[Orca-users] Re: How many orca installations

[simon.klyne at arcordia.com]

You have understood it correctly.
To monitor a Solaris machine you need to run orcallator.se on that host,
which will require the SE toolkit.
To then display the stats etc you then need to make the 'percol' files
available to an instance or Orca, which can be on the same host as
orcallator or some other host.  The difficulty seems to be in finding some
acceptable (to IT policy more than technically) mechanism to transfer or
access the orcallator output over the network on the Orca host.

All this sounds to me as if unfortunately you won't be able to use
Orca/orcallator.
Although there has been some discussions recently (check the archives)
about employing SSH in the transfer of the orcalltor output to the Orca
host.  If you are allowed SSH for MRTG access then maybe that could be
acceptable

mfg

Simon





duclosd at post.ch on 30/10/2001 14:13:15

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Hi orca users,

I've read the documentation inside-out and I feel rather stupid saying that
I cannot figure out for
sure whether you need to have orca (or orcallator) running on every machine
you want to monitor,
or only on the "orca server". It looks like it would have to be installed
on every machine and the
data would somehow have to be visible to the plot-producing machine, but I
can't be sure. At the
moment I'm using MRTG and I only need to install anything on one host. It
rshs (or sshs) to all
monitored hosts to gather the data. If this is not the case for orca, i.e.
if I have to have it run on
every host, then I won't be able to use it unfortunately.

Can anyone confirm whether I have to install SE toolkit on every host?
Please e-mail me directly.
(I'll join the list if it looks like I can use the tool.)

Thank you very much.
Freundliche Grüsse

Darie Duclos
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