[Xymon] combine status and data in same column with graph

Asif

It might be an either/or, situation otherwise you get the situation you've described, where both status_rrd and data_rrd channels try to update the RRD file.

You might find that adjusting the TEST2RRD variable to include only "columname" and not "columnname=ncv" might do the trick. The man page for xymond_rrd talks about the "ncv" part only being used for status messages. But this is a long-shot.

You can include the NCV in your status message, perhaps hidden inside a comment like this:

$XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR date

  ${MSG}

<!-- foo: 1 bar: 2 --> "

But you'd also need to reformat your MSG to not contain anything that looks like NCV. It might be sufficient to remove all the colons and equals signs, for example.

If you want to send the data separately, perhaps use a trends message, like so:

$XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.trends [columnname.rrd] DS:foo:GAUGE:600:0:U 1 DS:bar:GAUGE:600:0:U 2 "

Cheers Jeremy

On 13 November 2013 09:20, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I sent some text to status channel and some NCVs to the data channel for same test/columnname.

So on the same script I have the followings

... $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR date

  ${MSG}
  "

$XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.$COLUMN

foo: 1 bar: 2 "

Then I placed the columnname=ncv in TEST2RRD and restarted xymon

rrdtool dump $COLUMN.rrd shows all the text from status msgs in it, yikes!

How do I tell xymon to look at only the data channel for the rrds and leave the status channel alone for this test/columnname?

Thanks

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