[Vacm-general] Sysstat module problems

[Ben R. <br...@we...>]

I finally figured out how to get the daemons running on first node I
want to monitor However, the docs do not tell you HOW to run them except
to run the init.d script which I ran. But if you do not run the sysstat
daemon from command line FIRST to set the password, it will not run
through the init.d script. I had to dig to find where the rpm installed
the systat daemon executable; the instructions are inadequate in this
area.

However, when I run flim and add the node, the status shows that there
is 'No sysstat support on node'. Additionally, when I added the node, I
put in the IP for the node in the new node box. However, if I quit flim
and go back to it, there is no IP in there. Need there be a port
designation in the node section? Why does it not recognize the sysstat
daemon running on the server? Why does it lose the password when I quit?

I really like the possibilities of this product, but the docs seem to be
written assuming a more thorough knowledge of vacm then a newbiw to vacm
would have.

Ben Ricker
System Administrator
US-Rx, Inc.