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NAME

       pmlogrewrite - rewrite Performance Co-Pilot archives

SYNOPSIS

       pmlogrewrite [-Cdiqsvw?]  [-c config] [-V version] inlog [outlog]

DESCRIPTION

pmlogrewrite reads a set of Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archives identified by inlog and creates a PCP
archive in outlog. Under normal usage, the -c option will be used to nominate a configuration file or
files that contains specifications (see the REWRITING RULES SYNTAX section below) that describe how the
data and metadata from inlog should be transformed to produce outlog.

The typical uses for pmlogrewrite would be to accommodate the evolution of Performance Metric Domain
Agents (PMDAs) where the names, metadata and semantics of metrics and their associated instance domains
may change over time, e.g. promoting the type of a metric from a 32-bit to a 64-bit integer, or renaming
a group of metrics. Refer to the EXAMPLES section for some additional use cases.

pmlogrewrite may also be used to redact sensitive information from PCP archives in situations where the
archives need to be shipped to another organization or to meet privacy policies or legislative
requirements. See pmlogredact(1) for an example use of pmlogrewrite in this context.

pmlogrewrite is most useful where PMDA changes, or errors in the production environment, result in
archives that cannot be combined with pmlogextract(1). By pre-processing the archives with pmlogrewrite
the resulting archives may be able to be merged with pmlogextract(1).

The input inlog must be a set of PCP archives created by pmlogger(1), or possibly one of the tools that
read and create PCP archives, e.g. pmlogextract(1) and pmlogreduce(1). inlog is a comma-separated list
of names, each of which may be the base name of an archive or the name of a directory containing one or
more archives.

If no -c option is specified, then the default behavior simply creates outlog as a copy of inlog. This
is a little more complicated than cat(1), as each PCP archive is made up of several physical files.

While pmlogrewrite may be used to repair some data consistency issues in PCP archives, there is also a
class of repair tasks that cannot be handled by pmlogrewrite and pmloglabel(1) may be a useful tool in
these cases.

OPTIONS

The available command line options are:

-c config, --config=config
If config is a file or symbolic link, read and parse rewriting rules from there. If config is a
directory, then all of the files or symbolic links in that directory (excluding those beginning with
a period ``.'') will be used to provide the rewriting rules. Multiple -c options are allowed.

-C, --check
Parse the rewriting rules and quit. outlog is not created, so this command line argument is
optional with -C. When -C is specified, this also sets -v and -w so that all warnings and verbose
messages are displayed as config is parsed.

-d, --desperate
Desperate mode. Normally if a fatal error occurs, all trace of the partially written PCP archive
outlog is removed. With the -d option, the partially created outlog archive is not removed.

-i Rather than creating outlog, inlog is rewritten in place when the -i option is used. A new archive
is created using temporary file names and then renamed to inlog in such a way that if any errors
(not warnings) are encountered, inlog remains unaltered.

-q, --quick
Quick mode, where if there are no rewriting actions to be performed (none of the global data,
instance domains or metrics from inlog will be changed), then pmlogrewrite will exit (with status 0,
so success) immediately after parsing the configuration file(s) and outlog is not created.

-s, --scale
When the ``units'' of a metric are changed, if the dimension in terms of space, time and count is
unaltered, then the scaling factor is being changed, e.g. BYTE to KBYTE, or MSEC-1 to USEC-1, or the
composite MBYTE.SEC-1 to KBYTE.USEC-1. The motivation may be (a) that the original metadata was
wrong but the values in inlog are correct, or (b) the metadata is changing so the values need to
change as well. The default pmlogrewrite behaviour matches case (a). If case (b) applies, then use
the -s option and the values of all the metrics with a scale factor change in each result will be
rescaled. For finer control over value rescaling refer to the RESCALE option for the UNITS clause
of the metric rewriting rule described below.

-v, --verbose
Enable verbose mode.

-V version, --version=version
Specifies the version of the output PCP archive being produced. Currently versions 2 and 3 of the
archive format is supported. The version of inlog must be at least version (so version upgrade is
allowed, but version downgrade is not). By default, in the absence of the -V option, the version of
outlog is the same as the version of inlog.

-w, --warnings
Emit warnings. Normally pmlogrewrite remains silent for any warning that is not fatal and it is
expected that for a particular archive, some (or indeed, all) of the rewriting specifications may
not apply. For example, changes to a PMDA may be captured in a set of rewriting rules, but a single
archive may not contain all of the modified metrics nor all of the modified instance domains and/or
instances. Because these cases are expected, they do not prevent pmlogrewrite executing, and rules
that do not apply to inlog are silently ignored by default. Similarly, some rewriting rules may
involve no change because the metadata in inlog already matches the intent of the rewriting rule to
correct data from a previous version of a PMDA. The -w flag forces warnings to be emitted for all
of these cases.

-?, --help
Display usage message and exit.

The argument outlog is required in all cases, except when -i is specified.

REWRITING RULES SYNTAX

A configuration file contains zero or more rewriting rules as defined below.

Keywords and special punctuation characters are shown below in bolditalic font and are case-insensitive,
so METRIC, metric and Metric are all equivalent in rewriting rules.

The character ``#'' introduces a comment and the remainder of the line is ignored. Otherwise the input
is relatively free format with optional white space (spaces, tabs or newlines) between lexical items in
the rules.

A global rewriting rule has the form:

GLOBAL { globalspec ... }

where globalspec is zero or more of the following clauses:

HOSTNAME -> hostname

Modifies the label records in the outlog PCP archive, so that the metrics will appear to have
been collected from the host hostname.

TIME -> delta

Both metric values and the instance domain metadata in a PCP archive carry timestamps. This
clause forces all the timestamps to be adjusted by delta, where delta is an optional sign ``+''
(the default) or ``-'', an optional number of hours followed by a colon ``:'', an optional number
of minutes followed by a colon ``:'', a number of seconds, an optional fraction of seconds
following a period ``.''. The simplest example would be ``30'' to increase the timestamps by 30
seconds. A more complex example would be ``-23:59:59.999'' to move the timestamps backwards by
one millisecond less than one day.

TIMEZONE -> "timezone"
TZ -> "timezone"

Modifies the label records in the outlog PCP archive, so that the metrics will appear to have
been collected from a host with a local timezone of timezone. timezone must be enclosed in
double quotes, and should conform to the valid timezone syntax rules for the local platform,
usually a Posix TZ format, e.g. AEST-10. See tzset(3) for more information.

TZ is an alias for TIMEZONE.

ZONEINFO -> "zoneinfo"

Modifies the label records in the outlog PCP archive, so that the metrics will appear to have
been collected from a host with a local timezone of zoneinfo. zoneinfo must be enclosed in
double quotes, and should conform to the valid zoneinfo timezone syntax rules for the local
platform, usually a colon followed by a pathname below /usr/share/zoneinfo, e.g.
:Africa/Timbuktu. See tzset(3) for more information.

The zoneinfo clause is only allowed if the output archive version is at least 3.

FEATURES -> feature-bits

Modifies the label records in the outlog PCP archive, so that the metrics will appear to have
been collected from system with a pmlogger(1) that supports the ``features'' defined by the
integer value feature-bits, which is formed by ``or''ing the desired feature flags as defined in
LOGARCHIVE(5). Alternatively, feature-bits can be specified using the ``macro'' BITS() that
takes a comma separated argument list of integers (in the inclusive range 0 to 31) and sets the
corresponding bits. For example
features -> bits(31,7,1)

The features clause is only allowed if the output archive version is at least 3.

An indom rewriting rule modifies an instance domain and has the form:

INDOM domain.serial { indomspec ... }

where domain and serial identify one or more existing instance domains from inlog - typically domain
would be an integer in the range 1 to 510 and serial would be an integer in the range 0 to 4194304.

As a special case serial could be an asterisk ``*'' which means the rule applies to every instance domain
with a domain number of domain.

If a designated instance domain is not in inlog the rule has no effect.

The indomspec is zero or more of the following clauses:

INAME "oldname" -> "newname"

The instance identified by the external instance name oldname is renamed to newname. Both
oldname and newname must be enclosed in double quotes.

As a special case, the new name may be the keyword DELETE (with no double quotes), and then the
instance oldname will be expunged from outlog which removes it from the instance domain metadata
and removes all values of this instance for all the associated metrics.

If the instance names contain any embedded spaces then special care needs to be taken in respect
of the PCP instance naming rule that treats the leading non-space part of the instance name as
the unique portion of the name for the purposes of matching and ensuring uniqueness within an
instance domain, refer to pmdaInstance(3) for a discussion of this issue.

As an illustration, consider the hypothetical instance domain for a metric which contains 2
instances with the following names:
red
eek urk

Then some possible INAME clauses might be:

"eek" -> "yellow like a flower"
Acceptable, oldname "eek" matches the "eek urk" instance.

"red" -> "eek"
Error, newname "eek" matches the existing "eek urk" instance.

"eek urk" -> "red of another hue"
Error, newname "red of another hue" matches the existing "red" instance.

INAME REPLACE /pattern/ -> "replacement"

Every external instance name in the instance domain is matched against the regular expression
pattern and when a match is found, the name is changed based on the parts of the name matched by
pattern and the replacement recipe. pattern follows the syntax of a Posix Extended Regular
Expression (see regex(7)) and replacement follows the syntax of the s command of sed(1), so & and
\1 through \9 may be used to select all or substrings of the instance name that matches pattern.

Note that the match-and-replace is done at most once per external instance name, so if there are
repeated sequences of the name that match pattern only the first one will be matched and
replacement applied.

pattern is normally enclosed in slashes (/) or double quotes ("). An escape (\) may be used
before any of the metacharacters described in regex(3) to specify a literal character, e.g. \( or
\[ or \+ ... The enclosing delimiters cannot be escaped, so to embed a literal slash, use double
quotes as the delimiter, or vice versa.

replacement is normally enclosed by double quotes (") or slashes (/). An escape (\) may be used
before & or \ to specify these characters literally. The enclosing delimiters cannot be escaped,
so to embed a double quote, use slashes as the delimiter, or vice versa.

If the instance names after replacement contain any embedded spaces then special care needs to be
taken in respect of the PCP instance naming rule that treats the leading non-space part of the
instance name as the unique portion of the name for the purposes of matching and ensuring
uniqueness within an instance domain. Refer to pmdaInstance(3) for a discussion of this issue.

Here are some examples:

{ iname replace /[a-z]*foo[a-z]*/ -> "FOO" }
replace any word containing "foo" with "FOO"

{ iname replace "([0-9]+) /.*/(.*)" -> "\1 \2" }
removes a directory path, so the instance name (for one of the proc PMDA's metrics)
"2981799 /home/kenj/bin/foobar" would become "2981799 foobar", hiding the user's home
directory and implicitly the user's login name

INAME REDACT

Replace every external instance name in the instance domain by the string "inst [redacted]" where
inst is the internal instance identifier in ASCII format.

INDOM -> newdomain.newserial

Modifies the metadata for the instance domain and every metric associated with the instance
domain. As a special case, newserial could be an asterisk ``*'' which means use serial from the
indom rewriting rule, although this is most useful when serial is also an asterisk. So for
example:
indom 29.* { indom -> 109.* }
will move all instance domains from domain 29 to domain 109.

INDOM -> DUPLICATE newdomain.newserial

A special case of the previous INDOM clause where the instance domain is a duplicate copy of the
domain.serial instance domain from the indom rewriting rule, and then any mapping rules are
applied to the copied newdomain.newserial instance domain. This is useful when a PMDA is split
and the same instance domain needs to be replicated for domain domain and domain newdomain. So
for example if the metrics foo.one and foo.two are both defined over instance domain 12.34, and
foo.two is moved to another PMDA using domain 27, then the following rewriting rules could be
used:
indom 12.34 { indom -> duplicate 27.34 }
metric foo.two { indom -> 27.34 pmid -> 27.*.* }

INST oldid -> newid

The instance identified by the internal instance identifier oldid is renumbered to newid. Both
oldid and newid are integers in the range 0 to 231-1.

As a special case, newid may be the keyword DELETE and then the instance oldid will be expunged
from outlog which removes it from the instance domain metadata and removes all values of this
instance for all the associated metrics.

A metric rewriting rule has the form:

METRIC metricid { metricspec ... }

where metricid identifies one or more existing metrics from inlog using either a metric name, or the
internal encoding for a metric's PMID as domain.cluster.item. In the latter case, typically domain would
be an integer in the range 1 to 510, cluster would be an integer in the range 0 to 4095, and item would
be an integer in the range 0 to 1023.

As special cases item could be an asterisk ``*'' which means the rule applies to every metric with a
domain number of domain and a cluster number of cluster, or cluster could be an asterisk which means the
rule applies to every metric with a domain number of domain and an item number of item, or both cluster
and item could be asterisks, and rule applies to every metric with a domain number of domain.

If a designated metric is not in inlog the rule has no effect.

The metricspec is zero or more of the following clauses:

DELETE

The metric is completely removed from outlog, both the metadata and all values in results are
expunged.

INDOM -> newdomain.newserial [ pick ]

Modifies the metadata to change the instance domain for this metric. The new instance domain
must exist in outlog.

The optional pick clause may be used to select one input value, or compute an aggregate value
from the instances in an input result, or assign an internal instance identifier to a single
output value. If no pick clause is specified, the default behaviour is to copy all input values
from each input result to an output result, however if the input instance domain is singular
(indom PM_INDOM_NULL) then the one output value must be assigned an internal instance identifier,
which is 0 by default, unless over-ridden by a INST or INAME clause as defined below.

The choices for pick are as follows:

OUTPUT FIRST
choose the value of the first instance from each input result

OUTPUT LAST choose the value of the last instance from each input result

OUTPUT INST instid
choose the value of the instance with internal instance identifier instid from each
result; the sequence of rewriting rules ensures the OUTPUT processing happens before
instance identifier renumbering from any associated indom rule, so instid should be
one of the internal instance identifiers that appears in inlog

OUTPUT INAME "name"
choose the value of the instance with name for its external instance name from each
result; the sequence of rewriting rules ensures the OUTPUT processing happens before
instance renaming from any associated indom rule, so name should be one of the
external instance names that appears in inlog

OUTPUT MIN choose the smallest value in each result (metric type must be numeric and output
instance will be 0 for a non-singular instance domain)

OUTPUT MAX choose the largest value in each result (metric type must be numeric and output
instance will be 0 for a non-singular instance domain)

OUTPUT SUM choose the sum of all values in each result (metric type must be numeric and output
instance will be 0 for a non-singular instance domain)

OUTPUT AVG choose the average of all values in each result (metric type must be numeric and
output instance will be 0 for a non-singular instance domain)

If the input instance domain is singular (indom PM_INDOM_NULL) then independent of any pick
specifications, there is at most one value in each input result and so FIRST, LAST, MIN, MAX, SUM
and AVG are all equivalent and the output instance identifier will be 0.

In general it is an error to specify a rewriting action for the same metadata or result values
more than once, e.g. more than one INDOM clause for the same instance domain. The one exception
is the possible interaction between the INDOM clauses in the indom and metric rules. For example
the metric sample.bin is defined over the instance domain 29.2 in inlog and the following is
acceptable (albeit redundant):
indom 29.* { indom -> 109.* }
metric sample.bin { indom -> 109.2 }
However the following is an error, because the instance domain for sample.bin has two conflicting
definitions:
indom 29.* { indom -> 109.* }
metric sample.bin { indom -> 123.2 }

INDOM -> NULL[ pick ]

The metric (which must have been previously defined over an instance domain) is being modified to
be a singular metric. This involves a metadata change and collapsing all results for this metric
so that multiple values become one value.

The optional pick part of the clause defines how the one value for each result should be
calculated and follows the same rules as described for the non-NULL INDOM case above.

In the absence of pick, the default is OUTPUT FIRST.

NAME -> newname

Renames the metric in the PCP archive's metadata that supports the Performance Metrics Name Space
(PMNS). newname should not match any existing name in the archive's PMNS and must follow the
syntactic rules for valid metric names as outlined in PMNS(5).

PMID -> newdomain.newcluster.newitem

Modifies the metadata and results to renumber the metric's PMID. As special cases, newcluster
could be an asterisk ``*'' which means use cluster from the metric rewriting rule and/or item
could be an asterisk which means use item from the metric rewriting rule. This is most useful
when cluster and/or item is also an asterisk. So for example:
metric 30.*.* { pmid -> 123.*.* }
will move all metrics from domain 30 to domain 123.

SEM -> newsem

Change the semantics of the metric. newsem should be the XXX part of the name of one of the
PM_SEM_XXX macros defined in <pcp/pmapi.h> or pmLookupDesc(3), e.g. COUNTER for PM_TYPE_COUNTER.

No data value rewriting is performed as a result of the SEM clause, so the usefulness is limited
to cases where a version of the associated PMDA was exporting incorrect semantics for the metric.
pmlogreduce(1) may provide an alternative in cases where re-computation of result values is
desired.

TYPE -> newtype

Change the type of the metric which alters the metadata and may change the encoding of values in
results. newtype should be the XXX part of the name of one of the PM_TYPE_XXX macros defined in
<pcp/pmapi.h> or pmLookupDesc(3), e.g. FLOAT for PM_TYPE_FLOAT.

Type conversion is only supported for cases where the old and new metric type is numeric, so
PM_TYPE_STRING, PM_TYPE_AGGREGATE and PM_TYPE_EVENT are not allowed. Even for the numeric cases,
some conversions may produce run-time errors, e.g. integer overflow, or attempting to rewrite a
negative value into an unsigned type.

TYPE IF oldtype -> newtype

The same as the preceding TYPE clause, except the type of the metric is only changed to newtype
if the type of the metric in inlog is oldtype.

This useful in cases where the type of metricid in inlog may be platform dependent and so more
than one type rewriting rule is required.

UNITS -> newunits [ RESCALE ]

newunits is six values separated by commas. The first 3 values describe the dimension of the
metric along the dimensions of space, time and count; these are integer values, usually 0, 1 or
-1. The remaining 3 values describe the scale of the metric's values in the dimensions of space,
time and count. Space scale values should be 0 (if the space dimension is 0), else the XXX part
of the name of one of the PM_SPACE_XXX macros, e.g. KBYTE for PM_TYPE_KBYTE. Time scale values
should be 0 (if the time dimension is 0), else the XXX part of the name of one of the PM_TIME_XXX
macros, e.g. SEC for PM_TIME_SEC. Count scale values should be 0 (if the time dimension is 0),
else ONE for PM_COUNT_ONE.

The PM_SPACE_XXX, PM_TIME_XXX and PM_COUNT_XXX macros are defined in <pcp/pmapi.h> or
pmLookupDesc(3).

When the scale is changed (but the dimension is unaltered) the optional keyword RESCALE may be
used to chose value rescaling as per the -s command line option, but applied to just this metric.

VALUE REPLACE /pattern/ -> "replacement"

The value for every instance of the metric is matched against the regular expression pattern and
when a match is found, the value is changed based on the parts of the value matched by pattern
and the replacement recipe. pattern follows the syntax of a Posix Extended Regular Expression
(see regex(7)) and replacement follows the syntax of the s command of sed(1), so & and \1 through
\9 may be used to select all or substrings of the value that matches pattern.

Note that the match-and-replace is done at most once per metric value, so if there are repeated
sequences of the metric value that match pattern only the first one will be matched and
replacement applied.

The REPLACE keyword is optional.

This clause can only be applied to metrics with values of type PM_TYPE_STRING.

Here are some examples:

{ value /.*/ -> "" }
remove the value everywhere

value "/.*/(.*)" -> "\1" }
removes a directory path, so the metric value "mumble /home/kenj/bin/foobar fumble"
would become "mumble foobar fumble", hiding the user's home directory and implicitly
the user's login name

When changing the domain number for a metric or instance domain, the new domain number will usually
match an existing PMDA's domain number. If this is not the case, then the new domain number should
not be randomly chosen; consult $PCP_VAR_DIR/pmns/stdpmid for domain numbers that are already
assigned to PMDAs.

A text rewriting rule modifies a help text record and has the form:

TEXT textid [ texttype ] [ "textcontent" ] { textspec ... }

where textid identifies the metric or instance domain with which the text is currently associated, and is
either METRIC metricid or INDOM domain.serial.

metricid has the same form and meaning as for a METRIC rewriting rule (see above) and domain.serial has
the same form and meaning as for an INDOM rewriting rule (see above).

The optional texttype identifies the type of text and may be one of ONELINE to select the one line help
text, HELP to select the full help text, or ALL or an asterisk ``*'' to select both types of help text.
If texttype is not specified, then the default is ONELINE.

The optional textcontent further restricts the selected text records to those containing the specified
content. Characters such as double quotes may be escaped by preceding them with a backslash ``\''.

If a designated help text record is not in inlog the rule has no effect.

The textspec is zero or more of the following clauses:

DELETE

The selected text is completely removed from outlog.

INDOM -> newdomain.newserial

Re-associates the text with the specified instance domain. As a special case, newserial could be
an asterisk ``*'' which means use serial from the text rewriting rule, although this is most
useful when serial is also an asterisk. So for example:
text indom 29.* all { indom -> 109.* }
will re-associate all text associated with instance domains from domain 29 to domain 109.

METRIC -> newdomain.newcluster.newitem

Re-associates the text with the specified metric. As special cases, newcluster could be an
asterisk ``*'' which means use cluster from the text rewriting rule and/or item could be an
asterisk which means use item from the text rewriting rule. This is most useful when cluster
and/or item is also an asterisk. So for example:
text metric 30.*.* all { metric -> 123.*.* }
will re-associate all text associated with metrics from domain 30 to domain 123.

TEXT -> "new-text"

Replaces the content of the selected text with new-text.

A label rewriting rule modifies a label record and has the form:

LABEL labelid [ instance ] [ "label-name" ] [ "label-value" ] { labelspec ... }

where labelid refers to the global context or identifies the metric domain, metric cluster, metric item,
instance domain, or instance domain instances with which the label is currently associated, and is either
CONTEXT or DOMAIN domainid or CLUSTER domainid.clusterid or ITEM metricid or INDOM domain.serial or
INSTANCES domain.serial.

metricid has the same form and meaning as for a METRIC rewriting rule (see above). clusterid may be an
asterisk ``*'' which means the rule applies to every metric with a domain number of domainid in the same
way as an asterisk may be used for the cluster within metricid.

domain.serial has the same form and meaning as for an INDOM rewriting rule (see above).

In the case of an INSTANCES labelid, the name or number of a specific instance may be optionally
specified as instance. This name or number number may be omitted or specified as an asterisk ``*'' to
indicate that labels for all instances of the specified instance domain are selected. If an instance
name is specified, it must be within double quotes. If the instance name contains any embedded spaces
then special care needs to be taken in respect of the PCP instance naming rule that treats the leading
non-space part of the instance name as the unique portion of the name for the purposes of matching and
ensuring uniqueness within an instance domain, refer to pmdaInstance(3) for a discussion of this issue.

In all cases, a "label-name" and/or a "label-value" may be optionally specified in double quotes in order
to select labels with the given name and/or given value. These may individually be omitted or specified
as asterisks ``*'' to indicate that labels with all names and/or values are selected.

If a designated label record is not in inlog the rule has no effect.

The labelspec is zero or more of the following clauses:

DELETE

The selected labels are completely removed from outlog.

NEW "new-label-name" "new-label-value"

A new label with the name "new-label-name" and the value "new-label-value" is created and
associated with the specified labelid and optional instance (in the case of a INSTANCES labelid).
If "label-name" or "label-value" were specified, then they are ignored with a warning. If
instance is not specified for an INSTANCES labelid, then a new label will be created for each
instance in the specified instance domain.

LABEL -> "new-label-name"

The name of the selected label(s) is changed to "new-label-name".

VALUE -> "new-label-value"

The value of the selected label(s) is changed to "new-label-value".

DOMAIN -> newdomain

Re-associates the selected label(s) with the specified metric domain. For example:
label domain 30 { domain -> 123 }
will re-associate all labels associated with domains from domain 30 to domain 123.

CLUSTER -> newdomain.newcluster

Re-associates the selected label(s) with the specified metric cluster. As a special case,
newcluster could be an asterisk ``*'' which means use cluster from the label rewriting rule.
This is most useful when cluster is also an asterisk. So for example:
label cluster 30.* { cluster -> 123.* }
will re-associate all labels associated with clusters from domain 30 to domain 123.

ITEM -> newdomain.newcluster.newitem

Re-associates the selected label(s) with the specified metric item. As special cases, newcluster
could be an asterisk ``*'' which means use cluster from the label rewriting rule and/or item
could be an asterisk which means use item from the label rewriting rule. This is most useful
when cluster and/or item is also an asterisk. So for example:
label item 30.*.* { item -> 123.*.* }
will re-associate all labels associated with metrics from domain 30 to domain 123.

INDOM -> newdomain.newserial

Re-associates the selected label(s) with the specified instance domain. As a special case,
newserial could be an asterisk ``*'' which means use serial from the label rewriting rule,
although this is most useful when serial is also an asterisk. So for example:
label indom 29.* { indom -> 109.* }
will re-associate all labels associated with instance domains from domain 29 to domain 109.

INSTANCES -> newdomain.newserial

This is the same as INDOM except that it re-associates the selected label(s) with the instances
of the specified instance domain.

EXAMPLES

       To promote the values of the per-disk IOPS metrics to 64-bit to allow aggregation over a long time period
       for capacity planning, or because the PMDA has changed to export 64-bit counters and we want  to  convert
       old archives so they can be processed alongside new archives.
           metric disk.dev.read { type -> U64 }
           metric disk.dev.write { type -> U64 }
           metric disk.dev.total { type -> U64 }

       The  instances associated with the load average metric kernel.all.load could be renamed and renumbered by
       the rules below.
           # for the Linux PMDA, the kernel.all.load metric is defined
           # over instance domain 60.2
           indom 60.2 {
               inst 1 -> 60 iname "1 minute" -> "60 second"
               inst 5 -> 300 iname "5 minute" -> "300 second"
               inst 15 -> 900 iname "15 minute" -> "900 second"
           }

       If we decide to split the ``proc'' metrics out of the Linux PMDA, this will involve changing  the  domain
       number  for the PMID of these metrics and the associated instance domains.  The rules below would rewrite
       an old archive to match the changes after the PMDA split.
           # all Linux proc metrics are in 7 clusters
           metric 60.8.* { pmid -> 123.*.* }
           metric 60.9.* { pmid -> 123.*.* }
           metric 60.13.* { pmid -> 123.*.* }
           metric 60.24.* { pmid -> 123.*.* }
           metric 60.31.* { pmid -> 123.*.* }
           metric 60.32.* { pmid -> 123.*.* }
           metric 60.51.* { pmid -> 123.*.* }
           # only one instance domain for Linux proc metrics
           indom 60.9 { indom -> 123.0 }

       If the metric foo.count_em was exported as a native ``long'' then it could be a 32-bit  integer  on  some
       platforms  and  a 64-bit integer on other platforms.  Subsequent investigations show the value is in fact
       unsigned, so the following rules could be used.
           metric foo.count_em {
                type if 32 -> U32
                type if 64 -> U64
           }

DIAGNOSTICS

       All error conditions detected by pmlogrewrite are reported on stderr with textual  (if  sometimes  terse)
       explanation.

       Should  the  input  archive  be  corrupted  (this can happen if the pmlogger instance writing the archive
       suddenly dies), then pmlogrewrite will detect and report the position of the corruption in the file,  and
       any subsequent information from that archive will not be processed.

       If  the  input  archive  contains  no  archive records then an ``empty archive'' warning is issued and no
       processing is performed.

       If any error is detected, pmlogrewrite will exit with a non-zero status.

FILES

       For each of the inlog and outlog archives, several physical files are used.

       archive.meta
            metadata (metric descriptions, instance domains, etc.) for the archive

       archive.0
            initial volume of metrics values (subsequent volumes have suffixes 1, 2, ...).

       archive.index
            temporal index to support rapid random access to the other files in the archive.

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).

       For environment variables affecting PCP tools, see pmGetOptions(3).

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

REWRITING RULES SYNTAX

EXAMPLES

DIAGNOSTICS

FILES

PCP ENVIRONMENT

SEE ALSO