On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:27 -0500, Alan Hoyt wrote:
> ...
> Deja vu – I’ve heard this a few times over the past few years. I am not
> sure what you mean by a "suitable gatekeeper" though. When you consider
> for example how much Oracle has changed from Oracle 7 (which I believe
> was the target of the Oracle pmda) to Oracle 10g today - a massive
> rewrite of the pmda is probably required rather than just having someone
> act as a “gatekeeper”. I would imagine the other database pmda’s are in
> a similar mode of decay thus substantially diminishing the value of
> these agents. So, I am not really clear what your expectations are ...
> unless you are offering up your expertise as the gatekeeper – if so, you
> can have the "pcpaddons" sourceforge site. I merely set it up to
> facilitate and share the two pcp efforts I am currently working on.
Alan,
I think we're getting closer to this stuff finally escaping.
By a "suitable gatekeeper", SGI intended that this be someone who'd take
the effort to make the source available and might be willing to moderate
changes. I think http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcpaddons would be a
fine place for it to live.
But given the moribund nature of the source, I agree with your comments
that it seems unlikely anyone wants to actually revive this stuff. On
the other hand, it might make a useful starting point for someone with
an interest in exporting performance data to PCP from MySQL or SQL
Server (although the latter will come out of the changes to the Windows
PMDA I'm working on as part of my new job).
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