[Orca-users] Re: ORCA first time user

[Blair Zajac]

"D.C.Lawie" wrote:
> 
> From: "D.C.Lawie" <duncanl at demon.net>
> 
> How long's a piece of string? :)
> 
> I would try to have half a day free, but you could well get it done much
> quicker than that.  In fact, if you follow the layout you already had for the
> original incomplete installation, you've saved some thinking time as regards
> configuration.
> 
> The readme is pretty thorough.
> 
> You need to have a compiler on the machine where you plan to install it.  I
> also had a problem because the target machine doesn't have any man pages so the
> module compilation hung/crashed at that point.  When I first built orca I had
> various other problems with modules but orca 0.25 seemed pretty
> straightforward.
> 
> You also need to collect the SE packages from Sun.  This doesn't take long, and
> neither does installing them.  You can get one machine set up fairly quickly.
> 
> Extra machines all need the SE packages and orcallator.se.  You also need to
> consider how the orcallator data is going to get from these "clients" to your
> orca machine.

Actually, I just NFS mount the SE package and orcallator.se from the
Orca
machine to all the other machines, so there only needs to be one install
of
SE. This will save a lot of time too.

Blair

> 
> Cheers,
> Duncan.
> 
> "Ziccardi, Glenn (NCI)" wrote:
> 
> > How long does it take to install ORCA for
> > a first time user ?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: D.C.Lawie [mailto:duncanl at demon.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 11:05 AM
> > To: Ziccardi, Glenn (NCI)
> > Cc: orca-help
> > Subject: Re: ORCA first time user
> >
> > Glenn,
> >
> > did you go through the full process of configuring orca from scratch?  If
> > you
> > have copied orca from another machine where it was originally configured,
> > you
> > need to make sure that all the other modules used were copied as well.
> >
> > If it's all there, there is loads of info in orca in pod format
> >
> > e.g.
> > pod2text /src/apache/orca/bin/orca
> >
> > To run it, using all the defaults,
> >
> > try
> >
> > /src/apache/orca/bin/orca -o -v /src/apache/orca/lib/orcallator.cfg
> >
> > The cfg file will tell you where the output html pages are going - look for
> > the
> > html_dir line.
> >
> > The only place I know of to get the readme is by downlaoding the original
> > tarball at http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~blair/orca/pub/ .
> >
> > HTH,
> > Duncan.
> >
> > "Ziccardi, Glenn (NCI)" wrote:
> >
> > > The  README file is missing, Where do I get a copy from ?
> > >
> > > I have installed the following
> > >
> > > Following denotes file locations for orca and orca support files on S12:
> > >
> > > Apache (1.3.9)          /src/apache
> > > Orca (0.25)                     /src/apache/orca
> > > Orca html                       /src/apache/htdocs
> > > Orca admin                      /src/apache/orca/bin
> > > Orcallator cfg                  /src/apache/orca/lib/orcallator.cfg
> > > RRDtool (1.0.8)         /usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.8
> > > SE 3beta tools (from Sun)       /opt/RICHPse
> > >
> > > Admin tools are in /src/apache/orca/bin.
> > >
> > > How do you start ORCA up?
> > >
> > > How do you view the graphs?
> >
> > --
> > D.C. Lawie
> > duncanl at demon.net
> > MIS - Demon Internet
> >
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> D.C. Lawie
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