How To Install alignak-receiver on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install alignak-receiver on CentOS 7. alignak-receiver is Alignak Poller

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alignak-receiver on CentOS 7.

What is alignak-receiver

Alignak receiver daemon

We can use yum or dnf to install alignak-receiver on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alignak-receiver.

Install alignak-receiver on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install alignak-receiver using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alignak-receiver

Install alignak-receiver on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install alignak-receiver

How To Uninstall alignak-receiver on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the alignak-receiver package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove alignak-receiver

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alignak-receiver on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.