[Orca-users] uptime stats

[Sean O'Neill]

At 11:02 AM 2/4/2003 -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
>Sean O'Neill wrote:
> >
> > At 11:54 AM 2/4/2003 -0600, Sean O'Neill wrote:
> > >At 11:03 AM 2/4/2003 -0600, Sean O'Neill wrote:
> > >>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.
> > >
> > >This is pretty easy now that I've looked at it.  I added this to my
> > >orcallator.cfg file just below the "System State" block.
> > >
> > >plot {
> > >title                   %g Uptime
> > >source                  orcallator
> > >data                    uptime / 86400
> > >line_type               area
> > >legend                  Uptime
> > >y_legend                Days
> > >data_min                0
> > >}
> > >
> > >Rerunning Orca on this now.  Let you know how it works.
> >
> > Works great ... check it out:
> >
> > http://chivas.oneill.dhs.org/orca/o_gauge_uptime_per_86400-all.html
>
>Sean,
>
>Great stuff!
>
>Can you make a backup copy of the plots and then add the line
>
>plot_min                0
>
>to this plot and recreating the PNGs?  Let's see which plots look
>better on the short time range ones (day through quarter) with a 0
>plot minimum.
>
>After we decide, I'll make the Subversion commit.

K regenerated.  The yearly graph didn't change but the others now plot from 
0 up - as per the added plot_min directive in orcallator.cfg.


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Sean O'Neill