From thorsten.erdmann@daimler.com Wed Jun 24 08:19:38 2026
From: thorsten.erdmann@daimler.com
To: xymon@xymon.com
Subject: Different graphs under one column name
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:10:29 +0200
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Hello

is there a way to have different graphs under the same column name?

I have several servers which run different applications. Now I want to=20
test the application's functionality, but every application is different.=20
So it generates different kind of data, eg. queues size on a mqseries=20
server and hhtp requests on a web server.

The straight forward way would be to create different test columns for the=20
different applications. But then I get a big table with many, many empty=20
positions. So I would like to create an "app" column, but then it seems I=20
can only have on graph definition per column.=20

Is there a way to achieve this. Maybe create a "sub-graph" definition like=20
"app.queues" or "app.httpreq".
Maybe it would be a good idea to add such a functionality to the NCV=20
module. Eg. the test could add a tag to the data which is used by NCV to=20
connect it to the entry in the hobbitgraph.cfg.
A cool feature would be a possibility to add different graphs to one page=20
this way.

Here comes a demo test output to show what I mean
<!-- HTML comment to hide the NCV stuff from the display
[GRAPHNAME=3Dapp.IPMSPOOL]    # This could be the graph name in the=20
hobbitgraph.cfg
SERV1 : 0
SERV10 : 0
SERV11 : 21
SERV12 : 0
SERV13 : 0
SERV2 : 0
SERV3 : 0
SERV6 : 0
SERV7 : 0
SERV8 : 0

Now comes the human readable part of the test
-->
Spool Warning level is 200, Errorlevel is 250<br>
<TABLE>
<tr=20
align=3D"left"><th>Status</th><th>Servername</th><th>Spoolcount</th></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC=3D"/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT=3D"green" HEIGHT=3D"16"=20
WIDTH=3D"16" BORDER=3D0></td><td>SERV1</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC=3D"/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT=3D"green" HEIGHT=3D"16"=20
WIDTH=3D"16" BORDER=3D0></td><td>SERV10</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC=3D"/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT=3D"green" HEIGHT=3D"16"=20
WIDTH=3D"16" BORDER=3D0></td><td>SERV11</td><td>21</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC=3D"/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT=3D"green" HEIGHT=3D"16"=20
WIDTH=3D"16" BORDER=3D0></td><td>SERV12</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC=3D"/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT=3D"green" HEIGHT=3D"16"=20
WIDTH=3D"16" BORDER=3D0></td><td>SERV13</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC=3D"/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT=3D"green" HEIGHT=3D"16"=20
WIDTH=3D"16" BORDER=3D0></td><td>SERV2</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC=3D"/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT=3D"green" HEIGHT=3D"16"=20
WIDTH=3D"16" BORDER=3D0></td><td>SERV3</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC=3D"/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT=3D"green" HEIGHT=3D"16"=20
WIDTH=3D"16" BORDER=3D0></td><td>SERV6</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC=3D"/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT=3D"green" HEIGHT=3D"16"=20
WIDTH=3D"16" BORDER=3D0></td><td>SERV7</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC=3D"/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT=3D"green" HEIGHT=3D"16"=20
WIDTH=3D"16" BORDER=3D0></td><td>SERV8</td><td>0</td></tr>
</TABLE>


Thorsten Erdmann
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From cb@df7cb.de Wed Jun 24 08:19:38 2026
From: cb@df7cb.de
To: xymon@xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] Different graphs under one column name
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:59:20 +0200
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Re: thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com 2010-07-14 <OF9C435A74.02CB9A6F-ONC125776=
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> is there a way to have different graphs under the same column name?

Currently not, though you can just include <img src> tags that display
other graphs.

> Here comes a demo test output to show what I mean
> <!-- HTML comment to hide the NCV stuff from the display
> [GRAPHNAME=3Dapp.IPMSPOOL]    # This could be the graph name in the=20
> hobbitgraph.cfg
> SERV1 : 0

There's a pretty neat alternative to submitting RRD data. You can
submit a separate report for "data <hostname>.trends" for arbitrary
RRD stuff:

data foo.trends
[bla.rrd]
DS:lambda:GAUGE:600:U:U 1234

This allows you to get around some limitations of the (SPLIT)NCV
parser.

(I don't think this is properly documented yet.)

Christoph
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cb at df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/

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