Re: Visuals using PCP

[Sai p Seshasayee <sseshas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nathan,

1) I used this QT package: qt4-doc-4.2.1-1.i386.rpm
.  I am not sure if it is for Linux. I am not able to find the version
for Linux and is not available in 
"http://oss.sgi.com/~nathans/".
I will really appreciate if you can send me the link for the same (I spent
lot of time on it but was able to locate rpms for 
Fedora and Mandrake and not RH Linux)
. Is this the only package I require?

2) I have been looking at the tutorial
and is great. My desktop is Windows XP professional , I dont see any files
for Installing kmchart for Windows. It contains the files only for Linux
and Mac. Is km chart available for Windows XP? I am not able to find them.
I am using a Linux server and will I be able to see the graphs on my Windows
desktop?

3) I am not sure whether my Linux box
has graphics hardware and I will check it out myself.

4) I want to collect information about
multiple hosts. Should I make changes in the "pmcd.conf" to "allow"
hosts? Is that all I should do or make 
changes in other configuration files?

5) kmsnap doesnt even work on my Linux
box 

Thanks and Regards
Sai Prakash
Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab
IBM Systems and Technology Group
External: 845-435-4720
email: sseshas@xxxxxxxxxx
Notes: Sai p Seshasayee/Poughkeepsie/IBM

"Always speak the truth, that way you dont need to remember what you
said  !"

Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>

08/19/2008 04:05 PM

To	Sai p Seshasayee/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS
cc	pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject	Re: Visuals using PCP

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:34 -0400, Sai p Seshasayee
wrote:
> 
> Hi Nathan, 
> 
> Thanks a lot. I was not able to find the rpm for qt4-doc in
> "http://oss.sgi.com/~nathans/" . I found it another website
and
> installed it. 

The QT packages should be part of your Linux distribution (which
distribution do you use?) and that includes qt4-doc.

> Now when I used the kmchart command and got the following error: 
> 
> [root@xcat20mn trace]# kmchart 
> kmchart: cannot connect to X server 

kmchart is a graphical application, so under *nix needs an X server
to talk to.  Can you run any X applications there?  If "xcat20mn"
is
a server with no graphics hardware, you should install kmchart on
your desktop and use the "-h xcat20mn" option on the command
line,
or specify that host at run time through the graphical interface.

> I am using Linux and the qt4-doc which I installed was not for Linux.
> Could that be the problem? Please get back to me regarding the same.

No, that wouldn't cause the above problem.

> Also will the graphs be shown in the linux console or in a web
> browser? 

kmchart is a standalone graphical application, so the graphs are
displayed in the kmchart window.  You can also make kmchart create
images from the command line, suitable for display in a web browser
(thats what kmsnap is all about, that I refered to earlier).

Theres an online tutorial about kmchart at this URL:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/kmchart.git/man/html/tutorial.html

cheers.

--
Nathan