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NAME top

   **pmdazfs** - ZFS filesystem performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)
   for Linux

SYNOPSIS top

   **$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/linux_zfs/pmdazfs** [**-d** _domain_] [**-l** _logfile_]

DESCRIPTION top

   **pmdazfs** is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which
   extracts performance metrics describing the state of the ZFS
   filesystem from the stats files located in /proc.

   The **zfs** PMDA exports metrics that measure information about
   caching (ARC, L2ARC, ZIL, VDEV), buffering, RAIDZ, dnode
   operations and pools IO.

   A brief description of the **pmdazfs** command line options follows:

   **-d** The performance metrics _domain_ number must be set to a unique
        value.

   **-l** Location of the log file.  By default, a log file named
        _zfs.log_ is written in the current directory of [pmcd(1)](../man1/pmcd.1.html) when
        **pmdazfs** is started, i.e.  **$PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd**.  If the log file
        cannot be created or is not writable, output is written to
        the standard error instead.

INSTALLATION top

   OpenZFS is not included in PCP, and has to be installed on the
   system from the available packages or source.  Once OpenZFS is
   installed and configured, the stats files should appear in /proc
   and PMDA can be added to PMCD using the Install script:

        # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/zfs
        # ./Install

   To remove PMDA use the Remove script:

        # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/zfs
        # ./Remove

SEE ALSO top

   [PCPIntro(1)](../man1/PCPIntro.1.html), [pmcd(1)](../man1/pmcd.1.html), [pcp.conf(5)](../man5/pcp.conf.5.html) and [pcp.env(5)](../man5/pcp.env.5.html).

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