How To Install ganglia-gmetad on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-gmetad on CentOS 8.
What is ganglia-gmetad
Ganglia is a scalable, real-time monitoring and execution environment with all execution requests and statistics expressed in an open well-defined XML format. This gmetad daemon aggregates monitoring data from several clusters to form a monitoring grid. It also keeps metric history using rrdtool.
We can use yum or dnf to install ganglia-gmetad on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ganglia-gmetad.
Install ganglia-gmetad 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 ganglia-gmetad using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ganglia-gmetad
Install ganglia-gmetad 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 ganglia-gmetad using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ganglia-gmetad
How To Uninstall ganglia-gmetad on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ganglia-gmetad package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ganglia-gmetad
ganglia-gmetad Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/ganglia
/etc/ganglia/gmetad.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/fe8c598541d1ee5b7840aca20fde2402de2cad
/usr/lib/systemd/system/gmetad.service
/usr/sbin/gmetad
/usr/share/man/man1/gmetad.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gmetad.py.1.gz
/var/lib/ganglia
/var/lib/ganglia/rrds
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-gmetad on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.