[Orca-users] Windows Monitoring with Solaris Monitoring

[Jon Tankersley]

Blair is right, but you can run both, as long as you massage the Windows
data into something that regular Orca can read.

You can have multiple groups in a config file that can reference differently
named files.  If you use column_description of "first_line" and date_source
similarly with "column_name timestamp" you can then define separate plots
with differnet data sources pointing to the different groups.

We run things in a bit different fashion - one config file per set of
related servers and we do have some that combine both Windows and UNIX into
one domain.  You have to have the plots named uniquely for each group (you
can't have a single CPU Usage plot), but it is doable.

The resulting index.html is a bit messy, but for most of these special
configurations, we don't use that file.

We massage the Windows data because of the strange special characters that
show up with Perfmon, specifically with network devices and the like.  You
don't need 45 character names to describe the NICs usually.

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-users-bounces+jon.tankersley=eds.com at orcaware.com
[mailto:orca-users-bounces+jon.tankersley=eds.com at orcaware.com] On Behalf Of
Blair Zajac
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 1:21 PM
To: Justin Corpron
Cc: 'orca-users at orcaware.com'
Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Windows Monitoring with Solaris Monitoring


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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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
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