Information about the package, ganglia-gmetad, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ganglia-gmetad package is designed for, Ganglia Metadata collection daemon.
Package Name:
ganglia-gmetad
Summary:
Ganglia Metadata collection daemon
Description:
Ganglia is a scalable, real-time monitoring and execution environment with all execution requests and statistics expressed in an open well-defined XML format. This gmetad daemon aggregates monitoring data from several clusters to form a monitoring grid. It also keeps metric history using rrdtool.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.7.2
Release:
2.el6
Size:
52 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the ganglia-gmetad package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ganglia-gmetad
This command will install ganglia-gmetad on the server.
yum remove ganglia-gmetad
This command will un-install ganglia-gmetad on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ganglia-gmetad, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ganglia-gmetad
This command will un-install ganglia-gmetad 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 ganglia-gmetad when using the -y flag.
yum update ganglia-gmetad
This command will update ganglia-gmetad to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ganglia-gmetad, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ganglia-gmetad
This command will update ganglia-gmetad 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 ganglia-gmetad when using the -y flag.
yum info ganglia-gmetad
This command will show you core information about the ganglia-gmetad package.
yum deplist ganglia-gmetad
This command will show you the dependencies for ganglia-gmetad. 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 ganglia-gmetad
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ganglia-gmetad. 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.