pmiaddmetric(3) — Linux manual page

NAME | C SYNOPSIS | Perl SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | DIAGNOSTICS | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

PMIADDMETRIC(3)         Library Functions Manual         PMIADDMETRIC(3)

NAME         top

       pmiAddMetric - add a new metric definition to a LOGIMPORT context

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>
       #include <pcp/import.h>

       int pmiAddMetric(const char *name, pmID pmid, int type,
               pmInDom indom, int sem, pmUnits units);

       cc ... -lpcp_import -lpcp

Perl SYNOPSIS         top

       use PCP::LogImport;

       pmiAddMetric($name, $pmid, $type, $indom, $sem, $units);

DESCRIPTION         top

       As part of the Performance Co-Pilot Log Import API (see
       LOGIMPORT(3)), pmiAddMetric is used to define a new metric.  The
       metric's name must follow the naming conventions described in
       PCPIntro(1) and should be unique for each LOGIMPORT context.

       The other arguments are in effect the fields of a pmDesc
       structure.  Refer to pmLookupDesc(3) for a complete description
       of the values and semantics of the components of this structure,
       and hence the valid argument values for pmiAddMetrics.

       The internal identifier for the metric may be given using the
       pmid argument and must be unique for each LOGIMPORT context.  The
       value for pmid which would typically be constructed using the
       pmID_build macro, e.g. pmID_build(PMI_DOMAIN, 0, 3) for the
       fourth metric in first ``cluster'' of metrics in the Performance
       Metrics Domain PMI_DOMAIN (which is the default for all meta data
       created by the LOGIMPORT library).  Alternatively, pmid may be
       PM_IN_NULL and pmiAddMetric will assign a unique pmid (although
       this means the pmid remains opaque and the application must use
       pmiPutValue(3) or pmiPutValueHandle(3) and cannot use
       pmiPutResult(3) to add data values to the PCP archive).

       type defines the data type of the metric and must be one of the
       PM_TYPE_...  values defined in <pcp/import.h>.

       The instance domain for the metric is defined by indom and may be
       PM_INDOM_NULL for a metric with a singular value, else the value
       for indom would normally be constructed using the pmInDom_build
       macro, e.g. pmInDom_build(LOGIMPORT,0) for the first instance
       domain in the Performance Metrics Domain LOGIMPORT (which is the
       default for all meta data created by the LOGIMPORT library).
       Multiple metrics can share the same instance domain if they have
       values for a similar (or more usually, identical) set of
       instances.

       The semantics of the metric (counter, instantaneous value, etc.)
       is specified by the sem argument which would normally be the
       result of a call to the convenience constructor method
       pmiUnits(3).

DIAGNOSTICS         top

       pmiAddMetric returns zero on success else a negative value that
       can be turned into an error message by calling pmiErrStr(3).

SEE ALSO         top

       PCPIntro(1), LOGIMPORT(3), pmiErrStr(3), pmiPutResult(3),
       pmiPutValue(3), pmiPutValueHandle(3), pmiPutText(3),
       pmiPutLabel(3), pmiUnits(3) and pmLookupDesc(3).

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http:https://www.pcp.io/⟩.  If you have a bug report for this manual
       page, send it to [email protected].  This page was obtained from the
       project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git⟩ on 2023-12-22.
       (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
       in the repository was 2023-12-16.)  If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there
       is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
       corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       [email protected]

Performance Co-Pilot                                     PMIADDMETRIC(3)

Pages that refer to this page: sheet2pcp(1)logimport(3)pmiaddinstance(3)pmigethandle(3)pmiputlabel(3)pmiputmark(3)pmiputresult(3)pmiputtext(3)pmiputvalue(3)pmiputvaluehandle(3)pmistart(3)pmiunits(3)pmiwrite(3)