synthetic

Man page for the LDMS synthetic plugin

Date:

18 Feb 2018

Manual section:

7

Manual group:

LDMS sampler

SYNOPSIS

Within ldmsd_controller or a configuration file:

config name=synthetic [ <attr>=<value> ]

DESCRIPTION

The synthetic plugin provides metrics yielding waves offset by component_id

CONFIGURATION ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX

The fptrans plugin uses the sampler_base base class. This man page covers only the configuration attributes, or those with default values, specific to the this plugin; see ldms_sampler_base(7) for the attributes of the base class.

config

name=<plugin_name> [schema=<sname>] [origin=<f> height=<f> period=<f>]

configuration line

name=<plugin_name>

This MUST be synthetic

schema=<schema>

Optional schema name. It is intended that the same sampler on different nodes with different metrics have a different schema. If not specified, it will default to `synthetic`.

origin=<origin>

The zero time for periodic functions.

height=<height>

The amplitude of functions.

period=<period>

The function period.

NOTES

None.

BUGS

No known bugs.

EXAMPLES

Within ldmsd_controller or a configuration file:

load name=synthetic
config name=synthetic producer=vm1_1 instance=vm1_1/synthetic
start name=synthetic interval=1000000

SEE ALSO

ldmsd(8), ldms_quickstart(7), ldmsd_controller(8), ldms_sampler_base(7)