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PCP-SS(1)                General Commands Manual               PCP-SS(1)

NAME         top

       pcp-ss - report socket statistics

SYNOPSIS         top

       pcp [pcp options] ss [ss options]

DESCRIPTION         top

       pcp-ss reports socket statistics collected by the pmdasockets(1)
       PMDA agent.  The command is intended to be reasonably compatible
       with many of the ss(8) command line options and reporting
       formats, but also offer the advantages of local or remote
       monitoring (in live mode) and also historical replay from a
       previously recorded PCP archive.  Note that since ss(1) has many
       command line options, many of which are the same as standard PCP
       command line options as described in PCPIntro(1), the pcp-ss tool
       should always be invoked by users using the pcp front-end.  This
       allows standard PCP commandline options such as -h, -a, -S, -T,
       -O, -z, etc to be passed without conflict with ss(1) options.
       See the EXAMPLES sections below for typical usage and command
       lines.

       Live mode uses the pcp -h host option and requires the
       pmdasockets(1) PMDA to be installed and enabled on the target
       host (local or remote), see pmdasockets(1) for details on how to
       enable the sockets PMDA on a particular host.  The default source
       is live metrics collected on localhost, if neither of the -h or
       -a options are given.

       Historical/archive replay uses the pcp -a archive option, where
       archive is the basename of a previously recorded PCP archive.
       The archive replay feature is particularly useful because socket
       statistics can be reported for a designated time using the pcp
       --origin option (which defaults to the start time of the
       archive).

EXAMPLES         top

       pcp ss
            Display default basic socket information for the local host.
            This includes Netid (tcp, udp, etc), State (ESTAB,
            TIME_WAIT, etc), Recv-Q and Send-Q queue lengths and the
            local and peer address and port for each socket.

       pcp -h somehost ss -noemitauO
            Display the same basic socket information as above for the
            host somehost, which may be the default localhost.  The
            additional command line arguments (-noemitauO) display one
            line per socket (-O), numeric (-n) service names (default),
            timer information (-o), extended socket details (-e), socket
            memory usage (-m), internal TCP information (-i), both udp
            (-u) and tcp sockets (-t) and both listening and non-
            listening sockets (-a).

       pcp -a somearchive -S'@Wed 16 Jun 2021 12:57:21' ss -noemitauO
            Display the same information as the above example, but for
            the archive somearchive starting at the given time Wed 16
            Jun 2021 12:57:21.  Note the literal @ prefix is required
            for an absolute time, see PCPIntro(1) for details.  The
            archive must of course contain data for the requested time.
            You can use pmdumplog -l somearchive to examine the time
            bounds of somearchive.

       pcp -a somearchive -O-0 ss -noemitauO
            As above, but with an offset of zero seconds (-O-0) before
            the current end of somearchive, i.e. the most recently
            logged data. Note that somearchive may be curently growing
            (i.e. being logged with pmlogger(1)).

OPTIONS         top

       Due to the large number of options supported by pcp-ss, the
       pcp(1) command should always be used to invoke pcp-ss in order to
       specify options such as the metrics source (host or archive) and
       also (in archive mode), the requested start time or offset, and
       timezone using the following options:

       -h, --host
            The remote hostname to connect to in live mode.

       -a, --archive
            The archive file to use for historical sampling

       -O, --origin
            The time offset to use within an archive (implies -a)

       -S, --start
            The start time (e.g. in ctime(3) format) to use when
            replaying an archive.

       -Z, --timezone
            Use a specific timezone.  Since pcp-ss doesn't report
            timestamps, this only affects the interpretation of an
            absolute starting time (-S) or offset (-O).

       -z, --hostzone
            In archive mode, use the timezone of the archive rather than
            the timezone on the local machine running pcp-ss.  The
            timezone, start and finish times of the archive may be
            examined using pmdumplog(1) with the -L option.

       The above pcp options become indirectly available to the pcp-ss
       command via environment variables - refer to PCPIntro(1) for a
       complete description of these options.

       The additional command line options available for pcp-ss itself
       are:

       -h, --help
            show help message and exit

       -V, --version
            output version information

       -n, --numeric
            don't resolve service names (currently always set)

       -a, --all
            display all sockets

       -l, --listening
            display listening sockets

       -o, --options
            show timer information

       -e, --extended
            show detailed socket information

       -m, --memory
            show socket memory usage

       -i, --info
            show internal TCP information

       -4, --ipv4
            display only IP version 4 sockets

       -6, --ipv6
            display only IP version 6 sockets

       -t, --tcp
            display only TCP sockets

       -u, --udp
            display only UDP sockets

       -H, --noheader
            Suppress header line

       -O, --oneline
            socket's data printed on a single line

REPORT         top

       The columns in the pcp-ss report vary according to the command
       line options and have the same interpretation as described in
       ss(8).

       One difference with pcp-ss is that the first line in the report
       begins with '# Timestamp' followed by the timestamp (in the
       requested timezone, see -z and -Z above) of the sample data from
       the host or archive source.  Following the timestamp is the
       currently active filter string for the metrics source.  In
       archive mode, the active filter can be changed dynamically, even
       whilst the archive is being recorded.  This is different to ss(8)
       where the filter is optionally specified on the command line of
       the tool and is always 'live', i.e.  ss(8) does not support
       retrospective replay.  With pcp-ss, the filter is stored in the
       back-end PMDA, see pmdasockets(1), in the metric
       network.persocket.filter.  The default filter is state connected,
       which can be changed by storing a new string value in the
       network.persocket.filter metric using pmstore(1), e.g.  pmstore
       network.persocket.filter "state established".  This will override
       the persistent default filter, which is stored in a PMDA
       configuration file and loaded each time the sockets PMDA is
       started.  See pmdasockets(1) for further details and see ss(8)
       for details of the filter syntax and examples.

PCP ENVIRONMENT         top

       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(5).

       For environment variables affecting PCP tools, see
       pmGetOptions(3).

SEE ALSO         top

       PCPIntro(1), pcp(1), pmdasockets(1), pmlogger(1), pcp.conf(5) and
       ss(8).

COLOPHON         top

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