I've set up a custom RRD using the Hobbit NCV facility. [It's for monitoring the time an email takes to traverse our mail platform and logs times in seconds. ] It's working in that the rrd is created/updated as expected, a column called mailtransit is created under the appropriate host and the status of the test is displayed. However I can't get a graph to be displayed here. The correct graph shows up under the Trends column.
hobbitserver.cfg contains the following entries for this test:
NCV_mailtransit="mailtransit:GAUGE"
TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory, $PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,vmstat5,iostat,netstat ,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen, bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,mailtransit=ncv"
GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,users,vmstat,vmstat5,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,netstat, mrtg::1,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen ,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,mailtransit"
ANy suggestions?
-- Geoff Steer <gsteer at firstwave.com.au>
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On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:46:43PM +1100, Geoff Steer wrote:
I've set up a custom RRD using the Hobbit NCV facility. [It's for monitoring the time an email takes to traverse our mail platform and logs times in seconds. ] It's working in that the rrd is created/updated as expected, a column called mailtransit is created under the appropriate host and the status of the test is displayed. However I can't get a graph to be displayed here.
Is there a "hobbit graph mailtransit:ncv" link on your status page ? Or a broken graph image ? Or nothing at all ?
I've cooked up a quick "howto" document on how you setup graphs with the NCV module - you'll find it at http://www.hswn.dk/~henrik/howtograph.txt I would like some comments on this and then I'll probably include it in the Hobbit docs.
Henrik
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 10:13 +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
Is there a "hobbit graph mailtransit:ncv" link on your status page ? Or a broken graph image ? Or nothing at all ?
There is no graphic link at all.
I've cooked up a quick "howto" document on how you setup graphs with the NCV module - you'll find it at http://www.hswn.dk/~henrik/howtograph.txt I would like some comments on this and then I'll probably include it in the Hobbit docs.
Reading this document made the difference. Once I added the ncv to the GRAPHS section in hobbitserver.cfg, as stated in your howtograph.txt, the graph appeared on the the status page. As per the text, I won't ask why :-) - although it's not obvious to me why this made the graph appear on the status page given that the GRAPH section is described as controlling the graphs appearing on the trend page. I have my graph and a little more understanding of Hobbit so I'm happy.
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I think that a status message that I have is confusing the ncv module. Based on the following message:
status vse2.sp_util green 21 Nov 2005 06:41:24 Power spool status is OK
1R49I QUEUE FILE 031% FULL - 599 FREE QUEUE RECORDS 1R49I USED QUEUE RECORDS: 263, CRE-Q: 9, DEL-Q: 1 1R49I RDR-Q: 34, LST-Q: 211, PUN-Q: 5, XMT-Q: 3 1R49I QUEUE FILE EXTENT ON CKD-100, SYS001, 945, 7 1R49I DATA FILE 040% FULL - 1023 FREE DBLK GROUPS 1R49I CURRENT DBLK SIZE=06356, DBLK GROUP SIZE=00009 1R49I DATA FILE EXTENT 1 ON CKD-101, SYS002, 6330, 1920 1R49I NO ACCOUNTING SUPPORT
queuefile : 031 datafile : 040
Of course the intent is for ncv to grab the last two lines and create an rrd out of them. But the rrd gets the following information:
hobbit at hobbit:~/data/rrd/vse2> rrdtool fetch sp_util.rrd AVERAGE -r 900 -s -60m 1R49IQUEUEFILE030FU CREQ DELQ 1R49IRDRQ LSTQ PUNQ XMTQ 1R49IQUEUEFILEEXTEN DBLKGROUPSIZE 1R49IDATAFILEEXTENT
1132539900: nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan 1132540200: nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan 1132540500: nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
Is this really a problem or am I trying to use ncv for something it wasn't designed for? Should I stick to an 'extra' script?
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:46:43PM +1100, Geoff Steer wrote:
I've set up a custom RRD using the Hobbit NCV facility. [It's for monitoring the time an email takes to traverse our mail platform and logs times in seconds. ] It's working in that the rrd is created/updated as expected, a column called mailtransit is created under the appropriate host and the status of the test is displayed. However I can't get a graph to be displayed here.
Is there a "hobbit graph mailtransit:ncv" link on your status page ? Or a broken graph image ? Or nothing at all ?
I've cooked up a quick "howto" document on how you setup graphs with the NCV module - you'll find it at http://www.hswn.dk/~henrik/howtograph.txt I would like some comments on this and then I'll probably include it in the Hobbit docs.
Henrik
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Henrik, after upgrade from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2p1 the rrds for the ncv graphs has stoped being updated. I've read your new text about NCV graphs and everything is OK. Any hint? Regards, Mario.
Followed the HOWTO and it works nicely.
Is there a limitation of 5 graphs ? I have a status that returns 6 data values, and I have defined all of them as GAUGE values, but if I check the rrd file only the first 5 is saved.
/Thomas
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:46:43PM +1100, Geoff Steer wrote:
I've set up a custom RRD using the Hobbit NCV facility. [It's for monitoring the time an email takes to traverse our mail platform and logs times in seconds. ] It's working in that the rrd is created/updated as expected, a column called mailtransit is created under the appropriate host and the status of the test is displayed. However I can't get a graph to be displayed here.
Is there a "hobbit graph mailtransit:ncv" link on your status page ? Or a broken graph image ? Or nothing at all ?
I've cooked up a quick "howto" document on how you setup graphs with the NCV module - you'll find it at http://www.hswn.dk/~henrik/howtograph.txt I would like some comments on this and then I'll probably include it in the Hobbit docs.
Henrik
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I've installed once again the last version and the rrds for the ncv graph are not being created or updated, no messages of the ext script appears on larrd-status.log and larrd-data.log.
Maybe something missing in the last version?
Regards,
Mario.
Henrik,
Now my server is running the 4.1.1 version again , and the ncv rrd's starts updating again.
On 11/23/05, mario andre <rower.master at gmail.com> wrote:
I've installed once again the last version and the rrds for the ncv graph are not being created or updated, no messages of the ext script appears on larrd-status.log and larrd-data.log.
Maybe something missing in the last version?
Regards,
Mario.
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