Custom RRD graphs

[Dan Vande More]

Ok, I found the issue.

Though I've written dozens of bb clients, I've never come across
exactly how BB expects the information. This might be hobbit specific
however. In my original email, I stated I was sending the data from my
script like:

home/monitor/bb/bin/bb 1.2.3.4 "status iron1-mgmt.Memoryutil green
Memoryutil : 11"

This is not the correct way to do this hobbit-wise. You need to put a
\n in between the color status and the data you're pushing via ncv.
That is:

home/monitor/bb/bin/bb 1.2.3.4 "status iron1-mgmt.Memoryutil
green\nMemoryutil : 11"

Perhaps it's just my interpretation, but I think we should reword the
documentation to explicitly say we do not need to do any
--extra-script or --extra-tests if one is using ncv.

Finally, I perused a lot of the man pages and code for the past few
hours, and only found one error - and that was a spelling error. In
~hobbit/server/etc/hobbitgraph.cfg, temperature is misspelled:
# comment out the [tempeature] section above, and

I'm now using ncv for collecting 8 datapoints and it appears to
collect and graph data flawlessly. Thanks for the solid implementation
Henrik.

-Dan

On 11/11/05, Dan Vande More <bigdan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the hasty followup, but does anyone have any advice?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On 11/10/05, Dan Vande More <bigdan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I've read every post on the list, but still cannot figure out why I
> > can't get rrds to appear.
> >
> > I've written a custom script that does something like:
> >
> > /home/monitor/bb/bin/bb 1.2.3.4 "status iron1-mgmt.Memoryutil green
> > Memoryutil : 11"
> >
> > On 1.2.3.4 (server), my hobbitserver.cfg has this:
> >
> > TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,Memoryutil=ncv"
> >
> > The reason the test is memoryutil is because it's memory utilization
> > gotta via snmp for an ironport device.
> >
> > My interpretation of the hobbitd_rrd.8 page, and this post:
> > http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/06/msg00261.html
> > gives me reason to believe that I don't have to do anything but have a
> > script pass bb a "$test (=|:) value" value, and tell TEST2RRD
> > "$test=ncv", and I'd be graphing in no time. However, my
> > ~hobbit/rrd/$hostname/ still doesn't have a $test.rrd.
> >
> > Am I missing something? Doing something wrong? Assuming some things I
> > shouldn't be? Anyone have the ncv stuff working?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dan
> >
>