[Orca-users] Orca and SAR data

[Cockcroft, Adrian]

Funnily enough, the sheer broken-ness and difficulty of parsing data out
of sar files was the main reason the SE toolkit was created by Rich
Pettit back in 1993 (that's when I met Rich), and that's why I adopted
SE as the basis for anything to do with performance metrics.

Adrian

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-users-bounces+acockcroft=ebay.com at orcaware.com
[mailto:orca-users-bounces+acockcroft=ebay.com at orcaware.com] On Behalf
Of Cynthia Kiser
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:56 AM
To: Ricky Bhatia
Cc: orca-users at orcaware.com
Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Orca and SAR data

Quoting Ricky Bhatia <whatsyoflava2004 at yahoo.com>:
> I am wanting to retrieve SAR data from multiple hosts and dump the
> data into a round robin database such that RRDTool can read it.
> With Orca, is there a way I could get SAR (System Activity Reporter)
> data collected on Linux and UNIX (Solaris) machines?  If so, how
> would I configure Orca to do so?

What information from SAR do you want that isn't already in the
data Orca collects by default? We discovered Orca when we were looking
for ways to parse and display SAR data. Orca already collected and
displayed all the pieces we wanted so we are ignoring SAR. 

There is an article in the March 2004 issue of SysAdmin magazine that
describes how to create your own Orca module if there are parts of SAR
that don't already have Orca equivalents.

-- 
Cynthia Kiser

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