[xymon] custom check / graphs with multiple rrd files

[Vernon Everett]

OK, try now

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:

> D'oh!
> Give me a second.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Roland Soderstrom <
> rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:
>
>>  Looks good, but I think you forgot the hobbitgraph.cfg lines
>> It can't work without them, could it?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Roland
>>
>>
>>
>> On  9/09/10 02:51 PM, Vernon Everett wrote:
>>
>> http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:diskstat.ksh
>>
>> Have fun. :-)
>> If it shows up on an iostat -xn then it should do the job.
>>
>> Cheers
>>     Vernon
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Roland Soderstrom <
>> rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>  I got the iostat trend graphs working now :-)
>>> My approach is a bit rough though, I bet yours is better.
>>> Will it take care of metadevices? /dev/global cluster disks? /dev/did
>>> disks?
>>>
>>>
>>> - Roland
>>>
>>>
>>>  On  9/09/10 01:57 PM, Vernon Everett wrote:
>>>
>>> Would be unfair to start the race after I have finished :-)
>>>
>>> About to post to Xymonton.
>>> Will update you once done.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>     Vernon
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Roland Soderstrom <
>>> rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to do the same (for solaris)
>>>> By default the code is there on the client, but the server lacks the
>>>> code to create the rrd file.
>>>> The data is there on the server.
>>>> This command shows me that the data is actually received by the server.
>>>> xymonserver % $BB $BBDISP 'clientlog server0 section=iostatdisk'
>>>> in hobbitd/rrd/do_iostat.c there is a do_iostatdisk_rrd function.
>>>> but it isn't in hobbitd/do_rrd.c
>>>> I'm not any good at C so I can just see it lacks some coding.
>>>> The correct approach would be to fix the source so it includes and
>>>> creates the iostatdisk rrd's and trend graphs will just work.
>>>>
>>>> Until next version I tried to fix it.
>>>> I've tried to modify Stef Coenes iostat script but I can't get any data
>>>> into the rrd file, it is just empty. (NaN)
>>>> The graphs on the trends page is there but shows nothing.
>>>> bash-3.00$ /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19/bin/rrdtool dump
>>>> /usr/local/xymon/data/rrd/server0/iostat-disk.ssd59.rrd | grep last_ds
>>>>                 <last_ds> UNKN </last_ds>
>>>> bash-3.00$
>>>>
>>>> I'm setting up a new test environment with Xymon 4.2.3 to see if I could
>>>> get things going.
>>>> I'm creating a new iostat script from scratch and trying to get the data
>>>> to the trends page.
>>>>
>>>> Well see who wins the race.
>>>>
>>>> - Roland
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On  9/09/10 09:21 AM, Vernon Everett wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Funny you mention that, I just completed a script that does disk iostat,
>>>> and graphs all the columns from an iostat -X
>>>> (Solaris centric, but I am sure you could mod it for any other OS)
>>>>
>>>> The graphs show up in trends.
>>>> For us it made no sense to create an alert based on iostat, but rather
>>>> to record it for and use it as a forensic tool if/when things went bad.
>>>>
>>>> It has been running in test overnight, and if all looks good, I will
>>>> post it later today.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>     Vernon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Daniel Bourque <
>>>> dbourque at weatherdata.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>   I want to create graphs for i/o per seconds on all disks on host
>>>>> bob.somewhere.com . I am trying to do like the disk check, but I can't
>>>>> hobbit to create multiple rrd files.
>>>>>
>>>>> so my check ends up running the following
>>>>>
>>>>> -------
>>>>>
>>>>> /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/bb 1.1.1.1 "status
>>>>> bob,somewhere,com.iostat_tps,sda green Wed Sep  8 15:01:49 CDT 2010
>>>>>
>>>>>       iostat_tps : 23.40
>>>>> "
>>>>>
>>>>> /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/bb 1.1.1.1 "status
>>>>> bob,somewhere,com.iostat_tps,sdb green Wed Sep  8 15:01:49 CDT 2010
>>>>>
>>>>>       iostat_tps : 12.00
>>>>> "
>>>>>
>>>>> -----
>>>>>
>>>>> in hobbitserver.cfg :
>>>>>
>>>>> I appended "iostat_tps=ncv"  to TEST2RRD
>>>>> I added NVC_iostat_tps="iostat_tps:GAUGE"
>>>>>
>>>>> ----
>>>>>
>>>>> I restarted the rrd processes
>>>>>
>>>>> ----
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not seeing
>>>>>
>>>>> iostat_tps,sda.rrd
>>>>> iostat_tps,sdb.rrd
>>>>>
>>>>> under /opt/hobbit/data/rrd/bob.somewhere.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> ----
>>>>>
>>>>> my hope is to able to do a graph using something like
>>>>>
>>>>> [iostat_tps]
>>>>>
>>>>>       FNPATTERN iostat_tps(.*).rrd
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> hobbit 4.2.0
>>>>> RHEL 3
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank !
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dan
>>>>>
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