[Orca-users] Re: ORCA client

[Blair Zajac]

dlbias2002 wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have access to the package created for this "bare bones"
> install of Orca clients?  I do all orca processing/graphing on central
> server that my client xfer all files to.  I'd prefer not to install
> the entire orca install on client (which I'm doing now) if I do not
> have to.  I realize I need the SE Toolkit installed on each client.
> 
> I attempted to write John Mastin regarding this directly, but the
> message came back.
> 
> Thanks,
> Liston

Liston,

I don't think there's much to do here.  Just make sure all of the files
in the orcallator/ directory are properly installed.  You don't need RRDs
or Perl or anything else to run orcallator.

Blair

-- 
Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/

> 
> --- In orca-users at y..., John Mastin <john.mastin at b...> wrote:
> > > How do I run the orcallator.se program without installing and
> running orca
> > > or rrd?  Where can I find the command line options for
> orcallator.se?  I
> > > have it running, but it outputs it's data to the console.
> > >
> > > Is it easier/better to just install everything but only run the
> orcallator
> > > piece?
> > >
> >
> > Dan,
> >
> > Yes you can run just the orcallator.se piece without installing the
> full
> > blown version of ORCA.  For the sake of this discussion, let's call
> that
> > the ORCA client piece.  You need to have the SE Toolkit (and patches
> for
> > it), the orcallator.se script, the start-up/shutdown scripts and the
> > master start-up/shutdown script that gets installed in /etc/init.d
> and
> > /etc/rc3.d.  The ORCA client piece will run on your target and
> collect
> > information.  From there, you can use rdist, ftp, whatever to get
> the
> > raw data back to your ORCA server.  On your ORCA server, it can
> munge
> > through the data, populate the RRD databases and create graphs and
> > webpages.
> >
> > That is how we're doing it.  I have taken this client piece and have
> > made it into a Solaris (actually SysV) package to help with
> automated
> > installs/upgrades here.  If you all are interested, I could just
> > sanitize the package (remove references to BMS) and make it
> publically
> > available.  I would just need a place to deposit said package for
> you to
> > grab it from (BMS has no publicly accessable ftp servers).
> >
> >
> > Johnny
> >
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