[Orca-users] Re: ORCA Question

[Blair Zajac]

murali at epiphany.com wrote:
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> I am a new to ORCA. Pardon my ignorance's.
> 
> Are there two pieces to ORCA (Like Server & Client)?

The Orca "client" is orcallator.se and the Orca "server" is the
Orca perl script itself.

> 
> I would like to monitor DISK/network & other activities of our Solaris
> server, which is running the Source Code.
> 
> What would you recommend?
> 
> 1.      Should I install ORCA on this system & run the monitoring?
> 
> or
> 
> 2.      Install ORCA server in a dedicated system & then run the client on
>       the Source Control Server
> 
> Any pointes/advices is very much appreciated..

Depends on how many systems you have to monitor.  Orca can be pretty
CPU intensive, so a separate system is a good idea if you have more
than a few systems to make plots for.

Best,
Blair

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