We use it. We use orcallator for the BB server, we wrote our agent to collect files for a "tempallator." We wrote another one for a "ticallator" to track TIC statistics (a Cache Server for Real Time data). We use the procollator for Linux.

To be frank, the tempallator is the most valuable, and we rarely look at the others. We wrote a web front-end to the data called heatmap, which looks up the location of the server name in a db, and puts it in the correct cab location in the DC. The map shows the rows of cabs, the color of the cab is set by the hottest machine (hard-coded thresholds). Click on the cab to see the machines.

Kind of off tangent I know, but I think you could do the same in hobbit:

Page dc Prod DC

0.0.0.0 Row_1 # noconn 0.0.0.0 Row_2 # noconn 0.0.0.0 Row_3 # noconn Etc

Then have a script that sent the data in the form of row_1.cab1, etc.

Larry

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:27 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit tracking of data from ORCA

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

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