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

[Blair Zajac]

orcallator.se checks if WATCH_WEB is defined, not the value of it.  You need
to make sure start_orcallator has all of the WATCH_WEB lines commented out.

# WATCH_WEB contains the command line options to SE to tell
# orcallator.se the format of the web server logs.
WATCH_WEB="-DWATCH_WEB"               # For NCSA style access log
WATCH_WEB="-DWATCH_WEB -DWATCH_PROXY" # For proxy NCSA style access log
WATCH_WEB="-DWATCH_WEB -DWATCH_SQUID" # For Squid style access log
WATCH_WEB="@WATCH_WEB@"

just put #'s in front of all these lines.

Blair

> Erik Melander wrote:
> 
> Before asking the question, I initially modified my orcallator.se section with
> the define '#define
> WATCH_WEB' and instead of 1 I set it to 0 in hopes of preventing the web
> graphs.  Unfortunately,
> it seems as though I am still graphing 0's for the web server information.
> Sorry to be so slow, but can
> you give an example of how I would properly set these attributes?  Thanks for
> all your help!
> 
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: Blair Zajac [mailto:blair at orcaware.com]
>      Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 1:26 AM
>      To: orca-users at yahoogroups.com
>      Subject: Re: [orca-users] What is the best way to create classes of
>      servers?
> 
>      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!