script output loop

[cheinzle]

From the Cacti docs:

"Note: Spine requires, that multiple parameters are spit out by a single “print” statement. Do not print them in a loop! "

Wondering if someone can enlighten me as to why loops don't work?

[camerabob]

Not sure, but you could loop an append to a variable instead and just print that variable once all the looping has completed. Simple work around.

[cheinzle]

I suppose. And for my script that wasn't working (Cacti log indicated that spine was receiving a truncated list of variables) making a single print statement fixed it. My question was fishing for more of a technical reason why spine doesn't like loops.

[netniV]

The poller expects a single line of output with the value. If you have multiple values, you have to use field:value combinations but they must all be on the same line again.