How To Install ipmievd on Fedora 34

ipmievd is IPMI event daemon for sending events to syslog

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipmievd on Fedora 34.

What is ipmievd

ipmievd is a daemon which will listen for events from the BMC that are being sent to the SEL and also log those messages to syslog.

We can use yum or dnf to install ipmievd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipmievd.

Install ipmievd on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ipmievd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ipmievd

Install ipmievd on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ipmievd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipmievd

How To Uninstall ipmievd on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ipmievd

ipmievd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/sysconfig/ipmievd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/ac358c4248f37f715b9422d7eb0ac21ac935ce
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipmievd.service
/usr/sbin/ipmievd
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmievd.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipmievd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.