[collectd] Using an output plugin to produce CSV files usable by Windows Performance Monitor

[mclellan_dave at emc.com]

Hi octo:   to tell you the truth, I haven't looked to understand the
details of how the existing CSV formats the data.  This will be my first
step.   Perfmon expects column headings in the first row that conform to
specific syntax in order to know what data has beeen collected.  This
part is easy, once we decide which statistics we will need to support in
the output.  

Thank you for your reply and interest.  Stay tuned. 

Dave. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Forster [mailto:octo at verplant.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 11:32 AM
To: mclellan, dave
Cc: collectd at verplant.org
Subject: Re: [collectd] Using an output plugin to produce CSV files
usable by Windows Performance Monitor

Hi Dave,

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:45:43AM -0400, mclellan_dave at emc.com wrote:
> Has anyone done this?

I don't know of anybody and your idea certainly sounds ... new ;)

> I know there is a .csv plugin existing, but it's not producing perfmon

> formatted csv files. I'll probably start there to build a new plugin, 
> but I'm looking to see if anyone has done this nutty thing I'm 
> proposing.

How do the files need to be formatted? Is it just a matter of changing
the separator, or do the fields need to be organized completely
differently?

Regards,
-octo
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