[Orca-users] Re: orcallator.cfg.lock

[Matthew Boeckman]

one last question: after upgrading I notice that files are now called
orcallator-$date, instead of percol... so in the dir on the central
server that generates the gif's I've got both percol (pre-upgrade) and
orcallator(post). Since this happened in the middle of the day, can I do
something like

cat percol-2002-02-22 >> orcallator-2002-02-22-000

and have it keep consistent stats for the day? I notice the
orcallator.cfg file seems to look for *both*, but my graphs are not
currently being updated with any of the post-install information. Is it
best to just wipe and start fresh?


Matthew Boeckman wrote:

> Blair Zajac wrote:
>
>  > Matthew Boeckman wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  > Blair Zajac wrote:
>  >  > > Which SE and orcallator.se are you using?
>  >  >
>  >  > se - Version 3.1 (pre-fcs) (10:39 AM 03/31/99) for sparcv9 SunOS 5.7
>  >  >
>  >  > orcallator.se - Version 1.23: Feb 25, 2000 (same version on both
>  > machines)
>  >
>  > I would upgrade to the latest SE and orcallator.se, as they both fix
>  > some problems.
>
>
> done, se 3.2.1, and orcallator.se-1.32
>
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  > >
>  >  > > You can run orcallator.se by hand and see if the data makes any
> sense
>  >  > > with other programs, such as top.
>  >  >
>  >  > not sure I understand what you mean... i've run:
>  >  > /opt/RICHPse/bin/se orcallator.se  on the command line, and (after
>  >  > several minutes) get:
>  >  >   timestamp locltime DNnsrkcmdit   uptime
>  >  > 1014404700 13:05:00 wwwwwwwwwww   258807
>  >  > 1014405000 13:10:00 wwwwwwwwwww   259107
>  >  >
>  >  > I don't know how to bring that into top. I don't know if it helps but
>  >  > you can see the graphs that are upsetting me at http://orca.saepio.com
>  >  > (user auth temporarily disabled). Target Order is the good, and
> ultra is
>  >  > the not-so-good.
>  >
>  > What I meant was to run top in one window and run orcallator.se on the
>  > command line in another.  Also, you'll want to put one or more of the
>  > following defines when you run orcallator.se:
>  >
>  > // If WATCH_OS is defined, then measure every part of the operating
>  > // system.
>  > #ifdef WATCH_OS
>  > #define WATCH_CPU               1
>  > #define WATCH_MUTEX             1
>  > #define WATCH_NET               1
>  > #define WATCH_TCP               1
>  > #define WATCH_NFS_CLIENT        1
>  > #define WATCH_NFS_SERVER        1
>  > #define WATCH_MOUNTS            1
>  > #define WATCH_DISK              1
>  > #define WATCH_DNLC              1
>  > #define WATCH_INODE             1
>  > #define WATCH_RAM               1
>  > #define WATCH_PAGES             1
>  > #endif
>  >
>  > Like this
>  >
>  >     se -DWATCH_CPU orcallator.se 10
>  >
>  > The 10 tells orcallator.se to output every 10 seconds instead of waiting
>  > for 5 minutes.
>
>
> I did exactly this, and the data appears correct, for example, se
> reports .3 load, so does top. Because I'm a dunderhead I didn't think to
> do this _prior_ to upgrading. I'll wait 30 minutes, update the data on
> central server, and see if the plots look nicer.
>
>
>  > I don't see any Orca plots at this URL, just netsaint and it requires a
>  > username and password.
>  >
>
> I guess I had an old zone file for external DNS on that site. It will
> take a while to propogate the update. If you want to see, you could put
> 208.10.117.9 in your /etc/hosts file for the name and look. I've been
> thinking, and the system has been less loaded down than I thought while
> orca was running. I'm currently making some extended load to see if that
> makes the graph look more like... a graph... we'll see.
>
> either way, thanks for your responses and help!
>
>
>
>  >  >
>  >  > <aside>Blair I've loved and relied on orca for over a year now and
> can't
>  >  > thank you and the development folks enough. We're a small software
>  >  > company, with no budget for "fancy" reporting things. Products like
>  >  > yours, MRTG, webalizer &c make me twice the admin I really am, but
> don't
>  >  > tell management:-)
>  >  > </aside>
>  >
>  > Thanks, you're very welcome!
>  >
>  > Best,
>  > Blair
>  >
>  > --
>  > Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
>  > Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/
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