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