[Orca-users] Re: possible to use orca for Win2k hosts

[Darren Dunham]

> I've just recently been experimenting with orca and se on Solaris and now
> that I've got it setup and running I'm curious ass to whether this tool
> could be used to plot out Windows host data.  If so what tools are people
> using to collect the data and get it to the solaris box where orca is
> running?

I'm not the NT guy, so I don't know how this is set up.

I think we're just using some built-in logging functions from NT.  The
orca host has a samba share that is mounted on the NT box.  There it
constantly creates a <hostname>.tsv file with several parameters.
Here's the first line..

"(PDH-TSV 4.0) (Pacific Daylight Time)(420)" "\Memory\AvailableBytes"
"\Network Interface(Intel 8255x-based Integrated Fast Ethernet)\Bytes
Received/sec" "\Network Interface(Intel 8255x-based Integrated Fast
Ethernet)\Bytes Sent/sec" "\Paging File(_Total)\% Usage"
"\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\% Disk Read Time" "\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\% Disk
Write Time" "\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\% Idle Time" "\Processor(_Total)\%
Processor Time" "\Web Service(_Total)\Current Connections"

(really, it's all one line).

Periodically a perl script parses the data out of that file and puts it
in more of a daily log for long-term storage, and into a form that orca
likes.  Then orca runs against that data.

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