NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | INSTALLATION | FILES | PCP ENVIRONMENT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

PMDANVIDIA(1)              General Commands Manual             PMDANVIDIA(1)

NAME         top

       pmdanvidia - nvidia gpu metrics domain agent (PMDA)

SYNOPSIS         top

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia/pmdanvidia [-d domain] [-l logfile]

DESCRIPTION         top

       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 NVIDIA Tesla and Quadro cards.
       Metrics are unlikely to be available for consumer class cards.
       A brief description of the pmdanvidia command line options follows:
       -d   It is absolutely crucial that the performance metrics domain
            number specified here is unique and consistent.  That is, domain
            should be different for every PMDA on the one host, and the same
            domain number should be used for the same PMDA on all hosts.
       -l   Location of the log file.  By default, a log file named
            nvidia.log is written in the current directory of pmcd(1) when
            pmdanvidia is started, i.e.  $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd.  If the log file
            cannot be created or is not writable, output is written to the
            standard error instead.

INSTALLATION         top

       The nvidia PMDA is not installed and available by default.  If you
       want to undo the installation, do the following as root:
            # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia
            # ./Remove
       If you want to establish access to the names, help text and values
       for the nvidia performance metrics once more, after removal, do the
       following as root:
            # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia
            # ./Install
       pmdanvidia is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed
       directly.  The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the
       agent is installed or removed.

FILES         top

       $PCP_PMCDCONF_PATH
                 command line options used to launch pmdanvidia
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia/help
                 default help text file for the nvidia metrics
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia/Install
                 installation script for the pmdanvidia agent
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/nvidia/Remove
                 undo installation script for the pmdanvidia agent
       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/nvidia.log
                 default log file for error messages and other information
                 from pmdanvidia

PCP ENVIRONMENT         top

       Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize
       the file and directory names used by PCP.  On each installation, the
       file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables.
       The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative
       configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).

SEE ALSO         top

       PCPIntro(1), pmcd(1), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).

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