[Xymon] white gaps in graphs across a number of services

[W.J.M. Nelis]

On 06/19/2012 12:13 PM, Vincent Baines wrote:

> One other thing thats bugged me for a while, maybe related, I get some
> really random spurious RRD files generated, which when I look in the trends
> page for a specific host really make things messy. So, for example, in
> ./data/rrd/hostname1 for a specific service I'm monitoring called
> warehouse, I should have:
> ./warehouse,Memory.rrd
> ./warehouse,Threads.rrd
>
> but as well as those I get all sorts of randomness:
> warehouse,24590_24589_xymon_09.rrd
> warehouse,4224_1_hostname2_20.rrd
> warehouse,Kernel.rrd
> murexnet,_FONT_SIZE.rrd
> etc
> In other words, appended other server names, PIDs, and other processes,
> and even xymon keywords..
>
> They seem to get generated in clumps everynow and then, say a whole load
> of new ones at a specific time.
Colons and equal signs are confusing the RRD module of Xymon. Replacing 
each ':' by '&#58' and each '=' by '&#61' should solve this problem. Of 
course, these replacements should NOT be done in the lines containing the 
actual data to be entered into an RRD.

kind regards,
   Wim Nelis.




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