archive.meta
metadata (metric descriptions, instance domains, etc.) for
the archive log
archive.0
initial volume of metrics values (subsequent volumes have
suffixes 1, 2, ...)
archive.index
temporal index to support rapid random access to the other
files in the archive log
$PCP_TMP_DIR/pmlogger
pmlogger maintains the files in this directory as the map
between the process id of the pmlogger instance and the IPC
port that may be used to control each pmlogger instance (as
used by pmlc(1))
$PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmlogger/config.default
default configuration file for the primary logger instance
launched from $PCP_RC_DIR/pmlogger
$PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmlogger/config.*
assorted configuration files suitable for creating logs that
may be subsequently replayed with the PCP visualization and
monitoring tools
$PCP_ARCHIVE_DIR/<hostname>
Default directory for PCP archive files for performance
metric values collected from the host <hostname>.
$PCP_SYSCONFIG_DIR/pmlogger
additional environment variables that will be set when the
primary pmlogger instance executes. Only settings of the
form "PMLOGGER_VARIABLE=value" will be honoured.
./pmlogger.log
(or $PCP_ARCHIVE_DIR/<hostname>/pmlogger.log when started
automatically by either $PCP_RC_DIR/pmlogger or one of the
pmlogger(1) monitoring scripts such as pmlogger_check(1))
all messages and diagnostics are directed here
