[Orca-users] How do I get rid of old servers - SOLVED!

[Ross, Brian]

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.  Turns out that the problem
was not in orca at all.  The way my predecessor had set up the copying
of the log files from the client servers to the orca server was through
a script using scp.   He had set up on each client, a directory
(/usr/local/orca/var/orca/orcallator/[name of client] ).  Using "scp -r"
he copied the directory and the logs in it, to the Orca server for
processing.   What had happened was that one particular server had
changed its name (twice) and he hadn't deleted the old directories with
the server names.  This mean that each time it executed an "scp -r" it
was copying both the valid and the old server files and recreating those
on the Orca server.  Problem was that the log for the copy process only
showed it making contact with its newer, valid name.

 

Once I realised that, I found the offending directories on the client
machine and deleted them.  That stopped the copying and Orca no long
shows the offending non-existent clients any more.

 

Again, thanks to everybody for their efforts.

 

Cheers

 

Brian Ross

 

 

___________________________________________

Brian Ross
Systems Administrator (Unix)
ICT Service Centre
Dept. of Environment and Conservation (DEC)
Western Australia
Ph: (08) 9219 9023

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From: Dmitry Berezin [mailto:dmitryb at oit.rutgers.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, 28 May 2009 10:37 PM
To: Ross, Brian; 'David Michaels'; 'Hudes, Dana'
Cc: orca-users at orcaware.com
Subject: RE: [Orca-users] How do I get rid of old servers

 

Brian,

 

Did you delete RRD files for those hosts?

 

  -Dmitry.

 

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From: orca-users-bounces+dberezin=acs.rutgers.edu at orcaware.com
[mailto:orca-users-bounces+dberezin=acs.rutgers.edu at orcaware.com] On
Behalf Of Ross, Brian
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:08 AM
To: David Michaels; Hudes, Dana
Cc: orca-users at orcaware.com
Subject: Re: [Orca-users] How do I get rid of old servers

 

OK,  I carefully stop the orca processes deleted all references, deleted
all the HTML webpages, deleted all the orcallator data directories.
Restarted the orca processes and guess what?

 

The entries on the orcallator page came back.  Not immediately but the
next time I checked (I was half expecting it anyway)  a couple of hours
later.

 

So, where do we go from here?

 

How do we get rid of these pesky servers?

 

___________________________________________

Brian Ross
Systems Administrator (Unix)
ICT Service Centre
Dept. of Environment and Conservation (DEC)
Western Australia
Ph: (08) 9219 9023

Please consider our environment before printing this email
 
  

 

From: orca-users-bounces+brian.ross=dec.wa.gov.au at orcaware.com
[mailto:orca-users-bounces+brian.ross=dec.wa.gov.au at orcaware.com] On
Behalf Of David Michaels
Sent: Thursday, 28 May 2009 1:06 AM
To: Hudes, Dana
Cc: orca-users at orcaware.com
Subject: Re: [Orca-users] How do I get rid of old servers

 

Hudes, Dana wrote: 

If the machines are offline nothing has their orcallator data to send so
if you move or delete those files from orca's purview, usually in
var/orcallator/$hostname then restart orca the web page won't have them.



Additionally, every so often I typically nuke my web page area, and let
Orca create a new one from scratch.  You may not have to, I just like to
clean-house once in a while.

--Dragon

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