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PMAFM(1) General Commands Manual PMAFM(1)
pmafm - Performance Co-Pilot archive folio manager
pmafm folioname [command [arg ...]]
A collection of one or more Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archives
may be combined with a control file to produce a PCP archive
folio. Archive folios are created using either mkaf(1) or the
interactive ``record mode'' services of PCP clients like
pmchart(1).
pmafm provides a number of services that may be used to process
folios. In particular, it provides support for execution of PCP
tools using one or more of the component archives within an
archive folio.
The target folio is identified by the folio control file
folioname. The syntax for a folio control file is described in
mkaf(1).
If present, the command and arguments following folioname are
interpreted and executed as a single command, otherwise commands
are read from standard input.
The following commands are supported.
archives
Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.
archives N[,...]
Archives within a folio are numbered 1, 2, etc. Subsequent
commands are restricted to apply only to the designated
archives.
archives name[,...]
Archives within a folio have unique names. Subsequent
commands are restricted to apply only to the designated
archives.
check Validate the presence and format of each file in the folio
and the component archives.
help
A brief reminder of the command syntax. ? is a synonym
for help.
hosts
Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.
hosts hostname[,...]
Subsequent commands are restricted to apply only to those
archives that match the designated hostnames.
list [verbose]
Display the contents of the folio. By default the control
header and the ordinal number, hostname and archive base
name for each archive in the folio. The verbose option
causes pmafm to dump the label record from each archive
using pmlogdump -l.
The first named archive in the folio is assumed to be
associated with the default host for any tool that tries to
replay multiple archives from the folio.
quit
Exit pmafm.
remove
Echo on standard output the sh(1) commands required to
remove all of the physical files associated with this
archive folio.
repeat tool [arg ...]
Execute the known PCP tool once per selected archive. For
example, the command
repeat pmval -t60 kernel.all.load
would run pmval(1) once per archive, with an appropriate -a
argument.
replay
Some archive folios are created by tools (e.g. pmchart(1))
that provide sufficient information to allow all of the
information in all of the archives of a folio to be
replayed.
[run] tool [arg ...]
Execute the known PCP tool on the selected archives. Some
PCP tools are able to process multiple concurrent archives,
and in this case the tool is run once with the list of all
selected archives passed via a -a argument. Otherwise,
this command is synonymous with repeat.
selections
Display those archives that would be selected for
processing with a repeat, replay or run command.
The restrictions via any hosts and archives commands are
conjuncted. These restrictions serve to limit the specific
archives processed in the subsequent repeat, replay, run and
selections commands. By default, all archives are selected.
Keywords in commands may be abbreviated provided no ambiguity is
introduced, e.g. help, hel and he are synonymous, but h is
ambiguous.
$PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/*
control files that define the behavior of each PCP tool known
to pmafm. This information may be customized or extended,
see $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/pcp for documentation of the
syntax and semantics of these files.
$HOME/.pcp/pmafm/*
User customization of the control files. All files in this
directory are treated in the same manner as control files in
the $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm directory.
Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to
parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each
installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for
these variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an
alternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).
mkaf(1), pcp-atop(1), pmchart(1), pmlogdump(1), PMAPI(3),
pmRecordSetup(3), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).
This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.pcp.io/⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual
page, send it to [email protected]. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git⟩ on 2025-08-11.
(At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
in the repository was 2025-08-11.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
Performance Co-Pilot PCP PMAFM(1)
Pages that refer to this page: mkaf(1), pmchart(1), pmsnap(1), pmview(1), pmrecord(3), LOGARCHIVE(5)
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