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PMAFM(1) General Commands Manual PMAFM(1)
pmafm - Performance Co-Pilot archive folio manager
pmafm folioname [command [arg ...]]
A collection of one or more Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive logs
may be combined with a control file to produce a PCP archive folio.
Archive folios are created using either mkaf(1) or the interactive
``record mode'' services of PCP clients like pmchart(1).
pmafm provides a number of services that may be used to process
folios. In particular, it provides support for execution of PCP
tools using one or more of the component archive logs within an
archive folio.
The target folio is identified by the folio control file folioname.
The syntax for a folio control file is described in mkaf(1).
If present, the command and arguments following folioname are
interpreted and executed as a single command, otherwise commands are
read from standard input.
The following commands are supported.
archives
Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.
archives N[,...]
Archives within a folio are numbered 1, 2, etc. Subsequent
commands are restricted to apply only to the designated
archives.
archives name[,...]
Archives within a folio have unique names. Subsequent
commands are restricted to apply only to the designated
archives.
check Validate the presence and format of each file in the folio and
the component archives.
help
A brief reminder of the command syntax. ? is a synonym for
help.
hosts
Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.
hosts hostname[,...]
Subsequent commands are restricted to apply only to those
archives that match the designated hostnames.
list [verbose]
Display the contents of the folio. By default the control
header and the ordinal number, hostname and archive base name
for each archive in the folio. The verbose option causes
pmafm to dump the label record from each archive using
pmdumplog -l.
The first named archive in the folio is assumed to be
associated with the default host for any tool that tries to
replay multiple archives from the folio.
quit
Exit pmafm.
remove
Echo on standard output the sh(1) commands required to remove
all of the physical files associated with this archive folio.
repeat tool [arg ...]
Execute the known PCP tool once per selected archive. For
example, the command
repeat pmval -t60 kernel.all.load
would run pmval(1) once per archive, with an appropriate -a
argument.
replay
Some archive folios are created by tools (e.g. pmchart(1))
that provide sufficient information to allow all of the
information in all of the archives of a folio to be replayed.
[run] tool [arg ...]
Execute the known PCP tool on the selected archives. Some PCP
tools are able to process multiple concurrent archives, and in
this case the tool is run once with the list of all selected
archives passed via a -a argument. Otherwise, this command is
synonymous with repeat.
selections
Display those archives that would be selected for processing
with a repeat, replay or run command.
The restrictions via any hosts and archives commands are conjuncted.
These restrictions serve to limit the specific archives processed in
the subsequent repeat, replay, run and selections commands. By
default, all archives are selected.
Keywords in commands may be abbreviated provided no ambiguity is
introduced, e.g. help, hel and he are synonymous, but h is
ambiguous.
$PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/*
control files that define the behavior of each PCP tool
known to pmafm. This information may be customized or
extended, see $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/pcp for
documentation of the syntax and semantics of these files.
$HOME/.pcp/pmafm/*
User customization of the control files. All files in this
directory are treated in the same manner as control files
in the $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm directory.
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).
mkaf(1), pmchart(1), pmview(1), PMAPI(3), pmRecordSetup(3),
pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).
Many, but all are intended to be easily understood.
This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project.
Information about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.pcp.io/⟩.
If you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
pcp@oss.sgi.com. This page was obtained from the project's upstream
Git repository ⟨git://git.pcp.io/pcp⟩ on 2017-07-05. If you discover
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Pages that refer to this page: mkaf(1), pcp-collectl(1), pmchart(1), pmsnap(1), pmview(1), pmafm(3), pcp-archive(5)