How To Install open-vm-tools-sdmp on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install open-vm-tools-sdmp
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is open-vm-tools-sdmp
This package contains only the user-space programs and utility scripts of open-vm-tools that are essential for performing service discovery in VMware virtual machines by vRealize Operations Service Discovery Management Pack.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install open-vm-tools-sdmp
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install open-vm-tools-sdmp.
Install open-vm-tools-sdmp on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install open-vm-tools-sdmp
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install open-vm-tools-sdmp
Install open-vm-tools-sdmp on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install open-vm-tools-sdmp
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install open-vm-tools-sdmp
How To Uninstall open-vm-tools-sdmp on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the open-vm-tools-sdmp
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove open-vm-tools-sdmp
open-vm-tools-sdmp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/7aa00cb76e85564d68b93eb2431710a40def88
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libserviceDiscovery.so
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/serviceDiscovery
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/serviceDiscovery/scripts
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/serviceDiscovery/scripts/get-connection-info.sh
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/serviceDiscovery/scripts/get-listening-process-info.sh
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/serviceDiscovery/scripts/get-listening-process-perf-metrics.sh
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/serviceDiscovery/scripts/get-versions.sh
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install open-vm-tools-sdmp
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.