[Orca-users] winallator

[Vicky P. Retzke]

We have been successfully running orca on all of our solaris and linux  
servers for about 18 months.  I have now been tasked with using orca to  
graph the performance data from our Windows environment.

I have:

1.  Downloaded, compiled and installed the latest orca snapshot (r528)  
in a completely separate path from our production "unix" orca
2.  Patched the SourceFile.pm using SourceFile.pm-patch-with-r520.txt
3.  Received several data *.tsv data files from a test server created  
using the winallator.htm file (these files were created by the Windows  
admin and provided to me)
4.  Tried to start orca using <new_path>/bin/orca -v  
<new_path/etc/winallator.cfg

Orca fails with the following error:

./bin/orca: warning: cannot find date 'timestamp' in  
'/users/nrgo600/var/worca/winallator/testdir/ 
winallator_2006040416.tsv'.

I'm assuming the problem is a result of a mismatch between the  
winallator.cfg and the data files.  There is no "timestamp" column name  
in the data file.  I've tried editing the config file to match the  
first column in the data file and tried changing the first column in  
the data file to "timestamp" - neither effort worked.  I've also tried  
searching the user_archives.  I did find one thread from Dec2005 where  
Blair talks about using the right version of the patch - I'm assuming I  
have the latest version since I just downloaded it today.

I've included excerpts from both my config file and data file.  If you  
need any additional information, just let me know.  Thanks for your  
help!

winallator.cfg (partial)

group winallator {
find_files               
/users/nrgo600/var/worca/winallator/(.*)/winallator_\d{10}\.tsv
column_description      first_line
date_source             column_name timestamp


data file (partial)

"(PDH-TSV 4.0) (Eastern Daylight Time)(240)"     
"\\SRVTM1\Memory\Available Bytes"       "\\SRVTM1\Memory\Page
s/sec"  "\\SRVTM1\Network Interface(3Com EtherLink PCI)\Bytes  
Total/sec"        "\\SRVTM1\Network Interface(3
Com EtherLink PCI)\Output Queue Length" "\\SRVTM1\Paging  
File(\??\C:\pagefile.sys)\% Usage"     "\\SRVTM1\Pag
ing File(_Total)\% Usage"       "\\SRVTM1\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\% Disk  
Time"     "\\SRVTM1\PhysicalDisk(_Total
)\Avg. Disk Queue Length"       "\\SRVTM1\PhysicalDisk(0 C:)\% Disk  
Time"


Vicky Retzke
Unix System Administrator
Overnite, A UPS Company
804.291-5852 (w)
804.640-0241 (c)

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