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Archive pmLookupDesc errors (global derived metrics induced)

To: Mark Goodwin <mgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Archive pmLookupDesc errors (global derived metrics induced)
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 23:26:36 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pcp developers <pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Reply-to: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: Archive pmLookupDesc errors (global derived metrics induced)
Hi Mark,

Not sure if you've come across this side-effect, but any archive with
no metrics backing the disk.* derived metrics generates errors now on
use of namespace-expanded metric names.

e.g. pminfo -f -a qa/archives/rattle

This seems like something that's probably going to cause heartache and
confusion for users.  The error messages are fairly cryptic too ...
"disk.dev.await: pmLookupDesc: Metric not defined in the PCP archive log"

We probably need to find a way to suppress these errors for archives?
(since there is no actual error here)

cheers.

--
Nathan

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