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pmdanews: sample Usenet news performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)

NAME

pmdanews - sample Usenet news performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)

DESCRIPTION

pmdanews is an example Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values related to a set of newsgroups.

INSTALLATION

If you want access to the names and values for the news performance metrics, do the following as root:

        # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/news
        # ./Install

If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:

        # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/news
        # ./Remove

pmdanews is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly. The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is installed or removed.

FILES

$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/news/Install

installation script for the pmdanews agent

$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/news/Remove

undo installation script for the pmdanews agent

$PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/news.log

default log file for error messages from pmdanews