[Orca-users] Re: orca questions

[mbanker1966]

Thanks for the reply.

I have the latest Orca I believe (0.27b2) but I was using version 1.28
of orcallator.se.  I see version 1.32 of orcallator.se, but where
would I pickup the updated orcallator.cfg?

Regards,

Mike

--- In orca-users at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> mbanker1966 wrote:
> >
> > Orca rules!
>
> Thanks!
>
> >
> > A few questions...
> >
> > 1) How about daily charts for a particular day, not just the last
> > day?  Should be doable, right? The data is there, so I guess I
would
> > have to make some changes to orca itself to accomplish this.
>
> One problem with RRD files is that as data gets older, it gets
> consolidated into larger timespans.  From lib/Orca/Constants.pm:
>
> # The first RRA is every 5 minutes for 200 hours, the second is
every
> # 30 minutes for 31 days, the third is every 2 hours for 100 days,
and
> # the last is every day for 3 years.
>
> So for data older than 31 days, the data is stored in 2 hour bins.
>
> What you want to do is create a cron job that copies your output
HTML
> directory into a date specific directory and let people surf those.
>
> >
> > 2) Overlaying charts... say I wanted to see cpu utilization for 3
> > different machines on the same chart?  I know it doesn't do this
now,
> > but just wanted your thoughts on it.
>
> As Adam said, you can see a page with all the CPU plots on the same
page.
> If you want them all on the same plot, then you'll have to edit
> orcallator.cfg to do this.
>
> >
> > 3) I saw a System Overview chart in the orcallator docs section on
> > your web site.  Very nice... how can I implement that?
>
> This is in the latest versions of orcallator.se and orcallator.cfg.
>
> Best,
> Blair
>
> --
> Blair Zajac <blair at o...>
> Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/