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Hi,
I searched the web a bit and found the Xymon docs and there was mention of two ways of doing custom graphs: NCV and trends messages. NCV doesn't really suit me as my scripts have too much formatting in them and would require a rewrite to have the separate lines for values as is needed by NCV. I happened to check the docs on my 4.2.3 server however and I see that the part about sending trends messages is missing. So, I've got two questions:
Was sending trends messages added in Xymon 4.3.x and not available in 4.2.3?
At the end of this: http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/howtograph.html ...there's a description of what to put in a trends message. There is not, however, any description of what one does with it. My expectation is that you do the following:
xymon <display> cat trends.file
...where the trends file is like the one described in the manual (eg. starts with "data hostname.test"). Essentially, similar to sending a status message (but sending a data message instead). If this is the case, it might be helpful to have a note there in the manual, or at least a reference to the part of the manual I'm about to go hunt for that I assume mentions data messages.
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