I think the problem has to do with the minimal heartbeat specified
within my RRD files, which is set to 600 seconds/5 minutes, but I'm only
calling my ntpscript every half hour...
-----Original Message-----
From: Taylor Lewick [mailto:user-ccbabb0b3ab0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:38 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Help with NCV graph
Thanks for the suggestion, I will test that.
I got the graphs and rrd files to show up, but what is odd is that the
graphs have exactly one entry, and one data point on them, and they
haven't updated the graph lines or graph values, but a strings of the
rrd file shows that the data is up to date.
Don't know where to go on this, rrd file being updated, graphs exist,
but graph lines themselves are no longer being updated...
-----Original Message-----
From: W.J.M. Nelis [mailto:user-f4ccfde53c0d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:40 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Help with NCV graph
Hi all, I have a ext script that runs on the central hobbit server and
reports NTP offsets for all clients.
It outputs to a column called ntp and looks like:
Tue Jan 26 10:01:12 CST 2010
NTP Info (/usr/sbin/ntptrace -n ip_addr)
NTP server is up
OK
Clock Offset: (-0.000296)
Ip_addr: stratum 2, offset -0.000296, synch distance 0.035976
So I added ntp=ncv to TEST2RRD and ntp to GRAPHS and added the line
NCV_ntp="Offset:GAUGE,*:NONE" in the hobbitserver.cfg
I also created a graph entry in hobbitgraph.cfg, see definition below:
[ntp]
TITLE NTP accuracy
YAXIS Offset (us)
DEF:offset=ntp.rrd:Offset:AVERAGE
LINE2:Offset#FF0000:Offset (us)
COMMENT:\n
GPRINT:Offset:LAST: \: %7.6lf us (cur)\n
GPRINT:Offset:MAX: \: %7.6lf us (max)\n
GPRINT:Offset:MIN: \: %7.6lf us (min)\n
GPRINT:Offset:AVERAGE: \: %7.6lf us (avg)\n
and then I restarted hobbit.
The problem is, I'm not getting any RRDs. I see the graph link on the
page, but with a white box and red x, meaning no graph to display.
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what I'm doing wrong
regarding getting this data to dump to an rrd file?
In the RRD you refer to Offset, while there is no such name in the
status message. Moreover, the value is written between parenthesis. In
the manpage it says:
The "ncv" module will automatically detect all occurrences of a "NAME :
value" or "NAME = value" string in a status message, and generate an RRD
file holding all of the name/value data found in the message. The colon-
or equal-sign must be present - if there is only whitespace, this module
will fail.
In case of NCV, I replace all occurrances of ":" and "=" by ":"
respectively "=". It wil give you more freedom in formatting the
status message, without NCV misinterpreting it as a value to be
recorded. You could place the actual value in HTML comment, causing it
not to be shown. Rewriting the message above results in:
Tue Jan 26 10:01:12 CST 2010
NTP Info (/usr/sbin/ntptrace -n ip_addr)
NTP server is up
OK
Ip_addr: stratum 2, offset -0.000296, synch distance 0.035976
<!--
Offset : -0.000296
-->
Regards,
Wim Nelis
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