[Orca-users] Re: orac problem

[Phillip B. Bruce]

Blair Zajac wrote:

> To make sure there's data, check the output percol-* files.
>
> To keep the daily snapshots you'll have to do as you mentioned, set up
> a
> crontab to do this.  I know other people on this list have mentioned
> on how
> to do this.
>
> Regards,
> Blair
>
> "Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
> >
> > Blair Zajac wrote:
> >
> > > Philip,
> > >
> > > Check that your output orcallator.se files are in
> > >
> > > /opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/HOSTNAME
> > >
> > > where the HOSTNAME is of the machine running orcallator.se, not
> orca.
> > >
> > > This regex is not used to match the contents of the orcallator.se
> > > output
> > > files.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Blair
> > >
> > > PS Can you send any futhur email to one of the Orca mailing
> lists?  I
> > > typically
> > > only respond to Orca email from there.
> > >
> > > "Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Blair,
> > > >
> > > > Here is what is in the orcallator.cfg file:
> > > >
> > > > orcallator.cfg:find_files
> > > >
> > >
> >
> /opt/orca/var/orca/orcallator/(.*)/(?:(?:orcallator)|(?:percol))-\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}(?:\.(?:Z|gz|bz2))?
>
> > >
> > > >
> > > >  So you say asking maybe run se orcallator.se and see what the
> > > output is
> > > >
> > > > and see if it matches the config file?
> > > >
> > > > Below is that output. I'm not that gifted when it comes to regex
>
> > > > (regular expression). So can you help me out on this.
> > > >
> > > > se ./orcallator.se
> > > >  timestamp locltime DNnsrkcmdit   uptime
> > > > 1001302200 20:30:00 wwwwwwwgwww   349675
> > > >
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> Service.
> >
> > Blair,
> >
> >      I like to ask since I think I'm doing something wrong.  orca
> > generates the png and gifs but
> >      it seems no data is getting corallated.
> >
> >      Also is there a way that I can retain the daily reports. In
> other
> > words all the daily reports
> >       can be save to a report with time and date stamp for that day.
> The
> > idea is for me to go back
> >       to that day and look at system responses for that day. I
> thought
> > maybe setting a cron process
> >       to do this but maybe there is a better way to accomplish this.
> I
> > may only want to keep 7 days
> >       worth of the data. Maybe it is already setup to do that.
> >
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>

Blair,

   Have you or anyone else on this list take data from other utilities
such as vmstat, iostat, mpstat
    or sar that gets redireted to a file:

    Example: vmstat 5 10 > vmstat.txt

    Then let orca take that vmstat.txt and do data corallation with
that?


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