> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:19:06 +0300 > From: shlo...@shlomifish.org > To: snem...@sonusnet.com > CC: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Re: suggestions for perl program to make excel graph out from top > output > > Hi Satya, > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:33:04 +0000 > "Nemana, Satya" <snem...@sonusnet.com> wrote: > > > Gurus, > > > > I want to write a perl program that captures top output in linux and makes > > nice graphs out of them(Microsoft excel) > > Are there ready to use modules for this which will help in writing the > > program? > > Any suggestions for inspirations? > > Search in cpan for top is resulting in a lot of results, most of which are > > irrelevant, are there smarter ways to search? > > Sure, use the GTop module which interfaces against libgtop: > > https://metacpan.org/release/GTop > > Its current metacpan.org documents are kinda messed up for some reason, so you > should view this page: > > https://metacpan.org/module/MJH/GTop-0.17/GTop.pod > > This may also prove useful: > > http://developer.gnome.org/libgtop/stable/ > > For creating Excel spreadsheets with graphs you can look at a spreadsheet > generating module, such as: > > * https://metacpan.org/release/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel > > * https://metacpan.org/release/Spreadsheet-WriteExcelXML > > Or maybe something OpenDocument related. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > > > > Regards, > > Satya > >
You can also use the Chart module from CPAN to create many different kinds of charts as a PNG file. This file can then be put into an Excel spreadsheet using the modules above. This was fairly easy to do. Mike Lively
