Apan Unix Disk Check Error Message

[Kaplan, Andrew H.]

Hi Jeff --

I had forgotten to start the nagios-statd (ver 3.09) on the unix client. 
But now I have a different problem...the graphs appear but the data that
is supposed to be in the graphs does not. ARGH!
 
-----Original Message-----
From: jeff vier [mailto:jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:48 PM
To: Kaplan, Andrew H.
Cc: Nagios-Users (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Apan Unix Disk Check Error Message


what was the solution (for future list archive readers)?

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 12:19, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> Never mind...problem solved. Sorry about the inconvenience...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Kaplan,
> Andrew H.
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:44 AM
> To: 'Marc Powell'; 'Andrew_Hoying at blm.gov'
> Cc: Nagios-Users (E-mail)
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Apan Unix Disk Check Error Message
> 
> 
> Hi there --
> 
> I recreated the rrd file without the / symbol and the error that I had
> encountered did disappear.
> The problem is I am now confronted with a different problem. The web browser
> page has the following
> error:
> 		Socket error: Connection refused
> 
> When I checked the apan.debug file here is the message that I came across:
> 
> <Date> <Time> <Year> servername:Disk-usage, Could not insert '' , '1081428314'
> into /usr/local/nagios/rrd/<servername>-Disk-usage.rrd
> 
> Again I used the apanconf-sql utility to create the rrd file.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 5:13 PM
> To: Kaplan, Andrew H.; Nagios-Users (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Apan Unix Disk Check
> 
> 
> Kaplan, Andrew H. <mailto:AHKAPLAN at PARTNERS.ORG> wrote:
> > I am planning on monitoring our UNIX systems for disk usage. To that
> > 		end I wanted to use the apanconf-sql utility to create
> an rrd file.
> > I added a service to the services.cfg file called Disk-usage /www,
> > and made sure the check_command line read: apan_sql!disk!80!90  
> > 
> > I then went to the apanconf-sql utility and entered the following
> > information:
> > 
> > 		hostname: 		server1
> > 		Service			Disk-usage /www
> > 		RRD-file
> > /usr/local/nagios/rrd/server1-Disk-usage_/www.rrd
> > 		Graph-label		Disk-usage /www
> > 		Graph-unit		Percent
> > 		Step:			60
> > 		Extra rrdtool args:
> > 		Argument#1:		/www
> > 		DS-name:		/www
> > 		DS-type	:		1 (Gauge)
> > 		heartbeat:		900
> > 		Min:			0
> > 		Max:			U
> > 		Drawing Type:
> > 
> > I then hit enter for the second argument and I got the following error
> > message:
> > 
> > Error while creating RRD-file: ERROR: can't parse argument
> > 'DS:/www:GAUGE:900:U' 
> > Delete service and try to add it again
> > 
> > What did I do wrong, and how do I correct it?
> 
> Rrdtool does not allow the use of '/' in a ds name, from the rrdtool man
> page at
> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/manual/rrdcreate.html
> 
> "ds-name is the name you will use to reference this particular data
> source from an RRD. A ds-name must be 1 to 19 characters long in the
> characters [a-zA-Z0-9_]."
> 
> 
> --
> Marc 
> 
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