[SOLVED] Creating stand alone values CPU,packetloss,latency?

cdnvballer · Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 27

Hi,

can someone clear this up for me?
I'm have the Advanced Ping templates working and I'd like to add a node with Average Latency value to my weathermap.
I have the following in my node's config:

NODE node1208821722
LABEL Latency
INFOURL http://myserver/cacti/graph.php?rra_id=all&local_graph_id=1996
OVERLIBGRAPH http://myserver/cacti/graph_image.php?local_graph_id=1996&rra_id=0&graph_nolegend=true&graph_height=100&graph_width=300
TARGET gauge:/srv/www/htdocs/cacti/rra/gw1_rtr_loss_2059.rrd:loss:avg
POSITION 145 143

the OVERLIBGRAPH part works fine, but I have no idea how to reference the avg latency value from my rrd and then put that into the Label.
Can someone pls help? I'm all confused

Thx

Howie · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:00 am Post subject:

OK. Once again:

1) In the TARGET, those loss and avg on the end must be the names of DS in your rrd file - check by either looking at the cacti.log for Weathermap complaining that they are not, or by running 'rrdtool info yourfile.rrd'.

2) The weathermap rrd plugin uses those DS names as the 'in' and 'out' value for your link or node (nodes have an in and out value too).

3) So regardless of what the rrd DS are called, the string for the label (if you want the 'in' value) will always be: {node:this:bandwidth_in} or {node:this:inpercent} (if you want a percentage of BANDWIDTH/MAXVALUE instead).

In your TARGET line, the latency is the out value (I assume avg is latency), so that would be:

cdnvballer · Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 27

thanks it makes sense now, after I looked at the cacti log

cdnvballer · Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 27

one last question:

the latency values being reported are pretty lenghty..
any way I can round them to 2-3 digits to the right of the decimal place?

Howie · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject:

thomasj · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 7

Hi!

Have been busy with other stuff for a couple of weeks but gave this a new try today.

Can someone explain why node03871 in the picture is red and the others are green. Here are the config for these four.

Howie · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:14 am Post subject:

What does the SCALE look like? That's what decides the colours...

thomasj · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 7

This is what the scale looks like. Since SCALE is the same for all four and the second one is even higher than the bottom one i did not think it had anything to do with that.

Howie · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:09 am Post subject:

Nothing else changes the colours...

I think what it is is that the default setup for nodes is to use the 'in' value to colour the node (it has to use one or the other). The one that is red is the only one with a large 'in' value. The other large value is on the 'out' side.

If you don't want them to change colour at all, then set use USESCALE none.

If you want them all to change colour the same way, then use USESCALE DEFAULT out on the ones that have an 'out' value but no in.

thomasj · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 7

Solved again! (Found the MAXVALUE to set the values the same way as BANDWIDTH)

Thanks!

/Thomas

laamidd · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 48

For Windows, I had to use the full path to the .rrd. That was my problem it seems. Everything that should have worked, does now.

Howie · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject:

laamidd · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 48

laamidd · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 48

This works for me now too:

Lonlie · Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 23 Location: France

Hello,

I read all messages, but i have a problem with the CPU. I don't konw how do you do to recover this. I wrote :

NODE test
LABEL {node:this:name} %
TARGET C:/Apache2.2/htdocs/cacti/rra/lol_traffic_in_36.rrd
POSITION 212 399

I don't know for "name" what I should write.