[Orca-dev] Orca and Windows

[Blair Zajac]

Tony van Lingen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> oh, Wintel = Windows? In that case, we've been charting it for several
> months now using a home-brewn Netsaint plugin that uses the NSClient
> software to read perfmon data remotely. It gives us direct warnings
> (through Netsaint) and produces orca-readable output.
> 
> The problem with this is that the perfmon counters do not always seem to
> reset as expected, and as Jon A. Tankersley pointed out, the counters
> don't have consistent names across different systems. We solve that with
> a configuration file for each system that is monitored, so that NSClient
> won't try to query non-existent counters.
> 
> We use a similar thing to chart Oracle databases. This solution suffers
> very much from the same problem as the disk usage graphs: whenever a
> tablespace/schama/etc is added, removed, renamed, a new chart appears.
> Otherwise it works fine.

There's an Orca patch that solves this problem, so this won't be an
issue for long.

> Would this be a disirable addition?

Yes, definitely.  Send it along.

Best,
Blair

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