Continuous Graph

[spaww]

Hi all,

In this moment we configure Zabbix to monitoring my servers and printers.
For servers is ok, but for printers the users can restart or shutdown the printer in any moment.

In graphs apear a "blank area" if the printer is down.

For availability graph this is ok, but we continuous get Toner level and printed page count and for THIS DATA is not ok.

What is the correctly way to solve this ? I need a continuous graph for printed pages count (independetly if printer is down entire night or not...)

Best Regards,
Adail Horst
INEP - Brazil

[zabbix_zen]

Answered in portuguese in,

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=56814&posted=1#post56814

Now in English,

As an example of a scenario where you extract the printer data and sending it by zabbix_sender(meaning any scenario where the data flow is controlled by you) it's pretty straight forward.

->Script collects data
->if the returned value is null(''), force the variable to store a NULL, NVL, etc, any self-explainable string to your choice.
->send the variable value by zabbix_sender to Zabbix Server.
(Zabbix Server won't recognize that value and will keep the previously collected value, thus keeping the graph continuous)