Finally kind of figured out this fancy rrd graphing business (oh man is it sweet). Problem though, I can't seem to get my graph to populate in the trends column - it will populate in it's own column (should the client use the status channel). Here are the relevant parts of each config file.

hobbitgraph.cfg

[fans] TITLE Fan Speeds YAXIS RPM DEF:one=cpufan1.rrd:cpufan1:AVERAGE #DEF:cpufan2=cpufan2.rrd:cpufan2:AVERAGE GPRINT:one:LAST:CPU0 Fan \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:one:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:one:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:one:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n #GPRINT:cpufan2:LAST:CPU1 Fan \: %5.1lf (cur) #GPRINT:cpufan2:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) #GPRINT:cpufan2:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) #GPRINT:cpufan2:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n LINE2:one#FF0000:CPU0 Fan #LINE2:cpufan2#1048FF:CPU1 Fan

client.script.sh

#!/bin/sh

Input parameters: Hostname, testname (column), and messagefile

HOSTNAME="$1" TESTNAME="$2" FNAME="$3"

if [ "$TESTNAME" = "chassistemp" ]; then # Analyze the message we got TEMP=grep "^Temperature:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}' AGENT1=grep "^agent1:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}' AGENT2=grep "^agent2:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'

    # The RRD dataset definitions
    echo "DS:temperature:GAUGE:600:0:50"

    # The filename
    echo "chassistemp.rrd"

    # The data
    echo "$TEMP"


    echo "DS:agent1:GAUGE:600:0:75"
    echo "chassistemp-agent1.rrd"
    echo "$AGENT1"

    echo "DS:agent2:GAUGE:600:0:75"
    echo "chassistemp-agent2.rrd"
    echo "$AGENT2"

fi if [ "$TESTNAME" = "fans" ]; then # Analyze the message we got FAN1=grep "^cpu1:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}' FAN2=grep "^cpu2:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'

    echo "DS:cpufan1:GAUGE:600:712:U"
    echo "cpufan1.rrd"
    echo "$FAN1"

    echo "DS:cpufan2:GAUGE:600:712:U"
    echo "cpufan2.rrd"
    echo "$FAN2"

fi

exit 0

hobbitserver.cfg

TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat, iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy, hobbitd,files,procs=processes,ports,clock,lines,fans"

This defines which RRD files to include on the "trends" column webpage,

and the order in which they appear.

GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,files,processes,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,ncv,netstat,ifstat,mrtg::1,ports, temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,lines,chassistemp, fans"

hobbitlaunch.cfg

[rrdstatus] ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd --extra-script=/etc/hobbit/client.script.sh --extra-tests=chassistemp,fans

"rrddata" updates RRD files with information that arrives as "data"

messages.

If you want RRD graphs of your monitoring BB data, then you want to

run this.

[rrddata] ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=data --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-data.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd --extra-script=/etc/hobbit/client.script.sh --extra-tests=chassistemp,fans

client side script bb-fans.sh

#!/bin/sh

BB=/home/hobbit/client/bin/bb BBDISP="10.5.0.75"

Column name

TEST=fans

Line name

HOST=ftp2

COLOR=green MESSAGE="$FAN1 $FAN2"

FAN1=$(/usr/sbin/sdt | grep "CPU1 Fan" | awk '{print $5}') FAN2=$(/usr/sbin/sdt | grep "CPU2 Fan" | awk '{print $5}')

Prepare to send message

LINE="status $HOST.$TEST $COLOR date $MESSAGE" DATA="data $HOST.$TEST cpu1: $FAN1 cpu2: $FAN2"

Send message

Comment the following line to test

#$BB $BBDISP "$LINE" $BB $BBDISP "$DATA"

Like I said, if I change the above client-side script to send via status channel, I get the graph. If I leave it on the data channel, I get nothing - not even a link to an empty page.

If anyone could shed some light on this I'd appreciate it greatly,

Matt