NAME

       pmGetInDom - get instance identifiers for a performance metrics instance domain

C SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>

       int pmGetInDom(pmInDom indom, int **instlist, char ***namelist);

       cc ... -lpcp

DESCRIPTION

       In  the  current  Performance  Metrics  Application  Programming  Interface  (PMAPI)  context, locate the
       description of the instance domain indom, and return via instlist the internal instance  identifiers  for
       all instances, and via namelist the full external identifiers for all instances.  The number of instances
       found is returned as the function value (else less than zero to indicate an error).

       The value for the instance domain indom is typically extracted from a pmDesc structure, following a  call
       to pmLookupDesc(3) for a particular performance metric.

       The  resulting  lists of instance identifiers (instlist and namelist), and the names that the elements of
       namelist point to, will have been allocated by pmGetInDom with two calls to malloc(3C),  and  it  is  the
       responsibility  of  the  caller  to  free(instlist) and free(namelist) to release the space when it is no
       longer required.

       When the result of pmGetInDom is less than one, both instlist and namelist are undefined (no  space  will
       have been allocated, and so calling free(3C) is a singularly bad idea).

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).
       Values for these variables may be obtained programmatically using the pmGetConfig(3) function.

SEE ALSO

       PMAPI(3),  pmGetConfig(3),  pmGetInDomArchive(3),  pmLookupDesc(3),   pmLookupInDom(3),   pmNameInDom(3),
       pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).

DIAGNOSTICS

       PM_ERR_INDOM
              indom is not a valid instance domain identifier