diff --git a/examples/influxdb-grafana/run-pcm.sh b/examples/influxdb-grafana/run-pcm.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-
-#http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt
-#
-#
-#Copyright 2015 Intel Corporation
-#
-#Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-#you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-#You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-#Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-#distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-#WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-#See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-#limitations under the License.
-
-die () {
-    echo >&2 "$@"
-    exit 1
-}
-
-[ "$#" -eq 1 ] || die "Error: Expected to get one or more machine names as arguments."
-[ "${PULSE_PATH}x" != "x" ] || die "Error: PULSE_PATH must be set"
-command -v docker-machine >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "Error: docker-machine is required."
-command -v docker-compose >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "Error: docker-compose is required."
-command -v docker >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "Error: docker is required."
-command -v netcat >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "Error: netcat is required."
-
-
-#docker machine ip
-dm_ip=$(docker-machine ip $1) || die 
-echo ">>docker machine ip: ${dm_ip}"
-
-#start containers
-docker-compose up -d
-
-echo -n ">>waiting for influxdb and grafana to start"
-
-# wait for influxdb to start up
-while ! curl --silent -G "http://${dm_ip}:8086/query?u=admin&p=admin" --data-urlencode "q=SHOW DATABASES" 2>&1 > /dev/null ; do   
-  sleep 1 
-  echo -n "."
-done
-echo ""
-
-#influxdb IP 
-influx_ip=$(docker inspect --format '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' influxdbgrafana_influxdb_1)
-echo ">>influxdb ip: ${influx_ip}"
-
-# create pulse database in influxdb
-curl -G "http://${dm_ip}:8086/ping"
-echo -n ">>deleting pulse influx db (if it exists) => "
-curl -G "http://${dm_ip}:8086/query?u=admin&p=admin" --data-urlencode "q=DROP DATABASE pulse"
-echo ""
-echo -n ">>creating pulse influx db => "
-curl -G "http://${dm_ip}:8086/query?u=admin&p=admin" --data-urlencode "q=CREATE DATABASE pulse"
-echo ""
-
-# create influxdb datasource in grafana
-echo -n ">>adding influxdb datasource to grafana => "
-COOKIEJAR=$(mktemp -t 'pulse-tmp')
-curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8' \
-	--data-binary '{"user":"admin","email":"","password":"admin"}' \
-    --cookie-jar "$COOKIEJAR" \
-    "http://${dm_ip}:3000/login"
-
-curl --cookie "$COOKIEJAR" \
-	-X POST \
-	--silent \
-	-H 'Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8' \
-	--data-binary "{\"name\":\"influx\",\"type\":\"influxdb\",\"url\":\"http://${influx_ip}:8086\",\"access\":\"proxy\",\"database\":\"pulse\",\"user\":\"admin\",\"password\":\"admin\"}" \
-	"http://${dm_ip}:3000/api/datasources"
-echo ""
-
-dashboard=$(cat $PULSE_PATH/../examples/influxdb-grafana/grafana/pcm-psutil.json)
-curl --cookie "$COOKIEJAR" \
-	-X POST \
-	--silent \
-	-H 'Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8' \
-	--data "$dashboard" \
-	"http://${dm_ip}:3000/api/dashboards/db"
-echo ""
-
-echo -n ">>starting pulsed"
-$PULSE_PATH/bin/pulsed --log-level 1 --auto-discover $PULSE_PATH/plugin -t 0 > /tmp/pulse.out 2>&1  &
-echo ""
-
-sleep 3
-
-$PULSE_PATH/bin/pulsectl plugin load /Users/jrcookli/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.5/pulse/src/github.com/intelsdi-x/pulse-plugin-publisher-influxdb/build/rootfs/pulse-plugin-publisher-influxdb
-
-echo -n ">>adding pulse task"
-TASK="${TMPDIR}/pulse-task-$$.json"
-echo "$TASK"
-cat $PULSE_PATH/../examples/tasks/pcm-influx.json | sed s/INFLUXDB_IP/${dm_ip}/ > $TASK 
-$PULSE_PATH/bin/pulsectl task create -t $TASK
-
-sleep 1
-
-echo ">>starting pulse task"
-$PULSE_PATH/bin/pulsectl task start 1
-
-echo ""
-echo "Grafana Dashboard => http://${dm_ip}:3000/dashboard/db/pulse-dashboard"
-echo "Influxdb UI       => http://${dm_ip}:8083"
-echo ""
-echo "Press enter to start viewing the pulse.log" 
-read 
-tail -f /tmp/pulse.out
-
diff --git a/examples/tasks/pcm-influx.json b/examples/tasks/pcm-influx.json
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-{
-    "version": 1,
-    "schedule": {
-        "type": "simple",
-        "interval": "1s"
-    },
-    "workflow": {
-        "collect": {
-            "metrics": {    
-                "/psutil/load/load1": {},
-                "/psutil/load/load5": {},
-                "/psutil/load/load15": {},                            
-                "/intel/pcm/IPC": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/L2CLK": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/L2HIT": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/L2MISS": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/EXEC": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/FREQ": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/INST": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/INSTnom": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/INSTnom%": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/L3CLK": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/L3HIT": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/L3MISS": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/PhysIPC": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/PhysIPC%": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/Proc Energy (Joules)": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/READ": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/SKT0": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/TEMP": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/TIME(ticks)": {},
-                "/intel/pcm/WRITE": {}
-            },
-            "config": {
-                "/intel/dummy": {
-                    "password": "secret",
-                    "user": "root"
-                }
-            },
-            "process": null,        
-            "publish": [
-                {
-                    "plugin_name": "influx",
-                    "plugin_version": 0,
-                    "config": {
-                        "host": "INFLUXDB_IP",
-                        "port": 8086,
-                        "database": "pulse",
-                        "user": "admin",
-                        "password": "admin"                            
-                    }
-                }
-            ]
-        }
-    }
-}