How To Install exchange-bmc-os-info on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install exchange-bmc-os-info on CentOS 7.

What is exchange-bmc-os-info

Given a host with BMC, this package would pass the hostname & OS information to the BMC and also capture the BMC ip info for the host OS to use.

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

Install exchange-bmc-os-info on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install exchange-bmc-os-info using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install exchange-bmc-os-info

Install exchange-bmc-os-info 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 exchange-bmc-os-info using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install exchange-bmc-os-info

How To Uninstall exchange-bmc-os-info on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the exchange-bmc-os-info package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove exchange-bmc-os-info

References

• exchange-bmc-os-info website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install exchange-bmc-os-info on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.