Installing Performance Co-Pilot on OpenSUSE Latest

Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is an open-source performance monitoring framework available for various platforms including Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing and setting up PCP on OpenSUSE Latest.

Prerequisites

• You have access to an OpenSUSE Latest server or workstation
• You have administrative privileges to install packages
• You have a terminal or SSH access to the OpenSUSE Latest server or workstation

Step 1: Check the current version of PCP

Before proceeding with the installation of PCP on your OpenSUSE Latest system, check whether the system already has a version of PCP installed.

$ rpm -qi pcp

If a version of PCP is already present on your system, you should see output similar to:

Name        : pcp
Version     : x.yyy-zzz
Release     : aaa
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mon 10 Nov 2019 11:22:29 AM EST
Group       : Development/Tools/Other
Size        : 3718023
License     : GPLv2+ and SGI Free Software License B (see COPYING)
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Sat 02 Nov 2019 04:56:47 PM EDT, Key ID
Summary     : Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) Open Source Metrics Collection Framework
Description :
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is an open source framework and set of services tuned
for collecting metrics and designing complex experiments. It provides a scalable
architecture (built on client/server concept) with distributed agents and plug-ins.

If no version of PCP is present on your system, proceed to the next step.

Step 2: Add the PCP repository

The first step to install PCP on your OpenSUSE Latest system is to add the PCP repository. Use the following command to add the repository:

$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/pcp/openSUSE_Leap_15.x/ pcp

This will add the PCP repository to your OpenSUSE Latest system.

Step 3: Install PCP

With the repository added, now you can install PCP on your system by running the following command:

$ sudo zypper -n install pcp

This command will download and install the necessary packages and dependencies required for PCP.

Step 4: Start and enable the PCP services

After successfully installing PCP on your OpenSUSE Latest system, it is time to start and enable the PCP services. Use the following commands to start and enable the required PCP services:

$ sudo systemctl start pmcd

$ sudo systemctl enable pmcd

Step 5: Verify PCP installation

Once the installation is complete, verify that PCP is successfully installed on your OpenSUSE Latest system by running:

$ pcp

This command should display the PCP command-line utility's help information.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned how to install and set up Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) on an OpenSUSE Latest system. By following these steps, you should now be able to collect and analyze metrics on your system using PCP.

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