Features/Pcp4

= Feature Name: Performance Co-Pilot 4.0 =

Summary
A major new version of pcp (performance co-pilot).

Owner

 * Name: Frank Ch. Eigler, Mark Goodwin
 * Email: fche@redhat.com, mgoodwin@redhat.com

Current status

 * Targeted release: Fedora 18
 * Last updated: 2012-02-15
 * Percentage of completion: 10%

Detailed Description
PCP 4 may deliver a group of new features:
 * Increased security (SSL transport, authenticated/authorized remote access)
 * RRD format data interoperation
 * Improved user interfaces (pmchart, possible web gui)

(For more possible items, see some upstream plans.)

Benefit to Fedora
The increased security may enabling installing/activating the daemon by default.

Scope
Only the pcp packages would be modified.

How To Test
TBA.

User Experience
TBA.

Dependencies
TBA.

Contingency Plan
In the event some of the improvements don't make it to upstream PCP in time, the then-newest version would be pulled into Fedora.

Documentation
TBA.

Release Notes
TBA.

Comments and Discussion

 * See Talk:Features/Pcp4