[Orca-users] Setup/Configuration Questions.

[leewa2000 at yahoo.com]

Hi all,

      I just downloaded version 0.26 of Orca.  I have a
few questions about setting up and configuring Orca.
I was a little unsure if I understood the
documentation correctly.  I just need a little
clarification.

1. My understanding as to how one sets up Orca would
be that one runs the "orca" process on a single system
(ie. server).  The orca process processes all of the
RRD files created by other hosts and generates the
html files and graphs.  Each of the host(s) whose
files would get processed would have the resulting
processed files placed in a seperate subdir on a local
disk on the Orca server.  If I understood correctly,
the RRD files should be on a local disk and the html
files could be on either a local or network/remote
filesystem as this is better for performance on the
server the Orca process is running on.

2. Each system one wishes to gather stats on would
simply be setup to run the "orcallator.se" script that
comes with the SEToolKit 3.2 that I think is also
called "Virtual Adrian".  Each system would then
"push" the resulting files generated by the
"orcallator.se" to the Orca server as mentioned in
point 1.  The files would be "pushed" periodically
possibly by use of a crontab entry on each system
running ftp, rcp, scp, etc.

      I would like to install and setup Orca with the
following systems in mind:

2 E450 Servers which are Orcale server with Gigbit
Ethernet.
1 E4000 Server.
2 Ultra 5 Servers.
2 Ultra 2 servers.

      All of the above systems are a mixture of Solaris
2.6 and 8 Operating Environments.

      If what I said above is the appropriate idea behind
Orca, I would like to use an Ultra 1
workstation/server as the server running Orca. I have
a Linux Web server that I would like to use to serve
the resulting web pages that Orca would generate.
Questions.

1. Is an Ultra 1 sufficent to handle the processing
for the above mentioned systems?  I have access to
several Ultra 1 systems and would like to make use of
them.

2. Approximately how much local diskspace would one
think I would need to handle the data from the above
mentioned systems?

      Any suggestions, comments would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Wayne
E-mail: leewa2000 at yahoo.com

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