How To Install pcp-webapi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-webapi.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcp-webapi.x86_64 is Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) web API service

Introduction

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

What is `pcp-webapi.x86_64`

Provides a daemon (pmwebd) that binds a large subset of the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) client API (PMAPI) to RESTful web applications using the HTTP (PMWEBAPI) protocol.

We can use yum to install pcp-webapi.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-webapi.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install pcp-webapi.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcp-webapi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pcp-webapi.x86_64

pcp-webapi.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pcp/pmwebd
/etc/pcp/pmwebd/pmwebd.options
/usr/lib/systemd/system/pmwebd.service
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pmwebd
/usr/share/pcp
/usr/share/pcp/lib/pmwebd
/usr/share/pcp/webapps
/var/log/pcp/pmwebd

References

pcp-webapi.x86_64 website

Summary

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