How To Install collectd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd on CentOS 7.
What is collectd
collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd.
Install collectd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install collectd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd
Install collectd on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install collectd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd
How To Uninstall collectd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the collectd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
