Spine and Output Fields

[KnEBeL]

Hello,

I have some problems since i upgrade my cacti version to the newest one.
OS: Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS
cacti: 0.8.7b
When i change my poller from cmd.php to spine, i have all my graphs with just one line.

I looked at the logfiles which tell me that spine only reads the first output from scripts.

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05/14/2008 02:39:20 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] Host[8] DS[102] SCRIPT: /usr/share/cacti/scripts/xxx yyy zzz, output: 1:123.456

I changed nothing else, and when i switch back to cmd.php i have all my graphs right and all the output from the script is read.

What can be wrong?

Regards
KnEBeL

[gandalf]

Please show us the output from that script when running it manually from cli
Reinhard

[KnEBeL]

Hello Reinhard,

here my output from cli, done with user cacti

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sh-3.1$ ./script.sh input1 input2
1:141.138 4:23.281 5:173.584 6:320.104 7:6.668
sh-3.1$

KnEBeL

[gandalf]

Hmm, I never tried to use numbers as the name of the output fields. Would it be possible to change to pure text? See examples at 1st link of my sig
Reinhard

[KnEBeL]

Hello Reinhard,

i changed now to pure text, same behavior.

Only the first field is shown in log and used interpreted from spine.

I changed short back to cmd.php, all five output fields are used.

Same from cli, script works

Any other ideas? Do you need some more logs?

Regards

[gandalf]

This is which version of spine?
Reinhard

[KnEBeL]

spine version 0.8.7a

KnEBeL

[gandalf]

Runs well for us on RHEL 4. Did you compile it on your own or download it somewhere?
Reinhard

[KnEBeL]

I downloaded the sources from cacti.net site, and compiled then on my own

I remember i had to do something like
libtoolize --copy --force
autoreconf --force --install --symlink

But then it was installed successfully.[/code]

[TheWitness]

Spine is very sensitive to user output. It will not wait on either a "\n" or a "\r". Therefore, you must write the data at once. The following is not acceptable:

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echo "1:stuff";
do something;
echo " 2:morestuff";
do something else;
echo " 3:doevenmore\n"
exit;

TheWitness

[KnEBeL]

Hi TheWitness,

that matches my script.

I'll manage my output now different.

thx a lot

KnEBeL

[gandalf]

Spine is very sensitive to user output. It will not wait on either a "\n" or a "\r". Therefore, you must write the data at once. The following is not acceptable:

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echo "1:stuff";
do something;
echo " 2:morestuff";
do something else;
echo " 3:doevenmore\n"
exit;

TheWitness

Oh, oh, sometimes it's just that easy. And I was pulling my hair out on it
Reinhard