How To Install amavis-snmp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amavis-snmp
on CentOS 7.
What is amavis-snmp
This package contains the program amavisd-snmp-subagent, which can be used as a SNMP AgentX, exporting amavisd statistical counters database (snmp.db) as well as a child process status database (nanny.db) to a SNMP daemon supporting the AgentX protocol (RFC 2741), such as NET-SNMP. It is similar to combined existing utility programs amavisd-agent and amavisd-nanny, but instead of writing results as text to stdout, it exports data to a SNMP server running on a host (same or remote), making them available to SNMP clients (such a Cacti or mrtg) for monitoring or alerting purposes.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install amavis-snmp
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amavis-snmp.
Install amavis-snmp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install amavis-snmp
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install amavis-snmp
Install amavis-snmp 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 amavis-snmp
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install amavis-snmp
How To Uninstall amavis-snmp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the amavis-snmp
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove amavis-snmp
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install amavis-snmp
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.