How To Install exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch is Let OS and BMC exchange info

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch

Given a host with BMC, this package would pass the hostname & OS information to the BMC and also capture the BMC ip info for the host OS to use.

We can use yum to install exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch.

Install exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch 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 exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch

How To Uninstall exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch

exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/profile.d/set-bmc-url.sh
/etc/sysconfig/exchange-bmc-os-info
/usr/lib/systemd/system/exchange-bmc-os-info.service
/usr/libexec/exchange-bmc-os-info

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install exchange-bmc-os-info.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.