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Re: [pcp] pcp updates - derived metrics and pmlogger

To: kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [pcp] pcp updates - derived metrics and pmlogger
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:41:47 +1000 (EST)
Cc: pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1273534201.9972.86.camel@bozo-laptop>
----- "Ken McDonell" <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 07:07 +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > ----- "Ken McDonell" <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> I'm not sure what the right approach is here.  Having pmchart unset
> $PCP_DERIVED_CONFIG in this particular case seems wrong, although even
> in the case where the archive contains none of the derived metrics, the
> same warning dialogs are produced ... I'm not sure what pmchart is doing
> here that involves exploring metrics outside those named in the config
> file?

Yeah, nothing else - it just opens a new archive context with the just-
created view from the new archive folio.

> of the derived metric ... at which time there will be an error
> indication, just not as specific as these error messages.  In the
> pmchart case we'd just go down the "silently and safely ignored"
> path.
> 
> Thoughts?

Seems OK to me.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

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