[Orca-users] Re: orca command line

[Blair Zajac]

The orcallator.state file is generated the first time Orca runs, so that it
is missing is not a problem.

The problem is as Orca warns.  Check the orcallator.cfg file's find_files and
make sure the regex there matches where your orcallator.se output files are
generated.

Blair

"Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
> 
> Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
> > Phillip,
> >
> > First off, I would say that unless you need specific data that vmstat
> > records that is not measured by orcallator.se, several things:
> >
> > 1) I would like to know what is needed and why.
> > 2) If you could add it to orcallator.se everybody would thank you.
> > 3) It would be easier in the end.
> >
> > I don't have any basic Orca configuration examples, the best one to work off
> > is orcallator.cfg.in.
> >
> > Did you follow all of the instructions in INSTALL?  There's quite a few pieces
> > to install, so I can't say what you need to do without more info.
> >
> > Best,
> > Blair
> >
> > Phillip Bruce wrote:
> > >
> > > Blair,
> > >
> > >    I'm running this on Solaris 2.8 x86 realease
> > >    03/00.
> > >
> > >    Are there any basic example of the orac
> > > configuration files?
> > >
> > >    if I do set up a configuration file how do
> > >    I input let's say example. I do a vmstat 5
> > >    that will output every 5 seconds a report
> > >    of how memory and swap are performing.
> > >
> > >    Just a basic example would be great to understand
> > >    that.
> > >
> > >    Also I have se tools and have installed the
> > > orcallator and ran that. now how do I get the graphs
> > > up there?
> > >
> > > Phillip
> > > --- Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > What OS are you using?
> > > >
> > > > You'll need to create configuration files to read
> > > > each of these files
> > > > separately so Orca can properly parse the
> > > > information from them.  Read
> > > > the Orca manual page to learn about Orca's
> > > > configuration file and take
> > > > a look at orca-0.XX/orcallator/orcallator.cfg.in to
> > > > see a complicated
> > > > config file.
> > > >
> > > > Blair
> > > >
> > > > okiebruce at yahoo.com wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > >    This is the first time I'm using orca and want
> > > > to plot the
> > > > >    data generate already by vmstat, iostat, or
> > > > mpstat. How do
> > > > >    I use orca to do this?
> > > >
> > >
> 
> Blair,
> 
>    I've followed the instructions to the T.  Here is what I'm running into now:
>  orca -v lib/orcallator.cfg
> Orca version 0.26beta1 using RRDs version 1.000131.
> /opt/orca/bin/orca: warning: cannot open state file
> `/opt/orca/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state' for reading: No such file or
> directory
> Creating orca.gif.
> Creating rrdtool.gif.
> Finding files and setting up data structures at Sun Sep 23 10:55:45 2001.
> /opt/orca/bin/orca: warning: no files found for `find_files' for `group
> orcallator' in `lib/orcallator.cfg'.
> /opt/orca/bin/orca: no data source files found.
>  RSS  VSZ %MEM        TIME     USER   PID COMMAND
> 3364 4204  1.4        0:01     root 22335 /usr/bin/perl
> Current running time is 0:01 minutes.
> # cd /software/local/orca*
> # find . -name orca.state -print
> 
>   It looks like the orca.state file didn't get generated. Can you tell me when
> this file is created. also  The
>    finding files that you run is not true since teh orca determine where the
> orca.state file was supposed to
>    be.
> 
>  See below:
> 
> /opt/orca/lib
> # ls -la
> total 3514
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root     other        512 Sep 23 10:55 .
> drwxr-xr-x  10 root     other        512 Sep 23 10:34 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        512 Sep 23 10:39 Orca
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other    1662408 Sep 23 10:36 librrd.a
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other        618 Sep 23 10:36 librrd.la
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other      17739 Sep 23 10:40 orcallator.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other      17739 Sep 20 20:03
> orcallator.cfg.2001-09-21-02:16:08
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other      17739 Sep 21 02:16
> orcallator.cfg.2001-09-23-10:39:26
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other      17739 Sep 23 10:39
> orcallator.cfg.2001-09-23-10:40:03
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other      48784 Sep 23 10:40 orcallator.se
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root     other        512 Sep 23 10:36 per
> 
> Let me know what else is needed. I'm stumped from here.
> 
>  BTW, I'm running the newer version of se tools 3.2.
> 
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