How To Install fping on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fping
on CentOS 7.
What is fping
fping is a ping-like program which can determine the accessibility of multiple hosts using ICMP echo requests. fping is designed for parallelized monitoring of large numbers of systems, and is developed with ease of use in scripting in mind.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install fping
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fping.
Install fping on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install fping
using yum
by running the following command:
Install fping 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 fping
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall fping on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fping
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fping
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.