On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:07:42AM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
A "status" message results in a column on the display, and also has a
color (red, green, yellow) that might trigger an alert.
A "data" message is never displayed and cannot generate an alert,
it is just a way of collecting data.
But data can be collected from a status message as well right? At least
I hope so, because I want to update a status, AND graph the result.
Certainly, no problem at all. Hobbit gets most of its RRD graph-data
from status messages (the "cpu", "disk", "memory" and network test
messages, for instance). That's why you'll see two hobbitd_larrd
processes running: One gets the "status" messages, and the other gets
the "data" messages.
So no, you don't need to do anything special. Whether you send your
original data as a status- or a data-message is up to you, as far as
collecting the data in an RRD and graphing them, there is no
difference.
Regards,
Henrik