[Orca-users] Orca-users Digest, Vol 77, Issue 3

[Kevin Izzet]

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>    1. how to configure source data for orca? (William Maniates)
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> [Orca-users] how to configure source data for orca?
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> "William Maniates" <WManiat at nicor.com>
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> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:15:36 -0500
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> Hello All,
> I am new to orca, and would like some assistance on how to configure 
> my source data files for orca to plot them.  I am using CLI tools for 
> our storage management to create the source data files. I am not sure 
> how to parse up my source data, so orca can plot it.  I do NOT need 
> orca to capture the data, just to plot it.  I am a bit unsure of how 
> to configure the orcallator.cfg as the examples in the file appear to 
> be used in conjunction with the orca collection tool. 
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Bill M
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Hi,

It sounds like you really should be looking at RRDtool for plotting the 
data files and then maybe combining that with drraw for producing custom 
graphs, I've used both very successfully in the past.

Regards

Kevin