NAME
     pmafm - Performance Co-Pilot archive folio manager

SYNOPSIS
     pmafm folioname [command [arg ...]]

DESCRIPTION
     A collection of one or more Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive logs may
     be combined with a control file to produce a PCP archive folio.  Archive
     folios are created using either mkaf(1) or the interactive ``record
     mode'' services of PCP clients like pmchart(1).

     pmafm provides a number of services that may be used to process folios.
     In particular, it provides support for execution of PCP tools using one
     or more of the component archive logs within an archive folio.

     The target folio is identified by the folio control file folioname.  The
     syntax for a folio control file is described in mkaf(1).

     If present, the command and arguments following folioname are interpreted
     and executed as a single command, otherwise commands are read from
     standard input.

     The following commands are supported.

     archives
          Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.

     archives N[,...]
          Archives within a folio are numbered 1, 2, etc.  Subsequent commands
          are restricted to apply only to the designated archives.

     archives name[,...]
          Archives within a folio have unique names.  Subsequent commands are
          restricted to apply only to the designated archives.

     check
          Validate the presence and format of each file in the folio and the
          component archives.

     help
          A brief reminder of the command syntax.  ? is a synonym for help.

     hosts
          Subsequent commands apply to all archives in the folio.

     hosts hostname[,...]
          Subsequent commands are restricted to apply only to those archives
          that match the designated hostnames.

     list [verbose]
          Display the contents of the folio.  By default the control header
          and the ordinal number, hostname and archive base name for each
          archive in the folio.  The verbose option causes pmafm to dump the
          label record from each archive using pmdumplog -l.





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          The first named archive in the folio is assumed to be associated
          with the default host for any tool that tries to replay multiple
          archives from the folio.

     quit
          Exit pmafm.

     remove
          Echo on standard output the sh(1) commands required to remove all of
          the physical files associated with this archive folio.

     repeat tool [arg ...]
          Execute the known PCP tool once per selected archive.  For example,
          the command
               repeat pmval -t60 kernel.all.load
          would run pmval(1) once per archive, with an appropriate -a
          argument.

     replay
          Some archive folios are created by tools (e.g. pmchart(1)) that
          provide sufficient information to allow all of the information in
          all of the archives of a folio to be replayed.

     [run] tool [arg ...]
          Execute the known PCP tool on the selected archives.  Some PCP tools
          are able to process multiple concurrent archives, and in this case
          the tool is run once with the list of all selected archives passed
          via a -a argument.  Otherwise, this command is synonymous with
          repeat.

     selections
          Display those archives that would be selected for processing with a
          repeat, replay or run command.

     The restrictions via any hosts and archives commands are conjuncted.
     These restrictions serve to limit the specific archives processed in the
     subsequent repeat, replay, run and selections commands.  By default, all
     archives are selected.

     Keywords in commands may be abbreviated provided no ambiguity is
     introduced, e.g.  help, hel and he are synonymous, but h is ambiguous.

FILES
     $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/*
               control files that define the behavior of each PCP tool known
               to pmafm.  This information may be customized or extended, see
               $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm/pcp for documentation of the syntax
               and semantics of these files.
     $HOME/.pcp/pmafm/*
               User customization of the control files.  All files in this
               directory are treated in the same manner as control files in
               the $PCP_VAR_DIR/config/pmafm directory.


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).

SEE ALSO
     mkaf(1), pmchart(1), pmview(1), PMAPI(3), pmRecordSetup(3), pcp.conf(4)
     and pcp.env(4).

DIAGNOSTICS
     Many, but all are intended to be easily understood.


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