AW: [hobbit] Hobbit tracking of data from ORCA

[Gräub Roland]

Hello

We use ORCA. It was build up here 3 years ago by a external worker. He build a php menu in that we can select hosts and graphs, selecting 2 or more hosts then its possible to compare the hosts. Most clients are Solaris machines (Orcaserver runs on Solaris), also some HP-Unix and Linux machines are in ORCA.

Yes it seems there are no update made for orca. Also a problem is that richpse/SEToolkit devlopment is stopped. We have problems with Orca (richpse) when Sun change the names of the network controllers. In the mailinglist is still some activity http://www.orcaware.com/pipermail/orca-users/

I think its a good idea to get this 2 parts together.  

Regards
Roland 

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Juni 2006 15:27
An: hobbit at hswn.dk
Betreff: [hobbit] Hobbit tracking of data from ORCA

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


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