[hobbit] Custom RRDs

[Andy France]

"Stuffle, David" wrote on 10/05/2005 02:15:48:

> > "Stuffle, David" wrote on 07/05/2005 03:35:47:
> >
> >> I have created a custom RRD script and it been working
> > fine.  Any host
> > that
> >> sends a "license" column status with a line containing
> >> "In Use: x" will
> > get
> >> the license usage (x) graphed.  But, for some reason it
> >> won't work on a
> > host
> >> I have that has a hostname of "license".  RRD file gets
> >> created, but it's all "nan" values.  Could having the
> >> exact same hostname, Dataset name,
> > and
> >> column name cause it not to work?  The only other
> >> difference in this host
> > is
> >> it's a Windows machine instead of Unix, but the status
> >> sent to Hobbit is
> > the
> >> same so I can't see that it would matter.  Thanks!
> >
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> David Stuffle
> >> Delta Faucet Company
> >
> Andy France wrote:
> > It sounds to me like you are picking up the status line
> > rather than the data line.
> >
> > Check your RRD script again... if you are grepping/awking
> > for
> > a line containing license you may need to narrow your
> > criteria :-)
> >
> > It may be as simple as adding "tail -1" to make sure you
> > only
> > get the last occurence.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Andy.
> >
> >
> I have verified I am getting the right data from the status by
redirecting
> the script to a file.  Somewhere between grepping the license count and
> putting it in the RRD file it gets lost.  I'm figuring it must be because
> the hostname is the same as the DS name.  Any other host I plug in to it
> works fine.  Thanks

If you post the script and message content either here or directly to me,
I'd be happy to take a look :-)

Andy.

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