a very custom situation

[smario123]

Hi there.

I want to graph a certain value I receive when I run a shell script specifically runnning on the same server cacti is running. The shell script retrieves a certain format from another service and outputs the format like this:

12/09/2007 11:39
114086
Connection closed by foreign host.


How can I make sure cacti runs the script, parses that data and displays it on an xy graph where x=the numbr above and y = date.

Thanks,
Mario

[Howie]

As long as that date is always the current time, then all you really need is value. Check out Script Queries in the Cacti manual.

You will need to write a small script to read that output and reformat it slightly - even an awk one-liner would do that job though.

[gandalf]

How can I make sure cacti runs the script, parses that data and displays it on an xy graph where x=the numbr above and y = date.

Currently it is not possible to define an update timestamp along with the data. There's already a feature request for this. You may add your vote.
If the timestamp is quite current, Howie's statement holds, for sure
Reinhard