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NAME

       gatherctl - control utility for gatherd

SYNOPSIS

       gatherctl

DESCRIPTION

       gatherctl is a simple shell program for controling the gatherd(8) metric collection daemon. It provides the ability to manipulate the state
       of the daemon as well as online loading and unloading of metric collection plugins.

COMMANDS

       h
	   print help message

       s
	   print status of daemon

       i
	   initialize gathering service

       t
	   terminate gathering service

       b
	   start sampling plugins

       e
	   stop sampling plugins

       l pluginlib
	   load plugin library

       u pluginlib
	   unload plugin library

       v pluginlib
	   view/list metrics supported by plugin library

       q
	   quit/exit control utility

       k
	   kill gathering daemon

       d
	   start gathering daemon

FILES

       /etc/gatherd.conf
	   This file contains the daemon configuration settings. See gatherd.conf(5) for more information.

BUGS

       The SBLIM project maintains a mailing list to which you should direct all questions regarding sfcb, sfcc, wbemcli, the metric data
       gatherer, or any of the SBLIM providers. To subscribe to this list visit:

	   https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sblim-issues

       Please report bugs you discover to the bug tracker. The SBLIM project bug tracking page can be found at:

	   https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=128809&atid=712784

AUTHORS

       Please refer to the AUTHORS file distributed with sblim-gather.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003-2012 IBM Corp.

LICENSE

       gatherctl is distributed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License ("Agreement"). Any use, reproduction or distribution of this program
       constitutes recipeients acceptance of the agreement.

       You can obtain a current copy of the Eclipse Public License from http://www.opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php

SEE ALSO

       gatherd(8), gatherd.conf(5),

sblim-gather-2.2.8						    06/17/2014							      GATHERCTL(8)