Hi everyone, I'm trying to graph data that is not in NCV format. I was able to do this in BB, but I'm having trouble finding documentation on how it's done in Xymon. The documentation at "/help/howtograph.html" seems to assume data is always in NCV format.
Is there a way to parse it as it comes in along with the disk, cpu, and other tests, or should I be getting data from disk.
If I'm getting it off the disk, does that mean I should enable "bbstatus" and "hostdata" in hobbitlaunch.cfg?
Is it recommended to run a data collection script as an ext script, or just straight out of cron.
Am I forgetting something? Is there documentation out there that I just failed to find?
FYI, I'm running version 4.3.0~beta2.dfsg-9.1 from Debian 7 (wheezy).
Thanks, Dave Fogarty
-- Senior System Administrator CollegeNET.com
Take a look at the man page for xymond_rrd. The --extra-script and --extra-tests options allow you to pass incoming reports through a script to extract whatever you need. Your script then emits the results to put in the RRD. There's a good example script at the end of the man page.
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:42 PM, David Fogarty <dave at collegenet.com> wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm trying to graph data that is not in NCV format. I was able to do this in BB, but I'm having trouble finding documentation on how it's done in Xymon. The documentation at "/help/howtograph.html" seems to assume data is always in NCV format.
Is there a way to parse it as it comes in along with the disk, cpu, and other tests, or should I be getting data from disk.
If I'm getting it off the disk, does that mean I should enable "bbstatus" and "hostdata" in hobbitlaunch.cfg?
Is it recommended to run a data collection script as an ext script, or just straight out of cron.
Am I forgetting something? Is there documentation out there that I just failed to find?
FYI, I'm running version 4.3.0~beta2.dfsg-9.1 from Debian 7 (wheezy).
Thanks, Dave Fogarty
-- Senior System Administrator CollegeNET.com
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Thanks Ralph! I think this looks very promising. I had not found that documentation yet.
Stef, thanks for that too. I'll look into it as well.
Dave Fogarty
-- Senior System Administrator CollegeNET.com
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
Take a look at the man page for xymond_rrd. The --extra-script and --extra-tests options allow you to pass incoming reports through a script to extract whatever you need. Your script then emits the results to put in the RRD. There's a good example script at the end of the man page. Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:42 PM, David Fogarty <dave at collegenet.com> wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to graph data that is not in NCV format. I was able to do this in BB, but I'm having trouble finding documentation on how it's done in Xymon. The documentation at "/help/howtograph.html" seems to assume data is always in NCV format.
Is there a way to parse it as it comes in along with the disk, cpu, and other tests, or should I be getting data from disk. If I'm getting it off the disk, does that mean I should enable "bbstatus" and "hostdata" in hobbitlaunch.cfg? Is it recommended to run a data collection script as an ext script, or just straight out of cron. Am I forgetting something? Is there documentation out there that I just failed to find? FYI, I'm running version 4.3.0~beta2.dfsg-9.1 from Debian 7 (wheezy). Thanks, Dave Fogarty -- Senior System Administrator CollegeNET.com _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
You can also send a trends message. This is an extra message with the rrd you want to use and the numbers. I use that feature a lot.
Some lines from one of my scripts written in perl: $rrd_return .= "data $ENV{MACHINE}.trends\n" ; $rrd_return .= "[iostat.$device.rrd]\n" ; $rrd_return .= "DS:Kbps:GAUGE:600:0:U $split[0]\n" ; $rrd_return .= "DS:tps:GAUGE:600:0:U $split[1]\n" ; $rrd_return .= "DS:bkread:GAUGE:600:0:U $split[2]\n" ; $rrd_return .= "DS:bkwrtn:GAUGE:600:0:U $split[3]\n" ;
Stef
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dave＠collegenet.com
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stef.coene＠docum.org