Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME pmdakvm – Linux virtualization performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdakvm is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from the Linux KVM virtualisation subsystem. Unlike many PMDAs it dynamically enumerates its metric hierarchy, based entirely on the contents of /sys/kernel/debug/kvm. INSTALLATION Install the kvm PMDA by using the Install script…
NAME pmdajson – JSON PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdajson is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metrics from arbitrary sources generating Javascript Object Notation (JSON) syntax, describing metric metadata and values. Further details on the JSON format can be found at http://www.json.org JSON DATA SOURCES pmdajson searches the directories listed in the "directory_list" and "trusted_directory_list"…
NAME pmdajbd2 – journal block device (JBD) performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/jbd2/pmdajbd2 [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-j path] [-U username] DESCRIPTION pmdajbd2 is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts performance metrics from the Journal Block Device subsystem (version 2) in the Linux kernel. These metrics are exported by the kernel in…
NAME pmdaib – Infiniband performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSYS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/infiniband/pmdaib [-c configFile] [-D debug] [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-w] DESCRIPTION pmdaib is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports information and performance metrics about local Infiniband HCAs and local or remote Infiniband GUIDs. A brief description of the pmdaib command line options follows:…
NAME pmdagpsd – gpsd performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdagpsd is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports values from the gpsd daemon. INSTALLATION If you want access to the names and values for gpsd, do the following as root: # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/gpsd # ./Install If you want to undo the installation, do…
NAME pmdagpfs – gpfs filesystem statistics performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdagpfs is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from the /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmpmon program to provide information on mounted gpfs filesystems. INSTALLATION Install the gpfs PMDA by using the Install script as root: # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/gpfs # ./Install To uninstall, do the following as…
NAME pmdagluster – Gluster Filesystem PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdagluster is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values about mounted gluster filesystems using the gluster(8) command. This PMDA exports metrics about volumes and bricks both local and remote to the node where pmdagluster is running. The gluster filesystem supports fine-grained control over enabling statistics…
NAME pmdagfs2 – Global Filesystem v2 (GFS2) PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdagfs2 is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values about mounted GFS2 filesystems from the debugfs filesystem. This PMDA requires debugfs along with at least one mounted GFS2 filesystem to be mounted in order to be able to provide metric data. This PMDA…
NAME pmdaelasticsearch – elasticsearch performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdaelasticsearch is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports performance metrics from elasticsearch. INSTALLATION This PMDA requires that elasticsearch is running on the local host and is accepting queries on TCP port 9200. Install the elasticsearch PMDA by using the Install script as root:…
NAME pmdads389log – 389 Directory Server Log PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdads389log is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts statistics from 389 Directory Server access log using the logconv.pl(1) utility. INSTALLATION pmdads389log uses a configuration file • $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/ds389log/ds389log.conf This file can contain overridden values (Perl code) for the settings listed at the start of pmdads389log.pl,…
NAME pmdads389 – 389 Directory Server PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdads389 is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts live performance data from a running 389 Directory Server instance. See the Red Hat Directory Server Administration Guide for description for each metric. INSTALLATION pmdads389 uses a configuration file • $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/ds389/ds389.conf This file can contain overridden values…
NAME pmdadm – Device Mapper PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdadm is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values for Devic Mapper on the local system. This PMDA collects its data through the dmsetup(8) utility and requires that the program is installed in order to function. Further details on device mapper can be found at…
NAME pmdadbping – database response time and availability PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdadbping is a database response time measurement PMDA. pmdadbping runs dbprobe(1), and exports the performance measurements it makes available as PCP metrics. dbprobe(1) should be configured to use the type of DBI appropriate for the local database, which includes: RDBMS flavour, user/password, delay between "ping"…
NAME pmdacisco – Cisco router performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/cisco/pmdacisco [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] [-P password] [-r refresh] [-s prompt] [-M username] [-x port] host:interface-spec […] $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/cisco/parse [options] host:interface-spec […] $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/cisco/probe [-P password] [-s prompt] [-U username] [-x port] host DESCRIPTION pmdacisco is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts…
NAME pmdacifs – Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdacifs is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values about mounted CIFS shares from the /proc/fs/cifs directory. This PMDA requires at least the CIFS kernel module to be loaded to return some metric values and at least one mounted CIFS share in order…
NAME pmdabonding – Linux bonded interface performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdabonding is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from bonded network interfaces in the Linux kernel. INSTALLATION Install the bonding PMDA by using the Install script as root: # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/bonding # ./Install To uninstall, do the following as root: # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/bonding # ./Remove…
NAME pmdabash – Bourne-Again SHell trace performance metrics domain agent SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/bash/pmdabash [-C] [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-I interval] [-t timeout] [-U username] configfile DESCRIPTION pmdabash is an experimental Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports "xtrace" events from a traced bash(1) process. This includes the command execution information that would usually be sent to…
NAME pmdaapache – Apache2 web server performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/apache/pmdaapache [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] [-S server] [-P port] [-L location] DESCRIPTION pmdaapache is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts performance metrics describing the state of an Apache web server. The apache PMDA exports metrics that measure the request…
NAME pmdaaix, pmdadarwin, pmdafreebsd, pmdalinux, pmdanetbsd, pmdasolaris, pmdawindows – operating system kernel performance metrics domain agents SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/aix/pmdaaix [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/darwin/pmdadarwin [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/freebsd/pmdafreebsd [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/linux/pmdalinux [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/netbsd/pmdanetbsd [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username] $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/solaris/pmdasolaris [-d domain]…
NAME pmdaactivemq – ActiveMQ performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdaactivemq is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports performance metrics from ActiveMQ. INSTALLATION This PMDA requires that ActiveMQ has been installed with the Jolokia JMX-HTTP bridge enabled. By default the PNDA will connect to localhost at port 8161 with a username and password…