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pmlogmv – move (rename) Performance Co-Pilot archive files Synopsispmlogmv [-NV] oldname newname DescriptionA Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive consists of multiple files as created by pmlogger(1). pmlogmv allows all the files of a single PCP archive to be moved or renamed as a group in a single operation. The oldname argument identifies the target archive, and…
pmloglabel – check and repair a performance metrics archive label Synopsispmloglabel [-Llsv] [-h hostname] [-p pid] [-V version] [-Z timezone] archive Descriptionpmloglabel verifies, reports on, and can modify all details of the labels in each of the files of a Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive log. The archive log has the base name archive and must…
pmlogger_check, pmlogger_daily, pmlogger_merge – administration of Performance Co-Pilot archive log files Synopsis$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmlogger_check [-CNsTV] [-c control] [-l logfile] $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmlogger_daily [-NorV] [-c control] [-k discard] [-l logfile] [-m addresses] [-s size] [-t want] [-x compress] [-X program] [-Y regex] $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmlogger_merge [-fNV] [input-basename … output-name] DescriptionThis series of shell scripts and associated control files may be used to…
pmlogger – create archive log for performance metrics Synopsispmlogger [-c configfile] [-h host] [-K spec] [-l logfile] [-L] [-m note] [-n pmnsfile] [-o] [-p pid] [-P] [-r] [-s endsize] [-t interval] [-T endtime] [-u] [-U username] [-v volsize] [-V version] [-x fd] [-y] archive Descriptionpmlogger creates the archive logs of performance metric values that may…
pmlogextract – reduce, extract, concatenate and merge Performance Co-Pilot archives Synopsispmlogextract [-dfwz] [-c configfile] [-S starttime] [-s samples] [-T endtime] [-v volsamples] [-Z timezone] input […] output Descriptionpmlogextract reads one or more Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive logs identified by input and creates a temporally merged and/or reduced PCP archive log in output. input is a…
pmlogconf – create/edit a pmlogger configuration file Synopsispmlogconf [-cqrv] [-d groupsdir] [-h hostname] configfile Descriptionpmlogconf may be used to create and modify a generic configuration file for the PCP archive logger, pmlogger(1). If configfile does not exist, pmlogconf will create a generic configuration file with a default set of enabled metrics and logging intervals. Once…
pmlogcheck – checks for invalid data in a PCP archive Synopsispmlogcheck [-lz] [-n pmnsfile] [-S start] [-T finish] [-Z timezone] archive Descriptionpmlogcheck prints information about the nature of any invalid data which it detects in the files of a PCP archive. The archive has the base name archive and must have been previously created using…
pmlock – simple file-based mutex Synopsis$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmlock [ -v ] file Descriptionpmlock attempts to acquire an exclusive lock by creating file with a mode of 0. The exit status is 0 for success, 1 for failure. To release the lock, unlink file. In the event of a failure, the -v option produces an explanatory message on…
pmload – show what files a given module loads at compile time DescriptionGiven an argument of a module name, show all the files that are loaded directly or indirectly when the module is used at compile-time. Examples $ pmload IO::Handle /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/Exporter.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/Carp.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/strict.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/vars.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/i686-linux/IO/Handle.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/Symbol.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/i686-linux/IO/File.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/SelectSaver.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/i686-linux/Fcntl.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/AutoLoader.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/i686-linux/IO.pm /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/i686-linux/IO/Seekable.pm $ cat…
pmlc – configure active Performance Co-Pilot pmlogger(s) interactively Synopsispmlc [-e] [-h host] [-i] [-n pmnsfile] [-P] [-p port] [-Z timezone] [-z] [pid] Descriptionpmlc may be used to change those metrics and instances which a pmlogger(1) writes to a Performance Co-Pilot archive (see PCPIntro(1)), the frequency with which the metrics are collected and whether the logging…
pmkdir – make directory Synopsispmkdir [-d LEVEL] [-p DEVNAME] [-h] DIRECTORY Descriptionpmkdir creates a directory on a device connected through SynCE. Forward slashes (‘/’) on the command line are converted to backward slashes (‘\’). Options-d LEVEL Set debug log level: 0 – No logging (default) 1 – Errors only 2 – Errors and warnings 3…
pminst – find modules whose names match this pattern Synopsispminst [-s] [-l] [pattern] DescriptionWithout arguments, show the names of all installed modules. Given a pattern, show all module names that match it. The -l flag will show the full pathname. The -s flag will separate the base directory from @INC from the module portion itself….
pminfo – display information about performance metrics Synopsispminfo [-dfFLmMtTvxz] [-a archive] [-b batchsize] [-c dmfile] [-h hostname] [-K spec] [–[n|N] pmnsfile] [-O time] [-Z timezone] [metricname …] Descriptionpminfo displays various types of information about performance metrics available through the facilities of the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP). Normally pminfo operates on the distributed Performance Metrics Name Space…
pminclude – show the include path for modules (@INC) DescriptionThis is mostly here for people too lazy to type: $ perl -V | tailExamples $ pminclude /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perlSee Alsopmls(1), pmpath(1) AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTSCopyright (C) 2013-2014 Mark Leighton Fisher. LicenseThis is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it…
pmiestatus – display information from pmie stats file Synopsispmiestatus statsfile […] Descriptionpmiestatus displays information used to identify a running pmie process. It is mostly used by pmie_check and pmie_daily when they hunt for instances of pmie to check against the control file. Files$PCP_TMP_DIR/pmie/* pmie stats filesPcp EnvironmentEnvironment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to…
pmieconf – display and set configurable pmie rule variables Synopsispmieconf [-cFv] [-f file] [-r rulepath] [command [args…]] Descriptionpmieconf is a utility for viewing and configuring variables from generalized pmie(1) rules. The set of generalized rules is read in from rulepath, and the output file produced by pmieconf is a valid input file for pmie. A…
pmie_check, pmie_daily – administration of the Performance Co-Pilot inference engine Synopsis$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmie_check [-CNsV] [-c control] [-l logfile] $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmie_daily [-NV] [-c control] [-k discard] [-l logfile] [-m addresses] [-x compress] [-X program] [-Y regex] DescriptionThis series of shell scripts and associated control files may be used to create a customized regime of administration and management for the…
pmie2col – convert pmie output to multi-column format Synopsispmie2col [-d delimiter] [-p precision] [-w width] Descriptionpmie2col is a simple tool that converts output from pmie(1) into regular column format. Each column is 7 characters wide (by default, may be changed with the -w option) with a single space between columns. That single space can be…
pmie – inference engine for performance metrics Synopsispmie [-bCdefHqVvWxz] [-A align] [-a archive] [-c filename] [-h host] [-l logfile] [-j stompfile] [-n pmnsfile] [-O offset] [-S starttime] [-T endtime] [-t interval] [-U username] [-Z timezone] [filename …] Descriptionpmie accepts a collection of arithmetic, logical, and rule expressions to be evaluated at specified frequencies. The base…
pmhostname – report hostname Synopsis$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmhostname [hostname] Descriptionpmhostname reports the name of the host hostname as returned by gethostbyname(3). If hostname is not specified, then the local host name is retrieved using gethostname(2) and this is than passed to gethostbyname(3). pmhostname provides a service for shell scripts that mimics the logic formerly used by Performance Co-Pilot…