[Orca-users] Re: orca w/ different hosts/orcallator data.

[Blair Zajac]

Actually, now that I recall, this is what I do on my site.  Everything
measures web statistics.

Blair

foo wrote:
> 
> From: foo <foo+orca at eek.org>
> 
> Blair,
> 
> Ok, thanks for the response. I look forward to the new version.  For the
> time being, I'm working around the problem by defining -DWATCH_HTTPD and
> the http log for all hosts. This will make orcallator collect all zeros
> for the http stuff on the hosts that dont have httpd's, but gets around
> the problem with orca bailing when there is no data for the plots in the
> config. Besides including a bunch of flatline plots, this works well.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> Blair Zajac wrote:
> > Brian,
> >
> > This is a bug in the current version of Orca.  I'm working on a newly
> > designed version of Orca that will be handle this issue and many more
> > data types of the kind, including something like
> >
> > # URL              First byte time     Total time
> > www.geocities.com  1.0                 2.0
> > www.yahoo.com      1.1                 2.0
> >
> > In the meantime, I do not have a fix for this, but if I do, then I
> > will send one out.  For now, I would separate the hosts that have
> > and do not have web servers on them.
> >
> > Blair
> >
> >
> > foo wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to setup orca to manage orcallator data from many hosts on a
> > > network (>50). Some of these hosts do not have web servers, though many
> > > do. Currently, orca seems to bail when one of the plots defined in
> > > orcallator.cfg isn't found in the orcallator data file. Since hosts
> > > without web servers will not have httpop/s htErr/s, etc., orca bails when
> > > it comes to these hosts, and will not continue to process other hosts, or
> > > plots with available data. It would be nice if orca could deal with having
> > > one config file for many machines with differing orcallator data, or if
> > > there was some way of definining machine classes, or something to
> > > differentiate which plots to use. Have I missed an already existing
> > > feature? Example error is below.
> > >
> > > Also, there doesn't seem to be any configure/make/etc. stuff designed for
> > > hosts that need to only run orcallator. I'm running orca on a centralized
> > > web server, and all of the other servers are running orcallator, and
> > > pushing their data to the orca server (and/or nfs mounting an exporting
> > > orcallator dir). orcallator seems to only require the SEtoolkit stuff, and
> > > a start script that defines some environment variables. It'd be easy to
> > > have an option just for orcallator... or to have a seperate orcallator
> > > package, but it doesnt seem to be there.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, orca is great! Thanks to Blair and Tobi for developing
> > > great tools.
> > >
> > > -Brian
> > >
> > > [root at foo](~): /usr/local/bin/orca -v /usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg
> > > Orca version 0.23 using RRDs version 0.99031.
> > > Creating orca.gif.
> > > Creating rrdtool.gif.
> > > Loading state from `/var/orca/orca.state'.
> > > Finding files and setting up data structures at Thu Jul 22 18:06:07 1999.
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/foo/percol-1999-07-13
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/foo/percol-1999-07-14
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/foo/percol-1999-07-15
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/foo/percol-1999-07-16
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/foo/percol-1999-07-17
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/foo/percol-1999-07-18
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/foo/percol-1999-07-19
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/foo/percol-1999-07-20
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/foo/percol-1999-07-21
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/foo/percol-1999-07-22
> > >   /var/orca/orcal/boo/percol-1999-07-22
> > > /usr/local/bin/orca: making directory `/var/orca/rrd/boo'.
> > > /usr/local/bin/orca: making directory `/www/stats/boo'.
> > > Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/bin/orca line 1438.
> > > /usr/local/bin/orca: htErr/s in `data htErr/s' in plot #40 not replaced since it is not in file `/var/orca/orcal/boo/percol-1999-07-22'.
> > > /usr/local/bin/orca: warning: no substitutions performed for `data htErr/s' in plot #40 in `/var/orca/orcal/boo/percol-1999-07-22'.
> > > Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/bin/orca line 1438.
> > > /usr/local/bin/orca: Orca::GIFFile::new passed empty @rrds_ref reference.
> > >         Orca::GIFFile::new('Orca::GIFFile', 'HASH(0x16b148)', 'HASH(0x16b160)', 'ARRAY(0x16b178)', 'orcallator', 'boo', '', 'orcallator_htErr/s', ...) called at /usr/local/bin/orca line 1493
> > >         Orca::SourceDataFile::add_plots('Orca::SourceDataFile=HASH(0x19213c)', 'HASH(0x16b148)', 'HASH(0x16b160)', 'ARRAY(0x16b178)', 'orcallator', 'boo', 'HASH(0x16d1cc)', 'HASH(0x1824c8)') called at /usr/local/bin/orca line 2598
> > >         main::find_files('/usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg', 'HASH(0x16b148)', 'HASH(0x16b160)', 'ARRAY(0x16b178)', 'HASH(0x142034)', 'HASH(0x16d1f0)', 'HASH(0x16d1cc)', 'HASH(0x1824c8)') called at /usr/local/bin/orca line 1836
> > >         main::watch_data_sources('/usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg', 'HASH(0x16b148)', 'HASH(0x16b160)', 'ARRAY(0x16b178)') called at /usr/local/bin/orca line 1739
> > >         main::main('/usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg') called at /usr/local/bin/orca line 1718
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