How To Install collectd-gmond on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-gmond on CentOS 7.
What is collectd-gmond
This plugin receives multicast traffic sent by gmond, the statistics collection daemon of Ganglia.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-gmond on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-gmond.
Install collectd-gmond 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-gmond using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-gmond
Install collectd-gmond 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-gmond using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-gmond
How To Uninstall collectd-gmond on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the collectd-gmond package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-gmond
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-gmond on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.