[Orca-users] Re: orac problem

[Blair Zajac]

Phillip,

Why do you want this specific data?  What's missing in orcallator.se that
you want from these other programs?

I haven't seen any scripts that do this, probably because orcallator.se
records so much.

Anybody done this???  We could use more scripts.

Regards,
blair

"Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
> 
> Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
> > To make sure there's data, check the output percol-* files.
> >
> > To keep the daily snapshots you'll have to do as you mentioned, set up
> > a
> > crontab to do this.  I know other people on this list have mentioned
> > on how
> > to do this.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Blair
> >
> > "Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
> > >
> > > Blair Zajac wrote:
> > >
> > > > Philip,
> > > >
> > > > Check that your output orcallator.se files are in
> > > >
> > > > /opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/HOSTNAME
> > > >
> > > > where the HOSTNAME is of the machine running orcallator.se, not
> > orca.
> > > >
> > > > This regex is not used to match the contents of the orcallator.se
> > > > output
> > > > files.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Blair
> > > >
> > > > PS Can you send any futhur email to one of the Orca mailing
> > lists?  I
> > > > typically
> > > > only respond to Orca email from there.
> > > >
> > > > "Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Blair,
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is what is in the orcallator.cfg file:
> > > > >
> > > > > orcallator.cfg:find_files
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> /opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/(.*)/(?:(?:orcallator)|(?:percol))-\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}(?:\.(?:Z|gz|bz2))?
> >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >  So you say asking maybe run se orcallator.se and see what the
> > > > output is
> > > > >
> > > > > and see if it matches the config file?
> > > > >
> > > > > Below is that output. I'm not that gifted when it comes to regex
> >
> > > > > (regular expression). So can you help me out on this.
> > > > >
> > > > > se ./orcallator.se
> > > > >  timestamp locltime DNnsrkcmdit   uptime
> > > > > 1001302200 20:30:00 wwwwwwwgwww   349675
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > ************************************************************
> > > > > *** Phillip B. Bruce                                     ***
> > > > > *** http://pbbruce.home.mindspring.com                   ***
> > > > > *** pbbruce at mindspring.com                               ***
> > > > > ***                                                      ***
> > > > > *** "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than    ***
> > > > > *** you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you    ***
> > > > > *** is a maniac." - George Carlin                        ***
> > > > > ************************************************************
> > >
> > > Blair,
> > >
> > >      I like to ask since I think I'm doing something wrong.  orca
> > > generates the png and gifs but
> > >      it seems no data is getting corallated.
> > >
> > >      Also is there a way that I can retain the daily reports. In
> > other
> > > words all the daily reports
> > >       can be save to a report with time and date stamp for that day.
> > The
> > > idea is for me to go back
> > >       to that day and look at system responses for that day. I
> > thought
> > > maybe setting a cron process
> > >       to do this but maybe there is a better way to accomplish this.
> > I
> > > may only want to keep 7 days
> > >       worth of the data. Maybe it is already setup to do that.
> > >
> > > --
> > > ************************************************************
> > > *** Phillip B. Bruce                                     ***
> > > *** http://pbbruce.home.mindspring.com                   ***
> > > *** pbbruce at mindspring.com                               ***
> > > ***                                                      ***
> > > *** "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than    ***
> > > *** you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you    ***
> > > *** is a maniac." - George Carlin                        ***
> > > ************************************************************
> 
> Blair,
> 
>    Have you or anyone else on this list take data from other utilities
> such as vmstat, iostat, mpstat
>     or sar that gets redireted to a file:
> 
>     Example: vmstat 5 10 > vmstat.txt
> 
>     Then let orca take that vmstat.txt and do data corallation with
> that?
> 
> --
> ************************************************************
> *** Phillip B. Bruce                                     ***
> *** http://pbbruce.home.mindspring.com                   ***
> *** pbbruce at mindspring.com                               ***
> ***                                                      ***
> *** "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than    ***
> *** you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you    ***
> *** is a maniac." - George Carlin                        ***
> ************************************************************