[Orca-users] Re: newbie question about how to disable network card checking.

[Blair Zajac]

Hi Mark,

Currently there is no way to do what you're looking for either in
orcallator.se or in orcallator.cfg.

You'll have to patch something to implement the filtered list of
interfaces that you want to monitor, so its a question of what's
easiest.

Maybe the easiest way is to put a CPP wrapper around a base
orcallator.se with the plots you do or don't want in ifdef's.
Then start_orcallator will have to be modified

In start_orcallator, add somewhere

    defines=
    case `hostname` in
      SOMEHOST) defines="-DIGNORE_HME" ;;
      *) ;;
    esac

    cpp $defines orcallator.cfg.base > orcallator.cfg

Copy orcallator.cfg to orcallator.cfg.base and add the ifdef's:

    #ifndef IGNORE_HME
    plot {
    title                   %g Interface Bits Per Second: hme0
    source                  orcallator
    data                    1024 * 8 * hme0InKB/s
    data                    1024 * 8 * hme0OuKB/s
    line_type               area
    line_type               line1
    legend                  Input
    legend                  Output
    y_legend                Bits/s
    data_min                0
    data_max                100000000
    }
    #endif

Regards,
Blair

linmark at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>    I just recently installed Orca which I must say is an excellent
> program.  Now I just need something to make it all perfect.  Our sun
> enterprise 250 has three network card, ge0, ge1, and hme0.  We only
> use the gigabit ethernet card, hence we dont want Orca to collect data
> from other cards.  I've installed gigabit ethernet patch from SE 3.1
> and Orca shows their statistic after I patched SE.  But Orca also
> shows info about hme0 and hm1 which is a little annoying.  I look over
> orcallator.cfg, there are plot {......} statments for hme0 and hme1,
> but I do not think i could modify those because I am using the same
> orcallator.cfg to monitor 5 hosts and some of them do have hme0 and
> hme1.  So, my question is, is there any way I can disable certain
> network interface on specific hosts while not disturbing other host
> using the same orcallator.cfg? Or if i can modify orcallator.se so it
> only searches ge0 and ge1?  I am having one server doing the command
> `orca` only,  while the monitored hosts push their data to the server.
> 
> thank you for the time,
> Mark