NAME

       pmdalustrecomm - Lustre filesystem comms performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)

SYNOPSIS

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustrecomm/pmdalustrecomm [-d domain] [-l logfile] [-U username]

DESCRIPTION

       pmdalustrecomm  is  a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts performance metrics from the
       Linux procfs filesystem about the state of various aspects of the Lustre filesystem.

       The lustrecomm PMDA exports metrics that focus on distributed communication in the filesystem,  including
       metrics  related  to  timeouts, network drops, send/recv information and route lengths.  However, it also
       covers the memory use of some of the Lustre filesystem components.

       A brief description of the pmdalustrecomm command line options follows:

       -d   It is absolutely crucial that the performance metrics domain number specified  here  is  unique  and
            consistent.  That is, domain should be different for every PMDA on the one host, and the same domain
            number should be used for the same PMDA on all hosts.

       -l   Location of the log file.  By default, a log file named lustrecomm.log is  written  in  the  current
            directory  of  pmcd(1)  when  pmdalustrecomm  is  started, i.e.  $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd.  If the log file
            cannot be created or is not writable, output is written to the standard error instead.

       -U   User account under which to run the agent.  The default is the unprivileged "pcp" account in current
            versions of PCP, but in older versions the superuser account ("root") was used by default.

INSTALLATION

       If  you  want  access  to  the names, help text and values for the lustrecomm performance metrics, do the
       following as root:

            # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustrecomm
            # ./Install

       If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:

            # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustrecomm
            # ./Remove

       pmdalustrecomm is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed  directly.   The  Install  and  Remove
       scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is installed or removed.

FILES

       $PCP_PMCDCONF_PATH
                 command line options used to launch pmdalustrecomm
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustrecomm/help
                 default help text file for the lustrecomm metrics
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustrecomm/Install
                 installation script for the pmdalustrecomm agent
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/lustrecomm/Remove
                 undo installation script for the pmdalustrecomm agent
       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/lustrecomm.log
                 default log file for error messages and other information from pmdalustrecomm

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), pmcd(1), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).