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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fctxpd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fctxpd
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fctxpd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fctxpd
How To Uninstall fctxpd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fctxpd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fctxpd
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fctxpd on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
