[Orca-users]

[Bernard]

Hi Blair,	
	This is long and I'm sorry about that but I was thinking as I typed.  :)

We've been using orca for sometime and it has provided loads of important 
information on our servers.   An issue that we have is that 3 of the disk 
graphs, Space, Inode and Run have repeats of the same information on the 
same page.

All the other Data Sets have a single graph per host.

eg:   Disk Run Percent "Weekly, or whatever" has multiple graphs of the 
same file systems for one of the hosts.

This doesn't show up in the first days processing of orcallator files.  It 
does repeat from day 2 onwards.

I've tried variations of versions of Orca, orcallator and web servers, 
linux and Solaris.    I've tried variations in the orcallator.cfg 
file.    I've looked in the orcallator data files and there isn't repeating 
information per row so I'm thinking it's to do with how orca processes 
orcallator data for "Space, Inode and Run".
Each repeating graph has its own png and png.meta file with slight 
variations in the name.  eg: The ordering of the file system names, /var 
before /tmp or other variation.

Perhaps that is where the  issue lies.  Maybe it's getting the name 
ordering mixed up and writing updates to a new file instead of updating the 
existing.  Perhaps it's losing track of the file name it should be writing 
to.   This makes me think that orcallator is collating the /dev's and 
/directory names differently and Orca isn't keeping track of what it's 
already created for the Disk Graphs.  ???

If orcallator is putting the different devs and dirs in different places in 
the rows in the orcallator data file then,
Is it possible to force ordering of  the devs and file systems in 
orcallator.cfg or somewhere?   ie:  c0t0d0 is always before c0t0d1 and / is 
always before /bin before /etc   ...... ??

Or is it possible to force ordering with the SE tool that collects the disk 
info?

Or am I on the wrong track and there is something else causing the multiple 
graphs?

I hope this isn't too much info.  :)

Kind Regards
Bernard