[Orca-users] Re: Thoughts?

[Blair Zajac]

"Mauro, Douglas R" wrote:
> 
> BTW:  I tried to subscribe to orca-help online but couldn't.  The link just
> hung.


Which link was this?  I'd try again in a while.


> 
> I am trying to install Orca on Solaris 2.5.1.  Currently I have installed:
> 
> Name            Version         Install Location
> --------                ----------
> ---------------------------------
> Orca            0.23            /opt/orca
> SE              3.0             /opt/RICHPse
> Rrd             1.0.3           /usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.3
> 
> I ran the orca coinfigure with the following:
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/orca --with-html-dir=/opt/OV/httpd/htdocs
> 
> No problems.
> 
> I am guessing that the html-dir is a directory that is accessible through
> the WWW?

Yes, this is correct.

> 
> Reading through INSTALL...
> 
> [root][nms] /opt/orca> ./bin/start_orcallator
> Writing data into /opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/nms/
> Starting logging
> [root][nms] /opt/orca>
> 
> It was unclear at first glance what I should edit in the .cfg file so I left
> it alone.
> 
> When I tried starting and/or running orca after I saw some data files
> written I got:
> 
> [root][nms] /opt/orca> ./bin/orca -v lib/orcallator.cfg
> Orca version 0.23 using RRDs version 1.000031.
> Creating orca.gif.
> Creating rrdtool.gif.
> ./bin/orca: warning: cannot open state file
> `/opt/orca/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state' for reading: No such file or
> directory
> Finding files and setting up data structures at Tue Aug  3 16:07:53 1999.
>   /opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/nms/percol-1999-08-03
> ./bin/orca: warning: no substitutions performed for `data #httpds' in plot
> #3 in `/opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/nms/percol-1999-08-03'.
> ./bin/orca: warning: no substitutions performed for `data %to1KB' in plot #6
> in `/opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/nms/percol-1999-08-03'.
> ./bin/orca: warning: no substitutions performed for `data %to10KB' in plot
> #6 in `/opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/nms/percol-1999-08-03'.
> ./bin/orca: warning: no substitutions performed for `data %to100KB' in plot
> #6 in `/opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/nms/percol-1999-08-03'.
> ./bin/orca: warning: no substitutions performed for `data %to1MB' in plot #6
> in `/opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/nms/percol-1999-08-03'.
> ./bin/orca: warning: no substitutions performed for `data %over1MB' in plot
> #6 in `/opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/nms/percol-1999-08-03'.
> ./bin/orca: warning: bad evaluation of commands for plot #6 `data %to1KB':
> sub {
>   return %to1KB;
> }
> 
> Output: Global symbol "%to1KB" requires explicit package name at (eval 14)
> line 2, <FD> chunk 1.
> 
> ./bin/orca: warning: bad evaluation of commands for plot #6 `data %to10KB':
> sub {
>   return %to10KB;
> }
> 
> Output: Global symbol "%to1MB" requires explicit package name at (eval 17)
> line 2, <FD> chunk 1.
> 
> ./bin/orca: warning: bad evaluation of commands for plot #6 `data %over1MB':
> sub {
>   return %over1MB;
> }
> 
> Output: Global symbol "%over1MB" requires explicit package name at (eval 18)
> line 2, <FD> chunk 1.
> 
> ./bin/orca: Orca::GIFFile::new passed empty @rrds_ref reference.
>         Orca::GIFFile::new('Orca::GIFFile', 'HASH(0x1fc0b8)',
> 'HASH(0x1fc0d0)', 'ARRAY(0x1fc0e8)', 'orcallator', 'nms', '',
> 'orcallator_%to1KB,
> rcallator_%to10KB,orcallator_%to100KB,orcalla...', ...) called at ./bin/orca
> line 1493
> 
> Orca::SourceDataFile::add_plots('Orca::SourceDataFile=HASH(0x202b34)',
> 'HASH(0x1fc0b8)', 'HASH(0x1fc0d0)', 'ARRAY(0x1fc0e8)', 'orcallat
> r', 'nms', 'HASH(0x20db58)', 'HASH(0x211d10)') called at ./bin/orca line
> 2598
>         main::find_files('lib/orcallator.cfg', 'HASH(0x1fc0b8)',
> 'HASH(0x1fc0d0)', 'ARRAY(0x1fc0e8)', 'HASH(0x1ccfec)', 'HASH(0x20db7c)',
> 'HASH
> 0x20db58)', 'HASH(0x211d10)') called at ./bin/orca line 1836
>         main::watch_data_sources('lib/orcallator.cfg', 'HASH(0x1fc0b8)',
> 'HASH(0x1fc0d0)', 'ARRAY(0x1fc0e8)') called at ./bin/orca line 1739
>         main::main('lib/orcallator.cfg') called at ./bin/orca line 1718
> [root][nms] /opt/orca>
> 
> I feel like I am missing the big picture.  What does is the orcalator.se
> file used for?  Am I supposed to run these things by hand?  Is this the same
> for rrd?

Actually, you're pretty close here.  Orcallator.se is the data gathering tool
that is run on each Sun system.  In this case, it does not look like you are
watching your web server statistics, so Orca is failing.  This is a bug that
will be fixed in the next release of Orca.  For now, there are two solutions
to the bug.  One is to enable web server watching in orcallator.se on all your
hosts.  The second is to remove from orcallator.cfg the plot { ... } lines
that mention web serving until Orca does not complain.

The only think you'll probably want to change in orcallator.cfg are the
html_* settings to be specific for your site.

Cheers,
Blair



> 
>     Douglas R. Mauro
> -------------------------
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