Performance Co-Pilot™ for IRIX® User's and Administrator's Guide
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Performance Co-Pilot™ for IRIX® User's and Administrator's Guide

Document Number: 007-3964-003

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Table of Contents

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About This Guide

What This Guide Contains
Audience for This Guide
Related Resources
Obtaining Publications
Conventions
Reader Comments

1. Introduction to Performance Co-Pilot

Objectives
Overview of Component Software
Conceptual Foundations
Product Extensibility

2. Installing and Configuring Performance Co-Pilot

Product Structure
Performance Metrics Collection Daemon (PMCD)
Installing and Removing PMDAs
PCP Environment Variables
Troubleshooting

3. Common Conventions and Arguments

PerfTools Icon Catalog
Alternate Metrics Source Options
General PCP Tool Options
Time Duration and Control
Transient Problems with Performance Metric Values

4. Monitoring System Performance

The pmkstat Command
The pmval Command
The pmem Command
The pminfo Command
The pmstore Command
The oview Origin Visualization Tool

5. Performance Metrics Inference Engine

Introduction to pmie
Basic pmie Usage
Specification Language for pmie
pmie Examples
Developing and Debugging pmie Rules
Caveats and Notes on pmie
Creating pmie Rules with pmieconf
Management of pmie Processes

6. Archive Logging

Introduction to Archive Logging
Using Archive Logs with Performance Visualization Tools
Archive Log File Management
Other Archive Logging Features and Services
Cookbook for Archive Logging
Archive Logging Troubleshooting

7. Performance Co-Pilot Deployment Strategies

Basic Deployment
PCP Collector Deployment
PCP Archive Logger Deployment
PCP Inference Engine Deployment

8. Customizing and Extending PCP Services

PMDA Customization
PCP Tool Customization
PMNS Management
PMDA Development
PCP Tool Development

A. Acronyms

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