Newbie - Source data?

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list Mike Barfield · Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:43:01 -0500 ·

All,

I installed Hobbit a few weeks ago and it running fine. Someone in upper
management happened to see Hobbit in action and now wants more. He uses
nothing but Excel and therefore wants the raw Hobbit data so he can play
with spreadsheets all day long. My question is where can I find the raw
data that Hobbit uses to create it's graphs? Namely the "trends" graph
for "cpu Utilization". I've looked at the data/hist/hostname/ files, but
it doesn't look like they're used for graph generation.

TIA

Mike Barfield
Syniverse Technologies

list Figaro Nicolas · Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:45:54 +0100 ·

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All,

Hi, Hobbit has some report tools included.
But I can't blame someone who wishes to play with excel, christmas is coming and its a good toy :) :)

I installed Hobbit a few weeks ago and it running fine. Someone in upper management happened to see Hobbit in action and now wants more. He uses nothing but Excel and therefore wants the raw Hobbit data so he can play with spreadsheets all day long. My question is where can I find the raw data that Hobbit uses to create it's graphs? Namely the "trends" graph for "cpu Utilization". I've looked at the data/hist/hostname/ files, but it doesn't look like they're used for graph generation.

The graphs are generated with rrdtool. You can try "rrdtool dump" with any of the rrd files in the rrd subdirectory.

TIA

Mike Barfield
Syniverse Technologies

Nicolas Figaro

list Buchan Milne · Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:50:31 +0200 ·

▸ quoted from Mike Barfield

On Monday 05 December 2005 16:43, Mike Barfield wrote:

All,

I installed Hobbit a few weeks ago and it running fine. Someone in upper
management happened to see Hobbit in action and now wants more. He uses
nothing but Excel and therefore wants the raw Hobbit data so he can play
with spreadsheets all day long.

Maybe you can point him to the Availability reports (where he can generate a spreadsheet) to keep him occupied ...

▸ quoted from Figaro Nicolas

My question is where can I find the raw data that Hobbit uses to create it's graphs? Namely the "trends" graph
for "cpu Utilization".

The trend graphs are generated from the rrd files, in data/rrd. You can use 'rrdtool dump ...' to extract the data to xml (and maybe he can import that into a spreadsheet). The various rrdtool man pages ('man rrdtutorial' may be a good start) are worth consulting.

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)

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