How To Install collectd-snmp on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-snmp on Rocky Linux 8.
What is collectd-snmp
This plugin for collectd provides querying of net-snmp.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-snmp on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-snmp.
Install collectd-snmp on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install collectd-snmp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-snmp
Install collectd-snmp on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install collectd-snmp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-snmp
How To Uninstall collectd-snmp on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the collectd-snmp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-snmp
collectd-snmp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/collectd.d/snmp.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/7edd4c36b19c1c4bec9f709478b1aa98ebdae3
/usr/lib64/collectd/snmp.so
/usr/share/man/man5/collectd-snmp.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-snmp on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.