How To Install freeipmi-ipmidetectd on CentOS 8

freeipmi-ipmidetectd is IPMI node detection monitoring daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-ipmidetectd on CentOS 8.

What is freeipmi-ipmidetectd

Provides a tool and a daemon for IPMI node detection.

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

Install freeipmi-ipmidetectd 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 freeipmi-ipmidetectd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freeipmi-ipmidetectd

Install freeipmi-ipmidetectd 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 freeipmi-ipmidetectd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freeipmi-ipmidetectd

How To Uninstall freeipmi-ipmidetectd on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the freeipmi-ipmidetectd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freeipmi-ipmidetectd

freeipmi-ipmidetectd Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/freeipmi/ipmidetectd.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/ec2013db60dabd517660b2e7b46502bfb3dee9
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipmidetectd.service
/usr/sbin/ipmidetectd
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmidetectd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmidetectd.8.gz

References

Summary

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