[Orca-users] status.pl by JDK [was Re: Orca License]

[Sean O'Neill]

Sean O'Neill <sean at seanoneill.info> wrote:


--- "Shaw, Richard K [CIT, Groton]"
wrote:
> >From what I hear from Sun, the SETool kit is going
> to be intergrated into
> the OS and become (semi)supported.
> This is what I heard from our sales SE - not sure if
> there is truth in it.
> 

A word to the wise - don't hold your breath on this.

I'm pretty sure that Adrian's rules from the SEToolkit
have been integrated into SunMC but I think that might
be as "integrated" as its going to get. Maybe that's
what the Sales SE meant - not sure though.

I think the data collection that SE does is probably
going to die out.



Just something for folks to think on in regards to Solaris and what statistics SE collects - the kstat command (which I think is nothing more then a perl script) exists that displays a LARGE amount of data by grabbing it from the - guess what ? - the /dev/kstat device.  Basically what SE does.

So most if not all of the statistics that SE collects for Orca are there available to be stripped from the kstat output.  It would just take some coding to make the stored output look like how SE does it.

I'm pretty sure the kstat command requires the Sun provided Perl package.  The Sun Perl provides several modules that this script requires e.g. like a module for reading stuff from the kstat device.  Considering SE is a scripting language and the Sun provided Perl has a kstat module - most if not all of what SE does can now be "scripted" using Perl.

Of course, I haven't looked into this in close detail - I'm downloading Counter Strike 1.6 at the moment so I can't get onto a Solaris machine to look at this - VPN access and all that.


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