How To Install ganglia-gmond on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-gmond on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 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 ganglia-gmond using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ganglia-gmond
Install ganglia-gmond 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 ganglia-gmond using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ganglia-gmond
How To Uninstall ganglia-gmond on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the ganglia-gmond package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ganglia-gmond
ganglia-gmond Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/ganglia
/etc/ganglia/gmond.conf
/usr/bin/gmetric
/usr/bin/gstat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/330495de875a60df7e7b0f44168971eb4f90f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/2232945abdb761fb52154db3c9fefc78791657
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/773e975fa8317e3a3abe0af5cdf4a89dd6c225
/usr/lib/systemd/system/gmond.service
/usr/sbin/gmond
/usr/share/man/man1/gmetric.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gmond.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gstat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/gmond.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-gmond on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.