How To Install openlmi-pcp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openlmi-pcp on CentOS 7.
What is openlmi-pcp
openlmi-pcp exposes metrics from a local PMCD (Performance Co-Pilot server) to the CIMOM. They appear as potentially hundreds of MOF classes, e.g. class “PCP_Metric_kernel__pernode__cpu__use”, with instances for each PCP metric instance, e.g. “node0”. PCP metric values and metadata are transcribed into strings on demand.
We can use yum or dnf to install openlmi-pcp on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openlmi-pcp.
Install openlmi-pcp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install openlmi-pcp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install openlmi-pcp
Install openlmi-pcp 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 openlmi-pcp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install openlmi-pcp
How To Uninstall openlmi-pcp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the openlmi-pcp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove openlmi-pcp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openlmi-pcp on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
