NAME

       pmdaxfs - XFS filesystem performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)

SYNOPSIS

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/xfs/pmdaxfs [-d domain] [-l logfile]

DESCRIPTION

       pmdaxfs  is  a  Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which extracts performance metrics describing the
       state of the XFS filesystem from the Linux kernel.

       The xfs PMDA exports metrics that measure information about metadata buffer  usage,  the  journal,  btree
       operations,  inode  operations, extended attributes, directories, quotas, read and write operation counts
       and of course throughput.

       The PMDA provides a facility to reset the values of all  counters  to  zero  using  pmstore(1)  with  the
       xfs.control.reset metric.

       A brief description of the pmdaxfs command line options follows:

       -d   It  is  absolutely  crucial  that the performance metrics domain number specified here is unique and
            consistent.  That is, domain should be different for every PMDA on the one host, and the same domain
            number should be used for the same PMDA on all hosts.

       -l   Location of the log file.  By default, a log file named xfs.log is written in the current  directory
            of  pmcd(1)  when pmdaxfs is started, i.e.  $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd.  If the log file cannot be created or
            is not writable, output is written to the standard error instead.

INSTALLATION

       The xfs PMDA is installed and available by default on Linux.  If you want to undo  the  installation,  do
       the following as root:

            # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/xfs
            # ./Remove

       If  you  want to establish access to the names, help text and values for the XFS performance metrics once
       more, after removal, do the following as root:

            # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/xfs
            # ./Install

       pmdaxfs is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly.  The  Install  and  Remove  scripts
       notify pmcd(1) when the agent is installed or removed.

FILES

       $PCP_PMCDCONF_PATH
                 command line options used to launch pmdaxfs
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/xfs/help
                 default help text file for the xfs metrics
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/xfs/Install
                 installation script for the pmdaxfs agent
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/xfs/Remove
                 undo installation script for the pmdaxfs agent
       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/xfs.log
                 default log file for error messages and other information from pmdaxfs

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).

SEE ALSO

       PCPIntro(1), pmcd(1), pmstore(1), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).

Performance Co-Pilot                                   PCP                                            PMDAXFS(1)