On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:09:17AM -0600, Matthew Tice wrote:
I'm trying to trace why my rrd file isn't being created. Maybe it has something to do with the output of my script? If I run the following command it shows the transmission is successful.
root at tice:/home/hobbit# /home/hobbit/client/bin/bb --debug 127.0.0.1 "data tice.blocked
cat /blocks.txt"
A "data" message is fed to the graph-handling modules (hobbitd_rrd), but nothing else really. So to get a graph from it, you must configure your custom dataset - "blocked" - to go through one of the RRD handles. I.e. either it's in NCV (Name-Colon-Value) format so you must configure the NCV_blocked setting, or it should go to an external script that you tell hobbitd_rrd about on the commandline (in hobbitserver.cfg).
Also, there is plenty of documentation out there on how to format a custom STATUS message, but I can't find anything for a custom DATA message (e.g. do I leave the $COLOR in the command, etc.?). How should DATA messages be configured?
See the bb(1) man-page: data HOSTNAME.DATANAME<newline><additional text>
Regards, Henrik