PMDAPDNS(1)

✨ PMDAPDNS ✨

okay bestie, so this is pmdapdns from the Performance Co-Pilot era — it's the PowerDNS performance metrics domain agent, aka the PMDA that goes and gets your DNS numbers for you 💅

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🦋 NAME 🦋

pmdapdns — PowerDNS performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, pmdapdns is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) — and what it does is literally export metric values from the PowerDNS authoritative daemon as well as the recursive resolver. both of them. she's multifaceted like that 👑

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🎀 INSTALLATION 🎀

if you want access to the names and values for the PowerDNS performance metrics, do this as root:

# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/pdns
# ./Install

and if you want to undo the installation (no judgement, sometimes we uninstall our exes 💀), do this as root:

# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/pdns
# ./Remove

heads up babes: pmdapdns is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly. like, don't do it. she doesn't work like that 🙈

the Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is installed or removed, so everything stays in sync. it's giving communication 💖

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🧚 FILES 🧚

• $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/pdns/Install — installation script for the pmdapdns agent ✨
• $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/pdns/Remove — undo installation script for the pmdapdns agent 🫶
• $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/pdns.log — default log file for error messages from pmdapdns 📝

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

pmcd(1), pdns_control(8), and rec_control(1) — go read those too, iykyk 🍓

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap. this was 7.2.2 of Performance Co-Pilot — periodt 💜 stay slaying, go collect those metrics ✨