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PCP-XSOS(1)              General Commands Manual              PCP-XSOS(1)

NAME         top

       pcp-xsos - high-level summary reports for a system

SYNOPSIS         top

       pcp [pcp options] xsos [--all] [-dmnNopx] [-u units]

DESCRIPTION         top

       pcp-xsos gives a summary report of a system using either a PCP
       archive or live metric values from that system.

       It is designed to be fast and performs a single-sample only,
       similar to tools like ps(1).  Thus, level of detail in reporting
       is traded off in favour of execution speed.  pcp-xsos is designed
       as an initial performance triage tool that quickly informs an
       operator as to avenues of investigation that may prove more
       fruitful.  At this time the focus is entirely on operating system
       metrics, however this is not a requirement and in time it may be
       extended to report on any performance domain with associated PCP
       metrics.

       When invoked via the pcp(1) command, the -h/--host, -a/--archive,
       -O/--origin pcp options become indirectly available, see
       PCPIntro(1) for their descriptions.

       The default report with no command line options presented is the
       operating system overview.

OPTIONS         top

       The available command line options are:

       --all
            iteratively report each subsection, one after the other.

       -o, --os
            display the default report with high level kernel
            information, including version, uptime, number of users,
            process states and aggregated processor utilisation.

       -d, --disks
            Report storage information from the archive or live host,
            including the total capacity for each block device as well as
            available filesystem space for each mounted filesystem.

       -m, --memory
            Detailed memory report, including percentage of total memory
            used for various operating system functions, swap use, and
            optionally hugepages and virtual machine balloon information.

       -n, --netdev
            Statistics for each configured network interface, including
            packet and byte transfer rates (since boot), errors, drops,
            and so on.  Additionally, socket statistics are also reported
            with this command line option, for raw, UDP and TCP (IPv4 and
            IPv6).

       -N, --netstats
            Report aggregate network statistics such as various ICMP and
            TCP error and timeout counters.

       -p, --ps
            Inspect running processes in a style similar to ps.  These
            are grouped and filtered to show the most important processes
            in terms of resource use (CPU, memory) as well as processes
            in zombie or blocked states.

       -u unit, --units=unit
            Change the byte display for various reports.  Valid values
            for unit are "b" (bytes), "k" (kibibytes), "m" (mibibytes),
            "g" (gibibytes) or "t" (tebibytes).

       -x, --nocolor
            Display reports without using colors to highlight various
            aspects of each subsystem.

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

NOTES         top

       pcp-xsos is inspired by the xsos utility, aims to be command line
       compatible with it where possible and also provide a consistent
       output style.

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)
       which provides pmgetopt(1) functionality used by pcp-xsos.

SEE ALSO         top

       PCPIntro(1), pcp(1), ps(1), pmgetopt(1), pmGetOptions(3) and
       environ(7).

COLOPHON         top

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