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Information about the package, mom, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mom package is designed for, Dynamically manage system resources on virtualization hosts.


Package Name:

mom

Summary:

Dynamically manage system resources on virtualization hosts

Description:

MOM is a policy-driven tool that can be used to manage overcommitment on KVM hosts. Using libvirt, MOM keeps track of active virtual machines on a host. At a regular collection interval, data is gathered about the host and guests. Data can come from multiple sources (eg. the /proc interface, libvirt API calls, a client program connected to a guest, etc). Once collected, the data is organized for use by the policy evaluation engine. When started, MOM accepts a user-supplied overcommitment policy. This policy is regularly evaluated using the latest collected data. In response to certain conditions, the policy may trigger reconfiguration of the system’s overcommitment mechanisms. Currently MOM supports control of memory ballooning and KSM but the architecture is designed to accommodate new mechanisms such as cgroups.

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

0.4.4

Release:

1.el6

Size:

108 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for mom


Control the mom package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install mom

This command will install mom on the server.

yum remove mom

This command will un-install mom on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mom, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove mom

This command will un-install mom 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 mom when using the -y flag.

yum update mom

This command will update mom to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mom, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update mom

This command will update mom 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 mom when using the -y flag.

yum info mom

This command will show you core information about the mom package.

yum deplist mom

This command will show you the dependencies for mom. 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 mom

This command will check if there is an update waiting on mom. 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.