On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at mac.com> wrote:

Running Xymon 4.2.3.

cpuwait : 0

The test column is 'wait'.

At this point the instructions say to make sure the wait.rrd file is being created. But it isn't.

Is there a file called "cpuwait.rrd"? Or maybe "wait,cpuwait.rrd"?

I wanted to update the list on this for the record.

I figured out that the problem was the format of the text on the test page. It *looked* ok, but with an html developer window up I could see it was different from one that was working. The difference was the presence of double quotes around the text in the working version. So I used the working script as a template for the new one and it started working. The main difference was that (in the non-working version) I was appending the contents of a file with cat to the line that was being sent to the xymon server. By embedding the text directly rather than doing the cat it started working.

Thanks, Steve

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at mac.com> wrote:

Running Xymon 4.2.3.

I've followed the instructions for creating a custom graph and double checked everything several times. I've looked in the archives and, while there are a few threads there on this, I was not able to find anything helpful.

I have a script that is successfully doing a test on several hosts and displays a page with output like:

Thu Feb 9 11:42:26 EST 2012

Percent of cpu time in wait state is OK

cpuwait : 0

The test column is 'wait'.

I have in hobbitserver.cfg:

TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcc

p,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmaii

lq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,files,procs=proo

cesses,ports,clock,lines,myconns=ncv,temp=ncv,diskstat-reads=ncv,diskstat-writess

=ncv,diskstat-kreads=ncv,diskstat-kwrites=ncv,diskstat-wait=ncv,diskstat-actv=ncc

v,diskstat-svct=ncv,diskstat-wsvc=ncv,diskstat-pw=ncv,diskstat-pb=ncv,diskstat-rr

rqm=ncv,diskstat-wrqm=ncv,diskstat-r=ncv,diskstat-w=ncv,diskstat-rsec=ncv,diskstt

at-wsec=ncv,diskstat-avgrq-sz=ncv,diskstat-avgqu-sz=ncv,diskstat-await=ncv,diskss tat-svctm=ncv,diskstat-util=ncv,wait=ncv"

NCV_wait="cpuwait:GAUGE"

GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,files,processes,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,,

tcp,ncv,netstat,ifstat,mrtg::1,ports,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail,maa

ilq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,clock,lines,myconns,,

temp,diskstat-reads::7,diskstat-writes::7,diskstat-kreads::7,diskstat-kwrites::77

,diskstat-wait::7,diskstat-actv::7,diskstat-svct::7,diskstat-wsvc::7,diskstat-pww

::7,diskstat-pb::7,diskstat-rrqm::7,diskstat-wrqm::7,diskstat-r::7,diskstat-w::77

,diskstat-rsec::7,diskstat-wsec::7,diskstat-avgrq-sz::7,diskstat-avgqu-sz::7,diss kstat-await::7,diskstat-svctm::7,diskstat-util::7,wait "

And I've stopped and restarted Xymon multiple times.

At this point the instructions say to make sure the wait.rrd file is being created. But it isn't.

What am I missing? Thanks, Steve Holmes

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