1PMDAGFS2(1)                 General Commands Manual                PMDAGFS2(1)
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NAME

6       pmdagfs2 - Global Filesystem v2 (GFS2) PMDA
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DESCRIPTION

9       pmdagfs2  is  a  Performance  Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports
10       metric values about mounted GFS2 filesystems from the debugfs  filesys‐
11       tem.   This  PMDA requires debugfs along with at least one mounted GFS2
12       filesystem to be mounted in order to be able to provide metric data.
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14       This PMDA can be used with GFS2 filesystems which are both  mounted  as
15       local  filesystems and filesystems which are  mounted as shared storage
16       within a clustered environment. However there are  some  metrics  which
17       specifically  require GFS2 to be setup in a clustered environment to be
18       able to provide metric data. This is due to them expecting locking mes‐
19       sages to be passed via the distributed lock manager (DLM) between nodes
20       of a cluster in order to generate their output.
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22       These cluster-environment-only metrics  can  be  distinguished  by  the
23       inclusion  of  their  corresponding control metrics so that they can be
24       optionally enabled or disabled on systems where they are not desired to
25       be monitored or not supported.
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27       pmstore(3)  can  be  used  to assign values to these control metrics in
28       order to enable (1) or disable (0) them.  This mechanism is also useful
29       on  distributions  that do not currently have full support for the GFS2
30       trace-points or provide older versions of the GFS2 driver.
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INSTALLATION

33       Install the GFS2 PMDA by using the Install script as root:
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35             # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/gfs2
36             # ./Install
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38       To uninstall, do the following as root:
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40             # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/gfs2
41             # ./Remove
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43       pmdagfs2 is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed  directly.
44       The  Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd when the agent is installed
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FILES

48       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/gfs2/help
49           default help text file for the GFS2 metrics
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51       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/gfs2/Install
52           installation script for the pmdagfs2 agent
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54       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/gfs2/Remove
55           undo installation script for the pmdagfs2 agent
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57       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/gfs2.log
58           default log file for error messages from pmdagfs2
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PCP ENVIRONMENT

61       Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the
62       file  and  directory  names used by PCP. On each installation, the file
63       /etc/pcp.conf contains the  local  values  for  these  variables.   The
64       $PCP_CONF  variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration
65       file, as described in pcp.conf(5).
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SEE ALSO

68       PCPIntro(1), pmcd(1), pmstore(1) and gfs2(5).
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