The Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a toolkit designed for
monitoring and managing system-level performance. These services
are distributed and scalable to accommodate the most complex
system configurations and performance problems.
PCP supports many different platforms, including (but not limited
to) Linux, MacOSX, Solaris and Windows. From a high-level PCP
can be considered to contain two classes of software utility:
PCP Collectors
These are the parts of PCP that collect and extract
performance data from various sources, for example the
operating system kernel.
PCP Monitors
These are the parts of PCP that display data collected
from hosts (or archives) that have the PCP Collector
installed. Many monitor tools are available as part of
the core PCP release, while other (typically graphical)
monitoring tools are available separately in the PCP GUI
package.
This manual entry describes the high-level features and options
common to most PCP utilities available on all platforms.
