[Orca-users] trying to plot but getiting empty plots

[Blair Zajac]

Alessandro,

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Alessandro Pace wrote:
> 
> I just found out about ORCA this past weekend and it's what I was looking
> for.
> Now the problem, I think I have syntax issues with my configuration file or
> my data file format:
> 
> Here is my config file:
> 
> group neptunestat2 {
> find_files /otp/orca/hearsay/neptunestat.txt2

You should match on the hostname here, otherwise you won't get
separate groups, assuming that hearsay is your systems name.

find_files /otp/orca/(hearsay)/neptunestat.txt2

> #column_description first_line
> column_description CallsPerHour ActivePorts ErrorFreeCalls UnexpectedEvent
> BusyErrors LatencyErrors RecoErrors OtherErrors DisconnectErrors
> #date_source column_name timestamp
> date_source file_mtime
> interval 300
> }
> 
> plot {
> title %g Call Load Statistics
> source neptunestat2
> data CallsPerHour
> line_type line3
> y_legend Calls/Hours
> data_min 0
> data_max 40000
> color 00ff00
> }
> 
> The data file looks like:
> 
> CallsPerHour ActivePorts ErrorFreeCalls UnexpectedEvent BusyErrors
> LatencyErrors RecoErrors OtherErrors DisconnectErrors
> 2040 100.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
> 7800 100.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

You need a column of the current time in seconds since 1970.  The
C time() and Perl time() functions return the proper value.

Best,
Blair

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