[Orca-users] Re: plot data cut off

[blum0422]

Blair,
     I thank you very much for your support.  I played around with the summary_format and finally got it to work properly (mistake on my part :-( )  I did however try the plot width and that worked as well.  On a side note (question #2) I'm seeing that some of the hosts create multiple graphs for same dataset (disk use percent).  I've now figured out from searching through this forum that this is due to different plots taken at different times.  I've now upgraded the orcallator.se on all clients and the orca host and removed the old rrd's and rebuilt (with data dating back to Jan) and still they show multiple graphs.  I've read the rrd docs on 'rrdtool update' but want to know if that is the only way to resolve my issue while maintaining historical data.  If I create the template for the
hosts and (using veritas clustering for failover) the disks fail over to another host, will that agian alter the DB?  If there is a measurement in rrd that is not included in the percol/orcallator file that updates the rrd will that cause conflicts?  This is more or less a production tool that many people are looking at and don't have a lab box that I can play with :-( so would like to be pretty sure before I make any abrupt changes ;-)  Thanks again for all your support.
--- In orca-users at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> blum0422 wrote:
> >
> > I'm running version orcallator.se 1.28b5 on most of my machines
> > (haven't updated them yet) but 1.32 (se & cfg) on the box that
> > runs orca.  The plot in question is the Disk Space Percent Usage.
> > The FS that is mounted is longer than normal (VTS disks, ~28 chars)
> > which starts the Curr/Ave/Min/Max quite a ways in....  I've set
> > the summary_format option to "%3.0lf" with no apparent difference
> > in display.  I'm not seeing any of the Max stats.  If I'm
> > understanding the format right, there should only be whole
> > numbers (no decimal places), but don't understand what the "lf"
> > or "le" is...  Help.
>
> The lf or le is from the RRD manual for the PRINT and GPRINT
> command, which I'm pretty sure if the printf format that RRD
> supports, as it only printf floating point values.
>
> Since this solution doesn't appear to work, in the plot that
> is not working, try adding the following line:
>
> plot_width      700
>
> the default plot_width is 500, so this should make the plot bigger
> to contain all the text.  You may also want to revert summar_format
> to the previous value.
>
> Let me know if this works.
>
> Best,
> Blair
>
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> Blair Zajac <blair at o...>
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