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PMSERIESDESCS(3)        Library Functions Manual        PMSERIESDESCS(3)

NAME         top

       pmSeriesDescs, pmSeriesLabels, pmSeriesLabelValues,
       pmSeriesInstances, pmSeriesMetrics, pmSeriesSources - fast,
       scalable time series metadata

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcp/pmwebapi.h>

       int pmSeriesDescs(pmSeriesSettings *sp, int count, sds *series,
               void *arg);
       int pmSeriesLabels(pmSeriesSettings *sp, int count, sds *series,
               void *arg);
       int pmSeriesLabelValues(pmSeriesSettings *sp, int count, sds
               *labels, void *arg);
       int pmSeriesInstances(pmSeriesSettings *sp, int count, sds
               *series, void *arg);
       int pmSeriesMetrics(pmSeriesSettings *sp, int count, sds *series,
               void *arg);
       int pmSeriesSources(pmSeriesSettings *sp, int count, sds *series,
               void *arg);

       cc ... -lpcp_web

DESCRIPTION         top

       Each performance metric and data source forming part of the
       Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) fast, scalable time series service has
       certain properties (metadata) associated with it.  These
       properties can be queried using the interfaces described here.

       This functionality is provided through asynchronous APIs, which
       function in an event-driven fashion where callbacks are invoked
       for each metadata structure being returned.

       As a general pattern, all interfaces in these APIs that need to
       invoke callbacks provided by the calling program (see
       pmSeriesSetup(3)) will take an opaque (void * pointer) parameter,
       arg.  This pointer will be passed through unchanged and is
       typically used to access a data structure maintaining state
       within the calling program.

       With a couple of exceptions, these interfaces tend to operate in
       one of two modes.  Firstly, one invocation is available to query
       metadata for a specific (non-zero) count of time series.  A
       second, (zero) count, mode returns all available metadata of that
       type, across all time series.

       In order to retrieve metric descriptor information for one or
       more time series, the pmSeriesDescs interface is used.  For each
       valid series identifier provided, a callback will be invoked
       providing the metric units, semantics, and type as well as other
       identifiers associated with it (pmID, InDom and source
       identifier).  When this call is issued with a zero value for
       count, It is an error to pass a zero or negative value of count
       into this interface.

       To extract label names and values, the pmSeriesLabels interface
       is used.  With a non-zero value for count valid series
       identifiers, this routine will invoke a callback once for each
       label name and once for each label name:value pair, for labels
       associated with those time series.  If called with a count of
       zero, this interface will return (via the label name callback)
       all label names that have observed to date - not associated with
       specific time series.  The pmSeriesLabelValues interface is
       comparable to this latter mode, except will return all label
       values that have been observed to date for the given array of
       labels names (not associated with any specific time series
       identifiers).

       pmSeriesInstances can be used to find metadata about instance
       domains and instance identifiers associated with a given (non-
       zero) count of time series identifiers.  If a zero value is
       passed for count then all instance names observed to date will be
       returned.

       pmSeriesMetrics can be used to find metric names associated with
       a given (non-zero) count of time series identifiers.  If a zero
       value is passed for count then all metric names observed to date
       will be returned.

       pmSeriesSources can be used to find metadata about the source of
       metrics - that is, host names and archive file paths.  If a zero
       value is passed for count then all metric sources observed to
       date will be returned.

DIAGNOSTICS         top

       Where these functions return a status code, this is always zero
       on success.  On failure a negative PMAPI error code is returned.

SEE ALSO         top

       pmproxy(1), pmlogger(1), pmseries(1), pmSeriesQuery(3),
       pmSeriesSetup(3), PMAPI(3) and PMWEBAPI(3).

COLOPHON         top

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