NCV module doesn't seem to accept GAUGE

[Jeff Ehrenberg]

I have created a test to check the SMTP queues on a Windows box using WMI.  I have added the appropriate ncv settings to the hobbitserver.cfg file and the also created the definition for the graph in hobbitgraph.cfg.  I am getting the graph to display on my status page but the lines are all flat.  I used the rrdtool to dump the results of my rrd file and it looks like all of the data sets are being entered as DERIVE although I specified GAUGE.  Here are some of the output.

-STATUS MESSAGE Sent to Hobbit-
smtphealth
SMTP Health Check:
Inbound Connections:	10
Outbound Connections:	20
Local Queue Length:	1
Local Retry Queue Length:	0
Remote Queue Length:	3
Remote Retry Queue Length:	3

-FROM hobbitserver.cfg-
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,ExchDB=ncv,smtphealth=ncv"
NCV_ExchDB="STORE:GAUGE" NCV_smtphealth="InboundConnections:GAUGE,OutboundConnections:GAUGE,LocalQueueLength:GAUGE,LocalRetryQueueLeng:GAUGE,RemoteQueueLength:GAUGE,RemoteRetryQueueLen:GAUGE"

<!-- Round Robin Database Dump -->
<rrd>
        <version> 0001 </version>
        <step> 300 </step> <!-- Seconds -->
        <lastupdate> 1142001796 </lastupdate> <!-- 2006-03-10 09:43:16 EST -->

        <ds>
                <name> InboundConnections </name>
                <type> DERIVE </type>
                <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat>
                <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min>
                <max> NaN </max>

                <!-- PDP Status -->
                <last_ds> 0 </last_ds>
                <value> 0.0000000000e+00 </value>
                <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec>
        </ds>

        <ds>
                <name> OutboundConnections </name>
                <type> DERIVE </type>


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