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NAME | DESCRIPTION | INSTALLATION | FILTER CONFIGURATION | LOGGING CONFIGURATION | METRICS | PCP ENVIRONMENT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON 

PMDASOCKETS(1)           General Commands Manual           PMDASOCKETS(1)

NAME         top

       pmdasockets - sockets statistics PMDA

DESCRIPTION         top

       pmdasockets is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which
       exports metric values for current sockets on the local system.

       This PMDA currently collects its data through the ss(8) utility
       and requires that the program is installed in order to function.
       This dependency may change in the future.

INSTALLATION         top

       To install (enable) the sockets PMDA, do the following as root:

           # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/sockets
           # ./Install

       To uninstall (disable), do the following as root:

           # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/sockets
           # ./Remove

       pmdasockets is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed
       directly.  The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the
       agent is installed or removed.

FILTER CONFIGURATION         top

       The string valued metric network.persocket.filter specifies the
       ss(1) filter to be applied to optionally select socket states, IP
       addresses and other options that pmdasockets will collect (to
       populate it's instance domain).  This is loaded on PMDA startup
       from the file $(PCP_SYSCONF_DIR)/sockets/filter.conf (typically
       /etc/pcp/sockets/filter.conf) and defaults to state connected
       meaning only sockets in the connected state will be included.
       This can be changed persistently by editing filter.conf as the
       root user.  The filter can also be changed dynamically after the
       PMDA has started by using pmstore(1) to store a new filter string
       in the network.persocket.filter metric.  E.g.

           # pmstore network.persocket.filter "state all"

       will change the filter to include sockets in all states.  Note a
       dynamically stored filter is not persisted across PMDA restarts or
       reboots (edit the config file for a persistent change).  For
       further details of the filter syntax and options, consult ss(8).

LOGGING CONFIGURATION         top

       The pmlogconf(1) configuration file for pmdasockets is
       $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmlogconf/networking/persocket-linux (where
       $PCP_VAR_DIR is typically /var/lib/pcp) which specifies to log all
       metrics below network.persocket in the PCP namespace with a
       default sampling interval of 60 seconds.  The logging interval and
       metrics to be logged can be changed by editing that file and then
       restarting the pmlogger service.  For details of the syntax, see
       pmlogconf(1).

METRICS         top

       The metrics and metadata supported by pmdasockets correspond to
       fields reported by ss -noemitauOH and are also available as help
       text provided by the PMDA, e.g. to list all metrics, metadata
       descriptors and help text:

           # pminfo -fmdtT network.persocket

       Note that the PMDA must be installed (enabled) for this command to
       work correctly, see above.

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

       PCPIntro(1), pmcd(1), pmlogger(1) and ss(8).

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 2025-02-02.
       (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
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