Information about the package, collectd, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The collectd package is designed for, Statistics collection daemon for filling RRD files.
Package Name:
collectd
Summary:
Statistics collection daemon for filling RRD files
URL:
Description:
collectd is a small daemon written in C for performance. It reads various system statistics and updates RRD files, creating them if necessary. Since the daemon doesn't need to startup every time it wants to update the files it's very fast and easy on the system. Also, the statistics are very fine grained since the files are updated every 10 seconds.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.10.9
Release:
5.el6
Size:
433 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the collectd package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install collectd
This command will install collectd on the server.
yum remove collectd
This command will un-install collectd on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove collectd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove collectd
This command will un-install collectd on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove collectd when using the -y flag.
yum update collectd
This command will update collectd to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove collectd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update collectd
This command will update collectd to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove collectd when using the -y flag.
yum info collectd
This command will show you core information about the collectd package.
yum deplist collectd
This command will show you the dependencies for collectd. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update collectd
This command will check if there is an update waiting on collectd. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.