[hobbit] Multiple Variable Named Item Graphing

[W.J.M. Nelis]

Hello,

> I hoping that someone has done this before, either through Hobbit 
> built in graphing and status/data messages or through another means. I 
> have data in the following format:
>
> SERVER1 : 800
> SERVER2 : 1054
> SERVER3 : 10000
> SERVER4 : 43
>
> These numbers represent the load on a Citrix server, using the qfarm 
> /load CLI. The maximum number will always be 10000 if the server is 
> full and 0 if the server is empty.
>
> The problem I am having in figuring this out, is that the names of the 
> servers can change day to day, so adding all those entries as NCV 
> GAUGE types doesn't make sense. Am I missing a way to do this?
>
> I am also hoping to have 5 servers per graph and I have about 150 to 
> graph.
This seems to be a good candidate for using SPLITNCV: a variable number 
of measurements, one per RRD with a fixed name for the dataset.

HTH,
  Wim Nelis.



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