[Orca-users] Re: Orca input files

[Einar Johannesson]

Hi.
I am reading data from HP Openview Network Node Manager binary snmp data
to generate ascii files for orca to generate plots.
Blair has told me how I could combine my data from two files into one file
in case I need to generate a graph that has both InOctets and OutOctets
for a particular interface.

My question is, if I have some cron job to generate the ascii files
is it ok to replace the contents of the orca input file with say
just the last 100 lines of the snmp collected data.
Will orca care if the old data it has read is missing from the input file ?

regards
Einar Johannesson
Opin Kerfi hf.
Iceland


blair at orcaware.com wrote:

> Orca can't do this currently.  You'll have to use a program like join
> or write a script to merge the two outside of Orca and then have Orca
> process the combined file.
>
> If the two files have different timestamps, you can write a simple
> Perl script that reads both, and for those timestamps where there
> is only a measurement for one input file, output 'U' for the other
> measurement.  So something like
>
> file A
> 1000    10
> 1010    20
> 1020    15
>
> file B
> 1001    30
> 1010    13
> 1021    30
>
> would result in
>
> 1000    10      U
> 1001    U       30
> 1010    20      13
> 1020    15      U
> 1021    U       30
>
> Blair
>
> einar at hp.is wrote:
> >
> > If I have data for one host in two separate files
> > (one for input traffic and one for output traffic)
> > is it possible to make a plot { } statement that
> > generates one graph with data from both input files ?
> > example input and output traffic for one particular router ?
> >
> > Einar
>
>
>
>

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Með bestu kveðju/Regards

Einar
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