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PROGRAM:

NAME

pmlogsummary - calculate averages of metrics stored in a PCP archive

SYNOPSIS

pmlogsummary [-abfFHiIlmMNsvxyz] [-B nbins] [-n pmnsfile] [-p precision] [-S starttime]
[-T endtime] [-Z timezone] archive [metricname ...]

DESCRIPTION

pmlogsummary prints statistical information about metrics of numeric type contained within
the files of a Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive log. The default output prints time
averages for both counter and non-counter metrics. The archive log has the base name
archive, typically created using pmlogger(1).

The metrics of interest are named in the metricname arguments. If metricname is a non-
leaf node in the Performance Metrics Name Space (pmns(5)), then pmlogsummary will
recursively descend the PMNS and report on all leaf nodes. If no metricname argument is
given, the root of the namespace is used.

Normally pmlogsummary operates on the default pmns(5), however if the -n option is
specified an alternative namespace is loaded from the file pmnsfile.

The command line options -S and -T can be used to specify a time window over which metrics
should be summarized. These options are common to most Performance Co-Pilot tools and are
fully described in PCPIntro(1).

The remaining options control the specific information to be reported. Metrics with
counter semantics are converted to rates before being evaluated.

-a Print all information. This is equivalent to -blmMy.

-b Print both forms of averaging, that is both stochastic and time averaging.

-B Print the approximate distribution of values, using histogram bins such that the
value range (minimum - maximum) for each metric is divided equally into nbins bins,
and each bin accumulates the frequency of observed values in the corresponding
range. Refer to the ``OUTPUT FORMAT'' section below for a description of how the
distribution of values is reported).

-f Spreadsheet format - the tab character is used to delimit each field printed. This
option is intended to allow pmlogsummary output to be imported directly into common
spreadsheet applications.

-F Spreadsheet format - the comma character is used to delimit each field printed.
This option is intended to allow pmlogsummary output to be imported directly into
common spreadsheet applications which support the Comma Separated Value (.csv)
format.

-H Print a one-line header at the start showing what each field represents.

-l Also print the archive label, showing the log format version, the time and date for
the start and end of the archive time window, and the host from which the
performance metrics values were collected.

-i Also print the time at which the minimum value was logged. The format of this
timestamp is described in the ``OUTPUT FORMAT'' section below.

-I Also print the time at which the maximum value was logged. The format of this
timestamp is described in the ``OUTPUT FORMAT'' section below.

-m Also print the minimum logged value for each metric.

-M Also print the maximum logged value for each metric.

-s Print (only) the sum of all logged values for each metric.

-N Suppress any warnings resulting from individual archive fetches (default).

-p Print all floating point numbers with precision digits after the decimal place.

-v Report (verbosely) on warnings resulting from individual archive fetches.

-x Print stochastic averages instead of the default (time averages).

-y Also print the number of samples encountered in the archive for each metric.

By default, pmlogsummary reports the time of day according to the local timezone on the
system where pmlogsummary is run. The -Z option changes the timezone to timezone in the
format of the environment variable TZ as described in environ(7). The -z option changes
the timezone to the local timezone at the host that is the source of the performance
metrics, as specified in the label record of the archive log.

OUTPUT FORMAT

The pmlogsummary output format is spartan as it is intended to be post-processed with
standard tools. This means that there is no annotation associated with each output field
which would make processing harder. The intention is that pmlogsummary output be massaged
into a format which can be used by a spreadsheet program, is suitable for inclusion in a
web page, or whatever.

For each metric, pmlogsummary produces a single output line as follows:

metricname value(s) units

For metrics with multiple instances, pmlogsummary produces multiple lines of output as
follows:

metricname ["instance 1"] value(s) units
metricname ["instance 2"] value(s) units
metricname ["instance N"] value(s) units

The printed value(s) for each metric always follow this order: stochastic average, time
average, minimum, minimum timestamp, maximum, maximum timestamp, count, [bin 1 range], bin
1 count, ... [bin nbins range], bin nbins count. The individual values for each metric
are space-separated (unless the -f option is used).

All counter metrics which are measured in units of time will be converted to seconds
before being rate converted and used in the pmlogsummary calculations. The values
calculated for these metrics are also printed in seconds.

The units will be displayed in the format described by pmUnitsStr(3).

Given either of the -i or -I options, pmlogsummary produces two different timestamp
formats, depending on the interval over which it is run. For an interval greater than 24
hours, the date is displayed in addition to the time at which the maxima and/or minima
occurred. If the extent of the data being checked is less than 24 hours, a more precise
format is used (time is displayed with millisecond precision, but without the date).

NOTES

The average for an individual metric is calculated as follows:

Non-counter metrics are averaged using stochastic averaging - each observation has an
equal weighting towards the calculation of the average (the sum of all values divided by
the total number of values, for each metric).

Counter metrics are averaged using time averaging (by default), but the -x option can be
used to specify that counters be averaged using the stochastic method instead. When
calculating a time average, the sum of the product of each sample value multiplied by the
time difference between each sample, is divided by the total time over which that metric
was logged.

Counter metrics whose measurements do not span 90% of the archive will be printed with the
metric name prefixed by an asterisk (*).

EXAMPLE

$ pmlogsummary -aN -p 1 -B 3 surf network.interface.out.bytes
Log Label (Log Format Version 1)
Performance metrics from host www.sgi.com
commencing Tue Jan 14 20:50:50.317 1997
ending Wed Jan 29 10:13:07.387 1997
network.interface.out.bytes ["xpi0"] 202831.3 202062.5 20618.7 \
1235067.7 971 [<=425435.0] 912 [<=830251.4] 42 [<=1235067.7] \
17 byte / sec
network.interface.out.bytes ["xpi1"] 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1033 [<=0.0] \
1033 [] 0 [] 0 byte / sec
network.interface.out.bytes ["et0"] 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1033 [<=0.0] \
1033 [] 0 [] 0 byte / sec
network.interface.out.bytes ["lo0"] 899.0 895.2 142.6 9583.1 1031 \
[<=3289.4] 1027 [<=6436.2] 3 [<=9583.1] 1 byte / sec

A description of each field in the first line of statistical output, which describes one
instance of the network.interface.out.bytes metric, follows:

┌──────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Field │ Meaning │
├──────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────┤
│["xpi0"] │ instance name │
│202831.3 │ stochastic average │
│202062.5 │ time average │
│20618.7 │ minimum value │
│1235067.7 │ maximum value │
│971 │ total number of values for this instance │
│[<=425435.0] │ range for first bin (20618.7-425435.0) │
│912 │ number of values in first bin │
│[<=830251.4] │ range for second bin (425435.0-830251.4) │
│42 │ number of values in second bin │
│[<=1235067.7] │ range for third bin (830251.4-1235067.7) │
│17 │ number of values in third bin │
│byte / sec │ base units for this metric │
└──────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────┘

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