How To Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64 is IPMI BMC watchdog

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64`

Provides a watchdog daemon for OS monitoring and recovery.

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

Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.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 freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64

How To Uninstall freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64

freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sysconfig/bmc-watchdog
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bmc-watchdog.service
/usr/sbin/bmc-watchdog
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.bmc-watchdog
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.bmc-watchdog
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.bmc-watchdog.UC
/usr/share/man/man8/bmc-watchdog.8.gz

References

freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.