[Orca-users] Netbackup & Combining Graphs

[Sean O'Neill]

At 10:19 PM 3/13/2003 -0600, Liston Bias wrote:
>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.

You'll have to handle this yourself in your data collector.  From another 
posting, it looks like you can run a command for netbackup that shows 
errors for a specific timeframe.  In this cases, you might be able to 
simply run this command from time to time and not worry about zero'ing out 
any counters.


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Sean O'Neill