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COLLECTOR

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)     Updated: Feb 10, 1992    Return to Library's README

NAME

collector -- dfstrace data collection server

SYNOPSIS

collector [ -f datadir ] [ -h hostfile ] [ -t summary time ] [ -d RPC2 debug level ] [ -v ]

DESCRIPTION

Collector receives data from agent programs running on data generating clients. It receives data via RPC2, and stores data in a file in datadir of the form hostname.mmmdd.hh:mm, where the hostname is the host from which the data was received, and the time is the file creation time. The maximum file size on the collector is set by a compile time variable, set at about 5MB. In addition to the options below, collector responds to the signals SIGTERM (close files and shutdown), SIGALRM (print a summary of client activity), SIGEMT (turn up RPC2 debugging), and SIGIOT (turn off RPC2 debugging).

OPTIONS

-d num  Set RPC2 debug level to num. 
-f datadir  Put data files in datadir. 
-h hostfile  Preload the hosts listed in hostfile. This is simply a list of Internet addresses from which we expect to get data.

-t summary time  Time between client summaries, in hours.

-v  Verbose mode.  Prints among other things messages on  every transfer, more information on new connections, more extensive client summaries.

DIAGNOSTICS

If started when a collector is already running, will exit.

SEE ALSO

agent, traceinfo, tracelevel  

AUTHOR

Lily B. Mummert


Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
DIAGNOSTICS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

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