How To Install pcp-pmda-shping on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-shping on Rocky Linux 8. pcp-pmda-shping is Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) metrics for shell command responses

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-shping on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `pcp-pmda-shping`

This package contains the PCP Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) for collecting metrics about quality of service and response time measurements of arbitrary shell commands.

We can use yum or dnf to install pcp-pmda-shping on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp-pmda-shping.

Install pcp-pmda-shping 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 pcp-pmda-shping using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pcp-pmda-shping

Install pcp-pmda-shping 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 pcp-pmda-shping using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcp-pmda-shping

How To Uninstall pcp-pmda-shping on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the pcp-pmda-shping package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pcp-pmda-shping

pcp-pmda-shping Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/pcp/shping
/etc/pcp/shping/sample.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/d489b2ab4afafc97e28509e2a2721d80de3c17
/usr/libexec/pcp/pmdas/shping
/usr/libexec/pcp/pmdas/shping/Install
/usr/libexec/pcp/pmdas/shping/README
/usr/libexec/pcp/pmdas/shping/Remove
/usr/libexec/pcp/pmdas/shping/domain.h
/usr/libexec/pcp/pmdas/shping/help
/usr/libexec/pcp/pmdas/shping/pmdashping
/usr/libexec/pcp/pmdas/shping/pmns
/usr/libexec/pcp/pmdas/shping/root
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/Install
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/README
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/Remove
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/domain.h
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/help
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/pmdashping
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/pmns
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/root
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/shping/sample.conf

References

pcp-pmda-shping website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-shping on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.