On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:57:31PM -0600, Dan Vande More wrote:

Ok, I found the issue.

Though I've written dozens of bb clients, I've never come across exactly how BB expects the information. This might be hobbit specific

It is a result of how the NCV handler in hobbitd_rrd expects data to be formatted, so yes - this is hobbit specific.

however. In my original email, I stated I was sending the data from my script like:

home/monitor/bb/bin/bb 1.2.3.4 "status iron1-mgmt.Memoryutil green Memoryutil : 11"

This is not the correct way to do this hobbit-wise. You need to put a \n in between the color status and the data you're pushing via ncv.

I've updated the hobbitd_rrd man page and added this to the section on how to use the NCV data:

Note that each "NAME : value" must be on a line by itself. If you have a custom script generating the status- or data-message that is fed into the NCV handler, make sure it inserts a newline before each of the data-items you want to track.

That should hopefully make it clearer - I'm sorry it bit you.

Perhaps it's just my interpretation, but I think we should reword the documentation to explicitly say we do not need to do any --extra-script or --extra-tests if one is using ncv.

Agreed - did that as well.

Finally, I perused a lot of the man pages and code for the past few hours, and only found one error - and that was a spelling error. In ~hobbit/server/etc/hobbitgraph.cfg, temperature is misspelled:

comment out the [tempeature] section above, and

Fixed :-)

I'm now using ncv for collecting 8 datapoints and it appears to collect and graph data flawlessly. Thanks for the solid implementation Henrik.

Thank you for reporting what you found - that is the kind of feedback I need to make Hobbit better.

Regards, Henrik