[Orca-users] Re: Interval questions

[Blair Zajac]

Hi Chris,

You definitely do not want to change the interval, as this value is
used in creating the RRD data files and telling them the time
interval that data is recorded.  If you do increase the interval,
then the RRD files will have larger time slices and your plot
resolution will decrease.

I recommend that you run Orca every X minutes through a cron
and keep the interval at 300 seconds.  I also recommend that
after you change the interval back to 300 seconds that you
delete all your rrd data files and load all the data back in.
This will insure that the rrd data files are ok.

Blair

PS Thanks for the positive comments, I appreciate them.

Charles Dennett wrote:
> 
> From: Charles Dennett <charles.dennett at kodak.com>
> 
> I've recently installed orca 0.25 on my server and
> the latest orcallator on a whole bunch of machines.
> I've been reading through the archives for this list and still
> have some questions around the orcallator interval and the orca
> interval.
> 
> The orcallators still collect data every 5 minutes.
> 
> Some of the machines NFS mount the orca area from the server.
> Other machines, however, are on the outside of our firewall
> and I do not have NFS available.  So, what I've done is to
> write a small shell script that connects to each of these
> servers via ftp and our firewall ftp relay mechanism and
> copys the orcallator data files every 5 minutes to the orca
> server.
> 
> I run orca with the -v or -v -v flags and watch what happens.
> Right now orca is handling 15 machines.  If I leave the
> interval in the orcallator.cfg file at 300 seconds, orca
> runs continuously.  As soon as it process all 15, it's
> time to do it again.  I raised the interval in the config file
> to 600 seconds and it does finish processing once in a while and
> sleeps for a minute or two before starting again.  If I raise it
> to 900 seconds, it sleeps more often.  My orca server is
> an Ultra 1 and also handles our department's mail, printing and
> SAMBA.  It's not too busy with other stuff but I don't want to
> see orca taking over the cpu.
> 
> So, I guess I really don't know if anything "bad" will happen if
> I leave the orcallator collecting data ever 5 minutes and my jobs
> that transfers those files from the non-NFS machines running every
> 5 minutes and then have the orca interval set to 600 or 900 seconds.
> Does it make a difference of the orca interval is an integer multiple
> of the orcallator interval?  What about a non integer multiple?
> 
> Comments or suggestion?
> 
> Again thanks to Blair for a super piece of software.  Even the
> orca source has a ton of comments to make understanding what
> it does a lot easier.
> 
> --
> Charlie Dennett
> Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
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