How To Install powerman on CentOS 8
powerman is Centralized power control for clusters
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerman on CentOS 8.
What is powerman
PowerMan is a tool for manipulating remote power control (RPC) devices from a central location. Several RPC varieties are supported natively by PowerMan and Expect-like configurability simplifies the addition of new devices.
We can use yum or dnf to install powerman on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install powerman.
Install powerman 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 powerman using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install powerman
Install powerman 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 powerman using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install powerman
How To Uninstall powerman on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the powerman package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove powerman
powerman Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/powerman
/etc/powerman/apc-snmp.dev
/etc/powerman/apc.dev
/etc/powerman/apc7900.dev
/etc/powerman/apc7900v3.dev
/etc/powerman/apc7920.dev
/etc/powerman/apc8941.dev
/etc/powerman/apcnew.dev
/etc/powerman/apcold.dev
/etc/powerman/apcpdu.dev
/etc/powerman/apcpdu3.dev
/etc/powerman/appro-gb2.dev
/etc/powerman/appro-greenblade.dev
/etc/powerman/bashfun.dev
/etc/powerman/baytech-rpc18d-nc.dev
/etc/powerman/baytech-rpc22.dev
/etc/powerman/baytech-rpc28-nc.dev
/etc/powerman/baytech-rpc3-nc.dev
/etc/powerman/baytech-snmp.dev
/etc/powerman/baytech.dev
/etc/powerman/cb-7050.dev
/etc/powerman/cyclades-pm10.dev
/etc/powerman/cyclades-pm20.dev
/etc/powerman/cyclades-pm42.dev
/etc/powerman/cyclades-pm8.dev
/etc/powerman/dli.dev
/etc/powerman/dli4.dev
/etc/powerman/eaton-epdu-blue-switched.dev
/etc/powerman/eaton-revelation-snmp.dev
/etc/powerman/hp3488.dev
/etc/powerman/hpilo.dev
/etc/powerman/hpmp.dev
/etc/powerman/hpmpblade.dev
/etc/powerman/hpmpcell.dev
/etc/powerman/hpmpdome.dev
/etc/powerman/ibmbladecenter.dev
/etc/powerman/icebox.dev
/etc/powerman/icebox3.dev
/etc/powerman/ics8064.dev
/etc/powerman/ilom.dev
/etc/powerman/ipmi.dev
/etc/powerman/ipmipower-serial.dev
/etc/powerman/ipmipower.dev
/etc/powerman/kvm-ssh.dev
/etc/powerman/kvm.dev
/etc/powerman/lom.dev
/etc/powerman/openbmc.dev
/etc/powerman/phantom.dev
/etc/powerman/plmpower.dev
/etc/powerman/powerman.conf.example
/etc/powerman/powerman.dev
/etc/powerman/rancid-cisco-poe.dev
/etc/powerman/raritan-px4316.dev
/etc/powerman/raritan-px5523.dev
/etc/powerman/sentry_cdu.dev
/etc/powerman/swpdu.dev
/etc/powerman/vpc.dev
/etc/powerman/wti-rps10.dev
/etc/powerman/wti.dev
/usr/bin/pm
/usr/bin/powerman
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/68a4cb4bba6072add67378017d1adf101e46ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/06c718e97141778b859f005a93e1502e3f78ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/1ba3beb99fd94247622c3a82b0cd8d750858da
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/3f5039e1d363a2a0a1239b76c72efc0345ebee
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/e070e7838699ad521234d7d1ecec8d147de958
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/734ded097bdf1e76119d2562a09046f141ffa3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/4ab187ce590d838c9efbf0aaa52e4153adb21c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/powerman.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/powerman.conf
/usr/lib64/libpowerman.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpowerman.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/stonith/plugins
/usr/lib64/stonith/plugins/external
/usr/lib64/stonith/plugins/external/powerman
/usr/sbin/httppower
/usr/sbin/plmpower
/usr/sbin/powermand
/usr/sbin/snmppower
/usr/sbin/vpcd
/usr/share/doc/powerman
/usr/share/doc/powerman/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/powerman/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/powerman/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/powerman
/usr/share/licenses/powerman/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/powerman/DISCLAIMER
/usr/share/man/man1/pm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/powerman.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libpowerman.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/powerman.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/powerman.dev.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/httppower.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/plmpower.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/powermand.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vpcd.8.gz
/var/run/powerman
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install powerman on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.