How To Install osad on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install osad on CentOS 8.
What is osad
OSAD agent receives commands over jabber protocol from Spacewalk Server and commands are instantly executed. This package effectively replaces the behavior of rhnsd/rhn_check that only poll the Spacewalk Server from time to time.
We can use yum or dnf to install osad on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install osad.
Install osad 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 osad using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install osad
Install osad 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 osad using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install osad
How To Uninstall osad on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the osad package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove osad
osad Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/logrotate.d/osad
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/clientCaps.d/osad
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad-auth.conf
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/osad.service
/usr/sbin/osad
/usr/share/doc/osad
/usr/share/doc/osad/LICENSE
/var/log/osad
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install osad on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.