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PMDABIND2(1) General Commands Manual PMDABIND2(1)
NAME
pmdabind2 - BIND performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)
DESCRIPTION
This PMDA extracts performance data from BIND (Berkeley Internet
Name Domain). It enables collection of most of the statistics
metrics from the Bind server version 9 or later, which includes:
• overall memory statistics
• overall per-query statistics (general queries, EDNS/truncated
responses, Update/Notify/AXFR/IXFR messages)
• overall error statistics (Rejected, SERVFAIL, Update/XFR
failures ...)
• overall statistics per transport protocol, EDNS and per version
of IP protocol
• resolver statistics (successes, errors, round-trip times in
several ranges)
• detailed per-socket statistics with respect to the transport
protocol and IP version including errors
• detailed per-file-descriptor statistics including errors
The PMDA performs per-second collection of the whole data set
(148 metrics on the test environment) with modest requirements
(2% CPU usage on Intel i7-4700MQ @2.4 GHz, cca 30 MB RAM).
If more than 1 requests/sec is performed, the memoized values are
used so that the statistics interface of the Bind server does not
get overloaded.
INSTALLATION
Configure BIND to export XML statistics via its REST interface.
This requires BIND configuration to enable statistics exporting
locally (at least).
statistics-channels {
inet 127.0.0.1 port 8080 allow { 127.0.0.1; };
}
options { zone-statistics yes; }
# ./Install
The hostname (localhost), port (8080 above) and other
configuration information must be specified in both the BIND
configuration file as well as the $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/bind2/bind2.conf
file.
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/bind2
# [ edit bind2.conf ]
host=localhost.localdomain:8080
Once this is setup, you can access the names and values for the
bind2 performance metrics by doing the following as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/bind2
# ./Install
To uninstall, the following must be done as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/bind2
# ./Remove
pmdabind2 is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed
directly. The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the
agent is installed or removed.
FILES
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/bind2/bind2.conf
mandatory configuration file listing monitored bind2
instances
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/bind2/Install
installation script for the pmdabind2 agent
$PCP_PMDAS_DIR/bind2/Remove
undo installation script for the pmdabind2 agent
$PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/bind2.log
default log file for error messages from pmdabind2
PCP ENVIRONMENT
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).
SEE ALSO
PCPIntro(1), pmcd(1), pmdanamed(1), named.conf(5) and named(8).
COLOPHON
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