1PMDALUSTERCOMM(1) General Commands Manual PMDALUSTERCOMM(1)
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6 pmdalustrecomm - Lustre filesystem comms performance metrics domain
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10 $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustrecomm/pmdalustrecomm [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U
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14 pmdalustrecomm is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which ex‐
15 tracts performance metrics from the Linux procfs filesystem about the
16 state of various aspects of the Lustre filesystem.
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18 The lustrecomm PMDA exports metrics that focus on distributed communi‐
19 cation in the filesystem, including metrics related to timeouts, net‐
20 work drops, send/recv information and route lengths. However, it also
21 covers the memory use of some of the Lustre filesystem components.
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23 A brief description of the pmdalustrecomm command line options follows:
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25 -d It is absolutely crucial that the performance metrics domain num‐
26 ber specified here is unique and consistent. That is, domain
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30 -l Location of the log file. By default, a log file named lus‐
31 trecomm.log is written in the current directory of pmcd(1) when
32 pmdalustrecomm is started, i.e. $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd. If the log
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36 -U User account under which to run the agent. The default is the un‐
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44 # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustrecomm
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58 command line options used to launch pmdalustrecomm
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60 default help text file for the lustrecomm metrics
61 $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustrecomm/Install
62 installation script for the pmdalustrecomm agent
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64 undo installation script for the pmdalustrecomm agent
65 $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/lustrecomm.log
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70 Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the
71 file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file
72 /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The
73 $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration
74 file, as described in pcp.conf(5).
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77 PCPIntro(1), pmcd(1), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).
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