Feature request: "more" on trends columns

Francesco Duranti fduranti at q8.it
Sat Sep 30 14:50:59 CEST 2006


Well just to put some more on new feature that could be useful...

I'm currently getting some more data to graph for netapp filers via the
stats command. 
>From that command I'm getting a big amount of data: interfaces, per
volume/aggregate/qtree statistics, single disk utilization statistics.
>From all those data I'll end up with a really big number of possible
graphs and putting them all in the trends column will result in an
almost unreadable screen (it's difficult to search for a single graph in
more then 200).

One simple to implement solution (at least to find the graph) could be
to create link a the start of the page for each section and, a header
before the graphs saying what they are and a footer under the graph to
come back to the start of the page. For example:

CPU -> CPU stat graph
Vmstat -> vmstat graph
Interface -> interface graph
Disk -> disk graph
Snapshot -> snapshot graph


 Cpu statistics:
Graph1
 Back to start

 VM Statistics:
Graph1
Graph2
Graph3
 Back to start

 Interface statistics
Graph1
Graph2
Graph3
 Back to start
...
And so on


Another nice addiction can be to have more trend columns where user can
define what data column will be displayed. In this case we can
differentiate graphs by data type. We can have a trend column for disk
spaces (disk space, inode, snapshot and so on), a trend column for
machine performance (cpu, vmstat, iostat), a trend column for network
performance (traffic and tcp statistics) and a trend column for
environment status (power, temp, etc).

Having the 2 addiction at the same time will get probably the most out
the graphs.

Francesco



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