Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cacti-spine on CentOS 8.
What is cacti-spine
Spine is a supplemental poller for Cacti that makes use of pthreads to achieve excellent performance.
We can use yum or dnf to install cacti-spine on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cacti-spine.
Install cacti-spine on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cacti-spine using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cacti-spine
Install cacti-spine on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cacti-spine using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cacti-spine
How To Uninstall cacti-spine on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cacti-spine package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cacti-spine
cacti-spine Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/spine.conf
/usr/bin/spine
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/bb86336f44e63d3a9879247a4bcb0730bedfe0
/usr/share/doc/cacti-spine
/usr/share/doc/cacti-spine/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/cacti-spine/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cacti-spine
/usr/share/licenses/cacti-spine/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/spine.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cacti-spine on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
