combine status and data in same column with graph

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman <user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid>wrote:

Asif

It might be an either/or, situation otherwise you get the situation you've
described, where both status_rrd and data_rrd channels try to update the
RRD file.

You might find that adjusting the TEST2RRD variable to include only
"columname" and not "columnname=ncv" might do the trick.  The man page for
xymond_rrd talks about the "ncv" part only being used for status messages.
 But this is a long-shot.

Looks like if I do not have  columnname=ncv it does not generate a rrd file.

You can include the NCV in your status message, perhaps hidden inside a
comment like this:

 $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date`

      ${MSG}
<!--
  foo: 1
  bar: 2
-->
"

 But you'd also need to reformat your MSG to not contain anything that
looks like NCV.  It might be sufficient to remove all the colons and equals
signs, for example.

I did some clean up so nothing in MSG has NCV like data and I added the NCV
data in the <-- ... --> . It did create the rrd file with the correct NCV
keys, but values
are zeros. It is dropping the values for some reason? So I am almost there
if I can figure out why the values are not showing up.

The other option would be using --extra-test and --extra-script and parse
the values from the status channel to generate rrd?

If you want to send the data separately, perhaps use a trends message,
like so:

I want the graph show up in the test page, so sending it to just trends
won't work, right?

$XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.trends
[columnname.rrd]
 DS:foo:GAUGE:600:0:U 1
DS:bar:GAUGE:600:0:U 2
"


Cheers
Jeremy


On 13 November 2013 09:20, Asif Iqbal <user-6f4b51ac2a40@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi All,

I sent some text to status channel and some NCVs to the data channel for
same test/columnname.

So on the same script I have the followings

...
$XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date`

      ${MSG}
      "
$XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.$COLUMN

  foo: 1
  bar: 2
"

Then I placed the columnname=ncv in TEST2RRD and restarted xymon

rrdtool dump $COLUMN.rrd shows all the text from status msgs in it, yikes!

How do I tell xymon to look at only the data channel for the rrds and
leave the status channel alone for this test/columnname?

Thanks

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