[Orca-users] Re: Idea

[Blair Zajac]

Phillip,

The ordering really depends upon what people think is important.  I designed
Orca at GeoCities and serving web traffic was the most important thing, hence
HTTP plots appear first.

Probably the best thing would be to let people easily reorder the plots
themselves.

One idea is to have each plot could be part of a "plot group" and at the top
of the Orca configuration file could be a sorted list of "plot groups".  This
would easily let people order their plots, such as in the order you give.

This would also allow plots to grouped into sections and let users more
easily find the plot they need.

Any other approaches on ow else could this be done?

Blair

"Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
> 
> Blair,
> 
>     I've come up with idea and wanted to pass my thoughts on the group.
> 
>     While Orca is neat and finally working after the hard work that you
> and Alan put in to fix
>     my problem. I was looking at the output. I felt that it could be
> organize a little different. Not
>     that this is ok but would make sense to users needing to see only
> certain things.
> 
>     Let me give an example:
> 
>     System
>     Network
>     Services
>     Databases
>    Application
> 
>    The above would be main one. Then they would break out like so:
> 
>     System -  Cpu, Memory,  Swap,  Disk Space
>     Network - Interfaces, TCP
>     Services -  NFS,  Web Servers,
>     Databases - filesystem, tablespaces, transactions
>     Application - ERP, CRM's  ( Thinking about this one)
> 
>     The idea is that it would break out the sections into meaningful
> ones that can be
>      quickly address instead of having to look and do the hunt.
> Althought it isn't that hard
>      but I was thinking along the lines of making things even easier to
> find.
> 
>      Any thoughts to this.
>