[hobbit] Hobbit tracking of data from ORCA

[John Glowacki]

That would be great. We have plans to move ORCA to a new server in the 
next month.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> Our Solaris group here is using ORCA to collect various performance
> metrics about their servers.
> 
> However, the ORCA data collection is somewhat fickle, and it is 
> annoying to have two systems tracking data. So the question was:
> Can Hobbit be used to collect these data instead ?
> 
> I've had a look at ORCA, and it does seem like it would be possible
> to just use the ORCA data collector (orcallator.se) and feed those
> data into Hobbit. A special back-end module could then process these
> into RRD files, and graph them with hobbitgraph. This would be rather
> trivial to do - most of the work would be to setup the hobbitgraph
> definitions to match those graphs currently available in ORCA.
> 
> But before I do that - how many people are actually using ORCA?
> Their website appears to be on-line, but no updates have appeared
> for a couple of years.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik