Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I've already been through that documentation over and over.
But I think I stumbled onto the answer by just blindly guessing and changing things around.
I changed my custom script to send in "green" status messages rather than "clear", and what do you know, an RRD datafile was created.
My custom script was sending in data with an indication of "clear". This is what I normally use for tests I'm working on that are sending data, but I haven't applied any red/yellow condition checking yet. i.e., This is my way of saying "Here's some raw data to view on a web page, but without any interpretation applied to it yet". I can't remember what the original intent of "clear" was, I stole that color for my own use years ago when I started with Big Brother. I imagine Hobbit was applying the original meaning of "clear", whatever it was, and therefore not moving the data to an RRD file. Maybe this hobbit operation is by design, and that's fine with me, ... it would be nice if the documentation on how to create custom graphs mentioned it however.
Thanks!
-----Original Message----- From: Dominique Frise [mailto:Dominique.Frise at unil.ch] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:00 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Custom graphs: RRD database won't populate
Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
I'm still not getting any RRD data being populated after the following changes:
(1) Added "recent" to the GRAPHS line in hobbitserver.cfg. I thought this line was only for putting things in the trends column, but I added 'recent' to it anyway.
(2) Changed my NCV_recent line in hobbitserver.cfg to "*:GAUGE" rather
than individually listing each dataset.
(3) Restarted hobbit.
(4) Changed my status messages to not have any spaces in them They were like this e.g., "five<space>:<space>27 Now they are like this e.g., "five:27"
Still no RRD database file being generated. I'm looking in the ....../data/rrd directory for some file named like *recent*.rrd
The messages I'm sending from my custom script are status messages, and they show up on the regular webpage displays, updated every five minutes. It looks like the rrd process is running too:
hobbit at stars-dev <mailto:hobbit at stars-dev>-> ps -ef | grep status hobbit 593 587 0 21:52 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=/development/hobbit/logs/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/development/hobbit/data/rrd
I looked through the ...../logs/rrd-status.log and rrd-data.log files and there is no mention of 'recent' in there.
Any ideas on where I should look next to debug this? Thanks in advance for any help or guidance.
-- *From:* Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:haertig at avaya.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:46 AM *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* [hobbit] Custom graphs: RRD database won't populate
I'm trying to do my first custom graph, using data collected from a custom script.
The script collects data fine, and successfully updates hobbit at it's
regular five minute increments. The data as sent looks like this:
five : 17 ten : 24 fifteen : 30 twenty : 42 thirty : 62 fortyfive : 81 sixty : 108 ninety : 166 onetwenty : 218 oneeighty : 349
The column name is 'recent'. Here's BBHOSTS:
group-only recent|pending|stuck Maestro 0.0.0.0 maestro_alarm_cases # prefer noconn recent pending stuck NAME:"Alarm Cases"
and hobbitserver.cfg:
TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,<more stuff>,ports,clock,lines,recent=ncv"
NCV_recent="five:GAUGE,ten:GAUGE,fifteen:GAUGE,twenty:GAUGE,thirty:GAUGE ,fortyfive:GAUGE,sixty:GAUGE,ninety:GAUGE,onetwenty:GAUGE,oneeighty:GAUG E"
I stopped/started hobbit server. I've been watching the 'recent'
column update regularly every five minutes, for at least 45 minutes now.
But there doesn't appear to be any RRD data file for this 'recent'
test:
find /development/hobbit/data/rrd -name "*recent*" -print
The above 'find' command finds nothing related to 'recent' (although there are plenty of OTHER test's RRD files in that directory - default
tests - just not my custom test)
I must have missed something simple. I've gone over the hobbit webserver's HTML help on "Custom Graphs" several times, but can't find the cause of my error.
Double-check your settings using the documentation from your Hobbit installation at http|https://$BBSERVERWWWNAME/$BBSERVERWWWURL/help/howtograph.html
or use Henrik's:
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/howtograph.html
Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne
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