[Orca-users] Multiple graphs of same data

[Blair Zajac]

Charles Dennett wrote:

> This is a common problem with orca.  It happens because some local mounted partitions (ie. not NFS mounts)come and go.  It could be from a removable media like a floppy or CD.  It could be because to mounted some otehr disk partition for whatever reason.  It seems that every different combination results in yet another disk space and disk inode graph.  
> 
> I don't know if this has ever been fixed in orca.

Hi Charlie,

It's fixed now!!!  Finally.  Try the latest snapshot to see if it fixes the 
problems:

http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/snapshots/

> However, quite a while ago someone published to this list a perl program that can be used to "fix" this problem. It does not fix it permanently, but it will 
> condense the multiple graphs down to one.  It's called orca-fix.pl (or orcafix.pl - don't recall exactly which one.)  It does this by rewriting all the previous orcallator data files (you do keep them, right?) to match one that you claim is good (usually the latest one.)
> 
> Instructions for its use are in comments at the beginning of the file.  Essentially, you fix all the data files with orcafix on all the systems that have the multiple graphs.  Then on the orca machine you delete (yes, delete) all the RRD file for these systems.  Then you run orca and it will rebuild all the RRD file from the data files.
> 
> Search the list archives (or google) for orcafix.

And orcafix should not be necessary.

Blair

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