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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2000-2004 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.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+#
+# summary PMDA help file in the ASCII format
+#
+# lines beginning with a # are ignored
+# lines beginning @ introduce a new entry of the form
+# @ metric_name oneline-text
+# help test goes
+# here over multiple lines
+# ...
+#
+# the metric_name is decoded against the default PMNS -- as a special case,
+# a name of the form NNN.MM (for numeric NNN and MM) is interpreted as an
+# instance domain identification, and the text describes the instance domain
+#
+# blank lines before the @ line are ignored
+#
+
+@ summary.cpu.util CPU utilization
+Fraction of time spent executing in user or system mode, averaged
+over all CPUs. Any time not accountered for here is spent either
+idle or waiting for I/O. Value in the range 0 to 1.
+
+@ summary.cpu.busy Proportion of the CPUs that are busy
+Fraction of the CPUs busy executing in user and/or system mode for more
+than 70% of the time. Value in the range 0 to 1.
+
+@ summary.disk.iops Average disk IOPS
+Average disk throughput in IO operations per second.
+
+@ summary.disk.busy Proportion of the disks that are busy
+Fraction of the disks busy serving at least 30 IOPs. Value in the
+range 0 to 1.
+
+@ summary.netif.packets Average network interface throughput
+Average network interface throughput in packets per second.
+
+@ summary.netif.busy Proportion of the network interfaces that are busy
+Fraction of network interfaces busy serving at least 375 packets per
+second). Value in the range 0 to 1.
+