[Orca-users] Miserable install problems

[Mark Langkau]

Hi Everyone:

I'm having a miserable time installing Orca. I did install it last year
and had it running for several months (stopped in August). Now I need to

re-implement it in a hurry to gather performance stats for a capacity
planning meeting next week.

The system is a Sun E5500,  Solaris 2.7, Orca 0.26.  I have archived and

removed the old Orca installation, and I have reinstalled both the SE
toolkit and Orca several times - with no luck. I never see any data
files created. Do I need to download a different orcallator.cfg or .se
file from Blair's site, or should I be able to use what ships with
orca-0.26.tar.gz?

Any hints and tips would be greatly appreciated. When Orca was running
last year, it provided valuable information. I sure would like to get
this running again;-)

Thanks,
Mark
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Here are the errors I'm getting.:

# start_orcallator
Writing data into /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/e5501/
Using www access log file /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
Starting logging
#
# bin/orca -v -v -v lib/orcallator.cfg
Orca version 0.26beta1 using RRDs version 1.000131.
bin/orca: warning: cannot open state file
`/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state' for reading: No such
file or directory
Finding files and setting up data structures at Thu Jan 18 15:50:35
2001.
bin/orca: warning: no files found for `find_files' for `group
orcallator' in `lib/orcallator.cfg'.
bin/orca: no data source files found.
 RSS  VSZ %MEM        TIME     USER   PID COMMAND
3824 4424  0.1        0:00     root 29393 /bin/perl
Current running time is 0:00 minutes.
#
# orcallator_running
Now in /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator
/usr/local/bin/orcallator_running: e5501/percol-2001-01-18 does not
exist.
#
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And here's a portion of my config file:

# Orca configuration file for orcallator files.

# base_dir is prepended to the paths find_files, html_dir, rrd_dir,
# and state_file only if the path does not match the regular
# expression ^\\?\.{0,2}/, which matches /, ./, ../, and \./.
base_dir                /usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator

# rrd_dir specifies the location of the generated RRD data files.
rrd_dir                 .

# state_file specifies the location of the state file that remembers
# the modification time of each source data file.
state_file              orca.state

# html_dir specifies the top of the HTML tree created by Orca.
html_dir                /usr/local/apache/htdocs/orca

<snip>

group orcallator {
find_files
/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/(.*)/(?:(?:orcallator)|(?:percol))-\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}(?:\.(?:Z|gz|bz2))?

column_description      first_line
date_source             column_name timestamp
date_format             %s
interval                300
reopen                  1
filename_compare        sub {
                          my ($ay, $am, $ad) = $a =~
/-(\d{4})-(\d\d)-(\d\d)/;
                          my ($by, $bm, $bd) = $b =~
/-(\d{4})-(\d\d)-(\d\d)/;
                          if (my $c = (( $ay       <=>  $by) ||
                                       ( $am       <=>  $bm) ||
                                       (($ad >> 3) <=> ($bd >> 3)))) {
                            return 2*$c;
                          }
                          $ad <=> $bd;
                        }
}