[xymon] 4.3.0 RC1 - Metrics Report

[Brian Majeska]

Yay!  You made my day Henrik.  Thank you for figuring it out.

I was about to wipe and re-install back to 4.2.x because my boss
depends on those graphs ;-)

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Brian Majeska



On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> In <AANLkTi=GatAQN2CdSF-MTwKmTt9C85Arta7_v1v3Qc4u at mail.gmail.com> Brian Majeska <brian at majeska.com> writes:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
>>Is there any way to debug this? :-)  Its not working for any of my
>>hosts no matter which metric I choose.
>
> maybe You're the victim of a configuration error in the default
> "graphs.cfg" that ships with the 4.3.0 beta-3 and RC1 files.
> I just tried this on the www.xymon.com demo-site, and indeed the
> metrics graphs are broken.
>
> The problem is in the "multi" graph definitions. These include
> an FNPATTERN setting, but this is not really used as a "pattern"
> in the regular-expression sense. It is used directly as the
> filename of the RRD file to pull the data from. The default
> graphs.cfg file got that mixed up. So if you look into graphs.cfg
> you'll find this definition:
>
> [conn-multi]
>        FNPATTERN ^tcp.conn.rrd
>        TITLE PING Round-trip time
>        YAXIS Seconds
>        DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:sec:AVERAGE
>        LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@
>
> The FNPATTERN should NOT have the "^" in front of "tcp.conn.rrd".
> If you delete that, I think your "Ping time" metrics will suddenly
> work.
>
> The same error was done on all of the "multi" graph definitions
> that the Metrics report uses: la-multi, la1-multi, ram-multi etc.
> Just remove that "^" from the beginning of all the FNPATTERN
> definitions.
>
> Thanks for noticing and reporting this. It would have been
> annoying to ship 4.3.0 with this issue.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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