[xymon] Use of underscores

[Dan Smith]

Well, I'll be monkeyed.

Turns out that I was passing DS names that were too long into RRD.  They
were getting truncated and then causing a conflict.

Log and short...user error.  Sorry about that.  It DOES work if you do
everything else right.

-dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> 
> [mailto:=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henrik_ St=F8rner _<henrik at hswn.dk>?=] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:16 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [xymon] Use of underscores
> 
> In <DEE13FC217F541CF86C21BB1BBDF02E7 at e012981desktop> "Dan 
> Smith" <rrdansmith at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >I am learning (very slowly) that using underscores (_) in 
> column names 
> >can be a very bad thing.
> > 
> >This really comes to light when I try to graph the data from one of 
> >those pages...
> >If the data requires an NCV_* entry in xymonserver.cfg, I 
> never get any 
> >data in the server's rrd data folder.
> > 
> >Is there a quick way to get around that (I am apparently 
> really fond of 
> >using underscores in names)?
> 
> It's not something that was deliberately broken, but from a 
> quick look at the code I don't really see why it would break.
> 
> Can you provide an example for one of these, with the data 
> that you send for the NCV handler, and the NCV_blabla setting 
> you're using ?
> 
> Is the RRD file created, but doesn't get any data, or does it 
> never appear?
> 
> What's in the rrd*.log files, if anything ?
> 
> What Xymon version are you trying this with ?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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