How To Install vpoller on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vpoller on Fedora 36.
What is vpoller
vPoller is a distributed vSphere API Proxy, designed for discovering and polling of vSphere objects. It uses the vSphere API in order to perform discovery and polling of vSphere objects. vPoller uses the ZeroMQ messaging library for distributing tasks to workers and load balancing of client requests. vPoller can be integrated with other systems, which require access to vSphere objects, but do not have native support for it. Possible scenarios where vPoller could be used is integration with monitoring systems as part of the discovery and polling process in order to provide monitoring of your vSphere environment. This pacakge installs the executable binaries.
We can use yum or dnf to install vpoller on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vpoller.
Install vpoller on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install vpoller using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vpoller
Install vpoller on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install vpoller using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vpoller
How To Uninstall vpoller on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the vpoller package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vpoller
vpoller Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/vpoller-client
/usr/bin/vpoller-proxy
/usr/bin/vpoller-worker
/usr/share/licenses/vpoller
/usr/share/licenses/vpoller/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/vpoller-client.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vpoller-proxy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vpoller-worker.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vpoller on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
