[Orca-users] Re: Orca plots on one central server

[Mark E. Dawson, Jr.]

So my assumption that some kind of file copying from
client to server is necessary for multiple clients
to have their plots shown on one central server. 

Thanks Johnny.  If you have any ready-made scripts
that I can use so as not to reinvent the wheel, it
would be greatly appreciated.

--- John Mastin <john.mastin at bms.com> wrote:
> Hey there Mark!
>
> Basically what we do here is run an orca client
> piece that I put
> together.  On the clients, we install the SE
> Toolkit, rsync and the
> orcallator.se file with the necessary start/stop
> scripts (we have
> created Solaris packages of rsync and orcallator).
> We publish the
> percol data files via anonymous rsync (you can horse
> around with
> authentication with rsync if you'd want to make sure
> hax0rs are not
> looking at your performance data).  On the central
> orca server, we use
> rsync to grab the files from the clients and then we
> munge it into rrd's
> and html files.
>
> Hope this helps!
> Johnny
>
> > My company doesn't want to renew their TeamQuest
> > capacity planning software license, so I'm
> thinking
> > about using Orca with orcallator.se.  However, I
> have
> > one question about its setup:
> >
> > Do I have to NFS mount all the clients' orcallator
> > files onto the Orca server to get the plots in one
> > place?  Is there some standard method that you
> guys
> > are using, so that you can have one central server
> > where Orca will plot the graphs, and have all the
> > clients running orcallator.se and sending the data
> > over to the central server?
> >
> > Your help in this would be greatly appreciated.
> I'd
> > hate to have to setup some kind of cron job on
> each
> > and every box to rdist the files over.  There's
> got
> > to be a better way.  Thanks in advance.
> >
>
>
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