How To Install pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 is Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) metrics for the LIO subsystem

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64`

This package provides a PMDA to gather performance metrics from the kernels iSCSI target interface (LIO). The metrics are stored by LIO within the Linux kernels configfs filesystem. The PMDA provides per LUN level stats, and a summary instance per iSCSI target, which aggregates all LUN metrics within the target.

We can use yum to install pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64.

Install pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64

pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lio
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lio/Install
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lio/README.md
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lio/Remove
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lio/pmdalio.python

References

pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-lio.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.