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diff --git a/man/man3/pmlookupindomtext.3 b/man/man3/pmlookupindomtext.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d674e19 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/pmlookupindomtext.3 @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +'\"macro stdmacro +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved. +.\" +.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it +.\" under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the +.\" Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your +.\" option) any later version. +.\" +.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but +.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY +.\" or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License +.\" for more details. +.\" +.\" +.TH PMLOOKUPINDOMTEXT 3 "PCP" "Performance Co-Pilot" +.SH NAME +\f3pmLookupInDomText\f1 \- return text describing a performance metrics instance domain +.SH "C SYNOPSIS" +.ft 3 +#include <pcp/pmapi.h> +.sp +.nf +int pmLookupInDomText(pmInDom \fIindom\fP, int \fIlevel\fP, char **\fIbuffer\fP); +.fi +.sp +cc ... \-lpcp +.ft 1 +.SH DESCRIPTION +.de CW +.ie t \f(CW\\$1\f1\\$2 +.el \fI\\$1\f1\\$2 +.. +Provided the source of metrics from +the current +Performance Metrics Application Programming Interface (PMAPI) +context is a host, +retrieve descriptive text about the performance +metrics instance domain identified by +.IR indom . +.PP +The value for the instance domain +.I indom +is typically extracted from a +.CW pmDesc +structure, following a call to +.BR pmLookupDesc (3) +for a particular performance metric. +.PP +The argument +.I level +should be +.BR PM_TEXT_ONELINE +for a one-line summary, else +.BR PM_TEXT_HELP +for a more verbose description, suited to a help dialog. +.PP +The space pointed to by +.I buffer +will have been allocated in +.B pmLookupInDomText +with +.BR malloc (3C), +and it is the responsibility of the caller to +.BR free (3C) +the space when it is no longer required. +.PP +.B pmLookupInDomText +returns zero on success. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR chkhelp (1), +.BR newhelp (1), +.BR PMAPI (3), +.BR pmGetConfig (3), +.BR pmLookupDesc (3), +.BR pmLookupText (3), +.BR pcp.conf (5) +and +.BR pcp.env (5). +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +.IP \f3PM_ERR_NOTHOST\f1 +if the current PMAPI context is an archive log +(help and one-line text is not maintained in the archive logs) |