[Orca-dev] Updating Orca graphs at longer intervals

[David Aitchison]

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
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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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