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

[Jason.Santos at pinnaclewest.com]

Except netstat -k is deprecated and may be removed in a future release
of Solaris: http://docs-pdf.sun.com/816-7176/816-7176.pdf -- see page
70.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Shaw [mailto:Bruce.Shaw at gov.ab.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 8:27 AM
To: 'orca-users at orcaware.com'
Subject: RE: [Orca-users] status.pl by JDK [was Re: Orca License]


>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.

You're close.  Sun implements kstat as a series of libraries available
to C (and hence to Perl).  The Perl kstat program is merely a
convenience.  SE uses the C libraries.  You can examine the kstat output
by typing "netstat -k".


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