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PMAFM(1)                 General Commands Manual                PMAFM(1)

NAME         top

       pmafm - Performance Co-Pilot archive folio manager

SYNOPSIS         top

       pmafm folioname [command [arg ...]]

DESCRIPTION         top

       A collection of one or more Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archives
       may be combined with a control file to produce a PCP archive
       folio.  Archive folios are created using either mkaf(1) or the
       interactive ``record mode'' services of PCP clients like
       pmchart(1).

       pmafm provides a number of services that may be used to process
       folios.  In particular, it provides support for execution of PCP
       tools using one or more of the component archives within an
       archive folio.

       The target folio is identified by the folio control file
       folioname.  The syntax for a folio control file is described in
       mkaf(1).

       If present, the command and arguments following folioname are
       interpreted and executed as a single command, otherwise commands
       are read from standard input.

       The following commands are supported.

       archives
              Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.

       archives N[,...]
              Archives within a folio are numbered 1, 2, etc.
              Subsequent commands are restricted to apply only to the
              designated archives.

       archives name[,...]
              Archives within a folio have unique names.  Subsequent
              commands are restricted to apply only to the designated
              archives.

       check  Validate the presence and format of each file in the folio
              and the component archives.

       help
              A brief reminder of the command syntax.  ?  is a synonym
              for help.

       hosts
              Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.

       hosts hostname[,...]
              Subsequent commands are restricted to apply only to those
              archives that match the designated hostnames.

       list [verbose]
              Display the contents of the folio.  By default the control
              header and the ordinal number, hostname and archive base
              name for each archive in the folio.  The verbose option
              causes pmafm to dump the label record from each archive
              using pmlogdump -l.

              The first named archive in the folio is assumed to be
              associated with the default host for any tool that tries
              to replay multiple archives from the folio.

       quit
              Exit pmafm.

       remove
              Echo on standard output the sh(1) commands required to
              remove all of the physical files associated with this
              archive folio.

       repeat tool [arg ...]
              Execute the known PCP tool once per selected archive.  For
              example, the command
                   repeat pmval -t60 kernel.all.load
              would run pmval(1) once per archive, with an appropriate
              -a argument.

       replay
              Some archive folios are created by tools (e.g. pmchart(1))
              that provide sufficient information to allow all of the
              information in all of the archives of a folio to be
              replayed.

       [run] tool [arg ...]
              Execute the known PCP tool on the selected archives.  Some
              PCP tools are able to process multiple concurrent
              archives, and in this case the tool is run once with the
              list of all selected archives passed via a -a argument.
              Otherwise, this command is synonymous with repeat.

       selections
              Display those archives that would be selected for
              processing with a repeat, replay or run command.

       The restrictions via any hosts and archives commands are
       conjuncted.  These restrictions serve to limit the specific
       archives processed in the subsequent repeat, replay, run and
       selections commands.  By default, all archives are selected.

       Keywords in commands may be abbreviated provided no ambiguity is
       introduced, e.g.  help, hel and he are synonymous, but h is
       ambiguous.

FILES         top

       $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/*
            control files that define the behavior of each PCP tool
            known to pmafm.  This information may be customized or
            extended, see $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/pcp for
            documentation of the syntax and semantics of these files.

       $HOME/.pcp/pmafm/*
            User customization of the control files.  All files in this
            directory are treated in the same manner as control files in
            the $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm directory.

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).

SEE ALSO         top

       mkaf(1), pcp-atop(1), pmchart(1), pmlogdump(1), PMAPI(3),
       pmRecordSetup(3), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).

COLOPHON         top

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