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PMIE_CHECK(1)              General Commands Manual             PMIE_CHECK(1)

NAME         top

       pmie_check,  pmie_daily  - administration of the Performance Co-Pilot
       inference engine

SYNOPSIS         top

       $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]

DESCRIPTION         top

       This series of shell scripts and associated control files may be used
       to create a customized regime of administration and management for
       the Performance Co-Pilot (see PCPintro(1)) inference engine, pmie(1).
       pmie_daily is intended to be run once per day, preferably in the
       early morning, as soon after midnight as practicable.  Its task is to
       rotate the log files for the running pmie processes - these files may
       grow without bound if the ``print'' action is used, or any other pmie
       action writes to its stdout/stderr streams.  After some period, old
       pmie log files are discarded.  This period is 14 days by default, but
       may be changed using the -k option. Two special values are recognized
       for the period (discard), namely 0 to keep no log files beyond the
       current one, and forever to prevent any log files being discarded.
       Log files can optionally be compressed after some period (compress),
       to conserve disk space.  This is particularly useful for large
       numbers of pmie processes under the control of pmie_check.  The -x
       option specifies the number of days after which to compress archive
       data files, and the -X option specifies the program to use for
       compression - by default this is xz(1).  Use of the -Y option allows
       a regular expression to be specified causing files in the set of
       files matched for compression to be omitted - this allows only the
       data file to be compressed, and also prevents the program from
       attempting to compress it more than once.  The default regex is
       ".(meta|index|Z|gz|bz2|zip|xz|lzma|lzo|lz4)$" - such files are
       filtered using the -v option to egrep(1).
       Use of the -m option causes pmie_daily to construct a summary of the
       log files generated for all monitored hosts in the last 24 hours
       (lines matching `` OK '' are culled), and e-mail that summary to the
       set of space-separated addresses.
       pmie_check may be run at any time, and is intended to check that the
       desired set of pmie(1) processes are running, and if not to re-launch
       any failed inference engines.  Use of the -s option provides the
       reverse functionality, allowing the set of pmie processes to be
       cleanly shutdown.  Use of the -C option queries the system service
       runlevel information for pmie, and uses that to determine whether to
       start processes.
       Both pmie_check and pmie_daily are controlled by PCP inference engine
       control file(s) that specify the pmie instances to be managed.  The
       default control file is $PCP_PMIECONTROL_PATH but an alternate may be
       specified using the -c option.  If the directory
       $PCP_PMLOGGERCONTROL_PATH.d (or control.d from the -c option) exists,
       then the contents of any additional control files therein will be
       appended to the main control file (which must exist).
       Warning: The $PCP_PMIECONTROL_PATH and $PCP_PMIECONTROL_PATH.d files
       must not be writable by any user other than root.
       The control file(s) should be customized according to the following
       rules that define for the current version (1.1) of the control file
       format.
       1.  Lines beginning with a ``#'' are comments.
       2.  Lines beginning with a ``$'' are assumed to be assignments to
           environment variables in the style of sh(1), and all text
           following the ``$'' will be eval'ed by the script reading the
           control file, and the corresponding variable exported into the
           environment.  This is particularly useful to set and export
           variables into the environment of the administrative script, e.g.
               $ PMCD_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=20
       3.  There must be a version line in the initial control file of the
           form:
               $ version=1.1
       4.  There should be one line in the control file(s) for each pmie
           instance of the form:
               host y|n y|n logfile args
       5.  Fields within a line of the control file(s) are separated by one
           or more spaces or tabs.
       6.  The first field is the name of the host that is the default
           source of the performance metrics for this pmie instance.
       7.  The second field indicates if this is a primary pmie instance (y)
           or not (n).  Since the primary inference engine must run on the
           local host, and there may be at most one primary for a particular
           host, this field can be y for at most one pmie instance, in which
           case the host name must be the name of the local host.  When
           generating pmie configuration files, the primary clause indicates
           that pmieconf(1) should enable all rules in the primary group, in
           addition to all other default rules.
       8.  The third field indicates whether this pmie instance needs to be
           started under the control of pmsocks(1) to connect to a pmcd
           through a firewall (y or n).
       9.  The fourth field is the name of the pmie activity log file.  A
           useful convention is that pmie instances monitoring the local
           host with hostname myhost are maintained in the directory
           $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/myhost, while activity logs for the remote host
           mumble are maintained in $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/mumble.  This is
           consistent with the way pmlogger(1) maintains its activity logs
           and archive files.
       10. All other fields are interpreted as arguments to be passed to
           pmie(1).  Most typically this would be the -c option.
       The following sample control lines specify one pmie instance
       monitoring the local host (wobbly), and another monitoring
       performance metrics from the host splat.
       wobbly  n  PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/wobbly  -c config.default
       splat   n  PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/splat   -c splat/cpu.conf
       Typical crontab(5) entries for periodic execution of pmie_daily and
       pmie_check are given in $PCP_SYSCONF_DIR/pmie/crontab (unless
       installed by default in /etc/cron.d already) and shown below.
       # daily processing of pmie logs
       08      0       *       *       *       $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmie_daily
       # every 30 minutes, check pmie instances are running
       28,58   *       *       *       *       $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmie_check
       In order to ensure that mail is not unintentionally sent when these
       scripts are run from cron(8) diagnostics are always sent to log
       files.  By default, these files are $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/pmie_daily.log
       and $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/pmie_check.log but this can be changed using
       the -l option.  If this log file already exists when the script
       starts, it will be renamed with a .prev suffix (overwriting any log
       file saved earlier) before diagnostics are generated to the new log
       file.
       The output from the cron execution of the scripts may be extended
       using the -V option to the scripts which will enable verbose tracing
       of their activity.  By default the scripts generate no output unless
       some error or warning condition is encountered.
       The -N option enables a ``show me'' mode, where the actions are
       echoed, but not executed, in the style of ``make -n''.  Using -N in
       conjunction with -V maximizes the diagnostic capabilities for
       debugging.

FILES         top

       $PCP_PMIECONTROL_PATH
                 the default PCP inference engine control file
                 Warning: this file must not be writable by any user other
                 than root.
       $PCP_PMIECONTROL_PATH.d
                 optional directory containing additional PCP inference
                 engine control files, typically one per host
                 Warning: this files herein must not be writable by any user
                 other than root.
       $PCP_SYSCONF_DIR/pmie/crontab
                 sample crontab for automated script execution by $PCP_USER
                 (or root) - exists only if the platform does not support
                 the /etc/cron.d mechanism.
       $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmie/config.default
                 default pmlogger configuration file location for a
                 localhost inference engine, typically generated
                 automatically by pmieconf(1).
       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/hostname
                 default location for the pmie log file for the host
                 hostname
       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/hostname/lock
                 transient lock file to guarantee mutual exclusion during
                 pmie administration for the host hostname - if present, can
                 be safely removed if neither pmie_daily nor pmie_check are
                 running
       $PCP_LOG_DIR/NOTICES
                 PCP ``notices'' file used by pmie(1) and friends

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

       egrep(1), PCPintro(1), pmie(1), pmieconf(1), xz(1) and cron(8).

COLOPHON         top

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