pmloadasciinamespace(3) — Linux manual page

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PMLOADASCIINAMESPACE(3)  Library Functions Manual PMLOADASCIINAMESPACE(3)

NAME         top

       pmLoadASCIINameSpace - establish a local PMNS for an application

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>

       int pmLoadASCIINameSpace(const char *filename, int dupok);

       cc ... -lpcp

DESCRIPTION         top

       If  the  application wants to force using a local Performance Met‐
       rics Name Space (PMNS) instead of a distributed PMNS then it  must
       load  the  PMNS  using pmLoadASCIINameSpace or pmLoadNameSpace(3).
       If the application wants to use a distributed PMNS, then it should
       NOT make a call to load the PMNS explicitly.

       Most applications using a Performance Metrics Application Program‐
       ming Interface (PMAPI) context (of any type, so PM_CONTEXT_HOST or
       PM_CONTEXT_ARCHIVE or PM_CONTEXT_LOCAL) should not  need  to  call
       pmLoadASCIINameSpace.

       The filename argument designates the PMNS of interest.  For appli‐
       cations not requiring a tailored PMNS, the special value PM_NS_DE‐
       FAULT may be used for filename, to force the default local PMNS to
       be loaded.

       The default local PMNS is found in the file $PCP_VAR_DIR/pmns/root
       unless the environment variable PMNS_DEFAULT is set, in which case
       the value is assumed to be the pathname to the file containing the
       default local PMNS.

       pmLoadASCIINameSpace  is  a variant of pmLoadNameSpace(3) in which
       the dupok argument may be used to control the handling of multiple
       names in the PMNS that may be associated with a single Performance
       Metric Identifier (PMID).  A value of 0 disallows duplicates,  any
       other value allows duplicates and the latter is the default behav‐
       iour of pmLoadNameSpace(3) as of Version 3.10.3 of PCP.

       The other difference is that when pmLoadASCIINameSpace is used and
       filename  is  not PM_NS_DEFAULT, the PMNS file will always be pre‐
       processed with pmcpp(1) as described in PMNS(5).   This  allows  a
       PMNS  file that contains C-style comments, preprocessor directives
       or macros to be processed correctly before the PMNS is parsed.

       pmLoadASCIINameSpace returns zero on success.

DIAGNOSTICS         top

       Syntax and other errors in the parsing of the PMNS are reported on
       stderr with a message of the  form  ``Error  Parsing  ASCII  PMNS:
       ...''.

       PM_ERR_DUPPMNS

              It  is  an  error  to try to load more than one PMNS, or to
              call either pmLoadASCIINameSpace and/or  pmLoadNameSpace(3)
              more than once.

       PM_ERR_PMNS

              Syntax error in an ASCII format PMNS.

FILES         top

       $PCP_VAR_DIR/pmns/root   the default local PMNS, when the environ‐
                                ment variable PMNS_DEFAULT is unset

PCP ENVIRONMENT         top

       Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameter‐
       ize the file and directory names used by PCP.  On each installa‐
       tion, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these
       variables.  The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an al‐
       ternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).  Values
       for these variables may be obtained programmatically using the
       pmGetConfig(3) function.

SEE ALSO         top

       PMAPI(3), pmGetConfig(3), pmLoadNameSpace(3), pmTrimNameSpace(3),
       pcp.conf(5), pcp.env(5) and PMNS(5).

COLOPHON         top

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