Hi all,
There's wonderful new stable PCP and PCP GUI releases ready
and waiting for you at: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/
After goodness knows how many times people have asked for it,
long option support (e.g. --host) has begun to arrive in PCP!
So far, pminfo, pmprobe, pmstore, pmstat, pmval and the small
demo program, pmclient, have been updated. This functionality
exists on all of the platforms PCP runs on, it is not limited
to those with a GNU runtime environment. In the next release
or three the remaining tools will also be converted. There is
no change to the existing short option support; everything is
backwards compatible - of course!
And it doesn't stop there - there are extensions to the time
specification syntax (use of natural language words to request
a time offset, for example) and there's two new PMDAs. Thanks
to Martins Innus and Ben Myers for the NFS client PMDA, and
there's a compressed swap (zswap) PMDA too.
Usability features in pmchart have been the main GUI focus, in
particular around use of multiple hosts simultaneously.
pcp-3.9.1 (19 March 2014)
- libpcp: extended date parsing with GNU getdate(3) strings
- libpcp: APIs for tools to share command-line options code
- libpcp: thread-safe API variant for pmGetContexHostName()
- libpcp: fix local:/unix: bug in __pmUnparseHostSpec
- Begin adding long option support to tools (pminfo, pmval,
pmprobe, pmstore, pmstat, pmclient so far)
- Fix python module bug for PMDAs without instance domains
- pmmgr: -march=i386 build fix
- pmlogger_daily: fix problem with pmproxy connections
- pmdagfs2: miscellaneous updates
- pmdanfsclient: new PMDA exporting NFS client metrics
- pmdazswap: new PMDA exporting compressed swap metrics
- testsuite: porting, several new tests, updates to existing
tests, resolved a couple of SELinux related problems
- Series of portability changes for *BSD platforms
pcp-gui 1.5.13 (6 March 2014)
- Remove pmchart one-metric-multiple-hosts legend ambiguity
- Add support for a global font preference setting
- Add support for a saved hosts preference setting
- Add -H option to pmchart for initial saved host importing
(matching the behaviour of the same pmstat option)
- Default to explicit hostname views when saving a chart
containing plots from multiple hosts.
- Update Fedora/EPEL packaging to make pcp-doc into a noarch
package, as nature intended.
Enjoy!
--
Nathan
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