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NAME

       pmie_check, pmie_daily - administration of the Performance Co-Pilot inference engine

SYNOPSIS

       $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmie_check [-CNsV] [-c control] [-l logfile]
       $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmie_daily [-NV] [-c control] [-k discard] [-l logfile] [-m addresses] [-x
       compress] [-X program] [-Y regex]

DESCRIPTION

       This series of shell scripts and  associated  control  files  may  be  used  to  create  a
       customized  regime  of  administration  and  management  for the Performance Co-Pilot (see
       PCPintro(1)) inference engine, pmie(1).

       pmie_daily is intended to be run once per day, preferably in the early  morning,  as  soon
       after  midnight  as practicable.  Its task is to rotate the log files for the running pmie
       processes - these files may grow without bound if the ``print'' action  is  used,  or  any
       other  pme  action  writes  to its stdout/stderr streams.  After some period, old pmie log
       files are discarded.  This period is 14 days by default, but may be changed using  the  -k
       option.  Two  special  values are recognized for the period (discard), namely 0 to keep no
       log files beyond the current one, and forever to prevent any log files being discarded.

       Log files can optionally be compressed after some  period  (compress),  to  conserve  disk
       space.   This is particularly useful for large numbers of pmie processes under the control
       of pmie_check.  The -x option specifies the number of days after which to compress archive
       data  files,  and  the -X option specifies the program to use for compression - by default
       this is xz(1).  Use of the -Y option allows a regular expression to be  specified  causing
       files  in  the  set  of files matched for compression to be omitted - this allows only the
       data file to be compressed, and also prevents the program from attempting to  compress  it
       more than once.  The default regex is ".(meta|index|Z|gz|bz2|zip|xz|lzma|lzo|lz4)$" - such
       files are filtered using the -v option to egrep(1).

       Use of the -m option causes pmie_daily to construct a summary of the log  files  generated
       for  all monitored hosts in the last 24 hours (lines matching `` OK '' are culled), and e-
       mail that summary to the set of space-separated addresses.

       pmie_check may be run at any time, and is intended  to  check  that  the  desired  set  of
       pmie(1)  processes are running, and if not to re-launch any failed inference engines.  Use
       of the -s option provides the reverse functionality, allowing the set of pmie processes to
       be cleanly shutdown.  Use of the -C option queries the system service runlevel information
       for pmie, and uses that to determine whether to start or stop processes.

       Both pmie_check and pmie_daily are controlled by PCP inference engine control file(s) that
       specify   the   pmie   instances   to   be   managed.    The   default   control  file  is
       $PCP_PMIECONTROL_PATH but an alternate may be specified  using  the  -c  option.   If  the
       directory  $PCP_PMLOGGERCONTROL_PATH.d  (or control.d from the -c option) exists, then the
       contents of any additional control files therein will be appended to the main control file
       (which must exist).

       The control file(s) should be customized according to the following rules.

       1.     Lines beginning with a ``#'' are comments.
       2.     Lines beginning with a ``$'' are assumed to be assignments to environment variables
              in the style of sh(1), and all text following the ``$''  will  be  eval'ed  by  the
              script  reading  the control file, and the corresponding variable exported into the
              environment.  This is particularly useful to set  and  export  variables  into  the
              environment of the administrative script, e.g.
                  $ PMCD_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=20
              Warning:  The  $PCP_PMIECONTROL_PATH  and $PCP_PMIECONTROL_PATH.d files must not be
              writable by any user other than root.
       3.     There should be one line in the control file(s) for each pmie instance of the form:

                  host y|n logfile args

       4.     Fields within a line of the control file(s) are separated by one or more spaces  or
              tabs.
       5.     The  first  field  is  the  name  of  the  host  that  is the default source of the
              performance metrics for this pmie instance.
       6.     The second field indicates whether this pmie instance needs to be started under the
              control of pmsocks(1) to connect to a pmcd through a firewall (y or n).
       8.     The  third field is the name of the pmie activity log file.  A useful convention is
              that pmie instances monitoring the local host with hostname myhost  are  maintained
              in  the directory $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/myhost, while activity logs for the remote host
              mumble are maintained in $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/mumble.  This is consistent with the way
              pmlogger(1) maintains its activity logs and archive files.
       9.     All  other  fields  are  interpreted  as  arguments  to be passed to pmie(1).  Most
              typically this would be the -c option.

       The following sample control lines specify one pmie instance  monitoring  the  local  host
       (wobbly), and another monitoring performance metrics from the host splat.

       wobbly  n  PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/wobbly  -c config.default
       splat   n  PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/splat   -c splat/cpu.conf

       Typical  crontab(5)  entries for periodic execution of pmie_daily and pmie_check are given
       in $PCP_SYSCONF_DIR/pmie/crontab (unless installed by default in /etc/cron.d already)  and
       shown below.

       # daily processing of pmie logs
       08      0       *       *       *       $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmie_daily
       # every 30 minutes, check pmie instances are running
       28,58   *       *       *       *       $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmie_check

       In  order  to ensure that mail is not unintentionally sent when these scripts are run from
       cron(8)  diagnostics  are  always  sent  to  log  files.   By  default,  these  files  are
       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/pmie_daily.log  and  $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/pmie_check.log  but  this  can be
       changed using the -l option.  If this log file already exists when the script  starts,  it
       will  be  renamed  with  a  .prev  suffix  (overwriting any log file saved earlier) before
       diagnostics are generated to the new log file.

       The output from the cron execution of the scripts may be extended using the -V  option  to
       the  scripts  which will enable verbose tracing of their activity.  By default the scripts
       generate no output unless some error or warning condition is encountered.

       The -N option enables a ``show me'' mode, where the actions are echoed, but not  executed,
       in  the  style  of  ``make -n''.  Using -N in conjunction with -V maximizes the diagnostic
       capabilities for debugging.

FILES

       $PCP_PMIECONTROL_PATH
                 the default PCP inference engine control file
                 Warning: this file must not be writable by any user other than root.

       $PCP_PMIECONTROL_PATH.d
                 optional directory containing additional PCP  inference  engine  control  files,
                 typically one per host
                 Warning: this files herein must not be writable by any user other than root.

       $PCP_SYSCONF_DIR/pmie/crontab
                 sample  crontab  for  automated script execution by $PCP_USER (or root) - exists
                 only if the platform does not support the /etc/cron.d mechanism.

       $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmie/config.default
                 default pmlogger configuration file location for a localhost  inference  engine,
                 typically generated automatically by pmieconf(1).

       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/hostname
                 default location for the pmie log file for the host hostname

       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmie/hostname/lock
                 transient lock file to guarantee mutual exclusion during pmie administration for
                 the host hostname - if present, can be safely removed if neither pmie_daily  nor
                 pmie_check are running

       $PCP_LOG_DIR/NOTICES
                 PCP ``notices'' file used by pmie(1) and friends

PCP ENVIRONMENT

       Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory
       names used by PCP.  On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values
       for  these  variables.   The  $PCP_CONF  variable  may  be  used to specify an alternative
       configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).

SEE ALSO

       egrep(1), PCPintro(1), pmie(1), pmieconf(1), xz(1) and cron(8).