XymonPowershellClient RRD collect graphing long mountpoint names

The latest commit is working as intended. Thanks for the update.

Denver

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To: user-6e44775a32e5@xymon.invalid; Ang, Denver
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Subject: RE: XymonPowershellClient RRD collect graphing long mountpoint names

Hi

Yes, I had anticipated this and you can see I attempted to deal with it via truncation and the ellipsis (...). However, I can see how this wasn't the greatest idea :)

I do quite like going back to the BBWin source in these situations and trying to work out how it did it. What I think it does in this case, at least for some of the columns, is adjust the column width to the widest value. This makes sense - it means the formatting does not look really odd when you have short values.

I have committed a change that does similar - the Filesystem, Mountpoint and Label fields will be sized to fit the largest data. Seems to work with my test mountpoint. Because the full text is now reported in, the mountpoints are now unique and I'm hoping this will fix the graphing.

As I see it, the problem with just using the label is that it doesn't always reflect the actual path - which may be OK if you are familiar with the system in question, but if you have on-call staff who do not frequently work on your environment but are there just in case, I can imagine it could get confusing when they get called out on the back of an alert.
Zak

From: Gavin Stone-Tolcher [mailto:user-6e44775a32e5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 26 February 2015 01:10
To: 'Ang, Denver'; Beck, Zak
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Subject: RE: XymonPowershellClient RRD collect graphing long mountpoint names

I think what to do with very long mount point names is going to be an issue.

I have a suggestion for Zak that he might consider.
You could use the "Label" in the "Mounted" field rather than the Filesystem, if the Filesystem is not a single letter driveletter (i.e not a mount point).

It seems that most people, like the example below, use short unique Labels for their mount points. This could make RRD collection/graphing work more reliably?


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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ang, Denver
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] XymonPowershellClient

Yes! It is showing the Mountpoint but not all of them appear in the graph. Nevertheless, it's a great improvement.
Below is a screenshot:

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Again, thank you!

Denver

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Subject: RE: XymonPowershellClient

Hi

The latest commit includes Windows mountpoints in the disk list - does this do what you're expecting?

Thanks
Zak

From: Ang, Denver [mailto:user-177598da304a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 24 February 2015 15:53
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Subject: RE: XymonPowershellClient

Thanks! Looking forward to it.

Denver

From: user-aada0fa38bf8@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-aada0fa38bf8@xymon.invalid> [mailto:user-aada0fa38bf8@xymon.invalid]
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Subject: RE: XymonPowershellClient

Hi

Windows mountpoints are on the todo list.

Thanks

Zak

From: Ang, Denver [mailto:user-177598da304a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 19 February 2015 21:23
To: Beck, Zak
Subject: XymonPowershellClient

Hi Zak,

Can you revise the code so that it will show the LUNS in the mountpoints?

Denver Ang
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