[Xymon] Trending too many interfaces

[Tim McCloskey]

What shows up under 'Client data available' for the [ifconfig] and [ifstat] details?  [ifconfig] should list all of the interfaces.  [ifstat] should only show what you defined. 

> The only interfaces I want graphed are "rhevm" and "bond2".

That would be:
echo "[ifstat]"
/sbin/ifconfig rhevm
/sbin/ifconfig bond2

[ifstat] should show the output from the above commands, which should then be on the trends page under Network Traffic.

I'll be taking a look at 4.3.2 sometime in the near future, maybe it's different there. 

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: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:02 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Trending too many interfaces

Yeah, that's pretty much what I did, except I now notice that the
bridge interfaces are not listed on the trending page.  One of these
bridge interfaces has an IP address and I'd like to trend it.

I've done a few quick greps through the source but can't see where
these bridges a re being stripped out.

CC


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> 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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