How To Install moosefs-netdump on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install moosefs-netdump on Ubuntu.

What is moosefs-netdump

moosefs-netdump is:

MooseFS monitoring tool “mfsnetdump” utility which can interpret MooseFS network traffic and show it in colorful form.

MooseFS (MFS) is a fault tolerant, scaling-out, network distributed file system. It spreads data over several physical servers which are visible to the user as one resource. For standard file operations MooseFS mounted with FUSE acts as other Unix-alike file systems:

• A hierarchical structure (directory tree).
• POSIX file attributes (permissions, last access and modification times).
• Special files (block and character devices, pipes and sockets).
• Symbolic links and hard links.
• Access control based on IP address and/or password.

Distinctive features of MooseFS are:

• High availability.
• Fault tolerance.
• Strong integrity check.
• Capacity is dynamically expandable by simply adding new computers/disks.
• Deleted files are retained for a configurable period of time (a file system level “trash bin”).
• Coherent snapshots of files, even during I/O.

There are three methods to install moosefs-netdump on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install moosefs-netdump Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install moosefs-netdump using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install moosefs-netdump

Install moosefs-netdump Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install moosefs-netdump using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install moosefs-netdump

Install moosefs-netdump Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install moosefs-netdump using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install moosefs-netdump

How To Uninstall moosefs-netdump on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the moosefs-netdump package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove moosefs-netdump

Uninstall moosefs-netdump And Its Dependencies

To uninstall moosefs-netdump and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove moosefs-netdump

Remove moosefs-netdump Configurations and Data

To remove moosefs-netdump configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge moosefs-netdump

Remove moosefs-netdump configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove moosefs-netdump configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge moosefs-netdump

Dependencies

moosefs-netdump have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libpcap0.8

References

• moosefs-netdump website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install moosefs-netdump package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.