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PMADDDERIVEDTEXT(3) Library Functions Manual PMADDDERIVEDTEXT(3)
pmAddDerivedText - add help text for a derived metric
#include <pcp/pmapi.h>
int pmAddDerivedText(const char *name, int type,
const char *text);
cc ... -lpcp
Derived metrics provide a way of extending the Performance Metrics
Name Space (PMNS) with new metrics defined at the PCP client-side
using expressions over the existing performance metrics. Global
derived metrics are defined using pmRegisterDerived(3) or
pmRegisterDerivedMetric(3) or pmLoadDerivedConfig(3), and per-con‐
text derived metrics are defined using pmAddDerived(3) or
pmAddDerivedMetric(3).
Once a derived metric has been defined, pmAddDerivedText may be
used to associate the help text with the derived metric identified
by name.
Help text may be a ``one line'' summary or a more verbose ``multi-
line'' block of text, and type should be PM_TEXT_ONELINE or
PM_TEXT_HELP respectively. To associate both styles of help text
with a derived metric, pmAddDerivedText would need to be called
twice with different values for type.
Once a particular type of help text has been associated with a de‐
rived metric it cannot be deleted or redefined.
Applications using the Performance Metrics Application Programming
Interface (PMAPI) are able to retrieve help text for specific met‐
rics using pmLookupText(3).
pmAddDerivedText returns zero on success, else an error code.
The return value PM_ERR_NAME indicates name does not correspond to
a previously defined derived metric.
Repeated calls for the same name and type will result a return
value of PM_ERR_TEXT.
A return value of PM_ERR_ARG indicates that type is not one of the
expected values.
PCPIntro(1), pmAddDerived(3), pmAddDerivedMetric(3), PMAPI(3),
pmLoadDerivedConfig(3), pmLookupText(3), pmRegisterDerived(3),
pmRegisterDerivedMetric(3) and PMNS(5).
This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project. In‐
formation about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.pcp.io/⟩.
If you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
[email protected]. This page was obtained from the project's upstream
Git repository ⟨https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git⟩ on
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