[hobbit] Sending data from script to an rrd

[Rob Munsch]

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Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> On 10/18/06, Rob Munsch <rmunsch at solutionsforprogress.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've gone over the manpages and i'm still confused, sorry. Do i need to
>> call another channel with the --extra-tests option?  Is it in a config
>> file somewhere?  The sample script of "weather in Copenhagen" is a
>> little opaque, it just shows a bunch of echoes but not their context.
>> Is THAT script called by another within hobbit?  Lastly is there a howto
>> somewhere for exporting one's custom script data to RRD?
> 
> When you add the --extra-script option in the [rrdstatus] block, 

Well i'm stuck already.  What file is that block in?  I can't find it in
'server.cfg nor 'graph.cfg...

> hobbit_rrd takes
> care of the RRD creation and stuffing, you just need to echo out the
> correct format.

So something like

echo "DS:cputemp:GAUGE:600:0:U"
echo "cputemp.rrd"

probably isn't far off after all?

> 
> It took me several iterations to get this straight... :)

I bet i beat you! :D
> 
> Ralph
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