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*_inst operator
  Arithmetic Aggregation

*_sample operator
  Arithmetic Aggregation

2D tools
  Monitoring System Performance

64-bit IEEE format
  Descriptions for Performance Metrics

__pmGetConfig function
  PCP Environment Variables

acronyms
  Acronyms

active pmlogger process
  Identifying an Active `pmlogger` Process

adaptation
  Dynamic Adaptation to Change

application programs
  Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains

archive logs
  administration
    Archive Log Administration
  analysis
    Logging and Retrospective Analysis
  archive time control
    PCP Archive Time Control
  capacity planning
    Using Archive Logs for Capacity Planning
  collection time
    Current Metric Context
  contents
    PCP Archive Contents
  creation
    Collecting, Transporting, and Archiving Performance Information
  customization
    Automated Operational Support
    Archive Logging Customization
  export
    Exporting PCP Archive Logs
  fetching metrics
    Fetching Metrics from an Archive Log
  file management
    Archive Log File Management
  folios
    PCP Archive Folios
  physical filenames
    Fetching Metrics from an Archive Log
  PMAPI
    Archive Logs and the PMAPI
  retrospective analysis
    Retrospective Analysis Using Archive Logs
  troubleshooting
    Archive Logging Troubleshooting
  usage
    Archive Logging

arithmetic aggregation
  Arithmetic Aggregation

arithmetic expressions
  `pmie` Arithmetic Expressions

audience
  Empowering the PCP User

audits
  Automated Operational Support

automated operational support
  Automated Operational Support

avg_host operator
  Arithmetic Aggregation

basename conventions
  Basename Conventions

Boolean expressions
  Boolean Expressions

capacity planning
  Using Archive Logs for Capacity Planning

caveats
  Caveats and Notes on `pmie`

centralized archive logging
  Automated Operational Support

Challenge systems
  Metric Coverage
  Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains

client-server architecture
  PCP Distributed Operation

collection time
  Current Metric Context

collector hosts
  Distributed Collection
  Collector and Monitor Roles

collector subsystem
  Product Structure

comments
  Comments

common directories
  Common Directories and File Locations

component software
  Overview of Component Software

conceptual foundations
  Conceptual Foundations

config.* files
  Primary Logger

configuring PCP
  Installing and Configuring Performance Co-Pilot

conventions
  Common Conventions and Arguments

cookbook
  Cookbook for Archive Logging

core subsystems
  Product Structure

count_host operator
  Arithmetic Aggregation

customization
  archive logs
    Archive Logging Customization
  inference engine
    Inference Engine Customization
  PCP services
    Customizing and Extending PCP Services

data collection tools
  Collecting, Transporting, and Archiving Performance Information

debugging tools
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

deployment strategies
  Performance Co-Pilot Deployment Strategies

/dev/kmem file
  No IRIX Metrics Available

diagnostic tools
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

DISPLAY variable
  `pmie` Rule Expressions

distributed collection
  Distributed Collection

dkvis tool
  fetching metrics
    Fetching Metrics from Another Host
  remote PMCD
    Cannot Connect to Remote PMCD
  summary configuration
    Primary Logger
    Other Logger Configurations

domains
  Unification of Performance Metric Domains

DSO
  Acronyms

duration
  Performance Monitor Reporting Frequency and Duration

dynamic adaptation
  Dynamic Adaptation to Change

environ man page
  Timezone Options

environment variables
  PCP Environment Variables

error detection
  `pmie` Error Detection

/etc/config/pmcd.options file
  Common Directories and File Locations

/etc/config/pmlogger.options file
  Common Directories and File Locations
  Primary Logger

/etc/init.d/pcp file
  Common Directories and File Locations

/etc/pcp.conf file
  PCP Environment Variables
  Common Directories and File Locations

/etc/pcp.env file
  PCP Environment Variables
  Common Directories and File Locations

/etc/pmcd.conf file
  PMCD Not Reconfiguring after `SIGHUP`
  Common Directories and File Locations

evaluation frequency
  Setting Evaluation Frequency

extensibility
  PCP Extensibility
  Customizing and Extending PCP Services

external equipment
  Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains

fetching metrics
  Fetching Metrics from Another Host
  Fetching Metrics from an Archive Log

file locations
  Common Directories and File Locations

flush command
  Coordination between `pmlogger` and PCP tools

folios
  PCP Archive Folios

functional domains
  Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains

glossary
  Acronyms

hipprobe tool
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

illegal label record
  Illegal Label Record

inference engine
  Inference Engine Customization

infrastructure support tools
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

inst command
  Product Structure

installing PCP
  Installing and Configuring Performance Co-Pilot

instance domain services
  Performance Metrics Collection System

intrinsic operators
  `pmie` Intrinsic Operators

I/O
  Acronyms

IPC
  Acronyms

kill command
  Primary `pmlogger` Cannot Start

layered software services
  Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains

lexical elements
  Lexical Elements

libpcp_pmda library
  Product Extensibility

libpcp_trace library
  Product Extensibility

live time control
  PCP Live Time Control

log volumes
  Log Volumes

logging
  See archive logs

logical constants
  Logical Constants

logical expressions
  `pmie` Logical Expressions

macros
  Macros

man command
  usage
    Monitoring System Performance

max_host operator
  Arithmetic Aggregation

metadata
  Descriptions for Performance Metrics

metric domains
  Unification of Performance Metric Domains

metric wraparound
  Performance Metrics Wraparound

min_host operator
  Arithmetic Aggregation

mkaf tool
  Introduction to Archive Logging

monitor configuration
  Product Structure

monitor hosts
  Collector and Monitor Roles

monitor subsystems
  Product Structure

monitoring system performance
  Monitoring System Performance

mpvis tool
  summary configuration
    Primary Logger
    Other Logger Configurations

naming scheme
  Uniform Naming and Access to Performance Metrics

netstat command
  PMCD Does Not Start

network routers and bridges
  Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains

network transportation tools
  Collecting, Transporting, and Archiving Performance Information

nfsvis tool
  summary configuration
    Primary Logger
    Other Logger Configurations

NNTP news servers
  Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains

objectives
  Objectives

operational support tools
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

operators
  Quantification Operators

Options menu
  PCP Live Time Control

overview
  Introduction to Performance Co-Pilot

oview tool
  brief description
    Performance Monitoring and Visualization
  description
    The `oview` Origin Visualization Tool
  displaying system topology
    Monitoring System Performance
  record mode
    Introduction to Archive Logging
  time control
    PCP Live Time Control

pcmd.options file
  The `pmcd.options` File

PCP
  acronym
    Acronyms
  archive logger deployment
    PCP Archive Logger Deployment
  collector deployment
    PCP Collector Deployment
  configuring and installing
    Installing and Configuring Performance Co-Pilot
  conventions
    Common Conventions and Arguments
  distributed operation
    PCP Distributed Operation
  environment variables
    PCP Environment Variables
  extensibility
    PCP Extensibility
    Product Extensibility
  features
    Introduction to Performance Co-Pilot
  log file option
    Fetching Metrics from an Archive Log
  naming conventions
    Common Conventions and Arguments
  tool customization
    PCP Tool Customization
  tool development
    PCP Tool Development
  tool summaries
    Performance Monitoring and Visualization
    Collecting, Transporting, and Archiving Performance Information
    Operational and Infrastructure Support

PCP Tutorial
  pminfo command
    The `pminfo` Command
  pmval command
    The `pmval` Command

PCP_COUNTER_WRAP variable
  PCP Environment Variables
  Performance Metric Wraparound
  Performance Metrics Wraparound

pcp_eoe.books.help subsystem
  Product Structure

pcp_eoe.sw.eoe subsystem
  Product Structure
  Product Structure

pcp_eoe.sw.monitor subsystem
  Product Structure

PCP_STDERR variable
  PCP Environment Variables

PCP_TRACE_HOST variable
  PCP Environment Variables

PCP_TRACE_PORT variable
  PCP Environment Variables

PCP_TRACE_TIMEOUT variable
  PCP Environment Variables

pcp.books.help subsystem
  Product Structure

PCPIntro command
  PMCD Does Not Start
  Performance Monitor Reporting Frequency and Duration

pcp.sw.base subsystem
  Product Structure

pcp.sw.monitor subsystem
  Product Structure

PDU
  The `pmcd.options` File
  Acronyms

Performance Co-Pilot
  See PCP

Performance Metric Identifier
  See PMID

performance metric wraparound
  Performance Metric Wraparound
  Performance Metrics Wraparound

performance metrics
  concept
    Performance Metrics
  descriptions
    Descriptions for Performance Metrics
  methods
    Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains
  missing and incomplete values
    Missing and Incomplete Values for Performance Metrics
  PMNS
    Performance Metrics Name Space
  retrospective sources
    Retrospective Sources of Performance Metrics
  sources
    Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains

Performance Metrics Collection Daemon
  See PMCD

Performance Metrics Collection Subsystem
  See PMCS

Performance Metrics Domain Agent
  See PMDA

Performance Metrics Inference Engine
  See pmie tool

Performance Metrics Name Space
  See PMNS

performance monitoring
  Performance Monitoring and Visualization
  Monitoring System Performance

performance visualization tools
  Using Archive Logs with Performance Visualization Tools

PerfTools icon catalog
  PerfTools Icon Catalog

PM_INDOM_NULL
  `pmie` and the Performance Metrics Collection Subsystem

PM_LAUNCH_PATH variable
  PCP Environment Variables

pmafm tool
  archive folios
    Introduction to Archive Logging

PMAPI
  acronym
    Acronyms
  archive logs
    Archive Logs and the PMAPI
  naming metrics
    Performance Metrics
  pmie capabilities
    Introduction to `pmie`

PMCD
  acronym
    Acronyms
  brief description
    Collecting, Transporting, and Archiving Performance Information
  collector host
    `pmie` Metric Expressions
  configuration files
    PMCD Options and Configuration Files
  diagnostics and error messages
    PMCD Diagnostics and Error Messages
  distributed collection
    Distributed Collection
    Distributed Collection
  /etc/pmcd.conf file
    Common Directories and File Locations
  maintenance
    Performance Metrics Collection Daemon (PMCD)
  monitoring utilities
    Performance Co-Pilot Deployment Strategies
  not starting
    PMCD Does Not Start
  PMCD_CONNECT_TIMEOUT variable
    PCP Environment Variables
  PMCD_PORT variable
    PCP Environment Variables
  PMCD_RECONNECT_TIMEOUT variable
    PCP Environment Variables
  PMCD_REQUEST_TIMEOUT variable
    PCP Environment Variables
  remote connection
    Cannot Connect to Remote PMCD
  starting and stopping
    Starting and Stopping the PMCD

pmcd tool
  See PMCD

PMCD_CONNECT_TIMEOUT variable
  PCP Environment Variables
  Cannot Connect to Remote PMCD

PMCD_PORT variable
  PCP Environment Variables
  PMCD Does Not Start

PMCD_RECONNECT_TIMEOUT variable
  PCP Environment Variables

PMCD_REQUEST_TIMEOUT variable
  PCP Environment Variables

pmcd_wait tool
  Collecting, Transporting, and Archiving Performance Information

pmcd.conf file
  The `pmcd.conf` File
  Controlling Access to PMCD with `pmcd.conf`

pmchart tool
  config.* files
    Primary Logger
  fetching metrics
    Fetching Metrics from Another Host
  man example
    Monitoring System Performance
  record mode
    Introduction to Archive Logging
    PCP Archive Folios
  remote PMCD
    Cannot Connect to Remote PMCD
  short-term executions
    Directory Organization for Archive Log Files

PMCS
  acronym
    Acronyms
  description
    Performance Metrics Collection System
  metric expressions
    `pmie` Metric Expressions
  pmie capabilities
    Introduction to `pmie`
  pmie tool
    `pmie` and the Performance Metrics Collection Subsystem

PMD
  Acronyms

PMDA
  acronym
    Acronyms
  collectors
    Collector and Monitor Roles
  development
    PMDA Development
  instance names
    `pmie` Metric Expressions
  libraries
    PCP Extensibility
  monitoring utilities
    Performance Co-Pilot Deployment Strategies
  unification
    Unification of Performance Metric Domains

PMDA_PATH variable
  PCP Environment Variables

pmdate tool
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

pmdatrace tool
  PCP Environment Variables

pmdbg facility
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

pmdumplog tool
  archive log contents
    PCP Archive Contents
  brief description
    Collecting, Transporting, and Archiving Performance Information
  troubleshooting
    Cannot Find Log

pmem tool
  Performance Monitoring and Visualization
  The `pmem` Command

pmerr tool
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

pmhostname tool
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

PMID
  acronym
    Acronyms
  description
    Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains
    Performance Metrics Name Space
  printing
    The `pminfo` Command

pmie tool
  %-token
    `pmie` Rule Expressions
  arithmetic aggregation
    Arithmetic Aggregation
  arithmetic expressions
    `pmie` Arithmetic Expressions
  automated reasoning
    Introduction to `pmie`
  basic examples
    Basic `pmie` Usage
  brief description
    Performance Monitoring and Visualization
    Operational and Infrastructure Support
  customization
    Introduction to `pmie`
  developing rules
    Developing and Debugging `pmie` Rules
  error detection
    `pmie` Error Detection
  examples
    Simple `pmie` Usage
    Complex `pmie` Examples
  global files and directories
    Global Files and Directories
  instance names
    `pmie` Instance Names
  intrinsic operators
    `pmie` Intrinsic Operators
  language
    Introduction to `pmie`
    Specification Language for `pmie`
  logical expressions
    `pmie` Logical Expressions
  metric expressions
    `pmie` Metric Expressions
  performance metrics inference engine
    Performance Metrics Inference Engine
  pmieconf rules
    Performance Monitoring and Visualization
    Creating `pmie` Rules with `pmieconf`
  procedures
    Creating `pmie` Rules with `pmieconf`
    Management of `pmie` Processes
  rate conversion
    `pmie` Rate Conversion
  rate operator
    The `rate` Operator
  real examples
    `pmie` Examples
  sample intervals
    `pmie` Sample Intervals
  setting evaluation frequency
    Setting Evaluation Frequency
  syntax
    Basic `pmie` Syntax
  transitional operators
    Transitional Operators

pmieconf tool
  brief description
    Performance Monitoring and Visualization
  customization
    Introduction to `pmie`
  rules
    Creating `pmie` Rules with `pmieconf`

pminfo tool
  brief description
    Performance Monitoring and Visualization
  description
    The `pminfo` Command
  displaying the PMNS
    Performance Metrics Name Space
  PCP Tutorial
    The `pminfo` Command
  pmie arguments
    `pmie` and the Performance Metrics Collection Subsystem

pmkstat tool
  brief description
    Performance Monitoring and Visualization
  description
    The `pmkstat` Command
  summary configuration
    Primary Logger
    Other Logger Configurations

pmlaunch tool
  PCP Environment Variables

pmlc tool
  brief description
    Collecting, Transporting, and Archiving Performance Information
  description
    Using `pmlc`
  dynamic adjustment
    Introduction to Archive Logging
  flush command
    Coordination between `pmlogger` and PCP tools
  PMLOGGER_PORT variable
    PCP Environment Variables
  show command
    Primary `pmlogger` Cannot Start
  SIGHUP signal
    Log Volumes

pmLoadNameSpace() default
  PCP Environment Variables

pmlock tool
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

pmlogconf tool
  Collecting, Transporting, and Archiving Performance Information

pmlogextract tool
  Manipulating Archive Logs with `pmlogextract`

pmlogger tool
  PCP Environment Variables
  `pmie` Rule Expressions
  archive logs
    Fetching Metrics from an Archive Log
    Creating a PCP Archive
    Introduction to Archive Logging
  brief description
    Collecting, Transporting, and Archiving Performance Information
  configuration
    Configuration of `pmlogger`
    Using `pmlc`
  cookbook tasks
    Cookbook for Archive Logging
  current metric context
    Current Metric Context
  PCP tool coordination
    Coordination between `pmlogger` and PCP tools
  pmlc control
    Introduction to Archive Logging
  primary instance
    Primary Logger
  remote PMCD
    Cannot Connect to Remote PMCD
  troubleshooting
    Archive Logging Troubleshooting

PMLOGGER_PORT variable
  PCP Environment Variables

pmlogmerge tool
  Manipulating Archive Logs with `pmlogextract`

PMNS
  acronym
    Acronyms
  brief description
    Performance Metrics
  defined names
    Uniform Naming and Access to Performance Metrics
  description
    Performance Metrics Name Space
  management
    PMNS Management
  metric expressions
    `pmie` Metric Expressions
  PMNS
    Alternate Performance Metric Name Spaces
  services
    Performance Metrics Collection System
  syntax
    PMNS Syntax
  troubleshooting
    Performance Metrics Name Space

PMNS_DEFAULT variable
  PCP Environment Variables

pmnscomp tool
  PMNS
    Alternate Performance Metric Name Spaces

pmpost tool
  Operational and Infrastructure Support

pmprintf tool
  PCP Environment Variables

pmprobe tool
  Performance Monitoring and Visualization

pmrun tool
  Operational and Infrastructure Support
  Common Conventions and Arguments

pmstore tool
  brief description
    Operational and Infrastructure Support
  description
    The `pmstore` Command
  setting metric values
    Monitoring System Performance

pmtime Archive Time Control dialog
  PCP Archive Time Control

pmtime PCP Live Time Control dialog
  PCP Live Time Control

pmtime tool
  brief description
    Performance Monitoring and Visualization
  time control
    PCP Live Time Control
  timezone option
    Options Menu

pmval tool
  brief description
    Performance Monitoring and Visualization
  description
    The `pmval` Command

pmview tool
  config.* files
    Other Logger Configurations
  record mode
    Introduction to Archive Logging
    PCP Archive Folios
  time control
    PCP Live Time Control

primary archive
  Primary Logger

primary logger
  Primary Logger

protocol data units
  See PDU

quantification operators
  Quantification Operators

rate conversion
  `pmie` Rate Conversion

rate operator
  The `rate` Operator

relational expressions
  Relational Expressions

release notes
  Product Structure

reporting frequency
  Performance Monitor Reporting Frequency and Duration

retrospective analysis
  Retrospective Analysis Using Archive Logs

roles
  collector
    Collector and Monitor Roles
    Product Structure
  monitor
    Collector and Monitor Roles
    Product Structure

rule expressions
  `pmie` Rule Expressions

sample intervals
  `pmie` Sample Intervals

sar data structures
  Sources of Performance Metrics and Their Domains

service management
  Quality of Service Measurement

set-valued performance metrics
  Set-Valued Performance Metrics

sgihelp command
  Product Structure

show command
  Primary `pmlogger` Cannot Start

SIGHUP signal
  PMCD Not Reconfiguring after `SIGHUP`
  Log Volumes

SIGINT signal
  Primary `pmlogger` Cannot Start

SIGUSR1 signal
  Coordination between `pmlogger` and PCP tools

single-valued performance metrics
  Single-Valued Performance Metrics

software
  Overview of Component Software

subsystems
  Product Structure

sum_host operator
  Arithmetic Aggregation

swmgr command
  Product Structure

syntax
  PMNS Syntax

syslog function
  Introduction to `pmie`
  `pmie` Rule Expressions

target usage
  PCP Target Usage

TCP/IP
  acronym
    Acronyms
  remote PMCD
    Cannot Connect to Remote PMCD
  sockets
    PCP Environment Variables

text-based tools
  Monitoring System Performance

time control
  PCP Live Time Control
  PCP Archive Time Control

time dilation
  Time Dilation and Time Skew

time duration
  Time Duration and Control

time window options
  Time Window Options

time-stamped message
  `pmie` Rule Expressions

timezone options
  Timezone Options

tool customization
  PCP Tool Customization

tool development
  PCP Tool Development

tool options
  General PCP Tool Options
  Performance Metrics Inference Engine

transient problems
  Transient Problems with Performance Metric Values

transitional operators
  Transitional Operators

troubleshooting
  archive logging
    Archive Logging Troubleshooting
  general utilities
    Cannot Connect to Remote PMCD
  IRIX metrics
    IRIX Metrics and the PMCD
  PMCD
    Troubleshooting
    IRIX Metrics and the PMCD

uniform naming
  Uniform Naming and Access to Performance Metrics

units
  Units

user interface components
  Common Conventions and Arguments

/usr/etc/pmcd file
  Common Directories and File Locations

/usr/pcp/pmdas
  Common Directories and File Locations

/var/adm/pcplog/NOTICES file
  Operational and Infrastructure Support
  Introduction to `pmie`

/var/adm/pcplog/pluto/config.default file
  Primary Logger

/var/adm/pcplog/pmcd.log file
  No IRIX Metrics Available
  PMCD Does Not Start

/var/adm/SYSLOG file
  Introduction to `pmie`
  `pmie` Rule Expressions

/var/pcp/config/pmlaunch file
  PCP Environment Variables

/var/pcp/config/pmlogger directory
  Other Logger Configurations

/var/pcp/config/pmlogger file
  Primary Logger

/var/pcp/config/pmlogger/config.default file
  Primary Logger
  Other Logger Configurations
  Primary Logger

/var/pcp/config/pmlogger/control file
  Directory Organization for Archive Log Files
  Primary Logger

/var/pcp/pmns/root file
  PCP Environment Variables

/var/tmp/pmlogger file
  Primary `pmlogger` Cannot Start

window options
  Time Window Options

xconfirm command
  error messages
    PCP Environment Variables
  visible alarm
    Introduction to `pmie`

year 2000 compliance
  Current Metric Context

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