[Orca-users] Re: graphs not updating (although the data is) on a sol 2.8 host

[orcausers]

--- In orca-users at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> orcausers wrote:
> > The web graphs are being displayed - and the number of web
servers is
> > correct - as this is a test system and all the virtual hosts
defined
> > in the apache file write to their own CustomLog - I will assume
there
> > is no data to present for the other graphs - those are being
changed
> > to either eliminate them or TransferLog to access_log.
>
> orcallator.se only reads from a single log file, so you won't be
> able to monitor the different virtual hosts if they each write to
> their own log file.
>
> >
> > I have a number of other servers I have to do and am trying to
> > understand whether anything HAS to be done to get the web graphs
> > other than the addition of WEB_SERVER, WATCH_WEB and WEB_LOG to
the
> > orcallator.se script and the yo yo of that on the server.
>
> Nope, that should be it.
>
> >
> > do i have to yo yo the orca perl engine on my "repository" server
> > when i add the above to any server?
>
> If you want it to find the new source input files as soon as it can
> get around them, then either bounce Orca or better yet send it a
> SIGHUP.  This tells it to find all the input files on its next pass.
>
> > do i have to wait for the midnight turnover to a new percol file
for
> > the graphs to be updated after this change? this will determine
when
> > i make the changes.
>
> Not if you use SIGHUP.  Also, the find_times configuration parameter
> tells Orca when to search for new files.
>
> Best,
> Blair
>
> --
> Blair Zajac <blair at o...>
> Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/


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