[Orca-dev] Re: [Orca-users] uptime stats

[Blair Zajac]

Sean O'Neill wrote:
> 
> At 12:41 PM 2/4/2003 -0600, 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
> 
> Blair, you want this in subversion ?  I think it would be nice to have by
> default.

I'm adding it right now with an href to

http://www.orcaware.com/orca/docs/orcallator.html#system_uptime

with your yearly plot!

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
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