CentOS 7.0 - man page for pcp.conf (centos section 5)

PCP.CONF(5)									      PCP.CONF(5)

NAME
       pcp.conf - the Performance Co-Pilot configuration and environment file

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/pcp.conf

DESCRIPTION
       When  using  Performance  Co-Pilot  (PCP) tools and utilities and when calling PCP library
       functions, a standard set of environment variables are defined  in  /etc/pcp.conf.   These
       variables  are  generally  used	to specify the location of various PCP pieces in the file
       system and may be loaded into shell scripts by sourcing the /etc/pcp.env(5)  shell  script
       and queried by C/C++ programs using the pmGetConfig(3) library function.  If a variable is
       already defined in the environment, the values in pcp.conf do not override  those  values,
       i.e. the values in pcp.conf serve as installation defaults only.

       Both  the  pcp.env  and	pcp.conf  files  are expected to be found in /etc by default.  If
       required, the pcp.conf file may be relocated and PCP_CONF set in the environment to  spec-
       ify the full path to the new location.  The pcp.env file can not be relocated (this is the
       only hard coded path required by PCP).

       The syntax rules for pcp.conf are as follows :

       1.  the general syntax is
			      PCP_VARIABLE_NAME=variable value to end of line

       2.  lines that begin with # and all blank lines are ignored.

       3.  all variables must be prefixed with PCP_.  This is a security issue -  variables  that
	   do not have this prefix will be silently ignored.

       4.  there  should  be  no  space  between the variable name and the literal = and no space
	   between the = and the variable value (unless the value actually starts with a  space).
	   This  is  required  because	the pcp.conf file may be sourced directly by Makefiles as
	   well as interpreted by the pcp.env script and the pmGetConfig function.

       5.  variable values may contain spaces and should not be quoted.  The pcp.env script auto-
	   matically  quotes  all  variable values from the character immediately following the =
	   through to the end of the line.

       For further details and an explanation of the use of each variable, see	the  comments  in
       the /etc/pcp.conf file itself.

ENVIRONMENT
       The PCP_CONF environment variable specifies an alternative path to the pcp.conf file.

SEE ALSO
       PCPIntro(1), PCPIntro(3), PMAPI(3), pmGetConfig(3) and pcp.env(5).

Performance Co-Pilot			       PCP				      PCP.CONF(5)