I have a script that will send the following: (output from sh -x)

• /usr/local/hobbit/client/bin/bb <server> status <machine>.drops green Fri Mar 31 16:24:43 GMT 2006 drops:0

• sleep 1

or it could send

• /usr/local/hobbit/client/bin/bb <server> status <machine>.drops green Fri Mar 31 16:24:43 GMT 2006 drops:2

• sleep 1

the line from the script:

  $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.drops green `date`
  `echo "drops:$DROP_NUM"`

"

Note the return between the drop num and the " (double quote) If I put the double-quotes on the same line as the echo, the RRD doesn't get updated

the status message shows correctly "drops 2" but the number in the graph is like in the millions (the y shows up to 10.0m), but the line at the bottom of the graph shows: 0.2 cur and 0.2 max

The rrd is in the GAUGE format, and the NCV in the hobbitserver.cfg is also set to gauge. Im not sure why it's making "2" a "0.2" nor why the graph is making the number in the millions.

Here is the graph definition:

[drops] TITLE Drops per second YAXIS Number of drops DEF:drops=drops.rrd:drops:AVERAGE LINE1:drops#00CC00:Number of drops GPRINT:drops:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:drops:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:drops:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:drops:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n

I tried adding "-u 1.0" and it put the y scale going up to 1.0, and if I zoomed in on the graph, it plotted the 0.2, but I still don't know where it's getting that. Maybe I should change my BB command to send "$DROP_NUM".0 ?

Any ideas?

Thanks, Jeff