[Orca-users] Re: Strange graphs on Quad-ethernet card

[Blair Zajac]

This sounds like an orcallator.se issue and not an Orca issue, but
a real way to check this is to use the supplied orcallator_column
script.

Run it like this:

    cat or zcat or bzcat percol-YYYY-MM-DD | \
    orcallator_column -c qe0InKB/s -c qe0OuKB/s

Add a -c for each column you want printed.  Look at the output data
and see if there's a problem.

Also, you'll need to add orcallator.cfg entries, but it sounds like
you've done this already:

# Quad 10 Mbit Ethernet.
plot {
title                   %g Interface Bits Per Second: qe0
source                  orcallator
data                    1024 * 8 * qe0InKB/s
data                    1024 * 8 * qe0OuKB/s
line_type               area
line_type               line1
legend                  Input
legend                  Output
y_legend                Bits/s
data_min                0
data_max                10000000
href                   
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~blair/orca/docs/orcallator.html#interface_bits_per_second
}

# Quad 10 Mbit Ethernet.
plot {
title                   %g Interface Bits Per Second: qe1
source                  orcallator
data                    1024 * 8 * qe1InKB/s
data                    1024 * 8 * qe1OuKB/s
line_type               area
line_type               line1
legend                  Input
legend                  Output
y_legend                Bits/s
data_min                0
data_max                10000000
href                   
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~blair/orca/docs/orcallator.html#interface_bits_per_second
}

# Quad 10 Mbit Ethernet.
plot {
title                   %g Interface Bits Per Second: qe2
source                  orcallator
data                    1024 * 8 * qe2InKB/s
data                    1024 * 8 * qe2OuKB/s
line_type               area
line_type               line1
legend                  Input
legend                  Output
y_legend                Bits/s
data_min                0
data_max                10000000
href                   
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~blair/orca/docs/orcallator.html#interface_bits_per_second
}

# Quad 10 Mbit Ethernet.
plot {
title                   %g Interface Bits Per Second: qe3
source                  orcallator
data                    1024 * 8 * qe3InKB/s
data                    1024 * 8 * qe3OuKB/s
line_type               area
line_type               line1
legend                  Input
legend                  Output
y_legend                Bits/s
data_min                0
data_max                10000000
href                   
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~blair/orca/docs/orcallator.html#interface_bits_per_second
}

Regards,
Blair

Darren Kukulka wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Running orca on Solaris 2.7 Ultra 5 with a Quad FastEthernet card
> installed - either shows no stats for some of the interfaces or large
> intermittent peaks on the main interface at regular intervals.
> 
> Graphs on other similar boxes with one interface show smooth graphs
> for the same sort of stats.
> 
> Is this a problem with orcallator interogating the ports or am I
> missing something in my Orca setup?
> 
> Darren Kukulka.