[Orca-users] Re: How to customize the time axis (x-axis)?

[ppchu99 at yahoo.com]

Hi Simon,

I am a newbie on this..Could you be a bit more specific on this
subject ?? for example, where do you place this shell script in
respect to rddtool ??

thx
--- In orca-discuss at y..., simon.klyne at a... wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I use Orca for graphing all sorts of measurements of our system and
produce
> a daily report on it's own web page.
> I acheive this by using rrdtool directly on the RRD files created by
Orca.
> Here is a fragment of shell script ( bourne/korn ) that produces a
PNG
> graph and the line of html to paste into a web page to pick up the
graph:
>
>   ${bindir1}/rrdtool graph
${graph_dir}/${date_fnam_str}Proc_fail_time_series.png \
>     --end "${year}${month}${day} ${hour}:${mins}" \
>     --start end-4weeks \
>     --imginfo "<IMG SRC=\"${web_graph_dir}/%s\" WIDTH=\"%lu\"
HEIGHT=\"%lu\" ALT=\"Process Restarts last 4 weeks\">" \
>     --height $height --width $width \
>     --vertical-label 'Process Restart Count' \
>     --title "Automatic Process Restarts for 4 weeks to
$title_date_str" \
>    
"DEF:A=${OrcaDir}/${Proc_fail}/STS/Proc_fail_GCT.rrd:Orca19990222:AVER
AGE" \
>    
"DEF:B=${OrcaDir}/${Proc_fail}/STS/Proc_fail_NM.rrd:Orca19990222:AVERA
GE" \
>    
"DEF:C=${OrcaDir}/${Proc_fail}/STS/Proc_fail_QM.rrd:Orca19990222:AVERA
GE" \
>    
"DEF:D=${OrcaDir}/${Proc_fail}/STS/Proc_fail_SM.rrd:Orca19990222:AVERA
GE" \
>     'AREA:A#A6A6AA:GCT' \
>     'STACK:B#6A5ACD:NM' \
>     'STACK:C#4169E1:QM' \
>     'STACK:D#40E0D0:SM' \
>     "COMMENT:\s" \
>     "COMMENT:\s" \
>     "COMMENT:\s" \
>     "COMMENT:$date_str" | \
>       grep IMG > $Proc_fail_TS_html
>
> For me this was the best approach since I still wanted the
underlying Orca pages to be relect the latest status.
>
>
> Simon
>
>
>
>
>
> ppchu99 at y... on 24/05/2001 17:07:22
>
> Please respond to orca-discuss at y...
>
> To:   orca-discuss at y...
> cc:
> Subject:  [orca-discuss] Re: How to customize the time axis
(x-axis)?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Could you be a bit more specific on this subject, since I am new to
> this ??
>
> I understand the part of the change is on lib/Orca/ImageFile.pm
>
> The segment of the code is:
>
> # Create the options for RRDs::graph that do not change across any
>   # invocations of RRDs::graph.
>   my @options = (
>     '-v', ::replace_subgroup_name($plot_ref->{y_legend},
> $subgroup_name),
>     '-b', $plot_ref->{base}
>   );
>
> thx
>
> --- In orca-discuss at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at a...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > While RRDtool can be specified to plot a specific time span using
> > the -e and -s command line options (see the rrdgraph and rrdfetch
> > manual pages) Orca is not currently designed to pass these options
> > to RRDtool.
> >
> > If you wanted to, you could edit lib/Orca/ImageFile.pm and add the
> > -e and -s rrdgraph options to @options.  Look at the rrdfetch
manual
> > page for hints on getting the 3pm to 5pm time span.
> >
> > I'd be interested in seeing what changes you need to make this
> happen
> > and the specific arguments to -e and -s to get the consistent 3pm
> and
> > 5pm times.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Blair
> >
> > Cindy_Liu at i... wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > How can I customize the time axis so that I can see report for a
> > > certain defined period, say from 3pm to 5pm?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
>
>
>
>
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