[Orca-dev] project to integrate nmon into orca?

[Erik Melander]

Anyone currently working on integrating the tool 'nmon' for AIX
into their Orca environment?  The tool can be downloaded from:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/articles/analyze_aix/index.html

If no one is working on a project, any suggestions as to the best
way to integrate the tool?  Modifying Orca so it can read output
from both the orcallator.se (horizontal columns) and nmon (vertical
columns)?  Modifying the vertical column output on the client to an
Orca friendly horizontal column format?  Building a new tool that
loads the nmon data into rrd databases that Orca can then display
as graphs?  Or perhaps another strategy?

Modifying Orca would seem to be the most elegant solution, however
there is a substaintial learning curve involved.  Hopefully, we
can generate some community support here (Blair has contributed
so much!) ...

Here is some example output from the tool (definitions of each
field are described in the README.txt bundled with the tool):

ZZZZ,T0111,12:18:09
CPU01,T0111,6.0,1.0,0.0,93.0
CPU_ALL,T0111,6.0,1.0,0.0,93.0
FRCA,T0111,0,0,0,0,0.000000,0
MEM,T0111,0.3,46.4,1.4,475.4,512.0,1024.0
MEMUSE,T0111,24.3,19.8,79.4,120,128
PAGE,T0111,1.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
PROC,T0111,0.00,2.00,374,1156,307,17,0,0,0,5,0,0
FILE,T0111,0,9,0,25932,5098,0,0,0
NET,T0111,2.4,0.9,0.1,0.0,0.0,1.7,0.1,0.0,0.0,0.0,
ESSREAD,T0111,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
ESSWRITE,T0111,22.9,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,23.9,0.0,0.0,0.0
ESSXFER,T0111,16.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,16.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
IOADAPT,T0111,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,46.9,31.9
JFSFILE,T0111,21.9,3.3,52.6,17.2,5.6,66.2,19.0,3.2,86.2,7.8,16.0,33.1
JFSINODE,T0111,4.5,0.3,5.8,0.8,0.2,0.3,0.3,0.1,2.4,0.8,0.1,1.1
DISKBUSY,T0111,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0
.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0,0.0,0
.0,0.0,1.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
DISKREAD,T0111,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0
.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0
.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
DISKWRITE,T0111,0.0,0.0,0.0,2.5,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,13.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,5.0
,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,2.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,3.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,3.0,0.0
,0.0,0.0,13.5,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,6.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
DISKXFER,T0111,0.0,0.0,0.0,3.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,4.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,5.0,0
.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,2.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,3.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,3.0,0.0,0
.0,0.0,5.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,7.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
DISKRSIZE,T0111,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,
0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,
0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
DISKWSIZE,T0111,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.8,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,3.2,0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0,
0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0,0.0,
0.0,0.0,2.7,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.9,0.0,0.0,0.0