[Orca-users] Re: Alternative for Orcallator?

[Paul Haldane]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Olivier Schotgerrits wrote:

> I'm trying to use Orca to monitor the CPU and disk usage of two Linux mail
> servers. I understand that Orcallator is needed to collect this data.

You would use Orcallator to gather the data if your servers were Suns. As
they're not you need to generate a data file using something appropriate
to your system - as you've done.  

This doesn't affect how you make the data file available to the machine
that runs orca.  You can use NFS (that's what I used to use), or rsync
(what I use now) or even rcp to copy the datafile from the server that
you're monitoring to the machine running orca.  Simple as that.  If you
use rsync or rcp, you would just set up a cron job to copy the files
across to the orca machine at regular intervals.

Paul
-- 
Paul Haldane
Computing Service
University of Newcastle

> The
> problem is that I don't have a Sun system available to run Orcallator. So
> for the alternative I did some basic bash scripting on both mail servers to
> get these values each in a single file. When I feed these files to Orca, it
> will draw a nice graph. Unfortunatly I can't seem to find a way to automate
> this process by sending the files to the machine which runs Orca.
> 
> Now I wonder how does Orcallator get its data from remote (Linux) machines?
> Is this done via SNMP-get and/or MIB variables? I couldn't find any
> information on this. Any info on this is much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier


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