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Re: [pcp] Detecting of a host is being logged by pmlogger

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Subject: Re: [pcp] Detecting of a host is being logged by pmlogger
From: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 08:49:37 +1100
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On 20/02/14 04:53, Chandana De Silva wrote:
> No luck
> 
> ...
> $ pminfo -ft pmcd.client.whoami
> 
> pmcd.client.whoami [optional identification information for clients of pmcd]
>     inst [0 or "0"] value "hr1.m4u.com.au (192.168.7.155) pmie -b -h local: 
> -l /var/log/pcp/pmie/hr1.m4u.com.au/healthstate.log -c healthstate.pmie"
>     inst [3 or "3"] value "hr1.m4u.com.au (192.168.7.155) pmie -b -h local: 
> -l /var/log/pcp/pmie/hr1.m4u.com.au/config.linux.log -c config.linux"
>     inst [12 or "12"] value "hr1.m4u.com.au (192.168.7.155) pmie -b -h local: 
> -l /var/log/pcp/pmie/hr1.m4u.com.au/pmie.log -c config.default"
>     inst [13 or "13"] value ""
>     inst [16 or "16"] value "" 

One of the empty instances is pminfo, not sure about the other one.

How old is the pmlogger version on the system doing the logging? (this was 
added with the -m option to pmlogger in Aug 2011 so would have escaped in PCP 
2.5.9 or later).

For my test case, on the system being logged ...

kenj@vm04:~$ pminfo -f pmcd.client.whoami

pmcd.client.whoami
    inst [1 or "1"] value "bozo.localdomain (192.168.1.100) pmlogger -h vm04 -r 
-T24h10m -c config.default -m pmlogger_check 20140220.08.23"
    inst [4 or "4"] value "vm04.localdomain (192.168.1.204) pmlogger -P -c 
config.default -m pmlogger_check 20140220.08.25"
    inst [7 or "7"] value "vm04.localdomain (192.168.1.204) pmie -b -h vm04 -l 
/var/log/pcp/pmie/vm04/pmie.log -c config.default"
    inst [8 or "8"] value ""

(inst 1 is our happy camper)

And on the system where pmlogger is running ...

kenj@bozo:~$ ps -ef | grep 'pmlogger.*vm0[4]'
pcp       4588  3530  0 08:23 pts/23   00:00:00 pmlogger -h vm04 -r -T24h10m -c 
config.default -m pmlogger_check 20140220.08.23

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