ORCAXYMON(1)

💖 ORCAXYMON(1) — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so real quick, this is the man page for orcaxymon in section 1 of the manual (General Commands Manual, iykyk). buckle up 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

orcaxymon — the Xymon client utility that grabs data from ORCA. that's it, that's the vibe 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

orcaxymon --orca=PREFIX [options]

short, sweet, and it needs that prefix, no cap 💅

🌸 NOTICE 🌸

okay bestie, listen, this part matters 🙈

This utility is included in the client distribution for Xymon 4.2. But the backend module that parses the data it sends? NOT included in Xymon 4.2. 💀

That said — it is possible to use the generic Xymon NCV data handler in xymond_rrd(8) to process ORCA data, if you have an urgent need to do so. so like, if you're desperate, the door's open 🚪✨

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

So. orcaxymon is an add-on tool for the Xymon client. Its whole job is to grab data collected by the ORCA data collection tool (orcallator.se) and send it off to the Xymon server in NCV format. she's a courier, she's a messenger, she's iconic 👑

orcaxymon should run from the client xymonlaunch(8) utility — which means there must be an entry in the clientlaunch.cfg(5) file for orcaxymon. no entry, no launch, no data, periodt. 📋

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --orca=PREFIX — the filename prefix for the ORCA data log. typically this is the directory for the ORCA logs, followed by "orcallator". the actual filename for the ORCA logs includes a timestamp and sequence number, like "orcallator-2006-06-20-000". this option is required — like, you literally cannot skip it 🚨
• --debug — turns on debugging output. for when you wanna see everything going on 🔍

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• xymon(7)
• clientlaunch.cfg(5)

go read those too, they're part of the lore 📚

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from the Xymon crew, Version 4.3.30, dated 4 Sep 2019 — so yeah, vintage but still serving 💖✨🎀🦋