The comments in the "xymonserver.cfg" file are quite clear :-
TEST2RRD # This is also used by the svcstatus.cgi script to
determine if the detailed # status view of a test should include a
graph.
GRAPH # This defines which RRD files to include on the "trends"
column webpage, # and the order in which they appear.
-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com
[mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski
Sent: 25 September 2012 07:15 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re:
[Xymon] Custom Graphs
On 09/24/2012 04:55 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
Hi,
I searched the web a bit and found the Xymon docs and there was
mention of two ways of doing custom graphs: NCV and trends
messages. NCV doesn't really suit me as my scripts have too much
formatting in them and would require a rewrite to have the
separate lines for values
as is needed by NCV. I happened to check the docs on my 4.2.3
server however and I see that the part about sending trends
messages is missing. So, I've got two questions:
1) Was sending trends messages added in Xymon 4.3.x and not
available in 4.2.3?
The answer to this question I found is "no, the feature was indeed
available in 4.2.3 but just missing from that section of the
docs."
2) At the end of this:
http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/howtograph.html ...there's a
description of what to put in a trends message. There is not,
however,
any description of what one does with it. My expectation is that
you do the following:
xymon <display> `cat trends.file`
...where the trends file is like the one described in the manual
(eg. starts with "data hostname.test"). Essentially, similar to
sending a status message (but sending a data message instead). If
this is the case, it might be helpful to have a note there in the
manual, or at least a reference to the part of the manual I'm
about to go hunt for that I assume mentions data messages.
And this was correct as well.
A followup question relates to the apparent requirement that you
add the RRD/test name to both the GRAPH and the TEST2RRD variables
in the hobbitserver.cfg. Is there any way to add the graph to just
the test page and not the trends page? Why do both of these
variables exist if it seems like you need both of them for it to
work?
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