[Orca-users] Windows Monitoring with Solaris Monitoring

[Blair Zajac]

Justin Corpron wrote:

> My understanding of the winallator documentation is that I need two orca 
> instances running in order to monitor Solaris machines as well as 
> Windows machines, is this correct?

Yes, that's correct.

 > Is there a way to do both with only
> one orca running? If not what is the issue that prevents both working 
> under one orca?

Just time :)  Orca needs to be improved so that the Orca configuration file can 
operating on different types of input data.  Right now each column is white 
space separated, but the winallator files are tab separated.

If somebody wants to patch up Orca in a general manner to handle Unix and 
Windows, I'll gladly take the patch.

Regards,
Blair

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