[xymon] DISK IGNORE useage

[Rob Munsch]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 10:22 AM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [xymon] DISK IGNORE useage
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:49:03 -0500, Rob Munsch wrote:
> 
> >> > However… if I add to the host’s config a DISK IGNORE /, then while
> >> > the text (as above) only shows /tmp, I lose /tmp’s graph line and it
> >> > only graphs root.  I’ve tried including the IGNORE line both before
> >> > and after a line for /tmp, with no effect.  As soon as I add the
> >> > IGNORE line, /tmp’s graph line vanishes on next update.
> >>
> >> Try this:
> >>
> >> HOST=foo
> >> 	DISK %^/$ IGNORE
> >>
> >> so you use a regex pattern that only matches "/" to ignore that
> >> filesystem.
> >
> > I was expecting this to work - but now I have
> >
> > Filesystem         1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> > none                    131072     15456    115616      12% /tmp
> >
> > and below it, / is graphed.  The graph line for /tmp vanished.  I'm very
> > confused.
> 
> Hmm, yes - that can happen because you now have two RRD graph files, but
> only one graph showing up on the webpage. You should have both of them
> on the graph in the "trends" column, though.
> 
> Either wait 48 hours - then the root-filesystem graph will go "stale" and
> automatically be ignored on the "disk" status graph display. Or you can go
> to the ~hobbit/data/rrd/HOSTNAME/ directory and delete/rename the
> "disk,root.rrd" file out of the way.

That did it, Henrik - thanks!