pcp-collectl(1)
NAME
pmcollectl, pcp-collectl - collect data that describes the current system status
SYNOPSIS
pcp collectl [-f file | -p file ...] [options ...]
DESCRIPTION
pcp-collectl is a system-level performance monitoring utility that records or displays specific operating system data for one or more sets of subsystems. Any of the subsystems (such as CPU, Disks, Memory or Sockets) can be included or excluded from data collection. Data can either be displayed immediately to a terminal, or stored in files for retrospective analysis. pcp-collectl is a python(1) script providing much of the functionality available from the collectl(1) Linux utility (which happens to be written in perl(1)). It makes use of the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) toolkit to simplify its implementation, as well as provide more of the collectl functionality on platforms other than Linux. pcp-collectl has two primary modes of operation: 1. Record Mode (-f or --filename option) which reads data from a live system and writes output to a file or displays it on a terminal. 2. Playback Mode (-p or -a option) which reads data from one or more PCP archive files and displays output on a terminal. Note that these files are not raw collectl format data, rather they are archives created by the pmlogger(1) utility (possibly indirectly, through use of the -f option to pcp-collectl).
RECORD MODE OPTIONS
In this mode data is taken from a live system and either displayed on
the terminal or written to a PCP archive.
-h host
Display metrics from host instead of displaying metrics from the
local host.
-c, --count samples
The number of samples to record.
-f, --filename filename
This is the name of a PCP archive to write the output to.
-i, --interval interval
This is the sampling interval in seconds. The default is 1
second.
-R, --runtime duration
Specify the duration of data collection where the duration is a
number followed by one of wdhms, indicating how many weeks,
days, hours, minutes or seconds the collection is to be taken
for.
PLAYBACK MODE OPTIONS
In this mode, data is read from one or more PCP data files that were
generated with the recording option, or indirectly via the pmlogger
utility.
-f, --filename filename
If specified, this is the name of a PCP archive to write the
output to (rather than the terminal).
-p, --playback filename
Read data from the specified PCP archive folio files(s) - refer
to pmafm(1) for archive folio details.
-a, --archive filename
Read data from the specified PCP raw archive files(s). The
argument is a comma-separated list of names, each of which may
be the base name of an archive or the name of a directory
containing one or more archives.
COMMON OPTIONS
The following options are supported in both record and playback modes.
--help
Display standard help message.
-s, --subsys subsystem
This field controls which subsystem data is to be collected or
played back for. The rules for displaying results vary depending
on the type of data to be displayed. If you write data for CPUs
and DISKs to a raw file and play it back with -sc, you will only
see CPU data. If you play it back with -scm you will still only
see CPU data since memory data was not collected. To see the
current set of default subsystems, which are a subset of this
full list, use -h.
The default is "cdn", which stands for CPU, Disk and Network
summary data.
SUMMARY SUBSYSTEMS
c - CPU
d - Disk
f - NFS V3 Data
j - Interrupts
m - Memory
n - Networks
DETAIL SUBSYSTEMS
This is the set of detail data from which in most cases the
corresponding summary data is derived. So, if one has 3 disks
and chooses -sd, one will only see a single total taken across
all 3 disks. If one chooses -sD, individual disk totals will be
reported but no totals.
C - CPU
D - Disk
F - NFS Data
J - Interrupts
M - Memory node data, which is also known as NUMA data
N - Networks
--verbose
Display output in verbose mode. This often displays more data
than in the default mode. When displaying detail data, verbose
mode is forced. Furthermore, if summary data for a single
subsystem is to be displayed in verbose mode, the headers are
only repeated occasionally whereas if multiple subsystems are
involved each needs their own header.
SEE ALSO
PCPIntro(1), collectl(1), collectl2pcp(1), perl(1), python(1), pmlogger(1), pmcd(1), pmafm(1), pmprobe(1), pmrep(1), PMAPI(3), and pcp.conf(5).
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