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gatherctl

gatherctl is a simple shell program for controling the gatherd(8) metric collection daemon. It provides the ability to manipulate the state of the daemon as well as online loading and unloading of metric collection plugins.

h

print help message

s

print status of daemon

i

initialize gathering service

t

terminate gathering service

b

start sampling plugins

e

stop sampling plugins

l pluginlib

load plugin library

u pluginlib

unload plugin library

v pluginlib

view/list metrics supported by plugin library

q

quit/exit control utility

k

kill gathering daemon

d

start gathering daemon

/etc/gatherd.conf

This file contains the daemon configuration settings. See gatherd.conf(5) for more information.

The SBLIM project maintains a mailing list to which you should direct all questions regarding sfcb, sfcc, wbemcli, the metric data gatherer, or any of the SBLIM providers. To subscribe to this list visit:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sblim-issues

Please report bugs you discover to the bug tracker. The SBLIM project bug tracking page can be found at:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=128809&atid=712784

Please refer to the AUTHORS file distributed with sblim-gather.

Copyright © 2003-2012 IBM Corp.

gatherctl is distributed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License ("Agreement"). Any use, reproduction or distribution of this program constitutes recipeients acceptance of the agreement.

You can obtain a current copy of the Eclipse Public License from http://www.opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php

gatherd(8), gatherd.conf(5),

gatherd(8).