How To Install ceilometer-agent-central on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-central on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ceilometer-agent-central
ceilometer-agent-central is:
Ceilometer aims to deliver a unique point of contact for billing systems to acquire all counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters must be traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.
(A ceilometer is an instrument that measures cloud coverage.)
This package contains the central agent.
Package: ceilometer-agent-central Architecture: all Version: 1:14.0.0~b3~git2020041012.75b9d4e9-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: python Source: ceilometer Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Chuck Short [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 39 Depends: python3-ceilometer (= 1:14.0.0~b3~git2020041012.75b9d4e9-0ubuntu1) Filename: pool/main/c/ceilometer/ceilometer-agent-central_14.0.0~b3~git2020041012.75b9d4e9-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 5560 MD5sum: e3c280c1b091e9e47457a1cc52a9d8b6 SHA1: a3f3f75e6e40e149792d2b007368317e3e8c0634 SHA256: c40818cc108ca66be35c66aa6a3baf867f102b27ea7300db8489d3a12c9133ce Description-en: ceilometer central agent Ceilometer aims to deliver a unique point of contact for billing systems to acquire all counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters must be traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.
(A ceilometer is an instrument that measures cloud coverage.)
This package contains the central agent.
There are three methods to install ceilometer-agent-central on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ceilometer-agent-central Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-central using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-agent-central
Install ceilometer-agent-central Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-central using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ceilometer-agent-central
Install ceilometer-agent-central Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-central using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-agent-central
How To Uninstall ceilometer-agent-central on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ceilometer-agent-central package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-agent-central
Uninstall ceilometer-agent-central And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ceilometer-agent-central and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-agent-central
Remove ceilometer-agent-central Configurations and Data
To remove ceilometer-agent-central configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-agent-central
Remove ceilometer-agent-central configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ceilometer-agent-central configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-agent-central
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-central package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
