The available command line options are:
-e, --echo-input
Echo the input to stdout. This is useful when the input is
redirected from a file.
-f, --norc
Do not process the .dbpmdarc file.
-i, --interactive
Emulate interactive behavior and prompt for new commands,
even if standard input is not a tty device.
-n pmnsfile, --namespace=pmnsfile
Load an alternative Performance Metrics Name Space (PMNS(5))
from the file pmnsfile.
-q timeout, --creds-timeout=timeout
The pmcd to agent version exchange protocol (new in PCP 2.0
- introduced to provide backward compatibility) uses this
timeout to specify how long dbpmda should wait before
assuming that no version response is coming from an agent.
If this timeout is reached, the agent is assumed to be an
agent which does not understand the PCP 2.0 protocol. The
default timeout interval is three seconds, but the -q option
allows an alternative timeout interval (which must be
greater than zero) to be specified. The unit of time is
seconds.
-U username, --username=username
User account under which to run dbpmda.
-v, --valgrind
Useful when running dbpmda under the control of valgrind(1)
to triage problems in a DSO PMDA. If the -v option is used
then dbpmda will do not call dlclose(3) before exiting, this
allows valgrind(1) to access the symbol table of the DSO
PMDA when reporting which makes debugging much easier.
-?, --help
Display usage message and exit.
