Peformance Data in a Database
Druzhinin Eugene
druzhinin at rusmedia.ru
Tue Apr 20 08:43:53 CEST 2004
Hello Ben.
Thank you for your work.
Sorry, it took me qite a long time to realize your suggestions in details.
I will try to modify the patch. But I'm not a good programmer...
May be you look for an instrument like this http://rtg.sourceforge.net/ ?
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:52:25 +0100
Ben Clewett <Ben.Clewett at roadrunner.uk.com> wrote:
> I'll get some CGI graphs working when I have a moment. I must stress,
> this is really for my own needs to process data into a binary form
> suitable for fast analysis. If anybody else finds it useful, or wants
> to make this a real project, please go ahead.
>
>
> At the same time I saw your posting, so let me reply.
>
>
> I totally agree with the 'host/service/perfdata_variable'. I have used
> it throughout my code, although I have called it 'host/service/metric'.
>
> I take your point that a given metric has a bad name. 'space' or
> 'time', or '/usr'. It cannot be understood without the
> service_description. The 'unit' is often not passed. The
> service_description is sometimes badly named.
>
> However, I don't fully understand your next comment. Do you mean we
> need a separate table of 'good' or 'approved' variable types onto which
> we should map the given ones? May be converting where we can? Is this
> what you mean by a MIB? This sounds like a very good idea. Although
> some work will be required.
>
> I don't entirely agree that my structure has no meaning. The variable
> does have a unit. (s, ms, B, MB, us etc) It's also linked to the
> service description. This does give a human-understanding to the
> output. Although I take you point that there might be more that can be
> done to make this machine understandable. If there is any need for this?
>
> Your right, I am dropping all non-numeric data. There isn't a lot which
> cannot be expressed with a number. Especially as this data is supposed
> to be scalar!
>
> There is a long way to go anyway, and thanks for your comments.
>
> Ben.
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Best regards.
Druzhinin Eugene.
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