[Orca-dev] Re: orca charts recognize host bus adaptor attached disk

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Wed Oct 10 14:20:13 PDT 2001


OK.  That should be fixed now.

Blair

dave.pyles at boeing.com wrote:
> 
> Forbidden
> 
> You don't have permission to access /orca/pub/orcallator.se-1.30b1.txt
> on this server.
> 
> I'd like to check this out, but I can't get to it.
> 
> Please fix the permissions on this file
> 
> --- In orca-developers at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> > Dave,
> >
> > Try the latest orcallator.se version at
> >
> >       http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/orcallator.se-1.30b1.txt
> >
> > which includes Alan's work.
> >
> > Best,
> > Blair
> >
> > alegrand at w... wrote:
> > >
> > > Dave,
> > >
> > >           Have you tried the USE_RAWDISK switch in orcallator.se
> It was
> > > added
> > >           specifically to monitor  disks that were being missed.
> > >
> > > Alan LeGrand
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Pyles, Dave [mailto:dave.pyles at b...]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:21 PM
> > > To: 'orca-developers at y...'
> > > Cc: 'Rich Pettit'
> > > Subject: orca charts recognize host bus adaptor attached disk
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I've been using orca charts for a while to monitor several Sun
> E6000 and
> > > E6500 systems. We recently got some new F6800 Sun-Fire systems and
> we are
> > > attaching Compaq MA8000 disk arrays to them via Qlogic QLA2200
> Host Bus
> > > Adaptor (fibre) cards. I downloaded SE Toolkit 3.2.1 and I am
> using the July
> > > version of orcallator.se that comes with it. SE Toolkit does not
> see the
> > > fibre attached drives. I have  corresponded with Rich Pettit on
> this issue
> > > but we have not come up with a way to deal with them yet. After
> poking
> > > around, I determined that they are sd108, sd109, and sd110. I can
> find these
> > > entries in kstat. They are configured as pseudo devices and show
> up in
> > > /var/adm/messages and /kernel/drv/ldLite.conf. I'm wondering if
> there is a
> > > workaround to get them into my orca charts. Is there some way to
> tweak
> > > orcallator.se to use a file containing sd names so it can read
> kstat info
> > > into the percol files for orca? I have some programming
> experience, but I'm
> > > not an expert programmer by any means (I'm a sys admin, Jim, not a
> doctor).
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Dave Pyles
> > > dave at p...
> > > dave.pyles at b...
> > >



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