How To Install dmraid-events on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmraid-events on CentOS 7. dmraid-events is dmevent_tool (Device-mapper event tool) and DSO

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmraid-events on CentOS 7.

What is dmraid-events

Provides a dmeventd DSO and the dmevent_tool to register devices with it for device monitoring. All active RAID sets should be manually registered with dmevent_tool.

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

Install dmraid-events on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install dmraid-events

Install dmraid-events 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 dmraid-events using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dmraid-events

How To Uninstall dmraid-events on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the dmraid-events package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dmraid-events

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Summary

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