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PMDERIVEDCONTROL(3) Library Functions Manual PMDERIVEDCONTROL(3)

NAME top

   **pmGetDerivedControl**, **pmSetDerivedControl** - get and set controls
   for derived metrics

C SYNOPSIS top

   **#include <pcp/pmapi.h>**

   **int pmGetDerivedControl(int** _what_**, int ***_valuep_**);**
   **int pmSetDerivedControl(int** _what_**, int** _value_**);**

   **cc ... -lpcp**

DESCRIPTION top

   These routines may be used to influence the behaviour of the
   derived metric services that are activated for global derived
   metrics using [pmRegisterDerived(3)](../man3/pmRegisterDerived.3.html), [pmRegisterDerivedMetric(3)](../man3/pmRegisterDerivedMetric.3.html) and
   [pmLoadDerivedConfig(3)](../man3/pmLoadDerivedConfig.3.html), or per-context derived metrics using
   [pmAddDerived(3)](../man3/pmAddDerived.3.html) and [pmAddDerivedMetric(3)](../man3/pmAddDerivedMetric.3.html).

   The _what_ argument selects a control, the _value_ argument provides a
   value for **pmSetDerivedControl** and the _valuep_ argument is used to
   return the value for **pmGetDerivedControl**.

   The _what_ argument has one of the following values:

   **PCP_DERIVED_GLOBAL_LIMIT**
          The maximum number of global derived metrics that may be
          defined.  The value -1 indicates no limit.

   **PCP_DERIVED_CONTEXT_LIMIT**
          The maximum number of per-context derived metrics that may
          be defined.  The value -1 indicates no limit.

   **PCP_DERIVED_DEBUG_SYNTAX**
          Debug diagnostics during parsing of derived metric
          expression.  The value 1 enables the diagnostics, the value
          0 disables them.

   **PCP_DERIVED_DEBUG_SEMANTICS**
          Debug diagnostics for semantic checks during the binding of
          metrics in the derived metric expression to the available
          metrics in a new PMAPI context.  The value 1 enables the
          diagnostics, the value 0 disables them.

   **PCP_DERIVED_DEBUG_EVAL**
          Debug diagnostics when derived metrics are used in PMAPI
          operations like [pmFetch(3)](../man3/pmFetch.3.html), [pmGetChildren(3)](../man3/pmGetChildren.3.html),
          [pmGetChildrenStatus(3)](../man3/pmGetChildrenStatus.3.html), [pmLookupDesc(3)](../man3/pmLookupDesc.3.html), [pmLookupName(3)](../man3/pmLookupName.3.html),
          [pmNameAll(3)](../man3/pmNameAll.3.html), [pmNameID(3)](../man3/pmNameID.3.html) and [pmTraversePMNS(3)](../man3/pmTraversePMNS.3.html).

RETURN VALUES top

   Both routines return 0 on success, else a value less than 0 that
   can be decoded using [pmErrStr(3)](../man3/pmErrStr.3.html).

SEE ALSO top

   [PCPIntro(1)](../man1/PCPIntro.1.html), [pmAddDerived(3)](../man3/pmAddDerived.3.html), [pmAddDerivedMetric(3)](../man3/pmAddDerivedMetric.3.html), [PMAPI(3)](../man3/PMAPI.3.html),
   [pmErrStr(3)](../man3/pmErrStr.3.html), [pmLoadDerivedConfig(3)](../man3/pmLoadDerivedConfig.3.html), [pmRegisterDerived(3)](../man3/pmRegisterDerived.3.html),
   [pmRegisterDerivedMetric(3)](../man3/pmRegisterDerivedMetric.3.html) and [PMNS(5)](../man5/PMNS.5.html).

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