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NAME

       pmieconf - display and set configurable pmie rule variables

SYNOPSIS

       pmieconf [-cFv] [-f file] [-r rulepath] [command [args...]]

DESCRIPTION

       pmieconf  is  a  utility  for  viewing  and configuring variables from generalized pmie(1)
       rules.  The set of generalized rules is  read  in  from  rulepath,  and  the  output  file
       produced by pmieconf is a valid input file for pmie.

       A brief description of the pmieconf command line options follows:

       -c      When  run  from  automated  pmie  setup  processes,  this  option is used to add a
               specific message and timestamp indicating that  this  is  the  case.   It  is  not
               appropriate when using the tool interactively.

       -f file Any  rule  modifications  resulting  from pmieconf manipulation of variable values
               will be written to file.  The default value of file is dependent on the user ID  -
               for  the root user, the file $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmieconf/config.pmie is used, for
               other users the default is $HOME/.pcp/pmie/config.pmie.

       -F      Forces the pmieconf output file to be created (or updated), after  which  pmieconf
               immediately exits.

       -r rulepath
               Allows  the  source of generalized pmie rules to be changed - rulepath is a colon-
               delimited list of pmieconf(5) rule files and/or subdirectories.  The default value
               for  rulepath  is  $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmieconf.  Use of this option overrides the
               PMIECONF_PATH environment variable which has a similar function.

       -v      Verbose mode.  Additional information associated with each rule and its associated
               variables will be displayed.  This is the complete list of variables which affects
               any given rule (by default, global variables are not displayed with the rule).

       The pmieconf commands allow information related to  the  various  rules  and  configurable
       variables  to  be  displayed  or  modified.   If no pmieconf commands are presented on the
       command line, pmieconf prompts for commands interactively.

       The pmieconf command language is described here:

       help  [ { . | all | global | <rule> | <group> } [<variable>] ]
               Without arguments, the help command displays the syntax for all of  the  available
               pmieconf  commands.   With  one  argument,  a  description  of  one or more of the
               generalized rules is displayed.  With two arguments, a description of  a  specific
               variable relating to one or more of the generalized rules is displayed.

       rules  [ enabled | disabled ]
               Display  the  name  and  short  summary  for all of the generalized rules found on
               rulepath.  Each of the rule names can be used in place of the  keyword  <rule>  in
               this  command syntax description.  The enabled and disabled options can be used to
               filter the set of rules displayed to just those  which  are  enabled  or  disabled
               respectfully.

       groups  Display  the  name of all of the rule groups that were found on rulepath.  Each of
               the group names can be used in place of the keyword <group> in this command syntax
               description, which applies the command to all rules within the rule group.

       status  Display  status  information relating to the current pmieconf session, including a
               list of running pmie processes which are currently using file.

       enable  { . | all | <rule> | <group> }
               Enables the specified rule or group of rules.  An enabled rule is one  which  will
               be  included  in  the  pmie configuration file generated by pmieconf.  Any enabled
               "actions" will be appended to the rule's "predicate", in a  manner  conforming  to
               the  pmie syntax ("actions" can be viewed using the list global command, described
               below).

       disable  { . | all | <rule> | <group> }
               Disables the specified rule or  group  of  rules.   If  the  rule  was  previously
               enabled,  it  will  be  removed  from  the  pmie  configuration  file generated by
               pmieconf, and hence no longer evaluated when pmie  is  restarted  (using  pmieconf
               does not affect any existing pmie processes using file).

       list  { . | all | global | <rule> | <group> } [<variable>]
               Display the values for a specific rule variable; or for all variables of a rule, a
               rule group, all rules, or the global variables.

       modify  { . | all | global | <rule> | <group> } <variable> <value>
               Enable, disable, or otherwise change the value for one  or  more  rule  variables.
               This value must be consistent with the type of the variable, which can be inferred
               from the format of the printed value - e.g. strings will be  enclosed  in  double-
               quotes,  percentages  have the ``%'' symbol appended, etc.  Note that certain rule
               variables cannot be modified  through  pmieconf  -  "predicate"  and  "help",  for
               example.

       undo  { . | all | global | <rule> | <group> } [<variable>]
               Applicable  only to a variable whose value has been modified - this command simply
               reverts to the default value for the given variable.

       quit    Save any changes made to file and then exit pmieconf.

       abort   Exit pmieconf immediately without saving any changes to file.

       Each of the commands above can be shortened by simply using the  first  character  of  the
       command name, and also ``?'' for help.

       Use  of  the all keyword causes the command to be applied to all of the rules.  The global
       keyword refers to those variables which are applied to every rule.  Such variables can  be
       changed either globally or locally, for example:

         pmieconf> modify global delta "5 minutes"
         pmieconf> modify memory delta "1 minute"

       causes  all  rules  to  now  be evaluated once every five minutes, except for rules in the
       "memory" group which are to be evaluated once per minute.

       The ``.'' character is special to pmieconf - it refers to the last successfully used value
       of all, global, <rule> or <group>.

EXAMPLES

       Specify that all of the rules in the "memory" group should be evaluated:

         pmieconf> modify memory enabled yes

       Change  your  mind,  and  revert  to  using  only the "memory" rules which were enabled by
       default:

         pmieconf> undo memory enabled

       Specify that notification of rules which evaluate to true should be sent to syslogd(1):

         pmieconf> modify global syslog_action yes

       Specify that rules in the "per_cpu" group should use a different holdoff  value  to  other
       rules:

         pmieconf> help global holdoff
           rule: global  [generic parameters applied to all rules]
            var: holdoff
           help: Once the predicate is true and the action is executed,
              this variable allows suppression of further action
              execution until the specified interval has elapsed.
              A value of zero enables execution of the action if
              the rule predicate is true at the next sample. Default
              units are seconds and common units are "second", "sec",
              "minute", "min" and "hour".

         pmieconf> modify per_cpu holdoff "1 hour"

       Lower the threshold associated with a particular variable for a specified rule:

         pmieconf> l cpu.syscall predicate
           rule: cpu.syscall  [High aggregate system call rate]
             predicate =
                  some_host (
                   ( kernel.all.syscall $hosts$ )
                     > $threshold$ count/sec * hinv.ncpu $hosts$
                  )

         pmieconf> m . threshold 7000

         pmieconf> l . threshold
           rule: cpu.syscall  [High aggregate system call rate]
                threshold = 7000

ENVIRONMENT

       The  environment  variable PMIECONF_PATH has a similar function to the -r option described
       above, and if set will be used provided no -r option is presented.

FILES

       $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmieconf/*/*
                 generalized system resource monitoring rules
       $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmieconf/config.pmie
                 default super-user settings for system resource monitoring rules
       $HOME/.pcp/pmie/config.pmie
                 default user settings for system resource monitoring rules

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

       PCPIntro(1), pmie(1), pmie_check(1) and pmieconf(5).