How To Install vzstats 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 vzstats on Ubuntu.
What is vzstats
vzstats is:
This is an OpenVZ component to gather OpenVZ usage and hardware statistics, in order to improve the project.
Statistics gathered and reported include the following: 1 Hardware info.
- CPU, disk, memory/swap 2 Software info.
- host distribution, versions of OpenVZ components, kernel version 3 Containers info.
- number of containers existing/running/using ploop/using vswap
- OS templates of containers For more details, check the scripts in /usr/libexec/vzstats/ directory.
All submissions are anonymous and are not including IP or MAC addresses, hostnames etc. Global data are available at http://stats.openvz.org
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There are three methods to install vzstats 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 vzstats Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vzstats using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vzstats
Install vzstats Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vzstats using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vzstats
Install vzstats 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 vzstats using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vzstats
How To Uninstall vzstats on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the vzstats package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vzstats
Uninstall vzstats And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vzstats and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vzstats
Remove vzstats Configurations and Data
To remove vzstats configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vzstats
Remove vzstats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vzstats configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vzstats
Dependencies
vzstats have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vzstats package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.