How To Install fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 8.
What is fusioninventory-agent
FusionInventory Agent is an application designed to help a network or system administrator to keep track of the hardware and software configurations of computers that are installed on the network. This agent can send information about the computer to a OCS Inventory NG or GLPI server with the FusionInventory for GLPI plugin. You can add additional packages for optional tasks * fusioninventory-agent-task-network Network Discovery and Inventory support * fusioninventory-agent-inventory Local inventory support for FusionInventory * fusioninventory-agent-task-deploy Software deployment support * fusioninventory-agent-task-esx vCenter/ESX/ESXi remote inventory * fusioninventory-agent-task-collect Custom information retrieval support * fusioninventory-agent-task-wakeonlan Wake o lan task
We can use yum or dnf to install fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fusioninventory-agent.
Install fusioninventory-agent 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 fusioninventory-agent using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fusioninventory-agent
Install fusioninventory-agent 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 fusioninventory-agent using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fusioninventory-agent
How To Uninstall fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fusioninventory-agent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fusioninventory-agent
fusioninventory-agent Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fusioninventory
/etc/fusioninventory/agent.cfg
/etc/fusioninventory/conf.d
/etc/fusioninventory/inventory-server-plugin.cfg
/etc/fusioninventory/proxy-server-plugin.cfg
/etc/fusioninventory/proxy2-server-plugin.cfg
/etc/fusioninventory/server-test-plugin.cfg
/etc/fusioninventory/ssl-server-plugin.cfg
/etc/systemd/system/fusioninventory-agent.service.d
/usr/bin/fusioninventory-agent
/usr/bin/fusioninventory-injector
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fusioninventory-agent.service
/usr/share/fusioninventory
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/Task
/usr/share/man/man1/fusioninventory-agent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fusioninventory-injector.1.gz
/var/lib/fusioninventory-agent
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.