1.5. Linux Platform

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Table 1.14.
Name	Description	Required	Internal Name
Enable Content Discovery	If true, attempts will be made to discover installed packages on this platform	yes	enableContentDiscovery
Enable Internal Yum Server	If true, an internal yum server will be started in order to process yum content requests made on the local machine.	yes	enableInternalYumServer
Yum server port	The port the plugin will listen on in order to process yum requests. This is ignored if the internal yum server is not enabled.	yes	yumPort
Metadata Cache Timeout	The time, in seconds, that the package metadata will always be considered valid. After the cache has lived this long or longer, the cache will be checked to see if it is stale, and if so, will be refreshed.	no	metadataCacheTimeout
Logs		yes	logs

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You must use the internal name to reference Configuration Properties in Dynamic Group Definition expressions.

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Table 1.15. Metrics
Name	Type	Description	Internal Name
Free Memory	measurement	The total free system memory	Native.MemoryInfo.free
Used Memory	measurement	The total used system memory	Native.MemoryInfo.used
Total Memory	measurement	The total system memory	Native.MemoryInfo.total
Free Swap Space	measurement	The total free system swap	Native.SwapInfo.free
Used Swap Space	measurement	The total used system swap	Native.SwapInfo.used
Total Swap Space	measurement	The total system swap	Native.SwapInfo.total
Idle	measurement	Idle percentage of all CPUs	CpuPerc.idle
System Load	measurement	Percentage of all CPUs running in system mode	CpuPerc.sys
User Load	measurement	Percentage of all CPUs running in user mode	CpuPerc.user
Wait Load	measurement	Percentage of all CPUs waiting on I/O	CpuPerc.wait
Hostname	trait	Name that this platform is known as	Trait.hostname
OS Name	trait	Name that the operating system is known as	Trait.osname
OS Version	trait	Version of the operating system	Trait.osversion
Architecture	trait	Hardware architecture of the platform	Trait.sysarch
Distribution Name	trait	name of the Linux distribution	distro.name
Distribution Version	trait	version of the Linux distribution	distro.version

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You must use the internal name to reference Traits in Dynamic Group Definition expressions.

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Table 1.16. Metrics
Name	Description
Manual Autodiscovery	Run an immediate discovery to search for resources
View Process List	View running processes on this system
Clean Yum Metadata Cache	Deletes all cached package metadata

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Table 1.17. Package Types
Name	Category	Description
RPM File	Deployable	Red Hat installable package