Anyways. All my *NIX devices report into BB with their memory report as mem, not memory. So I have BigBrother & hobbit running in parallel, with a bbproxy sending bbclient data to both. One of my last issues is that I am missing memory trends for all my *nix servers. So is there anyway to tell the hobbit server to do memory trending on memory & mem reports ? I have tried a few things, but with no success.
I think putting a "mem=memory" in the TEST2RRD setting and restarting the hobbitd_rrd processes (just kill them, they'll automatically restart) should do it.
That did not work. I will be checking to see if there is anything in the logs.
Correction, that did not work for my Linux devices reporting in with a mem report, but it does work with my Solaris devices. I am assuming the output from the bb-memory version I am using, does not mesh with what Hobbit is set to trend on. So I will probably just need to send mem report to a modified memory-larrd script via the extra-scripts option. This will only be a short-time fix, until I can push hobbit clients out to replace the bb clients. The first step is to get the server upgraded, then the clients. Below I have have include the Linux/Sun memory output for reference:
Linux: green Sun Jul 15 09:56:28 EDT 2007 - Memory OK &green real 7926M / 7948M 99% &green swap 0M / 2047M 0%
Solaris: green Sun Jul 15 09:56:59 EDT 2007 - Memory OK Memory Used Total Percentage &green Physical 50378M 65536M 76% &clear Actual -1M 65536M 0% &green Swap 42658M 85191M 50%
Thanks for the guidance and help on this, ~Steve