Cool, looks good. I'll take a look at the details later - have to run a put out a customer fire. Thanks for the links.
- Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Brent G. Ozar [mailto:brento@;brentozar.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SA-list] Bar graphs for disk space > > > OK, Mark, here's the full answer, assuming your web server > (that's serving up the SA report template) can handle > VBscript ASP. You'll want to name the output file with an > .asp extension, like default.asp, so that the web server > knows to process the logic. > > The objective here is to end up with a red & green bar graph, > where if you see a lot of red space, you're looking at an > impending problem. How you do it is you use a 1-pixel wide > red gif, and a 1-pixel wide green gif, and you dynamically > size them to the right width to represent the numbers you > want. It's important to keep the total width equal for all > checks, so I'm doing 100 pixels wide total. If the check is > 74% good, you would see a 74-pixel wide green gif, and a > 26-pixel wide red gif. Pictures are worth a thousand words, > and you can see examples at: http://www.unifocus.com/salive/ > http://www.brentozar.com/salive/ > > Here's the code for the bar graph, and you would just put it > wherever you want the graph to show in your template. (If > this doesn't make sense, I can send you my entire template.) > > <% > intStart = inStr(1,"<sa_prettyname>","{") > intEnd = inStr(1,"<sa_prettyname>","}") > If isNumeric("<sa_checkresponse>") then > intResponse = cdbl("<sa_checkresponse>") > Else > intResponse = 0 > End If > If intStart > 0 AND intEnd > 0 then > intFullSize = > cdbl(Mid("<sa_prettyname>",intStart+1,(intEnd-intStart-1))) > intGreen = Round(intResponse / intFullSize * 100,0) > intRed = 100 - intGreen > Response.Write("<img src=""red.gif"" height=""20"" > width=""" & intRed & """>") > Response.Write("<img src=""green.gif"" height=""20"" > width=""" & intGreen & """>") End If %> > > In order to do the bar graph, you have to know at least 2 of > the numbers > involved: the good part, the bad part, and the total number. > For drive space, that's free space, used space, and total > space. We can get free space easily by using the > <sa_checkresponse> tag, which ServersAlive populates with the > free bytes. Make sure that you're writing out the full > number in the check, and not using abbreviations like "5 gb", > because that won't get you a number. (If there's enough > demand, I can write code to extract the abbreviations into > full numbers.) > > It's a little tougher to get the used or total space. What > we're doing here is putting the total space in the check's > pretty name, like this: Oscar Free Space {5000000000}. Make > sure you put it inside those curly brackets, because that's > what our code looks for. > > The code checks to make sure that both brackets are in the > pretty name (positions intStart and intEnd > 0), because > that's how we know to draw a bar graph for this check. Then, > it grabs the full size from between the brackets, compares > the full size to <sa_checkresponse>, and uses those > percentages to figure out the widths of the bar graph > (intGreen and intRed). > > This will break if you have check responses that return > multi-line text answers, like a POP3 check to MS Exchange or > an FTP check to MS IIS. I've had to hide those checks on my > web pages in order for these bar graphs to work. You have > problems because the asp code looks like this after SA does its work: > > If isNumeric("Microsoft's Big Multi-Line Answer > ") then > intResponse = cdbl("<sa_checkresponse>") > > See how the first line wraps around? That makes VBscript wig > out, because it doesn't like the unclosed quotes and parenthesis. > > Any questions, let me know! > Brent > > > -------------------------------- > Brent Ozar - UniFocus > -------------------------------- > "Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war." > Larry Wall > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Seniow [mailto:mseniow@;smsolutions.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 3:36 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [SA-list] v4 request > > OK, here's part of my wish list .... (unless it's already possible) > > It would be nice to be able to evaluate simple mathematical > expressions in the html template files when generating the > html data file. > > When my colleague saw me monitoring diskspace he quickly > asked why I could not create a 'visual' representation of > %disk space used (or free) of total disk space. Now you > could do this, I suppose, with two nested tables but you > would have to be able to calculate the percentage. Or is > there an easier way of doing this? > > Thanks. > > > - Mark > > Mark Seniow - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > S.M. Internet Solutions Inc. > Richmond Hill, ON 905-770-4481 > > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
