I just wanted to reply to this somewhat older message and thank Neph for the info. I'd kinda sorta thought about doing something like this in the past but never got around to it. This message gave me a kick in the rear and now I'm working on tracking all sorts of info. So....Thanks!
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Nephyrin Zey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Neph, >> >> Could you share the data collection method your using to retrieve the game >> servers info? > > > Hey, > > To collect data from servers for graphing in cacti I wrote a simple > python rcon script: > > http://nemu.nephyrin.net/cacti/scripts/rcon.py > > I then wrote some other shell scripts to parse the requested data from > it, IE for my players graph: > > http://nemu.nephyrin.net/cacti/scripts/players.sh (just greps the last > number on the second line from the rcon stats command) > > So then I add a data input of type Script/Command to cacti: > "<path_cacti>/scripts/players.sh <server> <port> <rcon_pass>" > Then I add a data source template for it, a graph template for my > players graph, then create a data source with my server/port/pass, and > a graph to graph it. If those steps are confusing you'll have to read > the cacti documentation - learning to use it fully was much harder > than writing the scripts to scrape the data for me :-P > > - Neph > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:47 PM, chumly chumly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Neph, >> >> Could you share the data collection method your using to retrieve the game >> servers info? >> I've looked at cacti several times in the past, but without the ability to >> graph the game servers info, I've not found any real use for it. >> If I can integrate the game server info, then I can see some value in cacti. >> >> Thanks! >> Chumly >> >> >> ------------------------------------------ >> >> >> Another tool that does a similar thing would be "cacti", which can >> collect SNMP data and data from other sources. >> >> See my thing here: >> http://nemu.nephyrin.net/cacti >> username/password is hlserver/hlserver >> >> - Neph >> >> ________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
