[Orca-users] Re: Orca beginner question !

Wed Nov 28 22:24:26 PST 2001

Mirza wrote:
> 
> 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
> }

Since you don't have any groups specified in your find files (there are
no ()'s, then I would remove the %g in the plot title.  If you decide to
use ()'s and have different ping times for different boxes you are pinging,
then I would keep the %g.

> 
> 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

No, the configuration you have looks good to me.

Best,
Blair

> 
> 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.
> > >
> >

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