Re: PCP versions of console tools - Next Steps

[Sitaram Shelke <sitaramshelke@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's weird, I've been sending to the mailing list as well as sending
to you directly. Have you been receiving other emails from the mailing
list? If we continue to have trouble I might just switch over to using
my GMail account.

Yes, I have been receiving all other mails on the mailing list as usual. But I think it is all right now. I will anyway send the mail on mailing list as well as your both mail ids.

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Sounds good. I'd suggest starting with the Python version of pmapi
instead of the C pmpai.h version. It's most likely what we will want to
use for writing a PCP-variant pidstat. Have a look at
'src/pcp/uptime/pcp-uptime.py' as a starting point.

If you've already had a look at the C pmapi.h thats great - what you've
learned in that applies pretty much 1-to-1 for the Python pmapi.

yes, I looked at the sample pmclient.c and I understood the flow, now I will take a look at pcp-uptime.py and try to write a python version for disk.all.read.

For the first task of printing out 'disk.all.read', are you able to put
the code up somewhere on-line that we can check out?

I will put my code at

https://github.com/sitaramshelke/pmapi-diskexample.

We'll have a chat again about pidstat once you've had a chance to play
with pmapi.

Sure.Â

Regards,

Sitaram