I have been asked by several friends and colleagues how to setup ORCA to graph arbitrary data. Since it’s impossible to explain this in it’s entirety to everyone that asks, I decided to write an article for SysAdmin to describe the steps required to setup ORCA. The article is titled LDAP Performance Monitoring, and is in the current issue of SysAdmin magazine.
The article explains how to setup ORCA to graph LDAP performance statistics, and describes how to use the super useful ldap-ping.pl script. If you get a chance to read the article, please email me with feedback. I have several articles in the works, and would like to get as much constructive criticism as possible! This will help me write useful stuff in the future.