pmlogconf (was Re: PCP Developers Meetup notes - 17/4/2013 - 08:00-10:30 (+1000))

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> 11. Simplify default setup [Mark]
> Topic of making a default install simpler to setup for new users was
> broached.  Came up for Mark in wider discussions with other Red Hat
> customer support people, and pointing to the other tools like sar,
> collectl, etc which are basically "chkconfig on && service start" to
> get useful results.  With PCP we are not providing generally useful
> default setups today, which is just plain silly.
> 
> Ken points out that of everything discussed today, this one's by far
> the easiest and should be a no-brainer - if someone could propose a
> more useful set of metrics for /etc/pcp/pmlogger/config.default, it
> could happen immediately.  ...

Thinking further on this - is there any compelling reason not to make
config.default pmlogconf(1)-generated?  It'd be good to dog-food that
tool a bit more.  Its default-generated set, at least on my box with
quite a few PMDAs, looks fairly plausible.  That way we're providing
a mechanism for extending config.default as PMDAs are added, as well.

cheers.

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Nathan