pmdaname(3) — Linux manual page

NAME | C SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | CAVEAT | DIAGNOSTICS | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

PMDANAME(3)              Library Functions Manual             PMDANAME(3)

NAME         top

       pmdaName - translate a PMID to a set of dynamic performance metric
       names

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>
       #include <pcp/pmda.h>

       int pmdaName(pmID pmid, char ***nameset, pmdaExt *pmda);

       cc ... -lpcp_pmda -lpcp

DESCRIPTION         top

       As part of the Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) API (see
       PMDA(3)), pmdaName is the generic callback for translating a pmid
       into one or more dynamic metric names (nameset).

       Because implementing dynamic performance metrics requires specific
       PMDA support, and the facility is an optional component of a PMDA
       (most PMDAs do not support dynamic performance metrics), pmdaName
       is a skeleton implementation that returns PM_ERR_NAME.

       A PMDA that supports dynamic performance metrics will provide a
       private callback that replaces pmdaName (by assignment to
       version.four.name of the pmdaInterface structure) and implements
       the translation from a pmid to a set of dynamic performance metric
       names returned via nameset.  The behaviour, return values and
       memory allocation rules for nameset are the same as for
       pmNameAll(3).

CAVEAT         top

       The PMDA must be using PMDA_INTERFACE_4 or later, as specified in
       the call to pmdaDSO(3) or pmdaDaemon(3).

DIAGNOSTICS         top

       pmdaName returns PM_ERR_PMID if the name is not recognized or
       cannot be translated, otherwise the number of metric names found
       (most commonly 1).

SEE ALSO         top

       PMAPI(3), PMDA(3), pmdaDaemon(3), pmdaDSO(3), pmdaMain(3),
       pmNameAll(3) and pmNameID(3).

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
       in the repository was 2025-01-30.)  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

Performance Co-Pilot               PCP                        PMDANAME(3)

Pages that refer to this page: pmdamain(3)