[Orca-users] Re: grouping columns in a plot

[vw393]

Well, I do have already 1 single file generated each day.

Each single file is made by a *big* number of columns, 554 to be
pricise, of whom 498 are disk_runp_c?t?d? columns. So I get 554 plots
in the daily html page.

What I wish to achieve is to group together in few plots the 
disk_runp_c?t?d? columns, let's say per controller, so that all the
disk_runp_c1??? diagrams go all together in a plot, all
disk_runp_c2??? in another plot, etc., reducing this way the number of
graphics in the html page.

Is this easily feasible?

Regs
Luca


--- In orca-users at y..., Rusty Carruth <rcarruth at t...> wrote:
> "vw393" <lpizzinato at l...> wrote:
> > Hi Orca users.
> > 
> > I'm looking for the easiest way to group together selected columns in
> > a plot.
> > 
> > On a system here we've got so many LUNs (disks) that makes Orca
> > useless. It generates 1 plot per disk, literally hundreds at the end.
> > I wish to group together let's say 5 or 10 disks in each plot, for
> > example dividing them by controller or other criteria, reducing this
> > way the total number of plots.
> > Any suggestion?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Luca
> 
> Speaking off the top of my head, which means I'm probably missing
> something...
> 
> I think you'll have to put the data into a single file (one LUN
> per column) for this to work.  As I remember, orca makes one plot
> per file, with no way to stick multiple files together.
> 
> So, I'd say you want some way to make the multiple files
> you get and convert them into a single source file for
> giving to orca.  I can think of a bunch of different ways
> to do that - none of them perfect, but they'd work
> (in effect: tail all the files, and when all files have
> new data (or when new data has arrived for at least one file
> and <x> minutes have passed), take the data from each file
> and create a row for the group file.  The other option would
> be to create this group file from scratch every time, but I
> really don't like that idea either...)
> 
> rc