Jeff Stuart wrote:

OK, so I've finally delved into the murky waters (ok so I had to make that sound scary and all fearsome and what not LOL) of writing my own Hobbit server extension script. And as part of the script, it collects data. I want to graph that data on hobbit. So I set up the NCV stuff... problem is that it doesn't create the RRD file correctly. Here's the relevant entries from hobbitserver.cfg:

TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperat ure,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,qstat=ncv"

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

and the order in which they appear.

GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,netstat,mrtg::1,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail, mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,qstat"

Ok these columns are from qstat and are used to graph (I HOPE!) the

columns via rrd.

NCV_qstat="avgping:GAUGE,curplayers:GAUGE"

And that status message that gets sent is this:

qstat status for host 123.123.123.123 curplayers : 0 avgping : 0

IE my ext script does this:

$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR date

${MSG} curplayers : $cur_players avgping : $avg_ping"

Where $MSG can be changed depending on circumstances.

However, when I dump the RRD file, I get this info:

<!-- Round Robin Database Dump --> <rrd> <version> 0001 </version> <step> 300 </step> <!-- Seconds --> <lastupdate> 1133107889 </lastupdate> <!-- 2005-11-27 10:11:29 CST -->

    <ds>
            <name> qstatstatusforhost6 </name>
            <type> DERIVE </type>
            <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat>
            <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min>
            <max> NaN </max>

            <!-- PDP Status -->
            <last_ds> 0 </last_ds>
            <value> 0.0000000000e+00 </value>
            <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec>
    </ds>

Any thoughts as to what I'm doing wrong? This is on hobbit 4.1.2p1.

(1038:38)$ rpm -q -a | grep hobbit hobbit-client-4.1.2p1-1.fc3.re hobbit-4.1.2p1-1.fc3.re

Ok... well it seems that I wasn't allowed to have my message as the first line of the status report. Once I removed that, it collected the first data point. IE curplayers. But it's not collecting avgping. Is this correct? Or should I send each of these data points as a data message instead of in status?

-- Jeff Stuart Network Admin MyInternetServices.com 1-800-300-HOST

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