[Xymon] List of graphs of a devmon test is too long

Thu Feb 23 11:36:03 CET 2012

Hello,

we are using xymon 4.3.7 and devmon 0.3.1-beta1, r233. Some of the 
devmon tests on interfaces of switches and routers use the rrd collector 
of xymon. Those tests contain thus both a table and additionally one 
graph per interface. However, for *each* test using the devmon rrd 
collector there are three additional pointers to non-existing graphs. 
The number of additional non-existing graphs is thus independent of the 
number of interfaces being monitored.

The following is the page source of a test to check for packet drops on 
3 interfaces of a router:

<TR><TD ALIGN=LEFT><H3> Thu 2012.02.23 10:58:22</H3>
<PRE>

<b>Interface discards:</b>
Input  discard load alert thresholds: yellow=5.0%, red=10.0%
Output discard load alert thresholds: yellow=5.0%, red=10.0%

<table border=1 cellpadding=5>
<tr><th>If name</th><th>Packet rate in</th> ... </tr>

<tr><td>eth0</td><td>10.55</td> ... </tr>
<tr><td>eth1</td><td>18.05</td> ... </tr>

<tr><td>eth2</td><td>0.00</td> ... </tr>
<tr><td>wlan0</td><td>4.37</td> ... </tr>

</table>
<!--DEVMON RRD: if_dsc 0 0
DS:InDiscard:COUNTER:600:0:U DS:OutDiscard:COUNTER:600:0:U
eth0 14585:0
eth1 37:0
eth2 0:0
-->

Note: 
Discard rate: Number of discards per second
Discard load: Number of discards per packet

Devmon version 0.3.1-beta1-r233 running on sodn164u

</PRE>
</TD></TR></TABLE>
<br><br>
<table align="center" border=0 summary="Status report info">
<tr><td align="center"><font COLOR="#87a9e5" SIZE="-1">Status unchanged in 6 days,21 hours, 2 minutes<br>
Status message received from 137.17.28.26<br>
</font></td></tr>
</table>
<!-- linecount=6 -->
<table summary="devmon:if_dsc Graph"><tr><td><A HREF="/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=1&count=1 ...  <view-source:http://xymon.nlr.nl/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=1&count=1&disp=AChinook%2dnet&nostale&color=green&graph_start=1329818379&graph_end=1329991179&action=menu></table>

The (very) long lines have been truncated, at the "...", to enhance the 
readability. In subdirectory ~xymon/data/rrd/nlrcve02-lan there are 3 
RRDs, not 6.

How xymon does determine the linecount, 6 in the example above, is not 
clear to me. However, it is the number of lines in the HTML comment 
section containing the RRD data, which is always 3 more than the number 
of interfaces.

How can I configure xymon in such a way that the number of graphs 
matches the number of interfaces?

Kind regards,
  Wim Nelis.

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