[Orca-users] Re: HTML

[Blair Zajac]

dmitryb17 wrote:
>
> There is an option in orca to stop it from generating html files.
> This could be useful, if I wanted to create my own pages, but how
> then am I to figure out what graphs are what. I mean, there is no map
> from the names of the png files to the actual graph names, right?
> It could be useful if such map was generated, so it would be easy to
> identify group name, host name, graph name. Graphs could be grouped
> as well, say a group for all graphs for network interfaces, etc.
>
> Another suggestion is that it would be good to have a way to specify
> via command line argument an external program, that would then be
> called by orca to generate html instead of using internal functions.
>
> With the way html pages are created now, it sometimes becomes
> difficult (or rather inconvenient) to navigate. Do you have any plans
> on upgrading orca to build html with frames, menus, drop-down boxes,
> etc?
>
> Thank you.
>
>   -Dmitry

I'll begin by saying that these are good ideas and I've been
wondering how to generate the HTML pages that navigate better.

That being said, I don't have a lot of time to spend on Orca and
Orca being an open source project, the way it'll move forward is
for people to "scratch their own itch" and contribute time and code
to make Orca better.

I'm working on setting up Orca in the Subversion source control
system so that people can contribute.

Are you interested in working on this?

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/