NAME
pmGetInDomArchive - get instance identifiers for a performance metrics
instance domain
C SYNOPSIS
#include <pcp/pmapi.h>
int pmGetInDomArchive(pmInDom indom, int **instlist, char ***namelist)
cc ... -lpcp
DESCRIPTION
Provided the current Performance Metrics Application Programming
Interface (PMAPI) context is associated with an archive log,
pmGetInDomArchive will scan the union of all the instance domain
metadata for the instance domain indom, and return via instlist the
internal instance identifiers for all instances, and via namelist the
full external identifiers for all instances.
This routine is a specialized version of the more general PMAPI routine
pmGetInDom.
The number of instances found is returned as the function value (else
less than zero to indicate an error).
The value for the instance domain indom is typically extracted from a
pmDesc structure, following a call to pmLookupDesc(3) for a particular
performance metric.
The resulting lists of instance identifiers (instlist and namelist),
and the names that the elements of namelist point to, will have been
allocated by pmGetInDomArchive with two calls to malloc(3C), and it is
the responsibility of the caller to free(instlist) and free(namelist)
to release the space when it is no longer required.
When the result of pmGetInDomArchive is less than one, both instlist
and namelist are undefined (no space will have been allocated, and so
calling free(3C) is a singularly bad idea).
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(4). Values for these variables may be
obtained programatically using the pmGetConfig(3) function.
SEE ALSO
PMAPI(3), pmGetConfig(3), pmGetInDom(3), pmLookupDesc(3),
pmLookupInDomArchive(3), pmNameInDomArchive(3), pcp.conf(4) and
pcp.env(4).
DIAGNOSTICS
PM_ERR_NOTARCHIVE
the current PMAPI context is not associated with an archive log
PM_ERR_INDOM_LOG
indom is not a defined instance domain identifier for the
archive log