How To Install ipmitool on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipmitool on CentOS 8.
What is ipmitool
This package contains a utility for interfacing with devices that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface specification. IPMI is an open standard for machine health, inventory, and remote power control. This utility can communicate with IPMI-enabled devices through either a kernel driver such as OpenIPMI or over the RMCP LAN protocol defined in the IPMI specification. IPMIv2 adds support for encrypted LAN communications and remote Serial-over-LAN functionality. It provides commands for reading the Sensor Data Repository (SDR) and displaying sensor values, displaying the contents of the System Event Log (SEL), printing Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) information, reading and setting LAN configuration, and chassis power control.
We can use yum or dnf to install ipmitool on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipmitool.
Install ipmitool 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 ipmitool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ipmitool
Install ipmitool 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 ipmitool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ipmitool
How To Uninstall ipmitool on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ipmitool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ipmitool
ipmitool Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ipmitool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/dd838508263e0545b5d846338fa7317113c9d9
/usr/share/doc/ipmitool
/usr/share/doc/ipmitool/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ipmitool/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ipmitool/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ipmitool/README
/usr/share/ipmitool
/usr/share/ipmitool/oem_ibm_sel_map
/usr/share/man/man1/ipmitool.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipmitool on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
