or **-i** options.
    
           **-V** , **--verbose**
                This option provides a cryptic summary of the number of
                messages sent and received across the PMAPI interface.
    
           **-z** , **--hostzone**
                Change the reporting timezone to the local timezone at the
                host that is the source of the performance metrics, as
                identified via either the **-h** or **-a** options.
    
           **-Z** _timezone_ , **--timezone** =_timezone_
                By default, **pmprobe** reports the time of day according to the
                local timezone on the system where **pmprobe** is run.  The **-Z**
                option changes the timezone to _timezone_ in the format of the
                environment variable TZ as described in [environ(7)](../man7/environ.7.html).
    
           **-?** , **--help**
                Display usage message and exit.
    

##  EXAMPLES  top

    
    
           $ pmprobe disk.dev
           disk.dev.read 2
           disk.dev.write 2
           disk.dev.total 2
           disk.dev.blkread 2
           disk.dev.blkwrite 2
           disk.dev.blktotal 2
           disk.dev.active 2
           disk.dev.response 2
    
           $ pmprobe -I disk.dev.read disk.dev.write disk.all.total
           disk.dev.read 2 "sda" "sdb"
           disk.dev.write 2 "sda" "sdb"
           disk.all.total 1 PM_IN_NULL
    
           $ pmprobe -v pmcd.numagents pmcd.version pmcd.control.timeout
           pmcd.numagents 1 9
           pmcd.version 1 "5.0.0"
           pmcd.control.timeout 1 5
    
           $ pmprobe -v disk.dev.total disk.all.total
           disk.dev.total -1012 Unknown metric name
           disk.all.total 1 4992466
    

##  FILES  top

    
    
           _$PCP_VAR_DIR/pmns/*_
                default PMNS specification files
    

##  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)](../man5/pcp.conf.5.html).
    
           For environment variables affecting PCP tools, see
           [pmGetOptions(3)](../man3/pmGetOptions.3.html).
    

##  SEE ALSO  top

    
    
           [PCPIntro(1)](../man1/PCPIntro.1.html), [pmcd(1)](../man1/pmcd.1.html), [pmdumplog(1)](../man1/pmdumplog.1.html), [pminfo(1)](../man1/pminfo.1.html), [PMAPI(3)](../man3/PMAPI.3.html),
           [pmErrStr(3)](../man3/pmErrStr.3.html), [pmGetOptions(3)](../man3/pmGetOptions.3.html), [pmSpecLocalPMDA(3)](../man3/pmSpecLocalPMDA.3.html), [pcp.conf(5)](../man5/pcp.conf.5.html),
           [pcp.env(5)](../man5/pcp.env.5.html) and [PMNS(5)](../man5/PMNS.5.html).
    

##  COLOPHON  top

    
    
           This page is part of the _PCP_ (Performance Co-Pilot) project.
           Information about the project can be found at 
           â¨<http://www.pcp.io/>â©.  If you have a bug report for this manual
           page, send it to pcp@groups.io.  This page was obtained from the
           project's upstream Git repository
           â¨<https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git>â© on 2023-12-22.
           (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
           in the repository was 2023-12-16.)  If you discover any rendering
           problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there
           is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
           corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
           (which is _not_ part of the original manual page), send a mail to
           man-pages@man7.org
    
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