How To Install collectd-virt on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-virt on CentOS 8.
What is collectd-virt
This plugin collects information from virtualized guests.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-virt on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-virt.
Install collectd-virt 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-virt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-virt
Install collectd-virt 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-virt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-virt
How To Uninstall collectd-virt on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the collectd-virt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-virt
collectd-virt Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/collectd.d/libvirt.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/ba0954a3ca1cc5a358d0f75e1eaa57aec36f1b
/usr/lib64/collectd/virt.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-virt on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.