[Orca-users] Re: orac problem

[Phillip B. Bruce]

Blair Zajac wrote:

> Phillip,
>
> Why do you want this specific data?  What's missing in orcallator.se
> that
> you want from these other programs?
>
> I haven't seen any scripts that do this, probably because
> orcallator.se
> records so much.
>
> Anybody done this???  We could use more scripts.
>
> Regards,
> blair
>
> "Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > ************************************************************
>
> > > > > > *** Phillip B. Bruce                                     ***
>
> > > > > > *** http://pbbruce.home.mindspring.com                   ***
>
> > > > > > *** pbbruce at mindspring.com                               ***
>
> > > > > > ***                                                      ***
>
> > > > > > *** "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than    ***
>
> > > > > > *** you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you    ***
>
> > > > > > *** is a maniac." - George Carlin                        ***
>
> > > > > > ************************************************************
>
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > ************************************************************
> > > > *** Phillip B. Bruce                                     ***
> > > > *** http://pbbruce.home.mindspring.com                   ***
> > > > *** pbbruce at mindspring.com                               ***
> > > > ***                                                      ***
> > > > *** "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than    ***
> > > > *** you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you    ***
> > > > *** is a maniac." - George Carlin                        ***
> > > > ************************************************************
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > --
> > ************************************************************
> > *** Phillip B. Bruce                                     ***
> > *** http://pbbruce.home.mindspring.com                   ***
> > *** pbbruce at mindspring.com                               ***
> > ***                                                      ***
> > *** "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than    ***
> > *** you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you    ***
> > *** is a maniac." - George Carlin                        ***
> > ************************************************************
>
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>

Blair,

        Take it for a second that I've recorded data before I got this
wonderful program and have
         a need to graph it with this utility. Now do me a favor an
answer can I plot previous text
         data with this utility. if so how do I accomplish that.

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*** Phillip B. Bruce                                     ***
*** http://pbbruce.home.mindspring.com                   ***
*** pbbruce at mindspring.com                               ***
***                                                      ***
*** "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than    ***
*** you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you    ***
*** is a maniac." - George Carlin                        ***
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