Use of underscores
list Dan Smith
I am learning (very slowly) that using underscores (_) in column names can be a very bad thing. This really comes to light when I try to graph the data from one of those pages... If the data requires an NCV_* entry in xymonserver.cfg, I never get any data in the server's rrd data folder. Is there a quick way to get around that (I am apparently really fond of using underscores in names)? -dan
list Henrik Størner
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In <DEE13FC217F541CF86C21BB1BBDF02E7 at e012981desktop> "Dan Smith" <user-6ccc50847691@xymon.invalid> writes:
I am learning (very slowly) that using underscores (_) in column names can be a very bad thing. This really comes to light when I try to graph the data from one of those pages... If the data requires an NCV_* entry in xymonserver.cfg, I never get any data in the server's rrd data folder. Is there a quick way to get around that (I am apparently really fond of using underscores in names)?
It's not something that was deliberately broken, but from a quick look at the code I don't really see why it would break. Can you provide an example for one of these, with the data that you send for the NCV handler, and the NCV_blabla setting you're using ? Is the RRD file created, but doesn't get any data, or does it never appear? What's in the rrd*.log files, if anything ? What Xymon version are you trying this with ? Regards, Henrik
list Dan Smith
Well, I'll be monkeyed. Turns out that I was passing DS names that were too long into RRD. They were getting truncated and then causing a conflict. Log and short...user error. Sorry about that. It DOES work if you do everything else right. -dan
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-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Størner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> [mailto:=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henrik_ St=F8rner _<user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>?=] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:16 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] Use of underscores In <DEE13FC217F541CF86C21BB1BBDF02E7 at e012981desktop> "Dan Smith" <user-6ccc50847691@xymon.invalid> writes:I am learning (very slowly) that using underscores (_) in column names >can be a very bad thing.This really comes to light when I try to graph the data from one of >those pages...If the data requires an NCV_* entry in xymonserver.cfg, I never get any >data in the server's rrd data folder.Is there a quick way to get around that (I am apparently really fond of >using underscores in names)?It's not something that was deliberately broken, but from a quick look at the code I don't really see why it would break. Can you provide an example for one of these, with the data that you send for the NCV handler, and the NCV_blabla setting you're using ? Is the RRD file created, but doesn't get any data, or does it never appear? What's in the rrd*.log files, if anything ? What Xymon version are you trying this with ? Regards, Henrik