How To Install audispd-plugins.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install audispd-plugins.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. audispd-plugins.x86_64 is Plugins for the audit event dispatcher

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install audispd-plugins.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is audispd-plugins.x86_64

The audispd-plugins package provides plugins for the real-time interface to the audit system, audispd. These plugins can do things like relay events to remote machines.

We can use yum to install audispd-plugins.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install audispd-plugins.x86_64.

Install audispd-plugins.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 audispd-plugins.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install audispd-plugins.x86_64

How To Uninstall audispd-plugins.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the audispd-plugins.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove audispd-plugins.x86_64

audispd-plugins.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf
/etc/audisp/plugins.d/au-remote.conf
/etc/audisp/plugins.d/audispd-zos-remote.conf
/etc/audisp/zos-remote.conf
/sbin/audisp-remote
/sbin/audispd-zos-remote
/usr/share/man/man5/audisp-remote.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/zos-remote.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/audisp-remote.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/audispd-zos-remote.8.gz
/var/spool/audit

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install audispd-plugins.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.