[Orca-users] Re: Still having trouble with Orca and SE Toolkit

[Blair Zajac]

Peter Hand wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed the 0.27b2 Orca package on my Linux server and
> copied the orcallator.se that came with it
> (/usr/local/lib/orcallator.se) to my Solaris server.  I
> restarted "percol" (which is defintely pointing to my
> new /opt/RICHPse/orcallator/orcallator.se) and this is what SE
> Toolkit gives me:
> 
> root at DBSERVER1 # more percol-2002-11-04-000
>  timestamp locltime DNnsrkcmdit   uptime
> 1036431600 11:40:00 gwwwwwwgwww  1097815
> 
> I do a little better when I run it using the orcallator.se that came
> with the SE Toolkit package (orcallator.se-1.35.txt, but I am still
> lacking CPU, Memory and other critical metrics:
> 
> timestamp  locltime   uptime state_D state_N state_n state_s state_r
> state_k sta
> te_c state_m state_d state_i state_t DNnsrkcmdit
> 1036432200 11:50:00  1098414       2       0       0       0
> 0       0
>    0       2       0       0       0 gwwwwwwgwww
> 
> And when I run the orcallator.se that comes
> in /opt/RICHPse/orcallator/orcallator.se when you install SE Toolkit,
> I get:
> 
>  timestamp locltime DNnsrkcmdit   uptime
> 1036432800 12:00:00 gwwwwwwgwww  1099015
> 
> (_again_)
> 
> When I run the percol.se file, I get lots of data, but the
> orcallator.se file comes up short.  Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
> 
> SE Toolkit version is 3.2.1
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter

Peter,

Run it like this:

se -DWATCH_OS orcallator.se

The -DWATCH_OS tells orcallator.se to watch everything on the server
except for web stats.

I would use the start_orcallator.se script to start orcallator.se,
it's easier to use and passes the correct flags to SE.

Best,
Blair

-- 
Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/