How To Install collectd-ipmi on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-ipmi on CentOS 8.
What is collectd-ipmi
This plugin for collectd provides IPMI support.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-ipmi on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-ipmi.
Install collectd-ipmi on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install collectd-ipmi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-ipmi
Install collectd-ipmi on CentOS 8 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 collectd-ipmi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-ipmi
How To Uninstall collectd-ipmi on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the collectd-ipmi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-ipmi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-ipmi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.