[Orca-users] Re: Miserable install problems

[Blair Zajac]

Any luck yet in getting this working?

Is SE outputting data files?

The orcallator.se and orcallator.cfg version 1.25 on my site are newer
than what is packaged with orca-0.26, which is version 1.23, but fixes
only two minor bug.

Regards,
Blair

Mark Langkau wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone:
> 
> I'm having a miserable time installing Orca. I did install it last year
> and had it running for several months (stopped in August). Now I need to
> 
> re-implement it in a hurry to gather performance stats for a capacity
> planning meeting next week.
> 
> The system is a Sun E5500,  Solaris 2.7, Orca 0.26.  I have archived and
> 
> removed the old Orca installation, and I have reinstalled both the SE
> toolkit and Orca several times - with no luck. I never see any data
> files created. Do I need to download a different orcallator.cfg or .se
> file from Blair's site, or should I be able to use what ships with
> orca-0.26.tar.gz?
> 
> Any hints and tips would be greatly appreciated. When Orca was running
> last year, it provided valuable information. I sure would like to get
> this running again;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> =========================================================
> 
> Here are the errors I'm getting.:
> 
> # start_orcallator
> Writing data into /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/e5501/
> Using www access log file /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
> Starting logging
> #
> # bin/orca -v -v -v lib/orcallator.cfg
> Orca version 0.26beta1 using RRDs version 1.000131.
> bin/orca: warning: cannot open state file
> `/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state' for reading: No such
> file or directory
> Finding files and setting up data structures at Thu Jan 18 15:50:35
> 2001.
> bin/orca: warning: no files found for `find_files' for `group
> orcallator' in `lib/orcallator.cfg'.
> bin/orca: no data source files found.
>  RSS  VSZ %MEM        TIME     USER   PID COMMAND
> 3824 4424  0.1        0:00     root 29393 /bin/perl
> Current running time is 0:00 minutes.
> #
> # orcallator_running
> Now in /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator
> /usr/local/bin/orcallator_running: e5501/percol-2001-01-18 does not
> exist.
> #
> ====================================================
> And here's a portion of my config file:
> 
> # Orca configuration file for orcallator files.
> 
> # base_dir is prepended to the paths find_files, html_dir, rrd_dir,
> # and state_file only if the path does not match the regular
> # expression ^\\?\.{0,2}/, which matches /, ./, ../, and \./.
> base_dir                /usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator
> 
> # rrd_dir specifies the location of the generated RRD data files.
> rrd_dir                 .
> 
> # state_file specifies the location of the state file that remembers
> # the modification time of each source data file.
> state_file              orca.state
> 
> # html_dir specifies the top of the HTML tree created by Orca.
> html_dir                /usr/local/apache/htdocs/orca
> 
> <snip>
> 
> group orcallator {
> find_files
> /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/(.*)/(?:(?:orcallator)|(?:percol))-\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}(?:\.(?:Z|gz|bz2))?
> 
> column_description      first_line
> date_source             column_name timestamp
> date_format             %s
> interval                300
> reopen                  1
> filename_compare        sub {
>                           my ($ay, $am, $ad) = $a =~
> /-(\d{4})-(\d\d)-(\d\d)/;
>                           my ($by, $bm, $bd) = $b =~
> /-(\d{4})-(\d\d)-(\d\d)/;
>                           if (my $c = (( $ay       <=>  $by) ||
>                                        ( $am       <=>  $bm) ||
>                                        (($ad >> 3) <=> ($bd >> 3)))) {
>                             return 2*$c;
>                           }
>                           $ad <=> $bd;
>                         }
> }