How To Install ganglia-gmond on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-gmond in AlmaLinux 8. ganglia-gmond is Ganglia Monitoring daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-gmond on AlmaLinux 8.

What is ganglia-gmond

Ganglia is a scalable, real-time monitoring and execution environment with all execution requests and statistics expressed in an open well-defined XML format. This gmond daemon provides the ganglia service within a single cluster or Multicast domain.

We can use yum or dnf to install ganglia-gmond on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ganglia-gmond.

Install ganglia-gmond on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ganglia-gmond using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ganglia-gmond

Install ganglia-gmond on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ganglia-gmond using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ganglia-gmond

How To Uninstall ganglia-gmond on AlmaLinux 8

To uninstall only the ganglia-gmond package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ganglia-gmond

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-gmond on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.