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pmafm(1)

NAME

   pmafm - Performance Co-Pilot archive folio manager

SYNOPSIS

   pmafm folioname [command [arg ...]]

DESCRIPTION

   A collection of one or more Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive logs may
   be combined with a  control  file  to  produce  a  PCP  archive  folio.
   Archive  folios  are  created  using  either mkaf(1) or the interactive
   ``record mode'' services of PCP clients like pmchart(1).

   pmafm provides a number of services that may be used to process folios.
   In particular, it provides support for execution of PCP tools using one
   or more of the component archive logs within an archive folio.

   The target folio is identified by the  folio  control  file  folioname.
   The syntax for a folio control file is described in mkaf(1).

   If   present,   the  command  and  arguments  following  folioname  are
   interpreted and executed as a single command,  otherwise  commands  are
   read from standard input.

   The following commands are supported.

   archives
          Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.

   archives N[,...]
          Archives  within  a  folio  are  numbered 1, 2, etc.  Subsequent
          commands  are  restricted  to  apply  only  to  the   designated
          archives.

   archives name[,...]
          Archives  within a folio have unique names.  Subsequent commands
          are restricted to apply only to the designated archives.

   check  Validate the presence and format of each file in the  folio  and
          the component archives.

   help
          A  brief  reminder  of  the command syntax.  ?  is a synonym for
          help.

   hosts
          Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.

   hosts hostname[,...]
          Subsequent commands  are  restricted  to  apply  only  to  those
          archives that match the designated hostnames.

   list [verbose]
          Display  the  contents  of  the  folio.   By default the control
          header and the ordinal number, hostname and  archive  base  name
          for  each archive in the folio.  The verbose option causes pmafm
          to dump the label record from each archive using pmdumplog -l.

          The first named archive in the folio is assumed to be associated
          with the default host for any tool that tries to replay multiple
          archives from the folio.

   quit
          Exit pmafm.

   remove
          Echo on standard output the sh(1) commands  required  to  remove
          all of the physical files associated with this archive folio.

   repeat tool [arg ...]
          Execute  the  known  PCP  tool  once  per selected archive.  For
          example, the command
               repeat pmval -t60 kernel.all.load
          would run pmval(1) once per  archive,  with  an  appropriate  -a
          argument.

   replay
          Some  archive folios are created by tools (e.g. pmchart(1)) that
          provide sufficient information to allow all of  the  information
          in all of the archives of a folio to be replayed.

   [run] tool [arg ...]
          Execute  the  known PCP tool on the selected archives.  Some PCP
          tools are able to process multiple concurrent archives,  and  in
          this  case  the  tool  is run once with the list of all selected
          archives passed via a -a argument.  Otherwise, this  command  is
          synonymous with repeat.

   selections
          Display  those  archives  that  would be selected for processing
          with a repeat, replay or run command.

   The restrictions via any hosts and archives  commands  are  conjuncted.
   These  restrictions  serve  to limit the specific archives processed in
   the  subsequent  repeat,  replay,  run  and  selections  commands.   By
   default, all archives are selected.

   Keywords  in  commands  may  be  abbreviated  provided  no ambiguity is
   introduced, e.g.  help, hel and he are synonymous, but h is ambiguous.

FILES

   $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/*
             control files that define the behavior of each PCP tool known
             to  pmafm.   This  information may be customized or extended,
             see $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/pcp for  documentation  of  the
             syntax and semantics of these files.
   $HOME/.pcp/pmafm/*
             User  customization  of the control files.  All files in this
             directory are treated in the same manner as control files  in
             the $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm directory.

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

   mkaf(1), pmchart(1), pmview(1), PMAPI(3), pmRecordSetup(3), pcp.conf(5)
   and pcp.env(5).

DIAGNOSTICS

   Many, but all are intended to be easily understood.



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