Our Solaris group here is using ORCA to collect various performance metrics about their servers.
However, the ORCA data collection is somewhat fickle, and it is annoying to have two systems tracking data. So the question was: Can Hobbit be used to collect these data instead ?
I've had a look at ORCA, and it does seem like it would be possible to just use the ORCA data collector (orcallator.se) and feed those data into Hobbit. A special back-end module could then process these into RRD files, and graph them with hobbitgraph. This would be rather trivial to do - most of the work would be to setup the hobbitgraph definitions to match those graphs currently available in ORCA.
But before I do that - how many people are actually using ORCA? Their website appears to be on-line, but no updates have appeared for a couple of years.
Regards, Henrik