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PCP(1)                   General Commands Manual                  PCP(1)

NAME         top

       pcp, pcp-summary - run a command or summarize an installation

SYNOPSIS         top

       pcp [pcp options...]  pcp-command [command options...]
       pcp [-LPV?]  [-a archive] [-h host] [-O origin] [-n pmnsfile]

DESCRIPTION         top

       The pcp command is used in one of two modes.  By default, it
       summarizes the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) installation on the
       local host.  This mode can also be used to summarize the
       installation from a remote host, or a historical installation
       from a set of PCP archives.  This mode indirectly invokes the
       pcp-summary command (in the absence of any other requested
       command).

       Alternatively, a command can be passed to pcp to run, again
       possibly in the context of a remote host or set of historical
       archives.

COMMAND MODE         top

       When pcp is invoked with a command to run, it will search for the
       named command in $PCP_BINADM_DIR and also $HOME/.pcp/bin (these
       are usually scripts, and are installed with a "pcp-" prefix).
       This mode of operation allows system performance tools to be
       implemented using PMAPI(3) services, while still preserving all
       of their usual command line options.  These options are thus
       (indirectly) augmented with the standard PCP option set, as
       described in PCPIntro(1).

       This provides a convenient mechanism for obtaining retrospective
       or remote monitoring capabilities while preserving the behaviour
       of the system tools.

       For example, the pcp-free(1) utility can be invoked as follows,
       for recorded data from host munch:

       $ pcp -a $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmlogger/munch/20140317 -O 11:35:50am free -m
                    total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
       Mem:         23960      14554       9406          0        176       2137
       -/+ buffers/cache:      12240      11720
       Swap         12047          0      12047

       A complete list of the available and installed tools is provided
       along with the pcp(1) usage message, but some examples include:
       pcp-free(1), pcp-uptime(1) and pcp-numastat(1).

SUMMARY MODE         top

       The summary report includes: the OS version, a summary of the
       hardware inventory, the local timezone, the PCP software version,
       the state of the pmcd(1) process and associated Performance
       Metrics Domain Agents (PMDAs), as well as information about any
       PCP archivers (pmlogger(1)) and PCP inference engines (pmie(1))
       that are running.

       All of the displayed values are performance metric values and
       further information for each can be obtained using the command:

          $ pminfo -dtT metric

       The complete set of metrics required by pcp to produce its output
       is contained in $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmlogconf/tools/pcp-summary.

SUMMARY MODE OPTIONS         top

       With no arguments, pcp reports on the local host, however the
       following options are accepted:

       -a archive, --archive=archive
            Report the PCP configuration as described in the set of PCP
            archives, archive, which is a comma-separated list of names,
            each of which may be the base name of an archive or the name
            of a directory containing one or more archives.

       -h host, --host=host
            Report the PCP configuration on host rather than the local
            host.

       -L, --local-PMDA
            Use a local context to collect metrics from DSO PMDAs on the
            local host without PMCD.

       -n pmnsfile, --namespace=pmnsfile
            Load an alternative Performance Metrics Name Space (PMNS(5))
            from the file pmnsfile.

       -O origin, --origin=origin
            When reporting archived metrics, start reporting at origin
            within the time window.

       -P, --pmie
            Display pmie(1) performance information - counts of rules
            evaluating to true, false, or indeterminate, as well as the
            expected rate of rule calculation, for each pmie process
            running on the default host.  Refer to the individual metric
            help text for full details on these values.

       -V, --version
            Display version number and exit.

       -?, --help
            Display usage message and exit.

DIAGNOSTICS         top

       pcp will terminate with an exit status of 1 if pmcd on the target
       host could not be reached or the set of archives could not be
       opened, or 2 for any other error.

FILES         top

       $HOME/.pcp/bin
            Per-user location for command scripts.

       $PCP_BINADM_DIR
            System location for installed command scripts.

       $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmlogconf/tools/pcp-summary
            pmlogconf(1) configuration file for collecting all of the
            metrics required by pcp

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).

       For environment variables affecting PCP tools, see
       pmGetOptions(3).

SEE ALSO         top

       PCPIntro(1), pcp-free(1), pcp-numastat(1), pcp-python(1),
       pcp-uptime(1), pcp-verify(1), pmcd(1), pmie(1), pmlogconf(1),
       pmlogger(1), pcp.conf(5), pcp.env(5) and PMNS(5).

COLOPHON         top

       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@groups.io.  This page was obtained from the
       project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git⟩ on 2023-12-22.
       (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
       in the repository was 2023-12-16.)  If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there
       is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
       corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       man-pages@man7.org

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