How To Install fctxpd on CentOS 8

fctxpd is Fibrechannel transport daemon

Introduction

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

What is fctxpd

The purpose of this daemon is to add FC network intelligence in host and host intelligence in FC network. This daemon would inter-operate with Brocade FC fabric in order to improve the response time of the MPIO failover. In future, it can also collect the congestion related details and perform workload analysis, and provide QOS at application level by inter-operating with application performance profiling software.

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

Install fctxpd 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 fctxpd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fctxpd

Install fctxpd 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 fctxpd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fctxpd

How To Uninstall fctxpd on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove fctxpd

fctxpd Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/6e7341cb74f1c0e50c3c190f3e040ad0a48b5e
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fctxpd.service
/usr/sbin/fctxpd
/usr/share/doc/fctxpd
/usr/share/doc/fctxpd/README
/usr/share/licenses/fctxpd
/usr/share/licenses/fctxpd/GPL-2.0

References

Summary

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