How To Install fence-agents-cisco-mds on CentOS 8

fence-agents-cisco-mds is Fence agent for Cisco MDS 9000 series

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-cisco-mds on CentOS 8.

What is fence-agents-cisco-mds

Fence agent for Cisco MDS 9000 series devices that are accessed via the SNMP protocol.

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

Install fence-agents-cisco-mds 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 fence-agents-cisco-mds using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fence-agents-cisco-mds

Install fence-agents-cisco-mds 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 fence-agents-cisco-mds using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fence-agents-cisco-mds

How To Uninstall fence-agents-cisco-mds on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fence-agents-cisco-mds package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fence-agents-cisco-mds

fence-agents-cisco-mds Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/sbin/fence_cisco_mds
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_cisco_mds.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-cisco-mds on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.