2 Installing and Starting PCP

Install the pcp package, and supplementary tools, on Oracle Linux 8.

Before installing the pcp-oracle-conf package, enable the ol8_addons yum repository. For more information, see Oracle Linux: Managing Software on Oracle Linux.

1. Install the pcp-oracle-conf, pcp, pcp-system-tools, and pcp-gui packages by using the dnf command:

   sudo dnf install pcp-oracle-conf pcp-system-tools pcp-gui

2. Enable and start the Performance Metrics Collector Daemon (pmcd) and Performance Metrics Logger (pmlogger) collector host services:

   sudo systemctl enable --now pmcd pmlogger

The pcp package and supplementary tools are installed. The pmcd and pmlogger are also running.