----- "David Wright" <daw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Are there plans to revive the Oracle PMDA we had in IRIX days?
>
Sort of. The original version of the Oracle PMDA was a maintenance
nightmare - trying to make a single binary work for more than one
Oracle release was extremely painful (it was C code back then).
Since then, other ways of addressing that problem have come about -
in particular, the Perl PMDA API and DBI::Oracle solve the worst of
the problems in that space.
SGI kindly made available enough of the original Oracle PMDA (pmns,
help text and metric descriptors) to seed development of a revised
PMDA. I wrote an initial strawman pmdaoracle.pl - it is in the git
tree (not the source tarballs) at src/pmdas/oracle/pmdaoracle.pl.
Since I'm not currently using Oracle myself nowadays though, its not
complete and needs someone who needs it to take that code, finish it
it off and use it in anger. There are other working Perl DB PMDAs -
like pmdadbping.pl and pmdamysql.pl, that might be useful references
for someone tackling that project.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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