[Xymon] Is it 'procs' or 'processes'?

[John Horne]

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 11:13 +1100, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:10 AM, John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:
> > It seems that the 'graphs.cfg' file has a section for 'processes', but
> > no section for 'procs', so Xymon does not know how to display the
> > 'procs' graph. If I create a 'procs' section, then I get a graph.
> 
> I think the procs=processes mapping is for backwards-compatibility.
> But it still should work as-is.  On my system I simply created a new
> "[processes]" definition in graphs.cfg to get the graph, like so:
> 
The default 'graphs.cfg' file already contains a 'processes' section:

  [processes]
          FNPATTERN ^processes.(.+).rrd
          TITLE Process counts
          YAXIS #
          DEF:cnt at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:count:AVERAGE
          LINE2:cnt at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@
          GPRINT:cnt at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %10.1lf (cur)
          GPRINT:cnt at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %10.1lf (max)
          GPRINT:cnt at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %10.1lf (min)
          GPRINT:cnt at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %10.1lf (avg)\n

As can be seen it filters on the RRD file 'processes'.

Only the default '[users]' section filters on the 'procs.rrd' file.

> 
> I needed no other changes for the graph to show up.
> 
Nope. With nothing in graphs.cfg saying how 'procs' should be shown and
using 'procs.rrd', no graph shows up.

> Note that the procs RRD file should be shown on the trends page (as
> "Users and Processes"), regardless of this adjustment.
> 
Yes, using the '[users]' section above from the default graphs.cfg file:

  [users]
          TITLE Users and Processes
          YAXIS #
          DEF:p=procs.rrd:la:AVERAGE
          DEF:u=users.rrd:la:AVERAGE
          AREA:p#00CC00:Processes
          LINE1:u#000099:Users
          [snipped]

> Also, I think that there will be no "files" graph unless you define a
> file with a "TRACK" option in analysis.cfg.  Same for "ports".
>
Yes, and 'procs'. Basically any test that doesn't draw a graph by
default but requires some configuration to be done. This leads to the
problem of no graph showing but the 'zoom' icon alone appearing. I'm
still working on how that might be fixed.

It is confusing because basically I end up with a 'procs.rrd' file
(after configuring a PROC in analysis.cfg), but nothing in 'graphs.cfg'
to say how to display it, and no 'processes.cfg' file but a section in
'graphs.cfg' saying how to display it (if it exists). In xymonserver.cfg
(TEST2RRD) it seems that for 'procs' the 'processes' file (service)
should be used - but it doesn't exist, 'procs' does. Confusing.




John.

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