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NAME
pcp2zabbix - pcp-to-zabbix metrics exporter
SYNOPSIS
pcp2zabbix [-5CGHIjlLnrRvV?] [-4 action] [-8|-9 limit] [-a archive] [-A align] [--archive-folio folio]
[-b|-B space-scale] [-c config] [--container container] [--daemonize] [-e derived] [-E send-interval] [-g
server] [-h host] [-i instances] [-J rank] [-K spec] [-N predicate] [-O origin] [-p port] [-P|-0
precision] [-q|-Q count-scale] [-s samples] [-S starttime] [-t interval] [-T endtime] [-x prefix] [-X
hostname] [-y|-Y time-scale] metricspec [...]
DESCRIPTION
pcp2zabbix is a customizable performance metrics exporter tool from PCP to Zabbix. Any available
performance metric, live or archived, system and/or application, can be selected for exporting using
either command line arguments or a configuration file.
pcp2zabbix is a close relative of pmrep(1). Refer to pmrep(1) for the metricspec description accepted on
pcp2zabbix command line. See pmrep.conf(5) for description of the pcp2zabbix.conf configuration file
overall syntax. This page describes pcp2zabbix specific options and configuration file differences with
pmrep.conf(5). pmrep(1) also lists some usage examples of which most are applicable with pcp2zabbix as
well.
Only the command line options listed on this page are supported, other options recognized by pmrep(1) are
not supported.
Options via environment values (see pmGetOptions(3)) override the corresponding built-in default values
(if any). Configuration file options override the corresponding environment variables (if any). Command
line options override the corresponding configuration file options (if any).
CONFIGURATION FILE
pcp2zabbix uses a configuration file with overall syntax described in pmrep.conf(5). The following
options are common with pmrep.conf: version, source, speclocal, derived, header, globals, samples,
interval, type, type_prefer, ignore_incompat, names_change, instances, live_filter, rank, limit_filter,
limit_filter_force, invert_filter, predicate, omit_flat, precision, precision_force, count_scale,
count_scale_force, space_scale, space_scale_force, time_scale, time_scale_force. The output option is
recognized but ignored for pmrep.conf compatibility.
pcp2zabbix specific options
zabbix_server (string)
Hostname or IP address of Zabbix server to send the metrics to. If a host is monitored by a proxy,
proxy hostname or IP address should be used instead. Corresponding command line option is -g.
Default is localhost.
zabbix_port (integer)
Specify port number of server trapper running on the server. Corresponding command line option is
-p. Default is 10051.
zabbix_host (string)
Specify agent hostname as registered in Zabbix frontend. Host IP address and DNS name will not work.
Corresponding command line option is -X. Defaults to the metrics source host.
zabbix_interval (string)
Indicates the interval to send the metrics to the Zabbix server. This can be longer than the generic
interval to minimize the overhead when communicating with the server (as each send creates a new
connection). Follows the time syntax described in PCPIntro(1). Corresponding command line option is
-E. Defaults to the generic interval. Zabbix tools send at most 250 metrics at a time. Ignored
when reading metrics from PCP archives, in which case metrics will be sent roughly at 250 metric
batches.
zabbix_prefix (string)
Specify the prefix for metrics sent to the Zabbix server. Corresponding command line option is -x.
Default is .pcp.
zabbix_lld (boolean)
Specify whether to enable Zabbix low-level discovery. Corresponding command line option is -l.
Default is no.
OPTIONS
The available command line options are:
-0 precision, --precision-force=precision
Like -P but this option will override per-metric specifications.
-4 action, --names-change=action
Specify which action to take on receiving a metric names change event during sampling. These events
occur when a PMDA discovers new metrics sometime after starting up, and informs running client tools
like pcp2zabbix. Valid values for action are update (refresh metrics being sampled), ignore (do
nothing - the default behaviour) and abort (exit the program if such an event happens).
-5, --ignore-unknown
Silently ignore any metric name that cannot be resolved. At least one metric must be found for the
tool to start.
-8 limit, --limit-filter=limit
Limit results to instances with values above/below limit. A positive integer will include instances
with values at or above the limit in reporting. A negative integer will include instances with
values at or below the limit in reporting. A value of zero performs no limit filtering. This
option will not override possible per-metric specifications. See also -J and -N.
-9 limit, --limit-filter-force=limit
Like -8 but this option will override per-metric specifications.
-a archive, --archive=archive
Performance metric values are retrieved from the set of Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive log files
identified by the archive argument, which is a comma-separated list of names, each of which may be
the base name of an archive or the name of a directory containing one or more archives.
-A align, --align=align
Force the initial sample to be aligned on the boundary of a natural time unit align. Refer to
PCPIntro(1) for a complete description of the syntax for align.
--archive-folio=folio
Read metric source archives from the PCP archive folio created by tools like pmchart(1) or, less
often, manually with mkaf(1).
-b scale, --space-scale=scale
Unit/scale for space (byte) metrics, possible values include bytes, Kbytes, KB, Mbytes, MB, and so
forth. This option will not override possible per-metric specifications. See also
pmParseUnitsStr(3).
-B scale, --space-scale-force=scale
Like -b but this option will override per-metric specifications.
-c config, --config=config
Specify the config file or directory to use. In case config is a directory all files under it
ending .conf will be included. The default is the first found of: ./pcp2zabbix.conf,
$HOME/.pcp2zabbix.conf, $HOME/pcp/pcp2zabbix.conf, and $PCP_SYSCONF_DIR/pcp2zabbix.conf. For
details, see the above section and pmrep.conf(5).
--container=container
Fetch performance metrics from the specified container, either local or remote (see -h).
-C, --check
Exit before reporting any values, but after parsing the configuration and metrics and printing
possible headers.
--daemonize
Daemonize on startup.
-e derived, --derived=derived
Specify derived performance metrics. If derived starts with a slash (``/'') or with a dot (``.'')
it will be interpreted as a derived metrics configuration file, otherwise it will be interpreted as
comma- or semicolon-separated derived metric expressions. For details see pmLoadDerivedConfig(3)
and pmRegisterDerived(3).
-E interval, --zabbix-interval=interval
Specify the interval to send metrics to the server. See zabbix_interval description above for
details.
-g server, --zabbix-server=server
Zabbix server to send the metrics to.
-G, --no-globals
Do not include global metrics in reporting (see pmrep.conf(5)).
-h host, --host=host
Fetch performance metrics from pmcd(1) on host, rather than from the default localhost.
-H, --no-header
Do not print any headers.
-i instances, --instances=instances
Retrieve and report only the specified metric instances. By default all instances, present and
future, are reported.
Refer to pmrep(1) for complete description of this option.
-I, --ignore-incompat
Ignore incompatible metrics. By default incompatible metrics (that is, their type is unsupported or
they cannot be scaled as requested) will cause pcp2zabbix to terminate with an error message. With
this option all incompatible metrics are silently omitted from reporting. This may be especially
useful when requesting non-leaf nodes of the PMNS tree for reporting.
-l, --zabbix-lld
Add low-level discovery (LLD) metrics. This allows PCP metric instance domains to be sent to
Zabbix, so that prototype items/triggers/graphs may be automatically constructed by Zabbix. For
each PCP metric with an instance domain, the key pcp.discovery[pcp.met.ric] is sent periodically.
This symbol should be added to a discovery rule, and will define the {#PCP.MET.RIC} LLD macro. This
macro can in turn be used to define prototype items/triggers/graphs. The names are adjusted if -x
was given to override the pcp. prefix.
-j, --live-filter
Perform instance live filtering. This allows capturing all named instances even if processes are
restarted at some point (unlike without live filtering). Performing live filtering over a huge num‐
ber of instances will add some internal overhead so a bit of user caution is advised. See also -n.
-J rank, --rank=rank
Limit results to highest/lowest ranked instances of set-valued metrics. A positive integer will in‐
clude highest valued instances in reporting. A negative integer will include lowest valued in‐
stances in reporting. A value of zero performs no ranking. Ranking does not imply sorting, see -6.
See also -8.
-K spec, --spec-local=spec
When fetching metrics from a local context (see -L), the -K option may be used to control the DSO
PMDAs that should be made accessible. The spec argument conforms to the syntax described in pm‐
SpecLocalPMDA(3). More than one -K option may be used.
-L, --local-PMDA
Use a local context to collect metrics from DSO PMDAs on the local host without PMCD. See also -K.
-n, --invert-filter
Perform ranking before live filtering. By default instance live filtering (when requested, see -j)
happens before instance ranking (when requested, see -J). With this option the logic is inverted
and ranking happens before live filtering.
-N predicate, --predicate=predicate
Specify a comma-separated list of predicate filter reference metrics. By default ranking (see -J)
happens for each metric individually. With predicates, ranking is done only for the specified pred‐
icate metrics. When reporting, rest of the metrics sharing the same instance domain (see PCPIn‐
tro(1)) as the predicate will include only the highest/lowest ranking instances of the corresponding
predicate. Ranking does not imply sorting, see -6.
So for example, using proc.memory.rss (resident memory size of process) as the predicate metric to‐
gether with proc.io.total_bytes and mem.util.used as metrics to be reported, only the processes us‐
ing most/least (as per -J) memory will be included when reporting total bytes written by processes.
Since mem.util.used is a single-valued metric (thus not sharing the same instance domain as the
process related metrics), it will be reported as usual.
-O origin, --origin=origin
When reporting archived metrics, start reporting at origin within the time window (see -S and -T).
Refer to PCPIntro(1) for a complete description of the syntax for origin.
-p port, --zabbix-port=port
Zabbix server port number.
-P precision, --precision=precision
Use precision for numeric non-integer output values. The default is to use 3 decimal places (when
applicable). This option will not override possible per-metric specifications.
-q scale, --count-scale=scale
Unit/scale for count metrics, possible values include count x 10^-1, count, count x 10, count x
10^2, and so forth from 10^-8 to 10^7. (These values are currently space-sensitive.) This option
will not override possible per-metric specifications. See also pmParseUnitsStr(3).
-Q scale, --count-scale-force=scale
Like -q but this option will override per-metric specifications.
-r, --raw
Output raw metric values, do not convert cumulative counters to rates. This option will override
possible per-metric specifications.
-R, --raw-prefer
Like -r but this option will not override per-metric specifications.
-s samples, --samples=samples
The argument samples defines the number of samples to be retrieved and reported. If samples is 0 or
-s is not specified, pcp2zabbix will sample and report continuously (in real time mode) or until the
end of the set of PCP archives (in archive mode). See also -T.
-S starttime, --start=starttime
When reporting archived metrics, the report will be restricted to those records logged at or after
starttime. Refer to PCPIntro(1) for a complete description of the syntax for starttime.
-t interval, --interval=interval
Set the reporting interval to something other than the default 1 second. The interval argument fol‐
lows the syntax described in PCPIntro(1), and in the simplest form may be an unsigned integer (the
implied units in this case are seconds). See also the -T option.
-T endtime, --finish=endtime
When reporting archived metrics, the report will be restricted to those records logged before or at
endtime. Refer to PCPIntro(1) for a complete description of the syntax for endtime.
When used to define the runtime before pcp2zabbix will exit, if no samples is given (see -s) then
the number of reported samples depends on interval (see -t). If samples is given then interval will
be adjusted to allow reporting of samples during runtime. In case all of -T, -s, and -t are given,
endtime determines the actual time pcp2zabbix will run.
-v, --omit-flat
Report only set-valued metrics with instances (e.g. disk.dev.read) and omit single-valued ``flat''
metrics without instances (e.g. kernel.all.sysfork). See -i and -I.
-V, --version
Display version number and exit.
-x prefix, --zabbix-prefix=prefix
Metrics prefix for measurements sent to the server.
-X hostname, --zabbix-host=hostname
Specify the agent hostname as registered in Zabbix frontend.
-y scale, --time-scale=scale
Unit/scale for time metrics, possible values include nanosec, ns, microsec, us, millisec, ms, and so
forth up to hour, hr. This option will not override possible per-metric specifications. See also
pmParseUnitsStr(3).
-Y scale, --time-scale-force=scale
Like -y but this option will override per-metric specifications.
-?, --help
Display usage message and exit.
FILES
pcp2zabbix.conf
pcp2zabbix configuration file (see -c)
PCP ENVIRONMENT
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).
For environment variables affecting PCP tools, see pmGetOptions(3).
SEE ALSO
mkaf(1), PCPIntro(1), pcp(1), pcp2elasticsearch(1), pcp2graphite(1), pcp2influxdb(1), pcp2json(1),
pcp2spark(1), pcp2xlsx(1), pcp2xml(1), pmcd(1), pminfo(1), pmrep(1), pmGetOptions(3), pmSpecLocalPMDA(3),
pmLoadDerivedConfig(3), pmParseUnitsStr(3), pmRegisterDerived(3), zbxpcp(3), LOGARCHIVE(5), pcp.conf(5),
PMNS(5) and pmrep.conf(5).
Performance Co-Pilot PCP PCP2ZABBIX(1)