[hobbit] Hobbit tracking of data from ORCA

[Asif Iqbal]

On 6/20/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> 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?



I would love to see ORCA get integrated with hobbit since we are mostly a
Solaris shop. I was as a matter of fact  going thru the ORCA setup  written
by Amy Rich on bigadmin site for Solaris. Here is the url:

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/orca.html


Their website appears to be on-line, but no updates have appeared
> for a couple of years.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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