[Ovirt-devel] Re: [PATCH] oVirt / RRD Test Data

[Mohammed Morsi]

mark wagner wrote:
>
>
> Mohammed Morsi wrote:
>> Attached is my now functional ruby script to generate test / demo rrd 
>> data and the oVirt patch required to get it working (a few small code 
>> tweaks / fixes and a few fixture modifications).
>>
>> 1. To generate the data data simply run `ruby demo-rrd-data.rb`. 
>> There are a few variables at the top of the script which you can 
>> tweak to configure things like nodes generated, cpu's per node, 
>> interval in seconds between data points, etc.
>> 2. To see the test data, you need to be running rails in the testing 
>> environment and have a populated ovirt_test db. This can be 
>> accomplished by running the tests once (eg 'rake test')
>> 3. Alot of data needs to be generated, thus the script is slow (at 
>> least on my system), and it isn't yet set to generate the number of 
>> data points in a time period that collectd does / oVirt is expecting 
>> (change the $interval variable at the top of the script from 60 to 10 
>> to do this, but this will be all the more slower). Since the graphs 
>> require more data points than it is currently getting, they appear a 
>> bit discrete. Perhaps we can correct this and run it on a faster 
>> machine and just send out and use the data set generated. 
>> Alternatively, I could disable some of the algorithms used to 
>> generated data and simply reuse data points for some of the graphs if 
>> series repetition is not a problem.
>>
>>   -Mo
>>
>
> Mo
>
> Looks like the script ran for a while. It generated the device dirs but
> it did not generate the .rrd files.  So I have
> /var/lib/collectd/rrd-test/node0/cpu-0 but it is an empty directory.
>
> Debugging now...
>
> -mark
Hmm, weird, I haven't run into this issue. The script doesn't depend on 
any external modules so theoretically you should be good if you have 
sufficient permissions to write to the dirs and ruby / rrdtool 
installed. Probably the easiest thing to do to help debug would to just 
put a 'print command + "\n"' on line 289 right before each command is 
executed to see whats being done.

   -Mo