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Hello

is there a way to have different graphs under the same column name?

I have several servers which run different applications. Now I want to test the application's functionality, but every application is different. So it generates different kind of data, eg. queues size on a mqseries server and hhtp requests on a web server.

The straight forward way would be to create different test columns for the different applications. But then I get a big table with many, many empty positions. So I would like to create an "app" column, but then it seems I can only have on graph definition per column. 
Is there a way to achieve this. Maybe create a "sub-graph" definition like "app.queues" or "app.httpreq".
Maybe it would be a good idea to add such a functionality to the NCV module. Eg. the test could add a tag to the data which is used by NCV to connect it to the entry in the hobbitgraph.cfg.
A cool feature would be a possibility to add different graphs to one page this way.

Here comes a demo test output to show what I mean
<!-- HTML comment to hide the NCV stuff from the display
[GRAPHNAME=app.IPMSPOOL]    # This could be the graph name in the hobbitgraph.cfg
SERV1 : 0
SERV10 : 0
SERV11 : 21
SERV12 : 0
SERV13 : 0
SERV2 : 0
SERV3 : 0
SERV6 : 0
SERV7 : 0
SERV8 : 0

Now comes the human readable part of the test
-->
Spool Warning level is 200, Errorlevel is 250<br>
<TABLE>
<tr align="left"><th>Status</th><th>Servername</th><th>Spoolcount</th></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC="/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT="green" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td><td>SERV1</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC="/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT="green" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td><td>SERV10</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC="/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT="green" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td><td>SERV11</td><td>21</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC="/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT="green" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td><td>SERV12</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC="/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT="green" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td><td>SERV13</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC="/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT="green" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td><td>SERV2</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC="/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT="green" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td><td>SERV3</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC="/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT="green" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td><td>SERV6</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC="/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT="green" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td><td>SERV7</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr><td><IMG SRC="/hobbit/gifs/green.gif" ALT="green" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="16" BORDER=0></td><td>SERV8</td><td>0</td></tr>
</TABLE>


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Re: user-9219fb9415b1@xymon.invalid 2010-07-14 <user-9e856bb7e581@xymon.invalid>

is there a way to have different graphs under the same column name?

Currently not, though you can just include <img src> tags that display
other graphs.

There's a pretty neat alternative to submitting RRD data. You can
submit a separate report for "data <hostname>.trends" for arbitrary
RRD stuff:

data foo.trends
[bla.rrd]
DS:lambda:GAUGE:600:U:U 1234

This allows you to get around some limitations of the (SPLIT)NCV
parser.

(I don't think this is properly documented yet.)

Christoph
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