-started
> xymon completely.

If you are getting rrd files, there is no need to restart xymon.

> rrdtool dump shows this:

What does 'rrdtool fetch temp.rrd AVERAGE' give?


> So, for some reason the values are not getting into the rrd files....
>
> Note, I found that I previously had an entry in TEST2RRD for
> temp=devmon, so I have removed that and deleted all the rrd files (for
> temp) so that they would be re-created.

Did you have temp.*.rrd files before you made this ncv-based test? If so, they 
will be broken now (and it would have been better to use a different test 
name).

Regards,
Buchan