NAME¶
mrtg2pcp - Import mrtg data and create a PCP archive
SYNOPSIS¶
mrtg2pcp hostname devname timezone infile
outfile
DESCRIPTION¶
mrtg2pcp is intended to read an MRTG log file as created by
mrtg(1) and translate this into a Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive
with the basename
outfile. The
hostname,
devname, and
timezone arguments specify information about the system for which the
statistics were gathered.
The resultant PCP achive may be used with all the PCP client tools to graph
subsets of the data using
pmchart(1), perform data reduction and
reporting, filter with the PCP inference engine
pmie(1), etc.
A series of physical files will be created with the prefix
outfile. These
are
outfile.0 (the performance data),
outfile.meta
(the metadata that describes the performance data) and
outfile.index (a temporal index to improve efficiency of replay
operations for the archive). If any of these files exists already, then
mrtg2pcp will
not overwrite them and will exit with an error
message of the form
__pmLogNewFile: "blah.0" already exists, not over-written
mrtg2pcp is a Perl script that uses the PCP::LogImport Perl wrapper
around the PCP
libpcp_import library, and as such could be used as an
example to develop new tools to import other types of performance data and
create PCP archives.
SEE ALSO¶
logimport(3),
PCP::LogImport(3pm),
pmchart(1),
pmie(1) pmlogger(1).