Re: suggestions for perl program to make excel graph out from top output
Hi Satya, On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:33:04 + 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 -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Rethinking CPAN - http://shlom.in/rethinking-cpan Writing a BitKeeper replacement is probably easier at this point than getting its license changed. — Matt Mackall (who ended up writing a BitKeeper replacement) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
RE: suggestions for perl program to make excel graph out from top output
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 + 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
