[Veritas-bu] Activity Monitor Differences Between NBU 3.2 and 3.4
2002-07-05 11:56:01
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[Veritas-bu] Activity Monitor Differences Between NBU 3.2 and 3.4 |
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sq01 AT yorku DOT ca (Steve Quan) |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:56:01 -0400 (EDT) |
We noticed this also (after the upgrade from 32 to 34). The jobs database
will have the actual start time. I have an awk script we use for adjusting
this info (based on bpdbjobs output).
/Steve
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Dennis Dwyer wrote:
> After having been gone from my office for the last 8 months I returned to
> find NBU 3.2 has been upgraded to NBU 3.4 by my backup cohorts in crime. This
> is a good thing, however, in 3.2 I wrote a small script to extract data from
> the activity monitor data so I could keep running statistics on job elapsed
> time. It appears, under 3.4, that the numbers don't match up anymore. Has
> anyone else noticed this? Here's my example:
>
> In the 3.4 Job Details screen for a particular job the following information
> is present:
>
> Started: 07/02/2002 00:40:08
> Elapsed: 00:01:05
> Ended: 07/02/2002
>
> This information is correct and what I need for my report.
>
> What I see in the 3.4 Activity Monitor line for the same job is as follows:
>
> Started: 07/01/2002 23:05:43
> Elapsed: 01:35:30
> Ended: 07/02/2002 00:41:13
>
> Definitely not the same. It appears that the Activity Monitor includes within
> its Elapsed Time the time that the job was submitted and sat waiting in the
> queue. It seems to me that the queue time should be stored in a separate
> filed and the elapsed time should reflect the true time that the job actually
> ran under process.
>
> Is this something that will be fixed or clarified in a future release?
> Perhaps 4.5, which I will be migrating to sometime late this year or early
> next year?
>
> This change sure has thrown my reporting off kilter.
>
> Regards,
> Dennis
>
> Quote: "Time is not a test of the truth"
> Translation: Just because you've always done it that way, doesn't make it
> right
>
> Dennis F. Dwyer
> Enterprise Storage Manager
> Tampa Electric Company
>
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