How To Install pcp-pmda-lio on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-lio on CentOS 8.
What is pcp-pmda-lio
This package provides a PMDA to gather performance metrics from the kernels iSCSI target interface (LIO). The metrics are stored by LIO within the Linux kernels configfs filesystem. The PMDA provides per LUN level stats, and a summary instance per iSCSI target, which aggregates all LUN metrics within the target.
We can use yum or dnf to install pcp-pmda-lio on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp-pmda-lio.
Install pcp-pmda-lio on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install pcp-pmda-lio using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pcp-pmda-lio
Install pcp-pmda-lio on CentOS 8 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 pcp-pmda-lio using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pcp-pmda-lio
How To Uninstall pcp-pmda-lio on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pcp-pmda-lio package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pcp-pmda-lio
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-lio on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.