Thanks! I'll share this with the group. Phil Floyd L. Davidson wrote: > Hello Phil, > > I've been playing with the scripts from tellerstats (version > 1.9.2, according to the README me file) distributed with > lm_sensors. In particular, I have a Linux based system running > on a Tyan S2462 motherboard with dual AMD Athlon CPUs. > > This Tyan motherboard has both a Winbond W83627HF Super IO chip > with hardware sensors and a Winbond W83782D sensor chip, hence > there is a great deal of useful information, and the graphs > provided by the tellerstats scripts are just the ticket! I'm > running gather.sh every 2 minutes, and generating 21 plots with > tellerstats every 10 minutes. > > The plots are generated in three sizes. One is a "thumbnail" > similar to the distribution, but two larger images are created: > one suitable for viewing at 800x600 resolution and one suitable > for 1024x768 resolution (I mostly use Opera, at 120% > magnification, on a 1289x1024 screen, so the images intended for > a 1024x768 screen are just right.) > > Of course it required significant modifications to the scripts > to do what I wanted. You may be interested in some of the > differences. An example of the graphs generated can be seen > at > > <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson/stats/index.html > > the modified scripts are at > > <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson/code/stats/index.html > > A brief list of changes (both useful and not): > > gnuplotscript.tmpl > > This is where most of the significant hacking is. I > spent a lot of time on small details... how many tic > marks are display in each graph, the precise labels, > which colors and the size of lines used for each plot, > which line is "on top", location of the plot and the > range. There are also lines plotted for maximum, > minimum, and normal values. > > The unfortunate side effect of carefully choosing > various colors and line widths is that the script > becomes significantly more complex. However... as > an example for others to use it might be fairly > good just because it provides more examples of ways > to manipulate gnuplot. > > I *really* like the results! > > tellerstats.sh > > Changed the routines using convert and the way an > index.html file is generated. convert is used to > generate a thumbnail and two (rather than one) larger > images. A file "index.tmpl" is used to generate > "index.html" and "index1.html". (I used sed rather > than perl which you would probably prefer.) The > "thumbnail" images are kept as small as possible > to load quickly, but are large enough that when > displayed 2 across the graph is useful (the text > it pretty blurred). The index.html file displays > well on Netscape running full screen on a 1024x768 > window. There is a clickable button to switch to > smaller images, displayed by index1.html, which > is suitable for Netscape on a 800x600 window. > > gather.sh > > Fetches data from multiple locations. I.e., it deals > with a motherboard that has two sensor chips. This > may be useful as an example simply because it is > easier to delete what is unnecessary than it is to > add in what isn't there. > > I've used the "scale" option to bc to set the > precision of the calculated data points. > > Other modifications are probably *not* useful: > > I used awk rather than perl in most places... ;-) > > I used very different calculations to massage the data > for graphing. The significance is that I want > indicative graphs... and *none* of this data can be > considered either precision or accurate. The > adjustments provided by Tyan in their example > sensors.conf file are probably closer to "accurate", > but for my purposes that isn't of much value (since I'm > not willing to make the effort to calibrate the > results). > > > If any of this is useful... it's all GPL'd and you are welcome > to it! And I thank you greatly (along with others who've added > to it along the way) too. > > Have a good day, > Floyd >
