Re: [Xen-API] Trying to gather statistics by parsing the rrd data files

[Abhishek Joshi <abhishek@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jon,

Thanks for the link. I think I am doing something very similar to this. 
I have a python plugin written, which gets rrd updates on my localhost. 
I read the updates, and then parse them in Java.
However, for some of the calls to retrieve these rrd updates, my read 
times out. I am unable to figure out as to why this happens for only 
some cases (i.e. this happens only for some hosts I gather stats on). 
Perhaps this has got to do something with the load on that host?
Also, as I said, some of the rrd files are substantially larger than the 
others on the respective hosts. Is there any way to limit the size of 
the file one reads, so that the read from the plugin never times out? 
More specifically, is the read timeout expected, or this seems like some 
deficiency in my code?
Thanks,

Abhishek

On 06/23/2010 04:58 AM, Jonathan Ludlam wrote:
> Have you looked here:
>
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_RRDs
>
> It might help?
>
> Jon
>
> On 23 Jun 2010, at 02:37, Abhishek Joshi wrote:
>
>    
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am trying to gather xenserver statistics by parsing the xenserver rrd
> > files that reside on the xen host, by retrieving them via a python
> > plugin I have written.
> >
> > I have a few issues I face here:
> >
> > 1. I see that some of the rdd files on the xenserver hosts under
> > /var/xapi/blobs/rrds are substantially bigger than the others. What this
> > leads to is a timeout at my end, when I encounter a big file and try to
> > read it back for parsing.
> >
> > 2. I saw quite a few NaN values when I looked at these files.
> >
> > 3. I was curious to know how the xen center collected statistics, and if
> > it indeed used the rrd files to parse through to collect statistics.
> >
> > In any case, since the original java api is deprecated, this was the
> > only way out as far as collecting stats was concerned. Please let me
> > know if there is a better way to resolve this.
> >
> > Any help would be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Abhishek
> >
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