Re: [hobbit] FILES directory test not graphing

[Patrick Nixon <pnixon (at) gmail.com>]

Thanks for the follow up Greg.

There were two issues I found.

1.) The du command was reporting in 512k blocks, not bytes as I was
expecting it to.  I fixed it by adding DU="/usr/bin/du -b" into the
hobbitclient.cfg file
2.) because of the above, you were right, the data was being graphed
next to a file, that was already being reported in bytes, so it was
disappearing.

--Patrick


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Greg Hubbard <glh.forums (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm.  A directory looks like a file, too, and it has a size.  Are you
> interested in the size of the directory itself (as a file) or are you
> interested in the total size of all files contained within the directory?
>
> What are the units in the graph that you are looking at, and is the
> directory by itself or is it combined with other items?  One problem with
> RRD graphs is that everything in a graph gets the same scale factor, so if
> you combine something small with something large the small item can appear
> to be near zero because other items are much larger.
>
> GLH
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Patrick Nixon <pnixon (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The Files test provides a mechanism to graph the size of the object
>> being monitored through the TRACK option.
>>
>> For the file, it graphs the size of the file.
>>
>> I'm assuming that it's supposed to do that for the directory as well,
>> but it's showing a flatline at 0 instead of the value show in the
>> footer of the graph, which at the time of this email is 121161.9.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Greg Hubbard <glh.forums (at) gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > What do you want to graph, and what is wrong with the current graphs?
>> > It
>> > helps if you provide more detail.
>> >
>> > GLH
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Patrick Nixon <pnixon (at) gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hey all,
>> >>  I did a search, but these are rather generic terms, so I'm hoping
>> >> someone has seen this.
>> >>
>> >>  When a directory is added to the FILES test, it doesn't graph
>> >> properly, even though the data is appearing at the bottom of the graph
>> >> image.
>> >>
>> >>  Any suggestions on what to tweak, how to troubleshoot this?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >> --Patrick
>> >>
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