[Xymon] Trending too many interfaces

[Tim McCloskey]

Colin,

I have not installed any of the newer xymon versions, this is from 4.2.0.

On a system with eth0->eth3 plumbed up I set the client shell script (client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh) to:

echo "[ifstat]"
/sbin/ifconfig eth0
/sbin/ifconfig eth2

Verified the data sent from one of the 'Client data available' data sets.
Removed the rrd files for ifstat from the server for that client. (stopped/started the client).

On the trends page I see eth0 and eth2 only, no eth1 or eth3.

Yeah, it's a hack but it's fairly minor and should be easy enough to manage.

Just my 3 cents.

Tim




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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Colin Coe [colin.coe at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:19 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Trending too many interfaces

Hi Vernon and Tim

I'm working in a new dev/test environment using Xymon 4.3.2.

I'd wanted to avoid hacking the client-side script but if that's whats
required, I'll have a look.

TIA

CC

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote:
> This is a crazy guess, you don't mention which version of xymon so this may be way off.  It may be way off anyway :)
>
> If you are talking about the trends/"Network Traffic" graph it seems to be getting that data from the 'ifstat' var.
>
> Some details follow.
>
> 1. what we graph for ifstat
> hobbitgraph.cfg:        FNPATTERN ifstat.(.+).rrd
> See data/rrd/$hostname/ifstat.*
>
> 2. where ifstat originates
> client/hobbitclient-linux.sh:
> echo "[ifstat]"
> /sbin/ifconfig
>
> 3. what happens to ifstat
> hobbitd/client/linux.c: ifstatstr = getdata("ifstat");
> hobbitd/client/linux.c: unix_ifstat_report(hostname, clienttype, os, hinfo, fromline, timestr, ifstatstr); <--- ifstatstr
>
> You should be able to modify the client shell script to report other than ifconfig -a (which seems to be what is currently captured).  Of course, there must be a better way.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Colin Coe [colin.coe at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:02 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Trending too many interfaces
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> The only interfaces I want graphed are "rhevm" and "bond2".
>



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