Information about the package, pcp, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pcp package is designed for, System-level performance monitoring and performance management.
Package Name:
pcp
Summary:
System-level performance monitoring and performance management
URL:
Description:
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) provides a framework and services to support system-level performance monitoring and performance management. The PCP open source release provides a unifying abstraction for all of the interesting performance data in a system, and allows client applications to easily retrieve and process any subset of that data.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.10.9
Release:
9.el6
Size:
828 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ and LGPLv2.1+ and CC-BY
Control the pcp package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pcp
This command will install pcp on the server.
yum remove pcp
This command will un-install pcp on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pcp, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pcp
This command will un-install pcp 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 pcp when using the -y flag.
yum update pcp
This command will update pcp to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pcp, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pcp
This command will update pcp 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 pcp when using the -y flag.
yum info pcp
This command will show you core information about the pcp package.
yum deplist pcp
This command will show you the dependencies for pcp. 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 pcp
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pcp. 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.