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PCP2ZABBIX(1)              General Commands Manual             PCP2ZABBIX(1)

NAME         top

       pcp2zabbix - pcp-to-zabbix metrics exporter

SYNOPSIS         top

       pcp2zabbix [-CGHIjLnrRvV?]  [-8|-9 limit] [-a archive]
       [--archive-folio folio] [-A align] [-b|-B space-scale] [-c config]
       [--container container] [--daemonize] [-e derived] [-E send-interval]
       [-g server] [-h host] [-i instances] [-J rank] [-K spec] [-N
       predicate] [-O origin] [-p port] [-P|-0 precision] [-q|-Q count-
       scale] [-s samples] [-S starttime] [-t interval] [-T endtime] [-x
       prefix] [-X hostname] [-y|-Y time-scale] metricspec [...]

DESCRIPTION         top

       pcp2zabbix is a customizable performance metrics exporter tool from
       PCP to Zabbix.  Any available performance metric, live or archived,
       system and/or application, can be selected for exporting using either
       command line arguments or a configuration file.

       pcp2zabbix is a close relative of pmrep(1).  Please refer to pmrep(1)
       for the metricspec description accepted on pcp2zabbix command line
       and pmrep.conf(5) for description of the pcp2zabbix.conf
       configuration file overall syntax, this page describes pcp2zabbix
       specific options and configuration file differences with
       pmrep.conf(5).  pmrep(1) also lists some usage examples of which most
       are applicable with pcp2zabbix as well.

       Only the command line options listed on this page are supported,
       other options recognized by pmrep(1) are not supported.

       Options via environment values (see pmGetOptions(3)) override the
       corresponding built-in default values (if any).  Configuration file
       options override the corresponding environment variables (if any).
       Command line options override the corresponding configuration file
       options (if any).

CONFIGURATION FILE         top

       pcp2zabbix uses a configuration file with overall syntax described in
       pmrep.conf(5).  The following options are common with pmrep.conf:
       version, source, speclocal, derived, header, globals, samples,
       interval, type, type_prefer, ignore_incompat, instances, live_filter,
       rank, limit_filter, limit_filter_force, invert_filter, predicate,
       omit_flat, precision, precision_force, count_scale,
       count_scale_force, space_scale, space_scale_force, time_scale,
       time_scale_force.  The output option is recognized but ignored for
       pmrep.conf compatibility.

   pcp2zabbix specific options
       zabbix_server (string)
           Hostname or IP address of Zabbix server to send the metrics to.
           If a host is monitored by a proxy, proxy hostname or IP address
           should be used instead.  Corresponding command line option is -g.
           Default is localhost.

       zabbix_port (integer)
           Specify port number of server trapper running on the server.
           Corresponding command line option is -p.  Default is 10051.

       zabbix_host (string)
           Specify agent hostname as registered in Zabbix frontend.  Host IP
           address and DNS name will not work.  Corresponding command line
           option is -X.  Defaults to the metrics source host.

       zabbix_interval (string)
           Indicates the interval to send the metrics to the Zabbix server.
           This can be longer than the generic interval to minimize the
           overhead when communicating with the server (as each send creates
           a new connection).  Follows the time syntax described in
           PCPIntro(1).  Corresponding command line option is -E.  Defaults
           to the generic interval.  Zabbix tools send at most 250 metrics
           at a time.  Ignored when reading metrics from PCP archives, in
           which case metrics will be sent roughly at 250 metric batches.

       zabbix_prefix (string)
           Specify the prefix for metrics sent to the Zabbix server.
           Corresponding command line option is -x.  Default is .pcp.

OPTIONS         top

       The available command line options are:

       -8 limit, --limit-filter=limit
            Limit results to instances with values above/below limit.  A
            positive integer will include instances with values at or above
            the limit in reporting.  A negative integer will include
            instances with values at or below the limit in reporting.  A
            value of zero performs no limit filtering.  This option will not
            override possible per-metric specifications.  See also -J and
            -N.

       -9 limit, --limit-filter-force=limit
            Like -8 but this option will override per-metric specifications.

       -a archive, --archive=archive
            Performance metric values are retrieved from the set of
            Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive log files identified by the
            argument archive, which is a comma-separated list of names, each
            of which may be the base name of an archive or the name of a
            directory containing one or more archives.

       --archive-folio
            Read metric source archives from the PCP archive folio created
            by tools like pmchart(1) or, less often, manually with mkaf(1).

       -A align, --align=align
            Force the initial sample to be aligned on the boundary of a
            natural time unit align.  Refer to PCPIntro(1) for a complete
            description of the syntax for align.

       -b scale, --space-scale=scale
            Unit/scale for space (byte) metrics, possible values include
            bytes, Kbytes, KB, Mbytes, MB, and so forth up to Ebytes, EB.
            This option will not override possible per-metric
            specifications.  See also pmParseUnitsStr(3).

       -B scale, --space-scale-force=scale
            Like -b but this option will override per-metric specifications.

       -c config, --config=config
            Specify the config file to use.  The default is the first found
            of: ./pcp2zabbix.conf, $HOME/.pcp2zabbix.conf,
            $HOME/pcp/pcp2zabbix.conf, and $PCP_SYSCONF_DIR/pcp2zabbix.conf.
            For details, see the above section and pmrep.conf(5).

       --container
            Fetch performance metrics from the specified container, either
            local or remote (see -h).

       -C, --check
            Exit before reporting any values, but after parsing the
            configuration and metrics and printing possible headers.

       --daemonize
            Daemonize on startup.

       -e derived, --derived=derived
            Specify derived performance metrics.  If derived starts with a
            slash (``/'') or with a dot (``.'') it will be interpreted as a
            derived metrics configuration file, otherwise it will be
            interpreted as comma- or semicolon-separated derived metric
            expressions.  For details see pmLoadDerivedConfig(3) and
            pmRegisterDerived(3).

       -E interval, --zabbix-interval=interval
            Specify the interval to send metrics to the server.  See
            zabbix_interval description above for details.

       -g server, --zabbix-server=server
            Zabbix server to send the metrics to.

       -G, --no-globals
            Do not include global metrics in reporting (see pmrep.conf(5)).

       -h host, --host=host
            Fetch performance metrics from pmcd(1) on host, rather than from
            the default localhost.

       -H, --no-header
            Do not print any headers.

       -i instances, --instances=instances
            Report only the listed instances from current instances (if
            present, see also -j).  By default all instances, present and
            future, are reported.  This is a global option that is used for
            all metrics unless a metric-specific instance definition is
            provided as part of a metricspec.  By default single-valued
            ``flat'' metrics without multiple instances are still reported
            as usual, use -v to change this.  Please refer to pmrep(1) for
            more details on this option.

       -I, --ignore-incompat
            Ignore incompatible metrics.  By default incompatible metrics
            (that is, their type is unsupported or they cannot be scaled as
            requested) will cause pcp2zabbix to terminate with an error
            message.  With this option all incompatible metrics are silently
            omitted from reporting.  This may be especially useful when
            requesting non-leaf nodes of the PMNS tree for reporting.

       -j, --live-filter
            Perform instance live filtering.  This allows capturing all
            filtered instances even if processes are restarted at some point
            (unlike without live filtering).  Doing live filtering over a
            huge amount of instances naturally comes with some overhead so a
            bit of user caution is advised.

       -J rank, --rank=rank
            Limit results to highest/lowest rank instances of set-valued
            metrics.  A positive integer will include highest valued
            instances in reporting.  A negative integer will include lowest
            valued instances in reporting.  A value of zero performs no
            ranking.  See also -8.

       -K spec, --spec-local=spec
            When fetching metrics from a local context (see -L), the -K
            option may be used to control the DSO PMDAs that should be made
            accessible.  The spec argument conforms to the syntax described
            in pmSpecLocalPMDA(3).  More than one -K option may be used.

       -L, --local-PMDA
            Use a local context to collect metrics from DSO PMDAs on the
            local host without PMCD.  See also -K.

       -n, --invert-filter
            Perform ranking before live filtering.  By default instance live
            filter filtering (when requested, see -j) happens before
            instance ranking (when requested, see -J).  With this option the
            logic is inverted and ranking happens before live filtering.

       -N predicate, --predicate=predicate
            Specify a comma-separated list of predicate filter reference
            metrics.  By default ranking (see -J) happens for each metric
            individually.  With predicate filter reference metrics, ranking
            is done only for the specified metrics.  When reporting, the
            rest of the metrics sharing the same instance domain (see
            PCPIntro(1)) as the predicates will include only the
            highest/lowest ranking instances of the corresponding
            predicates.

            So for example, when the using proc.memory.rss (resident size of
            process) as the predicate and including proc.io.total_bytes and
            mem.util.used as metrics to be reported, only the processes
            using most/least memory (as per -J) will be included when
            reporting total bytes written by processes.  Since mem.util.used
            is a single-valued metric (thus not sharing the same instance
            domain as the process-related metrics), it will be reported as
            usual.

       -O origin, --origin=origin
            When reporting archived metrics, start reporting at origin
            within the time window (see -S and -T).  Refer to PCPIntro(1)
            for a complete description of the syntax for origin.

       -p port, --zabbix-port=port
            Zabbix server port number.

       -P precision, --precision=precision
            Use precision for numeric non-integer output values.  The
            default is to use 3 decimal places (when applicable).  This
            option will not override possible per-metric specifications.

       -0 precision, --precision-force=precision
            Like -P but this option will override per-metric specifications.

       -q scale, --count-scale=scale
            Unit/scale for count metrics, possible values include count x
            10^-1, count, count x 10, count x 10^2, and so forth from 10^-8
            to 10^7.  (These values are currently space-sensitive.)  This
            option will not override possible per-metric specifications.
            See also pmParseUnitsStr(3).

       -Q scale, --count-scale-force=scale
            Like -q but this option will override per-metric specifications.

       -r, --raw
            Output raw metric values, do not convert cumulative counters to
            rates.  This option will override possible per-metric
            specifications.

       -R, --raw-prefer
            Like -r but this option will not override per-metric
            specifications.

       -s samples, --samples=samples
            The argument samples defines the number of samples to be
            retrieved and reported.  If samples is 0 or -s is not specified,
            pcp2zabbix will sample and report continuously (in real time
            mode) or until the end of the set of PCP archives (in archive
            mode).  See also -T.

       -S starttime, --start=starttime
            When reporting archived metrics, the report will be restricted
            to those records logged at or after starttime.  Refer to
            PCPIntro(1) for a complete description of the syntax for
            starttime.

       -t interval, --interval=interval
            The default update interval may be set to something other than
            the default 1 second.  The interval argument follows the syntax
            described in PCPIntro(1), and in the simplest form may be an
            unsigned integer (the implied units in this case are seconds).
            See also the -T option.

       -T endtime, --finish=endtime
            When reporting archived metrics, the report will be restricted
            to those records logged before or at endtime.  Refer to
            PCPIntro(1) for a complete description of the syntax for
            endtime.

            When used to define the runtime before pcp2zabbix will exit, if
            no samples is given (see -s) then the number of reported samples
            depends on interval (see -t).  If samples is given then interval
            will be adjusted to allow reporting of samples during runtime.
            In case all of -T, -s, and -t are given, endtime determines the
            actual time pcp2zabbix will run.

       -v, --omit-flat
            Omit single-valued ``flat'' metrics from reporting, only
            consider set-valued metrics (i.e., metrics with multiple values)
            for reporting.  See -i and -I.

       -V, --version
            Display version number and exit.

       -x prefix, --zabbix-prefix=prefix
            Metrics prefix for measurements sent to the server.

       -X hostname, --zabbix-host=hostname
            Specify the agent hostname as registered in Zabbix frontend.

       -y scale, --time-scale=scale
            Unit/scale for time metrics, possible values include nanosec,
            ns, microsec, us, millisec, ms, and so forth up to hour, hr.
            This option will not override possible per-metric
            specifications.  See also pmParseUnitsStr(3).

       -Y scale, --time-scale-force=scale
            Like -y but this option will override per-metric specifications.

       -?, --help
            Display usage message and exit.

FILES         top

       pcp2zabbix.conf
              pcp2zabbix configuration file (see -c)

PCP ENVIRONMENT         top

       Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize
       the file and directory names used by PCP.  On each installation, the
       file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables.
       The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative
       configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).

       For environment variables affecting PCP tools, see pmGetOptions(3).

SEE ALSO         top

       mkaf(1), PCPIntro(1), pcp(1), pcp2elasticsearch(1), pcp2graphite(1),
       pcp2influxdb(1), pcp2json(1), pcp2xlsx(1), pcp2xml(1), pmcd(1),
       pminfo(1), pmrep(1), pmGetOptions(3), pmSpecLocalPMDA(3),
       pmLoadDerivedConfig(3), pmParseUnitsStr(3), pmRegisterDerived(3),
       zbxpcp(3), LOGARCHIVE(5), pcp.conf(5), pmns(5) and pmrep.conf(5).

COLOPHON         top

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