[Orca-users] Re: What is the best way to create classes of servers?

[Blair Zajac]

Orca is designed where if measurements for a particular plot are missing
then it won't plot the data.  However, if you are measuring even 0's, then
Orca will plot them.

What you want to do is edit start_orcallator and put some smarts there on
what defines to pass to orcallator.se so it know what to measure.  If you
don't have a web server, then make sure WATCH_WEB or WATCH_HTTPD is not
defined.  You can do this for the other WATCH_ defines in orcallator.se.
Be careful that WATCH_OS turns on almost everything except for WATCH_WEB,
so if you want to turn off, say, WATCH_NFS_SERVER, then you'll need to
not set WATCH_OS and define the rest.

This way you can use the same orcallator.cfg file for all your systems.

Blair

EMelander at wyndham.com wrote:
> 
> I have several different classes of machines in our environment that
> require different attributes to be profiled.  Some machines are web
> servers, while others are database servers, and yet others are mail
> servers.  This leads to an issue with my current configuration of
> orca as I generate empty graphs for services that are not running on
> the box.  For example, the database boxes do not have web or mail
> servers making the web and mail graphs meaningless and tend to
> clutter the page.
> 
> Is there anyway to create classes of machines that each have a
> different configured set of graphs?  Do I have to run multiple
> instances of orca with each reading a different orcallator.cfg file
> to achieve this desired result?
> 
> Thanks!