[xymon] directory directive

[Cleaver, Japheth]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:29 AM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [xymon] directory directive
> 
> In <201009231706.26996.stef.coene at docum.org> Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> writes:
> 
> >On Thursday 23 September 2010, Henrik "St=F8rner" wrote:
> 
> >Related to this, I would prefer an automatic system: 'if hobbitgraph exists
> >and is a directory, include it in config file hobbitgraph.cfg'.
> 
> I believe you can do that already, although it will probably result in some
> complaints being logged to the logfiles :-)
> 

Mandrake has broken out their hobbitgraph file for some time, apparently, without any ill-effects. The perl one-liner below is what I use to split the distro .cfg files apart during an RPM install... (rpmbuild macros have been replaced with real paths):

install -d /etc/xymon/graph.d
pushd /etc/xymon/graph.d/
perl -e "\$/='';while (<>) { \$_ .= <> while not (m#\n\[([\w+._-]+)\]#s || eof);open (FILE,'>',\$1); print FILE \$_; };" ../hobbitgraph.cfg
popd

echo "#
# The hobbitgraph.cfg file is read by the grapher module.
# It controls which of the Xymon data streams to graph using RRD and
# their respective RRD configuration options.
#

directory graph.d/" > /etc/xymon/hobbitgraph.cfg


Remember that the directory directive will parse the files it sees in alphabetical order.

The same logic, of course, works for clientlaunch and hobbitlaunch files. Hope this helps!

-jc