[Orca-dev] Re: orca charts recognize host bus adaptor attached disk

dave.pyles at boeing.com dave.pyles at boeing.com
Wed Oct 10 15:17:58 PDT 2001


Thanks, Ive got it downloaded now. I turned on a couple of charts, so
now it's churning through all of the data - should take a while.

Dave

--- In orca-developers at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> OK.  That should be fixed now.
>
> Blair
>
> dave.pyles at b... wrote:
> >
> > Forbidden
> >
> > You don't have permission to access
/orca/pub/orcallator.se-1.30b1.txt
> > on this server.
> >
> > I'd like to check this out, but I can't get to it.
> >
> > Please fix the permissions on this file
> >
> > --- In orca-developers at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> > > Dave,
> > >
> > > Try the latest orcallator.se version at
> > >
> > >       http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/orcallator.se-1.30b1.txt
> > >
> > > which includes Alan's work.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Blair
> > >
> > > alegrand at w... wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dave,
> > > >
> > > >           Have you tried the USE_RAWDISK switch in
orcallator.se
> > It was
> > > > added
> > > >           specifically to monitor  disks that were being
missed.
> > > >
> > > > Alan LeGrand
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Pyles, Dave [mailto:dave.pyles at b...]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:21 PM
> > > > To: 'orca-developers at y...'
> > > > Cc: 'Rich Pettit'
> > > > Subject: orca charts recognize host bus adaptor attached disk
> > > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I've been using orca charts for a while to monitor several Sun
> > E6000 and
> > > > E6500 systems. We recently got some new F6800 Sun-Fire systems
and
> > we are
> > > > attaching Compaq MA8000 disk arrays to them via Qlogic QLA2200
> > Host Bus
> > > > Adaptor (fibre) cards. I downloaded SE Toolkit 3.2.1 and I am
> > using the July
> > > > version of orcallator.se that comes with it. SE Toolkit does
not
> > see the
> > > > fibre attached drives. I have  corresponded with Rich Pettit
on
> > this issue
> > > > but we have not come up with a way to deal with them yet.
After
> > poking
> > > > around, I determined that they are sd108, sd109, and sd110. I
can
> > find these
> > > > entries in kstat. They are configured as pseudo devices and
show
> > up in
> > > > /var/adm/messages and /kernel/drv/ldLite.conf. I'm wondering
if
> > there is a
> > > > workaround to get them into my orca charts. Is there some way
to
> > tweak
> > > > orcallator.se to use a file containing sd names so it can read
> > kstat info
> > > > into the percol files for orca? I have some programming
> > experience, but I'm
> > > > not an expert programmer by any means (I'm a sys admin, Jim,
not a
> > doctor).
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > Dave Pyles
> > > > dave at p...
> > > > dave.pyles at b...
> > > >



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