Performance Co-Pilot PMDA for Field Accessible Reliability Metrics (FARM) Log Stats
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This PMDA is capable of collecting Seagate vendor specific Field Accessible Reliability
Metrics (FARM) logs from Seagate drives, statistics are collected from smartmontools version
7.3+ and on modern Seagate drives that provide access to GP Log 0xA6 for SATA drives
and GP Log 0x3D for SAS drives.

This PMDA collects its data through the smartctl utility and requires that the
smartmontools package is installed in order to function.

Metrics
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The file ./help contains descriptions for all of the metrics which are
exposed by this PMDA.

Once the PMDA has been installed, the following command will list all of
the available metrics and their explanatory "help" text:

    + # $ pminfo -fT farm

Installation
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    + # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/farm

    + Check that there is no clash in the Performance Metrics Domain
      defined in ./domain.h and the other PMDA's currently in use (see
      $PCP_PMCDCONF_PATH). If there is, edit ./domain.h to choose another
      domain number.

    + Then simply use

        # ./Install

 	and choose both the “collector” and “monitor” installation
        configuration options.

De-Installation
===============

    + Simply use

        # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/farm
        #./Remove
