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NEW IN ORCA 0.27
================
Released November 14, 2002.
1) In orcallator.cfg:
Add support for Znyz Network's 100 Mbit interfaces known by the
znb device name.
Fix a typo in matching on the dmfe 100 Mbit interface statistics.
2) In orcallator/orcallator_running.pl.in:
Have it work with the new orcallator-YYYY-MM-DD and
orcallator-YYYY-MM-DD.XXX style file names.
Warn if the orcallator or percol file is newer than the current
time.
3) In orca_services:
Complete the rename from orcaservices to orca_services by changing
any references to orcaservices to orca_servers in the files
themselves. The file names were properly renamed previously, but
not all of the file contents were.
NEW IN ORCA 0.27b3
==================
Released November 7, 2002.
1) Now require Perl version 5.005_03 instead of 5.004_01. Perl
versions older than this are very broken and cannot even load
Orca. Additionally, CPAN modules are now requiring newer Perl
features which the older ones do not support.
2) In Orca's configuration file, instead of defaulting to LINE1 for
any data parameters appearing in a plot configuration that does
not have its line_type specified, use the last set line_type set
in that plot. If no line_type's are set in a plot, then use LINE1
as the default for all data's in that plot.
3) Rename any orcaservices file and directory names to orca_services
to make the name easier to read.
4) Include and require rrdtool 1.0.40, Digest::MD5 2.20 and Storable
2.05. Include TimeDate 1.14 and Time::HiRes 1.38.
5) All of the Orca mailing lists have moved off of Yahoo! Groups and
are now hosted on orcaware.com using the Mailman mailing list
software. See http://devel.orcaware.com/orca/mailing_lists.html
or http://www.orcaware.com/mailman/listinfo for more information.
The following changes are what's new in orcallator.se 1.35 and the
orcallator.cfg file since version 1.28 which was included with Orca
0.27b2. Most of the changes below are taken advantage of in the
included orcallator.cfg and start_orcallator files.
4) Instead of naming the output files percol-*, name them
orcallator-*.
5) Output eleven new columns named state_* where each column
represents numerically the state of one of the system's substates
as they appear in the DNnsrkcmdit output. The character * is
replaced with the same character that appears in the DNnsrkcmdit
string to represent the particular subsystem. This can be used to
create a single plot that shows how all of the subsystems are
performing. The mapping between successive states is exponential,
so that as the subsystems get in worse conditions, the plots will
show higher values. Patch contributed by Rusty Carruth
<[email protected]>. Make all of the live_rule.se live
and temporary variable names consistent.
6) In orcallator.se, SE 3.2.1 stat.se, mknod is a C-preprocessor
define to _xmknod on x86 systems while on SPARC systems stat.se
declares mknod as a normal function. When stat.se is included
before kstat.se on x86 systems the mknod define causes a compile
error on kstat's mknod variables which are part of the
ks_rfs_proc_v3 and ks_rfs_req_v3 structures. The work around is
to include kstat.se before stat.se.
7) In orcallator.se, changed method used by raw_disk_map to detect
the end of GLOBAL_disk_info to looking for the first short disk
name. This works for SCSI disks and looking for fd or st devices
whichshould work for EIDE devices. Patch contributed by Alan
LeGrand <[email protected]>.
8) In orcallator.se, always define USE_RAWDISK to use the new raw
disk code. Previously, USE_RAWDISK was defined only if WATCH_OS
was defined, but if WATCH_DISK was defined and WATCH_OS was not,
then the new raw disk code was not being used. This change makes
the behavior consistent.
9) In orcallator.se, fix a problem where the web access log file
pointer instead of the file descriptor was being passed to
fstat(). Fix a problem where the cached web access log stat()
information wasn't being erased if the log file was successfully
stat()ed but then fopen() failed. Problem noted by Jeremy McCarty
10) In orcallator.se, in check_output_log_filename(), stat() was being
passed a stat_t by value, instead of a pointer to a stat_t. Only
the return value from stat() was being used, so this bug had
no effect upon the logic of the code. Problem noted by Richard
Pettit <[email protected]>.
11) In orcallator.se, add support for SE version 3.3. Break
compatibility with SE version 3.1, which was released in April
1999, and older SE versions. Solaris 8 removed the pagesio
variable and in SE 3.3, kstat.se #ifdef's out ks_system_pages's
pagesio variable on Solaris 8 and above, so now orcallator.se only
measures pagesio on Solaris 7 or older. Even with older versions
of SE and orcallator.se which defined and used pagesio on Solaris
8, pagesio would always measure as 0. SE 3.3 finally removed the
compatibility #define from prpsinfo_t to psinfo_t, so now use
psinfo_t. This breaks compatibility with SE 3.1 and older SE
versions.
12) In orcallator.se, add a new measurement, the number of secure web
server processes on the system using the column name #httpsds. If
the environmental variable WEB_SERVER_SECURE is defined, use its
value as the regular expression to match on process names. If
WEB_SERVER_SECURE is not defined, then count the number of
httpsd's. New variable www_server_secure_proc_name to hold the
regular expression. Increase the maximum number of disks that can
be monitored using the RAWDISK code from 512 to 1024 by increasing
MAX_RAWDISKS from 512 to 1024. Reformat and modify the usage
message to fit the new WEB_SERVER_SECURE environmental variable.
NEW IN ORCA 0.27b2
==================
Released October 2, 2001.
1) Orca has a new home page:
http://www.orcaware.com/
All of the links in Orca, orcallator.se and the orcallator.se
configuration file have been updated to point to the new web site.
2) To allow input data files to represent that a measurement is not
available or could not be measured, the letter 'U' can be placed
where the numerical data would normally appear. This is better
than storing an out-of-range value in the input data files. The
'U' is passed to RRDtool which properly handles this unknown
value.
3) Fix a bug where Orca would leave around many defunct bunzip2,
gunzip or uncompress processes when reading compressed input
data files using a separate process to pipe in the uncompressed
data. Orca now closes the pipe when the end of file has been
reached allowing the system to reap the defunct processes.
4) Include and require Digest::MD5 2.16 and Storable 1.0.13.
The following changes are what's new in orcallator.se 1.28 and the
orcallator.cfg file since version 1.23 which was included with Orca
0.26. All of the changes below are taken advantage of in the included
orcallator.cfg and start_orcallator files.
5) In orcallator.cfg.in, the Disk Run Percent plots also match for
disk_runp_sd\d+ in addition to disk_runp_md\d+.
6) In orcallator.se, change the output log filename format from
percol-%Y-%m-%d to percol-%Y-%m-%d-XXX, where XXX is a number
starting at 0 that is incremented anytime the number of output
columns changes or type of data stored in a column changes. This
is in addition to the creation of a new log filename when a new
day starts. Whenever the program needs to create a new log file
for any reason, it will search for the smallest XXX so that there
are no log files named percol-%Y-%m-%d-XXX{,.Z,.gz,.bz2}. If the
COMPRESSOR environmental is set and any uncompressed files are
found while looking for the smallest XXX, they are compressed with
the COMPRESSOR command. orcallator.cfg.in's find_files has been
updated to find the new log filenames generated by orcallator.se
1.28.
7) In orcallator.se, instead of outputting the number of CPUs only
when WATCH_MUTEX is defined, output it when either WATCH_CPU or
WATCH_MUTEX is defined. Only declare and update tmp_mutex if
WATCH_MUTEX defined.
8) In orcallator.se, add three parameters that vmstat outputs to the
output files that orcallator.se generates, #runque, vmstat's 'r'
column, which is the number of processes in the run queue waiting
to run on a CPU, #waiting, vmstat's 'b' column, which is the
number of processes blocked for resourceses (I/O, paging), and
#swpque, vmstat's 'w', the number of proceses runnable but swapped
out. In orcallator.cfg.in add a new plot titled "Processes in Run
Queue/Waiting/Swapped" to plot the new measurements.
9) In orcallator.se, check [wr]lentime to see if an EMC is using a
fake disk for control. EMC disks have a fake disk which commands
are run over to configure the disk array or to get stats from;
they are not real data transfers. They cause 1000 MB/sec writes to
appear in the stats. I still get them but not as often with this
bit of code in. If the I/O which occurred in the last five
minutes is not greater than 1/100sec then it is not a very valid
stat anyway. What hapens is that we can have a small I/O, say
1024 bytes, in a 1/100sec = 1024*100/sec. Make sure to define
HAVE_EMC_DISK_CONTROL to enable this check. Patch contributed by
Damon Atkins <[email protected]>.
10) In orcallator.se, increase MAX_COLUMNS from 512 to 2048.
NEW IN ORCA 0.27b1
==================
Released May 10, 2001.
1) By default, now create an hourly plot that shows the last 1.5
hours of data. Add a global "generate_hourly_plot" configuration
file parameter that when set to 0 turns this plot off. Hourly
plot creation is disabled in orcallator.cfg.in since orcallator.se
by default measures the system every 5 minutes and the plots look
blocky.
2) Fix the warning message in src/orca.pl.in
Use on uninitialized value in array element at (eval X) line 1,
<DATA> line Y
when Orca was run with Perl 5.6.0. This bug was in the filename
sorting subroutine.
This problem is probably responsible for problems where there are
missing data from generated plots. Since the filename sorting
subroutine tells Orca the order in which to load data into the RRD
files and the sorted filename list will have newer data files
listed before older data files, once newer data is entered into an
RRD file you cannot add older data, resulting in missing data in
the output plots.
If this is a problem, then the solution is to remove the RRD files
and rerun Orca with all of the input data files.
3) Add a new command line option named -no-images which suppresses
image generation. Remove the command line option -r which told
Orca to only update the RRD files and not generate HTML and image
files. To replace -r functionality, use both -no-images and
-no-html command line options.
4) Add a new command line option -no-html to instruct Orca to skip
generating HTML files. Patch from Alex Howansky
5) Add a new command line option -logfile that specifies a filename
that STDOUT and STDERR are redirected to so that all messages,
warnings and errors are printed to the file. Now when a SIGPIPE
is caught, messages will continue to be printed unless -logfile
was not given to Orca. Patch supplied by Bruce Johnson
6) Add a new command line option -daemon that puts Orca in the
background or daemonizes it. It is recommended that when this
command line option is used that -logfile is used. Patch supplied
by Bruce Johnson <[email protected]>.
7) A new contrib directory has been created which is where
contributed scripts and programs will be kept. The first
submissions are:
a) Include the orca_services (was originally named orcaservices
but this is too hard to read) package in the contrib directory
which was written by Carlos Canau <[email protected]>
and documented by Jose Carlos <[email protected]>. This package
allows monitoring of many different types of Unix services,
such as DNS, SMTP, POP, etc.
b) A script to rotate Orca's HTML directory so that the daily
plots can be archived. It is named rotate_orca_graphs.
8) Replace the small color scheme used for automatically cycling
through plot colors with a longer list designed by Guy Dallaire
9) To support configurations where it does not make sense to make all
of the hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly
plots, i.e. when only one measurement per day is made and having
a daily plot would not show anything, Orca now understands the
global configuration file options "generate_hourly_plot",
"generate_daily_plot", "generate_weekly_plot",
"generate_monthly_plot", "generate_quarterly_plot", and
"generate_yearly_plot". When an argument value of 0 is given to
the parameter, the plot is not created. If the particular
parameter is not used or the value is not 0, then the plot is
created.
10) Add a new configuration file option for plots named
"summary_format" which specifies the format for the summary values
as passed to the RRDtool GPRINT function. The same format is used
for each number within a single summary line, but you can specify
multiple "summary_format"'s options if there are multiple plots on
the graph. The default value, which has not changed from previous
Orca versions, is '%9.3lf %S'. Patch from Alex Howansky
11) Remove the "date_format" configuration option as it was never
supported. This is replaced by a new "date_parse" configuration
file parameter which supports converting arbitrary strings in the
input source data files that somehow represent time into an Unix
epoch time usable by Orca. The "date_parse" parameter appears in
a group field and is an arbitrary Perl subroutine that is given
two arguments, the first being the name of the file where the data
is loaded and the second the string from the "date_source" column
that contains some time information. The subroutine should return
the Unix epoch time. If this option is not specified, then Orca
assumes that the string holds the Unix epoch time.
This Perl subroutine is only used if the file's date source is not
specified to be the file's last modified time as indicated to Orca
by use of the "date_source" file_mtime configuration file option.
12) Remove the "sub_dir" configuration file parameter and now always
create sub directories for RRD, image and HTML files. This
removes the problem when a simple Orca configuration file was used
and Orca did not create subdirectories and then additional groups
where added to the configuration file Orca would begin to use
subdirectories and the existing RRD, image and HTML files would be
in the wrong location. In this case, Orca would reload all of the
input data.
13) Allow the "late_interval" configuration parameter to appear in a
configuration file group. If it does not appear in a group
listing, then use the global "late_interval" value.
14) Add a new configuration file option named "require" that allows
the configuration file to specify the minimum required version of
Orca.
15) Orca now catches SIGPIPEs so the lock directory is properly
removed when Orca's STDOUT and/or STDERR is piped to a process,
such as less, and the piped to process exits before Orca does.
16) Fix a bug where Orca's documentation stated that the configuration
file can specify different data_min, data_max, and data_type's for
each data in a plot but the code did not. Make the modifications
in Orca to support this feature.
17) When loading a configuration file, now do a complete check of it
for errors before quitting, instead of quitting after a single
error.
18) Include and require the following package updates: Digest::MD5
2.13, RRDtool 1.0.33 and Storable 1.0.11.
19) I have a new email address, [email protected].
The following changes are what's new in orcallator.se 1.28 and the
orcallator.cfg file since version 1.23 which was included with Orca
0.26. All of the changes below are taken advantage of in the included
orcallator.cfg and start_orcallator files.
20) When orcallator.se was running on a system with an older version
of SE the p_vmstat.scan variable is an integer and the sprintf to
%8.3f fails, resulting in a perceived scan rate of 0 pages per
second. Now always add 0.0 to p_vmstat.scan to get a double.
21) Fix a typo where nil was misspelled as nik.
22) Make sure to check the return from stat() on the web server access
log in case the file is missing. Use fstat() instead of stat()
when a file descriptor is available.
23) Print the portion of time running in idle mode with some process
waiting for block I/O as wio% and otherwise completely idle time
as idle%. Update orcallator.cfg.in to fix a bug in plotting the
CPU usage plots where the idle% time was calculated by subtracting
the user percent time usr% and the system percent time sys% from
100%. This did not take into account the wait on IO time wio%
that the system measures and hence the idle% was overestimated.
Now plot the correct idle% and the wio%.
24) Recoded measure_disk() to access the RAWDISK interface to
sys_kstat device information to allow the activity on Sun's A1000
and Clariion Raid controller drives to be seen. Apparently the
pseudo drivers do not update the kstat interface. It is also
inverts the fix provided by version 1.23 to avoid over-counting md
devices. By suppressing stats from slices and metadevices and
instead reporting on full devices such as c0t0d0 or sd0. Note:
This may have introduced an interaction with the live_rules.se
class monitoring of drive performance. Prevent floppy disks and
tape drives from RAWDISK. Added wio% to measure wait time since
the idle calculation is wrong without this. Prevent filesystems
mounted under /snapshots from being seen. Patch contributed by
Alan LeGrand <[email protected]>.
NEW IN ORCA 0.26
================
Released March 10, 2000.
1) Due to some changes at onelist.com, the name of this mailing must
change. The -help at the end of orca-help is being reserved for
the mailing list named "orca". As such, I'm renaming this list to
2) Major speedup in starting Orca when many different source files
exist and the first line of the file is used to tell Orca what
columns of data there are. Now Orca caches this information in
the state file so that the source data files do no have to be
opened every time Orca starts up. This has a significant speed
improvement when the file is compressed, since a separate process
is normally spawned to read the file.
3) Reduce the number of size of the open file descriptor cache to 100
open file descriptors since the change in 2) reduces the need for
as many open file descriptors.
4) A new configuration file parameter named filename_compare was
added that let's Orca determine when it can flush data from loaded
source files. This prevents Orca from loading in all of the data
and then flushing it to the disk when the amount of new data is
large. See the Orca documentation for more information.
5) Allow Orca to work with RRDtool versions newer than 1.0.7.
6) Save Orca's state more often so that if something happens to the
Orca process, it does not have to reload all the data from the
source data files it previously read.
7) Have Orca print the current memory usage and CPU time more often.
This attempts to use the proper ps command for the operating
system Orca was configured on.
8) Take all of the modules in the monolithic orca script and move
them into their own files. This improves readability and
maintainability.
9) Require the latest versions of Data::Dumper (2.101), Digest::MD5
(2.09), Math::IntervalSearch (1.05), RRDs (1.0.13), and Storable
(0.6.9).
10) Use arrays instead of hashes as the internal structure for many
objects. This should speed access to object members and make
their memory footprint smaller.
11) Use a new integer file identifier (FID) instead of the filename to
refer to in internal objects. There is now a global array keyed
by the FID that gives the name and a hash keyed by filename that
returns the FID. The FID is used where the filename previously
was used. This reduces Orca's memory usage by 10%, since only one
copy of a long filename is needed.
The following changes are what's new in orcallator.se 1.23 and the
orcallator.cfg file since version 1.20 which was included with Orca
0.25. All of the changes below are taken advantage of in the included
orcallator.cfg and start_orcallator files.
12) Include code to record and plot the NFS v2 and v3 server
statistics. The new statistics are: nfss_calls, the number of NFS
calls to the NFS server, nfss_bad, the number of bad NFS calls per
second, and v{2,3}{reads,writes}, which are nfss_calls broken down
into NFS version 2 and NFS version 3 calls. The sum of
v{2,3}{reads,writes} will be less than nfss_calls as the other
types of NFS calls, such as getattr and lookup, are not included.
Contributed by Paul Haldane <[email protected]>. This
code is enabled by the standard -DWATCH_OS or individually by
-DWATCH_NFS_SERVER. The define -DWATCH_NFS has been superseded
by -DWATCH_NFS_CLIENT, but to keep backwards compatibility,
-DWATCH_NFS_CLIENT will be defined if -DWATCH_NFS is defined.
13) When orcallator was running on a system with DiskSuite, the same
physical disk was listed multiple times when it appeared in the
same metadevice. The solution to the problem is not to build the
c0t0d0 name but use the long disk name provided by the long_name
string. Patch contributed by Paul Haldane
14) Prevent core dumps on extremely long access log lines.
NEW IN ORCA 0.25
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Released October 20, 1999.
1) I have moved companies from Yahoo!/GeoCities to Akamai. My email
address has changed to [email protected] and the old one will no
longer work. Also, I have moved the entire archive from
www.geocities.com/~bzking/ to www.gps.caltech.edu/~blair/orca/
2) Fix an important bug where Orca would crash if column names
mentioned in the configuration file did not exist in the source
data files.
3) Orca, when it received the HUP signal, will look for new source
data files the next time it runs through the main loop. If you
have a constantly running Orca, this is a simpler and faster
solution than restarting Orca, which takes time to reread all the
source files.
4) Add a new make target orcallator_run_at_boot which will install
the proper files into the proper /etc/*.d/ directories to start
orcallator at boot time and shut it down at halt time.
5) The previous default orcallator.cfg would not find compressed
orcallator files.
6) Remove the plot configuration option "optional" which made plots
optional. Now make plots optional by default and use the keyword
"required" to make them required. If a plot is required, then it
will always display, even if there is no data loaded for it.
7) Change the behavior of warnings when data requested to be plotted
in the configuration file does not exist in the source data files.
Any resulting errors from this, such as cannot compile errors, are
only sent when the verbose level is above 1 or when the plot is
required.
8) Include Storable 0.6.7 but continue to only require Storable
0.6.3.
NEW IN ORCA 0.24
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Released October 14, 1999.
1) Installation notes. Due to the way Orca generated image and HTML
files are named, read the INSTALL file. Otherwise, you will have
some left over cruft that will waste disk space and you will have
to reload all of your source data files.
2) Orca now runs under older Perls: Perl 5.004_01 or later.
3) Switch to generate PNGs instead of GIFs. They take up 1/3 less
disk space and are created at least 10% faster. If you want Orca
to generate GIFs instead of PNGs, give it the -gifs flag.
4) Read in .gz files using gunzip, .Z files using uncompress, and
.bz2 files with bunzip2.
5) Add to the plot title the type of the plot (i.e. 'Yearly') in
every image.
6) Add a href field for a plot. This, if defined, appends a HREF to
a target name letting you point the user to a page to get more
information. The default orcallator.cfg has these added to point
to the new documentation web page
http://www.geocities.com/~bzking/docs/orcallator.html
for all orcallator.se recorded data.
7) Add a new option named base that lets the user specify either a
base of 1000 or 1024 for autoscaling plots. This is useful for
memory (base 1024) vs network (base 1000) measurements and is used
in generating correctly calculating the base to use in calculating
the Y axis.
8) The word logarithmic can now be used for a plot to create a
logarithmic Y axis scale.
9) Orca no longer lists all the source files it finds to shorten
verbose output. This output is now generated if the verbose level
is greater than one.
10) Do not overwrite existing HTML files when creating new versions
until the new version is finished. This allows people to better
view existing pages until the new page is completely finished.
11) All generated HTML and image filenames are now created using a
different set of mappings. Now
orcallator -> o
orca -> o
_times_ -> _X_
_percent_ -> _pct_
_number_ -> _num_.
All older installations of Orca will need to be renamed unless you
want to load in all your data again. You can perform this
renaming on your files by running make upgrade, or if you have
directories that are not normally covered by the Orca install, run
src/upgrade_installation followed by the list of directories to
search in. Pass the -n flag to upgrade_installation if you want
to see the renames that will be performed without actually
performing them.
12) New HTML and image filenames are shorter, which can save 10% in
disk space on a large installation according to du -k. Also, now
plots containing arbitrary many data sources can be plotted
without exceeding the maximum file lengths.
13) Add locking so that only one Orca can run on a single
configuration file at one time.
14) Include and require RRDtool 1.0.7.2 and Math::Interpolate 1.05.
Include Data::Dumper 2.101, Digest::MD5 2.09, Storable 0.6.5, with
Orca.
The following changes are what's new in orcallator.se 1.19 since
version 1.7 which was included with Orca 0.23. All of the changes
below are taken advantage of in the included orcallator.cfg and
start_orcallator files.
15) Orcallator.se now has a web page describing the various
measurements it makes. See
http://www.geocities.com/~bzking/docs/orcallator.html.
16) If the environmental variable WEB_SERVER is defined, use its value
of the as the name of the process to count for the number of web
servers on the system. If WEB_SERVER is not defined, then count
number of httpd's.
17) If the COMPRESSOR environmental variable is defined, then when a
new log file is opened for a new day, the just closed log file is
compressed using the COMPRESSOR command in the following manner:
system(sprintf("%s %s &", COMPRESSOR, log_file) COMPRESSOR should
be set to something like "gzip -9", or "compress", or "bzip2 -9".
If the configure script finds both a compressor and uncompressor
tool, such as both gzip and gunzip, then start_orcallator will
inform orcallator.se to compress the log files at the end of a
day.
18) New measurements. The first column lists the define that must be
passed to the SE interpreter to obtain the measurement. If you
use the WATCH_OS define, then all of these are now measured.
WATCH_MUTEX - ncpus - number of CPUs on the system
WATCH_CPU - #proc/s - 5 minute average process spawn rate if root
WATCH_CPU - #proc/p5s - maximum 5 second process spawn rate if root
WATCH_CPU - scanrate - page scan rate in pages per second
WATCH_DISK - disk_runp_c\d+t\d+d\d+ - run percent for each disk
WATCH_DISK - disk_rd/s - system wide read operations per second
WATCH_DISK - disk_wr/s - system wide write operations per second
WATCH_DISK - disk_rK/s - system wide kilobytes read per second
WATCH_DISK - disk_wK/s - system wide kilobytes written per second
WATCH_RAM - freememK - number of free kilobytes of memory on the system
WATCH_MOUNTS - mntC_* - capacity of disk in kilobytes
WATCH_MOUNTS - mntc_* - inode capacity of disk
WATCH_MOUNTS - mntU_* - used capacity of disk in kilobytes
WATCH_MOUNTS - mntu_* - used inode capacity of disk
WATCH_MOUNTS - mntA_* - available kilobytes for non-root users
WATCH_MOUNTS - mnta_* - available inodes for non-root users
WATCH_MOUNTS - mntP_* - percentage of kilobytes used for non-root users
WATCH_MOUNTS - mntp_* - percentage of inodes used for non-root users
19) Add some smarts so that if the number of interfaces, physical
disks, or mounted partitions changes, then a new header is
printed. This will prevent column name and data mixups when the
system configuration changes.
20) Prevent a division by zero in calculating the mean_disk_busy if
the number of disks on the system is 0. 21) Fix a bug in the
disk_mean calculation where it was being divided by the wrong
disk_count. Now it should be much larger and in scale with
disk_peak.
22) Increase the number of characters for each network interface from
four to five.
23) If WATCH_YAHOO is defined, then process the access log as a Yahoo!
style access log.
24) Restructure the code to handle different web server access log
formats easier.
NEW IN ORCA 0.23
================
Released May 27, 1999.
1) Fix two important bugs in orcallator_running and start_orcallator
which where using old PERCOLLATOR_DIR variables instead of the new
ORCALLATOR_DIR.
NEW IN ORCA 0.22
================
Released May 26, 1999.
1) Add a new command line option (-r) that tells Orca to only update
the RRD data files and not to generate any HTML or GIF files.
This is useful if you are loading in a large amount of data in
several invocations of Orca and do not want to create the HTML and
GIF files in each run since it is time consuming.
2) Fix a bug where if the number of columns changed in from one
source file to the next source file in a files group, the column
index used to get a particular value is the index for the old file
and not the index for the new file. This required some internal
restructuring the speeds Orca up slightly.
3) Add a new plot called quarterly that displays the last 100 days of
data. This is a nice transition between the monthly and yearly
plots.
4) A temporary fix: Skip and do not complain about input source data
file lines containing the word timestamp in it.
5) Removed some unused methods to make Orca smaller.
6) Added some more documentation to orcallator.cfg.
7) Make Orca slightly faster.
NEW IN ORCA 0.21
================
Relased May 17, 1999.
1) Every file containing the words percollator, percol and perc has
been renamed to contain the word orcallator. A new make target
named migrate will change all filenames in an installed Orca
directory to the new names. This "make migrate" should only be
run after killing any running percollator.se's and Orca processes
and before installing this version of Orca.
2) Orca now includes Digest::MD5 2.07, Math::Interpolate 1.02, RRDs
0.99029, and Storable 0.603 in packages/ to make installation
easier. The configure script now determines if you have the
requisite version of these packages installed in your Perl and
will modify the Makefiles to build the necessary modules.
3) Orca now displays the daily, weekly, monthly, yearly plots of all
measurements even if there is only one group. Orca used to not
make the web pages showing the different measurements all on one
page if there was only one group.
4) Add GIF width and height tags to img src's using the returned GIF
size from RRDs::graph to speed with page rendering.
5) Some minor HTML fixes to have the pages look cleaner for Netscape
browsers.
6) Make use of RRDtool 0.99.12's legend formatting to clean up the
GIF legends and to store the minimum and maximum values of a data
stream.
7) Remove the LAST RRA from all Orca created RRAs since it is not
required to get the current value from an RRA. This requires
rebuilding all RRDs.
8) Add x86 Ethernet device (elxl*) plotting to orcallator.cfg.in.
9) Do group name substitution on the Y legend in GIFs.
10) Orca used to delete RRD files even if they are created with new
versions or Orca. Now the RRD file is used if it is at least as
new as the version a particular version of Orca needs.
11) Orca now dies if an unrecognized command line option is given.
12) Speed up the count_proc() routine in orcallator.se by 20%.
13) Perl_glob does not die if it cannot open a directory. It will
also not follow directories named .. if they happen to match a
regular expression. It also only returns files matching the
regular expressions.
14) Change all references from
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Thinktank/4996/
to
http://www.geocities.com/~bzking/
15) Speed up Orca by using Storable to do deep clones of objects
instead of using Data::Dumper and eval.
16) Replace some linear search by a hash lookup to speed up Orca.
17) Fix some bugs in orcallator.se.
18) Clean up some error messages.