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CLUSTERVIS(1)            General Commands Manual            CLUSTERVIS(1)

NAME         top

       clustervis - visualize cpu and network performance on a cluster

SYNOPSIS         top

       clustervis [-H nodesfile] [-h host[,host...]]  [-a
       archive[,archive...]]  [-m max] [pmview options]

DESCRIPTION         top

       clustervis displays three dimensional bar charts of CPU
       utilization and network traffic for one or most hosts in a
       cluster.  An alternative two dimensional cluster performance
       monitoring tool is pmgcluster(1).  clustervis is designed to
       provide a scalable overview of the performance of large clusters.
       Other tools such as pmchart(1) and pmgsys(1) provide drill-down
       details on a per-host basis.  These tools may be launched by
       clicking on the purple base plane for a particular host and then
       selecting a tool from the launch menu in clustervis.

       The -H, -h and -a arguments are all mutually exclusive and have
       the following semantics; if none of -H, -h or -a is given, and
       either the file /etc/nodes or /etc/ace/nodes exists, or the
       $PCP_CLUSTER_CONFIG environment variable is set, then use the
       named file as the set of hosts for live monitoring.  If the
       default nodes file does not exist, the environment variable is not
       set and none of the three flags were given, an error is reported.
       Otherwise, if -H is given, then the set of hosts is given in
       nodesfile.

       The -h flag specifies one or more (comma separated with no spaces)
       hosts for live monitoring and the -a flag specifies one or more
       archives for archive replay (comma separated).

       The height of the CPU stack is proportional to the CPU utilization
       in each of the modes sys (red, executing in the kernel) and user
       (blue, executing user code).  The network traffic stack is shown
       for each network interface as the packet rate in (light blue), out
       (orange) and errors (red).  The hight of the network stack is
       modulated by the -m argument, with a default of 750 packets/second
       representing saturated network traffic.

       clustervis generates a pmview(1) configuration file, and passes
       most command line options to pmview(1).  Therefore, the command
       line options -A, -a, -C, -h, -n, -O, -p, -S, -t, -T, -Z and -z,
       and the user interface are described in the pmview(1) man page.

FILES         top

       $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmlogger/config.clustervis
              A pmlogger(1) configuration file for clustervis metrics.
       /usr/pcp/lib/pmview-args
              Shell procedures for parsing pmview(1) command line
              options.
       /etc/nodes
              Default set of hosts in the cluster.

PCP ENVIRONMENT         top

       The PCP_CLUSTER_CONFIG environment variable may be used to specify
       the default nodes file instead of using the -H flag. Each line in
       the file is a host name (or a comment starting with #).  Other
       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(4).

SEE ALSO         top

       dkvis(1), mpvis(1), nfsvis(1), pmcd(1), pmchart(1), pmlogger(1),
       pmview(1), pcp.conf(4) and pcp.env(4).

       The CPU view for pmchart(1).

COLOPHON         top

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