Print the "Gauge" value to map

[davebyrne]

Hi all,

We have a number of Cisco devices that I would like to monitor temperatures of on a map and display for our NOC team.

Currently, I am using nodes and the TARGET line like below to show the different chassis modules and device temperatures underneath each place holder node

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NODE MAI-CORE-ROU2
        LABEL MAI-CORE-ROU2
        ICON images/Router.png
        POSITION 400 400

NODE MOD2-Earl-Out-MAI-CORE-ROU2
        LABEL MOD2-Earl-Out
        TARGET gauge:/var/www/cacti/rra/mai-core-rou2_cisc_mai_mod2_earou_1990.rrd:cisc_mai_mod2_earou:cisc_mai_mod2_earou
        POSITION 397 500

The only issue is, although the second node with the TARGET does indeed change its colour dependant on the scale, I cannot come up with a way for the map to print the actual data value along with this. Even if it involves making another node and pulling it from the RRD again, that's fine. But after running through the weathermap documentation quite a bit, I cant see this as a feature.

Am I missing something? Or is this actually not possible? It seems silly because the map at that point clearly knows the data value, to be able to match it to the scale, I just want to print it next to the chassis module name.

[Howie]

You don't actually need two nodes to do that. You can have a label and an icon, and LABELOFFSET S, and weathermap will handle it for you. If you are very picky about the positioning of the label, you can also use pixel offsets for it.

To add the value itself, add {node:this:bandwidth_in} to the label.

If you want to add another node, and have it refer to that same value, you can do that too: LABEL {node:MAI-CORE-ROU2:bandwidth_in}

[davebyrne]

You don't actually need two nodes to do that. You can have a label and an icon, and LABELOFFSET S, and weathermap will handle it for you. If you are very picky about the positioning of the label, you can also use pixel offsets for it.

To add the value itself, add {node:this:bandwidth_in} to the label.

If you want to add another node, and have it refer to that same value, you can do that too: LABEL {node:MAI-CORE-ROU2:bandwidth_in}

Perfect! Thankyou, I will admit I did see that in the docs, but misinterpreted how to implement it. Thankyou!!

[davebyrne]

You don't actually need two nodes to do that. You can have a label and an icon, and LABELOFFSET S, and weathermap will handle it for you. If you are very picky about the positioning of the label, you can also use pixel offsets for it.

To add the value itself, add {node:this:bandwidth_in} to the label.

If you want to add another node, and have it refer to that same value, you can do that too: LABEL {node:MAI-CORE-ROU2:bandwidth_in}

A quick follow up question. Occasionally some of the values printed by {node:this:bandwidth_in} are not displayed as floationg point numbers, like 38.9999967*c. This breaks the format of my map somewhat as the box is wildly longer than its expected to be.

But on the next refresh the value is 39*c.. Any reason for the change in data value? And as a fix, is there any way to round the value of {node:this:bandwidth_in} to X decimal places?

[Howie]

That's a side-effect of rrdtool. You are getting the average value of the last 5 minutes. Even if the actual measurement is an integer, if it changes from 2 to 3 halfway through the 5-minute polling period, the average value that weathermap gets will be 2.5

You can format the value for bandwidth_in in a number of ways, including forcing it to an integer {node:this:bandwidth_in:%d}

This is all here in the manual: http://network-weathermap.com/manual/0. ... formatting

[davebyrne]

Ignore me... I'm a fool.

{node:this:bandwidth_in:%d}

forces data point to integer