How To Install fctxpd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fctxpd
on CentOS 7.
What is fctxpd
The purpose of this daemon is to add FC network intelligence in host and host intelligence in FC network. This daemon would inter-operate with Brocade FC fabric in order to improve the response time of the MPIO failover. In future, it can also collect the congestion related details and perform workload analysis, and provide QOS at application level by inter-operating with application performance profiling software.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install fctxpd
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fctxpd.
Install fctxpd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install fctxpd
using yum
by running the following command:
Install fctxpd 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.
After updating yum database, We can install fctxpd
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall fctxpd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fctxpd
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fctxpd
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.