How To Install pcp-system-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-system-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcp-system-tools.x86_64 is Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) System and Monitoring Tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-system-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pcp-system-tools.x86_64`

This PCP module contains additional system monitoring tools written in the Python language.

We can use yum to install pcp-system-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp-system-tools.x86_64.

Install pcp-system-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pcp-system-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcp-system-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcp-system-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pcp-system-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pcp-system-tools.x86_64

pcp-system-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pcp/dstat
/etc/pcp/dstat/aio
/etc/pcp/dstat/cpu
/etc/pcp/dstat/disk
/etc/pcp/dstat/entropy
/etc/pcp/dstat/freespace
/etc/pcp/dstat/fs
/etc/pcp/dstat/int
/etc/pcp/dstat/io
/etc/pcp/dstat/ipc
/etc/pcp/dstat/load
/etc/pcp/dstat/locks
/etc/pcp/dstat/mem
/etc/pcp/dstat/memcache
/etc/pcp/dstat/net
/etc/pcp/dstat/nfs
/etc/pcp/dstat/page
/etc/pcp/dstat/postfix
/etc/pcp/dstat/proc
/etc/pcp/dstat/redis
/etc/pcp/dstat/rpc
/etc/pcp/dstat/sockets
/etc/pcp/dstat/swap
/etc/pcp/dstat/sys
/etc/pcp/dstat/tcp
/etc/pcp/dstat/utmp
/etc/pcp/dstat/vm
/etc/pcp/pmrep
/etc/pcp/pmrep/pmrep.conf
/usr/bin/pmcollectl
/usr/bin/pmiostat
/usr/bin/pmrep
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-atop
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-atopsar
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-collectl
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-dmcache
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-dstat
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-free
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-iostat
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-ipcs
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-lvmcache
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-mpstat
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-numastat
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-pidstat
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-shping
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-tapestat
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-uptime
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-verify

References

pcp-system-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-system-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.