How To Install exchange-bmc-os-info on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install exchange-bmc-os-info on CentOS 8.
What is exchange-bmc-os-info
Given a host with BMC, this package would pass the hostname & OS information to the BMC and also capture the BMC ip info for the host OS to use.
We can use yum or dnf to install exchange-bmc-os-info on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install exchange-bmc-os-info.
Install exchange-bmc-os-info 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 exchange-bmc-os-info using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install exchange-bmc-os-info
Install exchange-bmc-os-info 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 exchange-bmc-os-info using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install exchange-bmc-os-info
How To Uninstall exchange-bmc-os-info on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the exchange-bmc-os-info package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove exchange-bmc-os-info
exchange-bmc-os-info Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/profile.d/set-bmc-url.sh
/etc/sysconfig/exchange-bmc-os-info
/usr/lib/systemd/system/exchange-bmc-os-info.service
/usr/libexec/exchange-bmc-os-info
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install exchange-bmc-os-info on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.