[Orca-users] exclude the Disk Run Percent graphs

[Cameron Paine]

> From: jeffrey.p.miller at kodak.com

> For the orcallator.cfg file solution, are you saying to 
> remove the Disk 
> Run Percent section of the .cfg file before running the 
> installation on 
> the client server? 

That's not what Blair was suggesting. The orcallator.se
script (or it's equivalent) runs on the "client" to
"generate" the plot source data.

The Orca config file (orcallator.cfg from the distro)
controls the action of the "server" process that
collates the source data and presents it as a series
of plots.

The terms client and server in this context are a little
opaque. Maybe provider and consumer (or source and sink)
better describe what's going on. The provider is the
system running orcallator.se and the consumer is the
machine that collates the data and uses orcallator.cfg
to control how it is presented.

You could alter the provider control file (orcallator.se)
to stop generating the disk run stats. Then you'd restart
the SE process on the provider. Or you could create a new
group in your orcallator.cfg (on the consumer) that matches
only the hosts that don't have the disk run stats. Then you'd
restart orca[.pl] on the consumer.

Both approaches have pros and cons. Neither needs to be done
prior to installation: both orcallator.se and orcallator.cfg
are *runtime* control files (although orcallator.se is more
like a script).

Cameron Paine