[Xymon] XymonPowershellClient RRD collect graphing long mountpoint names

Thu Feb 26 10:25:08 CET 2015

Hi

Yes, I had anticipated this and you can see I attempted to deal with it via
truncation and the ellipsis (.). However, I can see how this wasn't the
greatest idea :)

I do quite like going back to the BBWin source in these situations and
trying to work out how it did it. What I think it does in this case, at
least for some of the columns, is adjust the column width to the widest
value. This makes sense - it means the formatting does not look really odd
when you have short values.

I have committed a change that does similar - the Filesystem, Mountpoint and
Label fields will be sized to fit the largest data. Seems to work with my
test mountpoint. Because the full text is now reported in, the mountpoints
are now unique and I'm hoping this will fix the graphing.

As I see it, the problem with just using the label is that it doesn't always
reflect the actual path - which may be OK if you are familiar with the
system in question, but if you have on-call staff who do not frequently work
on your environment but are there just in case, I can imagine it could get
confusing when they get called out on the back of an alert.

Zak 

From: Gavin Stone-Tolcher [mailto:g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au] 
Sent: 26 February 2015 01:10
To: 'Ang, Denver'; Beck, Zak
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: XymonPowershellClient RRD collect graphing long mountpoint
names

I think what to do with very long mount point names is going to be an issue.

I have a suggestion for Zak that he might consider.

You could use the "Label" in the "Mounted" field rather than the Filesystem,
if the Filesystem is not a single letter driveletter (i.e not a mount
point).

It seems that most people, like the example below, use short unique Labels
for their mount points. This could make RRD collection/graphing work more
reliably?

Cheers

Gavin Stone-Tolcher, IT Support Officer, Network Operations and Incident
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From: Xymon [ <mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>
mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ang, Denver
Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2015 7:11 AM
To:  <mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com> zak.beck at accenture.com
Cc:  <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] XymonPowershellClient

Yes! It is showing the Mountpoint but not all of them appear in the graph.
Nevertheless, it's a great improvement. 

Below is a screenshot:

Again, thank you!

Denver

From:  <mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com> zak.beck at accenture.com [
<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com> mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 3:38 AM
To: Ang, Denver
Cc:  <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: XymonPowershellClient

Hi

The latest commit includes Windows mountpoints in the disk list - does this
do what you're expecting?

Thanks

Zak

From: Ang, Denver [ <mailto:Denver.Ang at tamucc.edu>
mailto:Denver.Ang at tamucc.edu] 
Sent: 24 February 2015 15:53
To: Beck, Zak
Cc:  <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: XymonPowershellClient

Thanks! Looking forward to it.

Denver

From:  <mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com> zak.beck at accenture.com [
<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com> mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 2:43 AM
To: Ang, Denver
Cc:  <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: XymonPowershellClient

Hi

Windows mountpoints are on the todo list.

Thanks

Zak 

From: Ang, Denver [ <mailto:Denver.Ang at tamucc.edu>
mailto:Denver.Ang at tamucc.edu] 
Sent: 19 February 2015 21:23
To: Beck, Zak
Subject: XymonPowershellClient

Hi Zak,

Can you revise the code so that it will show the LUNS in the mountpoints?

Denver Ang

Systems Administrator II

Information Technology

Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

(361) 825-2854

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