#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

# declare...
sub trim($);
#xen_cloud.tar.gz
# we need to run 2 iterations because CPU stats show 0% on the first, and I'm putting .1 second betwen them to speed it up
my @result = split(/n/, `xentop -b -i 2 -d.1`);

# remove the first line
shift(@result);

shift(@result) while @result &amp;&amp; $result[0] !~ /^xentop - /;

# the next 3 lines are headings..
shift(@result);
shift(@result);
shift(@result);
shift(@result);

foreach my $line (@result)
{
  my @xenInfo = split(/[t ]+/, trim($line));
  printf("name: %s, cpu_sec: %d, cpu_percent: %.2f, vbd_rd: %d, vbd_wr: %dn",
    $xenInfo[0],
    $xenInfo[2],
    $xenInfo[3],
    $xenInfo[14],
    $xenInfo[15]
    );
}

# trims leading and trailing whitespace
sub trim($)
{
  my $string = shift;
  $string =~ s/^s+//;
  $string =~ s/s+$//;
  return $string;
}