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

[mark wagner]

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