[Orca-users] Re: newbie questions about monitoring multiple hosts...

[Blair Zajac]

Steve,

Paul correctly answered all your questions.  Regarding the FAQ,
one never got created.

Blair

Steve Gilbert wrote:
> 
> I'm a new Orca user (thanks for such a great tool, Blair...
> this is really going to make my life easier), and thus far
> I've just been using it to monitor one machine to test it
> out.  Now I need to get it in production and monitor some
> web servers that reside outside our firewall.  I've read
> all the documentation on the web and looked through the
> archives of this list.  I have a couple of (hopefully)
> simple questions just to make sure I understand how all
> the parts fit together.
> 
> First, in case it matters...
> Solaris 2.6 (all SPARC platforms)
> SE 3.1
> Orca 0.26
> orcallator.se 1.25
> orcallator.cfg 1.25
> 
> My plan is to run the orcallator on the target systems, and
> then use a perl script that calls rsync to pull the data files
> back inside our firewall to a central collector host which will
> run Orca, etc.
> 
> 1. With this model, do I even need to install Orca at all on the
>    target machines?  It seems that I should just be able to install
>    SE and run orcallator.se on them.  If this is the case, where
>    will my data files be written?  Under the prefix directory that
>    is specified in /etc/rc3.d/S99orcallator?
> 
> 2. The data files that orcallator.se generates are only the percol-*
>    files, right?  The RRD files are only used by the orca script that
>    runs on the collector machine?
> 
> 3. By the same token, the orcallator.cfg file is also only used by
>    orca on the collector?  The target machiens should have no use
>    for that file?
> 
> ...thanks for helping me put all this together.  I hope my questions
> aren't too silly.  Did a FAQ for all this stuff ever get created?
> 
> Steve Gilbert
> gilbert at cs.utk.edu
> 
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