[Orca-users] Netbackup & Combining Graphs

[Liston Bias]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Sean O'Neill wrote:

> At 02:05 PM 3/13/2003 -0600, Liston Bias wrote:
> >When creating data with script outside of orcallator.se, is it a sound
> >idea ot merge the data together in single oracllator data file or just
> >keep them totally separate?  I like to keep everything together, but
> >believe it could leave to more problems.
>
> Do you mean not merge with the existing orcallator data ?  If that's what
> you mean, yes keep it separate.  I wrote something up a while back to
> collect Weblogic SNMP information.  I kept this separate because "merging"
> it would have been a nightmare.  Also, this kept me from hosing up the
> existing orcallator data directories as well as missing up the
> orcallator.cfg file.
>
> This does require a separate instance of orca running.
>
>
> >One thing we are looking to graph is failures per day.  We would want to
> >reset the count daily.  Is there something in orca to allow me to do
> >cummulative count for current day only?  I'm guessing it may be easiest to
> >just put the counting in perl data collection script.
>
> Yep.  At 12 midnight, your failure counter goes to 0, you roll your data
> file, and start writing to a new data file.

Are you saying orca handles this count for me or I need to do separately.

- Liston

============================================================================
- Liston Bias                       You must get involved to have an impact.
  Alumnus of Oklahoma State Univ    No one is impressed with the
  Alumnus of Florida State Univ     won-loss record of the referee.
                                              -John H. Holcomb
  bias at pobox.com
  http://www.pobox.com/~bias
============================================================================