[xymon] Re: temperature test and graphing

[Ryan Novosielski]

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On 07/21/2010 09:33 AM, W.J.M. Nelis wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, that I changed to [temp]. I'm assuming what I should be looking
>> for are temp*.rrd files. If they are not there, is the client or the
>> server not generating them? Where might I look to see why that is not
>> happening?
> If the test is called temp, and you've added it in hobbitserver.cfg in
> TEST2RRD and optionally GRAPHS, and you've defined SPLITNCV_temp, you
> should find files called ^temp\.(.+)\.rrd$ (parameter of FNPATTERN). Did
> you read about custom graphs in Xymon, such as
> http://pto.linuxbog.dk/hobbit/help/howtograph.html ?

I have, thanks. I wanted to investigate the opportunity to use a
built-in test first, but I can see that there are some problems with
that idea regardless. Also, though, doing things that way helped me to
understand the graphing process a lot better.

One thing that confused me the first time I set out to do this is that
it appears to rely heavily on the output format of the status test. eg.
It expects values of VALUE1: amount, VALUE2: amount... not something a
whole lot more complicated. This makes using NCV to add graphing to an
external script not a very simple idea, if I'm understanding that
correctly.

Do you know if that is a proper take on it, or should I read deeper?

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