pmdelprofile(3) — Linux manual page

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

PMDELPROFILE(3)         Library Functions Manual         PMDELPROFILE(3)

NAME         top

       pmDelProfile - delete instance(s) from the current PMAPI instance
       profile

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>

       int pmDelProfile(pmInDom indom, int numinst, int *instlist);

       cc ... -lpcp

DESCRIPTION         top

       The set of instances for performance metrics returned from a
       pmFetch(3) call may be filtered or restricted using an instance
       profile.  There is one instance profile for each context the
       application creates at the Performance Metrics Application
       Programming Interface (PMAPI), and each instance profile may
       include instances from one or more instance domains (see
       pmLookupDesc(3)).

       pmDelProfile may be used to delete instance specifications from
       the instance profile of the current PMAPI context.

       In the simplest variant, the list of instances identified by the
       instlist argument for the indom instance domain are removed from
       the instance profile.  The list of instance identifiers contains
       numinst values.

       The indom value would normally be extracted from a call to
       pmLookupDesc(3) for a particular performance metric, and the
       instances in instlist would typically be determined by calls to
       pmGetInDom(3) or pmLookupInDom(3).

       If indom equals PM_INDOM_NULL and numinst is zero, then all
       instance domains are selected for deletion.  If instlist is NULL,
       then all instances in the selected domain(s) are removed from the
       profile.

       To disable all available instances in all domains, use
       pmDelProfile(PM_INDOM_NULL, 0, NULL).  This is the only situation
       in which indom may be PM_INDOM_NULL.

CAVEAT         top

       It is possible to delete non-existent instance domains and non-
       existent instances from an instance profile.  None of the
       routines that use the instance profile will ever issue an error
       if you do this.  The cost of checking, when checking is possible,
       outweighs any benefits.

DIAGNOSTICS         top

       PM_ERR_PROFILESPEC
              indom was PM_INDOM_NULL and instlist was not empty

SEE ALSO         top

       pmAddProfile(3), PMAPI(3), pmFetch(3), pmGetInDom(3),
       pmLookupDesc(3), pmLookupInDom(3), pmNewContext(3),
       pmUseContext(3) and pmWhichContext(3).

COLOPHON         top

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