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NAME | C SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

PMDAEVENTQUEUE(3)       Library Functions Manual       PMDAEVENTQUEUE(3)

NAME         top

       pmdaEventNewQueue, pmdaEventNewActiveQueue, pmdaEventQueueHandle,
       pmdaEventQueueAppend, pmdaEventQueueShutdown,
       pmdaEventQueueRecords, pmdaEventQueueClients,
       pmdaEventQueueCounter, pmdaEventQueueBytes, pmdaEventQueueMemory
       - utilities for PMDAs managing event queues

C SYNOPSIS         top

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

       int pmdaEventNewQueue(const char *name, size_t maxmem);
       int pmdaEventNewActiveQueue(const char *name, size_t maxmem,  int
               nclients);
       int pmdaEventQueueHandle(const char *name);
       int pmdaEventQueueAppend(int handle, void *buffer, size_t bytes,
               struct timeval *tv);
       int pmdaEventQueueShutdown(int handle);

       typedef int (*pmdaEventDecodeCallBack)(int, void *, int, struct
               timeval *, void *);
       int pmdaEventQueueRecords(int handle, pmAtomValue *avp, int
               context, pmdaEventDecodeCallBack decoder, void *data);
       int pmdaEventQueueClients(int handle, pmAtomValue *avp);
       int pmdaEventQueueCounter(int handle, pmAtomValue *avp);
       int pmdaEventQueueBytes(int handle, pmAtomValue *avp);
       int pmdaEventQueueMemory(int handle, pmAtomValue *avp);

       cc ... -lpcp_pmda -lpcp

DESCRIPTION         top

       A Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) that exports event
       records must effectively act an event multiplexer.  Events
       consumed by the PMDA may have to be forwarded on to any number of
       monitoring tools (or "client contexts").  These tools may be
       requesting events at different sampling intervals, and are very
       unlikely to request an event at the exact moment it arrives at
       the PMDA, making some form of event buffering and queueing scheme
       a necessity.  Events must be held by the PMDA until either all
       registered clients have been sent them, or until a memory limit
       has been reached by the PMDA at which point it must discard older
       events as new ones arrive.

       The routines described here are designed to assist the PMDA
       developer in managing both client contexts and queues of events
       at a high level.  These fit logically above lower level
       primitives, such as those described in pmdaEventNewArray(3), and
       shield the average PMDA from the details of directly building
       event record arrays for individual client contexts.

       The PMDA registers a new queue of events using either
       pmdaEventNewQueue or pmdaEventNewActiveQueue.  These are passed
       an identifying name (for diagnostic purposes, and for subsequent
       lookup by pmdaEventQueueLookup) and maxmem, an upper bound on the
       memory (in bytes) that can be consumed by events in this queue,
       before beginning to discard them (resulting in "missed" events
       for any client that has not kept up).  If a queue is dynamically
       allocated (such that the PMDA may already have clients connected)
       the pmdaEventNewActiveQueue interface should be used, with the
       additional numclients parameter indicating the count of active
       client connections.  The return is a negative error code on
       failure, suitable for decoding by the pmErrStr(3) routine.  Any
       non-negative value indicates success, and provides a handle
       suitable for passing into the other API routines.

       For each new event received by the PMDA, the pmdaEventQueueAppend
       routine should be called, placing that event into the queue
       identified by handle.  The event itself must be contained in the
       passed in buffer, having bytes length.  The timestamp associated
       with the event (time at which the event occurred) is passed in
       via the final tv parameter.

       In the PMDAs specific implementation of its fetch callback, when
       values for an event metric have been requested, the
       pmdaEventQueueRecords routine should be used.  It is passed the
       queue handle and the avp pmAtomValue structure to fill with event
       records, for the client making that fetch request (identified by
       the context parameter).  Finally, the PMDA must also pass in an
       event decoding routine, which is responsible for decoding the
       fields of a single event into the individual event parameters of
       that event.  The data parameter is an opaque cookie that can be
       used to pass situation-specific information into each decoder
       invocation.

       Under some situations it is useful for the PMDA to export state
       about the queues under its control.  The accessor routines -
       pmdaEventQueueClients, pmdaEventQueueCounter, pmdaEventQueueBytes
       and pmdaEventQueueMemory provide a mechanism for querying a queue
       by its handle and filling in a pmAtomValue structure that the
       pmdaFetchCallBack method should return.

SEE ALSO         top

       PMAPI(3), PMDA(3), pmdaEventNewClient(3) and
       pmdaEventNewArray(3).

COLOPHON         top

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