How To Install collectd-netlink on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-netlink
on CentOS 7.
What is collectd-netlink
This plugin uses a netlink socket to query the Linux kernel about statistics of various interface and routing aspects.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install collectd-netlink
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-netlink.
Install collectd-netlink 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-netlink
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-netlink
Install collectd-netlink 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-netlink
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-netlink
How To Uninstall collectd-netlink on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the collectd-netlink
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-netlink
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-netlink
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.