[Xymon] Monitoring multiple values

[David Welker]

This sounded like a great idea, so I got the status showing up via the
extra-scripts option, but the info on the data message is a little vague.
 According to the example, I just echo the DS statements, then the dataset
name on a line by itself, followed by the data for one dataset on a line by
itself, which doesn't seem to do anything in the way of creating any of the
multiple rrds I need, nor does it address the time consideration for
multple values (I need to insert 5 values a minute apart  from 5 mins.
before putting them into the rrd - I know this can be done with the rrdtool
update command, but can it be done here somehow?)  Anybody have an example
of a multi-dataset case being run via the extra-scripts option of the
xymond_rrd they'd be willing to share?

Thanks!
David


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You could do that server-side.  Look at the man page for xymond_rrd. The
> --extra-script option allows you to pipe incoming data through a script to
> process. You could take the report time and subtract 1 min, 2 min, etc,
> then emit rrd updates as required.  The client would still send all 5
> values at the same time, but they'd be recorded as if received over the
> preceding 5 minute block.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
> On Aug 15, 2014 9:55 AM, "David Welker" <dewelker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been looking, but haven't seen anything in the documentation, on the
>> website, or in the mailing list that addresses this:
>>
>> I need to monitor 5 values that are received all at the same time.  I'd
>> like to insert the values at one minute intervals getting a consolidated
>> data point (CDP) every 5 minutes that I can graph.
>>
>> For example, I ping a host via client script, 5 times, returning all of
>> the data at one time.  I want to put all 5 values in the database (rrd),
>> but spaced apart every minute so I get a decent CDP. I could probably do
>> this if this was on the server (could I?), but the script HAS to be on the
>> client in this case.  Is this even doable?
>>
>> Thanks, in advance, for any suggestions!
>>
>> David
>>
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