How To Install cgdcbxd on CentOS 8

cgdcbxd is DCB network priority management daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cgdcbxd on CentOS 8.

What is `cgdcbxd`

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 or dnf to install cgdcbxd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cgdcbxd.

Install cgdcbxd on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cgdcbxd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cgdcbxd

Install cgdcbxd on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cgdcbxd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cgdcbxd

How To Uninstall cgdcbxd on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove cgdcbxd

cgdcbxd Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/47f98f5e19c8927bbc0ae91ab039a5a4322c6a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cgdcbxd.service
/usr/sbin/cgdcbxd
/usr/share/doc/cgdcbxd
/usr/share/doc/cgdcbxd/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/cgdcbxd.8.gz

References

cgdcbxd website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cgdcbxd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.