[Xymon] Custom Graphs

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Adding it to the GRAPH variable didn't seem to do anything if it
wasn't also present on the TEST2RRD variable, and vice-versa. I will
double-check that, but it didn't seem to be possible to do one or the
other.

On 09/25/2012 04:16 AM, Chris.Morris at rwe.com wrote:
> The comments in the "xymonserver.cfg" file are quite clear :-
> 
> TEST2RRD # This is also used by the svcstatus.cgi script to
> determine if the detailed # status view of a test should include a
> graph.
> 
> GRAPH # This defines which RRD files to include on the "trends"
> column webpage, # and the order in which they appear.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com
> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski 
> Sent: 25 September 2012 07:15 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re:
> [Xymon] Custom Graphs
> 
> On 09/24/2012 04:55 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> 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. I happened to check the docs on my 4.2.3
>> server however and I see that the part about sending trends
>> messages is missing. So, I've got two questions:
> 
>> 1) Was sending trends messages added in Xymon 4.3.x and not
>> available in 4.2.3?
> 
> The answer to this question I found is "no, the feature was indeed 
> available in 4.2.3 but just missing from that section of the
> docs."
> 
>> 2) At the end of this: 
>> http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/howtograph.html ...there's a 
>> description of what to put in a trends message. There is not,
>> however,
> 
>> any description of what one does with it. My expectation is that
>> you do the following:
> 
>> xymon <display> `cat trends.file`
> 
>> ...where the trends file is like the one described in the manual
>> (eg. starts with "data hostname.test"). Essentially, similar to
>> sending a status message (but sending a data message instead). If
>> this is the case, it might be helpful to have a note there in the
>> manual, or at least a reference to the part of the manual I'm
>> about to go hunt for that I assume mentions data messages.
> 
> And this was correct as well.
> 
> A followup question relates to the apparent requirement that you
> add the RRD/test name to both the GRAPH and the TEST2RRD variables
> in the hobbitserver.cfg. Is there any way to add the graph to just
> the test page and not the trends page? Why do both of these
> variables exist if it seems like you need both of them for it to
> work?
> 
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