RE: [hobbit] Xymon 4.3.0: Beta Problems

[<Chris.Morris (at) RWEsystemsUK.com>]

Henrik,

The patch works great - thanks.

There is a discrepancy between the online man pages which are 4.2.2 15th Dec 2008 and the OS man pages which are 4.2.3 4th Feb 2009.

Regards,
Chris 

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk] 
Sent: 11 February 2009 17:19
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Xymon 4.3.0: Beta Problems

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:06:11PM -0000, Chris.Morris (at) RWEsystemsUK.com wrote:
> Another problem found with the 4.3.0 Beta version on AIX is that 
> vmstat has dropped the cpu wait value and does not store the value in the rrd.

Ran into this myself. It's a simple miscalculation, so the last character of the data-message sent to the RRD module is truncated, and this is usually the I/O wait number (if it is a single digit).

Patch attached. You'll need to restart Hobbit after this.

> Also I cannot find any documentation on how the "Compact" status 
> feature is supposed to work!

The bb-host(5) man-page tells you:

       COMPACT:COLUMN=COLUMN1,COLUMN2,COLUMN3[;ditto]
            Collapses a series of statuses  into  a  single
	    column  on  the overview webpage.

E.g. if you have columns foo, bar and baz that you want to collapse into column "zork":
    0.0.0.0  myhost # COMPACT:zork=foo,bar,baz


Regards,
Henrik


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