On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:31, Mark Simmons wrote:

BGS Best1's data collector has now apparently been combined with BMC Patrol so that (despite my personal dislike for Patrol) it might be a goer. TBYB.

I suppose if you want to bring up the $$$$$ tools that few of us can justify buying, then BMC Patrol has gotten much better. TeamQuest seems to be the cream of the crop. It's pretty easy to use and very functional. Plus it'll give you the 50000 diffrent graphical/ graphed views that are nothing but neat to look at.

Alternatively simply using the various *stat's with some noddy bits of perl or shell-script will give useful date/time-stamped tables which you can then graph using spreadsheet software or gnuplot, and are quite amenable to importing into databases or packages like SAS.

RRDTool is also a likely candidate for the kind of performance-tracking trending and capacity planning that you might want to do.

RRDTool doesn't collect data though, just helps you work with time-based data.

.....which is where Orca can help.

-- -Mark ... an Englishman in London ...