Sunay Tripathi wrote:
> Darren Reed wrote:
>> Sunay Tripathi wrote:
>>> Darren,
>>>
>>> I appreciate the fact that you wrote a script in 15 min. Do
>>> you expect our end users each to write a script or a program
>>> and be well versed in sheel/awk to get the basic information
>>> they want i.e. cumulative stats and the rate of change? I
>>> think we really need to make it easy for people to get that
>>> info.
>>
>> Systems administrators, for whom commands like this are
>> targetted, are regularly writing scripts in perl, shell, python,
>> whatever.
>>
>> So, yes, I do expect them to because I know they do.
>>
>> Been there, done that - it's part of the "job description".
>
> Huh!! Would love to meet some people who fit that description.
Here! I was a UNIX admin at Qualcomm for about 4 years before I joined
Sun. Ran a network of some 800 Sun's, a variety of PCs, etc. Did most
of the tools development for the group at the same time.
>
>> While there's an obvious need for the likes of "dlstat -i 2",
>
> As long as we are clear on that .
I don't think anyone is contesting that.
>
>> it's building in the "diff" capability that I'm questioning.
>
> Sure. Lets see if we can simplify that.
>
>> Chances are that if you're snapshotting data that you want
>> to reformat into CSV for a spreadsheet or reformat it for
>> feeding into gnuplot or the snapshot data is part of some
>> greater task or whatever.
>
> And that might be the option. Just allow dumping in couple
> of format etc.
If you have a simple parseable format, then the rest is trivial. Again,
don't over design this. Space delimited columns is plenty adequate.
The rest is trivially extractable and importable.
- Garrett
>
> Cheers,
> Sunay
>
