How To Install fence-agents-mpath on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-mpath on CentOS 8.
What is fence-agents-mpath
Fence agent for SCSI persistent reservation over Device Mapper Multipath.
We can use yum or dnf to install fence-agents-mpath on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fence-agents-mpath.
Install fence-agents-mpath 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-mpath using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fence-agents-mpath
Install fence-agents-mpath 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-mpath using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fence-agents-mpath
How To Uninstall fence-agents-mpath on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fence-agents-mpath package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fence-agents-mpath
fence-agents-mpath Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/sbin/fence_mpath
/usr/share/cluster/fence_mpath_check
/usr/share/cluster/fence_mpath_check_hardreboot
/usr/share/man/man8/fence_mpath.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-mpath on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.