How To Install collectd-dbi on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-dbi on CentOS 8.
What is collectd-dbi
This plugin uses the dbi library to connect to various databases, execute SQL statements and read back the results.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-dbi on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-dbi.
Install collectd-dbi on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install collectd-dbi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-dbi
Install collectd-dbi on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install collectd-dbi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-dbi
How To Uninstall collectd-dbi on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the collectd-dbi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-dbi
collectd-dbi Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/d1621f76c5752af39f80d428163f82b5880b8b
/usr/lib64/collectd/dbi.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-dbi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.