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NAME pmdasample – sample performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/pmdasample [-d domain] [-i port] [-l logfile] [-p] [-u socket] [-U username] DESCRIPTION pmdasample is a sample Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports a variety of synthetic performance metrics. This PMDA was developed as part of the quality assurance testing for the PCP product,…
NAME pmdasamba – Samba performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdasamba is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from Samba, a Windows SMB/CIFS server for UNIX. In order for values to be made available by this PMDA, Samba must have been built with profiling support (WITH_PROFILE in “smbd -b” output). This…
NAME pmdarsyslog – rsyslog (reliable and extended syslog) PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdarsyslog is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from the rsyslogd(8) server. Further details about rsyslog can be found at http://www.rsyslog.com/. INSTALLATION If you want access to the names and values for the rsyslog performance metrics, do the following as root:…
NAME pmdaroot – a privileged PMCD helper performance metrics domain agent SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/root/pmdaroot [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-s sockname] DESCRIPTION pmdaroot is a special Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which cooperates closely with pmcd(1) and other PMDAs to provide limited privileged services to these unprivileged processes. In this role it is used to discover operating…
NAME pmdaroomtemp – room temperature performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/roomtemp/pmdaroomtemp [-d domain] [-l logfile] DESCRIPTION pmdaroomtemp is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports the temperature from one or more sensors built using the DS2480 and DS1280 chipsets and MicroLAN technology from Dallas Semiconductor Corporation. The roomtemp PMDA exports metrics that reflect…
NAME pmdaproc – process performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/proc/pmdaproc [-AL] [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-r cgroup] [-U username] DESCRIPTION pmdaproc is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts performance metrics describing the state of the individual processes running on a Linux system. The proc PMDA exports metrics that measure the memory, processor…
NAME pmdapostgresql – PostgreSQL database PMDA DESCRIPTION pmdapostgresql is a Performance Co-Pilot PMDA which extracts live performance data from a running PostgreSQL database. INSTALLATION pmdapostgresql uses a configuration file from (in this order): • /etc/pcpdbi.conf • $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/postgresql/postgresql.conf • ./postgresql.conf This file can contain overridden values (Perl code) for the settings listed at the start of…
NAME pmdapostfix – Postfix performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) DESCRIPTION pmdapostfix is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports mail queue sizes as reported by qshape(1), as well as aggregate statistics collected from mail.log. INSTALLATION If you want access to the names and values for the Postfix performance metrics, do the following as root:…
NAME pmdapipe – command output capture performance metrics domain agent (PMDA) SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/pipe/pmdapipe [-c configfile] [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-m memory] DESCRIPTION pmdapipe is a configurable command output monitoring Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA). It can be seen as analogous to a restricted shell, where options can be passed to preset commands, and each line…
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:…