[Xymon] creating custom graphs

[Ralph Mitchell]

The whole "solcpu"  DS block describes the data set being collected.
You'll need to check the manual pages on creating custom graphs and create
an entry in server/etc/graphs.cfg to match the column name and the solcpu
DS that you're reporting.

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Steve Brown <sgb at pics.com> wrote:

>  If you want the graph included with the other graphs on the trends
> column, you must add it to the GRAPHS setting in the
> ~xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg file.
>
>             GRAPHS="la,disk,<... lots more ...>,xymonproxy,xymond,slab"
>
> You might also need to add it to the line
>
> TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk …”
>
>
>
> Sorry I don’t know about the rrd data question.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> *From:* Elizabeth Jones [mailto:oogiejonz at yahoo.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:42 PM
> *To:* Elizabeth Jones; Xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] creating custom graphs
>
>
>
> I have a follow up question - I'm now able to get an rrd file generated on
> my xymon server - woot!  But I don't have a graph to go along with it.  I'm
> using data message type and this is what is in my rrd file - I'm under the
> impression that this should create a graph that shows up in my trends page,
> but no graph on trends page. The value that I'm sending is solcpu : 2
> (percent cpu used).  I'm guessing that is what is the the <last_ds> 2
> </last_ds> field.  Does anyone know what the other fields are?
>
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE rrd SYSTEM "http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/rrdtool.dtd">
> <!-- Round Robin Database Dump --><rrd> <version> 0003 </version>
>         <step> 300 </step> <!-- Seconds -->
>         <lastupdate> 1415817304 </lastupdate> <!-- 2014-11-12 12:35:04 CST
> -->
>
>         <ds>
>                 <name> solcpu </name>
>                 <type> DERIVE </type>
>                 <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat>
>                 <min> NaN </min>
>                 <max> NaN </max>
>
>                 <!-- PDP Status -->
>                 <last_ds> 2 </last_ds>
>                 <value> 0.0000000000e+00 </value>
>                 <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec>
>         </ds>
>
> <!-- Round Robin Archives -->   <rra>
>                 <cf> AVERAGE </cf>
>                 <pdp_per_row> 1 </pdp_per_row> <!-- 300 seconds -->
>
>
>
>
>    ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Elizabeth Jones via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
> *To:* "Xymon at xymon.com" <Xymon at xymon.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 11, 2014 2:39 PM
> *Subject:* [Xymon] creating custom graphs
>
>
>
> I have some Solaris servers that I can't install the xymon binaries on so
> I'm going to try writing my own scripts to replicate the default xymon
> data.  I successfully tested sending messages directly to port 1984 from my
> client to my xymon server, but I'm not clear on how data that is in graphs
> is sent/generated.  For instance, if I wanted to generate a cpu graph, I
> can send the cpu values but I'm not sure what I would then need to do in
> order to generate the rrd graphs.  Can anyone point me toward any
> documentation for this?
>
>
>
> thanks,
> EJ
>
>
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