[rrd-users] ERROR: Garbage ':27:36 2007 ' after command:COMMENT:Thu Aug 9 16:27:36 2007

[England, Stuart]

Thanks; your suggestion about google'ing for "LLARRD COMMENT" helped me
find the fix to this issue

 

RRDTool 1.2 requires colons to be escaped within graph comments

 

Edit larrd-grapher.cgi and look for the following lines (around line
1500 or

thereabouts):

 

    RRDs::graph($RRD_graph,"-s",$graph_c{$service}{$graph}{'start_sec'},

        "--title",$graph_c{$service}{$graph}{'title'},"-w576",

        "-v",$graph_c{$service}{'yaxis'},"-a","PNG","--lazy",

        &defs($host,$service,$graph,$disk_part),

        qq{COMMENT:$date\r});

 

Note the last line above, ie "qq{COMMENT:$date\r});"

It's quite likely that your date variable will contain colons -
therefore

they must be escaped.

 

A quick and dirty way to take care of this is to insert the following
line

just BEFORE the above code.

 

 $date =~ s/:/\\:/g;

 

 

From: Bitsch, Bernhard [mailto:Bernhard.Bitsch at dbd-breitband.de] 
Sent: 09 August 2007 18:21
To: England, Stuart; rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: AW: [rrd-users] ERROR: Garbage ':27:36 2007 ' after
command:COMMENT:Thu Aug 9 16:27:36 2007

 

Hi,

I think, that's not a bug but a feature.

You have to escape the colon (  : ) with a double backslash ( \\ ) if
you use RRDs in perl.

I just tried it and it works.

 

Bernhard

 

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[mailto:rrd-users-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch] Im Auftrag von England,
Stuart
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. August 2007 17:39
An: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Betreff: [rrd-users] ERROR: Garbage ':27:36 2007 ' after
command:COMMENT:Thu Aug 9 16:27:36 2007

 

Hi, I am trying to use LARRD a plugin to Big Brother system monitor from
Quest but I keep running into broken image links which when click on
give the following error message

 

ERROR: Garbage ':27:36 2007 ' after command: COMMENT:Thu Aug 9 16:27:36
2007

 

I have searched for a solution to this problem and came across some
posts on the Cacti website which seem to indicate this is a bug with
RRDTOOL. The Cacti website has downloads for patches to fix this problem
on Cacti but I cant find any information on fixing this for Big Brother

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

Stuart


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