How To Install pcp-webapp-grafana on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-webapp-grafana on CentOS 7.
What is pcp-webapp-grafana
Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor. This package provides a Grafana that uses the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) as the data repository. Other Grafana backends are not used. Grafana can render time series dashboards at the browser via flot.js (more interactive, slower, for beefy browsers) or alternately at the server via png (less interactive, faster).
We can use yum or dnf to install pcp-webapp-grafana on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp-webapp-grafana.
Install pcp-webapp-grafana 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-webapp-grafana using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pcp-webapp-grafana
Install pcp-webapp-grafana 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-webapp-grafana using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pcp-webapp-grafana
How To Uninstall pcp-webapp-grafana on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pcp-webapp-grafana package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pcp-webapp-grafana
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-webapp-grafana on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
