[Xymon] ::1 suffixes in GRAPHS setting in xymonserver.cfg

[Vernon Everett]

Hi Christoph

Have a look here.
http://www.xymonton.org/monitors:diskstat.ksh
This is something I wrote a while back, but it should provide a useful
example of how to use SPITNCV.

Regards
     Vernon

On 16 November 2011 18:42, Christoph Schug <cs at schug.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:34:27 +1100, Jeremy Laidman
> <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
> > This has to do with how many data sources appear on each multi-line
> > graph on the trends page.  In the example of if_load, you don't want
> > all of your NIC data sources to appear on the one graph, and so the
> > "::1" says to put only one on each graph.
> >
> > There's a bit of a description on this in the xymonserver.cfg file.
> > But the ultimate documentation is the source code, specifically
> > xymonrrd.c.  This indicates that the default lines per graph is 5.
> > Also, between the two colons you can define "xymonpartname", but I
> > can't work out where or how this is used.
>
> Thanks for that info. I could not figure out which part of xymonserver.cfg
> you are referencing to, but xymonrrd.c gave me some rough idea what's going
> on.
>
> I was hoping that this would help with me some graphing issues of a check
> returning multiple NCV values which are stored to individual RRDs using the
> SPLITNCV feature. After trying several things it looks to me that it is
> impossible to incorporate those individual graphs under the tab of the
> specific check (multiple values in one graph does not make sense in my case
> because the data ranges of the each of the values are way too different to
> have a readable graph in the end). So I hoped that this would at least be
> possible in the trend tab but up to now I failed.
>
> If someone has a working example regarding SPLITNCV graphing I would be
> happy to hear.
>
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