[Xymon] Custom Graphs

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Hi,

I searched the web a bit and found the Xymon docs and there was
mention of two ways of doing custom graphs: NCV and trends messages.
NCV doesn't really suit me as my scripts have too much formatting in
them and would require a rewrite to have the separate lines for values
as is needed by NCV. I happened to check the docs on my 4.2.3 server
however and I see that the part about sending trends messages is
missing. So, I've got two questions:

1) Was sending trends messages added in Xymon 4.3.x and not available
in 4.2.3?

2) At the end of this:
http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/howtograph.html
...there's a description of what to put in a trends message. There is
not, however, any description of what one does with it. My expectation
is that you do the following:

xymon <display> `cat trends.file`

...where the trends file is like the one described in the manual (eg.
starts with "data hostname.test"). Essentially, similar to sending a
status message (but sending a data message instead). If this is the
case, it might be helpful to have a note there in the manual, or at
least a reference to the part of the manual I'm about to go hunt for
that I assume mentions data messages.

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