How To Install snmpcheck on CentOS 8

snmpcheck is An utility to get information via SNMP protocols

Introduction

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

What is snmpcheck

snmpcheck supports the following enumerations * Contact * Description * Devices * Domain * Hardware and storage information * Hostname * IIS statistics * IP forwarding * Listening UDP ports * Location * Motd * Mountpoints * Network interfaces * Network services * Processes * Routing information * Software components (Windows programs or RPMs etc.) * System Uptime * TCP connections * Total Memory * Uptime * User accounts * Web server information (IIS)

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

Install snmpcheck 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 snmpcheck using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install snmpcheck

Install snmpcheck 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 snmpcheck using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install snmpcheck

How To Uninstall snmpcheck on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove snmpcheck

snmpcheck Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/snmpcheck
/usr/share/man/man1/snmpcheck.1.gz

References

Summary

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