How To Install drbd-rgmanager on CentOS 8

drbd-rgmanager is Red Hat Cluster Suite agent for DRBD

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install drbd-rgmanager on CentOS 8.

What is drbd-rgmanager

This package contains the DRBD resource agent for the Red Hat Cluster Suite resource manager. As of Red Hat Cluster Suite 3.0.1, the DRBD resource agent is included in the Cluster distribution.

We can use yum or dnf to install drbd-rgmanager on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install drbd-rgmanager.

Install drbd-rgmanager 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 drbd-rgmanager using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install drbd-rgmanager

Install drbd-rgmanager 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 drbd-rgmanager using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install drbd-rgmanager

How To Uninstall drbd-rgmanager on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the drbd-rgmanager package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove drbd-rgmanager

drbd-rgmanager Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/cluster/drbd.metadata
/usr/share/cluster/drbd.sh

References

Summary

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