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LOGIMPORT(3)            Library Functions Manual            LOGIMPORT(3)

NAME

       LOGIMPORT - introduction to the library for importing data and
       creating a PCP archive

C SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>
       #include <pcp/import.h>

       cc ... -lpcp_import -lpcp

Perl SYNOPSIS

       use PCP::LogImport;

Python SYNOPSIS

       from pcp import pmi

DESCRIPTION

       The Performance Co-Pilot Log Import (LOGIMPORT) API is a library
       (with Perl and Python wrappers) that supports the creation of PCP
       archives from external sources of performance data, either in the
       form of historical logs and spreadsheets or from real-time
       sources that are not integrated as a Performance Metrics Domain
       Agent (PMDA) under the control of pmcd(1).

       The typical usage for LOGIMPORT would involve:

       •  An initial call to pmiStart(3).

       •  Optional calls to pmiSetHostname(3) and/or pmiSetTimezone(3)
          to set the hostname and timezone for the source of the
          performance data.

       •  One or more calls to pmiAddMetric(3) to define performance
          metrics.

       •  One or more calls to pmiAddInstance(3) to define instances
          associated with the metrics.

       •  Optional calls to pmiGetHandle(3) to defined convenience
          handles for metric-instance pairs.

       •  A main loop in which performance data is ingested and for each
          sample time interval, the PCP archive record is constructed by
          calls to pmiPutValue(3), pmiPutValueHandle(3), pmiPutText(3),
          and/or pmiPutLabel(3), followed by a call to pmiWrite(3) to
          flush all data and any associated new metadata to the PCP
          archive.  Alternatively, pmiPutResult(3) could be used to
          package and process all the data for one sample time interval.

       •  Once the input source of data has been consumed, calling
          pmiEnd(3) to complete the PCP archive creation and close all
          open files.

       If new metrics and/or instances are discovered during the data
       ingestion, these can be added by subsequent calls to
       pmiAddMetric(3) and/or pmiAddInstance(3), provided all the
       metrics and instances have been defined before a call to
       pmiGetHandle(3), pmiPutValue(3)or pmiPutResult(3) that references
       those metrics and instances.

SEE ALSO

       pmcd(1), pmlogger(1), PMAPI(3), pmiAddInstance(3),
       pmiAddMetric(3), pmiEnd(3), pmiErrStr(3), pmiGetHandle(3),
       pmiPutLabel(3), pmiPutMark(3), pmiPutResult(3), pmiPutText(3),
       pmiPutValue(3), pmiPutValueHandle(3), pmiSetHostname(3),
       pmiSetTimezone(3), pmiStart(3) and pmiWrite(3).

COLOPHON

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