[Orca-users] Help a newbie out

[Blair Zajac]

"Brian F." wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> It's working now, but i still have some questions about orca.
> I'll give you my config and the data it's loading to lookat.
> data file is /tmp/attempt1.txt
> 
> # cat /tmp/attempt1.txt
> 1081004510 00 29073
> 1081008110 01 51311
> 1081011710 02 48265
> 1081015310 03 52900
> 1081018910 04 44435
> 1081022510 05 42281
> 1081026110 06 49213
> 1081029710 07 53024
> 1081033310 08 50539
> 1081036910 09 55859
> 1081040510 10 57808
> 1081044110 11 67630
> 1081047710 12 52800
> 1081051310 13 61272
> 1081054910 14 54595
> 1081058510 15 55965
> 1081062110 16 64457
> 1081065710 17 69234
> 1081069310 18 52166
> 1081072910 19 59156
> 1081076510 20 50799
> 1081080110 21 53125
> 1081083710 22 56682
> 1081087310 23 58799
> 
> Config is mta.cfg
> 
> #REQUIRED OPTIONS
> state_file /opt/orca/cfg/state.log
> html_dir /var/data/htdocs/stats
> rrd_dir /var/data/htdocs/stats/rrd
> base_dir /opt/orca
> 
> #GENERAL OPTIONS
> 
> #GROUP OPTIONS
> group MTA1 {
> find_files /tmp/attempt1.txt
> column_description time hour messages
> date_source column_name time
> interval 3600
> }
> 
> #PLOT OPTIONS
> plot {
> source MTA1
> title MTA1
> data Messages
> data_type ABSOLUTE
> data_min 0
> data_max 100000
> required 1
> color ff0000
> line_type AREA
> plot_width 600
> plot_height 250
> y_legend Messages
> }
> 
> I'm not able to get the color to change, or to get the graph to fill with
> the line_type AREA option.
> Also my y_legend isn't displaying the current data. It's displaying what i
> had specified earlier.

Do you have a sample plot to show?

New plots are only generated with the .png's are deleted or there's
new data for Orca to load.  Otherwise, it'll save CPU time and won't
regenerate images.

Have you tried this?

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
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