[Orca-users] Re: Orca beginner question !

Wed Nov 28 01:31:07 PST 2001

Thanx for the help. I have already changed that, and the situation doesn't
look so bad, but I still have no PNGs.
I would like to show you my files, and I hope that you can help me.

This is my cfg file "orca_ping.cfg":

group orca_ping {
find_files              /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/monitoring_ping
column_description      first_line
date_source             column_name timestamp
date_format             %s
interval                120
reopen                  1
....

plot {
title                   %g Avg Ping-Time for panda
source                  orca_ping
data                    ping_avg
plot_width              400
plot_height             350
legend                  ping zeiten
color                   ff0000
y_legend                Number Processes
href
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~blair/orca/docs/orcallator.html#processes_in_run
_queue
}

And this is my data file "monitoring_ping" (around 300 lines):

ping_avg timestamp
100 1006266960
109 1006267020
102 1006267081
116 1006267141
106 1006267200
114 1006267260
126 1006267320
100 1006267380
100 1006267440
.....

and this is what I get when I run it:

root at panda[529]: orca -v orca_ping.cfg
Orca version 0.26beta1 using RRDs version 1.000131.
Loading state from `/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state'.
Creating orca.gif.
Creating rrdtool.gif.
Finding files and setting up data structures at Wed Nov 28 10:06:09 2001.
root     32370  0.0  1.0 3004 3296  pts/4 A    10:06:08  0:00 perl -w # -*-
per
root     20474  0.0  0.0  104  164  pts/4 A    10:06:09  0:00 grep 32370
Current running time is 0:01 minutes.
Loading new data.
  Read   299 data points from
`/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/monitoring_ping'.
Flushing new data and updating PNGs.
  Creating RRD `/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/o_ping_ping_avg.rrd'.
/usr/local/bin/orca: RRDs::create error:
`/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/o_ping_ping_avg.rrd' start time:
unparsable time:
Saving state into `/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state'.
Updating PNGs.
Creating HTML files in `/usr/local/www/data/orca/'.
Sleeping at Wed Nov 28 10:06:10 2001 until Wed Nov 28 10:08:39 2001.

As You can see, everything looks ok, until the line "Creating RRD ". There
is an error in the next line about "unparsable time ...."
html  files are being created, but there are no PNGs. should the PNGs be in
the same dir as html files?

Should I change "date_source" in the group from
date_source             column_name timestamp

to
date_source             ping_avg timestamp

or should I leave it as it is? I tried to change it, but I allways got an
error, so I didn't change it.

I am really sorry because of writing so much, but I have no idea, what
should I do. I don't need (at the moment) any maths in the plot, I just want
it to draw a graph by using these 300 lines (this is just an example file,
the real file has thousands and thousands of lines).

Thanx a lot one more time and I hope that You can help me.

J.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Blair Zajac" <blair at orcaware.com>
To: <orca-users at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-users] Orca beginner question !

> You'll want to also set up a single plot {} for your data with a "data
ping_ms"
> entry
> to plot the ping time.  Also, change the interval to match your
measurement
> interval.
>
> Best,
> Blair
>
> Mirza wrote:
>
> > I tried a few things:- edited my source file to look like this:ping_ms
> > timestamp123 1006266960128 1006267020... - in my orcallator.cfg is
everything
> > default except ""find_files""":find_files
> > /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/monitoring_ping
> > column_description first_line
> > date_source  column_name timestamp
> > date_format  %s
> > interval  300....  - read a manual one more time, and some things became
> > pretty clear and this is the current situation, and I have no idea, what
to
> > do:- I run ""orca -o orcallator.cfg"" and got
this:-------/usr/local/bin/orca:
> > warning: cannot open state file
> > `/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state' for reading: No such
file or
> > directory
> > root     28844  0.0  0.0  104  164 pts/12 A    14:22:31  0:00 grep 17988
> > root     17988  0.0  1.0 3188 3476 pts/12 A    14:22:30  0:00 perl -w
# -*-
> > per
> > root     17988 25.0  1.0 3224 3512 pts/12 A    14:22:30  0:01 perl -w
# -*-
> > per
> > root     24640  0.0  0.0  104  164 pts/12 A    14:22:32  0:00 grep 17988
> > ------- html files are being created (7 html files, rrdtool.gif,
orca.gif in
> > the dir), but there are no graphs. there is nothing about it in the html
code
> > of these html pages. i just see the header, the footer, links (daily,
weekly
> > ... all) and a line of the text ("These plots brought to you by your
local
> > system administrator."). Any ideas what could I do? Thanx a lot J.
> >
> >      ----- Original Message -----
> >      From: Mirza
> >      To: orca-users at yahoogroups.com
> >      Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 11:03 AM
> >      Subject: [orca-users] Orca beginner question !
> >       Sorry, I forgot to enter the subject. Thanx J.
> >
>
> --
> Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> - Perl & sysadmin services for hire
> Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/
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