[Orca-users] Re: Resync all Orca data

[Blair Zajac]

Hi Bob,

Can you send me the exact error message from Orca (just copy and paste?)

Which version of Orca are you using?  Are your percol-* files compressed?

If it's older than 0.27b2 or if you didn't apply the patch to 0.26, then
Orca will not close file descriptors to an uncompression program when it
should and this can cause Orca to run out of file descriptors.  You can
try applying this patch:

http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/patches/orca-0.26-defunct-processes-patch.txt


Another solution is to look at the maximum number of file descriptors your
shell has.  Run either limit for csh style shells or ulimit for Bourne
style shells to see the maximum number of file descriptors.  If you can
raise the number, then do so.

If you're reloading all of the data, I would upgrade to 0.27b2 anyway to
not have to deal with any file renaming issues.

If this doesn't work, then follow your step.

Glad you like Orca.  Do you need any consulting work done :)

Blair

Bob Johnson wrote:
> 
> Hello Blair
> 
> Some of my html files had been deleted and I wanted to get everything up
> to date. I did the old trick of removing all html and rrd files and
> restarting orca. This time though not all the html files came back. I
> have done this before and it has always worked. Now thought I have
> several months worth of data from many machines.
> 
> Over the time of the regeneration there were 1268 messages like:
> bin/orca: warning: cannot create Orca::HTMLFile object: cannot open
> `/home/html_out/o_bbuxas05-monthly.html.htm' for writing: Too many open
> files.
> 
> So the question is: Will the missing files eventually be created as new
> data arrives and the htmls have to be updated?
> 
> Or should I do the following:
> 1 - stop Orca
> 2 - shutdown orcallator.se on the machines I monitor
> 3 - remove all rrd and html files
> 4 - move all previous data out of the area where Orca normally looks for
> it.
> 5 - do the following 3 step loop, until all old data is back in
> a - move a little old data to Orca's regular data collection area
> b - start Orca, let it pickup this data and make the html's
> c - stop Orca, go back to 'a'
> 6 - after all the old data is processed start Orca and the orcallators
> 
> Thanks for you help
> 
> rlj
> 
> PS - Thanks for writing Orca. It has been very helpful and allowed me to
> find various problems and come up with solutions.
> --
> Bob Johnson,   Tellabs Operations,   Bob.Johnson at tellabs.com,
> 630-512-7023