How To Install fence-sanlock.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-sanlock.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fence-sanlock.x86_64 is Fence agent using sanlock and wdmd

Introduction

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

What is `fence-sanlock.x86_64`

The fence-sanlock package contains the fence agent and daemon for using sanlock and wdmd as a cluster fence agent.

We can use yum to install fence-sanlock.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-sanlock.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install fence-sanlock.x86_64

How To Uninstall fence-sanlock.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove fence-sanlock.x86_64

fence-sanlock.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/systemd/system/fence_sanlockd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-fence_sanlockd
/usr/sbin/fence_sanlock
/usr/sbin/fence_sanlockd
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_sanlock.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_sanlockd.8.gz
/var/run/fence_sanlock
/var/run/fence_sanlockd

References

fence-sanlock.x86_64 website

Summary

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