Step 1 Type in the source file or click '...' to browse
Step 2 Choose tab or comma separated data format or sar the well known unix monitoring tool
Step 3 Select name and/or information rows above each column (see below)
Step 4 Select time and sequence columns in addition to data (see below)
Step 5 Type in the file name of the destination data store or click the `...' button to browse
Step 6 Type in the ring name where the imported data should be stored in the file.
Step 7 Check the details, then click Import to run the import process; errors will appear above the buttons. When you have done, click Finished

column names	A row of names is expected as the first line in a comma or tab seperated format. These headers will form the column names for the subsequent data. If this option is not slected, then unique column names will be generated for you. tom dick harry 1 2 3 4 5 6
column information	If ticked, information rows are expected in the import file in the same format that habitat exports them. These rows contain additional, non-data information about each column, such as an enhanced description or a data type identifier. The importer expects zero or more rows between the header (if selected) and a single line containing two dashes, `--'. As well as column Information, an additional unlabeled column is printed at the end of each line to name the information row. This is unusual and is only likely to come from a habitat exported file. tom dick harry thomas richard henry alternate -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 In the above example, we see an info line called alternate giving more information about each column.
insertion time	An additional column will be expected in the import file, named inserted, that contains the time of the samples. When imported, the sample will have its time associcated with it instead of the insertion time, which is the normal behaviour. The type of data is time_t in C-speak, which is the number of seconds since the unix epoch, Janurary 1 1970. Clearly, if column names are absent and the option is not ticked, the importer will not be able to recognise a time column. inserted tom dick harry 998337060 1 2 3 998337120 4 5 6
sequence number	An additional column will be expected in the import file, named sequence, that contains a positive integer that orders and groups samples together. If multiple, seperate samples have the same time value (they arrived at the sampling agent during the same second), the sequence number preserves the order of data. Secondly, the sequence groups multi line samples together, useful in processing the same attributes from multiple instances like disk statistics. The number will not recorded, but the order and grouping will be preserved. If the the option is not ticked but sample time is available, then the time will be used as an an effective sequence ordering, with samples sharing the same time assumed to be a multi-line sample. If neither sequence or time is available all rows are assumed to be single line samples in sequence order. inserted sequence read/s write/s disk 998337060 0 1 2 1 998337060 0 4 5 2 998337060 1 7 8 1 998337060 1 10 11 2 The table above shows two samples over four rows. As the inserted time column is the same, only the two values from sequence tells us there are two sets of samples. In this case disk changes and will be the instance. Two samples of two rows each will be created.