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PMLOGCONF(1) General Commands Manual PMLOGCONF(1)
pmlogconf - create/edit a pmlogger configuration file
pmlogconf [-cqrv] [-d groupsdir] [-h hostname] configfile
pmlogconf 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 created, configfile may be used with the -c option to
pmlogger(1) to select performance metrics and specify logging
intervals for a PCP archive.
If configfile does exist, pmlogconf will prompt for input from the
user to enable or disable groups of related performance metrics and
to control the logging interval for each enabled group.
Group selection requires a simple y (yes) or n (no) response to the
prompt Log this group?.
Other responses at this point may be used to select additional
control functions as follows:
m Report the names of the metrics in the current group.
q Finish with group selection (quit) and make no further
changes to this group or any subsequent group.
/pattern Make no change to this group but search for a group
containing pattern in the description of the group or the
names of the associated metrics.
A logging interval is specified by responding to the Logging
interval? prompt with the keywords once or default or a valid
pmlogger(1) interval specification of the form ``every N timeunits''
or simply ``N timeunits '' (the every is optional) where N is an
unsigned integer and timeunits is one of the keywords msec,
millisecond, sec, second, min, minute, hour or the plural form of one
of the keywords.
When run from automated logging setup processes, the -c option is
used to add a message and timestamp indicating this fact. This
option is not appropriate for interactive use of the tool.
The -q option suppresses the logging interval dialog and preserves
the current interval from configfile.
More verbose output may be enabled with the -v option.
When an initial configfile is created, the default specifications
come from a set of group files below the groupsdir specified with the
-d option (the default groupsdir is $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmlogconf
which is most commonly correct, so the -d option is rarely used in
practice).
The directory structure below groupsdir is arbitrary as all regular
files will be found by recursive descent and considered, so add-on
products and PMDA developers can easily extend the available defaults
to pmlogconf by adding new directories and/or group files below
groupsdir.
These group files are processed in the following ways:
· When a new configfile is created, all group files are processed.
· Whenever pmlogconf is run with an existing configfile, groupsdir
is traversed to see if any new groups have been defined and should
be considered for inclusion in configfile.
· When pmlogconf processes a group in configfile that is enabled,
the list of metrics associated with the group is taken from the
group file (and replaces any previous list of metrics associated
with this group in configfile).
· When the -r (reprobe) command line option is specified, every
group (not just newly discovered ones) is reprocessed to see if it
should be considered for inclusion in configfile.
Each group file is structured as follows:
· The first line must contain #pmlogconf-setup 2.0
· Other lines beginning with # are treated as comments.
· Blank lines are ignored.
· One or more lines starting with the keyword ident are used to
provide the human-readable description of the group.
· Non-blank lines beginning with white space define metrics to be
associated with this group, one per line. Each metric
specification follows the rules for a pmlogger(1) configuration,
namely either the name of a non-leaf node in the PMNS (implying
all descendent names in the PMNS), or the name of a leaf node in
the PMNS optionally followed by one or more instance names
enclosed by ``['' and ``]''.
· A control line starting with one of the keywords probe or force
must be present.
· An optional logging interval control line begins with the keyword
delta followed by one of the pmlogger(1) interval specification
described above.
· probe control lines have the format:
probe metric [condition [state_rule] ]
where metric is the name of a PCP metric (must be a leaf node in
the PMNS, no instance specification is allowed, and it must not be
a derived metric) and the optional condition is the keyword exists
(true if metric exists, i.e. is defined in the PMNS) or the
keyword values (true if metric exists in the PMNS and has one or
more current values) or an expression of the form
op val
where op is one of the awk(1) operators (==, !=, >, >=, <, <=, ~
(regular expression match) or !~ (negated regular expression
match)) and val is a value (arbitrary sequence of characters,
excluding a space) and the condition is true if there is some
instance of metric that makes the expression true.
If the condition is missing, the default is exists.
When an explicit condition is provided, there may also be an
optional state_rule of the form
? true_state : false_state
where true_state (applies if condition is true) and false_state
(applies if condition is false) are both taken from the keywords
include (include and enable the group and the associated metrics
in configfile), available (include and disable the group in
configfile - a user action of y as described above is needed to
enable the group and add the associated metrics into configfile)
or exclude (the group is not considered for inclusion in
configfile).
The default state_rule is
? available : exclude
· force control lines begin with the keyword force followed by one
of the states defined above, so one of the actions include,
exclude or available is applied unconditionally to the group.
Probing is only done when a new group is being added to configfile or
when the -r command line option is specified. The evaluation of the
probing conditions is done by contacting pmcd(1) on hostname
(defaults to local:).
The following group file demonstrates all of the supported syntactic
elements.
#pmlogconf-setup 2.0
ident Example group file
ident ... more description
delta 1 minute
probe sample.secret.foo.one values ? include : exclude
sample.secret.foo.one
sample.secret.foo.bar # non-leaf in the PMNS
sample.colour [ red green ]
The current version of pmlogconf (2.0) supports a slightly different
format for configfile compared to earlier versions. If an old
version configfile is presented to pmlogconf it will be converted to
the new format.
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). Note that pmlogconf
specifically overrides its own $PCP_DERIVED_CONFIG environment
variable to an empty string, for performance reasons.
pmcd(1), pmlogger(1), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).
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