The Performance Co-Pilot software includes online manual pages for
every utility and every exported API function, as well as a
comprehensive introduction to PCP in pcpintro(1).
Additionally, the SGI TechPubs Library provides access to PCP books. Note
these were developed for the IRIX product, and so include some material
describing features that are not part of the Open Source release,
however most of the features and all of the concepts are identical.
- Performance Co-Pilot User's and Administrator's Guide
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- A general overview of how the components of PCP work together
can be obtained from Chapter 1, Sections 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, Chapter
3 (excluding Sections 3.1 and 3.4).
- The inference engine (pmie) is described in Chapter 6.
- Chapter 7 covers the archive logger (pmlogger).
- Assorted deployment scenarios and extensibility options are
covered in Chapters 8 and 9.
- Performance Co-Pilot Programmer's Guide
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- Describes the APIs for developing new clients to consume
performance data, and new agents to export performance
data.
Several papers are available
to provide more details
of the PCP architecture and features, and to show how PCP could
be deployed in a variety of production environments, e.g. a Beowulf cluster to concurrently monitor platform, network,
message-passing and application performance.
- 1999 Linux Open Source Expo and Conference, Melbourne and Singapore
- 1999 Conference of Australian Linux Users, Melbourne
