Re: [hobbit] Custom RRD graphs

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:12, Ger Maguire wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have created a custom script for capturing CPU utilisation from a device
> and updated all the relevant files but I cannot get my rrd files to update
> correctly.

In general, the cpu test is parsed by hobbit, for which Hobbit needs to know 
the format. If you can fake the format to be like something Hobbit already 
supports, then you can use the "cpu testname".

>
> An initial rrd file gets created but the data does not get input into it.
>
> I have created a rrd-ext sript which is running and is capturing the
> incomming status data and by looking at the /tmp files I can see that the
> echo outputs are being generated correctly every 5 mintes.
>

IMHO, it would be much easier to use the ncv module to do this. Please see 
Help->Custom Graphs on the Hobbit web interface for more information on how 
to do this.

Regards,
Buchan


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Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
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