Hi Sai,
(please keep CCing the list - theres lots of interested people there
who can also help, and we all learn from each other that way).
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 09:42 -0400, Sai p Seshasayee wrote:
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Thanks again for your inputs. I was reading the man pages for the
> "pmlogger" command and it looks like an exciting option for us to
> store archives. We are using Red Had Enterprise Linux 5 and when I
> used the "pmlogger" command , the command did not work and I got:
>
> [root@xcat20mn ~]# pmlogger
> -bash: pmlogger: command not found
>
> Does pmlogger command work on Linux or is it deprecated like the
> "pmkstat" command or is it an Irix specific command? (I also read the
> PCPIntro man page and there is no reference of pmlogger being
> deprecated). Please let me know if there is an alternate command.
>
It isn't deprecated it, no. pmkstat may be the only deprecated tool
in the current PCP release, I think. If you use the updated PCP rpm
that I make available (http://oss.sgi.com/~nathans/pcp/rpm/) it is
in fact removed - these rpms are development snapshots of pending code
for the next "official" SGI PCP release. They include alot of fixes
and alot of new features - and they are quite stable (I use them on
all of our production machines here).
On Redhat, pmlogger lives in /usr/share/pcp/bin, rpm can find it via:
$ rpm -ql pcp | grep pmlogger
It lives in this slightly odd place ($PCP_BINADM_DIR from /etc/pcp.conf)
because it is not often invoked directly, but rather is usually run via
the PCP start scripts (/etc/init.d/pcp) which are run at system bootup.
See the pmlogger_check(1) man page for details on setting pmlogger up as
a daemon.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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