Hi Ken,
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 05:33:07PM +1000, Ken McDonell wrote:
> On 02/05/14 06:03, Michele Baldessari wrote:
> >if you have some spare time to check it here are the rpms:
> >- EL7 - http://acksyn.org/files/rpms/sosreport/pcp/el7/
> >- F20 - http://acksyn.org/files/rpms/sosreport/pcp/f20/
>
> Thanks. Took it for a spin on F20.
Thanks for testing, much appreciated.
> There are some dirs. below /var/lib/pcp/config that will not really help
> (they are populated from the RPMS and either not likely to be changed and/or
> not likely to shed light on any "issue") ... namely pmchart, pmlogconf,
> pmieconf and pmlogrewrite. Dropping these reduces the file count by over
> 50% in my test case, but does not reduce the tarball volume by much ... it
> just makes it a little more trees and less forest when you unpack the
> tarball.
Ah ok, makes sense. I have added the appropriate add_forbidden_path()
calls so we skip these.
> And if Frank's general suggestion below /var/log/pcp does not already catch
> these, I'd suggest adding /var/log/pcp/pmie/<hostname> and
> /var/log/pcp/pmproxy.
If the files in there end up with *config or *log, we are covered.
> Also /var/log/pcp/pmwebd and /var/log/pcp/pmmgr may contain relevant info,
> but I'll defer to Frank who's the expert on these ones.
Same here, if the files end with .log or .config.
One of my goals with this sosreport exercise, is to create a script like
sarstats[1] that I can simply point at an uncompressed sosreport and
quickly get a decent overview of the main PCP stats collected on the
machine.
cheers,
Michele
[1] https://github.com/mbaldessari/sarstats
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