Realtime not showing graphs with COLON in COMMENT-item

[TIKA]

Hi All!

I have installed a Testsystem Debian-Linux 5.0, Apache 2.2, MySQL 5.0, PHP 5.2, Cacti 0.8.7d, PA 2.4, Boost 2.4, Thold 2.4 and Realtime 0.36.
It works fine, but the Realtime-plugin makes trouble.
Whenever a COMMENT-item include a COLON, the graph will not displayed. Therefor the Apache reports a RRD-Config-Error.

Example:

I have append the COMMENT-item "Last updated: |date_time|" to the interface-traffic-template.

RRDTool Command:

/usr/bin/rrdtool graph - \
--imgformat=PNG \
--start=-86400 \
--end=-300 \
--title="Localhost - Traffic - eth0" \
--rigid \
--base=1000 \
--height=120 \
--width=500 \
--alt-autoscale-max \
--lower-limit=0 \
--vertical-label="bits per second" \
--slope-mode \
--font TITLE:10:/my/statistics/common/fonts/mono/Lucida.ttf \
--font AXIS:8:/my/statistics/common/fonts/mono/Lucida.ttf \
--font LEGEND:8:/my/statistics/common/fonts/mono/Lucida.ttf \
--font UNIT:8:/my/statistics/common/fonts/mono/Lucida.ttf \
DEF:a="/my/statistics/cacti/rra/1/16.rrd":traffic_in:AVERAGE \
DEF:b="/my/statistics/cacti/rra/1/16.rrd":traffic_out:AVERAGE \
CDEF:cdefa=a,8,* \
CDEF:cdefe=b,8,* \
AREA:cdefa#00CF00FF:"Inbound" \
GPRINT:cdefa:LAST:" Current\:%8.2lf %s" \
GPRINT:cdefa:AVERAGE:"Average\:%8.2lf %s" \
GPRINT:cdefa:MAX:"Maximum\:%8.2lf %s\n" \
LINE1:cdefe#002A97FF:"Outbound" \
GPRINT:cdefe:LAST:"Current\:%8.2lf %s" \
GPRINT:cdefe:AVERAGE:"Average\:%8.2lf %s" \
GPRINT:cdefe:MAX:"Maximum\:%8.2lf %s\n" \
COMMENT:"Last updated\: Mon 02 Mar 15\:25\:03 CET 2009"

RRDTool Says:

OK

Inside Cacti the graph will displayed properly, but the Realtime-plugin is leading to Apache-Error (RRD-Config-Error):

ERROR: I don't understand ': Mon 02 Mar 15:25:45 CET 2009' in command: 'COMMENT:Last updated: Mon 02 Mar 15:25:45 CET 2009'.

The first colon failed.
I make some tests, but whenever the COMMENT-item includes a colon, the graph will not displayed.
That will do: minimal content ":" and the Apache says: ERROR: I don't understand ':' in command: 'COMMENT::'.
"\:" works properly, but i have no control in terms of "|date_time|".
It looks like a quoting-problem inside the Realtime-plugin.
Aftereffects graphs like "Advanced Ping" or "Smokeping" have the same problem!

Any idea?

Many thanks!

[TheWitness]

What is your RRDtool version. This would appear to have been an RRDtool version dependency that I thought we had worked out. Make sure that the Settings->General matches your Tech Support page.

TheWitness

[TIKA]

Hi Larry!

I have installed RRD from the Debian-Repository (Lenny)

cacti:~# apt-cache show rrdtool
Package: rrdtool
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 1196
Maintainer: Debian RRDtool Team <rrdtool@ml.snow-crash.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.3.1-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libpixman-1-0, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), librrd4 (>= 1.3.0), libx11-6, libxcb-render-util0 (>= 0.2.1+git1), libxcb-render0, libxcb1, libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: librrds-perl
Filename: pool/main/r/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.3.1-4_i386.deb
...

Cacti Settings: RRDTool Utility Version == RRDTool 1.3.x

best regards

[gthe]

Try this version. I also add

Code: Select all

 dialog=yes

option to popup window.

[TIKA]

Hi!

Super - this version is going well All my graphs under test will displayed properly now!

Many thanks for your support!

Best regards

[TheWitness]

Having done a second read I see the problem now. Ill push a new release soon.

TheWitness

[TheWitness]

This patch is for 0.36. Please provide feedback. The changelog is as follows:

1) Properly Support RRDtool 1.3
2) Update Graph Substitutuion to support 0.8.7c/d standard
3) Other misc changes.

If this works, I will be pushing 0.37 with the changes. Please provide FEEDBACK!

TheWitness

[gthe]

Test without errors.

[jbeining]

Had same problem as TIKA. Applying the patch fixed the problem. Thanks.

-Joshua

[TIKA]

Sorry - somewhat is late - 2 weeks holiday in ireland
Test without errors.

Thanks

[outspoken]

This patch is for 0.36. Please provide feedback. The changelog is as follows:

1) Properly Support RRDtool 1.3
2) Update Graph Substitutuion to support 0.8.7c/d standard
3) Other misc changes.

If this works, I will be pushing 0.37 with the changes. Please provide FEEDBACK!

TheWitness

you should use one thread to post all of your releases and updates. it is becoming quite difficult to track down the latest version.

it is ok to go back to the original thread and edit your original post with updated version information.