[Orca-users] Re: possible to use orca for Win2k hosts

[Blair Zajac]

Darren Dunham wrote:
> 
> > > I'm not the NT guy, so I don't know how this is set up.
> > >
> > > I think we're just using some built-in logging functions from NT.  The
> > > orca host has a samba share that is mounted on the NT box.  There it
> > > constantly creates a <hostname>.tsv file with several parameters.
> > > Here's the first line..
> 
> Turns out, this is all only working currently on Win2K.  We're trying to
> get it to happen on NT too, but it doesn't right now.  Any suggestions
> are welcome.  We tried to have a W2K box collect from an NT box, but we
> get an error when we try to start the collector.
> 
> > > Periodically a perl script parses the data out of that file and puts it
> > > in more of a daily log for long-term storage, and into a form that orca
> > > likes.  Then orca runs against that data.
> >
> > Can you send this Perl script to the mailing list?  It looks really
> > useful.
> 
> Ugh.. Here we go.  I'm a little ashamed of it myself, but I really don't
> want to hold you up while I think about straightening it up so noone
> else has to see it.

Cool.  Thanks a lot.

I'll work on the code and add it to the Orca distribution, which I think
a lot of people will appreciate.

Best,
Blair

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