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

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-shping.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcp-pmda-shping.x86_64 is Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) metrics for shell command responses

Introduction

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

What is `pcp-pmda-shping.x86_64`

This package contains the PCP Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) for collecting metrics about quality of service and response time measurements of arbitrary shell commands.

We can use yum to install pcp-pmda-shping.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-shping.x86_64.

Install pcp-pmda-shping.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-shping.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

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

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

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

sudo yum remove pcp-pmda-shping.x86_64

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

/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/Install
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/README
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/Remove
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/domain.h
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/help
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/pmdashping
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/pmns
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/root
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/sample.conf

References

pcp-pmda-shping.x86_64 website

Summary

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