Help with Python API

[Rohan Arora <rarora2012@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I was working on a project where I wanted to be able to collect information from pmcd on remote computers using Python. I have tried looking through the *.py files and looked at the help on each part of the pcp module, but I am unable to really wrap my head around how to go about doing this. I saw that in the pcpgui module there was a record host function, which seemed like it might be what I wanted, but I am confused about how to use it and how to pull the metrics that I want, where it will record things, etc. Also, would I want to be using pmwebd on the central computer that I am running the Python script on, or would this not be necessary?

Would you be able to point me in the right direction? Also, are there any more examples similar to the example given by Python's help(pmapi) command? I found it to be very useful and feel like I could start to wrap my head around things more if there were more examples that I could find.

Thanks,

Rohan