[Xymon] Graphing non-NCV data

[David Fogarty]

Thanks Ralph!  I think this looks very promising.  I had not found that 
documentation yet.

Stef, thanks for that too.  I'll look into it as well.

Dave Fogarty

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On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, Ralph Mitchell wrote:

> Take a look at the man page for xymond_rrd.   The --extra-script and --extra-tests
> options allow you to pass incoming reports through a script to extract whatever you
> need.  Your script then emits the results to put in the RRD.  There's a good example
> script at the end of the man page.
> Ralph Mitchell
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:42 PM, David Fogarty <dave at collegenet.com> wrote:
>       Hi everyone,
>       I'm trying to graph data that is not in NCV format.  I was able to do this
>       in BB, but I'm having trouble finding documentation on how it's done in
>       Xymon.  The documentation at "/help/howtograph.html" seems to assume data
>       is always in NCV format.
>
>       Is there a way to parse it as it comes in along with the disk, cpu, and
>       other tests, or should I be getting data from disk.
>
>       If I'm getting it off the disk, does that mean I should enable "bbstatus"
>       and "hostdata" in hobbitlaunch.cfg?
>
>       Is it recommended to run a data collection script as an ext script, or just
>       straight out of cron.
>
>       Am I forgetting something?  Is there documentation out there that I just
>       failed to find?
>
>       FYI, I'm running version 4.3.0~beta2.dfsg-9.1 from Debian 7 (wheezy).
>
>       Thanks,
>       Dave Fogarty
>
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