How To Install pcp-pmda-smart on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-smart on CentOS 7.
What is pcp-pmda-smart
This package contains the PCP Performance Metric Domain Agent (PMDA) for collecting metrics of disk S.M.A.R.T values making use of data from the smartmontools package.
We can use yum or dnf to install pcp-pmda-smart on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp-pmda-smart.
Install pcp-pmda-smart on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install pcp-pmda-smart using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pcp-pmda-smart
Install pcp-pmda-smart 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 pcp-pmda-smart using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pcp-pmda-smart
How To Uninstall pcp-pmda-smart on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pcp-pmda-smart package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pcp-pmda-smart
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-smart on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
