[Orca-users] uptime stats

[Sean O'Neill]

At 01:11 PM 2/4/2003 -0600, Sean O'Neill wrote:
>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.

Almost forgot, for comparison the old graphs are in:

http://chivas.oneill.dhs.org/uptime-graphs


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Sean O'Neill