[Orca-dev] Re: Orca error

[Blair Zajac]

You only need to delete the RRD files.  Don't delete the percol-*
files, as these contain the original source of data for as long as
you have been running orcallator.  The rrd files will be regenerated
from the percol-* files.

Regards,
Blair

Viette James-CJV004 wrote:
> 
> Thank you for everyone's help. It's working now. I had to remove the
> rdd file(s) and the percol files. Then run orca and the data is
> correct and current.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Jim V
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: simon.klyne at arcordia.com [mailto:simon.klyne at arcordia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:07 PM
> To: orca-developers at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Orca-developers] RE: Orca error
> 
> check your orca config file looking for lines beginning with
> base_dir
> rrd_dir
> if you append the rrd_dir value to base_dir value you should find your
> RRD
> files there in a subdirectory named after your hostname
> 
> Simon
> 
> Viette James-CJV004 <jim.viette at motorola.com> on 30/05/2001 17:22:10
> 
> Please respond to orca-developers at yahoogroups.com
> 
> To:   "'orca-developers at yahoogroups.com'"
> <orca-developers at yahoogroups.com>
> cc:
> Subject:  RE: [Orca-developers] RE: Orca error
> 
> I use the HTML and I'm having trouble finding the rdd files.
> Jim V
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: simon.klyne at arcordia.com [mailto:simon.klyne at arcordia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 8:46 AM
> To: orca-developers at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [orca-developers] RE: Orca error
> 
> Hi
> 
> I noticed from an earlier message in this thread that you mentioned
> the
> date showing as Mar 2002.
> If the RRD file has Mar 2002 as it's latest update then any data
> earlier
> than that will not get written to the RRD file.
> 
> To check the latest update time of your RRD file use :
>      rrdtool dump <rrdfile>
> 
> This is the head of one on my RRD files:
> --
> <!-- Round Robin Database Dump -->
> <rrd>
>      <version> 0001 </version>
>      <step> 300 </step> <!-- Seconds -->
>      <lastupdate> 989172000 </lastupdate> <!-- 2001-05-06 19:00:00 BST
> -->
> 
>      <ds>
>           <name> Orca19990222 </name>
>           <type> GAUGE </type>
> [...]
> --
> 
> If this is the problem then if you still have the raw data files as
> written
> by orcallator.se then delete the RRD files and re-run orca to
> recreate the RRDs.
> You will probably want to check your raw data files to see where the
> future
> data came from ...
> 
> Simon
> 
> Viette James-CJV004 <jim.viette at motorola.com> on 30/05/2001 14:24:13
> 
> Please respond to orca-developers at yahoogroups.com
> 
> To:   "'orca-developers at yahoogroups.com'"
> <orca-developers at yahoogroups.com>
> cc:
> Subject:  RE: [orca-developers] RE: Orca error
> 
> Ok, I was able to pipe the output to nawk and the number of fields do
> not
> change. Is it possible to fully rm Orca & the packages so I can start
> from
> scratch? Unless you have a fix. I've installed the tool on 30 or so
> servers
> and this one isn't any different, but it has all the problems.
> 
> Jim V
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blair Zajac [mailto:blair at gps.caltech.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:08 PM
> To: orca-developers at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [orca-developers] RE: Orca error
> 
> Well, replace bzcat with the uncompression program you used to
> compress
> your orcallator output and pipe that output to nawk.
> 
> Blair
> 
> Viette James-CJV004 wrote:
> >
> > I keep getting bzcat not found, so I did a find on bzcat and came up
> > blank.
> >
> > # bzcat
> > /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/il06muora06/percol-2001-05-24.bz2 |
> > nawk '{print NF}'
> > bzcat: not found
> >
> > Jim V
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Blair Zajac [mailto:blair at gps.caltech.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:18 AM
> > To: orca-developers at yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [orca-developers] RE: Orca error
> >
> > These errors are to be expected when a system does not record data
> > that Orca has been configured to plot.
> >
> > Can you run the
> >
> > bzcat .../percol-2001-05-24.bz2 | nawk '{print NF}'
> >
> > command on one of the data files from the host that isn't plotting
> > data?  Do the number of fields change?
> >
> > Blair
> >
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