[Orca-users] Orcallator: Running orca on each machine

[Yves Dorfsman]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Kalpesh Patel wrote:

> All you need are the rrd files from the machines from which you want to
> plot. In particular you need to look at the orcallator.cfg file on the
> machine where you are creating html pages. In particular, interest are the
> parameters named 'html_dir', which is where the index.html will be created,
> and 'find_files' parameter in the 'group' configuration.
>
> The way I do is that under /var/orca/orcallator directory, I create a
> sub-directory for each machine that I want the plots to be generated. Then
> in each of those sub directory, I get rrd files from that node into the
> sub-directory created in the previous step. Once all of them are copied
> over, run orca with '-once' option. Here are the steps on Solaris machine
> for my configuration:
>
> Mkdir -p /var/orca/orcallator/mach1
> Mkdir -p /var/orca/orcallator/mach2
> Mkdir -p /var/orca/orcallator/mach3

But there is no rrd files in those directories, this is were orcallator
puts its raw data. Are those the directory you are copying, or is that a
typo ?

> 1	html_dir                /tmp
> 2	find_files
> /var/orca/orcallator/(.*)/(?:(?:orcallator)|(?:percol))-
> \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}(?:-\d{3,})?(?:\.(?:Z|gz|bz2))?
> 3	column_description      first_line
>
> I also included third line knowing that rrd files contain first line as the
> column description for all of the machines. This will generate an index page
> with three machines plots.

I am looking at this, to see what I can do with it - I'll get back to the
list if I figure something out.

For information, what I am trying to do is to have each server/workstation
running orca to generate the rrd and png files, copy those on one web
server, and have orca generates the html files only on this box, without
wasting cpu time trying to re-generate the rrd and png files.


Yves.
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