[Orca-users] Re: orcallator.cfg.lock

[Matthew Boeckman]

Blair Zajac wrote:

> Matthew Boeckman wrote:
>  >
>  > Blair Zajac wrote:
>  > > Which SE and orcallator.se are you using?
>  >
>  > se - Version 3.1 (pre-fcs) (10:39 AM 03/31/99) for sparcv9 SunOS 5.7
>  >
>  > orcallator.se - Version 1.23: Feb 25, 2000 (same version on both 
> machines)
> 
> I would upgrade to the latest SE and orcallator.se, as they both fix
> some problems.


done, se 3.2.1, and orcallator.se-1.32

> 
>  >
>  > >
>  > > You can run orcallator.se by hand and see if the data makes any sense
>  > > with other programs, such as top.
>  >
>  > not sure I understand what you mean... i've run:
>  > /opt/RICHPse/bin/se orcallator.se  on the command line, and (after
>  > several minutes) get:
>  >   timestamp locltime DNnsrkcmdit   uptime
>  > 1014404700 13:05:00 wwwwwwwwwww   258807
>  > 1014405000 13:10:00 wwwwwwwwwww   259107
>  >
>  > I don't know how to bring that into top. I don't know if it helps but
>  > you can see the graphs that are upsetting me at http://orca.saepio.com
>  > (user auth temporarily disabled). Target Order is the good, and ultra is
>  > the not-so-good.
> 
> What I meant was to run top in one window and run orcallator.se on the
> command line in another.  Also, you'll want to put one or more of the
> following defines when you run orcallator.se:
> 
> // If WATCH_OS is defined, then measure every part of the operating
> // system.
> #ifdef WATCH_OS
> #define WATCH_CPU               1
> #define WATCH_MUTEX             1
> #define WATCH_NET               1
> #define WATCH_TCP               1
> #define WATCH_NFS_CLIENT        1
> #define WATCH_NFS_SERVER        1
> #define WATCH_MOUNTS            1
> #define WATCH_DISK              1
> #define WATCH_DNLC              1
> #define WATCH_INODE             1
> #define WATCH_RAM               1
> #define WATCH_PAGES             1
> #endif
> 
> Like this
> 
>     se -DWATCH_CPU orcallator.se 10
> 
> The 10 tells orcallator.se to output every 10 seconds instead of waiting
> for 5 minutes.


I did exactly this, and the data appears correct, for example, se 
reports .3 load, so does top. Because I'm a dunderhead I didn't think to 
do this _prior_ to upgrading. I'll wait 30 minutes, update the data on 
central server, and see if the plots look nicer.

 
> I don't see any Orca plots at this URL, just netsaint and it requires a
> username and password.
> 

I guess I had an old zone file for external DNS on that site. It will 
take a while to propogate the update. If you want to see, you could put 
208.10.117.9 in your /etc/hosts file for the name and look. I've been 
thinking, and the system has been less loaded down than I thought while 
orca was running. I'm currently making some extended load to see if that 
makes the graph look more like... a graph... we'll see.

either way, thanks for your responses and help!



>  >
>  > <aside>Blair I've loved and relied on orca for over a year now and can't
>  > thank you and the development folks enough. We're a small software
>  > company, with no budget for "fancy" reporting things. Products like
>  > yours, MRTG, webalizer &c make me twice the admin I really am, but don't
>  > tell management:-)
>  > </aside>
> 
> Thanks, you're very welcome!
> 
> Best,
> Blair
> 
> -- 
> Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
> Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/
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