On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:55:45AM -0500, Tom Georgoulias wrote:

Now that netap filer qtree trending is built into hobbit, how can I adjust the number of qtrees that are charted in a single graph so that it is more readable? Right now all of 12 my qtrees are appearing in a single graph, so it's hard to follow the status. Disk graphs split up to contain 5 partitions/graph, so I'd like for my qtree (and inode, for that matter) graphs to be the same. How can I adjust that?

It should split up automatically on the "trends" page. I hope it does that?

On the service status page, it is currently hard-coded into the bb-hostsvc CGI script to do the split only for "disk" reports. This is neither elegant nor flexible ... but doing it 100% correct would entail scanning the RRD directory for matching files every time you view a status - or if you run with the statically generated HTML status logs, every time a status message is received. That's expensive.

So the bb-hostsvc currently - when it sees a disk report - simply counts the number of non-blank lines in the status message, and takes that as the number of disks to generate graphs for.

It could do the same for inode- and qtree-status displays. I'll send you a patch to test that lets you configure what status-displays should get this treatment.

Henrik