On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 17:03 -0400, Sai p Seshasayee wrote:
>
> 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?
Fedora is Redhat. Unless you're using Redhat Enterprise Linux, or one
of the other Redhat flavours - what does "cat /etc/redhat-release" say
on your machine?
> 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?
Soon ... I'm still working on the Windows version. For now, your only
options are Linux and Mac OS X.
> 3) I am not sure whether my Linux box has graphics hardware and I will
> check it out myself.
Good idea.
> 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?
No, you don't need to change anything. Monitoring multiple hosts works
out of the box. Read the pcpintro(1) man page for details & maybe read
the PCP books on techpubs.sgi.com to get started.
> 5) kmsnap doesnt even work on my Linux box
It needs a working kmchart first... get kmchart going before you try
kmsnap (kmsnap is just a shell script).
cheers.
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Nathan
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