Axibase Time Series Database

Scheduled File Upload to ATSD

Before You Begin

  1. Ensure that the /opt/nmon/nmon binary exists and is executable.
  2. Launch the nmon console to ensure nmon executable can be started.
/opt/nmon/nmon

Upload Files to ATSD by API with wget

Perform these steps to start uploading files to ATSD every hour with wget.

Step 1

Create a file script /opt/nmon/nmon_script.sh and add the following row to the cron schedule:

0 * * * * /opt/nmon/nmon_script.sh

Step 2

After that, add the following content to the file script /opt/nmon/nmon_script.sh replacing username, password, and atsd_hostname with actual credentials:

#!/bin/sh
fn="/nmon/nmon/`date +%y%m%d_%H%M`.nmon";pd="`/opt/nmon/nmon -F $fn -s 60 -c 60 -T -p`"; \
while kill -0 $pd; do sleep 15; done; \
wget -t 1 -T 10 --user=username --password=password --no-check-certificate -O - --post-file="$fn" \
--header="Content-type: text/csv" "https://atsd_hostname/api/v1/nmon?f=`basename $fn`"

Upload Files to ATSD with Unix Socket

To start uploading files to ATSD every hour with Unix socket perform these steps (bash is required):

Step 1

Create a file script /opt/nmon/nmon_script.sh and add the following row to the cron schedule:

0 * * * * /opt/nmon/nmon_script.sh

Step 2

Add the following contents to script /opt/nmon/nmon_script.sh replacing atsd_hostname with the ATSD hostname or IP address:

#!/bin/bash
fn="/opt/nmon/`date +%y%m%d_%H%M`.nmon";pd="`/opt/nmon/nmon -F $fn -s 60 -c 60 -T -p`"; \
while kill -0 $pd; do sleep 15; done; \
{ echo "nmon p:default e:`hostname` f:`hostname`_file.nmon"; cat $fn; } > /dev/tcp/atsd_hostname/8081

Upload Files into ATSD

To start uploading files to ATSD every hour with netcat, perform these steps:

Step 1

Create a file script /opt/nmon/nmon_script.sh and add the following row to the cron schedule:

0 * * * * /opt/nmon/nmon_script.sh

Step 2

Add the following contents to the /opt/nmon/nmon_script.sh file replacing atsd_hostname with the ATSD hostname or IP address:

#!/bin/sh
fn="/opt/nmon/`date +%y%m%d_%H%M`.nmon";pd="`/opt/nmon/nmon -F $fn -s 60 -c 60 -T -p`"; \
while kill -0 $pd; do sleep 15; done; \
{ echo "nmon p:default e:`hostname` f:`hostname`_file.nmon"; cat $fn; } | nc atsd_hostname 8081