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PMDISCOVERSETUP(3) Library Functions Manual PMDISCOVERSETUP(3)
NAME top
**pmDiscoverSetup**, **pmDiscoverSetSlots**, **pmDiscoverSetEventLoop**,
**pmDiscoverSetConfiguration**, **pmDiscoverSetMetricRegistry**,
**pmDiscoverClose** - asynchronous archive location and contents
discovery servicesC SYNOPSIS top
**#include <pcp/pmwebapi.h>**
**int pmDiscoverSetup(pmDiscoverModule ***_module_**, pmDiscoverCallBacks**
*****_callbacks_**, void ***_arg_**);**
**int pmDiscoverSetSlots(pmDiscoverModule ***_module_**, void ***_slots_**);**
**int pmDiscoverSetEventLoop(pmDiscoverModule ***_module_**, void**
*****_uvloop_**);**
**int pmDiscoverSetConfiguration(pmDiscoverModule ***_module_**, struct**
**dict ***_config_**);**
**int pmDiscoverSetMetricRegistry(pmDiscoverModule ***_module_**, struct**
**mmv_registry ***_registry_**);**
**int pmDiscoverClose(pmDiscoverModule ***_module_**);**
**cc ... -lpcp_web**DESCRIPTION top
The **pmDiscoverSetup** and related functions are an integral part of
the **libpcp_web** API library, as used by and described in
[pmwebapi(3)](../man3/pmwebapi.3.html), [pmproxy(1)](../man1/pmproxy.1.html), [pmseries(1)](../man1/pmseries.1.html) and elsewhere. These func‐
tions provide an asynchronous event driven mechanism to automati‐
cally discover PCP archives created by [pmlogger(1)](../man1/pmlogger.1.html) and any other
application capable of writing PCP archives. This includes
[pmrep(1)](../man1/pmrep.1.html) and other applications using the [LOGIMPORT(3)](../man3/LOGIMPORT.3.html) API for im‐
porting performance data into the PCP infrastructure and writing
PCP archives.
The **pmDiscover** API services dynamically discover, monitor and man‐
age directories of PCP archives as they are created, written to,
compressed and eventually deleted. The underlying archive life-
cycle is normally managed by the PCP archive management infra‐
structure (see [pmlogger_daily(1)](../man1/pmlogger%5Fdaily.1.html)). Discovered archives that are
active (currently being written) are "log-tailed" to extract near
live/real-time performance data which is then passed off via reg‐
istered callbacks for further processing, e.g. to add the data to
a key-value server. Archives that are compressed or inactive are
tracked/monitored but **not** log-tailed - this is because compressed
archives never grow and so log-tailing would never discover any
new data. See the **--load** option in [pmseries(1)](../man1/pmseries.1.html) for a supported
mechanism for ingesting previously collected (inctive) PCP
archives, whether compressed or not, into a key-value server.
The **pmDiscover** routines can be configured to automatically discov‐
er and monitor PCP archives in one or more directories as speci‐
fied in the **pmDiscoverModule**, which is initially set up by calling
**pmDiscoverSetConfiguration** to create a _module_ of type **pmDiscover‐**
**Module**, as described above. The resulting _module_ is then passed
to **pmDiscoverSetup** along with an initialized structure of _call‐_
_backs_ of type **pmDiscoverCallBacks**.
Setting up a discovery module and callbacks would normally declare
an instance of **pmDiscoverSettings**, e.g.
#include <pcp/pmwebapi.h>
static pmDiscoverSettings someapp_discover = {
.callbacks.on_source = pmSomeappDiscoverSource,
.callbacks.on_closed = pmSomeappDiscoverClosed,
.callbacks.on_labels = pmSomeappDiscoverLabels,
.callbacks.on_metric = pmSomeappDiscoverMetric,
.callbacks.on_values = pmSomeappDiscoverValues,
.callbacks.on_indom = pmSomeappDiscoverInDom,
.callbacks.on_text = pmSomeappDiscoverText,
.module.on_info = someapp_logging_function,
};
And then initialize this with API calls similar to the following:
pmDiscoverSetEventLoop(&someapp_discover.module, myevents);
pmDiscoverSetConfiguration(&someapp_discover.module, myconfig);
pmDiscoverSetMetricRegistry(&someapp_discover.module, metric_registry);
pmDiscoverSetup(&someapp_discover.module, &someapp_discover.callbacks, &privatedata);
The above code must then implement each of the declared callbacks
etc. to do whatever is required with the data passed in to the
callback. Prototypes for these callbacks can be found in the
**pmwebapi.h** header. The callbacks will be made asynchronously, as
archives are discovered or deleted and as new data is written to
active archive volume and metadata files.
In the case of [pmproxy(1)](../man1/pmproxy.1.html), callbacks are registered to capture
performance data, which is then sent to a key-value server for
fast scalable time-series queries by clients of the [PMWEBAPI(3)](../man3/PMWEBAPI.3.html)
REST API services. Such clients include the [pmseries(1)](../man1/pmseries.1.html) applica‐
tion and [pmproxy(1)](../man1/pmproxy.1.html), which is the back-end REST API server for
**grafana-pcp**, a native **grafana-server**(1) data-source for PCP.DIAGNOSTICS top
Generally zero on success, or on error a negative return code, see
[pmerr(1)](../man1/pmerr.1.html).FILES top
The default archive directory is **$PCP_ARCHIVE_DIR**, which is nor‐
mally **/var/log/pcp/pmlogger**. The API recursively descends all
sub-directories and also dynamically discovers any new directories
or archives found therein.SEE ALSO top
**grafana-server**(1), [pmerr(1)](../man1/pmerr.1.html), [pmlogger(1)](../man1/pmlogger.1.html), [pmproxy(1)](../man1/pmproxy.1.html), [pmseries(1)](../man1/pmseries.1.html),
[PMWEBAPI(3)](../man3/PMWEBAPI.3.html), [mmv_stats_registry(3)](../man3/mmv%5Fstats%5Fregistry.3.html), [PMAPI(3)](../man3/PMAPI.3.html), [pmErrStr(3)](../man3/pmErrStr.3.html),
[pcp.conf(5)](../man5/pcp.conf.5.html) and [pcp.env(5)](../man5/pcp.env.5.html).COLOPHON top
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