[Orca-users] Can I lower the frequency that Orca sends its files?

[Tonij T.]

Ah, you are correct.  Orca has been on Autopilot for so long that I made 
some silly assumptions :D

Anyway, part of the setup process was to set up a cron job to send the files 
periodically (every 5 minutes).  I have been using ssh for this since day 
one, per the instructions on the Bigadmin article:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/local/bin/scp -r \
  /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/ orcaserver:/usr/local/var/orca/

I have since discovered rsync over ssh, which makes much more sense as it 
only sends new files and not every file, every time.

So far so good...BUT (always a but...) one of the boxes is giving me grief;  
rsync keeps complaining about not being able to find "libpopt.so.0".  I can 
run rsync locally on this box and it works fine, since I do have the Popt 
libraries and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is getting set.  But when I try to run it 
remotly it still complains about not finding that library...so I am sort of 
back to square one.  :(

Anyone using rsync for this, and if so, have you encountered this anomoly?

TIA,


>From: Darren Dunham <ddunham at taos.com>
>To: tonij67 at hotmail.com (Tonij T.)
>Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Can I lower the frequency that Orca sends its 
>files?
>Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 13:47:04 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > I have a few off site clients that have less than optimal WAN 
>connections.
> > I have noticed a trend since I started monitoring them with Orca in a
> > steadilly increasing amount of traffic being sent from the client to the
> > main Orca box.  It almost looks to me like Orca is not just sending the
> > updated RRD files but ALL the files since the beggining, so each time it
> > sends the updates it also sends everything else, even tho those files
> > already exist on the main Orca box.
>
>"sends"?
>
>Neither Orca nor orcallator send anything by default.
>
>You have to set things up so that orca can read the orcallator files.
>This might be by copying the files up to the orca server, or by using
>NFS so the orca server can see the individual hosts.
>
> > Is this the case? Does Orca by default send all of the 
>'orcallator-date*'
> > files each time or only the new ones?
>
>By default it doesn't send anything.
>
>If you're using NFS to the remote site, Orca will scan all of the
>orcallator-date files to see if they've been updated and need to be
>parsed for inclusion.  I believe that they shouldn't actually be read if
>they're not updated.
>
>--
>Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
>Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
>Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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