NAME

       pmafm - Performance Co-Pilot archive folio manager

SYNOPSIS

       pmafm folioname [command [arg ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       A collection of one or more Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive logs may be combined with a
       control file to produce a PCP archive folio.  Archive  folios  are  created  using  either
       mkaf(1) or the interactive ``record mode'' services of PCP clients like pmchart(1).

       pmafm provides a number of services that may be used to process folios.  In particular, it
       provides support for execution of PCP tools using one or more  of  the  component  archive
       logs within an archive folio.

       The  target  folio  is  identified  by the folio control file folioname.  The syntax for a
       folio control file is described in mkaf(1).

       If present, the command and arguments following folioname are interpreted and executed  as
       a single command, otherwise commands are read from standard input.

       The following commands are supported.

       archives
              Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.

       archives N[,...]
              Archives within a folio are numbered 1, 2, etc.  Subsequent commands are restricted
              to apply only to the designated archives.

       archives name[,...]
              Archives within a folio have unique names.  Subsequent commands are  restricted  to
              apply only to the designated archives.

       check  Validate  the  presence  and  format  of  each  file in the folio and the component
              archives.

       help
              A brief reminder of the command syntax.  ?  is a synonym for help.

       hosts
              Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.

       hosts hostname[,...]
              Subsequent commands are restricted to apply only to those archives that  match  the
              designated hostnames.

       list [verbose]
              Display  the  contents of the folio.  By default the control header and the ordinal
              number, hostname and archive base name for each archive in the folio.  The  verbose
              option causes pmafm to dump the label record from each archive using pmdumplog -l.

              The  first  named archive in the folio is assumed to be associated with the default
              host for any tool that tries to replay multiple archives from the folio.

       quit
              Exit pmafm.

       remove
              Echo on standard output the sh(1) commands required to remove all of  the  physical
              files associated with this archive folio.

       repeat tool [arg ...]
              Execute the known PCP tool once per selected archive.  For example, the command
                   repeat pmval -t60 kernel.all.load
              would run pmval(1) once per archive, with an appropriate -a argument.

       replay
              Some  archive folios are created by tools (e.g. pmchart(1)) that provide sufficient
              information to allow all of the information in all of the archives of a folio to be
              replayed.

       [run] tool [arg ...]
              Execute  the  known  PCP tool on the selected archives.  Some PCP tools are able to
              process multiple concurrent archives, and in this case the tool is  run  once  with
              the  list  of  all  selected  archives  passed  via a -a argument.  Otherwise, this
              command is synonymous with repeat.

       selections
              Display those archives that would be selected for processing with a repeat,  replay
              or run command.

       The  restrictions  via any hosts and archives commands are conjuncted.  These restrictions
       serve to limit the specific archives processed in the subsequent repeat, replay,  run  and
       selections commands.  By default, all archives are selected.

       Keywords  in  commands may be abbreviated provided no ambiguity is introduced, e.g.  help,
       hel and he are synonymous, but h is ambiguous.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Many, but all are intended to be easily understood.

FILES

       $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/*
            control files that define the behavior  of  each  PCP  tool  known  to  pmafm.   This
            information  may  be  customized  or  extended, see $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/pcp for
            documentation of the syntax and semantics of these files.

       $HOME/.pcp/pmafm/*
            User customization of the control files.  All files in this directory are treated  in
            the same manner as control files in the $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm directory.

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

       mkaf(1), pmchart(1), pcp-atop(1), PMAPI(3), pmRecordSetup(3), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).