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6 pmloglabel - check and repair a performance metrics archive label
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9 pmloglabel [-lLsv?] [-h hostname] [-p pid] [-V version] [-Z timezone]
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13 pmloglabel verifies, reports on, and can modify all details of the la‐
14 bels in each of the files of a Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive log.
15 The archive log has the base name archive and must have been previously
16 created using pmlogger(1).
17 Each of the files in a PCP archive (metadata, temporal index, and one
19 or more data volumes) must contain a valid label at the start, else the
20 PCP tools will refuse to open the archive at all.
21 Thus, the primary function of pmloglabel is to be able to repair any
23 inconsistent or corrupt label fields, such that the entire archive is
24 not lost. It will not check the remainder of the archive, but it will
25 give you a fighting chance to recover otherwise lost data. Together,
26 pmloglabel and pmlogextract are able to produce a valid PCP archive
27 from many forms of corruption.
28 Note that if the temporal index is found to be corrupt, the "*.index"
30 file can be safely moved aside and the archive will still be accessi‐
31 ble, however retrievals may take longer without the index.
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34 The available command line options are:
35 -h hostname, --host=hostname
37 Modify the logged hostname in the archive label, for all files in
38 the archive.
39 -l, --label
41 Dump out the archive label, showing the log format version, the
42 time and date for the start and (current) end of the archive, and
43 the host from which the performance metrics values were collected.
44 -L Like -l, just a little more verbose, showing also the timezone and
46 creator process identifier from the archive label.
47 -p pid, --pid=pid
49 Set the process identifier stored in the archive label to pid, for
50 all files in the archive.
51 -s Rewrite the sentinel values which precede and follow the archive
53 label, for all files in the archive.
54 -v, --verbose
56 Verbose mode. Additional progress information is produced at each
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58 -V version, --version=version
60 Stamp the version number into the magic number field at the start
61 of the archive label, for all files in the archive.
62 -Z timezone, --timezone=timezone
64 Changes the timezone in the archive labels to timezone in the for‐
65 mat of the environment variable TZ as described in environ(7).
66 -?, --help
68 Display usage message and exit.
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71 The following demonstrates the use of pmloglabel in finding and then
72 correcting a corrupt field (PID) in the label of the temporal index of
73 an archive named "20080125".
74 $ pmdumplog -l 20080125
76 pmdumplog: Cannot open archive "20080125": Illegal label record at start of a PCP archive log file
77 $ pmloglabel 20080125
78 Mismatched PID (5264/5011) between temporal index and data volume 0
79 $ pmloglabel -p 5264 20080125
80 $ pmdumplog -l 20080125
81 Log Label (Log Format Version 2)
82 Performance metrics from host fw1
83 commencing Fri Jan 25 00:10:09.341 2008
84 ending Sat Jan 26 00:09:54.344 2008
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87 pmloglabel exits with status 0 if the archive labels are clean. If in‐
88 voked incorrectly, the exit status will be 1. If corruption is de‐
89 tected and still exists at the end, the exit status will be 2. If re‐
90 quested to write out the archive labels, and some aspect of that write
91 out fails, then the exit status will be 3.
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94 $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmlogger/<hostname>
95 Default directory for PCP archives containing performance metric
96 values collected from the host <hostname>.
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99 Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the
100 file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file
101 /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The
102 $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration
103 file, as described in pcp.conf(5).
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106 PCPIntro(1), pmlogcheck(1), pmlogextract(1), pmlogger(1), pmlog‐
107 ger_check(1), pmlogger_daily(1), pmlogrewrite(1), pcp.conf(5) and
108 pcp.env(5).
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