How To Install pcp-webapi on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-webapi on CentOS 7. pcp-webapi is Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) web API service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-webapi on CentOS 7.

What is pcp-webapi

Provides a daemon (pmwebd) that binds a large subset of the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) client API (PMAPI) to RESTful web applications using the HTTP (PMWEBAPI) protocol.

We can use yum or dnf to install pcp-webapi on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp-webapi.

Install pcp-webapi 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-webapi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcp-webapi

Install pcp-webapi 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-webapi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pcp-webapi

How To Uninstall pcp-webapi on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove pcp-webapi

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-webapi on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.