NAME

       pmNameAll - translate a PMID to a set of performance metric names

C SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>

       int pmNameAll(pmID pmid, char ***nameset);

       cc ... -lpcp

DESCRIPTION

       Given  a  Performance  Metric Identifier (PMID) via pmid, pmNameAll will determine all the
       corresponding metric names, if any, in the Performance  Metrics  Name  Space  (PMNS),  and
       return these via nameset.

       The  resulting  list  of  pointers  nameset  and  the values (the relative names) that the
       pointers reference will have been allocated by pmNameAll with a single call to malloc(3C),
       and it is the responsibility of the pmNameAll caller to free(nameset) to release the space
       when it is no longer required.

       In the absence of errors, pmNameAll returns the number of names in nameset.

       For many examples of a PMNS, there will be a 1:1 mapping between a name and  a  PMID,  and
       under  these  circumstances,  pmNameID(3)  provides  a  slightly  simpler interface in the
       absence of duplicate names for a particular PMID.

SEE ALSO

       PMAPI(3),        pmGetChildren(3),         pmGetChildrenStatus(3),         pmGetConfig(3),
       pmLoadASCIINameSpace(3),       pmLoadNameSpace(3),      pmLookupName(3),      pmNameID(3),
       pmNewContext(3), pcp.conf(5), pcp.env(5) and pmns(5).

DIAGNOSTICS

       PM_ERR_NOPMNS
              Failed to access a PMNS for operation.  Note  that  if  the  application  hasn't  a
              priori called pmLoadNameSpace(3) and wants to use the distributed PMNS, then a call
              to pmNameAll must be made after the creation of a context (see pmNewContext(3)).

       PM_ERR_PMID
              pmid does not correspond to a defined PMID in the PMNS.

       PM_ERR_*
              Other diagnostics are for protocol failures when accessing the distributed PMNS.