How To Install cgdcbxd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cgdcbxd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cgdcbxd.x86_64 is DCB network priority management daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cgdcbxd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cgdcbxd.x86_64`

This is a daemon to manage the priority of network traffic in dcb enabled environments. By using the information exchanged over the dcbx protocol on a LAN, this package will enforce network priority on running applications on your host using the net_prio cgroup

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

Install cgdcbxd.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 cgdcbxd.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cgdcbxd.x86_64

How To Uninstall cgdcbxd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cgdcbxd.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cgdcbxd.x86_64

cgdcbxd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/systemd/system/cgdcbxd.service
/usr/sbin/cgdcbxd
/usr/share/doc/cgdcbxd-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/cgdcbxd-1.0.2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/cgdcbxd.8.gz

References

cgdcbxd.x86_64 website

Summary

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