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

[Blair Zajac]

Darren Dunham wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Can you send this Perl script to the mailing list?  It looks really
useful.

Also, if you have a Orca configuration file for this, that would be useful.

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
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