NAME

       pmAddProfile - add instance(s) to the current PMAPI instance profile

C SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>

       int pmAddProfile(pmInDom indom, int numinst, int *instlist);

       cc ... -lpcp

DESCRIPTION

       The set of instances for performance metrics returned from a pmFetch(3) call may be filtered or restrict‐
       ed  using an instance profile.  There is one instance profile for each context the application creates at
       the Performance Metrics Application Programming Interface (PMAPI(3)), and each instance profile  may  in‐
       clude instances from one or more instance domains (see pmLookupDesc(3)).

       pmAddProfile  may be used to add new instance specifications to the instance profile of the current PMAPI
       context.

       In the simplest variant, the list of instances identified by the instlist argument for the indom instance
       domain are added to the instance profile.  The list of instance identifiers contains numinst values.

       The indom value would normally be extracted from a call to pmLookupDesc(3) for a  particular  performance
       metric,  and  the  instances  in  instlist would typically be determined by calls to pmGetInDom(3) or pm‐
       LookupInDom(3).

       To select all instances in all instance domains, use

          pmAddProfile(PM_INDOM_NULL, 0, (int *)0)

       This is the only case where indom may be equal to PM_INDOM_NULL.  If numinst  is  zero,  or  instlist  is
       NULL, then all instances in indom are selected.

CAVEAT

       It  is  possible  to add non-existent instance domains and non-existent instances to an instance profile.
       None of the routines that use the instance profile will ever issue an error if you do this.  The cost  of
       checking, when checking is possible, outweighs any benefits.

DIAGNOSTICS

       PM_ERR_PROFILESPEC
              indom was PM_INDOM_NULL and instlist was not empty

SEE ALSO

       PMAPI(3), pmDelProfile(3), pmFetch(3), pmGetInDom(3), pmLookupDesc(3), pmLookupInDom(3), pmNewContext(3),
       pmUseContext(3) and pmWhichContext(3).

Performance Co-Pilot                                   PCP                                       PMADDPROFILE(3)