How To Install arpwatch on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install arpwatch on Rocky Linux 8. arpwatch is Network monitoring tools for tracking IP addresses on a network

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install arpwatch on Rocky Linux 8.

What is arpwatch

The arpwatch package contains arpwatch and arpsnmp. Arpwatch and arpsnmp are both network monitoring tools. Both utilities monitor Ethernet or FDDI network traffic and build databases of Ethernet/IP address pairs, and can report certain changes via email. Install the arpwatch package if you need networking monitoring devices which will automatically keep track of the IP addresses on your network.

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

Install arpwatch on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install arpwatch

Install arpwatch on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install arpwatch

How To Uninstall arpwatch on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove arpwatch

arpwatch Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/f0c919fe87d1a7af846ecfb7bf69fd26a94cfe
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/6fa97d44c565873a7def25cd019d537bf1b39b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/arpwatch.service
/usr/sbin/arp2ethers
/usr/sbin/arpsnmp
/usr/sbin/arpwatch
/usr/sbin/massagevendor
/usr/share/doc/arpwatch
/usr/share/doc/arpwatch/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/arpwatch/README
/usr/share/doc/arpwatch/arpfetch
/usr/share/man/man8/arp2ethers.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/arpsnmp.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/arpwatch.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/massagevendor.8.gz
/var/lib/arpwatch
/var/lib/arpwatch/arp.dat
/var/lib/arpwatch/arp.dat-
/var/lib/arpwatch/arp.dat.new
/var/lib/arpwatch/ethercodes.dat

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install arpwatch on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.