[Orca-users] Re: orca-ing data already in a database?

[Blair Zajac]

Regarding mysql databases, there's been no work done on this as far as I am
aware.  You may be aware that RRD files that Orca uses could be considered a
very specialized form of a flat file database, so unless you're going to be
doing queries in your mysql database, there may not be much point.  Also, to
work with Orca, you'll end up having to extract the data from mysql into RRD.

You raise a good point regarding orcallator.  It would be useful to have the
latest version of orcallator.se run without root permissions and gather as
much data as it can without root permissions.  I don't know what modules or
include files would have to be skipped to enable this, but I don't think it
would be too hard to figure out.  You'll probably add #ifdef 0 #endif around
pieces of code until it doesn't complain.

Best,
Blair

rcarruth at tempe.tt.slb.com wrote:
> 
> Well, I've got orca up and plotting my old percollator data
> (I'm running on Solaris 2.5.1, and I do not have root access
> on the machines to allow me to run orcallator, so I'm stuck
> with an old version of percollator).  Its cool, for large values
> of cool.
> 
> Now, however, I'd like to also plot the performance data that I've
> gotten from a different source and put into a database (mysql to be
> precise).  Has anyone done this?  (After I get no answer here (;-)
> I'll go to the developer's mailing list, so don't bother telling me to
> ask there, that's my next stop after a few days)....
> 
> rc
>