[Orca-users] Multiple disk space percentage graphs

[Blair Zajac]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:19 PM, David Michaels wrote:

> Tonij T. wrote:
>> Thanks for the information, Dragon .  I realized that when I  
>> replied I didnt CC: the mailing list, and since the point of  
>> mailing lists is to share information I thought I would update  
>> everyone on this.
>
> Ah, and so it was.  Some of your questions I already answered in  
> the private thread, but I'll reiterate:
>
>> For some reason, no matter what changes I make to this file, the  
>> graphs never change.  Not sure what is going on there
>
> Possibly your orca start script is using a different orcallator.cfg  
> file than what you're editing.  Check the scripts, and see what  
> it's using.  My script is pretty explicit:
> orca -daemon -logfile $ORCAHOME/${hostname}-orca.out /npd/dmichael/ 
> orca-522/etc/orcallator.cfg &
>
>> Since my main goal here is to isolate specific file systems, why  
>> not go right to the source?  Since Orca  is using RRD to collect  
>> disk space metrics I decided to learn how it is being stored and  
>> how Orca is pulling that data out.  What started out as a daunting  
>> task has actually yielded some decent results.  I am able to  
>> create manual graphs of specifc file systems on the fly now.   
>> Cool! I love RRD, its an awesome tool.
>
> You may be interested in drraw then, which is basically a web front- 
> end to your rrdtool command:
> http://web.taranis.org/drraw/
>
> But it sounds like if you can get Orca to at least present you the  
> filesystems in a format you're most often going to need, then you'd  
> rarely need to go out of your way to generate specific files for  
> review.  This should be a simple matter of modifying the  
> corresponding plot {} entry(ies), and stopping/restarting Orca.
>
> As you mention below, you're using 0.27.  While this was a good  
> release at the time, there have been many improvements made since.   
> r525 is the latest 'r'elease, and in it you'll find references to  
> 0.28.  0.28 and beyond were evidently not considered good enough to  
> be stable releases, but it's my experience that they're superior to  
> 0.27 in every conceivable way.
>
> We've discussed definitions for a 1.0 release in the recent past on  
> this list - not sure what the status is on that, at present.

I just need to get off my (busy) butt and clean up the release.  Most  
of the work is now looking through all the change logs since 0.27 and  
putting them into the NEWS file.

If there's any outstanding issues before 1.0, people should send in  
patches to orca-users or orca-dev.

Regards,
Blair