Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is an open-source monitoring system designed to inspect and analyze the performance characteristics of various systems. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install the Performance Co-Pilot on Manjaro Linux.
To install PCP, we need to first install some dependencies. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu gcc make flex bison libarchive libmicrohttpd libvirt libperfsonar librdmacm libutempter nfs-utils nss-mdns
After installing the dependencies, we can now proceed with installing Performance Co-Pilot. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -S pcp pcp-conf
This command will install the PCP and PCP configuration utilities.
Now that we have installed PCP, we can start the PCP services using the following command:
sudo systemctl start pmcd pmlogger pmie pmda
The above command initializes the Performance Metrics Collector Daemon (pmcd), Performance Metrics Logging Daemon (pmlogger), Performance Metrics Identification Environment (pmie), and the Performance Metrics Domain Agent (pmda).
You can verify the status of these services by running the following command:
sudo systemctl status pmcd pmlogger pmie pmda
By default, PCP is configured to monitor the local system, but you can configure it to monitor remote systems as well. To configure PCP, use the pcp-conf utility, which we installed in the second step.
The configuration files of PCP are located in the /etc/pcp directory. You can modify the configuration files or create new ones to suit your monitoring requirements.
We have successfully installed Performance Co-Pilot on Manjaro Linux. You can now use PCP to monitor the performance of your systems. If you face any issues during the installation process or configuration, refer to the documentation available on the PCP website.
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