Fwd: Re: [Orca-users] Netbackup & Combining Graphs

[Sean O'Neill]

I posted this wrong ... reposting as a forward.

>Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:31:58 -0600
>To: Liston Bias <bias at pobox.com>, orca-users at orcaware.com
>From: Sean O'Neill <soneill at oneill.dhs.org>
>Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Netbackup & Combining Graphs
>
>At 02:05 PM 3/13/2003 -0600, Liston Bias wrote:
>>When creating data with script outside of orcallator.se, is it a sound
>>idea ot merge the data together in single oracllator data file or just
>>keep them totally separate?  I like to keep everything together, but
>>believe it could leave to more problems.
>
>Do you mean not merge with the existing orcallator data ?  If that's what 
>you mean, yes keep it separate.  I wrote something up a while back to 
>collect Weblogic SNMP information.  I kept this separate because "merging" 
>it would have been a nightmare.  Also, this kept me from hosing up the 
>existing orcallator data directories as well as missing up the 
>orcallator.cfg file.
>
>This does require a separate instance of orca running.
>
>
>>One thing we are looking to graph is failures per day.  We would want to
>>reset the count daily.  Is there something in orca to allow me to do
>>cummulative count for current day only?  I'm guessing it may be easiest to
>>just put the counting in perl data collection script.
>
>Yep.  At 12 midnight, your failure counter goes to 0, you roll your data 
>file, and start writing to a new data file.
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