[Xymon] Custom Graphs

[Ryan Novosielski]

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On 09/25/2012 12:41 AM, Nelis, Wim wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> I searched the web a bit and found the Xymon docs and there was 
>> mention of two ways of doing custom graphs: NCV and trends 
>> messages. NCV doesn't really suit me as my scripts have too much
>>  formatting in them and would require a rewrite to have the 
>> separate lines for values as is needed by NCV.
> Perhaps a rewrite is not needed. If the values to be entered in the
> graph are still available once the status message is build, you 
> could add an HTML comment section to the message containing the 
> NCVs, formatted as Xymon expects them. Additionally, you could 
> replace the ':' and the '=' in the original status message by the 
> corresponding HTML escape character. This will prevent the NCV 
> module from extracting values from the original message.

That is actually a pretty interesting idea, though it ends up being
about the same amount of work as using a trends message when it comes
down to it (except I guess it cuts down on the number of message). I
guess the NCV will use either = or : as a delimiter?

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