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Re: [Networker] legato DNA structure

2005-12-01 05:16:01
Subject: Re: [Networker] legato DNA structure
From: "Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL)" <Maarten.Boot AT NL.COMPUWARE DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:03:17 +0100
If not on http://www.backupcentral.com/

you could let me host them at www.mboot.org

but that is not nealy as goodlooking as backup central

;)

On Thursday 01 December 2005 10:53, Gerrit Sere wrote:
> But , I don't have a website and I have no intention for making one. Is
> there somebody where I can drop those scripts ?
>
> Regards,
> Gerrit
>
> Dave Mussulman wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:11:50PM +0100, Gerrit Sere wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>We are using legato 7.2 on a Solaris 9 server. For the moment we have
> >>nearly 160 unix clients and 40 Nt clients. Next year probably 250
> >> clients. Every day 14 savegroups are started and in the morning we check
> >> all those mails. It's difficult to have a global view. Sometimes we were
> >> wondering how long a savegroup is running, in which savegroup to put a
> >> new client, ...
> >>
> >>We have the following setup :
> >>
> >>1) The mails from the savegroup completion are filtered.
> >>
> >>Savegroups who are running less then 1 minute are deleted. (skipped
> >>savegroups) Then, the mails are written to a directory. They look like
> >>mail_temp_2005-11-30_8933 (the date + proces id). The mails are also
> >>send to our administrators.
> >>
> >>2) Every weekday at 10. AM a cronjob, crontimeplot.py is started. This
> >>program will start timeplot.py (another python program) with the corrct
> >>arguments.
> >>
> >>ex. timeplot.py -s 2005/11/29-18:00:0
> >>
> >>3)  The main program (timeplot.py)
> >>
> >>This is also a python program with needs the chardirector libraries
> >>(http://www.advsofteng.com/gallery.html) At the end it will create a
> >>legato.png gantt graphic.
> >>
> >>The program looks like :
> >>
> >>timeplot.py [-v] [-s begindate] [-e enddate] [files]
> >>
> >>       -v : print the input files
> >>       -s : filter dates starting after a specific date, default is
> >>"2000/1/1-00:00:00"
> >>       -e : filter dates before a specific date, default is
> >>"2999/12/31-23:59:59"
> >>
> >>       date format : yyyy/mm/dd-hh:mm:ss
> >>
> >>       ex.
> >>       timeplot -v mail-2005-10-*
> >>       timeplot -s 2005/10/21-00:00:00
> >>       timeplot -s 2005/10/21-00:00:00 -e 2005/10/24-10:00:00 mail*
> >>
> >>       If you don't specify files, all the files in the
> >>"MAIL_DIRECTORY" variable are going to be read
> >>       Don't forget to change the "MAIL_DIRECTORY" variable in the
> >>beginning of the program !
> >>
> >>       The output file legato.png is written to the directory where you
> >>started timeplot.py
> >>       Change the OUTPUT_PNG variabele in the beginning of the program !
> >>
> >>This program reads the first 3 lines of the savegroup completion mails.
> >>All the mails after 2005/11/29-18:00:0 (in this case) are read and at
> >>the end it makes a gantt char.  The Y-as are the savegroups (14 in our
> >>case) and the X-as the time. Savegroups who ara marked red, have clients
> >>which had backup problems. The green one, runs without any problems.
> >>
> >>But it is no problem to make a char from de last week or month.  It
> >>looks like an DNA structure.
> >>
> >>I really like to distribute those python programs. Also, no problem to
> >>send one of our png files to show the result. What is the best way to
> >>distribute them ??
> >
> >That sounds like an interesting analysis of Networker behavior.  For
> >distributing, I'd recommend setting up a website that has copies of the
> >scripts, the instructions for them, and some output graphs, and posting
> >that URL to this list.  I'm sure you'll find people interested in what
> >you've done, either to apply to their environment or just provide
> >feedback.
> >
> >Dave
> >
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