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Re: New PCPMON 1.2.95 - archive mode added

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Subject: Re: New PCPMON 1.2.95 - archive mode added
From: Michal Kara <lemming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:13:27 +0200
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> >When I add it, you will be able to run:
> >pcpmon -a day1=... -a day2=... -s -1d -a day3=... -s -2d
> 
> Consider a syntax that will support wildcard expressions for the archive files
> (e.g. /var/log/pcp/pmlogger/{node}/2000*) and optionally several directories 
> to
> search.
>

  This wouldn't be easy to do in PCPMON (if you mean concateating more 
archives). 
 
> Given that the archives contain date/time stamp info, one could envision a
> PCPMON syntax that allows the user to specify a date/time range (e.g. -beg
> 2000/06/01:09:00 -end 2000/06/30:17:00 -day 08:00-17:00).
>
  This may be interesting option, to limit times... I will thing about
this.
 
> Perhaps the ability to handle compressed formats (gzip,compress) would be
> helpful since pmlogger_daily does this.
> 
  Isn't this responsibility of PCP library?

> Concurrent with export of the graphing results, consider a "batch-mode" of
> operation where graphs can be produced and their results exported without
> interactive use of PCPMON. This would support periodic trend analysis via
> scheduled jobs.
>
  Sure.

                                Michal Kara
 

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