[Orca-users] uptime stats

[Sean O'Neill]

At 11:50 AM 2/4/2003 -0500, mtb wrote:
>Thanks for the reply, Sean.
>
>Orcallator already collects uptime... it's the third field.  It's a 
>number... looks like this:
>
>timestamp  locltime   uptime
>1044334804 00:00:04 15169896
>
>How do I interpret that number?  I don't want to get into running some 
>external job out of cron if orcallator already has the data.

Ahhh, learn something new every day :)

Its simply the number of seconds the box has been up since the last reboot.

And now that I think about it - My epoche seconds thought is nuts.  Epoche 
seconds gives a specific point in time - not duration - in this case anyway.

In your .cfg file, you could do some RRD math and convert seconds to days 
and graph that number.

>-Mike
>
>On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Sean O'Neill wrote:
>
> > At 11:34 AM 2/4/2003 -0500, mtb wrote:
> > >Has anyone attempted to chart uptime...   as in a particular box has been
> > >up 98% of the time for a given interval?  I'm not sure exactly what would
> > >make sense, but I have a requirement for this..   any comments or 
> suggestions?
> >
> > Shouldn't be hard.  Simply run uptime in a crontab job everything 5 minutes
> > (or whatever) and convert the days HH:MM portion of the output to epoch
> > seconds and store it into a file using the usual header conventions Orca
> > expects.  Create a .cfg specific for this information and start graphing.
> >
> >
> > >Also.. dumb question time.  Can we no longer do searches against the list
> > >archives since the move from Yahoo?
> >
> > I asked this question recently.  In short, yes you can.  The Search field
> > on the main page searches EVERYTHING including the mailing list.  The web
> > page content is very limited so the search results you get will almost
> > entirely be made up of mailing list hits.
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