[Orca-dev] Re: Updating Orca graphs at longer intervals
Blair Zajac
blair at akamai.com
Mon Apr 2 10:50:40 PDT 2001
Hi David,
I like using minutes instead of seconds.
Can you send the patch to the mailing list?
Regards,
Blair
David Aitchison wrote:
>
> Hi Blair,
>
> I believe I've got this sorted on Orca 0.26. There's probably a little testing left to be done, but I think it's quite bomb-proof.
>
> Updates are made at interval_in_minutes rather than interval in seconds. To me the granularity of seconds seemed a little over the top, but comments there are welcome.
>
> As for inserting the code into the latest beta (once my testing is sufficient), I have never contributed to an open source project, so you'd best tell me how it is done.
>
> I will also need a copy of the beta at some stage.
>
> Cheerio,
>
> David.
>
> David Aitchison
> David.Aitchison at abci.gov.au
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> >>> Blair Zajac <blair at akamai.com> 03/30/01 02:30PM >>>
> Hi David,
>
> How about something like this:
>
> # Generate plot times specifies the time intervals when Orca will
> # generates an image file only once. If Orca has generated an image
> # file in a particular time interval, it won't do so until the next
> # time interval. The interval locations may be specified in the form
> # HH:MM
> # or
> # HH:MM/hh:mm/interval_in_seconds
> # The second form is equivalent to
> # HH:MM HH:MM+interval HH:MM+2*interval ....
> # until hh:mm is reached. This lets users do something like this:
>
> generate_plot_times 1:00 8:00/18:00/120 23:00
>
> This generates plots at 1 AM, 8 AM to 6 PM every two hours and then
> at 11 PM.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Blair
>
> David Aitchison wrote:
> >
> > Thread Carried over from orca-users:
> >
> > Hi again Blair,
> >
> > Would you expect that the generate_plot_times would be in the same format as find_times - ie. an array of plot times throughout the day?
> >
> > The alternative that I can think of is a time interval in seconds, so that graphs are re-drawn every, say, 30 minutes (1800 seconds). This may be better if people want graphs more often that a few times a day, and don't want to have a hugely long entry in orcallator.cfg.
> >
> > Your advice here is invaluable.
> >
> > David Aitchison
> > David.Aitchison at abci.gov.au
> > (02) 6243 5610 --- 0402 057671
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> > Hi David,
> >
> > Unfortunately, your message went to the mailing list, not to me
> > directly due to the way Yahoo! Groups adds a Reply-To SMTP header
> > to all email (manually changing the reply is the only way around
> > this AFAIK).
> >
> > In any case, there are many people here who aren't Perl Gods and
> > any contributions, small or large, are welcome!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Blair
> >
> > David Aitchison wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Blair,
> > >
> > > I have addressed this direct to save myself from the onslaught of the
> > > Perl Gods reading orca-users..!
> > >
> > > I am interested in giving this a go, but am not convinced my Perl
> > > skills are quite up with the likes of your own. So, I have taken to
> > > pulling apart Orca 0.26 in detail, which should tell me quickly if I
> > > am up to the task.
> > >
> > > Should I find what I believe is required, I'll grab that latest beta.
> > > I just don't want to promise something that I may not come through
> > > with.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > David Aitchison
> > > David.Aitchison at abci.gov.au
> > > (02) 6243 5610 --- 0402 057671
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> > >
> > > >>> Blair Zajac <blair at akamai.com> 03/29/01 03:38PM >>>
> > > Hello David,
> > >
> > > Currently there is no way to do what you're looking for except by
> > > the method you use with -o -r and then -o command line options.
> > >
> > > It wouldn't be too hard, and I would appreciate the patches, to take
> > > some of the code that implements the find_times parameter, such as the
> > > time parsing, and use it to regenerate the images after a specific
> > > time. If you choose to take on this mission :), I'll send you the
> > > latest Orca beta version to work with. I think naming the new
> > > parameter "generate_plot_times" would be a good fit with some new
> > > parameters in the next Orca release.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Blair
> > >
> > > David Aitchison wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I have scoured the Orca mailing list archives and found nothing on
> > > > this, so here goes...
> > > >
> > > > As I see it, at set intervals Orca checks for updated percol* files,
> > > > updates rrd's from that, then generates graphs for whatever requires
> > > > re-graphing. This is great for a powerful server, or just a few
> > > > clients to graph, but the CPU time required for graphing for all our
> > > > servers is getting too much.
> > > >
> > > > My question:
> > > >
> > > > ...Has anyone found a way to have Orca update rrd files regularly,
> > > but
> > > > only update graphs once in a while?
> > > >
> > > > I know this can be done by running Orca with -o and -r switches
> > > > regularly, then just -o every so often, but I prefer to keep Orca
> > > > running constantly, so as not to have to re-read all the past
> > > percol*
> > > > files (as it does with a -o switch).
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks in advance,
> > > >
> > > > David Aitchison
> > > > David.Aitchison at abci.gov.au
> > > > (02) 6243 5610 --- 0402 057671
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