On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:18:52AM -0500, Tom Georgoulias wrote:

In Big Brother, there was a script on deadcat.net called "larrd-graphs.cgi" that provided an easy way to display a bunch of graphs from different hosts for comparison called "larrd graph reports". Is there an equivalent way to do those comparisons in hobbit?

Not right now. I might come up with something equivalent one day, but it isn't there now.

Looking at the script, I think it should be possible to make it work with Hobbit for someone with a bit of Perl knowledge (i.e. not me!). Some of the changes that need to be done are:

• instead of reading the hostnames from bb-hosts directly, run bbhostshow and read them from there. That will make it work with hosts-files that use include's.

• Either assume the environment is setup already (put a shell wrapper around larrd-graphs), or load it from the hobbitserver.cfg file. I dont think you need the larrd config-file, except for the BBRRDS variable which can easily be set in the script.

• Call the hobbitgraph.cgi CGI instead of larrd-grapher.cgi. The query-string parameters are the same, except for disk_part

I cannot quite figure out if it scans the directory for the LARRD rrd-files; if it does, then that will need some work since Hobbit stores files differently.

Henrik