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PMLOADNAMESPACE(3) Library Functions Manual PMLOADNAMESPACE(3)
pmLoadNameSpace - load a local PMNS for an application
#include <pcp/pmapi.h>
int pmLoadNameSpace(const char *filename);
cc ... -lpcp
If the application wants to force using a local Performance Met‐
rics Name Space (PMNS) instead of a distributed PMNS then it must
load the PMNS using pmLoadNameSpace or pmLoadASCIINameSpace(3).
If the application is to use a distributed PMNS, then it should
NOT make a call to load the PMNS explicitly.
Most applications using a Performance Metrics Application Program‐
ming Interface (PMAPI) context (of any type, so PM_CONTEXT_HOST or
PM_CONTEXT_ARCHIVE or PM_CONTEXT_LOCAL) should not need to call
pmLoadNameSpace.
The filename argument designates the PMNS of interest. For appli‐
cations not requiring a tailored PMNS, the special value PM_NS_DE‐
FAULT may be used for filename, to force the default local PMNS to
be loaded.
The default local PMNS is found in the file $PCP_VAR_DIR/pmns/root
unless the environment variable PMNS_DEFAULT is set, in which case
the value is assumed to be the pathname to the file containing the
default local PMNS.
Externally a PMNS is stored in an ASCII format as described in
PMNS(5). However, note that pmLoadNameSpace assumes filename does
not contain any C-style comments, preprocessor directives or
macros; if this is not the case, pmLoadASCIINameSpace(3) should be
used instead.
As of Version 3.10.3 of PCP, by default, multiple names in the
PMNS are allowed to be associated with a single Performance Met‐
rics Identifier (PMID) and this is unconditionally allowed by pm‐
LoadNameSpace. pmLoadASCIINameSpace(3) provides an alternative
interface with user-defined control over the handling of duplicate
names for the same PMID in the PMNS.
pmLoadNameSpace returns zero on success.
Syntax and other errors in the parsing of the PMNS are reported on
stderr with a message of the form ``Error Parsing ASCII PMNS:
...''.
PM_ERR_DUPPMNS
It is an error to try and load more than one PMNS, or to
call either pmLoadNameSpace and/or pmLoadASCIINameSpace(3)
more than once.
PM_ERR_PMNS
Syntax error in the PMNS file.
$PCP_VAR_DIR/pmns/root the default local PMNS, when the environ‐
ment variable PMNS_DEFAULT is unset
Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameter‐
ize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each installa‐
tion, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these
variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an al‐
ternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5). Values
for these variables may be obtained programmatically using the
pmGetConfig(3) function.
PMAPI(3), pmGetConfig(3), pmLoadASCIINameSpace(3),
pmTrimNameSpace(3), pcp.conf(5), pcp.env(5) and PMNS(5).
This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project. In‐
formation about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.pcp.io/⟩.
If you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
pcp@groups.io. This page was obtained from the project's upstream
Git repository ⟨https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git⟩ on
2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover
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Performance Co-Pilot PCP PMLOADNAMESPACE(3)
Pages that refer to this page: pcpintro(1), pmcpp(1), pmnscomp(1), pcpintro(3), pmapi(3), pmgetchildren(3), pmgetchildrenstatus(3), pmgetpmnslocation(3), pmloadasciinamespace(3), pmlookupname(3), pmnameall(3), pmnameid(3), pmtrimnamespace(3), pmunloadnamespace(3), pmns(5)
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