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Custom script, rrd file, GAUGE datatype , UNKN

list Anna Jonna Armannsdottir
Wed, 28 May 2008 15:22:50 +0000
Message-Id: <user-f9ebd2e5910a@xymon.invalid>

I have created a GPL Hobbit module to monitor
Flex License Manager. It seems to be working and delivering data in Hobbit under the column flexlm . 
On the server, the hobbitserver.cfg file has been changed like so: TEST2RRD="cpu=...  ... flexlm=ncv"
Data is delivered in the RRD file flexlm.rrd 
The data arrives OK into the rrd file, with the correct number of used licenses in last_ds field with the default data type DERIVE. 
SO far so good, but for the graphs, the datatype should be GAUGE. 
So I added the following line to hobbitserver.cfg : NCV_flexlm="MATLAB:GAUGE" 
I have tested this a few times, being extra careful to do: ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "drop jotunn.rhi.hi.is flexlm" as hobbit user
then after stopping the server:

rm /var/lib/hobbit/rrd/jotunn.rhi.hi.is/flexlm.rrd

Start the server a minute later. 
Then the last_ds field is set to UNKN like in the following example. 
<!-- Round Robin Database Dump --><rrd> <version> 0003 </version>
        <step> 300 </step> <!-- Seconds -->
        <lastupdate> 1211985894 </lastupdate> <!-- 2008-05-28 14:44:54
GMT -->

        <ds>
                <name> MATLAB </name>
                <type> GAUGE </type>
                <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat>
                <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min>
                <max> NaN </max>

                <!-- PDP Status -->
                <last_ds> UNKN </last_ds>
                <value> 5.8800000000e+02 </value>
                <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec>
        </ds>

I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that the output format from my flexlm module to Hobbit is: $AWK '{printf "%.19s : %d\n", $3, $11 }' Resulting in lines like this: MATLAB : 1 
Maybe it is the \n in the format string or maybe there should be a space after the number. 
I am stuck here. Can anybody help me out. :) BTW: I am using Hobbit 4.2.0 with the allinone patch. 
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