Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME pmdaperfevent – hardware performance counter performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/perfevent/pmdaperfevent [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] [-i port] [-p] [-u socket] [-6] DESCRIPTION pmdaperfevent is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) that configures and reads the hardware performance counters using the Linux kernel perf_event API. The perfevent PMDA exports metrics for hardware…
NAME pmdapdns – PowerDNS performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdapdns is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from the PowerDNS authoritative daemon as well as the recursive resolver. INSTALLATION If you want access to the names and values for the PowerDNS performance metrics, do the following as root: # cd…
NAME pmdapapi – papi performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/pmdapapi [-d domain] [-l logfile] DESCRIPTION pmdapapi is a papi Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exposes hardware performance counters via the library Performance API (PAPI). The metrics exported by the papi PMDA report values gathered from the hardware counters and metrics available, as reported…
NAME pmdaoracle – Oracle database PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdaoracle is a Performance Co-Pilot PMDA which extracts live performance data from a running Oracle database. INSTALLATION pmdaoracle uses a configuration file from (in this order): • /etc/pcpdbi.conf • $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/oracle/oracle.conf • ./oracle.conf This file can contain overridden values (Perl code) for the settings listed at the start of…
NAME pmdanvidia – nvidia gpu metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia/pmdanvidia [-d domain] [-l logfile] DESCRIPTION pmdanvidia is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts performance metrics describing the metrics available on NVIDIA GPU cards via the NVML library. The nvidia PMDA exports metrics that measure gpu activity, memory utilization, fan speed, etc on…
NAME pmdanginx – nginx performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdanginx is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports performance metrics from nginx(8) – an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP proxy server. INSTALLATION This PMDA requires that the nginx stub_status module is active and available at…
NAME pmdanfsclient – NFS client statistics performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdanfsclient is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from the /proc/self/mountstats interface to provide information on NFS mounts. INSTALLATION Install the nfsclient PMDA by using the Install script as root: # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nfsclient # ./Install To uninstall, do the following as root:…
NAME pmdanews – sample Usenet news performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdanews is an example Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values related to a set of newsgroups. INSTALLATION If you want access to the names and values for the news performance metrics, do the following as root: # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/news #…
NAME pmdanetfilter – Linux netfilter IP connection tracking performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdanetfilter is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from the IP connection tracking module in the Linux kernel. INSTALLATION Install the netfilter PMDA by using the Install script as root: # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/netfilter # ./Install To uninstall, do the following…
NAME pmdanamed – BIND (named) PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdanamed is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from the BIND DNS server. Further details on BIND can be found at http://isc.org/. INSTALLATION If you want access to the names and values for the named performance metrics, do the following as root: # cd…
NAME pmdamysql – MySQL database PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdamysql is a Performance Co-Pilot PMDA which extracts live performance data from a running MySQL database. INSTALLATION pmdamysql uses a configuration file from (in this order): • /etc/pcpdbi.conf • $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/mysql/mysql.conf This file can contain overridden values (Perl code) for the settings listed at the start of pmdamysql.pl, namely:…
NAME pmdamounts – filesystem mounts performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/mounts/pmdamounts [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] DESCRIPTION pmdamounts is a simple Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which monitors availability of a given set of filesystem mounts. The mounts PMDA exports metrics that reflect whether the configured filesystems are mounted ("up") or not. The…
NAME pmdammv – memory mapped values performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/mmv/pmdammv [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] DESCRIPTION pmdammv is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports application level performance metrics using memory mapped files. It offers an extremely low overhead instrumentation facility that is well-suited to long running, mission critical applications…
NAME pmdamic – MIC card PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdamic is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values about Intel MIC cards using the libmicmgmt(7) python bindings. This provides information on core, memory and power utilization INSTALLATION Install the MIC PMDA by using the Install script as root: # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/mic # ./Install To uninstall, do the…
NAME pmdamemcache – memcached performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION This PMDA extracts performance data from memcached, a distributed memory caching daemon commonly used to improve web serving performance. A farm of memcached processes over multiple servers can be utilised by a single web application, increasing the total available object cache size, and decreasing the…
NAME pmdamailq – mail queue performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/mailq/pmdamailq [-b binlist] [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-r regex] [-U username] [queuedir] DESCRIPTION pmdamailq is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts performance metrics describing the state of the e-mail queues managed by sendmail(1) and other mail transfer agents. The mailq PMDA exports…
NAME pmdalustrecomm – Lustre filesystem comms performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustrecomm/pmdalustrecomm [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] DESCRIPTION pmdalustrecomm is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts performance metrics from the Linux procfs filesystem about the state of various aspects of the Lustre filesystem. The lustrecomm PMDA exports metrics that focus on…
NAME pmdalustre – lustre filesystem statistics performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdalustre is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from the /proc/fs/lustre and /proc/sys/lnet trees to provide information on mounted lustre filesystems. INSTALLATION Install the lustre PMDA by using the Install script as root: # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustre # ./Install To uninstall, do the…
NAME pmdalogger – log file performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/logger/pmdalogger [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-m memory] [-s interval] [-U username] [configfile] DESCRIPTION pmdalogger is a configurable log file monitoring Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA). It can be seen as analogous to the -f option to tail(1) and converts each new log line into…
NAME pmdalmsensors – Linux hardware monitoring performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lmsensors/pmdalmsensors [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] DESCRIPTION pmdalmsensors is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts performance metrics describing the state of hardware using the lm-sensors on compatible motherboards. The lmsensors PMDA exports metrics that measure fan speeds, core temperatures and…