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PMIE_CHECK(1) General Commands Manual PMIE_CHECK(1)
pmie_check, pmie_daily - administration of the Performance Co-Pilot
inference engine
$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmie_check [-CNsV] [-c control] [-l logfile]
$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmie_daily [-NV] [-c control] [-k discard] [-l
logfile] [-m addresses] [-x compress] [-X program] [-Y regex]
This series of shell scripts and associated control files may be used
to create a customized regime of administration and management for
the Performance Co-Pilot (see PCPintro(1)) inference engine, pmie(1).
pmie_daily is intended to be run once per day, preferably in the
early morning, as soon after midnight as practicable. Its task is to
rotate the log files for the running pmie processes - these files may
grow without bound if the ``print'' action is used, or any other pmie
action writes to its stdout/stderr streams. After some period, old
pmie log files are discarded. This period is 14 days by default, but
may be changed using the -k option. Two special values are recognized
for the period (discard), namely 0 to keep no log files beyond the
current one, and forever to prevent any log files being discarded.
Log files can optionally be compressed after some period (compress),
to conserve disk space. This is particularly useful for large
numbers of pmie processes under the control of pmie_check. The -x
option specifies the number of days after which to compress archive
data files, and the -X option specifies the program to use for
compression - by default this is xz(1). Use of the -Y option allows
a regular expression to be specified causing files in the set of
files matched for compression to be omitted - this allows only the
data file to be compressed, and also prevents the program from
attempting to compress it more than once. The default regex is
".(meta|index|Z|gz|bz2|zip|xz|lzma|lzo|lz4)$" - 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.
$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
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).
egrep(1), PCPintro(1), pmie(1), pmieconf(1), xz(1) and cron(8).
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