SV: {bb} Graphs

[<Fredrik.Forss@vattenfall.com>]

Thanks,

Yes you could say I inherited the system, a colleague of mine installed it but he has quit now. I am trying to refine the system. 

I am running bb1.9e on a solaris machine monitoring WIN2000 servers and one WIN2003 server.

I have the trends button and it displays all the graphs I want but also the "disk1" service graph which appears as just an empty graph. The larrd-grapger.cgi file looks to me like it is prepared for alot of possible graphs but you somehow have to tell it which ones you want to display and that info is generated somewhere else. Is that a correct assumption?? Should you edit it and leave only the graphs you could possibly want to display? If the later is the case then my colleague didn't do it right! 

I am getting the graph under the service itself and only the correct graph not the "extra" one I'm seeing under trends and as far as I can tell that graph aslo is generated with the larrd-grapher.cgi file so I'm more or less thinking the problem is not in that file.

Regards Fredrik

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Skickat: den 20 januari 2006 15:10
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Answered inline...

> >>> Fredrik.Forss@vattenfall.com 01/20/06 8:07 AM >>>
> Hi,
> 
> I am fairly new to BB and have run into some issues 
> concerning graphs I can´t seem to solve. 
> 
> 1. In the cgi-bin directory there is a file called 
> larrd-grapher.cgi which is used to generate 
> graphs. In this file there are two sections 
> concerning disk utilization, "disk" and "disk1". 
> My question is where does the data come from 
> that is inserted into these sections and how does 
> it determine what services to create a graph for? 
> The system apperently thinks it should display 
> the "disk1" service graph, but there is no such 
> service and I end up with an empty graph along 
> side the correct graph for the service "disk".

It sounds like you've inherited a system.  I hope 
this isn't a system you installed from scratch.
The data comes from the disk-larrd.pl collector 
running on the system.  You should have a trends 
button where all the graphs show up.  What 
version of BB are you running?  The server sounds like 
it has the LARRD option enabled if you are getting 
a graph in the service itself.  The way it selects the 
graph to display is based on what service you have
selected.  I'll explain more, but it sounds like the larrd 
installation isn't quite working right.

> 2. Is there any white paper on larrd and how you can 
> tinker with the look, feel and scale of the graphs?

Try this list or Craig Cook's excellent BB config manual 
on deadcat.  To really understand how the graphs 
show up, check out Tobi Oetiker's RRDTool, upon which 
LARRD is based.

> I am using the freeware version of BB.
> 
> Also, is BB only capable of seeing up 4GB of physical 
> memory? My "cpu" service monitor reports only 4GB 
> when there is infact 8GB

It all depends on which client you are speaking of.  
Windows, linux, unix, precompiled, package, rpm, etc.?

I have systems with 16gb ram and it reports it fine under 
solaris.



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