Man page - pmdadesc(3)

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pmdaDesc - get the description of a metric from a PMDA

#include <pcp/pmapi.h>
#include <pcp/pmda.h>

int pmdaDesc(pmID pmid , pmDesc * desc , pmdaExt * pmda );

cc ... -lpcp_pmda -lpcp

pmdaDesc uses the standard PMDA (3) data structures to return the pmDesc description in desc for the metric identified by pmid .

The PMDA must be using PMDA_INTERFACE_2 or later, as specified in the call to pmdaDSO (3) or pmdaDaemon (3).

If the pmid does not correspond to any metric supported by this PMDA, pmdaDesc returns PM_ERR_PMID .