[Orca-users] recommended way to remove old clients

[Sean O'Neill]

At 10:03 AM 2/4/2003 -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
>Sean O'Neill wrote:
> >
> > At 09:32 AM 2/4/2003 -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
> > >jeffrey.p.miller at kodak.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >jeffrey.p.miller at kodak.com wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Is there a recommended way to completely remove old clients?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Can I simply remove the
> > > > >>
> > > > >> ./install/var/orca/orcallator/<client name>
> > > > >> ./html/<client name>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> directories, or is there more to do?
> > > > >
> > > > >And the RRD files for that client.  Then running Orca again should
> > > > >remove all HTML a href's to the client's HTML pages.
> > > > >
> > > > >Best,
> > > > >Blair
> > > >
> > > > What if I only renamed the server?  Can I get the previous orca data
> > > > collected while under the original server name to use the new 
> server name?
> > >
> > >Yes, then you'll need to just rename all the RRD, html and orcallator
> > >directories to the new name, after stopping Orca of course on the server
> > >and orcallator on the client.
> >
> > Blair, what about the orca_state file in this case ?  The old hostname will
> > still exist in this file.  Should be be deleted and allow Orca to simply
> > regenerate it ?
>
>I wouldn't bother deleting this file, it'll take a while for Orca
>to regenerate the data in there.  You could remove the lines that
>deal with the old hostname however.  But due to the way the file
>is structured, this may break something, since the information for
>one input data file may be a pointer to another data file, and if
>the data file being pointed to is deleted, then things may break
>in unexpected ways.  The code in lib/Orca/OldState.pm isn't smart
>enough to handle this case.

This would be a good FAQ entry including your comments about the orca_state 
file.


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Sean O'Neill