How does the vmstat.rrd file get populated?
Hi all,
I have added 2 channel processes to my Xymon 4.3.3 instance, that reads data from the status and data channels and writes that data to a file for integration with another product. I have a Solaris 10 client running a standard build no bottom-feeders and I have a vmstat.rrd file, but I'm not seeing the vmstat data off my 2 channel processors.
How does the standard Xymon client send the file $XYMONHOME/tmp/xymon_vmstat.hostname.12558 to the server? I'm using Henrik's simple shell script and the --processor option on the rrd channels
xymon 8312 8291 0 Jun14 ? 00:00:31 xymond_channel --channel=data --log=/var/log/xymon/rrd-data.log xymond_rrd --rrddir=/apps/xymon/data/rrd --processor=/apps/xymon/server/ext/rrdfeeder.sh xymon 8566 8312 0 Jun14 ? 00:02:50 xymond_rrd --rrddir=/apps/xymon/data/rrd --processor=/apps/xymon/server/ext/rrdfeeder.sh xymon 10987 5997 0 14:36 pts/2 00:00:00 grep rrd xymon 28358 8291 0 Jun17 ? 00:03:20 xymond_channel --channel=status --log=/var/log/xymon/rrd-status.log xymond_rrd --rrddir=/apps/xymon/data/rrd --processor=/apps/xymon/server/ext/rrdfeeder.sh xymon 28359 28358 0 Jun17 ? 00:11:16 xymond_rrd --rrddir=/apps/xymon/data/rrd --processor=/apps/xymon/server/ext/rrdfeeder.sh
If I use the bottom feeder scripts, vmstat gets written to my output file.
Thanks and regards Greg Shea EMC Corporation
Ok, I guess I presented the question wrong. So if it's a standard client message shouldn't I see the RRD data if I'm listening in on both status and data channels on the server?
I'm using the data from the rrd channels to feed into another product, but I'm not seeing vmstat from the standard client. There's an RRD file and a graph on the trends page showing vmstat CPU utilization but I'm not capturing that data in my file.
I have a number of older clients that still use the bottom feeder script and I'm capturing that data.
Thanks Greg Shea EMC Corporation
On Wednesday, 29 June 2011 21:58:30 greg.shea at emc.com wrote:
Ok, I guess I presented the question wrong. So if it's a standard client message shouldn't I see the RRD data if I'm listening in on both status and data channels on the server?
You should.
I'm using the data from the rrd channels to feed into another product, but I'm not seeing vmstat from the standard client. There's an RRD file and a graph on the trends page showing vmstat CPU utilization but I'm not capturing that data in my file.
hobbitd_client will get the client data, hobbitd_client.c's unix_vmstat_report() function pushes the vmstat data to the data channel as $host.vmstat. If I run 'hobbitd_client --channel=data cat' I see: @@data#12492|1309426824.189933|127.0.0.1||tiger.ranger.dnsalias.com|vmstat data tiger,ranger,dnsalias,com.vmstat linux 2 0 208308 139604 75568 694120 0 0 39 93 8291 10748 25 15 59 1 @@ Regards, Buchan
On Wednesday, 29 June 2011 21:58:30 greg.shea at emc.com wrote:
Ok, I guess I presented the question wrong. So if it's a standard client message shouldn't I see the RRD data if I'm listening in on both status and data channels on the server?
You should.
I'm using the data from the rrd channels to feed into another product, but I'm not seeing vmstat from the standard client. There's an RRD file and a graph on the trends page showing vmstat CPU utilization but I'm not capturing that data in my file.
hobbitd_client will get the client data, hobbitd_client.c's unix_vmstat_report() function pushes the vmstat data to the data channel as $host.vmstat.
If I run 'hobbitd_client --channel=data cat' I see:
@@data#12492|1309426824.189933|127.0.0.1||tiger.ranger.dnsalias.com|vmstat data tiger,ranger,dnsalias,com.vmstat linux 2 0 208308 139604 75568 694120 0 0 39 93 8291 10748 25 15 59 1 @@
Yes I understand, but that's the plain data I'm looking at the RRD data, but now I'm wondering if I can't have the 2 channels trying to write to the same file. My test yields this as I had to adjust to get the RRD data. The script rf.sh just does exec cat ..//bin/xymond_channel --channel=data xymond_rrd --processor=./rf.sh | egrep -I hostname 148944:3553690822:24878087:12250601:334432899:287987297:43734:236762 hostname netstat bytesSent:bytesReceived 1309440785:0:0 hostname ifstat fjgi0 bytesSent:bytesReceived 1309440785:47813262:6315189681 hostname ifstat fjgi1 bytesSent:bytesReceived 1309440785:241739617836:177888219396 hostname ifstat fjgi2 cpu_r:cpu_b:cpu_w:mem_swap:mem_free:mem_re:mem_mf:mem_pi:mem_po:sr:cpu_int:cpu_syc:cpu_csw:cpu_usr:cpu_sys:cpu_idl 1309440785:0:0:0:7760928:6395480:7:44:0:0:0:241:3773:2452:3:1:96 hostname vmstat So I can verify I'm getting the RRD data, but again I don't think I can write the data from 2 channels into 1 file, At least that's what it's looking like. I don't remember seeing ifstat data in the other application I'm sending this data to. I will post back with my results Thanks all for being a sounding board Greg Shea EMC Corporation
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bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net
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greg.shea＠emc.com
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henrik＠hswn.dk