How To Install onesixtyone on CentOS 8

onesixtyone is An efficient SNMP scanner

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install onesixtyone on CentOS 8.

What is onesixtyone

onesixtyone takes a different approach to SNMP scanning. It takes advantage of the fact that SNMP is a connection-less protocol and sends all SNMP requests as fast as it can. Then the scanner waits for responses to come back and logs them, in a fashion similar to Nmap ping sweeps.

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

Install onesixtyone 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 onesixtyone using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install onesixtyone

Install onesixtyone 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 onesixtyone using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install onesixtyone

How To Uninstall onesixtyone on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the onesixtyone package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove onesixtyone

onesixtyone Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/onesixtyone
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/b3319cc50782c23f26300d72a0f875b0bfd27c
/usr/share/doc/onesixtyone
/usr/share/doc/onesixtyone/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/onesixtyone/README
/usr/share/man/man1/onesixtyone.1.gz
/usr/share/onesixtyone
/usr/share/onesixtyone/dict.txt

References

Summary

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