UMA Data Capture Interface (DCI)
Copyright © 1997 The Open Group

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CAE Specification
Systems Management: UMA Specification, Part 3 - Data Capture Interface (DCI)
X/Open Document Number: C427
ISBN: ISBN 1-85912-117-9

• Frontmatter
  • Preface
    • This Document
    • Audience
    • Structure
  • Trademarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Referenced Documents
    • Footnotes
• Introduction
  • Purpose
  • Scope
    • Goals
    • Performance
    • Standardisation and Portability
    • Multiple Metrics Sources
    • Extensibility
    • Efficient Enablement for Multi-system Measurement
    • Polled Metrics and Events
    • Modification of Configuration Data
    • Security
    • Multiprocessor Systems
    • Internationalisation
    • Interoperability
    • Non-goals
  • Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Conformance
• DCI Architectural Description
  • Overview
  • DCI Services
  • DCI Components
  • Metrics Name Space
  • Secure Implementation
  • Operating System Interaction
  • Overview of DCI Functions
  • Typical Use of DCI Functions
    • Polled Data Acquisition
  • Possible Implementation Strategies
• Overview of the DCI Specification
  • Conventions
    • Naming Conventions
    • Data Type Conventions
    • Treatment of Variable Length Structures
  • Metrics Name Space
    • Mapping DCI Name Space to a Network Representation
  • DCI API Data Types
    • DCIClassId
    • DCIDatumId
    • DCIInstanceId
    • DCIMetricId
      • Use of DCI Name Space Structures
    • DCIDatumId Reservation
      • Special polled and event metrics
      • Support for derivation of metrics
    • DCIMetricId Code Sample
    • DCIClassId Code Sample
    • DCIInstanceId
    • DCIInstanceId Structure Examples
    • Wildcards
    • Access Control
  • DCI Name Space Attribute Structures
    • DCIClassAttr
      • DCILabel
      • DCIInstLevel
      • DCIDataAttr
      • DCIEventAttr
    • DCIInstAttr
    • Events and Event Data Attributes
      • DCIEventDataAttr
      • DCIEvent
    • Data Types
    • Measurement Units
    • Invalid Data
    • DCI Server/Provider Communication
      • Provider Operations for Polled Metrics
      • Provider Methods for Polled Metrics
  • DCI Routine Return Status and Structures
• DCI Routines Overview
  • Routine Summary and Subset Implementations
    • Basic Support
    • Multiple Providers
    • Access Control
    • Event Delivery Support
    • Set Capability
  • Routine Status Values
• Metrics Consumer Routines
  • dciAddHandleMetric
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciAlloc
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciClose
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciConfigure
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciFree
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciGetClassAttributes
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciGetData
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciGetInstAttributes
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciInitialize
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciListClassId
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciListInstanceId
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciOpen
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciPerror
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • LIMITATIONS
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciRemoveHandleMetric
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciSetData
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciTerminate
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
• Metrics Provider Routines
  • dciAddInstance
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciPostData
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciRegister
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciRemoveInstance
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciSetClassAccess
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciSetInstAccess
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciUnregister
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciWaitRequest
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
• Event Routines
  • dciPostEvent
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
  • dciWaitEvent
    • NAME
    • SYNOPSIS
    • ARGUMENTS
    • DESCRIPTION
    • RETURN VALUES
• C Language Header Files
  • <uma.h>
  • <dci.h>
• Glossary
  • API
  • Data Capture Interface
  • Data Capture Layer
  • DCI
  • DCI server
  • DCL
  • event, event metric
  • i18n
  • metric
  • metric class
  • metric class instance
  • metrics consumer
  • metrics provider
  • metric value
  • MLI
  • multiprocessor system
  • octet
  • operating system
  • PMWG
  • polled metric
  • security
  • system space
  • user space
  • UMA
• INDEX

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