Enabling the Remote Agent System

In order to collect data remotely, you must enable the Remote Agent system for data collection.

To enable remote data collection on the Remote Agent system:

1. If you want to collect sampling data remotely, you must load the sampling driver in the appropriate kernel prior to starting the Remote Agent.  To check if the driver is already loaded, type /sbin/lsmod | grep vtune_drv.  If no output is shown from this command, then type /opt/intel/vtune/vdk/insmod-vtune to load the appropriate sampling driver for your kernel.  If this fails, then you may need to build a sampling driver for your kernel.  See /opt/intel/vtune/vdk/src/README for details.

2. Start the remote agent,  /opt/intel/vtune/bin/vtserver -d /path/to/data/directory where optional argument -d /path/to/data/directory specifies where to store temporary (but potentially large) performance data.  By default, the global data directory <install-dir>/rdc/global_data is used.

Note

See Troubleshooting Remote Data Collection for a list of the issues you may face when collecting data remotely.