How To Install ganglia-gmond on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-gmond on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ganglia-gmond.
Install ganglia-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 ganglia-gmond using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ganglia-gmond
Install ganglia-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 ganglia-gmond using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ganglia-gmond
How To Uninstall ganglia-gmond on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ganglia-gmond package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ganglia-gmond
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-gmond on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
