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PMDAVMWARE(1)						       Performance Co-Pilot						     PMDAVMWARE(1)

NAME

       pmdavmware - VMware performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)

DESCRIPTION

       pmdavmware is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from a (possibly remote) VMware virtualisation host.

       This implementation uses the VMare Perl API (refer to the online docs at http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit).  VIPerl is
       a prerequisite for this PMDA, it needs to be installed and configured before attempting to use this agent.  It is highly recommended that
       you test your VIPerl installation using the demo programs that are shipped with VIPerl, before attempting to use this PMDA.

INSTALLATION

       In order to access performance data using the VIPerl API, it is necessary to be able to login to the metrics source.  Hence, a valid VMware
       server name, user name and pass word are needed by the PMDA.  These can be passed in on the command line (via the pmcd.conf file) or via a
       vmware.conf file in the PMDA directory.

	       # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware
	       # [ edit vmware.conf ]

       This file should contain three lines, such as:

	       $server = 'vm.server.net';
	       $username = 'XXXX';
	       $password  = 'YYYY';

       Once this is setup, you can access the names and values for the vmware performance metrics by doing the following as root:

	       # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware
	       # ./Install

       If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:

	       # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware
	       # ./Remove

       pmdavmware is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly.  The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is
       installed or removed.

FILES

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware/vmware.conf
	   configuration file for the pmdavmware agent

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware/Install
	   installation script for the pmdavmware agent

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware/Remove
	   undo installation script for the pmdavmware agent

       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/vmware.log
	   default log file for error messages from pmdavmware

SEE ALSO

       pmcd(1).

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PMDASYSTEMTAP(1)					       Performance Co-Pilot						  PMDASYSTEMTAP(1)

NAME

       pmdasystemtap - Systemtap performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)

DESCRIPTION

       pmdasystemtap is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from the Linux Systemtap dynamic tracing toolkit.

       This implementation uses the stap(1) tool, which is a front-end to the Systemtap toolkit.

INSTALLATION

       In order to access performance data exported by Systemtap from with PCP, it is necessary to perform two configuration steps:

       1.  Configure Systemtap probes, and verify them with stap(1).  These should be produced in a format that is easily parsed, and then stored
	   in the $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/systemtap/probes.stp file.

       2.  Configure pmdasystemtap to extract the values from the text produced by stap.  Two example probes are implemented in the default
	   systemtap PMDA script - readdir and sync traces (see $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/systemtap/pmdasystemtap.pl for details).

	       # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/systemtap
	       # [ edit probes.stp, test /usr/bin/stap probes.stp ]
	       # [ edit pmdasystemtap.pl ]

       Once this is setup, you can access the names and values for the systemtap performance metrics by doing the following as root:

	       # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/systemtap
	       # ./Install

       If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:

	       # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/systemtap
	       # ./Remove

       pmdasystemtap is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly.  The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent
       is installed or removed.

FILES

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/systemtap/probes.stp
	   probe configuration file for stap(1), run by pmdasystemtap

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/systemtap/Install
	   installation script for the pmdasystemtap agent

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/systemtap/Remove
	   undo installation script for the pmdasystemtap agent

       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/systemtap.log
	   default log file for error messages from pmdasystemtap

SEE ALSO

       pmcd(1) and stap(1).

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