How To Install arpwatch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install arpwatch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is arpwatch.x86_64
The arpwatch package contains arpwatch and arpsnmp. Arpwatch and arpsnmp are both network monitoring tools. Both utilities monitor Ethernet or FDDI network traffic and build databases of Ethernet/IP address pairs, and can report certain changes via email. Install the arpwatch package if you need networking monitoring devices which will automatically keep track of the IP addresses on your network.
We can use yum to install arpwatch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install arpwatch.x86_64.
Install arpwatch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install arpwatch.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install arpwatch.x86_64
How To Uninstall arpwatch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the arpwatch.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove arpwatch.x86_64
arpwatch.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/sysconfig/arpwatch
/usr/lib/systemd/system/arpwatch.service
/usr/sbin/arp2ethers
/usr/sbin/arpsnmp
/usr/sbin/arpwatch
/usr/sbin/massagevendor
/usr/share/doc/arpwatch-2.1a15
/usr/share/doc/arpwatch-2.1a15/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/arpwatch-2.1a15/README
/usr/share/doc/arpwatch-2.1a15/arpfetch
/usr/share/man/man8/arp2ethers.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/arpsnmp.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/arpwatch.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/massagevendor.8.gz
/var/lib/arpwatch
/var/lib/arpwatch/arp.dat
/var/lib/arpwatch/arp.dat-
/var/lib/arpwatch/arp.dat.new
/var/lib/arpwatch/ethercodes.dat
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install arpwatch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.