Playing an archive is like watching a recorded television show since you can skip the parts you are not interested in.

The data gathered from the the singleton_archiver and tabular_archiver scripts can be charted using the example Microsoft Excel macro, archiver.xls, which is also included in the /var/opt/pm/SMscripts/archiver.xls directory.

This Excel macro example will chart the data from either of the archiver scripts. When given a singleton_archiver output file, it will allow you to choose the object that you want to plot and chart the data for all nodes. When given tabular_archiver output, it will plot all instances of a chosen object against time.