[Orca-users] Procallator modification

[Blair Zajac]

David Michaels wrote:
> Mike.Kent at indystar.com wrote:
> 
>>
>> I recently updated the Orca collector on our Sun server to the latest, 
>> r525 from http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/snapshots/. In the process, 
>> I updated a Linux server running Fedora 4 to the latest procallator, 
>> only to find that the Sun collector wouldn't process the Linux 
>> server's files. I noticed that the name of the procallator files 
>> changed to add a hyphen and 3 digits at the end - 
>> proccol-2006-02-22-000, so the Orca collector ignored them.
>>
>> Checking procallator on the Linux server, I modified it at these line 
>> numbers:
>>
>>    1112     # Evaluate filename
>>    1113     $out_filename[$r] = sprintf "%s/proccol-%04d-%02d-%02d", 
>> $DEST_DIR,
>>    1114       $year, $mon, $mday;
>>    1115     #$out_filename[$r] = sprintf 
>> "%s/proccol-%04d-%02d-%02d-%03d", $DEST_DIR,
>>        1116     #  $year, $mon, $mday, $num;
>>
>> This returns the filename to what it was previously - 
>> proccol-2006-02-23, so that now the Orca collector processes them.
>>
>> Hope this helps someone else with a similar problem.
> 
> 
> This is one approach to fixing your problem, but it probably would be 
> better to just modify your orcallator.cfg file, at the find_files entry 
> for the group in question.  It's possible when you upgraded to r525 that 
> your orcallator.cfg file changed (or didn't change, but needed to?).  
> Here's what my find_files looks like:
> 
> find_files              
> /npd/dmichael/orca-522/var/orca/orcallator/(.*)/(?:(?:orcallator)|(?:percol))-\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}(
> ?:-\d{3,})(?:[^\.]*)?(?:\.(?:Z|gz|bz2))?
> 
> The 4th \d part of that regex is where the additional and optional -000 
> would be caught, so your files would continue to be processed as 
> normal.  By modifying your find_files regex instead of the procollator 
> source, you won't have to re-modify the procollator source every time a 
> new version comes out.

Agreed.  Some care was taken in the Orca configuration files to ensure that they 
can find the older procallator generated data files.

Regards,
Blair