How To Install fence-agents-compute.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-compute.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is fence-agents-compute.x86_64

The fence-agents-compute package contains a fence agent for Nova compute nodes.

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

Install fence-agents-compute.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 fence-agents-compute.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-agents-compute.x86_64

How To Uninstall fence-agents-compute.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fence-agents-compute.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fence-agents-compute.x86_64

fence-agents-compute.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/fence_compute
/usr/sbin/fence_evacuate
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_compute.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_evacuate.8.gz

References

• fence-agents-compute.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-compute.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.