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PMLOADASCIINAMESPACE(3) Library Functions Manual PMLOADASCIINAMESPACE(3)
pmLoadASCIINameSpace - establish a local PMNS for an application
#include <pcp/pmapi.h>
int pmLoadASCIINameSpace(const char *filename, int dupok);
cc ... -lpcp
If the application wants to force using a local Performance
Metrics 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
Programming 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
applications not requiring a tailored PMNS, the special value
PM_NS_DEFAULT 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 behaviour 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
preprocessed 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.
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.
$PCP_VAR_DIR/pmns/root the default local PMNS, when the
environment variable PMNS_DEFAULT is
unset
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). Values for these variables may be obtained
programmatically using the pmGetConfig(3) function.
PMAPI(3), pmGetConfig(3), pmLoadNameSpace(3), pmTrimNameSpace(3),
pcp.conf(5), pcp.env(5) and PMNS(5).
This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project.
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Pages that refer to this page: pmcpp(1), pmnsmerge(1), pcpintro(3), pmapi(3), pmgetchildren(3), pmgetchildrenstatus(3), pmgetpmnslocation(3), pmloadnamespace(3), pmnameall(3), pmnameid(3), pmtrimnamespace(3), pmunloadnamespace(3), pmns(5)
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