Simpler PCP Build Instructions for Ubuntu 14.04

README.md

PCP Build on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04

• qa/admin/check-vm does a system check

1. dependencies

sudo apt-get -y install \
  autoconf \
  flex \
  bison \
  gawk \
  chrpath \
  debhelper \
  socat \
  valgrind \
  libpfm4-dev \
  libreadline-dev \
  libncurses5-dev \
  python-json-pointer \
  libextutils-autoinstall-perl \
  libxml-tokeparser-perl \
  librrds-perl \
  libspreadsheet-read-perl \
  libspreadsheet-xlsx-perl \
  sysv-rc-conf \
  dpkg-dev \
  autotools-dev \
  build-essential \
  libmicrohttpd-dev \
  libsasl2-dev \
  libibumad-dev \
  libibmad-dev \
  libavahi-common-dev \
  libpapi-dev \
  libcairo2-dev \
  python-all \
  python-all-dev \
  python3-all \
  python3-all-dev \
  realpath \
  apache2 \
  libperl-dev \
  libnet-snmp-perl \
  libwww-perl \
  libjson-perl \
  libqt4-dev \
  libsoqt-dev-common \
  libcoin80-dev \
  libsoqt4-dev \
  libnspr4-dev \
  libnss3-dev \
  libnss3-tools \
  libclass-dbi-perl \
  libdbd-pg-perl \
  libdbd-mysql-perl \
  gfs2-utils \
  libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl \
  unbound

sudo cpan Spreadsheet::ReadSXC

2. Create pcp User

sudo -i
groupadd -r pcp
# create unprivileged user pcp with home /var/lib/pcp
useradd -c "Performance Co-Pilot" -g pcp -d /var/lib/pcp -M -r -s /usr/sbin/nologin pcp
exit

3. configure

./configure \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
  --sysconfdir=/etc \
  --localstatedir=/var \
  --with-rcdir=/etc/init.d

4. make

make

5. install

sudo make install

6. start

sudo service pmcd start

once started, run pminfo to see a list of available metrics

7. generally, the service starts up linux PMDA, showin metrics for disk, network, fs etc. To test installation of PMDAs, install the sample PMDA, provided by the installation with

cd /var/lib/pcp/pmdas/sample
sudo ./Install

if successful, everything is OK.