1PMIADDINSTANCE(3)          Library Functions Manual          PMIADDINSTANCE(3)
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NAME

6       pmiAddInstance  -  add  an element to an instance domain in a LOGIMPORT
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C SYNOPSIS

10       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>
11       #include <pcp/import.h>
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13       int pmiAddInstance(pmInDom indom, const char *instance, int inst);
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15       cc ... -lpcp_import -lpcp
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Perl SYNOPSIS

18       use PCP::LogImport;
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20       pmiAddInstance($indom, $instance, $inst);
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DESCRIPTION

23       As part of the Performance Co-Pilot Log Import API (see  LOGIMPORT(3)),
24       pmiAddInstance  adds a new element to the instance domain identified by
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27       indom would normally be constructed using the pmInDom_build macro, e.g.
28       pmInDom_build(PMI_DOMAIN,0)  for  the first instance domain in the Per‐
29       formance Metrics Domain PMI_DOMAIN (which is the default for  all  meta
30       data created by the LOGIMPORT library).
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32       The  new  instance  must  have  both an external name (instance) and an
33       internal instance identifier (inst) that is unique across all instances
34       in  the  indom instance domain.  There is a special ``uniqueness rule''
35       for instance that is  imposed  by  pmLookupInDom(3),  namely  that  the
36       external  instance name must be unique in the leading non-space charac‐
37       ters, e.g. the instance names ``foo'' and ``foo  bar''  are  considered
38       the  same by this rule and not allowed in the same instance domain, but
39       ``foo'' and ``foobar'' would be allowed.
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41       Once defined, the external instance  name  can  be  used  in  calls  to
42       pmiGetHandle(3) and/or pmiPutValue(3) with the name of a metric defined
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DIAGNOSTICS

46       pmiAddInstance returns zero on success else a negative value  that  can
47       be turned into an error message by calling pmiErrStr(3).
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SEE ALSO

50       LOGIMPORT(3),  pmiAddMetric(3),  pmiErrStr(3), pmiGetHandle(3), pmiPut‐
51       Value(3), pmiPutText(3), pmiPutLabel(3) and pmLookupInDom(3).
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