[Xymon] Temperature graphs

[David Fogarty]

I have removed the spaces and added a colon, so

   &green Routing_Engines_Temperature: 44

creates a filename that looks like:
/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/<hostname>/temperature.Routing_Engine_Temperature:.rrd

And I still get no data.



Dave Fogarty

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Senior System Administrator
CollegeNET.com

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Galen Johnson wrote:

> I'm pretty sure it's either...I find it a bit frustrating that we can't limit where it looks for that info...if you happen to have a non-related comment with a space or colon and a number, Xymon will attempt to parse it as a tracked variable as well.
>
> =G=
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> ________________________________________
> From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Jeremy Ruffer <jeremy.ruffer at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:20 PM
> To: Bill Rowan
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Temperature graphs
>
> I use a colon to separate value and data. It works.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>> On 11 Jun 2015, at 21:03, Bill Rowan <bill at rowanfamily.com> wrote:
>>
>> Get rid of the spaces.  Your status should read "&green Routing_Engine_Temperature 43".  Make sure you send the data in Celsius and let xymon do the conversion in the graphs.cfg file.
>>
>> I haven't tried using a colon for separation of data and value.  I have been using just a space and it works fine for me on 4.3.7.
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 6/11/2015 1:46 PM, David Fogarty wrote:
>>> I've got a couple snmp tests and I'm trying to graph their output.  I tried putting in my own rrd script to collect the data, but there seems to be a built-in one overriding mine.  So, I tried to format my test output to work with that, but I'm just getting rrd files that lack any data.
>>>
>>> The main line of the test is like this:
>>>  &green Routing Engine Temperature 43
>>>
>>> It causes the creation of a file like this:
>>> /var/lib/hobbit/rrd/<hostname>/temperature.Routing_Engine_Temperature.rrd
>>>
>>> When I use "rrdtool dump" I still get data like this and an empty graph.
>>>  <!-- 2015-06-11 11:20:00 PDT / 1434046800 --> <row><v>NaN</v></row>
>>>  <!-- 2015-06-11 11:25:00 PDT / 1434047100 --> <row><v>NaN</v></row>
>>>
>>> If someone knows the correct format for temperature tests, I'd be set.
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, we've got snmp collecting memory data for some equipment that we'd like to override internal graphing on specific hosts if that can be done. Reformatting output on that may be a bit harder.
>>>
>>> The obvious answer is to change the test names for our custom ones, but my boss is very opposed to creating new columns in xymon.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave Fogarty
>>>
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