pmdanews(1)

pmdanews1

Sample usenet news performance metrics domain agent (pmda)

Overview

pmdanews is an example Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values related to a set of newsgroups.

Installation

If you want access to the names and values for the news performance metrics, do the following as root:

        # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/news
        # ./Install

If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:

        # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/news
        # ./Remove

pmdanews is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly. The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is installed or removed.

Files

$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/news/Install

installation script for the pmdanews agent

$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/news/Remove

undo installation script for the pmdanews agent

$PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/news.log

default log file for error messages from pmdanews

Releases

5 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 8
  3. 10
  4. 13
  5. Arch

From pcp 7.2.2-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.