How To Install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx on CentOS 8.
What is fusioninventory-agent-task-esx
fusioninventory-agent-task-ESX ask the running service agent to inventory an VMWare vCenter/ESX/ESXi server through SOAP interface
We can use yum or dnf to install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx.
Install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx 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-task-esx using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx
Install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx 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-task-esx using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx
How To Uninstall fusioninventory-agent-task-esx on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fusioninventory-agent-task-esx package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fusioninventory-agent-task-esx
fusioninventory-agent-task-esx Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/fusioninventory-esx
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/SOAP
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/SOAP/VMware
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/SOAP/VMware.pm
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/SOAP/VMware/Host.pm
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/Task/ESX.pm
/usr/share/man/man1/fusioninventory-esx.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent-task-esx on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.